The Sun.
London, England, 1803-03-04 00:00:00

EAST INDIA INTE'LLIGENC'E.

• Having- received from the. Madras Insurance
Company, copies of, the following letters, which
we conceive highly complimentary to the Officers
to whom .they rekr, and at the same time extremely
liberal on the part of the insurance company, we
have great pleasure in inserting
,theta in our Paper.
4 Fart St, Gevgc, Madras, I2tk Tau. 1202.
" sin, ' •

" The Old Madras Insurance Co.thpany having
unanimously resolved on presenting Captain Geo an
COLLIER, of His Majesty's sloop r ithr, under
your orders, with a 'testimony of the high sense
they entertain of his gallantry, and very 'jitdielotts,
and determined conduit in the capture of tl*Fteneh
Nation-al corvette.La O'lin-be, have taken the liberty
'to request•you to be the medium of conveying the
inciosed.letter, expressing their sentiments on, the
occasion, together with the accompanying 4ervice
of plate, which they feel assured will receive,addi-
ticrnal value from the channel through which it will,
we flatterinrselves, be presented. . •
" At the time we, thus express our esteett.t.for
Captain .CULL condu6t, we 100i:dye to.offer
our ackrowle.lgments for the 'judgment you :have
evincid in sele4ing so able an Otlicer to perform
the services you had in view, and which have so
eiratuaily benefited the Indian Trade.
We have the to• be,
~ Sir,"
Your, must obedient Servants,

(I Les, ,SATIIR,'& D'Motcrit,
" Agentl to the. Old *Madras lasnrrnce
" , Company.''
"To .Sir lime-Popham, & . •
•

(6 Art St, Gl9rge, :Yam, Ign2.

"

" We are happy to be the means of commani.
eating to you the very high sease which the Old
Madras Insurance Ctimpany entertain of your gallant
services ro.thimereamile interehts of India, it the
capture of the French National corvette Ler Fhche;
off the seclielles.
The general opinion of the Public, and. of
those whose province it is to reward brilliant and
beneficial services like the present, will no doubt
render you that justice Which a public clingier
most covets. It, it be at any time allowable for
individuals to speak of the merit resulting-from the
discharge 'of official duty, We would hope that the
Under writers will stand excused in expressing their
sentitnents on theoceasion to which we have alluded,
and in requesting you Ile pleased to OcePt,
through the medium" 'of Sir. Ifiomv PoetrAtii, is' a
token of their regard and, esteeM, a SerVice of
Plate, which Sir .1-10tatt has bad the goodness to
take charge of.
44 This trifling acknoviledgment .of theirs will,
we are well as-sured,, receive a value Which it in.
trinsically warns,,fram passing through the peculiar
hands to' which it is entrusted, and which hird ori.
ginally confided to you a commission that you have
so faithfully, and so happily executed. '-
44 We have the honour to be,
" Sir,
Your most obedient servants.
" LYS, SATVR, 2,vmtuNTl•
Agents to the Olci.hradras Insurance
• " Company." ' •
U Ta Cipt. Collier, Commanding.
" Lk. MajesO's Skop- fiaar,".

On Wednesday died at her, house in St. Peter's.
street, canterhury, Mrs.CelestinaHens, widow,
aged yo'years. Although possessing an income of
701. per. ann.., her habits of !ilk were, singularly
disgusting, her, disposition and peculiarities so
eccentric, that she,may he truly said to have veri_
fled the old adage; " a't suttibus N;1 di:pito/1.
dim." During many, years her constant'companions
were from, t 6 to, 20 lowly, whoSe:ordute defiled 'as
welt her 1)01 and every article of her furniture as the
plate out of which she ate ; a favourite c,l( kt whose
age. might be calculated from his spurs being duet:f-
inches long, and an equally favoured rat, were tor
klength of time constant attendants at *her table,
,ea:ch partaking'the fragments which even tier penury
shared with them, till one day the rat not preserving
due decorum ioyvards its rival, met his death from
the hands-of
,its mistress, titer prediledion for vet..
min prevailed so much,, that at liar death a nest of
mice W 23 found in her bed. The house where She
resided, besides the room in which she constantly
livcil and slept, hontained ttv,c) others that had not
been permitted to be. opened 'f in many years.—
Among the bequests inher will, are s 01. to the Kent
and cunterhury 'Hospital ; the same siun, to the Pa-
rish of Sr.' Peter ; 51. to the Minister of the Pa
rish for a funeral sermon, and one guinea to each of
the rersons who should carry her to the grave, he_
sides many other legacies. generally 'to persons in
no degree related to her. -