The Sun.
London, England, 1809-08-31 00:00:00

EAST INDIES.

FORT WILLIAM, JAN: 30.-71 e Right Hon. the
Governor General in Council, has received the sa-
,tisfactory intelligence, that a detachment of the sub-
sidiary force at Hydr:•bad, under the command of
Lieutenant-Colonel Doveton, consisting of a corps
.of horse artillery„two regiments of native cavalry,
and I 'Colllpanitt3 of native infantry, employed in
the l rovince of Candeish, in the pursuit of the.pre-
datory force of the Chiefs Moheput Row Holkar,
W:thed Aliahan, and Daudun Khan, after a forced
march of near one hundred miles, having succeeded
in surprising tie enemy at the Fort of Amulnaer on
the morning of the 28th nit: effeated the complete •
dispersion of their troops, consisting of between 4
and aOOO- men, cavalry and infantry, and captured
the whole of their guns, baggage, and camp equi-
page, and near 1000 horse. The loss on the part
of the enemy•is stated to have been very great; on
the part of the t3ritish detachment, between twenty
and thirty men killed and wounded. The GoVernOr
General, in Council, deeths it proper on this occa-
', sion to express, in the most public manner,, the high
Sense which he entertains of the zeal, judgment,
and acti,ity manifested by Lieutenant Colonel Dove-
.. ton in planning and executing this arduous enter-
prise, and of the distinguished perseverance, exer-
tion, and gallantry of the officers and. troops under
b coniinand, in accomplishing a march of near 100
miles in the space of forty-eight hours, and imme-
diately attacking and defeating a superior force of
the enet-ny, whose depredations in the province. of
Candeish, and in the terrifies of the Allies of the
British Government,had ,so long disturbed the Iran-
("unity of the Deccan, and had tendered necessary a.
combined tnovenient of divisions of the subsidiary
forces of Pooriall and Hydfabad, under the general
"direetion of Colonel Wallace commanding the sub-
aicliary force at Poona!).
His Lordship, in Council, has great satisfaaion also
in acknowledging, on this occasion, the judgment
and professional ability displayed by. Colonel Wal-
lace, in framing the phat of combined Operation be-
tween the two diiisions of the subsidiary fOrces,
which led to the. brilliant achievement devised by
• Lieutenant-Colonel Doveton, and executed under
his personal command with such exemplary success.
*••• N. B. •FromoNsroNE,
• Chief Secretary to the Government.

.TEE LAND.

COURT OF CONSCIENCE:,DUBWN, Auc.;

BREACH_ OF RAT-:CATCHINGICONTRACT;

Doßot JOHN SAVAGE, Itinerant Rat-Catcher, and

WIFE, V. J. WIIITCRAFT.

This, as stated by Mrs. Savage herself, was an
aaion of assumpsit, on promise .ot paying It. 25. gd.
Inr expelling all the rats out of the Defendant's con-
cerns in Meath-street, iii that city ; to which he
ple,ided the general issue.
Mr. Dr. Savage stated the case as follows : After
apologizing to the Court, in a very interesting man-
,per, for being obliged to occupy its time by the par-
statements . which he felt it. .necessary to.
make, as indispensable to his own honour as a pro-
fessional Gentleman., he obser, ed, that the Defend-
ant, had contracted wi:h him for the expulsion from
his premises of those noxious beasts called rats,
which, by his extraordinary skiff; he completely
effeacd—driving them all into the next house ;
that, notwithstanding this wonderful proof of huMan
ability,'-he; the Defendant, had refused to pay him
• the trifling sum of one -guinea, which he had, ac-
coiding to his contract, bun f;fidedly agreed to pay
for the quantity of rat pills necessary for the great
and important work. The worthy Doctor then g.ive
a short encotnium ou binaself--it
.was,. he said,, as
modest as he conld afford.. The Doctor concluded
by observing, that it was of all. tasks the hardest to
speak of one's self, and hoped the Court 'would oiake
the necessary allowances.
Mr. ALLEY, who -pi-asides' as sitting Magistrate,
after patiently hearing the Plaintiff, called on. the
Defendant for his defence.

