The Sun.
London, England, 1812-06-11 00:00:00

CALMUCKS

The following account of these singular peo-
ple is given by Dr. CLARKE in his Travels, speak-
ing of one of' their camps
The sight of our carriage, and of the party
approaching with it, seemed to throw them into
great confusion. We obseoed them running
backwards and forwards from one tent to another,
and moving several of their goods. As we, dre*
near on foot, about half-a-dozen gigantic figures
came towards us, Stark 'naked, except a cloth
bound round the waist, with greasy, shinning,
and almost black skins, and black hair braided in
a long cue behind. They began talking very fast,
in so loud a tone; and so uncouth a Janguage,
that we were a little intimidated. I shook hands
with the foremost, Which seemed tb pacify theth,
and we were invited to a large tent. Near its en-
trance. hung a quantity of horSe-flesh, 'with the
limbs of dogs, cats, marmot's, rats, &c., drying
in the sun, and quite black. Within the tent we
found some women, although it was difficult to

distinguish the sexes, so horrid and inhuman was
their appearance. Through a grated lattice, in
the side of the tent/ we saw some younger wo-
men peeping, of more handsome featureS, but
truly Calmuck, with long- black hair, hanging in
thick braids on each side of the face, and fasten-
ed at the end with hits•of' lead or tin. In their
ears they ware shells, 'and large pearls of a very
irreguliarshape; or some substance much resem-
bling pearl: • The old women 'were eating raw
horse-tlesh tearing it off from large bones which
they held in their hands. OthErS, squatted on the
ground; in their tents, were smoking, with pipes
not two inches in length, nurch after the manner
of Laplanders. In other respects, the tvrp`peo,
pie, although both of Eastern origin, and both
`nomade tribes, bear -litfie resemblance. The
manner of living among the Calinucks is: :much
superior to that of the Laplanders. The tents
of the former are better constructed, stronger,
more spacious, and contain, many of the luxuries
Of life ; such as very Warm and very good beds,
handsome carpets and mats, domes'tic utensils,
amt materials of art and science, painting and
writing 4;.. The Calmuck is a giant, the Lip-
lander.4 dwarf : both are -filthy in their persons;
hut the C aim uck more so th ant erh aps any other
nation.

'POf all the inhabitants of the RuSsian Empire,
the Calmucks are the'most distinguished by pecu-
liarity of featMe and manners. In personal ap-
pearance, they are athletic, and very revolting.
Their hair is coarse and blaCk ; their language
harsh and guttural. High, prominent, and broad
cheek-bones ; very little eyes; widely separated
from each other ;' a flat and broad nose ; coarse,
greasy, jet black hair ; scarcely any eye-brows ;
and enormous prominent ears, compose no very
inviting countenance.
Their amusernents are, hunting, wrestling,
archery, and horse racing.' They are not addict-
ed to drunkenness; although they hold drinking
parties, continuing. for half a day at a time,•with-
out interruption. Upon such occasions, every
one brings his share of brandy and koumiss; and
the whole stock is placed upon the ground in the
open air, the guests fcrming a circle, seated
around it. The young women place themselves
by the men, and begin songs of love or War, of
fabulous adventure, or heroic achievement. Thus
the fete is kept ,up, the 'guests passing the cup
..round, and singing the whole time,' until the
stock of liquor is expended. As for their dances,
they consist more in movements of the hands and
arms, than ofthe feet. Their love of gambling
is so ,great, that they will spend entire nights at
play ;• and lose in t single sitting 'the whole of
what they possess; even to the clothes upon their
body. Wretched and revolting as their appear-
ance is to more civilized people, they, would be
indeed miserable, if compelled to change their
mode of living for ours. Among the diseases
caused •by their diet and want of cleanliness,
may be mentioned the itea : ty this they are very
subject ; also malignant fevers, fatal to them dur-
ing the heat of summer.
" The Calmucks form large settlements in ,the
neighbourhqod of Taganrog. Their camps were
tumerous at the time of our visit : both Calmuck
men :,,nd women were seen.galloping their horses
through the streets of the town,, qr lounging in
the public places.
We visited' one of their largest camps, near
the town, and fOund the earth all around their
tents covered with the mutilated carcases of de4,l
rats, cats,- dogs, su.s/ies, and babacs.—The num-
ber of ICaltnucks in the Russian 'empire has i,ii-
minished since the 6tablishinerit of provincial go=
vernments, and the division 'of lands, owing to
their being more confined to limited situation;.
Frequent attempts have been-made, and are daily,
making, to induce them to form a regular settle-
ment. Like all WRndering tribes, particularly
Laplanders and Crtsies, -they, are so much
ac-
custonied: to an nncontrolled and vagrant' Pie,
that nothing but extizme, indigence can. Compel
them:to cultivate land, and to reside in any fixed
habitation."

