The Sun.
London, England, 1818-08-27 00:00:00

CORONER'S INQUEST.

CASE OF STARVATION.
On Tuesday an Inquisition was held in the
Board-room of Clerkenwell Workhouse, in Cop.
pice-row, before THOMAS STIRLING, Esq. one of
the Coroners for the County of Middlesex, to
make enquiry into the cause of the death of Jo-
seph Wells, aged 30 years, then and there lying
dead.

It appeared from the evidence of the different
witnesses examined, that the deceased had been
observed, for about a fortnight before his death,
mostly lying amongst the old wooden water-pipes
in Spa-fields ; his wretched and deplorable sitna.
(ion at length attracted the notice of some humane
passenger, who hid observed him lying in the
same situation for some considerable time, and,
on going to him and making enquiry, found he
had not broke his fast for three days; he was
then so very feeble for want of food, and being
exposed to the weather, that be was unable to
move, and with difficulty speak.
Information being given to the parish beadle,
he was carefully removed to the workhouse,
where he was washed and cleaned from the long
accumulation of filth on his flesh, then put into a
good bed, and Mr. Spencer, of Islington-road,
surgeon, sent for, who prescribed every necessary
medicine, and every thing done for his comfort
that could possibly be. All the information that
could be obtained from him was his name anti
age, and that he had been a sailor, and fought
and bled for his country. Nature being too far
exhausted, he lingered until Monday morning,
when he expired. From Mr. Spencer's evidence,
be gave as his opinion that he died from want.—
By every enquiry it could not be ascertained that
any blame was attached in the slightest degree to
the parish.
The Jury, after the strictest examination of the
different witnesses, returned a verdict, that he
" Died from starvation or want."

This most unexampled weather has ripened
the crops very quickly, and now in the low,
lands of this country the harvest is general.—*
The grain of every kind is of the choicest quality,
and exceedingly abundant. Crops disposed of
on the field, allowing for the fall in the markets,
have brought rather high prices. A field of
creeping wheat on Newark Hill, sold publicly
this week, brought from 151. to 191. an acre.--
(Glasgow Paper.)

Mit. ARM' IsIINOTT.

Thelottottilig Letters written by this-uhforth•
nate Gentleman appeared in the Aiuericau

Pdj)ers

A. ARBUTHNOTT TO TEIF, COSINIANDING OVFICER AT

oRT c\ISI•S

" Oketloktie River, March 3, 1317.

is Tile head Chiefs ;eves( I will intiiiire ut you
why American settlers are de•eer ding the Chata-
bonchie, dutein4 the poor Indian front his habi-
tation, aiol tak,n-z possession .1-4 his home and cul-
tivated helds. \Vithcut I can claim
nothing trom you ; horoane and phi'lan-
'thropic lttiuciple , toe, hope the sante
tn iii it,fbience von ; and it such is really the case,
and that the line mat ktd out by the treaty of
peace between GI eat Britain and the United States,
respecting the Indian has been irtringed
'by any of the citizens of the latter, you will
pt eseot to them their iatpropereontinet, anti pre-
vent its continuance.

" I hate in niy possession a lettet.., received from
the Governor NeA, novidence, addressed to
by his Britamile Majesty's Chief Secret.'' y'
'State, informing hlin ot orders given to the British
Ambassador rit kVashingt on, to watch over the in-
terests of the faction 'notions, and see their rights
are fanhpilly attended to alibi protected, agree-
ably to the treaty of peace made betwetn the
British and the Allit/ricanS.

" I am in kopeg that ere this ane is arrived
at New Providence a person from Great
%vith-authority to act as agcnt for the Indian na-
tions ; and it so, it will devolve onon hilt% to see
that the boundary lines, as nottked out by the
treaty, are not intringed."

COPY OF A TALK SENT FROM THE DRITISH AGENT
IN EAsT FLORIDA TO THE ,tIG WARRIOR, HEAD

OF CHEEK NATIOS F INDIANS -

When the English made pe(tee with the Anted-
cans,they included the wl,ole of the Indian nations,
viz. Creek, Choctaw, ChickSaW, and Cherokee.
Those nations were guaranteed in the quiet pus-
sest•iou of their lands. and the Americans engaged
to give up such lands of the Indians 'as they had
taken possession of during the war. -
if they have not done so, or it they have been
making further encroachments, the chiefs have
only to represent their complaints and the ag-
gressions of the Americans to the Governor of
New Providence. who will forward them to Ettg.
land, or get 11:em conveyed the British Minis-
ter at Washington, who has orders from the King
of England to see that the rights of the nations
above mentioned are protected, and the stipula-
tions contained in the trewy, in their favour, are
faithfully carried into execution.

