The Sun.
London, England, 1806-04-15 00:00:00

KINGSTON (JiI3IATCA), Fun. 15.

The s',.,wncer, of 74 guns, the Hon. Capt. Si'ol).-
PORT? ; 156izegal, of so, Captain ALll.col.m; and
Atlas, of 74, Captain Pym, anchored in Port Royal
Harbour on Wedksday afternoon, laying..brpught
vc:itn them the French Ships L'Akrandre,- of 80
guns, and Le 13Mtwe, and Le Jupitre; each uff 74
%Li-As. It is, with thei,unnq, sincere and. heartfelt
sen..-rnen s of cm...gratulation that we are
.enabled,
t!.. ,r c:rivnl, 'to layobefore outjteaders the ac
. -
coca .1* of mu...her most signal and decisive Vi&ory
over. .lur inveterate. and intplacable' Foes, achieved
'and auspices of the gallar4Vice-::AdtniralSir
Jos H: Duci ioscrsi, K. -13. late worthy Com-
inCitiefm'an:;:r on this Station.

Yr,- French-Squadron having- met with several
gale..; of wind dorifig ,iheir, voyage, were under the:
necessity of remaining. longer at S nita
*Domingo
than they,had at first intended, for the purpose of
'repairing their damages, as the Seaulen had. been
employed in caulking the.sides -of their Ships, which
do not appear to be, more .thon hilly finished. To
-avoid the risk with a'British Sqdadron,
they had kept to the Northward' of all the Islands,
and,gone flown the I‘,l;?tt Passage. We underStind
they were very. well informed its to the-state of
'cur
Naval Polce-In Port Royal 1-laltboni..:
The -Freneli Commander In Chief, Oeneral -de
LE-ssmoyE, is stoma to..have bwn ashore
lit the:commencement of th 6 and.: to have
gone on'board lan/paid about the middle of
The great©r part of the French Officers bad been at
a 'llail.given onshore the previous evening,' though
they are mentioned to have received information
that very evening of a British Squadron being to
.Windward, froni*.on American,_ supposed to be the
Shill 11-Lriiet, spoken on the 4th,by-the Penguin.
Ltssui I.T S‘Nlicers had, previous to' the sailing of
the I,7ansh Schooner, twAieil afterwards carried the
ne‘v,.- of his air-val to St. Thomas's, endeavoured to
Per,,uade him to butti.ber ;'but his evitgetints, un-
lik-tni.iately for him, over-ruled their-counsel:_
.-Every attention which humanity could dictate; or
~:I:ll.Jtas Nation show, 144-been paid to the Pri-
sOners on board the three French S-hips-; -Many' of
whom are so shockingly mangled that they cannot
&uric,: the cenfli&. ,
The Crew Of L'jklazdre are said to have been
picked-men. FL:clusiver of the Searnen, she bad on
boa rd a . c.l,l‘tlloll4lent of the 1 sth- -Regiment of the
; -and a party of. Cannoneers. Her lowet deck
tu7 s were rated at. --;;;,pounders, butt the Shot re-
ceived 11-;:it-trd- the Spencer weigh ;8 pounds. The
Caom:n ot: L'.-ilerandre, on goitn, on ,board the
Sp_naeri re v Ile:, :the cimulue... of hits-'own .crow in the
:;•-• bit ter terms, saying they bad surrendered to a
:-;rc,.l of boys 1..-=-:240;t Of the Spencer's 'peb-ple. are
ver:r Dung.

E:.:irait of a Letter' from Vice;--tmiral Sir-Joßsr
KZ. to Neutenant-Gerieto
NuI:NT, dated Superb, ofd, Santo Domingo, Feb.,
7,
coneltde you-have receired from me a Letter
the intelligence ofia:Bretch.roice.beigat Satito
Domingo. We lurcki-iv yes!erday--bronght: them to
Vlmperial, ; e :Diomede, -13 t;
L'iile.randre' E 4; brciuiT; 74';'.41upiier, 74 ;
and after an:hour and hree -quarttrs'bti:le the three
lastwere taken : the..otLua:lxvo ran on shore, arp
distnasted, and 1 th';;Jk must inevitably; be Iva:"
Ict)PY."

