The Sun.
London, England, 1816-07-10 00:00:00

INDIAN I IVI'LLLI ENCE.

CAI..rUTTA, JAN. 31.--4)n Stinday accounts
reached town stating the loss of the Duchess of
Wellington, which was totally destroyed by fife on
Saturday evening in Sauger-roads.
The origin of this sad accident is only a Matter
•
'Of suspicion. The fir burkt forth about ten
o'cloCk at night, and bUrtit with :such 'rapidity that
'the saltpetre cargo exploded in about ten minutes,
and the ship, being shattered and divided, sunk
Immediately. It is painful to relate that,the
two officers, two passengers', and many of the
erciV, perished in consinuence of the rapitf con-
flagration, which deprived them of Vie ordinary
chances of escape. The pilot, .Mr. Turner, and
the first and, third mates, were engaged in taking
off. the hatches, in the hope of extinguishing the
Ore,i'vlieu the flames burst forth with such d►ead-
fnf they were compelled to desist, and in-
stantly (led. Mr. Heron, the 2d orate, tan towaraS
the headof the ship, and the pilot with the others
towards.the poop,. Ot which the pilot was seen
sh-tutting when the saltpetre in the after-part of
the vessel ei'plotled, anti destroyed All within the
vortex of its fiery gulph.- The fate of r. William
Anderson, and the distress of his brotll,..w. Mr.
J MVO Anderson, both passengers, proceeding to
Java, it is afflicting to contemplate: Mr. David
Anderson saw his brother after the fire had hnt'st
forth, and shook handt with hint while he was
strcuding in the Shrouds; whence in a few monrents
he. waq precipitated into the deep—never td rise:
again
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The following is ,a list of the officers end psi-
sengers, which we have mason tci believe is quite
correct :---

K) dd, commander, not on linarel ; Car. Nimrod, Ist
ofi'iccr, lost ; John Heroo, 2d ;Aker, saved; H. Volitudt, ad
officer, .ost ; David Anderson, pits4eniter, &deed ;
Marion. ditto, lost; J. It. Macdonald. ditto, not Int hoard;
John Kidd, a child, the nephew of the captain, lost; T.
Hodges, surgeon, saved.
Some the. crew belonging to the Duchess of
Wellington have. been apprehended, and are de-
tained nu suspicion of having set the vessel on
tire. li.t most easel, where ships are burnt in
this river, there has been reasoll to believe that
the La cans (who receive impress money in ad-
vilnre for several months) have been instrumental
in their destruction. %lie have lately scot an ex,.
celleut plart, which is now under consideration,
whereby the Lascars may ,be protected trout the
illignitous system df extortion so long practised
Yet Calcutta, and the owners of
,vessels instated
against the frequent chance Of loss by fire, as it
providefii gist in all'cuses when ships are burnt,
the mitiveisemilen belonging to tliem shall be de.
tained to complete their stipulated term 9f service
sit some other manner.

110,,%te5,/,. Nov. 18.—Accounts have readied
the,Presidelmy from Ceylon of a mutiny on board
the brig S4lly and Mary, Captain Duncan, from
Calcutta, bound to the Mauritius. The muti...
niers, it scents, 'made a desperate ettack•upon
the Officemarnt passengers, during which both
the CNlrtaili and Lieutenant Robinson, of the 41th
Ceylon: regiment, Were dangerously wounded;
thty were, however, repoliicat ; when the
leader, a Malay, jumped overboard, p owl the
others were secured ;, the villoin is supposed to
hove reached the shore near Butticaloa, where we
trust he will he apprehended, and with his win-
panions in iniquity sullert he just punishment of the
law for bC) 1112i8011S 8 crime. consequence of
the mutiny, the Captain was, obliged to pat into
incomelee, • ••
nostaav, Ditc: 2.—Aecounts reached the Pre-
sidency in the course of the tveck, that. an un-
pit asiint disturbance had token phiee in the .bat-
tolion of the 84th regiment' stationed at Bongo-.
lote: some discontent bad been Excited, as we
are informed, amongst the soldiers in consequence
itif n regulation relative tot he supply of Spirits to
them, which they did not like. The disconten(t
were, however, speedily quelled, and two or three
of the ptincipnl persons i:Opeerned in tomenting
them,luive, we hear, been tried by courts-mar-
tial, ami.sentenced to death ; and the battalion
has'been promptly restored to its former state of
tranquillity and pod discipTine•

