The Sun.
London, England, 1809-09-21 00:00:00

CIII1Vii;

rofrii.et' icdcit.h.ts froin•China; of
grihNtahce li.i been given in the late irtmbir:l,;i
,lsirror, to the .20,h of 1) •dniiher;
I..ft the coirhnenii
the ttiglishantiChitles!, pretly ne,trl;

eci in their foi iicr c!ianri:.l rand;

tk

sent advices certainly confirm the account 01 ail di!-
terences being nitiniatt.-ty Ladjusied, yet t!;.e'inti:i-
val bct‘i•eett th-e date of the late advice,, and tlio-y.4
now recriv,ed, Was distinguishrd l>y truisaaions that
not only threatened to tri-,tUfb iriendly' arra ge.=
ment that- had been' sit lately dosed, hut to- ivad to
direst'- and open bttwec•ll
Portuguese; in fl-otu the `nattu'e of the
the English.musi have taken apot as pi

The decision, the spirit and judgment display=,
this occas'ion by the • Portuguese, are highly eredita;•
hle to the Governtnem of Lcao. A nhort t xp,--
sititin of the fads in.:' probatiy ent(rti.lin .t the cat
riosity:of the reader. .
The Portuguese. Priest, yatlier Roderigo, who
acted as interpreter to Admiral' a ury :And to- 51r.
Roberts, in all the tralisactiOns that occurred daring
the late mistinderstAnding between the kin,,lish ;U1;1
CL:iirese, incurred, .by the at-tire:and
he took in the atf.irs of. that time, the high
displeasure of the Viceroy and lyincipai Manda-
rins of Canton.: :Father Roderigh, had been lotig
regarded by tire .Chinese with an unti-1.-)urable eyt-3
pos.7e3sing an inquisitive mind, and.-great personal
enterprise,- he some time ago, with d.niger anddUfi-
cuity,..succeeded,hirderthedisguise of a 'Einar, in
making hi; way fo atter resiling some
time unknown in that cLipital, he rt:turned s,itely to
Macao. This ciandesiiiie visit became kuown Atrne-
tiine afterwardS to the GovernMent of Canton, upiin
which the Mandarins expressed their abitorrent:eafid
indignation at the imposition, as they termed i', that
had been thus successtully practised by the Fither..
On Admiral Drury's,. proposed visit to Cautoti,,
w.,ith the fleet ot armed boats,
as particularly stated
in The Mirror of the 2 d ult. Fatherlio(icri2oirt:-
..
cornpanied the Admiral ; and, on the Chinese fir-
ing truin their dirt and war.:boats upon the Admi-
rars barge,
_this' spirited- priest stow crew upon the-
stern- sheets, and, taking his coal in his nand;
cheered with three loud huzzas thence intending,
as the Chinese alleged,
.and, as was, probably, the
troth, to incite ihe Etiglish seat:nen to attack, and
reduce the fort and
.war-boats. to instant. subjection.
In this, and in the whole course. of
,the transactionj
the Padre proved a williug and useful agent .to the
English interest's. 'The Chinese, though siienf,
partitularly remarked his conduct, and determined
to take the first opportunity to sacrifice. the Father..
. Roderigo, as a p taper victim of .their'resentroent. •
All the ditferenceS with the English were allowed
to be adjusted Admiral- Drury, with the princi-
pal men.of war, the transports arid troops, were al-
lowed to leave Cuina, before the Viceroy and Man-
darins : jrid&d it prudent that their resentment
should burst upon the head of the Padre. As soon
as the En Kish ships and the troops had saited, and
'the usual tranquility was restored, Father. Roth-lig°
Was, treacherously inveigled bcyond, the Portuguese
bdundaries; when he was seized and sent a prisoner
to Canton. The Chinese, were elated with their
success, they gloried in the posessionot their cap-
Mre, tind the chief 'Mandarins did not concedi thbdc,
termination of their C.itherim-estit to,put Limit) death
as an atonement to the otEnded dignity of the Em-
pire.. • . .

LJ )::S

The Portuguese GOvernment were fully satisfied.
that there was no. alternative, but to •allow Fit: her
Roderigo to be put to death, or to eifect. his hbe,
ra(lim by an appeal to force. They did nothesitate,
to choose, and the
,latter determination was pre-
ferred. The ayises., a•Portuguese ship, or war, and
an armed brig, were moored, as close as the Wirer
would admit, to two neighbouring.,Chinese fOrts,
while the Portuguese troops marched,out of Macao,
aiid invested the forts on the li:nd side.- Mr. Pto.
berts, the Chief English Supra cargo, at the same
time ordered the 'company's, ships to suspend their
intercourse with the. shore; and preparations were
wade. for such'ofiensiVe measures asihe case might
rewiire. Affairs being in this train, the Padre was
now demanded,iii due form. It was peremptorily
required that he should. be, forthwith deliveied up,
tonhuit.;--and-itoo...as:ileclared-, that,: in the tvent of
4niy unnecessary klay, the two fOrits, NI Inch were
closely ittvested, should- 'he stortned, and that the
lilt ofcycly roan in the two g:irrisons should be held
answerable for the personal sAtty of Padre 'Roderi-
go. 'Tile Portughese were -resoltaLly dtte:tsnioed
to c,irry their threats into execution ; and t heir .re-
soluticin did, nett escape the penetration of the
Chinese, who, foreseeing the danger and bloodshed
that would cdr.taii)ly at ise tram a perseverance in the
attempt, either to punish ,or to detain the Father,'
wisely acquiesced in the demand, and Roderigo was
triumphantly restored to freedom., to his friends, and
hip country.
_ ,