The Americans have no wish to go to war ;
they will not, therefore, do any thing contrary to
the treaty, and what encroachments have been
made must be without the knowledge of the Chief
of the American Government ; and so soon as he
is informed thereof by the British Minister at
NVashington, he will order the American people
who have taken possession of Indian lauds to draw
I),tok to their own possessions.
The Indian nations are all one great family
they possess lands their great forefathers hamied
down to them, and they ougitt to band them
down entire to their children, If they sell their
land, what do they receive for it ? Nothing that
will last. It is wasted away in a few years.—
Whether, therefore, they sell or give it away,
they arc robbing their children of the inheritance
they had a right to expect. As a great Family
they ought to live as such with each other; let
the four nations join in bonds of brotherly love ;
let thein smoke the pipe of peace ; let the culti-
vation of their lands be their chief ohject during
spring and summer, and hunting their diversion
during winter, and the produce of their labour
will be bought by good people, who will come and
deal with them when they know there is any
'thing to be purchased for goods or money.
.11 the AtthAcans or other nations live near
them, let them live in friendship with them, and
keep up a good understanding, but on no account
sell or give away any of their lands. I recom-
mend this as a friend of humanity and of good
'order.

A. ARBUTEINOTT.

Okolokne, March IT, •1817.

The head chiefs of the Upper Creek nation
have &sited me, Opnr:v, to get the straight for
them : what is written in the foregoing I believe
to be the true and straight talk received from an
Englishman who cart led two Deputies to New
Providence, and has returned with them to Oko-
lokne. I, Oponey. have been sent by you, the
head chiefs of the Upper Creek nation, to see the
Seminole Indians ; I have done so ; they live
,quietly and peaceably, and wish to do so, with
all their Red brethren in every part of the nu:ion.
Opoy Uatcho has desired me to see those things:
I have done so ; and see all quiet, and had the
talk I now send you, and shaken hands with the
friend who gave it me.
That the friend I hive met came over with
goods by desire of the chiefs of the lower tow,ns,
and is a true friend to the Indians. The vat ions
and untrue talks that you send nte front time to
time, must be mtde by some person, an enemy
to all us Red brethren, and ought not to be
listened to ; let me know who they are, and send
Inc an answer as soon as possible to the present
talk.

OPONEY, his >1 Mark.
NVritten by order of the aforesaid Oponey, the
Ilth March, 1817.

A. ARBUTHNOTT.
ARON MORN.

Witness,

TREASURES OF THE TIBER.---l\ machine has
recently been invented to drag the river 'Fiber,
from the Bridge Alone as far. as San Paolo, to te-
cover the precious objects which it is generally
thought are buried in its bed. Many people, are
persuaded that the golden candlesticks of Jerusa-
lem will he found ; however, should the pro-
ject of finding these objects (which, perhaps,
have not been thrown into the river) fail, great
hones are entertained of obtaining some saleable
irltitsities, although in a bad state: The design
cannot be carried into effect this year, on account
of the increase of its waters, which takes place
annually in Autumn.

AIANCIIESTER COTTON SPINNER:).

. .
To this Country, which depends SO much upon
the iimbackled efforts of industrious enterprise,
and particularly in the town where this paper is
published, the \spirit of combination which has
prevailed for so many weeks is of no little in-
terest. It is therefore no wonder that the sub-
ject should take the lead of every thing else
under the local bead. " Ate the Spinners gone
in has been a question every Monday morning
for the last six weeks. Last week, the answer Was
in the affirmative, as far as regarded one of tilt
many cotton-mills of Manchester and its vici-
nity. However, the surprise abated, When it was
understood that his interest in tlrtt mill would
cease in a few months, by the termination of a
lease ; so that it did not appear that he hail the
same personal interest to resist the' dictatorial prin-
ciples of the combination, as those proprietors
whose property in the vast monuments of the ap-
plication of .scieuce to the purposes of art, ren-
ders an opposition to the insubordinate spirit of
dictation of such vital co:isequence to themselves,
intik idually, as well as to tt►e continued welfa►re
and future interests of the nation.

