The Sun.
London, England, 1809-06-24 00:00:00

TILE EXPZPIrIG*

An Expedition will soon sail from the tentiSh
Coast. Prot exertions are making in the dock-
yard at Deal to complete and get tvady forservice ell
the Ilai-bottomed Wats which rerbain in the yard"
three of which were yesterday sent on board lho
Mostriour• Wednesday night, orders reached 01111:
ing; for the light brigade of the King's WrIOP'
Legion to hold themselves in readiness. far jingly
4iate embarkation, for sykiieli purpose roges won:
speedily be sent them. litits regiments are Appoint
etc! tor this Expedition, viz. seren AlritiA sod two
Hanoverian, They ire only to take light equir
menu. All women, children, and heavy, DOW
are to be lest behind,

The ch foot, Ast battalion ,• 231-ditto. 21 Battalion.;
16th dim,. B4ttalion; 32d ditto, io Isatt3lo ' 351
ditto, 24 Battalion; 26tli thiw, tat Wu:than; 8:04cliVo.
fd iratodiun.
Fourteen regiments received circlets on Wecillieldtli
to march fur ,the Coast. ''hie Wicers: had not 100
'least intimation of so sudden a departtire,
qttottly they Were unprovided for foreign sq64l/'-'"
The troops in the neighbourhood of Colchester hail
bsen inured to the root strict si 1. They ha"
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remained a cutiskteraLle tine ander cativo,
tier! now, nb(e to endure those privationtt knilaPara-
front foreign duty. The Otficeri are quite ignotrli
diwrsiou will be made in aid of Austria., 5000 °
respeatiog their destination, but it SUPP°"."
the tegiments which returned from Spain are arkns
the number. A part of 'the troops will eraK
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of the lit regiment of
Foot Guards were drafted
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the Bird-carpe Volk for the first bripde Guara
at Charhain, by Colonel Coo*, the Cormn.inding
Otbeec of the battalion i* London, in order Orr
plete that brigade, previous to their embatiging '‘)
foreign. service. mei. of the 2d battallOn
On Monday the Duke a 'Vol: IC, as Colonel 01fthe
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Jst regiment of root Guar*, will review the o
gade ai Guards lying at Chatham, previona to their
embarkation fur torcign seivice.
'An article in the Berlin Paper of the 6thin
says, that accounts had been received thorestan t
Constantinople to the beginning of May, accord' 0:
to whiekthe Russians ei we expetted then) in 4:Nur_o
three months from that date. The Siemens it, s.
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STAMPOiID, .cols i 3.

DEATH OF MR. LANIErili !—:We have this day
, to swell, our obituary with an article, which, if its
extrnt might preserve's propertion with the magni7.
• tusle of the subject upon which it treats; would ex=
ceeil the limits of a newspaper, as much as the great
Mr. DANIEL LAMBERT bath exceeded the common
dimensions of mankind. We have to announce the
death of that celebrated man, which took place in
this town at half-past eight o'clock on Wednesday
\Morning last.—Mr, LAMBERT had travelled from
.iuntingdon hither in the early part of the'week,
intending to receive the visits of the curious whO
Might attend the ensuing races. •On Tuesday even-
ing he sent a message to .the Printing Office, re-
irsteiting that, as " the mountain could not wait upon
Slaitomet, Mahomet would go to the mountain'
Ur, is other words, that the printer would call hpon
„him and receive an order for executing some hand-
bids, announcing Mr. Lambert's arrival and his de- •
Si re to see company. The orders he gave upon that
occasion were delivered without any presentithent
that they were to be his last, and with his usual
cheerfulness. He was in bed• Cone of large dimen •
iiions—fatigued with his journey; but anxious that
the bills might be quickly printed,' in order to his
seeing company next morning. Before nine o'clock
bn that morning, however, he was a corpse ! Nature
:bad endUred all the trespass she could admit : the
ink* . corpulency. had constantly increased,
untiG.at the time we have mentioned, the clogged
machines y ht stood still, and this prodigy of
inaintnoil %yea' numbered with the dead !
He was in his 40th year; and upon being weigh-
' ed, within a tew days, by the famous Caledonian
balance (in the possession of Mr. king, of Ipswich),
was found to be $2 stone 1 i lbs. in weight (14 lbs. to
the stone), which is 10 stone It lbs. more than the
great Mr. Bright, Cif Essex, ever weighed. Hit
. coffin is 6 feet 4 inches long, 4 feet 4 inches wide,
and 2 feet 4 inches deep : the immense substance of
his legs makes it necessarily almost a square case;' it
is built upon two axle-trees 4nd four clog wheels; and
upon these the remains of the poor man will be
Tolled into his grave. A regular descent will be
made, by cutting away the .earth slopingly forsome
distance. The window and wall of the foam in
which he lies must be taken down, to allow his
exit.

VAUXHALL BRIDGE.

Yesterday . .
*esierday the Committee ander the $ of Par.
Lament perambulated the Line of Roads to be con.
•lie6ted with this much-wanted and desirable under-
taking, and which, for the information of the public
we state, are authorised under the AA It; make a
Road from Eaton-street, Grosvenor-plate; Piriilico,
running nearly in' a straight north and icritth line
through 'rola-fields, to the foot of the into nded
Bridge, which is to cross directly over the riVei
Thames to the opposite shore, near Vauxhall turn:
pika; Opeping a communication with the.west of the
Met ropolisKnightsbridge, Kensington, &c. Another
west line of road wilt run from near Whim Bridge:
through the WilloW Walk, communicating with the,
. road just described, and opening a communication
with the lower part of Chelsea, Sloane-street,
Brompton, kc. Another east branch road, from
--veer the foot of the said Bridge to Nlarsham-street,
will open a cominunicatian. with that extensive part
of Westminitaw»Park-street, Dartmouth-street,
_

