The Sun. — London, England, 1807-05-27 00:00:00

NEU iIARLIAIIEAT. 0t ME' BERS ELEC TED. 11 ANi CouNTY—Sir R. Milbatike ; Sir H. V. Tempest. StssEx—State of the Poll. Wyudhain, Esq. -44 d Fuller, Esq. - - 230 Sergison, Esq. - - 2355 4.)0 LR—At the close of the Poll the numbers *ere jetre.ry, Esq. - 35 Sir R. Bickerton - - 63 Garland, Esq. - - 53 The first was declared to be duly eleaed, and a Void Election between the other two. YORK COUNTY--State of the Poll. Wilberforce, Esq. 5910 Hon. Henry Laicelles - 1)296 Lord Milton - - 5 190 CORK ClTY.—State of the Poll. Colonel Longficld - - 82 Hutchinson, Esq. - 32 Evans, Esq. It On which Mr. Longtield and Mr. Hutchinson Wete declared duly ele&ed. MIDDLESEX ELECTION. THE ntitiiti&S at the close of the Poll were yes terda— For WILLiAii NlE4.t.isti, Esq. - 2706 GLoßc.r. ByiJa, Esq. - z 368 Sir C4lRl:ltertiEa BAyNzs,l3t. 1.2.5 z Sir WILLIAM GlEssOlcs inacle a few preliminary rettarks, and was seconded by Mr. BLACKEURNE in Motion for returning Thanks to the Sheriffs , for their vigilance, attention, and impartiality in dis 4arging the arduous duties of their situation. The Motion passed with general approbation: Mr. MiLLism then came forward; and said, that from the distinguished situation in which the Elec tors bad placed him at the head of the Poll, it be tame at the close of the contest, to take the lead i n addressing- them. It was not his intention, however, to occupy their time longer than to assure the m , that the charges brought against him at a meeting of the friends of Sir C. Baynes, were un founded. It was stated, that he had formed a coali tion, which he•denied most peremptorily, and put the friends of- the worthy Baronet to the proof of them. Mr. BYNG began by returning his most sincere thanks to the Ele6tors, for the efforts which they had made to forward his Election. The Hon. Gentleman adverted to the meeting of the friends of Sir C. Baynes, and declared that he considered him self highly complimented by their censure, particu larly when Mr. Bowles was in the chair. The Candidates were then chaired through Brent ford. Sir C. BAYNES was not present during the day, tor had he any one to represent him. We are happy to hear the Duchess of GORDON is Ibuch redovered by the pure air of Woburn, and the affectionate attention of her lovely daughter, the tuchess of BEDFORD. • DREADFUL OUTRAGE.—Ap examination took place yesterday morning respeding the horrid event which we yesterday mentioned as having occurred the preceding night in High Holborn: Mr. Flint, one of the Churchwardens of St. qiles's, attended yesterday morning at Bow-street 'Office, and gave information to Mr. READ of the 'circumstance, who sent a Clerk to take the wounded Then's testimony, in case of their death. The fol. , lowing are the particulars : John Watkinson, of 184, High Holborn, said, that on 'Monday night, about half past eleven o'clock, as he was returning home, he saw a avag gon standing in Holborn, and found- the waggoner tear it, with his face bleeding very much, and a great effusionof blood from his mouth. He asked the Waggoner what was the matter with him ; he said a Than had been behind his waggon and attempted to rob it, at which time two men were standing by, and the waggoner said he could, swear that one of them Was the man that knocked him down. Mr. Kettle, who was standing by, advised the Waggoner to charge the watch with him; when the watchman came up, and was about to take the man the waggoner charged with knocking him down, the man's companion Pushed him round, and he made off. Mr. Watkin son followed him, and overtook him a short.distance 'off, and had got him against the shutters of a clothes shop in Holborn, where the man_ i 's companion came lip, and without saying any thng, stabbed Mr. Watkinson neat the backbone, just above his kid neys. Edward Watkins, of .N 0.183, . Holborn, said Jae Was standing a few doors from the house where he lodges, about half past eleven o'clock on Monday Light, in conversation with a - friend ; and learning That Mr. Watkinson was securing a man who had attempted to rob a waggon, he went to