The Sun.
London, England, 1802-10-14 00:00:00

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Poultry Campter.—Yesterday the foll Owing circuit:
stance was cothmunicated to the LOap.MAYOTi, by
Mr:. T ague, the kuper of
.th Poitry Co fl, ter
Having received some informations that ,sever.d—of
the Fetonfrisone.rs. intended to_Make theft escape;
Ile, with theassistznce of his Men and some
officersi- mide search amongst .the rrlostAlcspewe of
them, four of whoin, who-had hfen -committed for
capital offences, had got their ifons sawed off: j..)!,11
White had gOt his it,;ns off, and was at work, with
a steel aaw, when dcit::ted. •

Both the iron and were shewn.to his Lo!d.
ship, who was told -thaz .his 'White was the ring-_
leader of the intended escape. He is to he tried loi
having personated a seaman, to receive wag-4.
—Liekily they are ail now properly secured, with
out any bloodshed.

PUBLIC-errict, SnApwELL.---Yesterday
veral reirde-r,n-y Shipwrights were brought to the
Office, having deserted the. Dock-yard of ,IViessrs.
BR ENT and Cu. at Rotherhithe. :Being brought
to a sense of their duty) they agreed to resume
their work.

' We under tand from Madras, that the R,!ght
Hon. -the Governor in Council hasautliorised the.
working the 'Diamond Mines of Pidaftud; 'to en.
.courage which, his Loichhip
,res.olved that no,
shall in futhre be paid by those who may' rent-
the Mines, esscePi what -May be stipulated to 1*
paid to.'Government:'
.On the jth -Of April the, Ship
.Capt.
Fo it ES froms Bombay for Bengal. By, "the
Adcwiture, Wept passenger, Capt. J. G. scc-r-r, of
,the MadraS 'Artillery; charged with diTatches from
Major General BAI R -c-bnimanding the India!)
Army at Rosetta, for the Most Noble the GOvernor-
General ; Captain GItiERN, Peputy Auditor Gene,':
ral of the Bengal EStalitslimeht and Dr. O'NE;L.
The- shew of Cattle at Smithfield :Market- on
.Monday last, was :very considerable. It is
much pleasure eve state, that • the price of oxen ex,
perienced such a depresion as is encourage the,
expeetation- of :a • great and speedy redutlion in
butchers'-meat...- -Sheep and lambs, -although nume-
rous, were much the saute in Price as on the former
marker-dalr. -
At .Bath, a decrease in the price of _provisions.
has been happily experienced. Veal and Mutton,
of a .superior kind, are sold' for 7d. per pound—the
piartern loaf 7d.

At Enfield Races, on Tuesday last,. the Subscrip.
lion Plate of Sol. "was won at two ,Ilee.ts by' Mr.,
Darand's ally heating Mr. Harris's hrodwr
to Larcher, 114:. i3adley's Paulo; and two others.—
Wednesday's sport "Consisted of Hock Races, and a
Hunter's-Sweepstakes.

CAUTION TO ChTERSZE.RS..—At the ()darter Ses-
sions for Kesteven,ili Lincolnshire, held <.t Blurn,on
Monday Senniglit, .theDverseer ofa Parish in that
Divisibn, was Inditffed, at the instance of the 17,-1..
surer-of the County, for ref Using to pay-the Parish
Quota roWards the St-101)00 of the Militia, Men's
NVives, -and-being tottO guilty, was sentenc:d to a
month's imprisonment; which pueishment, ho
ever,
.was mitigated-to. ten guineas.
A few dap since- were cbnvifted before the k...cv.
Dr. COULTRURST_ and. THOMAS- LODGE, Esq.
in Yorkshire, William Bedford, of Elland...cum.
Greetland, and Richard Mortimer, of Liv'ersedge,
clothiers, in the pencilties of twenty pounds, for
buying. and receiving of &trait Summerscales, of
Southowram, a quantity of wool .waste, knowing
the. same to have been embezzled. Seventy-ftye
persons have also been conyi6led- before the. above
Magistrates- and.THOMAS H,nttTQN, P.sq. for hay.
ing in their_ posseSsion defective weights, arid un.
equal balances.

