The Sun.
London, England, 1812-12-10 00:00:00

SMITIMIELD ',A.Ttilit• snow.

ester ;!ay the Fat CitC and e,Slwep, a rigs, beganto Arrireitn great numb.:rs, at 3adier'.• Yard,
in G.ns-tti!stre-et, for I:he ensuing exhibitiori.--
Several very tine tutinals from the stocks of the
al.liedfor;l„ Lord Viscount Gage, and n:her
distinkuiQied gt'-ee4ers., had arrived before d.:rk.
Gilerrier, of Popiar.; Mr. William
Harrison, of i?.oiltington ; and krr. Rminuci
lis-
ter, of Yeovii, tkree.erninent ga-f:;,,•rs, have been
appointed by- the Cub to decide this day on the
premioms offered, by them.

SpollTlNG.—The Essex fox hounds byl very
good sport at the Duninow Meeting. The six (!ays
they hunted, they lad sport each and !ci:led
five Tue4ay the Ist, and ThusAoy t.Ld
3d, were Very superior runs r; ol) ti,tt ar:l3y, vtr
their ret:trn home. they L:d a ve!.y severe thiv's
sport, having run nearl; J miles; but eiulteci.
foxes sever:A times.

The •Kin,f's Sta., Hounds on Monday at.
Broothhill ',Hat ; on Friday they will meet .t
BurrowAiii, neau Brachne.l. The Hatfii:id hounds
met yesterday at Knell worth ; on Thursday they
will meet at Ikamingham, at half-past ten Ce10,..71,..
Last Tuesdriy the Nt:wtiniber Fox-hounds threw
off vin'y nigh to AVallingmore Wood, Sussex, •but
ivithout fi!rling. The same dogs chased a very
galhint,fi)x not many dap before fro!n the h-
bourhood of Chai;cy, near Lewes, to Seven Oaks
is Kent, where iteynard, quite exhittisted, drop-
pca his brush, and gav,. way to his pursuers.

COlonel DAvis, Of the 22d Light Dragoons, has
been aopoitited a Brigadier-General upon the Staff
of Malta
Colonel BYNG, of, the 3d Foot Guards ; and
Colonel BaisaANP., Assistant-Adjutant-General in
the Kent Disteici, are to •be Brigadier-Generals,
in the Peninsula.
The Ist battalion, Rh foot, and the 20th .regi-
meat, arrived at Lisbon on the 14th ult. and were
immediately landed. They muster about. 800
each, and will proceed to join Lord WELLINGTON
with all possible dispatch.
His Royal Highness the Prince Regent is'afiout
to make sonic provision for the benefit of old and
deserving General Officers, of a certain ,
ber of years of actual service, whom it has been
impossible otherwise to provide for, by ziving
them, regiments or governments. There arc many
of this description, upwards of forty years in the
service, who are not 'employed on the tafE, and
have no other benefit from Government but the
pay or half-pay of Lientenant-Colonel.
General DowNin, whose wounds arc likely soon
to be healed, intends to retarn to the Spanish
Army in a few weeks.
MAJOR-GENERAL SIR 'ROGER SHEAFFE.--Tilii
gallant Officer was born at Boston, iallorth Ame-
rica,- and is the son- of a Gentlewaneof that coun-
try, who held the office of Deputy Collector of
his Majesty's Customs, till about the commence-
ment of the late American Nvar, ‘,..hen he died,
leaving an amiable -widow, with a numerous
children, not in affluent circumstances.—
Lord PERCY,' the prese.nrDuke of Northiunber-
laud, arriving about that -time -at Boston, with
hi:: regiment, generously became the friend and
patron of this distressed and loyal family, and in
p-artieular hefriimded young SHEAFFE,
by sending him to this cOuntry for education,„ and
when arrived at a proper age; giving him a corn
tni...son in his own regiment, the sth. Since
that time he has gone through the several grada-
tions of his profesiOn, wit:, reputation and ho-
alour, to his present rank-of Major-General, when,
on the 13th of October, as stated in his official
report to :air GEORGE PREVOST, our post at
QueenstoW•n, in Upper Canada, then under the
immediate command of the lamented hero, Major-
General Sir Is.tAc Brock, was attacked by-the
Amer{ .:an troops: With the fall of Sir Ist c, the
position' was for a while lost ; 'but the command
of our troops devol,ing on Major-Gen. SHEAFTE,
• he nobly imitated the glorious example of military
skill and fortitude exhibited by his departed Com-
' manding.Officer; and, as stated in General Or-
ders by Sit GEORGE PREVOST, the disposition
of the forces and plan of attack adopted by Ma-
jor-General SILEAFFE, cannot receive a higher or
more just praise, than by .stating, that nine hun-
dred prisoners of war, under the command of Bri-
gadier-General W.AnswoaTn, surrendered their
arms to a force inferior in numbers, 'and without
sustaining any considerable loss on our part."
We have to record another instance of disho-
nourable conduct in French officers, prisoners of
war in this country.—General Brun and another
officer escaped froth Pool pn Sunday night ; but
by the activity of the Magistrates, who had kept
a watchful eye upon them, their flight was soon
discovered, a pursuit took place, and they were
both apprehended on Monday, at the Lion Inn
Shrewsbury, to the gaol of which place they were
instantly committed.

Singular Method of discovering Theft. —At a cot-
ton-mill, in the neighbourhood of Wasgow,.in
one of the rooms, where a number of women were.
employed, a small-quantity of yarn was stolen:.
The person who had the charge of the rooms
called the women together, and 'informed theth,
that it was in vain forthes thief to deny, for he had
an infallible method 'of' discovering her Ire
then, procured a numb'er of pins, of equal
length. and desired each of the women to take
one, which she was to take home and produce next
morning ; at the same time, he informed them,
that the pin to be produced by the thief would be
one-eighth of an inch -longer than the others.—
The women returned' their pins next morning,
when it was found that one• of them was One-,
eighth of an ineh shorter. The master then in-'
formed the girl, who produced the short pin, that
she had cut a bit Ott it to prevent detection, and,
'thereby discovered her guilt.
(:urious* afarriage.—A curious marria7e to:)k
place on Monday morning last, at. the Parish
Church of St. Margaret, Westminster, betwatenan
elderly couple, whose united ages make 156 year,,
the bride being 80, and the bridegroom 76. H
They had a courtship of nearly 40 years, and had'
never come to a determidation of having the mar-
riage rites performed until the present time,.
when the bridegroom was led 'to church upon
crutches amidst the continued .acclamation of up-
wards of 400 spectators, who were ',assembled in
the church-v:4rd_ 'tett), rthi,,,,,to :- .