The Sun.
London, England, 1828-08-21 00:00:00

ELEPHANT HUNTING.

Extract of a letter from a Medical Officer, dated
Hambentotti, island of Ceylon, February 26 :
" I have just returned horn beholding a sight,
which, even in this country, is of rare occurrence,—
viz., an elephant hunt, conducted under the orders of
Government. A minute description (though well
worth perusal) would be far too long for a letter, I
sh►►ll therefore only give you what is usually called
a faint idea.

" Imagine 2,000 or 3,000 men surrounding a
tract of country six or eight miles in circumference,
each one armed with different combustibles and
moving fires; in the midst suppose 300 elephants,
being driven towards the centre by the gradual and
regular approach of these fires, till at last they are
confined within a circle of. about two miles ; they
are then driven by the same means into a space
made by the erection of immense logs of ebony, and
other strong wood, bound together by cane, and of
the shape (in miniature) of the longitudinal section
of a funnel, towards which they rush with the great-
est fury, amidst the most horrid yells on the ap-
proach of fire, of which they stand in the greatest
dread. When enclosed they become outrageous and
charge on all sides with great fury, but without any
effect on the strong barricade : they at last gain the
narrow. path of the enclosure, the exteme end of
which is just large enough to admit one elephant,which
I.simmediately prevented breaking out by strong bars
laid across. To express their passion, their des-
peratimi, when thus confined, is impossible; and still
I?re so, to imagine the facility and admirable con-
til
mance by which they are removed and tamed.—
Thus it is :—A•
tame
oneeiepilisiatit lacy oerdpeons
;each
side, to whom the
wild he
fastenedisplaced
is then allowed to pass out, and immediately on his
making the least resistance, the tame ones give him
a most tremendous squeeze between their •
beat him with their trunks sides, and
until he. submits ; they
then lead him to a place
wady prepared, to which he
is strongly fastened, and.i •
eturn to perform the same
civility to the next one.
" In this way 70 wild elephants were captured
for the purpose of Government labour. The tame
elephants daily take each wild one singly to water
and to feed until they become quite tame and docile.
The remaining elephants were shot by the people.
" I took possession of a young one, and have
got him now tied up near my door; lie is quite re-
conciled, and eats with the greatest confidence out
of my hand ; he is, however, too expensive to keep
long, and I fear I must eventually shoot him. some
idea of the expense may supposed, when I tell you
that in one article alone, milk, his allowance is two
gallons per day.
" I was at this scene with 30 other officers and
their ladies, and we remained in temporary huts " for
nearly ten days. " W. T.

The farmers in this neighbourhood were yes-
terday
very actively making the hest use of the fine weather
to car, y their corn, a great quantity of which, we are happy
to learn, WAS biddy
housed.—Maidstone Journal.

LONDON.
THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 21, 1828.

A Ministerial Morning Paper has published
the following consolatory bulletin to quiet the
apprehensions of the Orangemen of Derry and
their compatriots generally :
" We are enabled most confidently to state,
that the insinuation in a Paper of yesterday,
that Mr. DAWSON'S sentiments, as delivered by
him on the occasion of the late celebration at
Derry, were sanctioned by the Prime Minister,
is totally destitute yf foundation. Alike un-
founded is the assertion in another Paper, that
Mr. DAWSON was countenanced by Mr. PEEL
in the much-regretted course which he has so
unaccountably been induced to adopt. Mr.
DAWSON spoke neither the sentiments of the
illustrious Vt, ELLINGTON, nor those of his Right
Hon. Relative, on that occasion ; he acted de-
cidedly upon the long-recognized principle of
free agency in regard to Catholic Claims ; and
those persons who affect to attach so much con-
sequence to to this proceeding, must know, un-
less they have been wholly inattentive to the
subject, that the question of Emancipation has,
for many years, been completely open, and in no
respect considered a Cabinet or Ministerial -mea-
sure."

