The Sun.
London, England, 1801-10-20 00:00:00

T RINID A D A .

[SyME: A,CCOUNT OF Tills ISLAND; 13.- A COiRES.

PONDLIIT.]

Tit INADADA, is adjacent tt.) tile coast of Paria,
between the Sotith headland of the Gulph of Mexico
and the mouths of the Oroonoko : its Eastern side
is nearly. in a line with Tobago"; excepting which
island, and Barbadoes, it is the most windward of
the Caribbees. Its figure is of an oblong.square,
about. 6o miles long, and so in its, general
The Northern and. Southern extremities approach-
ing the Coast of South America, from the bounda,
ries of the Gulph of Paria, which is an.altivist
fortil Harbour; of vast extei,m,:and never_ visited by
hurricanes.
..The Northfn entrance is..between
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several rocky. islands,
_Which, friomthe rapidiry of
the-cutrents setting ihrOugh: them, were named by
CoLtrmaus, Beicas'dil Degto*.; These isiandi are
,capable of being fiSrtifietl,. so as to command the
windward.and.ordinary.paisage of the Gulph.
Generally speaking, the country is level, and it
is believed there are no high lands butt-what are ca-
pable2of useful cultivation :. the soil is WithoUt ex-
ception the richest in the. West. Indies, and 'pecu.
Early sailapted- for the Carte; it has been' found too
ltixuriant for lighter crops ; no manure is used,
or needed, as in the other Islands, and. little cam_
parative labour is necessarylto urge the rankness of
vegetation. On the Eastern side are some planta.
Lions of Coffee, Cotton, and CoCoa; but it is Prin-
cipally on the leetWard'coast, where cultivation may
be said to have 1.)
gon, and is carried on with sue.
that, 'in prof rtion to .the capital
.employed,
has no parallel,' Here- many Emigrants froth the
French Islands,' with no other means th 9 they Could,
scrape together in .the precipitation.of an escape for
life, have already aegilited e:veand'ailluerice. In the
interior are some eXterio ye.savannas; "woods abohnd.
ing with Fustic and. Lignum Vitz;and a few Indian
settlements:; being every -where -a virgin soil,' that/
offers the.mostalluring prospels to 'future industry.
The bulk- of the present free Inhabitants' are
French ; next to them in number, are the original
,Indiansi with a verysmall mixture of European and
African colour,- who-have several villages or mis-
sions,- and who in this- Island readily do the labour
of Negroes, and cultivi4 the land for swages.
,The
number of white Spani4as,- even before the con-
quest, was not considef•able,.and is now inferior to
that'of British tettfers.,

The chief To'Vvti; -and •seat of Government, is
Port of Spain, .which may-have'from three to four
thousand, inhabitants, of all descriptions ;.St.joseph,
the old capital, is a very small town, but healthily
situated on a 'navigable river ; Arima is a Consi.
derable and.neatly-built Indian town, in
.the inte-
rior ; Petit Bourg is a rising village near .the prin.
cipal French sugar estates; La Brea, a Village-so
calledlrom its vicinity to the. curious of natu-
ral pitch, of which an account has been .publislicd
in the ". Transadions." There -are
other villages of less note.
The climate is certainly hot for an European
constitution, but by no. means unhealthy ;. from the
excelleot fruits that are every where spontaneously
produced, and the plentiful snpply of fortlo and fresh
provision's, the tropical diseases are lei§ frequent,
and less. malignant, than in manly:other plates. As
the land continues-to be cleared, it Will improve in
this resped. •
As a Commereial Depot, the .immediate import-
ance of this Island has been perhaps over-valued.
A few wretched villages.*On the opposite shores of
the Gulph are able to`barter live stock, and pro_
duns, against thecoarsest of our ftnries. If the
Spanish. Government shall permit intercourse with
those places, it is indeed very. near to Cumana, and
even to La Guayra, the .chief port of the Caraccas.
But if it be true what a-Fren.ch writer observed of
English policiy, that it not only ". contemplates the
". past, and grasps the present, but speculates on the
"future;," some idea may lie formed of the eventual
value of a Settlement placed at the mouth of a vast
river, that is navigable for =Any hundred leagues,
in the midst of the finest country in the world'!
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* pragon's mouths. •

