The Sun.
London, England, 1804-11-13 00:00:00

CORK, Nov. 2.

The works upon Bear Island are carrying on
with the greatest perseverance, and upon 41 ftrnie,
considerable scale than had been at first under.
stood. The Battery is circular, with lota Mar.
tell() Towers, lit proper intervals ; and the glacis
rises so high, that the whole viewed from the
sl!a, does not by any means present a very con..
spicuous object to the eye, nor to an Enemy's
The ditch is of, considerable depth, and so
construeted, that although a body of assailants .
may gait) possession of it, yet, nevertheless, they
must be exposed to the fire froth the works,- and.
arc incapable of gaining the smallest advantage
by a coup-de-main. In the progress of the works
many discoveries have been made peculiarly into.
resting to the mineralogist. Sea-coal has
..been
found in Bear Island, of a very superior: quality,
and almost .close to the coast,; Its. properties ap.;
pear to be similar to those of the Liverpool
—A very fine vein of copper has also been dis-,
covered, as well as a lead mine ; both of wjtich
are rep rted to be of the very best kind. The
• ponderosirrof some pieces of the former was ex-
tremely great., Innnmerable chrystallizations, se.,
veral.of thew of a very Curious kind, have been
•found doting the Progress of these works.

'ANECDOM—Lot is the .Fourteenth, generally
ailed Louis the Great," by Frenchmen;. gave
plain signs Of a despo:ic and cruel disposition- in his
early age. Several of his•ahjed Courtiers, were en.:
tertaining this-young Monarch, in,public, with the:
policy of the Turkish Government, assuring" hire;i
" That the Sultan bad nothing to do but say.the,
word, and ,whatever is. was, .whether to take 011'141
great man's head, or to strip him of his.estates or
employments, there was a train of servants, called
mutes, who executed the command without a re. I.
ply." ",Fhy, aye, (says the tyrant) this is to he:
King indeed." The old Count De drammont, who
heard with indignation the vile' corrupters of toy.
sity, immediately.inteepohrti, by saying, " Sire,
of these same Sultans have known three strangled.
by their own mutes st ithin my memory." • The
Duke De Montauzier was rto well pleased with this
noble freedom, that I e forced himself timatigh the
crowd of CoUrriers,. itnd openly ill:inked diatrunntit
for his honest there no man. tell in
,France, of sufficient virtue, to whisper this S4IU-
Lary admonition to the -present mid Rtiler of that,
unhappy Country I
The Scarlet Fever has lately been very miralenr
in Falmouth and its neighbourhood, andcartiid of'
several children. It has now nearly diriapneared.
To give a lucre to SilvtrPlahr.—Dissolve a quart.
tiry of alum in water, so as to make 2' pretty strong
hrior, which you mus; scum very carefully ; farld 601,11 e
soap ; and when you use it, dip a piece of linen rag
in it, and daub it over your plate.

Providential Egape....A man, in Roches'Vale in
Alt, near Ashton.under.line,.viewing the steam en.
gine and eoal.work, on Sunday se'nnight, 'by the
springing of a board was precipitated headlong down
the pi!, bot providentially pitched upon a cross beam,
' tlere hung by his hands till rescued from his
perilottt situaqun by one of the workmen. , .
tM) Wednesday sermight three bullocks were
killed by lightning, in the parish of Temple, near
Bodmin. The flash first struck a tree,. which.stood
On a hedge, and shivered it from, the, top to the
bottom, dividing the hedge into two parts, made a
deep furrow, in the field of several yards, to the
}slate whet e the bullocks stood, and killed them upon.
the spot, without leaving the slighter appearance .of
a wound.
A boy driving a carriage from Lost,withig to St.
Auitell, was thrown from his horse ('which' started
at the fierceness of the lightning),
.and It'ad his srni
broken.
The fair at St. Neat's, on Monday sennight,
was rather small, but cattle sold 'pretty well,,-

