The Sun.
London, England, 1819-03-26 00:00:00

FLORENCB.

The followirtz is an extract of a Private Letter
from Florence, dated the Sib inst.:—

, .
'' eparations have been making here for the
last three -weeks for tiie reception of the Emperor
of AusTeta. His Majesty arrived yesterday (soh.
day), and is to spend a fortnight with FER DI -
NAND, before he proceeds to Rome to spend the
Holy Week. His Majesty's arrival took place
about five o'clock' in the afternoon. The grena-
diers wet e drawn up to receive him at the Porta.
St. Gallo, and on his passing under that magnifi-
cent gate, the band played, and the people shouted
vival rica lAll Florence was out. of doors ; all
the houses were locked, even the Restaurateurs ;
and toe artizans and serv.ons all left their
business to wticome the Emperor. I know this
by personal experience, for I was locked out of
my lodgiogs, surf could get no dinner at the Re-
st attratem s ; so that amid all this splendour I
fared rather uncomfortably. In the evening the
whole low+, was illuminated. Fortunately it did
not ; 1 say fortunately, because, since I have
come here, it has rained so incessantly, that I
th7lw4ht I should never see the fair face of an Ita-
lian sky over Florence. The Bridge of St. Tri-
nita, that beatoilid and unique piece of architec-
ture, formed a grand object on the river Arno.—
Six artificial columns were placed upon the bridge,
and ornamented with lamps. The Palazzo Pitti
was tastefully illuminated, and the whole city was
one Itglit scene of joy and splendour. There are.
con.inual and brilliant Court fetes to be given
during the fortnight of his Imperial Majesty's
soi.ntrii here. He travels as Doke of Milan, and,
contrary to the customs of the Sovereigns and
Princes-
who visit your England, he pays his own
expences.
" Captain --left me, a week ago, to be pre-
sent in Rome during the Holy Week. The ce-
temoilie, usual at St. Peter's, during that solemn
time, .have attracted to the capital great numbers
of the English who had been here, and in the other
provincial parts of Italy. There are not above
ninety English now in Florence. Lord Dillon,
Lord Rendlesham, and Sir R. Lawley, are still
here. The latter is employed in getting up a
periodical journal, which he is ahont to publish,
with a view to slimy the Italians their degraded
political condition, and to rouse in their minds
the spirit of their prowl and glorious ancestors.
It will cost hint a great deal of money, hut that
Ire regards not. He has already established cor-
res•pondelitS in every quarter of the country.
" Maria Louisa, Duchess of Patina, arrived
here on Friday last. She is at the Pergola `Theatre
every eveniug, and is very graciously received .by
-the house. Every one takes an interest in her
fate, anti I, of coarse, among the rest. I have
seen her two or [Luce times. XViihont being
handsome, she may be certainly styled patty ; her
countenance is pale nt ; her stature is
rather short (halt tall. Her son accompanies her
generally. The boy appears to me to resemble his
mother. I found in hint no traces of the father,
except that he has blue eyes. His hair is light.
His mother has dark hair and eves."

FOOT RACE.—The match for 100 a-side be-
tween Rainer and the Chicken. Butcher, the
fastest men of the day, took place on Sunbury
Common, on Tuesday, over a piece of ground of
one mile. Tke match was for 100 gitineas a-side, to
do a mile against each other.' Rainer got the start,
and the Chicken Butcher kept close in with him,
and led in one part of the 'race, but at the lat-
ter end Rainer let loose, and won the match'
by thirty yards. An endeavour was made to stop
him coming in by one of the tody-snatching tribe.
He did the ground in five seconds unckr rive. mi-
nutes. Betting at starting nearly even.

CAPE OF GOOD HOPE;

(From the Cape Town Gazette, Jan. 2, 1819.)