„
WEYHIO., AIR.--lhe business of this great
part began on Saturlty; the zoth instant. The
?tle of Leather WaS the )princii)al- buSiness of that
day : it sold briskly; particularly heavy bends:and
•crop hides, .and• handsome skinsl: light tiresking
hides declined IrOinthe•prieS at the last
Bristol t'rices were as 'follow: Bends,'
6blb:each, 23d. .;..ditto 45 to 561b.474. to I 9d.
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heavy crop nicues, 19a. to zot... • light ditto, 13d:
dressino- hides, i7d.' if well ilead ; calf skins; 261 d.,
to •
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• At Bristol, best. Athericah Flour, Which, before
e' Peace, sold at 635. per barrel (of three bushels
and a half), immediately oh its 'being' announced,
fell to -26.,:—And rice, which, fOrtnight since,
sold;at.ps. 6J. can hardly now find.purchaserS at
zos..pe7 cwt. •

..:_On Saturday evening-died, in Manchester-Build-
ings,. Westminster, after a long and painful illness.
.Mrs. COOPER, Wife of Dr, ',COOPER, of. Bath..
;Easton Villa, in 'the County of Somerset.
A dreadful accident happened yesterday'in Con-
duit-street.' A Taylor, who resided tsext door to
The PrinCe of Wales's Coffee-house, having g'ot out
of his two pair 61 stairs. window in order to cleap
it, unfortunately. slipped, and 'falling headlong into
the area of the Coffee-house, fraaured his sea'• in
so dreadful a manner, that his brainssame our, and
.he expired on the spot:.
41 man of the name of Tytel,. a Gardener; of
Fleet Gardens, and who has worked 40 years in. the
vicinity of 11/4/lilbank, on Tuesday last, to a
Chymist Westrpitistyr, ands purchased some aqu,,..
fortis, which lie immediately drank, and was brought
home in a state of insensibility : he languished till
Friday 'in the greatest agonies, when the uncut tuna te
man expired. The Coroner's Jury sat yesterday,
and after hearing all the' circumstances, brought in
the Verdia'of Insanity What adds to the afflic-
tion is, that he has left a widow and three helpless
children to deplore the loss.
A considerable- number of. Deserters from dif-
fetent Regiments were, on Friday, embarked on
boird the Ducken.fie/-J,Transport, at Sheerness, for
the West Indies, where, we understimd, they are IQ
be drarted into the West India Regiments.

PUBLIC-OFFICE,

CIIARC;E, di .`,1:.:11:1).ER

Yesterday Ric!Jan? .)!lark'; purr to a clise-
monger in the Strand,. was exa-minctl bef4e
Fo RD, Esq. on suspicion of*haviug been guilty oz
the wilful murder of Mary,. his. :vitt:, on :mita:lay
night last, at their apartments in Cie lane,
Llare-marker.

iVlr.
cROWTH ER, of Roswell-court, Carey-s; rcer,
and Mr. ANDR EE, of Hatton.garden, Surgeons,
stated, that they yesterda4 morning wen' togethe,.
to inspea the body of tte deceased, which they
;found had been very much bruised, anparenJv
blow's or kicks, or both ; that on opening the body
they found a -large, quantity of block!, above two
quarts,
,Wised in the' cavity of the bay,
,on , re_
moving, of which blood the spleen was discovered to
beluptured, and they observed external marks of
bruises corresponding- with the said injury done lu
the spleen ; on the whole, they were 'of opHori
that she died in consequence of the rupture of the
spleen, which appeared to them to have been occa-
sioned by the said bruises.

Sarah Paskins said, that she lived in the same
hOuse (No a, Clement's-lane); as the deceased and
her husband ; that between seven and eight o'clock
on Saturday evening last, the deceased came
witneWs apartment, and talked with itcr ; that ,he
went in and ont several tiniesin the course of tie
she was accustomed to do, but appeared
to lye.extrenaciy uneasy,. and, tr)ubled in her mind,
which 4intlaced.wittiess to. ask her, wliat was
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maiter her ~and she replied, she ha.l be:_bn Lo
all day, but would-not tell what was the cau.se;,
that between eleven and twelve o'clock, she wen',
up-stairs into the deceased's room, and found

