The Sun.
London, England, 1821-09-18 00:00:00

MAJOR ANDItt.

The following account of the disifiterring the,
remains of Major ANDRE is taken from a New
York Paper of the 1-Ith August :-
46 This event took place at Tappan, on Friday
the 10th instant, at one p. in., amidst a consider-
able concourse of Ladies and Gentlemen that as-
sembled to witness this interesting ceremony.

The British Consul, with several -Gentlemen,
accompanied by the proprietor of the ground
and his labourer, commenced their operations at
eleven o'clock) by removing the heap of loose
stones that surrounded and partly covered the
grave, Great caution was observed in taking up
a small peach-tree that was growing out of the
grave, as the Consul stated his intention of send-
ing it to his-Majesty to be placed in one of the
Royal gardens. Considerable anxiety was felt
lest the coffin could not be found, as various ru-
mours existed of its having been removed many
years ago. However, when at the depth of three
feet, the labourers came to it. The lid was
broken in the centre and had partly fallen in,
but was kept up by resting on the scull. The
lid being raised, the skeleton of the brave Andre
appeared entire, bone to bone, each in its place,
without a vestige of any other part of his re-
mains, save some of :As hair, which appeared in
small tufts ; and the 'Ally part of his dress was
the leather string whi-cr tied it.. As soon as the
curiosity of the spectators wr.s gratified, a large
circle was formed, ..v ht(n the undertaker, with
his assistant, uncovered the sarcophagus, into
which the remains were carefully removed : this
superb depository, in imitation of those used in
Europe for the remains aj_ the illustrious dead,
was made of mahogany, the panels covered with
rich crimson velvet, surrounded by a gold bor-
dering : the rings of deep burnished gold, the
panel also crimson velvet, edged with gold, the
inside lined with black velvet, the whole sup-
ported by four gilt balls, The sarcophagus with
the remains have been removed on board his Ma-

jesty's packet, where it is understood, as soon as
some repairs on board are completed, an oppor-
tunity will be afforded of viewing it."

The Civic Dinner at the Mansion House,
Dublin, on Wednesday, passed off without a
party toast, and without the slightest interrup-

Lon to harmony. -
CURIOUS CEREvos.y.--The following extrac

of a letter from Madras describes the singular
mode of announcing to the Nabob of the Car-
uatic the accession of our King to the Throne :
" We had a grand show off here the other day :
it was the reading of the King's letter to the
Nabob of the Carnatc, who lives about a
mile from the fort, under John Company's
thumb.— All the troops were out, and
formed a street from the Government

House to the (Nabob's) Palace of Chepank.
The letter- was carried by the Secretary to the
Government on a tremendous large elephant,
covered down to the ground with a mantle of
crimson velvet, edged with gold; the Howeier
was covered with the same, and the Mohut clad
in crimson silk; the 11,7,iad, ears, tusks, feet, &c.
of the elephant being most beautifully painted.
He was met at titipank by the Nabob, mounted
also on a large elephant, similarly caparisoned,
only the velvet covering was studded with gold
stars, and the Howeler was finely gilt. After
reading the letter salutes were fired from the
artillery, vollies by-the troops, &c. The thing
did not go off so well as it ought to have done ;
but we made a fine spew, a great noise, and burnt
lots of powder, and Mackey was very much de-
lighted. When all this was over, we went into the
Palace to breakfast, which was excellent, being
quite English. There were lots of dancing girls,'
who danced and sung. When breakfast was
finished, I went Into the Durbar (or Presence
Chamber), and had a peep at the Musnud
(throne), got a little otto of roses and rose wa-
ter on my handkerchief, a string of flowers
round my neck, with some betle and cinnamon
done up in a leaf finely gilt, and getting into a
bandy, drove home about ten o'clock, heartily
tired, having been out since five o'clock in the
morning. The palace does not look like one,
according to our ideas ; the rooms are low, and
are hung with looking-glasses and lamps, as thick
as they can stick. The Durbar is covered with
a beautiful crimson velvet carpet, finely embroi-
dered with gold, but all sorts of black rabble
were admitted—but the Nabob is pleased with

t, and that is enough.—(Fort St. George, 4.