The two men whom we. last week mentioned as
wounded by the soldiers,-in the affray at Truro, are
happily out of danger, and return' it to their'immes.
One of the soldiery (William :Hall) is full' e,
AM to the county prison at Bodmin,', to take his
trial at the next assizes ; another, who is suspen.:
ed, has absconded.
On Thursday night three boys. belonging to the
ship Phrtnix, lying at St. Peter's Quay,' North.
Shore, Shields, went to sleep in the cabin, the fire.
stotic of which being closed at the tnp, occasioned
the instant suffocation of one of them (a black buy),
and the other two were carried to the Infirmary
on the following morning, with small hopes of

tecov'ery.
On Wednesday' night last a keelman, named
Thom Atis, Wai found drowned in.Surnlerland
harbour.--it is supposed that he had fallen out of
his keel.
Monday sennight a ship belonging to Weymouth,
fell over, in Sunderland harbour, as the crew were
heaving her out of her birth to take. in ials. A -
boy, about ten years of age, who was unfortunately
in bed at the tune, was drowned before any person
could get to his.assiitance.
On'Thursday se'nnight a sailor boy, named John
Turner, aged 14. years, belonging to Colchester, Un-
fortunately fell trout the side of the ship Gaol hi.
toil, Capt. Iturrart, lying at Shields. He was.
found on Sitnrda'; last, when an Inquest was
mediate!), held on his body. Vetditt—,4rtideritai

Death.
At Pembroke, some time since) min of the
name of Wade, for a trifling, wager, lifted to cw r,
of lead from the ground with the greatot ease iota.
ginable.
Ar the same time also a man, of the name of
1-fo,k, engaged to carry 8 cwt. which engagement
be fulfilled, by carrying it two hundred yards, with
the greatest ease, to the astonishment of a punier-
Otis train of spedators.
Thtirsdav were cm-milted to Reading. gaol, Chi!.
Francis and James S4wier, charged on ;he oath of the
Postmaster'oi Hungerford, with having, on the 16111
ult. stolen from the, Post.offiee a letter, containing
divers notes, the property of Dr. Finch.

14 AIL Li 1 Pi. r AVM Li/lA/14 AY
Zll4 £EL 12tJA1

T 0
LOWS Xlllll.
[from La Nouvelles 1, la blab, of 3oth Vendemiaire,Year T 3
or 22d Ott. 1804.)

[The following is published as a Letter from one of the few
Frenchmen who haet spirit enough to stand forth in defence
of his God and his Kink, during the progress of a Revolu.
titan which has produced nothing but wretchedness and in.
fully in France, and has disturbed the peace of the World.
It contains such sentiments as the venerable Prelate doubt.
less feels, but would, we conceive, be too prudent to pro.
midge at present, and therefore we do not rely on its au.
thenticity.)

