The Sun.
London, England, 1823-05-05 00:00:00

AUSTRALASIA.

The arrival of his Majesty's ship Bathurst
; brings letters and papers from Sydney to the 23d of September.
Captain KING, the Commander, has returned to England to
lay before the Admiralty the full result 4 of his voyages of dis-
covery on the western coast of New Holland, in completion of
those performed by Capt. Flinders.
It must be gratifying to the many respectable families who
are looking to our possessions in this Antipodean territory as
their future residenCe, that almost every arrival from Port
Jackson brings information that the more the researches of the
inhabitants extend inland, the more are they rewarded by ascer-
taining an indefinite existence of fine country ; and perhaps it
is not sufficiently known that the interior of New Holland yields
in no instance to the beauty, excellence, and richness of the finest
soils of Van Dienian's Land, with the difference of a climate
that will ripen the orange. the leinon,,the olive, that invaluable
grain the maize, and similar bounties' of nature.
It is a singular, but not generally-known fact, that a century
has elapsed since Col. Purry, in a memorial to the Duke of New-
castle, 'then Secretary of State to George I. laid it down as a pos-
inlat um, that " there is a certain latitude on our earth, so hap-
pily tempered between the extremes of heat and cold, viz. .13
degrees. whether north or south of the equator, that it will ever be
found to be more productive of the choicest gifts of nature than
any other part of thelterraqueous globe : it is a latitude," he con-
tinues, " which sheds such fruitfulness on the earth, and happi-
ness on mankind in general, that the further they aredistant from
this degree, so much are they the less happy ! Thus Barbary,
Egypt, Syria, Persia, India, China, Japan. and in short all
other countries are found to excel in proportion as they ap-
proach it: upon this principle, Carolina, and New Mexico, in
North; and Chili, and the territory bordering on the Rio de la
Plata, in South, are countries preferable to any in all the Ame-
ricas ; and thus Andalusia is the best in all the provinces
of Spain, as far, for the same reason, Languedoc and Pro-
vence the best in France and Naples, and Sicily the most supe-
rior of all the Italian dominions." It appears that so far
back as 1723 Colonel Purry wished to induce our Govern-
ment to form a settlement in New Holland, and that lie sub-
, sequently addressed the Dutch and French Ministry on the
same subject ; his application to the latter was referred to the
Academy of, Sciences at Paris, who coldly replied, " They
could not judge of countries they had not seen ; ' and nearly
71) years after, when Captain Cook returned from eircumnavi-
gating. the Globe, it was left for Great Britain to add the vast
acquisition of Australasia to the empire, and by the settlements
in New iouth Wales to, confirm the position and realize the '
anticipations of that enterprising man.
The last Sydney Gazcttes bring only general local intelli-
gence,
but they bespeak, by their appearance, activity in all the
movements of the settlements. An Agricultural Society has
been formed, promising much advantage to The territory. Sir
Thomas Brisbane is its patron ; and some idea may be formed
of the increasing number of respectable colonists, from eighty
gentlemen having sat down at Paramatta, at the first dinner of
the establishment in August last, when upwards of 1,5001. was
subscribed, to carry into effect the purposes of the establish- ,

The new-formed settlement at •Macquarri Harbour, esta-
blished as a secondary place of transportation for the offending
convicts, bad continued to make successful progress. The
coal here is found good and easy of access, and the timber,
both in quantity and quality, answers every expectation.
As a proof that the increase of luxuries keeps pace with the
more solid improvement in all the comforts of life, an ad-
vertisement in one of the Sydney papers invites masters of
vessels to pick oranges for their sea-stores from the trees of a
settler, at 6d. per dozen. A very few years since this esti.
mable fruit was only attainable in the colony at W. each !
The same paper says, a house in Sydney is now selling colo-
nial tobacco fully equalling the celebrated American negro
head in its strength and peculiar sweetness.
The bee-hives taken out by Capt. Wallis, of the Isabella,
fortunately arrived safe, and four of their thickly populated
habitations are now in the neighbourhood of Sydney, where the
valuable little colonizers seem to lose none of their forces from
their change of climate, but rather to increase in thrift and liar-
diltood. 'I owner expected to extend his four to twenty hives
in twelve months, so congenial to their prosperity and nature is
their newly-acquired land.
Those cultivators of the vine whohave selected proper situa-
tions have every prospect of being
amply rewarded. Mr. Max-
land brought over some samples of Australasian wine in the
Shipley, for submission to the Society of Arts, who have award-
ed him the silver medal, in token of their approbation of its
quality.
While every minor source of wealth is obtaining due atten.
tion in the territory at large, the
immediately
feature that distin-
guishes New South 'Wales, more as it regards the
interest of this country, is the peculiar fine wool of its sheep. The
favourable prices it obtains here, and thebigh opinion entertained
of its qualities by our most experienced manufacturers, continue
to stimulate the growers to increased exertion. On Colonel
Purry's principle of the fruitful character of the 33d degree, the
latitude of Port-Jackson seems to be that in which the pure
Merino breed delight and prosper more than in any other; for,
although perseverance will ultimately improve the flocks of Van
Diemen's Land, the settler in that island finds in his atten-
tion to the fine-woollen breeds, difficulties to contend with un-
known in them more congenial climate of New South iVales.

The Duke of D9nsrr and Lord MARY..
BOROUGH are confined by indisposition. The
former has been seriously i►►disposed for above
a week past. The latter Noble Lord is afflicted
with a bad cold.

