The Sun.
London, England, 1805-11-19 00:00:00

SOUTII.4IIIPTOY, Nov. 16.

ON Tuesday, at 'a Common Council; conVened
'-by Sttyrn, Esq.:Mayor, tlio Right- Hon,
• Lord &lull/of,. First Lord offthe':2‘diniralty, and
Adthiral Lord Ce.f.r.iNowoop, were proposed and
unanimously elcaed Honorary BUrgesses cif this
Town and our ancient and respeaable Corporation;
the •fol-rner as a Mark' of respea' for Iri skilful
and judicious arrangement of His Majesty's Naval
Forcei, and the latter in honour of the late bril-
liant and important Viaory.

Andover sheep fair was was on. Saturday very fuli.
The prices were much lower, and a great number
remained unsold.
At: Carlisle Market, en Saturday sennight, there
was a greater number of geese for sale than has been
remembered for a long time past. There :were no
less than 144 carts leaden with this species of lbw!,
which, at an average of 12 to each cart,'Amounted
to 1728. They •sold fr.= 2s. to 35. (5(1: each,
At Romsey Fair, on Saturday se'imight, -a great
quantity of cheese was pitched, which sold N't.'l).
- There was a full Fair at, Lostwithiei oh Monday
se'nnight, but fat cattle were dull of sale, and at ra-
ther low prices..
At St. Siinon .and St. Jude. Fair, held at Stam-
ford . Friday last, the show ot 'beasts was not .so
large as usual. They notWithstandingsold at lower
prices than, were expected: Two-theal cheese
averaged ss. per stone; new-milk 603.• to 663. per
cwt. ; prime Leicestershire dairies 7.05;
On Wednesday last a calliery, and a new 'iron
rail .way, three :miles and a quarter in length, were
opened at Congleton, in Cheshire, amidst a great
concourse of spedators, who testified the, utmost joy
upon the occasion.
The College:Youths of Ashton-under-Vile rang,
on Sunday se'nnight, a peat of grandsire eaters,
consisting of. 61,1 .changes, the bells being muffled,
as a tribute of gratitude due to the ever-to-be-la-
Mented ,Lord NELSON, who gloriously fell in the
service of his Country. Thtnumber of changes
Was calculated to correspond with the number of
lunar months in the Noble life.
: A Gentleman out 'shooting in the County of :East
Lothian,.whose dog, pointed in a stubble-field, fired
at a covey, and killed three partridges and a .hare
with one barrel.
A machire has. been invented for mowing
,care,
gras, &o.„- which .greatly facilitates that 'operation.
;t tups6(s of is O; NVIIOII moveable On an axisr. zo
the middle of .which is fixed an upright ba.r, that
turns, found eleVea limes for one rotation of the
wheels, and on. this bar a cirollar knife; or scythe,
frorn,2o inches to 3 feet inlength, is fieci. The
knife rises on(of its place if opposed by any ob-
stade its course, and When that is pasted it is ad-
justedagain by its
„own.:-weight. By another appa-
ratus, cQya that-1 asheen laid by rain or wind is rais-
ed-up and presented to the *cutter. The madann is
worked either by.men or horses.
The astonl.Shing number of 226 potatoes,- some,of
theinWeighingoipwards of 17 .eunces;_and :in the
whole amounting to'66lb.were. last season dug up
in 'an opvti field at Browshead, in Scotland,bcing
the prodt.m -Of three kidney, potatoes. 'A potatoo
was also. lastyear ditg up by Mr. Hari:it/jail, .at Bo-
now; which weighed -41 b. 3oz. • He preserved and
planted it this year in -several pieces, which produ-
ced no lass than 700 fine potatoes, weighing: 200

