The Sun.
London, England, 1823-09-25 00:00:00

INDIAN HOSTILITIgg.

The following article from the &. Louis In-
quirer furnishes another proof of the hostile spirit
Of the Indians, towards the American traders on
the Missouri

ST. Louis, Ave. 2.—A succession of calamities, involving
the lives and property of 'the Indian traders, follows each
Other in quick succession. Scarcely had we penned an account
of the disasters brought by the last express, before we are
called upon to record fresh instances of savage• barbarity
committed in anothet quarter upon our enterprising citizens.
Mr. John M'Knight, an old', and respectable citizen of St.
Louis, trading on one of the upper sources of the Arkansas, has
been murdered by the Indians, and robbed of nearly all his ,
merchandise. lie had fixed himself near the Spanish boun-
dary. where he had erected a fort, protected by a few men, with
the intention of making an establishment in that quarter, and
opening a trade with the Indians; but in consequence of the
unfortunate fate of Mr. M'Knight, the post has been abandon-
ed, and the party has returned to the settlement.
The Indians, by whom this attrocity was committed, are
called the Camanches, a numerous and warlike nation, border-
ing on the heads of the Aransas, and spreading through a great
proportion of Texas. It is supposed they could bring into the
field at leat 15,000 %terrines. The Spaniards have never been able
to do any thing. with them, and have almost relinquished the
country to their possession. From St. Antonio, -in Texas, to
Santa Fe, in New Mexico, the Camanches roam at large, the
undisputed masters of the soil. All the early frontier esta.
blishments of the Spaniards have long since been cut off by
those Indians, and the further ingress of the Europeans en-
tirely checked by the fears which they inspired. But the
Americans they have heretofore viewed in the most friendly
manner, between whom and themselves there has always
been kept up a kind and mutual intercourse. The Camanches
are said-to be under the direction of the celebrated Caddo Chief
' —the same, it was mentioned a short tree since, that -Iturbide
wished to form an alliance with, for the purpose of getting his
Camanches into the Imperial service, in return for which the
Caddo was to have bad an " empire" on his own footing.

FONTIIILL ABBEY.

