The Sun.
London, England, 1829-12-15 00:00:00

SAM PATCH'S DEATH.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE ALBANY DAILY ADVERTISER.
Rochester, Nov. 13, 1829.
Sam Patch is no more ! He made his last leap
from a scaffold erected on the brink of the Falls, this
afternoon. The staging was elevated 25 feet. He
sprung suddenly from it, and descended about one.
third of the distance as handsome as he ever did,—
He then evidently began to droop, his arms were ex-
tended, and his legs separated ; arid in this condi-
tion lie struck the water, and sank for ever ! It was
a fearful leap, and fearfully has it terminated. The
prevailing opinion is, that he became lifeless ere he
reached the water. He had drank freely during the
morning, but was not apparently more overcome
than he was on Friday last. It was truly a solemn
scene, where so many thousands were witnesses to
an immolation which had its origin only in an effort
to satisfy the craving appetite of human curiosity.
Sam's last request, as 1 understand, was that the
funds collected should be sent to his mother, if his
adventure should terminate fatally. His body has
not yet been found. The heights of the Genesee
Falls, down which he jumped, is 100 feet. The
staging was 25 feet above the Falls; the distance
which he descended was, therefore, 125 feet.
(From the New York Morning Herald.)
SAM PATCH. —The body of this unfortunate and
deluded man has been found. It floated ashore, we
are informed, a few rods below the spot of the tra-
gic scene. The body is said to have been examined
by several surgeons, who reported the rupture of a
blood vessel. It was observed that he entered the
water in a sliding manner, with limbs extended,
contrary to his usual way, and that before setting
out he had taken an immoderate dose of ardent
spirits. Tkat he was a man of intemperate habits,
appears from the Lockport Gazette, of the 14th
inst., which says—" Sam Patch passed through this
village, a few days ago—drunk. Nothing extraor-
dinary was discovered in his countenance." Yet,
with such a character was the man capable of con-
grecrating together thousands of the populace within
the bounds of the corporation of an enlightened vil-
lage, to witness his presumption and death.
From New Orleans we hare Papers to the 28th
ult. The Lousiania Advertiser, of the 27th, con-
tains the following article from Tampico :
" The schooner Eclipse, of this port, is reported
to have been seen at sea, bottom up, with a hole cut
in her side. Two other vessels were also reported
bottom up, and lard and flour drifting from them.
" The brig Caroline, of Nantz, was upset and sunk
on the 10th of September, while lying in the river
Panuco, forty miles from Tampico, with a cargo
said to be worth 200,000 dollars, and the books of
several mercantile houses, which, together with the
vessel and cargo, were totally lost.
" We learn, by letters of a late date, from Mexico,
that the General Government has levied upon all
goods which entered the capital 25 per cent. on the
original import at Vera Cruz. The addition on
liquids is 37i per cent.—National Gazette.

NEw ORLEANS, OCT. 31.—Cotton.—Arrived since
Oct. 1, 1,661 odes; ditto same time last year, 10,498
ditto; ditto year before, 9,130 ditto.
" Export.—Since Oct. 1, 1,294 bales; same time last
year, 1,499 ditto; ditto year before, 9,130 ditto.
"Stock on hand yesterday, 5,884 bales; ditto earns time
last year, 13,364 ditto ; ditto year before, 12.145 ditto.
" Freight.—Nominal. Not a vessel loading for Liver-
pool.

_
" Excliange.—On London, 7 a 9 per cent. ; ditto
France, sf. 20c. a sf. Ssc.

STocirs.—" Louisiana State Bank, full shares, S-sths
paid, 8 per cent. pin. offered.—Bank of New Orleans
Stock, full shares, half shares, 6 per cent. pin.—Bank of
Louisiana, S per cent, offered.
PRICES OF STOCKS, Nor. 20. . . _

. -
Offered. Asked.
United States Sixes, lBl5 lOl% 101%
Ditt., ... Four and a Half 1831 lOO% 100%
Ditto
Canal Sizes'', 1827 lll 112
Ditto
Ohio Sixes lB5O lll% 113
Ditto Fives

We received this morning the following from
our Paris Correspondent :

" PARIS, DEC. 13.