Mr. Whitcraft began by remarking, that he was
not endowed with either the -Ulyssean wisdom, or
Cieeroniati 'eloquence -of his antagonist ; but, never-
theless, he would give an ingenuous statement of
,plain fads. The Plaintiff, he said, had represi.tred
himself as a man Of uncommon skill and know-
ledge in the Black Art; that, amongst other
things, his, success in destroying rats was only ere...
ditaie on oculir demonstration ; that he had once
the honour to prepare, by particular desire, a rat
feast, at Lord Glandore's, in the county of Kerry,
at which his Lordship's servants, and a nutlaber of
other Fashjonables, were present—and at which
banquet several hundred of those noxious creatures
fell ;. that Ise had obtained a regular diploma from
the King and. Queen's College of PleysicianS, in Ire-
land; with other impressive. representations, that
induced him -to have-a trial of the skill.
The Do6lor accordingly came, accompanied by Ins
Lady; Mrs. Doaress Savage; and, having vread
pills in certain magical direCtions on the parfoui floor,
he pulled out his .quare box of sand, formed
scope, pronounced -several cabalistic words, fetChed
somedeepgroans„ gave seine talismanic knocks on
the door, and-finally, 'distorting his countenance,
and grinning like a Cheshire cat, he exclaimed,
"You are a happy, thrice happy man ! your house
is ,so swarmed with;rats, both young and old,-that in
a few days you would, together with your family,
have been devoured outright ; bins all's well—my
art will overcome all! Let no one presume to enter'
this room till I call to-morrow." He accordingly
came, accompanied, as usual, by his' sapient spouse,
whom he sent in first (to remove some of the pills,
as Was supposed)—and then introducing Defendant
into the room, he cried out, " Behold a, miracle !
all's well, indeed ! Yes! sonic of my pills, you see,
have been tonofidedly taken. On my word -and.
honour, confulion to the rats will be in yoitr house
to-morrow, for you will then, at twelve o'clock,
see them yourself all marching out, as 'twere tank
and file, two and two. In the mean time, let me
have the guinea, 'tis a small co hpensation, I have
never yet taken less than five." Defendant, however,
excused himself, by saying, he had nothing in the
house but, bill S—and the Doctor was reluctantly
compelled to depart without his fee. He, how-
ever, called the next evening, when the Defendant
taxed him with imposition, as the promised march
had not taken place. But the Plaintiff, determin-
ed, if possible, to get his tee, said the Defendant
mistook hitn—for he meant twelve at night; and
' that, had lie staid up, he would have seen them
marching out. Ihe Dgendaht, however, conceiving
himself dtceived, had lest ail faith in the Doctor's
necromancy, and refused to give him his fee. For
not rewarding him for this foul deception, Mr. Sa-
vage had brought . the present action against the
• Defendant, with an effrontery to be equalled by
none but a rat-catcher. But the Defendant said,
he appealed not to the laws of rat-catching, but
to • those •of his country, and he hoped they would
compensate him for his' trouble, vexation, and dis-
appointment.

Mr. ALLEY, with his usual penetration, put some
questions to the Plaintiff, which he appeared some-
what at a loss to answer; among the rest the Magi-
strate requested to see the diploma of which he had
boasted ? The Do6tor produced a slip-of paper, not
supposing lt,would be examined. In this, however,
he was disappointed, fur upon inspection it appeared
to be a discharge from a Gentleman with Whom he
had lived as a 'servant.—Plainti" ImM-sailed.

A fine female infant, apparently about. three
Months old, was placed in a basket at the door. of a
Gentleman's house, in Upper Seymour-street, on
Sunday evening-; a violent ring was given at' the
bell, and the servant on going out of the door stum-
bled over the basket ; the child was carefully wrao-
- up, and the basket was direCled to the master
of the house, who has humanely ordered a nurse to
be provided, and every care to be taken of the in-
fant.

We are happylo have it in our power lo state, on
the authority of an agricultural survey recently made
in the counties of Norfolk, Suffolk, and Cambridge,
that the Crops of Wheat are generally good, and free,
from mildew,. and are principally housed.—The
Barley is also good, but not quite fit to cut.—Turnips
are also very good, but some few pieces have got the
fly.

Parents should be exceedingly cautious how they
permit their children to use stone fruit this year;
plums in particular, as in general they cnnwin a
worm or maggot most pernicious to the stomach.
Already its etfects have been manifested in various
parts of the metropolis.