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

LIEtiTENANr FRASER.

Yesterday were interred, with Military Honours,
at Sr. James's Chapel, Tottenham-court-road, the
remains of Lieutenant FRASER, late of the Ist Re..
giment of Life Guards.
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The Spedacle wits unusually grand, solemn, and.
impressive.

As many erroneous and contradiEtory accounts
have been given of the melancholy accidznt
occasioned his death, we think it may not oe im.
proper to state the following ,particulars, upon au.
thori ty.

He was on his way to Ramsgate, in .a tandem,
accompanied by his Groom. About three miler,
beyond Canterbury, he overtook a waggon in as
uneven part of the road. He was at all times a
steady and cautious driver; and, in truth, his ex.
creme caution on this occasion proved fatal to
him. That he might beat as great a distance as
possible from the waggon, he unhappily drove too
near the hedge, in which a post concealed in the
quickset, coining in contad with the wheel of
the tandem, overset it. The Servant being on the:
'near-side, fell short of the waggon ; but Mr. FRASER.
was thrown from a greater height to a greater,
distance, and unfortunately fell between the fore
and hind wheels of waggon, which passed over
the lower part of his breast. When he was raised
from the ground, he said to his Servant—" John,
don't leave me—l am a dead man."

His Servant having supported him against the
hedge, and committed him to the humanity of some
persons who were looking on, disengaged the leader
from the traces, and rode full speed to Canterbury
for professional
,assistance.. In the mean time, Mr.
FRASER was conveyed, on a hurdle covered with
Straw, to the Swan Inn, at the little village of
Sturry, about a quarter .of a mile from the spot
where the taral-accident happened.—He complained
of being cold;. and called for some brandy and.
water.

When the Surgeon arrived, Mr. FRAS E R begged
that he might be bled ; but the Surgeon, on examining
hiS puke, and finding it low and languid, and
his body extremely cold, declared-lie could not yen..
tore to do so ; but requested that he would suffer
himself to be conveyed to Canterbury, where all pro..
per attention might be paid him. He acquiesced ;
for he was by this time incapable. of opposition.
He was put into a p )st.chaise, in which, supported
by the Surgeon and his faithful attendant, he was con•
veyed to Canterbury with as much expedition as the
nature of his situation would admit. When he reached
the King's [lead Inn at Canterbury, the Surgeor)
ventured to bleed him, and administered some other
remedies, but in vain ; for in about a quarter of at)
hour he expired, after a slight convulsion.
Thus perished in the bloom of youth, a Gentle.
man, of whom his Friends had justly entertained the
most sangLiine expedations.
He was in person remarkably handsome ; frank
and easy in his manners ; of a manly deportinenr,
and sound and firm principles. untimely fate
has excited a very great degree of sympathy, and
has been to his friends and conneetions a cause pE
the deepest afilietion.

Lord Gyprtait and. family arrived in town- yeti,
terday, at their residence at 'Whitehall, from New..
market.

The Hon. Mr. LAMB is expeaed in town to.
morrow from Newmark.er.

ripe Duke de Botrxi4O2t has arrived at jersey.
He was liberated from the Temple after three days
confinement, in consequence of the in,terferenpe of
Mr. iVIEssY ; but it is shocking to relate, that he
was imprisoned there in consequence of the inforn a.
tion of some Emigrants, whom the Duke de Bolt.
IL tort had protckd and supported in Jersey during
the War !
Major-General Sir CHARLES Ross, Bart. has
arrived in Beiftst, to succeed General HART, who
returns to his Mead-quarters at-Londonderry. We
understand that the town of Belfast is in future.
to be included in the district of Sir CHAaLss
Ross.

• General BRUNE is to take his pass be to Con,
stantinople on board of a Frigate from Toulon.;
The Einbasiy is to be very splendid, there being no
fewer than three Secretaries of Legation, viz. BA,
ROUBDIER, formerly French Agent in Poland;
.LAMARQUE, formerly Secretary of the DirciaJry ;
'and REcoktoow, brother.in.ldw of the infamous
.D.INToN, who acted as his Adjutant on all his set..
:vices,

The Master and Wardens of the Bakers' Com.
pany.waited upon the LORD MAYOR yesterday at
the Mansion.house to, set the Assize of Bread,
which they solicited to be rose half an assize, but
on--examining the Reports of the
insisted that no alteration should.:
;be made; therefore the' price of the quartern loaf
I,'hcaten continues at tenpence,.,and. household at
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eightpence.halfpenny.'
A Court of COmmon Council will be held this
;day at Guildhall, to settle the Watch Rate for the
'year ensuing, and on other business previous to his,
Lordship's going out of office. His Lordship will
itaki the chair at 12 o'clock precisely.
Notwithstanding the termination of the War,
which makes it so easy to procure hands in abund-'
'ance, and the mildness of the weather, which op-
poses, no impediments to Navigation, Coals exile.
rienci.d a very considerable rise in the course of the
Masi week. There can he no doubt, but in this
Trade, the influence of Capital, in other respeCts
.so highly beneficial to Great Britain, has been most •
unfairly exercised.
The Dutchess of Dri/CoNSHIRE had lately a very
narrow escape for her lite at Ramsgate. Her Grace's
curricle-horses took fright, and were -Inakiiz bill
speed to the Cliff, when her cries hari)iiy alarmed
some labourers-, who succeeded in stopping the high
mettled racers.

