The Sun.
London, England, 1811-11-28 00:00:00

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dliturhances 'a 'few yoars sitter ,
in China, Whir Whine assumed the tiirm iit an active
telethon. It is SUpposed that' what risetu
them mts the expokion 'of the ancient
dynasty of ;dings, which happened ahniit the mid-
dle of the 17th century nod made .%%-ny for• the
fatuity of,the 'ray 'Wing. It is th,tight-that
a:Prince of the House' of 11Iings is the Secret'agita-:
'JO of the teoubles..,* • '
Since the unsuccessful expedition which:Was
undertaken against the rebtls in 1805, they !ive ac-
ydred on accession. of strength and boldness.
Recent intelligence snakes the. number 'of vessels
they have armed amount to 4000, which prevents
the. Chinese Government sending a fleet against:
them. . • • .
The largest of these vessels is of 20J tons 4nr-
then,' manoed by from two to three houdred„hands,
and carries from' 12 to :Zo guns. The boats are
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,generally about 30 tons, and .11 tve from 30 to 50,
hands. If they had a little military scicnce they
might easily make themselves masatns Of. Aticao,,
poisessinnof which would procure them great a&
vantages. As yet ti ey have not attempted an in-
cursion, into _the interior of China, although they
have many partisans there bnt they are in force' in
the island Of flAynau, and on a gteat part of the
coast, ot, Formosa, as. well as in a part ot. Cochin
China and Tonga-tin. They • base nn head Chief-,
tain ; but those who command. different bodies
ad with the utmost union, which gi%es reason .to
suppose that Were is some central and hidden spring
of action. Letters, dated February-) 810, state, that
these pirates reached Canton, froMwhence they had

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been afterwards driven. . .
There 'is in China, and particularly in the Wes-
tern and S....nbern provinces, a certain Secret Asso.
'amino, formed nt the d,scontented of all ClaSSei ,Of
the people. Those who compose it are called Titian
Th6e 0116; that is to say, " Heavun and Earth unit-

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ed." The.y know each other hy-signs of conven-
tion, and they furni4h great assistance to the rebels;
and communicate to them any intelligence they
deem of importances,' it is even said, that the Ad-
miral, Tay Tok, was one of their number,' and that
it was by connivance. be perMitted one of their flo-
tillas to escape. • I
Another similar Associatidn exists in the Northern
part of China, which is/called the P. lin-Kin, thrtt is,
" Enemy of strange Religions." Another cause of
their-faelinus union is 'discontent with the Govern-
ment, and the hatred they bear the reigning family,
which is descended from the Mantchoux.

'This information, with respell_ to secret associ,
atious in China, was imPared in ti3os; in the
tower 6r Glissee, on the .not thorn coast of the
island of Java,: by ,a person named Ant Tito Ko,
Chief of:the Chinese in that country, to M. 8e00,:
vault, the naturalist 'attached to the expedition to
the Austral lands: It 'supports what has beon'stated
by M. KrUsenstern, Captain of a vessel in the set-,
vice of a Russia, in his voyage round the world.
" For these 2b years past, there has existed in
China an Assnciati,in, known hohe nairte•of Titian
Thee (Atli, the liter a signification of which words is,
" Heaven and Earth united,'! and literate intended
to convey the notion, that no the Heaven and F irth
font') only a common whole, submitted to the s ime
11. vs of nature, so men'should have a common
and
.mutually assist each other.- The principles
of the Adociations are, equality 'among. men, the
obligation which the rich ale 'under to divide their
superfluity, anion the poor. members of the
Associwion acknowledge no legitimate authority,
they have signs. by which they knol one another;
and a ceremony of iniii,moo. The candidaie
is. Placed beneath two drawn skres crossed above
his head, and he swears to
.part- with life rather
than teyeal the secrets of the society, or become'
unfaithful to it. A few drops of blood ate taken
from' him, as well as from itte I,elson who receives•
his oath. This blood- is tinted in a. cup' of lea, of
which each person drinks. .
'I he principles of the socieq, Thian Th6e
anarchical, destructive of all happli,.:iS and Will-
quility, public anti private,' and 'resembling so 'much
those which sq lung waled France, appeared to
have been brought itOrn Europe to china tot it was
a person of Canton, pained Thitan ThCe, i.eho
conceived the design of the association, and in that
-town it had its

TheGirzette of Tuesday contained advertisements,
signed by, Mr. Secretary Ryder, otferiesg• 4vreward
for the diKovety Of tire person ur per4orr-who, ma-
liclonsly set fre, on the 611 r inst. to a barn belong-
ing to WilliAmMitford, Brig. ,of in, the
'comity of &asset, whereby about 70 'quarters.„ot On-
thradird barley, together with •a- hay-stack, were
consutned, and also fur the discovery of the person'
persons Who mal,cionsly 314 on fire, among other
phreeS, in the parish of Farling; in the county of
Suftult., the vriblic.-house called the SA'alt, oft the
14th. of. July last, and the premises of
in the sante parish, on the 18th of- September ; and
also seven dwelling-houses and a ifable:
The adjoutned Admiralty' SeiSion, for the trial of
Captain Steveroon,.cnn charge of a rape on a Lady,
his passenger, will be held on Friddy,tiext, at Justice.
Hall, in the Old .13ailey.

``..On Saturday last, as the daughter of Mr. inskip,
schoolmaster, pt Lewes; a tine young Oil, about 14,
years of age, was standing before the .fire, tier
clothes; by some accident, caught the flame, and
were presemly in a blitz-, ; in thin situation, being
under great, alarm, 'she• ran up stairs to her mother,
,but; on perceiving.there was no water at hand, she
returned, and made the best of ber way into the
garden, to which sheAvas iotlo << ed by Mrs.lnskip,
who by mevs.of a pail of water, extinguished the
fiameslhat had by thi: time nearly enveloped; and
dreadfully blunt her daughter ; she is Jikelr to re-
cover: Under accidents of this kind, le tualekshould
always havel he presence ebf mind to prostrate them-
selves on the floor, in %bleb situation they will be
expnsed to tuft little injury. . -

Some few - Wove one of Mr. Gray ling's
children, in the-Cliffe, near .I..ewes, was twice at=
tacked, in its tied, by rat, the moksof whose fe'.
rocity the child still 'exhini.,s on one of its al
Ext.ieme hunger, probbly, or4ed- the.animal-tO
chiringad of rapacity.