The Sun.
London, England, 1807-10-06 00:00:00

TRUIIO,OcT.

We lately stated, that several seamen of the Ame.
ricati State,' Schtioner Revenge had offered 'to enlist
with ati Officer of the British Royal Murices, now
on the recruiting service in Truro, but- that he had
sent them back to the American Cot-Iwo:index, with
s.declaration that. he could- not countenance down-
ter4. We should have been happy to state, that
this.honourabie conduct on the part of a British Ot.
Beer had nro.luced att equally hounurable return
from the American : but what will the. Aancrican

declaiuvrs upon witional hnuonr ;613 puuucll jmtice
saY, wile!) we ten them, that Captain. of the
Unitv,l ,State; office( and it
veist7i rendile4, 4onspicui4u by being the beater of
instructions.. front,t he Alwricati Executive to its Mi-

nister in Lcin,ton, on a di.iputo between the two
countries, in desertion and the encourage,.
'Event of.dt-:serter form Yo Korai! )41) t a feature—that
ciiptain 14. ED, so obliged and so.ittimuleted to
bonouritble teeling, ,reinseti to aive up one of his
raw, who had. declared himselt a deserter from a
Bra.itis4 regitpent.? Yet each. is the tart. It 13 a

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fad too,,t4at .sevoral, others of the crew. of the Re..
tortge'ttiztiaNi thetriielvei British' subjeAs ; notlrthat
they-were.not ciaitned as sooll, and tul;eli out of .the
yv,ts owing to tht3 ticlicacy acid prod duce of a
,t;),:icer ,to w how they
.c.a.tred, thvny;elrrs,.
who, considering .that the Vessel w,is waiting tilt:-
return of (iispateltes Iturn the Atrwriein Moister,.
wpkilj not t*nish a pretence to Lnt:A.titericant; that'.
their .Vessel had
LsufTered any denim:Nit or cl;:lay
h6r.nit,sion, by. weakening' her crew.—Curitcvat
ar4itte.

SOUTITAMPTOII, OCT. H0.V1V.4 been'.
performint; at this Theatre-for a • few nighti ; also'
Drirt, rnvitc, much to the s.itiitaCtion of the pnhlic.
al.s,lav lost the tide row to 3 much greater
height titan h:l4 fwert known for several years pa,t.:.
Every •day this week a nuinber of bout sexes have
entue here from Alred.ord atiLl other places upwards,
to ba dipped, front Lie apprehension. of the hydro.
phobia': ,-The Mayor has continued, tor n month,•
the order to.destroy all dogs seen in the streets, from,
undubirable infortnotion of the prevalence of the ca..
latnity: • . •

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Yesterday morning the ' retnains of CHARLES
WHIGHT, Earl. Chiet Clerk of the it-latiralty, were
interreriih the SOuth Cloister of Westininstee
Ab-
beyt lie was a • must .respectable individa:ll, he
W:l3 1:1 the 73:1- year °ibis 'age, ant had 'brz,:tl up-
xi/m.4.15d fifty yo'..11•1 :it the A,tiniralty.
On digging the toundattun of 'a new building. at-
Kinsston; near the That nes, -a few dtvs ago, two
twin Akeleotti were found, at the depth of about five
feet.: It was supposed by some persons that they
wire' the bodies of two nialefatligs, ‘i.tto were hung
in Kingston !Market-place, aUuttt•eighty years
for robhitig, the church but the mere, probable can-.
f' jeahrt: i;„ that they are the ht.-plies of two pet-ions
whSt.were killed in anion fought ne' EillgStoll,
in the year 10'49-; bet Ween the Royalists' and the'
- Paf:iatuent forces, in Whith'-the former Wfte de.
and twiny of them pursued tto the banks of
the:, !yest and there killed:

NVoinestlay . ' morning the' 23d tit 'silt' tit vet'
•
was entitavoLtring to drive sOme, pigs into the boat
at ih New PaS4ago, 'biatli saw, instttad of enter=
ingiotti -the boat, took the 'Water and intineJiately
nvideotf to sea, to waT:tgain,heard of till thefol•
lowing Smithy, wizen' he tettitned to the. NeW
P.tis•ve' re-hod:ut ttt safeti.. The animal
coniiaerably redum:/.1 in *bull:, and Ittn• feet

