The Sun.
London, England, 1810-12-11 00:00:00

DISTRIBUTION OF PRIZE-MONEY.

To the Emerald, for the capture of La Belle Etoile, on
,bo..rd the Ermralct on her arrival at Plymouth, after the 15th
inst. Recalls at No. 67, Fore street, Plymouth, on Tuesdqs
and Saturdays,
To the Centato:, for the. capture of the renc-li frigates
L'Armide, La Minerva,' L'lnfatigable,. and La ('; lora:. (in
coMpany with the Mars and Nlimarcir), on the 26tii instant,
at No. 70, Great Russell-stre..at, Bloonnhury. Recalls at
the same place on Tueridays and Friday's for threelinontos.
To fh sloop Nymph, for the capture of the properly at.
the Dutch Town Fort of C:frinsurTh, on the 2oth inst.
at No. 23, Norfolk-street, Strand t(.ecalls en Tuesdays at.d
Friday's for three months at the same place.

The Government of the United States has recent-
ly sent out an expedition by sea, and another by
land. The former sailed to the southward, for, the
puts.ose of doubling Cape Horn, of traversing the
Pacific, and reaching the Columbia. The latter
was 'to proceed west s•ar,l, to. follow the Mis-
souri, to cross the great ridge of mountains, and to
arrive at the same riser, by this long, though, in
point of actual' distance,. much shorter toUte. ,The
expainion of Captain Mvrewether Lewis was only
paratory the,presenr, bieb is to settle a new
coLii}y either in ttfe 1.33 y of the Columbia, or more
prof,ably at• its mouth or on. its shores—a colony
h will perhilps..bercafter conduct a vast trade
with dial:rent parts of , the East. The naval expe-
dit;On coot yed stoies and tic-cessaries for the set-
tlement of the new colony. A. principal objet in
View is to open a-communication between 't he isfis-
soori and the'Columbia ; or, in other words, be-_
tween the Atlantic and the Pacific, with as snort or
as coalmodion's a carrying place over the mountain
tract as possibly be found. The great obstacle
indeed to an extensive intercourse. between the
tern and western sides of the North American con-
tinent—an obstacle which time only can surmount,
and after all, itnperfedly surmount,. is the in:et Ven-
in'g ridge' of mountains, whch is• broad, and sup-
posed to be free from snow only, about three or
four months in the year. These months will there-
fore be hereafter bill unonitis for the transport of
commodities. The want,of roads, of culture, and of
population, time and industry will remedy ; and.that
the Anglo-Americans will !it:leafier carry on across
the Pacific a vast and luerattve commerce wiLli China
and Japan, In spite of the cresent timid and jefilous
chara6ter of their Governments, can scarcely be
doubted,

A dt-serter from the French army in Spain arrived
a few days. since in Bath : lie is a native of Anspch,
and followed the occupatiOn of a schoolmaster but
Was compelled, by the Conscript Law, to join the
army ordered into the Tyrol; and was engaged in
the heat of that destructive warfare. T:,is poor Ger-
man was afterwards marched into Spain. His account
of the sufferings of himself and numetous comraes,
forms a most interesting nariative, land shows
the Conttnent has stnik tinder the a act it% iyrannicai
rod of . BOON APARTE. He escaped the army
,of the Despot,-smking with famine and his wounds,
and reached Gibraltar, where he met with a good
Samaritan, who administered to his recovery, and
procured him a passage to England.

The following Letter was circulated on .Tuesdiy
hist, by the late house of ifeiestbrd and Co. iu Dub-
:— ,

Bank, Henry. treet.

" Various circumstances having made it necessary 'for Mr
Beresford to withdraw from .the house, we beg leave to ac-
quaint you that the business will in futusre be condtict,4
der the firm of the signatures hereunto annexed.
(Signed) "B. BALL, M. J. PLUNKETT.
"P. DOYN E."

Governnient is said to be using. great, exertions to
send out all kinds of stores to Portugal. A fleet of
transports is now lying at Deptford, and people are
employed m'sliipping stores night and day, amongst
which is clothing of eiery description, bed-clothe s,
hammocks, &c. As soon' as these transports have
railed, others, it is said, will' succeed, and continue
to take.' in cargoes of the same description..
A private meeting took place y, sterday at Lloyd's,
g‘t the Underwriters and Merchants, to take intocon-
sideration the propriety of paying the Baltic losses.
The subject has been referred to a Committee- of 7
persons,' who are to correspond- with the parties in
Ihe Baltic, and to asceitain the nature aud, cause of
the losses sustained. The meeting was-adjourned
to Thursday uext..

