The Sun.
London, England, 1809-07-17 00:00:00

MADRAS GAZETTE, Faa:is, 169.

The Hon. the Governor in Council has, recently
received a particular account of the action which
took place at aoilon on the 16th pit. between . the
British 'troops of Travancore; in which, after a se-
vere and Jong contest,. the Travancore troops were'
defeated, with heavy loSs. From the extent of the
combined force which was 'opposed to the British
troops, this signal victory reflects the highest ho-
nour on theix discipline and valour ; the cfrwernor
in Council has. great satisfaction in expressing his
strongest approsation of thir meritoripus conduct.
The Governor in Council accordingly, conveys to
Lieutenant-Colonel Chalmers, who commanded the
British detachment at (lotion, in this d6tinguished
action, his public i;lanks,. and -Lieut.-Col. Chalmers
is requested to convey the thanks .of the- Governor
-in Council to Lietn.-Col. Picti,n, of his Majesty's,
2th regiment, Major Muerhead, Major Harijilton,
Captain Ne wall, Captain Pepper; Captain Macintosh,
Lieut. Lindsay, Lieiit. Arthur, of the: Engineers,.
and the Officers, of. the Staff; Capt. Cranston; and
Capt. Ahruuty, with the other Officers and :trOops
of the detachment who bravely -signalized them-
selves on the occasion.

The Hon. the Governor in Council also takes this
opportunity of e'xpressing his warm approbation of
*the conduct of a detachment of troops Stationed at
Cochin, tipder the command of•Majer Hewittiwho,
with great skill and bravery, repulsed a nnmerous-
and united force of the tr. ops of Traviteeore and
Cochin, in an attack which they made on 'the Bri,L.
tish detachMent, on the 19th. The dloverin
Council has particular satisfaction in expressing to
Major HEWITT, and to the Officers and troops un-
der his command, his public thanks for their highly
deserving condif(t. •
A dispatch, dated. the 10th instant, has been re-
cdived froM the Hen. Lieutenant-C.ol,:nel St. Leger,
from the camp in TravAneJre, in which he relates
the complete success which has attethltd the.; forces
deputed by him to storm the Balmer. The party
consisted of a detachment of two companies, and
the picquets of his Majesty's Linth Regiment under •
Capt. Syms, four flank companies and five battalion
companies of the 3d Native Infantry, under Captain
Lucas, the whole commanded by-,Major
,notwithstanding the difficulty of approach, the walls
were scaled, and the Arambooly lines and covering
redor.bts, N.. and S. carried. This service being
effeth d, a company of his Majesty's Geth, and.three
of the first battalion 13th- Native Infantry, under
Captain Hodgson, were sent to reinforce Major
Welsh, who then stormed and carried the main
lines. At the date of this dispatch, Col. St. Leger
was encamped two miles within the gate..
Colonel' St. Leger speaks it, 'the highest terms of':
the conduct'of Majors Welsh and. Lambton; and of
all the OfficerS employed on this glorious service,
and particularly laments the wound of Capt. Con-
ningham of his Majesty's fieth regiment, which we
hear haysince proved mortal. The names of the
Officers employed in this service are : Major Welsh,
Capts. Syrns, Lindsay, Cunningham Lieutenants
:Carey, Reid, Lane, Raley ; Captains Lucas, Pepper,
Carfrae.; Lieutenants Walker, Tay, Dawson, Go-
ble, Inveranty, Jeffery, Rule, Shepherd, Black, Sd
Native Infantry ; and Colonel Bertram, of the pi-,
oneeis.—Colonel St. Leger wss in possession of the
Arsenal, which was extremely well stored, and of
a number of *tea of ordnanm. -

AM's. VlL'flucs.

giierk toionvi NVAILD.LeS, Letter to am
Puhlic,,we conc.:Ave it proper tin glye Mrs.:CLltaiFset
..knswet to it, thotigh throws no.newr opocit
the subje4t,, except in, retelling, lo Mr,. ;'Nitz G r's
servants as al;le. to 13rove the tfutti lir; 'ct/ideiit6
on the recent trial. This -reference, to the b'ervants.
which Mri. CLA &lta tiost tie ton piucient Co make
without foundation,. can 'leave no duuto as to ALIN
coi.dua of Colonel Wiiltin.s, and puts the
stroke to his reputation,

AIRS. cLARKt,
To THE PiIOFLE OF 'rkfE UNITED ai11,i0D171.6:.