" tent: are of a circular form, with a hole at the
top: they are oou•'r:let.e:t Of canes, and covered with a thick
felt made of camel's hair."

1 •
• .CoNsOLAtioN:,--A young Politician dining with
his uncle'at the Piazza, was obserVed- to be. very
melancholy after reading the newspapers=" We
are all ruined, uncle," says he,- ‘.! Then," says
the old Gentleman, ." if things are so bad, let us
have a bottle of champagne, TOM."

On 'Monday last the Lord Nets,m, REYNOLDS,
of Whitby, pia into that port, having been struck
on the preceding day by 'lightning, which broke
the maintop-gallant-mast to shivers,- tore large
pieces out of maintop-mast and Mainmast,
which were nearly cut through, penctrateddown
the pump-well, which it wholly deStroyed, and re;.'
turning upvi,ards, through the quarter deck, tore
up 7 several of the deals, between the half d'eck,
hatch, and side. No injury was,, hoWever, sus-
tained-by any- person on board, though one of t‘he
people who was :Ip* the_ half deck was fora short
time enveloped in flames, and a woman standing
in the ccu was nearly suffocated by a strong
sulphureous vapour.

477 REPorLr.

COURT OF CHANCERY, JSNE 10.

EX-PA4TE Di'N'TON, A B.kNERTIPT.

Sir SAmu L RorIILLY moved for the judgment,
'fixed for this day, on this long-pending Petition
for superseding a commission of bankruptcy, at-
tended with deplorable circumstances, threaten-
•ing a deprivation of tote petitioner's mental fa-
culties.

The Loan CHANCELLOR stated, that
she had
fully prepared, this judgment, but owing to the
ending pain in bi, head at this moment, he should
defer pronouncing it till to-morrow
moil nng.--
Judgment deferred.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, Juxn 10.

GI ,BERT- V., SYKES, BART.