" .Sire—My present dignity I owe to your Ma.
jesty'a recommendation ; for the fame I have oh.
tained among the virtuous putt of my contempora-
ries, I am indebted io nothing but to-that zeal and
courage with which I, fifteen yeari-igii:, Ycutnbated
*bets and Atheists, as 'I was bound by honour,
Conscience, duty, and gratitude. I would, there.
fore, be an undutiful, ungrateful, and, contemptible-.
Subjed, and an unworthy Prelate of the Catholic
Church, were I to cease to profess the same seoti.
menta of Loyalty and Religion.
" Sire, persons, no doubt envious of my' glory,
have, from motives easily seen through, 'published
writings in my name, which, though they cannot
'deceive my King, might mislead my Fellow-sub.
jeda, and Foreigners, to whom political, as well
as religious apostacy, have 'of late become to fami.
'liar. This causes me to intrude upon your Majesty
with this Letter, and to implore your forgiveness
for the publicity I am under the necessity to give
,‘ Sire, from principle as well as from conviAion',
I united with a few loyal Members of the .Sacred
College. to supplicate the Pope not to give -tha,
;deith.blaw to the the Religion, by proatitot.
Ling the sacredneSs of his high and holy station;
sacrilegiotisly adacing the 'Crown of St. Loulton;,
the head of a Foreigner, accused of -such cOortrituki ,
.crimes, and whose hands are still reeking
pure and innocent blood of a descendant of this
'sainted King, so dastardly assassinated' by him in .
the wood of Vincennes. 'With becoMinglumilitY,
I remonstrated on*the probability' of all tutureCtir:
minals, whom fortune,' front inscrutable purpose!,
procures a temporary usurpation of power, torch.%
the Successors of St.:Peter io 'teal their iniquity;
and guilt with a sacred approbation, to the scandal:
of the faithful, and to the'deatrudion of the faith;.
ads, which soon must, bring .forth those dreaded
andrdeplorable times, when the blessings of a su.
prune Christian. Pontiff will he received and regard.
ed lay the' People with the same indifference as the
blasphemous mummeries of a High-Prieat of the
Goddess of Reason. I represented that, 'according
to the Canon laws of our H' Ay' Church, General
BONArARTS was still exCumMulvicated ; not having;
made public penance, and obtained public absolu.
don, tot his shocking and dislraceful apostacy,in:,
his doertiun from Christ to Aihomet, in 1798.
" Even in a political view I 'proved, that this:
horrible ad would neither procure tranquillity to
France, nor safety to Europe. The difference is
great between the military desporisni seized by .an.
Usurper, supported by accomplices, by victims,
and by terror; and the lawful monarchical authority
inherited by a legitimate, Prince, with the natiovial
will alai wishes for ages. The latter never dies ;
but history of all times evinces,. th.t the apnihila.
Lion of the farmer is on the point of the sword of a
rival, or in the pOi-,Onnus cup of an enemy.. NA.
PoLeoto BONAi,Aare may reign; but was his pro.
geny ever so numerous, he will leave no posterity
behind him, and his dynasty' perishes with him,
because France hai within her bosom many other
Generals, equally ambitious, audacious, and fero.
cious, who will never [eyed a rank to which they
„have equal right With. NaPoiloN, and superior.
claims to those of his children, brothers, and
nephews. Until, therefore, your Majesty ascends
the throne of your ancestors, my unfortunate Coml.
trymen will only fight fur the choice of their ty.
rants, and my degraded Country experience nothing
but an intermittent and incurable anarchy, extend.
ing its ravages, 'tormenting and undermining civi.
lized society in every part of the globe. My humble
remonstrances and representations were, however,
as ineffedive as my powerful arguments, and.an.evi.
dencc not to he refuted. Pius:Vit. goes to France,
and true Religion is equally threatened ,wii,ll
lawful dynasties l. .
" If I feel sensibly, Sire, 'particularly .at,this
moment, the happiness of beingictinaissam andfoitts.
ful to my, invariable dodrine, in.laying:at the feet'
of your Majesty my usual and undiangeable4egi.'
ance' and homage; I am also well aware ,of.tht. im.
minent dangers to which such an.honourable profes-
sion exposes use. But, Sire,,already, from'age, on
the borders of eternity, some slays longer,ooktence
in a,world,.where crime prospers and virtue suffers,
are of no, value to me, at the expence of the dictates
of my conscience. Submitting with resignation to
the will. of Providence, I:ton prepared to meet
.death, , either in the durtgeomi of the Temple, inahe
wilds of ,Cayenne,' in the wood of Vincennes, or at
the-Place tic Greve, I shall expire as I have lilted;
with the firm and consoling hOpe of inhabiting, the
same blessed abodes with a Sr. Lou is, with a
Louis XVI. LisSUILIII, with a CHARfirte, with
aK EtiGUIE,r, with a Picntroau, with a Geolcits,
and with all other Heroes and Martyrs of Religion
and Loyalty.
lam, with the most profound reaped, your lVla.
jesty's most obedient, devoted, and faithful humble
Servant and Subjed,
(Signed) janN STYR VAN,' Cardinal Maury,
-Bishop of Monte .FiAsC:One anti !kraal°.
Moats Fidovst, Oft. 2, igo4.
•
To His Must Christian Majesty LeitYti' XVIII.
King of I ranee alai Navarre;,..,