His 211qcstys Ship King.ffisher, off St.
- K'itt's, Feb. -}, ieoG. •

,
you will receive a. Copy of the infor-
mation I recei% ed: at- Tortora onMr6dn'esday night
concerning the. French Fleet: in consequence thek;.
of I, ved off John's, Antigua, ,3reste.rclay. after-
noon, but- not InAing you there I proceeded to this
place with the. inteili.,,ence. •
I tini,

N. D. COCIIRANE.
To Vice-Acluziral Sir J. T. Duckivorth, K. 13. CC.

MA 11 LEV IifIUGH-STREET.—Yesterday. J. M'Euoy,
alias M. 1,- , Anna li s wifeiand Henry-and ,

two of children, underwent a second-exami-
cation., on the Charge of conspiring; ,together with
Mrs. Mikiieid, the daughter, to defraud. The day
fixed for the second examination had been 'altered
for the ac.commodatiod of. some of the Witnesses,
and consequently an application Was: made to put
offthe present jaiquiry till a future'day, to give such
persons an opportunity of preferring their com-
plaints. The 'charges which Were .entered into at
the inner. examination were Sulyitantiated apinst
• the Prisoners: and -Mrs, Wakefield. One of the
Tradesmen,reinarked,that-Mrs. W. when she called
to give an order fOr a velVet pelt se, plumes of
feathers, wished to look 'at 'some holes of
rouge. Such were hewn to her; when she said
Lady and others of-her acquaintance, used-
three scrts of these ornamental articles, but she was
content v.ith two only ;, and the gave an order for
two boxes :o be sent with other artieles, NZ,hich weld
never paid for. _ The Lady was stated by theTrades-
man'to be a prepossessing- OtTla il; and of artful' ad-
dress. The 'Magistrate, informed the persons in
'the Office, that an 4plieation had. been made to
postpone the exarninatinn, -and consequently they
would- reserve-iilleir -charges toll filnure day: He
inquired:of. the. mother, Ann ig!Kay, What:was _the
'name of Mrs.-V.',l fattier. ? but-She refused to sitis

fy him, -alledg;,,g. that' it walla interfere with a
business in aL,it.ltion at Doetorg' Coln MOll5. She
added, that W. \vas a natural child, and her
father had bt:,:y('.eacl many years: The Prisoners
were rematided for another exan,ination- next Tues-
-ally. 'The Office was 0i,,:0',.--arr.)nly creAvd-ed:

. WESTMINSTER SESSIO7,7S.--Yefitertlay these Sea-
sions were iptfore WILLIAM
Esq. and a Bench of Ju.•iiiu:„ for
the pwptise of swearing in the Grand
.Jtiiy; for tln
County. of Middlesex, and the INual number. of
Constal. .This ceremony takes place every Ses-
sion. of, Oyer- and Terminer, alterilwy at Hic's's
a, .I at G,!;1:111:::', Westininsicr,
imorder to inaint.iin the j i cLtthen 61 the City and
Liberti6s of Westminstel-, in the County of
Mid-
dlesex.- •

After some other you::-,e Ugsiness the Court was
adjoui;ned -till this day, - -

LON n cog : Printvd by R/1
At tbeiSuN:OvF

EAST INDIA A?FJIRS.

EXTRACTS iut oAr THE PAPERS LAID SE-FO!';' TTIE
HOUSE OF C,Oi':!KONS, RELATIVE TO THE AF-

FAIRS OF INDIA.

(Continued' from our Paper of

-The remaining were appealed to as per§ons-un-
connected with any party, uninterested in any de-
cision, and. respeaable 'from their chara&ers and
:situation. I consider them what they profess. to be,
the owns of the public' opinions.• Their sentiments
=were corununicated to tl-re.Persian translator, and on
examination of his rots will strew the. caution
which was observed in Obtaining them,'and the little
suspicion the parties entertained of the objet`' ot the
inquiries. Mahobut Khaun can never be .suspected
of having any partiality to a filthily which subveited
his paternal rights.
These, with the others whom I have mentioned
in the, course of these remarks; were thepnly per-
sons-Whose opinions on the subje& have been com-
mitted to writing. I could name many others. who
had expres4d their sense of the injustice donetcrthe
late son ot Shbjah .udDowlah, by the elevation of Vi-
zier Ali; at a period before the profusion of the Na-
bob. had attached partizans, or his views excited
.disg4t.
I now proceed to state the observations and con-
'elusions deducible from the premises:
In the first place I shall notice the information of
Zehseen Ali Kliaun, that the Nabob was aaually
the father of tWo.childrei).