'(!'rata the, Porth-okOnntpe, Feh. 170
nylciters ft 018 Olt not thwarrf,' we learn that at
force, tinder tire comniont of Colonel East, 'had
entered the province 'of Catch,' for the purpose
stated in the foclamation which lately appeared
in the .Ccro jet, and bail tttlien Artjar, situate about
Wn titarchei from Lihonj, the capital of Catch,
to which place, we understand, the force was to
.04auce. Jt wins Intended to love moved directly
to the capital, hut the enemy having 'odd recourse
to the dilLholicai expedient of poisoning the wells
.10h1 tanks situate in the route, Colonel East
diretned it prudent to secure A njar, which stlrren•
119* after a breach had been effected hy'llte bat
teries, Which played on the tort from tmAits the
.ntornitig Oil two in the evening. Every'tireasnee„
.10d been adopted to warn the Chieftains ot.Chteh
against the c,ousetwencit ot adopting a system Of
de stroction .not jtisti6ed by the law of .nationt.---
The villageis, much to their communi-
cated the circumstance to our oflieerli, and' the
tank having been starched, hags of arsenic were
ionnd, which had been thrown into them to
roison the water, Cornet De Laaer, of his
Majesty's 17th Dragoons, we 'are contented to
bear, has lost his right arm by a shot froM the
(tot: We haVe not heard of any other casualty.
flowasv, Feu. treaty .4)f alliance,- we
heat, has been concluded...with the state of Catch,
t he,eftects, of which cannOt fail of proving benc•
ficial; to that country, and egnally so to its neigh-
botas• division of Colony! East's has been
tlctached:, under the command of Lient.-.Colonel
Bar-clay; 'to IVagur, fin' the purpose of redriclng
that uncivilized province to the authority
.of the
800 of Cmch, iisiegitintate Sovereign, and of
de troyin rll the fastnesses which affprd protec-
tion to toe banditti, whose depredations have
pwred so ile,istruc five to the territories of the Guy-
ca war and the Nish wa. We hear that the fort-
unconditionally
ros of Kaulialtote has already
surrendered to the government of Catch, and that
its fortifications have been razed to their foun-
dation,

1J Aklt INI;IgiAJIiii:',NIL .

• .CO KIN('S fIESCi, J LILY, S.

iIREACir

Nv do ri%Viir U. 6'BORGIC

This was au action tor 'damages for the breach
Of a protoise of inarriage. The plaintiff is the wi-
dow of a person formerly, engaged in the business
of a barge-builder, and, according to the state-
ment of the ArroatiitY-GRNiiItVL, is of about,the
age of 40. After the.death of her lnsband, hay-
ing 'a family to support, without alit' large means
of doing so, she was recommended by her eriends
to take a bootie in a 'respectable situation 'fOr the