Our readers will recollect, that this action arose
.out of a bct, made by the parties in the year 1802,-,
by which the plaintiff, on paying one hundred
guineas to .the defendant, was to receive from
him one guinea per diem, till the termination of the
life of Buonaparte. Although' it appeared that
the bet had been made,, in-a convivial nviinent, at
the table of Sir Mark Sykes, yet he felt himself
.bound in honour to fulfil the contract, which he
(lid for six years, the plaintiff during that time
having received the stipulated payments, forming
a•total of 11491. 15s. The defendant then wish-
ing to put an end to the matter, offereJ Cie
plaitl-
tif to get rid- of. his claim er&..,:iy, This
Mr. Gilbert refus2d—but. propo4edto submit all
the cireumstanees of the wage 7 to tlie*Eon of
the Jockey Club, by whose determination-he ex-
pressed himself, ready -to - abide.. •No claim Was
made iron this period, until the latter end of the
year 18.11, when an action was brought by the
plaintiff ,to recover , the
,sum which bad accrued
during.the preceding six years.. • it was tried at
the York • Assizes, and a verdict was returned for
the defendant. In .the course of lasi: Term, Mr.
PARKE Moved for • and obtained a. xule to shed
cause why. the verdict should not b•e set aside,
and a new trial .granted. Against this rule, Mr.
TotiFiNG_and Mr. SCARI.ETT were heard at consi-
derahle length on Monday last and thsis day
Mr. HoLLocit.followed on the same side. - He,
contended,. that, if the sum thus stip uhlted to be
paid,- were looked upon as an annuity, it must,
under the circumstances of the case,, be consider-
ed void, as not being within the pr )visions of the
Common Law.: if, on the other ha'ad, it were con-
strued to be an insurance --on the,. life of Buona-
parte, it was equally void, as the agreement, in
that case, ought to have been re(fluced to writing,
and signed and sealed by the parties.. He next
contended, that supposing the wager to have been
regularly made, it was bad, in point of morality
and sound policy—and cited -several cases, 'in
which the first Law Authorities had decided, that
an action could not be sustaine:l in a Court.of Law,
on wagers which were conntxted with matters of
public policy: ,it was true, the bet had been made
in a time of peace, but it 90 happen, as in-
deed had happened, that 'its stipulations were to
be performed in a time o,f war. Now, though an
underwriter might insur't theproperty of a neutral,
and became accountab'N for it, yet, the moment
that neutral was engaged in a war 'with this coun-
try, the responsibility ceased ; for the law would
not contemplate an. interest in a British subject
to protect the property of an enemy ; and if that
rule applied to property, he conceived it must also
be 'extended to an interest in the'life of an enemy.
He then dwelt, very forcibly, on the immoral
tendency of tlu; wager, which gave one of the par-
ties an interest. in the death, no matter how accom•-
plished, and' t;he other in the life, of an .enemy to
the country. "

The Court deferred till a future day, hearing the
Counsel iii support of the rule.

POLICE.

Bow-STREET.--Some time since the Portsmouth
coach was robbed of a pared containing Bank
notes to a very considerable amount, and no trace
coulclbe Made of thewill lately, when it wa, as-
certAined that great numbers of them had been
pa'.,,ed in the City. One man, a gold and Silver-
sjah, took 3001. worth of them for the sale of
force doubloons, by a man calling\ himself the
Captain of a, vessel, who said he was going to
Lisbon, and_wanted doubloons. The Bunk notes
the gold and
,silversmith received Of. the Man, had
been cut in two. On their being paid into the
Bank, considerable diffiedlty Arose; there was no
-doubt of the notes being Bank notes, bat the num,
,hers of the notes were ascertained to be erroneous;
and on a close investigation and 'examination it
waS ascertained that the original 'number bad been
very ingeniously taken out, and others substituted,
and on further tracing of the notes it was ascer-
tained that they were some of the notes that had
been stolen
,from the Portsmonth coach. Infor-
mation was in consequence given at the above
Office, and from the description of the man who
had uttered the notes, and the ingenuity used, the
• well=kno'‘rn Robert
,Roberts was suspected, and
Lavender, Adkins, and others, belonging to the
Office, who knew Roberts's person, were dis-
patched in difforent direction's in pursuit of him,
which they continued far several days, and at
length lie was appreh6ided bya. stratagem, On
-Tuesday, in Holborn, and broUght tO the. Office,
• where he was searched, and Bank notes to the
amount of. 601.- a silver snufi-box and butter-knife,
were found upon him. In the evening the parties
whO had received the notes, attended, and Roberti
underwent an examination, 'when the witnesses
not being able to identify his person, he was dis-
charged.
Joe Rowley and -jamesTarthl;ig were brought_to
this Office, Sahuoir, and clfarged by George
Warne with threatening to do'him a bodily injury,
by assaulting and beating li;tri, because he
watched and prevented them front comfnitting
robbery in Drury-lane; .at a linen-drapers: -The
'prisoners were committed.

