The Sun.
London, England, 1804-04-21 00:00:00

EXETER, APRIL Is.

MONDAY last, as the daughter of James Merl_
vale, E-q.,of ,this city, was riding a high-spirited.
horse
.near Cleave, tht....animal suddenly took fright,
and galloped, with its fair rider, from thence to St.*
Thomas, a distance of mire than a mile, where. it
sprung into the river, Exe, and threw the young
Lady into the stream. It was a most.fortonafe cir_
ctimstance, that Mr. Daviiun, of the Seven -Stars
Inn, was near the spot ; he. immediately jumped
into the water, and,hrought Miss Merivale s.}fely to
land, although, deprived of her senses. She was
immediately put to tied, in the house of a respect-
able Aporhecary in_the neighboutlmd, and we are
h.wpy to learn
.she has experienced no injury, other
than the fright which such a tlzingerous iituatiun
must have occasioned. The horse was also taken,
from the river,unhort..

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

NEWMARKET ;FIRST _SPRING MEETING.-

TiIUitSDDAY, APRIL 19. •
The King's Pine of lougs. for 4 yr olds. tist. S yr'old fut.
91h. 6 yr olds and aged, fast. ,R. C.
Sir H. 'o. h. Walton, 4 yr: old
Sir F Standish's b. h. Duxbury, 4 yrs old - - 2
Mr. Ho%yorr,h's-c. h. Slapbang. aged 3
6 to 4 on Walton ; 7 to 4 against Duxbury ; 25 to x against
S kar'!bang.
Tite Second,Class of thg prinee's•Stakes of soogs each, h. ft.
colts, Ast. 71b. fillies, Bsi. 41b. Across the Flat. Rising;
yrs. old.
Lord G rosventiec c. by fohn Bull, out of Anna -
Mr. Glover's ch. 1. Spinaway, by Volunteer 2
Duke of Grafton's b. c. Bugbear, by PotE.O's • - 3
4 tot agst Lord Grosvenor's c. ; 5 to i agst Spinaway ; 6
to.; on aigbear.
Mr. Norton's Sir H,arry Dimsdale heat. Mr. H. 1.
Llttieloey, Sst 31b. etch. T. M. M. toogsr.-5 to 4 agst
Sir Harry Dimsdale.
. Duke of.,Graftolo4 Duckling. Est. 71. b.. beat Lord Darling-
ton's Mer4luan, 7st. 41b. Two-yr old C. s.ogs.—z tot ott
Ducklio7.,
Mr: eadbroke'S lutia; .7st. tolb. beat Mr. Mellish's Sur,
, prise, Est. iii. Ab. M. t007„5.• 7t04 on [til;a.
-Mr. Pipylin, Bsr. beat Mr. Howard's Chippen-
ham, Est. 9113,. TWa-yr old'C. sogs. -6 to 5 on Pipylin.
Sir H. Williamson's Ditto, Est. 71h. agst Mr. Norton's Sir
Harry Dimsdale, Bst. D. 1. ;bogs. Olt by consent.
Mr. MelliSli's Eazle, Est. 71b. received ft. from the Duke
of Gatou'S Parasol, 7st. Two-yr old C. 2oogs. 'h. ft.

By a letter from Harnburgh, dated the zith
We are informed of the following very singularly
cruel, and unnatural murder :

" A personof-the name of Reuse,. a recpeelable
schooi.mastes.here, about 40 years of:age, having a
wife and fiveAittlren, anti -possessing therewith a
competence,. and evert" means of rendering himself
and 1.4.mi1y happy, rook occasion, a few ni hq.ago,
whilst they ail slept, to murder them.inAlte most.
cruel and barbarous manner.

'4 On the tiay preceding this horrid catastrophe,.
Reuse was, with some friends and the whole of his
fimily, on pleasure at Wansbeek, a pieaiant
fey" miles from Harnburgh. .About nine in the even-
.•
they all returned to town ; and between the
m nuntirg, if is believed,
he had liven employed in the horrid work of nuts
latrivg all hi; family.

" The eldest, a girl of about r 6 years of age, '
from the condition she was in when found in the
morning, appeared to have struggled severely with
this monster in human fim, as she had received
many curs and stabs in different parts of her body.
During the awful conflid, long had she, doubtless,,
petitioned for mercy—but in vain ; determined on
his sanguinary purpose, and equally callous to the.
feelings and inaccessible 10 the last cries of huma-
nity, he had, by-dint of perseverance, succeeded in
almost severing her head from her body.—His wife
and the otlwr tour children, which were boys, had
their necks cut nearly asunder, it is supposed while
asleep, ',raving not a spark of life in any of them,
except the youngest, who survived, in the agonies
of death, about five hours. What is shocking to
remark concerning the child last-mentioned (as it
proves him capable of deliberate discrimination),
is, that to died his cruel purpose, and complete the
massacre, he had taken this, his youngest child,
out of bed from between.. two children he had for
tuition belonging to a merchant.