" It has often occurred to me that the last will
of Napoleon, written in the prospect of death,
and after a long period of exile, would form a

theme of no small interest to a biographical
enquirer, since the legatees, who were thus dis-

tinguished by the most extraordinary man of his
age, must not only have been connected with
the testator during some period of his career,
but their zeal and fidelity, have se-
cur must, by
edthegood opinion of a keen and accurate
observer. Some notices of this kind have
reached me, which have not yet been submitted
to the public eye ; and, as they are calculated to
throw some light on the character of Napoleon
himself, by showing the motives which guided

him in the selection of his friends and depend-
ents, and the qualities which secured his perma-
nent good will, I may be induced, from time to
time, as opportunities occur, to give you an oc-
casional sketch of the description to which 1
have just alluded.
" General Hoggendorp was a Dutchman of
some eminence in his own country, where one
if not more of his brothers are still high in
office in the Ministry of the King of the Nether-
lands. His first interview with Napoleon was
after Louis Buonaparte had displeased his
brother by the assumption of certain airs of in-
dependence in his government of Holland, which
were not consistent with the views of the Em•
peror. It is known to have been Napoleon's
policy on such occasions, as that on which he
meditated the annexation of Holland to the
Empire, to make it appear as if the object ori-
ginated ir. the wish of the people, whom it was
his pleasure to transfer from one government to
another. He had accordingly directed that a
deputation should be appointed to wait upon him,
for the purpose of giving him the apology he
thought necessary for dethroning his brother Louis,
who had displeased him bywinking at infringements
on the part of his subjects against what Napo-
leon was pleased to call his continental system,
the object of which was to exclude the manu-
factures of England from every part of Europe,
directly or indirectly, under his controul. At
the head of this deputation was General Hog-
gendorp, who disappointed the Emperor by the
view he took of the separate interests of France
and Holland, and expressed himself strongly
against the annexation of the Low Countries to
the Imperial Government.

With ordinary men this opposition to an
object, which he had so much at heart, would
have created enmity and ill will. It was dif-
ferent with Napoleon, who relied perhaps on the
extraordinary power of fascination which he un-
doubtedly possessed to overcome his scruples,
and had the penetration to see that a man who
was bold enough to oppose his well known
wishes, for the purpose of promoting the true
interests of his country, was one in whose
fidelity he might safely confide. This
was accordingly the course which he pursued
with General Hoggendorp, who, though consi-
derably older than Napoleon, having begun his
military career in the service of Frederick the
Great, soon felt himself under the influence of
that master mind which then swayed the desti-
nies of Europe. Napoleon probably found that
Hoggendorp's education (lid not qualify him to
promote his views as a military man ; at least, it
appears, that although nominally appointed one
of the Emperor's Aides-de-camp, he was never
employed in actual service, but was often left in
the capacity of civil governor over the places
which had been conquered by the imperial
arms. On such occasions he was accus-
tomed to receive strict orders from the Em-
peror to watch over the proceedings of the
French Marshals, and see that they did not
commit plunder, or appropriate the spoils of the
towns which fell into their hands to their own
purposes ; and, from the firmness of Hoggen-
dorp's character, he was no doubt very well qua-
lified for such a task.

" To give you an idea of the means IN hich Na-
poleon employed to secure the affections of his
adherents, I may mention than Hoggendorp
was much afflicted with gout, and that while
in attendance on the Emperor, in his quality of
Aide-de-camp, his extreme sufferings were often
observed by Napoleon, who has frequently got up
in the middle of the night and sat down on his old
Aide-de-camp's bed-side, to comfort and console
him. On one occasion, in the heat of
an engagement, Napoleon on turning round
saw Hoggendorp on horseback, evidently writh-
ing in agony, and immediately sent an another
officer to him to say that he was permitted to fall
into the rear. From the optional terms in which
this order was given, General Hoggendorp
thought himself at liberty to remain in his
place among the officers of the. staff; but such
was the extraordinary coolness of Napoleon
that, in the midst of the anxieties of a day of
battle, lie found leisure to think of the private
feelings of those around him, and even to
choose his expressions in sending a second
message, which made it imperative on Hoggen- '
dorp to retire.