Now this, " totally destitute of foundation," we
do not believe, first, because Mr. DAWSON is a
man of too much good sense, if not shrewdness,
to seize such an opportunity for declaring himself
a convert to liberality in the face of his assembled
Constituents at a moment when they were cele-
brating the proudest of their recollections.--
Secondly, we do not believe the authenticity of
our Contemporary, because it has a manifest in-
terest in propagating the delusion. May we
ask from what quarter did our Contemporary
receive his " authority ?" It cannot be from
head-quarters surely, for the Commander-in-
Chief is now at Cheltenham, pouring cold water
upon the effervescence of his " No-Popery,"
companions. It cannot be from Mr. PEEL, for
that Right Hon. Gentleman would not make
such breathless haste to quiet the alarms of our
Contemporary at the expence of his Brother.—
No, the pomposity of our Contemporary is
affected—its solemn assurance passes for nothing
with those who know the trickery of such
" State matters." The hesitating doubts of
office emanating from 'those who with, will not
be received as " official " in the names of those
who know. The Duke of WELLINGTON,
much to his credit, is at this moment brushing
away the scruples of some stubborn but con-
scientious influential personages with respect
to the Catholic Question—a question which
he feels, and which every well-wisher of his
country feels, to be paramount to all others.
Let not our Contemporary be alarmed—the
Duke has given Mr. DAwsoN full power to
use his own discretion in announcing the inten-
tion of his MAJESTY'S Government with respect
to Ireland—and the scene of operations chosen by
Mr. DAWSON proves him to be a man of mettle as
well as a bold speaker. His very eloquence took the
electors of Derry by storm !—they were seized
with wonder unutterable, except in the dying
hisses of their confounded hope. We really
envy Mr. DA wsorr the boldness of his
attack, and the noble sincerity of his pur-
pose. Such a speech, and so timed, is like
one of those military movements which decide
the fate of Empires. The grievances of the
Catholics are at length heard, because their
power is felt. They do not speak the
thunders of menace, but whisper the no
less powerful arguments of conviction. They
have appealed to our candour, and will re-
ceivetheir claims from our justice. When the
Catholic
Question is once set at rest, men will
only wonder that it had been so long delayed.
But thus it is with prejudice, whether indi-
vidual or national. Once more we say to the
ill-omened birds of persecution, be.not alarmed,

for it is the interest of the country that some-
thing be done for Ireland, and that something
shall be done—and done quickly.

Brussels Papers of the 20th inst. have been
received, which copy some information relative
to Greece from the Universal Gazette, but the
dates appear old.
Prince MlLoscif, according to accounts from
the Banks of the Danube, is prepared to avail
himself of circumstances, as the fortunes of the
PORTE may warrant. He is said to have an
army of 50,000 men, which secures him the re-
spect of both Russians and Turks. He is
playing a counterpart of the Pacba of EGYPT'S
policy :--

rOZOS, JUNE 7.

Letters from Franco Castello say, that on the 21st of
May there was an engagement between a corps of our
troops and the Pacha of Rettimo, who was defeated and
driven back to the fortress. The Aga and another Turk of
high rank were taken prisoners, and the Pacha received
five wounds. According to the account of the prisoners,
the Turks lost 500 men. The Greeks have also taken
from the enemy 20,000 sheep.
After this affair Mustapha Pacha arrived with four
thousand men at Askyphou, and thence at Patzano,
in the province of Sphackia, where he is blockaded
on all sides by the Cretans, who have occupied
all the defiles by which he could extricate himself
from this situation. Ilaggi Mechali, the commander of
our cavalry, is said to be in his turn blockaded on the
land si•le in Franco Castello ; but the communication on the
sea side is open, and the President is going to send him a
supply of ammunition and provisions.
We learn to-day that a corps of the enemy on its way
from Canea, with ammunition and provisions for the Turks,
who are blockaded by our troops, was attacked and dis-
persed near Askyphou, and all the provisions, &c. fell into
our hands.

No. 41 of the same paper, dated June 21, says—
By the last letters from Crete, we learn with great regret
that the cavalry• of General Haggi Mechali was entirely
destroyed in the action of 29th May, before Franco Cas-
tello, in which the brave commander himself was killed.
On the 3th June, our men being hard pressed, left Franco
Castello with honour. After several remarkable actions,
the enemy having sustained considerable loss, has again
gone into his fortresses.

