The Sun.
London, England, 1824-11-09 00:00:00

DREADFUL FIRES.

On Friday evening last, the extensive cloth
manufactory of Messrs. Coons, ilaoTncas & Co., at Sta.
venom, near Bradford, Wilts, was discovered to be on fire by ,
some of the men at work on the lowest floor at the Fulling Mills ;
they first saw the flames issue through the floor above their
heads, so that the fire had already committed great destruction to
the various machinery and other valuable property in the upper
rooms. The town Was immediately alarmed by the ringing of
the fire bells. Every attention was given by the inhabitants
both of Bradford and the surrounding villages, and fire engines
were in immediate attendance. The factory was six stories high,.,•
anti the largest anti most considerable establishment for the ,
manufacturing of woollen cloths in the county of Wilts. The
fire was augmented by the quantity of oil used in the working'
the wool in its different processes, and about a quarter past.
nine, presented a grand and awful spectacle; the flames spread .
so instantaneously and so rapidly, that in a few minutes the'
whole building was one terrific blaze.—About a quarter past 10, •
the rout' began to tall in, and in a few hours the whole of this
truly noble building was consumed, and its valuable apparatus
and stock of cloths reduced with oil to a heap of ruins. Provi-
dentially the night was perfectly calm, owing to which, the exer-,
tions of the firemen, directed to the me.servation of the surround-
ing detached buildings, were equally successful, and in conse-•
quence of these being saved, the business can still he carried on• •
to a considerable extent ; the greater part of their numerous work
people will continue to be employed as before, while the fac-
tory is being rebuilt. A great number will, however, be dead- .
tute of the means of obtaining a livelihood ; what adds to this •
dreadful calamity, as the circumstance of Messrs. Cooper and
Company having only a short time previaus made improve.:
merits and additions to the premises ut a great expence. It
was with great difficulty the firemen were enabled to save the
dwelling-house of Mr. Cooper, which stands contiguous to. the ,
factory, from destruction. Mrs. Cooper was in a 'peculiarly
delicate situation at the time, and Was under the necessity of
being removed ; while a diabolical villain within took advan..
Cage of the distress, and robbed the house of the plate. He
was, however, detected with the goods in his . possession, •
and is now in custody. Other miscreants; carried off' some
furniture as fast as it was rescued from the dames. Three
hundred ends of cloth were burned, and it is eitirnate4
that the damage is little short of 100,000/.; and it is re. '
ported that the insurances cover only 1$0,0001.; but if the ilea
tual loss were covered by it, still the injury arising from the
stoppage of such works cannot be compensated for. The fire
is not supposed to be eccidendal ; fortunately no lives wertilest•
—Friday, about ten o'clock, in the forenoon, the flax-mill of
Mr. Muses Atkinson, at the Bank in Leeds, took fire ; and
notwithstanding the prompt arrival of scverul engines, and the
advantage of a plentiful supply of water, the flames spread with •
such amazing rapidity, that nearly the yawl() of the building
was reduCed to a heap of ruins in less than two hours. The tiro'
originated in the carding-room in the,top story, and was occa-
sioned by the friction of part of the machinery. The room,
which was full of work people, chiefly shildren, was instantly
in Wuxi; but we are happy to state that they all effected their
escape, though not without considerable difficulty, many of
them being obliged to leave their clothes behind them. It is
thought that the loss will not be leas than ten thoosand pounds.
The property is insured, to a certain extent in the Sun and
Imperial Assurance Offices ; but we are afraid not sufficiently
to cover the whole loss. Between two and three hundred people
have been thrown out of employment by this calamitous Re-:.
sident.—( Iced: Paper. j

In every part of Ayrshire the towns and vi t.
inupoompu.laa.tdaiony:
tahnedbtahoikingimb
snohnialse.
hgessons are rapidly .
rioliele.)
this ya,l,trixbiereolleilinittlueedmree:rnoillduesgr beyond all preeedent.--(Glargote
The remains of a whale have been found, four
feet deep under the Curse 'clay at Illair-Drummond, on a part
of the property that had been covered with moss. We under-'
stand it is the intention of the proprietor to remove the bones to
Edinburgh, to be placed in the M-useurn.—( Edinburgh Star.
On the evening of Sunday, the 30th ult. a
Shark made its appearance in the basin at the beck of the
town of Montrose. It was seen by some boys, who tau -
ceeried in dragging it to land. They conveyed It to a
farm house at. the head of the town, where they are mak-
ing it a profitable speculation, by charging a penny from
eactt,trulivitival. who la carious in :examining such an soi-
l:W. Upon measurement, it. was found to -be nearly sewn
feet in length, and is thought to be two years old. Bowie person*
imagine it to have followed the Friendship,. a Dundee whales,,,
which -pasted Montrose on Wednesday week, ;he Cllptain,,"
which died when in the country, anti whose carpie they brought
hone.

