The Sun.
London, England, 1801-10-03 00:00:00

WINDSOR, SEPT. 30.

Tuts morning the first division of the Stafford.
shire Militia, consisting of the two flank, and three
battalion Companies, with the field pieces, music,
and ellours, marched in here from Bagshot, and
took possession of the Infantry Barracks, which have
been fitted up for their reception. Four Troops of
the toth (PRINCE of WALES'S) Regiment of Light
Dragoons, it is expeeted, will occupy the Cavalry
Barracks to-morrow or next day.
Yesterday the PRINCE of CoNDE and his 'Suite
visited Windsor, and after seeing every objea wor-
thy of attention in the Castle and Town, proceeded
to the Great Park, to inspeti the KING'S improve-
ments, and from thence continued his journey to
Brighton.

ACCOUNT OF TUE PROBABLE QUANTITY OF GRAIN IM-
PORTED INTO GREAT BRITAIN, IN THE COURSE OF
ISOI, .WITH THE AVERAGE PRICE rummy, AND
BOUNTY PAYABLE THEREON.

GRAIN IMPORTED.
Wheat - s,soo,ooe, Quarters
Oats - - 400,000
Barley . 200,000
Ryc x 5,0,000
Pease . . . 40,000
Beaus xs,ono
Americanßarrels Soo,ooo ---
Rye Meal
Indian do. and
Indian Cora

cost 4. 7400,000

boo,ooo
400,000

,000

. ~s 40n,000

k. 12,700,000
Bounty on the abokre, to lie Maid Governinent 2,300,000

Total Cost
—I—

4. 15,000,000

THE THEATRE.—The old stock Comedy, as it
is technically called, of The Suspicious iinsband,
was represented at Covent-Garden • Theatre last
night. There was no alteration in the performance
sufficient to require any particular comment. Lewis
gave Ranger with his accui tomed sprightliness, and,
availing himself of the event which has afforded
so much • satisfadion to the Public, po*erfully in-
terested the feelings, of the audience. Just ,at the
time when Frankly and • Bellamy; with drawn
swords, under a mistake, were going to fight about
their respective mistresses„ Lewis, AS Ranger, en-
tered, and exclaimed, " How now, at War, at
this moment, when every mind is animated with •
the idea of a general Peace." This timely arid
appropriate effusion operated upon the audience
with ele6tric rapidity. An eager and general ex-
pression of applause burst fronl all parts of the
Theatre; and suspended the Performance fbr some
minutes.

God save the King was demanded before the Play
began, and every heart seethed to be w armed by
intelligence so important, so acceptable, and so
unexpeted.

It does not appear, that, icS the enjoyment of
the blessings of Peace, we are to have art unquali-
fied Good, but that its due proportiim of evil is to
be intermixed. Dr. PRIESTLEY threatens to re-
visit us on that great event.

His Majesty's Postmasters-General have been
pleased to appoint J. B. AUSTIN, ESCI. Clerk of the
Kent Road, to succeed the late EDM. BARNES, Esq.
as Clerk of the Chester Road; SAMUEL BROWN,
Esq.- Clerk of the Yarmouth, to succeed Mr. Au-
sTIN, as Clerk of the Kent; and. J. H. Bk 'CGS,
Esq. to succeed Mr. BROWN, a: Clerk of the Yar-
mouth Road.
At a Guild held at Saffron Walden, Sept. 29,
THOMAS SM I rii , lssq. of Horn 'Lane,- was unani-
mously chosen Mayor for the year ensuing.
Accounts from Copenhagen, of the z9th ' ult.
state, " that the late- storms have ;one very great
damage in the Baltic : more than twenty vessels
are supposed to have been lost in the course of a
fortnight, amongst which are two Russian Men of
•War, and an English vessel ea trying horses to Peters-
burgh, without a single man being saved. Every
where bodies and wreck are seen floating and driving
on shore.—A Commission, consisting of Rear.Ad-
.miral STOCKFLETH, Chief Capt. KR-1 E GE R, Captains
KNAB BE, GROVES, and the .Chamberlains KAAtt
and 11,IoTTirE, are appointed to. suggest plans for the
best defence of Norway towv.rdsthe sea."
The 'high price of provisions has excited a great
spirit of industry in Cornwall, in the improvement
of waste land, and many
.large traits of ground,
hitherto wholly barren, have produced considerable
crops. There is at present a plentiful crop of fine
potatoes and turnips on the summit of Castle-an-Di-
nas, naturally one of the most barren and. expoSed
situations in the County, and which was totally
uncultivated till about two years since.
We learn, according to a letter received from
Calcutta, that coffee grows at Amboyna in sufficient
luxuriance to encourage the Ambovnesc in the cu:-
sivation of it ; and'the quality of it is by no means
inferfor to that of Java. The sugar cane also grows
at Amboyna tá a great perfeltion; some of tl't
canes have been examined, and found to be as, 1,!11'
of sap as those of Java. It is stated to, be ptcti:-..-
able, and easy to be conveyed from' Amboyna in
the Company's ships, which could be stowe(j as a
lower tier, and'serve for ballast. 1

