The Sun.
London, England, 1812-05-30 00:00:00

74,44.

The greater.part of the I uropean prisoners -in
Java:have been enlisted into our service,- for the
Company's Madras European Regiment ; and
local corps of 900 picked J ivanese has been foim-
ed for service at Batavia, under the command of
Captain Mears, who has distinguished-hitnself by
his zeal and activity, in forthing and disciplining
that corps. , Desertions from thu native corps are,
as might be expected at the outset, very numer-
ous, as will appear from an official return which
we have obtained, being the, weekly report of
the three divisions of Batavia, Saniaraftg, and
Sourabaya
Weltevreeden, August 3, 1811.
Europ. Natives.
Dead - - • 8 , - - 21
Enlisted - 16 - - - 339
Discharged - 13 , - - - 16 -
Deserted 1 - - 241
It appears from the same return, that at the
above-mentioned date the, total efficient force -of
every description, in liadvia, Samarang, and Sou-
ramp, amounted • •
'Staff - - ' 206 2
• Sick - 225
Europeans - 2,267
Amboynese - 1,474 *Do. - 124
Natives ' 13,994 Do: • - 833•

Total - 17;391

1,157

With respect to the climate 'of Java, the private
accounts are at variance a goed; deal . with each
other.- Our army had suffered "from sickness 1_
but that was mqre attributed to the exposure and
fatigues which they had undergone, than, to any
•locakeauses. They were not housed until after,
the 26th of August, nor was a single tent allow-
ed to be landed.. Yet it was not considered that
the casualties were so numerous as, under like
circumstances; Would have been expected on the
continent _ .

The city of Batavia, and its environs, for four
miles around; are represented as magnificent be-
yond all description. " Compared with the villas
here," says a correspondent, " the best Calcutta
houses arc conteMptible."

Paris Papers, received yesterday, contain the
following Ordinance, dated the 19th of May, fix-
ing the price of rye and barley :
Rye brought to the Hall at Paris cannot be
sold there, if it comes from the department of the
Seine, above thirty-four francs the septier (twelve
bushels) Paris measure, and above thirty-six
francs, if it proceeds from the neighbouring de-
partments. From the same time, barley brought
to the Hall of Paris cannot be sold, if it comes
from the department of the Seine, for more than
twenty-five francs the septier, Paris measure, or
above twenty-six francs fifty centimes, if it arrives
from the neighbouring departments.
A,. short times since, Buonaparte, being of a
tour in Prance, arrived at Givet, where he had
occasion to cross a river, over which was a bridge
composed of boats, but the violence of the weather
having separ4ted the boats, he was prevented from
getting over. The French used every exertion to
unite them again, but in vain, and it was sup-
posed their Emperor would be under the necessity
of relinquishinghis intention of crossing the river,
when it was suggested that some of the English
sailors might probably accomplish the important
business ; a guard was instantly sent to the prison
for forty of them, who, on their arrival, imme-
diately set to work, and in a short time made the
'bridge passable. Niona.parte w6s so Much pleased
at their exertions, that he ordered' them to be re-
leased and sent home in a cartel : eighteen of them
are arrived at Spithead, having beeri put aboard
the Cartel that took over some seamen that were
captured in La Nereide a,,t Madagascar. Some
seamen, taken in a packet by the French, who
_ petitioned Buonaparte for their release, have also
arrived in the same cartel. •