Boxt NG .—Yesterday morning a desperate Battle
was fought in a field at Mile End Old Town,
tween a Ship-carpenter of the name of Williahs, A"Qi
a Jew of the name of Jonas : they fought for file
guineas aside. The Contest lasted thirty-six minutes,
and terminated ill, favour of Williams, who- broke
his antagonist's jawbone and materially injured both
his eyes.

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PAR'S, Oct. Is.

PROCLAMATION.

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CONSULAR DECREES oe THE I ITH OCT.

" There shall be levied in future upon woollens
in imitation f cottons, from the Levant only, an
itnport duty of one franc.
" There shall be levied in future an import
duty of too francs per quintal upon foreign award
cutlery.

" 7he wine 3 of Corsica are assimilated to those
of the Departments of the Bcuches.du_Rhone, of
the Var, and of the Maritime Alps, and shall pay
upon their exportvion to a foreign market only
franc so cents per hogshead.
" The duties of :mportation and consumption
fixed by the Tariff*No. 1, annexed to the decree of
the 3d Thermidor, upon raw sugars, coffee, cocoa,
and pepper, shall be levied in one net sum. The
tare to be d;:dutted shall be for cloyed sugars, in
• Casks, 15 per cent. for raw and loaf sugars, coffee,
coena, and pepper, also in casks, iz per cent.
There shall be only 3 per cent, upon coffee, .cocoa,
and pepper inbags."

IN NAME OF THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

'III COMMANDER IN CHIEF OF THE ARMY OF
GUADALOOPE, TO THE INHABITANTS Of THAT
CN,oNy.
Citizens Inhabitants —Guadaloupe, under the
bilueti.ee of an Armed Force, consisting almost en-
tirely of men whom no education, no principles
itad prepared for the noble employment of Arms,
Whose passions, wants, and ideas, went not heyend
that of being the rudest, must naturally have dread-
ed a catastrophe which endangered it to the metro.
rolls, and placed it at the disposal of the first
ambitious person, or of the Nation, the most eager
to take possession of it.
A great part of its inhabitants were sensible of
this, and the proprietors and others dreaded it as
likely to alienate the goodwill of the Govern-
ment, the esteem and confidence of their fellow.
citizens in Europe the loss of these advantages
Is much mote sensible to 3 Frenchman, who can
lionour himself with that noble title, and read the
Annals of that Nation as the liistory of his family,
rather than of the destruftion of his property.
The inhabitants of Guadaloupe have given an
eX"rnple of it, by never forgetting that they were
Frenchmen
before they were proprietors. There
is not one of them who was devoted to the lawful
rower, who would not have made every sacrifi:e
to maintain, in the person of the Captain-General,
lAcito:isE, the only authority which could he re.
znectable, if in the event of the zoli Vendemiaire
(Ott. at), the enemies of all authority, of every
kind or order, and of those even from whom they
derived the greatest advantages, which they pre-
tendtd to cherish mnre than lite, had not employed
the basest perlidi
These Arms, the most efficacious when employed
against a man of honour, the only kind they could
tinp!oy against the Captain General, LAcitossE,
with the hope, of success, overcame that General,
paisying the courage and good will of those
Citizens who entertained most of the French spirit,
and reduced them to the necessity of lamenting,
more than once, that they had till then been igno.
*ant bow far the hearts of-certain men could be filled
with perfidy.
These events, Citizens, are now past.--You no
longer remember your losses, but tn employing
ourselves with the choke of the means for repair.
tog them. Confidence re-established between the
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'-'-tizens in regard to their real intentions; force,
and the means of enforcing obedience ; the courage
*nd discipline of the brave Troops vi ho compose
the Army of Guadaloupe, make us all entertain
topes of s, tedy prosperity.. The return 0! the
Captain General, LACROSSE, in this state of things,
fixes a seal on the public joy, since it completes
the reparation due to Government and the Nation,
for the injury done to them in his person, and since
the Colony sees the return of a Chief whom it
esteems.

(Signed) RiCIiErANSE.
bone at Head- quarters, Basse-Terre,
Alessicior 2f,ti► )illy 25), rah year of
the French Republic.