The Sun. — London, England, 1802-09-24 00:00:00

THE SUN. 8101.1:h1 QUIS DICZRE FAL-11/141 AUDEAT ? LOND,ON, SEPTEMBER 24, iBoz. THis morning a Dutch Mail arrived, which brings nothing of importance. My. PITT, we are happy to state, is quite rent), verP/1 from his late severe indisposition. On Friday last, the Earl and Countess of MANS FI EL L), and Lady CAROLINE HERR I ES, left Scone Pdlace, for, a Highland excursion. It was erroneously, stated in our Paper a few days ago, that Captain Brtowri, who married Lord THuRLOW'S Daughter, had gone ahroad. He is at vesent Aid-de-Carnp to General WHITELocx at Portsmouth. We understand that when the Lords of the Ad_ miralty have completed their examination of the several -•,Doek-Yard's, the cases of the Artificers and .others lately discharged; whose lon services, or Inlrts received iti the execution of their duty, may e :ttle them to •a provision for the remainder of their lives, will first engage.the most serious :wen_ tion of their Lord,,,hips. Lord ST. IT INC ENT would deviate much from his condgt through life, should his attention to the claims of the meritorious Ser vants of the Public, ;I°4 g 9 hand in hand with the conscientious discharge of his•public duty. By a Vessel arrived in the Clyde, New-York Papers have been received of the r tth of • August, from which it would appear that some degroe of alarm tecp:fting the contagious fever still prevailed both in New-York and Philadelphia. The follow_ ing Articles are copied from The _New-York Dail ) . Advertiser : The favourable state of the health of this City is apparent from the list of deaths for last - week, which tails • short of the week preceding. The greatest mortality prevails, as is usual through the summer months, among children ; the proportion between them and aduits being as three to one. " By private accounts yesterday from Philadel phia, we learn that the alarm respeeting the fever was still very great, and that the inhabitants were very generally removing from the City, as the most effecthal means of preventing the ravages of this dreadful distemper. fuA French Frigate of 54. guns and 400 men, Capt. TA!LLEUR, three months, from Brest, on a cruize, has pot in at this port for water and, provi sions. She had anchored at the quarantine ground, hree other Frigates, it is said, may be expelled." The Count de COBENTZEL, the imperial Mini ster at ?arise, retires ; and is succeeded by the Count de STADION, at present Minister at Berlin. We have heard much of the shameful impositions praniscd by the Parisians upon the English, ),vho think proper to visit that Capital. The following irmly he depended upon as a ba, and will illustrate this ,position pretty clearly :—A Parisian friend took an apar:tnent for a Gentleman in an hotel, at the agreed price of 12 louis per month. He ar rived on the appointed day at the hotel, proposing to send. to his friend to know. what he had done fot him; rn attendant, he requested to look at the apartments, amongst others, one suited him very well ; on inquiry of his Mte about the priCe, they were-25 louis per month—" but they were let ;" in cise, however, the Gentleman should not come th.; nigh., he might hay.f them ;—ten minutes af ter arrived his Parisian friendAwho conducted him to the very same apartments,=ttey were, in truth, let to him, for. tz [(Ails Paris is perfe&ly'quipi . from any, revolutionary or turbulent movements, and yet it is not to be sup_ - posed' that the French 'a're insensible to their situa ation,---the horror, however, of the Anarchy they have experienced, and the miseries they have suf fered, is a sufficient antidote, at preient, against the 'oison . of .11/...m tcracy. A basket-maker, with whom a Genticman lately conversed a few minutes, at Paris, 'observed to him energetically :—" Je me suis :-batiu pendant sept ans pour la Republique, is L heti - 6, &.. , 41.-loirt—PUn - est au (liable, l'autre inn r . j jamais vu, et de la troisieme e men fiche, apes toutes les belles processes et les gros mots. Je suis hien' hereux de pouvoir gagner mes qua. rants cols par jour a faire des paniers, avec trois. blessures, et ayant .paste par huit Battailles." A projea has.been formed in France for effeaing a Communication between the ,Rhine and Paris, by means of the rivers Zorn, - Sarre, Seille, •Meurthe, Moselle, Meuse,- Ornain, And IVlarne. The canal • ; 4 . 0 leagtics inlet - 4th ; - 121 of which is ill consist of riverS naturally navigable ; i 6 of rivers which may be rendered so, anti . 13 only will remain to be dug :. - - - In Herrefordshire thF. crops in general have been exceedingly fine and abundant, especially Barley, which has not been equalled many years, and will amply corrapens,:e for the partial crops of apple's and pears. As Colonel and Mrr. MErcEs were rettlrning, to Town on Wednesday afternoon, in their curricle; a Ge:aleman's -carriage in sloanestreet, ran against them' virh such violence, as to dash the curricle almoc,t Jo pieces, Mrs, M. was thrown put, and lay for some time almost speechless. Colonel IVI. 'as ;very much brgised. We are happy to he 4, 111,7 are both Li a fair wpy of recovery • ' ,NAPiIL NI WS. PORTSMOUTH, Sur. z 3. ARRIVED the Carriere Frigate, of 44 guns, from the Mediterranean. Sailed the Glottal:, of 54. grins, with Convids for New South Wales. Went out of Harbour, His Majesty's Brig Raven, Caine into Harbour, His Majesty's Mil- Inch. Arrived the Betty, GRAY, from Sunderland, and Fox, BOND, from-Plymouth. Sailed the Deptfcrd, Cow, for Plymouth, and Nelson, DONALD, fur. Havre. TO CORRESPONDENTS. The Perms of P W. C . are much too incorrea for publication. The Impromptu on Lord PETEE shall appear in a . day fr two. Holland DUZ 0 ARRIVED 'I - MAILS. PRICE OF STOCKS, THIS DAY .AT TWELVE O'CLOCK. Consols., - 681 Omnium - Si Disc. HARWICH, SEPT. 23. ON the ztst arrived the Diana Packet, Capt. OSBORN, with the Mail and Passengers from Cux. haven ; and yesterday arrived from the same place, the Diana Packer, Capt. STEWART, with the Mail and Passengers. At nine o'clock this morning sailed the King George Packet, Capt. DEANE, and the Prince of Orange Packet, Capt..BRIDGE, with Passengers and the respective Mails for Helvoetsluys and Cuxhaven. About four this afternoon arrived the K;ng George, Packet, Capt. FLYN, from Helvoetsluys, with the Mail and Passengers. DEAL, SEPT. 23. ARRIVED His 114.jesty's Ship Amphian from the Wes.tward, and remains with the Blood-hound Gun brig. Sailed the Vixen Gin-brig on a Cruize. Passed the back of the Goodwin Sands, the Bata. via, JOHNSON, for tie Cape of Good Hope. tW4 origin a l l etters o f S HAK - Besides : those E SPEARE addressed b 1 HOS. Lord 1317CKHHas*Tt which have been lacey discovered among the Dorset Papers, the Correspfncience of DRYDEN, OTWAY, LEE, SEDLEY, and PRIOR, with CHARLES Earl of DORSET, is most ialuable. The letters of NELL GWYNN to that Noleman, throw light on some of the secret measures of CHARLES IL's reign, and are extremely interesting, froM the anecdotes con cained in them. It vas at the express desire of the late Duke of DORS.T, that the Datchess is now giving these Papers the public. A Morning, Papet makes the following observa tion respeEting the !normout extortions on the Road to France. ".Thett is no harm in making those persons who will gritify an idle curiosity, mis chievous to their Country, pay for it." This may be well enough as respeai;l the French charges, but it is rather unreasonable that a traveller is to be pillaged all the way from London to Dover, because it happens to be the road to Calais. Mr. Fox before he ventured to bow in the presence of the FlksT CONSUL, went through a regular course, it is said, of instrudions in the Graces from a French Dancing-Master. We have heard of a great Philosopher amusing himself with riding on a stick like a child : but even that would not be so ridiculous as to see the English DEMOSTHENES led about by a Maitre de Douse. " One, two, three, all;{ a bow, illmsieur, " Fal, dal, lal, lal, Lai !" It appears more difficult to' choose a Mayor of Plymouth, than, a First Consul of France. Th e Jury have been twice locked up twelve hours, and divided each time i 8 against zB. the Priv(lie Correspondence of a Morning Paper must be of a -very private nature indeed 7 sipci zr i t comprises every thing that passes in the Claret of the Chief Consul. Such a b a re f a ced attempt _to impose upon the credulity of its .Readers we seldom have seen, even in the impudent ,and silly conduct of the Paper alluded to. Some of the Departments of France appear to be peculiarly unfortunate, as they are now a prey to ferocious and hungry {waves, after having so long been a prey to sill. more ferocious and more hungry oigers. • The number of.shoitks of an Earthquake, whidl have beep lately felt at Strasburg, is considered as a very remarkable 'phenomenon.. For five or six days previous to the 'lsth, not a day passed without a shock, more or less . violent. On the 13th they, had three or four' shocks, and the same on the 14th. On the latter day, at three.quarters past eleven at night, a 'stuck was felt extremely violent, which lasted more than a minute, ,The shocks have been accompanied with a loud noise, which excites great terror.. Several of the inhabitants have, in conse quence, predided the near approach of the end of the world. LAU R ISTON, the FIRST CONSUL'S Adjutant, paid a visit, it is said, to the. Margrave of BADEN, in the course of his Journey into Germany ; the result of which has been, the acceleration of the taking possession of the Indemnities allotted to that Prince. It is even said, ,that 'LAU R ISTON offered, in the name of the French Government, to place at the disposal of the Hargrave, a certain number of French Troops, but the latter declined the offer. The new Museum at Lyons, is preparing for the reception of the different Works of Art, which are to be consigned to it. A number of Pitlares'ar. destined to be skposited in the Museum, in a Gal; lery now ft'laking ready -to: receive them ; amongst . others, are sever4yaluable Pictures of RuBENs„ - and PAUL and ALO.A.: , rug t VutoriEsE. According to the Meteorological ObserVation, contained in the Journal of the Society of Medi. cine, at Paris, the gretest degree of heat in that City, between the zoth of July, and the 18th cf 4ligust iast ; w i t ' z 9. x. (Reagmer) and the least 7. THE THEATRE. Prur)-.Lane. THE WEST INDIAN. MR. DWY E R made his second appearance last night in the charaaer of Relcour. He is, as we de scribed him last Season, an Afton of great anima. tion. His figure is neat and well formed, and he enters into the character with all requisite spirit and file. this manners seem to want the polish of genteel life ; but Belcaur is indeed a charafter entirely com posed of ardent passions, and the predominance of those passions must of course be supposed to detrad from elegance of manners. His utterance in general is even too rapid for the vivacious temper of Belcour, who, amidst all the velocity of his feelings, is capable of refledion.— His voice throughout the part was pitched at a height of stormy elevation; but this error we im pute to his want of pr dice in the Theatre, and his probable apprehension that he might otherwise not be sufficiently heard. in so spacious an area. In his face, which is capable of expression, .he has a strong resemblance to the late PALMER. His Belcour was, upon the whole, a very spirited performance, and he evidently displayed the powers of a good Comic Ador, that may be of considerable, service to the Theatre, which is lamentably:defi cient in performers of his east. The House very well attended, and Mr. .-reived throughout a very favourable reception. , CAULYrELD came' off very. well, in Major . O'Flaherty. If he winced bruise, he dial not want bustle, and he made the part conspicuous in the Piece. PowELL was Very respeaable in Stockwell, but there is no necessity for him to give so formal and so priggish a style of dress to a City Merchant. Mrs. Youstc, late Miss - . - 13toGq; is- much more easy in her mode of acting. Her•Chairlotte Rusport was rather an interesting . compound of tenderness and gaiety. - _ The Farce was High Life Below:Stairs, one of the very best °f our Farces, but much inferior in its present representation to what -the. Public witnessed a few years ago. Messrs. REYNOLDS, MORTON, and FAWCETT, have, it is said, purchased Sadler's Wells, and are to'open it in conjunaion next Season. It is, we understand, the intention of the NEW BOARD Of MANAGEMENT, at Drury-Lane Theatre, to give a zealous encouragement to all New Candi dates for theatrical fame who may offer themselves. The Public, however, are by no means likely to be disgusted by a number of hopeless Pretenders, in order to fill a House, as t h e New Candidates are to rehearse before competent Judges, in order that it may be determined, whether they possess talents that really deserve public notice. All the Perisrmers of the Hay-Market Theatre have been discharged, so that Mr. COLMAN may at present be said to have a clear Stage, and of course there will he no favour. QUICK is said to be one of those with whom Mr. Cot.mAN strerzthen his umm.,,p a tiy at the Haymarket. Mrs. SONTLEY iS so beautiful a Woman, that we wonder' she is not brought more forward at Drury-Lane Theatre, particularly, as there are parts which demand a handsome person, and the Representatives of which haVe been the very reverse of the supposed Characters. Wednesday was played a grand match of Cricket, on Parson's Green, near Fulham, between eleven Gentlemen of Chelsea and Fulham, against eleven Gentlemen of Westminsrer, for five hundreci.guineas. Six to four on Westminster at starting. Fulham and Chelsea head r5B against Westminster, •second innings. Last month were launched two Eighty Gun-ships of War, the Uriel and Raphael, in presence of the EMPEROR Of RiT,sIA, Of the IMPERIAL FAMILY, the Court, the Diplomatic Body, and an immense concourse (If Spetators. ;One of the Native Poets made the following Verses on this event : Heavenly Spirits ! Rapf)ad and Uriel, whose awful thun. der roars from eighty mouths, what toe will ye now subdue ! Your size is colossal, but ye fly like the whirlwind ! • • Fly, ye Angels ! hurl your thunders ! But no, it is in vain ! Russia has no Eneintcs. Fly ! announce to the Earth, the 'humane slesigns of the Angel who has given us peace ! These Verses, which in the-Criginel Russian are very beautiful, are attributed to the Privy. Counsel. lor, Count DINHTR,I, CAWOSTOF. • The recent conviction of Thomas Garter, one of those itinerant Print-sellers, who so much infeht the Towns and Villages in the vicinity of the Metro polis, by selling indecent Prints and Books, was, on the Prosecution of the Society fortheSuppies . _ sion of Vice, who, we understand, are .proceeding against others of that description for similar offen ces, by several IntliamentS, whiCh have been found by the Grand Jury, and which Will come-on to be tried in the course of the next Session. In the morning of Sunday se'nnight, the Master of a light Collier having refused to accede to the exor bitant demands of the Keelmen for piloting his vessel into the Harbour of Sunderland, and determined to do without rhem, hoisted out his own boat, and order ed two Sailors into it : in approaching the pier, the boat was in danger of being crushed between the pier and the vessel ; one of the Sailors immediately jumped up the vessel's side, but before he could get upon deck, the vessel came so close to the pier as to crush him against it, by which, he was bruised in so dreadful a manner as to cause his death in a few hours. The other man escaped unhurt. A person, lately one of the Churchwardens of the parish of Bishopsgate, having far some time re fused to settle the accompts for the time he was in office, and to transfer the books to his successor, Mr. Sheriff RAWLINS, was yesterday, in conse, quence of an examination before the LORD MAYQR and Mr. Alderman NEWNHAM, in . which he still persisted to refuse the books, committed, by his Lordship's authority, to Newgate prison, till he should comply with the Ad of Parliament respell. lug the Oice r which be had held. DIYING MACNINE, RANELAGH. NOTRING can be more unpleasant than ei be under the necessity of recording the failure of an • experiment which a man has employed great pinsi and expended considerable sums of money. to !ring to perfection, and upon the s u ccess o f w hi c h h e had • perhaps placed his ultimate hopes in life; btn.we are compelled to state, that Mr. TODD'S Ming —3 Machine, which was tried yesterday at Raneligh, by no means answered the expectations which had been raised by a perusal of his advertisement, and we are inclined to fear that the failure did not arise so much from the unskilfulness, with which the ap. paratus was managed, as from a defed in the prin. ciple of the Invention itself. The Machine was extremely simple in its construction, and had very much the appearance pf an old clumsy suit of black armour. The inside was iron, the outside sail. cloth, pitched over. Into this case Mr. TODD was, with much difficulty, forced ; he complained that it • was too small, and that he could not move his arms with any facility. This case enveloped him up to the neck ; a wooden cover, with some glass in the front of it, and at the top a small aperture to which ` tubes were fastened, by which air was conveyed to him, was then put over his head. This wooden machine was fastened to the other part of his case, - and made waterproof by means of pitched sailcloth. He was then raised up with proper tackle, and let down into a kind of tub full of water ; it