The Sun.
London, England, 1806-11-27 00:00:00

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- BOMBAY COURIER, APRIL 26. —=The accounts
brought by the Prince, frorn'the Red SeA, inform hs,
that the Wahabees have got possession of :Medina.
It is' said, that the city was delivered up under the
express condition that the Tomb of the Prophet
should not be violated. • 'Flu: inhabitants having de-
clared their resolution to be all cut to pieces, rather
th.ln surrender on any other terms.
CALCUTTA GAZETTE, MAY 22. —Two Dutch
Cartels,. for Columbia, Ailed from- Batavia on the
gth of March.
A Dutch Frigate and two armed Sloops were laid
up at Batavia when the Cartels sailed from thence:

By the last accounts from India,- SCINDIA was in.
the neighbourhood of Joudpore, many hundred miles
from the Company's frontier, endeavouring to lay
bOld o(the Rajah, and to.eStablish his right of tri-
bute in that country. Mr. 11',ACER, the British Re-
sident; is with him. Sir G. BAnLow, in conformity,
it is said, of orders from home, has given up the
alliance. with the .Rajpoor State of Jeypore. HOLKAR
was'near to Jeypore, insisting on t 1 yeai-s oftilbute
due to hirnt; but theaajah offers a very small sum;
HOLKAR is not able to do any mischief to the city
of Jeypore, but his people are laying waste the coun-
try : his Penclarries attacked some villages in the
Rajah's country, but were repulsed. with loss, and
it is reported, that he is sending a force to . levy tri-
bute and lay waste the country.;

dur gallant Tars special 'attention is due. on all
occasions. These brave fellows often fag hard to
crown themselves with laurels and prize:money.
There is now a first-rate Ship just afloat, that carries
most extraordinary heavy metal—five, -ten, twenty,
Ind even thirty thousand• pounders! We allude to
the rri'agnitudinous new Lottery Scheme, Most solid-
lybuilt and -ttect out. A small Adventure in it,
from their prize-money gained. at sea, .may speedily
anchor many of them in the harbour of plenty, and
lay a foundation for 'their prpmotion' in the Navy.—
And,
,to their Sweethearts, what present so likely
to gain their .stuiles, as that of a Share of a Lottery
Ticket ?.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.--A Porter, belonging to
the Gloucester Coffee-house, Piccadilly; of the name
of Judge, was charged with-opening a basket con-
taining game; and also, with a fraud on Mr. CHAI-
LEI43. The Prosecutor) .a banker, in Boner-street,
received a basket containing a bare, from a friend in
the,West of England, on Monday, and also a letter;
hut, to his surprise, the hare, which was exceed-,
ingly stab, did not answer the description of the.
one spoken of _in the letter. The sum of :3s. 6d.,
was also demanded. fbr the'carriage of the basket, by
a stranger who delivered it: In consequence of the
imposition, information was given at the coach-office.
It was there ascertained that . the hare had not only
been exchanged by the Prisoner, but that he had
altered the ticket of carriage delivered to him at the
office, from 2s. 6cl. to 3s. 6d.. and employed another.
person to deliver the basket, who, it appeared, had
received the ticket after it had been altered. The
-Prisoner was committed for trial, for the fraud •

PUBLIC-OFFICE, HATTON-GARDEN.:
John Turner, aieears of age, was charged by a lit),
crier in Middle Row; Holborn, with thrusting his
hand through a broken square of glass, and stealing
,some stockings. He was fully-committed, but is W.
be brought up again, on' suspicion, in company with
other lads, of having hustled Mr. Dermot, .some
nights ago, in Field-lane, and stealing from his per-
son a valuable watch; for which two lads have been
already committed for trial.
The Officers of Excise summoned several retail
grocers, and a wine-merchant, for Lefrauding the
Revenue, when they were'conviaed in mitigated
penalties, and the goods forfeited.