The Sun.
London, England, 1830-01-21 00:00:00

INDIAN BARBARITIES.

(From Anecdotes of Americax Indians, by Dr. \W.1..)
The dreadful torments which the various
tribes of North American Indians were accus-
tomed to inflict .on their.. war prisoners, are no
longer heard of; and this favourable I:bange must
be wholly attributed to the spread of Christianity;
which; though there arc tribes still unconverted
has yet so diffused its divine spirit and influence
among the red people, that those cruelties are,
I believe, every where disused. I am, there-
fore, induced to transcribe the account of a scene
of this nature, by an eye-witness and a French-
man, which, though having taken place long
since, it may probably be • dis :last that rill be
recorded. The Irrekees, or six nations, sup-
ported, by the English, were at war with the In-
dian allies of the French at Michillimakinak.
A famous Irrekee warrior was taken prisoner in
a skirmish, and doomed to the stake. The
execution took place in front of the fort, and by
order of the commander, the Outiaks, an allied
tribe, were invited "to drink the broth of their
enemies." A .strong post was fixed firmly in
the earth, fires were prepared, and ramrods and
old gun barrels were heated. The Irrokee
Chief, naked and painted black, was marched
into the middle of the circle, singing his' death
song. He was fastened to the post strongly, by
his hands and feet, yet with liberty to move about,
Then commenced the operations. A Pseudh
aone)
trader seized a ramrod, being made red -hot at one
end,
a
the
feet,tiak Chiefanc slwoltyli uri ; they drew the
the insides of
irons
i the legs and thighs, the victim singing his death
i ui
acrossai'
song all the time without flinching ; they then,
suddenly applied the bottom of a metal 'on,
heated red-hot, to his thighs, rubbing it on his
hips and loins, He now shouted out load, that
fire was powerful ;upon which the whole assemblage
gave a shout of triumph. " Yon a warrior chief,
indeed !" they cried, " you shrink from the fire
like a child—you are no man !" Au Outiak
then made a long slash down his side, anti
stuffed the wound with gunpowder, to which he
set fire. The prisoner scorched and parched to
a cinder, cried out fir water, which was given
him, not for his relief, but to enable him to
suffer still worse, An Indian with a, scalping
knife, now stepped forward and, tore off the
scalp, which hung down his neck, whilst another
clapped a platter of red-hot gravel on the de-
nuded cranium. The tortured wretch now lost
all his fortitude, and abandoned himself to de-
spair, attempting to beat out his brains against
the post, tits tormenters all the time were
shouting with joy, and insulting bins with the
most cutting railleries. He was thus tortured
without the least relaxation for more than two
hours; at length when he. became enfeebled and
faint, they unloosed him, and said, " Now be
off, «e give you your life !" He, bleeding and
burnt at eve"), pore and fibre, tumbled about,
rising and falling like a drunken man. They
drove him towards. the setting sun, the road to
the shades,- pelting him with stones, which he
had still spirit enough to return on his pursts-
ess, At length he was crushed to death under
a heap of stones, and every one cut off a small,
slice of his flesh to be broiled, and thus. to
finish the horribh kast.—British Magcnile.

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aneol,t;:s ol great personages and in narratives of
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we repeat that we know of no work of vazer and,
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dent to possess himself of the C'e,rooicles of Ilpremre and
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DISCHARGE of CHANCERY PRISONERS.

LORD CHANCELLOR'S COURT, JAN. 19.

WRIGHT V. WEGENEW-RICHARDSON V. IVEGENER.

