The Sun.
London, England, 1818-03-26 00:00:00

beforehand that his Paper will be disgraced
'wjth'-it:tch contemptible and -disgusting trash,—
We kiwi,/ little of.the operations, and secret bis-
lory of Our Competitors, but we are told that this
continned hostility against. gr. CiNNI NG doannot
prOceed from political opposition, bntivtlze effect
' of private revenge, that Gentleman having, in a de-
bate, once designated a suspected writer in The Chro-
nicle by such an opprobrious appellation as could
not bemistak en, and, Mac ill lacry ma , all the per;
severing rancour that assails him on every occasion-.
We know not whether there be any truth in this so-
lution ; but, if there be, it will fully account for
his being the object of daily defamation, -and the
matter is not unfit for enquiry, as the truth once
known, may put a stop to such low-minded ve-
nom as can only disgrace any cause which it pro-
fesses to support.

tOAL DUTIES.—It gives us pleasure to observe
that the unfairness of the Coastwise Duty on
Coal excites increasing attention. Numerous
Petitions against it have already been presented to
Parliament. In tact, only one argument can be
alleged in its favour, namely, that the amount
cannot be spared by Government ; but we will
not pay so ill a compliment to the CHANCELLOR
of the EXCHEQUER as to believe that he cannot
provide a fair substitute for a tax acknowledged
to be partial, unjust, and impolitic. The few in-
dividuals interested in its continuance have been
endeavouring to alarm the Northern Coal Pro-
prietors, by propagating rumours of an Excise
Duty at the pit's mouth as a substitute, but the
authors of such rumours and their motives are
well known, and though they succeeded once in
imposing upon Parliament, they will not easily
make a cat's-paw of the-Northern Interest, which
feels more than any other the pressure of the
coastwise duty, and is most interested in its re-
peal.. We can confidently state, whatever the
Agents of the persons we have alluded to may re-
present, that this bugbear of an Excise Duty is
their own invention for interested purposes, and
that the attempt now made is to obtain the-total
repeal of the Coastwise Tax without any other
duty on Coal, and that if any substitute be re-
quired it. will be proposed upon an article where
the hurdlers will be generally borne, and to
which there can be no reasonable objection.—We
are informed that, notwithstanding tine present
depressed state of this branch' of the Coasting
Trade, the sailors in the Northern Out-ports are
standing out at this time for an increase of wages,
and that the owners of the vessels engaged in it
must be ruined, unless some timely relief is afford-
ed to them by the Legislature.

Accounts from Bombay state, that the force of
4000 men, to which the.. PEISH WA oppose 4 an
army of 40,000, was part of the army under the
command of Colonel SatITII, of the 7th Native
Infantry. Colonel SMITH had previously march-
ed further into the interior towards Candeish,
leaving this force as a corps olithservation upon
the PFAsitwx's movements in Poonah.—The Of-
ficers wounded are, Lieutenant FALCONER, ist
batt. 24 Bombay Native Infantry ;Captain Nes-
TON, Bombay European Regiment, both .severely.
Hopes are entertained that the report of the two
Officers taken prisoners having been shot by or-
der of the Petsuwa will prove unfounded.
Wirsznsoa, ;MARCH 25.—Yesterday the Prince
of HESSE HOM EG suite arrived at the
Castle. In the evening her MAJESTY had a se-
lect party. This morning the Prince of Hesse
IlomauttG rode out on horseback Windsor
Great Park.. .

Yesterday the PELNCi REGENT and the Duke
of GLOUCESTER left town for Windsor,
Royal Highnesses; together with the Duchess pi
GLOUCESTER, and KrUNT, were ex-
pected in town last night..

The Duke of CAMIIIt I DGE and his Consort are
not expected in England before the beginning. of
May.
We are sorry to learn by the last letters from
Canada, that his Excellency Sir Jolt N StIBRUROKE
is seriously indisposed and confined to his bed-
room.

The great Ejectment Causes; between the Duke
of DEVONSHIRE and the Corporation of Yougball,
are postponed, anti me not to be tried at the,pre-
sent Cork Assizes.

On Saturday last, the cattle fair at Istarbeth
iex-
hibited a laige show of all kinds *Of beasts, the
whole of Which met with a quick demand, and
went off at high prices.
On Tuesday last, the books, assessments, and
other papers relative to. the late Property Tax,
.from the commencement to the conclusion, were
collected together at Messrs. WILTON'S Office, in
Gloucester, tctehse Houseter,
and
ofb►
Commonsiirnt,conf.ormably to an order
i
Wurr Doc..;--A most destructive animal (sup-
posed of the mastiff species) has for a consider.
able time past infested the neighbourhood of Roe-
hampton, and committed great ravages among the
sheep and lambs of persons residing in and near
that place :—twenty belonging to Lord Ellenho-
rough, eleven of Sir Charles Price's, ten belong-
ing to Mr. Leader, and one of Mr. Jones's (the
Marshal of the King's Bench), have been destroy-
ed by this animal Within the last three weeks. His
attacks are always made in the night : he seizes
his victim by the throat, mangles it terribly in
that part, and sucks the blood ; it dues not ap-
pear that he eats any part of the flesh. The
farmers and labourers in the neighbourhood are
indefatigable in their endeavours to find out the
haunt of thc ferocious beast, but their efforts have
hitheao provcd unsuccessful.