CORFU, JULY 21.

Two Egyptian corvettes have entered the port of Navarin,
their appearance has caused the more surprise, as the
blockade has been extremely strict for above three weeks, so
that it was impossible even for the smallest boats to go from
Navarin to Modon. The Pacha of Rodi has fitted out a
corvette which has already captured several Greek caiques.

BANNS OF THE DANUBE, AUG. 4.

The policy of Prince Milosch in still involved in mystery.
His conduct resembles in many points that of the Pacha
of Egypt. Prince Milosch maintains, on the war esta-
blishment, an army of 50,000 men, with which he causes
his territory to be respected by the Russians and the Turks,
ready to take advantage of circumstances to make himself
independent.

BRUSSELS, AUG. 17.

Mr. Clews, a British Cabinet Messenger passed through
this city yesterday, on his way from London to Berlin, and
an Austrian Cabinet Messenger from Vienna, with de-
spatches for London.
Auc. 18.—His Royal Highness the Duke of Cumber-
land and all his suite arrived here yesterday evening from
London. He set out this morning for Germany.

Extracts from the French Papers will be found
in another column ; they do not however com-
municate any thing decisive. The French Ex-
pedition had all but sailed.

Demerara Gazettes to the 28th June are re-
ceived at the North and South American Coffee-
house, but they do not contain a single article
worth extracting.

The Frankfort Journal of the 13th inst.
says, that Schumla was attacked on the 21st and
22d of July, and taken by the Russians. This
appears doubtful, because the last news from the
Russian head-quarters was dated the 23d :

(BY EXPRESS.)

HERMANSTADT, JULY 31.

Yesterday evening news was received here that the
Emperor of Russia left Bazardjik on the 18th of July,
and followed the army which advanced towards Chournla,
after having some days before made itself master of Beghirli.
It is said that Choumla was attacked the 21st or 22d of
July, and that it fell into the hands of the Russians. Though
there is no official communication of this important event,
the news seems to deserve credit, because it comes from
good authority from several different quarters. i
N. B. The last news from t►re Russian heed-quarters in
the Prussian State Gazette was dated July 23. The
same Journal, to the 16th August, has no further account.

Letters have been received from Madeira
dated the 23d of July, at which time they were
perfectly aware that an expedition was coming
against them, for which due preparation was
making to give the Miguelites a warm reception.
The " blockade" was only known on paper—as
no vessel had appeared of the Port.

Viscount STRANGFORD had an interview yes-
terday with the Earl of AISERDZEN, at the office of the Se-
cretary of State for Foreign Affairs. His Lordship also
transacted business at the Foreign-office.

His Grace the Duke of GORDON arrived on
Friday last at Huntly Lodge, where he will remain until
the repairs of Gordon Castle are completed. The Duchess
of BEDFORD is daily expected at Invereshie.—Edinburgh
Evening Courant.

Mr. DAWSON.—We have respectable autho-
rity to state, that the friends of Civil and Religious Liberty
in Belfast only wait for an unequivocal declaration of Mr.
DAvrsoN's opinions in favour of Emancipation, to invite
the lion. Gentleman to a public entertainment.—Dublin
Freeman's Journal.

SALISBURY MUSIC MEETING.-SALIS-
BURY, Ala:. 19.—Our festival commenced this evening
with a Concert at the Assize Rooms, which were crowded
to excess, as might have been expected from the talent of
the performers engaged.—Miss PATON gave the scene from
Freischutz in a very brilliant manner; Madame CARA-
DORI in " Di Piacer" was every thing that could be wished ;
and Miss GRANT sung " Should he upbraid" very plea-
santly. BRAHAM was in excellent voice, and gave the
scena from Oberon with very great effect.
COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL.-(THIS
DAY.)—A special Court was held at Guildhall, before the
Loan MAYOR, at which Mr. PEACOCK grave notice of a
motion to be taken into consideration on the following
Court-day, " to consider the propriety of this Court ex-
pressing its opinion with respect to civil and religious
restrictions."