assist, when A man came behind him and cut him in the lower Part of the belly, near - four inches in length ; the consequence was, his bowels came out. He was taken to the Middlesex Hospital, where every care Vas taken of his wounds by the surgeons.. We are 80 try to say, his bowels came out twice in the course c'f yesterday morning. Michael Coleman, a watchman, belonging to St. Giles's, was on duty at the time near the spot, when he heard the cry of " Stop Thief !" and observed a limn sinning towards him ; he stopped him, but the, Irian soon liberated himself from him, by cutting him With, a sharp instrument in the lower part of his belly. 'The watchman, however, very courageously knocked him down with his staff, as lie was running ce; the villain got up again, stabbed him in his left cheek near his ear, in his arm, and a very severe cut on his breast, and then ran off. The watch Than, although having received so many wounds, Pursued him to the corner of Bow-street, Blooms bury, when his bowels coming out, he was obliged to give up the pursuit, and fell. He was conveyed to Middlesex Hospital, where he and Mr.Watkinson lie, without any hopes of recovery. No clue has yet been discovered .which could lead to the apprehension of the execrable monsters by whom this atrocious cruelty was perpetrated, but We doubt not that the most vigilant endeavours have been lon toot, and that rewards will immediately he offered, in o der io bring the wretches to the pu eislin eni the, deser%e. 2 .ROlll VIE :DUTCH PAPERS. APRIL OrandVizier 'eft this city On the 7th to repair to thb Danube. He • is to be followed by all the troops here. The Rus- Sians took upon them to detain the Prussian En 'N.oy, Baron PrLsitcH, some time at Bucharest. — This Minister has since arrived here by way of \Viddin. TRIEsTE, MAY s.—The Expedition against the itussians in Turkey, and along the Adriatic Sea, so far from being given Op, as it would appear from the detachments which have been sent to Ger many, will, we are assured, be ready in'a very short time. General MARmoxt will soon be in a situa. tion to aft with vigour, at the head of 20,000 men. The Paella of Janina is expe&ed at the same time to attack the Montenegrins, whose number is con siderably decrevsed, as the Russian Admiral SINIA VIN took 6noo of them on board his Squadron when he sailed for the Egean Sea. The remain der Of the Montenegrins have colleaed near the CatarO, having evacuated all the islands on the coast of Dalmatia. PRESBURGII, MAY .--the junCticiti of the Rus sians with the Servians will not be long deferred.— To facilitate the . execution of it, a special corps un- - der MELENko SToIK is at this moment colleting near Parakin. _ _ On the loth of March a Russian Courier arrived at Semendria, with dispatches from General AIX CHELSON, to remind the Synod of the fulfilment of their proises,„ by ordering the Servians to pass the Morawa. General MicneLson's dispatch was im mediately transmitted to CZERSI GEORGES at Giur landi, who immediately took his measures for passing that river. ' On the lat of last month he ordered two considerable batteries to be raised upon the, shore near Giurlandi ; on which, on the following day, he placed 16 pieces of cannon, six mortars, and. 3000 infantry. In the interval he had given stria orders to the Corps of Observation, near Istrina, upon the frontiers of Macedonia, to watch the motions of the Turks in; that quarter, and as much as possible to prevent them from passing Istrina towards Giur landi, and taking the Servians in the rear. Ph - 411e 2d instant CZERNI GEORGES began his March - with' 30,000 men ; which, on the following. day; were joined by 2000 cavalry from the camp near Giurlandi. These troops he caused to embark between the two batteries, and under the proteaion of seveti Gun-boats 3 with these he forced the pas sage of the Morawa. The Army having gained the opposite shore, h. KoßLtracti, the Commandant of the two first co lumns, attacked the Enemy's advanced guard, en camped between Nissa and Muslapak, under'SAsc PAGLIA, whose force amounted to 20,000 men.