A resistance to the demands of the working
spinners is therefore still persevered in by (licit
employers, on whom the eye of the s king-
dom is now fixed, since they are to determine the
qnestion whether the envied pre-eminence of this
country, as the seat of manufactures, shall he sus-
tained, or be transplanted to the Coniinent,
where the wages of workmen are low indeed,
and where nothing hot Biitish capital is want-
ing to raise the fabric ? This is not a question
iotetesting only to the proprietors of spinning
factories, hut to the whole nation. 'fie de-
mood of the spinners, individually, for an increase
of payment for their labours, would be of little
interest out of their own houses, *lid those of their
enployers ; but the principle they act upon is not
only of general interest, but calls for resistance,
since it strikes at the root of that freedom of com-
inert c which tempts men of fortune to vest capital
in business, and bullish employment to so mapy
thousands of their fellow-creatures, who have ii
article but their industry to bring into the national
market, in exchange for the comforts they have Ili,
other weans to attain.

But the destructive principle is not confined to
the spinners; its poison is Homing in the vein•
of very many of the working classes enea,...ed io
other occupations. It has been ascertained, that
a par: of the funds of m►tny Friendly Societies,
whicl► by law arc appropriated to the use of sick
and infirm members, or for providing decently for
the last sad and melancholy duties owing to mor-
tality, have been made use of in support of v,,hin-
tary idleness and secret combination ; a mal-ap-
propriation, for which the members may have to
answer individually, and which may have the ef-
fect of ultimately removing the protection of the
law from such Societies, which are so Well calcu-
lated to render very much real and substantial
benefit, in times of unavoidable calamity, brit
which the Spirit we complai❑ of has perverted to
evil.

By this demoralizing destructive spirit was a
meeting organized and conducted in this town
(as it appears) on Wednesday last, calling itself
" A General Meeting of Trades," when a set of
resolutions were entered into, which have for
their tendency the fullest com,roni 00 the part of
the employed over the property of their em-
ployers ; resolutions which in themselves prove
the danger which threatet►s the manufacturing and
mercantile interests of this country. We have
seen a copy of these resolutions, and they will bear
its out in hazarding an opinion, that Government
will now think it proper to interfere, since the
legislative authority is assumed by a self-created
power, arrogating to itself the right of manag,ing
the of airs of men of capital, and of keeping them
in subordination and obedience to its let %VS, Those
laws, however, are in themselves amenable to those
of the land, by which, we have no doubt, they
will be speedily examined.

The resolutions we have alluded to, furnish in
themselves a volume of intelligence. 'nit!y stand
in need of no comment : for ." he that rut's may
read." We trust they will not pass unnoticed
where the power to enforce respect to existing
laws is deposited; nor in that [louse (when it
meets), where it is a duty on the part of the
Members to watch with a jealous eye, and
firmly to resist ever y encroachment on liberty,i.vhe-
ther made by men in power ahusing the authority
with which they are invested, or by a com-
bination of the numerical strength of the many,
to seize upon the property of the few. 1n oppo-
sition to this principle, the laws have already be-
gun to act, and William Temple, Robert Nicholls,
Richard Fairbrother, Peter Wakefield, George
Bancroft, Charles Clarke, Thomas Berwick,
Henry Wild, and George Webb, Cotton Spinners,
from the neighbourhood of 'Manchester, were
committed, on Friday last, to Lancaster Castle,
under an indictment found at the present Assizes
against them, and several others, for a couTiracy
to raise their wages.

It► the mean time we are pleased to learn► that
the Master Spirners, and many of their confiden-
tial servants, have been sworn in special consta-
bles, in order to enable them the more effectually
to afford protection to such of the operative
spinners whose good sense may induce them to
leave the combination and return to their duty,
from which many of them have been kept by vio-
lence. Yesterday (Monday) several availed then►-
selves of this protection, and returned to their
employment, not a little happy, it is natural to
conclude, on once more resenting the sober
ha-
bits of industry.—Manchester Herold, Aug. 25.)

DISGRACEFUL OuTßAGs.—These few nights
past several respectable females have been grossly
maltreated by a set of idle and disorderly, boys,
who parade the Strand every evening after dark
for the purpose. The manner is, when !hey find
au unprotected female pass along, to pull brr
forcibly op a court and throw her clothes over
her head, and drag her along in a state of nudity.
On Tuesday night an elderly lady and a young
woman; residing in Deumark•passege, th"
used.