The Sun.
London, England, 1804-10-31 00:00:00

CORN EXCHANGE, OCT. it.

Ttta supplies of Wheat today are rather short,
and the 4o sail of foreign
,oat yet arrived, evoses
a small advance.; prime I 1 ntzio94l. per quarter ;'
new Kye p. higher than I.4st Week, goud old at
415. ; Barley is rather dearer ; Whtte pease
,3,11.
lower, anti old Beans are dearer ; the full supply of
Oats create a further reduetion in this article. ;
Flour asour last: •

Wheat' 6Es aEa Ar a s oft Ile:ins - 461 a 525 MI
Hilo (IMO - , 911 a 935. 0:1 • Tick. ilzails 42S a 4as v./
Rye (new) - 4os a, 4bs ed Oats • 225 a 255 a 2.7 s 44j
Barley - - '445 4 SOS o:t Poland al. - zSi a 3Oi 0,1
Malt . -• Sas a tBs .0d Rape Sel.d - - ' 411 a, +ll
White Pease sis a s•i' .0d Fine Flour - 7ss a Soy cd
Grey ditto -• 4os a 444 od Seconds - - 7:Js a 755 od

The remiins of PEDD!NGT)NE, the witch-house
keeper in Mount-Street, Berkeley-square, who was
recently frightened to death, after fortyne years
faithful service in the Parish of -Sr. George's, were
interred yesterday in St. George's new burial'
grohnd at Tyburn.
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A Distribution of such part of the proceeds of tl.:c
Cargo of the jacobisa arid Pt Lerfde ;is hive bean
received, will be paid to the Crew of His Maje“y's,
Sloop Rasaiio,. oh her arrival in Port ; alsa the said
Ship's proportion• of Ping/ante trench, Privateer,
taken by His Majesty's Ship Phintairiset, in corn.
party with the bulimic's and Rosario.
tat Class - • £2st 11 4
- - 24 "
3d ditto - 13 7 3
4th ditto - • • 42 8
sth ditto - 017 t
Mr. GIORGI. PArrssterag an& Mr. j..l4toaaraotair
Agents.

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DI 44120 N D ROCK, Al A R7l A'l QV E.

