The Sun.
London, England, 1809-01-07 00:00:00

POLICE.

RATToN-G,arn:::.—Yoterday J,in Benson, by
prolestlion t waiter, ‘vas brought up, and utiderwtia
'fillat" exatoiaition, being charged wilt' geing.inio
tl:e shop of Air. Sneyder, ttirrier, in tlolborn, and
t.bercotu W rout}; , w huh lie 'as
porstwil, and taken with the property upon him;
the same being produced and identitied,by the prose-
rotor, and the cast: being- made our:10°;41w the pri-
soner, he was 'Wily to NC W6iite t:Or
trial.

• PUTMIC Or?WEB WHITEtHA eEL.:—Yeiteitlay"
of:etlf irmer underwent el,amity,36.lll, beau} charg-
:d with stealing, from the . person of, a sailor, ) us.
Ind a check from his owner fur 81. The evidence
igniust the prisoner, being very.strong, the prisoner
Nas fully committeil. to,,Newgate fur
Lea,arus Levy W. committed t:or re•exanlination,
)eing charged on suspicion of stealing a time-piece.
A charge (kali unnatural offence was detailed by.
a
number of youtlis against person, Whom kis
tot proper to name, till the issue of the case is de-

PUMA° °Meat Sukiwiti.L.-,-Yesterday Mary
1011.atici iunj 'Gill were fully committecito l‘tew•
iite•tor trial, ifor .shop-litting 'in the shop of Mr.
lennet, in the New Road, St. George's in the East,
.eing,a,brauch of a family, one of whOm is in New-
aic, and another at Botany Bay.
Yesterday A man named hall was committed by
he "Ma6iitrites of Union-street, Southwark, lig ex-
Irting mtniey from a respettable inhabitant of Bar-
icAit, by threatening him to charge lad with llit;
SiUtl an detestable
.crime.

The.mansion'Of Capt. WALto, at Stelton; Herts,
faq burnt 'down on Tuesday night, and furniture
ird •.propeerty to the amount of several. hundred
ounds was consumed. It was occasioned by a beam
ileinglire, • which run throngit the back part of the
liiinuot on the surface of the 'floor in the back
rawing-rotnn, where good had been kept.
smother was disunguiahable during Tuesday,
or came was not anticipated, Fortunately the
tinily escaped, with difficulty, as all were in bed
'hen.the fire broke out.
Two evenings ago, the Rising Sun public-house,
i .;utiolkrstreet, as well as• the pot.boy, narrowly
waird' flout
.being destroyed by tire. The land-
arter,the company had retired, and .his whole,
bad i;nne to bed, felt-a strong. burning swell..
Jyr a minute: search, he Oland it issued from the
4,t thc: pbt-boy. On bwitine,,T .open the
Jot, I,t ,aw the bkt in dames, Whilst the boy was
,und as!eep in if. With great exertions he !MC-
I:tied in continiti,,,, the flames to, that room only.
he bby's Clothes were burnt, but himself' escaped.
he tire originated 'from the unpardmable practice
stick tue candle on one of the pcists, and the
,J's falliog.nslec-p. without extinguishing
The wint-rb;:d set in with tuatiwAl snverity in
ortot-111, as wed ai in Devon.", On .Sanday morn-
tut, tjtli ult. the .now was eight inches deep on
kvel fields near Truro. Next day the snow ex-
twelve.
.niches on the levels.. A keen frost

Ii101,111:4.! , , •
dealh the Marquis
,Staco, 1 vacancy
14 LA .11 pIaCC ill, illo Pa1ia11!!.211317 repfttiVat3lloll
the toil Peerage,

DEscsitzpricy UP' B.dGD.II).

EXTLIACTED FROM THE TRAVELS OF THU LATE
AIIIIADAM I'ARsONS, ESQ.