Tho tbotradi armed with a glitv, 'Who leas ttride

hictisell notorious in the Deighbolrbood of Ports:.
mouth, by his frequont suti uodaun'ted robberies,
has bzeit vartaCtivohiL ‘AWI,I iii hi, depr,Amions,—
11.. very iiight, bAieve, he has itopped some jiver.
sous, sun robbed them, either upon the Chicheiniir
or London roads, and io artfully ch:tilging his grouni
as too-elude sa ich 03 W,Ainest.l3y night, a little
before 8 o'clue):, itc stoppe3 Aslett,
of Parl,6lll,itlii), lionebnclz., Pear
Mt: cps

and robbed biat -01 about 7i. EridAy bight. ht stopped
0 rout eiui wt,ollo, midway betwena- Harzlit and
Etusworti4 tool& 304 ftvitt than,

• The attempt Of, PETION against St. Marc anti
Gotiaivus, in the months of May and June, having
'totally failcd, the insurgents of the Suuthcrn titlarter
untlerto)l: another expedition in the mouth 61 July.
Pripares set out from l'ort,au-Prince on the
Cth ofittly, under the orders giAdnikal PkWAYOTI.
and nryived otithe othbefore Purt de Paix, twenty.
four leagues from the Cniie. Jt contained tiroks
men, under the command of
_General LANlAltlies
The uuder4tanding which Pgrtos had previothlr
established with the Wulattks in this (planet 41.4,
cored him a few recruits at first.

Thu President, HILNRY COILIMMO, set out from
the Cape on the. t4th nly, witli near 10,000 men j.
on ,tlieri7t h, he put the insurgents completely to tite
rout: After several ottaegs, the town of Art. cif"
Nix nu(' the forts were-taken by assault by the Pre=
sident'i troops ; the insurgents were alteilvarc6
driven from all their position*, onrronnded,and:cont.;
pelled,to by down their arms. On the
numher escaped to thelialilla from wh:ett they In 4
lauded. Generatcnittszw.u, pal-J.)l4d at d
granted quarter. to tie pt incipl ,part of the in
gents, returnest to the Cape (An the
.28th J,dy.
_At the qatne time this int:lek was upon Port
de Paix,. another xtgpeditiou Liv lane ) was midi:nal:en
from Port-au-PrinCe,-4.iUilist it.. are, tal I.:r
nrLierti of PUTION himself, At i reviow of thiS
troops of the tnow of l'utt•aes.l'rnurtt, tlic black Go- •
nem' YAou, third in command ander Ptatos, but
Who \CIS in the jolt-at:sr rilteMp:c4.l
to harangue PLTION'i t.sr,the puri.o.e sit
doing them to lytigag.e in the ppm lie li,hl termed o
joining, with 3Quu 111,',11, CH it isTopti e's trvt.p3, slap
were encamped no the ficights within tirc ien4.14.3
of Port-au-Prince, and of den vel iligup to them hot h
the town and PuTtoN. Thii plot Jiving failed,
General YAot,i had barely link! tolseape 14, going'
°if at, full speed, with his Officers and
Camp. He went to Jactnei, where GentYrtd:AA.
nitOISE INlAOl.ulltg, who wai secretly in the imeretst
of CHittsTißtirto ..commatitie.). They continued ,to
delude PETtot.l for home time by it proposal of an
aainesty. While the ziegociation thus,clroiwd 31Qpg
at,LeOgane, the news of the ill success Ld. the, owe-
&ion of Port de Paix cle,:idett ANlBRot.ti MA41.01146
and YAOV to throw off the mask. They Wrrc en.
ramped, in. the month of August, with. their Caro ;it
Jaeariel and-,Leogane, where they held the truops of
Port-au-Prince in check,
The President, CnaisTorkta, baying made, in
the, month of,August, prepay,,,
tions, set out on the ad of Sslrterober, tilt`, head of
25,000 'Wen, to give the finishing 41,4,1;.; tv tlliti
revolt. There was every probability that every!
thing would b 1 settled in the course ot. that mouth',
and PuTtox,. with sonic twenty, of WS ,adbeicnoi,
may be exp4ted to arrive in Eng Lind in sotto
British Vessels, which were Lu saii on the Htsi vfz