The late Mr. KEunLes Win has been reels-
tered in Doctors' Commons; probate having issued on the 26th
ult. Priscilla Kemble, widow, tile relict, and Mr: Charles
Kemble, the brother, the executors; the effects being sworn
1,000/. per annum, secured
buyndtleireltes,otatitt inTillieissetliftlee-itillueinet foci; the life of himself and Mrs.
Itemble, and the survivor of them, is made over to her, and
she is also made residuary legatee for life, and is empowered
to dispose by will of the principal sum of 4,000/4 at her death
the residue is vested absolutely in his brother Charles. 604 per
annum for life, to Mrs. Hatton of Swansea, and 20/. per annum,
to Mrs. Mason of Edinburgh (the testator's sisters) are the only
other legacies. The Will is dated the 22d Nov. 1820.
An Opera, written by Sir .LuxtLET SKErrtiva-
TON, in which Miss STEPHENS and Mr. LisToN
have very prominent characters, is shortly to ba
produced at Drury-lane Theatre.
Letters have been received from Mr. 'HUGHES BALL, re-
questing his friends to give every possible confirmation to the
report of his late marritige.—A handsome settlement was pre-
viouslybythe enamoured niade onthberyidoeugnrgoota.d
yT'shneiy are
er and also on herself
expected
in town in
a few days, when, it may be presumed, they will mingle in
some of the highest circles of fashion.
On Tuesday last, the 29th ult. the wife of Mr. SANDERSON,
19, Old Bond-street, was delivered of two children one a seven
months' child, a female, and the second an eight months' male
child. Both children are blind, and have no nails, both of
whom, together with the mother, are doing ,
We are concerned to state, that the Fame, of
Bull, Captain SCORESBY, sen., bound for the
Greenland Fishery, was totally consumed by fire
on the morning of the 23d ult. in Deer Sound,
Orkney—crew saved, part of whom arrived at
Leith on Sunday on their way to Bull.—(Edin-
burgh Courant, .11% 1.)
The Balloon Coach, whtch runs between Bir-
mingham and London, was overturned near
Stoney Stratford, at two o'clock on Friday morn-
hag last, with 1.5 passengers, none of which suf-
fered the least injury whatever. A foreigner
who was an outside passenger, having disentangled
himself from this " wreck of matter," ran with
much solicitude to the assitance of four ladies)
who were inside, but to his utter astonishment,
40 found their only anxiety was about the safety
of--a lap dog.

IRELAND.

(Cork Achnertietr,- May ,1.)

DARING ATTACK UPON A VILLAGE RYA PARTY OF IN

SURGENTS AND SPIRITED REPULSE OF. THEM BY THE

INUABITAN TS. •
We have been favoured with the following extract of a letter,
detailing.one of the most daring attacks that the history of the
present disturbances affords:—
" On Tuesday night last a most desperate attack was made
about nine o'clock, by an immense party of Insurgents on the
Palatine village of Glanasheen, on the Castle Oliver Estate,
where four Policemen were stationed. SeVeral houses were
laid in ashes, and it was the intention of the Rebels to have
consumed the whole village and to have murdered the inhabi-
tants. The Insurgents were distinctly heard to say, that not
one should be allowed to escape. Two of the Police, with two
of the Palatines, were on guard,who heard the Rebels approach:
ing, and instantly challenged them, on which the Rebels fired a
voley, fortunately without effect. The Police and Palatines re-

turned the fire, and kept it up for some time. Another party of the
Rebels set fire to several of the Palatine houses, which, with the
furniture,&c.were totally consumed. The small partyof Palatines,
with the four Policemen stationed there, must soon have been
overpowered, but that providentially that active and most zea-
lous Officer, Lieutenant Lightbody, of the 71st regiment, was
on patrole about two miles distant, who saw the flames and
heard the shots, and arrived in sufficient time to fire a volley
on the. Rebels, who fled ; -and in the pursuit, they found one
man dead, and took two prisoners. As yet, the dead man
has not been claimed. Mr. Lightbody still continued to pur-
sue them towards the County of Cork, in the direction of
Doneraile; but the difficulty of the mountain pass, and the
darkness of the night, prevented any more prisoners being
taken. A ball passed under the arm of one of the Police,
without doing much injury, and no further injury was sus-
tained by the Police or the Army. No doubt many
of the Rebels are wounded, for the party of the 71st
nearly expended all their ammunition. There has not been
so premediated an attack, since the Churchtown business. The
Rebels called on the Police several times to surrender their
arms, and that no injury should be done to them; however,
they were soon made sensible that the Police and Palatines were
determined to support that character of loyalty to their King
that they had evinced when tried in the year 1798. A Palatine
School-master whose house was on fire, attempting to get out
through the roof on hearing the Rebels declare that he was a
Protestant Devil, and that not one should be spared. He had a
miraculous escape, being fired at repeatedly.
On Wednesday night the 23d instant, an out-house belong-
ing to Thomas Mannix, tenant to Robert Sanders, Esq. close
to Charleville, was maliciously set on fire; there were two
horses and twenty barrels of potatoes in the house at the time ;
fortunately by Mannix's exertion, with the assistance of his
servants, it was saved.

Same night a large farm-house near Drew's Court, the pro,
perty of Mr. Fitzgibbon, was consumed. Also a field of oaths-
on the lands of Farthingville, the property of Mr. Bailie, was
maliciously dug up, and a grass field, containing six acres,
turned up on the same lands.
On Friday night, the 25th instant, one cow was barbarously
houghed. and two others had their tails brutally cut off, and a
Rock notice placed under the tails, the property of Mr. Owen
Sullivan, on the lands of Ballyncolig, near Charleville.
Major Maxwell, in consequence of good information, suc-
ceeded in finding tbur guns, two pistols and one sword, on the
nights of Friday and Saturday last, very artfully concealed.