Bagdad is seated on both Banks or the river
Tigris, in latitude 33. 20. N. and longitude 43.
51: E.
The communication is by a bridge of boats from
the one side, which is in Meso'jx to the other,
situate in Persia; or, as geographical books call it,
• in•lrak Arabi. • •
The Persian side is more than twice as large as
the. other, both in breadth and length pit the
bunks of ,the river.they are nearly equal, an extent
of upwards of, three miles. -The breadth of each
side 'is very irregular, I shall first attempt to de-
scribe the Mesopotamian side.. It has neither wall,
gate, nor castle; and the breadth is so irregular as
to defy description., Beginning at one end, 'on
the banks of the river, and walking round (as
.• nearly 3S possible) until I came to the othet ex-
'reality on the same banks, [foetid the distance to
be tour tooesand two buodred 'and twenty-five of
,my paces, exclusive of that side next the banks of the
river. .
This division or the city is' governed by an aga,
called the great aga, with other interior agar, whose
houses are situated at such a convenient distance
groin each other, as to enable them easily to -as•-:•
',retitle, to veil any riot or disturbance. Au Officer,
and a certainnumber of jimissaties, mount guard
et or pear the houses 'of each of thengas : 't his is
the military government. The civil magistrates are
the_ cadi or judge, atidn *phi, wlio is the. chief of
the law and of religion ; both 'beware dependste un,
and appointed by the grand cadi or multi of Bag-
dad, properly so called; the agar are appointed by
the pasha ut Bagdad.
As the other side iss-the residence of all, the chief
men (the court of the pasha's seraglio being there),
as well as all the public obliges, there ate nut to
found in the bazars any thing, except provisons,
worth eutiecilig, the oppushe biae being the great
mart for merchandize front ad parts at Persia anti
India, by the Way of • the Perstan Gulph, through
&hum aud Arabia. No khans, or caravauseras of •
'any note, fur the 'reception of merchant-strangers
and their goods, -are built. in 'this district; yet the
inhabitants have advantages which those of the
other side do not possess; first, iu the articles of
.provisions, which they have cheaper and in grinder
arariety; as the many hordes of who supply ,
the city kinds of dirt, ,are in the neighbour-
hood. Besides, house•reet is cheaper ; they
hate in the suburbs mites, handsume broad streets,
with large houses aud. VleilSHlit gardens, for the
most part iohabited by eminent nterchauts, who
find it mote convenient to reside here, though
they isansaet their business iu their magazates
(warehouses) or in the tibilOS Oil the other side, to
which they repair every morning, and return in the
evehiug, on horseback. Here .ire also the houses of
many eminent Men in peblic staitotis, who go daily
to the other side, to do the duty of their respective
offices, and return in the• eliciting to their bouses,
which are so open and airy,, with large gardens,. as
to steely the place of cohn ay houses. Fur seve-
ral miles in thesensirons toe country is.inuch more
pleasant aud esiaitenient for the in hautiants,with their
o iss to nuke glee little excursions which
they frequently do, by way of git .their wives
and children little airings and exercise on horse-
back, previously sending their- servants with a tent
.and provisioes, as there is not any town, village, or
caravansera, nearer than three hours ride, tit, for
people ut condition to resort to. Toe greatest part
ut the public gardens sad meadows are likewise oti
this side, w inch uecasioos cheeSe, butter, milk,. fruit,
and garden-stuff,j to be cheaper than on the other;
all which advantages make it a melt more desirable
situation than the great city (which the other is
called), especially to those who. have leisure to pass
freqeently from each.
From the banks of the riversoo each side, and di-
rectly- opposiV to each other, are built two im
mense Walls, which project from the banks into the
river, which:are sixty-six feet in length, by twenty-
eight in breadth. These walls, serve as jetty heads,
aud are huiltaaf excellent' and 'Well-built brick, so
high.as not be overflowed 'when the water is •
highest.
• The bridge consists of thirty-five boats, all-ef the
same construotien and dimension, the bows being
sharp like thy London wherries, the, stern likewise
bearing a near resemblance ; their length is thirty.
, four feet six inches, and their breadth fourteen feet
eight inches. The distance from the jetty heads to
the first boat on each side is eight feet six inche‘i
then space betweeti each • boat six feet four inches,
which makes the river Tigris, at 13lgdarl,. ,to be,
from bank to bank, eight'hundred and seventy-pc
feet and tour inches broad. FrOm one, side, of the
river to the other, two massy iron chains are ex-
tended ; the iron bars with which the links are made'
are as large as a man's wrist; the end; of those
chains are fastened to the' rings of two extremely
large anchors,, which are buried in the east how°
within the wall of the great mosque on' the Persian
side, the other two.within, the wall-oia great ware
'house-on the opposite side. Each of those chnint-
.passes over the bows of twenty-nine of the boats,
and are kept in their proper places by one of the, •
links being placed over an iron bolt, which stands
erect on the bow of beat, Over ;these _twenty...
nine boats a stage is laid, made of strong planki,
gravelled over, with'railingon each side nearly four
feet high; the space irstween each railing is near
twenty-tour feet, which gives the hreadth of the
bridge. The other 'six boats, of- which the bridge'
is formed, are contrived SO as to be aimed wheti
rafts or vessels pass down the river from Mosul,
(the ancient Nineveh), Or up the fiver Preen Bus-
sarah, or :any other, place, which is performed in
this manner :—From the jetty heads.a stage is laid
to the first,,boats
,which reaches across that' boat ;
fronkahia boat another is laid over the second and
third boats;swhich reaches, sand,is fastened to, itie
star on the foarthi:its the stage -over the first' boat •
it :fastened ro that over the second on each side.
Whelk boatCor large vessels-warit to pass, teas suf-
ficient to hoo;cn the first boat un that side -where.
the boat or vessel chooses to pass ; the boat with the
'stage on it immediately swings off itself with the
current, and is soon replaced ; but, when 'large rafts