The dangerous praelice of throwing 'squibs,
crackers, ex.' had nearly proved of serious couse-
quence, on Thursday cvening
.last, at Bury, when
sortie wanton boys threw a serpent close to the horses'
heads of the niail-coach, whilst stopping at. die
Greyhound Inn, by inch they were so much
frightened that they ran away with the, coach the
whWlength'of the street, and drove the pole into
the wall of the White Lion Inn, where they were
stopped; ‘c;ithout doing, any injury but breaking
the pole of the carriage. Happily the two leadinw°
horses had been taken out, and the driver, guard,
and passsenprs, were previously safely landed.
Friday se nnight during, the illumination in the
evening; at Truro, an accident, happened which ibr
a while threatened serious con% quenees.. A furze-
rick on the southern borders of the town caught fire,
and communicated to Mr. Eyre's pottery, part, of
which was consumed k "but by the exertions of The
inhabitants the tire was got under with little damage.
Yesterdiy se'imight a young child, belonging to
Archibald Murray, shoe-maker, Berwick, being un.
fortunately left alone in the honse.for a few minutes,
its clothes caught fire, and theinfant was so dread-
fully burnt that its life is despaired of

Yesterday sennight a NV arrailt was issued by Mr.,
Gough; one of the Coroners of Oxfordshire, to the
Afinister and Churchwardens of the hamlet of Little
Tew, in the pal.Lll of Great.Tewr, 'to take' up the,
body of George Southall.), an infant under the age of
three years, who had beci:t secretly interred and on
the following day an
.I:minis-Ilion
,was taken, when it
appeared to the, satisfaalon- of the Jurors; that the
'was left with its brother, and, in the absence
.f.,e mother; its
,clothes caught tire, and brunt
ason ir•such a manner that be died in about two •
hours. •

l‘Vednesday morning as .ati elderly Lady was`` it
brilakfast, at Lirerpooli, her clothes caught fire ; by
timely assistance of the neighbours her, life was sav-
ed, biit.she WaS dreadfully burnt.
On Wednesday' Se'riight while three childit.l
were aunising themselves with malting fires in. a
field, at lialerno, twO of them having gone to a con-
siderable distance; to gather sticks, a girl about' four
years old, who was loft behind, going, too ii,:var the
irre; her clothes caught the flames, and, ii fore any
assistance 'could h obtainecl,f.ilitt 'was 53' scverely
Whit that the dled in a few /10:311.

Gerday se'nnig4 as a poor luau and his xviftt, at
Nl*tun near.lV4kefieicl, vvere si,eting b) the tire-
side, they fi i 1 asleep, when by soirie means the
clothes of the
.wograit took film, and she was so

dreadfully' burnt as 'to cause her death on Tupticia' y.
'The rrian.is also .so much burnt as to be unabii to
attentl'his husitress.

A pick-pLcket Who was Aiding a guinea from the
pocket of a countryman, at a country wake, lately,
was tict4ietl iii the very aLI. of drawing it out ;
very adroitly presented one and twenty shillings in
the other baud, saying lie wanted change.

Ertrai of a Leit..7serd to T.
- Salisbury, from his SOn (a vita only 13 Vears,
of age), • on loard the. Heroi doled Nov. 10,- Ply-
mouth Sound. •
"Not any thing could give me mire pleasure than
sending you this letter, which will inform you of
glorious news for Old England, and which I have
' been witness to,- and on -tha4laccount you will be
more happy to hear of at.' the 4th of November
we descried font' irreneh first-•xatelen-of War. We
immediately gave dike, and hbout.twelVe eclockat
noon came up with them, and so welidid we let theM
know it, that after three hour's and a hilf very hard
fighting we made them all-strike. Our St Uadron
consisted of 'font' Seventy fours and. three Frigates,
One of the Seventy-fours was at first nearly eut'of
sight, but immediately made way to us.' Commodore
STRACRAN commanded our little Squadron. Our
Captain is not hurt; but ten .of our men .are killed,
and forty-eight wounded. Our Ship very soon dis
' masted one albeit's, and drove her out of the line;
tail soon after made another-strike, though it was a
very sever contest. The Squadron took the remain-
ing part, and we towed them allin here. The Enony
had many men killed and wounded. ,I• have got.a
Frenchman's sword, which Irriean to bring home in
remembrance of the battle. The French. .Admiral
was wounded, and the Captain Of the Ship:we took
was killed. They tried' board us, but being within
pistol shot; we gave it them quite in sae. Our sails
arc like:cabbage nets, for shot holes. Commodore
S. came on board our ship after the action, and said
he ctittld not okprets the ooligatloli he was-under to
every Officer and man on board the Hero tor their
gallant =ulna. T hope you*are alias well as I am;
though, T mustv.vn, when we began fighting, / did
not expea to escape with whole bones; .ant] I have
been very thankful to God Almighty that was net
in the least hurt."