The SOLICITOR-GENERAL—WiII your Lordship
give me leave to mention the case of a prisoner in the
Fleet ? In the cause of Wright and Wegener, I am
humbly to move, on behalf of the plainti ff, for the
discharge of Mr;Wegener, without paying the costs.
And in another cause, of Richardson and Wegener,
I am to move that he may be discharged without
the payment of costs. I have the affidavit of Mr.
Wegener, and, from the information I have ob-
tained, I can vouch for the truth of it. The fiat
cause in which I am now moving, is a family suit,
in which Mr. Wegener has entered his appearance,
and the parties are willing to discharge him without
costs. In the other there is a bill filed against Mi.
Wegener by two persons, one of whom has been
long since dead, and he has been thirteen years in
prison, and no person has been brought forward to
represent that dead person, and Mr. Wegener swears,
in the life-time of that person, he saw him in the
company of others, and he (the plaintiff) protested
he knew nothing about the filing of the bill. The
other gentleman, of the name of Richardson,
the co-plaintiff, has been unfortunate in business—
has become insolvent—and has ultimately.retired to
Mexico, where he is now living, and no one
step has been taken in the cause for all these
years by any person representing him. Mr. Chip-
pendale, his solicitor, has left the country, and is
resident abroad, where he is likely long to con-
tinue, and no other solicitor has been appointed in
this matter. The clerk in Court, Mr. Shaddick,
died in 1818, and I have the certificate of Mr.
Mills, his successor, that no step has been taken
in this cause since the death of Mr. Shaddick.
The result, therefore, is, Mat there is no plaintiff;
no attorney,. no clerk in Court, and no demand;
and, therefore, on the part of this gentleman, 1
humbly move that he may be discharged.
The LORD CHANCELLOR—Why did he not apply
a long time since

Tiie SOLICITOR-GENERAL—Because he did not
know or had not inquired into any of these eireum-
s!ances ; and when I first saw him he told me he
was preparing his answer.
The LORD CHANCELLOR—There should be some
person appointed to give advice to these unfortunate

persons.
The SOLICITOR,GENERAL—I hope we shall re-
medy that, with your Lordship's assistance.
__ _

The LORD CHANCELLOR—It must be remedied.

The SOLICITOR-GENERAL—We all of us see the
necessity of it, and I myself have taken much trou-
ble about it. I hope measures will be adopted to
prevent these things occurring in future. Now, if
your Lordship pleases, I will take the order for the
discharge of Mr. Wegener from both contempts,
without the payments of costc—Order granted.

SIR THOMAS LAWRENCE.

(FRO3I A CORRESPONDENT.)

As at this moment every thing is of interest that
relates to the accomplished and lamented artist so
suddenly lost to his country, a lady puts it at your
option, Mr. Editor, to give to the public a note
received from Sir lhomas Lawrence very recently
before his death. It contains an elegant compliment
to retired excellence in a sister art; and gives an
anticipating judgment on the younger Melpomene,
from which few who have seen Miss Kemble will
dissent.

" Russell-square, Der. 17, 1829.

" Dear Lady , I should lament still more than
sincerely I do, that I could not obey your wish in receiving
your son, if the darkness of the weather had not rendered
my painting him on Tuesday impossible. I confess, with
very true concern, to the fault of not writing an answer
to your obliging, letter, which the pressure of much and
unexpected business prevented me from doing.
" If the loss of a great pleasure may be considered as
some punishment for that offence, it was inflicted on me
last night, in its depriving me of admittance to your box
at the close of the performance, to have inquired of your
Ladyship and Lady -, the impression you received
from it. I hope your hands were moving as rapidly and
heartily as hers, and from the same just and generous im-
pulse. Miss Ke►nble is to me the finest genius that has
appeared since Mrs. SiddonS; and, bad she the same su-
perior advantages of person and countenance (though the
latter in herself is fine, and of great and varied power),
Might almost equal her. There were two or three bursts
of passion, as natural and fine as any that I remember
from that muse hersel!. But I am, in this ramble, losing
the artist, in which only character I should address you ;
the penitent indeed being added to it. I beg my best re-
spects to ----, and have the honour to be, dear Lady,
your obliged and faithful servant,
(Signed)

T. LAWRENCE."

NEW CLASS BooK.—The poetic treasures
of mythology Lind classic fable have been long considered,
by those concern:: in education, as unsafe in the hands of
youth, owing to the urge admixture of grosser particles
with the shining ore. The enchanting beauties of Ovin,
in particular, have been denied to the knowledge of young
ladies by reason of their tendency to corrupt, whilst en-
riching the mind. The solicitude of a mother for the
proper instruction of her daughter has however at length
obviated the complaint in question, by means of a new
version—complete in all but its spots--of the whole body
of heathen mythology, under the appellation of " Tales of
the Classics," and with the accompanying advantage of
eopious notes and observations.

