The Sun.
London, England, 1813-11-15 00:00:00

EAST INDIBS:

According to AcCounts l'eceited by the ;wit fleet
from India, the Company's establishment at Prince
of Wales' Island was inimediarcly to he broken.
up, and the Governor and the Members of the
Council to he transferred to the. Compaq's ter.:
vice elsewhere.

-It vas toideratood at C►ticutt►i, at the rtil:ng
the Shills just arrived, that Major-Generil Night-
ingalt.! wits to p►nceeil forthwith to Java, to suc-
ceed Major-General Gillespie in the commend on
that estal►lishment.

The Cloriude frigate, while proceeclin,„; lately '
from Ptiint de Calle to Trincomalee, was struck
byl ightuing in the Eastern Seas, by which her
-mainmast.was shivered, and 15 men killed.

A Calcutta paper, .of the 24th of March, says.;
A distressing accident occurred on Friday last,
0e 'l9th instant,, on the river Mayapore. The
.first and second Officers of the outivarthbound
ship Eliza went on "shore in a boat, accompanied
wit's.. several Lascart, intending to return on board
board with three barrels of gunpowder, front Oa
magazine at Mayaporc, and.which were received
on board the boat.' The chief officer had incau.
tiously curried with 'him a. fowling piece, which
had, while in the boat, been repeatedly loaded
and discharged; and the second officer, a youth of
lti or 18 years of ag'e, most imprudently chipped
the flint of the fowling4piece over the contents df
one. of the barrels of powder, -which had been
spread on the • bolt's. deck to dry. An ignited
spark falling,on.the powder, the two barrels, be.
sides what was spread on the deck, instantly
ax-
ploded. Four of the Laicurs were dreaditilly
burned ; two•of them have since died ; the two
',thews .-oritlyntvit'Or no hope cat
covery. The two officer ‘are so severely 'burned,
that their recovery i 3 doubtful.

The visit of the celebrated 11cfahratta Chieftain,
DOWLUT RAO SOINDEA, 'to the CoMpany's
tories, haS OCC39/oSied Much conversation la lin.,
dia. It was the first of the kind, and was conei-
tiered' evince great cootidence in the British
Government. object of this visit was purely
religious---to bathe in the river (Menges. on the
ocdhiion of the solar eclipse 'on the Ist of Fe.•
bruary last. 110 'Set out front Gwalior on the 2`24
of January, aceompanied by his consort, by th;
(deers Of hi;lCourt, and eight thousand Matt.
rattit troops. pursuant to orders, the most mark.,
ed attention was paid to hint by the functionaries
of the English ,Goveroment stationed on his
route. The eilVilleatle reached Etowah on the
27th of January ; and an the Ist of February,
arrived'at the bathing-place at Singrampoor, oft
the Ganges, where ha was received by 34 how).
1..11 escort. The crowd of pilgrims assembled at
Singrampoor on this occasion amounted to 25;01)(1,
'lke ghwiti and banks of the river were abSolutt .
ly covered with people while the eclipse lasted
Rod from that day to the 10th, SpINDEA bathed
twice daily in the river. Both himself and his
consort expended very, large 'sums in charity.
cording to custom, they were weighed against a
heap of gold and jewels, Etc. which were distri
bated among the attendingliraltatins. Stitwoxa.
is reported to have been impressed with strong
,feelings of surprise at the fine aspect'of cultiva-
tion which pervades our provinces, and, at the
enutparatiVely happy-state- of the people.

Tun TIIFATIM. -Mr. BeAnsm retailed to
Drury-lane Theatre on Saturday last, and resmcned
his character in the Opera of The Devit.4
He received the %ruttiest welcome from a vet y 4i.kut
(Herons, audience, and he athply requited
the excellence of his perftirmance.
ably.suppfirted- by Mrs. DicKoNsl whtt
first appearance for the season. The
was rather more complimentary than Itipd to .G.,e
talents of.these performers, in exacting from thew
so many encores.
We understand that a matrimonial (awe i%
about to,take, place between the lion. Mt% 14... w,
son of Lord liLLENBORMIGU, Lady.oex.kriA
SrEwAri., sister to Lord CAVrLattleAtlff. , •
Oti 'Wednesday evening, about six o'clock, as
,M ritOUDMAtv, the King's Messenger, WAS about
passing through Buckingham-gate in a single--
horse chaise, his horse took fright,. ran furiously
against tiie gate, which it broke, together with
the shafts antibody of the chaise. ,The hate con
pletely extricated himself, and ram off. 1(11.a con-
siderable distance .before he was stopped. 'Air.
Paouoretx (vas thrown out, and sustained colt-
sitlerable injnry; though he was well enou It to
.go out on Saturday.