A proposal is said to be. set on foot in thelne-
tropolis, for a subscription for the wife and chil-
dren of the infamous assassin Bellingham, who
are in no want of such kind of succour : 'this is an
insidious machination which should be narrowly
watched, as evidently springing 'from traitorous
motives, too apparent to be veiled under so' flimsy
a cloak of affected charity.
• Thursday -evening, about eight o'clock, lad,
about.l4 years of age, got up to, ride behind a
coach, going along Gracechnrch-street, towards
London 'Bridge, while another coach was follow-,
ing close behind: , the, boy, in ,alighting, fell
down, and was trampled under the horses' feet;
the driver, being alarmed by his cries, stopped Ms
horses; when the boy was extricated, and escaped
being run over, but was very much bruised; and.
taken to the hospital.
On Tuesday se'imight, at Lepton, Northumber-
land, an inquest was held on the bodyof Mrs. Sarah
Sykes, 35 years of age, who about a year ago was
left a widow with five small children. Finding
herself unwell about eight o'clock ou Friday se'n-
night, in the morning, she sent for a person who
pretends to practise as a quack doctor. He., ac-
cording to his voluntary. confession, conceived
her to be afflicted with a fever of a putrid nature,
infused four grains of tartar emetic in a gill of ,
boiling water, and ordered her to take two table-
.spoons full and a half every fifteen minutes till
she vomited and no longer.. Betwixt' 8 and '9
o'clock in the evening he was again sent4for,
when the deceased told him the medicine had, oper-
ated nicely both ways, and wished him to give her
something to heal her inside, and she Would soon
be well.. He.then prescribed the following saline
draught : 80 grains.of Tartaric acid, 80 grain§ of
Common Kali, two drains of spirits of Nitre, half
an ounce of syrup of Saffron, 8 ounces of Aquafon-
fontana, of which two table-shoons full were to be
taken four times a day. After suffering very
Much from violent vomiting and purging, the
;patient died, in the forenoon of Saturday.
On the body being opened by Mr. Hough-
tOn, surgeon, of Huddersfield, an ounce o'f a fluid
of a dark brown colour, and a small quantity of a
light yellow paste-like substance, were found in
the stomahh, 'the internal coat of which was very
much inflamed with a small quantity of blood on
the surface. This inflammation he thought suffi-
cient. to have caused the, death of the subject.—
Verdict—Diea by 'a fever, or taking. medicines ad-
ministered to her.

PROM PISHOP 131-4IZE.

TO THE MISGUIDED MEN WHO ' DESTROY MA-

CIIINERY.'

".The plough and the saw save more Lbour than any
other tuachines ever invented?'
• Principles' of Political Economy.

MIST/M.-EN MEN
fly what fatality—by what mistaken .notions—
or led on by what enemies-to yourselves and, your
country—do you raise your 7 .tadS to destroy Ma-
chinery, by which, and by which only, the'Manu-
facturerS of England have an existence ? I trust
that you are honest, and may mean well; 'bat you
are fatally led astray.

Read Sacred llistory ; read otter aecOunts of
mankind in the early ages ; read Voyages of Dis-
covery in Nations, where arts were little culti-
vated or *mown ; or, if all these will not convince

you what a wretched starving creature Man is
without machinery and inventions; read Robinson
Crusoe: Figure to yourselves a man with great
labour and industry taking three months to form ,
a plank to serve him for a table I Stich, without
tools and machinery, is the lot of unaceimimo-
dated man ! The principle of the plough, the saw,
the ltatchet,,,,and the hammer, and of the most
complex marnery, is all the same as to the end
and intention—namely, to save and shorten la-
bour ;"-to enable one man to do asMUch as two,
or ten, or twenty men, would, do without-them.
If you are to •destroy one machine because it
shortens labour, you must wish
,poverty,
'bring the na-
tion back to ages of ignorance,
„barba-
rism, and starvation, when man with his greatest
labour could scarcely f)roduce enough for liis mere
existence

Even a spade, which is supposed to be the
'earliest tool invented, should he thrown aside.