DUTCH AND HAMBURGH PAPERS.

: (Received yesterday.)

FRANKFORT, OCT. 31.-114PtterS from the Le.
-rant say, that the Greek Bishop of Naxos had
mit, some time ago, an act of submission to the
Capital' Pacha, and that the central Government
of Greece has lately cauhted that Prelate to be

arrested and brought to Napoli di Romania, to
be put upon his trial for this proceeding.
°DMA, ''OCT, 6.-4,etters from Constanti-
-maple of the --9th and 10th Sept. bring the •fol-
-4ewing news :—After the action of Samos, an-
other battle took place on the. 10th Sept. near
nauchio and Boudrouni, between the Greek and
she combined Turkish and Egyptian fleets ; the
Greeks burned the fine frigate _Africa, a corvette,
„and two brigs, and took 16 transports. Eight of
the Greek ships were damaged, and. went to
Samos to repair. They had one kindred and
Afty men killed or wounded. After this there
*as a third battle off Patmos, between the
'reeks and the two combined fleets, in which
Ars Greeks burnt two frigates and four brigs.
Three days after there was another battle,
in which the Greeks burnt three frigates, and
took four brigs, belonging to the Turkish fleet.
ileveral transports also fell into their hands. In
:this battle they took prisoner -the celebrated
Ismael Gibraltar, Commander of the Tripolitan
Meet, and the brother-in-law of the Pacha of
sgypt. The Turks have offered 2.00,000 Spanish
piastres for the ransom of Ismael Gibraltar, but
Admiral Minutia has demanded eight frigates,
and whatever he had under his command. The
Admiral continued to pursue the remainder of
.the two combined fleets, and so harassedthem,
that -the Cupitan Pacha has with difficulty
reached the Dardanelles with his own ship, one
frigate, and 10 transports.
.Captain Basselatos, who has arrived here,
cOnfirms all the accounts written from Constan-
tinople. Be entered the Dardanelles on the
lame day as the Capital' Pacha, and adds, that
4be Greek fleet continued to pursue the scattered
Turkish ships.
The son of the Pacha of Egypt, whom pre-
ceding accounts probably confounded with one of
the prisoners above-mentioned, will hardly be
able, according to Captain Basselatos, to escape
the Greeks. Extraordinary despondency pre-
vails In the Divati and in Constantinople, but the
city is tranquil, and no disorders have taken
place..
Lord Strangford embarked at Constantinople
for Trieste on the Bth October ; all the pri-
soners taken by the Greeks are sent to Napoli
di Itomania. We expect the particulars of the
trophies gained, and of the manner in which the
faithful have concluded this glorious campaign.
Their success by land has been equally brilliant.
They have destroyed the Turkish army under
Dervlsch Pacha, who escaped dangerously
wounded, with only 800 men, leaving his
baggage, &c. hi the hands of the Greeks.—
(Dutch Papers, Nov. 6.)
STOCKHOLM, Oc.r. —Ms Majesty has ad-
dressed a letter to the Board of Customs to the
• -following effect•:•—
•" Cousidering that the•penalties attached to certain offences
against the Tariff are too severely punished by confiscation of
. ship and cargo, his Majesty has been pleased to approve the
Proposal made by the Board, anti to order accordingly—
' " That if a foreign article, the Importation of which Is pro-
hibited, should, contrary to the regulations, he brought in a
vessel not belonging to the country where the article is. pro.
duced, this article, if the Captain has duly entered it, shall be
sequestered, and sold by auction for home consumption, on
payment of the duties : one half of the proceeds to be divided be-
tween the Crown and • the informer, and the other half given to
the. owner ; but both the ship and the remainder of the cargo
• obeli be exempt front confiscation. But if a foreign Captain
brings goods from any country whatever, which are either pro.
hibitcd, or if allowed to be imported, are not duly entered on
his arrival, but concealed, this shall be considered as an attempt
to smuggle, and be punished according to the existing laws.
" The employing of false papers to introduce goods not pro-
duced in the country to which the ship belongs, shall be pu.
• nisiteti as now, with confiscation of the ship and the goods ;
which, however, shall not extend to that part of the cargo pro-
4we,ed in the country to which the ship belongs, and the impor-
tation of which is no violation of the law. The use of foreign
rowels to convey Swedish produce between Swedish ports shall
cdritinue to be punished by loss of ship and cargo."