Tea
death of CaptAi PARKER must be lamented
by the Nation at large;' as. the loss of a most pro-
mising and able Officer ;- but to those who had the
happiness of his acquaintance, it must be the-subjed
of deep and lasting afiliaion. On his professional
merits it is needless to enlarge : to have been raised
to the rank of Master and Commander when scarcely
21 years old ; to have been distinguished at this
early age in the naval annals 'of England, in its
most illustrious xra ; and, above all, to have been
transmitted to posterity as ," the good and gallant
friend and able assistant" of the -greatest of our
Naval Heroes, are fadS:which speak more power-
fully than panegyric.. But the frustration of those
hopes, which so brilliant an outset in the race of
glory had so justly inspired, is, not the- principal
source of the aftlidion of- his friends : to a spirit
ardent in the pursuit of honour, to undaunted cou-
rage, and to active and unwearied perseverance in
the acquirement of the knowledge and discharge of
the duties of his profession, he joined a generous
and unsuspecting openness of heart, an artless and
engaging courtesy of manners, -a warmth of bene-
volence and fidelity in friendship, which. made him
as amiable, as the more shining virtues of his cha-
rader gave hopes he would be great. The singular
mildness of his temper was most stronglylprovcd in
the last weeks of his life ; when it not only enabled
him to sustain, with exemplary fortitude and resig-
nation, the torments of a most painful wound, but
for a time allayed the violence of his fever, and
even prothised wholly to avert the blow, which at
length fell on his Mends clic. Loft.: or from 't,2;. cs
delayed.

A very melancholy event took place at Chelsea
Hospital yesterday morning. Two invalid Cap-
tains had entertained an animosity towards each
other; but it was prevented from breaking out into
violence by the 'influence of a Superior Officer, who
constantly laboured to reconcile them. Death un-
fortunately removed that restraint ; and the en-
mity, of which we know not the cause, at length
produced the fatal effeft so long dreaded. Be-
tween six and seven o'clock in the morning, one
of them came to the chamber door of the other, as he
was in the aft of rising from his bed. He brought
with him A case of pistols, which he bought the day
before,- and, presenting one of them to his 'ad-
versary, demanded honourable satisfa*ltion. The
other indignantly struck the proffered priesent
frorti his hand, and, by its fall to the ground,
the trigger was broken. The assailant then
left the room; but, whether of his own accoid or
by compulsion, is not known: He did not, how-
ever, go away ; but turning round, he fired through
the glass window in the. door; and shot the unfor-
tunate man within, right through the heart. The
report of the pistol excited an immediate ,alarm, and
attraEted all the people of the place to the ' spot,
where they found the two old Captains, one dead on
the floor, and the other at the • door, from which
he- never made any attempt to stir.. Being ques-
tioned- as to the melancholy event, we understand he
gave the above account of it ; said it was he who
fired the shot, and did not betray any consciousness
of his having done a criminal or improper aft. From
this circulistance, and his whole manner and beha-
viour, he is supposed to be insane. They were both
nearly So years of age.
Letters from Constantinople of the 25th of Aug.
report, that the French Ambassador, Citizen RITF-
EiN) and his suite; were to be dismissed next day
from
,their long confinement in the Seven Towers.
A late Letter from Calcutta, says, the Oil which
is found in the bOwels of the earth, in the Burmah
dominions, is of a very peculiar quality. To ob-
tain it, they sink wells to the depth of one hundred
cubits. The Oil is drawn pure from the wells in
the liquid state as used, without variation ; it is
of a dingy green, and odorous. One family, per-
haps, will possess four or five wells ; the cost of
sinking a new well, is about 2500 sicca rupees,
and the annual average net profit is about 1256
sidca rupees. It is remarkable, that no water ever