— The • Servians compelled the "Turks to fall back in this quarter. While JAiCOBLERICH attacked, upon the right. towards Muslapak, the General in Chief had passed the Morawa with the other Columns, and .was. marching with impetuosity towards the lett against Nissa, when the Turks were compelled to' give way, after a column of Servians had advanced to Miprovaz to turn the Enemy's cavalry. The Turks rallied, and endeavoured to resist the Ser vians ; but, observing that the latter were advancing aaainst Nliprovaz, and were already defiling upon their flanks, the retreat became general. CzEtuit GEoit6Es caused Nissa to be invested with 5000 men, and with the rest of his Army pursued the Enemy, who retired by way of Chitin° and Pires to Sophia.—The loss of the Tiuks on this occasion amounted to 1500 men ;.that of the Servians to 800. The latter took 14 pieces of cannon, two mortars, a number of cattle, the equipage of SASCHI and 36 loaded waggons. I.ONIGSRURGH, MAY s.—The Emperor of Russia and the King of Prussia, after having spent a week at Georgenburgh, on the frontiers of New Eastern Prtissii, have returned to Memel. The two Mo narchs_ reviewed all the troops of the new levy, whic`h, 'by the route of Lithuania, are assembled in the environs of Bialystock. The Emperor ALEX ANDER, who has already visited our city, is expeaed again here, where he has been preceded by his field equipage. During his stay at Georgenburgh and Memel it was remarked, that he spewed a particular preterenee for the Prussian Minister, Baron HAR DENBERG ; and it is believed that this marked pre ference not a little contributed to procure for that Minister the Port-folio for Foreign Atfairi. The Emperor ALEXANDER, it is said, has condescended to consult him in every thing'; and this confidence h as ye - en - carried to such a degree as seriously to dis quiet the Russian Minister, Baron BUDBERG, who is at this moment at Konigsbergh. According to every appearance, it seems certain that the first movement of the Russian and Prussian Afinies will have for its objet the deliverance of the two tbrtresses of Dautzic and Graudentz.—Accord lug to all accounts received here, the French Army it also ready to put itself in motion, and waits only the signal for attack. A great battle appears inevitable and very near. BERLIN, MAY 16.—Since our last (alluding to a letter frotn Berlin, dated May 13, and which is in the Hamburgh Papers, brought by the Husum Mail), we have received no farther authentic ac counts from the Grand Army. In the mean time we learn, by, private letters from different parts of Poland and Prussia, that in the beginning of the present month, a great number of rivers have over flown their banks, and again laid under water those immense plains which had jast began to dry. It is reported that the fortress 'of Neisse, in Sile sia, has surrendered. It is also said, that the King of Sweden has ratified the Armistice, and has signi fied his readiness to enter into a negociation for peace, unde'r :the . mediation of Denmark. EXTRACT OF A LETTER. " LOWER ELBE, MAY 20, 1807.--We are still • without any intelligence from Poland yet I believe this is the last thrle that I shall tire you with my monotonous cuckoo note ; for every thing announces the speedy decision of the fate of Dautzie, on wh►ch hangs not the issue, but the plan of the ensuing campaign The Telegraph asserts, as you will see - in the Papers of yesterday, that the covered way of the fortress it already taken ;' hence the surrender of the - town is inevitable, unless it be speedily re lieved; and it is believed that the Allies will spare no exertions to throw in relief. It is calculated, that on the i th the city had not fallen, and the garrison awaited a reinforcement of 18,000 Russians from the Nehrting . . But can this succour be bror.gl.t. in without ,a most disadvantageous contest ? The Nehrung, tts is evident from any amp, is a long tongue of land; which it catitiot he difficult to de fend. Within a few day - S; ique reportS assert, that English forces have • passed the Sound ; and the opinion is, that your fleet is to eb-bperate with the Allies by favouring a