The sale of bijoutry, gems, &c. commenced on
Tuesday. Mr. Primus's, upon taking his place, begged the
attention of the company, for a very, short time. He was now,
he said, about to dispose of a class of property very different
from that which had occupied their attention for the last fort-
night. The conditions of the sale would be read as usual, but
previous thereto he begged to say, that it would be esteemed as
a favour if purchasers would permit the larger and more orna-
mental lots to remain in the Abbey until the conchiSion of the
sale. He did not seek to make this a positive condition, but it
was his earnest entreaty. • His object was to preserve the, exhi-
bition in its present state, for the gratification of those persons
who might still continue to visit Fonthill. He pledged him-
self to guarantee the security of the property, and to afford
every facility tower& its future removal.
The conditions of the sale were then read, being only a re-
hearsal of what was before stated. When the clerk had con-
. eluded, Mr. Phillips stated, that for all purchases exceed-
ing 1001. approved bills would be accepted in payment for
two-thirds of the amount so purchased. This was particu-
larly intended as an accommodetion to• the trade, but every
purchaser might of course avail himself of - it. Having
said so much on this subject, he now begged to detain them
for a few moments longer, whilst he called their attention
to some other circumstances connected with the sale. Cer-
tain invidious observations and statements had gone abroad,
evidently intended to depreciate the property, hut more
especially the books : the public had been told that many
of the most valuable works had been previously withdrawn,
and that, in fact, the present was altogether a made-up sale.—
A tolerably convincing reply to these statements had already
been furnished by the result of the last ten days' sales.—
It had been also stated that prices had been written in
several of the books, as having been paid for them by Mr.
Beckford, whilst the property was under his direction ; and
other reports, equally destitute of truth, had been fabii-
mted, which, in his opinion, and that of his employers,
were circulated for the purpose of injuring the sale. This,
he believed, was the first instance where attempts had been
made through the medium of newspapers, to interfere with
private property. The sale had proceeded as fairly as a
junto of men would allow it i • he should not at present refer to
them by name, as it was probable the parties would hear more
on the subject by-and-bay, in another place. Notwithstand-
ing all that had been said, he begged to assure the meeting that
he bad to oar the whole or 444. petiroiete,to_tharac.which had
formerly been announced for sale, and except what had been
taken away by Mr. Deckford, which that gentleman had a right
to claim under the contract, as arranged betWsen hint and Mr.
Farquhar. A gentleman was then present, who .3 been con-
cerned for Mr. Beckford, when the contract to which he
had alluded was made—who could confirm or contradict what
lie had advanced, and lie now called upon him to do,either :
he called upon Mr. Hume to say whether any of the property
had been removed, but in the way and under the circum-
stances which he had stated. [The gentleman thus appealed
to said, that he Was not aware that any of the property had
been removed from the -Abbey, but under the conditions of
the contract that had been mentioned.) Mr. Phillips resumed.
He would thank the company to refer to Mr. Christie's catalogue
of last year, as forming the best identity of the property : lits
description had not been altered, and to this he was most will-
ing to refer as he went on. It had been said that five hundred
waggon-loads pf property had been brought to the Abbey
by Dir. Farquhar. If five thousand had been brought there,
it was no more than that Gentleman had a right to do,
if he thought proper ; but it ought to be remembered that
several rooms had been thrown open for the present in-
spection, which were closed last year. Some of those had
been furnished, and most expensively, by Mr. Farquhar. The
blue drawing-room he might mention in particular. 'Phis
Was done as an experiment, as he had thoughts of furnish-
' iog the whole Abbey on the plan suggested by the late Mr.
Wyatt. It was now his pleasure that the articles should
be sold by auction, as he thought it would
urcha not be acting
fairly towards the public to ask them top merely
that portion of the property which had been exhibited last
year. He would go so far as to inform them how these ef-
fects, which were new to the Abbey, had been procured.—
When Mr. Farq_uhar was some time since in Paris, he had
thoughts of purchasing an estate which had belonged to the
Marechal Bessiercs, and for which he had offered eighty thou-
sand pounds; but not succeeding in the purchase of the estate,
he became possessed of the furniture and valuable effects, which
were atitongst those now to be disposed of, being, in Mr.
Farquhar's opinion, somewhat too showy and unsubstantial for
his use.
After what he had thought it necessary to state, he trusted
the company would do him the justice to believe that he was
fully able to realize the conditions of die sale, as well as most
desirous to do so to their perfect satisfaction. Ile again ex-
pressed his wish that the purchasers of the more important
articles would not at once remove them, and concluded by
directing one of the last year's catalogues to be laid upon the
table, which was done accordingly.
The sale was then proceeded upon. Many of the articles
brought good prices,. but, as in the case of the books, the most
valuable are reserved for thepr and closeer e a
ty cr:efntdleterewd,etehke. 'The company
was numerous and brilliant, thssemblage of fair aspmirants
for this peculiar class of op
ban usually attractive.

On Tuesday night Mr. BETTLES, the King's
Messenger, arrived at .the Foreign Office, with
dispatches from St. Petersburgh, which place
Mr. BETTLES left on the 31st of August.
has arrived at
LiAverypeososlefirocmailleid ternalmlehtGieeoo,rgwehich met at sea a
Portuguese vessel from Mara Generald bound to
Lisbon, that reported that a MADEIRA
had arrived at Maranham with part of the Bahia
expedition. It (is generally thought that the
Portuguese General received orders from the
Lisbon Government to go to the above place, in
case he was obliged to evacuate Bahia, and this
accounts for his not having reached the Tagus.
mention, Letters
hfarto
atm id recently given in Chris-
tianiaGentlemen filling
Copenhagen
inner penhagen of the 13th instant
by Count de SANDELS, the Viceroy of Nor-
way, to a party of the post of
some expressions
him in relation to Sweden were
guottveerrend orsb;f Swedish provinces,
thought so personally insulting to the company
present, that no less than nine of them sent him
challenges the next day. It was not known
win ther the Count accepted the challenges or
not. • . .