ASTONISHING SPEED.---;;L:UltiiiV, the Brighten
Sh,:idnerd, undertook yesterday, fora wager of.tetl
guineas, to run .a 'mile in four ininutcs,.•4o, it. was
given Out, in Hyde Park, but the race took pipet. ou-
Clapham Conimon, to the disappoin mien t
hundreds of perswis aiseinh:ed in the
:I'he Pettt:ftrian waq to perforiu the iti.4e fo,..ir
starts, in the space of three hours. 'lle went tho
first (pane: of a ,mile •in a minute, And. nits±r
,taking,
sn:ne rest, he ixrfortired alternately the atlas; quar,
ters in leis than three minutes, having won; the
mate') by a few seconds. Ile reserved 4 t..4V7 tier •
conds over the tinieLfor., the last gamier vf. kfulo,
haling done the titir,l wiili astonishin speed. 'kite.
oddi were on the performance b,;....fore.ltanittj., • .
Worm, the pede;tri.in, ‘valltt-d in.)ti'l'llrightoli, to'
London on Sunday, . and proceedr..d on his W,AY to
Newmarket 'yesterliy mo!uint;', Pecomponied. by
Gregson, hiscountrythan,,aiid t raw Tl',egmAin.l
on which the race will take I,Lice is snit, yO. f•Cf
Thesubsequeot tidy will b.r rici-upiett its lingai4tie
exercke. Gulley anti Gret.E;;,,n viii contvild for a
u'el4hty.srtbscripttAl purFe, and this tattle will he
followed by an MK- one bet wee!' I),,,•k!irty rrcl‘t
Young. Ward...‘gregson i 4 the Latie.bhire man,
who has never yet ben tried,. •

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CORONF.It'S 01(11:ry:torA place last
week 'Oil a Charge, againa man-alitiwito, in the
neighbOurhood of Great Marlb ,rot.tO•stree;
want of skill and humanity in the treatment of
1,14 y, wht died, as v;...; suppo,ed, in vonsegnettee
of that treatunitt. 'l'llo, chief evidence the
nurse ) tint 80vel-.11 professional Gentlemen were
examined on the oci.%l,ion, w base opinion.; were Sti
strimg against the I:)otetidant, that the C.‘rotiVris
Jury were induced to bring in a 'Verdia of Homicide)
and a warrant has of course bean issa,d for his ap-
prehension.. The eireintistancei, o the cas,
understand, Jiro wfiol), unfit to be mend ;;;ed in a
,Newspaper ; but it. the ranter 0101.11(1 i i. Vil it)bo
a$ reported, it is to he hoped, that it will upvrilte
a warning tigaini,t t 1 1 cl)edit:4lmnd chirotgleal men,
not to presunw to enter into the praCtiee of 'so itne.
.ptatt,lnt.4 profeiioti vithout being duly qualified.
An inquiiitinn Wrii held on Friday:lt Mr. Biihop'4,
the White Linn, Sliadwell, on the body of A youn;
man, supposed to he the Mate of a Ship, found drown•
ed oft' vg... Tito body ' -found,
by it dragger for coals which drop from bagi?4,alitt
sides of ships. The (lei:eased oppeerd 11.,•tiavt: burn
but recently drowned. NC) papers were found upon
him by which it could be-traced who he was. The
body being without any marks of %ink:nee, the j,lry
returned a verdict lII3L he died by drowning.
• ' The case or Bullock, the Bankrupt, capitally con-
riaed at the. Ent.. Old 13, iir.y Sci..iions„ will • tirvit.)-;16
farther investiptiozi. The u dkcus.iod
vises from the document given in evidence to prove
him a 13)mi:tint, namely, the Co.urnission, and the
Ob.r%'tinti to it as that it is not le:gal
evidonce,inastinch as Ixdrig 611 the rt.cord "a Comt.
tllllf2r tlit Grelit Stlal of Great Britain," it
is invalid, because, by- the Apt of 'Union), it is Q.
dalm.ld by the v,:ty first cl,ttise in that Ad, that' the
Great Seal; after the too Ity January,.lBo 1, sl;all
be for ever .c.illttd "'the Greit Seal of the Unitid
Kingdom of Great Britain nil irciantl,“