" Although he had evidently conceived an
attachment for his old Aid-de-camp, yet Napo-
leon did not except him from the operation of
that system which he applied indiscriminately
to all around him, and which was that no
one should be permitted to amass such
a fortune as to enable him to become
independent, or to separate himself from the
fortunes of his master. Soyez tranquille
pour ravenir' was a favourite advice from Na-
poleon to his dependants, and accordingly when
Hoggendorp found himself in the midst of roy-
alists, without friends, and without money, at
the period of the first restoration, he retired to
his native country ; but there too his reception
was not perfectly to his mind, so that on Napo-
leon's return from Elba he proceeded to Paris,
and offered to serve the Emperor in any
department which would not compromise
the duty which he owed to his native country.
Go then, and assume the government of Nantes,'
said Napoleon , and there, accordingly, General
Hoggendorp remained till tlfe lapse of the hun-
dred days, when he found himself still more
awkwardly situated than before, and resolved to
take shipping for Rio de Janeiro, where he
became acquainted with a friend of mine, to
whom he had carried letters of introduction from
Nantes, and from whom I have obtained the fol-
lowing particulars.
" Hoggendorp, although now far advanced in
years, still showed himself possessed of great
personal resources. He succeeded in purchasing,
although he had not the means of immediately
paying for, a small property a few miles from
Rio, on which there was a house, but scarcely
any furniture. He had brought a single attend-
ant with him from France, and the two together
engaged in a variety of undertakings for the pr-

dustry, the last of which was a
pose of supporting themselves by their.owa
process ;)i,
extracting the essential oil from the rind of 1111,
orange. Lo the meantime he had presented 11,'.e.
self at the court of Don John VI., and be'l
resel
tt
come a great personal favourite of the piio
Emperor Don Pedro, who was accustomed
ride out of an evening, without attendant'' .ti,
General Hoggendorp's little farm, to 0°;
with him on matters of great importance..
such interviews it was not a little extraordinat:i
to see the self possession with which die
General would receive the future Emperor, ins
chamber which had no other furniture °
rough oaken table, and a few wooden bad'',
ranged around the walls. The money t'ece',
sary for the speculations in which he had C':l
gaged, and which, as might have been esVete
proved uniformly unsuccessful, was advance
by the friend to whom I have alluded, who, l'Yf
ever, since the old man's death, has been roll':
bursed by his relations in Holland. 11l
death, as well as in his life, there was sometial;
extraordinary. The person, half friend, half (I°'
'nestle, who resided with him, came down 011
day to Rio, to announce that the General °
no more. My friend thought it was his OP
to wait on Don Pedro, and mention the circer'l
stance, when the Prince gave orders that the
General should be respectably interred at 1115
own expellee. The servant, however, on 11,i
return home was surprised to find that
master was still alive, having recovere
from a lethargic stupor into which he had pre'
viously fallen. In the mean time all the neces'
sary preparations had been made at Rio for to
interment ; and my friend, on going out next
morning, to superintend the details of the filtiv'
was in his turn surprised to find the Illi't3l:en
which had been commited, but which proved
be only a very short anticipation of the fact' e
as
he received the old man's blessing anti his l
sigh before setting out again for Rio. Had be
e
lived a very few days longer, he would haYi
had, to him the unspeakable satisfaction,
knowing that he had been remembered by
poleon in his last will,—an honour, undoubto
of more intrinsic value than the crowns ".I',
coronets which were lavished with such Pt°.l`ls
sion by this extraordinary man in the days of hi
power."

his resv
The Duke of CUMBERLAND left
deuce at Kew yesterday morning at ten n'cL'ck for
Jot
er-
ioyypau
at hie
ices
el grei:si
irri:NnVpei
eon dLsaoptr
CgPlaa:vrkee,maoonngtar:: visit
bdteoi
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to
bassador, the Princess Latrine, some of the Foreign
nisters and their Ladies, and a select parts'
lity and Gantry. Some of the party are expected to $
t3l
on a visit to his Royal Highness for two or three dal.'
1 ft
The Earl and Countess of VERuLtof -e:
their residence near St. Albans, Herta, on SundlY'
company with the Duke and Duchess of Gt.ouctsOs'
(who bad been staying for some dare on a visit t° ti,
Earl and Countess), and proceeded to the residence oil',
Marquis and Marchiones: of SALIIBURY, at Hatfield. '-
Dowager Marchioness of SALISBURY, the 110 n. Siltit.t.;
\VILLEBLET (daughters of Lord COWLEY), and a Pa- ia
of the Nobility and Gentry have arrived at Hatfield to
uJ
present at the annnual ball given by the 311irquii ed
of the :S*1)1-
Mar clrioness this evening. Other festivities are rapect