Mr. MACREADY played Macbeth one night
List w,:ek at the Portsmouth theatre, to ten persons in the
boxes, and a proportionably scanty audience iu the pit.—
Brighton Gazette.

A petition to the House of Commons, for
the repeal of the Ifalt and Beer Duties, has been pre-
pared in the parish of Wrothani, and is in course of signa-
ture. It is to be hoped other parishes will du the same.
It is no use complaining of hardships unless measures are
taken to get rid of them, and it is quite absurd to sup-
pose the Legislature will remove grievances if the people
wake no representations of their severity.—Maidstone
Journal.

The extensive premises lately occupied by
the old Post-office in Lombard- street, whiali consists of a
multiplicity of tenured, will, we hear, shortly be brought
to sa!e.

For the last three or four days a gentleman of
military appearance has every afternoon sported in Hyde-
p irk a dark green-bodied cabriolet, without wheels, in Leil-
a whieb it is fitted up as a sleigh. The whole of the
drive, from the quantity of snow that has lately fallen,
forms a perfect sheet of ice, The sleigh is drawn with
great rapidity by a fine spirited grey horse, and to the liar-
slesx are attached a variety of small bells, which, front
their tinkling noise, and the novelty of alelgh-riding in
this country, attract no small portion of the attention of
the frequenters of this fashionable place of exercise.
We have again to allude to the inefficient state
of the volice in the Waterloo-road. Only two days ago,
at the L'sar of ten in the morning, as Mr. GEORGE WELLS
was passi.fg near the Coburg Theatre he was assailed by a
gang of five fellovs, one of whom aimed a blow wiiich for-
tunately was warded off by his hat, instead of stunning him
as intended, and the blow being as instantly returned with a
stick, the yillain4, disappointed end mortified at their
ifra;;!fre, speedily dispersed. Surely the proper authorities
ahcotid give more efficient attention to a neighbourhood
thief is well known to abound in thieves, ruffians, and
prosi;itutes, attd in which there are daily, Nay, hourly, de-
predations committed,—/Iforming Paper.
LONGEVITY.—Died on the 4th instant at
East aloulsey, Surrey, three persons, whose united ages
make 215 years, WILLIAM Tukkixa, 92 ; Mrs. RAY-
MOND, ; and WlLLtam CANNON, 9i ; w,ost strange to
say, they all expired on the same morning, and had the use
of their faculties till the last;

SUSPECTED INPANTICIDE.---On Sunday
last, at mid-day, the body of a female infant, clothed merely
in a shift and cap, and wrapped in a covering of old am,
nel, was observed lying in the bed of the Nith, within two
or three feet of the bank, nearly opposite to the New
Quay. The body was conveyed to Truqueer Church, and
examined by Doctors RousoN and SratorNc. Its age is
guessed at three weeks, and, we understand there are good
grounds for believing, that the poor innocent had been
alive, when the barbarous mother, or some one for her,
bad taken advantage of its helplessness, by consigning it
to the deep, amidst the piercing cold of a December sky.—
Dumfr ies Cou ri e

LONDON,
THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 21, 1830.

The French Papers of Monday have been
received, but they contain little news. The
preparations at Toulon seem to occupy public
attention, and the opinion now is that Algiers
is the real destination of the armament :

(From the Messager des Chambres of Jan. IS.)

TOULON, JAN, 12.

For some days past it was reported that an Ad-
miral of established reputation will direct the attack
by sea, and that the land troops will be commanded
by a General of Division of the Ancient Army,
who has been promised the baton of Marshal of
France.