The popular opinion of the spurious origin Of the
late Nabob's children arises from, these circum-
stances7--the general knowledge that he pnrchased
pregnant women and children; the idea that his' Har-
em was accessible to other persons; and above all,
the. supposed impotency of the Nabob, which is
most decidedly contradi3e.d by the information Of
Zehseen:

This information proves the danger of aditting
popnlar belief in cases of this nature; against paternal
acknowledgments and declarations. If Bourhan Ali
had_lived he might have been included in the general
imputation. It is however to be olAerved.that his
birth was celebrated by particular'marks of diStinc-
tion ; and that very great rejoicings were made both
on. the Gth day after his birth,. and on" the occasion
of-his being weaned, at the age, of two years and
four inolithS. The 'first child of the Nabob was
born during his absence at Baraitch, gnd as he ditd
before his return to Lucknow,
.no rejoicings N.vhat-
eve; were'made, Which was the case with, respea to
many of the other children ; the firsrrejuicing,s for
Vizier ere-on the occasion of his beginning to
road, when he bad attained the pge of four years and
fiiiirnionths ;Abe' second upon his'circionciSion, and
the third at his marriage. Thl:'S4 rejoicings are ek-
clusiveof the Ceremony performed at the anniversary
of the birti of all the children , when an additional knot.
was tied in a string as a Memorial of their ages. The
affliElion of the "gabobiit the death 'tilßotirhan Ali
was as reniarkable as the rejoicing at his.birtli, and
his atletiion for this child.

• The certainty- that the Nabob did beget children
(for I *iiiingly adant'the evidence of Zehseen on this
point in all its weight); suggested- the influence • of
possibility that he might be the father _of Vizier Ail;
such a possibility may exist ; but the -positive- evi7
dence ref ZellSeen, as:to-the circumstance of Vizier
birth_,, leaves the possibility without a shadow
of presUirtption, and establishes the real parentage in
ilraush., Tn this and-to no other conclusion his
evidence tends, mid it is the best if not only positive
evidence which the case admits,

• In reverting to• the circumstances which influenced
our 'acknowledgment of ViziO Ali, the following
Were then assumed and admitted. . .

First,- That Vizier' Ali was born in the Harem.
This is denied by the inibmation of Zehseen, in
whose•house he was born, in a room of ptiblic access,
and in. circumstances Which exclude all presumption
that the Nabob suspthed. himself .to be the father
of .the

• Seconinly, The acknowledgments- of the Nabob
that Viiier Ali was his son. •

•
.• The' proof of falsehood of such an acknoW4edg--
'bent, in one instance, would in'a great meassre
qroy the weight of it in all others; but if, as on
the authority of Zehsgen, I admit the Nabcib, in no_
less than sixteen instances, acknowledged•and edu-
cated children Nvho certainly were never begotten.
by him,it cannot in reason be entitled to the smallest
weight ; and all the subsequent atas, and declara-
tiOns-of the Nabob, in correspondence, with that ac•
knowledgment, are entitled to as little weight as the
acknowledgment itself. Sheef Khaun was never
even produced in 'public, or heard di, betbre his
fifteenth year, a circumstance which strongly con-
firms the evidence of •Zebseen in this particular
inStance.. • •

Thirdly, :The authority of the Mahernedan Law
confirming- the, validity of "such acknowlodgment-is
done a. \IN by ,the' knowledge of the real pOrentate
of the
.boy; as Moshbrit Khaun justly observes, it
is not meant by the expression:" known," as quoted
from the Hedayu, that evidence is required to esta-
blish the 'lac% but the general belief and notoriety
of it. This point I ascertained from the law officers
of the Nizamuf Adowlut, when in Calcutta; and in
.Lucknow; the parentage of Vizier Alii-generally
.assigned to a Fraush.- I could quote various in-
stances to prove it.
Whilst rumour pronotinced Vizier Ali spurious,
without identifying, 'his parentage;" whilst the ac 7
knoWledgment of. the Nabob, and a series of cor-
responding .ad.ts,. were impeached by report only ;
.Whilst the sanction of: the Bdg-um was liable to a
stispicion otliy originating in .self-interest ; oAd '‘vbilst
we were taught to infer that our , doubts:of Vizier
Ali's right were not the prevailing sentiments of the
at 'Lucknow, it would have heencon-
trary to every principle cif justice to have pronounced
him spurious, and his 'claim to the Mutilud
ifl-
founded.

(To be cc7riiszed.)

On Saturday morning; in pulling dArn the old.
buildnigs. in the Market-place, Manchester, 'one of
(1c workmen vas unfortunately crushed to death by
the falling of a gable c ooe of the houses. On the
same daya s;ater.,. a:, killed by filling from the roof
of a house in Salton] ; and a child, in the aly3enee
of its mother, was burnt almost, to a cinders .in t 1
nei;hbourhood of New Cross.

::I1111Z!)- HARRIS, of ;
Eck:, No. 1!..1, Strand ; wilvite kicetiispnenis