A duel was'fought on Friday evenityr in Cppen-
E,r
hagen7fields., between a Canfain of a •Volunteur
Corps' and, a Mr. m‘c„--, in consequence of an
altercation which took place at, the representation of
the new Comedy, at COvene-Garden Theatre„ on
Thursday e v ening.-.4)ne of 'the 'Gentlemen, on re-
ceivingliis adversary's fire, discharged his pistol in
'the air, on which the' Seconds interfered.
,Saturday morning, between three and five o'clock,
as the .Flitchin 'and Bedii)rd waggon, and an errand
cart, were: coaling to
.town heavily laden, they were
robbed .of., several valuable packages
.on Finchley
ConitnOn... Some of the Hatton Garden Officers
~Vere upon the watch, . hitt the 'thieves macle their
escape, owing to the darkness of the morning.

On Tuesday last 'an old man travelling in MIS-
- from Devonshire to London, by some
accident tell out of the waggon near Salisbury, and
by the horse* trampling on him, faith his thighs
were:broken and. he was otherwise much hurt. He
was taken to the Infirmary, wliere.every:posiible at
tension 1.1.733 sliewn to him, bc,t be still remains in a
very, dangerous,-state. . •
.1p the night ..of Saturday the Qd nst. the barn of
Mr. Dnminolow, of Chellasion,, near Derby, was
broke ,open , and four, bag;, containing Wheat, the
wheat being,firstpourcd out, were stolen, and a Jarze
• dtieks ; the party ~,,upposed to have cora,
milted. this .rob b::11, preceeded next to the house of
• FOrman, ut Chellaston, where they. stole n
gee ;,.(the whole of his flock). and
.a
_quantity of
fo‘i,ls",: froth thence they proceeded to Weston, to
the.house oaf .Nlis.Robinson, where they stoic a large
quantitY Of
_fowls ,inid h 01.130. rabbits ; and there is
strong reason to belieVe that on the saint:: night, the
carne party, or sopur! of them, previous to the rob-
bery at Cliellaston, had atteinpted similar depreda-
tien3, tho Ugh unsuccessfully, at Barrow. A meet-
ing of the parties rol bed, and tieh Associations of
Chel)aston and. Aaon, took place;' a resolution was
unanimously adopted, that. however great the CX.-
pence's of dete&ion might lA, every means possibie
should be immediately taken. •
The following is a copy of an original notice sent
to the Surveyor of Taxes; for the distil& Of I..cyland,
residing in Blackburn : •

- Air.' Hall •Gorg
.Poartet Dog Was Pisend on 7
of.Angust 11165 and isfor Ceeping Non for the time
to Cony 'Withal."

BIRTHS. . . .
On Saturday the gth inst. at Ochtertyre, in Scotland, the
Right 1-ton, Lady Mary Murray, of a. Daughter. .

111ARRI4D.

On Tuesclay,last, at St. Coorgc's Church, Liverpool, Ri-
chard Salisbury, Esq. of Cooper-Hill, Walton.le.dale, in
Lancashire, to Miss liollson,' daughter of the late Rev. Geo.
Hodsori, otie of the Rectors of Li vetpcol.
Tlae.sarne thy. at Piirig.HQUEC, Scotland,. James Macken.
zie, Esq.' of Craigpark, Merchant in Glasgow, to Miss
Louisa Balfour, orti) daughter of John Balfour, Esq. of
Vesterday seinnight, at Gainsborough, the Rev. C. B.
1;1 .ssingbeid, Vicar of Upton, arid Chaplain to the Right
Lord Byron, to Miss Smith, datighter of loan Smith,
of the lamer plate.