landing. I fear, however, that, were the report true, the fleet could not ar rive in time before Danttic. However, Such as sertions are frequently the mere expression of an opinion that a thing is wanted, not that it will take place. " As to the arrival of your expedition, those who have for these three months been longing with im patience for it, are now apprehensive that it will conic too late. Marshal BRUNE has at length suc ceeded in bringing tocrether a very formidable army in Pomerania, wriieh will be ready to resist the first attempts to at in the rear of the great Armies. " On the other hand; the ascertained constancy of the King of SWEDEN', the military arrangeMents which have been made by his Majesty, in common with Russia and Prussia, shew that Stralsund is not abandoned ) but is considered by the Allies as a momentous point : and if the Swedes and Prus sians are to ad in unison in Pomerania, why should not the British force he added to theirs " The King of SWEDEN, it is settled, is to have the command of the allied troops in Pomerania. He has also enrolled a corps of Emigrants, under the title of Royals Francois, under the Duke DE PIENNE. General RUCHEL will command the Prus sians in Pomerania. LESTOCQ, takes his station at Konigsburgh, and BLUCHER will have the com mand in chief of the Prussian Army. These pro visions announce no declining energy. In the mean while, I have to confess my ignorance con cerning the Swedish Armistice. Has it or has it not, with or without the additional clause, been ratified by the king ? Nothing has been de clared publicly, nor have I heard from private quarters." DUBLEY, MAY, 23. Wednesday last, the-Election of two Knights of the Shire to serve in Parliament for the County of Limerick, commenced at St. Francis's Abbey; after the Writ being read, and the Deputies sworn, --- BOLTON, Esq. proposed Col. ; he was second ed by DR COURCY O'GRADY, Esq. The Hon..). MASSEY proposed Wm. THOS. MONSELL, Esq. ; he was seconded by GERALD BLRNNERHASSETT, Esq. CHARLES S. Ouvr.a, Esq. proposed the Hon. W. QUIN ; he was seconded by Thos. LLOYD, Esq.— Mr. Fulttlint. has delined the contest. This is the day appointed for holding the Election for the County of Armagh, when Col. RICHARDSON, who has represented that County in Parliament, starts in addition to the lake Representatives, the Hon. HEN. CAULFIELD and Mr. BROWNLOW. The flattering manner in which Mr. RICHARDSON has been called upon by the independent Gemlemen of the County of Armagh upon the present occasion, leaves little room to doubt of his being returned as one of its Representatives; the contest will therefore lie between Mr. CAULFIELD and Mr. BaowNLow. On Sunday night the post-boy bringing the Mail from Cashel, under the escort of a dragoon of the 7th Dragoon Guards, quartered there, was way-laid, near Lowes-green, by three fellows, two of whom fired at the guard. The post-boy direCtly turned, and hastened back to Cashel, while the dragoon fired upon one of the villains, who immediately fell. The two others fled, and the dragoon pursued the objeCt of his charge, the Mail, which he overtook before the buy reached Cashel. Since this the bag has been forwarded to and from Cashel under an escort of two dragoons. At the Fair of Goolden, on Monday last, a most outrageous confli& took place between two gangs of ruffians, by whom the peace of the County has been too long infested. Their purpose having been.. known, a detachment of the Queen's County Militia was brought to the place, in order to preserve tran quillity, and an appearance of order for some time prevailed. But the army had no sooner withdrawn, than a regular firing comtnenced between the main bodies of the two parties, who had re speelively posted themselves in the hills at the opposite sides of a narrow valley, and the fight con tinued to, and in the fair place, until several lives (more than can yet be ascertained) were lost. Six men, we have heard, were shot dead, or otherwise murdered, on the spot, and a woman, who was driving a pig from the tair, had her skull blown to pieces. Pitched battles of this kind have, we know, been meditated for former fairs (those assemblages adMitting the colleEtion of the greatest force with the least suspicion), but have been effectually pre vented by the efforts of the Magistracy, suppotteci by military force. And as it .is understood that the event of Monday has but served to lay the founda tion for further massacre, we hope that sufficient attention will be paid to the subjea to prevent the recurrence of an evil, of which the immediate con sequences are by far the most trifling consideration. THE THEATRE.