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The inhabitants of St. Martin's parish were
considerably :thinned on Saturday by paragraph
which appeared in the Morning P.tper3,, stating
that u set at persons whO facetiously c:Ell them-
selves Cantherland,. or College YOttOis, nMtit to
inflict 5040, triple-bob majors, grantitirel4
&c. upon them; fortunately, however, they et-
caped the visitation,. anti the evening pl,ted witl.
eat the expected annoyance.

WEST INDIES.

ANOTIIitIt Olt tADPUL: I-lURItICANt.

nOSPAU, DOMINICA Srivf. unfortn-
trate Coloriv has again suffered severely under the
scourge of Divine Providence. On the 25th
we ex pericaced another hurricane at nine in 'the
evening,
.which was accompanied by such heavy
deluges of-rain, that the river burst its banks and
inundated the town, forcing in its passage every
thing that opposed its progress. The scene next
morning was dreadful, the street choaked up with
trees, lumber, -and sand ; vast quantities of fish of
different descriptions lying about ; every opening
to the sea undermined, and most of the streets
excavated from 10 to 15 feet. The destruction is
terrible, and what 'provisions the wind spared the
rain and torrents have`washed away. Providen-
tially no litres have been lost slut many have had
hair-breadth escapes, and several persons have.
been wounded. Three large columns of • watery,
which had suddenly rushed into the town, took
respective courses down River-street,
rough-street, rind New-street , and in the course.
of a few minutes, the whole of .the town trims
Market-street to the river side was laid under
Water, to the depth. of 10 or 12 feet. Every
place between Cork-street and the river side, -ex-
hibits a perfect scene of desolation. Allny of
those honses which had the good fortune to re-
sist the former storm, were either destroyed or
carried off from their foundations, While some
of a smaller kiwi were totally swept into the sea.
The materials of those buildings which the late
gale ,had spared, and whose Owners were endea-
vouring to raise from their ruins, arc now entirely

lost.
BASSETP.ItiIE, GUADATMITE, SiPT.3.-On Tues-
day the 31st ult. dining the finest appearance of
weather that could be possibly imagined, the river
called Auix-Ilerhes, which traverses the town of
Basseterre, rose so suddenly, and with a force
and violence,so far beyond what hat Lever happen-
ell within the remembrance of the oldest inhabi-
tants of that place, that it is considered strange
the losses in lives and property have beett so cir-
cumscribed. There were a vast number of people
surprised in the river, and borne away by the de-
scending torrent : of those, about 30 are said .to
Lave perished, and the other unfortunates clinging
to., the rocks until the flood began to abate, for a
- length of time, gir‘ie to the spectators the most
lively feelings for their fate, as it was impossible
.to afford them any succour. During the whole
time of the Inundation, a very strong smell, re-
sembling that of sulphur, intermixed with bilge-
water, prevailed so much throughbut the town,
that many are led to conclude that 41 reservoir or
source.of-water had burst in the Soutiriere Mona-
near Basseterre ; and others again imagined
that. the accident might have been occasioned by a

