The Sun. — 1802-10-12 (London, England)

ROCHESTER, OCT. 11.  THE Mayor and Corporation of this City having lately unanimously voted the Freedom of this ancient Corporation to Commissioner HARTWELL of the Navy, it was this day presented to that Gentleman in a very distinguished manner. This mark of the respect and esteem of our truly respeetable Corporation is the more honourable to the objeEt of it, as it arises merely from the impression of gen. tlemanly and conciliating condutt while Commissioner HARTWELL was the Resident Commissioner of Chatham Dock-yard.  The Corporation of Armagh have voted the Freeaom of that City to Lord WILLIAM BEN 'i I .v L ',{ •  It appears by a late decision of the Courts in jilmaica, that the Consignees of produce in this C.e.,-,zry, in case of non-insurance, are considered as reponsible for every loss that may happen in consequence of fire. It is remarkable that, notwithstanding the large and increasing importations into this Country, the well-known attention of our Merchants, the peculiar exposure of produce to fire, the serious loss which was some time since sustained at Greenock, and still more recent and awful calamity at Liverpool, no general measure should have been adopted on this important sub. jea. A Russian Officer is said to have shot himself through the arm in the Emperor's gardens, at Pete-sburgh, and afterwards asserted that he had been wounded by an unknown hand, for the purpose of inducing the belief that a Conspiracy was on foot, the objeft of which he had been mistaken for, in orc er to obtain a sum of money, This curious bu. siness is undergoing a thorough investigation on the pa't of the Government. RQWLAND BURDQN, Esq. has made an ofEtr to se; the Tolls arising from Sunderland Bridge, the erection of which cost him 19,0031. and. to appropriate the whole sum raised by the sale, to other works of general utility. The Duke of RUTLAND declines going, to Paris till after the return of some of its present visitors, being wisely attentive to the old admonition that If Evil communication corrupts good MANNERs." The.,establishment of Rifle Corps is justly, con. si;tred as no small augmentation of the military sticlgth of the Kingdom a but there probably was tr:,er a time when the people in .everal parts of the c, 'nary had more reason to complain of being rifled. The excelleva Entertainment which the-Marquis TowNsHE:sn gave some time ago to the Norfolk Rangers, was with a view, no doubt, to make ihem look plump and smooth when escorting the 1 RINcES of WALES to Raittharil, A Morning Paper says, " Mr. PITT is a late riser." He war formerly in the habit of rising late, but when once he got aim?: his legs, he generally did more than any man in the Hope.  "the Subscription opened for the eredion of a Monument at Zurich, to the celebrated LAVATER not being sufficient, the Helvetic Government has subscribed an old Cannon, from the Arsenal, to furnish Bronze.  It it an illwind that blorwir nobody good," says an old proverb, which has been verified in the following instance M‘Ginnis, who was convited about Is years since of the murder of Mr. Hardy, hatter, in Newgate_street, and was pardoned on condition of transporting himself for life, died lately at the house of a Nightman in Gray's inn lane, where he had been immured ever since his liberation from prison, and to whom he bequeathed his property, amounting to about 12,0001. excerting sw', to some needy relatiols in Iceland.