The Sun.
London, England, 1802-10-09 00:00:00

COLOMBO, MARCH Ij.

The final Cession of this Settlement to His
jesty has been the occasion of much joy to the
Native Inhabitants, of which the Governor lately
received a Stibllt testimony.
On the ifst ult. an Entertainment was given at
the house of Maha Mode Hat; at which many of the
Civil and Military Officers and Most of the,Ladies
in-Colombo were present.
On his Excellency's tnirance he wAs cohtivaed
to a Chair of State, to whiCh a Deputation of the
Native Head Men, led by Maha Modeliar, ap-
proached and delivered the following Address :

To HIS EXCELLENCY.
The Honourable FREDERICK NORTH,

6ocr:U“Sit, CAPTAIN GENERAL AND COMMANDER. IN
CHIEF d? THE BRITISH POSSESSION ON THE ISLAND
OF CEYLON, &C. &C. &C.

We
IT PLEASE YOUR EXCELLENCY, •
We the Malta Modeliars of your Excellency's gate and all
Other Modeliars and Native Headmen, His Majesty's most
Loyal Subjects beg leave to approach your Excellency on this
joyful occasion that .Peace has again been re-established, by
which Cevlon. the Country of our nativity has been finally
ceded to Nis Britannick. Majesty our most Gracious Sovereign
Lord, King George the Third.-
Permit us then to offer to your Excellency as the Repre-
sentative of our said Lord the King, our sincere Congratula-
tions on this new accession to the Crown of Great 'Britain, by
Which its Empire in India has been so Much, aggrandized and
secured. - • •,•
Permit us also to assure votir Excellency how much we
rejoice In having become Subjects of so good, great and bent-
irolenta Sovereign., whose paternal care and solicitude for the
general welfare of the Settlements in Ceylon, have already
been fully Manifeited by his placing the Government of this
Island in the hands of your Excellency, whose constant and
humane endeavours have been, to put this Country into a
flourishing state, and thereby to promote the happiness and
welfare of the Inhabitants at large: which endeavours we
have-already been so happy as to see crowned with success.
We humbly, beg your Excellency to be persuaded, that
animated by your Lxcellency's example, arid by the love for
best of Kings-and our Country, that our utmost assiduity,
(as becometh Loyal Subjects) shall be employed in assisting
to prinnoteio much as lies in our power the general welfare
of tits Majesty's Dominions on the Island of Ceylon, and to
secure the happiness of the Islative Inhabitants of the same.
We humbly and heartily. beseech Almighty God to endue
(atm Inost Pracious Sovereign Lord King veorge plenteously
With Heavenly Gifts, and to grant hire health and wealth,
and a long life, for him to reign over us ' - in the like manner
ive pray that God, the fountain of all goodness, will prosper
you with happiness, and allow us long to enjoy the fruits of
your Excellency's auspicious Government. , -
TO the protection and favour of your Excellency, as the
Representative of our beloved Sovereign, and as our Governor,
v4e beg leave to recommend our persons, and have the honour
to be with due.respea,
May it please your ExcellenCy,
His Majesty's most loyal and dutiful Subjects,
And your ExcellenFy's most obedient
Obliged and humble Servants.
Piffled) '113,74r-rue Narvve treadmem
eihniba, Ire; . 180 z. .

To which His Elicellency was pleased to make
the following Answer :

RIAHK mopEWARs, NIONANDIRAMS, CHIEFS, AND NA-

'FIVE kIEADM/N OF TilE ISLAND•
am highly gratified with your dutiful and affeetionate
Address; and feel in common with you the Most devout and
lively sense of the blessing which it hag pleased Divine Pro-
vidence to confer on this island in fixing it, by the present
Prace, under His Majesty's paternal dominion.
I am sincerely grateful for the good will which ydu have
expressed towards My person and Government, and happy
.to acknowledge the assistance which your integrity, Zeal; and
Intelligence have afforded me, in carrying Into effect the
tne4uret Which t have adopted to secure the happiness of
the Inhabitants of Ceylon ; that has been, and ever will be,
-*bile I am intrusted' with their Government, the first object
of my heart:

•_--

After which Lancing commenced and continued,
' ivith the interval of supper, until two o'clock- the
following niorning:

COLOMBO, MARCH 7.1.

