The Sun.
London, England, 1808-02-13 00:00:00

FOURTEENTH DAY.

Colonel MA nos's evidence having closed: yester-
day, Lieutenant-Colonel TORRENS, Military Secre-
tary to the Commander in Chief on the Expedition,
was examined until the breaking up of Coprt.
Shortly after the Court had assernblecl this morning,
,Ck)lonel Taatt EN s's evidence of yesterday. was read
over, and his further examination was proceeding
when our 4spress left Chelsea.
The Hall: has not been for these two days so
crowded as usual, owing to the inclemency of the
-weather.

It blew a most tremendous gale early yesterday
morning, and its violence abated but little in the
course of the day: We fear we shall have some
melancholy accounts of its effe&s.
The uew Opera of Kais, or Love in Me Deserts,
Was repeated lag night at Drury-lane Theatre, and
with the powerful support of the rnupiic, the exera;
tions of the ,l'erformers, particularly BRAITAM and
Miss Lyotrj and the beauty of the scenery, was
throughout very well receive&
The new Comedy of •Begone dull Care was also
represented with considerable success at the other'
.TPatre, and gave .much atnusetuent to a nuinerous
audience.

ANECOOTIL—An old Indian Chief, who was in
the fatal expedition with the British army under Ge-
neral Be A I)liOCK,when he besieged Ticonderoga, and
formed part at the detachment which Gan. WASH,
tiroToN saved,ditted with the American Fabius, at
Monut Vernon,,in Virginia ; after the repaSt,' the
savage hero indicated signs of dis.ipllointinent, if not
disgust. '.When the venerable General inquired, by
the interpreter, the cause of his chagrin, the savage
stood ere}, and told his illustrious host, that some
years ago, when he was in the Indian castle, he, thi
savage, had otrered him the embraces of his ',Flaw;
and that be was wonderfully' surprised t:;L:t the Ge-
neral had not • returned this instance of civility, by
a similar offer of Mrs. WAOHINOTON. The Gene-
ml excused himself, by averring that •it was *not
*,the custom..of his country. As Mrs., WASHING.,
TON, who was present, understood the tenor of the de-
'mand, she became much agitated with terror, which
the Indian perceiving, he told her with manly
nity, that she had nothing to fear; as, -if the Gene
ral had complied, 'be should only, have .wallted up
to k*,tip Signify.his, right to this sort of hospitable
courtesy, and then bowing, have resigned' her to
her white Chief.

• A few nights since a most d.=...struaive fire took
tOok place in Kirrytnuir, ScOtland. It began in the
apartment of a woman who had put on a,tire to dry
some clothes, and had gone out. The fire was too.
tar advanced before it was discovered, to save the
house in which it broke out. The flames were,
driven by the wind to an adjoining tenement of
thatched houses, which providentially escaped by
being covered with. snow. The _woman, in whose
room the tire broke out,fruslied.in to save some part
otter property, and iinhappily perished. Another
woman succeedt:d in saving het two sleeping in-
fants. Five industrious families, all of them 'poor,
acid some of them with a' number of
,yOung chit-
dren,- have, by this calamity, been cast destitute,
without clothes, without foOd, and without a home!
In the present Epidemic Cold or Catarrh, and *1136
in the Measles, which are at this tune so pievalentr
the gentiine Dr. JANiES'S POWDERS, in small apse re-
Pealed doses, lias been found the most sate and suc-
cessitil remedy. It should be given at the commence-
ment of there disorders, when it will relieve the
and facilitate and prottiote the 4,tiptiOth

' .4AfERICAN PAPERS.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Die. 29;
Mr; NEWtoN, (VII:) from the Committee of
Commerce and Mantafadjares, reported a Bill Supy
plementary to the Ael laying an Embargo, which
was twice read.

Tile following is the Bill ;
A BILL,

Supplenientary to the At, entitled 4.' an Mt lay,
ing an Embargo on all .Ships
.and Vessels in the
Ports and -Harbours of the United States".

