The Sun.
London, England, 1807-10-21 00:00:00

shews, that, in ease of a roptute
,Nvith Great Bri—
'min, we shall have to combat -the," mercilesi..
dian Savages, Whose known rule,of warfar k an
'undistinguished destru&ion of_ all ages, sexes, and
Conditions."

. ,•!` DNTROIT, AUG. • 1 I.—We are very Much
alarmed at the movements of the Indians in the

`lndian country. Information from .ditferant quar-
ters has been received by the Governor, all which
.agree in stating; that the Indians have a line of com- •
munication from St. Joseph's to the Lake of the
Woods, and. that they have colluded in some places
in great numbers, with intention to strike on,some
American post or settlethent. It is generally be-
lieved their objed is this place.
We are all employed in picquetting and build-
ing block,hotises for 'the defence of the town.—,---
Should they- attack the town, I:am of opinion it
will be•able to holdout but a short time. We have
in the Fort only eigitty soldiers, which are not suf-
ficient to man more than half of the Fort at one
time. The inhabitants are determined to fight to
the-last, man, before they will give up to the Savages.
It is reported there are at Sagana woo Indians, in
one body, waiting for the word to strike.. •
We were this morning alarmed, about- two
o'clock,' by a man from the country, who reported,
thstt the, Indians were within half a mile of the
town ; the' drums beat the alarm, and the whole
town colluded, amounting to-about 200 men, not
half of them armed, and some with axes; &c. when
we had:the satisfaaiOn to be informed by the Go,
vernor, that the, alarM originated from a quarrel be-
tween two straggling Indians and- a Frenchman, and
that it was a false alarM. I ant this moment going
to work on the Fortifications."

A Letter,
,received in Glasgow on Saturday, from
an Officer 'at 'Copenhagen, .dated Sept. 23, says—.
" All the Prizes are now rigged and laden, and most
of them, in the Roads. We are busy in lading the
transports with naval stores, and, after they are all
full, a great deal of valuable timber must necessa-
rily be left., We expect to re•einhark in a fortnight
.ur three weeks. Our time will be. out by the 20th
o.'tober; .but, if necessary;, we are entitled to
take more, 'as the Danes have broken the Capitula
tion, by attempting-to conceal some of their Vessels
of War. .Only the day before. yesterdcy -W6 found
ten beautiful Corvettes; hauled up in one, of their
:canals, quite in the • middle of the town, and elis-
,guised. The weather is extremely- badi yet the
troops arc in excellent health."

Tar: THEATR JORDAN, with a zeal highly
honourable to her feelings, resumed her station
last night. at Drury-lane Theatre, as Belinda in
cite Comedy of .All in Ike IProng, Her looks 'l;ore
t4ces of her recent indisposition; but the same zeal
Which induced her. to return so SOOll to the Theatre,
;Ittiituated her eiforts, and she-supported the charac •
ter throughout with that humour, spirit, firmness,
and point, which uniformly 'cliaraaterize her acting:
wits of course received with the warmest up-
plauae her entrance, which indeed properly ac.,
companied the whole of her performance Miss
.DortdArr, for the first time, appeared in the charac-
ter of Latie/ Restless, and represented its suspicious
vigilance and jealousy with. tbrcible effect.
ley is a part very well suited to the powers of Le-
LISTON, And he rendered it.prominent in the piece.
.W ttouGterewrepresented Sir John Restless with
his usual 'good sense and observation of life. The
house 'bad a very elegant
,as well as numerous au ►
-
dience.