—The Tragedy of Hamlet was last night represented at Covent• Garden Theatre, for the benefit of Mr. and Mrs. C. KEMBLE.—Mr 160Y,11, AC eIDLI;;Y-. No. 62. Portrait of the M ight Hou. Ts; rem:lle, —I. liorp. Nix, R. A. Tiiis Artist has seldom ezerted himself viith mire 'success than on the present ocation . . The likeness is exaet, and there is that ideal excelkince Ivhich was so often, irscutfaited by the late admirable Pr:!si dent, The face is very intelligent. "rhe colouring is forcible, yet simple, acid there is 6ne breadth of light in the whole. No. 15. Furness Abbey.—G. ARNA LD \Ve feel much pleaiure in giving encouragement to rising - genius.-;--This Artist has made a great stride this year, and seems likely to make a distinguished figure among our Landscape Fainters. He is not tco minute in his flues, but unless he is very careftd will fall into the error of too much indistinemess.— The Abbey has a venerable a• , .pea, and the Pidture altogether possesses very promising merit. No. 1,3. Portrait of the late Lord Tliiiriow.—T.PH tt.tt.s,A. The similitude to the departed Nobleman is very exa&, bat the PiCture, upon the whole, 'seems too studiously formed upon a Portrait of Lord Thur which appeared in the Exhibition a few years ago from the pencil of Mr. LAV.-11ENCE. However, we acknowledge the difficulty of painting a Portrait of declining life, when the passions have sobsidod into settled tranquillity, without hazarding affetta tion in the attempt at novelty. The difficult}, is of course greater when a young Artist has to follow the track of a distinguished Master, as in the present instance. No. 75. Portrait of a Chiid.—M. A. SHE.E, R A. This is one of the most interesting PiCtures in the present Exhibition. The Artist has caught the true infantile character, which he has expressed with the simplicity, spirit, and playfulness that belong to it. There is great beauty, with perfect harmony, in the colouring. No. 135. A Country Blacksmith, &c.—J. M. W. Tutu:tic R. A. We have before observed, that this Artist, on the present occasion, seems to have entered into a cont petition with WILKIE, in consequence of the high praise which the latter obtained by his work of last year: This opinion we are still disposed. to enter min, particularly as it seems to be supported by that of those who arran g ed the Pi&ures, and w h o have placed this and Mr. Wt:,x.i E'S present work in sash a situation as to invite and provoke comparison, It does not appear to us that Mr. Tun NER'S genius is properly exercised in works of this nature. to Landscapes and in Sea-views he appears to great ad vantage, but his pencil is much too rough and ne gligent for familiar scenes of domestic enjoyment. There is a slovenly unfinished charaCter in tilt whole of this piece, and the Artist, in aiming at a richness of colouring, in our opinion, has produced a gaudy glare. No. :6z. Sun ris;ng through vapour; Fishermen cleaning and sellini . Fish:—Dii to. Here Mr. Tun NER appears in his proper element, and this is a work highly creditable to his talents,— It is conceived in a hold style, and would maintain a distinguished rank in comparison with some of the best works of the kind. There is a simplicity ai well as grandeur in the whole, that render it one of the chief ornaments of the present Exhibition. CAPTAIN R. KENT. Captain R. }LENT, of the Royal Marines, belong ing to his Majesty's Ship the Conopus, ho, at •th e head of a small detachment of that corps, fell, on the evening of the 27th of February last, in an un successful attack upon a strong hold in the posses sion of the