. water-spout.
The sloop Ann Robinson arrived bore the- clay
before yesterday, front Bermuda, last from Pointe-
it-Nitre, Guadeloupe, after.sixtet.ndays passage ;
by. her we learn, that a very severe gale of wind
took' place at the former 1514101 .t MAIM 4th of Au-
gust , by which upwards of 100. vessels of different
descriptions were cast on shore, and a number of
them were entirely lost : only three ships out-rid
• the gale, one English recaptured vessel and two
Americans. 00 the 3cl inst. to the northward of
Antigua, in let. 19. long. 61, she fell in with sun-
• • dry planks, which appeared to be the , wreck
.of
some vessel, also a quantity of barrels of fluor, egs
of lard, and boxes of candles.
TatwioAP, SHPT. lixcellency Sir R. J.
:tt-'oodforti,itt the two first meetings of the Cotta-
• after his arrival, read his commission_ as Go-
• vernor, and establishola docket of fees, In
a third meeting, his Excellency intortned that ho-
Ponrable body that they could no longer sit, as his
Majesty's Council ; he having, however tiaplea-
.. stmt to himself, received, his. Royal Highness the
Prince Regent's instructions to dissolve them, in
consequence of their having sanctioned or recoon-
mended the. supensiun of Judge Smith from his ap-
pointments, of which his Royal :Highness disap-
proved.
• ANTIGUA, SHPT. old Town road of St.
•Eitt's has been destroyed, and many lives lost,
by the coming down of the river during the late
Ats;TiovA, OCT. learn from Trinidad,
. that the sole coatroul of the Spanish Main is now
iii the hands of the Insurgents ; between whom
and that Island there has not of late been any in
tercourse, in consequence, as is supposed, of a
cool reception' having been given to an Einbisssy
of the Revolutionists.; and that now, the trade
which wits formerly curried on with Trinidad by
tneans of their launches, has been transferred to
• , the island of Greeada, . whither they frequently
pc4ceed with supplies of cattle, &c.
•

CALCUTTA, MAncil

is i cOuKT w JUDICATURE..
COW.--o'XI,,EVE IiVrTHAV:-
004,2ifj'' ''intitr, who is a private in the Betwitl
brOtigh t this action against the &ten-
ant, who is Surgeon of the lion. Company's
ship to recover damages for criminal' in-
tercourse with his .Wife, on board the Fairtie, dur-
ing the passage of that ship from Madeira to

Alr. repSON, nrho, Cptinsel for paupers, con-
ducted the case of the plaintiff; having stated its
leading' circumstances., copmented on the in-
jury which hi 4 client had sustained, ea1le:1
reo.es in proof of the facti,„,,
Daniel O'Keefe, brother ii4f the plaintiff, and
ptivate.soldier of artillury, st44l that he was pre-
sent at the mart inge of his brOther with hhi
pre-
sent wife; hod that the ceremony watr performed
with all dire solemnity, according-to the ritual of
the Homan 'Catholic Church. Witness believes
he parties-lived` .tOgether in tt-state of harmony
from the Omit of their union until their dissensions
conOw.4Wed on hoard the litirtie : he once saw
Mrs. O'Keefe in the cabin Of the defendant, and
111)04 tat Occasion -Arr. itattray and she were
upon .the boil. The sequel of his, evidence estah-
lislieTthe fact on which:the action was groundol.
Witness knows that O'Keefe was twice put under
arrest by Mr. I{uttray. The first: of . these itt-

