The Sun.
London, England, 1815-12-21 00:00:00

PEDESTRIANISM-MAIDSTONE, DEC. 20.

TUPFEE ANDSox-17th Day.)—Tuffee, after
having completed 60 miles last night, started this
mnrning at two o'clock, but the weather being
extremely boisterous, and the .rain continuing at
intervals to pour down in torrcws throughout the
day, till eight o'clock • this •night, when it rather
abated, he only accompii,Ated, at 6, 12 miles ; the
boy, at half-past 7, 41 wiles ;at 12, 14 miles more ;
at 4, 42 miles in the whole ; and 20 minutes be-.
fore';),Tuffee was entcring,on the- 57th Mile, haves
ing then completed 1006 mileS of their task.

SOCIETY FOR THE; ENCOURAGEMENT OF ARTS,
MANUFAC CURES, AND COMMERCE.

At. the Meeting of thiS Society yesterday even-
ing, the death of the late President, his (roles the
Duke of NoszEoLK, was, formally announced by
the Setroarv---'when an order was given by the
Vice-President in the Clmir (Dr. Powell), in com-
'plianee with the wishes of the Merni,ers, " that
'on account of the recent death of the President,
and to slew tie regard the Society entertain for
the memory ,of his Grace, who had, w:tlt the most
sineere:attackment to the interests of the Institu-
tioa, presided over it upwards of twenty years, all
business, except reading the Minutes of tire last
Meeting the Housekeepers' Report, the names of
persons proposed As Members, and the Correspon-
dence, be postponed till the 'next meeting of the
Society."

Dr. PowELL animadverted with great feeling
on 'the lamented death of the-late President. He
entered' with an enthusiastic zeal into the requi-
sites peculiarly marked the happy disposi-
tion of Lis Grace in that situation, and concluded
a most energetic address, by recommending that
a sound and perfect good understanding, in ar-
ranging the election of a successor, should prevail
itythe Society.

The Late Duke was elected President March
22, 1794.

All arrangements relative to the election of a
President stands over till after the Christmas
recess.

Tsu DUKF. or Nottrot.x..----The late Duke of
NORFOLK, we- understand, has bequeathed, by
his will, all his disposable property, amounting
to nearly 40,0001. a .year, to the eldest son of Mr.
HOWARD, the Member for Gloucester, with the
exception of small leg4fies to his natural children,
of show there are twelve in number, and an an-
nuity -of 2001. to a young Gentleman who resided
with him, and to whom he appeared much attach-
ed'. The settled estates which devolve upon the
present Duke, amount to 50,0001. a year. His
Grace, who is, of a Roman Catholic family, we
believe, has not conformed to the religion of the
E;tablished Church.--About twenty families will
go into mourning for the late Duke of NORFOLK.
. An Egyptian pebble was lately brought to
England by a Gentleman fkom Alexandria, wltich
contains 'a
striking profile likeness of the late Mr.
Prrt.; th-work tit nature unaided by art.
.1./otstas DE BoukrarlTE.--=-The two conclud-
ing Volumes of this extraordinary work have jest
been suffered to appear, in` which, among many
characters of equal celebrity, the following shine
Most conspiauously,
.viz. the late Empress Jose-
phine, Princess Hortensia, Murat and his Lady (Ca;
Foible' Bonaparte), the • Duke and Dochess of
-11-"vig° (Savary), Canlaincourt, Duroc, Regnault
"de St. Jean D'Angely; CaMbaceres, Talleyrand,
Ruston, the Mameluke, the. late Madame Rem-
iniew the Qtieell of Etpria, &c, &c.