MARLBOROU e.:pected exami-
nation of Bowler did not take place yesterday, to
the disappointment of some hai;:ireds of pei;oni,
who, as on Monly, assembled thereto get a sight
of him. A certificate front New Prison, signed by

Mr,
_Webb, the Surgeon, was proditCod, Wh'ch
stated that Bowler Was-not in a state to be re-
moved without danger. It 'appears that hiS hot
is so bad with w , alkino. tha; a mortification is not
pis
by any means improbable. SinceiVion-
dayßowler has conducted hiinselfvery differently;
He appears -very temperate and steady. Dr.-War-
burton saw his wounded foot; in company .with
Mr. Webb, of Tuesday. No day can as yet be
fixed on to remove him for examination.

. Examination of ,owls-r's Nephew.—Previously
to, and since the apprehension of Bowl,tr, various
attempts have be.,z.sn made by his partizans and
friends to intimidate the witnesses on the past of
the prosecution, and more particularly:the JoneS,
the blacksmith, at Appleton, who witnessed the
attempted as,sassination. This defendant, George
Bowler, who is the nephew of Bowler; and a-po-
tatodealer in Clare-market, was apprehended
yesterday by Craig, an officer, under a peace war-,
rant, for an offence of this kind. -Mr. Redford, z
hay-salesman, stated, that he was at the Thistle
and Ci•own, in the Ilavmarli.et, a few evenings
since, when the conversation turned on .the at-
tentpted'assa3siiNtion of Mr. Burrows. The de-
fendant, in gential terms, held out threats nainst
any person or p:sc,ns who should swear against
uncle, and one- ,observation was particularly
noticed, that " any one who swore against his
uncle shotlid not live long after." Witn;!ss, was
not certain whether' tae defendant said faiselg

swore, or swore.
ones, the.smith, _stated, he gad heard. of tits
threat made use of by the defendant, and this,
• combined with a threat uttered to his wife, .an 4
other,
,circumstances, initiessed him with,an idea
'that his I.;Je danifer
The defendant. attributed his conduct to inebri-
,
ation ; but his kelings were,violently hurt by it
having been sail his uncle.-ought to, be hung is
chains: He acknowledged the threat, but he.ha,4
said, " if atiy one falsely swore, Si.c."
The defendant Was. ordered to find general sure-
ties to keep the peace, himself in 1001. and two
sureti,es,.in 50 t. each. :.;ach sureties were not pre-
' sent anti be was locked up.
I • •

The Middle Regiment of Royal Bucks, or King,ls
,Own under the command-of Lora
Nugent; completed. their 14 days training at Ayles-
bury, the beginning of last week; Previous to
their ti ~e reviewed, and their
arms very minutely inspected, by Major-General
Rebow, who expres3ed, in the strongest terias.
his hi;-ii approbation of the soklier-like appear:-
once and discipline of the Regiment, and svo.,:i
particularly pleased with the steadiness of the
.men, and the exact manner in which they per-
formed the di;ierent manoeuvres, and said he should ,
make a most. favourable report of them to tbt=
Commander-in-Chief. As soon as the review Aras•
finished, a deputation of the principal inhabitant
With .the Rev. Dr. Lloyd, the Vicar of Ayles-
bury, at tit; it head, waited upon Lord Nugent,
wish a congratulatory address, on the exemplary
behaviour of the men, as not a single complaint of
any kind was made during the whole time they
were embodied. A grand dinner was given bl
the Officers of the Regiment, at the George Inu;
to the deputation and a numerous party. Several
appropriate toasts were drank, the evening s;vtz'
spent with the utmost conviviality, and the 0111"
pany did not separate till a late hour.
The shop of Mr. Gray, jeweller, in Sackvilir
street,. Was robbed on Tuesday, of a case coy.'
taining brilliant diamonds and other expensive
jewellery, to the amount of .30001. The robber"
is supposed to have been committed by some per;
son• who came into the shop under pretence of
making a purchase.

