The Sun.
London, England, 1806-12-09 00:00:00

FROM THE PHILADELPHIA REGISTER.

NEW YORK, Nov. 5.—A • gentleman. just ar-
rixed from Washington, whose veracity and correet-
ness may be relied upon, reports, that a' letter has
been received at that place, by a Mr. HENDERSON,
employed in the Navy-yard, from his brother,
sident at Kentucky, stating, that in consequence of
a commotion of the people, who had declared that
Country independents he was about to remove his
family to Culpepper, Virginia.
The serious- nature of this report forbids us to re;
peat the names of the persons implicated as leaders,
until the authenticity of the report be fully ascer-
tained.

It is by no means improbable that the following
rumour is conneded with this important intelligence,
which we are told has occupied the ExeCutive of the,
United. States, convened in Council, during four'
dayS of the last week.—Here follows the rumour.,
re-published the day before yesterday, of the Pre-
sident having issued a warrant for High • Treason,
against a person, supposed to he BURR.
The President of the United States was seriously
indisposed on Tuesday) and, by the last accounts, was
still confined.

Nov. 6.—A letter received •in this city, by Sa-
turday's mail, dated Washington, Oti. 20, states,
that.reports are circulating there, that the Presi
dent has issued process ' for the arrest of Colonel
BURR, on a charge of Conspiracy—ghat the Wes=
tern Army, with their General, WILKINsoN, had de-
clared for BURR, &c. What credit may be given to
these reports, a few days will determine.

•
EXTEACT OF A LETTER FROM SAVANNAFI (GEORGIA)
TO A GENTLEMAN IN NEW--YORK, DATED OCT. 16,
1806.

" This city has, been under arms for two nights
past, expe4ing an insurre&lon of the Blacks. It
appears that several meetings had taken place about
four miles from toivic,. where they had agreed to
attack the Whites in the city c they had:appointed,
(.;onerAls other Officers: According to their

they were tt/ tilatte ihro separate• landings;
one 4t Wayne's wharf, one at the Coffee-house
-Wharf; and one at the Fort: They were then
set fire.to the town, and massacre the Whites. But
' a difference existed between-two of their leaders, and
one of them divulged the secret early the evening
before yesterday-; in conseqttence of which the dal.
ftrelif companies of Volunteer 4 were stationed un-
der the Bluff, and the Militia at Spring-hill, where
- twelve of the head men Of the insurgents *ere
taken, and will be tfied in a feW days. Having
. been so fortunate as to take the head men, we have
now, I think, little to fear,• as the rest appeai to I
be quiet. The .NegrOes are to the Whites as eight
to one , ,

EXTRACT. OF A LETTER FROM A GENTLEMAN AT
WASHINGTON, DATED OCT. 30, 1806..
" The brother of a Lieutenant of Marines in the
Barracks here, has written from Marietta, or wher-
ever else Colonel BURR is, that his at:Hons are sus-
picious, and in consequence theredf he had Inored -
his family back, and intended to remain and pro-
ted his property."---The letter farther states, that
this information had been, laid before the Presi-
dent; and energetic measures were talked of,. but,
as Congress would.soon meet, nothing would pro-
bably be 'done until their, meeting, though it was
confidently said the Marines were ordered to pro-
. ceed immediately for New Orlians, under Captain
CARMICK.

On Tuesday last the great annual Meeting of the
Bath and West of England Society was holden. at
I-letling-house. BENJAMIN 1-111110,1)&E, Esq. M. P.
was unanimously I-e-eleded President, and RICHARD.
BRIGHT, Esq. was chosen one oftheVice-Presidents.
The attendance of the Nobility, Gentry, and Agri
rculturists, has been on few occasions more nume-
rous or respectable. The show. of live stock was
inferior in point of number to ,some former years,
which is to be partly attributed to the'lVleeting, be-
ing held a week earlier, of which -many breeders-,
Might pot have been aware. Dr. PARRY'S flock of
Merind llyeland Sheep (not sent as, candidates for
any prize) was universally admired—there was ex-
hibited a remarkably fine fat flog, bought by a Mr.
BRooKs—a Bull of uncommon size and beauty, sent
by Mr. WHITE PARSONS—besides other valuable im-
proved stock.

The
Bedfordean gold medal was awarded to JOHN
BILLINGSLEY, Esq. for an Essay on the CultH'ation
of Waste Lands. Many other premiums and boun-
ties .were granted to superior desert and industry in
various departs of husbandry.

