The Sun.
London, England, 1809-10-03 00:00:00

quence of measures concerted between the two Ge-
nerals at Alba de 'formes, where they met on the
-ttivaetually began their tetreat towards Portugal."

NEW SOUTH WALES.

FROM THE SYDNEY GAZETTE, MAY 29.

On Thursday arrived his Majesty's ship Porpoise,
from Port Dalrymple. Passenger, Lieut. Mason, of
die i~Lvv South \Vales Corps.
Se' k..-ral prisoners are received by the Porpoise, for
trial, from Port Dalrymple; one of whom, John
Brown, stands charged with the wilful murder of
John Curry, Robert G; indleston, and James Daniels,
who were privates in the detachment at Port Dal-
ryinple ; and also with the murder of Richard
Scantling, a prisoner; besides several daring rob-
beries. ,-
From the melancholy narrative it appears, that
two men, who had absconded from Port Dalrymple,
and taken to the woods, had, on a day previous to
November last, gone into alint at the head of tln;
harbiur, at which a small party of the detachment
was stationed ; one soldier being in the hut, with a
prisoner (since dead), whose name was Morey ;
drat the report of a musket had been heard from the
hut shortly before the strangers entered, each armed
with a musket ; that they presented their firelocks,
and ordered one of the unarmed men to land the
other, which, being enforced b.y menaces, he was
himself afterwards secured ; that thr.y then con-
cluded them to a small distance from the !rouse, and
skewing them the dead body of J. Curry, declared
themselves the perpretators of his murder; and
then, slightly covering the remains, returned with
them to the hut, where they for several hours await-
ed the arrival of another soldier, whom they also
Surprized'.and bound; that they then tied up
in
bundles such wearing apparel and other articleS as
they chose to take away, with which they loaded
the captives of their lawless force ; and after setting
fire to the hut, marched them into the woods, with
their hands still bound ; and that, after a painful
travel for more than 20 miles, the unparalleled ails-
creams deliberately bred at the two soldiers,: and
then continued their route, until one of the. ruffians
enressing a doubt of their being dead, they return-
ed to the scene of wanton cruelty, where, perceiv-
ing that one of the ill-toted viraims had not yet ex-
pired, they cut his throat.
JUNE 5, 1808.—On Monday a Court of Criminal
Jurisdiction assembled, when John Brown was put
to the bar, arraigned on various charges of murder,
committed by him, assisted'. by Robert Leman, in
the neighbourhood of the settlement of Port Dal-
rymple. Upon the investigation of the facts charg-
ed in the indidment, it appeared that the- prisoner,
who ha I been twenty months absen trom the
settlement, and had resorted to the woods, with his
daring accomplice, was present at, and accessary to,
the murdei of John Curry, Robert Grmdleston, and
Jant,s Daniels; that in November last, eight pri-
soners, who had absconded from Hobart Town,
joined company with them at Oyster Bay ; at which
tune John Morey, the prisoner, whom they had
taken from the but at the head of Port Dalrymple,
with the two soldiers whom they afterwards caielly
murdered, was then with them ; that Morey had
ixivatel). informed several of the other party of the
horrible excesses; in consequence ot which, the two
miscreants were themselves surprised and.bvnnd, in
which situation they were left, and their guns and
aiuuo taken from them ; that Morey joined
the party of eight, who afterwards seized upon their
; and were here capitally convicted for the
()deuce ; that, after adding numerous robberies to
their wanton murders, a settler, who had been sur,
prised by them in the woods, and detained as a
guide, but who had at length extricated himself by
a promise of returning with such necessaries as they
'wanted, in exchange for the fat of emues, attended
in seeming compliance with his appointment, with
two other persons in company : and embracing a
favourable opportunity, attacked them with intent
to make them piisoners ; but Leman's resistance
preventing the possibility of taking him alive, be was
shot dead, and Brown was then overpowered and
secured. Leman's head being afterwards severed
from his body, Brown was compelled to be the
bearer of it into Hobart Town ; from whence he
was shortly after sent, under an escort, to Yorktou,
where he waskept, until sent to his settlement, in the
Porpoise for trial. During his confinement at York-
ton, he had, in the moments of compunaion, recited
various acts of enormity committed by himself and
Leman ; he had repeatedly acknowledged himself
privy to the crimes for which he was shortly to
atone ; as well as many alas of barbarity against the
straggling natives, one of whom lie said hall beets
killed Lay them.
After a long and thorough investigation, the pri-
soner was found Guilty and sentenced to be bang-
ed ; his body to be dissected, and afterwards hung
in chains. On Tuesday he was taken to the place
of execution. He repeatedly requested the specta-
tors to beseech the Divine Mercy in.his behalt, but
did riot deny the justice of his sentence, the latter
part of which was carried into execution
.on, Wed-
nesday, by the body being hung in chains on a small
island near the Cove

BLAcs. BEETLES.—The following is not only a
certain method of destroying Black Beetles, but one
that is neither attended with much trouble or ex-
pence :—Stiew the kitchen and other places fre-
quented by them with common red wafers; which
flit., eat with great. avidity, and which, from the
lead;hey contain, will, in a short time, destroy them
all. This must be done eve!), night, just before the
retires to• bed, and repeated till no more
beetle, remain. A quarter of a pound of wafers is,
in general, sufficient Lo complete their destruction.
Core sh9uld be take to remove every article of food
out of their way.
Three small orchards were lately sold at Chelten-
ham—one, containing little more that an acre, and
divided into two lots, went for 18631. 105.; an-
other, about au acre and a half, for 11561. 10s. ; and
the third, about two acres, iiBB.—Total for four
and a halt acres 42081.—This vety gfound was sold
but a few years ago, at what was thought a high
price, about 901.i,er acre.
Measures have been lately adopted .in the North
of S)siencn for printing 5000 copies of the New Tes-
tament in the Lapland language,