On -Thursday tennight,a Melancholy catastrophe
was witnessed un the CO4O of ;.incolosltire,..oir win-
thorp. Three men of that village, named Smally,.
Butler, and Pickering, tolventored to sea in A Witt
to take up scate.hunks, but had,only been a few
Minutes on the agitated element, when a heavy
surge engulnhed their little bark, and for:ever shut
them frytt their wives and fatnaies. . The unfortn.
nate men have left several 'small children to 'deplore
their orphan state, •

IR VOLUMPUNO
CIIRSMOS ANICDOTR 11 TMIFIT
F_RoM SCOTT'S MINSTRELSY. OF TUE ScpTilSli
BLIRORR.

" A law-suit, of importance to Lord Traquair,
was to be decided in the Court of Session ; anti there :I
was every reason to believe, that the jUdament would
turn upon the voice-of the presiding Judge, who has s
casting vote in ease of an equal divisioss atitonl, his
brethren, The opinion of the President was Dora.
vourahle to Lord Traquair; and the point was; there-
fore, to keep him out of the wax, when the question
should be tried. In this dilemma, the Eirl had re- .1
course to Christie's Will, whose real name was \Vil.
Liam Armstrong, who, at once, offered his service
ro kidnap the President. Upon due scrutiny, he
found it was the Judge's pradice frequently to take
the air on horseback, on the Sands. f Leith, with. *:
nut an atroridant. In one of these excursions,
Christie's Will,- who had long watched his oppor7 t.
tunity, ventured to accost the President, and engage
him in conversation. His address and language were
so amusing, that lie decoyed the President into an I
unfrequented and Ritzy common, called.the Frigate:
Whins, whererridiog suddenly up to him, he pulled
him from his horse, muffled him in a large cloak, i
which he had provided, and rode oft ;'with the luck.:
less Judge trussed- up behind him.
.Will 'Crossed the
country with great expedition, by paths only known.
to persons of his description, and deposited his,
weary and terrified burden, in'on old Castle-, in An.
.nandale-, called the Tower of Graham!, 'Vhe judge"s:
horse being found, :it was concluded he, had
thrown his rider into the sea ; his friends went in
„mourning, and a successor was appointed to his-
office.:—Meanwhile,, . ;he: poor —President spent a
heavy time in the vaults of , the Castle. ,He was
imprisoned and soistaryj receiving his food'ihreiugh:
ap aperture in the wall, andnever bearing the sound
:'.of a human.vOice, save when a , shepherd called his'
;Ijog, by the' name of 800, and ,when a female do..
Mestic,called upon. Aidudzi,. the-,car„ These, he
Concluded, were invocations of spirits ; fur he hild
.himself to be in. thedungeonola sorcerer. At length,"
,after three months had 'elapsed, the la w. sdit was. de.
.tided in. favour
,of Lord Traquair ; and Will was.
direeted to set the, President at liberty. According..
he ,titered
.the Vault, at the dead of night, stir.
ed the President,mufiled him once more in the cloak,
without speaking a 'single word,, and, using the
same mode of transportation, conveyed him to 4eith-
Sands, and set down the astonished Judge on the
very spot where he had taken him up. The joy of
his friends, and 'the less agreeable surprise of his
successor, may be easily conceived, whets he ap.
peared in Court, to reclaim his office and honours.
All embraced his own persuasion, that he had been
spirited away by witchcraft ; nor could he himself
be convinced of the" contrary, until, many years.
afterwards, happening to travel into Annandale,
Isis ears were saluted, once more, with the sounds
of Masai( and Batty--the only notes which had'
solaced his long confinement. This. led to a
discovery,of the whole story ; but, in these dig.
orderly times, it was only laughed at, as a fair
ruse de guerre."
Wild and strange as this tradition may seem,
there is little doubt of its foundation in fad. The
Judge, upon whose person this extraordinary stra.-
tagetn was pradised, WAS Sir Alexander Gibson,
Lord Dttrie, ColledOr of the Reports, well known
in the Scottish Law, under the title of Durie's De-
cisions.' He was advanced to the station of an Or-
dinary Lord ofSession, loth July, 1625, and died
at his own house of Durie, July, 164.6, Betwixt
these periods his whimsical adventure must have
haispened ; a date which corresponds with that of
the tradition.