CovENT;GARDeN:-J;--Mrs. DicrtoNs, whose anti
sical talents are well known to the public, but who
has considerably improved them by, study and prac-
tice, ,returned to this Theatre last night, and per-
tknnid. Mandane in, the Opera of Artaxerxes, a
:work,yr.hich does so much honour, to the composer,
that Justice has not been rendered to his
genius by sotr?e public tribute to his memory. Mrs,
PI6CONS gsVe the airs with admirable skill, and in
several 'of them ;was encored. ' Her delivery of the
iveitatives; And her general support of the character,
secured her abundant applause from the audience,
and, entitle her to a very favourable report indeed
for' her merits as an" actress.--4Ncotoow acquitted
himself very ably, in Artuees ; etriakaries was well'
sustained by likt.t.Astv; and TAytox deserves a very
commendatory. notice 'for his merit in Artaxerxes,
Missßovrobv displayed improving talents in he
little part of &infra. The general merit of the
perfOrmati.-x, and the peculiar excellence of- Mrs.
DI'CRONS, deserved a better audience.—The
dioisr Day follinved, and wds rendered highly di-
vertilig by the htimour and spirit of MUNDEN and
Mrs. CD. lirimact in Sir 44dant and Lady„Coptest, ,
z Mni.v IN has obtained a permanent footing on The
Both Theatre. .
As this dayla the Anniersary of the ever-Memo-
rable Battle. of TRAFALGAR, CarittliO MOORSOM,
'Chief Secretary to Lord MuLoaAvie, gives a' grand
dinner to his Lordship and a. numerous party of
Naval.Ofticers, on the glorious occasion, at his house
in 'Queen street,
,Westminster.

The following tot•rtblt, event is said to have hap-
pened last night at Hotiaeitkoh, in Hertst—A man
who bad been courting a. maid-servant being re,
*led, in a paroxystn of rage maimed her in a very
shocking manner. Two Ladies came to her assist-
ance, .and the fellow in revenge cut the throats
of both, and mangled ap old Lady who was drawn
by their cries to the spot. He has been taken into
custody.,
J 4 the dramatic world,, it must be an extrnordi-
nary .good pertOrtuance that. can support, through-
the attention of an. audience. The Lottery
,Draina, which commenced yesterday morning, for
the present season, at Coopers'-Hall, was of this
superior description. its great interest consisted. in
an !almost uninterrupted announcetnent. of Prizes
through the day's drawing—and which interest will
be equally great on
.Friday next, arid, indeed, .on
every successive, day of performance, from there not
being Two. Blanks to aPrize.

CORN EXCITANGRI OCT. t.--The supply of
Wheat :to-day is • inconsiderable, and few arrivals;
but the trade, as of late,, continues heavy at a gradual.
declension in price; Barley is rather dearer Malt
'as inn-last ; some veryfine neW at 'Bos. per quarter ;
White Pease are likewise lower, few Grey, and:
dearer; in Beans little alteration ; there are several
fresh. arrivals of Oats, and this article is at somewhat
iesv prices ; Flour as our last, tine American 345 L to
3''‘.'s.'.per barrel.