Nearly a twelvemonth has elapsed since the at-
tention of our Readers has been called to the
affairs of our frontiers ; the increased vigilance of
the officers of the out-posts, the plan which bad
been carried into effect of requiring restitution or
equivalent for all robberies committed, and the
gond faith shewn by the Caller Chief Gaika and
his adherents, in restoring ail such stolen cattle as
they could secure, had rendered the system of plun-
dering the Colony so precarious, that the frequen-
cy of inroads began sensibly to diminish, eind et
length our fellow-citizens on the Eastern frontier
• began to enjoy that security and quiet which it
bad been so long the anxious wish of this Go-
vernment to procure for them. But it is natural
to suppose, that so great a change could not have
taken place in Ceffer policy, without creating a
s;iong sensation among the marauding Chiefs.—
Frustrated in their attempts to disturb the tran-
quillity of the border, they seem to have attribut-
ed the check they had received to the decided line
of conduct which Gaika and the Chiefs under
him bad adopted. No one of the border Chiefs
appears to have writhed more under the
constraint to which the new order of things had
subjected fiim, then '.J.Sambie. Arrogant and rest-
less, he seems to have studied, from the moment
of Major Fraser's return in January hest, how ee
could soonest restore the marauding system; for
this purpose lie excited a combination of the Cal-
ler Chiefs against Gallia, and called in Ilinza to
Isis assistance : he inspired the latter Chief with a
jealousy of Gaika, as if Gaika affected a supe-
riority over him, and thus induced 'Etats, who
otherwise front his position is unconnected with
the border Chiefs and their peculiar policy, to
take up arms against Gaika.
It was not long &foie the latter learnt that. a
serious storm was brooding over him, and he took
all those ineasates which were calculated to repel
it ; the line he had adopted was, however, unpo-
pelar, and he therefore could not anticipate all
that assistance on his own side the Fish River,
which, in any other quarrel, he might have com-
manded ; so circumstanced, be seelmessengers to
Graham's Town to pray for assistance, in case his
affeirs should require it ; and, as soon as his Ex-
cellency the Governor was apprised of what was
going forwete, tee necessary histructieas wet e
given for Gaika's effectual 'lmpose filstan-
while, !weever, his ticiver.:l:lr::.-s advanced ra-
pidly upon him, and coming tip with him
ott the Ghonap, their numbers overpowered him
after R short conflict, in which he lost near
300 men ; he was forced to retire towards the
fastnesses of the Winterberg. Flushed with this
first success, his savage enemies, as usual, abused
;heir victory ; the cruelties they are reported to
have committed, hardly bear repeating; they have
been ,probably exaggerated by those who were
sent to Graham's Town from Gaika; but they are
said to have burnt the habitations of Gaika's peo-
ple, to have put the women to death, and to have
thrown the children into the flames,. Gaika's
favourite son (the fine young man who met his
Excellency at the Kat River in 1817) fell into
their hands, and was put to death in cold blood,
and nearly 6000 head of Guilin's cattle were cap-
tured by the combined Chiefs. Every support was
now, due to a Chief who had so severely suffered
in our cause, and Colonel Brereton prepared to
carry his Excellency's instructions into effect.
Major Fraser was dispatched to Gaika, to ascer-
tain precisely his position, and to concert with
hies upon his future operations ; this difficult and
dangerous service the Major executed with his
usual zeal, activity, and intelligence, and having
rewrite(' to Graham's Town, measures were taken
for the punishment of 'lSambie and his ad-
herents.