" If this be true, and it is very probable, the
Captain who is going to take the command of the
blockade will be only subordinate in the command;
and this would sufficiently explain the return of M.
de I;tßretonniere. It is affirmed, that if the blockade
has been relaxed, it is in consequence of a letter
from the Admiral commanding the naval force in the
Mediterranean, which informed M. de k Bretonniere
of the Sultan's desire to offer his intervention in the
arrangements between the lley and France; and
that in the mean time he requested of France the
temporary suspension of the blockade and permis-
sion for a corvette, a frigate, and two brigs, to quit
the ports of the Regency, which were fitted out
there, and which the Sultan desired to be employed
in his service. This stratagem succeeded, since it
was in consequence of this relaxation of the blockade
that several corsairs put to sea, which now infest the
Mediterranean. _ _

" The Itolage brig arrived yesterday from Na-
varin, and has received orders to-day to return to
that place; but it waits for the despatches, which
will be brought express from Paiis. The Cygne
brig sails to-day for Mahon with despatches. Its
departure is so sudden that it cannot complete its
repairs, but the order it has received is positive, and
it must go to sea immediately. All this proves the
activity of the diplomatic operations in the Levant.
It seems that our Government is resolved to take
a decisive part in these important affairs. Heaven
grant that there may be nothing more than a show
of hostilities."
FRENCH FIT tiDS..—PARIS, JAIL 18.—Five per Cents.,
108 f. 75c. ; Three per Cents., 85f. 35c. 20c. 30c. ;
Bank Stock, 1,8851. ; Naples Stock, 94f. 25c. ; loyal
Spanish Loan, 821; Spanish RentEs Perpetuelles, 611 ;
Haytian Loan, 425 f. Exchange on London, one month,
2M. 60c. ; three months, 25f. 45e. Coups Authentique.

New York Papers have been received to the
17th December ; they contain a long report from
the Secretary of the Navy, and other public
documents, which have beer. laid before Con-
gress, agreeably to the tenor of the PRESIDENT'S
Message. The following are extracts:—

APPOINTMENTS BY THE PRESIDENT, IN TILE RE-
CESS OF TIIE SENATE.—Anthony Butler, of Mis-
sissippi, to be Charge d'Affairs of the United States,
at Mexico. _ _ _

John M. l3ower, of Alabama, to be Consul of
the United States, for the port of Guazacualeo, in
place of Charles Douglas, removed.
John G. l3oker, of New York, to be Consul-
General of the United States, for Switzerland.
" CONGRESS.—The Senate on Wednesday elected
Mr. Smith, of Maryland, Chairman of the Com-
mittee on Finance. The various standing Com-
mittees were appointed ; and in that on :Manufac-
tures, every Member is supposed to be in favour of
the Tariff.
" REFORT OF THE WAR DEPARTMENT.—Gen.
Eaton, in his report to the President, states that
orders have been issued prohibiting any person,
when intoxicated, from being enlisted into the mili-
tary service of the United States, or any contract to
be consummated till time and opportunity are af-
forded for deliberation. lie recommends an increa•e
of the annual appropriation (now 100,000 dollars)
for the armament of the fortifications now in pro-
gress ; that no further purchases of powder be made
at present, but of the materials which compose it;
an enlargement of the engineer corps, and an in•
crease of the number of surgeons and assistants. The
present number is 52. During the past summer,
Cantonment Towson and Cantonment Leavenworth
have been abandoned the former as unnecessary,
the latter on account of the unhealthiness of the
position.
" THE TARlFF.—lntelligence from Washington
renders it probable that the opposition mean at an
early day to b;i„g up the tariff, and to discuss it
with as much virulence as possible. Mr. Storrs, it
is said, is preparing himself for a great effort on that
subject. On Thursday last there was some spar-
ring on the reference of the subject to a committee.
The spirit that may agitate the Session began to
Lhow some symptoms of strength. This at present
may be the appearance of things according to all
accounts ; yet we should not be surprised if another
very important subject were to be the leading topic
of the Session.
STATE OF TRADE.—During the current year the
general cry has been Dull times.' It is true there
has been but little excitement about trade ; very few
fortunes have been made ; no great speculations, and
scarcely enough heavy failures (we speak of this
city) to give variety and interest to the scene. We
should suppose, from the language of some persons,
that the ports of the world were generally shut
against us, and that we had nothing to do but fold
ourselves up in our shell. England, they say, adheres
closely to the system of self-protection. She will
only buy of us such things as she wants,—cotton,
rice, tobacco, ashes, &C. She ought to take our

