The Sun.
London, England, 1802-10-20 00:00:00

PHILADELPHIA, SEPT. 7.

Yesterday (the S ibba tit I) the Vice-President, and
..veral other distingui,hed Personages, dined on
;),:trd the French Frigate La Romaine, the Commos-
lore's ship. On this occasion the thrt-e Frigates
La Romaine, Lit VOloilhe;re, and La Conic'ante).
.:1-e in full dress ; the Flags of the diffl:rent Na-
,,,ns were all displayed, which from the wind being
rang from the North West, exhibited the most
,:-autiful scene of the kind we ever witms3ed.—
Appropriate discharges of cannon were fired, and the
dly, no doubt, was spent with that hArmony and
r,liiteness which is, the charatteristic of the French
Nation.

SAVANNAH, AUG. TO.

An event took place this morning, which ter-
uinated in the death of William Hunter, Esq.
,yho fell in a duel with Mr. David Mitchell.—
The dispute had its origin in July last, in the
County Court, to the Jury of which Mr. Hunter
was Foreman, in a cause in which Mitchell teas
Counsel. During the trial, it appearing to Mr.
Hunter that the examination of the evidence was
not concluded by the Counsel with that impar-
tiality which justice required, he addressed a few
words to the Court, when Mitchell got up and ob-
served, that Mr. H. was Very officious on the occa-
sion. Mr. H. replied, that officiousness of jurymen
was not to be compared with the impertinence of
certain Attornies. There the matter rested until
last Monday, when Mitchell attacked Mr. Hunter
in the street with a large bludgeon, Mr. H. baying
nothing to defend himself with, after receiving
inur blows, attempting unsuccessfully at the same
time to seize Mitchell by the collar, he said, ''
Mitchell, I am unarmed ; I must retreat unless
you lay
.aside your weapon." Mr. H. then re-
treated
.to Dr. Kollock's shop for a cane—there
was none there. Be this time, some Citizens
interfered, and they left the ground. The same
evening Mr. Hunter sent Mitchell a challenge,
who, after much equivocation, accepted it. Dr.
Koliock was Mr. H.'s Second. Major B. Max-
well was Second to Mitchell. Mr. H. filed firs',
and hit Mitchell on the hip. Mitchell missed Mr.
H. Mr. H.'s second ball hit Mitchell on the
groin, also without penetrating the skin ; but Mr.
Hunter received Mitchell's second ball in his right
breast. Mr. I-hinter immediately turned, and ex-
claimed, " I am a dead !min ;" and, as Dodors
Glenn and Kollock caught him in their arms, he
.asked for a glass of wine, and expired.

TUNNEL UNDER THE THAtsars.—To the curious
it may not be uninteresting to know what diffi-
culties Nature presents in the accomplishment of
this Tunnel:—under the River Thames are sub-
terrancous stores of water, which, in quantity and
situation, are as uncertain as their ramifications are
varied ;. all that its able conduftors have as yet met
with, are effectually penned out, or arched, from
their excavations. This adventurous undertaking,
•in its route Ileneath the River, will mine through
chalk and flint only, which boring, and other local
researches, proves to lie alternately in an horizon-
tal positio9 to each other, nearly East and West ;
but from South to North, under the Thames from
Gravesend to Tilbury Fort, the same strata of
chalk and flint runs vertically from the surface of
the Kentish shore to the depth of seventy-two feet
on the Essex coast, which is preceded up to the
surface by strata of clay. The chalk is hard and
fragile, and at 14.6 feet deep float a level with the
surface of the River, is near thrice the density of
that near the ftee of the earth, and in colour ap-
proaches to grey. -The beds are in thickness from
three to eight feet, and form laminas from three to
six inches deep, closely united in the direftion of
the stratum, between which the water permeates
into the mine, and does not transudate perpendi-
cularly. The flint in some places forms compaft
layers ; there is one excavated through, that does
not exceed a quarter of an inch in depth ; some
are di,persed singly, differing in thickness up to
IS inches, increasing in hardness and lustre, ac-
cording to the depth, assuming a blacker tinge, and
throwing out abundance of fire in allision with steel.
As the late Militia Aft requires, that each Per-
son's Claim 'of Exemption shall be stated in the
Return which lie is to make to the Constables, the
Publication of the following Extrad from the Aft
of Parliament, may be of use to our Readers :