. •
The Cornet which now appears aboveoir western
'horizon' in the evening, though in apparent size not
)'4-tr,Ter than a star of the Second magnitUde, will pro-
p
:ba-bly continue visible some weeks,* and engage the
attention of all the astronomers iii Europe ; and
should it approach nearey the earth, may excite the
'surprise and alarm the tears of the umltitude.:
- Comets, according, to the observations of the most
celebrated astronomers, are solid opaque bodies, of
ditferent magnitudes, and are principally distin-
guished from the planets by their outline bent more
irregular, and. by a long track of a luminous matter,
called theirtail, which Sometimes stretches a great
way across the heavens, and always issues from the
body upon the side farthest from the snit; The
number of Comets belonging to our system is not
yet accurately ascertained; but it is supposed that
there are about 4507-7-the orbits of Sty of which have
been already calculated, and the period of their te•
vehition ascertained. Like the planets, they also
rove-round the sun, but in very long ellipses, ap-
proachieg very near it in one situation, called their
perihelion; and receding to an immense distance in
anotherthe extremity of which is termed their
aphelion. The orbits of the comets are- in general
inclined to the plane of the ecliptic, in large angles,
and consequently they are not likely to give any
disturbance to the earth, though furinetly their ap-
pearance gave birth to very serious apprehensions.
It was the very accurate Observatiohs made by Sir
Issac Newton; on the great CoMet of 1680, which
first proved them to be a kind of planets moving in
very eccentric elliptical orbits, and with accelerated
velocity as they apprOach their perihelion. That re-
markable Comet was supposed to be the same which
had appeared in 06,-in the time of Henry 1.; in the
year 531, in the Consulship of Lampadius ; and in
the year 44 B: C. before Julius Caesar was murdered.
Its next appearance will be in. the year 2255.
The Comet which appeared in 17se was pretty.
accurately predieted by the learned Dr. Halley,' and'
may again be expetted to appear abbut the year 1835.
The illustrious Newton calculated, that. the heat of
the great Cornet of 1680, hilts nearapproach to the
sun, must hive been 2000 times greater than that
of red-hot iron ; consequently, if we suppose that
Comet to be of the same dimensions with the earth,
and to cool no faster than red-hot iron, it would re-.
quire upwards of a hundred million of years to cool;
and from its periodical revolution in' the short space
0f'576. years, Must remain forever in a state of the
most violent ignition. This cornet, according to
Halley, " in passing through its southern node,
came within the length of the sun's sernidiameterl of
the earth's orbit." Had the earth been then it, t bat
part of her orbit, nearest to that node, the mutual,
gravitation of two such large bodies with sr, rapid a
tuotion as that of this comet, must not only liar de-
ranged the plane of the earth's orbit, but by coaling
in contact with ..the earth (there are comets which,
are supposed never 'to come within' the bounds of
our solar system) the.shock must. have reduced this.
beautiful frame to its 'original chaos, or transport it
beyond the Ihmts of the Georgiutti Sidus, into the
boundless depth of infinite space.
Comets may serve as conductors of that subtle and
aElive fluid from. the sun wale most remole regions of
the planetary system %, or if, as stirne haVe Maiutain-
. ed, light be a Modification Of the elearie fire, they
iireysoaltatr atmosphere
,w
aurae andlrorr
and
dback the light emitted' from
prevent the decrease which
must ensut from the prodigious velocity with Which
the particles of light are constantly streaming lorth
• from every part of the sun's-surfaeet The celebrated,
La Lands says, the number-of Comets which haVe.
- been observed since the invention of 'telescopes is
so great, that it may be doubted whether .they
should be reckoned by hundreds' or by. thonsancts.
Their .use, in the system 'of nature, though' un-
known to us, must, doubtless, be of the first kn-
.
portance.
The Comet lately discovered has' been very•dis-
tinCtly observed in Scotland, and particularly on the.,
evening of Monday the 12th init. when the follow-
ing phenomena were distin4ly ,seen from Stob's
Castle, itoxburghshire. It becarde immedi-
• ately after twilight, at a considerable elevation in
the heavens, nearly due west, and set- about one-
' half past eight o'clock, .within a' few- degrees of
north-west. The 'nucleus, or star, whed -Viewed
through a Small telescope; appeared about the size
of a star of the first magnitude, but less vivid, .and
,of a pale dusky colour.. The atmosphere Of \he,
Comet, owing to the limited power of the telescope,
was barely perceptible. .

The tail, dady increasingin 'magnitude and Splen-
dour, as the cornet approaches -the slits,. appeared.
sometimes extremely brilliant, seething to' be a vi-
bration of luminous partieles; somewhat resembling
the Atuora Borealis, and at other times almost' to
disappear. From the arch described by the Comet
in the heavens, in the short spaced two hours, its
velocity must be immense. By the 'nearest corn!.
putation which circumstances and situation allow,.
ed, supposing the comet to be as tar distant' as
the Sun, or abont 12,000 diameters of the earth,
it must be moving in the present stage of its peri-
helion at the amazing velocity of nearly a million
of miles an hour, or upwards of 16,000 miles a mi-
tatte Such astonishing rapidity is indeed almost in-
conceivable ; but the velocity of the Cornet observed
at Palermo, in 1770, by Mr. Brydone, was still
more remarkable, which, in 24 hours; described an
arch in the heavens of upwards of 50 degrees ill
length,' and Was computed by that ingenious Gentle-
man to be moving at the rate of a 0 millions of miles
in .a day, or upwards of 40,000 Miles in a minute!
With a telescope admitting a large:quantity of
light, the nucleus was diltinaly perceived nearton-
thin: the luminous matter Which formed the tail stir.;
-rouged the whole body-of the comet; the outline
of the tail was well defined at some.. distance trom
the point.of divergence: Near the northern side a

