The Sun.
London, England, 1810-11-06 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

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Sp.l--,-With reference to a paragraph regarding'
ine in a Sunday
,Paperi called The Examiner, j
it my duty to state...that I shall aif.)rtl the Ainhor
opportunity. of justirYing his, assertions by att itntne-
dime opiteal to the laws of ruy country. • "
In, the mean time, I shall, perhaps, be warranted
in stating, that the par6grapli alnpled to is .1. ~so
in point a fac' ; and
jali;iough it is very j tin•
fal to me to h6thuS forced to pity the egotis., ji ven-
ture to assv.rt, without the hazard refination; that
universaqy; with regard to me, the wurdi "
.liwale credilar,7 and zeolow f;lerui," are syno-.
nimous ; and that, although a Commission was an
alternative rendered neeespory and th-,irahle by :1
combina!ion of utitm.varci circunnvanceg, susceptible
.0f 's,,tivictory ati.l easy exitlanal ion ; yet. My e,twe
dual to the payment o! fotfy-live in tilt::
pound, or; ih other-wrilq, I cannot well tali :0 en-
joy a net surphis of sevnnty or eighty thonsand
pounds, after every claim on my estate has beets,
satisfied.

6,. Bridge-slreel, Nov. s, jBl 0.

R. NuLtars.

There is now tiring in the cadent belonging to
the Bee,opts p„leee. at Pseerbotough, a Land Tor-
toise; which is ascertained w have neeo their 2QO
year and upwardst-i The upper. shell is about twelve
or fourteen inches long, '.id abort ttine broad,
the neck has all the appearance of exlrenieold age;
the sight of one of its eyes is gone;• the otherseettes
bright and very lively ; tie inside of the month, as
well as the tongue, is a foll pink celjUr ;
no teeth, but ,masticates with its goofs; wince,
are of 'a bony substance ; the legs sod" !Act
are coverM (like the besd) -. with sear_,,',ind
are so 'strong that it will walk, or: rather crawl,
with a considerate weight on its back.eand seetoin.g-
itigly with ease. In
,the early -part of summer it
in general feeds upon lettuces and when the freit
becomes' ripe it crawls under the gooseberry bushes,
and picks off what is on the lower braeehes,
'arid the fruit it cannot reach is amply supplied by
the frequent company and the gardeners, from
hande it receives what is given with great gentle. •
ness. ToWards Michaelmas, and Sometitnei eariier,
it buries itself in the earth, where it remaies till the
following spring; in a few dip after it bath made
this annual deseeut, by finding the depth with a Stich,
a tolerably 'accurate judgment can be formed of the
mildness or severity of the ensiling
.winter. This ex-
traordinary animal is about twenty pOunds in weight,
M. Brun, a pupil of the Polytechnic school, re-
siding at Chambery, in France, has resolved, in a
highly satisfactory manner, the following probietn :
To find the meens of giving to telegraphic corre-
spondence the same certainty as to correspondence
by couriers, without requiring of the persons so
corresponding
,store labour and time than is neces-
sary for writing dispatches, while at the same time
the merely mechanical agents shall know nothing
of the purport of it." Hu propeses a copper wheel,
with one hundrJd teeth. Each of these teeth is the
type not only of
.a letter of the alphabet, out also
of a numerical sign. This wheel, which is ,he cor-
respondent causes teriturn in a vertical direction
round its axis, has two supports with springs, by
means of which he presses at pleasure a tangent
point, which will stamp the letter he wants upon
differeet papers rolled one over the other, round a
cylinder. As there are not a hundred letters in the
alphabet, it .is augmented by giving several num-
bers to those which have several pronunciations,
.and even to whole syllable,s that frequently occur
in conversation, such as pronouns, &c. Thus
the telegraph
.will exhibit the printed numbers; one
after another, and the lase person to whom the dis-
patch is confided, and who is supposed to be only a
a mechanical agent, will enrol the words by an ope-
ration, the reverse of the first. He will there find
nothing bet detached . signs, to which the officer
alone to whom the dispatch is . addre,sed, !nest
possess the key ; since several of the representative
numbers introduced among those which haver the
usual signification, will be real hieroglyphics to the
mechanical :agents. Mr. Brun himself proposes
very serious objections, which he answers in the
-clearest. manner ; .and if his process falls short of
all the perfection which might be &sited, still, it
may be asserted, that it is capable of engendering
the most ingenious ideas in those who would devote
their, attention to so important a subject.
Fooerep RoBSEllY.—This system of-robbery is
now practised with impunity in and-about London,
nightly, ana, as it is supposed, by one gang.-7 Mr.
Elsden, a builder, was attacked near his own
.house,
in Thornhaugh-street, Bedford-square, before nine-
o'clock, on Friday evening last. The robbers were
a tall- twin and a short man, and they answer the de-
scriptioneof those who have been robbiag •on the
northern side of London, and also the same who
committed some robberies at Lewisham. One •of
them stopped Mr. E.'s mouth; the other present-
ed a pistol close at his head, which Mr. Elscle.n
caught at, and wrested it from the villain who pre-
sented'it. He grappled, and fell with them, and
they ran off' without robbing him. He snapped
the pistol at the thieves in their retreat, but it miss=
ed fire.' The pistol is now in the possession alit.
milton at Marlborough-street, and it has the maker's
namee Bboth, Chatham. •

SUnday v.r..ek, Loveday, one of the Tide
Surveyors 3t Harwieh,- in the service of the ens-
toms, found, artfully concealed on board a' foreign.
vessel between the timbers, near her bottom, Atli
which •was in the ad of. being conveyed out of the
kingdom, .20 bars of gold, supposed to be worth
about 12,0001. which he convey echo the Custom-
house there.

Lord Nelson's MOnument• in 'Gbildhall, will be
opened in few clays to public view. Jill its insignia
cornbine to display that glorious base on which he
built immortal tame. , Under this identical spot will
open a scene on the 4th of next Month, no; built on
naval but• civic fame; when twenty-five new and
'noble mansions will be at. issue. Although they
cannot boast of immortality; they Will certainly stand
in tleed ot no-lepait • fiir 'fifty years at least. The
saga.nous reader will readily' perceve, hat the GijAND
CITY LOTTEkY is the subject here alluded AO.

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