S,Ec. 1. • Be it ertaaed by the Senate and House of
Representatives of the United States'of America,. in•
Congress assembled, That during the, continuance of
the Mt to which this Mt is Supplementary, ,no ves.!
Sel:licensed for the coasting trade andSsheries (hhipS
engaged in the whale or other, fish.:. tea were ex-
cepted in the Committee on .the 13d1), having -on
board goods, wares, and merchandise, either of
foreign or domestic growth or triarinfliattre, • tish:ng:
vessels with salt for their fishing fares excepted, illaa
be allowed to deptrt from. any port of the tioited
States, or shall. receive a clearance, until the owir,.r,
consignee, agent or faat9r, shall, with the Master, give
bond with one or more sureties to the United States,
in a slim double the value.of the vessel and cargos
that the vessel is not destined for any foreign port or
place,'. and that the said goods, wares, and mer-
chandlie shall: be re-landed in some port of the
United States. . • • '

Silt:. 2. Ana be is further enaaetl, That if any
shilior:;vgisal :Alan, 'during the continuance of the
A6t to ,which this ASR is a Supplements depart from
any
,pOrt" of the United Stares without, a clearance,
or if any ship. or vessel shall, contrary to the provi-
sions of this Ad, or the ALI to which this is a Sup-,
plement, • prnceed to a foreign port of place, such
ship r.•_- ycsiiel'and cargo shall., he, wholly forfeited
:Ind it the same • shall • not be seized, the owner of
such ship or vessel shall, for every 4uchptfened, for-,
i,ll and tray a. gum equal to, double the value of the
ship and clrco, and the master or commander, of
such ship 01 as well as all other persons coat,
cerned• iii: such erollibited foreign voyage, shall each
respeeliVely forfeit and the suns of not more than
20,300 :dollars,' nor. not le r 5; _than- 10(w:dollars for
.every such offence, whither the vessel be seized and
condermiector not.

Sac. 3. And be it farther enaaed, That • the mt.-
ceptions wade by tire,Aa to which this Ad is a Sop.,
*mem, in favour of '.arnied vessels possessing pub.!,
lie cotnalissiona from Foreign Powers, ,shall apply,
only to public armed
embrace
and shall not be con-
strued tembrace eitherprhtateers, ve:,sels having let-
ters of marque, or any other private armed vessels
hut ,sucit privateartned vOSselslshall be permitted tp-
depart in the same .manner, and on the same condi-
tion, as is prcivided for other private slips or vessel. :

JA.tstuAttle I.—The House resumed the unfinish-
ed businesi of yesterday, and proceeded to consider
the Report 'of .the Committee of the whole oti
the Bill Supplementary to the At laying au Ein-
bargo
In the, course of this dettite Mr. MAcoN' ob-
served. , that his objeet in the ernhatti law was, to
bring all naticits
.that had injured us to terms.—
that after the arrival of the Minister.of Great Britain,
a decision would be had, and the business soon
settled 'One way or other.
Mr. Stbiti 'expressed a contrary opinion. He wt.-
peeted much procrastination, dud that it would bea
good while before any thing
,decisiVe,would be
done kr the negotiation.

JANUARY 3.—Tim engrossed Bill Supplementary
to the laying an Embargo was read pi third. time i•
and on the question,
~.shad, the Bill, a division took
placo,Yeas 68—Nays 12.

We hear that a son of, Governor Fiutl arrived
in the city,. of Washington from Detroit, on
daY evening, December and brings intelligence'
that 8000 Indians were embodied in that neighbour-
hood, which excites great alarm among ,the inhabi-
tants:. Governor HULL , some time since ordered
out the Militia, for the purpoSe of liaing reviewed ;
but they all aprkared without arms,, and. reftised•to,
carry them, alledging that if they appeared, with arms,
their hands the Indians would instantly fall oa
a lid destroy dietn.--.-UPash. Fed.)

RXTEACT OF A LETTER TO THE E•DrToR OF ,THE
' WHIG, DATED WASHiNGTON, DEC. •3!, 1807.
• " This morning an' advertisement was found I;nst
ed up in diftlTent parts of the city—proclai,4l4
JOHN RANDQLPIf a . prevaricating prshroon-
.his jAmtis Wir,kiNsOt•i." lit • the. lionw ; this (1,y.,,
RANDoLEH iinpea.ched WILItiLNON
,()t ,
the Charge.
Ceing a Sph..
'nish Pensioner, and said that he.no. J.Letiments
~...,
letters in his postession (whit:111..46 has bail but ;7:3.
or three days) which would fu‘.o provo
that he would notircht hi.t.:
A Motion wa's made to reir.,§t the.,-.-Fer6sioent to in.
*nitrite an inquiry hag. Wt;....,'-..iNtoN'S.cond'un.
• "d WiLKug.sozq challenK.l o
c,..,, LkANDt4LI'II vciterday,
and RANDOLPH replieft,i
till, he cleared up I,:fs character." Q