the nest two boats, With the stages oh tIG.'o,
:rust likewise be let loose, which canieS art in.pe-
d metkt to the,paskitge,py4. tjte bxidge_tint at . least
li ;11 an hour. . .

People who walk over the bridge ought to by
very 'Careful;sasLa great COncAtse,tit people•onikw,
as well as on =horses, mules, and asses, :ale
cotta-
nually passing and repassing ; particularly early
every. morning, when many hundred belOrts maw
loaded with every kind of provision from. the Meso-
potamian to the Persian side ; and as in the middle
,uf every boat ,tinabersare placed across; to secure
and fasten the ends of the planks together, which,
projettin,;•°• above the gravel, tOrm so many ridges,'
and are the occasion of so many falls. No,luud,d
camel is permitted to pass over the bridge.,
A toll of one para (three farthings) is paid for the
passage; of every loaded.Lorse or mule, and halt a
para for a loaded ass; but nothing by foot rissen-
gers, or cA en by those on horseback, who go over
the bridge, nortor any beasts which are no); Wade!).
For moving one boat only, on either slat?, to let
boats or large vessels pass; one piastre (two shillings
•and six-pence) is paid; for moving the three boats
• three piastres. The bottoms of the boats are qiiite
flat, and draw six inches. water at tie bow, and
lour at the stern,

There are always boats ready to supply the place
of any of those which forth the bridge, n hen they
leak., or want nay kind of repair. They 'are placed
in less than ten minutes, without moving either
railing,planks, or, ever the gravel on the bridge it
effeded in the following wanner :-r-The dclektre
boat. is loaded with stones, .stitlictent to sink.her so
low as to prevent her tioni bearing any part..of-the
bridge ; at the. same time the bolts in the bows,
'which are let into a link.of each chain, are likewi.,e
loosened; the boat, thus liberated, is inoi•ed in a
minute, and
.the aew..boA (being previtinsfy loaded
as the other was) is hauled up in -her'place; the
loading is, by means of imuy batids, quiokly,taken.,-
until she bears her p oport leer of the bridge, when
the iron bolts :err intioduc,cd into the links of the
chain. • _ • •
.