• It stands upon the Waterof Dryfe, not far from Moff.it.

1111t711.Y.

On the sth Sept. in Rome, the Lady of the lion. Edward
Plunkett, of a Son. •
On Saturday, at his house in Gower-street, hedford.
rihare the Lady of tames Stein, Esq. of a Son.
Lately, in Dorset-street, Portman-square, the Lady of
Colonel Hawkshaw, of-a Daughter.

AirIRRI4D.
' On Saturday, at the Abbey' Church, Bath, Dr. George
Hazel ton, Physician to the Household of His Royal
,I ligit-
ness the Duke of Kent, to Miss.Franees Du Puy, of Tama-
ton..
Yesterday, Mc, William Fisher,. of Prittay-street-, to
Frances, third daughter of Matthew Chestall, Esq. of Nor;
P.
folk-street, Strand: •
-On Sunday the 4th Inst. at Rath Reale, in Ireland, by the
Revi,h4Likuc§ :Lieutenant flamfinc, of.the„Hoyal.
Its tiraght„ el Mount. Wil I iam and ontlie same.,
day, 'Captain. Houndale, of the Royal Mayo Regiment of .
Foot, to Xliss IVlarptet Enraght, of Mount.Willidm, both
daughters of the late Mathew Eiiraght, Esq. of Air:Hill,. in
the County of Limerick. •
014 Monday, the Xad of ntobetlast, at. Molten, Mr. R.
Wood, 4r the Blue Wall .public-liiitise of itnit plaie, to ?qrs..
Sarah Murrill, late honsekeeper to lohn 'Webb Weston, Esq..
Guildford, Surrey:—',We have to notice, that this
took place in consequence of an Advertisement for"' A Wife,"
i which appeared n the York Helvittin July last. The Ad-
vertisement_ being reia.l by the lady's'-maid , she immediately
showed it to the housekeeper telling her it- would be a good
watch. rot her. After sonic little correspondence,. an inter-
view took .place at Grantham, and the 'lady was. tux:ought
down to Milton to lee the situation. F very 'thing proving
agreeable, 'the.marriage!was speedily consionmated.--Seldom
has iiny circumstance happened at Malton•which has excited
more curiosity, and -attention ;:there is scarcely a person its the
town. or neighbourlthod but has been at the Ulu; Bail, to pay
their respects to the btide,, wlinis,a very handsome and most
respectable woman.—Our Correspondent conch:des-14 This
modern way of procuring a wife is much liked here, and 1
.cloubt not you will have many moreapplications of the kind.'!
• --York Herald.

1••• DIED. • •
• • •,
On Friday. last, the 9tL inst. at Wells, hi. SotnerSetst4re„
James Tuson,r Esq. late of Roxford, iii Suffialk. •
yesterday sennight, at Hamilton, Captain F Redwood,
of the Ith Dragoon GUAI44.
Ottilleard nit. at Tynemouth, Lieutenant Constable, otf
the Eliza render; stationed at Shields.
On Saturday last, at Margate, Mrs. Madocks, widow of
the-lare,l olih'Madocks, Esq. of Mount MAscall, Kent.
`itche iarrie. day, at Maize Hill, Greenwich, •aftcra very
longrillngs, Mary, wife of William Forman,' Esq. aged 39.
Suddenly, at NewtoWn Pery, Limerick, -.----Monselt,
F;sq.
Littnirne,.Captain William Wighttnan, late of The 4th,
or King's. Agietican Regiment.

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