At the Rood Fair of Jedburgh, on Friday Lit,
there wa, ajgreatshow of good cittle, and-very little
demand 7 ;out 33
~ war, goud fat sold about 94. per
stone (Dotehyslnking of is but mast of the young
cattle, and ail. those not in cnndit left the mar-
kt-A Witilotit ally person asicinz tin;ir

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Tti 4t.;47. 4101 j S OCT.. 5 elderly. woman,'
of the ictirt;:,. of jl/.1/44/1,- tind a young woman; her
lodger; 'were charged 'before the LORD ',MAYOR With
itrivib4rObbed au Atit,crican Captain his' purk,,
containing American' golden colas, eagles, halt
isagleV•ancl bank notes, to the amotint of nearly
fOrtivnitioas. Th 6 Captain Stated, that he had nr-
fiv-4in •tuwn last Light; by , the Plymouth mail•
colch, and supped with some friendS. •• Being a
W4lol' ift 4,44.1.41; hiCwas at a loss to find out
Way' vo4ho.lkoyal Excluinge, wishing to procure a
In lg;int; in. tlie-elfy, He gaVcra, trifle to a watch-
-111314 -for lliFatittg him into the—proper courses hot,
on prOceetting as diretled, he was accosted by tlnt
Totuttest of the. Prisoners, who took Itim by the aeon
'in ,
the trunt friendly Manner; and, learning that he
W3S itt search of d "lodging, invited him borne to her
'alt rnatent; where she said be could accommodate
hinkfuring thenight. After cousrdet'able entreaties,
lie was prevailed upon to 'comply with her request
and kind inVitatioti. She accordingly concluded him
to lwr home, which was in ; where,' upon
4beirltrrival, she fonnd that her bed was previously
engaged ; and was about to caudal this stranger to
seine other more commodious, lodging-house, when
her landlady, the other Prisoner, with great condo-
scension, consented to quit ;her own bed, to accent-,
outdate her friend and her guest. The Gentleman
accorklingly went to bed,' and his ininnortart sOon
felloWed. .He lunch fatigued with the exer-
cise of travelling, Ling the day, very soon after-
wards- fell asleep. About half-past three in the
morning., he was awakened by what he conceived
at first to lwe some tender attention of this frail
fair one. about' his bosom. Hearing her going out
(tithe room, however, he became alarmed, anti,
'recolleMing that he had left his locket or mi-
niatiire-piCture, set With diamonds,' in his shirt,
:but missing it, it occured tit hint that seine tetil
play. had been going forward dnring his slecP, 'Or
was intended to 'be put in practice. He jumped
out abed, and searched hill pockets for his purse,
which he Mkt. tnissed. He, of course, called for
a candle, and alarmed the 'tense. He discovered
his locket pinned in the curtain of the bed, and
was agreeably surprised to find that his gold
*arch and' its appurtenances had eluded the curi-
osity of the depredator, by its still being in his fob.
lie immediately called the watchittan, who, after
some censiderahle search, apprehended the young
Woman, as well its the lady of the Mansion, on
whom wit'; merely fecund the-purple silken purse,
the treasure being all gone. • Notwithstanding this
Strong evidence, both of the parties persisted' in 'de-
'tying time rubbery ; hut his Lordship' stiw sufficient
reason to commit them into custody, and to bind
over the Captain to prosecute. This, however, the
Gentleman seemed rafher disposed to decline, on
account of the inconveniencelt-must necessarily oc-
casion to him, he be ingltbout to depart froth thia.
country, , • •