Early in the morning he left the house, de-
siring the servant not to awake hermistress, or any
of the family, till he. retiiined. The gates of ,the
city 9pening.atan early hour, .he skulked into the
most retird part of:die samparts, where he made a
slight attempt to cut his own throat.; and had laid
down on his face,- by some water,- endeavouring 'to
bleed gently to death.. .
. ,

"' The LorriS transaElion was, however, soon
discovered, and reported. through the city. And.
in the afternuon of flit\ same day, two gentlemen,
who were 'out sporting, came to the place where
Reuse, was laid ; and' finding him in the situation
already described, inquired it he was the wretch
who had murdered Hi' fatuity in the morning ? He
answered in the affirmative, at the same time
begging for some water to drink, which was re-
fused him. He was then' taken ; and at the dead
hour of the night (to secure him from the vengeance
of the people), he was conveyed to his own house, to
behold the awful scene, in order to obtains if pose
sible, .a confession of the. motives .which induced
him to commit an aa of Such singular barbarity ;,
but he assigned no other reason for. his condud;_
than%the losing of a trifling law-suit, and the
posrerous idea of love to his family, which, .he said,
prompted him to save them from the direful corkt..
quences.
" .It is, however,,reniarkahle, that previn.us.to
the commission of this sanguinary ad, he bad never
evinced any symptoms of insanity.
4-iaving property, he was.confined in a comfort-
able prison, where he, spent his time in playing at
cards and other ainusements.

WA-a IN .CEYLON.

(Cm:blue:l froln oar raper cf Yesterday.)

, -His Majesty the King of Candy.

'MOST ILLUSTRIOUS PRINCE,
The respeet and attachment which I haire alw t-4
expressed towards . your Majesty, and- the de.fre
which I have always manifested to preserve the lest
understanding with the KingdomoiCandy, In.if:e it
a very painful duty to me to lay before your Ma.
'jesry the Remonstrance «hick accompanies this Let-
ter ; but-the proteCtion Which I .owe to the people
,subjeft to my Government, 'will not altow 'me to
..verlook or to comprOmis:e An at of such gross in-
justice and Oppression *as that of which I complain.
Your Majesty will see by.the Papers transmitted
by the "ChielSecretary of my Government to your
First Adigaar, th'at. certain merchants resident at
Putelangi having liareliaied a Considerable quantity
of Arelot nut.at a. fair marker, according to esta-
blished ctistontio your:MAjesty's Territories, have
been deSpOited of it by the violence of one of your
principal Officers, without compensation being made
to thern. .
'The wisdom and justice of-your Majesty's cha.:
rate will, I am sure, induce 3.70.13 to make the, most
atitple reparation both to the Individuals whO have
strfPred, and -to. my Government, whose honour
and dignity have been essentially injured in their
persons,: and I most sincerely hope, that --the 41)a.
rent necessity of preventing the recurrence of-such
dangerous events, will persuade your Majesty to a
-more favourable consideration than you have hitherto
given to the terms of amity and alliarkce which I
have sa.frequen-Oy offered, and which would ensure
the happiness ofyour Royal Person and of your Pot,
terity, as long as the sun and moon shall endure. -
Witat can a friend say more ?
(‘Signed) FREDERACK NORTH.
Columbo, ;tit Sept. 1803. , •
•

Translation of a Chinglee'Letter, on Cadjan, addressed to
the ChielSmretary, and written by the Malta Adigaar of
Candia,, Pitlenta. Tallawa, Wyeji Soondra, Raja Catooma,
SeneWiratne Abejecon, Pandita Moodyance.

On previouscompliments:
I have duly, received your Letter sent to the by
order of His Excellency the Governor, covering a
Paper, wherein is plainly said, the_cases 'tvitic4 hap.
pened at the village Cakkoonacooly, situated in site
DistriCt of Candy, in the course of the rupiahss-of
March and April, and in what manner some mer-
chants.of Putelang were rObbed of their goods and .
merchandises. In answer to it I have to_ inform
you, that,l will send for the, people who robbed the
aforesaid, goods, • and,' after striti examination,
write to you the circumstances thereof, for the in-
formation of His Excellency the Governor. In the
mean time, I request you will mention to His Ex.
Cellency .the Governor, of this Letter;
• Thus written, in the year 1724, called Dundoo.
wynam, in the- month -flinara, the ad of the new
moon, on Tuesday, (or, the 18tIt of September,
r8o;). At the. bottom, signed with an illegible
handwriting._
For the Translation,
(Signed) • A. L. FRANTZ, ad A. Tro. •
For the Interpretation,
(Signed) - D. P. SAMERKOON, Mohottiaar.

Translation ea Dutch Translation- of a Letter on ()la, writ-
ten, from .Candia to the Chief Secretary of Columbo, a
joint Membzr of the Council of His Excellency the Go-
vernor who is a fiithful Friend of the Court of His Ma-
jesty tie King there, by the First Adigaar of the said King-
dom riiimetelauwee, Wigesoodere, Rajekarocaa, Senewe-
ratite, Abcejekoon, Pandite, Moedian, Sera'chanty ; sound-
ing thus

After previous Compliments :
The Letters written and dispatched in our name
'having read and considered, we saw thereby •that
the merchants who arrived here from Putelang to
trade were bereft of their beetle nuts.
We sent for the peoplewho took away the beetW
nuts, and, having questioned them, we discovered
that it was a matter of fad.. On the question„ why
they had taken away-the goods of the t raders'in thane
way ? they replied, Because they had already taken
the beetle-nut farms of those Dossavonies.
On the question, Whether tilt)/ had.likewise so
taken away. the beetle nuts previous hereto? they
replied, They bad, previous to this, in the years
when entitled to the farm, ailed in this way. •
The beetle nut Renters say farther, That as they
had engaged to bring up- more beetle nuts for the
farm in this year than in the former ones, they can
permit nobody else to coiled the beetle nuts for
himself. •
On the question, What quantity of beetle nuts
. they had taken away from the traders of Putelang
they replied, They had taken -13 z ammonams and
3668. puts ; and that they had learnt, that the re-
maining quantity was left by the traders in the
same, at such place as was appointed thereto, and
. that they had gone away afterwards.
As the traders of Putelang had come in. thosc'
, countries previous to the beetle-nut Renters' arrival
there, and had exchanged their merchandizes for
. beetle nuts; it' is- but just to cede the beetle nuts to.
those thders.
Theiefore, when the Proprietors of the same be
sent to Kakoonakoli, shall the beetle nuts taken
away be returned to them. 'lt will be good to
form His Excellency the Governor hereof.
Thus is this Ola, sent in the Sakka year Doen,
doehinamwaree 574, on Sunday the 7th, after the
dew moon of the month Bender,emagre (or, accor4-
.ing to the Christian "chronology, the 30 instant), .
with an illegible signature, and the Chingaly cy—
pher 5.
• Columba, Bth Oaobtr, 1802:
A true Translation,
(Signed) J..G. KRI FICENB EK, Assist. Transl.,
For the Translation,
(Signed) DN. P. SAMERKOON, 1\401106W.

Translation • of a
..Letter on. Ola, written by the ionjuna
Courtiers of Cady, by order of the King there, to itts Ex-
cellency the Honourable F. North, faithful Friend of His
Majesty the King of Candy. . ,

etc streh I , ;II
no his Nbiegt the in Carviy to -fix a laviiur,tbte
0)1 manner his Aljetty the King„.,;(-
Candy bad done till now; on the. prrirtisiii;:ns ot
frienclshirand:alliAnce so often offered-iv .your
eellency,-and which were to,,secor.e.t. haipiness,
:both of his Majesty's Person and 4:f his 01f.pring.,
is long as the sun and 'moon exist; at tl that your-
Excellency had further.the, horiCtur, to be with'high
.esteem.
, .
The contents_ of the said Letter heing.represented,i
,to His Majesty our God and King, great etkltmi.
urns were, on that occasion, bestowed by .the
on your Excelleprzy, itoporting4,4at ytur Exoellenty.-a
was, a fortunate and wise person,- who eriie.avottrs
he more favoured by his
,Majesty thel4-,ing
_of Can.,
dia. His Majesty the King .okAntliA; under fur- •
ther declaration, namely, that .y4ust Exciellency,
by
tie aid of. your great wisdom, would,make 4uclt.
disposals as to render the .continuance of friendship
still more-inviolable during the existence of sun and
direded us,to write thii Letter in our name,
wlarich command while :borne on our,heads, is this
Letter written. and dispatched in ,the Sakka year,
called Doondoohinam- 174, on 'Tuesday after the
new moon of the month lien'Ara mase, Agreeably to
,the• Christian chronology the zStll. September I 80'•
At the.heAd of the 01.1 stood thee Chingaly cypher
s, and the two first letters of 'the Chingaly alphabet.
•
• " A true Translation,
(Signed) J. P. KillEKtistßEEttl, Assist. Trans!.
or the Interptetkikinn,, . „ •
. ,
1). P. SAM,ERKOOII,
[To be continued.] -