The Sun.
London, England, 1804-10-27 00:00:00

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COUNT ZAMBECCARI has published an account
of his last Aerial Voyage, of which the following
are the most interesting particulars : The two
Aeronauts, Dr. ANDREOLI and himself, descended
within 00 feet of the ground. They afterwards
ascended again, and passed throUgh a cloud, but
without experiencing the effeas of ele&ricity. At
one o'clock they found themselves over Cape Ar-
gine, six Italian miles from Bologna. ZAMB EC-
CARI wished to descend there, and having gut near
the ground, he contrived to fasten his halluon to a
tree with an anchor. The balloon having in con.
sequence taken an oblique movement, the lamp
which contained the spirits of wine was overturned,
the spirits spread over the gondola, and set it on
fire: The fire soon communicated to a vase, in
which there was a considerable quantity of spirits
of wine : The vase burst, and the flames extended
more and more; they gained the habits of the two
Aeronauts, and threatened the ropes by which the
gondola was fastened to the balloon. ZAMBEC.
CART seized a bottle of water, and extinguished
the fire which had caught his clothes. ANDREOLI
only thought of saving himself He slid along the
rope to which the anchor was fastened, to a tree,
from thenCe he dropped to the ground without being
much hurt. The balloon being thus disengaged
from a weight of above a hundred and a half, rose
rapidly into the clouds with ZAMBECCAR I, and
immediately disappeared. The Count did not 1,,,e
his presence of mind ; he continued his effort to ex-
tinguish the fire in the gondola. A strong current
of air continued to carry bun towards the Adriatic,
and at three o'clock he was perceived over the coast of
Comichio) and soon after he fell into the sea, about
es Italian miles from the coast. The gondola was
half burnt and sunk ; he, however, held by the
cords of the balloon, and was often cp to his neck
in the water. The Count being apprehensive that
he might, from ettteme fatigue, let go his hold,
contrived to fasten himself to the ropes. At seven
O'clock in the evening ht perceived seven fishinik,
boats ; four of them sailed away as fast as possibfk,t,
thei fishermen taking him lot some sea-monsteeie
I..ne three others approached; and relieved him from
" peril. He was four hours in the water, during
which time he suffered the greatest tortures from his
burns. The fishermen wished to seize the balloon,
but as soon as they cut the cords it rose, and took a
course towards the coast Turkey. Apprehen-
sions were entertained for days that it would
be necessary to amputate r7TO m of the Count,
which was dreadfully burnt; .uttiritnow hoped
that he will not lose his arm.
it is a singular coincidence of melanchigrevents,
that three persons of such eminence, •in one'family,
should hare fallen so nearly together as the deaths
of Mr.•CONNOLLY, the Hon. Colonel NAPIER,
and tht Duke of LEINSTER, have recently exem.
plified.
The most Noble WM. ROBERT FITZGERALD,
Duke of Leinster, Marquis and Earl of Kildare, Earl
rind Baron of Offaley, and Viscount Leinster, of
T
aPiows in the Kingdom of Great Britain, and
knight of St. Patrick, was born March 13, 1749 ;
succeeded the late Duke, his father, Nov. 19, 1773;
married, November 41., 1775, AMELIA OLIVIA ST.
GEORGE, daughter of the late Lord ST. GEORGE,
IVIED died June 23, 1798; by whom he had issue,
ORGE, born in 1783, died an infant ; MARY
REBECCA, May 6, 1777, and married, April IS,
1793, Major-General Sir CHARLES Ross, Bart. ;
ELIZABETH, May 13, 1778; GERALDINE MABEL,
August 27, 1779, who died March 22,
~ 1790
ELIZABETH MARY, OtiOber 30, 1760; UEORGE,
IVlatqui& of Kildare, burn June 20, 1783, 10 whom
7.7lR'AilApsTy stood Sponsor, and died in February
c 4; -ISABELLA CHARLOTTE, July 16, 1784 ;
EC11,1.0
TA, OLIVIA, March 3, 1786; OLIVIA LETI.
Sept. 9, 1787; AUGUsTA OCTAV lA, July
9, Iqo died young; AUGUSTUS FREDERICK,
ti?wholn His Royal Highness the PRINCE of Wa Es
Sponsor, born Aug , ust 21 1791; WILLIAM
A
cAtiARLEs, Jan. 4, 1793 ; Sr. GEORGE RICHARD,
1 ugust
_l9) 1794; and Watrwoatta, March 31,
796, who died an infant.
'there is a vacancy in the Order of the Knights
cf St. Patrick, by the death of the Duke of Lent.