The opposite extremes of the weather in
different parts of the world this year are such as almost
to amount to a general phenomenon. We find it stated in
the last accounts from Corsica, that the weather in that
island continued so sultry as to have dried up the trees
and plants to a degree, that the least spark would set them
on fire. Some vineyards and plantations in the vicinity
of Ajaccio lately caught fire, and would have suffered total
destruction had not timely aid been sent from the city.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY.)

FROM LLOYD'S.

DEAL, AUG. 20.—Wind W.S.W. to S.W.—Ar-
rived the Elizabeth, Collins, from New South Wales.

PORTSMOUTH, AUG. 20.—Wind S.W.—Sailed
the Amity transport, for Deptford.
FALMOUTH, AUG. 18.--Wind rariable.--Off
port the Baroness Keith, 'Watt, from St. Übe's ;
Alexander, Forster, from Jamaica ; Ann and Mary,
Plummer, from Demerara.

The Peace, Thompson, from Madeira, which place
she left on the 23d of July, has arrived in the River.
His Majesty's ship Medina arrived at Madeira on the
12th, from Lisbon.

The Privateer, or Pirates, which captured the
Caraboo, from Liverpool to the River Plate, re-
ported that she had taken five other vessels, viz.,
two British, one Dutch, one American, and one
French, previous to the 20th ult.

THE FUNDS-(THIS DAY).

CITY, TWELVE 0. CLOCIf.

The same want of business which has characterised
the operations in the English Funds for the last two
days continues this morning. Consols opened at
871, but the glass having become a little lower,
followed by a sprinkling of rain, and a sale by a prin-
cipal Broker at 87i for October, turned the market
a trifle lower, and they are now 87k 4, with scarcely
any business; the Commissioners paid 871. The
premium on India Bond are 2s. per cent. lower,
being 111 13; Exchequer Bills, 71 2. The account
day, which takes place this day week, is considered
Bullish.

In the Foreign Funds the operations are languid.
Russian and Danish are both higher; the former,
95/ ; the latter, 62 /; Portuguese, 53 l; Bra-
zilian Bonds are 61 /; and Mexican, 38/
In Shares there is nothing to notice different from
the prices for the last few days.
Letters have been received this morning from the
Island of Madeira of the 23d ult., at which period
the Governor, Valdez, continued faithful to the au-
thority of Don Pedro; every preparation had been
made to ensure the expedition from Portugal a warm
reception when it made its appearance, and additional
defences had been erected for the security of this
rallying point of the Constitutional cause; it may,
perhaps, be worthy of notice that the announced
blockade is considered to apply only to the town of
Funchal ; but we are much mistaken, if it is not ac-
knowledged by our patient Ministers further than
this extent, that there will be found other points to
aid and assist, with provisions and stores, this loyal
bond of defenders against their infamous assailant
Don Miguel.
Three per Cent. Console, 87i ; Ditto, for Account,
11'71 e; Three per Cent. Reduced, 87i 8 ; Three and
a-half per Cent. Reduced,96e I ; Four per Cent., 101 i ;
Four per Cent., 1826, 105 ; India Stock, 242 3 ;
Bank Stock, 213 14; India Bonds, 111 13 pin.; Ex-
chequer Bills, 71 2 pm.

lioaxxox.—llrazilian, 61 4; Buenos Ayres, 43 4 ;
Chilian, 26 8 ; Colombian, 234- 4; Danish, 62 ; Greek,
17-i 1$ ; Mexican, Five per Cent., 28 9 ; Ditto, Six per
Cent., 38i- ; Peruvian, 23 4 ; Portuguese, 53 ;
Rassian, 95i i; Spanish, 11
Mitas.—Anglo Mexican, 70 67i din. ; Brazilian, 37
39 pm. ; Colombian, 31- dis. ; Real del Monte, 120
100 die.; United Mexican, 17i 17 dis.; Bolanos, 5 dis.
to par.

TWO O'CLOCK.

Consols continue at 87i -; Russian, 94, buyers,
with scarce any business in either the English or
Foreign House.
We have a report that his MAJESTY has suddenly
come to town on some important business.