Gn t unit ALT„— Yegterday John Lewis,. a gigantic-
Wee man, was chargett*ith. brutally assaulting the.
wile of Thonlas,Williams Wood, a respeklable
habitant of St. Andrew's Hill, Dodors' Conniton:.
Ur. W. stated, that he was walking 10h,;his wife
on Saturday evening last, when the Defendant came
uph ecizA Mr.h.;:\V. in a very 41deeeta nianntir, aticl
threatett4d, to knock him down if he interleml in
his wife's protection. The watch being called; Mrs.
W. I.C3S rescued from the Violence offered, and the
Defendant taken into custody. A vs. W. a Lady of,
wry genteel aiiiiem'ante, Corroborated the statement
of her husband, and,aided; that the Defendant not
only pinched her severely, but behaved in a,mannet:
too hiddrieate to tleseribe. The Defendantnlledged:
in extennation of hitt condo a, that he wasintoxi.
Gucci, and bad mistaken the Lady (whom ho had
never seen beforeyfor another person. ,The Alder-
man very properly reprobated the Detendant's'con-
duel, and lett the complainant at liberty to, prow-
cute. Mr. Wood :Ind Ins wife, howevvr, consented
to the lidenclatit'i diath3rge, on his begging pardon,
And ,submis;iively protnisin:,,; to condua ininseif with
more propriety in future.
wonvio 01 tits to‘vn, wdi charged
with titeAtig two tl. notes frdni John Kintie, tt la.:
boorer at Iliad:wall Duelc. It app fired, the Prisoner
was
,seen an trticle, simposod to be the notes,
to a compiniwn, who made off. it proved only a
caie of suvicion, as the property wa not loafed,
aud the Pri,,oner ;a:i i,ent to licidewell. for a mouth,
lrtitig a di46;krly char:it:ler.

MA a WienOtrOit-sTltEwr.--Two men of t he names
of Twig:sherd and 'Valliant Bryan, the former a por-
ter at tire New White llori,e Cellar, Piccadilly, and
the latter a actolesilan's servant, were charged with
stealinwa tinder the following' circum,httiCes
A. parcel connining a vakiablo dress and other aril-
elei of appArei wis behtt front .Mist Sheen, directed to
Mrs. Chapman, Oxford-street, 'on the lath of Sep-
tember, by the Richmond coach ; and it was after-
wards aicertainedtharsoch had never been delivered, I
although carriage and porterage
,had been paid.
'Pitts werc.takenitito custody, tin por-
ter hiving declared that he delivered it to Bryan to
carry for bitor;,,whieb he acknowledged having re-
ceived. . .
Itaiyptz.n:,,l that Rryan, who is the servant of the
Pov., Mr. I`.l,,ingmnery, wa,, in the habit of,waiting
Rt a pkit,ric.lo,)„,,,, in Allteinarle-street, to reCalve
p4rt,o3:whicii tirk.ivtti by the coachea, at the 'hands
a the pc)rter.i, witiiiitu such being taken to tin,
w,:noinmse to bit hooked, sex, trod
sion ut tieketi Irmo warehonws, titablol to
practice any in'ticn he cnoic by the Oclivcry or
the said parcel, whit,.;l) the port,r Lira.
Town,hend It atintito:d ~t, ,
Bryan, wben •i the parcti
40.1. din and
it wa,i proved dim it
Mr. Hatcher, 1,4 d ;:,,, hiu,
bemied tn.n. wool& .ipate
01finideri3Ot qll3' kit!, It - hit study to
prevent the ptiblie
*The, Polley .had not tilsi:•
this instance, bti tie had .:,; ',.
livering the•parcd at 11,,1
;pal t .1 inns
foond hit; possession.'--t
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about i 6 years of age, servant to M. 114;up,,a e: d,
Shoemaker, at Cow-crosob Who 011 3 10r4110r d:ly 0,-Li.
fijssabaving stolen 7 pair of shoes, natl.! state l that
411e,444,i given, themn to, her fathom, 4001. at the tmr.
On: tins
,occasion her., lather Hi'to.ldtql, to hen tilt:
allegation of his child: On this examinavou she
very much prevaricated:' Several respektablo.house-
heepers were present, who all gave the father em .
ese.ellent character. He was therefore. dismissed,
and the Prisoner was remanded lbr a linther ekami7
nation.
~
Qa2ceN-sGiumte.-L,Aresterday an inforniat;cn was
heard before PVCIttPX COL.O.UIIOUN and ft Nu,.
Estirs. under the 85th itealint of th:-.! Mutiny Ad,
which respeets.,the secreting of harbouring a LW,-
Beier, k Cowing him to be svell, anti inakt.",s time party
so harbouring or secreting liableto a penalty of 2a.
Or, in default the6.of, to be imprisoned for six
months. Meaty, the Officer, preferred the infor-
mation- at the instance, of the .qd battalion of the
Coldstream Guards, agaius a Mr. Boreliam, for
knowingly harbouring. John Fletcher, a private o
that regiment, Mr. lilndrilitTL3, the Defendant's
Solicitor, got rid of charge by making an excep-
tionin point of law, inasmuch that the day in the
information was laid on the t 9th of September,
whereas the evidence went to Friday the lath of
September, and the Magistrates admitted it to be
fatal.
Ann ITalstencraft and Sarah Hart, twd girls of
the town of the lowest order, were charged by'Mr.
Dallas, a Countable of St. Martin's, on suspicion of
stealing n silver watch : the one implicated the others
but as the owner of the watch was not presentober
Were sent ler a further hearing.. -
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A young lad was charged with having stolen, at
times, rings of wire, which, to the best of the know-
ledge of the Prosectitdrs, who are also 1113 employ-
ers, amounted to kolbs. in weight, and were valued
at time trade price at .2s. Qd, per pound. It cattle out,
• on the adms*SiOn of the lad, that he had ,carried
*away theproperty, and bad sold it 'to a Mrs. Cohen
for M. per pound, but received no more than nine
or ten'shillings for the whole. Mrs. Cohen appeared,
but Mr. Justice CoLckunoot remanded her for anc
ther examination.