About mid-day on Tuesday, Mr. Woods, an
Attorney's Clerk, of Bell-yard, TeMple-bart _ was.,
stopc on the -Kent Koad,.. by a single footpad, and
robbed of seven one. Tumid notes and his watch ;
immediately after, which, .Mr. Woods met two la-
botircip, to whom he related the circumstance, and
they, all agreed to go. in pursuit of the robber. At
a' considerable distance • they saw him robbing two
Ladies in a chaise; from whom they larnt he Cook
• -255. but seeing Mr. Woods and his two- compa-
nions, he Made -Off, and. though they_pursued him
a consiiierableme, he efre.ded his. escape.
On. Monday evening, about
.eightm'ClOck, two
Gentlemen were stopped coming to Town, .on
Barnes CoMmon, by a 'single highwayman, and
robbed' of cash and' notes., to 'the. amount of sol. and
one,of .the Gentlemen's watches, with which the
villain made his escape. ,
. •
. A few days since, as a Gentleman Was coming to
town from Kilburn. Wells; crossing: a' fled near
Chalk FAtin; a man rushed upin him- from behind
a tree, with a piStol_in his hand, wlvj demanded the
Gentleman's:. money. The Gentleman had only
eighteen-pence:about birth The fellow, not being
satisfied wish this, searched, his pockets, irid took
a spedacle case from him. The Gent-man en-

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treated
.vcrpritoch to have it back, as.his eyes were
dim, and Ile:.haci business.to transiiet in town, which
he ;could mot rxecure without them.. They ,:cre
accordingly returned.: - ,J._.

Monday. a young girl, not upwards of z 7, and
servant to an artist in Little'Britain,,had the des-
Aerate Con,,;!;;g,:• to deliver herself
,of . a irnale
and, in of not being discovered, bar-
.barouslf string about its neck and hung it. up
in the I • Her "rnistres's suspeCling, from
her appear4lce that -something' •'extraordinary
'Oecu'reed, carefully searched the house, and at length
found the infant where the unhalipy .mother had put
it. Cdronei's Jury was yesterday summoned on
the occasion; when, after the usual forms were gfine
through, the senience "Stillborn". was pronciu,:ccd,
The unfortunate. female, however, was taken into
custouy.

On Tttesday last,,about noon, a Gen:l=aq walk.
ing from Bearstead to Nolingsourne, in Kent,
was robbed by a single focr.pad of his watch and

some money. And-on the to!,owing day twcyLa...
,dies, on their journeyfrom London to Mark4te,
,while walking forward firom: Osprinke; exp:Cting
their chaise to. follow them, were. robbed by a. man,
Who is supposcdAO be the same person;

COMMERCE OF THE BLACK SEA.

[FROM THE FRENCH.]

THE following Speculations, respeaing the Ad-
vantages to be derived by France froin the free en-
joyment of-the Navigation of the Black Sea, are the
produaion of M. MALEKEUSKY, an expatriated
Pole, and are silt' to have been published with the
sanlion of the French Government.

The various and abundant produas of Poland
were, for. a long time, exported by the Baltic only.
In the latter years of its political existence, the
Poles, tired of the enormous duties laid on by the
Prussian Government, began to think that the course
cf the Black Sea would, in every respea, prove
mote adVantageous to their interests.
• The old Government of France, aware of the
fertility of the Southern Provinces of Poland; and.
the importance of their produas to the French Navy
and Commerce, was preparing to encourage the Poles
in this new enterprise ; but this was only a mo-
mentary projea, and not adopted until the Cabinet
of Versailles was in its decline.

These provinces constitute almost one half •the
extent of. Poland. They arc watered by three
great rivers ; the Dnieper or Boristhenes, which
empties itself into the Black Sea above Cher Son ;
the Bog, which enters it at Ockzakow ; and the.
Dniester, which has its mouth at Ackerman.--r;
These three rivers traverse a much greater extent
of country than .the Niemen nr. ,t-tie ',Vistula, the
only grand thannels of Polish comtherce by the
Black-Sea; and the countries through which they
flow may justly be called the Land of Promise, with
,respea to the means of supplying the chief neces-
sities of man. As a proof of the abundance bf
provisions in this country, it is sufficient to state
that the Ukraine. alone subsisted several Russian
armies during the whole of the last wars with the
Turks. •

