The Sun.
London, England, 1818-11-09 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

•
Sin,—A paragraph has appeared in several of
the Public Journals, stating, that the Count de
LAS CASAS had addressed a Letter to M. Matf-
BACH, in which be denies being privy to the pub-
lication of the first part of the Memoirs lately pub-
lished under his name in the English, French, and
German Languages.
What reasons the Count may now have for thus
endeavouring to falsify any part of that publica-
tion (the authenticity of which is so apparent
from the various private details which it exhibits)
I am at a loss to guess ; but having printed the
English Edition of that work, for which I have
given a valuable consideration, I feel myself call-
ed upon to request your insertion of the follow-
ing extract of a Letter relative to the transac-
tion, on which the public will make their own
comments.

am, Sir,.
Your very obedient Servant,
HENRY COLBURN.
(TRANSLATION.)
Leipsig, the 27th June, 18 18.
Las Cams, the companion and intimate friend of Napo-
leon, is as you may know now in Germany; I am closely con-
nected with hits, and have reasons to hope to receire from
time to time many important papers. As yet he has commu-
nicated to me:
Ist. His own Life up to his return from St. Helena, and
arrival at Friankort.
godly. The Letter addressed by him to Lucien Buonaparte,
containing authentic details respecting the Voyage to, the
residence, the manner of living, and the treatment of Buona-
parte at St. Helena. (TIL; Letter was not delivered by the
English Government to its direction, and is therefore totally
unknown to the Public.)
&Hy. The Letter to Lord Bathurst, written from Fraufort
after his arrival, likewise unedited. '
Of all these I am preparing an Edition for Germany, and
transmit to you herewith the half of the first printed sheet;
should you be disposed to print it in England, I engage to
send to you all the sheets as they come out by Messrs
---
on your paying me the sum of ---
Without waiting for your answer, I shall send erery post
day the sheets as they come from the press to Messrs. to enable you to bring out the English Edition simultaneously
with the German. I am, Sir, your's, &c.
To Mr. Henry Colhurn, Condnit.stre F. A. BOCKHAWS.
ut, LndoR
n.

This morning, between six and seven o'clock, an
alarming fire broke out at a sugar-baker's, occu-
pied by a Mr. Soutmeyer, Betts-street, Back-lane,
St. George's in the East, which in less than an
hour was entirely consumed, together with the
dwelling-house adjoining. By the timely arrival
of engines, and a good supply of water, the fur-
ther progress of the devouring element was stopped
without further damage.
Where an assemblage of talent and experience
is concentrated in one line of practice, a success
must attend their application, not to be found
elsewhere. This has been evinced in the Esta-
blishment of the Medical Board at Charlotte-
House, Blacktriars-road, and at Woodstock-
House, Woodstock-street, Oxford-street, where
cures are every day performed in cases which
have baffled the skill of eminent professors, and
excited their astonishment.
The Medical Board have particularly attended
to those consequences of a certain disease, which
entails the most distressing debilities, and un-
hinges the constitution of both sexes. They also
remove the effects of those symptoms arising from
juvenile indiscretion, from irregular living, and
from a long residence in warm climates—of this
description they beg particularly to notice obsti-
nate eruptions in the skin, sore throat, pains in
-the head and limbs, frequently mistaken for rheu-
matism, strictures, fistulas, scrophula, &c.
Messrs COOPER and Co. after forty years' prac-
tice in various Hospitals, are consulted at Wood-
stock-street, Oxford-street, drily, front eight till
eight; and at the Medical Board, Charlotte-
House, Great Charlotte-street, Blackfriars-road,
precisely from twelve until eight in the evening.
Mechanics, and persons of moderate income,
have advice gratis, it they attend at certain hours,
namely, Tuesday, Thursday, and Sunday morn-
ings, until one o'clock, and every evening fron►
six to eight.

*** A side door, and private roams for females.

DISTURI3ANCE AT ETON COLLEGE.