. ; Honoured as tpy testitrionY-befere the House or
COmmons has .beery, with the 'confidence of the
country at large,, and sanctioned as my evidence has
been, in a recent. instance, by a Jury ot 'my Coun-
trymen,, I, tees
.myself called upon (after bilurding
lime for Or most delikerate rejleCiioV to a, tei-ess you;
in consequence of a citcumsti-n ce w tech nits at t-en
out Of the
.causein which Mr. Wr get, an Oho'.
serer, was Plaintiff, Colonel Waiek, Dcfrod,,nr,-
and Mr. Daniel Wright, brother at the PlaiiittF, and
ingse(f, were Witnesses. In this cause it is well .
known that Colonel Wardle was .cast, to the satis-
, faCtion of every honest tradesmaii, and, indeed, of
every body in the Cottrl. The detail of evidence
the Public Prints will atford. As tar as regards inj
testimony these • details are somewhat inaccurate,
but they are sufficiently correct to have enabled die
.Public to strengthen this verdict with an almost uni--
versa! approbation. Colonel Wardle, inflated b' a
popularity, the extent of which was as unexpected,
as it will be toUnd to have ,been undeserved',. Ind
vainly flattered himself that this same ropularity
would protea him against the Justice of his Couo-
try. Disappointed at the verdkt, he has lost his pro-
deuce with his tetker ; and, without giving itiait'eff
time for. reflection, has made an
,ittittsUal appeal to
the people of the United Kingdom,- against the Ver-
diet of a- 3ory. As an ezvome for this almost un=
•preeedented circumstance, he- has- stared; that his
'Counsel,. notwithstanding, his earnest entreaty, re-
peated to them -in writing- during On: trial, in the
strongest terms, did not comply with his realest to
examine Major Dodd, Mr..Gzennie, and others...-.
However-he may vapour about these Witnesses Oat
of Court, even Colonel Wardle will hesitate befure
he venturesan stibjett •them to *an examination upon
inath, whilst the written docualentsexist which will
inculpate mere exalted persons,
,and shake the very
foundation of his,own ephemeral popularity: Ct.&
Wardle is not ignorant of the reams which may
•;:have induced the. suppression of Ale written testi.
mony, that would‘haVe undeniably corroborated my
evidence. Colonel Wardle knows that Mr. Wright',
servants, as asaathers, can prtwe 't.tery syllable
that 1 have sworn. Co:onel, Wardle has been too
full Arihrsell, and too imprudent not to have made,
many unnecessary colfidants of his in ern ions and
promises. I dart: say the eVidvfiC,:! of Mdjor Dodd
--lied Mr. Glennie would have teen founded in II uth
"it would, therefore,, have been madness in Colonel
, Wardle to have examined them, and he knows this.
"~Major Dodd heard my evidence; he could ha,e
contradicted me, upon the spot, if I had beets
wrong; and is there any reason. to suppose that he
would have had any set uple to have sworn to the
truth, if that truth could hai C eener•aditite
anyone such a fool as to brlieVe, that ?—but in this
ewe the Major must have spoken the whole truth,
• and nothing but the truth—as the Attorney- Cieneral
said, his presence or his absence equally supported
Mr. Wright's case. I do not pretend to know any
thing about law, but I know what is common sense,
which I think is mere thee, Colonel Wardle appears
to know. If. he had been content to throw the-
,blame of his failure upon his Counsel, it would have
'been no businesS of mine—they are able to defend
themselves; bUt -to be charged with a criwe so dis-
graceful, so low, so contemptible, and by a person
too, who of all men best knows how abhorrent my
.nature is from any thing likefa/sekood; to be charg-
ed, I say, with Perjury, by Colonel Wardle, is
really too bad; .I understand great stress has been
laidby Col. Wardle and some of his partizans, upon
\a letter which I wrote to him in the month of May
last, upon the subject of the-engagements and 'pro•
raises made to cue prior to that investigation, and this
letter •is said to' have occasioned his determination
not to lie me oily nfore:

Why ! Colon-el Wardle called the same day after
he had received the letter, and' I. would not see him,
being determined to have no further communication
with him, except•in writing. Col. Wardle will re-
coiled the conversation be had, with my servant upon
-the sub)ed of this letter; and the appointment he
made with her to meet him at seven o'clock that evel-
ing at the Chapel door : fortunately I have a copy of
that•letter, -and so little am I disposed to conceal any
thing I may either have Said or written, that, it this
intimation does not compel Col. Wardle to do me
the justice of giving this letter to the public, And, no
longer to shelter his atimAnly insinuations under the
cloak of delicacy, I- will ,myseif.publish it. It only
remains' for me to declare before God and my c,Juntry,
that the evidence I gave was strictly true; and that
my intimacy with Colonel lPardle merely related to
my , .evidence and his promises : most anxiothly,
therefore, do I look forward _to the period when the
1-Utility of Col. Wardle's attempts to prove the con-
itrary to Le' the.fael, will recoil upon himself' and
others, and only strengthen the claims which I have
to the public confidence in my veracity. I trust that
till then; the public w l Suspend their judgment upon
Colonel Wardle's intemperate accusation. Although
it mny 'not be equally. -proper in me, as in Colonel
Wardle, to. stare the gratitude, the respea I feel for
the pUblic approbation of such parts'of my. Conduct as
admitted of that approbation, yet I hope it is not
denied; even to me; to express the anguish of mind
I Should endure, if upon such on occasion, and such
a .7,;:coner, I had really deserved their disapprolation.
thave the honour to be, with great respect,
MARY ANNE CLARKE.
Westtourn-Plate, July 1: ii3o9.

At the Pub Whitechapel, Robert Page,
aged 56, a jqurbeynlan, -mason, in Essex-stre.et,
Whitechapel, was charged with having committed a
rape on his step-daughter, 14 years of age. She ap-
peared to be very Correa in her evirkoce, which her
mother (the prisoner's wife) corroborated, having
caitglit them in bed ; the case I:oeing very strongly
made out against the prisoner, be Iva* fully commit..
ted to Newgate 16r trial.

From the LaNDON GAZETTE) July 15, 180 v.

Ar the Cciat the Queeh's PAOce, the 1/th of
1809,

Prcsent, the KING's Most Excellent Majesty in

Council,

It is this 'day ordered by. his Majesty; in Council,
thaj. it G,tieral Embargo be forthwith laid (to 'conti-
nue orders), sop. all ships and vessels
in- the Um tes Kine,dom of Great Britain and Ireland,
except his Majesty's ships and vessels of war, and
except such ships and vessels as shall be laden by the
eSpccial order, and under the direttions of_the Lords
.CcminisZiOners of his Majesty's Treatury, or the
Loads Commissionets of- the Admiralty, with any
}<ludot provisions or storesifor'the use of his Majes-
ty's floats or annies;i and also except such ships and
vessels as are employed by the Officers of the Navy,
Ordnance, Vklualling, and Customs : and tkie Right
Hop. the Lords Commissioners. of -his. Majesty's
Treasury, and the Lords Commissioners of the Ad-
miralty, and she Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports,
are. to give the necessary ditedious herein as to them
May respectively appertain.

W. FAWKENER•

frkitehall, July 1.5, 1809:

The King
,has been pleased to.coustifute'and ap-
point the Right Honourable DadleyßaronHarroisby,.
the Right Honouraule John Jeffreys Earl -Camden,
Knight of the Most Noble Order .of the- Gaptcr,yre-
sidtt4 or his Majesty's Council; the Right Hon.
Robert Banks Lad. of Liverpool, the Right Hon.
Henry Robert 'Stewart (commonly called Viscount
CaStlerea6h), and the Right Honourable George
Canning, 1116 Majesty's Elute Principal Secretaries of
State; ins Grace William Henry Cavendish puke
of Portland, .Knight of the Most Noble Order
the Garter, First Cornmissoner. 'of his Majesty's
Treasury ; the Right Hon. Spencer Percevat, Chan-
cellor and Under Treasurer of. his Majesty's Exam-.
quer ; the Right Hon. Robert Dundas, George
Percy, El. (cum.-30111y called Lord Lovaine),. the
Right, Hou. John Baron Teignmuulii, the Right
Hop. Thomas Wallace, and Thomas HOrnilton,Esq.
(copitnoilry called Lord Binning), to be his Majes-
ty's Commissioners for the Management of the Al.
fairs of India. •