His xeellency the Governor is at preseht of;
progress through the British Territories under his
GovernMent, during which he has passed a fort-
night, at Aripo, in order to dire& a survey of the
Pearl Banks. On the iBth his Excellency laid the
Foundation Stone of the Cottons and Other Build,
ings about to be ereaed at Candaatzie, for the re-
tepition and washing of the Oysters, fished from the
Banks in the Straits of ,Manar ; And the. same day
his Excellency laid the First Stone of the Govern.
went Lodge, preparing for the residence of •the
Governor, during the time of the Pearl Fishery.
-Ins Ecellency left that place on the 19th, and
arrived at Manar the same morning ; from thence'
he proceeds' by Sea, to Jaffnapatnam.
The GOvernor is attended on this tour by Mr.
Atbarthuor, Dr. Christie, Captain Moubray, Mr.
Atkinson, Civil Engineer, and Mr. John Mac.
dowall,Writer, on the Establishment.

COLOMBO, APRIL 5.

On Tuesday last, at two o'clock, his Excellency
Vice-Admiral Rainier, landed from the Vietotious,
under a discharge of nineteen guns from the For;.
The Admiral was received ornthe Wharf, by Colo.
net !Lillie, the Commandant, and by' Town. Major
Wilson, who attended him to the house of Major-
General Macdowall, on which a Guard of Honour
was placed, on his Excellency's account.
_ _

Yesterday Admiral Rainier, together with Gene.
ral Nlacdowall and several of the Civil and Military
Servants of Government, attended Divine Service,
at the Government House.

TitINCIONAALE, MAY 2.

On the 3oth ult. anchored here His Majesty's
Ship -La Sybelle, Captain AdaM, from Madras, by
which came passenger Lieutenant Gillie, of the
Artillery.
Di.,,, at Liac'arza:e, (.4 the zed of May, Lieu'

tenant IT'enry ot. His ?Majesty's late
Le Sensible;

COLOMBb, i 6.

No accounts have been received of his Exc'elliitcy
the Governor; of a later date than the iOth ult.

His acellency
,had that day entered the Distrift
of Batticaloa, at Anative, near the Pagoda of Wer.
gel, where he wag met by Lieutenant John Jewell,
,Agent of Revenue and Conirnerce, and Mr. J. A.
Barclay, his Assistant. _

Private Letters give the most satitfa&ory ac-
count of the improving state in population and agri-
culture of that distant province.

The Governor has ordered arrangements to be
made for , the establishment of a weekly Tappal be-
tween Trincomale and Batticaloa, which- will begin
early in the month of June►.

DAVID'S SONV--.-ORIGIN OP THE PHRASE.—".ti.
few years ago, one David Lloyd, a Wetchman, who
kept an inn at Hereford, had a.living sow with six
legs; and the. circumstance being publicly known,
great numbers of all descriptions resorted to the
house. It happened that David.ha& a wife, who,
was much additied to drunkenness„ and for which
he used frequently to bestow on her a very sever:.
drubbing. One day in particular,`. having taken a
second extra cup, which operited in a very power-
fUl manner, and dreading the usual consequences,
she went into the yard, opened the Stye,door, let
out the sow,- and lay down An its place, hoping that
a short unmolested nap would sufficiently dispel the
fumes of the liquor. In the mean time, however, a
company arrived to see the much talked .of anirnal ;
and Davy, _proud of his office, ushered them to the
stye, exclaiming, " Oki any of you ever see'so un.
common a creature befOre ?" " Indeed, Davy," said
one of the farmers, " I never beftire observed a sow
so very drunk in all. my life!" Hence the.terin
drunk as David's sow.