[From The Observer.]
A considerable degree of uneasiness was excited
during the last week, in consequence of certain
indications of a rebellious and refractory spirit
among the boys at Eton College. For several days
they kept the town in a state of uproar, and in
their immediate quarters did some serious
mischief, as well as offered the grossest indigni-
ties to Dr. KEATS, the Head of the College. At
first it was apprehended that all subordination was
at an end, and that it would be impossible for the
business of the Institution to proceed : by the
firm and decisive conduct of Dr. KEATE, however,
aided by the other masters, and by making a pro-
per example of some of the ringleaders, peace was
restored, and on Saturday the whole of the School
had returned to a proper sense of their duty.
For some time back, the senior lads of the Col-
lege having arrived at that age when coercion of
any sort becomes irksome, nod when ph asure has
more attractions than study, have thought ',toper
to extend their excursions beyond those bounds
which the prudence of their superiors had fixed
as the limit of their walks. tieing thus beyond
all controul, save that of their own fancy, they
gave way to their natural inclinations, and spent
the liberal allowances made them by their patents
in the most expensive as well as dangerous
amusements ; such as hunting, shooting, driving,
and sports of a like description. Dr. Keate wag
perfectly aware that these practices existed ; but
such was the tenacity with which the boys kept
each other's secrets, that he could never bring
home a charge of this description against any one
individual, although he was quite sal !sficd a ho the
offenders were. Itepeattli install 'es of !his sort
having come within his knowledge, without being
able to correct what be found to be an Mei easing
evil, lie determined to exert that authority with
which be was empowered, and which he deemed
essential to the interests of those entrusi (NI to his
care. To this end he issued an order that the
boys, should " lock up," that is to say, retire to
the houses in which they hoarded and lodged,
and not be seen out afterwards, -at five o'clock
—the hour having been foimerly six. This,
by the senior boys, was considered an un-
justifiable innovation upon their liberties. A
strong sensation of discontent became manifest
throughout the College, and at last, two indivi-
duals, the nephew of Mr. Marryat, M. P., anil :he
son of Mr. Justice Holroyd, refused, when direct-
ed by Dr. Keate, to retire to their dames (the
houses of their landladies) at the time stipulated
by the new regulation. Dr. Keate, upon this di-
rect opposition to his authority, lost no time in
writing to the parents of the young mutineers,
desiring that they might he removed from the Col-
lege, ;:preferring rattier tbis gentle mode of pro-
ceeding than having recourse to the more serious
sentence of expulsion. So far was this conduct
from producing a salutary effect, that it only
acted like oil upon fire, and excited a more alarm-
ing flame. The boys assembled together tumul-
tuously, and seemed resolved upon committing
some desperate act, by which they thought they
would be enabled to recover their supposed ascen-
derrcy. The first step of this description was of
a private nature, and consisted of an attack upon
the desks and benches in the school, many of
which, after nightfall, were torn up and destroyed.
This was discovered to be the act of a few ; and a
suspicious character having been charged as a
particeps crirnirris, and fluting himself in danger of
punishment, denounced the real delinquents. The
names of these offenders, we understand, ate
Pitt, May, and Jackson. Against these,
Dr. Keate, upon finding their guilt confirmed,
pronounced sentence of expulsion ; after which
be addressed the whole school on the impropriety
of their conduct, and expressed a hope that the
severe example he had made would have the effect
of inducing them to return to those habits of
order and regularity which the existence or the
College demanded. One of the youths who was
present, named Palk, brother to Sir Lawrence
Palk, answered in an under, but audible tone,
" Never;" and he too shared the fate of his for-
mer companions, being likewise sentenced to be
expelled. The uproar now became more serious.
The school resounded with exclamations against
the injustice of Dr. Keate and matters went so
far that he was pelted with eggs, and otherwise
insulted. More mischief was done in the school,
and several panes of glass were broken. This
imprudent _intemperance of course led to a new
severity, and two more were added to the list of
those expelled, namely, the Messrs. Elton, major
and minor, thus making in all 7 expelled, and 2
sent from the school. During the ensuing even-
ings, up to Friday night, there was a good deal
of mischief done, such as pushing down walls and
breaking windows; but this, at length, by the
establishment of
,proper watchmen, was finally
stopped ; and the severity to which Dr. Keate bas
bad recourse will, it is trusted, have the effect of
preventing the recurrence of similar acts of in-
subordination in future.