It prOduces ship timber in great abundance, and
• of very great age, as may be seen in the reports of
the Master Mast_maker at Toulon, who was sent
purposely to examine the forests of this country.—
;The masts brought by the way of Riga and the
Baltic, were from 18 to to months •in tote convey-
ance, while those brOught by *ay of Cherson ar.
rived in- three months at Toulon, the experiment
having been made by the old French Government ;
and Mr. ANTHOINE has evinced, by arithmetical
calculations, that Cherson is far preferable to Riga
for the conveyance of Polish masts.
The salted provisions of the. Ukraine are_ equal
to those- of
.Ireland.; and from the low price of`
both cattle and salt in. Moldavia and the Crimea, ac-
cording to trials
.already made, they may be deli..
vered at Ackerman or Cherson, one half cheaper
than they. can be had at, on the spot, in Ireland.
• Hemp for sail.cloth and cordage, horse-hair,
common wool, bleached and green. linen, packing.
cloth, raw and tanned hides, may here be obtained
in great quantities',
• It also, abounds in saltpetre, tar,. tallow, hemp,
and linseed oils, honey, butter, hogs,latd, hops,
rosin,_and aqua.vitx.
The different kinds of wax are sold at so low a
rate in .the Ukfaine, that the Austrian merchants
carry them by land to Gallicia, whence they are
conveyed also by land carriage across Moldavia
and, Austria; as far as- Trieste; at which port,
notwithstanding the,enormous expence of convey_.
ante, they always fetch a considerable profit.
The Ukraine produces very excellent tobacco.
A trial was made of it in France in 1757, and it
was allowed to be nearly equal to that of Virginia.
The farmers of the tax upon this article -were 'even
on the point of contrailing with- a Bankei in War.
saw. for a supply, when,a war broke out and put an
end to the speculation.
Pot and pearl ashes, which have long come frOm
Poland through the ports of Dantzic, Koningsburg,
and Elbing, are also pioddlions of the Ukraine ;
and it is easy-to calculate the difference of ptke
which most result from their conveyance by the
Black Sea and Baltic.

These countries, so rich in articles of the first ne-
cessity, are almost entirely destitute of manufallures.
The trade of France would, therefore, obtain by the
Black Sea a market equally advantageous to the two
countries, for its woollen, silks, trinkets, wines,
fire oils,. liqueurs, sugar, coffee, spiceries, drugs;
dye stuff,, &c. The experiments aaually made, he-
fore the Revolution, evinced of what importance this
trade might become to France, and particularly to
thedepartments bordering on the Mediterranean.
The French shipping might,. besides, tarry to
this traa all the various commodities of the Le..
*ant. This trade is carried co at present by Jews
and Armenians only, by way of Moldavia ; a chan-
nel which is tedious, expensive,. and, with respell,
to these unfortunate people,. subject- to a.Thousand
extortions.

The aggregate of the exportrby.the.,Black Sea
would become much more considerable for, France,
than that of the English and 'Mitch by the Baltic;
and the imports through this channel would also
he much
_greater than through Dantzic, Konings_
burg,: and Riga, because the Dnieper, the Bog,
the Dnie4er, being once made navigable. through..
their whole extent, penetrate much farther into
the interior of the Country, than the Niemen or
Vistula.. The. Canal of Muchama, which already
joins the Vistula at Pazipee, and that of Oginski,
which might be continued so as to unite the Bo-
fisthenes to the Niemen, would of course, enable
the whole of ancient Poland- to share in the com-
merce of the Black Sea, and join, to the already
immense advantages of this Trade, those also of
the Baltic.

Russia, which has allotted a part of this country
to jierseif in the general partition, begins to en_
courage the Trade of .the Black ,Sea, which truly
presents such magnificent prospeas, and has even
recently construed a new port named Odcessa, ‘or
Odgibia.
This Commerce may become for France.a new
and valuable mine of wealth, the opening of which,
due to the genius and , aftivity of the Government,
may be reckoned' among its glorious labours.---
This Commerce may furnish a solid basis for an. in-

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timate union of tfie interests of France and Russia.
In this quarter, the French will not, as in the Bal-
tic, and every other part of the world,
.have, to
encounter that rival Nation:Which attempts to en-
gross every branch of commerce, and which, at
present, frrim its capital, the quality of its mann-
ektures, and its policy (fdunded entirely, in the
last result, upon its commerce) form those obsta-
cles, which it.is frequently. very difficult to sur-
mount.

France, besides, from its connexions, its credit,
the proximity of its Ports ,in the isilediterranean,
and its power upon that -sea, is the Nation best
calculated for cnncluding this Commerce.