percolates through the earth into the wells, as has
been supposed. When a well grows dry, they
deepen it, and none are abandoned for barrenness.
The Oil is excellent in preserving wood from de-
cay, and is likewise celebrated for its medicinal
properties. The gross amount of all the wells,
per annum, is estimated at 289,737 sicca rupees.
POLICE OFFICE, WORSHIP-STREET.—An In-
fonnation was e!thibited before JOHN MosER, Esq.
on the Fish Aft of the 39th Geo. 11. for nc enter-
ing the Ship within three days after passing the
Nore, by whi.ch the Owners forfeit the sum of sot.
The information stated, that on the +th of Aug.
r, the ship Eliza, from Berwick, laden with fish
for the Lorrion Market, arrived at the Nore ; and
that Kranci s Orde, the master, neglected, for above
the space ,af three days, to enter her arrival, by
which the sum of sot. was feited.

It was contended, that the Berwick Smacks were
not Fishing Vessels, and not bound to give such a
Report as Fishing Vessels did ; that there was no
set form for the Report, and if they gave one in
substanc,z, it met the intention of the At. To esta-
blish thf; distindion between the Fishing Vessels
and the Berwickers, it was statel that the latter
paid in my dues, which the others were exempted
from.

Th e ,Magistrates, however, being of • opinion
that :iv vessel carrying fish came within the mean-
ing ,)f the Ad, and that for want of an original
repc.rt there had been no regular entry, pronounced
judgment against the Defendants; who immediately
ent,:red into recognizances to appeal to the next
Quarter Sessions.

Monday evening a man intoxicated, by 'some
!pearls or other got on the parapet wall of Swansea
Castle, fell asleep, and on his waking fell over into
the yard of Mr. Williams, ironmonger, a height of
6o feet, without receiving any other injury than a
slight contusion on the head.
Thdrsday morning .the servant maid of Mr.
Tahourdin, of Argyll..street,. was found hanging
on tie. staircase. The Coron;r's jury sat on the
body in the evening, and brought in their verdict—
Lunn y.

DUEL.

DUBLIN, SEPT. 28.

Mr.O'DoNEL havingexerted his influence, which
was considerable in the county of Mayo, in favour
Of a Mr. DILLON, son of Lord Drt,LoN, to repre-
sent the County on the first va2ancy, eiedioneering
hand-bills had been last week posted up, by 'his
orders, in all the public places, which wc!rc torn
down by the rival Candidate, DF NIS BI NG ;PAM,
Esq. and replaced by counter notices of an irritat
ing and personal nature. This
.produced a chal-
lenge, and the parties met at Ballina, on Thursday
last, and, having appointed SecOnds, . took thd.
ground ar twelve yardsdistance. Both parties fired
at the. Stolle time. Mr. B N G1111:,1 i first fire took
effea ; it entered Mr. O'DONEL'S left breast, and
pierced his heart ! . •

. • -
About five minutes before this Unhappy. 3fEfir,
Mr. O'Dor,EL called for pen and ink, and wrote a
short Address to- the Eletiors of •the County, of
Mayo, which we have just seen in his own' hand_
writing,. It would seem to breathe a presentiment
of his approaching dissolution.
" To the INDEPENDENT ELECTORS of th--. Coutity
of MAYO, .

" Shoffid I fall in the contest with Mr. BINGHAM,
in support of your cause, of the Indep.endenee of the County
of Mayo. Had I lived, it was my . determination to have
done all in my power to have prevented you from' being
Slaves, and the County from- being made 'a Borough.. You
yet, I feel, will do it, and 1 earnestly intreat. rdl .my
friends to give their interest to Mr., Di L Lox, and.any other
person whom the independent interest shall nominate as
his Colleague.---Farewell, my Friends.
"114/lina, Sept. 24, tElot. " J. M. O'DONEL."
..,pray for Mr_ O'Dptc.iti,
CHARLES LIONEL. FITZGERALD ; for ivir. DING_
HAM, Colonel JACKSON, of the North Mayo Mi-

ficia.