to take place.
The Earl of ABERDEEN had an intervlew
with the Duke of WELLINGTON yesterday at the Treaol•
The Duke of WELLINGTox visited the
Siamese youths yesterday, at the Egyptian.hall, and' fr?tti
f,
the number of his inquiries, was evidently interested
'al
them.
The king of DENMARK 110 been giving ge;
veral concerts : at one of them his MAJESTY Sod Pri!,
CHILIIITIAN presented Mr. Moscumrs, at the condo";
of his performance on the grand pianoforte, with aPletbi
did diamond ring and a gold snuff-box, expressing,, at
same time, their approbation of his performance la
gratifying terms.
mister, Leoulais M'L dyanaduz,
family
of ti
a At
hiser Elicticen
Esq., arrived
residence, Chandos-street, Cavendish-square, on SIT
American ;;
1.
ni
last, after a quick passage, in the packet ship Caingt
from New York.
The carpenters at the Adelphi are beginit,_A6
to tremble for their situations. The elephant obeefuo
some sails loosened on the stage a few mornings ago, W-o•
she quietly seized a hammer, and very deliberately Pro
ceeded to fasten them. This is a positive fact; 014,
think, evinces her extraordinary sagacity more doe'.
than her feats on the stage.—Sunday limes.
ult
The person convicted of an indecent, assB.o4
at the Westminster Sessions on Saturday last',„ol
sentenced to six months' imprisonment, was not al"-
Jonw HARRIS, as stated in our report, but Jour(' !iv°.
THE LORD RECTOR.—We are
glad to le—,#
that the Marquis of Learsnowrre has accepted the nett' e-
ship of our University, to which he was chosen by
a majority of the students. His Lordship will, of 070,..
visit this city at the time of installation ; and it is a°' iod
likely that the two celebrated poets, CsairesLL
Mooar, will accompany him.— Glasgow Free Pro*
A new singer has excited some sensation alit
Vienna, and it is said that she will probably 10,ak,...
ie
much noise in the musical world as SoarTaa.
about 18 years old, and is the daughter of Madams uli:e;
BAUM, the vocalist. The young lady in question bag ?-00
made a very successful debut, and attracts the difettaritiord
less by her beauty than by her singing. This is the th'o
or fourth lady who has been announced in Germs
_trill -
likely to replace SoNTAG, without fulfilling that eaP7O.
tion. The managers of the Theatres at Vienna coui
to use the greatest activity and exertions to supply Devteok
A new comic opera was lately brought out, called -tar, of
tiere de Montfermeil, taken from the French vaudei"e
that name, the music of which was composed by CoSati
Another opera, Der Vampyr, the
LINDTAINTES, which has been very popular in the Ili
towns of Germany, did not succeed at Vienna ; and bettor""
ballet, Gabrielle de Vern, net with scarcely a L;
reception. The revival, however, of an opera whi",',/e
played a few years ago, coder the title of the NOW; 00
Raul, taken from an anecdote relative to HATDS, and tad
which a vaudeville was founded at Paris, has ettrLif
large houses. The music of this piece is taken ett";io
from the works of that celebrated composer. Sci,,,o-
popular piece, the Manage d'lnclinadion, has ale° "-
well received by the public.
STATEMENT Or THE FRENCH JOURNAI".
ort
—We learn from a recent French Paper, Le Com?'lite
that there are now at Paris 152 Journals, literary, " of
tific, and religious, and 17 political—in all 169;
these Papers 151 are Constitutional Journals—or, icy)'
are called, Liberals. The others are more blonaro,.
l
in their spirit. The 151 Constitutional hive, it is stated''
197,000 subscribers, 1,500,000 readers, and prodaceo9'
income of 1,155,000 francs; the 18 others have 21„:0
subscribers, 192,000 readers, with an income of 43740.
Besides these Journals published in the capital, there d.
printed, it is calculated, in the provinces, 75, exclusiveof
Papers for advertisements and Government bulletin& 000-
the country Journals, 66 are Constitutional, with 861 of
subscribers, 1,400,000 readers, and produce an income
750,000 francs. The remaining nine are Itlonsrelliciti
and, with 13,000 subscribers, have 250,000 readerthl:o,
their income is about 314,000 francs, making the seb ti,..
periodical Press of France amount as follows :---C°_rl9ll,
tutianal Journal*, 217; subscribers, 283,000; re*::,ol
2,900,000 ; income, 1,805,000 francs. MonareZo;
Journals, 27 ; subscribers, 34,000; readers, 4401.
ineome, 751,000 francs. Making a total of 244 Jourti._,,,
317,000 subscribers, 3,342,000 readers, and a total
of 2,546,000 km*