The Sun.
London, England, 1808-08-02 00:00:00

WEYMOUTH, AMY 30.

New arrivals are daily and rapidly pouting in, arta
many families are prudently engaging lodgii%s pre'
.A
vious to the commencement of Elandioid &Les le
August, much difficulty frequently ocurring in pro'
curing accommodations frontitig the sea, from the?
great influx of company that arrive after the sporli
of the turf have taken place.
Among"the last arrivals are--
Lordand Lady Craven, Sir C and Lady Inhofr, Lady DV'.
nally, Capt. Egerton, Rev. Drs. Gardiner, G. At w i‘k; and
pi'laxwell, Mr. and Mrs. Buxton, Mr. and M. Badtiela 110"
finiily, Mr. and Mrs. Lerge'llt and anuly, Dr. Wuul, Mr'
and Mrs. Chapman and family. Messrs. Harriso s, Bernd,
Bettington, Rawlinson, Bennett, Walsh,' Whitestone, I. L'
Goldsrn,id, 1. Gersett, ! -ickbon, B. Barfield, Chapman, sot'
tees, Porter, Morton Eden, Partridge. Prichard, hirrantr
Arnaud, Purling, 1, Bristow, Birch, Booti, klutines, A'rao,
J. N. Franklin, Jones, S. A. Swerne, H Wool, Laura(ll'
Lunell, Sidney, Protheroe.—Mrs. Buxton, 'Laird, IA
Lynam, White, Applecrab, RaWlinson, Parraiit, White!
Field House, Powell, Compton, Stephens, ‘Vare.--MisSe'
Kipling, Rickets, Rawlinson,Brownrigg, ac c.

Several-Volunteer Corps in the County of Tillie'
rary, commanded by Lord DONALLY, Sir H. AVAV
LER, Captains PEPPER, ANDREWS, lovVEltsf
VAUGHAN, CARDEN, 6:C. have offered tbkir serViC°
in Spain. .

It is said, that in a Fifth Expedition, which
combine a large force of artillery and much' cavallP,
the gallant offer of some of the Militia Regiment''
will be accepted:
The beautiful artificial water-fall, formed und`4.(
the direction of the Duke of GLOUCESTER, in o's
King's Park, near Virginia Water, has lately receive
considerable improvement, and. the traveller is prc‘
seated with a most romantic and pleasing scene.
On Sunday evening, the 24th ultimo the ioh;l'
bitants of the town of Alnwick, in Northumboil,
land, went in procession to Alnwick Castie, 013`1
after parading the Court-yard, were regaled Wite
wine, strong beer, &c.,and proceeJed to the
market-cross of Alnwick; where they proclair tDield
th
the annual fair of that town, to conienco to
next day, and to continue nine days, according to
ancient usage. In this proclamation,' all the
and dignities appertaining to the Houie •of Pglict;
as Lords of the Manor, &c. were', conformabtj 4
severally recited On Mot"da;,, the
day of the ta:r, all'i lie Duke of NORTUUMBEF:LA
tei,ants, and the .most respt-k‘t.ible inbab3:ll,ls
neiglibourhotxl, were partakers at Ala w ick ( 'ie a
a most plenteous- .61161i:ill' dutn,r. Taere
large chew of horned cattle, particularty
kind, which sold at: reasonable pritic).

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IMPROMPTU

4:M THE REMOVAL OF THE MILITARY et,EtYR3.

The weapon thus order'd the quei:e3 off'to clip,
Might be still bettettis'cl if ernploy'd on the lip ; '
F.or from al} that has yet of our Soldiers.been heard, I
They have'beat by the bayonet, not by the aeai