It'would give more employment if men were' to
scrape.the gronnd with their fingers, 'and tear up
herbs by the. roots. Now, strange as' it May
seem, your plan -of destroying machinery, if fol-
lowed out, ought to be -carried this length, or it
ought never to have been begun.
Though what I have said is an unanswerable
truth,. yet there , are men of good sense, who,
though they never doubt the utility of wind and
water-mills, ploughs, harrows, carts, waggons,
and:other machines of an old date, disapprove of
saw-mills, threshing machines, and inventions of
latter time :—Though they approve of looms and,
spinning-wheels, as they were a' hundred years
ago, yet they do not like them in their present
greatly improved state. This is from want of
using their good judgment; for all the same argu-
ments that apply against,one, apply against all.
The difference is•only this—the;old.machins were
introduced in the time of your forefathers, whO,
notwithstanding the vanity of the present race,
seem to have had more good sense than you ;
the new .ones have been. introduced since you can
remember ; but this is no reason for a preference,
' though it is the blamable occasion of the preju-
dice. 'I shall give you a well-known and notable
example :
Before the slitting mill, which makes nail rods,
was brought from Holland by a poor nailer, the
ancestor of the present Lord Foley; it cost more
money and labour to reduce -the bar Of iron, to. a
small rod, than it does now to make the finest
nails. All the rods then came from abroad to
England ; but, now there is a mill near Stour-
bridge that will make more rods. after the sluices
,are shut down, before it stops, than a hundred
men Would make with a hammer in a day. Till
England had .this invention, she often bought
foreign nails, and exported none—now how many
thousands live by making nails for other countries ?
When Mr. Arkwright first introduced his cotton
Spinning machine, the -Whole cotton trade did not
amount to two millions a-year ; it has sinee risen
to more than twenty-two millions. Before Ed-
-ward 111. brought over John Kemp and'sorne
Flemish weavers to England, .we had our cloth
from Flanders, where our own wool Was sent to
be wove and dyed,; now we supply Flanders, in
part, with their best cloth. That Wise King, by
the introduction of machines, such -as your wise
heads would destroy, laid the foundation of the
greatness of -Britain and the fall of Flanders. The
successors of Edward, but above all, Queen Eli-
zabeth, encouraged new mid --ready methods- of
Working ; and you, 'ye rash; ill-advised, but,, I
trust, honest men, are going to cut down, burn,
and destroy, those establishments to Which-your
country owes so much. .
The 4mericans will .be delighea with you for
what you are doing, and you will curse yourselves
when it be too late—when trade is gone, and can-
not -be lirodght back to England.
The price of wages is such in England, that it
• could not go into -any market with any-people in
Europe ; and only for a few objects in America,
if it were not for the superior machinery which
you endeavour to destroy.
If you destroy Manahester,Birmingharn, Not-
tingham, Shaeld, and other indhstrious and in-
genious towns, you destroy the glory and sup-
port of -England, and the wonder and envy of
the world ; and
,what is- still more against your
intentions, your wives and children will be left
without consolation, without pity, and without
breads and, what is still worse, 'they will curse
you as the cause of their misery.
In France; they want, such machinery as you
destroy, but they also want work—want liberty—
and' want bread.
Reflect, mistaken men-l. on what you are'
about. Consider the .inatter, and you will see
that you are not taking the way to better yOur-:
selves and your families-, but to render constant
and perpetual that distress which is only momen-
tary, though hard to- endure.
- 'Do not suppose that I. am not sdiry for you,
and do not feel : I speak nothing from want of
-feeling or indifference ; but I appeal to the, his--
, tory' of British • m4nufactures and to ,your oWn
good sense, and you will see that you will have
cause to agree in opinion with yoar best friend,
adviser, and well-wisher; *SHOP. BLAIZE.
May, 1812
T. S. The silk weavers and. hatters who have
not 'improved machinery, have already, in part,
lost, -and 'are now entirely losing, 'the trade to-.
foreign*countries; You cannot dispute this.;—

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-these trades ate joist icaving
trade left 14'1-Anders 339 years tigo ! I fill-
iloltimes on thi•;. subject, btlt the'
nowt.--Read this, and .yon shall, if necessary,
hare plenty of liist(i'rical prof,is. I say Optli,ilig
of consaieuce' and rci ion, tht-ingli they also wi:l
one day make
.you bitterly regent, if you per-.
severe, ..

On Wednesday last, Government male appli
cation to some. of the merchants in the Lisbon
Trade fora return of the various prices of flour
is Portugal for the last three months, in orLr t
a ,certetin the gradual rise of the article daring that
period. The following aro the retu':ns

1812. Qptetienis if 1.7.449,4 from. Ficner—
Feb. f 22.12,406 112,800 reas.Nualta 724.4 d. 74!-;.Bd. per 112r4
Mitreli 9. .13,,,,,00 - -- • ~- - .. - 77 J ,
• H. 1:5,000 - - - 79 4
April 2.. -14;400.- -
May 2. 15,500 - - - 90 5
- -16,0'00:1-90,060' - • - -98 5 a 116.5 d.:
Pt.. 0,000 _ -.- -._ lO5 .0

Norwich Corn-market was-well attendedon Sa-
-
turday, auda*ood, supply- of grain, for the: 'se,aiori
appeared. Both wheat. and bar':ey lower : the
former Is. and the latter froth 2s. to 3s per womb;
and at this redUction extremely slow .sales - bat a
short snpply of other grain. Wheat
_s9s. fits: to
645. ;. barley 30s. to 32s ; beans norm appear;
peas nominal.; - oats -rather lower, 245. to 265. pia*
C0011:14. - . -.