TEMPEST v. ORD.--The LORD CISANCELLOP, on
Friday, gave a written copy of ti►e elaborate
Judgment he bad formerly delivered in this im-
portant case. Each of the parties received a copy
of it, in order, that when the Appeal comes on in
the House of Lords, the grounds of the decision
may be accurately knots n. His Lordship is still
of opinion, we understand, that the marriage
should take place, as he conceives the objections
against Lord STEWART are groundless.

EXTRAORDINARY TROUT.—On Friday last, a
trout weighing 151 h. was received by A. BLANDY,
Esq. of Wall, near Lichfield, which was caught
on his estate in Oxfordshire, in the Isis. The
beauty and proportion of the fish were as remark-
able as its extreme size ; measuring in length 30
inches and a half, over the shoulders 17 inches
and three quarters, extreme breadth, 18 inches
and three quarters, at the tail end under the fin,
9 inches and a half.

On Monday last the respected remain* of Lady
Romit.ty passed through Portsmouth from East
Cowes, on their way to Knill, near Prest,:ign?
Radnorshire, to be interred.

THE COLONIES.

UPPER AND LOWE'', CANADA..

qFrottithe Quebec Gazettes,--September aid Octobir-,1418;
We ace sorry to' find, that the `(rain in many
-pares of this district has suffered from the late
wet weather. On the south-shore of the river,
'particularly, great quantities both of wheat and
oats were cot, and not housed;-before the'rain
came on. They have germinated to an extent
-greatly injorions to their-quality,'Which was ex-
cellent. The Canadian farmers 'never stook their
grain, but let it lie spread on the ground, till it
is sufficiently dry to put in the 'barn. This'prac-
lice answers well in dry weather': It 'is then .6t
to be housed sooner thattlf in shea'ves,and storikedi
but in warm moist weather, it soon germinates.
5t is observed, that groin which was in stooks
auxin;; the rains has received very little injury.
Among the many improvements which have
lately been made in this city and neighbourhood,
we observe, with pleasure. a new town, which is
pow layinq out 'by the Hon. Mr. Caldwell, On
the Point Levi side. It is to be built above the
steam-boat - Isn ling, en a scite possessing every
t. 11111,11 e to make it one of the most pleasant and
thriving to,t ns in the country. We understand it
is to be called Aubigny.
We have inserted in this day's paper some ex-
tracts from a newspaper printed in the State of
Ohio, at Cleveland, near the mouth of Cayahoga
River, which falls into Lake Erie.
We have al ways 'observed with pleasure the
improvements On both sides of the Great [Juices.
A Marine List and a Prices Current,publiShed in
a country rvhere only a few years ago nothing
but the Savage and the Indian Trader Were to be
met with, are. conclusive evidences of rapid im-
provements. Although a great-portion of these
improvements are %Titbit] a country under the ju-
risdic!ion of a foreign Government;- they can ne-
ver be a matter of indifference to us, whether we
view them as promoting the general welfare of our
species, or in 'a More intimate connexion with our
own welfare. These countries are on the waters
of the St. Lawrence, and, if any justice - is done
to the natural advantages which it offers, it will
convey their trade along its whole' extent, and en-
able us to share in their prosperitY. - We know
that attempts are making, and twill be persevered
in, to give this current of Wealth another, direc-
tion. We have never spoken 9f these attempts
but in thelangnage of praise. We have pointed
them out, as we do now, to our tellow-subjects,
as worthy of incitation, and as offering an bonour
able and rich prize to die most worthy.
A subseriptihn was opened some .time ago, in
this city, by Messes. James and George Ross, mer-
chants, in favour of the Garlic Schools established
in the ll;ghlands of Scotland. This subscription
was afterwards extended to Montreal and King-
ston. We have lately received the annual report
for 1818, of the Glasgow Auxiliary' Society, for
the support of these Schoids, at whose request
the subscription was opened here, acknowledging
the 'receipt of 2261. 6s. 10d. the amount of the
subscriptions, remitted by Mr. George RoSti, free
of any expellees. The report contains the names
of all the subscribers, and a very handsome ac-
knowledgment on the part •ot the Society,
of'" the laudable exertions of their countrymen
in the Canadas." It is always a pleasing task to
113 to announce corresponding acts of benevolence
between the inhabitants of the different parts of
the great Empite to which we belong ; and to
notice a satisfactory account of the application of
monies collected by public subscription.