6, 1821.1
•
EXECUTION.—On Monday, September
~10,

Thomas Dutton, aged 26 years, paid the forfei
of his life to the offended laws of his country
at Flint. The unfortunate young man was can

den-tiled to death at Mold on Friday last, for the
wilful murder of Susannah Jenkins, an old wo-
man of 78 years of age, by striking her thre
blows with a stick, which occasioned her death.
The prisoneE,confessed the crime,.but disclaimed
any premeditation of the act ; he acknowledged
himself to have been a great sinner, and to have
once discharged a gun at a man who was taking
by fOrce some grain off his father's land, but
which was parried off, and the contents lodged in
the eye of a boy who happened to be standing
near ; he had long habituated himself to idle-
ness, and had not for many years attended any
place of religious worship. The very penitent
and composed manner in which he met his end.,
would haVe graced a good cause. When arriving
it the fatal drop, having taken an affectionate
farewel of his wife and child, he addressed'his
wife; 44 Now my dear, return with the child, I
beseech you, you cannot bear it, I go to meet
my God ;" and upon assistance Ewing offered him
to ascend the platform, he declined it, saving,
" Uhdve gone up a ladder many a time, I can go
up very well, Ido not fear." The rope being
adjusted round his neck, he told the multitude
to beware of giving way to passion, for that had
brought him to his end ; and, having given the
signal to the executioner, by dropping his .hand-
, kerchief,- he was launched into eternity. The
execution in this county is so rare an occurrence,
' that an immense concourse of spectators were
present, who behaved with a degree of, feeling,
which it hoped will have its proper effect.

POLICE TN TELLIC ENCE.

MELANCHOLY EFFECTS OF JEA.LQUSY.
M A ii-sto st.—Yesterday morning, soon after five
o'clock, the neighbourhoOd of liishopsgate-street was thrown
into consternation by the report that a man had been -murdered-
in Rose Alley, a narrow sequestered place,. nearly opposite
Bishopsgate Church. Gregory, the officer, having been informed
of the circumstance, ran to the spot, where he found a crowd
of persons in great confusion around a young man named
Kelly, wfio lay bleeding in his shirt on the pavement; he had
a desperate wound in the back, and appeared to be in the
last agonies. A young woman who was present, being ques-
tioned as to the particulars of the calamity, said, that she be-
lieved a Man named Farrell, who resided in a house in the Alley
to which she pointed, had stabbed him with a cutlass, for she had
seenjFarrell with a weapon of that kind in his hand, and betray-
ing such symptoms of embarrassment as led her to suspect that
he was the assailant. • The officer immediately went to Farrell's
room door and knocked, but no answer being returned, he broke
open the door, and putting asidesome chairs and a table that had
been placed against it, entered and saw the wife of Farrell in bed
in' a state of great agitation. The unhappy- woman was reluctar t
to answer any question which might criminate her husband; but
the officer having satisfied himself that Farrell was the person
who had committed the violence, determined to obtain a warrant
for his apprehension, and to bring- the wife before the Lord
Mayor in order to have a part of her conduct which appeared
to be rather equivocal, explained. The officer having given his
evidence, the Lord NI ayor dismissed Farrell's wife without ask-
ing her any questions,. and directed that the Alderman sitting in
the Borough should be informed of the circumstances. A com-
munication was accordingly Made to Alderman J. J. Smith,
who immediately proceeded to St. Thomas's Hospital, whither
Kelly had been conveyed, to take his evidence. Tn answer to
the-questions of the Alderman he made the folloWing depo-
sition • *
My. name is Michael Kelly ;• I reside at No. 5, Rose-FHey,
Bishopsgate-street, and am a labourer = the East:lndia Com-
pany's warehouses ; Simon Farrell ante nis wife, who lodge in
the same house-as I do, are always at variance; I used always
to be trying to make peace amongst them ; they quarrelled last
night, and Simon Farrell slept • upon the stairs ; I sat upon a
chair in their room and fell asleep ; we were both the worse for
liquor; I meant to have gone to my own-bed, but by mistake
went toWards-the bed where Farrel wife was lying; she called
out, " You are wrong, Michael ;" I said, " I beg your par-
don ;"' I thought that Farrell was in bed with his wife, but I
found he was upon the stairs; he came in and took old
sword which was hanging in the room, and without saying' a
word to me ran it into-my back ; Thad got -into my awn room
from Farrell's ; he had followed me .there ; I was in my own
room at the tame; after he had wounded me, he assisted me to
open the door to get out ; I was just getting into bed
at the time lie came ; I did not suspect that he :was going
to do me any mischief or was behind me; Farrell's son, 9,
boy of about thirteen years of *e, cried out —" Shame, fa-
ther." After I was wounded I came down stairs to call the
watchman or get some assistance ; 'I was so weak that I fell
down in the dirt outside the street-door ; while I was lying
in the street I saw Farrell run away 'with the sword under
his arm ; it was in about five minutes after I had fallen down
at the time he stabbed me, he said " you blackguard take that;"
I never had a word with him before ; we had been spending.the
afternoon together at a public house.; I never gave him- cause
for jealousy, nor did I know that,he was jealous of me. • .
Kelly then signed the above deposition, and declared that he
had nothing further to add to it ; it was the truth, and he had
nothing to -say more that he knew of. He was kept under the
kind attendance of several persons who reside in the neighbour.
hood. The sword, it was stated, had penetrated the lungs.