40 rity.7—At Tadd:ngtln, in Derbvhire,.
there is. now living a :woman, in her lOtii.h
Her hearing is rather ifinperfect, but her eye-s.t ht
is ,so good that she can thread a counnon-siztA
needle without spectacles. Her eldest child (3,
daughter)is living, in the 89th .year of her age,
the youngest (a.son, with whom sike..tives) iiihis. 68th year. Her inother lived Ca she -biras 105
year.; or age, which she herscif

- ,
never haVing had any particalar•SiCAtie3.3
out her already long life.

]3_wrL

On the 43d inst. the Lad- of John Tittp
Gloucestershire, of a D.-loghter.
- On the 28th inst. in Dartni::,•ath-street,, the Lady of
lot Holland, Esq.tof a Da,la".....ter. - • • • . • 4 -
Yest,rclay, at her ~father's house in
Lady of A. Cumberbatch, E4ci, of a, Sen.
- - •

- • •) IVIAURIED. - , .
On Wednesday last, at Hackney, Mr.. James ,Bed, of •,.R.‘.'
shopsgate-street Without, to Miss Sarah Davies, of the ft;iii.-0
... -
place. - . '- \ - ...
.
The same day, at-Madron, in Cornwall,.John Scobell, E*
Lieutenant-Colonel in the 4th Regiment_ of. Cornwall Loci
Militia, to Mrs. Linton, of Yorkshire.
Mr. Ridpath, of Lower Thames-street, to Mary, daughter
of T. G. Smith, Esq. of Hacknq, one: of the Cashiers oft
Bank of England.
Yesterday se'nnight, by special license, at IN.T.onlEstofo
Church, near Dublin; Thomas Grady, jlin., Esq.. of Beltncnt,
to Julia, eldest daughtetuf•George Mannsell, Esq. of Wood'
down, in the County of Dublin, and late.Cohector of the Poi.
of Limerick. ' ... .
~.
At her father's seat, Haustanton, in the itintg's Co,tiritY,
Ireland, Noblett Harnett, Esq. only son of John i ali.z.r lam'
_
nett, E,,q. of Leemount, to Frances, second daughter of 1'
ward Le Strange, Esq. , 4

DIED.
•On the 19th inst. at the Heath, the infant daughter .4.
Henry Blake, Esq. of Lehigcb,. '
On the..2oth inst. aged 04, after a long and painful ale*
Mrs. Eldred, wife of Captain Eldred, of Pollard's-row, Bette
nal-green. •
On Sunday last, Mrs. Tahourdin, wife of the Rev. Gabrw
Tahottrdin, of Bentley, in Hampshire.
The same day, at Amblcside, Westmorland, in the 2.2c1 yep
of lier.age, Louisa Ann, wife of James Wrigley Lewes, l'A„:
and only daughter of John Clark Langasead, Esq.: of ,;
month. -
On Monday last, at Winchester, the Rev. Edward Sall
Domestic Chaplain to his Royal Highness the late Duke
Gloucester, Canon Residentiary of Winchester, and'Prebeoi
ary of York, and Rector of the-Parishes-of Stratfieldsage, 31/
Ste:afield Tingis, in the Covnty of Hants.
On Tuesday last., at Stone,,House, Worcestershire,
Downes, of New Bridge-street, Blackfriars. • -
. Yesterday morning, Georgiana Isabella, infant daughter 01
John Baldwin, Esq. of Moutague-scoare.
The same morning, at Totteridge in the Count3'l,
Herts, Miss Sophia. Lee, youngest daughter of the late 1,
Lee, Esq. of the same place.- •
A few days since, at, his house in UNer C-harlotte-strlt
Fitzroy-square, in the 75th year of his age, Themas
Esq. of the Auditor's Office, Somerset-place, whe.ro he U
been a servant of the public during forty years. •