Small 'telescopic star was seen about 15 SeCools
appa-
reatAistattce from the tail. Two small stars were also
I..near the head Of the comet. Had the comet retuain
. -:
ed ranger'above the horizon, the dire of its path
might have been readily Marked by these stars.
The tail resembles the eletric aura, or a bright ray.
of the Aurora Borealis, • It is highly probable that
it is not tortned'by- heated vapour, as sortie have
SuppOsed,. but by an immen*e stream of elettrie
fluid, emanating from the body of the comet, it a
direction opposite to the sun. The brilliancy of the
stars is not dilninWted, nor does their. light suffix
any refraaiou vlieti seen through the tail of a cornet.

Tnr. following fisilinit4 of the Treatment which.
some of our etientrymensexpertenc.eo lu 401,tett as
a proot:of the hostile leOing, of.the Danish (werti-
t ment, and which, strange to ,ay, on a ccanparison
-with the Frenchi, is, favot.mtble to the latter... It. Wfis ,
comtnimicated by a (lentle'man who luckily escaped
from the proscription.

1 ",,On the secret deperiere of the•EpgEsh Billow
amore: Agents front Altoria, on Thursday tee tole of
i Aug 'these of our countrymen who found it ioeon-
• vement or hazardous toattecupt leaving irmitediaiely ,r-
-the Danish provinces,availed themseivesof alai +war-.
tress of IlembUrgh to be ready foe a sudden depor-
- lure, it neeessarl. it Was not, however, generally
believed ihrt the Danish Go'erntnept would have
recourse io measures 'of violence. • But oil ,Suoeay 4- •
the' I 6h, towards (v.ming, en'Estrifettearriyed'at Ale
tuna from'Keil, and it was remarked by some, whore
personal. danger or friendly 'solicittide rendered ob:s
servant, that the very aelive Fiend. of the Mona Po-
lice and the pricipalefficers bad a couference at the
house of the President of the Chief Ceurt of Justice; -
and a little before midnight the secret was betrayed,
that preparations were making for seizing every ,‘
Eiiglishinan in his bed the next morning. The in- '
quisither began, iii Matt, very early—in some.hoeses •
at three;• a list of all Fereigpers residing at ,
with their residence, having been made out a feW
days before: was without much effect, for the
few hours respire: had been spent with an attivity
equal to the danger: Goods were conveyed by, land:.
and water into places of safety -; and the individuals
who had only their boxes to remoVe,,foniel means to
convey them to friends' homes. Sterie,whO were •
unwilling to lose- a night's repose were content to
:shift their lreigings, while others strolled in the a&
jacent fields, or,slept in stables or out-houses, end
the greater part were by day-breik on the Ham.:
burgh territory.; Only nieeteen persons, .it semis
were factually seized, and of those a great part con-
sisted ot:a class of persons whom it could not be the
intent* of the Danish Gevernment to molest. But .
the mandate was executed with indiscrinthrating ex-
, attness. PersonS who had purchased the privilege.
of, Danish citizenship, and teurneymen manufaaue
ref's, who had been originally seduced out of Eng-
land in defiance of her penal statutes were likewise
seized. ,Provisions haVe since been published in fa-... •
your of both classes of sufferers, but they are still .•
placed In a situetion sufficiently unpleasant ; so that
in the Danish States, as well as in so large a, portiere
of:the Continent, a disgust has been raised w:lich•
will b i bier L to et-event a -pernicious eraaice of •
esp.iiriatien tiee4 all the sevreity a 9ul lam inform -
! tien. can etieet. - • • •
• "In the mean time the greater number of those
against whom the Decree, was intended; had sought
shelter in Harobergh. phenomenon! Peace-
fill merchants ere, driven ay Trent a country
are enriching, and _English suujeCts fly for,pretedien
to a French Mershal.
Our information reaches to the close of Aeg.-
and at that time, we believe, thi.e'proteetion haiVnot.
• been violated in a single instance ; nor -did' the fugi-
tives make, any attempt at concealment. A knot of
Englishmen was to be seen every day on the Ex"-
' change. It was reported that a list of them was pre--
Sented to the Prince of PONTE CORVO (Marshal 13Pft,
• NADOTTE), accompanied with a request that they
should be delivered up. The Marshal, rt was said,
answered, '" It is a trumpery business, 'and too low
for me to take any concern in."
" It may seem to require explanation how•Hain-
iiudr could be a later place of refuge than Alttnia,
and a French military less strid than Danish magi-
strates. The fact is. and this serveseelso to explain •
the facility of transporting English goods. through
Germeey, that the French, have never ce*d to be
considered itethese countries as strangers and foes'.
The great body *of the people are.never better pleas-
than when theyean thwatt and vex their ietrusive
visitors. • In , Hainhe'rgle , for instaece, the people
were -haPpy to see an Englishman under their reefs;
'and the city magistrates were ready to give them every
• aid in, their. power. Even the Jerench Officers and -
soldiers themselves heveeotit of,France, ttzell; ex-
cept in the discharge of the_ duties expressly
'esti upon tllenr.
,No one except a • dUtiailier would
give himself the trouble to seize English geods ;
nor had an Easelislenan any. tree to fear unless he.
were one of tire Gens d'ekneerie. In Holstein' it
was very different , the geeat body of the `people
loyal sehjeds attached to their Government. 'We r!",.
kuow;•iedeed; that individuals- evinced a generous
anxiety it. rescue their private:friends from. the pur-
pesed arrest ; but- we-are 'persuaded .that a single
was. harboured hours after the order to
arrest. was published."
It wad an the same day that the last Mail !eft Torinin.
got. As this town is much nearer Kral than Mama is; the
Order of Aries; mast love Fes llvti Tomiltver, witinu
hours alter the departure esf the Packet.

