The Sun.
London, England, 1804-09-19 00:00:00

PONTEFThiCT MEETING.

Tit ts‘ Meeting was must fashionably and mime.
rously attended, especially on Wednesday, when
crowds came from the surrounding country to wit.
ness the contest between the great favourites, Mar.
tin and Haphazard, for the Cap. The Cout.se was
in good condition, though, rather hard from the
late continuance of fine weather, The Stand having
undergone many improvements since last year, is.
rendered very commodious, and indeed elegant : it
was highly so from the assemblage of, beauty Which
appeared in (root ; m have we witnessed a
group of more elegant fOrms, or lovelier counte-
nances, than graced this meeting : indeed he must
have been ,a cool-blooded, inattentive spe6ator,
who could have viewed withoUt rapture and.delight'
the female beauty. that surrounded hitti; -the exer.
tioth of the noble animals in' the sport ; and: the pie.
turesque grandeur of the distant and romantic
scenery that every where presents itself to the eye..
In the last heat on the last day, between Sir Peter's
filly, Stretch; and Amaioneer, when Within a few
lengths Airdioneer's rider's leg was caught by a per.
sop on foot, which pulled him off. In running for
the second heat, within a few lengths of the winning
post, Mr. WAICOELL'S filly had the lead about a
length, when. the rider struck her severely, which
made her swerve and take "Aillioseer's ground : the
latter went Over the rails and fell, and crushed the
boy in such s nvoinet that he was taken up spetCh.
less : Mr. MELLISH humanely- took him in his car.,
riage to Ponteiradi Mr. WARD 's rider, in.
preventing his illy from likewise going over the
rails, threw her down, but fortunately neither her
nor the boy received any injury. The ',Judge
thought it was a' cross, bet being submitted to ar.-
birrati it by tl e Stekvar.is (LOtti GALWAY and
Mr. KAYE), they na.rird Lori DARLiNcToN, Mr.
Wit.soN, and Mi. .I.ts, who aittr questioning
J. J .ckson, rode Stretch, the Plate was given
to Mr. W Alto r IL. The railing is intended to he
taken down, and ,everal other itn, rot/mews made
on the Course.

We cannot but here highly condemn the improper
conduct of many of those onfoOt, thus crowding the
Course fur the horses r; for they thus not only en.
danger their own lives, but those of the riders and
horses. There is no occasion for this wantem care.
lcwuu, to give. it no harsher term. We are CCf.
rain no ground in the kingdom is better calculited
for spettators vi.ewing the sport all the way,
without in the least impeding the Course, than that
of Pontelraft : were such intruders the only suinrers,
there would be no ,great matter. We hope, how.
'ever, not to have uccasion to repeat these obser.
vations.

1 Mr. MELLISH arid Mr. .TitoRNHILt; are ap
pointed Stewards for clic Races at Puntcfrad nex•_
year.

STIRLING, SEPT. 14.

The Circuit Court of Justiciary was opened at
this place on Wednesday the lath current, by the
Right Hon. Lords JosTice Cittax: and CULLEN,
and proceeded to the trial of Andrew, Buil, nailer
in Caindon, who was accused, at the instance of
His Majesty's Advocate, of murdering David• Car.
!antler, one of his upprenticel, by striking him span
the head, with a rod of iron. After the proof had
been concluded, the evidence was summed up, on
•the part. of the Crown,' by DAVID BOYLE, Esq.
Advocate Depute, 'and on the part of the Prisoner
by jAmll3 LAMY, 'Esq. Advocate ; "after which the
whole was summed up by Lord CoLLsx, and the
jury being enclosed at eight O'clock at night, re.
turned their verdia yesterday morning, finding, by
a majority of ten to five, the Pannel guilty of col.
gable homicide.; and he .was this day sentenced Id
be whipped on Thursday, the t tth day of Oao.
ber next, receiving ten stripes oppoSite to the door
of his work-shop or smithy, in Camelon, where the
deceased was killed ; seventy stripes at seven dif.
ferent stations in the town of Falkirk; afterwards,
to be brought back to Camelon, and to receive
other tea stripes, also opposite to the door of his
smithy, when he is to' be re.comtnitred to the tol.
blot!) of Stirling, therein to be detained until trans.
ported beyond seas for the space of fourteen years.
Yesterday , the Court proceeded to the trial of
Pearson Steven, Officer of Excise, at Denny, who
was accused of firing a pistol, loaded with bill, at
Gilbert M'Pherson, spirit.deiler, at Lochend, in
the Parish of Purr, and. wounding him in the head
to the effusion'of his blotid, and danger taf his life.
After a long trial, the Jury having been addreised
on the part of the Crown by DAVID BOYLe, Esq.
Advocate Depute, and on the part of the flannel by
the,Hon. HENRY ERSKINE, the evidence was, sum.
used up by Lord CULLEN, and the Jury having been
inclosed last Fight, did this morning return their
verdict, finding by a plurality of voices the Libel
Net proven, . whereupon the Pannel was assoiltied
rimpliciter, and dismissed fitim the bar,: Li the
course of the evidence it appeared doubtful, whether
the firing of the pistol was intentional or by ac.
cident. • •

A fire, of a very distressing nature to the indivi-
dual, was discovered about seven o'clock on Thurs.
day evening, at Widow Cole's Farm, near Cowes,
in the Isle of Wight, which destroyed the barn,
atables, farming utensils, a :great quantity of
'poultry, and the whole produce of the harvest ;
which consisted of fiv,e ricks of 1)4,, corn, -&c.
There is reason to believe that it was wilfully. set
on fire by some incendiary, whose crime is of the
blackest hue.