EXTRAORDINARY STEAM VEssEL.—The Union Steam-
boat, the most unique, and perhaps the most splendid ferry boat
in the country, was tried on Saturday, and upon Tuesday began
to ply regularly at the Dundee ferry ; and, were the piers such
as to admit of touching them at all times of tide; there is no
doubt but the intercourse by the ferry would be rendered more
frequent, in consequence of the increased comfort and safety
of the conveyance. The Union is a twin-boat, composed of
two hulls, each 76 feet keel,. 11Lt feet beam, and :lii feet
asunder. They are handsomely and substantially, built, and •
well bound together by beams fortified with iron ; and the ,
mould and execution do much credit to the taste and skill
of Mr. Brown (of Perth), .the bitilder. The whole length
upon deck is ninety-two feet, and the breadth abPdt 'thirty-four.
Thirty-two feet of the one end is left about two feet lower then
the rest of the deck, and railed in for carriages and cattle ; and
the doors at the middle of this space are so constructed as to
serve for platforms in loadino,, and 'unloading ; 22 feet in the
centre are occupied by the machinery, an engine being in each
boat, and the paddle wheel acting in the canal immediately be-
tween. The engines are Of 15 horses' power each ; and as they
are connected with the same wheel, they act contemporaneous-
ly. So smoothly- do they work,-that even. now, when the parts
may be supposed tb be stiff, there is hardly any tremor in the
boat ; and, when the doors which inclose the niachinety are
shut; there is very little noise. The paddle-wheel has wooden
floats, and is so divided, that though each half has only eight
floats, the whole acts with the same smoothness 'as if it had six-
teen, and yet the power is not diminished. Notwithstanding
the immense size of the boat she obeys her helm very easily.
There are two helms, each constructed of a rectangular iron plate,
four feet and a half in the horizontal direction, and three feet
and a half in the perpendicidar. The tiller of each is almost
ten feet long, and requires two men.to manage it properly. The
machinery is so constructed as that either end may go foremost ;
and. thus the boat can arrive and depart without the labour or space
required for turning round. The reversing of the motion is ef-
fected by reversing the action of the valves of the engines.
These are opened and shut by an alternate rod, moved by an
eccentric block ou the shaft of the paddle-v:heel. This rod i
acts upon a double lever, fastened to the rocking shaft of the
valves ; when it acts on the lower end of the lever, the paddle-
wheel moves the one way, and when it acts on the upper end,
the wheel moves the other. The lever is made broad in the
middle, with a flange round it, which retains the stud on the
alternating rod during the time that it is changed from the one
end to the other. The rod is raised or lowered by means of a,
toothed sector into which a pinion works. The two pinions are
on the opposite ends of a rod, which passes under an index
table, below which it has a bevel wheel, acted on by a similar
wheel, connected with a reversing index.—By simply turning
this index, the boat passes in less than one minute from motion
in one directing in that directly opposite. The boat may be
steered by either helm ; and by working both helms at the same
time, It may be turned round in a very small compass. Indeed,
though the boat appears huge and unwieldy,, yet, in conse-
quence of the impelling power being in the centre, it can be
turned in a much smaller compass than a less boat *ith two
wheels. Its motion too, during=, a breeze, or across the swell,,
is much more steady, as a good deal of the disagreeable rolling
of a two-wheeled boat arises from the unequal hold which its
wheels take of the water.—(From the- Caledonian Mercury.)