G.E.LitAt. V.IN-1).: 'AIN! Ei3
.Mt]7:loarAL

This production consists'of twelve pages, and
'the General marvels much at being included in
the second article of the OrdOance of the 24th
July. After his return from Siberia, in Septem-
ber 1814, he lived (he says) in retirenn nt at Cas-
sel, in the Department of.the Nlrth, and upOrt
the King's first,appeal to the'Freneh, he offer..
ed his services, which Were not accepted.-
" Buonaparte arrived at the Tuileries` oh the
20th of March, and when the King had left Lisle
k.and,France, I quitted Cassel, and aprvared at the
• Emperor's Levee." He then received Cie coin•
wand of the 241 Military Division, viewing the foa,
reign troops armed against France as enemies.
Alter the affair of Fieurus he was sent ag,itiubt,
Wavre, whilst the 'rest of the French army.
marched upon Waterloo. 'j'hc fateof that bat-
tle placed him who had passed W'avre, in a dread-
ful situation. I;ot he effected his retreat with
his army and materiel to Paris. By the Military
Convention he was sent beyond the Loire., and
when the King entered Paris was One of the first
to sign the Act of submission and hoist the white
cockade. In August he received orders to give
up his command, and he retiyeil to a country-
house at LimOges. ' From Limoges he, eras or-
dered to take his departure in 24 hours. Ile
went to Orleans, and .received a similarorder, di-
recting hitt! to repair to Vierzim, where he n'w
resides.—" So long as the King was on..his
throne, 1 confined myself within the circle_ of the
duties of a good citizen. I 'evinced a blind inoi
r.specrful obedience to the laws and authority c;l'
the tioverntheut. StmnikUned afterwards to the
defence of the French territory.againSt aimed
Powers, I still discharged the duties of a good
citizen. I rallied myself to the br.vi-e men whose
dearest interest it was to cause their native soil
to be respected."

ROBBBRY of Vie NEWBURY OLD BANK.

As many paragraphs haVe appeared relative to
the extensive robbery of the Newbury 11auli, con-
taining various mis-st,azenteuts, %ye have' availed,
ourselves of obtaining, it ow an authentic souu•ce)
a cdrrect account attic facts, which we lay before
our readers, as such as Inay be relied on.

The Banking Office of Vinrent,Tanner, Barnes,
and Hancock,is situate in the market-place at New:-
bury, being a room taken from the White Hart
The .property was lodged in a strong iron
Chest, within a closet,'hulit 011 purpose, arched and
strengthena with a strong iron door, set in stone
work ; the outer door was fastened with two-eery
strong. potent locks, and an iron plate was passed
over the key holes, and then fastened with a pad-
lock of peculiar construction.. 7n addition to the
locks ofthe iron door, were twe) bolts thrnwn out
• by a secret contrivance, and a secret spring to the
lock, to prevent its going hack ; these were
deemed a full seernity.r but as no one slept in the
Bank, a watchman; whose nightly station was
exactly 'opposite, was paid expressly by the
bankers, for keeping a-vigilant eve on the (Mice.
There is every reason to believe the villains
have been a long time effecting their purposei-and
rendezvoused in the neighbourhood, and contriv-
ed to enter the town after dark, and to take the.
opportunities of the watchman going his rounds,
'first to examine, and then to rake impressions of
the wards, so as to InanWacture skeleton keys,
from the impressions obtained by inserting a
piece of sheet iron of a proper size, on which
was a composition of'paste.
PearkS, the, officer, from Bow-street, states,
that thevillains, after having effected an entrance,
must have been in the 13anit at lerst tight several
times, before they could have found out and fa-
cilitated the impediments of the locks and bolts
of the iron plate and chest:, The property-was loCk- ,
ed up safe on Saturday.. night, by the partners, in
presence of the clerk. On Monday morning,'
when Mr. Barnes and Mr. Hancock went as usual
to open the Bank, on attempting to unlock the
iron chest, tire key met with so much resistance,
they were under the necessity of sending for a
smith to open it ; and on being forced, the
Gentlemen were immediately 'alarmed on seeing
some confusion in the chest ; and we leave the
public to judge what their feelings must have been,
when they found it had been robbed of nearly all
the property deposited therein, on tire Saturday
eveninL- consisting of 14,000 t. in their own notes,
and a large sum in Bank of England and other
notes, and 250 guineas. The taking away this
property was done hastily, 'as they overlooked a
parcel of 7001. in Bank notes, and also a parcel
unopened of the bankers' own notes, which they
bad received from London, the evening before,
but deposited in the chest under some other
papers.