ANECDOTE..--(CATER, the composer, who lately
paid the debt of nature, did nut always meet with
all the encouragement to which his musical talents
?night have entitled him ; and as economy was not
amongst the virtues which he cultivated most, he
. %vas often reduced to those straits and difficulties
from which genius and talents can plead no exem-
tion. In one of those scenes of embarrassment, his
Means and resources having been exhausted, he ran.
s.a.eked the various species cf composition lie had by
h •
„ " s but finding that none, nor all of them, could
Lint duet a single guinea at the music.shops, lie hit
surosill the following expedient for the immediate
• ''Y of his most pressing necessities. Being well
actin •
nos ainted with the character of HANDILia ma.
u,43,lcriiPt, he procured an old skin of parchment,
-,..,-;en he prepared for the purpose to which he meant
- iuro
hand its and, imitating as closely as be could the
the :writing, as well as the style and manner of
I'"reat Master, he produced, in a short time, a
Peres which so well deceived a Music.seller, that he
thldnot hesitate to give twenty guineas for it ; and
d e„Piece passes amongst many for the genuine pro.
aLtion of HANDEL to this day.
bolt) the beginning of May last, Jchn Dunbar, la.
and uter) residing in the village of Baron, Scot.
In
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'mug a pit in his garden, about three feet
tillare and two feet deep, into which lie threw a
Pla
Paderal of fresh earth front the surface, and thereon
ced a DOIRtOe of the pink-eyed kind ;he then
brew over it a little cow.dung, and bedded it
wha (tuna '
• " with
a quantity of green.kail roots, filling up
at „,.. .
stern' 'crnaloed of the pit with earth. When the
1, layer Appeared above the ground, he gave it another
1 , of dung with a little fresh earth, and continued
;10e hoe up the earth to its toot as often as appeared
la„,ectaarY. On the 1 3th instant he dug from the
rear plant .44 potatoes, all of them above the ordi.
trorY 'size, 16 of which weighed upwards of a stunt,
ne, and one, in particultr,,weighs albs. 9oz.
tllet
A tt
w_
Swinstead Fair on Monday, notwithstanding
~ si " a large show of Sheep, they suld dearer by
,• a head than at Corby Fair..

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11.Lso Cw.vdr, OR. 24, ig=4.