The General Eteetion being now nearly terminat-
ed, it is recommended to Voters in general to think
of becoming Candidates themselveS for a rich seat in
Fortune's `heel. , There is a great difference be-
tween possessing a 405. freehold and one of 30,000.
'which they may perceive, from the now most opu
lent of all ,Lottery Schemes, may be effe&ed -by an
cledion, or rathQr.seleßion, of a lucky number.

To the II- ii lid F-.SES iaiia IIsiRAITAi;;I"S of Atlii

i3OI2.OUGii of MALMSBU.:Y.

•
GENTLEMEN;

There are many reasons, Which I. shall suite
proper time, that induced the t,, belie‘'e Ilis Mijes-t3l
Ministers- would have felt it their ditty to tak th 6
lead in heinging t‘; an end that mOst uhconqiiational
system of Elei,'Ldn stated to exist in your Borbiigh.
I therefore wrote a Letter on the sUbjeYlo the
Chancellor of the Exchequer, a •copy, of \Olio!), and
of his Lordship's answer; it is nocv prOper for 'me tcs
submit to you.

COPY OF A LETTER FROM 3. J. V. TO LORD HENRY

" Aft jfaßn,

PETTY.

Nov. 4, 0.06.

." As 'the subje& of 'this 'Letter is of the very,
.highest importance to the Country, I presume to
hope for 'ynur Lordship's attention to it.
n writing to, your •Loillship on the busines;
I .26t ,on public principle I have; it
'is well known;•been always.governed by ; and as that principle 'had
the strong approbation of former Ministers,, I flatter
myself-itt will receive your's. It is this=---" That it
is extremely desirable in these times,' if a great pub-
lic evil does exist, Government. should he soy
quainted•With it, that its corretlion should origimte.
thei-e."

" I atn therefore ''d to call your Lordship's atten:,
tion to a subject that must he met either iinrnediate:-
ly on this communication, or subsequently on publid
grounds ;, and in proportion as your Lordship deetug
the purity of Election cOtnie6ted with Finance, you
will feel it entitled td your 'bore terioUs eonsidera;
tion.

Several letters were last week ' received at Hull I
from the Captain and crew of the Blenheim, of that
Port, captured with the Holderness, by two.Frebch !,
Frigates, 'on their return from the Davis's Straits , "•A system of corruption has hing been establish-
Fishery. The .grew were landed at L'Orient, and f ed, 004 now exists, in the Borough of Maimsbury;
marched from thence, about 460 miles, in 28 days, that ..violate'S and outrages every principle of the
to Arras, where they arrived the last week in Otto-. Constitution ; and the Agent in this flagitious ,busi-;
ber. The Surgeon of the' Blenheim was left with .
ness is a, Servant of the Crown, so: within the reach
the sick at the hospital, at landing. The harpooner,
of, your Lordihip's Official influence, that the fat %s L
and, ABItAHAM N
BRITTLEBAK, one of the crew of denounce to you are:accessible
,to you, in that way,
the Blenheim, were left sick at Menem.. There whenekr you choose to inves,lgate the tn.
ante was small. ' were about law prisoners at Arras, and their allow-•."..ln.making this communication to your Lord-.
ship, I have done what I consider to be my y.
din
.A'Gentleman arrived at Hull on Friday, who left It is for your Lot dshtp to judge what is your's ; but
Stettin three
.days after the ;French entered, that I it would be highly culpable in me to suppose, that
place, states,. that after intelligence of the battle'l the zeal which was so.loud and 'alert against a IN:Oak.'
of Jena, and the subsequent flight of the King 'oft Lord- lately acquitted, will. retire Mute and inadive
...
Prussia over the Oder, were known there, the inhaa i from a case of such infinitely, greater importance.
bitants wrote to his Majesty, offering to defend I
, " I,am. prepared, if your :Lordship honours me
the place for him, even it-the military were:with- with an. enswer, to enter fully on the accusation
drawn. The King returned them thanks for the, and the proofs ; • tmd lam the more inclined to hope
attachment- maniteSted to hiM, but advised. them . for Your Lordship's notice, from the desire you will
not to think of such a measure at thdt tune, as it unquestionably .1661 to remove every thing corrupt
could only be productive
ror the worst, erfeas to from official situation. • , ,
themselves, without any benefit :to ills cause.— "Ifl am not honoured with an answer from your
'When the French summoned it, therethre, it was i - Lordship in 4
twenty-four hours I, shall cease to ..eas-
given up—but the Garrison had previously been - pct.:tit; a, ..: .., •
,- • - , .• . -
withdrawn, with the exception of the invalids and ~, "'I have the honour to be,- . . the wounded who bad, reached, that place. Yet, '1 Witirthe highest sentiments of .1-ea-lea
notwithstanding -this, after the ,Governor had sur- :' , .
Milted) .1. J. V "
rendered to the French, and the latter. had taken "To the Right Hon. Lord fierdy''Petq. , i
posSeSsion of Stettin, the Governor was insulted by ,. -.the inhabitants, pulled off his horse, and trampled COPY OF A 'LETTER BROM LORD HE',IRT PETTY
upon in the streets, for his. conduit in giving it up. ' • TO J. J. V.
" Slat,. " Downing-street, Nov. is, 18:6.,
'SPORTING LEAP.—ROBERT MARIUS, 'P',Se. 0 -
`Louth, being out with the hare=houndi last week, " I yesterday received your letter acquainting me.
flagitious corm aion
leaped his cropped horse over a four-rail fence and that you conceived a system of . I
Borough of Malmsbtlry;
a drain.. The company.caused the leap to be nice.; had been carried on in the.
sured, which was found.' to be eight yards eight and that the Agent principally concerned in it was a
inches.—The Itorse performed it in a canter,. with Servant of the Crown..
the greatest ease, though the heat was up hill. " I can only obServe to you, that the remedy pro-
' bided by the Constitution against corruption of this
On Monday'last the Earl of 'DARLItsIGTON's Fore-
hounds nature ia,„by Petition to. trio House of Commons,hOLlDds met at Langton, at half past eleven o'clock.
whose Committees are alone competent to examine
His Lordship, in going to cover, had seen a fox
and decide upon the condua of these who may be
crossing the plantations towfirds the gardens ; the
accused of corrupt or illegal proceedings queering
were very soon afterwards:laid on, and, after
the ele6-tion of Members of Parliament. .
a little cold', hunting, went off au score. For one
I" You may rest assured, that ' if any Officer of
.hour and thirty-five minutes they bad a continued
burst, but unfortunately ran. to ground at W the Crown should, before a competent tribunal, beatlass- ' •
coridnCied 'himself in the manual-.
Whin, an unstopped , • cover. The
.distance they proved to have
'll e his •Majesty'sG ' • twill t• '—
you a e .ge,• atemmen are..
went, from point to point, wasmearlytwelve,miles,
every step in their power to punish the individual;
and the whole run may be moderately computed at whoever he rtaty be; and prevent 'a rePeniien of the
, not less than seventeen Miles, , Froth Langton he
made forYaffbrth ; turned to,the Jight to Thriutoft;
back again towards Langton J. .crossed the . Swale
River (bank-full) to Scritton ; through' Mr,
NJACK,.
SO'S nurseries to Blow-Houses' ;' Va sect Leasowes,
over•ASkew new-inclosed Common, down to Askew
village ; over the brook to Bedale to the 'right to-
wards Crake-Hall ; over Mr: PIERSE'S park, and
through 'his plantations, to-Ash-Bank"; passed Thorp
and WatlasSi and ran to ground -at WailaSs7Whin.
From a very numerous field Of sportsmen, the only
Gentlemen in at the end were the foll Owing :
Lord-.DARLINGTON' upon Lady-Killer'; Mr; SnaT7
Toa • updn Regulus; Mr. LASCELLES upon :Stop-
Thief; Mr. C. PARKER upon Pat ; and Mr.' STRICKI
LAND upon Highwayman. JAMES GRAY and Wsi.
RICHARDSON, two of th 4 whippers-in, upon, /llor-
den and Hinton. For straight forward running, and
hard pressing, `this chace was Certainly never. sur-
passed, and but seldom equalled ; a stOuier. or more
game fox was :never unkeeinelled, nor a
.steadier
pack of hounds beheld 41 a field. .

offence.

I have the honour to be,
Sir &c. Szt.
(Signed) - " HENRY PETTY."
" To 1. f. Vassar, Esq."

Though' highly= 'sensible of my obligation to hit
.Lordship for the honour of his Letter, it is incum-
bent on me to observe, that having twice carried the:
-claimsof the antient and. prescriptive Burgesses of th
antient,a9d prescriptiveßorough of Marmsbury be-
fore . the tribunal he has taken the trouble to •pdint
ou( to me, I. could not, of course, be ignorant of
that road to the attack of the evil I. denounced to
him ; btit I did, and I do conceive, that by the
Constitution, the public 'Ministers also are bound to
inquire into, topunish, hod, to prevent; publiC Cor-
ruption ; 'and. most •heattily do I yearet, and in the
public principle I have stated myself to be governed
-by,' that, instead of doing this, they have chose to
leave it entrenched, where it may well be supposed
secure froin individual attempt td'expose and to cor-;
re6t

I shall however state the case to Parliament, and.
it will
.be before the Country ; and believing it very
po:isible we may yet have his Lordship's support in
this great national Cause, I think we may at least cal-
culate with certainty on the strenuous aid of one
of the Members of the present Administration, now
high in the public estimation by the indelible mark-4
ed pledge his conduit, when out of offiCe, has.givth
to the Empire.
_ _

1 have only to add at present, that strong as you
know my, attachment to be'to you, it is not merely
your local rights and interests, and ydur charae-ters;
that I am now led to advocate, for when the Chan-
cellor of the &chequer, though finding as much
difficulty to devise new Taxes as the People do to
pay-those-they are already burthened with, seems net
inclined to combat public corruption, your cause be--
who
feels the cause of every man. in the Empire ho
feels the necessity of economy and retrenchment,
and how much these, and the legitimate application
of the Public Money, depend on the purity of Elec-.
tion..

have the honour to be,
Gentlemen,
Your.most faithful humble Servant.
J. J. VASSAR.

~Loudon Dec. 4, 1800.

On Tuesday a young man, genteely
leaped from the No h Bridge, at Edinburgh, and
was killed olitha spot.

1,i113' ii,EPNR7'.

COI9IT OF KlNG's BENCH, Dec.B.
Tijis diy the Sittings after Michaelmas Term for
M concluded.

THE KING V. GEORGE BRISAC, ESQ.

This was an inthrmation against the Defendant,
on the prosecution of Sir Charles Hamilton, Bart.
There were three counts ;. two of which set out a
letter from: the party accused to Sir Charles ; the
other charged the Defendant generally with sending
a challenge.
Mr. GARROW, for the Prosecution, said, that the
Gentleman against whom he appeared had been a
Captain, in his Majesty's Navy, and that Sir Charles
Hamilton now held that honourable situation, and
- was also Commander of the Sea Fencibles on the
Coast of Essex. The former had been tried and
convitled of a heinous offence against the regula-
tions a the Navy, to which ,he had belonged, in
consequence of which he was sentenced to stand
in the pillory, and he was diSmissed the service—
Under these circumstances, he had been named a
Witness in a cause in the Admiralty, to which the
TProsecutor was a party, and therefore Sir Charles
thought fit to acquaint his legal advisers of the fa&s
stated. , In consequence of this communication, an
interrogatory was put to the Defendant, as to their
truth, which occasioned thefollowing letter, which
the Learned Counsel read from his brief, nearly in
the following terms.:

" London, Feb: 2.8, iBo6

" am aware of the' advantage you will have over
Me from an unmerited sentence in the Cotirrof King's Bench,
but 1 cannot help observing upon theonmanly ose you make
of it, derived only from perjury and mis-statement. It is a
cause in which more than two-thirds of His Majesty's Navy
are as deeply• implicated as myself, in the well-known prac-
tice of signing blank- you-clicks, in confidence, to the Pur-
Lers ; and 1 have been thus made the sacrifice•to the whole
Navy.
" But, Sir, conscious of my own innocence and honour, I
have supported myself through trials, which, I believe, few
men would hive strength of mind and nerve to sustain. The
malignant have been employed to destroy my charader.•anef.
they have put an interrogatory which retieds no dishonour
upon me, but upon those lho propose it. Does this do any
good ? Was it relative to the question at issue between You
and Captain Robinson ? Even supposing the answer were
given in the affirmative, would it resolve the doubt regarding.
'the
Dido and Itriliiiant ? Would it remove
,the_ sand-bank to
which the cause refers ? To' what end and purpose; then,
could such an unmanly interrogatory be put I It vyas mean,
cowardly, and cruel, thus wantonly and unnecessarily to
barrow up the feelings of a man who never did you, Sir, or
any other man, an injury.
" Sir, I have served my King and Country as honourably,
and, I believe, as long, as you have; and have shewn; when
opportunity otkred, that I have clJne my duty as well as yaw.:
Why, thetysiniuld you- make this unmanly attack upon me?
would willingly inter; that you were ignorant of the inter-
rogatory so disgraceful to theframers of it ; and I- will, when
the cause comes on, if lam in town, be in Court. Nor will
1 decline to say, en in Court, that was not guilty of ;
fraud for so paltry a sum as sor 6001. I send You my trial,
whereby .you May judge how I have been treatefL f. well
know 'the shelter a mean despicable mind will . find- in my
sentence, and use it as a means to protect himself from merit,
ed chastisement, when he -dares to insult me: he will say
that lam not in a rank to be met as a Gentleman. I have,
Sir, a better opinion of you, than to suppose you would avail
vourselfolsnch an expedient-; and I flatter' myself you will
amfirm that good opinion.
" In spirit and fortune, I am yet independent, although
my prosecutors (whom I may with justice call. my persecu-
tors) have endeavoured to break the one and ruin the other.
Thanks be to God, they tailed in their generous and-liberal
attempts ; not indeed from want of inclination, but through
want of power ; and be assured, that 'neither your title or
your rank justify you in ollring an. insult ; nor will I sutler
it from you or any one; and nothing hut the feeling,„that you
could not authorize the. putting the interrogatory could have
hulked me to write to you. I have now cnly to add, that I
wish the disgraceful interrogatory to be done away. am so
conscious of my innocence, and proud of my honour, that I
am not ashamed or afraid to meet von, Sir, either privately or
ill a public Court, where I will ,be, if possible, when your
cause is tried ; and perhaps your Attornies or Agents will
find they have not served you when they meant to disgrace
inc. Anxious for a reply, 1 remain, tic_
(Signed) " GEO. BIZISA.C."
"To Sir Cif 1-1 ANti L-rov, Bart:" • •
. .
After the\ Learned Counsel bad commented on'
the various parts of this letter referable to the

,
charges, '
Sir Charles Hamilton deposed to the_receipt of
the letter at his house in Devonshire-place.
Mr. Raymond, of the Admiralt,,, and Mr. James
Sykes, Agent to the -Defendant, prbved the band-

Darin' the opening of the case on the part of the
prosecution, Sir VICAR"( GIBBS and Mr. LAWES, on
behalf.of the Defendant, to,)k several
.objections ii
"point of form to the information ; in all which they
were overruled by his Lordship:
Sir V /CARY Gum then addressed the Jury (which
was a special one), adverting to the services of the
Defendant, the infirmity, of his years,. the irritability
or his temper, and the pure and honourable charaCter
he had sustained, with the single exception on the
occasion which had been observed upon with so-
much.severity. On the whole, the letter was indis-
creet but in all fair and candid construdion, it
could-not support any of the charges contained in
this information. • •
Lord ELLENBOIIOUGH stated the nature of the
,information,. and explained the counts it involv-
ed, distinguishing the offences to which the* re-
spe&ively applied. His 'Lordship said, that there
were twQ thds to be examined ; first as to the in-
strumentality of the Defendant in sending the let-
ter, and next, as to its publication within the
County .where the trial was conduded. Another
question fespeded the\ contents of the letter, as
containing, or not, a provotafion to fight. The
irritation of the party was not to.be taken into the
account, although this might be a proper subjed
for the attention of the Court if the degree of pit,.
nisinnent should come before them. The Noble and
Learned Judge having, examined the more remark-
able passages in the letter, tu assist the Jury in their
engoiries, the Gentlemen withdrew from the box for
dbout, twenty minutes, and returned witho the ver-
dia--Not Guilty. •

GENNER V. ANNA MARIA MgMATION.

Mr. TOPPING sheaved cause against a Rule obtain-
ed by Mr. ESPINASSE in this case, dire6ting the 'She-
iitt to pay over to the Defendant the amount of the
Execution issued by the Plaintiff.
It. appeared that Mrs. Gentler, the Plaintiff, be-
carne acquainted with the Defendant in GlouCester-
shire, where she a&ed as a governess in a private
tkmily ; and being pleased with her suavity of man-
ners, she proposed to lend 'her 2001. Bank Annuities,
to set up a sehod for young ladies, in London, to,
be replaced in three yet rs. A
.house was accordingly
taken, near Portland-place, where* the Plaintiff dieted