FORT OF CUYA-1-10GA (LAKE ERIE.)

111AIIINE LIST.

Entrepl.—Aug,. 25, Open Boat, Cummins Adams, from
andusky•
23, Touched, Steam Boat \Valk-in-the-water, Job Fish,
from Buffalo to Detroit, M.T.
23. Touched, schr. American Eagle,Wm.Gaylord, from Buf-
falo to Detroit.
'26, Sloop Fair PlafF, Wm. C. Johnson, from Port Talbot,
Upper Canada.
92, sloop Dolphin, Erna Williams, from Buffalo, N. Y.
29, Sloop Leopard, Z. Wellman, from Danbury, Ohio.
30, Touched, Steam Boat Walk-in-the-water,J. Fish, from
Detroit to Buffalo, N. Y.
C/eared.—Anq. 25, Sloop General Huntington, A. Junes,
for Buffalo (;reek, N. Y.
26, Sloop Fair Play, William C. Johnson, from Buffalo
C'reel, N. Y.
22, Sloop Dolphin, Ezra Williams, for Buffalo, N. Y.
Q 9, Schooner Friendship, C. Belden, for Fort Erie, U. C.
29, Sloop Leopard, Z. Wellman, for Danbury, Ohio.
Cleceland Price, C,Drent, corrected wvekig.—Ashes Pearl,
per ton, 150 d.; Pot, ditto, I 30d.; Butter, for exportation,
per pound toe. to 16e.; ditto, fresh 18 3-4 e. ; Brandy per
gallon, D 4 ; Ballalo Robes DS; Cheese per pcmnd, 12 1-2 c.
Corn, per bushel 50 to 62 t-2c. ; Flour, superfine, per barrel,
Da; Coarse, 8 50c. ; Flax Seed per bushel, D 1;. Flax, brisk
sale, per pound, 15c.; Iron, per cwt., 1)12 to 16; Lard per
pound 12 1-2 c.; Lumber pine, pin' 1000 feet, D2O; Oats per
bushel, 37i to 50c.•' Spirits per gallon, 1)2 5t c. Salt per ha-
rel, D 7 ; Tar per barrel D2O; Tea, Young Hyson, by the
chest, DI 62 I-2c.; Wheat, per bushel Dl; Whiskey per
gallon, 50c. to 62 1-2.—(Clearetarid Gar.)

OTRANTO, SEPTEBER.

PRODUCTS 07 THE. SEASON.--ln this part of the
State ‘Vheat has yielded a middling crop, and w2s
harvested in good order ; but had considerable
must among it. Rye, a usual crop. Little Maize,
was planted, and the crop will be small. The
drought has been very injurious to Oats, Peas,
Beans, Buckwheat, and Potatoes ; they will not
probably yield more than halt of ordinary crops.
Hay came in heavy. and in goo:l order, but the
pastures are much scorched by the warm and dry
NV ekither.