The ((mowing Account is extra6ed henna Letter, received in
the 5 nt the prz-,sera year. ow 11,;aaers, we imagine,
will be atioviett by the vivacity 01 Style, and the lively
.Vi .lure it contains nt a Colony of British Se melt, settle.t
• on so singular a spot.
Diamomdi Rod, Feb, 17 ~18040
At present, my dear fliend, rake all your roman.
tic ides ,; about Fiigheate, Elatops'lead, and the lower
Legions of Norwood Forest, Or even your own Chid-
font, and burn them, to make room for a set of new
ones, as wild as those of Crusoe, and more true.
There is in this hemisphere an island called Mar.
tinique, belonging t'o the French, as you well know;
and there is near it, in the middle of the sea, a tinge
rock, called the Dtamond,,from its shape, I suppose,
which very likely you do not know. -This rock has
stood, since the creation, no doubt, without man,
bold as he is, ever daring to venture near its destruc.
live form. surge has beaten against its spiky
l'ilinters for these thousand years, in vain angers
and the hollow cave still te-mutonois to the howling
winds. This mighty rock has been gazed at by all
nations, but trotiden by none ; sea crabs alone have
ventured up into its holes, and birds, of prey have:
altane ascended to its rugged surrunits. Behold the
genius of the deep, the genius nt British enterPrizel
it is not i month Since all this was, and now the
voice of song and labour resounds through every
part of it ; wigwams and thatchings, cots and ham.
mocks, appear in every hole ; the pot and kettle's
smoke ascends, and the light glimmers in the cavi-
ties where sea birds and bats fermerly built their
vests. Where was the boasted ingenuity of Freed.,
engineering ? It was too tremendous for their skill.
Now they stand on the shore with their spy.glasses,
and' wonder,
,aS the wiseacres did when Columbus
gave the egg the mighty thump. Yet think not, my
dear friend, that I have conjured up the genius of
Fancy. More than I can say, and, more than y"u
can believe', have hero accomplished by the fertile
emerprize of Commodore Hood, and the indefati.
gable exertions of the Ccatata' alone. Believe me,
I shall never take off my hat for any thii% less than
a British taeam:th. • :
Were you to see how, ~along a dire, and, I had
almoat said, a perpendicular, acclivity, the sail Ora
are hanging in clusters, haiiiing up a lour-and-
twenty.phisoder by hawsers, you would' Wonder
they appeal' like mice, hauling a little sausage ;
scarcely can 'ive hear the. Goveronr on the top, di.
redirtg them with -his trumpet, the 'Centaur lying
close under it, like a cocoa.shell, to which the
hawsers are fixed. Front that Ship, which you
must ken is a seventy.four, it,sued forth carpenters,
smiths, turnerse miners, machines,: engines, and di.
rectors, andollso your friend, their huitilde historian,
who thus attempts. to ,des'cribe their gigantic ex.
yloits, though his pencil is nnable•to keep pace with
their labours, ['have a thousand things to tell you
about Myself, but nothing can t think of relating,
while a microscope would hardly discover so ditni.
votive a being; stuck in some crevice of this tre.
• mend us piece of grotto work, which itself scarcely
a carbuncle on the nose of the West Indies. Here I
have lived for a month, drawing from morning till
night, free as the•goat that browses on the rock, and
happy as the broodings of fancy, anti the goodness
of every body around me, can make a mortal, in the
Elysium, of ideas, and the luxury of high feelings.
but I will now endeavour at something ItiOro like
uiethcl, leseyou should conceive the heat, which is
excessiee, has disordered'my brain more than it usu-
ally is, :The height of the Diamond is six hundred
feet,. measured by a quadrant on board of the
its circumference is nor quite a Mile, Martinique
being close by within three quarters of a mile. The.
south side of the rock is inaccessible, it being a .flat-
steep, like a wall, sloping a little towards the top,
and the grass climbing up. The cast side is also
inaccessible, with an overhanging cave about three
hundred yards high; on the south.west side 'also are
0176 of great magnitude, .but perfedly,impregnable
from that side. The west has breakers running in.
to the sea, where' the people first landed ; here a:
guard is placed, and a lodgment made for Stores;
the landing is sometimes very dangerous, and at
best you must creep tin your hands and feet, through
crannies, till you wind to the north.west side,every
moment endangering yoUr neck, should you slip.
let last you reach the north-west, and here a .slope
of green fig-trees, a beautiful grove, first. relieves
the eye : this grove Mounts up, under an •immense
grotto which Overhangs it, and here-51s - now the
tent of the governor, Captain Close by
stands the tent which Linhabit ; our family consists
of a Newfoondiand dog, a car, kittet, and such
wild sparroWs aid rabbits as e!, to visit us,
The sue ,e often drives the spray as high as I sit
it is a mu. of which the ear never, tires. I.mesa
with Capt. Morris, and we generally have visitors e
the fink of good nature is never,btoken, and we are
as practise)), liberal as Our circumstances and situ.
tion,will admit ; eachlendi the 960 his sp ot:in, a
pen-knife serves to cut op a joint,, acid fingers arc
substitutes tut forks, Tlie tannage of the heart
flows Iteite as purely as at the proudeSt board of
ticloith tii4te; it is unadulterated from ihesource of
nature. A 'bottle Mrtdeita and Claret lid:ow'
dinner, to the rentembraoce of out friends in Eng-
land., Fish, meions, Stc.
_are sometimes brought
from the Martinique shores, liy the small hoati
which venture from gain or curiosity.
,We throw.
the shot upon their shore, and bring everr,boat,' to
if we' please. In the everting We walk. t i 'the
Queep battery, thews tracing' oar rocky path along
the overhangiog ridge, to the summit, where, or
little:brbtherly tents !ipread,tbir canvas on, cross
sticks,• and are barricadoed with stones. Warrned
by the genial bowl, we shake hands, bid good night,
retire upon time dried pais, arid, folledin blaoketS,,
sleep shuts our weasy• eye-lids, while 'neither fear
nor uneasiness intrinles no our repoae.. At night,
the cootkual roving of the sea belOve is only Oct.
. mord by the replies of Watehing,sentioela above-, or,
the screowe of the rrcpic bird, who sweeps from the
top to the v. a t!r to catch .fisk, which he providently
lays tip in 41,rteht to feet, on by day. If then,
brunet-tines-, till thought of those dioiant beings, dear
tea affeetioe, keep thy senses awake, I behold the
stares , eof the heavens as I lean on my elbow,

d,mairt, and. trusting 1., toe waKetul eye of I TO.
vidence, I sink in reflection—thought dissultirsL
and oblivion removes every trace from the tablet of
memory.
There are some springs in the rock, but they are
Of a Mineral nature, and occasion the gripes. Some
tanks, Ito• Never, are building, and almost finished,
which will in one day catch as much rain-water
froin the rock as will serve the colony for half a
yea:. place is very healthy, notwithstanding
which an hispital has been begun, and the' walls are
already mounting. I know not what the good people
of England will think of so hazardous an undertaking,
in a. place where no spade, can make an impression,
and where every thing is 'blown and turn train it by
mining ; the lime fetched from Sr. Lucia—the brie%
cut' out with gunpowder—saws, hammers,
c. made out
.of old anchors—forges going—a,,d
all this 'within thc short time of about six weeks :
for my own part., J am astonished at the efforts of a
single.ship's crew. Bur, hlwever perilous of ac.
cess, the sailors bidid, like sea-lairds, their nest in
the toast terrific caves. Like busy ants, the crew
creep about the rude mass everywhere they are at
work ; the saw, the—anvil, the axe, the grating
file resound ; mines explode, and the flying fretg.
MOMS rend the air.