BIRTHS.
On the Ist inst. at Folford, Mrs. Oldfield, wife of Willi°
Oldfield, ,sq. of York, of a Sou.
On Friday last, at Lewes, the Lady of T. R. Kemp,
P. of a Son.
On Monday, in, Upper Harley-street, the Lady of <l.('
Mitchell, EFq. of a Son.
The same day, iu Burton Crescent, Mrs. White, of a Diab
ter. , • '
Or.. the 9th inst. in Grosvenor-place, the Lady of the 13•6f'
Algernon Peyton, of a Daugliter.
Yesterday evenizn in Tdaycr-street, Manchester-s(ooe'
the Duchesse of a Daughter. %
T -d he same ay, in,Pa;:lialnent.-struct, Mrs. Mundell, 0
Daughter. • •

arta
On Monday last, at St. George's Church, Hanover-Yin .0i...
Sir It, Bromley; Bart. of stove-lic.ll, in the County of i'' .4
tinghamshire, to Miss WiLson, youngest 'daughter of Pl°7
Wiilon, 1-..:q. of Dallani Tower, in 'Westmorland. ..enbbi.
On the 9th inst. at Coulsdon, S7,irrry, Mr. Itiehard " '•,tha
of 'Plashet, Essex, to Mrs. ingrain, 'a Upton-place, i°

same Comity.
Yesterday morning, by the Rev. R. Meldola, Mr. Montle::
flora, of Vau,,..hall, tu'Jtsdith, fourth daughter of the late
-13. Colien,:T44.- of Ant,:el-court, Throgmorton-street. „ ,
911'0:4,10W of April la,t, at St. Zrtichaers, Thomas 1.„
yoji, 1,14.,5q. Merchant, to Miss Ellis, of Cullnm-street, Jav

DIED. ,
On Tuesday the 2d inst. at cisgrove, NorthamptorShi
aged .16, Mis. Mary JAwntles, sister to 'William SeMY'
in the County or P.ucks,' Esq.
Ou Monday last, at his house at Coleshill, near Amer'll atui
John Esq. of Gower-street.
The saile dav, Mrs. Ylooth, wife of Mr. George
iroe
Nevaman=fitreei, Mary-le-bonae. t tri-
Ttmichiy morning, at his seat at NottinV`e,..
shire, Sir Francis Molyucaux, Usher of the Mack Rod 'l3
House of Lord,l, in his 74th year, 0, of Which he bad
ottiee. 0 Ina
On the 7th of May, at Estremos,- in Portig-ai, of a Sl
receivedin hi 3 leg, at. the 3-Courting .13adaja.::,to
Of which he led on a detachment 61 his Reg.
:Went,
compoAed a part of the Forlorn Hope, Lieu:ea:nit IV:
of the tiSth/rOUt.
- Lately, in Great. George-street, Rutland-square, ,01
• Itohert Owenson, _;7.-:sq. aged 68; joint-Propri;:tor of sov'
Theatres in Ireland. • 1 A-a P 3"
Ltately, at Lexiip, Maxia, second daughter of the +3‘
mer E•dgy:orth, Eq. of Loagwood, in the County of INlea!-..
Booth,

COAL MARKET, Juxr. 10.
.'..,4111p3 at Market. .Ships sold. Price.s mt.
. . . . . 41s. Od- to 53. ut;:i.
Sunderland . . . . s 4"' 6d. to 445.

PRICE Of STOCKS YES'i*ERD,At

Bank Stock,
per Cent. shot
4 per .Cent. 74:i
3 per Cent. Red. 59159{
Ctha: Cons. shut
Bank 1.... Ann. 1.5 3-IGths
India Stork,'

di'
India 80r01..,, Is. 2s. er
3d. 'and 34d. P
day', I*. 25. W.
:•tto, 34vel. per.d4y, ss. 351'r.
pi Cent.;
Cc:as. for Opening, 6Ot3T

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11 ICITI' W..4ATEII, AT LONDON BRIDGE TO7l\loo'l%.
Morning, 17 Lain. 'atter
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4. 1 Evening, 42 mio.:after