The cold eastwardly winds, at the commence-
ment of the season, materially injured the greatest
Fart of the fruit trees which survived the incle-
mency of the winter. A few orchards Nv iI I pro-
duce their usual quantities of apples ; others will
yield but little. The peach trees were mostly
killed by the severity of the last winter, and
those which are alive are greatly damaged, and
will produce but little. Many quince trees were
also destroyed ; but those which escaped injury
have plentiful crops. Plums of all kinds are
abundant, and the pear trees have their usual
quantity. Of the small fruits, but few seasons
have arforded a greater quantity than the present.
On the whole, it is believed, -that at the end of

the season, when all the-crops'shall have been se•
cured, the husbandman will have much greater
cause to rejoice, than to repine, at the result o
I►is labours.

MONTREAL, SEPT.
At a 'meting of the horticultural Society for

Their shOW o(firves,ihe heavivF,t
ing ,161 ounces, was produced by Mr. Itoberr
Cleghorn ; the second heaviest was produced by
Mr: John M`Gregor, Gardener to S. Gerrard,
Esq. weighing i 5 ounces ; Mr. Cleghorn pro-
duced the third best cluster, weighing 15 ounces.
yc,r,K, al. C.) SEPT. 3.—Arrived on Thurs.-
- •
day last,'in the Steam Boat, from Kingston, his
Grace the Duke of Itichn•old, ['ord Frederick
'Lennox, 'Lord George L nnox, Lieut.-" Colonel
Ready, Lieut.-Colonel Co kbu, ne, Major Bowles,
Major Loring, and'Capt..A, ontresor, R. N.
'Grace, with the saint Gentlemen (except
Major tnring),•'accompanied by his Excyllency
Sir Peregrine Maitland and Lady' Sarah Maitland,
went to Niagat'a on Saturday, visited the Falls,
and'returned by the Ste,un boat on Tuesday. It
is said that his Grace will leave this for Kingst6n
to-morrow.
`On Saturday the Magistrates and principal in-
'habitants of this town waited on his Grace the
Governor-in-Chief With the following Address
To the Most Noble Charles Lennox I)uhe of Richmon.d, Earl
of March and Anbigny in France, Duke of Lennox and
•
Earl of Darnley, Knight of the Most Noble Order of the
Garter, Governor-in-Chief and Captain-General Com-
manding His Majesty's Forces in British North America,
&c, &c. &c.
We, his Majesty's dutiful and loyal „Subjects, the Magis7
trates and lithahitants of Yorli, beg leave to approach your
Grace with our most sincere congratulations on youriotrival
in this Province, andeintsrace. with great satisfa'ution t he'op-
portnnity it affords us of paying that tribute of respect which
is sr. justly due to, your;illustrions Howie:
The great anxiety manifested by your present journey to
decide from actual observation upon the wapts of the Pro-
einees committed to your charge, and to apply the proper re-
medies, is received as a convincing pledge of the henelitt
which we anticipate from voile Grace's Administration.
!Though feelingly sensible of the great sacrifteemade by
your Grace in leaving England fur so distant a portion of the
British Empire, we assu,re ourselves that. the vast field of ex-
tensive usefulness which it 'opens will appear to your Glace
an agreeable equivalent for every privation.—To-firdinote-the
industry of the inhabitants, transform the wilderness into
fruitful fields, to call forth the resources of the.Canadas and
pot in action their'‘ariotts natural'ativaiitages; many of Which
still lie dormant, to extend the influence of true religion,
and to place the education of youth un a firm fun intuit tins, are
objects of the most wilily- ambition, and which yield iii their
aceoinplishioent a satisfaction that can never fade away.
•- Persuaded that these objects will occupy the milted Coun-
sels of your Grace and your distinguished: Iterative, whir more
immediately directs the Government of this . Province,' and
whose ardent desire to promote the public good begins al-
ready to be felt, we look forward to the future with the must
sanguine expectations.

