The Sun.
London, England, 1805-09-04 00:00:00

Sept. 211. Ilarnabas Gatnpbell, hteof Piuteeu-scliKtre.
Middier;;;x; inintance.bruker, at twelve, at
G uildhal I .
(49, z., tori.llrpckbanle, of Keswick, Cumberland, dealer,,
at ien, at the Sun, 'Coekeinnmith.
Sept. 2C,.. 'lltornas levin and lames Holden, now or late of
fialitax, Yorkshire, 'dyers and co.partners, at ten, at the'
Talbot Ino, Halifax-
CISRTIFIC/ITES.
•
Sept. 24.. fohn MArptti, 91 Maiden lane, Rattle Bridge,
'Middlesex, Gin:llllsr.
Robert Sutherland, late of Kingston, larnaiea, and afterward;
of Newniati.street, hilddittex, merchant.
John broad, cf Vine-street,. Lambeth, Surrey, timbcr.dealer.
.
G'eor6e liagshaw llrown, of Newport, Salop, plumber.

At:the ,last. Assizes for the County of Antrim a
trial of considerable importance was had in the Nisi
Prius -Court, •before the Honourable Mr. Baron
APCLELLAND,. wherein William Owens, Esq. wa,
.Plaintiff, and: James :Agnew, Defendant. • It ap-
peared by the -statement of. Plaintiffs Council,which
Was afterwards fully substantiated by evidence, that
the Defendant, at Summer Assizes, 't 804, was ap.,
pointed High Constable of the Upper Half-Barony
01,Antrim, and that the Treasurer of the County of
Antrim, shortly, after the same lUsizes, issued his
warrant to the Defendant, as High Constable of the,
said Upper Half-lilt-wry, requiring him to applot,
and levy in the• usual form of such warrants,
certain sums of money, being their contingent
proportion of the, expellees of the County,. on
certain districts within said Upper Half,diarony,
viz. 821 (is. 7W. on Donegor---691: 2s. 7d. on
Upper Kilbride-941. 11g. 10;1. 011 Lower KU-
bride-831. 18s, :3d. on Naltoen, and. 1951. 14s.
2d. on Ballyeaston (said lands being with:n the
manor of Moylinny), making altogether 3s.
7d. thereby trenching.on the rights of the applotters
to be &KW to applot the said entire sum in such
proportioni as they should think the said denomi-
nations most capable, according to quantity and qtta-
lity, 'ot' contributing to the.general assessment, and
which warrant, it appeared, was issued by the Trea-
surer in that form, at the instance of theDefendanf,
and under a promise of indemnity from him, instead
of pursuing the forrn pointed out by the County-
book, OrKey of the County, which divides the said,.
Half-Barony into
,two ditarietS only, viz. Antrim and
Moylinny.; and it,lizther appeared, plat Low4n-KU,.
bride (in.whichdenomination the Hain tiirs lands lie),
had been charged beyond. its .due proportion of as-
sessment,and by reason of the-warrant being issued in
the way stated, applotters,to be elected fOrithat deno-
mination, could not lighten such proportion, and lay
part of the charge on other denominations in Moy-
linny,,, more capable of bearing •it. A meeting of
the Landholders was held by the. Seneschal of the
Manor of Moylinny, under said 'warrant, to:: appoint
applotters to applot the said respeCtive Aetiornina-
,tions, and the respeCtive sunis,clagged on each by said
Warrant," notwithstanding previOus notice• to him,
and to the Defendant, by the 'Plaintiff,. that jany
,thoice of applotters to' be trade at such 'or any
meeting to be held pursuant to said warrant, wuulci
be inefficient ; those, however, present, ele§ted the
Plaintiff and Hugh M'Queston applotters for Lower
Kilbride. The Plaintiff and- M‘‘lueron refused to
aa in that capacity, and no applotment !iving ac-
' cordingly been returned to the Defendantoyithin
the tithe limited by the Statute, the Defendant, on
the llth of April last; entered into the denomination-
of Lower Kilbride, and there seized, 'as a distress,
the 11.i1otiff' Latch:, which he 59.1,1 by public 4.:ant.
in the next market-town, for the entire cess laid by
the Treasurer's warrant on that denomination, with
fees.--4or this seizure the Plaintiff brought this
adion.