REPORT
PROM TEM COIMITTEE ON TIM COMNiEILCIAI. STATE
Or TUN tiowr INDIA coLON/I:S.

MINUTES OF EVIIANCE.

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Tr: lii lis's eavnination' con'enuca,
- You have already stated, that with due enentt,
ragement, the British North; American Colonies
would-be able to, supply the West India Colonies
with lumber, provkiotio, and ,all other articles of
necessity ; suppoSing an immediate -suspension of
dire& intercooNe with America to take place, could
not all the articles abovementioned be procured from
Great Britain, or some other market, soot to supply
the West Indict Colonies till the., etrea of that ert,
codragement coula.operate ?--I tour, salted'
prnvi-
sions,.ntid Ilsivean be.: supplied from Great. Britain
and Irelandoodlrotwthe British Colonies in North
Atnetica, to any extent which may be required. Ai
to lumber, the same means would, probably be
sorted to iu3sy that,were on . the. breaking
.out of the
Americtto ; that I'4, to take ouch quantity as
could be furnishedlrdm the British North American
Colunics, and Milo frinuCs,r.tat. Britain, in case ofne.'
cushy, ,qZ such staves and lumber -as could be
• bought here, and by the re-exportation of mks-
which have been already. brought :from. thence.
' Can pitch, pinti.tintber be-procured, in quantities
from British .Aincrica• :2---Yes ;.-1 have-no doubt it
may.
.You 'state that considerable quantities of f6ll,
caught by fishermen subjeds of this country, have
Willi sent to Bestorrart d nther places in the Ameri-
can States, and sent front, thence in American bot-
toms to the Weot Indies for the supply ot our islands
and Colonies ; and that besides the 'disadvantage arii.
Mg (Mtn this triatlica our less °locomen is very con-
siderable those seamen hai/ing been enticed into the.
American service ; upon what. information de You
form that opinion i—Vroto correspondcnce with
Newfoundland, and from personal.iutercourge with
very respeatible per Sons from -NoVa Seotia; one:of
whom had formerly been engaged in that trade ; it
has been tip distressing. as to throw all„ the Nova
Scollops out of the trade; but this has in some de,
grce been pat a stop to by.the encouragement of the
bounty given.by the British West Intli4 Colntdo,
and the protation of convoys.
Whether, tinder this monopoly reserved to great
Britain at the time of peace with America, the
Colonies have been supplied sufficiently, in ore year,
with flour avid malted provisions front Great Britain
and Ireland: and. British America ?....-Great Britain
did not reserve to herself,akthc Peace of 083 with,
America, the monopoly of the supply of flour and
lumber to the WWI. India Colonies, but perasittett
it to be Ignis.lied from 'America in British, ships
only ; but duringthat time she did reserve' the woo»
poly to Iterself of the supply: of fish and salted pro-
visions.