lying on the bed in :her clothes, apparently asleep„
and a child by her side. About twelve o'clock, the
Prisoner', Richard Stark, came home, and went up t.)
his room; but, in 'a, few minutes, came (h.:wit to wit..
ness, and aiked for a' bit 'of candle, saying, it was
dark up stairs, then returned up again, and shut the
door of his robin.. In a short time after which,
witness heard their child -cry, and heard the de..
ceased call oat to her husband several tbries, '' Don't
natird.er me;" upon which she, the witness, ran up
stairs, and desired the Prisoner to opeat the door;
and asked him, what he was doing to hiS wife ?
When he opened the door, he said, " that, she had
pawned his breeches ;"_ he asked her for the
sate, and repeatedly struck her with his hands; that
witness toldhini riot to strike her, and asked the
deceased to cote down stairs into her apartment ;
but to this she made- no reply, though she itnme-
diately after folloWed witness down, as did the Pr's-
Soner, Who; ;is the deceased was entering witness's
apartment, struck her a violent bldw, which knocked
her'down, end then kickedher repeatedly about the
head and body. He desired witness to tarn her
out ; and When witness endeavoured to assist her,
by lifting her.up, the Prisoner seized the deceased
by the hair with both hands, dragged her out of the
room into the passage, where lie dashed her down
in a violent manner, and 'kicked her again ; and on
witness atteMilting. to lift the deceased up, she ap.
pearett:agitated and convulsed, as if in a frt. That
witnc” then assited zheTateeascd up stairs., and laid
her on the bed, again desiring the. Prisoner -not'-to
b.cat her, who continued to swear.and threaten her.,
That witness then returned to her own apartment,
And sat. up' washing all. night, but heard nothing
more except the_ child cry, bet Ween one and two
o'clock in the morning.

Altry. Terry, 'another lodger in the same house,
corrobotated a great part of the ib7egoing circum-
stances,- and said, that on being informed the next
.morning that the deceased was lying on the bed'
wit% her eyes open, she went up stairs, and found
her lying on her left side on the bed in her clothes,
except her cap, handkerchief, , shoes and stockings,
and that sfic.uppeared much bruised about the head,
bee, and legs. .
Both witnesse's -agreed that the decease; did not
appear to be intoxicated the'precang niguc.

The Prisoner? in lii,-defcnce, said, dui: the de-
ceased had pawned his breeches on Saturchy, and.
• when he.camn home .at,-night,. she was e;stremely
drunk, which oecasiened'her to fall down. He was
committed for the murder; and the parties bound
over to prosecute. -

Thomas Bashfor4otherwise Ogle, otherwise Ro.
hinson, &c,' &c. the, person-in custody on suspicion
Of being guilty, ofdivers fr;wds, :vas brought up'for
re-examinati:;,n, when several'.other persons appeared
ivhomhe.had defrauded, among whom was a Publi-
can in I_:,a4 Smithfield, to whose .house. he had lately
come, as, the Captain of ,a vessel then lying in the
River Thames] and pretending he was in.a few days
to receive fool., borTowed 3olt • landlord.--
This, .ilnd `some other complaints brought against
:the Ms°. ;ler, appeared to be Only debts ;but lic, was
remanded respeaing the pocket-hooks-obtained from
Mr. Wiangham, in Bond street.

PUB,LK QFFICE, HATTON.GARDEN.---Yester.
day: /14,rawier'Brodie tindeewent a second examina-
. tion, having,. stood charged Ofion the oath of a. Mr.
Thomas, a Broker, with obtakirrg money and
goodsto,the ;.nytount of isi. on the credit of a bill
to that extent, drliwn by him,. ,r)(1 accepted byjuhrt
RUggles;.-of DOwning-streer,..who has absconded.—
The prosecutor further added, that the Prisoner gave
a false cila-raeier to thebit and that the goods were
,intbdedfto furniTh sonic roans ih 'Ruggles's house,
but whiCh were immtdiatelysold tb ;inother Broker.
The Prisoi;cr; in his defence; said, tki t• he only^
ataed as broker; tlik transaCted business
with. peOple_of the high-::sr. rank, Who 'accepted his
Bills, Which. he got discoUnted for their use, and
'only '.reeeited his bare commtssicri- for -hiS trot:hie
•-orwhat rtsk he might.run; At most; he contend.
,ed, that' it could Only amount to a Civil ACtion for
the non-payment of the Bills; of whcb there were
several produced under the same, circumstances.—
The traisadion being, however, cdnsidered a fraud,
'.he was' committed to take his trial at the Quarter
,Sessions,

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On ,Tuesday night several Farmers in Essex,-had
castle stotet; from oil their lands. One Gentleman,
Mr. Stammers, of Horden, lost fon
glens ate suspeded to be the thieves.

About three or four' weeks ago, .as one of the
Labourers in making a:Reservoir in Walton-Moss,
Fintry Parish, was in the ad of reducing a salmi)
gravel-hill, he discovered an earthen urn- contain-
itz human bones; which had been burnt.

PRICE OF COALS IN THE POOL YESTERDAY :
Newcastle - - 475. od.-:-Delivere4.l at 56s.iod.
Sunderland - - od.—Ditto, - 5 is. 44.

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