•
The style*with which CATALANI to- return to
Ireland this year is'suitable to the Inripress of the,
hannoniq regions. Besides KELLY, who is,tti be her Primelvlirnster and Chief Officer. of State, SIBOI4I,
ItOVED4No, -1111Aartat and his Wife, are• to form Part of hergeand musical establishment. MOETEL-
1-Aat•and SPAM.IIOTELII are to be at the head of the
instrumental deparittientand-Madeinoiselle PEEstE.
iS' asSiSttitl" obtaining' a goon footing in the sister
iland. •
3Caetain MuDrE is still the Proprietor of the Wind-
.,(lr Theatrg, which opened yesterday evening with
venire Preserv'd. Mr. CAMPBELL Bitowals
again
`he hero of the Company, which has been. strength-
ened by the addition of Mr.- PurtA.m, from EtrurY.
Jane Theatre, a .very improving young a6tor. MrS,;
MuntE takes the lead in the tragic -line; as well'
as in the mere,dignified chara6ters of Co‘'nedy..
The Earl of UILDFORD has been gratifyiog his
visitors at Wroitan With 'the representation of
Romeo and Juliet. fie performed Old. Capulet him-,
.Mr. KEMBLE Was the Friar Lawrence. Mrs.,
EMBLE the' Nurse. The love-siek hero and heroine'
cif the Piece were personated by Master ST. LEDGER and his sister. The whsle was cOndu6.led with the
riatuhrity 'of- 'a public theatre, and afforded much
e'ntertainment to the company.
Miss PARKE does not mean to take any n.a.t in
the ensuing Musid iVlevtings, but during the present
season ,%vill only gratify her private friends with
those talents, which, are so justly admired in public.
A Lamb has recently .favOured the world with.
'''zova Adventures of Ulysses. It is to be hoped that
his account of the Grecian hero is more interesting
than' that of the Biltish. Monarch bequeathed by a
:Pox. ..
As Gigi are so much in fashion; and as the Drivers
art not reniarkablv cautious, they should be inform-
.ed ocwhat &Ir. HEAVISIDE-. recently. said when he
Was invited to take a ride in one of these vehicles,
viz.
ents " No, thank
P you, I have at present ten Gig-
ati under my care.''
Mr. Serjeant COCKLE'S name is so propitious to
PunPiPT, that he is sure to be the subject of that
p
tiecles
that has hitherto'
of
zo. it when Oysters are in season, but all
fee. appeared was trot .'worth Aiting
Certain envious witlings have began to carp at
• Acoa's Equestriri- Statile of King WILLIA:4,
Which has been placed in St. Jarnes's•square ; but it.
bas given satisfadtion to sound andliberal•ctitics, and
Thls a work of art that does honour fo this Ceuntry;
e King his' the animated look of a hero, and
o
.."'_.eern§ to be ready for action. The horse partakes
f the same spirit, and the whOle manifests the
genius, judgment, and professional skill of the Artist.
The want bf a uniform tone of colouring in the bronze
Prevents the work froth being' seen to advantage at
present, but in due time the .general effect will be,
Improved, and it will then rank among the con-
Spieeons oreatriehtt of the Metropolis.
WESTALL has recently' come forward as a Poet,
and in such a manner as to shew that his pen• psr-
takes of the spirit, elegance, and imagination which
tract • he produclionS Of his pencil.
The celebrated race-horse Delphi'', 'died on Sa-
ttrtlay, last, near York; aged 27.
The cause of the peasants about Vasa rising en
74,asie is thus given, in a letter: from Kasco, brOught
to Stockholm by a fisherman :—" Mr. FA4aDEa,,
ap old and eminent mer Chant of Wasa, having 'bleep
Ordered to swear allegiance- to the Emperor of Ros-
tra, refused obstinately, and even exhorted those
arched him rather to be shot than to,deg,rade them-'
.seines. This so ensperated the Russians, that they
took the worthy gentleman and sent him
,a prisoner
to Freduisharn. On the road he met many peasants
Whom .h
knew, and he told them privarely that lie
110,ped liis Old friends; Whoui he had of ten trusted
with salt, eern,, and tobacco,' would assist the SwediSh •
i'lny;...e,orw approaching, to drive the Russians away,•
and, to set hirn at .liberty. The ruinour.of tt,,e good
PALADE'Ii. (as they calledtbirn) having been dragged
frPm his hope soon spread about, and nosobtier!..lid,
the SWedes•land at Wasa, than these brave friends•
of PAL,ANDbit fell upon all the COssack- videtles -.and
posti, and made them prisoners. The bloody
cf \Vasa followed, which begun with thd sla battle
ughte of the Swedes, tint ended in, he complete destruEtion r,
of the Russians. The general rumour Is here, that
Whetl COI. BEgGA24TA4LE 3Nroached the shore with
his squiclron, oil the 24th of June, a boat, came out
from a bay, lc:inform him that the Russians had eva7
coated that part of (he country. The mesengers,
however, were no other than- two Russians disguis-
ed as peasants. Thii stratacem succeeded but too
for the first column, of 20G wen, who was sent
to reconnoitre, and to occupy Wasa, finding no ene-
illy, was Jed into a snare, and perished every one ;
for no sooner wear they come within the. town, than
guns opened upon them from several houses and ay. e-
tines, so as to preclude all possibility of escape, or to
defend themselves. But this success cost the Rus-
sians dear—fur when the other troops and .those of
KL/NOSPOR came up, no quartet was given, and 500
Russians are said td have atoned -for the .massacre of
the Swedes the peasants could not be 'restrained,l
and it was with the greatest difficulty that Colonel.
I..DLERcREUTZ could save tOO prisoners from the
bands of the enraged populace. The official report
papne
"to the King and you Will scion see it in the
rs.
Extras'} from a Letter received from Madeira,
dated June 22
" Since my last the Melpomene and Ilalifax; ler
the West Indies; ctservateur,
yard, for he for- Halitax ; Leo-
. Cape of Ghod Hope; ?trolls, for the
East ; President, Lightning, and Serapis, for
the Biazils; and Mutine, all with convoys, have
tuuched at this island. The. Undaanted, on a cruize;
lcid Brilliant, for Guernsey, have also been here.
C
The
...ifileaine arrived this day from a croize. off the
Cat Canaries she has brought in with her a Spanish
g Ulter of Alarnue; of eight t -pounders, two
6-potandert, and for ty-m o men. Slid was bound 'on
it forty days' cruize, and had only left Larzarott4
.one day. The .dfic7int will rail again to-morrow
on neetber crw.le."