ATTEMPT AT ASSASSIMATION.—The Moire of
Saturday gives an account of two 'murderous attempts. A
domestic of the name of Vary, in the service of M. de Ciatigny,
fotendant-General to the Duke of Bourbon, was alarmed by
hearing some one in the house at a late hour. This proved to
be the Sieur Tidbit, comptroller of his Royal Highness's esta-
blishment. lie desired to nee M. Clatigny, but was told that
OW person was in bed, and could not then be spoken with...—
The domestic was resolute, and Lefort, in consequence, at-
-tacked him, and repeatedly wounded him with a razor. M.
Oatigny heard the noise which this occ3sloned, but was called
1.4 by the faithful servant not to open his door, as it was evi-
deotly intended to murder him. M. Oatigny called assistance,
and the assassin, after inflicting many wounds on the domestic.
took to flight. It is not known what could induce Lefort to be
guilty of this criminal act. Ile appears to have fled, and by means
of a false tale to have procured a disguise. From Versailles he
wrote to his wife, that he was about to commit suicide, and
proposed to bequeath his fortune to the State. The police are
us pursuit of him. Very's wounds are not likely to prove
"portal. The other outrage was on the Marquis de C---s.
Haring been to St. Denis., to see the preparations for the inter.
meat of the late King, he was benighted in a cross-road on his
return. He was attacked by a !mid of ruffians, robbed, cover-
ed with wounds, and left for dead. The Marquis, however,
Made shift to reach a neighbouring town. There he obtained
ibsaistance, and was conveyed thence to Paris in one of
the small conveyances which ply betifeen St. Denis and the
9:pita!, where he arrived in a state of perfect exhaustion. It
is added, however, that none of his wounds are dangerous.

CI:BOOING GOLD TnINKEM—Dr. MACCUL.
1.0011 proposes to cleanse gold trinkets, by bon-
ing them in ammonia instead of acid. Such
-trinkets are generally made of an alloy contain.
lug much copper, and therefore require what
jewellers call colouring, that is the removal of
copper, NO as to leave a surface of pure gold.—
After some time,the surface wears off, and the
trinkets require cleansing, or a repetition of the
former process ; this is generally done by an acid,
but gold is dissolved in that way, and conse-
quently fine work, after two or three cleanings,
is very much injured. Dr.' MACCULLOCit recom-
mends the use of ammonia, which does not in-
volve this injury. and which can be applied by
,any person as well as a jeweller. The effectlie-
, pends upon the power which solution •of ammo-
aria has of oxidising mild dissolving metallic
:capper.

nE EAST INDIA COMPANY.

FOR THE SUN.

Ma. EDITOR—As the 111ZNEWAL of the East India Com-
pany's Charter will, at no distant period, become the object of
public discussion, and of Legislative consideration, I am in-
duced to request you to Insert in your miscellaneous and inter-
esting Paper, the subjoined letter, from the last number of the
Oriental Ilerakl. It is evidently the precursor of discussion,
in that publication, of this important question ; but in order to
guard the public against the assumption of the Writer, Mat the
Sovereignty of the King over every part qf the British possessions
in India was ever doubted, I beg leave to refer your Readers to
the numerous Charters and Grants from the Crown to the East
India Company from the 43d of Elizabeth to the present time,
by which it is most unequivocally shown that the Preroga-
tive Right was never abandoned, and that on all occa-
sions throughout the existence of both the Companies
it was never denied i That this Right was neither doubt.
ed or waived in 1784 or 1793, is well known ; but in order
to put an end to all quibbling on the subject, on the part
of the East India Company or its servants. it was en-
acted, by the 95th section of the 5341 Geo. 3. c. 155—" That no.
" thing in this Act contained shall extend, or be construed to
" extend, to prejudice or affect Tint 1711mm:7ED SOVE.
" REIONTY of the Crown of the United Kingdom of Great
" Britain and Ireland, in and over the said territorial aqui-