To which his Gr3ce replied,
GE:47txmc,-1. feel' much obliged to you for your very
nattering Address. The Prosperity and Improvement uf. your
Province will nit all times eno-age toy most anxious solicitude,
and I ant persuaded I do Gut justice to the 'distinguished
person who more immediately directs the Govertiweut
of
Upper Canada in assuring'. you of his aid and Co-operation in
contributing to whatever may add to the peace, internal sum-
fort and happinesS of its Inhabitants.

DIED.—On Monday the 14th instant, Tho Mas
Wooo, Esq. after a severe and lingering illness,
which he bore with Christian fortitude and resig-
nation. His funeral took. place yesterday, and
was attended by all the respectable inhabitants of
York. _
• FUFFALO (NIAGARA), AUGUST- 18 Gate.—A
tremendous gale of wind was felt in this vici-
nity,, on Thursday last, accompanied with
some raid. Several vessels were lying off in
the Bay, which had lately arrived with cargoes
from the Upper•Coon'ry. The sloop Hannah, of
this port, parted-her cables early in the day, and
was driven ashore a short distsp.ce above the pier,
where she now lies high and dry. The schooner
•Erie, lying i❑ the Bay, also parted` her cables,
and in endeavouring to make the mouth of the
creek, was upon the beach with great vio-
lence. The schooner Hercules, Captain Church,
of Detroit, in attempting to come into the creek
during the gale, run aground on the opposite
shore, above the light- house. Fmtunately her
valuable cargo of furs had been previously taken
out. The Erie and Hercules have been since got
off without any material injury. Considerable
damage was also done to boats and small craft.
On Tuesday last the sloop Hannah, Captain
O'Coit, arrived here from Sumlnsky, with 350
packs of furs, belonging to Mr. A. Patterson, of
vincewies, Indiana. They were bro-ught up the
NVabash to its head waiters, and from thence they
were cart ietl across a portage of nine miles into
the head waters of the river Miami, above Fort
Wayne, and thence down the river to Sandusky.
They have since proceeded to Montreal for a
.market.

MONTRE/L, Sept. 26.—Arrived at the Mansion
House Hotel, J. Buchanan, Esq. his Majesty's Con-
sul at New York, who we understand has been at
York, (Upper Canada), to meet his Excellency Sir
Peregrine Maitland, on the subject of receiving such
British subjects as have landed in the United
.States, and are desirous of obtaining lands in Upper
Canada. We are happy to learn that Mr. Bu-
chanan has succeeded in the object of his journey.
He has been assured by his Excellency, that every
facility will be promptly afforded to all his Ma-
jesty's loyal and industrious subjects, who may
wish to proceed to the Upper Province; and that
large districts of the most favourably situated lands
will be immediately surveyed for the accommoda-
tion of the vast numbers who are directing their
steps to those fruitful regions.
We are also informed that the delays which have
hitherto attended the locating of settlers will be
in future avoided ; his Excellency being deter.

mined to give his most earnest attention to the
'emigrants who are from the same district, having
their lands as contiguous to each otl►er as possi-
ble.
Arrangements will also he made for direct-
ing them on their route, so that the many hard-
ships these poor people suffer on landing may be
avoided.
N:Ve learn with pleasure, that his Grace the
Doke of Richmond, with that characteristic
benevolence for which be has been at all times
distinguished, has been graciously pleased to in-
timate a wish, that some means should be adopt-
ed to provide fuel for the poor of this city, against
the approach of winter.
NVe are authorized to state, that his Grace has
been pleased to order a portion of the Govern-
ment ground us be given up as a wood yard for the
above purpose.
Arrived at the Mansion-house• Hotel, on Fri-
day the 25th inst. his Grace the Duke of Rich-
-- -
[niond and suite, on his way from Upper Canada.
His Grace was received under a grand salute troth
the citadel.