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reception of persons of character as boarders; and
she accordingly established herself in Mahle-
don•place, Barton-crescent. She •became ac-
quainted %rith the defeudent, the inspector Of
a public institution, and
,a pan of some pro•
petty, about nine years ago, when be betanie
an inmate of her house. The defendant bad re-
sided constantly in the plaintiff's house front that
period until within thess. two years, ''lieu he
ceased to be a regular hoarder, 'but continued a
very frequent visitor, mixing with the society of
the house, and compensating the plaintiff by pre.
scuts of wine, Ste. lie thus had the fullest op.
portunity of becoming acquainted with the cha-
racter and 'temper of Mrs. %Wootton, and stveral
years since Made her an offer of marriage, which
was accepted. The day was.fiXed,, the defendant
even took measure of the boys finger for the ritig,
and CirciiiiistanceS seemed to promise a speedy'
and 'a happy union, About this period- Mrs.
Wootton .had been disposed to quit her house ;
hut khe forbore; on the representation of ,the
defendant, who pointed out to her many
advantages that would result to her es MIA iShillellt
when he should l*come the master of, it. Nut
long after the declaration of Mr. Peace, it fl -
;eated to Mrs. %Wootton that his spirits fell, and
that he became gloomy and unhappy ; the Lady
inquired anxiously the cause of his uneasiness,
end the defendant at last confessed he had form-
ed an unhappy ilikcit • connection with 'a young
woman of bud character. Mrs. Wootton was not
disposed to. reproach' Mr. Peace too' Severely for 1
an offence that,he made appear almost uninten-
tional, and she recommended . that he should
make an arrangement by which this female should
be allewed a guinea a week for her support.—
She was afterwards informed by Mr.. Peace,
that be had broken off the criminal connemon,
'and that be was now ready to fulfil the solemn en-
:gugement into which he had entered. It seemed
almost incredible, but the. fact n as; that the de-
fendant was all along cruelly insulting- and tor-
turing the feelinga of this Lady ; for he had never
broken off the illicit connexion he had formed,.
and which be pretended so deeply to lament, but
had continued it down to the moment of
The Learned Counsel did not contend that this
kas a case which 'required vindictivellarnages,
but the plaintiff 'merited a compensation for,
wilful' disappointment of her sober arid rational
'hopes. The .promise of marriage by the (Wen-
Aant he should be able to prove from the band-
writing of the defendant, who, in she mouth of
October, had .written'to the plaintiff iu the,.1.01-
lowing terms,:—.
' " Dearest Mittlia,—l hare duly received yours-, and lam ,
deeply sensible of the obierrai ions therein ;nude ; be assurt.d
that lain not mmlll.ll ul of what you ,ay, and I only wish I o (iod
that the business was settled : my sentiments are strictly Im-
nourableand just towards you, and that high ,ense of ptopriety
only bus prevented me from calling in the situation in which
lam placed. Imu most anxions to see you, and .1 hove been
mute than once on the read for that purpose, but my nerves
wire so distresied that I eould proeeed. What a pity lever
left yptir comfortable fireside! 1 bcg nay kind retnembranees
to your son and daughter; and believe me to remain, uly.
Clearest Itlurthu, your mostassoredly, “Getitmitte, .
.& G. PBACV.;."
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In November. last he had thus expressed

" dearest Riad Int—On Sunday; being in Totir neigh-
bourhood, I loci AI r, --, and I' le,trot ffplG 111111 OUT, yon
were labouring. tinder great distre,4 of mind on my aeemint
in Met, that ytpi were absolutely miserable. Let me.eut rent
pin not to give way to final low spirits, and 'to rest lolly sa-
tisfied of lily homturable int entiotts.to become your
said that in a short time, I reumitr, my dearest Martha,
CEO. 1.*F.M.,E."

The Attorney-General then called Mr.,Thomas
Goodlife,whotleposed, that lie was acquainted with
the plaindfr, in whose house he had boarded'; the
defendant had also Imarded.there; and paid his
addresses to Mrs. Wontton iti the way of ar-
riage the witness lonic so 'trout the defendant
himself about a year ago, but no time for the wed-
ding was meutioned. The defendant ceased u be
&regular hoarder in the house. of the plaintiff
about two ,years since ; hut he had continued his
visits very .constantly after a short intertnptiOn.:
fOr the last two months, however, he had ,ticen:
wholly absent.
In this stage of the mist, in constlitence,of a
proposal by the Attorney-(general, to Mr. Scar-
lett, who was on the other, side, it was agreed
that a verdict should be taken tor the plaintiO%-:-.
Damages, 150 E;