BARON/ SoLVAxGER.—For some time past for-
geries have been etimmitted to a very ronsiderAle
- amount, by a Fereigner, supposed to be an Italian;
ealieg himself Beron Selvanger, by means of forged
drafts, signed B. Wilkinsim, drawn upen 8.0,4 n,
Cobb, And Co. Bankers, of.. Lombud-street, and'
uttered to tradesinee and otherp forgoods purchased,
&c. The-drafts were uritten saprio the regular
graved blanks of Brown, Cobb,- and Co.; but how
he-became possessei of ihem•remains a mystery.—
He ari iVed in this country last' Juee or July, and is
supposed to have been carrying on his depredations
from soon after that time, liii the enth of last.
month. On the nit. -he:obtained a Lireequan,
tity of old coin, and pretended to gibe • ti,e o•Nner
(a foreigner in, the city) more than he could got iu
this country, as he was going to leave Eng Lind, and
gave him a forged draft in payment. On the-even-
ing of the same day he called on Mr. Turn' a
pawnbroker, who resides-near Golden-square, wish-
ing to. take some• properly out of pledge, and ten.
dered a draft et the aboVe description for 501. Mr.
Turner. hesitate=d at taking It, bit the Baron assured
him it• Was as good as,4•Bank of England Note, and
. offered to give-one of Mr. Turner's boys two shil-
hugs if he woulekrint with the cheque to the Bankers
to get it cashed. Mr. Towel told him. it was too
late, and that the Bankers would be shut. But the
Baron appearingeto very urgent fir the boy to get it
cashed, Mr. Turner entertained no doubt of its be-
i
ine a good one, and took t, giving him the pro-
eperty that was-piedg'd and the .cfmre. On the
fellowiug morning he presented it at the shop of
Messrs. Brown end ,Co. torpai meat, when he was
inform -,l they te:d r.o such person. a:. B. Wi;kit-lon,
who kept cash with them; but that they h-rd had a
number of sitnlar dratis presented or pay ment.—
Mr. Turner, •in consequence, 'went to the Baron's
lodgings, in Queen Ann street West, where he %as
•informed 'he had left them that morning. Informa-
tion was given at Bow-street, 'and Rwett was sent
in pursuit of him. The officer waited at his lodg-
ings and in the neighbourhood during the whole of
'the day, but rano purpose; and having strong sus-
picions that he was gone out of the country, he ap-
plied to Mr. Reeves, the head of the Alien Office,
who wroteoff to :he ditlei-ent ports to stop the Barton.
In a few daysafter Mr. lice-yes reerivA information
from Liverpool, that the, Baron had been discovered
i b his Lady on boaro a ship enclea,.on;ing to sail
from that port -without a pa:sport. This int-arrant-
tion was communicated to Rivett, who !tiformrd the
Bankers,- but they declined.going to the expellee of
sending an officer to bring the Baron to Lottd,,n, _as
they had not paid any of Ca.:tit-ails. All of those
who have been defrauded seem to think it would
be lost money to send after him, as there only re-
mains a possibiiity of recovering a small part of the
property,

'NUN 61TION.—About one o'clock in the morning
of the 20th tilt. the Driggle Reseivoir at he top of
Stanadge, in Marsden, about nine miles west of
Huddersfield, burst, and the. water flowing in an
easterly 'direttion, inundated the who of the ad-
joining Valley. This reservoir, t'orined for the pur-
pose of .supplying the Huddelstield Canal, covered
About,i's•acres ot
,land, and such was thedestruc-
tive impetuosity of the flood, that it swept away a
cotTag4 occupied by James Schulfield, sending on
the declivity of a hill, and his wife and four chil-
dren perished in the flood. Rushing forward in its
fatal course, the Water advanced to the mill of
Messrs. Hotstals, and so comPktely inundated the
house of the miller, James Bait-Ilion:1, that himself
and his wife were floated On: of their beds; he
seized the stone work in the window, and for some
time held his wife in his embrace ; but she was at
!ength forced from him, and the nest morning her
lifeless body was taken up at a place called the Pad-
' dock, two miles from Hudder,field.; the husband,.
however, kept his hold of the window till the wa-
ter subsided, and by that means preserved hts
• ti Bes,.:s these fatal cceidents, in which six lives
were lost; many 'others of lass consequence oc-
curred.

The old sea-banks in the vicinity oc
.131ston are
now in such a slate of repair as to preclude ilLte pos-
sibility of any fresh iL)utiddtions by the water on ;L.!
neighbouiing lands, except by an extraordinary rise
of the tide. Frieston and 13utterwick new sea-
banks are to be entirely te-constructed.

A respectable farmer in the neighbourhood of
Uxbridge gave his daughter,, on her first going to a
biarding-school a 7s. pi.ece, ,with a, promise, ttat
every:time she returned home for ho:idays, the sum
then in her possession should be doubled. This
promise
,was Strictly fulfilled until the last vacation,
when the sum paid amounted to upwards of i3ool.
II was then considered expedient to drop the dort ?ding
syst

It seems the opinion of Lawyers, that the Pro-
perty Tax will not greet the Forty-lour Capital
Prizes to be drawn in One Day, by the New Plan
of State Lottery, tor the 15th of liebrunry►
next.