Friday, about two o'clock, a fire-hroke, out in a
Mit kiln, belonging to Mr. George Forrest, brewer,
Pleasance, near Edinburgh. ?isSistanee was itnme.
diately had, the flames were extinguished, and the
only damage sustained was cot)suming the stock
of malt in the kiln; •

Mundayi„upon setting fire to the trainlor Mow-
ing the rock at the Kinghohn Quay, Dumfries, the
shot was discharged before the man got Sc) a proper
distance, by which his lett hand and arts were very
much irjuredi afitthe received several les'ser wounds
on different parts of his body.

GEZZ4R PACH 1.

THE last accounts from Constantinople :bring
many particul.ri re,n'etting the present state of -1
pt and, Syria. G,!zzar Pacha, whose- objed
was to :attain thesupro,ne authority in Egypt, was
succeeded' by Igmail who acknowledged the
Supretmicy Of the l'orte; but at the carne time en-
deiYoured icy e,tablish himsellindepenilent. The
particulars which have transpired relative to Gm-
PAcha, will throw some light upon the politics
of the-Porte and Agents. -

The real charaeter of &zzar the late ty-
rant of St. John !)'acre, has never been well known.
Alter a life spent in the colrtmission of the molt
horrid cruelties and enormities, for the attainment
of the supreme authority in that once fariv..Wis
try, this wretch; closed his days, with the I'dlowing
merciful soliloquy, which he, uttered a few moments
previous to his dccease—u I perceive (said be)
tliat I have hut a short rime Longer to live ; what
must I do with those rascals in my prisons ? Since I
have stripped them of every thing, what good will
it do them to let.them loose again nakett into the
world ? The greatest part of them were Gover-
nors, and men of consequence in the country, who,
if theLreturn to their posts, will he forced to ruin a
great many poor people, in order to replace the
snips I haVe taken from them; so it ichest for their
own sakes, and fur that of others, that I should dis.
patch theM. They will then soon be in a place
where proper cate will be taken of them—a very
good"place, where they will neither be permitted to
OlnieSt any Qce, nor be themselves exposed to mo.
jesration. Yes, yes, that's hest —dis.pateb diem."
In consequence of the above order, twenty-Utur
who had formerly enjoyed the highest
stations in Tudeey and Egypt, were charitably
thrown en mane into the sea, as'the Most expeditious
mode of execution. Many others were destroyed
by the bowstring.
The objet of 'Gen:lr was to obtain the whole
government of Syria and Egypt. At, the time of
his death, he had united in his own person the Pi-
chalick of Serda, Damascus, and Tripoli, anti the
nominal Viceroyship of Egypt.. The Pachalick of
Aleppo alone remained for the completion of hie
desires.

Ismail Path, his successor, accompanied the
Grand Army to Egypt. in 'the year i 500, and being
patronized by the Napil Paella, obtained the dignity
of fiaShaw of Three Tails : after this he was put into
possession of the government of Marash, but did
tint long hold it, owing to his great extortion,
which surpassed every thing formerly prat-lived by
'Turkish oppression. He
.was ordered .to suffer ca.
,pital onishment ; to effeti
.which, the Grand Vi.
tier appointed him to the Government of Suwas,
whilst a' plan was concerted to .way-lay him on his
road thither, and bring him in chains to the Tur.
kiilt camp: the rencontre,' however, between the
assassins aril Ismail, served only to establish his re.
'Siltation for extraordinary courage and fortitude ;
for he displayed such gallantry and vigour On their
attack, that they were obliged 'to fly.
,He,then flew
fur pruteaitsn to Gezzar, anti was kindly received
by that Chieftain, on his complaining that he suffer-
ed from the Grand Vizier Persecution : he followed
the 'fortunes of Gezzar till within a year and half
prior to the latter'i decease, when Ismail lost his
favour, and was consequently committed to prison
in Acre, where he remained till the day of Gezzar's
decease. Gezzar. having no children, considered
Ismail as a man fit to inherit his wealth and power,
'is he had been bred up in a 'rancorous hatred to the
Grand Vizier, and in independence to the Porte.
'As Gezzar lay on hi, deith.bed; he sent for Is.
mail Pacha Atom his confinement, 'who had so little
expenation of the change of fortune that awaited
him, that he requested to be allowecl a few mo.
ments to prepare himself for death, On -his being
brought IntO Gezzar's presence,' he would have
begged for mercy, but Gezzar said, " There, I
leave you plenty of Troops, plenty of money to pay
them, and !good fortifications to fight in. If you
are a 'ninn, you will keep them, and my enemies
will have no reason to exult in my death."
ImMediately on the death Of Gezzar, Ismail
seized the icing of Government, and'the most per.
Id obedience ensued in the neighbouring provinces.
He, however, declared that he held the Gvern-
tnent Only until the will of the Porte should be
known, and in coniequence affixed the public seal
to the immense magazine of treasure left by the
deceased,

When the last accounts left Constantinople, the
Captain Bashaw bad taken the City of• St. Jean
D'Acre out of the hands of Ismail Pacha : the lat.
::r, however, was expeeted shortly to be rein)tated
in his authority.