The Sun.
London, England, 1818-09-26 00:00:00

FOR THE SUN.

MR. EDITOR,—When I sent a crude suggestion
addressed to the Marquis IVELIASLEY, and
which yon (lid me the favour to print in THE SUN
of Monday last, I did not expect to furnish ma-
terials fur a bumourous reply. I selected the No-
ble Marquis as a person the most likely to know
whether my hints deserved notice, and the most
Ern) to use then), if eligible. Although not en-
gaged in the linear business Of a Government desk,
as your one•strokeCorrespondent possibly may be,
still it does not. follow. that I may be unable to
sketch out plans beyond the extent of his ruler.
A very slender inqnity would have informed
your Correspondent that many sovereignties in
the East Indies have fallen into our entire posses-
sion by conquest. Some of those subjected states

have had the lands restored to native sovereigns
anti people in perpetuity, for example, those
conquered by Marquis CORNWALLIS ; hut others
remain at the disposal of the British Government,
anti even at this day are settled upon Sepoy inva-
lids, as rewards and maintenance on their being,
discharged the service. Whether the charter of
the India Company forms an insuperable impedi-
ment to the kind of transfer which I projected ?
%%theater the supposed or real rights of native
Princes ? or our present dislike to colonization ?
are questions of primary import. But if those
difficulties are removeahie, I have enough of gene-
' ral knowledge upon the subject to assert, that
some plan, grounded upon.an extensive and bold
allotment of our national domains, might at once
tree time country front that evcessive burthen of
debt which both endangers our internal tranquil-
lity, and exposes us, while unprovided, to the ma-
chinations of external enemies. Ido not, how-
ever, seek a controversy with your " one-stroke"
writer, because, like myself, he seems to he
equally liable to mistakes, and as he has chosen
a Signature which admits of an apology, accord-
ing to the definition of EUCLID, I will conclude
that his humourous stroke meant, " length, with-
out breadth or thickness."

Your's,

A. C.

FOR THE SUN.

MR. EDITOR,-With extreme regret I have to
announce the loss of four men of his Majesty's
Revenue Cutter Camelion, Lieut. Pottosay com-
mander, who unfortunately were drowned, com-
ing on shore from the cutter to their station, at
one of the Martelli Towers, from whence they
had been for provisions early in the morning, and
were returning about 11 A. M. Yesterday an of-
ficer and two men saved themselves by swimming
on shore, but with great difficulty, as the surf
was very short and high, the wind blowing S. S.
East, which is right on this coast. The accident
happened about one mile and a lrilf to the west-
ward of this town. Yours, &c.
Hastings, Sept. 21, 1818.

SINGULAR DrscovEltv.—Ou Tuesday last, Mr.
MARK LAND, the Magistrate of Queen-,quare Po-
lice Office, while performing his Magisterial du-
ties at the Office, was requested by a Gentleman
to attend On an Officer's widow, residing. at
Bethnal-green, at any convenient time, for the
ptirpose of administering an oath, and signing an
affidavit, to authorize her to receive her husband's
pension, the Lady being bed-ridden and unable
to attend herself. Mr. MARKLAND accordingly
repaired to the place on Thursday morning last,
and after pet forming his necessary duties, in the
course of conversation, from various circum-
stances, he discovered that she was his aunt, and
instead of being a Captain's widow, she was the
widow of an Admiral ; and by this fortunate in-
terview, her fortune changed, and added consi-
deniblv to her pension, which loss she had sus-
tained since Ler husband's death.