The Seamen cal; their corning there going dihore;
and so powerful is this liberty-looking Wildness of
nature to the minti,, that they return to the ship
with reluctance, though often, while here, deprived
of every comfort and allowance. Here they will
work twice as hard, and conceal their being ill, and
even die without help, rather than leave the barren
rock to return on board: A few days' ago the
Centaur drifted, was driven to sea, and we were
left wit out water ; hut whatever I may have read
of Roman heroism, I every day see more striking
instances of that virtue among British-Seamen.
Thirsty, and often without bread; in the, beat of the
sun, on this comfortless, and at present .batten
rock, in the face of the Enemy, who is ereling his
works to throw bombs, they remove rocks, colonise
a flinty soil without intermission and without inur.-
tours, and can :still generously share the little
which they have left. Here I have found, that
I.m fine sayings of love of c,,uotry, and the hearty
wishes of our native land, flow from the genuine
warmth of the heart, • and evaporate not like the
effusions of the bottle., or the vauntings aplenty
and a full belly. Here, resolutions are formed in
• the face of want, and executed in despite of late„
-The boat's crew who out out the Curieux brig from
under the batteries of Fort Royal., were 'true live:
and fortune men of His Majesty. Wheothe Marines
were gone from the rock the other day, on an Ex..
pedition, and in the 'middle of the night, the alarm
was.given, and every man was in lice minutes on
the batteries to defend His Majesty's roek.• The
expiessions. which, in the momentary expeaation of
danger, burst from the loyalty and courageous lOve
of country from our Sailors, would shame •cite
brightest passage of admired Sophocles ;. anti often
would the death of .an humble tar appear with
treater lustre than the laboured exit of a splendid
Monarch, . . _

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The manner of feeling which Nature has given
You it do different from the many, that I dare write
to yoil in the language which costs me no trouble
in composing. .1 am nOw sitting on the top of
a rock, and an old barrel is my desk, with no other
library than a blank pocket.book that I bought at
Falmouth, and in which I both write. what I thinkf
and draw what I see.
Were it hot for the duties' which I owe to my.
%family, and for the strong affedion which I beat
them, I could stay on this rock all the days I have
to live. It is to me one of those spots' on earth
which are truly desirable ; it breathes all the inde.
Pendence of Nature ; •it is large enough for the cu.
rious inquirer of all the year round, yet not too
large to be grasped by the mind every moment, or
to be adually over.* in a few. hours; not far
away from the rest or the world, it enjoys an ever.
lasting 'spring, sheltered from heat arid rain, so
that in the heaviest shower you may breakfast and
dine ,in the open air ; and behold . the hurric,ine
rage below and around, while you indulge in the.
.gentle breeze. The habitable part, of which I have.
spoken, is like a horse.shoe, the favourite shape of
popular theatres, covered with a canopy of rock.
But what are all theatres to this ? The Roman Elicit.
tte is a .child's card.house to it ! The morning
dawns ; the whole world waits as she draws the
curtain ; the air is still, the ocean blazes., and the
hills catch fire. • Thus shine, methinks, the xvords
and actions of good men, unlacquered with the leaf.
gold of fashion. An everlasting change of scenery
is displayed see the clouds encircling the tops of
the, mountains ; now the sea, swept in shower,,
and curling with squalls ; now the sun gilding the
sogar.eant fields ; the. Sublime, of Nature is here
so quickly and so agreeably mixed with the beau.
OW, that the, mind has• nor time to be satiated- with
objeas. When you are on the top, you behold the
wtde world and the great ocean ;- the *Wahine fastens
on the soul ; creation can pieseut notliink more
grand. When you descend, the green land, where
you may see the carriages travel, and c,,ant the
feeding sheep, sweetly relieves and beauties the
scene ; nor has the trouble of descending subtran.
eel frOm the pleasure. You have a sound appetite,
a cheerful spit it, and you glory in health and exist.
ence. So natural is the inborn love of the sublime,
that could any inWbitant of the city pop his head
out and behold so wide a tie d of nature, his s,nti
would be instantly itpcherge,i in it, ,and he would
forget all his little c ;neerns'; and so sweet is the
chatige from it to the minute and beautiful, that
atter so trying a sight, you examine an insect or a
flower with infinite pleasure, sinking into the calm.
nos of relaxation. J. E.

'The Gtntleman who cut' his- throat on Saturday.
night, near Clapron,:now ties at the CroDked Rillet
Publit w
-house, where he was viewed yesterday by
many persons; but by tv)ne that have yet nen him
is he known; -nor cut his family be traced, The
&ceased was About six feet high-, of • verb geolk..
man.like appearance, and of an advanced age.