After much ability and ingenuity, displayed by
Counsel on both sides, and atter an able charge lipro
the Learned Judge who presided, who.: took occa-
sion to observe, that the Treasurer had not any
authority to vary the plan always:adhered to in, issu-,
ing his warrants, uniorming, to the County Book,
and in particular,' under such circumstances as the
present, where thaoTariance was calculated to, de-
teat the proviOlOilS Of the Statute, for a due and equal
assessment, accenting to the quant:ty and quality
of the denomination of laud to be assessed—the
Jury found a verdict for the Plaintiff for 501. da-,
mates, and 6d. costs.

We yesterday meritione4 the commitment of
Edward Cox to 'llchester _Gaol : the following is a
more particular account
,of the affOir :—On the 2d
of ast month a parcel; containing Bank of England
Notes and Country. Notes to the amount of
3,4741.. 10s. was sent by. Messrs. Pugh and Witney,
Bankers, of Sherborne, dirt4ed to Mr. Langston,
' No. 91, Watling-street, 1.,:0n40n,•by the Old Tann-
ton C6ach.. It did not come to hand, and after
every possible enquiry, it was given out as lost 'or
stolen : in, consequence of which, 10,000 hand-
bills were printed, offering a reward for, the recovery
of the parcel, and Miller, theßow-street Officer, was
employed to distrihme them between London and
Sherborne. No tidings were heard of the parcel, or
any
,trace of the property, till. 'Monday, sennight,
when a 101. note, part of the said property, was
transmitted to Ransom's, in Pall-mall, from Whit-
Marsh's Bank, at Yeovil, Upon examination of the
note remitted to,Messrs. Ransoms, it was discovered
to- have the name of EdWard Cox upon it ; and
upon enquiry, one of the coachmen who drives the
Old Taunton Coach proved to be of that name,
,'The (Accra were dispatched that evening to up-,
prebend the coachman, whom they found at Win;-
The coachman denied the
,canuton with the coach.
charge ; but Anthony proceeded to search him, and
found ,cash and notes to the amount of 451.
then conveyed him' to YstuArtli, and on searching his
,honse, was so fortunate as, to ft,tad the remainder
• of the notes, and this coachman was fully. committed
for trial. •

Puuttc Ortqcr., ITATToN ARDnN.---Yttsterday
John Thu, late stir\ ant Co G, pERRY; Esq. of Guild-
ford-street, Was clioTrd on suspicion of stealing a
large quantity of Nvenilig apparel, the property of
Ins master. and other persons. Four pawnhrokors
attended with n I;rge gnautity of goods he had
pledged with them, some of which were identified.
Ire was committed for re-examination.
On Sunday a Lady, of regpeetable connexions,
was discovered by her servant hanging in' her rllum,
lst Queen's-row, Walworth : she was immezhately.
taken down, but all moans to restore animation
proved inefreelual.

ALEXANDER THE GREAT,

1:14 , C.:4AR KE a Gentleman of acknowledged lite-7
rary abilities and antiquarian rescatCh, has written a
Dissertation on. the Sarcophagus which the French
seized in their Egyptian Expedition, but which was
rescued by the valour of our Countrymen, and is
now deposited in the British Museum. 'ln
.this Dis-
..er:tation the 3)06t0r, with a laudable spirit ofpairi-
dtie enthusiasm which induces him. to hope that his
Country possesses a singular relique of antiquity, has
attempted to prove. that the SarcoOhagus alluded to
is in reality the .Tomb of tho great MACEDONIAN
111;a0. The Doetor slims much ingenuity in treat-
ing this subjed ; but his reasoning is likely to have
a stronger impression upon hunself than his readers,
and his Work has draWn forth the following 'Obser-
vations from a Critic, who' mixes huinotir with.argu-
meut and learning.

In this age of literary refinement we are not, in-
deed, surprised that an Author should attempt " to
trace the noble dust of Alexander till he follnd it
stopping a bung-hole ;" though, without being fas-
tidious, we might be inclined to say, with Horatio,
'Twere to consider too curiously to consider so."
Dr. Clarke, however, answers, No faith, not a.
jot ;" and we shall_ not be much astonished if he
produce another quarto volume to persuade us, that
he has found the identical dust of the departed,
lero,