FASHIONABLE .A RRIVA LS.
Prince Reuss, at the Clarendon Hotel, Bond-street, from a
tour through Scotland and Ireland .1. Lady Folkestone, in
Lower Grosvenor-street, from Malvern-wells ; Conway,
from Hastings ; the Earl of Westmorland and:Lady Georgina
Fane, at Kirkton's Hotel, LoWer lirOok:Stiebt; froth Devon-
shire ; Capt. Desveau, at ditto, from a tour ; Capt. Maxwell,
at the Pulteney Hotel., Albemarle-street, from Bengal ; Thos.
Best, Esq. at Long's, Claremont Hotel, Bond-street, from
Brighton; Capt. Osborne, at ditto, from Paris; lion. Chas.
Vesey, at Blake's Hotel, Jermyn-street, from Hanta ; .the
Misses Brookes, at Batts's Hotel, from Southampton, ; Mrs.
Taylor and- family, at ditto, from Norwich ; .0. Baker; 'Esq.
at ditto, from Oxford.

CHANGES.-Duke of Montrose, from Stirling,.to Buchannan
Castle, in Perthshire ; Lady Blackett, from Thorpe Lee, Sur-
rey, for Waller, Northumberland; Mr. Ralph Leycester, tbr
Toft Hall, Knutaford, in Cheshire; Sir \Vim Clayton, ,Bart.
for Harleyford, near Marlow, in Buckinghamshire; Sir John
and Lady- Paul, for Mistram House; Mr. H. Hoare, from
Exeter, few town; Mr. Edward Walpole, from a tour to town ;
Gen. Long, from a tour, to Barnes Terrace; Mr. Paul Methuen;
front Fonthill, for Corsham House, in Wiltshire ; Sir Henry
Peyton, Bart., for Bicester, in Oxfordshire ; Col. Arthur and
Family, for Van Dieman's Land ; Mr. Humphrey Butler, from
town, on a tour ; Captain Sotheby; for Cheltenham ; the
Dowager Marchioness of Salisbury, for 'Hatfield ; Lord Clif-
ton, for Paris ; Sir Archibald and Lady.. Christie, and family,
.from Warren's Hotel, Regent-street, for Chatham ; the Hon.
Mr. and Mrs. Agar Ellis, for the Earl of Tanker-Vine's seat,
Chillingham Castle, Northumberland; Mr. and Mrs. Peel and
family, from Batt's Hotel, Dover-street, to Lancashire; Mr.
and Mrs. Johnston, from ditto, to France; Colonel and Lady
Stevenson, and family, from ditto, to Park.street ; G. Mills,
Esq. from ditto, to Bath ; R. Haydock, Esq. from ditto, to
Kent.

PLACES OF FASHIONABLE RESORT.
BUIOUTON, SEPT. 23.—The weather yesterday was fa-
vourable at intervals, and at intervals, otherwise; the same
remarks will equally apply to the present day.--,Earl Stair„
who arrived on Friday, left the Royal Hotel for London yes-
terday. Lord Tullamore yet remains here. General Chowne
arrived at the above Hotel today.
MARGATE, SEPT. 17.2—This day the Isle of Thanet Races
commenced, and the previous influx of company to grace them
is beyond credibility, notwithstanding the unfavourable state of
the weather. The course was thronged with carriages of all
descriptions. On Thursday, the second day, being very fine,
it is estimated that 30,000 persons were present. His Royal
Highness Prince Leopold, his nephew, Prince Charles; the
Duchess of Kent and her illustrious daughter, sat in an open
barouclie, from which the horses were detached the whole time ;
her Royal Highness 'patronised the Master of the Ceremony's
public breakfast on the previous morning, and Prince Leopold
his ball on the Monday following. It is to be regretted, since
they have gone so much into public, that the drama is in no
estimation with our Royal visitants, as we have here a very
handsome theatre, and an excellent provincial company, aided
by the talents of 'Knight, Webb, Miss Copeland, Miss Clara
Fisher, and other metropolitan auxiliaries. Our indefatigable
manager, Mr. Faucit Savile, to protract the amusements of the
race.week, gave away, on Saturday last, a handsome large pike-.
skiff, which was most ably contended for by two six-cared
gallies, rowed, the one by single, the other bymanied, water-
men. The pier was crowded—the fort and heights completely
peopled—and the ocean itself handsomely sprinkled with
pleasure and sailing-boats during the contest. The donor
of the boat, with the Margate military band, was in a
sailing lugger, and started the candidates each heat by
the firing of a pistol ; and so near were the genies together
throughout the whole race, that the nicest eye could scarce-
ly discern which had the lead, which was, however, de-
clared by Mr. Savile,
from the flag-boat, to be in f-
your of the singlemen. In the evening both parties received thew
rewards of the skiff and a subscription purse from the hands of
Mrs. Faucit Savile, and the theatre was crowded to witness the
ceremony. Our town continues still crowded with company;
indeed this once inferior fishing village has swelled into an
enormous town ; and next season we are promised a new Cres-
cent on the plan of that at Blackheath, for the accommodation
of her Royal Highness and other Illustrious visitants, who are
expected to reside here during, the summer months. The
Master of the Ceremony's nail was well attended-last
The Prince Leopold was present, and also patronises pne at
Ramsgate an Wednesday next.

