The Sun. — 1815-08-03 (London, England)

SUICIDE—A Tlemale servant, at .the Clayton Arms public-lionse, Icennington, pot a period to -leer existence, on Tuesday evening, by cutting 'throat with a razor. No previous circumstance had occurred, which gave the faMily any reason her tosuspeet the unhappy young woman's intentions. It is supposed, however, that her having beep deserted by Tyoung titan, who had for some time paid his addresses to her, led to the commission of the rash act.  toct 1,!,t  T 111? i3IIICZ:TO/7s,OyTli E-EAST r,tti  CO'IMIM(JNERS Oi F.AST INDIA AYVAllts. This aptYtAl, was first breought forTard on Friday last, was again entered tilion yesierdly l►efore the Lords tit his Majesty's 11inst Honour-able Privy council, I►tesent; . The Earl of Harrowby;, Lord President of the dditricil ; the Lord Chancellor, the Etri of Westmorland, the Earl of Mr11:grave, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Easter of the Rolls, the Hon. F. Robinson, &e. Chetwynd attended as Clerk of the Council.  On the part of the appellant Sir A. Piggott had been heard on the first tLy. On the present occasion  Sir S. ROMTLLY appeared before their -Lord-. ships, for the Directors of the East India Company, and stated, that this- wasa question between those. Director- and the Comtnissiouers of East India Affairs, irl consequence of the Commissioners having altered a dispatch, the main point of it turned on the nature of that dispatch. By the 33d of the King, which, though there were other Acts on the subject, chiefly regulated the conduct of the Commissioners and Directors with regard to each other, the latter were obliged to submitr to the Commissioners all dispatches to be for-. warded to India, and they had a right to alter. such dispatch, at least as' tar as related to theCivil or Military. Government, or the revenue, of the Company, but in. no otho.r case and the Act allowed the Directors, in case of not approving the alterations so made, either to adduce fresh reasons, in case they appeared inexpedient, or in case of their surpassing the jnrisdic:ion of the Commissioners, to appeal to.the King in Council. He must state to their Lordships, that the dispatch in question did not appear to him to be such a one as the Act, contemplated, when it allowed the al'', teration,,,and.in the whole course of the lase SO years the Commissioners had never interfered With .suet l a (Usu.:itch. It was a .fact no more or ICS's' than instructions as to the mode in which a pi ivate imlividoal who had burnished goods (certainly provisions for the army) should be It was clear by the 33d of the Icing, that th;-.. Commissioners could only alter such dispatches as related to Civil or Military Government or revenue of India, and the :ease for inquiry was whether the dispatch before their Lordships wes of this ,nature. •  The facts were these—Major Hatt was the Commissary hi grain to the army which went against. Seringapatam under General Harris; on the arrival of the General at the position of his artily he found it dreadfully deficient in provisions 4 there Were not eighteen,' days- consumption rice. It happened that Major Hart, the missary;4iad - a great: quantity of this article, landto supply the wants of the army, the Geocral ordered the whole to be carried to the inilitary account. _ This was done, but it was afterwards discovered that the Commissary was paid a salary; that he was especially forbidden to make any profit at hatever on the articles be furnished, and, therefore, for this transaction he was disinisSed the service ; but the Conipany willed him to be paid for the rice be had furnished. A question bad arisen whether the Connuissary ever had the rice—an inquiry had taken place, anti it turned on:, that he had really purchased it. The Company directed that lie should be paid the original cost of the rice, the expellees of its transport, &c. and eight per cent. on all the money he bad advanced upon it. The dispatch gave instruetiOns to this effect, hot the Board of Control did not think this sufficient, and they therefore altered the dispatch, and ordered the rice to be Bait} for• at the rate of a rupee per sieve, tt hich, though the Idwest price at the time, seas enormous., as the ordinary average price was no .Whore than a rupee for ten a fiEteen sierese After hearing Counsel at conshterable length, their Lordships directed the -mat ter.to he further heard on Saturday next; and the Counsel withdrew.  A MOST • MELANCHOLY Accrat:NT.—On- Tues- I day evening Mr. Byrum, a respectable tradesman, residing 'in Greeir-street, Leicester-square, went •out afloat six o'clock with his wife and child in a one-horse chaise, intending to take an airing. round Putney and Fulham, and .ta return again, in the evening but after he -passed'oVer Putney liri'dge, the horse startled at some, object,. and ran off in a most furious illntllter. Mr. B. attempt- • ed to stop him in vain, for untortune,tely the-reins broke, and he then became•qiiite unntAnageAl-e. The consequence was, that•the whole family were thrown out with such" violence,,that Mr. -13. only. survived the shock until yesterday morning, when he expired. His wile .and. child ;providentially , escaped with only some slight bruises, but they I. are inconsolable for his loss, On Tuesday ,night,- the, followinr.,melanchOly accident occurred at Tialifax; Yorkshire : it was, suspected that the corn-mills of Messrs. Hodgson had been -frequently robbed, and a guard w,as plated on the premises, when. unfortunately one of the persons who should have been .these', . coming too late, was suspected and fired upon by one 'of the guard. The ball entered, the ntiileir part of the left shoulder, and penetrated.,,itt A supposed, to the right side, and he.now I,