" sitions ; nor to preclude the said United Company, after
" the determination of the term hereby granted, from the
" enjoyment of, or claim to, any rights, franchises or im-
" munities which they now have. or to which they
" may be hereafter entitled."—Yet, notwithstanding, this
most unequivocal acknowledgement, that the Sovereignty
of India is in the Crown, the Directors are, it is un-
derstood, tenaciously resisting the claims of the Army of
the Deccan to the most valuable parts of the booty taken in
the late Mahratta war, contending that it belongs to the Com-
pany, as constituting the State or Government of that country,
and not to the Army, although by the bounty of the Crown it
has been granted to them as a reward for their meritorious ser-
vices. Under what circumstances of forbearance and delicacy
to the East India Company, or from what other causes, the
claims of this gallant Army.have not been enforced, remains to
be shewn ; for notwithstanding the length of tinw'which has
elapsed, since the decision against the claims of the Marquis
of Hastings and the East India Company to participate in this
booty was promulgated, no division or distribution has taken
place, nor does it appear that the Army are in any degree ae
quainted when it will
Nov. 8, 1824.

AN INDIAN SOLDIER.

MOUT OT Till NATION TO ABOLISH AT ONCII TUE CAST

INDIA COMPANY'S CHANTER.
7'o the Editor of Me Oriental Herald.

Oct. 25, 1824.

Sin—Whatever opinion may be entertained with regard to
the freedom of the press in India, there seems to be but one
opinion as to the public advantage which must follow from a
full and free discussion of East India politics through the me-
dium of the English Press. The public obligation, therefore,
to the Oriental Herald, Is of no small extent, which, during its
short existence, has introduced so many subjects of real national
importance, and respecting which the nation cannot remain
much longer quiescent.

I shall feel flattered by obtaining your permission occasionally
to contribute to so patriotic a purpose.
There is one misapprehension, however, into which yourself,'
as well as Mr. flume and some of the most enlightened speakers
in the India House, have been betrayed, and which it is abso.
lutely essential to remove, before any decisive propositions can
be laid down, 9r any really useful discussion' take place
mean the erroneous supposition that the present Charter must
of necessity continue to the year 1833 ; or to the end of its pre.
sent nominal grant. Such is not the law with respect to char.
tens. The legal term of their existence, is their continuing to
operate for the public good:--this is the declared object of all
such grants, us well as the declared condition of their duration.
Upon the law of this subject, as well as upon a series of facts,
bringing the Bast India Company within its rule, I may trouble
' you hereafter ; suffice it for the present to say, that the General
Court has uniformly professed to receive its charter but on the
condition of its continuing to be consistent with the general
good of the nation ;—that so far back as the year 1793, the late
Lord Melville, in arguing for a renewal of the charter, expressly
laid it down as constitutional law, that his Majesty's Ministers
would at all times feel at liberty, and, indeed, consider it their
bounded duty, to advise its revocation, should it appear to them
that the national interest required it.

The late Earl of Buckinghamshire, who negociated the re.
newel in 1813, was more explicit on this head, and gave the
Chairman of that day, and those who waited upon him, clearly
to understand, that Government would feel at liberty, at any
period of the Stipulated twenty years, to recommend to Parlia-
ment any alteration in Its terms, whether regarding principal or
practice, which an alteration in the times ►night seem to require.
Some change iu the fundamenial principles of preceding char.
tern at that time took place; others were debated ; and several
direct departures from the charter, as it came out in 1813, have
since been insisted upon by Government, and quietly submitted
to by the Company.

The recognition of his Majesty's territorial right over every
part of the dominions of the Company, was for the first time
insisted on in 1013; the charters of 1704 and 1783, professedly
waived that consideration as matter of doubt. The putting
an end to the anomaly of a " Merchants' Army" was at first
insisted on, and at list only conditionally submitted to on the
part of Government. The conferences, discussions, and de-
bates of that day, are all in print, and may afford matter of re-
ference, as we shall advance in the consideration of this most
important subject; and help to satisfy Parliament and the
Ptiblic whether, since 1813, or, indeed , for a much longer period,
the great interests of the British and Indian Empire, or the
sordid and selfish purposes of a handffil of individuals, hays
been most consulted ?