The public attention
.in GerManY is now much
devoted to the famous robber, called Schinderhannes,
who at length has been taken and delivered up to
the French, about two months-ago, .with several of
his associates. A thousand anecdotes are related of
this extraordinary man, who,is said never to have
attacked the poor, but even, on the contrary, to
have been their real friend and upporter; robbing
the rich, the Clergy and Jews in partitulat, to
afford them succour ; maintaining, amongst his as-
sociates, near zoo, in number, a severe discipline,
and punishing, even with death, such of therti as
transgressed..their voluntary submission to his con-
trol, After being all last year the terror of the
left bank of the Rhine, andlaying under periodical
contribution all the country between Mayence and
Coblentz, he transferred his gang to the right bank
of the river, in Franconia, and was at -length ar.
rested as a suspicious charaaer, on coming into the
Runkelischen distria one day, at .a little Market
Town, in the character of a 'Pedlar,. with- a horse
and.cart full of wares, as was .freqUently his prac-
tice upon a • reconnoitring. scheme : to avoid More
minute investigation, he there ,enlisted with the
Austrians, and -.being sent.. to the general rendez-
vous.at Frankfort, was recognised and betrayed by
an associate,

He then acknowledged himself to be Schindel..
hannes, and was, at the reqtiest of the French Mi-
nister, delivered up to the Republic, and conduaed,
with several of his associates apprehended in the
interim, particularly' one called Black Jonas, in
great notoriety, to May.ence, where he now re-
mains a close ,prisoner, as well as hid father and
mother, peasants near' Rastadt,. his mistress, and
many others, waiting their trial.

His age is only 23, and his condna, if what is
greedily published of him be true, almost modelled;
on that -of Car/ Moore, in SCHILLERS' famous
play of The Robbers, imitated lately pn the Eng-
lish stage,
,under the, title of Red Cross Knight:,
and which would\ seem to have eletirified and given
a wrong impulse to an ardent. imagination, which,
in better pursuits, might have formed an heroic
charaler.

As Mrs. Sims, the wife of Mr. Sills, rope-maker,
of London, was walking with her husband and
sister on Ramsgate.Cliff, on Monday last, her foot
slipped, and she was in the aft of falling down the
precipice, when catching by her hands on the extreme
edge, she suspended herself till- relieved by her
friends.

Sunday se'nnight, as the Rev. Mt. CROSSE was
returning to Bath from Camerton, he was attacked
near the three mile stone on Dunkerton-hill, by two
footpads, who seiz'A his horse's bridle, and robbed
him of all the cash he had about him. He had not
proceeded far, before three others rushed on him,
but his horse taking fright, he escaped.—Last Sun-
day evening, about eight o'clock, Mr. John Sandy
was also' stoped by two footpads, near 'the same
place; and rolbed of zl. I+6, in cash.-
On Tuesday evening, Axtween six and seven
o'clock, the Manchester, -MATsoN,, on coming
out of Mt. GIBSON'S dry_dock, into the harbour,
Hull, struck the rudder of the Nonsuch, Lincoln
vessel, Capt.. RY.LAR, whose wife with 'a young
child standing near 'the stern, the tiller came for-
cibly upon them, struck the child on the temples,
by which its skull was fraCtured until part of 1 the'
braids antic out ; . and with ,a returning , blow,
bruised the mother severely on the face, while
endeavouring: to recover the child, breaking out
some of her teeth. The child .died during the
night in consequence of the blow. The mother
is recovering from the effeetS of ~this shocking
accident.

On Sunday se'nnight, a sailor, in a fit of despair,
plunged himself-into the Tay, at. the Bottle-work of
Dundee, and was drowned. He had left a well fur-
nished house to the care of his sister, when he under-
took the last voyage. The sister, it appears, was
,addiEled to drinking, and to gratify her favourite
appetite, had sold her brother's eircas piecemeal.
Immediately before his return from the voyage, she
decamped,. leaving only the four stoops of a be istead
to be the melancholy witnesses of the ha tock she had
made: The sight of this ruin hurried the poor man
to the Cogunis:iion of the rash a 4 above mentioned.

MANSION- ROUSE, OCT. 8.

AN affair of cnnsiderable alarm and intricacy, was
this day the subject of investigation before the LoILD
MAYOR.

