The Sun.
London, England, 1808-08-27 00:00:00

IsLi4Nb ro CEYLON.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET,-0:1 Thursday, Lord
R----,eei and Major s-e--s-- were; held in sureties to
keep the 'peace, in 10001. each, for clinllenues to-
wards eaelr other. 'The Gentlemen it appeared had .
sortie differences on the turnpike road whilst driving.
their curricles; but whether they crossed each other
by.accident or by design did not appear. High
words, however, arose, which ended in the chal-
lenges for which thy were heldito bail.
UNION -HA LL.—A complaint was yesterday made
by Mr. Coltinge,. manufacturer &Talent Axletrees .
and Engineer, against Louis Feder, AD ariclvd ser-
'ent, for absenting himself from ,his service. The
article; as put in, bound Potter to serve five years,
commencing with a weekly pay of 16s. antt eni•reas.
ino at the end of each year at 29. per week ,iil,t;tional.
The Defendant had for soMe time left his reester,
and had gone to meek fur another.
A Solicitor attended, .for the purpose of defending
Potier. His first ground was, that the instrument
being unstamped, was invalid. This eas answered
•. . .
,i by a reference, to the Solicitor of Stamps, who de-
. On Monday last, tient, General Lord CHARLES • cided in favour of the instrument ; another was taken
FITZROY 'reviewed, on Rushmere Heath, near Ipso e under the Ad of Elizabeth, .and a variety .of decie
wich, Major General COTTON'S brigade, consisting ' sions, that any person in a state of infancy bind-
of two troops of Light Horse. Artillery, and the ing himself to serve for t a period of years, shall, as
14th and Atli regiMents of Light Dragoons. This soon as he attains fill age, be at liberty to go on
fine brigade is under orders for foreign service. with, renew that contract, or vacate it—His Client,
The followhig Address was lately transmitted to under all those authorities,. bad chose to vacate it ;
Lord CAsTLEREAGH, as Secretary of State for the he was now 2.2 years of age, having been born in
Colonial Department : Fiance on the 28th of February, 1786, and was, he
" To the King's Most Excellent Majesty. contended, entitled to.do so.
- " " Most Gracious sovereign, Mr. Collinge, who pleaded his own case, bowed
la We, your Majesty's loyal Subleas of the Island of Tri- obedience to the law, but expressed his wish, that
Wald, most humbly beseech your Majesty to extend to the it should have been explained more folly before, as
Inisabitants of that Island, without national or religious dis- •
great hardships would be encountered by masterstine'lion,
tindion, and without legal retrospetlion, the British Coo ti-
tution, as established in the other British Colonies in the i losing a number of hands. , ' . - •
West Indies." The Magistrates admitted the hardship, hot they
•
This Address was signed by the Governor, - the i sat there to administer the law as it was laid down,
Chief Judge, Members of the Council, and Cabildo, and must dedide accordingly.
and 300 of the most respe&able inhabitants. . . Fader was therefore discharged:
On Thursday last his Royal Highness the Duke of BOW-STREET.—Yesterday James IP addinghag
YORK gave a grand dinner, at Oatlands, to.upwards the Lantliord of the Constitution public-house, ii
of thirty persons of distinEtion. - After dinner their Bedford-street, Covent Garden, was conviaed before
Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess, and the JoHN NARES, Esq. in the penalty oleos. for suffering
whole of their guests, left Oatlands for the Bush Inn, two .watchmen, belonging to Covent Garden parish,
at Staines, where a grand ball was given by his Royal to drink in his house ding the hours they °tight to
Highness to all the surrounding fashionable Nobility be
o on their duty.
and Gentry. The Duke and Duchess retired at two On Tuesd,ay,
.two genteel young wrinien (sisters)
o'clock ; her Royal Highness returned tto Oatlands, - were brought before Mr. READ, the sitting' i‘laets-
and the Duke arrived at his house in town at half trate, by Anthony and Lavender, charged by Kir.
past three yesterday morning. Gass, of Oxford-street, Jeweller, with bas ing, on the
Twelve Sail of Transports sailed from the Downs Saturday preceding, stolen a diamond ring, of the
