The Sun.
London, England, 1819-10-27 00:00:00

CEYLON.

We have received Ceylon Government Gazettes
to May 1. Their contents are not very import-
ant.- The tranquillity of the Kandyan Provinces
is completely restored. Au epidemic disorder had
prevailed among the troops at Colotnbo, but it
had been checked by the sudden and violent set-
ting in of the Monsoon.
COLOMBO, Aran. 10.—The tram-1.11114y of the
Kandyan Provinces is so completely restored; and
the plots and hopes of the factious and discon-
tented so thoroughly crushed, that the apprehen-
sion of a few deserted rebels hulking in the jungle
may be thought of little importance, yet we have
satisfaction in publishing the following extract
from a letter, dated Badulla, the sth inst. :

" I have much ple-asure in reporting to you the
capture of the rebel Maha Berme, of Kattragam
Temple, together with his uncle and the whole of
the Allem+)lla family, by a party of Kandians,
sent by Captain Ritchie, under the direction of
that active Chief Dikapittia, who succeeded in
this enterprise afier several days' laborious search
in the jungle of Nikawitte. The Kapoor Nileme
has al3o been sesured by the same party, and with
the others, is in close custody at Katabowa.

" It is here needless for me to enter into the
character of this I\laha Betme, as it is doubtless
well known that be was the [Host active and de-
termined rebel of the three Maims Betrnes. He
will upon his arrival here be brought to trial, as
well as the Kattakille Mohattale.

" With the exception of the Priest Pretender
and Andiawelle Mohattale, both of whom must
ere long he in our possession, there is not a single
C4lief at large who can disturb the tranquillity of
these provinces ; a circumstance that affords me
infinite satisfaction, and on which I beg to offer
you my -sincere congratulations.
" The prisoner just secured is called the real
Malta Betme, in allusion to a capture made sonic
time ago of another Maha Betme, who was at
first mistaken for the notorious rebel leader who
bore the same rank and- ti; le."

LOYAL. ADDRESS,
FROM THE INHABLTANTS OF SUNDERLAND.

The following Address has been unanimously
agreed to by the Magistrates, clergy, and inha-
bitants of Sunderland, Bishopwearmouth, Monk-
wearmouth, and their vicinity :

" TO HIS ROYAL HIGHATISSS THE PRINCE REGENT.

" Slay it please your Royal Highness,

'• We, the Undersigned Magistrates, Clergy,
Gentry, and other Inhabitants of Sunderland,
Bishop wearmout , Monk weartnout h , and their
tlet in it to be our duty at this time to
al►proach your Royal Highness, with ,the assur-
ance of our unabated loyalty to the person and
government of our beloved Sovereign, of allegi-
ance to your Royal person, and of our firm at-
tachntetit to the laws and Constitution of the
country.

We observe with equal indignation and con-
cern, the endeavours of unprincipled..men, to
work on the mind of the unwary, 'and to destroy
all religious and moral impressions, by publica-
tions replete with the most profligate falsehoods
and impieties, and by schemes of innovation
incompatible with the first principles of security
and 60611 order.

" It is our firm determination to resist to the
utmost of our power, the malicious attempts
which are made to propagate irreligion and dis-
content, to lead the people to assume a judicial
power inconsistent with the plain maxims of
equity, and repugnant to all the rules observed in
the administration of justice in this country, and
by these proceedings to insult the authority of
Government.

" Fully relying on the wisdom 'of your Royal
Highness's Councils, and on the deliberations of
the tegislat-ire, we look forward with confidence
to the adoption of measures which may arrest the
prowess of impiety and disaffection, mute to his
Majesty's subjects the possession of their invalu-
able privileges, and transmit the Constitution,
under which this empire has been raised to the
highest rank among nations, unimpaired to pos-
terity."

* .AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT.
(Communicated by Sir JOHN SINCLAIR, Bart.)

The blight or mildew in wheat is by far the great-
est calamity to which, in an agricultural point of
view, this country is liable, as it originates from
corruption and the growth of the fungus tribe, it
seems to me most probable that the use or saline
manures would be tound_the most efficacious
preventive.—Many circumstances, already com-
municated to the public, tended to justify that
idea ; and it is now, in a great measure con-
fit met! by an experiment that has just been re-
ported to me by Mr. Andrew Robinson, at
Almond Myrellead, about 16 miles from Edin-
burgh.. On the first of Nov. 1818, Mr. Robin-
son sowed 281 b. of marine salt on three falls of
sandy land, mixed with the seed wheat—this at
the rate of 26 bushels per Scotch, or about 20
bushels per English acre. The crop was reaped
on the 27th of August, 1819, and the part salted
produced at the rate of about three bushels per
acre more than the rest of the field. The whole
crop was much injured by the rust, otherwise
called blight or mildew, excepting the part that
was salted, which, though not altogether tree
from it, yet the injury was very inconsiderable,
and perhaps would hare been totally avoided,
bad a greater quantity of it been made use of.—
Mr. Robinson thinks that it will be better first
to sow the wheat separately, the salt to be sowed
and harrowed in afterwards ; for he found that
the wheat did not spring up so well, in conse-
quence of its, being sown in immediate contact
with the salt. Crushed rock salt Will answer
well as marine salt, and the quantity should be
varied from twenty to thirty bushels per Eng-
lish acre. It would be extremely desirable that
the result of any further experiment tried should
be communicated to the public, that the question
may, if possible, be pot to rest.
Edinburgh, Out. hi, 1619, JOIIN SINCLAIR.