The necessary preparations having been com-
pleted, Lieutenant-Colonel Brereton moved from
Graham's Town on the Ist of December, taking
with him two pieces of ordnance, as.much of the
regular force as could be spared from the duties
of the frontier, and mounted burghers from the
Graaff-Reinet and litenhage Districts ; these last
were placed under the orders of Major Fraser ; he
crossed the frontier on the same day, at De Bruin's
Drift. On the 3d he was joined by Gaika, at the
head of six thousand Coffers. On the sth he
crossed the Kat River, and the mounted inhabit-
ants fell upon Poonah's Kraals, where they took
six thousand head of cattle, and put these
Callers to flight with great loss. On the 7th,
Lieut.-Colouel Brereton crossed the Mimic and
Keiskamma rivers, and reached "fSambie's resi-
dences ; that Chief, however (although at the
head of more than 15,000 men), had not yen-
rived to await his approach, but had retreated to
those impenetrable fastnesses from whence he had
so long carried on his operations of offence
against the colonists ; meanwhile parties scoured
the Kraals of 'TSambie's adherents, driving their
affrighted inhabitants before them. T'Sambie's
main force remained in the forests, but here the
advantage of the artillery was manifested, the
shells which were thrown in amongst them
having dispersed them iu every direction, and
caused them to abandon their cattle, 10,000
head of which upon this occasion were captured :
these Lt.-Col. Brereton placed tinder the protec-
tion of Gaika's Coffers, not to lessen his own force;
but in
.order to dissipate the alarm which so large
a number of armed Coffers in their rear appeared
to have excited among the mounted inhabitants,
he requested Gaika to order them to deposit their
assagays with him while performing this service,
a request which was immediately complied with.
Such a mark of confidence the Coffers are not
known to have sliewo upon any other occasion,
marking thereby not only their reliance upon our
good faith, but their opinion of the couiplete su-
periority of our force over that to which we were
opposed. The straggling parties of Coffers were
now successively attacked and dispersed, and on
the 11th another large convoy of cattle fell into
our hands.

Thus, after haring des!royed the kraals of all
those Chiefs who had combined with 'lSambie,
having re-possessed Gaika of the lands from which
he had been driven, having captured as much cattle
as was necesstay to a eplace the losses sustained by
Gaika, and by our own farmers, from former Caller
dvpredetions, liient.• Colonel Brereton returned
on the 1 from his successful incursion into

Calfrarira, having lost only ' one man,
killed in the affair at Phoonah's Kraals, and 0"
wounded at a subsequent period. • 00
Gaika's gratitude is best described in his
words, as reported by the Lieliteirant-Colonel.'"r,
" He expresses himself iudebtetl to his BOP_
leney the Governor for his lite, for the land he
holds, and for the property which has been re:i
stored to bins (about 11,000 head of cattle), and
at Patting with Lieut.-Colonel Brereton be sbc.
tears." who WA.
It is to be expected that this blow wilt p"t
a,
aggressions on the Colony, and that hencefor;,
ward, by means of the friendly Chief who is its
eiti
interest, an intercourse, mutually advantageo.ll9l
may be established with the tribes under his tot:
fluence, thus not only replacing the present Set,
tiers of the fertile border in a most enviable 0
titude, hitt holding out the strongest motives
final stop to the attempts to renew the forme
fittitre settlers to establish themselves ina oulls
try unrivalled for fertility and•beauty.

" GENERAL CEYLON.
~A,,i ty't
" The Commander of the Forces congratulateshis ''''''es
Ai..
and the Honourable Company's troops under his CO
OilitenaEdit-sq.uatters, sandy, 81st Oc
1818.
on the important and decisive event of the capture of the
two principal Rebel Leaders, Keppetapola and Pelein at
lawe, which may be considered as the death-blow tb
to ti,
rebellion their efforts have successfully been poiritell at
subdue.
the uneasi
it, 'Phis
~
an importantdu capturee 4 wasp se,ffi effected ini,. xrc:orntl,e,ailit'ss,4,llof.,
detachment under the command of Catain v'—',r?licleinent
Camp to the Lieut.-General, during the it''''',„ ,ewarded,
weather, and with many privations, anl‘vhiell iver' iiate coav
by a division of that detachment, under the nle`:
mand of Lieut. William O'Neil, 83d recrituent, co"""0,1tial
pectedly Trebel by surprise, on the residence of ttics,Laoidol.
third noted Nladttgalle, and the other inferi",..l 14.„„rJef
march of 16 miles,
near to Parawahaganime, on the borders of the Sec' i aftef
fatiguingaand tiienyere KalaWeye, on the 25th iil the afterilool:,,,„ ii,
edict', ,
Enahing prisoners the two primary objects of their s to yoS
the others, who have fled, may be expected either
render, or be quickly made prisoners."
when the party succf. I do,

LAW INT'LLIGENCE.

