The Sun. — 1801-10-08 (London, England)

PUBLIC OFFICE, BOW-STREP:  • YESTERDAY Mr.. .7osepb Wall; formerly Go-, vernor of Senegambia, who in the year 1784, was -charged with murder and felony, and for whose ap'.. .prehension a Proclamation was soon after that period issued by His Majesty's Privy Council, was brought in custody before' Mr.. FORD by M‘Manus, Revet, and Townsend, Bow-Street Officersi. ,who arrested him under authority of a warrant from the Secretary of State. This' transadion, respeding which we shall forbear to make any comment, 'took place while Mr. Wall was in his official capacity at Sene: gambia, occasioned,- as it was said, by a Mutiny of the Soldiers, .and in . consequence of which he was sent hOme under an arrest, but in his way to London escaped from the .King's Messengers who •• had him in custody, and went to the Continent, where, he, remained till some months ago.—On his eiamination before Mi. FORD, which however was very short, he concluded himself with the greatest propriety, said he was extremely willing to meet any charge that, might be alledgett against him, and that he had lately Written to Lord PELnitm on the" business, offering to surrender himself up whenever required ; And to prevent trouble, had left diretions at, his lodgings to be immediately, Sent for in case, any inquiry should be made after him, which indeed was the fad. When the Officers went in,search ofhim yesterday, •  Mr. FORD informed him he must rernain.in custody tilt the matter icould be fully investigated, and he was therefore committed to Newgate. . ,  •• A fatal accident was near happening-the- 'other day to Lady Lon ISA MANNERS and her two lovely daughters, in a boat in which they went on the water, in the Isle of Wig-ht : the wind sthiclenly rising when they were a few miles from the shore,:pla.ced them in the most imminent peril of being ,overwltelmed in a tremendous sea, A Pilot of West Cowes perceiving, from a glass, the danger of their situation,' put to sea in a larger vessel for their de.liverancei which he happily eaaed.  All the Civil Servants of the Company,' who may he hereafter appointed,on the establislune.nt f the Presidencyof Bengal, are to be attached to the College 'founded by Marquis \VELLFSLEY, for the first three years after their arrival in Bengal; and during that period- of time the prescribed studies in the College are to constitute their sole public duty.--.-Junior Civil Servants belonging to the Presidency' of Fort St. George or Bombay, are to be Admitted to the benefits of the Institution. "  In the new Constitution which ToussAtlvr is said to have framed for St. Domingo, there *is Clatise which reserves the rights of , all absent Proprietors to their property situated in the Colony; except those who are continued in the general list of French. Emigrants. It follows : " The Proprietors who are absent, whateier be 'the cause, shall retain their full right to the property -which belongs• to them, and situated in the Colony. In order tp obtain the removal of the seoue§trat.ion on thei.t eifeds, it will be sufficient to produce their titles ; and in :Idea of titles, supplementary acts, the form of which shall be defined by law. Those, however, shall be excepted who shall have been placed, or shall continue on the general list of French Emigrams. In that case their effects shall Continue'to be administered'as colonial, domains, till they have obtained their erasure,"