flour and provisions too. Well, last year she
opened her ports, and invited us to bring in our
dour; but so pressing were the wants of our other
foreign customers, that we sold them 700,000
barrels, and were able to spare England but 1.50,000
barrels,—a quantity only equal to the inspections in
New York for ten days in the busy season. The
north of Europe furnished ten times more wheat in
England last year than we did ; and if the corn laws
were abolished, it is doubtful whether our proportion
would be greater. In the mean time we have good
reason to congratulate ourselves that South Ame-
rica, the West Indies, and the Eastern States, are
our natural customers, and have wants equal to our
capacity of supply. The articles which England
buys of us merely because she wants them, it is
some consolation to know, are ten times as great in
value as those which it is insisted she shall buy
though she does not want them. The cotton, for
instance, which she receives from us, amounts to
12,000,000 or 13,000,000 of dollars per annum.
" We are inclined to think, upon the whole, that
our trade has gone on very fairly. The fact, that
we have had abundant harvests, and that there was
never less produce on hand than now, is not easily
explained on any other supposition."

The Prussian State Gazette, German, and
Brussels Papers, have been received this morn-.

ing. The Emperor of liussrA was so far re•
covered as to make his appearance on parade.
A most destructive explosion took place at
Shumla

ODESSA, DEC. 27.

It is not yet positively known whether Hali
Pacha will receive passports to go to St. Peters-
burgh, or whether he will return home without ac-
complishing his mission; for a report has been spread
since yesterday, that orders have been sent to Count
Orloff, through Count Diebitsch, not to negociate
any farther with the Porte, and that he is left at
liberty to quit Constantinople. The measures that
are taken afford, however, a much greater probability
for the continuation of the journey, as many car-
riages and waggons are already hired to convey him
and his numerous suite, with several hundred bales
and casks, which contain the rich presents intended
for our Court. Considering the notorious and ge-
nerally proclaimed pecuniary distress of the Porte
it seems strange that the Ambassador should take
with him such rich presents; and we cannot help
suspecting that the Porte hopes by this means
to get itself relieved from the payment of the
military contribution imposed upon it,—a de-
sign which is expressly stated in several letters
from Constantinople, and is also mentioned as the
reason for the Sultan's having hitherto declined all
offers of loans, intending to wait for the result of the
negociations at Petersburgh. But when we recol-
lect the great sacrifices, and the enormous expence
which Russia has sustained in two campaigns, it
seems hardly credible that the Porte should obtain
any considerable remission of the indemnity which
has been fixed at so low a rate, or of the military
contribution, which is by no means commensurate
with the expellees of the war. The sums de-
manded of Persia were far larger, yet the efforts
arid sacrifices in the war with Persia cannot be com-
pared with those of the war with Turkey; but
however the Persians, after a very important cession
of territory, obtained only a proportionably small
abatement in the sums required.
Notwithstanding the bad weather, our port is
very lively; and if it were not for the plague, the
place would flourish as it formerly did.

TRIESTE, JAN. 6.

A merchantman that has arrived here in 18 days,
from Tschesme, fell in, on the sth day of its voyage,
in the channel of Zea, with the united Egyptian and
Turkish squadron, on its way from Alexandria to
Constantinople.

VIENNA, JAN. 9.

The exchange of Couriers between Constanti-
nople, London, and Paris, is again very active; im-
portant results are therefore expected, and it is
generally believed that the Porte will shortly recog-
nise the Greek State. Her Royal Highness the
Duchess of Lucca, his Highness the reigning Duke
of Nassau, and M. de Rayneval, the French Ambas-
sador to this Court, have arrived here.

The two last numbers that have been received of
the Courrier de Smyrne have, for the first time, a
vignette, representing a Tartar on horseback ;
beneath is the motto, " Victrix causa Deis plaenit,
sed Victa."