COURT OF CHANCERY, MAnca

LUNATIC PETITION. d
Eln the matter of Lady RAS. MURRAY STIOVA'
The SOLICITOR-GENERAL stated'
Lunatic. only
question in this case Was, whether the LuZi•
was not entitled to be hat
ti an annuity of ',noel.
per annum, and the arrears doe on cit':-04
was secured on a landed estate, bel°l.-a Ca-
other incumbrances, the lands having' ait
lain time failed to produce the amouni the
1_ nity, tinder the following circumstances wk.
Lunatic was the daughter of the late set'
that)), and under his will she was entitled to.
She
lain estates ; before the death of the tes37:o its
married Sir Simon Stewart, who being
ed to
debt, she, on coming into possession, ,ab:tc,stite
that the
give up to his creditors'the produce of to
after paying her 1,000/. per 8111111111 the eS.3
had failed to produce the sum of 1,0001. per B°l6'
-4
and there was the sum of 4,0001. doe for arreo
What he• (the Solicitor-Genera!) had to rtAtie4
was, that the Lunatic be entitled to be poid tb:
annuity and the interest of the arrears, before 3°7
other incumbrancer.
Mr. PHILLIMORR followed on the same µi d'
e) e
Mr. HART appeared for the trustees, °
stated, tvere ready to submit to any order lit
Lordship might please to make.
Udie nisf deel''re
The LoRD CHANCELLOR—•" pe
lion that the lunatic is ervitled to the 1,()-1 -
annum, and the arrears amounting 1° 4 s(i.)4l-‘7'oot•
interest of which, to be added, %Yin ffi"e
per annum, betore any other iocumb"cer
paid."—Prayer of the petition grau(ed'
London,
Sitting pps aointed in Middlesex and
;(110 LLAs,
before the Right Honourable Sir Atat of
Ifni. Lord Chief Justice of his Ith'i,Y:siter Laster
Common Pleas, at Westminster, 1-
Term, ISI9

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AFTER TERM. . . Ma;
Tuesday.. May 25 I Wednesday ••

IN TERM.

BIRTH. ICOll‘
On the 22d inst. in Guernsey, the Lady of nebert
eonilse, Esq. of the Royal Artillery, of a son.

stf7iit),o,OßAlivltolikivntie.,,licßatet. instant, at Paddington, George '.‘l* ST3d (j)
Company'sonlYc'i child
dli MARRIED.
ea, P4l;
On Sunday last, at his house in Portland-Place'
ofil)
jt4lienelapteucbCaitsaoinf .Glo,l):tcloCilarna'
DIED. • t •G..e'
Lieu •
neiriail'harles Morgan, in the 77th year of his agrere 00111
August,
last, at Calcutta, ha •• , • rriod t'llafield, 0
William, thirds-on o'ith--esl'tne-v ‘A,•I1arle" -
Iaks.BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, Alsa) PE'ATl'''''
Lately, at Frescati, neamßßTl
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Colonel M'Mahon, I
Lately, at their house in Blake-street,
us. CO
the 1'3(11
oa.ionr. Black Rock,
,i, the Lady
et
York,
r. Wake, of a son. paiioAt
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Lately, at Ossiugton, Yorkshire, the Lady of "L
i‘tolalkelliasnscP,eFe.srqs,. of --...-----.
E sY4 e. so:: radloyn week,
of 21,-,
creocalcOr)auiyg,Hotouseiloiznat,hedaiudgihntset; 1)oof
Barnhill, Cheshire.
lateillul
1 erfat4'
At Edinburgh, on the 19th inst. Mr. William Itut,', tcbet
merchant, to Margaret, second daughter of Mir- •r 'e
Yetts, Castlehill. r
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DIED. Oder
At Ladyfield-place, Eninbur h, on the 136 inst. Al"
Ferguson, Esq. of 13alcdmund tScn 4
At Woodside, Scotland, on the 3d inst. Miss Anne
daughter of the late Walter Scott, Esq. of Harden• c nieci
Lately, at Waltham Workhouse, Kent, at an ac.4h of
age, John Ratcliff, a pauper, belonging to the Pa' .11 014
Upper Hardres. He had in his possession 51. 189. Adel frakra
11 at
illde aIl hell'
._1053;
silver, and 31. 14s. in new shillings, which he had
s
his pence money. ----
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