on Thursday morning for, the Nore, , where, it is value of 301.
said, they ate to be joined by several others, and to Mr. Gass stated, that they came to his shop, and
proceed immediately to the Baltic, to take on-board lookedat set eral articles, and then desired them to
the Spanish troops to convey them to Spain. be seat home to their house in the. New Road,
A Jewish soldier, named JOSEPH 'SAMPSON, be- which be did. After they had been away about an
longing to the garrison of Copenhagen, lately pro- hour, he missed a diamond ring, which he saw
fesaed himself a convert to the Christian Faith.---- when the, Prisoners were in the shop ; that he had
He was solemnly baptised by the name of Fits- applied to them, but they denied all knowledge of
DERICK BAUMAN. His' Danish MAJESTY, Prince the ring. He identified the ring Anthony produced,
CHRISTIAN, and Prince FREDERICK of Hesse, were which, he stated, he found in the garden of the Pri-
amotig his sponsors, the King being represented by soner's house, the eldest sister having told him it
a Major &poet. was buried there.—The younger sister was diseharg.
The Prince of HESSENSTEIN lately died at Pancker, ed, and the eldest was committed to Newgate, to
in Holstein, in the 47th year of his. age. The whole take her trial. . .
of his property, estimated at a million and.a half of SWlNDLlNG.—Yesterday a well dressed young
rix-dollars, is bequeathed to the Laudgrave CHAIII-E4, man was charged betbre the Magistrates at the Pub-
of Hesse Cassel. Lc Office, Whitechapel, with various acts of swind-
.
The festival of SI% PETER' has this year been cele- I.)ing. It was- stated, that .he had run up a score•at a
towed at Route with a degree of simplicity unex- house in Alie-street,Goodinan's,fields, by represent-
ampled in the Papal annals. It was, however, dis- ing himself to be the Captain of a West Indianian,
tiuguished by an occurrence highly chareFieristic of but it appeared that he had no money. An officer
the regard in which'the deposers POPE is held by the having been sent for to take him into custody, be
idecoyed the latter to Lloyd's Coffee-house, and finally
lower orders of the people. On the eve of the les-
nen having caught a2sturgeon gave him the slip. About a week after be was trac-
tival, a party of fisher'
in their net, exclaiined one and all—" Let us carry j ed to the Commercial Coffee-house, near the West
it to the Holy Father," They immediately put the India DockS, where he obtained credit, and lived in
enquiring a splendid style, by saying he. belonged to the ship
live fish into a water-tight vessel,' and sent a depu-
tation of 14 men with it to Quirinal. The PoPE, on Jeanet, in the dock ; but no ship of that .name .prov-
their business with him, was answered by ed tat be in the dock. The Prisoner said but little in
"lii4 defence, end he was fully committed for trial.—
their spokesman—" Holy Father, Si. PETER has
Mary ArKenzie, one of the frail sisterhood, from
sent us good ' luck. We have just caught a fish
Portsmouth Point, was charged with robbing an
which is neither too large nor too small, and we
beg leave; with the utmost reverence, to lay it at honest tar of 591. in bank notes, while he was moor-
youred by her-side in a harbour at East Smithfield. It
feet." The interview between his Holiness .
and these honest fellows' is mentioned in the FOreign
appeared that Jack had previously given her 101. and
Papers, as one of the most picturesque circumstances
as he was, positiye in Ida charge, the Prisoner was
in the life of Pius VII. , •• - committed for trial. •. . •
It is said, that on the late return of RUGNA-
PARTE'S Birth-day, some of the French Officerseaeho
are Prisoners at Ashby-de-la-Zotich, in Leicester-
shire, prepared to celebrate it ; the design was op-
poied by others of their bretheen, and a qaarrel en-
stied, in which several of them were Wounded, and
military ' force was *necessary to restore order. At
Litchfield, where there is a number of French Offi-
cers, some of .them -of high rank, they not only
paased over the anniversary -without notice, but in
strong terms -repintrated-Neroetos and his pro-
ceedings. .
We insert the following at the request of a Cor-
respondent.
A COMPREHENSIVE PARAPHRASE I.;EnN QUF:57:10?.:
AND ANSWER REVISED AND CoRRFETL:D.