His West 's Regulations in regard to the SUMS to be given
and re<:eived for Commissions in the Army, having, in va-
rious instances, been clisteßarded, to the great prejudice of
His Majesty's service; His Royal Highness the Commander
in Chief is pleased to direct, that when an Officer is desirous
Of roiring from the service, and of hai;ing leave to sell his
Commission, it li;s Regiment is in Great Britain, he is to
sendlds resignation in the usual manner, through the Com-
Manding Officer of his Regiment, to his Colonel ; who, in
transmitting the same to the Commander in Chief, may, at
the same time, if there are purchasers in the Corps, recom-
mend in succession, the senior of their respeclive ranks for
purchase, both the Colonel and Commanding Officers cer-
tifying that they are satisfied that no • more than the stint
stipulated by His Majesty's regulation is given or received.
Should there be no purchaser in the Regiment, the resig-
nation of the Officer desirous to retire is alone to be trans-
mitted in the manner and form above-mentioned; when,
should :lie application be deemed proper to be grante6l, His
Royal Highness will recommend to Ills Majesty such Officer
for the purchase, as to His Royal Highness may appear most
eligible.
Officers belonging to Regiments stationed in Ireland, must
Make their applications in a similar course to the Conunan-
der of the Forces there; and, on Foreign Stations, through
the Commanding Officer, to the General Officer under whose
command they are; their applications being unitOrinly sanc-
tioned by their respective Commanding Officers,
_ who are to
certify, in the same manner as Colonels of Regiments at
home, that they are satisfied in regard to the sums given, or
to be received, being in stria conformity to His Majesty's
regulations.
Colonels, when absent from Great Britain and Ireland,
may ernoower the Officer in actual command of their Regi-
ments, or their Regimental Agents, to recommend pur-
chasers for vacant Commissions, in which case the necessary,
certificates, in regard to the sum to be paid in regimental suc-
cession, must be signed by them in the Colonel's absence,
as well as the recommendation for the purchase; and the
person so recommending to Cornetcies or Ensigncies, vacant
by. purchase, will be held responsible for the eligibility of the
person recommended.
• The Commander in Chief is further pleased to dire.% that
when an Officer is desirous of retiring to Half-pay; receiving
the difference, the saine rules are to be observed in regard to
transmitting his application ; but no recommendation in
succession is to accompany the request to retire ; as His
Royal Highness will himself nominate the Officer to be pro...
posed to His Majesty for the exchange.
• To enable the Commander in Chief to recommend Officers
for purchase; it is necessary that regular Returnsofall Officers
prepared to purchase promotion should he transmitted from
each Regiment and Corps in the Service to the Commander
in Chief's Office, Horse Guards, London, on the 25th of
March, the zsth of tune, the 25th of September, and the
2sth of December in each year, undercover, to His Royal
Highness's Military Secretary ; and these Returns must par-
+ ticularly state, where the money of each individual &sir.
ous of purchasing is lodged, or offered to be obtained ; and
similar Returns must be forwarded to the Regimental Agent,
for the information of their respedive Colonels.
Officers on leave of absence from Corps on Foreign Service
may transmit their applications to purchase or sell, through
the Colonels of their Regiments rvand in the event ofa change
in an Officer's circumstances between the quarterly Returns.
ha may make a Iced communication to flead-quarters, in
order to proven purchase taking place in his own Corps,
by which he m passed over by a junior Officer. •
This rule is ap cable also to Officers on the Recruiting
Service, or other military duties, whose Corps may be on a
foreign station.
Officers on Half-pay, desirous of exchanging to Full- pay,
giving the regulated nillerence, must address themselves to
Head-quarters, stating where their money is lodged, or to be
obtained, to enable fi Commander in Chief to recommend
them as vacr.ies o r. _

After tLese Orders have been circulated, no attention will
be paid to representations of Officers who have neglated to
return themselves prepared to purchase, as, whatever hard-
ships they may sutra in that case, must be entirely owing to
their own ncglecl,
In causing these Orders to be circulated to the Army, the
Commander in Chief thinks proper to declare, that any Of-
ficer who shall b,r, found to have given, direaly or indlreCtly,
anything beyond the regulated price, iii disobedience to His
Majesty's Orders, or to have attempted to evade the Regula.
Lion in any manner whatever, will be reported by the Com-
mander in Chief to His Majesty, in order that he may be
removed from the Service; and it is also to be understood,
that the prescribed Forms of Applications tbr the Sale and
Purchase of Commissions, and the usual Certificates annexed
thereto, are in all instances to be complied with.
By Command of His Royal Highness the Commander in
Chief. G.A. GORDON, Military Sec.

His Royal Highness the DUKE of Yoax arrived
at Chatham, on Wednesday, attended by Sir D.
DUNDAC, &c. It is supposed His Highness will
arrange, ere his departure, what Troops are to oc-
cupy the upper Barracks during the winter. The
Coldstream and 3d Guards, from Coxheath, are
spoken of. The East York, now encamped, will
shortly break up and go into quarters.
The First Battalion of Reading Volunteers, coat..
manded by Col. ANNESLEY (and of which Corps
' the most Noble the Marquis of BLANDFORO is
Major), is now on permanent duty, for 21 days, at
Henley,on-Thames, in Oxfordshire—an example
worthy the imitation of similar Corps within the
County of Berks.
The 2d Battalion of the 21st Regiment is arrived
at Ayr.
A subscription has been entered into at Great
Grimsby, for clothing the Corps of Volunteers in
regular uniform. The Members for the Borough
gave each soli ; the Haven Company a handsome
sum; and the inhabitants, according to ability,
have made up the requisite amount.
General NEPEANI Commanding Officer of the
depbt of prisoners at Norman Cross, has written a
Letter to Captain CoLs, of the ffeterborough Vo.
lunteet Yeomanry Cavalry, expressive of his entire
satisfaaion and approbation of the zeal and alacrity
manifested by that Corps in assisting to prevent the
escape of the French prisOners.
Tuesday seinnight the Light Company of the
48th regiment marched into Limerick, where they
are to do duty until further orders.
Yesterday the First Regiment of Loyal London
Volunteers, Col. BIRCH, which was called, during
last 'War, the Royal Exchange Volunteers, dined
together at the London Tavern, according toannual
custom.

