The Sun.
London, England, 1804-12-19 00:00:00

4.0q1). SoIIBRYILLE:'.t
„FEBRUARY SHOW.

Pantie's/kr..., Wcre' issued on Monday% after the
Smithfield Club Dinner, for the Sori-ng Show of
cattle, "Sec. annually given by Lord Sams RV ILL R.
to whose liberal and .well direded eff)tts the Pub-
lic are so highly indebted for many of the most im.
portant improvements in Grazing and Agriculture.
Sir THOMAS CARR prOrl,ed a htt tot shewing
some twin heifers which he has got ; and, sh4rtly
after, Mr. Most ir Hi 0, proposed abet of one hun-
dred' guineas, which was accepted" by Sir THOMAS
yARR, for she five, &till; Dawn sheep, fed on
grass, hay, and Jurnips, at Lord SOMERS! t. I, E'S
next show.
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After the close of the Duke of BEDFORD'S ener_
getic address to the Society, Lord SOMERVILLE
arose, and after a tributary.and well.destived com-
pliment to their N'.:l)le Chairman, 'proposed His
Grace's health ; which was rapturously drank with
thtee times,three.,
The Duke of BEDFORD, in the course of the
ening, remarked "to the Club, that the present
show had been honoured by the presence of some
foreigners of distinetion, whom the Emperor 'Ol
RUSSIA, in his enlightened policy, hat' sent over to
this Country, to purchase some of the best breed.
tug animals, and concluded by proposing the health
" His Imperial Majesty the Emperor of Russ' A.".
The Toasts proceeded with—.
" Small in Sine, and• great in Value"—" Mr. Coke, of
•NortOlk"—" Lord Winchelsea"—" Tho Union of Husbandry
and Com‘rnetce"—" Lord Egremont"—" sir Charles Davere*
—" Mr. Macey"_-- ". 'Emulation and Competition among
Breeders and Gniziers"—"Mr. Overman, of Burnham," &c.

The health of Lora SumLRvILLR, with three
times three, was then given from the Chair, and
drank with heartfelt :.pplause : the festive evening
closed with its usull hilarity and vod humour, un-
der a general consciousness ut well-meant endea-
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yours.

SMITHFIELD CATTLE SHOW. -- Yesterday a
beautiful Cow and Bell, of mixed breed, between
an East Indian Bull and a Devon Cow, belonging to
Mr. WHITE PARSONS, of Wiltshire, who sent them
up for inspeCtion at the Cattle Show in Mr. Wooc-
toe"s Yard, but where they did not arrive in time,
were examined by several Breeders and Amateurs.
Prince PoreersKe r; from Russia, and an Hanoverian
Nobleman were present.
COURT or Atoittraeu.--Westerday the Loen.
MAYOR held a Court of Aldermen at Guildh ill, at
which 21 Alder Men, the RECORDER, the Town
Cletk, and other Officers were present.
The Court, after'examining the Return' of the
Meal Weigher, ordered the Assize, or price of Bread
to be lowered halt an assize, (Sr one penny 'in the
Peck Loaf, to take, place to-m,ortow ; the Qiiirteril
Leaf Wheaten Will then he sold for 164-d. and
Household r.pi.
The Court' elened Mr. Aldernian NE wNo Am
Collector of the Orphans' Duly upon Coals, in the
room of the late Right Hon. THOMAS HARLEY, de-
ceased.
The adjourned Appeal of the Inhabitants of St.
Michael, Crooked-lane, against the Assessment
made under the late,'Mt for the Relief of certain
,Incumbents of Livings within tile City, was heard,
gnashed, and the Court appointed new Assessors.
The Rnchdale Canal, communicating with the
Calder and Hebble Navigation, near Halifax, and
with the Duke'of Bridgewater's at Manchester, is
at length completed.
A private. Letter, of the 33 instant, from Berlin,
states—" That in the -course of that week the
Frenell Agent, LA Fott Ise, had several conferences
with the Prussian Minister of State, the Baton De
HARDINBERG, and had even obtained 'audiences
of His PRUSSIAN MAJESTY; at the last of which, •
he laid' before the King the Papers found in Sir
GEORGE RUMBOLDPS house. It is added, that LA
FOREST desired the Prussian Monarch to permit
his Ambassador at St. Petersburgh to communicate
these Papers to the Russian Cabinet, together
with a new . Plan for' a Reconciliation between
BONAPARTE and ALEXANDER the FIRST. The
King is .said to have declined to interfere farther
in •the differences between Russia and 'France, and
to have refused to make the desired communication
Of Sir GEORGE RUMSOLD'S Papers, because they
had been obtained in a violent manner, contrary to
the laws 'and customs of civilized nations i -and
which was even a (tired insult to His Majesty,
as Diredlor of the Circle of Lower Saxony."
There are at present in Ireland forty.mine thou.
Sand Troops of the Line and Militia 'ready to take
the field immediately, over tand above fourteen thou.
sand men set apart for ordinary and incidental du.
ries. There is also a numerous body of Yeomanry
perkab, euineetenc• to , the preservation of local
tranquillity and the prevention of disorders, which-
all Countries may be expeled to produce' when
they become the Theatre of Ware'--(ifibrniati
joarnal,) _
The Ladies of Bradford and the neighbourhood,
much to-their credit,. at this inclement season of the
year, have entered into a. liberal subscription, for
'furnishing poor women with bed.gowns, woollen
petticoats, and other necessary apparel. Someyoung
Ladies have also laudably come forward, arid under
taken 'to make, the garments, by meeting at each
whets houses for a few hours every evening.
Somedays since, an apprentice to a shopkeeper op.
polite the Victualling Office at Chatham, in opening
a drawer to serve some ivory black, unfortunately
:rmistook the contents of thedrawser,,which was filled
'with gunpowder, and a .sparkfalling from the candle,
'it bleW up with a great explosion, 'by which the
shop . veind ow was foreed OW, and the boy most
•
dreadfully buint.
' 'On Mooch). morning, about nine o'cloek, a shtick. ,
.ing acciieet happened. at Mr. Scott's distillery at.
Vauxhall : a. foteman. to the stonemasons who are:
at work at a steam engine there, put his head
through a small aperture to look at some Work
which had been done, 'not knoWing the fiy.wheel.
of the 'Engine passed, close to the hole, the -wheel.
' caught' his head,' and knocked off the upper part of
it, and one of his eyes, fact of courseleft. him a
' dreadful spectacle. - - .. • . .'
'
. The Magistrates are determined•in future to pub-
. dlirsahwtlilneg- mtomfesa-ny of all persons who' are fourtd'at the
Little Goes, andlaroceed' against
-themes;-vagrants,. under. the -Act, ,of the-.;lilt end
myth of: the. present King, ,
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EGYPT.

OCT. t 5.--.--The situation of affart; in
has nut_ chmiged in any. sensible degree,.;—
The ;;,v,ll the Nile has not impeded the military
~or'r:rions ; .nor have the Marnelukes, still divided
not ..them-elves, yet seized upon- Cairo ; but
wile', rho camptign opens, there is little doubt uf
qa..l:ing themselves masters of :it. The
subordination of the Albanians is at its height ;
and the authority of the Porte is absolotcly null..—
The Pach.t olK9urched is a weak man, though his
intentions are good, and. ails justly when he is not
moved by any foreign impulse : his authority. is,
however, null, as he is merely the .organ of the
Albanians, who every day imprison or :massacre
their Officers, who are tafraid to enforce discipline.
Commerce in the capital is• entirely .at a stand.;
anarchy is complete, and power only.seenas -to. be
the supreme law. •

A Letter from an Officer in India belonging to I
General WELLESLRY'S Army, elated June 06, re-
lates, that they have been in the field upwards of
i 6 months, and for the last ',five, in a state 'ap.
proaching starvation, from the famine which rages
in that ;.art of India; horses and cattle dying from
want, villages deserted, and their miserable inha.
hitants perishing in the Camp for want of rice,
which sells at a rupee per seen. It anticipates with
fear the extent-of the evil, and says, in conclusion,
that the prize money (large as is its amount) will
not more than pay the Officers their enormous ex.
pences. It will, however, be recolletted, that
Letters of a more recent date-, namely, July 22,
state, the happy termination of the War in that.
go-incr.
The following is'ansEttraft of a 'Letter, dated`
April tB, received by the Morning:air A few'
-days ago two Frenchmen were landed on the Mala-
bar Coast, from a National Corvette, - and were
traced to within a few miles of Poonah, where they,
were taken Prisoners and-sent to Bombay i a Mani.
festo was found on. one of them, signed by General
.Dscisx, CninmandUnt at the Isle of Frande, ex.
barring the Mahratta Chiefs to unite and drive the
perfidious English (as he stiles them) out of
But by the late Treaties at Peace made between us,'.
SCIINDIA, and 1111100SL AH, we .have gained so large
an acquisition to our Indian Empire, and so totally
annihilated the poWer and interest of the French in
Alia, as will effectually put a stop to the constant
ruptures we 'have hail with the Maltrattas, through,
their instievation, and fix our possessions hereon so
:solid and firm a foundation as not•to lac sapped by
French intrigue, or *baker: by-any force Bohn.
?ARTS will ever he able to bring against us, So
numerous is'hur ArMy, and so highly disciplined,
that his Invincible Legion Would have as little
chance in the field with us in India, as they hail -
with the British Troops in Egypt, whom we should
rival in vitiory, although we have an immense tar.
ritory to protect, from Delhi so low down as Cut.
tack, which is opwaids of one, thousand miles due
out!), to the eastward as far' as Sylhet, whirl) is
only twelve days march from the Province of -Vo.•
nan, in China, and to the westward as far as Agra."

• A Ship Under. O'denburgh colours, called Die
Kleine jarah, from Bremerley, vas. spoken by our
blockading Squadron off the Elbe, on the 12,11itt0.;
near Heligoland, the Mister of which, PETER
HRINDRIcH9, declared, that the day before he had:
sailed from the 'Weser, where
.he was driven by
stress of, weather on the 3oth' last Month, 'in his-
, voyage from. Antwerp to Bergen,:. on, his, casting
anchor near Bremerley, a French Officer and ten
Snidiers ante on board, under pretence of search.,
ing for nglitilt goods ; but, in fist, *to plunder the,
Ship and the Crew of every thing valuable, with
which they filled ;heir, gear, after ordering the'
Captain, under pain of having his Vessel sunk by,'
their batteries, to immediately cut his cable, and go
to sea. The Captain represented, in vain, that both.
the wind and tide Are against him; he was forced
to obey, without obtaining even a pilot as he
mantled. From these causes, he had not made a
mile before he went a.ground, and lost his rudder.
In this perilous situation he.remained clutfrig'a dark
• anti boisterous night, every moment expo ing '
•he lost. At ..I,ly-light, 'however, some Rtemerley
Pilots ventured, notwithstanding the prohibition of
the French Commander there, Major I)Aint4is, to
sail to his- assistance ; and, after ten hours hard la..
hour, succeeded in bringing the ship safe to Bre..
merley. Here, after' giving the Commander
ilouctur dollars, he Wits permitted to repair
his damage. The Pilots advised Captain Hipp:.
'Amyl nut to mention, 'much less to Complain. of,,
the 'loss he . had experienced frOm the 'French pi.'
rates, as their Officer was • the Commander's
&Camp, with Whom they had shared their spoils.
During the tinie the vessel remained at Brernerley,
neither the-Captain nor an of the Crew were per- ,
mined to send away any letters to the Owners of
the ship; and, before he was permitted to'sail, the
Commander obliged him to sign a ileclaratiOn, ac.
knowledging himielf to have.beert treated with:that
generosity and humanity which always accompany
Frenchmen wherever they command. These, the
Captain declares, were the very. words contained in
the certificate. Four French. soldiers were Oar,,
tered on board the Ship as long as it was repairing,
who ate at the Captain's tab!e, and none Of the
Clew were allowed to go on shore unless itecompa'...
Hied by a guard. When 'under sail,
:but not out of
the.reach of, the batteries, he was again, by a shut,
ordered,to bring to, when another boat,: with an.
other Officer on bout!, came anti claimed forty do!.
lan more, doe to the. four soldieri for their ten
days duty on board his ship; and as he lit 3 not sof.
fiCient .cash, to. pay this 'debt 'uf
,honour, they car.
tied away. his watch, which the. former' Pirates had
missid. No one can deny,thit these men are not
!worthy ,to 'salute the Brigand BONAPARTP, their
Sovereign.
Eight persons have been released frogs .vrisonon
account of BOPtett!titt..T.e,s,Coron4tiqn. When
Louis
XVI. Weis crow,,e4, Ityct at liberty JO9 prisoners,
and give them each $5 Louis d'ors,,,,
.oor. letters of yesterday,. from' various parts of
die.Notthern Stici Easterit,Ctionties, state, that they
had experienced 'a' deep. fall of roost of the
roads in N 4 111 Walit were 'on Sunda;list tinpass“ble
for heavy .carrii
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