was abo ut eighteen ;. height, six feet in diameter at bor. ton), and something more man tour fret at Neat the bottom there were little glass windows, to enable the company to see Mr. TODD ; but they . looked in vain, for nothing was to be seen. He was not under ivater at any time more than three or four minutes, and after being im merse d a few times, lie was uncased. He attributed'his failure partly to the Machine being too small for him, and partly to its admitting water in some places ; but it appeared to us so very cumbrous, that if it were possible for hini to remain under water for an hour, we very much doubt whet ther he could-be of any use. There were not above fifty or sixty persons pre. sent, and they bore their disappointment with great good humour. Mr. ToDa announced his intention of making. another experiment, in a few days. .EDINBURGH, SLPT. zo. ARRIVED at Drysdale's Hotel, Sir WILLIAA JOHNSTON, Bart. J. LONSDALE. Esq. Oil their w a y North ; the Right Hon. Lord KEITH, on his w a y to London ; Mr. and Mrs. GRANT, of Rockville, and Miss DALRYMPLE, Admiral Sir ROBERT and Lady CALDER and family, from the North ; TER CAMPBELL, Esq. of the East India Company, J. MELD, Esq. from London ; the Right Hon. Lady-DoWager DUNDAS, and Hon. Miss DincriAt, on their way to Kerse House ; Colonel and Miss LINDSAY, and Captain eirMING. Arrived at the Salutation Inn, Perth, Sept. zz - the LORD CHIEF BARON ; Colonel HAMILTON Pencaitland, and Captain MINIMS, from Loch. Erich( to Lundie Houle— cpt. 14, Lord BAN/Or and 51t DAVID CARNEGIE, Bart. both on their way North. On Saturday the z rth inst. there was found ex , •- posed in a corn field, in the neighbourhood of Bridge-end, Perth, a child, apparently about eight , days old. A reward has been offered for the de- :" tettion of the person or persons who exposed it; but hitherto without effeft. Thursday a ram made its escape from a butcher's yard, and ran furioti.,ly along Methven.srreett Perth, pursued by the dogs. Unfcrtunatelv an old woman was in the way ; the ram threw her down in his career with such violence that she was killed on the spot. Last week considerable quantities of herrings were caught off Kincardine. The Filth of Furth at present aboUnds with spray, and an early herring fishery may be expected this season. CORN EXCHANGE, Sept. 24 , This day we have a middling supply of Grain in general ; English and Foreign Wheat goes off nearly our last prices ; Barley and Malt still remain a dull sale; there is little doing in Pease at Market ; • we are rather short of Beans of both sorts, which have a more ready sale, and sell something dearer' there are plenty of Oats, which still are in denranai sell freely, and •keep their prices; Fl our a go' • stock, and without variation. • . wheat 46$ a 56s a 675 oci Beans - 34 s a ~c 6 ,1 .Fine do. . 68s a 69$ cd Tick•ditto -3 0 s a 35s `.', 4 -Malt - 47$ a 48$ a sos od Oats - iss a izis a 23 ' od Fine ditto - Sts a 525 od Poland do. 24s a 2 3 5 ,,, 5t Barley - 2SS 31s 6 , 1 Rape Seed 34 1 a 37 1 per li t Rye -33 s a 35$ od Ftne F lour 50$ a 53s per ° New ditto . 38s a 435 od Second do. 45s u sos per do' White Pease 37$ a 4ts od A curious Fraud was lately attempted to be Pr at " tised at Strasburg, during the drawing of the Lot tery there. Several persons, am ongst whom w ere s o me employed in the drawi ng , h av i ng co mbine d , togetherthey contrived to i ntro d uce a ne t-woo' into the wheel, Which isolated a part °fit, in wh i , i °l , only the 20 last' numbers were to b e pl a ced. the moment of drawing, the person charged wi r , moving the wheel, who was in t h e se cret, was o , present to the child, whose business it was to Pat his hand in the wheel, the opening correspood ll ~l he with the space in which th e c h osen nu mbers w e i i. placed. -They calculateci,upon gaining near 50, 0° ° by this fraudulent contriv anc e,, b u r t heir ex 1 4 , 61; tions were disappointed by the,discovery of we- r , scheme, which was accidentally ; made by a P es :., s employed to open the dotirs of the wheel, who not in the secret. Several of the liartiescono er " were immediately apprehended. Wednesday a young man was taken before t M b r e a Alderman WATSON, at Guildhall, charged repo" oaths of two persons with picking the poc ket or countryman n e t I e o u s n a d m b e a m n k o n n o andn Sontohvec- Their evidence being very clear, the Prisoiler " committed for trial, I k