A few days since the Frendh Generals ROCHAti-
BEAU and BOYER arrived at Norman Cross prison.
MANSION-HOUSE,OCTOBER, 1804.—TheLoRD
MAYolk thinks it proper that the Corporation should
be apprised of the decision of a question between
himself and the Port Committee, and therefore trans.
mks a Copy of the Opinion of Counsel, on a Case
submitted to them by that Committee.
COPY.

These questinas, as they are applicable to the
present case,' resolve themselves into two :

First—Whether the Common Council can exercise any
controul over the Harbour Masters, except by Bye-Laws,
made and confirmed as the At requires.
Second—Whether the Mayor can exercise such controul
before any Bye- Laws are made.
Upon the l irst —We are of opinion that the Common Coun-
cil can exercise no such controul, except by the means
of Bye-Laws, made and confirmed in ptmuance of the
Ad.
Upon the Second—We are of opinion that the Lord Mayor
has the power of controul, SUbjed to the regulation of
such Bye-Laws as may be hereat ter made by the Common
Council, and duly confirmed.
V. C.ltsas,
likoln's Inn, ItouN SLLvEsrFit,
OctJtrer 9, CWMAN KNOWLYI,
ii. DAMPIza.

t'YELMSPOR T. 26.

IWr never executed a Mo.-re painful duty than that
which we have to perform in our publicat ion of this
day, in relating the particAtrs of a most dreadful
fire, which broke out in the Staples of the Dog
• public.house, in this town, on Monday evening
last-, about eight o'clock ; the lamentable conse-
quences of which were scarcely ever equalled. A,
party of HanoVerians., about i 20 in number, marched
into the town al/out two o'clock the same day, and
were for convenience lodged in the licwe and stables
upon the premises we have before mentioned. Fa-
tigued with their march, they retired to rest at an
early hour, seventy of them in patticular, into a
large stable, without any other fastening to the door
than a latch. In the evening, at the time before_
mentioned, an alarm of fire was given, the -drums
beat to arms, and the premises, where the 7o men
lodged (among whom were some women), were dis-
covered to be in flames ; the rapid increase of which
was so great, that the whole town was never in the
memory of man in such great danger. Unacquaint-
ed with the use of a latch, and seeing their destruc-
tion so nigh at hand, the flanoverians were some
time before they could open the door, but it was
easily ifil-Cied on the outside, and they (it was
supposed all) made their escape, many of them, how.
ever, most dreadfully scorched, and their clothes
on fire. The Engines from the different Offices had
by this time been drawn to the spot, and, notwith-
standing the violence of the flames, and the passages
so narrow in the approach, they were played with
considerable effea. A large party of Military in
the Garrison and in the Town, together with the
Volunteers, canceled and joined in the general ex-
ertions of the inhabitants, with that earnestness
to arrest the progress of the flames, which will
ever be remembered by thoie who were spetlators
of it. Every mind was perfectly rejoiced within
itself, that Providence had spared the lives of those
who were, just before, the inhabitants of the build.
ings which were in a short time swallowed up by
the devouring element. Little did those present
auspeet that r 2 poor unfortunate fellow-creatures
were struggling under the ruins. The interference
of the Almighty in this instance, shews itself in
the most visible light ; for, had that circumstance
been known, sech was the enthusiastic bravely
displayed (without its knowledge), that numbers
of lives would no doubt have been lost in the
laudable endeavour to rescue those poor mortals,
who, from the situation they were the next morn.
ing discovered in, were, in a few minutes after the
fire began, totally deprived of life. About twelve
o'clock the flames h;td completely subsided.
The next morning, Tuesday, numbers repaired to
the spot, who, IT voltintarily removing pieces of
timber, at last came to the horrid spectacle of part of
the remains of an human being ! Alarmed at. the
sight, and eager to pursue the discovery, the rubbish
was quickly turned over, and no less than 12 bodies
were drawn out in a mutilated state, too dreadful
to describe, and too piteous to behold ! The bo-
dies were removed, and will be most decently in-
terred this day, in separate coffins, at the expence
of the parish. By order of the DUKE of Yo ate, the '
whole Garrison and Volunteers will attend and per.
form Military honours over the'graves. The scene
during the fire vhs truly lamentable ; persons re-
moving their goods and families ; furniture stand.
ing in almost every corner of the street, and men,
women, and children, inhabitants of the adjoining
tenements, partly naked, expeaing their dwellings
to be swallowed up in the general conflagration.—
The property destroyed, we have the satisfaCtion to
find, is, for the greater part, insured; that of some
few mechanics excepted, who lost all their tools,
and what little property they had colleded from their
own industry. A number of horses belonging to
the Royal Waggon Train were in the stables, all
of which were removed but two, and they were
burned to death. One other unfortunate Hanove.
rian died the next morning from the injury he re-
ceived, and several' others continue in a doubtful
state ; but, contrary to report, not one remains on.
accounted for. It is the custom of the Hanoverians
to smoke continually a pipe is considered by them
as one of the greatest luxuries they enjoy ; but we
do not mean to assert that the accident arose from
such circumstance, but refer our Readers to what
transpired in 'evidence upon the Inquest, the par.
ticulars of which we have been favoured with.