I •
Mr. MeitaerS, a ShipAitiilder, resident in Broad-
street; but carrying on an extensive business at
Rotherhithe, received last week two different Let-
ters, announcing, that beciuse he employed in his
Dock-Yard Shipwrights to. 86 the work .of Caulk- .
ers, there Was. a conspiracy among - the Caulkeri to,
assassinate him ; and that, to procure opportunity
to execute the design, a person of the name of-Hin-
ton would soon call at his house to inquire for a Capt.
Jones, and while that person Made the inqUiry, his
accompliCes would rush in. Alarmed by this informa-
tion, Mr. Mestaers applied on Saturday last at the,
Mansion-House, and the Lord Mayor ordered several.
of the City Officers to:watch the consequences at his
house in Broad-street. That very day,a woman called
and inquired, as the letters had foretold, for Captain
Jones.; At the mention of this name, she was seized
by ithe officers who were in waiting. She proVed to.
be a Mrs. Hinton ; she was detained, and tinder.
went
.an examination the same evening before
the Lord Mayor: The woman denied the know.-
ledge of any plan to take away. the life of Mr. •
Mestaers, and proved that her husband had re-
ceived an anonymous letter, requesting- hini to
go to Mr. Mestaers, at three o'clock, to meet
a Capt.• Jones,- when he would hear something
to his advantage ; if he was not there at the
time mentioned, be was ;then -to request permis-
sion to wait for him till -six o'clock ; and her Ws_
band not being at liberty, she undertook the busi-
ness herself. His Lordship Ordered the Woman to
be detained, and her husband to be brought before
him as soon as he could be found. Her husband was
immediately sent after, and taken, and on Monday
last they were both brought before the Lord
Mayor. The man was sullen, and in a state,
as it seemed; of intoxication. Mrs. Hinton was
discharged that day; while her husband Was re-
manded to prison, in the hope that he might an-
swer more satisfaaorily at a future examination.
From. Monday till this Morning,- he ,was left in so,.
litary confinement. To-day he was ptivately re-ex.
amined.—His wife vtiltintarily attended, witli her
father.—At sight of her husband, when he was
brought into the hall, her agitation was extreme, and
she fell into fits. Mr. MestaersandAlr. Fletcher, an-
other ship-builder, were present. Hinton gave
similar. .account of the business as his wife had done,
but added,. that he had reason, to apprehend that
both the letters had been writ ten by some of the
Shipwrights and Caulkers, whom he.had very much
offended by gOing to work before the conibination
was dissolved for raising their wages. He owned
himself to be a membr of a benefit-societyof Working
shipwrights, whose last meeting in 'which be was
present, was at the Star ale-house, in 'Wapping, and
whom he had knownalso. to meet at the Britannia. •
He is himself a working shipwright, now employed
in Mr.Fletcher'S yard. The pecuniary engagements
of the Society are to pay each iwo shillings in the
pound out of their weekly wages, into a common
fund, out of which again any member, when he,
cantata' find employinent; is to obtain temporary
p.ssistance, such as his case shall. eppe;m to demand.
Into -that fund Mr. Hinton had paid only seven
shillings in all; hii receipts out cf it have amounted
:to 51. The members whom he knew of have, at
one time or another, met in the Society, might be,
he said, from so to too. Of those to whom the con.
tributions werepaid ;, of those by whom the allOw-
ances out of the fund were distributed ; in short, .of
the Aging Committee of the Society, he had no
personal knowledge. This is the sum of -the in-
formation obtained from him ; he was far from giv::
ing it with ready good ,will ; it .was, in fa&, only
pumped out of him by dint of earnest and skilful in-
quiry, At the request of Messrs..Mestaers and
Fletcher, two other working shipwrights, who
were at their desire in waiting, were then called in
and examined. Sutherland, the first of those that
was heard, works, as well as Hinton, in the dock-
yard of Mr.Yleteher. -He was at a meeting of
the society, at the Star ale-hotise, on Monday, Sep.
tember 2t, when Hinton was like Wise present. , He
had paid into the funds of the society, when in eth-
ploymeOt, a cOntribUtion of 25. in the_ pound,
:mit
of his wages he had, at different times, received
out of the fund pecuniary assistance, to an amount
which he did not distially mention. He had paid
his money to a Mr. Charles TownShenB, whOrn he
understood to be a member of the Society's Acting
Committee.'

Gass was called in after the examination of Su,
therland.- He was also' present at the meeting at
the Star ale-honse on the 21s t of 'September. He had
paid into the fund; in all, the sum of 14.5.;, he had
received out of it between seven and eight pounds
sterling. The money was paid to him by a Mr.,
Gass. He .mentioned persons of the name of King,
Charles Townshend, Hinton, and Sutherland, as
being among others members .of the society. As
nothing of all this tended to conviet Hinton of any
design against the safety .of Mr. Mestaers, he was
of course discharged.
At the Lord Mayor's request, Mr. Fletcher agreed
to receive him again to immediate work in his yard.

Or► Thursday, at Guildhall, a man of the name
of Mollings was brought before Sir WILLIAM
LEIGHTON, charged by a poor Irish woman with
having fraudulently obtained 7d. from her,, under
the pretence of bringing her a letter, which she sup-
posed was from her husband. The post scrawl of
a figure of seven was forged. The Prisoner, in his
reply to this charge, said he was drinking In a'
public-house with a man' of the name of Johnston,'
who gave him the letter' and direaed him to do as
he had, but on the poor woman finding her;mis-
takeohe went to a neighbouring public-house and
apprehended, the Prisoner ; he said Johnston made
his-escape from the house as soon as the Prosecu::
trix came. in. ,The offence being committed in,
Middlesex, the Magistrate sent him to Worship;
street, from whence he was committed for re-ex-
amination: Notice was given to the Solicitor
of the Post-Offivei in otdet that he might diret
Prosecution•

"SST ~ ~/ X.r.

PUBLIC-OFFICE, BOW-1

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A short time since; ;i petson of vety.genteo ;in.'
pearance and address, nailing himself Capt:
of the Royal Navy, bespoke'aiime.ki,;eper ;it the
shop Of Mr. Earnshaw; watch and clOck.riiak'er:i
Holborn; which was to come to" siity:.fiv,e-
guineas. On WedneSday last he called f(4.,.it; and;
in payment, gave tWo drafts foi- the 4rnotinNdrawii"
dn; and purporting to be accepted by; MesSrk.flykesi:
the .Navy Agents, in. Arundel-street, &rind
who, on being applied to„ declared thein to be t0r,.7.,'
geries: The next day, Thursday last; the san-6.,
person offered the time-piece to pledge, at thc
of Mr. Birkett, Pawnbroker, in Princes-street, ask;
ing 3431:.dn it, and producing a-receipt; as from Mr:
Earnshaw, to prove the Sutri he: had paid-fur iti
Mr. Birkett not being able to open the titne-piece;
he said he would 'take it away, gct it opened; ;.
and return again; which he did; bat in the ioterini
Mr: Birkett having received a hard.bill; deSerib.:
ing the nianner in which it. had been obtained; '
caused hitri tO be. secured. The Saine,6vening he
%was examined before Sir R. Fottn, at Bow-street
-when several other persons; who had been defrauded
in a similar-Way, appeared, and identified-his per.
son:

The Prisoner calls himself Francis Finley, but
refused to tell there he lodged : he seems to he
about 40 years of age, and although an Engiiihrnao,
has much the appearance of an Italian: He was
committed for tttrthtr examination:

lakes Reli bei• was brotight into cnstodk ,on a
Warrant of LOrd gLtEi4fiOROUGH'qj dated the 'Aid of
July, iBo2, in'Order to give bail for his appearance
next term, in the Court. Of King's_Bench, to answer
to an Indianient found against Mtn for certain riots
and misdemeanors, alluding, to the pitched battle he
fought with Burke, At Hurley Bottoin; in Berk:
shire and which had been ' removed by consent;
from the Quarter Sessions for that County; to the
Court of King's Bench, where it would;' probably;
have rested, had he not since fought another battli
with Butke.. .recOgniiance taken, was; hitn;,
self in zool.'and two sureties in idol. each. ,