Under that, ranked intercourse in British ships,
and in time of peace, do you happen to know whether
an intercourse with America and the Colonies has
not at all times been found. essential to their very
existence ?..--Tho 'lmo-course X havenunitioneci, dur-
ing that period, behove, curniAlled a regular suppty
to the \Yea, India Colonies since thin period the
supply has been mote irregular" utt lICCOIIat Of the,
eiremnstances of the war, the American ships having,
during a great
.part
.of that. time, been allowed to
furnish the supply to such extent as to drive all. the
British ships out of the trade; and 14 that reason
the supply has frequently been very irregular, the
Americans only supplying the West India markets as
adv,::uturerovben,:tetnpted by high prices, preferring
ti I'4'wopt:an' markets whoevec thc,circurtutiowi
of the .prices of pro Visions in Enrope.hold out en-
euttrv.attent to them to go there,; and it has had
her ctfea in J,lOlOlO, and otost of the other
India 4slintds, which is, to induce the British
ttuuc.l:;ttu there, who were shipowners ;I'i
tiit(lo.4 to North America, to distaintihne II
therxhy ictidering the suyply or Hi, ,m)y
preen ions, flow stech:, olieletbeing
pt..ou their hat* for the, rea,'Qns httncci,
1 :.I.,wer to tho prticediug ipie4tigiu•t, 1 do not dinik

RiCIIA It 1A It s 6, ta 4, ,4,l4l,Lkit.k;otnt. ;
et: kti .1 I Strand j where dilvarliscments*, Or