On Wednesday a very respedable Jury of
the town was summoned by the Coroner, to in-
vestigate the cause of the fire, by which the
twelve poor men lost their lives. A considerable
number of witnesses were examined, both Hano.
verians and others, who were about the premises
at the commencement of the fire, but the real
cause could not be ascertained. It was stated in
evidence, that the men had gone to rest in the stables
belonging to the Spotted Dog public.house, be.
tween seven and eight o'clodc in the evening, and
that aboui half an hour afterwards an alarm of tire
was given in one of the stables, containing upwards
of seventy of them, which, however, was immedi.
ately put out by one of the Hanoverians in the sta.
ble, without any damage being done ; that in about
an hour afterwards a second alarm of fire was given
in the same stable, which raged so furiously, from
the quantity of straw that was in it, that, notwith.
standing the great exertions used by the military of
the garrison, the Volunteers and other inhabitants of
the town, to quench the flames, the whole building,
with art adjoining stable, was in a very short time re.
duced to ashes; that the unfortunate men instantly
rushed to the door of the stable where the fire began,
but finding it latched by a common iron latch on the
outside (which is lifted up by putting the finger
through a hole in the door), and they„not knowing,
or, in their great hurry and confusion, not attempting
to open it in that way, were for a time prevented
making their esea;.e. Every soul must have perish.
ed in thtflames, had not the Corpor,il of the Detach.
ment, to whom the alarm of tire had been given,
most providentially ran dawn to the stable, and ex.
ideated them from their distressing situation. Sr.
veral of the survivors were shockingly burned; - one
of whom died the following morning. The Jury
returned a Verthd of—Accidental Death.

"ne public ate much indebted to Capt. IN light,
of the 4.7 th Regiment, who, at the tequrst of the
Coruneti -mended the Inquest, and interpreteJ the
evidence of the amorerieml,—(Chebrtfford Chron.)

Oc T. 2

The barbarous pratlice of hnughing cattle, wt
are sorry to observe,. is not conf .ed to the County
of Cavan—it has extended to Carlow, where St
?somber of rows and horses were cruelly houghed
few nights ago on the land:, of Sherwood.
We have been told of a very atrocious outrage
committed some nights ago noar 13 dlinascorney, irt
the County of Dublin. Some villains entered the
house of a person named %V,d at tlit place, and
barbarously placed the man on the fire to burn, we
suppose to extort some confession abotit money;
while plundering him of his property: