The Sun.
London, England, 1845-10-08 00:00:00

DEATH OF A FLAG OFFICER
Admiral Benjamin W.- Page, the junior Admiral of the
Blue, died at Ipswich on Friday evening last, at a goad old
age. He entered the navy in November, 1778, with Rear-
Admiral Sir Edward Hughes, K.C.8., a personal friend of his
father, and was a midshipman on board the Superb in the ac-
tions with Monsieur de Suffrein in the East Indies, in which
he was twice wounded by the side of his patron. He nag
appointed acting lieutenant, in December, 1782, to the E'Ke-
ter, 64, at Bombay, and came to England with the admiral,
and was paid off io 1783. Lo: d Howe confirmed him a lieu-
tenant November 20, 1784, and appointed him to the Astrea,
32, Captain Rai mer, for the Jamaica station; returned in 1790,
and were, all hands and officers, appointed to the Mortarh,74.
In December, Lieut. Page was sent in the Minerva, 39, witb
Captain It. M. Sutton, to India, and en joining Commodore Cornwallis, the flag-ship, the Crown, 64, paid off at Portsmouth
in 1792 ; and in January, 1793, appointed first lieutenant
of the Suffolk, 74, at the request of Captain Milner. On tbe
7th of June, having been on a cruise off Cherbourg and the
French coact, the Suffolk was safely taken through the
Needles' Passage to Spithead, being the first seventy.inur
ever taken through the Needles; and she continued afa-
vourite ship with Lord Howe till the latter part of Nay'
1794, when Commodore Rainier was sent with her and
others to escort a large convoy to India; and as acting cap"
taro, Lieutenant Page was paid the batta, and after the cap-
ture of- Negapatam and Trincomalee was confirmed by the
Admiralty us a Commander to the Hobart, of 18 guns, Sep-
tember 12, 1795; and having conveyed the Bombay China
ships to their home from China, was made Post Captain int°
the Orpheus, 32, 1796, on Captain Henry Newcomb's demise,
and received 500 guineas for care of convoy, through tile
Admiral, officially. 1798 and 1799 Captain Page was com-
pelled, by had health, to return to England. January'
1800, Earl Spencer appointed him to the Inflexible,
armed en flute, and sent him with sealed orders, and
more such ships, to take General Pigot and 5,000 trooPa
to Gibraltar and Minorca, which they did safely and raj
pidly, and joined at the blockade and capture of Genera_
Massena, at Genoa; and the Inflexible carried about 600
French troops from thence to Antibes, and a convoy front
Minorca, Gibraltar, and Lisbon, to England. Earl Spencrer
again sent Captain Page with sealed orders to Admiral Lo
Keith, who put part of the 42d Highlanders on board. the 111-
flexible, whence they were landed in Egypt by her NIT
March 8, 1801; and that ship was sent to Rhodes, &c.,".'t
dispatches for England, and returned to the blockade 0
Alexandria with Admiral Sir Richard Bickerton andthe
squadron. On the surrender of Cairo Captain Page Wi'g
sent to take the 13,556 French troops and follovel
from Egypt to France. He embarked nearly 600 French
artillerymen, and 12 of their guns, ammunition, &ea
board the Inflexible, and all the others in ships P,.?
under his orders, for Marseilles, and landed them there. le
returned to Malta, and thence took General Coote and jtce,
3d Guards to Gibraltar and Spithead, and was paid on '-
March, 1802. He was soon after appointed to the Caroline'
36, for the Irish station from Cork ; he was sent with scale.'
orders in May, 1803, for the East Indies, and arrived there ILI
104 days, taking some French and Dutch ves-el., and so)"
f the
ing the latter to apprise the Governor of St. Helena o
renewal of the war in Europe, which enabled him to keeP
our ships there for convoy, and to detain some Dutch veal
sets. Admiral Rainier, having gone in quest of Adin.i,rai
Lanois and the French squadron, which had recently saue
rei
from Pondicherry, and Captain Bathurst, in the Terpsiche
with a few small ships, being left to protect the 138D:t
Bengal and that side of India, Captain Page assumed tto
command, escorted the Company's ships for EureP,.e
safety, and luckily captured the General de Caen, °Lana
guns and 200 men, and Les Tres Unis, of 18 gun,' dope
-140 men, privateers, from Bordeaux, before they had
any mischief ; he ;hen took a large convoy of Bombay
European ships to China, and back to India, in sefetY'a
1804. The merchants of Bengal and of Madras each gao
Captain Page 500 guineas for his exertions and success,
the Admiral appointed him to his flag-ship, the Trident,.'lo
he brought the present Duke of Wellington to England
March, 1805, they took a convoy to St. Helena, leaving in
miral Sir Edward Pellew in command of the sanadr°;roat
crag
St. which Admiral Reimer had held eleven years.
St. Helena the convoy was 44 sail, the same number 4%!as
taken out in 1794, and having seen them all safe intues,
Downs, September, 1805, paid off the Trident at Chloart
and received 500 guineas, with official thanks, from the
.00,
of Directors, through the Admiral, for the care of ceini;ies
Lord Mulgrave appointed Captain Page to the Sea Foie
ar,
at Harwich ; and on their being disbanded, Lord Melvillebere
pointed Captain Page to the Puissant, 74, at Spithead,
he had, with other duties of the port, to sit upon 167 ce`froa
martial, to go weekly to saperintend invaliding well and
Hasler Hospital, examine candidates for lieutenancies!.4,
proper-management of the prison-ships in Porchester,
&c. October, 1815, the Puissant was paid off, and in Vice-
Captain Page was promoteeto flag-rank, and rnadea,
Admiral in July, 1830, and Admiral, November 23,184

THE BRUTAL LASH. oro
NOBLE SENTIMENTS IN REFERENCE THE''
OF LORD METCALF.
(From the Indian News.) ,:„„ lour"
It gives us great pain to observe from the Inan' fs'
nals that the opinion of many " practical men" 13
your of the re-introduction of the lash into the native be $
. This, should it take place, will, in our judgmea_t',.,or
fatal error. The doctrine that the lash has bee o';.,t t
cessary is founded on a misconception which ought
exist among persons making any pretensions to. ia`bor-
gence ; for the late instances of discontent and. 1,,t; more
dination have been much less important, and can thaa
clearly traced to improper treatment of the arillY,tba
those which occurred before flogging was abolisinical
Lord William • Bentinck. This opinion of the Prtiai'n
man referred to is worth no more than the yte the
of other practical men, that the Indians; who Owe-,
bravest soldiers in the world, are cowards by and
that the Indians who overthrew the Mogul despotienb
ieto-
who have repeatedly beat off the British with eq°ll„, eig;
bers, are incapable of organising, of themselves, artae!',
cient military force ; and that the Indians, who in,. cit`
masses are gallant, faithful, and honourable, arrreh'e-se
life a race of liars, thieves, and scoundrels. l'he
ancient prejudices which are fast vanishing before wi"
of modern knowledge, and which, in all probahinl,oll,B,
have no existence at a'l in the next generation; ha!'h it
meantime, unfortunately, in the question of the I,P„.t'ou
the opinion of the veterans, with the Duke of Weihn''
their head, which will be taken. , the
This painful subject has been suggested to us 1)3_00,o
lowing paragraph in a letter to a private friend ire or
Metcalf, a practical man of another stampiodic°
I exceedingly deplore the contemplatedre-introuva,,, re.;
flogging into the Indian Native Army, and have all halt'
garded Lord William Bentinck's abolition of tlial'trsn°ll.
punishment as reflecting high honour on his adminl,sh
If I had'the power- I would abolish it in the Britis
notwithstanding the high authority in favour of its e"
1,
an
In ce." A itS fOC
the British army, it unhappily exists, and It,
tion, if no adequate substitute could be found, hoseoll
ought we know, occasion some disorder among t d the
dividuals whose minds have been brutified t
backs scored by the whip ; but the Indians aret: °re' :
sent restrained by military honour—by " fidelity hest
salt"—and this cannot co-exist with the lash. The
ventive of insubordination among them is just 0
an° iteras tY,
treatment by the local government and officers in °to tor
It is but fair to. add, that private accounts mente 1111,4
the contemplated brutalisation of a body of men the'
England owes a debt that ought to be requited 0
than by the lash, had been suspended or given uP•
FATAL ACCIDENT AT tl,prirjr .0
I
a drummer attached to the band of the Royal 3,a0 Piy
was drowned on Saturday evening, near Charie`e
Woolwich ; and the body was first observed b} decks
convicts employed at the west end of Wool-roe" coro,elect
yesterday forenoon, and taken charge of, that
,3 bee the
inquest might be held upon it. It appears the L'firea by
his residence, in Frances-street, Woolwich, to Pr°'„„,re the
last boat up the river from Charlton pier, to join '.."0.1 otllr
companions; and lhe was observed in the fore tartrm
vessel, by a female passenger, playing with a 17110 o
diately after leaving. the pier, and while doing euale
balanced himself, and fell into the river. The doing male
diately acquainted, the Captain of the Nacleto
eei troheinctorot
steam-packet of the circumstance, and he b
and remained near the spot for about ten or ate dcrs A Po%
but the body did not rise to the surface, which rensing
vi
bable that the deceased had been stunned ill PP
roe,
the paddle-wheels.' ' ate°l r•
AM,TERDAM, OCT. 3.-The ,ikh
too the
Rapid, which recently commenced running Trider, °note
lingen and London, was towed back to the 11%„t of `„,ere
29th ult., in a damaged condition, and with SIN:
in the hold. It had on board 75 cow:'' 15 the 'jeep-0
drowned or otherwise killed. The last arriv'!_ ; the frool
were the Thomas and Joseph, from Newcast;?_ 10, The
Dorothea, the Paragon, the Shencliffe, and tneg,ol.loy,,
Sunderland; and the Jantina Hendrika, fr"niteb Ba„eipt,s
number of passengers on the so-called Dome reovarce
for the Month of September, was 67,264' 0.3 lln° t• the
amounted to 69,411 florins. The Hague PaP.,,eder
the sudden death of Herr C, de Bordes, cowrie the
order of the Dutch Lion, and Attorney-Gener' Q held
Council of the Netherlands.