COMPEPIPION of pipEits at EDINIIIIRG17;

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' The Anntal Competition .tbr Prizes given by the
Highland Society of London, to the three-hest Per-.
•
formers on the great Highland Bagpipe, was held in
the Theatre Royal here, on the 25th ult. in preseke
01 a Committee of Judges appointed by the High-
land SOciety of Scotland, and a numerous and bril-
liant audience. The Theatre, on the occasion, was
full in every part . • . .
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The fit Priie, being a handsoine Pipe, properly mounted,
and adorned with a silver plate, upon which there has since
been engraved the proper inscription, „together with Forty
Merks Scots money, was adj udg4 to lam Ivl • Uregor, Piper-
Major to the 73d Regiment. •
• The second Prite, of Thirti, Merks; *al adjudged to Peter
Forbes, from Foss. . .
, .
The third Prize, being also Thirty Merks, was voted to
Alexander M'Donald,. from Skye. .„.. •
The Prizes were deliVered by the Honourable Archibald
M'Donald, the Preses, attended by Sir John Sinclair, .Bart: -
Colonel Grant, M. P. Mr. M'Donald, M. P. Mr. Lamont-
of Lamont, Colonel M‘Gregor Murray, and the other Gentle-
men of the Committee.

Mr. M'DoNALD, in delivering the Prites, address-
!. td himself to the preferred Competitors; reconi-
1' mending to them to continue their exertions iq nag;
pipe Music; and instru& other performers in the
practice of this useful warlike instrument.
The improvement made by the different Candi-
dates, in consequence of the encouragement given
by tl)se annual competitions, was so conspicuous
on this occasion, that. all
.the competitors who ap-
peared were in general good players.—ln particular,
Norman ,M`Pherson, of the Invirness-shire Militia; Dun-
. can &PG rCgor, Piper _to the Ilreadalbane Volunteers'; Wm.
P94Leod, Piper to the g4th Regiment ; lames Wlstie. from
Balquhiticier ; artti• inhu M‘Gregor, Piper to Mr., Farquhar-
son of Menaltry.
These were suitably rewarded by the Committee
—John M‘Donald, a boy, son of Donald M‘Donald,
pipemaker in Edinburgh, received a premium for
setting to music a collettion of antient pipe tunes
and piobrachds, submitted by him to the Judges.
The audience were likewise highly entertained
with the Reels and Highland Dances introduced he-
.v.veen the Ads; the competitors in this' sort having
displayed great agility and neatness, met with much
applause from the company, and received suitable
premiums from the Committee,

Vrom the increased countenance and support;
which not only those connetried with the Highlands,
taut the company in general who are in town. at the
Races, are pleased to give this. Anntial Competi-
tion and exhibition,
_the Judges were much gratified
to find, that, from the large amount of the receipts.
at the Theatre, they wire enabled to make consi-
derable additions in Money to the competitors who
gained the second, and third prizes, h.tiidei making
a handsome.divisiOn among the unsuccessful candi-
dates, some of whom had come from a great dis-
tance, to encourage them to farther exertions and
improvement in this antient, warlike, and national
music; and likewise among the dancers of High-
'anti, Reels..

EDINBURGH, JULY 28.—0 n Tuesday, that fine
wooded bank
,immediately opposite to Springfield
paper-mill-slipped, with a dreadftil crash, •into the
river Esk, which runs at the bo!torn, and which it
so completely choaked up, thai not a drop of water
passed for several hours. The bank, which is about
'coo feet in height, had discovered symptoms.of agi-
tation on the pt*ceding day; and, far about an hour
before it gave way the agitation was extremely vio-
lent, and the trees were seen falling in all dire6tions ;
but when it began to move in a body, it was awful-
ly grand and terl•ific, ,and the noise was equal to the
loudest thunder.- The slip is supposed to haVe been
occasioned by water lodged in the bank, which bad
loosened it from' its bed.