.
• It is not true that the books ‘A ere taken away—
a very small one only, called the lock-up book,
which was always put into the chest with the pro-
perty, and which probably WFI 3 mixed with the
notes. Some silver, to'a considerable amount', ia,
the eloset,•was overlooked, and some undue bills
On London, Bath, and Bristol, were left behind.
The books, and every thing in the closet. and in
the office, were left undisturbed, and all the bolts
and locks were found fastened and uninjured, ex-
cept the lock of the iron chest. •
We are happy to hear the Bankers have oh-
tained some clue to the real robbers, and that vi:.
gilasit search and vigorous measures are pursuing,
and we shall hope soon to find the thieves will be
fully discovered. The state and confusion of the
town can :better be conceived than expressed,
but the Bankers have found it necessary to still-
mit to a Commission, in order to
,convince the
public, that they are determined to call in every
aid of property to satisfy every demand in full on
them.; and it is a painful reflection, that in .a
matter of such very serious consequence to the
parties concerned, that the public mind should for
a moment have been misled, in entertaining an
unjust and, injurious suspicion in regard to this
robbery, from the bare want of comprehension of
the means by' which it was accomplished, though
it may be recollected that a precise similar case
not long since happened at .the Falmouth Bank,
by the. same means, though, perhaps, not the sume
adepts.

A turnip was recently pulled on the ground of
Mr. Shadrach Holice, of Boteherby, nee Carligej
which weighed 3911): including the top.

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(Ni t'N

,•77 of' n Crui2c to the Pacific Ocean by Ceptithe

; , p(O;;TER, in the United Stater: Frigate Essex', in. the
1812. 19,1, and IRl4,'coDiaining li,e3cririi:):ls of the
t Verd Clagt. 6f Brazil, Patagonia, Chili,
ao,l Isero, anl of the Gallapagoc Also, a-fall At:-
cou !- of the Wasliolgton Omni Of Islands the Manners,
Drrsc of the Inhabitants, &c. tlltritrated
r. ;rn Lt Etigraring-s. In 2 vols. Bvo. pp. 440.
1815.

(Conti wied from oar paper of Testordal
" We dO not doubt that the world. has tong
cen abused with regard to cannibals or eaters or
huntatfie,h,.and perhaps no such people eXist.—
The late Mr. Alexander Dalrymple, Hydrographer
to the Admiralty and the East India Company,
used to snv, that although he believed he hail
read all the voyages and travels that were ever
publishesl in any language, and of course had met
with nnmerous stories Of anthropophagi, yet he
Icßew not a single instance stated on personal
knowkdge, that i-Nkld be considered as sulbstan-
tiating the fact, by such direct and po,itive
deuce as would he tallim in 'a Conn of Jirstice—
we mean, of course, the het of cat's;; hintroi
flesh front choice—dire necessity, like that which
eortnielled the nolortitnate inhabitants ofJohatma
to eat their own children, .or the shipwrecked
rev; of the Nantilns the dPud bodies of their
ronoples, :mist be talyli as an exception. Every
'Age ;old poi:tion of the globe have neVertheleSs
bad their anthropophagi :—CyclOps, Seythians,
and Sartnatians.—Every body knows that Hato&
"soldiers, were fed on burnan flesh to' make
them fcrocious—that the Massagetw yvvte fond of
eating old ;Pep and ‘votilen—rtliat t:wEssidonians;
Out ofigtre affection, feasted on their relations—
that the ca:ibbces tore the children. from their
Inothet:s' breasts its the, limit deli Cons of 'all food'
tkzt The Peruvians kept iniA resses expressly
for breeding children to be f;:tte"ncd fpr the fable,
kvho, past it, were themselves fattened for
the s:lme pornote.—All the world !no has heard,
that the civil:zed I.Cettions of India arid China sold lin,
nw.r fle.sit in :he market—and that the Gran; Khan
of Tarrarymmle a present of.all the co.tidenmed
prisoner s tO he eaten by his a•:tyonoweys and ma-
gic:ans. We are assured by John nattol, of Es-
sex, a near teirhhonr of mine,' says Purchns,
and a matt worn y of credit, that the AazigAs of
it ::•,!t;: Africa exposed:human flesh for salt on their:
di.; beef or pitton'—every word
l)f XV (4% our 17ood friend Doctor Langsdorff, the
A,tilicConnsellor, believes to be stricthrtrne. •
" "*.ll,,ere' are., however, iii almost every modern
voyage 'which has .beim published; vague aectiunts
of cannibali•in, that are as diserediitible to tbe'i.v:

litters of them as, they are caluninioos and iglu-
' riou to the character (it toe pi ogle of-whoin they
T Ims Deutrecasteaux's surgeon ink-
t;„,k il;e bones of a kw-12410)o for thoSe of a young
eiri, ;An:l set. doWn the Intrudes's people of Van
Diyinan's land for cannibals ; he did the same
from.s.ecing one of the natives of New Caledonia
gnaw wlyt he thought the cup-bone Of :the knee
of -a youth of fourteen or fifteen years of age,
though Captain Cook tells us that these people.re-
p:ardcd vc•ith horror some ot-. his crew ‘vho were
pickiug.a bc!ef bone, pit it to he that of 'a
luintnn subjcey and Admiral Krusenstern believes
the inleallit;ints of the-Marquesas to delight. in 1.11..17
man flesh a fact which he considers to be Coe-
robwated by.hurnan_skulls being offered for sale,
.
and hnniao bones being attached to :various parts
of their furniture.
We eatcrrain not the smallest doubt that
thcse people are entirely free front.. t his' abominable
practice. Invited we have heard, since these
sheets wept to th press, front several' of our
Officers who remained to weeks:aming theta,
that there was no, the slightest 'grounds for sos 7
peetiip, themof any such practice ;
.and Captain
-.o.)rter not mer'el'y_ exonerates . them from this
hnt affirms, from the knOwledgewhieb.he
of their character during his stay among
and while lie was fail employed in robbing
:tar; in them, that an honester, or more
fri-n:dy.a-nd better disposed-People, d 6 not ex-
ist ,nader the Fnn.',.
.Tl:,ey have been stigmatised,' he continues,
by the: nitre of savages;
„it is a term, irrongly
o.ey rank high in the scale of pitman
beings,'bether cons.iderthinm Morally; orl'+llysicaily.
Fllysically. We told them brave,' generoits;llo7'
nelt,_ and benevolent ; acute, ing,cnions, .and
telli-gent ; and their beauty arid regular propor-
tions of their bodies Correspond with. the pertee7
lions of 11.;eir minds ; they are far above the cont-
mop stature of the human. Lace, -seldom less than
five feet eleven inches., but most conononly six
feet r or.three inches, -and every way propor-
' tioned : their faces are setugrkahly lixindsonte,
keen,.piercia eyes ; teeth white and more
bt.aptiftil,th an ivory ; countenanCes open. and ex-
,which bespoke every emotion of their
slit YIJ
li:ubs which ,rni-,,,ht serve as a model for a
St.:wary, and stre,ngth and actiyity proportioned
t,o their Appearance ; the skin of men is of a
doll,. copper colour, but that of
_tile youths and
t~ttls is of a light brown-7—the first arc as beauti-
iftilas those of any part Of the WQrld ; hilt the
hough- pf.)sses•sing int eiligelit and open
Coontenanee,, title. eyes and teeth,• and much
acti;tettess and are fro fiom.hitu , its hand-
,
ionic as Ih -7-
e metttheir, limbs and 'hands, (parti-
cularly the bitter) are; more beautifully •propor-'.
t thao
.those of. any °rifler -women ; but a
1:,ta541e,s arid a badly, shaped foot, nccasion-
s-I tvi;hoot shoes, 6kegt.eatly-froin their

thatlns.' .
•‘ l'uis description Niie know to he somewhat
; huz we kn(3%v also that 'they are a
flue nler of Men, IO Of
a many gOod and
and vet, with, all their good
:rith the unostkind and
,friendly
• of Ca.pt..liti Porter,. they met as we have
W'lt!'t Z. itioit ungrateful return frimt

