The Sun.
London, England, 1802-10-12 00:00:00

ROCHESTER, OCT. 11.

THE Mayor and Corporation of this City having
lately unanimously voted the Freedom of this an-
cient Corporation to Commissioner HARTWELL of
the Navy, it was this day presented to that Gen-
tleman in a very distinguished manner. This mark
of the respect and esteem of our truly respeetable
Corporation is the more honourable to the objeEt of
it, as it arises merely from the impression of gen.
tlemanly and conciliating condutt while Commis-
sioner HARTWELL was the Resident Commissioner
of Chatham Dock-yard.

The Corporation of Armagh have voted the
Freeaom of that City to Lord WILLIAM BEN-

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It appears by a late decision of the Courts in
jilmaica, that the Consignees of produce in this
C.e.,-,zry, in case of non-insurance, are considered as
reponsible for every loss that may happen in con-
sequence of fire. It is remarkable that, notwith-
standing the large and increasing importations into
this Country, the well-known attention of our
Merchants, the peculiar exposure of produce to
fire, the serious loss which was some time since
sustained at Greenock, and still more recent and
awful calamity at Liverpool, no general measure
should have been adopted on this important sub.
jea.
A Russian Officer is said to have shot himself
through the arm in the Emperor's gardens, at Pe-
te-sburgh, and afterwards asserted that he had been
wounded by an unknown hand, for the purpose of
inducing the belief that a Conspiracy was on foot,
the objeft of which he had been mistaken for, in
orc er to obtain a sum of money, This curious bu.
siness is undergoing a thorough investigation on the
pa't of the Government.
RQWLAND BURDQN, Esq. has made an ofEtr to
se; the Tolls arising from Sunderland Bridge, the
erection of which cost him 19,0031. and. to appro-
priate the whole sum raised by the sale, to other
works of general utility.
The Duke of RUTLAND declines going, to Paris
till after the return of some of its present visitors,
being wisely attentive to the old admonition that
If Evil communication corrupts good MANNERs."
The.,establishment of Rifle Corps is justly, con.
si;tred as no small augmentation of the military
sticlgth of the Kingdom a but there probably was
tr:,er a time when the people in .everal parts of the
c, 'nary had more reason to complain of being rifled.
The excelleva Entertainment which the-Marquis
TowNsHE:sn gave some time ago to the Norfolk
Rangers, was with a view, no doubt, to make ihem
look plump and smooth when escorting the 1 RIN-
cES of WALES to Raittharil,
A Morning Paper says, " Mr. PITT is a late
riser." He war formerly in the habit of rising
late, but when once he got aim?: his legs, he gene-
rally did more than any man in the Hope.

"the Subscription opened for the eredion of a
Monument at Zurich, to the celebrated LAVATER
not being sufficient, the Helvetic Government has
subscribed an old Cannon, from the Arsenal, to
furnish Bronze.

It it an illwind that blorwir nobody good," says
an old proverb, which has been verified in the fol-
lowing instance M‘Ginnis, who was con-
vited about Is years since of the murder of Mr.
Hardy, hatter, in Newgate_street, and was par-
doned on condition of transporting himself for life,
died lately at the house of a Nightman in Gray's
inn lane, where he had been immured ever since
his liberation from prison, and to whom he bequeath-
ed his property, amounting to about 12,0001. ex-
certing sw', to some needy relatiols in Iceland.