'ib JULY 3(10.--As a strong-, proof of the •earliness of
the season, we have to mention. that Mr. CHURCH,
Of Masi Towtr, began cutting oats on Tue'sday last;
they promise to be a fine crop. A quantity of oats
has also been cut in a field at Hiriel.
A Letter from a Gentleman in Forres says—" The
barley harvest was begun here about a mile to the
eastward of-the town, ni3on the 19th current, ...ince
,which time a good deal more has been cut down.
About a week's s,oii.iitine would make the harvest
• general. lt is expeCted the crop will be early and
abundant."

, .
On Saturday se'nnight, between one and two
o'alock, a Mill in Ditton, belonging to J. WATKINS,
Esq._ was struck by lightning, which carried awity
otic of the sahs and a back, nearly blew off the roof
on.both sides, burst the two iron hoeps with the
wind shaft,: injured the wind wheel, and split the
‘witidshaft from the neck nearly to the tail and gud-
geon; and set the root on fire in two places ; then
descending, it tore up the trap doors and three
boards adjoining, without doing any ftirther injury
to the millers father, who was sitticg about 18
inches from the trap doors at the time, than scorch-
ing his hands ; his watch was alio stopped. Ano-
ther man was coming down 't.he ladder fiom the
upper room at ibe time, who Aid not receive any,
injury. It blew both the doors of .tlie
round house
open, and took a large piece from the bottom of the
shaft.
. ,
Salishdry Races ended on Thrirsdny,lait. There
was very little sport., The ball, however; eilaS
tended .by all the fashion of tire county. The match.,
of single-stick, from want of previoui proper ar:-
rangement by persons skilled in the game, did not at
all answer public eipeetation. • Th 6 Vv*iltshire men
Uniformly play with the arm naked.; the Somerset-
shire mr..,n generally play with the arm padded;
heitee each keep a different guard, and either can
conquer in their own mode of play. It 11:1
'advertised that•the play shoUld be on Wednesday,
with the arm naked i, the Wiltshire ton contended
thal they:were of course to play as usual forty two
bloods, by which they hoped not only to gain the
prize of the day, but to have time and opportunity--
so. to disable their adversaries, playing out of. their ,
usual mode, as to have an equal chance of victory
on the following day. The Soniersetshire meta in-
sisted on playing the first day one blood, that they
might'the less expose their unpadded arms. Otu•
.
this point the day was wrangled away, with eery;
little play, and without any contest 'between the
crack men of the two counties. The Somersetshire
men thus reserved their arms, and, in consequence,
on Thursday,
they gained every head of the Wilt-
shire men, and played off the tyes for the prizes.
in a friendly way among t h ern sel v es.
Farnham and the surrounding country promii,e
an
abundant bop acasQn.
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tEAT Or THE IPAR iA/LiGON,

BY A RECENT TRAVELLER IN SPAIN.