A CALM OBSERVER.

On Friday, at one o'clock, as Sir Jonw Poua
BEILESIIOIIII was driving his pony chaise to Sir
Arthur Paget's, on coming near the gate at
Northam, the animal turned round, and set off
at full, speed up the new road. Sir John, in en-
deavouring to avoid a waggon, was thrown out,
and we are sorry to add that his collar-bone was
broken, and his right arm and one of his ankles
dislocated. Having prompt surgical assistance,
the dislocations have been reduced._(salisbu:y
Journal.)

A man nnmed RODERT CURRY arrived in
Whitehavert last week, who was reported to have
died iu America some time ago. A subscription
had been entered into for his supposed widow
and family, and at the time of his unexpected re-
turn they were all in mourniiig,(Carlisle
_Pairlet.)

FOR. Tile SUN.

RESURRECTIONS.

SELF-DEFENCE I-DEfECTOR DETECTED;

Judi alteram partcm.

Mn. Enrron—l was not less surprised than
disgusted at the clumsy attempt of your Correspondent, DE-
TECTOR, CO mix me up in the guilt of that infamous drama,
" Wake not the Dead." I abhor that drama as cordially as
he can ; but If the ballad which I sent you has had any In-
fluence in its production, I cannot be answerable for it. Sir,
you have not been hoaxed ; the ballad is certainly a very great
curiosity, and the coincidence between the circumstances which
it relates, and the facts which have lately occurred, is very ex-
traordinary. But allow me to tell you and Detector again; Sir,
it was not written for the occasion. It is a very old produc.
tion, of such antiquity, indeed, that Its date is unasssignable.
My friend's copy, from which I made that which I sent you,
is written on vellum, and half eaten up by worms, so that it
was with the greatest difficulty that I read it, and the ortho-
graphy is so strange, that had I preserved it, it would have
been unintelligible to Detector himself, who is " no great anti-
quary."—(By the way, this is a curious admission for Detector
to make, just when he is treatingon the antiquity of a document.)
--With respect to Cooper and Brooks, what hinders, Sir, that
these common names should have existed contemporaneously
before the 19th century ? I cannot see the strength of Detec-
tor's argument, that these must necessarily be " Sir Astley and
Mr. Brooks, of the Anatomical Theatre." However, Sir, if
you like to satisfy yourself, I will leave a letter of introduction
to the owner of the old MS. at your office, and any incredulous
reader may then convince himself, if he pleases, of the anti. I
quity of the ballad.

If the ballad has led to the production of the drama, the frail
be on the manager's head, for it is none of mine. lam uncap
able of such inhuman fabrications.

While 1 am on this subject, as a matter which I think will
interest your readers, and which will perhaps convince Detector
that the ballad is no modern imitation, got up for the wanton
purpose of ridiculing and sporting with serious matters, I will
send you a few particulars which I have been able to collect
from an old book in my possession, concerning the real object
and history of the ballad, and which will prove that the con-
nection which it seems to have with recent facts, however cu-
rious, is purely accidental. The title-page of the book is par-
tially torn ; as it stands, it reads thus—

The Historic
of the Highte auncient & loyal
parish of
(This is torn off.) . . well, In the Countie

of Surrey.
Imprinted at ye Wigge and Watchbox
by J. S. 1590.

I should suppose that Ewell was the parish, which all the
world knows to be In Surrey. However, whatever the parish
may have been, the following passage from this history will,
I think, afFord the most probable explanation of the ballad
" In the reign° of our Soueraine Lord King John, a certaine
woman of this parysahe, by name Alicia de Castelinan, died,
& was buryed in the churchyerdo of the same. Some yeres
after her death, her bodie was raysed by the churchwarden
thereof, who, for that the coffin was not lightly to be moved,
gave commaundement that the same sholde atraighways be
cut through. It chanced that then the churchwarden had a
wall in buylding : wherefore, for that the hodie was dry, &
well nigh returned to clay, he made not scruple to take the same
to be made into bricks & morter. Natheless, when he wolde
have gone to sleepe in his betide, he was tourmented credcrc
diptunt) with the appearance as of a woman sauen thro ; the
which so him frightened & (as might be said) unwitted, that
he tarried not to sell the said body, albeit scarcely found he one
to buy it, until, that one Reginald de Chapman, for that he
wanted a flooring to his stable, purchased the same. Where.
upon Freyere GeofFrey de Tintinnabulis wrote
Campana tilt hori resonavit voce canori,
Funetei turbi corpus ponente sub herbs ;
Nocte tamen seri sonuere canorius tera,
Latronum turbi tollenti corpus ab herb&
Et gum sequuntur."