~..merteaas t
Flow many' fleets uieall); siU Item treat Britain
and ireltind to the West IhJia,coleales, iii flte course
of a .>(_tar ?--hour hue aircady'sailed dining the
cOuite of the present year, to d one has be4;,41)01.01
for to sail in the course of this month.
You have stated that fish taken by British sub-
jeas is carriN intallustun, and from thence tfamms..
ported to the West India Islands in American
bottoms 5 what fish ilO you allode to in that. state.
ment bike ordinary sort of Codfish, n hien is
generally known by, the name of West India Fish, to
otstingnish them front the better sort, which is
carried to the European, market. . •
You Mean salted fish, :Ind not pickled Yes.
You have stated yourseKtu he interested, both at;
a planter and a merchant, in the ~Veit India Colo-
te :what causes ,principally" de you attribute
the present distresed situation of the British .West
India Colonies ?-r-To a variety of combined Causes,
arisingprincipally from the present state of LLIVOPCod
America. In former wars we found,that whenever the
British fleet had obtained the predominance at sea, the
trade 'to the British West Indies flourished inn very
great degree, because in that case the whole of the
West India trade was chiefly confined to Great Bti-
tain, either from the complete conquest of the etiO!.
Mies' Colonies or their blockade ; but during the
present war, such of the enemies' colouic7t as have ,
not fallen. into our possession, remaining in a state
of security, have' prospered in a greater degree
than any tif the liritisb culonics, from the in-
tervention 'of Americair shipping, which .has
bled them to carry their produce to America
and to Europe at a very little . more exPence
than they were in the habit of, doing lb times
of peace, and by that Means the European markets
have been supplied .with colonial produce at loWer
prices than Great Britain can atlord to do it in her
present circumstances. They have also hem fur.
tushed by' the same Means, that is, by tkillerican
shipping, with all the supplies requisite for their
plantations, at a much lower price than he same
articles have been obtained by the British Planter,
owing princirally to the ditierences in the rates of
insurance and freight upon such articles as are ex!.
'ported from Great Britain. This intervention of the
American shipping with the foreign colonies has
had another very ittjuriani effect upon the British
free port trade in the' West Indies, the Americani
iniviter supplanted us in the supply of European ma.;.
nufatrures to the enemies' .colonies, to the Spanish
cOlonies and settlements in particular, and having
deprived this country of a very considerable
of motley, which used in former wars to be brought
from the British West India Islands, in payment of
manufim(•.lures exported for that trade 3. and the Ame-
ricans do not draw the supplies for that trade to the
enemies' colonies entirely frotn this country, a great
part of thearticles used M that trade by the Atneriz
cans are the mannfaaures of Brabant, ifelland,Ger-
many, anditusSia, and exported direaly rem the
countries to North AMertea, instead of
,being, as
they were formerly, imported into Great Britain,
and et:parted from thence to the West Indies. Ano.
ther canie; in my opinion, of the present depressed
state of the West India trade is, that the low prices
Of sugar which have prevailed 'for some time past
May be attributed to the high duty which 'is levied
upon it in this country, which bears no comparison
to any other mode-eat taxation which la now adopt-,
od ; and the ground upon Which it has been laid
being, that this country enjoyed the monopoly or
the sugar trade,' has, from the intervention at neu.
trek, entirely tailed us,' and has thereby rendered
the duty to be opressive • in its effects, and, in •my
opinion, so as to.chrOurage the constimption of so.
gar to the event that it • would he: in this country.
I Would add to that, that the mode of leVying the:,
duty at the same rate for all descriptions of sugar is
also very grievous to those,plantationS that produce`
sugar of the lowest value.
What are the measures, in your ovinion, best
calculated to relieve the present -distressed state of
the, Sugar Platiters.l---4 would suggest a reduaion
of the duty ; a redaaion of one half the duty would
greatly extend time consumption of Sugar in this
country. The present high duty, in my. opinion,
tends to discourage the consumption amongst the
lewer orders of people, who notwithstanding, con-
sume tea .to a very great extent, and it is'believed,
owing to the high price, without niting sugar ; and
the lenecause prevents a grest•deel ot, sugar being
used fOr OtilitLify purposes, tierinade wines,, and in
a„ variety of other ‘va) s, by the lower classes of the
community. In my opinion, the consumption of
sugar, f;ntu the. WO price, has not increased ii 4
proportion,with ether necessaries or luxuries of life;;
the consumption Or tea in particular h:wing increased-
in a much greater proportion
,fur some years past,
if a redudtien of th 4 duty should. not take pine tO
a very considerable extent, another, remedy %%void
be, the culleellion of the duty upon an ad valorem
printiple, but nut to the extent of the Aggfegate
duty now colleeled. Perhaps. the, More
,etleCuol
remedy would, be, to impose
,a detY upon all
descriptions of Mnseovado sugar,' and a higher duty
upon refuted sugars, by means of the Excise.; and
as to the foreign markets, it seemsessential to take
such measures as Government may nett-04:0nel,
to interrupt or preAut this neutral trade to "the' io-7.
reign colonies,

Sunday night• as a Police Officer was returning
from the country, in a one-hone chaise, where he
had been executing some public duty, he was :lc.
cohtecl in Green.lane, Hornsey, by several footpads,
who presented fire arms, to intu on bOth sides the
chaise, Finding" lie had no, chance with so many
assailants, be suffered himself to be robbed of his
watch and pocket-book, containing all the money
he had about him, except half-a•nninea,

AnAY,
IMO* Stt gks 1733
laids4 hoods, is. as. c 1 s.
PEchrfluer ?4r, zs, dis.
Oman:tn. par,
Detcrred. Stock;
In) 3 p Ur CCM.
Uinta Ann.
COn. tor 13th 04. 611 I

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gljt:ht til ID, C4O. latioria, 44-
teas, Capt. 1;;.,F, CL. edge„yri a
krutze; 040;ci,, Cart. 1.1‘..;t. I!ort,,,,Autt:lt; Cbtutottittid
Pativt, S. Wukid, 1-14,15. et, Mert 1:44-
tra tot .jert;s:V"; with Mjr!';'
ra,settgets ; Itt:try. 1:. fur Itatm.4.ltc;
1. Pearce, Prtettdsttip, t Carr,O, ant
11311•31, for 1.4409,4).-i itll.ttit,ScAllolls tot
Plymouth.