, fair vv3' 11. of
BRAINTREE FAlR.—This importani,
on Thursday and Friday last, and as respectsatohne:tPh Pee'hara:
stock of most descriptions, arid the busineis_terabs..ntay
counts that have reached us are of the roost t<_,"'d the 'fl.;,-e$
eue ere 0
meter. The number of sheep and lambs cs- e pa; Cher th
of any former year, nearly 20,000 being
.Pen,ltt•itir ; a horse,
:41so a fair average number of bullocks In of mice'
whole were in very excellent conditilarger not`hocei
there . was a full supply, including sThe %IIY 11.
.tban usual of very superior cart coltse.rounis,
e,:pesl,,t._
too, of respectable buyers was num
Thursday, and large purchases were
wi.acit
indeed at considerably advanced rates ",',
favourably with the,low prices produced by Lnl u;o% ab▪
"eyer,-:
tariff in 1842. Friday morning was 'wet
_adetiee of.titairte:_
and consequently there was a smaller atteo
Wen „tat e
but still the rates of the previous day were traileaftellis fair'
and a considerable deal of business veal re °tallier 0.1:1;11
.apply of hops, generally an importan snl
_t be)
was, owing to the backwarkness of the seailkieg
was ever seen there before; in fact, the
.oPl,sea to tniwt.
over very few conld be bagged in time t
to' 9/. perincg
For those that were pitched, from 81. manYbe soMe tie
asked, bat few sales were effected at this rat , _
_tt, folio thest,
gist
nion notwithstanding the unfavourablekrenP:
• idoM,
the large hop- growing districts of the the nrswa7eg
prices will not be maintained. This was the ties thet7e
since the alterations at the Hyde Farm, by' t
ondeo- sta that
to.
the new arrangements; and a correr—e dealers. to, co,
jr
were complaints amongst some of thes!aolt ratfinas doe OA.
space purchased and fenced in for the t ;
e ram- -,t, etoriaew",
fined, for should the fair increase at t
c° tl
soon be . tau
the last twenty years, it will s
says, was, o.pro.'-of
The space allotted to the horses, he Lope tense tore
plained of as insufficient; and lie adds
duil..
tied eo
that the new proprietors of the memoirs
the ground for the purpose before it ,
which would render the enlargement ol 'sing
raid. h rev' i•
difficult and expensive.—Essex lie e tow' •
STRATI
-it the „oho
BEVRLEY BOROUGH REGIST last,
for this borough took place on
barrister- ..vester,
hall, before J. Wharton, Esq., the
mid E
Iv.
very ably supported the Liberals, a
of th.berts;
the Tories. The following is the
result
ditto ; gar
I
Liberal freemen struck off, 3, ;
'Toryg
f thei
holders struck off, 4; Tory ditto, lo
lilt ° .
Hull Advertiser. The res-,,..eid _
Wednescra, Av.
NORTH CHESHIRE REVISION. .11 ecie,ti 0d
iq that
,w_iellitiP/iii:r.lfcalbl; i
county revision in Macclesfield ie o nbjectio
° ',rocket-
ut
:ticvjaesl n',Tileeeall9.--4m
13t hneu
ne.afge
au elh2a. s
The Bohn ds a
rltv)
ere
steles ,lelY
caolumrti,y.voters in the borough, and sustain
;
Both P- • qlro
REPRESENTATION or WIGA-1) t seno•e- to ---ttp
still actively canvassing the electors,. isitithe borotairly rasoo It
known of the state of political feelOcknesse2P 10r5
it almost certain, that unless Mr.d a
must u- rf the —I;• be
enormous bribery, Captain Lind: 3
that some o,__hes
seems to be generally understoo
ea ,1.1 to botbl
Y: to
than offered, as
agsinisgabnayckmainn
inthehisexapeencateasti(otnn
iniquity of such a course) would be tale amore
self into a Parliament that has little more

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