This itlstance.ofsthe good etre& `resulting from 'the
just, bold, findand • i)o6ol:abler cpridua of the Amu-
%nese on this 'occasion, is an example that, we trust,
will not be lost_in any future cage of misundrtstani'.
Mg. with tl,e Chinese. Moderation and forbearance,
like every other virtne,• have their bounds; A
hive acquiescence in every otprice and Otireas,bahle
prejudice, is an unmanly expAient ; it is the Kier-r-
-iled of .a principle to teinpUr:ny convenience, and
must tend to produce, wide accumulated force, the
evil that it seeks to

The .grenadier a:.d Ult infantry companies ,6f
the Battalion of.the:Coldstleain, and. 4‘.1 lei-
thent of Guards, who'were ordered to join the ist
Brigade of Gti3r,s at Chatham, and with :them to
proceed to Walcheren, are retuyned with !lie Bii-
gade to Chatham, and ore, by order Of, the Cott-
wilder in Chief, this day to march to London,
there to join their respective battalions. Their Si k,
which are nutherous, have landed.at Hawich,
a proportion of Qfficers and Serjeaws Ace been .i,•nt
froth head-quarters to. iiike cliarge'of them.

On
.the Ist instant,. Mr. Robert Addison, of
Warton,,near Lancaster, at:. the peat ;zge of D 3,
wall;;;:d from his own house, .about halt a .
, io
some teapk...r: ,the, field, when ,he strippcil on his
chat, and.ied the torew-o,
to Ale no small is
after which, he walked (wi-_,'appare;:f
,boasti,pg Ih4,•a.triatv.ot- his ; ears had thtul
wonderful performance.

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OLD BAILEY.

Yesterday the Sessions were commenced before
Sir JOHN BAILEY, Sir. GEORGE Wcbot.), -Mr. Jus-
tice HEATH, the RECORDER, and other City

tic rs.

Sarah Gannet:or was arraigned for having.otfered
in payment for some goods, a forged note of the
Westham and Essex Bank.

The substance of the evidence was, that the Pri•
snner. on the 25th or August last, went into a mer-
cer's shop in the city to purchase some remnants,
which; she said, her mistress, who was a charitable
woman, meant to give to the poor. She purchased
two _pieces for five shillings, and tendered the note
question, observing, that.sorne tradeSmen had be-
lore refused it, because it was a country note. The
shopkeeper desired her to wait till he should make
inquiry as to the credit of the batik, which he did,
and 1-arning that it was of no value, he had her
t ken Into cus!odv. Several witnesses proved, that
there was no such firm as Drivis and Co. who signed
the note;in existence at \Vestham.
• The Le trued JUDGE declined calling upon the
-Prisoner for any defence, and dire&ed the Jury to
acq,lit her, as she had told the Prosecutor of other
people having refused the note before she tendered
it to him—Acquitted.
Joseph Godfrey, a private in the East London Mi-
litia, was indicted for having 'burglariausly entered
dweltingslloese of Hannah Webb, and stealing
thereoet six shirts,. valued at 41. on the 18th August
last. The prosecutrix stated, that on the day men-
tioned, she left her house about twelve o'clock, af-
ter having locked the door, and fastened the win-
dows. She returned at one, and found an iron peg,
which fastened one of the windows, had been re-
moved, and that the. shirts had been taken away.
Several, witnesses swore that they saw the Prisoner
pass from the house on that day, with a bundle un-
der his arm, but they could net shy what it con-
tained. He was taken into custody next day, but,
none of the shirts could be found.-4cquitted.
Hannah Beeson was indicted for having burglari-
ousl) entered the lodgings of Robert Biggins, near
Bethnal Green, on the-4th July last, and robbing it
of a silver watch, chain, and key, valued at 255. It
appeared from the evidence, that tho. Prisoner and
"Ailra. Biggins were in the house together, and. went
out together, when the latter hung the .key upon
the door that the Prisoner returned-alone, took the
key, and stole the watch from the mantle piece;
which she pledged fora guinea, and got herself very
drunk withi.eart of the.money. Information-of the
transaction having been received; a constable was
sent for to take her into custody, and the duplicate,
and twelve shillings and some haffpeuce; were found
upon her person.
The Prisoner in her defence stated, that the Prose-
cntor's wife had given her permission to pledge the
watch, but that sbe was to return the cOttey:.
Guiity.
Mary Taylor, a girl-of 13 years of age, was in-
diEted for stealing a horse and cart, the property of
Elizabeth Thomas, a green grocer, in-Rosemary-.
lane.

The evidence was, that the prosecutor's danghter,
on the 29th of September last, went to Spitalfields
.Market to purchase some vegetables; when she lett
the cart a short while, and on her return she found
that some person had driven it away. On the same
morning, the prisoner was observed driving it to--
wards Mile End Turnpike, when it stuck fast in the
mud. Some passengers helped her to disentangle
it, to whom she stated, that the horse belonged to
her father, and the cart to another person. On
coming to the toll-bar, the toll-man refused to let
her pass, unless she paid sixpence, when she asserted
that it had been paid before. Finding him obstinate,
she unharnessed the horse, left the cart in an adjoin.
ing field, and took the horse away ; the horse and
cast were afterwards found, and put into Whitecha-
pel pound. -Being- called upon for her defence she
eried bitterly, and dented having taken them away.
The Jury found her—Guilty,
Richard Oakden, whose trial was, at his own re-
quest, postponed from the last Sessions, was con-
of having committed an unnatural crime. on
Thomas Se:tgar, a youth of fifteen, who had lately
come float the country, and was the Prosecutor.—
The young man .gave his evidence in a plain and
distinct manner, and was corroborated by other wit;
nesses upon the collateral circumstances. The Pri-
soner's conclua in ensnaring the young man, was,
throughout, most all-et:ions and abominable.. The
man, notwithstanding the shocking nature of his
offence, behaved with great-indifference during the