The Sun.
London, England, 1804-08-18 00:00:00

FRIDAY, JUNE 8.

A Motion for the appointment of a Committee to
report a Rilsolve, for dividing the Commonwealth
into distriUs, for the purpose. of cboosing.one Elec.
.tor of President and,Vice.President in each dittrid,
which had before been laid on the Table by Mr.
Mott.rotr, -was taken up. After debate," it. was
moved td postpone the 'consideration thereof, until
the Report Of the Joint Committee, (which Report
'hat h'eett accepted
.ix the Senate) on the subjett ,of
Alettors, Caine before the Houses which was car.
ried Z 32 to tr.

SATURDAY, JUNE 9.
The consideration of the Report of the Joint
committee, on the subject of choosing Electors of
President and Vice-President; was assigned for
ToesdAy next, 'at eleven o'clock.
A number of Petitions we:triad and referred.

GEN. HAMILTON'S' FUNERAL.

(From the New, York Advertiser.)

'Me Funeral of that great man took plate on
Saturday, agreeably to the arrangement's published
in our last. The Procession left.the Itotte of JOHN
B. CRIMPY; Esq. about twelve o'clock, and was
two hours reaching Trinity Church.
The Pall was supported by.. General MATTHPW
CLARKSON, OLIVER WOOI.COT,•ESCt. -RICHARD
HARR Isow,Esq. ABLJAH 'Esq. "JO9IA.H
OGDEN HOFFMAN, ESCI.RIGHARR VARICK.E, Esq.
WILLIAM BAYNARD, Esq. and Judge LiwtttNde.

On the top of the coffin were ,the General's hat
and sword. His grey horse, dressed in mourning,
was led by two black servants, dressed in white, and
white boots and spurs, the turbans trimmed with
black.

The four sons of the deceased, JOHN B. CHURCH,
Esq. WASHINGTON MERTON, Eiq. Mr. M 45.1.-
COLN, &c. -followed the Corpie as Mourners. •
. _

The Procession having ariived at the Chtirch, af.
ter a short pause, Governor Moak's, El. rose on
an elevation in front, anti addressed the surrounding
upeaators (General HAM I LTUN'S four sons, and
Mr. Cttuitca being on the stage with him),—
He was at first *alFeded, . that it was
with difficulty he could proceed ; hut, having
recovered, be recapitulated very concisely the ser.
,vices which General HAMILTON renderell his
Countty as a soldier—as a statesmanantl as-
professional man 4t the Bar. The tollowing sen.
tence had the most powellul circa upon the feelings
of the- speaators—alluding to the G.nieral's cir-
cumstances, ,he said, 4‘ He has left you his•fame;
awl it is all the inheritance of there orphans I"
turning round to General HAMILTON'S SOO5.
Al er vlr. Moak is's Address, the Corse was
carri'ttl into the church-yard, where the usual fune-
ral to.rvice was perfirineti by Bishop Mookw, and
the body interred wth Milit.try Honours.
In the rucebsivn were, Colonel BARCLAY, the
Rnglish Consul General, the French Agent, Spanish
Con,ul, and ( titer F.reign Agents, the (Akers of
the French Frigates now in out harbour, and several
other characters of dist

The hells the different churches were muffled,
anti tolled during the d.ty,
,and minute guns fired
from the barsery until the c• rpse was interred.
The Military made a mournful appearance ; and
the funeral was highly deep arid interesting. A deep
gloom pervatled,the countenances of all: the stores
were a'l shin, and no business wasdnne. • .
To the hon.ur of the British and French Nations,
let it be observed, that the Boston Ftigateeat! Body
Hook, and the ,two French Frigates in Port, had
their yards crossed, , and, their.colours hoisted half
mist, anti fired minute guns during the morning.
Ali the shipping in port hid their colours hoisted
half mast. ,

The Neuf-York Evening Post, u the 10 of July,
contains some farther statements - concerning the
late unfortunate transadion which terminated in
the death of General Jima' vroN. Doubts had
arisen, from contradidory accounts, _whether the
General did, not. fire first at' Colonel Botta. „Tu
dear op this matter, the deelaration of the Ge,..
nets!, in the. paper he wrote previous to the duel,
i, referred to, together with his.con.versation wish
a Gontleman, to whom he ohs.erved, that! his in-
tention of not firing- arose •"-from a religious sera-
p/e,-and did nor admit, of reasoning." After be
was wounded, he observed to another Geotlernan,
PENDLCTON knows I did not mean to fire at
Colonel BUlilt the first time and :When in • the.
.boat, he said
,to one, of the Boatineti, Jake care
of that -pistol—it, is cocked,-it may go of and do
mischief," From all this it is: coneltded that he
was not sensible of having firedat all. But to
clear up the whole,. Mr. Pe NDLF,TON, and another,
,wepi on the following day to the spot,, where, after
examination, they observed that General HA.DaI L.
TON'S ball went through the limb of a cedar tire,
4t the elevation ofabout t a feet and a hull from the
ground, 13 or r+ feet front the. mark on which the
General stoodt and about. four feet wide of the di.:
red line from thence -to. colonel:Botta. The part
of the limit perforated by the ball is. in the po,ses.
sion of Mr. Cktoectr. • •
Do tradesmen, near Blackfriars, had a
difYrreoce on Tuesday night last resit-6441g a bet,
which it was agreed was to be decided next day
with pistols. !They met next day near the -Wind.
mill, below Petty France, when the Seconds hod the
good sense to drop the bUllets into the properplace
—their ostot pockets. One of the parties, who was
let into the secret, drops dead on the first fire! His
opponent fled on the wings• of fear, and next morn'.
jog was proceeding in a post-chaise to depart for
Hamburgh or America, when he saw his deceaied
antagonist very composedly serving his customers
behind his proper counter I •
Amither, more. strange and more serious, took
place lately between! two boys, at St. Andrew's
Work-house. They by some! means procured pis.
tols and powder, ,but wanting bullets, they charged
the former with gravel ;- one of them had his eyes
blown•-out, and is now in St.. Bartholomew's Hos.
pital.
The Cometty of iirrors is no logger a fable. There
are at present in America two labouring Men, named
Haag and Parker, so exactly reaembiini each other, ,
that on one of them being lately tried •on a charge
of bigamy, some of- the witnesses swore that they
knew. the prisoner to be Thomas Hoag • while others- '
as positively declared that he was Joseph Parker,.
Upon this contraclidory testimony the prisoner wits
acquitted.
On Thursday 'Mr. Taorr, of Hatton Garden
Office, rock the road to Abingdon, in pursuit of one
of the Prisoners, of the name of Furness, who made
his escape out 'of the Housi of Correttion,
bath-fields, on .Monday last, by means of a role.
!adder: .Not: hearing any tidings Of him at Abing.
don, on his return home in a posst.thaise, he, de,
scried the man walking, on the road; he immediately
secured him, and contluded hint' back to prison.--- ,
Several persons were taken up on suspicion of 'facili-
tating the escape of the Prisoner, as welt as another`
riot yet taken., I. he offence is seven years'tianspOtta;
tion.

• 4
Mberwcil Fair commince,i this morning. ; ,Peck.
ban lair coffirn:licei tiext Tur)day.