Turks, in the Island of Prota, near Con stantinople, was the 2d - son of SORER KERr, Esq. late Mayor of Cork. He entered into the Marine Corps at an early . period of his life, in which he served with credit tOr 26 years. During the late war h e served on board La Pomona, under Sir J. B. WARREN, Bart. and is - as with him on the Uniberon Expedition. He afterwards was appointed Adjutant to the Division of Marines, and served in that situa tion until the conclusion of the war. Ie the pre sent contest, he served as Captain of Marines on board the Venerable, of 74 guns, under the com mand of Captain JonN IIuNTEtt ; and on the night of the 24th of November, 1804, wa3 ship-wrecked in her on the Rocks in Torbay.: During that tre mendous night he never quitted hia Connnander, but stood alongside of him on the broadside of the Ship, with the sea breaking over them, until the whole of the crew were saved. After quitting the wreck, that part of it on which they stood was soon separated from the remainder, buried in the surf, and, never more seen. He was then oidered Ireland upon the recruiting service ; and on his re turn was embarked on board the Canopus. In land ing upon the Island of Prota, he advanced with his party towards an old Monastery, seate d upon an eminence, in which it was supposed there were only a few Turks ; but-in that he was deceived ; for upon arriving at the foot of the hill on which it stood, he received a heavy fire from all parts of the building —through the windows, loop holes, Sce. Several of his people fell; but he rushed up the hill at the head of his brave companions, and set fire to the gate of the Monastery.. Finding his force very inferior to that of the enemy, he directed a signal to be made for assistance. A severe conflia ensued, in which he continued animating his men, until he received a ball through his head, which instantly deprived him .of life. KEMBLE, though by no means recovered, came for ward with brotherly zeal, and performed his fa vourite part of Hamlet with such spirit as effedually to conceal his indisposition. Mr. C. KE?tIBLE'S merit in Laertes is well known, and was as promi- 1 About one o'clock on Tuesday last a party of regiment, consisting of three privates, nent as usual. Mrs. C. KEMBLE, for the first time, the 43d who had been (oinking at the Great Gun, a pub judgment as to give an increased performed Ophelia, and supported it with so much lit-house, near Brockman's Barn, in Romney talents.--There was a numerous audience. Marsh, challenged a man of the name of M oss (who lived at Burmarsti, but was employed n e , ir CORN EXCHANGE, MAY 25.--Wheat is in consi- the spot, in the ereclion of the towers) with being derable quantities to day, though few prime samples, i a deserter, and on questioning him to that effed, the Millers working so little at present owing to the man said he did not object to surr en d ering him the plenty of Flour, clauses second and ordinary qua-! self, provided they shelved a proper authority— lities to be almost without-buyers ; Barley and Malt that he was about to proceed to his work (the are each heavy in sales; scarce any White Pease ; bell having rang for that purpose), and they might foreign Oats are in plenty, mostly of second quality, ; attend and guard him till one of them had fetched and good samples are dearer; American Flour is : tne Serjeant who commanded; when, on his mov. plentiful, fine 40s. to 435. per barrel. ' ing - forward, one of the soldiers drew forth a Wheat 455 a . 625 a 745 od Beans - 425 a 47 , ; 0 1 pistol and shot him, when be fell dead on the spot, 1 the ball. having penetrated under the :;ciipola of 1;1 I. we ditto - 7 6 s a 795 tact Tick Beans 34, a 4:..s o ; Rye - - Ps a 425 nd (. Pats 215 A 2h) a 305 0 ljatleY - - acts 3 35.6.1 I Poland ditto 315 a 33:; o i leis shoulder through the breast.----The soiclier who Malt - - ()QS 3 67s od Rape Seed 291. 321. os. o,!: A ; & Ifeu anmea.ely ran Wk I .tarUi Fey the, but tea:,White l'ea,;e 72s a 34s 0 , ,t hoe Hour sis 6os a b 3, od wAh his comrades, soon otter taken into custody. G re y ditto 405 a 445 ad Seconds Ses a $5- a