I. have seen three boats shifted in thie manner,
each of theM iti loss than len minutes of time, which
is mostly spent in loading the,one. so as to' liberate
anti in unloading' the other su as to.supply Cx
achy
. 'The current of vv.:tier causes the bridge to 113vp'a
.great curve. The 1,.v0 chains on either side from
the.. first boat; over which they' are refaced, .Find froni
t hence to Wit'tb: of the bpiittini WkiCh t-livy
through, are only VisiblOin. about twenty. feet' from
each of the boots, and for the same iron
the.banks of the river the remainder,. owing to
their. great weight and length, without support, be;
is: under .water. . .
A all vesseli, of every size;. on this riv r,V7r:
fl at, b ouled,_ they pass uver the.chaiss without 11w,
least obstru6tion.

. .
Front —Noyetnber to the latter end of Nlarch,
boats and vessels* all sizes can come troth Bussora„
up the Tigrisoo the bridge of Bag(L;d; in tne.otber
months they do not attempt it, as thcl current' runs
so very strongly against them, and the.‘t tad being,
far the mint part, in: the western quarter, increases
the difficulty; in:the in goods, from Bussora,
intended for Bagdad, are brought up the:Luphrates
to lielah (mostly by tracking), and from *Amoco
across Mesopotamia, by camels, to ilaadad.

_ .
111:: Canal. of Srragon, where the French
recently defeated, like. that of Segovia, is ono .
st:pendons projeOs which in Spain have 4)th.31
been Contrived, but never cejinpicted. Thu
titan `was 1d -a navigable conurninicalion
through the heart (if the kiDgctuut,betWeen
!antic and the, Meditertahenn.

LADI ES' BoAttDING.-SCttooL, near (11(1•Gty-Poac.1.
Airs.Caoss itifortn3 the G,•ntry,
eh:tnts; and her Friend, hi gjrfrr:4l, (hat her School
will re-cornittenOe ott Alunttly, the iti(!tolianuary;
anti lilac she has-accommodation for Live tome yourg'

•
Ladies as • Buartlers;. •She hove, !hit the
success she lias met with Sint these twenty-fivs:yt'l!
in educating the; pin„,,tifers of sntue of the hist I-it N..:
lips ill the City, to whom fefereces may he
will he no "ii..1:1 rrcumniendation to those
and Gentlemen whb may honour her with their
patronage.- Ter ti.s—t he young Ladies are boarde;?
and taught the English and French. Languages wit;; •
grammatical purity and curre49oe_ss, and fiiN:AgY,,
and the Needle-works, ,tor 3.0 guineas, per annv.ll,
washing- induded ; Parlour Baarderi, be'gn'ilit!::‘;' A
year ; Day Boarders, 3'guineat; and imit per qua.
• ter ; and Day Scholars, a guinea and -a half. Nu .
Intrance-money-expeded either few it Boarders or .
Dal Scholars. 'Writing, Arithinctie, vlusic, Danc.
ing,--Drawing, Italian; .(;eograph, the Use of
the. Globes, and Astronomy, tanaLt by Pr',,kint3ol.
eminence and estabikhed may.
We spoken with, or dirCei-fto,-.,it
Charles-s(ltwe, ne,r the C.:, Thit,
CUtibiSiS 04 bt.i n's:!!:j1 ont.O.P.fica number
-or Ladies.

- 1311: v
Onlheiat inst. the 1.4.ny Captaia Bull', of 11,:r. I:oPati:
Navy, ula ,
Yebterd;iy. at ll.ffliptytt„ Nii,lll:•:e%, the Latiy of Sir Chas.'
Ftinion:totc, ilatt. 01 a Soh. T.: L.,Ll,ir citrw body r
biro%

Lately, the Lady of Clptai 'son, of the s6th Rog',
mcnt of Lout, of Son.