Now, Sir, from this passage, it is clear to me that the ballad
is no other than a translation of the poem of which this stanza
was a part ; and that it was made at a very early period is evi-
dent from the state of the

I hope I am not uncharitable in suspecting that Detector is
himself involved in some of the recent atrocious proceedings:
had he not been so, he would not, apparently, have drawn me
before the public, in company with a transaction in which I
have no part, and which I reprobate as severely as he can.

Ever, Sir, at your service,
iEGIDIANUS TRANSTAMESINUS.

ALLIANCE COMPANY.

An Extraordinary General Meeting of the Pro-
prietors of the Company took place yesterday in New Court,
pursuant to advertisement, to consider a proposed alteration in
the Regulations of the Company, when the Chairman, Mr. IR.
vi No, addressed the Meeting in a short speech, informing
them that proceedings had lately been adopted by a single
shareholder in the Court of Chancery to prevent the Company
from effecting Marine Insurances, and that the Chancellor had
been pleased to grant an Injunction for that purpose, as a new
Company might be formed for Marine Assurance, and some of
the Directors of the Alliance Company might become Mem-
hers of the Direction of such new Company ; it was deemed ex-
pedient to make such an alteration in the existing laws as might
enable diem so to do.

The clause in the Deed proposed to be altered was then read
by the Solicitor, by which the Directors and Auditors of the
Alliance Company were precluded from becoming Directors or
Auditors of any other Company established, or to be established
for effecting Assurances. The alteration proposed was, that
they should be precluded from becoming Directors or Auditors
of any other Life. or Fire Assurance Company.
The Motion hiving been put from the Chair, was carried
unantnousy.

A Proprietor (Mr. Hroatxs)_ requested to put three ques-
tions to the Chairman, viz.—Whet was the number of Shares
held by the individual who had applied to the Chancellor—
whether he had held those Shares originally—and whether any
other Shareholders' had joined him in protesting against the
Marine Insurance?
The CHAIRMAN replied, that Mr. Natusch bad lb shares,
and was an original subscriber for them ; that he was the only
plaintiff:, but that on the Chancellor requiring to know whether
any, and what other Shareholders were united with him in opi-
nion, Mr. Shaw, the Chairman of the Committee at Lloyd's,
and Mr. Corbett, a holder of five Shares in the Company, had
made an affidavit of their dissent.
The Meeting, which was fully attended, then broke up.

Colonel 13nIANLEo, of the Marine Department,
(says a late letter from Madrid), has been appointed Spanish
Consul at Tangiers, and has already taken his departure for the
place of his destination. He takes with him presents for the
I:trtperor of Morocco of the value of 50,000 dollars. It would
Seen' from this account dist these African freebooters were in as
thriving a way as
vernments i "aever. To pay homage to such lawless Go.
a disgrace to all the Potentates of Europe

A Steam-packet of large dimensions, and con-
_
ienebpur andgh caantdtle Newcastle from tle
snort her rl
ie c
op ouwnet
ire,
sflt
ofdte s
co fortl a cnodn vt
oi theng e
markets, is about to be established, under the patronage of a
Noble Proprietor in one of those counties. The advantage
which the stock-farmers will derive from the establishment of
yEs dh
this conveyance will be incalculable, as they can send their
sheep and cattle in 4 fat state to market, which hitherto was
impossible for them,

WEST INDIA DOCKS.

STOCK ACCOUNT for the Week ending Saturday, the 6th
of November, 1824.

Delivered.

Home
Con.
sumption

Exporta-
tion.

3,256
271

Stock on
Hand.

54,776
4,172
793

251
17
2
3
4

1,075

151
2,014

976
4,404
6,754
1,465
28,371
1,490
457

1,593
1,199
10,407
1,527
24,340
1,524
2,5511