Saturday evening, a 'poor man,. named Gurnett,'
was so shockingly bruised hy a fall of chall:„, in a,pit
at SOutherhatn. COrner, Bussex,. where he was at
work, that his litb. was delpaired Of. Lady GAGE,
who was passing. in her crirricle at the time the acci-
dent happened, on, being acquainted witti,its extent,
immediateltturnecl her carriage, and with. that phi-,
lanthropy.. and tenderness of heart for which her
Ladyshipia ea deservedly distinguished, drove up to
the house of Mr. Honsorz, surgeon, vhor she sent
to the, poor titan's assistance, and otherwise contri-
buted tolls rehef britcr kind munificence.

, .
.11_
I MATRO4O.O .- . 1 'he following state of matrimony
I in SOuth Britain is copied tram a ,volume of
triage-
tines for )736...—Things must eurely have been very
different, At that time, 'from what •we, hope they
are at present..
wives eloped from their husbands - - ._ • ' 1362
1 Husbands ran away froin.their wives . - • 2361
Married pairs in a state of separation fkrrit each other 4 t2o
Married pairs living ins state of open 'war under the
same roof - - .
r Married pairs living in a state of inwkrd hatred for,
i each other, t hoogit concealed from the world
Married pairs living in a statc'of coldness atid PAM
ferenve for cacti other - - - stoop
Married pairs reputcdpappy in the esteem:Of the
i world

1,1,313

ib2,320

Married pairs comparatively happy
Marritd pairs abso t wiy eritircty happy

blez
Ats

Last week as an elderly man, named-Borrer, was
crossing the street near 'he. King's-. Head Inn, at
Horsham, he received such a violent bruise from the
pole of a pit-elvai ie which was passing at the time,
that he. died in consequence a few days afterward.