stances was--in.enntequenct of a quarrel letweetr
O'Keefe and his wife. 'Mrs, O'Keefe, on being
remunst,•ated with by her husband, on account of
her improper Intimacy_with the surgeon, gave
hilu ;t blow ; and the surgeon continifttp, ordered.
the husband into confinement. • ,"-
*.•W.lrurner, constable of the town of Calcutta,
kunws Mr. Rattray, and having occasion to call
at his house in Caleutta,'he saw 'there the wife,
.00'Keele, who appeared to be an intilate.
Mr. gooGiisoN, Counsel for the defendant, de-
nied that thj're existed any ground for this. action,
as it . would be proved tints ,h 4 alletlecd wife of
O'Keefe was not legally warded to him ; that she
was a woman of abandoned Character; aud More-
over, that her pretended husband %vas, in fact, the.
very cause of her dishonour. The Learned Coun-.
sel undertook to prove that the plaintiff bass con- `
niyed at, and even acquiesced in the
_criminal in-
tercourse of his wife with others of the crew, pre-
vious to the date.Of the pretended injury sitstait.ed
from the defendant.
The persons whom, he called for this purpose
could, however, depose only that the plaintifl cud
his wife quarrelled'; that he sometimes beat her;
and that they had both declared,. under the influ-
ence of passion, that they were tree to separates
not being !mired in wedlock:
To rebut this testimony, Mr. Simpson called
Catherine Small, who deposed that she cane out
in the Fuir/ie; that the O'Kcefes were a loving
couple, until after passing Madeira, when they
began to disagree. She never saw o'•Keele beat
his wife, but had heard him caitnly remonstrate
at. with lon the impropriety of her frequenting
the surgeon's cabin. At that time ,Mrs. O'Keefe
was perpetually there. No other woman ever
ti-
sited the Doctor. When O'Keefe objected to his
wil'e's conduct, the latter used to reply, " If you
treat ace in this manner, 1 will complain to the
Doctor, who will have y.ou put underarrest, and
confined upon the poop." L.. •
Sir W. BURROUGHS said, that the action was
brought by a man who filled a humble station in
life, but that the lowness of his condition did not
render his grievance the less an object. of legal
redress. The law, in' fact, made no distinction
on_tils*,account ; and the only difference occa-
sioned by the degrees of rank, in cases of this
kind, was in the amount of the damages. All.
the material facts had been established by the evi-
dence; no doubt could therefore be entertained
of. the nature•of the verdict. His Lordship made
some remarks on the total failure of the defence,
and animadverted on the inhumanity of the de-
fending, in pretending to establish facts so ex-
tremely injurious to the character of the person
whom he had already materially injured, while he
was 'totally destitute or evidence by which. they
could be, proved. On account of the severity
exercised by the plaintiff towards his wife, the
damages given .by the Court would he consider-
ably lower :than they would have been had the
previous conduct of the' aggrieved parties been
wholly Unexceptionttble,;•—il,wpircumstance which
his Lordship hoped might have -a beneficial intht-
ence'by way of example to others. •
Verdict for the plaintiff—Damages Fit:4 Hundred

, LAW INTETAACISNeIf..

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, Nov. -Is.

Jelfries was brought into Court to be (Us-
charged'on bail.—lt appeared that the prisoner
went to the banking-house of Messrs: rraedS-, in
Fleet-street, to get Bank of England notes in ex-
change for four notes of Vit. each, belonging to
the Ktttering Bank, which notes, on examining,
the clerk found had been stolen from the Leeds
mail.; The prisoner was desired to cull again,
which he did, when he was taken into custody on
suspicion of being concerned with others. in the
robbery. A number of affidavits were read on be-
half of the prisoner, detailing the manner in which
he became possessed of them.
The Avroarrev-6E-snam. observed; that the
circumstances of the robbery of the Leeds mail,
for which Halley White was executed, were mat-
ter of public notoriety, and from the circuinstance
of the prisoner being in the actual possession of
part of tie propeity stolen, fle had been taken into
custody. As from the course adopted, the pri.
saner had grounds of complaint :of unneeesary de-
lay and expense, he should not oppose the dis-
charge ; but, since the bail were respectable,
leave it wholly to their Lordships.
Four persons then Mecums sureties for Jeffries,
who was liberated,
The period for making the rule ebsoltite, in the
case of Mr. Gurney, who had assaulted
ljr. 'Cif-
lard, Barrister, for remarks Made profisiicroally
by him, was, with the concurrence of the 'AT.
Torthrsv-GRNratist., enlarged to Monday the 21d.
The CHIEF JUSTICE sits on Monday and Taei-
day at Guildhall, to hear Special Jury causes.

POLICE.

IMPOIITANT CASE.

MA N I ON- HOU .---Saturday• an important..pass
"%vas decided before the LOUD MAYOa, in vhicli
the Tavern and Coffee-house Keepers of Londot
and its environs .Nvere the complainants. and tilt
Owners of Eating-houses the defendants. Thf
COMpharit, Vt'aS , that the defendants hail violatel
the Act of Parliament, by -selling porter in thei:
houses by retail without a licence.
Mr. ALLEY was Counsel for the plaintiff, and
Mr. PooLay... for the defendant.
There were a great raimber of informations;
anti to the tirst•Mr. Poomtv math: An objection
to its informality; but-Mr. ALLEY having merle
stich alterations as rendered' it capable of twin;
decided by the Loan MAYon, they, proceedet.
The case tried was

COLE V. MASTERS. -
Mr. ALLEY said, that these informations Nil
been laid by a respectable body of the Tavern ald
Cotiethouse-keepers, not for the purpose of
di-
riving advantage front the fines imposed CRC
of conviction, but to prevent persons who were
nnauthorized from retailing porter in tiler
bposes, to the prejudice of the business of ht
clients. af he object was to prevent the violation rf
the law by a great number of wealthy per,ons win
had set up eating houses, had not contributsl
to his Majesty's revenue by taking out a lieenio.

