The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1824-07-16 00:00:00

POLICE.

MANSION-HOUSE.
St XGrl.Alt ti./01 'OR 11121,1CAS ING THIS rrnlll.--SOCIIe days
sinew a letterarrived at the Mansion-House from Prumia, directed'
to be opened by. the high hands of the Lord Mayer. It proved to ,
be the communication of a plan to be 'submitted to the triends of
s the ;heck cause fur the defeat of the Tails. The writer is filr.
Illindersnn, a ceannissary of police of the town or Poem. To
chew that he was a person worthy of attention, he enclosed an dß-
eial certificate of his rank end respectability. Ile states that he
has now left 77 years behind him ; that he has seen great service
by sea and by land ; that during the war with the French, he de.
voted a large fortune to the service of his country and lost it ; and
that it is only the wounds he received during the war which now
prevent him from setting off and giving his experience and per.
Banal services in aid of the ltreeks. He states that he has hopes of
his wounds' completely healing, and if that should happen, he will
yet join them.
He states that be has screed agninst the Turks, and is well oe-
quainted with their mode of warfare. Their great strength, he
j says, consists in cavalry, and he declares that artillery is of com-
I partitively little service against them. They are generally incited
' on to the charge by the use of opium; and though in that condition,
their onset is desperate. Yet, he says, they may be thrown into
confusion by the slightest circumstance, and when confused, the
opium caters cannot (wily be re-organized, but may be cut up by
Lutoperin dixelpltne. Ile declares that he has invented an espe-
diem which is admirably calculated for confusing them. His plan
is, to make up cartridges of sand in a peculiar Fromm; these car. I
fridges are to Ips put into the piece above the bullet, and fired with
iit in the usual manner. lie states, that from his illness he has been
unable to make full experiments as to the distence which sand may
be driven by this means, whether in smell eons or artillery; but
he is coolish nt it is considerable, and that in time conflict the
rtfixt would It: certain in blinding and confusing the enemy. He
also suggests to thaw in this country who have subscribed in aid of
the Greeks, and are engaged in fumiahing them with aunties, that !
i cartridge' of iron (MN," would be useful for firing at Inogdistarices- 1
I Ile also rerminiends to their notice another expedient which he says
Ihe adopted himself during the war, and found extremely service.
able to allay thirst. On knit marches the soldiers often sutrered
severely.from a perpetual thirst and r dry torque. He says that if
a thin piece of fret& willow twig, or the wood of any bitter tree, be j
kept in the mouth over the torgne aril opened, it will, he says,
j keep the mouth moist and prevent these unpleasant sensations which
are often created by a long and rapid march. Ile declares that the
same simple means will answer with the horses of an tunny on tying
pieces of such wnoi on their hits. The latter concludes by some
retlecthms on the domestic afflictions of the writer, who complains
that death has taken from him his wife and all hisofreoring (several
hopeful young men), anti his mind, Coin the tenor of the letter, ap.
pears evidently to be deeply affected by these calamities. lie had
just heard of the death of hoof Byron, and lame its the loss which
the cause had sustained by that eirelimstance.
The Lunn Illeyou read the letter in the Justice-room to tame
gentlemen who were patent when he leech-tit it. His Lordship
I observed that the transactions in that room, it appented, were often
made known to the most Demote parts of the globe ; :snit his cor-
repordence roma the Continent was extensive as well as expensive.
The most evrastseinary ideas seemed to be entertained of the ex-
tent of the power and influence of the Chief Magistrate. One per.
son in France wrote to him, desiring that he would secure and send
hack a runaway relative, presuming, as a matter of lourse, that he I
must know every individual in the Neutrals. Another wrote to
I ' from Italy paying him to be so kind as to incarcerate and I
punish a tragabi;id atm. Whilst from all parts he received letters
of insiuries respecting private affair".
A gentleman present observed, with respect to the
_plan submitted
to his lordship, that the idea of snaking use of dust to confuse!
an enemy was by no means new, and that during the last war the
Americans used lime dust on brand their ships of war :or the pur-
pose of disconcerting these who attempted to board.
The LOUD MAVutt said the art of throwing dust into people's
eyes had lung been but too well known, and too Nueressfully ;tree-
tisod here. He should dispose of the letter in a manner to satisfy
the writer's mind.

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