FOUR O'CLOCK.—CLOSING PRICES.
Consols 87i f Danish 621
Do. for Ac. 87i Greek, 1525 18
Brazilian Bonds 61 3- Mexican, 1825

Buenos Ayres -
Chihli Do.
Columbian, 1824, 23/

Peruvian
Russian 96
Spanish, 1821 111

THE YOUNG FRENCH LADY AT. ST.

BARTHOLOMEW'S HOSPITAL.

We have just this instant learned that the French Lady
whose distressing case we have given in our Paper of to-
day, died this morning at two o'clock.
An intense interest has been excited in high quarters
respecting this unfortunate Lady, and as nothing but state-
ments, in a great measure incorrect, have appeared, we
deem it proper to subjoin the following correct statement :
Mr. Stackpole, a gentleman of fortune in Ennis, Clare,
having been in Paris, had Elize Sermirot, of Bourdeaux,
recommended to him as a nursery-governess. Upon the
recommendation he engaged her, and brought her to
London, on his way home. He was detained here
for two or three days ; and engaged places for himself, his
servant, and the unfortunate Elize, at the Swan- with-
two-Necks, for Liverpool, to leave town on the 29th
of June. He had seated himself on the front of
the coach ; and his servant was assisting the lady to
ascend the roof by a ladder. While she was standing
on the ladder, a porter, who had been placed at
the head of the horses left his situation, and the
horses starting forward, threw her down, by which her
thigh-bone was fractured. She was immediately brought
to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, and placed under Mr.
Laurence. Mr. Stackpole attended her there, and
remained in town for four or five days in consequence.—
Soon afterwards, Mr. Laurence being obliged to leave
town, the care of the patient devolved on Mr. Lloyd.
—For nearly a month every exertion was used to
save the limb; but, on the 26th July, the only hope
left of preserving the Lady was by amputation of the
thigh at its upper third. Mr. Lloyd performed the opera-
tion, and for a fortnight afterwards the wound granulated
kindly, and had every appearance of doing well. At the
end of that time, erysipelas came on, the constitution
changed, large sloughing took place, and the patient
gradually grew worse in spite of all attempts to save her,
until she expired.
This morning the body was examined. There was an
effusion of lymph on the brain, and the lungs did not ap-
pear healthy ; but nothing occasioned her death except the
local injury.
The Marquis of Hertford sent his physician, Dr.
Hawkins, to the Hospital yesterday to remove the pa-
tient to an airy private lodging should her condition
admit of it, and to be attended by the Marquis's medical
attendants, at his personal expence. The Baroness Mon-
tesquieu also called at the Hospital yesterday, with an
offer of her services. The Marquis of Lansdowne wrote
to Mr. Lloyd this morning also, tendering his services.
Mr. Lloyd likewise received an anonymous letter, inclosing
51. towards her relief, as well as one int:losing a similar
amount from Mr. Little, of Stratford-upon-Avon. It is
satisfactory to state that every possible attention was
paid to the patient by Mr. Lloyd, from the moment
of her admission to her death. Mr. Stackpole too, sent 5/.
The lady, whom we have seen, was dark complexioned,
rather pretty and genteel„—a slim figure, and 25 years of
of age. A French nurse was continually in attendance
upon her.

A Meeting was this day advertisedtonbuem held
at the City of London Tavern, for the purpose of enquiring
into the particulars of the Duke of CLAUENCE'S resigna-
tion. Up to three o'clock, there were only 15 persons pre-
sent, eight of whom were reporters.--A shilling was de-
manded for admittance.
Flights of wild ducks and geese, in
sufficiently multitudinous to darken the air, have already
migrated to the moors, a circumstance scarcely existing in
the memory of the oldest inhabitant, at this period of the
year.—Hereford Journal.
The corn in this neighbourhood (says our
Correspondent at Chard, Aug. 18) is fast getting in ; the
faces of all are gladdened by the sunshine experienced here,
after as wet a season as was ever rernbered by the oldest
inhabitant.—Bath Chronicle.
A copper-mine has been opened in the lime-
stone strata at Great Ashby, in this county. It contains
a vein of great promise—a fine body of copper ore has
been met with, which proves of most excellent quality.—
Exeter Alfred.