I ites! Agreda :the• road runs . easterly, for fire
leagues (that is, five hours jouiney,
.at the step
of the mule), to Tarattona,, a town romantically
situated on the surtnit.,
.and, slopes of a little
hill, over the river, Queltes,. which, -running north-
erly, falls into the Ebro. The country consists
chiefly of a, succession of small eminencea, co-
vered With heath and other shrubs, but ati-brilz•
ing . pasture for numbers of sheep. The en-
virolis of Tarazona, however, are fertile and
well cultivated. This is ati ancient town, hav-
ing been known to' the Romans by the name of
TuriaSi„ and by them was endowed, With the privia
lege of. coining money, as early as in the time of
Augustus, The town is now much decayed, but
fragments 'of columns, pedestals, &c. attest its former
splendour; indeed, few Roman -remains can well be
expected at TarazOng, as it was besieged and en-
tirely overthrown by, the Aleuts about the year 723.
The cathedral, a venerable gothic structure, and'the
Bishop's palace; are the only buildings worthy of
notice. , .
,_;..Froto Tarazona the road
,continues in the same
Easterlydiredicin for the other five leagues to Mal,.
ten, situated about a couple of miles South troin. the
Ebro. jhe firstlialf4 the road lies over an un-
eVen, uncultivated traCt, like that on the :West side
of the tarazopa, and then enters the vast plain of
the Ebro, naturally more produelive, but very thinly
inhabited. Mallen is a small place, with an ancient
costle, belonging to the Order of Malta, of which
it is a conatnandery,. ;The castle forms a quadrangle,
with .a court in the. huddle, mid' square towers at
each corner. It is now used. for the courts of jus,
tic; and the prisep, of the serrounding distri&. , -
From Mallen I travelled six leagues still.Eastwaid
to Alagon, situated .on the West bank of the river
Xalon, the ancient Salo, which rising in the moun-
tains separating the
,kingdoM of Argon from that of
:Old Castile, flows Northerly by Calatypd, the re-
presentative of the ancient Bibilis, the birth-place
of Martial, and discharges itself into the Ebro a
mile below Alagon.
About, two leagueS before arriving at AlagOn' I
came upon the great canal of Arragon, or of the
Ebro, which takes its rise op the South side of that
river, near Tudela, and is continued down the vale
below Saragossa, but not nearly completed to rejoin
the Ebro, before it falls into the Mediterranean, as
was originally intended, by a course of about one
hundred miles. This canal was begun sander the
Emperor Charles V. in 1528, but the work wade
little progress until .the reign of , the late' Ling
Charles HI. The depth of the water is to ,be no
less than ten English feet ; but the canal has hither-
to been very little used for navigation, the. chief
use of the water having been for irrigation of
the vast fertile plain between the cabal and
.the Ebro.
For the purpose of drawing offathe water from the
canal, sluices are constructed, at the distance. of
about a mile asunder, and the water is conveyed to
the grounds in small channels; For the use of this
water the inabitants were to Day to the King a rent
equal to the tenth part of that paid to the proprietors
of the soil ; but from the contrasted appearances of
the lands below, and of those above the canal, the
contribution to Government . seemed to bear but a
very small proportion to the vast benefits received
from the water.
Before entering Alagon the
.canal.cros.ses the road,
running southward for a mile up the west bank of.
the narrow valley of ,the river Xalon. This valley
the canal traverses thorn west to east, on au elevated
,
aqueduct, the middle of which is a bridge of three
arches for the passage of the lialon, flowiag briskly
under the canal,/ from south to north. After this
passage of the valley and river, the' canal is carried
along the edge of the high. groupds, bordering .the
vale of the Ebro, and is no more seen by the travel-'
ler 'to Satagossa, althoughlts bene,ficial effects on the
plain are easily discernable.
From ,Mogan to Saragossa is a course of four
leagues . over, the dame flat vale of the Ebro, now
better peopled and more carefully cultivated than
the. trads gone over.
The productions are cord, with
,a large proportion
-of wine 'and Oil and the appearance of the inha,
bitants and their dwellings gradually improves, .on
approaching Saragossa, which presents a Magnificent
prospeta of, towers and steeples, seated ,in the midst ,
of the plain. - _
Saragossa, or, as it is written in Spanish, Zara-
goza, the capital of the kingdom of Arragon, and an
Archbishop See, is situated on the South or right
bank of the Rlver'Ebro, in theconcave part of a bay in
the river, which there forms the segment of a large
circle to the Northward, so that the buildings along
the river. are but .partially seen trbrti any one
point; The. Ebro is large, but navigable, in general
only:for small boats, on account of many sand banks
in its: bed, which frequently-change their
.pos'rtien.
Over the. river is a stone, bridge of six arches, and
abOut boo feet in length, communicating with a
suburb oh the North side ; and a little lower dowri
is_ a Wooden bridge for foot passengers. The town
is about a mile long, 'by three quarters of a mile in its
greatest breadth, and the. poßulation is calculated at
45,000;
The old town if still easily distinguished from the
new; being an oblong of mile along'the river,
by oste-third of a mile in breadth. .It is'surrounded
by ancient walls, with gates in the.middle of its fbur
sides, in all of Which vestiges of Roman architedure
may be traced. The. stone bridge over the Ebro
leads into the middle of this town, and in this cir-
cumstance it bears some resemblance to the, city of
Loncron, with its bridge in the midst of the present
capital. , That part of the :old wall, which ran along
the river, is either hidden by modern houses, or en-
tipely removed ; on the outside of the three other
parts of the old walls runs a broad open street, in the
manlier of the bouiepards of Park, beyond which
the view fown'spreads in all directions, but chiefly to
the West Ward; the ground being,contined
.on the
South and East by the little river Flue.rva, which
fells into the .Ebro at the East End of the town.
The streets 6f-both the old and the new town are
tolerably straight.; crossing eich other at right angles;
bat they are generally narrow, particularly within
the old, or Roman town.

The laie-MriloVD.Rmsox, the great Iron-Master,
of Lancashire, has been buried, according to his de-
sire,. in "an Hamvered Iron Colin, at his seat, Cas-
tle-head, near Preston.