POLICE.

GENERAL ORDERS: .
Head- Q.iarters, Galli, March IS) '.1.....5.
. .
The St. lOtorenzo Frigate, commanded by the l4te Capt

Kirdinge, has, after an adion second to none that ever gracvd

the annals of the Navy, towed into the Roads of Columbo
the rrenth Frigate La, Piedmontaise, more than double her
force in point of men, and superior in the number of guns,
and which had hitherto escaped the Vigilakice of the Nair,
Lieut, General Maitland feels it his duty, as representing
his Sovereign in this Island, to direct, that at four o'clock
tomorrow the 'Flag at the Flag-stafr be hoisted half Bag.
staff high, and that minute guns be fired agreeable to the
'rumber of years Captain ilardinge had so honoutably
V./hen his career was, so unfortunately for his friends and

countr , cut off.
This Order will be read at the head of the troops when it
arrives; and similar honours to the memory of Capt. liar-
dinge will be paid in ail the Forts of the Island on the d.y of
its arrival.

SC E Ns—The house that Jack built.
By Dick and his Son you're pow asked—ls it right,
Of next month, on the first Tuesday night,
Or on the dawn of some Sabbath-day bright,
When sure of the Priest to get sight,
If no cause appears; will that burden so light
From lack's house take its Bight ?
Where, if I'm right,
There's no dog to affright ; '
But all is profound in the dead of the night.
August a 6.

. The Diana, Capt. MAINWARING, of 14 guns, ar-
rived at Plymouth on Sunday, from St. Domingo,
was charged with Dispatches from CHRISTOPIIE to
his Resident in London. Capt. M. represents the
Court and Retinue of ,the Emperor to be magnifi-
cent beyond description. He.was trerted with the
greatest politeness and courtesy, and was present ar
a public breakfast given at Court, which European
volupteuusness and luxury could scarcely equal.
Yesterday afternoon a severe battle was fought
near the Asylum, St. George's Fields, between a
Gentleman's coachman and a draytioan. The con-
test was desperate on both sides, for nearly half an
hour, the odds then became in favour of the former,
who, in ten minutes,*completely beat his antagonist.

EXTRAIDIODINARY LEAP--On Sunday, the 3lst of
luly, as the Rev. C. Cooke (tutor to the twosons of
the Hon. H. VERNOR, of Wentworth-house, York-
shire) was riding a high spirited hunter in the park,
some of the deer crossed him, and caused the horse to
run away with him. In vain his rider endeavoured to
stop hint ; the beast ran at its fullest speed to the park
(an iron) •gate, which is'7 feet g inches high, and with
very Large spikes on the top ; above the gate is a fine
arch of Portland stone, and about three feet above the
top of the spikes. The horse nevertheless endeavour-
ed to cover the gate, but in the exertion broke the t
Cross bars of heavy massy iron, and by the shock
wrenched the lower hinge from the post; by this
means the gate hung obliquely,vy hen, frantic with the
pain, to the surprize of every beholder, he tlirealy
staunch leaped the gate, and carried his rider over
perfeely safe, who had some difficulty to stop hitn
afterwards from running away. So great was the con!.
cussion, that the bone, from the forehead to the nose,
was fraclured"completely into two parts. The horse
struck his rider a most violent blow.in his right eye,
immediately before covering his leap, which hai near-
ly deprived him of the sight of it. The horse is ex-
pe&ed to recev er.
A footpad, in the garb of a sailor, lately stopped
a publican on the road between Brent ford and Turn-
tram Green, and demanded his money.. The host
told his assailant that be was a publican, and had
only halfpence in his pocket, which he was ready to
deliver. The robber, greedy of the miserable Spoil,
instantly pUt a large club, which he had brandished,
under his arm, and held his hat for the half• pence.--
The p9blican, watching his opportunity, seized the
Vttick, beat him dreadfully, and left him on
the road, with advice to have more sense and honesty
I it) future.

On Wednesday evening as Mr. Sadler, of the
Horse.llepOsitory, in (.4n,well-street; and his
wets coining trom Hackney in a gig, the horse
taking bight, ran furiously avinit'a block of stone
lets in the toad, near a Mason's yard, in the vicinity
of Shoi:editch; and fell almost lifeless; Mr. and Miti:
Sadler were thrown out, and both very much hurt,
but not dangerously.