Queerpottreet, &c. with a Strand road from Mill:.

bank row, through -the fore-cdurt of Earl Grosve-
nor's house, along Milbank, on the margin of the
Thames. And as no buildings Or ere&ions are per-
mitted by the_Ad to be madebetween this last men-
tioned road and the Thames, it is presumed, it will
be one of the mo 9 beautiful, pleasant' and pic.
traresque roads attached to the Metropolis. The
above described roads will of course be the grand in-
lets over the said Bridge from the south to the north,
through the pOpelous villages and
,places of Vaux-
hall, South Lambeth, Stockwell, Kennington,
Newington, Walworth, Clapham, Cainberwell,
Peckham, Dulwich, end even Deptford, Greenwich,
Woolwich, and lower parts of Kent, when the
route of the persons passing lies to,or.oli the west of
the Metropolis. We confess we are pleased to see
such improVements take place, which speak in bold.
'finguage the wealth, prosperity, ingenuity and taste
of a country, far beyond the most elaborate orations
or declarations of our public enemies to the contrary,
and certainly reflea a credit .upon their promoters,
446 these are works which unite individual benefit'
with public good.

- - A mutiny amongst the Local Militia which broke
out at Ely, waxfortunately 'suppressed on Wednes-
day by the arrival of four squadrons a the German
Legion Cavalry from Bury, under the command of
General Auext.AND. Five of the ringleeders were
tried by a Court Martial, and seaftenced to receive
400 13411eS each, part of which punishment they re-
A..,eieed an Wednesday, and a part was remitted. A.
stoppage for their knapsacks was the ground of com-
plaint that excited this mutinous spirit, 'which oc-
casioned the men to , surround their officers, and
demand what they deemed their arrears. The first
• division •of the German Legion halted yesterday at,
Newmarket on their return to Bnry.
Articles olthe peace will be sued for at the ape
Proaching Sessions, by a Lady against her husband,
tor ill treatment to her in a jealous rage, occasioned
!by the presetice of a Gentleman, he .Lady's cousin.
affair took:Tlsec alter the Lady had returned
.• troth the Opera, accompanied by her relative. Time
husband.rct Limed from his bottle friends at the same
pour, and fuel his Lady and her relation together.-:
'Slie has retired to the house of a friend.
',On Friday last William Beet at;rl William Smith,
.:ere comittitted to Warwick gaol, for', robbing and
cruelly beating Mr. Cotin, Butler to the Hon. W.
oiliowes, of Caldecott-hall. We understand they
Were apprehended by two of the Police Officers from.
,(,,;reat Mat iborough-street, London, who were pro-
cured fur that purpose by Mr. Bowes, asstsmed by,
Slr. Joseph Bestock, and Mr. Charles Parnell, of
Ntineaton. Soon after being in custody, they made
lull confession of the tact before the above Magis-
(rates; and also other horrid designs they bad
planned or murder pod robbery, which by their
tlitis timely appreliensioo, have beett kirtunotvly
prevented,. Smith was a game-lteeper, and, before
this daring and cruel act., was much respelled by
'host whOktierV him.

LOSS OF THE LORD MELPILLE.

The folloiking is a copy of a letter from Captain
THOMAS of the late Ship Lord liteluille, to
the 0%1-nen :--

" GENTLEMEN,—TtOs with infinite regret
form you of the melancholy loss of your Ship Lord
Melville—she was burned at sea on the Ist April,
in lat. 55.07 x. and 10ng,26. 30. whether by acci-
dent or design Heaven only knows. At three P. M.
while writing in the cabin, 'Mr. A. Hutchon, a‘pas-
senger ,on board, called down, " The Ship's on
fire I instantly ran 'to the deck; and, to my ut-
ter astonishment, found it was the case; but, strange
to relate, neither of the mates, nor any person On ,
deck, could tell me where the fire was, or bow it
began. All hands were immediately employed in
drawing water, and every attempt was made to save
the ship, but all our efforts were truitless.At, four
P. M. the fire began rapidly to increase. Our-situ-
ation then was beyond description—fifty puncheons
of rum below deck, and the „magazine lull of gun-
powder. The latter We got emptied by one des-
perate effort, at the imminent risk of our lives. We
then got the boats out for our • future preservation.
At five F. 141. we quitted the ship, just as we stood,
when we could no longer remain by her.. was
informed that Jacob Anderson; the boatswain; had
gone below with a candle, while we were at dinner,
into the forecastle, and had been drawing off rum,
which no doubt has been the the cause of this me-
lancholy business. He fella victim to it for his un-
pardonable condua—we never saw him afterwards.
At six O'clock, both main and mizen-mast fell by
the board, and she blew up—an awful scene, and a
melancholy end to such a ship and 'cargo. Our
situation then was beyond description : night cow-
ing on; twenty-six people in two small boats, fifteen ,
in one and eleven in the other, and 650 miles from
shy land. •To all human appearance, it was only
the prolongation of a miserable existence ; but the
same good PrOvidence that assisted us in getting clear
Of theihip, aided us all along: We parted from the ,
small boat ail the 3d in the evening, and never saw
her. more. Luring the time we were in the boat,
we were constantly wet with rain ; 'the wind vari-
able, and sometimes a heavy sea 4 and we had no-
thing to live upon but raw beef and water ; biscuit
we liad,none.—On the sth we fell in with the brig
Sally, of Whitehaven, Captaih Anthony Grayson,
who tr.l4lttis on board, and whole humanity to us
will for ever stamp him as a man ,of .feeling for pia ,
fellow creatures' in distress,
" I remain your obedient servant)
Titosi,ss Badwrit.
"P. S. The letter-bag was saved; .but damaged."