The Duke of Grafton is entertaining a party of friends, at his
seat, Euston Hall, Thetford.
The Ladies Grey changed horses at Exeter, on Thursday
last, on their way to Torquay ; and the Earl and Countess Grey
stopped there on 31ondaralso on their way to Torquay, where
they are likely to remain the winter.
The Rev. Mr. Irving intends to pass the honey-moon in the
NOrth, and before his return visit the Western Highlands, and
perhaps the Hebrides.

IMPROMPTU
ON THE INTENDED NEW COINAGE.

DOUBLE SOV'REIGN s, it seems, will soon come from the Press

In addition to those coin'd before,
But while such a Sov'reign as GEORGE we possess,
We would not change him for a score.

The audience at Mr. HAMILTON'S third Lec
cure at the Crown and Anchor last night,ion his
new Mode of Teaching Languages, was still
more numerous and respectable than on the pre-
ceding occasions, and received the developement
of the Lecturer's system with the most, marked
approbation. But Mr. HAMILTON, to ats know-
ledge, can already appeal to much more satisfac-
tory proofs of the successful efficacy of his
plan, in the rapid progress of his . present
pupils, whose advances in the acquirement of
French we have had opportunities of personally
observing. There can now be no doubt of the
great utility of this discovery, by which the
ac-
quisition of languages is wondrously facilitated,
and with an important saving both of time and of
expence to the pupils.
Doyen, SEPT. 23.—Arrived in the Roads his
Majesty's sloop of war the Jasper, and landed Lord Do uaLas,
and Mr. Dtert.re, the King's Messenger, charged with dui-
Patches twin Mr. 13.%n0T, our Minister at' St. Petersburgh.—
Sailed his Majesty's packet Arrow, with dispatches from
Calais.—Arrived the Monarch steam vessel, with pa:sensors
front Calais.
Dit. BAILLIE.----We are sorry to announce the
severe loss which the public has sustained by the
death of that eminent physician, Dr. M ATTHEW
,BAILLIE, who died at his seat near Cirencester,
on Tuesday last. lie was considered, in many
points of view, as being at the head of his pro-
fession ; and, tiott to his family and immediate
connections, none will be more sensible of his
loss than the gentlemen of his own profession.—
(Mornink Paper.) •
'MADAME CATALANI.—It has been invidiously
reported thatt this lady was not to sing at the York
Musical' Festival, which began on Tuesday last ;
but the Leeds Independent of that day says, that
she had left Dublin on Thursday for that
purpose.
Mr. KEAN has arrived in Dublin after a suc--
cessful theatrical tour in the South of Ireland.
He realised, we are assured, in, the City of Cork
alone, no leas a sum than 1,5001.
MACREADY has entered into an engagement
with the Drury-lane Manager for the next season
Ile is to perform a limited number of nights, and
will make his first appearance on Monday, the
13th of Oct. in the character of Virginius.

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