The Sun. — London, England, 1802-03-23 00:00:00

nlan COfl el ICI his eyes open, From any paltry C onsiderations of private interest ? How it could by means prove it, we must leave it to this sagacious Journalist to explain. Were we to talk to him k. about a sense of duty to the King, and devotion to the interests .of the Country, we are well aware that he would be wholly at a loss to understand us. But we have done with him. The Public will, we hope, pardon this Tribute which we have felt it our duty to pay to private Virtue and public Merit. In proportion as circumstances may ren der both the cne and the other more conspicuous, and as the Country may be profiting from both, will they be exposed to the venom and scurrility of those, who, like the Writer of the Paragraph on which we .have been commenting, are incapable of e stimating, and, perhaps, interested in depreciating, worth in a man, and talents in a Statesman.—lt is RI " Our province to set up as Panegyrists.—But we hope never to be found backward in endeavouring to expose misrepresentation, falsehood, and in re probating c alumny —especially when we feel that task to l,:e imposed,on us by a sense of duty to the Con )unity, th ,e RoYAt, FAmitr came to Town this day •cln 'I T /n(lsot, to I)uckingharn-house. The K/NO will hold a Levee to-morrow, for the °re ign Ambassadors ttid Nobleden, at S t . J ames 's ii . b alace. Ibis morning arrived a' Mail from New_York, tought to Falmouth by the Prima Ernest Packet, 40 29 days, In, our Paper of this day we have continued Ito g i ve several Items of Expenditute from the Report. oThe f the Committee•on the Civil List Establishment. following is the manner in which the Sums ad v4need to the three elder Princes are to be repaid : The 22 ,5001. advanced to the PRINCE of WALES i 3 to be rep a id b y a Debenture of the Commissioners for liquidatingr, His Roy loth o f Oetobe 806 : al Highness's Debts, on the Wuxi:TheS4,73il. advanced to His Royal Highness the Yo °Q°l, cluarterl ax, is to b e repaid by Instalm,nrs of Y 1 from the tst of January ; 1805 : The 1 A e buk m 7. 31 ° 1 . advanced to His ttoval Highness the 'of ,-„Eii;`'LARENoE, is to be repaid by in,tahnents th Per quarter, the first payment commencing e sth () f Jan. 1.803. I n cur S tatement yesterday, of the amount of 12 ' 41 °2 " due on the Ci v il Li st on t h e st h o f J anuary , , v, we mad e a m i sta k e— i t shoul d h ave b een It is renorted that 'Cleat.-General Sir TitomAs fe""Ey k lc.. B. ' has so much distinguished r , --a llstlf i n the West Indies, will be appo i nte d 6`47"10r of Gibraltar, in the room of General "AR A , d ecease d. Sir TriomAs is at present Li e in enant-Governor of that Garrison. sl . Patrick's day was celebrated with great mag. 6 11- gee:lee at Dublin Castle. There was a splendid Tai t • and supper, and all the dresses were of Irish nufaa The Anniversary Festival of St. ure. , atri ck, was observed with every token of respea and fetivity throughout the City of Dublin. Mr. HUNTER, jun. whose arrival from Amiens we entione;.l yesterday, came from that place to Lon,. and in. 22 hours, a journey of upwards of zoo the quickest certainly that ever was •, , ,erforme is sea pas sage from L'onfogne to Dover, was four hoar,s aitcl a half, a d i stance of about twenty leagues. ( t ie Dispatche s which Mr. Htrxratt brought were of the utmost Yesterday ti. Pan theen im portance. A Cabinet Council sat ing Messenge for four hours, and in the even. gets were dispatched to Amiens and Paris. :th_ the last accounts which have been received by e Merchants ia .ods, we are happy in the Ci ty f rom t h e L eewar d is to find, that they promise most Plentiful crops this summer. Our islands were in a tranquil state, though the evtrits which had occur ;ed in the neighbouring islands created a great sen zation, and awakened the Part of th e C ol O nial utmost vigilance on the Legislators. Yesterday a Court ofCommon Council was . held Lat Guildhall Cher ,at which were present, besides the oito MATGR, Mr. REoc i RDER, /Waal"' the iffs, and a considerable number of Commoners. The Inhabitants of Dow gate and Cateaton ttrtet, presented petitions for widening and improv. I ;2g the streets, which were read, and referred to the _ ‘; , ott unittee for l ett i ng t h e City LaQds, to examine t"d Its report their opinion thereon to the next Court. Lordshi p l a id b efore the Court (at the re _ aq ue st of M r. DAY) a book cont a i n ing copies of ,a rs ,) ace, submi t t e d t o the H ouse o f C ommons , t tle Seled Committee of both Houses of Par vf; en t, C which was rea d, an d re f erre d to th e P ro _ . o'—°(l ommittee to examine and report their Pinion thereon to the next Court. R°BEit-r SLADE, and WILL lAM GRI Cr, Esquires, Cwere appointed Governors of Christ's Hospital, in roo m o f ountil, JAMES G ASCOIGN , not i n C om mon d "" MIDFORD YOUNG, Esq. deceased ; : r and HAY D ON , G overnor o f S t . Th omas ' s ospital, t o the roo m of Mr. W ILLIAM R OB ERTS, 110 t in Common Council. Wednesday last an embarkation of 300 German recruits t oo k p l ace at the Cowe far Jamaica, oin the different Batt a li ons of thes 6oth Regiment. to j At Cane same time, Major-General HEWITT direaed a company of Dutch Artillerymen to proceed in IL\ Ceres Frigate fbr the same Island. e "re happy to hear that a discovery has been relative to the dating robbery committed on the Talto n Bank :—A letter has been received by Lrle, Proprietors of the Bank from Nottingham, 1g that tw o of the persons concerned in rubbery were at that place. Mr. PAUL, part -•her with Mr. EW BANK , of Mahon, immediately went. tover, and Wi t h proper assistance, on the in. _co'r.mation o f one of the persons concerned in the t ' b etY, secur e d two others ; tOurth, who is sup of osed to be i n t h e neighbourhood of the Bank, is yet taken, NAVAL NEWS. PORTSMOUTH, MAReft ARRIVED the Sivern, HACKWOOD, from Water ford ; Mary kin, ATHER, from France ; Union, BARRON, from Bristol. YARMOUTH, MARCH Z 2 ARRIVED the Prince of Wales Packet, HEARN, from Helvoetsluys, with Mails and Passengers. The Nancy, HADNEY, from Blackney, bound to Liverpool, is put in here, leaky. DOVER, MARCH 22. PASSED the Lord Thurlow East Indiaman, for the Downs, after landing the Purser, who proceeded immediately with the Dispatches for London. DEAL, MARCH 22. SAILED the Geengiana Packet for the River. The Lord Thurlow, from India, arrived this af ternoon in the Downs, and remains with the Royal Charlotte, Brunswick, and Glatton. HIGH COURT OF ADMIRALTY,Docroas COMMONS. FRIDAY, MARCH 19. This day the Right Hon. Sir WM. SCOTT pro ceeded to the adjudication of the following causes : Trela LAKE master. This was a queStion of salvage. It appeared this ship was laden with a cargo of Slaves, who rose upon :he Captain and crew, forced them out of the vessLi, and took possession thereof, in consequence of whici the Lord Nelson, another ship in the Slave trade, fired into the Trelawny, and after ,an engagement for the space of an hour and a half, succeeded in quelling the insurreetion, by which means the Cap tain and crew got possession of the ship again. The Court, in this case; said, the rescuing this ship in the manner stated, was a service of consi derable merit, and it being the firsi application of the kind it ever recollected, it should allow one tenth of the value of the ship, cargo; and freight to the salvors, and accordingly referred it to the Register and Merchants to ascertain the same. WSTRIBUTION OF PRIZE MONEY. To - the Concorde, tor the Vrow Hendrica, also for the Twe Gebroders, on board the said Ship at Portsmouth, on tho 25th inst. _ _ _ _ - 'La Constance, for the Spanish. vessels LI Duides and Nos-. tra Senora de Cabalonga, alias Ventura, will be paid on the 31st inst. at Portsmouth. The Constance, for the capture of the French privateer Jupiter, will be paid on Thursday, the 25th inst. at No. g, New Broad-street. The Leviathan, Swiftsurc, and Emerald, will be paid on their arrival, for the Spanish frigates Le Florentina and El Carmen, and a remittance from the West Indies, on account of the Lima ships, at No. 22, Arundel-street. The Imrnortalite, for the capture of La Constance, will he paid on her arrival at Plymouth. The Sirius, and Diligent hired armed cutter, for the cap. turc of the Dutch frigate Furie,'will be paid at Plymouth, on their arrival there. The Earl of ESSEX is eleaed High Steward of Leominster, in the room of the late Lord BATEMAN. On Thursday last Major FOLJAMBE, Command ant of the Worksop Volunteer Cavalry, gave a din ner to that Corps, and the Volunteer Infantry His Majesty's Ministers were pleased to disband some months ago; the evening was spent with the greatest conviviality, several appropriate toasts were drank, and 'the harmony of the company was much in creased by the exhilarated gratification of the wor thy President. We understand that a correspondence of a very curious, and no doubt entertaining nature will shortly be _laid before the Public, by a . Lady of Rank. Mrs. BILLTNGT'N again appeared last night at Covent-Garden Theatre in Clara in The Duenna, and drew a very respetable house. She sung with all her accustomed excellence. BRAHAM likewise was admirable in Carlos. The contradictory assertions that have been made by the Proprietors of Drury-Lane Theatre and the Conductor of t he Covent-Garden Oratorios, re specting their separate .rights upon Mrs. BILLING TON'S voice, have excited much surprize in the mu sical world, and have been thought inexplicable.— The difficulty however, we understand, is easily solved. Mrs. BILLINGTON signed articles with the Drury-Lane Proprietors, agreeing to perform in Operas or Oratorios, not aware that there was an agreement between the Proprietors of Covent- Garden Theatre with Mr. ASHLEY, precluding, for a certain term, the transfer of Oratorios to any other place. Mrs. BILLINGTON entered also into an agreement with Mr. ASHLEY to perform in his Oratorios. Hence both Parties have a right to as sert their claims upon Mrs. 1311, LANGTON ; and the only way for her to settle the matter is to perform at both Theatres on the same night, if Oratorios should actually be brought forward this Season at Drury-Lane. Many thousand persons were assembled near the whole of yesterday, in some of the streets in the City, to see a wager performed of a curious nature. A Porter engaged, for a bet of ten guineas, to carry twenty chests of oranges, weighing one cwt. each (one at time), from Botolph-lane to Spitalfields Market, in ten hours. The whole of the ground,- backwards and forwards, is estimated at forty-three miles, which he completed in eight hours and thirty_ five minutes, at the rate of something better than five miles an hour. • A great deal of betting was made on the occasion," and the odds considerably against him- at starting. Carriages lined all the streets through which he passed. It is extraordinary, that the man performed his journies with the load •on his back in much less time than without it. The Assizes for the county of Dorset closed last Saturday,, when seven persons received sentence of death, but were' all reprieved before the Judges left the town, There were but few Nisi Prius Causes, REPORT OF COMMIT. - jN t% r.l t LIS' .. EXTRACT FRONT. TITE REPt...,TI' O• 'l2 *COM- MIT fEE. (Coittinud.from I,rday'.l Papy,) OCCASIONAL PAYMENTS. Tfr E first additional head that occurs, is that which relates to the establishment of the office of Secretary of State for the War Department, which cormneneed it - lithe year 1795, and. comprizes Contingencies; Sta tionary, Messengers, and Land-Tax of that Office. The payments to Foreign Ministers on the signing of Treaties and Conventions, which constitute the next head, amounted to a very considerable sum, to tally distina from the item for which an estimate was formed of " Presents to Foreign Ministers on their return home." The article of Expel - ices for His Majesty's Service, above referred to and explained, is also new, except as far as it may be considered as making an addition to the estimated charge of Ex tra Extraordinaries to Ministers at Foreign Courts. The Law Charges i which, previous to the cbrn mencernent of the War, were on the average with in the estimates, have in most of the latter years exceeded it to a very large amount. The Messengers' Bills for Foreign Journies have in most years, and particularly during the War, con siderably advanced. They will be found, till the year ITO, contained under that head. From that period, when an alteration took place in the estab lishment, they appear at first.partly, and at length wholly, charged under the respective Offices of the Secretaries of State. Some advance has also taken in several years a very considerable one, in the charge of Extra Extraordinaries to Foreign [ Ministers. The. Contingencies of the Offices of the Secre taries of State, both of the Foreign and • Home Department (and which are particularly explained in the Reilorts made by the Committee on Finance in 1798) but particularly the former, have in .teased in a still higher proportion. Those of the Committee of the Privy Council for Trade and Plantations have also far exceeded the estimate, even including in it - the whole sum applicable to the Council at large. The result of the whole of these increased 6:- pences, as compared with the Estimate, which, in part is obviously inapplicable to them, amounts to the sum of 995,9081. IS. 4.1 d. ; to which must fur: tiler be added, that of 51,6791. OS. r Id. being the amount of warrants issued under this head, but not yet paid, as stated,in the Account of Debt ; making the total excess 1,047,5871. is. Estimated Annual Charge . of His MAjEsTY's CIVIL LIST, as laid before Parliament in 1786, and actual Amount in 180 z : The approved Bills of all Tradesmen, Artificers and Labourers, for any Articles Estimated suppliel, or Work done for Ann. Charge His Majesty's Service, in 1785. Bills- Within - the Department k s. d. - of the Lord Chamberlain 43,000 0 0 Ditto of the Lcird Steward - 50,00 - o o o Ditto of the Master of the Horse 23,000 0 Ditto of the IVlaster of the Robes 2,200 o o Ditto of the Usher of the Court of Exchequer - 1,200 0 Ditto of the Usher of the Re ceipt of ditto - 7,c00 o o Ditto fcr Printing, &c. - 7,000 0 0 Ditto for Stationary for the Ilouses of Lords and Com mons - - - - 2,8c0 o o Ditto of the Tradesmen of the 'Young Princes AElual A rnount in 113 oz. d. s. 78,541 60-._' 33,363 6 6 2 9, 16 4 16 6 3,4 8 3 1 4 0 1,565 lo 4 1 9,43 2 12 9 3)5 61 3 1 11.000 0 0 147,200 o o Increase in the above Departments in six teen years - - - - 219,112 9 34- 395,960 16 s Aaual Amount in 1802- 25,000 O o 10,003 0 0 70,668 13.1 Estimated Annual Charge. Foreign Sccret Service - . 25,000 0 0 Home Secret Service - 10,000 o o Special Service & Royal Bounty 20,000 0 0 Secretary of State, foreign De partrnent, for Contingencies 2,600 o o 35 7 000 o Ditto ditto, Home Department 2,0w0 a o IS,aoo o o Ditto ditto, War Department 5,000 0 0 To the Marquis of Salisbury, to be paid over to the Physicians who attended His Majesty, January 1790, 5,000 0 0 January 1792, 6,190 9 6 'rosy) 9 6 Expellees of the Princess of Wales's Journey to England, - - - Messrs. Duval and Co. for the expence of a Picture for His Majesty, as a present to General Paoli, - - - - Ditto for the expence of two Swords, as pre. sents to Lord Howe and General Mack, - W. Baldwin, Esq. as a reward for his advice as Counsel to the Se cretarka State, in 'Soo £162 4 0 In dor 6 55 7 6 In xSo2 647 12 1 7 102 19 . o 72.6 s 0 Right Hon. T. Grenville, as a compensation for the loss sustained by the loss of the Pro- sefpine Frigate Congress at Amiens, and Minister at Paris To make up deficiency of Fees to wards the Salaries of ditierent Of ficesin x 737 in 1788 in 1789 in 1790 in 1791 in 179 s in (193 in 1 794 in 1795 in 1796 in 1797 in 1198 in 1799 in 1800 in 1801 in iBoz 1,73 t 10 6 4.4 0 3 4 p 3,403 4 0 5,119 8 8 4,411370 14 13 3 - 8 5,356 xt 4,579 18 3 2,653 8 3 7,195 8 ,455 1 7J 0 10,142 16 5 7, 6 9 2 6 4 4,263 11 25,9z6 14 0 1 ° ,2 94 IS 3 2 ,957 8 7 335,611 7014 2826 12 0 1086 o 0 7 000 0 0 Expences of Windsor Great Park Presents to Foreign Ministers : in 1792 - 2,233 o 6 in 1793 - 6,559 3 6 in 1 794 - 15,194 16 6 in 1795 - -8,570 5 0 in 1796 - 2,475 o 8 in 1797 - 9,73 0 1 5 0 in 099 - 5,354 lo 6 in 1800 - 2 3,733 14 5 in Igor - 13,621 19 e in 18.2 • - 10,691 to 0 3 4 £01,765 £5 10 Demands on the Civil List on the sth of January 1 Soz, but not included in Charges for 1 891 : SPECIAL SERVICE. s. d. Sir W. Hamilton, Ccmpensation for Losses 8,423 to, 0 Lord Whitworth, - ditto - - - 2,111 14 o - [ 4 5 0 Mr. Wyndliain, - ditto - Lord Minto, - ditto 3,658 t 23 o Mr. Lock, - ditto - r,060 9 o Mr. 1 o . ;abts s 0.1110 647 12 6 k.zo,lit 8 6 kE\T ASSIZES.-MAIDSTONE. 7F_)'VitE S Ts r EAS:3M,kII4T TIOTEIAM. TURNER V. UMFERRII., THE Counsel who opened this Cause stated, thAt it was an 1-Vaion brought by the Plaintiff, a young and tespeaable Attorney, against the Defendant, a stout athletic Farmer, to recover damages fcr a mast violent assault, committed in violation of the rights of hospitality, and without the slightest cause or pt-ovocation. The Defendant had invited the Plaiotiff to his house, in the neighbouthood of Blackheath, and upon some sudden trivial dispute, he struck lure, present ed a loaded pistol to his breast, to terrify - him ; turn ed him out of doors at a very late hour of the night, beat him unmercifully, threw hint down. ,ifid wan- tonly rubbed him in the wet. The consequence of this treatment was, the. Plaintiff caught 'a severe cold and fever, which confined him. for several months, and he had to pay his apothecary upwards of aol. He hoped, in a case of !,o aggravated a nature, the Jury would think it necessary to give every exemplary damages. Miss James, a young lady about eighteen years of age, and sister-in-law to the Defendant, was called to prove these faets on the part of the Plain tiff; and from her evidence, after she had been cross-examined, the case, which had baen stated as of so serious a nature, resolved itself into this—She had been upon a visit to the Plaintiff's father, in London, and 'was so pleased with her treatment, and the attention of the Plaintiff, who was about the age of twenty-one, that she in return invited him down - to her brother's. .The young Lady shoved an extreme partiality for the young Lawyer, and they were never happy but in each other's com pany. They were accustomed to amuse themselves by walking in the groves of Greenwich Park; and upon a certain evening, after having been a long time missed, they were found enjoying a itle.a-tete in one of the vaults of Sir GRFGORY PAGE-TUR. WEB'S decayed mansion.—Another source of amuse. ment was reading Novels to each other ; and upon the evening the supposed assault was committed, the Defendant was preparing to go round his grounds with a pistol in his hand, ag was his cus tom, when he heard the Plaintiff in his silter's bed chamber, reading a Novel. He immediately ex claimed to his wife—" What's that girl and boy about in, the bed-room—they shan't he there." In order to be sure of it, he ordered that Miss should sleep in the same room with her sister that night ; and he would take care to keep the Lawyer from her. This determina►ion so affront_ ed the Plaintiff, that he resolved upon leaving the house that instant. He went out, and Miss James followed him, and insisted upon seeing him safe over the Heath to some other house. She clung round, and resisted every attempt of the Fanner to get her away. The assault consisted in nothing more than the struggle which was the consecloence of her laying tight hold of the Plaintiff; no blow was struck whatever ; on the contrary, the Defendant wished the Plaintiff to come back, and sleep at his house that night. • The Surgeon was called to prove that the- De fendant had been seized with a cold and • fever, and had paid him 201. He, however, admitted, that passing an hour or two, in a damp vault, was as likely as any, other cause to produce such a disorder. The Counsel insisted the attempt to pull the young Lady from the Plaintiif by force, was an ass:lult which entitled.him to a verdict. She Judge thought the contrary ; and that the. D efendant had aaed , like a prudent man. 1k even in timated, that hewould not have perhaps far exceeded his authority, if he lAd given the Plaintiff a gentle horse-whipping, and had locked the young Lady up for a week, upon an allowance of bread and water. Under his Lordship's direction, the Jury found a verdid for the Defendant. On Friday evening last a very extraordinary case was brought before I:lief-toeAs BOND, Esq. and Sir WILLIAM PARSONS, at the Public Office, Bow street, at the instigation of the Westminster Fire- Office. Mr. BROWN, one of the Clerks belonging to that Office, attended, and stared the parricu•ars, which were nearly these :—That a house in Great Pulteney-streer„ the building of which was insured in that Office, had been on fire,in different parts se ven times in the course of three weeks. There was every reason to believe-it had been wilfully done. The landlord of the house in question was examin ed. He stated, that the first fire happened in the front garret of his house ; it stirs first discovered by a man who lodged in it, when he came home late at night, and found the bed and furniture in flames, in conse quence of which he removed the next day ; the damage done to the bed, &c. amounted to upwards of three-pounds, which he, the landlord, recovered of the British Fire-Office, where his goods were insured; that the next fire happened in the same room, and the third in the back-garret, both of which did more damage than the first ; but that he did not make any further application to the Office for these • losses, alledging for a reason, that he was ashamed to own that so many fires had taken place at his house. He, however, admitted he had applied to them for the damage done by the three last fires. • All the fires, he said, seemed to have been com municated to the beds by a chemical preparation, as on taking some of the ashes to a chemist, he declared phosphorus had been used, and direded him to open the windows, when soon after, the fire broke out in three separate roon at the same time. In the course of his whole evidence, he 'endeavoured to fix the guilt on a woman who lodged in his house, but had gone away after the two first fires : he and his present lodgers and servants were interrogated, but without saying any thing satisfadory towards eluci&3ating this strange business. There cannot be a doubt but it must have been done on purpose, as Mr. Brown declared that men had been sent to sit up in the house for several nights, and during their stay nothing happened. The Magistrates direded all the parties should attend on a future day for a further investigation. Last night a fire broke out in the cellar of Mr. Harrison, Ludgate-hill, which burnt several pack. ages, and threatened, for some time, to involve the whole premises in flames, but fortunately it was prevented from extending further by the exertions Qf thc .setvanti and fic:rat..n.