The Sun.
London, England, 1816-08-02 00:00:00

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Le of dilr

ictio Colonies.

;It rvAts on!y %Teti s6'eral distil gui3ltrtl.
Officers, uppointeil to .execute this 'service; sailed
r •
scorn our cotists,,and as their trestinationi!arbeen
steteil for tifonths past, the eipeditions
following after them the stores hecessary for
the t orks they Are .appointed to superintend,
ought surely to ticention no surpiize, nor afford
ground for the speculation that aoother war is at
It

We shall, however, greatly rejoice to learn

that all the preservatory s:eps which Government
think requisite for our safety and defence in that
quarter have been carried 'into effect, and upon a
wand scale.

The following extract of a letter, under date
the 4th of March, front a most respectable Of&
cer on the Staff of the Marines, will put our
Readers in possession of the melancholy result of
a recent settlement, established in the end of the
last year, by orders of Governor FAactukfAß, in
the North-west part of the Island of Madagascar :
" The pilot boat returned from Madagascar last night with
the melancholy news of all our establishment at the new set-
tlement on that Island having been murdered by the natives,
and poor old‘BurCh Is amongst the sulTerers.L-What I has e
learnt of tlie particulars are ns follows:—It seems one of the
Chiefs was displeased s►t not having a present made him, and ,
demanded apiece of blue cloth, which Mr. U. refused hie► ;
the coniequence was, words ensued, and Mr. B. struck the
Chief, upon which a Mr. Butler, one of the Europeans, was
Eliot upon the spot ; howuver, it was settled for that night
by some of the other Chiefs interfering, and the next morn•
,lag the English were sent for to attend a Committee of
- • Chiefs, that the business might he amicably settled ; in►nte-
diately upon their er,tering the place in which, they were as-
sembled, unarmed, they shot Mr. Blemnan. The, others of
• course ran for it; however, they all fell, excepting the gar-
dener, Nv.ho escaped into the water; and the boat picked him
111), hut the poor fellow died four ttlys before the arrival of
the vessel here.','

To-day we insert a Police Report, giving an
account of the misdeeds and apprehension of ano-
ther of the Blood-Traders, whose practices will,
We trust; be all brought to light. The following
remarks front the 89th Number of GOLD3MITH'S
:Citizen the World, seem very applicable to the
boyvkil circumstances of these Conspiracies:—

" Soine nights ago (says my friend), sitting alone by my
are, I happened to look into an account of the detection of a
sort of men called the thief-takers.. I read over the many
iideous cruelties of those haters of., mankind, of their pre-
tended friendship to wretches they meant to betray, of their
sending men out to rob, and then hanging them. I could
riot avoid sometimes interrupting the .narrative, by crying
:eat, Yet these are men ! I went on, I:was informed that
they had fired by this practice t.everal years, and bad been
tin-idled by the price•of blood, and yet, cried I, I have been
'el!: into this wurld, and on desiied is call Vim men*
,lirsithers / I *read that. the rely man who led the 'condemned
.wretch to the gallows, was he who falsely swore his life away;
surf yeti euntiuued I, that perjurer harl,last such a taw, such
such hands, and such eyes as Newton. I. at last came to
the Ittemint of the v..retch that was searched after robbing ,one
of thethief-takers of half-a.crown. Those tlf the confederacy
knew th:t he had got, but that single balGernwit in the
World ialter a long search iberefore, %Web they knew would
te fruitless, and taking from him the half-croWn, which they
14lit'sv was all he had, one of the gang compassionately ceied
614-11‘qa,,cer mature. let him keep, all the rest he has
got, it Will do hint service iniNewghle, til4ere we are alatling
This was an instance of such complicated guilt and
ilypnerisy, thiit I threw down the hook in au ageny of rage,
and began to think with
,malice of all the human kind,"

the Essex Pedestrian, this morning
accomplished Ids 846 tnile,in good spirits.

Mr. BitouGuAsl is gone alone to Aix, in Sit.
(-Iy, to talile the, waters for his healtli..,--So says
the Morning Papers ; and we are quite astonish.
etl that a Patriot, so fond of leading. in the House
qeonmunts, should be so changed, by foreign
Itayebi as to be able to leave off Leading-strings,
end Go Mane.
i,
isParches Were received yesterday from St.
!elena, brought, by the Bucephalus frigate : she
141" from thence on :the 19;11 of June ; there is
liuthing new from Sirliuoson Lowe.
A .rurnour reached town yesterday front Ame-
Ilea, that an .Ambassador bail been sent to Spain,
to demand the. 'cession to America of the West
rhnitlas, in lieu -of certain claims which America •
.laud tipon Spaht., -The Americans arriving in this
-tummy say, that a war with Spain. is much de-
sired, and one with England would not be avoided.
,The Doke of WBILINOTON, it is repollol, re-
turni to France on Tuesday next. This Norma-
-14)o lie gore to a deputat ;on from the Corporation
0014th, who waited`on him on Tuesday at Chel-
t6Antiti with an invitation to honour the city
'kith his company to dinner. The Duke regretted
laic .to accept it on account of his leaving
e
'elieubam. yesterday, and England on the 6th
instant.
Yrsterday the PRINCE'REGENT rode to
visited Lady MACAUTNEV, and dined with
Ater Ladyship.
16The Duke of yolik is expected to leave town
fin. Brighton, where his Royal Highness
eXpecied to reside for some weeks, but will be
c,c,4,44'ha11y London Upon business.
c.,l!'e Duke of ORLEANS has.tokett a house at
.....uetteutium for five weeks ; the nutie's
ilidettloiSelle's health requiring it. The Duke
n
1!1_41. family vt. di in consequence, leave town to.
"prrow tor Cheltenham.
.01,,14etters of the 18th of July from Mndrid state,
sit Xing FenniNAl6 had quitted the capital for
is.._!urt tune, and. that his brother CARLOS hang"4 left in cure of the Government until his
return.

L,,4" Eveil;ng states, that it is inteiv!ed to
birrack