• After stating lee respectability or both; the trim- '
pfahtent(and defendant in this -particular case, he.
called M'r. Derrett, Of the Teel, Swan, in Loth-
bury; anti Mr. Baeglian, of the Antigalliean, who
swore that they dined at the hohse of -the defend-
ant in Leadenbali-street,-and that they called for
a not.of porter at (natter, for which they paid the
waiter;
Mr. Pootet contended, that the ease did not.
come under the meaning of the Act of the 33d of
Gen. 111. and that if a conviction was to take
place, it would have the effece of disturbing the
morality of the metropolis, by driving those who
frequeeteil eating-houses to the public-house.—
Expellee and drenketmeas were most likely to pro-
ceed from a change in a.syeitem which bad existed
-epwards of a century., It was the object of Courts
of justice to give the mildest construction to pe-
nal Acts, and the worst conequences might arise
from the appllcat;on of the strict letter of the
Act itithis(particilar case.
Mr. ALLeY, in reply to .Mr. PoOLEY, contended,•
that the Act of the 3341 Geo. 111. was final and int-,
peiative, and that.his Lordship, on proof of the
Act; must convict. The charter of the Cook's
Compeny would never be' quoted to contravene
the law of the land ; for instance, it exempted
that corporative body from serving on Juries, and
yet the exemption was disallowed at the Old
Bailey. He submitted tit the Lord Mayor the
words of the statute, and. confidently anticipated
his Lordship's conviction.
The Loan Msvott was of, opinion with.. Mr.
ALLEY, that he had no option but to obey the law
its it stood ; he would, therefore, convict the
party in the mitigated penalty of ill/. The mat-
ter, -he conceived, would require the interposition
of the Legislatuie, he was, therefore, less inclined
to postpone his decision, knowing that future in-
vestigation would result from the discussion.
A -cAtmoN Voi PUBLIC.M.
'IIATTON-G.IItDEN.--ThOMUSjj't'ight was brought
-tip for .examination' before Mr. LEACiI, charged
with defrauding different publicans, by going to
their himses, ordering dinner, liquors; &c. and go-
ing off without paying; the bill. It appeared, that
the prisoner went to the house of John Molter,
publican), in Sutton-street, Clerkenwell, on Friday
-last, and ordered sonic veal cutlets. for dinner,
with which-he bad sOme'bread, beer, pickles, eitc.
and afterwards three glosses of brandy and water,.
but had no money to pay. the A few days
before, he went to Mr. Staton'a,• the Crown and
Sugar Loaf, near Fleet-street, where belied some
pork griskins, porter, 'and three shillings. worth
of brandy and water, but. not having. money, he
was kicked out of doors by Mr. Staten. There
were nineteen public-house bills, all unreeeipted,
foetid in his possession, which, it is supposed, he.
had. swindled in the same manner—one was for
9s. Gd. at' the Castle, in Woodfotal. The. :-
trate lamented the .law did not leave it in hi, powei.
•to punish the pris.otter, as the Act of Parliament
states, that publicans must be paitj fur their li-
quors on delivery ; and, if they trust, it must be
at their own risk ; so be tvia hound to discharge
the prisoner.
BOW-STIIEET.—On Saturday Thomas Marriott
mukrsveut an-examination, charged with- fraudu-
lently obtaining a Bill of Lechaege for 111. from
Murrell, of Fleet-lane, a chandler. The
prosecutor stated, that about four months ago,
the prisoner lotted means to be introduced to
him, and representing himaelf to he an attorney,
he engaged with him to present a petition to the
Lord Chancellor; on his behalf, to obtain a large
sum at motley out of the: Court: of Chancery,
which the prosecutor supposed to be due to him,
as assignee of Itobert jaales, a bankrupt. This
the prisoner hod not done ; and Murrell has since
discovered that he is nor an attorney. The pri-
sooer found bail to take his trial fox the fraud..

PROM SATURDAY NIGHT'S G.I,ZZETE.