His MA J g STY has been pleased to approve of and
confirm the sentence of a general Court Martial held
at Government House, Plymouth, on the rgth Aug.
last, on Mr. Hall, Barrack-Master of Pendennis
Castle, for conduel unbecoming a Gentleman, in
violently knocking down, kieking, and beating
Ensign W. Jones, of the Royal Invalids, on the
parade, on the 16th July last past.—The sentence
:was dismissal from his situation as Barrack. Master.
HELytTIA,In the new Constitution given by
France to the Helvetic Republic, the Pays de Valid
is separated frOm the Canton of Berne, and Made a
Canton by itself. A Protest against this measure
was circulated in the Pays de Vaad, and in a few
days it acquired a great number of signatures.. The
Prefeic.l POLIER, on this, issued a Proclamation, in
which he strongly forbids the inhabitants to sign
this Protest, and declared his intention to prosecute
criminally the unknown authors ()fit. A few days
afterwards, he received a letter 'signed by thirteen
of the most respetiable persons in that -country,
avowing themselves authors of the Protest, and that
they were ready to defend its 'propriety to the last
extremity. The letter,. which was written With
great spirit, they printed for the information of
their countrymen, and, in a very short time, 8000
signatures were added to the original Protest. As
.so heinous a crime against the Revolutionary powers
could not be overlooked, the authors of the Protest
were fined so francs each, or 31. 3s. sd. They have
appealed against this sentence, and the signatures
increased in number every day. As the Members
of, the old Government of Berne have had no share

in this transadion,. it shews plainly how the people
feel towards the old Constitutional and the new
Revolutionary powers. All the Citizens of Berne,
Members of the Eleding Assembly, having refused
to take the oath required by the .011,-voir Execia?i,
were expelled from the Assembly, by the special
command of that first of the Revolutionary power,
which has likewise' impeached before the New Di.
redory, the Members sent 'by the Cantons of Switz,
Uri, and Underwald, for having persisted in tim
same refusal. - The inhabitants of the Vavois have
sent to several European Courts a strong Protest
against the intended incorporation of their country
with France. The French Government admit that
they have not the smallest title to that counter, but
say it is necessary to their connection with Italy,
that it should be in their hands.

There are at present at Paris. 44.5 booksellers,
340 printers, 138 bookbinders, 41 Ftiv-liers of
pamphlets, 327 engravers, 58 copper plate printers,
49 printsellers, and 71 old bookshops ; 240 seller:,
of lemonade, 200 keepers_of cook_shops, 630 wine..
merchants, 546 perfumers, A 54. lot tery-office keepers,
and 975 act)rs, atiresses, singers, and dancers.
. All the Vessels from Hull, Liverpool,'"
arrived at Elsineur under convoy of the Pomona,
have passed the Sound for the Baltic; and those
thence for England were to sail under convoy Qt.
the Pomona, nn the 24th of Septernbu, if the wind
was fair.

r:at

The Danish Galliot, Northern Lights, from Bay-
onne to Copenhagen, with wine, is put Iwo Coves
with the loss of masts.

SPORTING ANECDOTES.—On the 7th of Febru-
ary, 1731, a wager of five hundred pounds was made
between Lord CAYENDISH and Sir ROBERT FAG,
that the former did not ride a hunter from Hyde-
Park-Corner to the Lodge, in Windsor Forest, in,
an hour and five minutes. His Lordship performed
it in an hour and six minutes, and consequently lost.
Upwards of 50001. were betted on the occasion.
The celebrated Marquis De La FAYETTE rode,
in August, 1788, from Rhode Island to Boston,
near 70 miles distant, in seven hours, and returned
in six hours and a half.

On the 2+th of January, 1792, for a bet of coo
guineas, Mr. 13INcHAm's bay gelding, performed.
two standing leaps over Hyde Park wail, near the
gate going from Piccadilly, winch wall is six feet
and a half on the inside, and eight on the outside.
As the descent was so considerable, long dung was
placed on the outside for his reception. The DUKE
Of YORK, PKINCE WILLIAM -Of GLOUCESTER,
Lord DERBY, &c. witnessed this surprising per.
formance.

In ORober, 1780, Mr. FOZARD, of Park lane,
for a wager of rsoi. against tool. undertook to
ride 40 miles i& two hours over Epsom Course. He
rode two miles -More than had been agreed on, and,
performed it in live minutes under time.

The• Hope, Bowra, frqm Jamaica to Lond'On,
is captured (the Captain kiiied) in going to join
Convoy.

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