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW!,
Nlorning, 25 min. aftei 5.1 Evening, 53 min. after •

Now winter -fa ils _ ,
" -heavy gloom oppressive o'er the world,
" Through nature siicdtiing inrinence
0' And rouses up the seeds of dark iis‘...ase."
. .
LI l'E, HEALTH, FIAPPINESS.
'T HE Regui6r Pracliliorle-plutnes himselfql.3
r ,
sup Q
el6r zagacity whit.t. enables hint to cleiedtthe it f~
postures of the uack, while the latter,, with equal bl'ep
ness, if not truth. retorts the charges of ignorance ;;;-..1
cticy on the established system-of Regular Medicine. '-
• ," Who shall decide when -Dottors disagree ?"
Let Presumption smile, fr P. ride frown: is is a lahlell:ss
ble truth, that the present state .0.. Medical Pretensionilol.
certainty, is nut to be tanked wit the meanest media,'
discovery of the itge.
For me :et Galen moulder on the shelf,

I' live.and be Phcian f. -
There isll but one infallibleysi criterion my
whichself cannot deC's'i
Experience is the Test of Truth. --Dr. p
Dr. WEBSTER'S tot
ETAIII.E MEDICIN E, the English• Diet Dank, 01 01
nearly 6o years, us every species of fever, in all Lit'''. lit
Nervous Complaints, in Scurvy,. in Scrofula,. in Drofo','w,-.
the Gravel, &c. uniformly restored' tire dejected to spikes
the exhausted to strength', and recalled the Vital sp'r'ee!'
multitudes, wliont professional skill had abandoebdtli
span'. fti,6"
Dr. W. well knew the perniciOus and destructive e,, de•
of quackery, and was therefore-decidedly, liwriie to Cry
seriptions ut Quacks—he was an eminent Physician, 1.15ecl
exPelletifee, and who, for h.iif a century, die rig ~ 01
mere benefits to stitlerirg humanity, by-the.,appticgio'
• this Vegetable Remedy, than ail the praditioners iit 6h'at.
dern ateria Modica can b,ast, He happily corabillen
fed knowledge of the human frame, and of the aniissal tr-t'co
nomy, with botanical science, ;.ad was theret,lecanipl6
qualified, to admin,ster such preparations with success.
r.K.O
'loose who wish to- see ins improved Vegetable SP
tlr
and. Principles fully developed,- may, by applying tv°lll,.)
V vhdeis, procure his 0....t•tt ro,ttso, a new edition 01,.' ,;011
is just published price ss. and also a erns!! painpil.c.urio
taring tihrty cases of remarkable cures, which alloc"'
during the last year.
T his' ival uabi,e 'Melicine is now faithfully prepared tYl.:11
Si et andn Co: Borough 1-ligh-stletft (sole Poprietc"",
the original Recipe, which was assi,med over to then!
Webster, some year 6 ;moor to his oeAtfl. I • anal
Sold in ha! t pint bottles, ; ems dit,o, 7s. u
' quct-ditto, ras. each, duty included.
Wholesale only by the Proprietors ; also wholesale -.1,0C
tail by their Agents, Messrs. Howard and Eva.ls. "ig
West Stnithtield. Wit
All Letters and Orders (post paid) addressed to Cheat,
meet the earliest attention.
And is sold retail, by one at least, in every cohs.iy it.,,:el
ii T6w in the Unit'' Kingdom; and by the tollowin ‘'r
u
of -Nle,!icine- in London : E I iotson, Chemlas*.and 1.-)r':,
1. 6, Isprough ; i3olton's Medicinal Warehonse,
the Royal Exchange, .Cwrc!till ; ColesWorthy.
acid Druggist, '144, Whi-echapel ; (-'17.-600
z 4, Grtat Surrey-street, tilacictriars-road, anti Ketio:!-70e1
cross ; Sanger i. face liaon) 150,. (stood-,trect ; ':!1,:r1
Chemist and i)ruggist, 49,-Strand; Hudson and ("73 ppl
rn -istt' &c. 27, ; Ward, 324, Holborn; .
tre,s, ecrrutner, leet- street