•
turn'd to clay,
• • Stopping a hole to keep the wind away •
HWe should then, indeed, exclaim-
0, thee that earth, wuich kept the workl in awe,
Should patch a wail to expel the winter's hioN.
Dr. Clarke, however, is not deterred by Oiffiettl-
, ties which, would startle other men. kle is so confi-
dent in the strength of his cause, that •he clues not
H hesitate to announce 'this Sarcophagus, in the very,
title-page; as the aolual Tomb of Alexander. But
if the point be so clear, we should be glad to know
why he found •it necessary to write a quarto vo-
• fume to establish what was already incontrover-
tible
. The square chest, or Sareophagus'in question, in,
its greatest length, is 'ten feet,, five feet and 'a half
in Width, and rather snore than four feet in height
it is rounded off at the sipper end, and covered, both-
,
internally and externally, with''Egyptian:.,hieregly-
. tildes.. Its beauty is incomparable.
Dr. Clarke;: in the very outset of his work, gives
rather an unfortunate 'specimen of his acatiracy.--,
Re attempts to infer from the account of Denoti,
'that the French Scavans were expressly shewu the
.Sarcophagus as Alexander's Tomb, Whereas there is
nothing in Detion'S beck to countenance such an
I idea. Both he and:Dolomieu seem to have viewed
it merely as a precidus morsel of anticui ty, and
one of the chief spoils of Egypt;" with .which they
Wished to enrich their Museum : And we' can assure
'Dr. Clarke, from thevery best authority, that nei-
ther of these Gentlemen had ever the most distant
idea of considering it as' 'the Tornb of the Macede-
nian Hero. If the traditions upon which Do6tor
Clarke scittniCh relies ever reached them, they were
thought unworthy of recolleaion, and treated as the
weak inventions of the lying Arabse who wished to'
impose on their credulity ; and this We suspea wig
ttirn.eutto have been the ease With Dre Clarke him-
self.
lint let 113 see how Dr: 'Clarke ascertained to hie;,
own' satisfadion that the Surcophagus in the Mu,
seam was the real depository of Alexander's body.
We had scarcely (says he) reached the house
in Alexandria in which we were to reside, when ,a
party of the Merchants of the place,- who had heard
the nature of our errand, carne to congratUlate us
on th.ao capture of Alexati4ria, and to express their
anxiety to serve the English. As soon as the rot=
Wits'Cleared of other visitants, speaking with great
.eircumspealon, and in a low voice, they asked if our
business in Alexandria related to the antiquities col,
letled by the French ? Upon, being answered in the
affirmative, the principal of them " Does your
CoMinander in Chid know that they: have the
Tomb of Alexander ?" We desired . them to de-
scribe it ; • upon which he said,:it was a beautiful
green stone taken from the Mosque of St. Athena-
ressi which among the inhabitants had alwaYs bonie
that aprellation., Our letters and instruCtions from
Cairo evidently referred to theffiame Monnment. " It
is 'the objeCt (they continued) cif our present visit,
and we will chew you where they have Concealed
it." They then related the measures used by the
French, tha extraordinary care they had observed
to prevent any, intelligence of 'it, the indignation
shewn by the Mahometans at its removal, the ve-
neration in which they held if, and the tradition, fa-
miliar to all of them, respe&ing its origin. I con-
versed afterwards with several of the Mahometans,
both Arabs and Turks, on the same subjea ; not
only those that were natives and inhabitants of the
city; but also Denise's and PilgrimS ; persons from
Constantinople, Stnyrna, and Aleppo, who had 'vi-
sited, or who had resided, at Alexandria ;, and they
all agroed in one uniform tradition, namely, it; be,
ing the Tomb 'of Iscander (Alexander), the Founder
of the City of Alexandria."
irirnot-alittrtl l'ingtilar that the tommuniaitieri
of this tradition should not only be reserved for De.
• Clarke, who had Made the Tomb of Alexander the
expr&s " obje6l. oehis visit ;" but confined to him-
for we` know that an Officer, high in rank, in the
English Artily, made every possible inquiry, and
could not trace a vestige:of tradition on the subjeef,
and the French were, beyond doubt, equally it
brio;
rant of it.
But the. testimony of nll well-infortned traVellers
is equally hostile to Dr. Clarke's hypothesis.
cocke says, " there have been travellers who pre
lend to have his (Alextuider"s) body its a MosqUe ;
but at present, they have no account of it," Norden
also says, " Even the tradition cencereing the Tosnb
of Alexander is entirelyrimlost.iob rlbl,
havei, ili vain' sou,aght-e\rirdietlai:
Out success for this
.voured to inform myself about it." The testiMany
of. Bruce is. Still more decisive : he says, " the Toni&
of Alexander, has been telked of as' one, of-the 3i7ti-
quities of.this city. Manuol says it in' 9 616.6.„
It 'was, according to him, a small house in the:fenn'
of a-chapel, .in the middle Of , the city; neiW the'
church of St. Mark, and was called Eteander. 7
thing itself is not proLabl4,.for.all those that mach'
themselves masters of Alexandria in the earheSt dine
14 too much rospea for Alexander to rednce psis Totub