The Duke of NORTHUMBERLAND has made an
abatement in the rent of his tenants of 20/. per
cent. which, with the deduction of 25/..per bent.
made before upon many of the farms, when the
price of agricultural produce was at its height,
makes it 45 per cent.
Several of the Privates of the first battalion of
the third regiment of Guards have arrived from
Plymouth within 'these few days, in order to
pass the Board at Chelsea.

The remainder of the 10th Foot embarked
on Friday at Portsmouth in the London trans-
port, and sailed for Plymouth.—The 11th Foot
removes to Ireland.

The 66th 'regiment, Col. Nicor.,, lately- re
turned from St. Helena, is ordered .to Hall, in
stead of Weedon Barracks, Northampton Shire.

On Tuesday week Sir lq.•W. LEY, Bart.
entertained the officers of _the late corps of New-
casStle Associated Volunteer Infantry, command-
ed by him, with a sumptuous dinner at Blagdon.
SHOCKING ACCIDENT.—On Sunday afternoon,
three young men hired a boat to row a short
distance up the river, when owing to their un-
skilful management she ran foul of a barge near
Waterloo' Bridge ; and one of them, a fine youth,
17 years. of age, in endeavouring to get .the boat'
clear, stood :up, trying to release, her from the
barge, when he was nnfortunately plunged into
the water, and hiscompanionS in endeavouring
to rescue him were near sharing the same fate.
The body was picked up much. 'disfigured about
the face. At the same time the body of . a de-
cently:dressed man, about .:30 years of age, was
also found in the water; the bodies were both con-
veyed to Lambeth bone house, where an inquest
will be held as soon as the Coroner is made ac-
quainted with the melancholy disaster. ,

LONDON MARKETS.

PRICE OF 13114A1), EIIS WEEK.

Thr highest price of the,—' .lie-sr Wheaten Ijiread tlftoughout
ihe Nletrupelig, is stated by the pia neipal Batters to he itid.
13a hers
the Quartern Loaf.—Some Bakers sett the Quartern Luai,
..
from one penny to two pence liiwer. • :' .. . .- . ' - - -
lb. oz. 1 lb.oz.
ti
Peck Loaf to weigh .. 17 - Quartet n Loa fto weigh 4' 5f
Half ditto*.. ditto .... 811 Half Quartenn ditto .. i i
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- .'IAIPORTATIONS OF GRAIN LAST W EE1;.,.. 1
English.' ' Irish: 'Foreign. -;
Wheat ' • 6, k 1 o , ---;- • ---- _ 4
Barley
Malt

oats: •
Beaus . s 1,114
Peas 995
•
Tares - 166
Brauk
Mustard
Setds

443 -- 2.
397 eo

Dour
Unseed

. ,
- PKIUE OF HOPS, pt.' Cwt., Sept. 10. - .
Pockets. Bags.
Kent .. 21 Os a2l 18s a3l lOs Kent .. 010 s aOl Os a Of 0s
Sussex.. 21 Os a2l 14s a 31 Us t Sussex 01 Os aOl • Os aOl os

Duty I;tid

9.00,0001.

_
SEEns, Sept. 17.
Red Clover (Foreign)
Ditto'Enr,lish •
—g 54s 56s to 66s
White ditto 66s 76s 90s te 951

Rye-Grass . . —s 18s
.to 26s per. qr.'
TurniP Seeds. —s Od 22s c..,4s to 3ils p r. bush.
White Mustard Seed ....,.... bs 7s to 9s Od

. .._ .
Brown ditto . —s Is 108 to 148 tid
Red and. Gry.e.n ... —s nd to .--s 04.1 '
Carra‘i•ay Seeds.... e..
to 675.
_ . _ . . ... .._

Coriander do . ' , 116,1 is 64 14s
Cinque Foin.... —s Od 21s to 24s od per qr.
Trefoil
Ribgrass ... • ' 2tis 286- to; 34$ -
Canary per qr 42s 45s to —s Od per gr.
Linseed
Rape Seed .
Tares , - -atis to 44s 4tis per qr.