provisions extorted from
Htpaits were,
_by this.time,
":4,c accessqry to Focure

ftvOi tp;:ply. Not crint;nt „ oa'.llq; ine,Yn
his s,,pi,riority by t.lle spoliation destroctimi
ob f th,se, aeatly tittr,tioned. Captain Porter (l,e_
isr the plenittide'r4iit'sOlence and polyer,
that the whole Island should ininister to his
cruelty and ripacity : he sent, therefore, it message
to a tribe. called the Typecs, inhahitin'g the most
distant part. of the Island, and one with whom he
neither hArl, nor nueded to have, any. kind of con-
nee;ion, threatening to pnnish them *vett:sr if
they should attempt: which they bad tint don-e, to
commit hostilities oti an, other tribe tin the Island
in friendship wirli him, 'and to know if
they wished for peace and frieturShip. This spi-
rited people, in reply to the message of this
knight-errant, returned .for answer, that, they
wished to know why they should desire a fiend-
ship with him ! why they should bring him their
hogs and fruit ? They knew well enough, they
said, that be would fake them without ceremony
if he could, and his not doing so was to them a
Woof of his weakness. This reply was, to the
man of. the fearful countenance, throwing (lawn
the gaantlet of defiance, and he accordingly pre.
pared for immediate war. We shall not follow
him through the inflated description of his prow-
ess, with muskets and cutlasses against slings and
clubs. Some of his officers and people were bro.'s.
ed itith stones; hilt many of the poor natives were
killed. The Americans, however, were repulsed
in the first assault, for which, as lie yells us, lie
meditated -a severe punishment.', tie put arms
into the hands of 200 of his men, manned the
boats, landed at a convenient -snot, and procerded
to take the whole valley 1w sorprize; 4 and his
party were however benighted, cnd t a cold awl
ricrcing wind, :Imm:li:oiled by a dclnee, chilled
theta ta.th,.: be ot.' But the break of day, and
the cheerip=g pyospect of plunder and destrnetion,
raisod theirdroopiikg spirits; and they pounced
ht (MCC upon the valley---the poor I infians, alarm.
ed, began to shout, to beat their drums, ttlid
blow their war conchs from one end of the .valley,
to the other ;- and what wiflt:t he srea,linij. 1)1 the.
hogs, the sereanti.'N of the women and children,
and the yelling of the men; the din 'vita horrible;'
100.
[To be contionetl.l ,

POLICE. IN I'ELLIGI4:NCE.
HATTON (iiiti)EN.

FotutrßY.—YesierdayMr....4 :thany Kenrot
hrou...tht up for another examination, charged wiLli
forgery, when Mr. Briggs, of E,lsex-strtu
torney, who was not preser4 at the last exattsitor-
thm, attended, and signed his former depositions,
Co ,vhiph he added nothing fresh.
Mr. John Kinnaird, about the 12th of October
:last;
„received a bill of exchange for 1200/. dated
Tortola, but does not recollect the date ; which
bill purporred to be indorsed " ',John Dougan,"
from the prisoner ; but witness cannot recollect
whether he received the bill from the foods of.
tire prisoner, or inclosed in. a note. Whilst OW
hill wasin witncies possession he frequently saw
the prisoner Mr. M'Kenrot, and conversed with
him on the subject of the bill, the partieulars of
which he'eanuot recollect; but the impression tai
wituess's 1.44110 is, that he got the• bill l'Or the pore
pose of getting- it discounted, for which he Was to
be allowed commission. The prisoner aft-:•iwards
wrote to witness by Mr. Hardy, to deliver the bill
for 12001: to the hearer—which written order be
makes no doubt but he has at home among his
papers.: he did not deliver- the bill till &ter he saw
M'Keurnt, and then delivered it to Hardy.. Wit-
ness cannot swear that the bill now produced is
the satire or'nnt,' having taken no particular no-
tieo)i- - Witness, however, makes no (hnibt
but he hai sonic notes or mernoranlums at hcime
aulong his papers; that will enable him, to speak
snore minutely on the subject, if he had them.—
Mr. Kinnaird then signed his depositions, and he
and .Mr. Briggs were bound over to proseente.—
The prisoner was then remanded for final' ex'aimi-
naticiLG Whet;Mr.Kir.naird is to attend With any
documents he may find, as. above alluded to.
BoW-sTRERT. • •

Moag VortGE.ans:.--,:tiseF.terday the
ofileer.,arrivell in 'town with Thomas Planhci And
Ira/41M SMitil iit his.custOdy front Portsinouth,
eha47ed on suspicion of forging:and tittering cer-
tificates, fraudulently to obtain. Prize Money;' for
the pttrpose.ofeheating the Comiuissitnwrs of the
Royal Hospital at Greenwich. 'the prisoners were
committed for farther examination.