The Sun.
London, England, 1806-09-09 00:00:00

"AST INDIES.

TEN'ANG, MARCH nc), 1806.—A Frigate is almost
immediately to be built within our Port, and Mar-
tella Towers are also to be erected: The timber fig
this Ship is almost entirely collected. The. timber
for two seventy-fours is -in great forwardness, and
we hope to lay the keel of one, the end of the
present year, in the Marine Yard, near the fort.—
Some very valuable timber for Ship-building has
lately been discovered on the opposite Coast, and his
Excellency Sir Tito MAS TRov BID DG- the Covet nor,
and Members of Council, have been to see • it, and
epprove of it ; but most of our timber for the-large
Ships is to come from Rangoon.
Not the smallest doubt is entertained 'here of-our
being able to build two Frigates and a 74, annually,
at a rate much cheaper than in Europe, •aud.the•Ships
more durable.
A Marine Yard has been.. inclosed near .The Port.,
and the private Merchants are all improving their,
warehouses ; the spirit of industry was:never more
exerted than since:the arrival of the present -gover-
nor. Individuals perceive that the place must now
be protected, and that regular laws -will be -esta-
blished, and on the taith of this every one is, lay-
ing out his capital in improving his estates ; the
want of law is very Much felt, the Settlement can,
never" thrive unless there is a charter of justice;
there is now no law that can atfea Europeans, and
none. that can at conciliate the flagons, by uniting
their laws with ourown, where such are not against-
justice.
A vigilant Police has been established but. a great.
scarcity of provisions has been felt here.. 'Owing to.;:
the wry dry weather, the rice crop • has in many
}daces failed in the Quedah.
uitry, and we fear,
the pepper vine* may lie injured the rains,4lce,v,:
ever, have withiwthese two days -set in, .and we 'ex".
peet they will:last. • . , • ; -
One hundred bags, and a b(ox Of cloves, are,
sent home by. the ,present Fltet, aS• a. sample of
what the Island can prodiice ; the pepper; is:„of.lhe
very best duality, and may be bought here '.at, nno
dollars a pecul.,' a price much below-.! what the
Company have. usually, .paid ; we can load three
Ships annually with pepper,- tvo'at least from the
produce of the Island, and one or more from the
-adjacent countries, which . all produce pepper in
abundance. = _

The spice plants are in. a very, flourishing State .;
several Murneg: trees are in full hearing.:.-
The Settlement from Balambaigne, arrived here
in December last, and after relieving part.of the
troops doing duty hero, proceeded in the Transports
to Bengal, where they have safely.arrivcd-.
The present Fleet sail this day ; the Ganges, Dor•
set.shire, Surat-Castle, and Warren Hastings, were
to leave China boon after the present Fleet, and are
not lo come to Prince of .Wales's Island : his Ex—
cellency Sfr TuomAs TROUBRIDGE, Commander in
Chief of His 'Majesty's Ships iii these seaSi has given'
direCCons for their being met by His Majesty's
Ships Off Pooloo Amy, and they will in consequence
proceed through the Straits of Sunda, and .not come
to Prince of Wales's Island:

PRINCE OF WALES's ISLAND.

GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.

PENANG, MAnc:n 20, 1806.—1ii3 Excellency the
Commander in Chief, Sir THOMAS TROOBRIDGE,
Bart. K. F. has been pleased to make the following
promotions :
E. RATSEY, Esq. from the Harrier to the Sir Ed-
ward
.Hughes,.with the rank of Post Captain—,Vice
GILLEfur HEATHCOTE, Esq. proceeding. to Europe
for the benefit of his health. -

Lieutenant TROUSIIIDGE, of the Blenheim, to the
Harrier, with the rank of Commander—Vice E.
Esq. promoted.
,The Police Offiers, with their unremitting vigi-
lance,
.have•3o far succeeded, a.; to have discovered; a
clue, by which it is hoped- that the assassin, by
whom the-Malay man, whose body was found, on
the 18th instant, at the mouth of the River Giugor,
is supposed to have been murdered, will be convict-
ed of the commission of that crime. The deceased
was a native of Java, and one of the settlers at
Balambarrgan, from whence he lately "arrived at
this island; his name NVas Sapieman, but went,.ge-
nerally, by the name of ierenioody ; he leaves a
wile and children to. bemoan his fate.

On the morning of the 21st ult. the bodies of two
Chinese were foUnd murdered on the road pear
Vitt-tzar hill. All the information we -have as ret
L!en able to obtain, is, that on the precedit? even-
ing Chionw and Chioug (the deceased), inhabitants
of • Batoo-Lauchong, after eating their supper in
company with some friends, quitted Ahem :about
seven o'clock, as supposed in search ofzu,usernent;
it being the Chinese lioidays. It wa.4 not known
if they7had mpy money about them ; but the bodies
were tbuncl- in the same dress they wore on quit-
ting their friends.
Every endeivour has been made by the Police to
discover the perpetrators of this horrid act but, we
are sorry to add, without effect.

The DUK.F. of SUSSEX has long interested himself
very much in everything that .relates to the North
of the Ishitid, His Royal , Highness lately became
posse,scc; of a sword which once., belonged to the
Unfortunate Prince CHARLES. When at the head
of the Loyal North Britons,• of Otich Volun-
teer . Corps he is -the Colonel,. ,he wears this
sword. - The blade had formerly three' inscrip-
tions ; one in Gaelic, another in Latin, and .the
third. in' Fiend). The laSt is the one
which exists in a
,yelled state ; it is as
" A .pas sans raison : ne 'Ma :ranietiez'
pas sans h6nnehui !" " Draw me not
,without
reason ; sheathe me not witbotit Sonout."—
'Enough, hoWever, reniains of the Gaelic and Latin.
inscriptionr,to shew that they are exactly to the
same purport Sir JOHN 'NlTitErtsoN and Sir
JoHN M`Gitzdeit MURRAY have• each:produced a
translation in. the Gaelic language::. These transla-'
tions„are ender ,the consideFation• of: the Highland
Society, 'and, when they haye decided to which the
. pt6ference,is due, his :llOyal Highness' .intends to
have it engraved on the sword;
.together with an de.-
gant translation of the hue in Latin. .