The Sun. — London, England, 1802-01-22 00:00:00

NAVA L NEWS. PORTSMOUTH} jArt. it: Tile whole of this day it has blown A violent gale of wind from West, which has driven several Ship s a considerable distance, but we do not hear of any damage. Arrived the Nile, DRAYTON, from Jersey; and apsi Mar}•, WoonNtAN, from Plymouth. DEAL,. JAN. 2,1,. Altß i the Ajax Man of War, from the Me diterranean, and is put under quarantine. ?MARGATE, JAN. 21. . THE Neptune, from Seville, had an anchor and cable sent offlast night, having cut, to prevent her running foul of a ship. . . Capt. Ditsnlit,, of the Venus, of Baltimore, - is tome on shore to get an anchor and cable, liaying . been obliged to cut. • It blows a very heavy gale at'l\7.l7.W. five or si x o f ' t i le Indiamen. are in the. Channel : one dyov,e this morning, butall is well. at present. ~4 a ro#'- o ur *id fs . veiltclC4n,ihis morning, and four men were drowned. MEERNESS, JAN.-zi. IT, has blown : with the most excessive violence, N.W. mid by W. the whole of this day, and parr oflast-nght ;' so that nothing whatever c;m attempt to stix at this Port. ' TIIE MARINES. W t have before had the.pleasure of stating the good condua of the Corps of Marines upon the occa sion of the late, as well as everyforrner Mutiny, in the Fleet.-4Ve have now the satisfaaion of being able to lay 'oef'ore the Puh the Correspondence which passed at Thzarhaven, Men to both from the the Officers, in offering their most zealous services, and from the Admiralty and Admirals , in appro. bation of th e i r conduft. No. I. SIR, Bea-AarveN, .12th Zee. ISO I . W e, the Non-commissioned Officers and Privates serving as Marines of a Detachment under your Command on board His Majesty's Ship Princess Royal; have heard with pleasure of t. gallant condua of our Broth2r Soldiers on board His Ma jettrs Ship terncraire, and therefore beg leave to express -alike with them, our determination to oppose, with all our Ini at and Power, all unlawful Combinations, and our rea ' 4:l4 ess t o obey our Officers night or day: Signed by the Whole Party. o s t euttnant-Colonel Tz.Nctl, K, M. S. Princess Royal. z No. 1 3at Res2lution, Balmy ,13 4 y, Dec, rstfr, iSat. y„ h op e you will p ar d on t h e lib erty we ta k e i u a dd ress i ng h -- ; :but as we u nd ersta n d t hat some Sh i ps ' Companies I.7(l'ls° *Tecl the just commands 'of their Superior Officers, fi a-nd k nowing as We do the dreadful consequences that far lY attended same pradices ; for. our parts we abhor the wid ea , and w e h ope y ou will inform E.:aptain'GAß DN ER, like; the Admiral, tha t i t i s our firm resolut i on to support 4nti m aintain our Officers in any . thi ng which they may think, pro p' e r ' and that which is best calculated to promote tfi 'lnterest ?lour King and Country..,. I have the Honour of subscribing myself, and in behalf of the Detachment of Marines, Your most obed4:nt humble Servant, • • L I • `r c ic km H. NS Serjeant < 4Pt• FOR.sn.Ati.Marine • '3'''' 14 0. in . .`,) ?.3 7,1, 7 Toro,}, ,Der. zsth, zl3?f . 'rh e L oa Tl i C ; chturtzisi oNeu. s of the ADMIRALTY having expressed their high satisfadion of 'the. k,obd condiia of the Ivlariaes of several of the Ships nailer my Command, you at Bearhaven with in declnring. their abliorence of the Mu tinous Proceedings 'Which chbra had l ate l y taken place at that an ge,- and of their having come forward upon that o:_•ca sion, so.mttch to the honour of their C orps and t h e i nterest of their COUnfry ; • I am to desirv.that you will be pleased to communicate, the same to them,' and'assure them that I feel highly grateful on the present occasion. . . (Signed) WM. CORNWALLIS. To Vice-Ad Admiral Sir A. MiTeIIE.LI., ' . &C. &c. &C. No. IV. Spithead, Dec. 29, 18ot . It •=i my direaions to the Captain s o f Hi s M a j esty ' s Ships, ria tned in the margin,* under.my orders; to communicate to the Marines servingon board the respeaive Ships under their C ommand, the above Letter from the Commander in Chief; and I feel equally happy their good condua has merited !e!,:11 z Mark of approbation iron; him, and the Lords Comh-lis -sioners of.the Admiralty. (Signed) A. MITCHELL, •' Wiildsor Castle, Piincess Royal, Malta, and Glory, By some official mistake, the names of the Reso. intio n and rorg . eance were omitted to be inserted in v• "It ANDREW MITCHELL'S testimony of applause. and thanks ; but it has been publicly declared, that the Marines of those Ships had been aauated by the tame spirit, ma r l had made the same honourable de.. flotation in.gtifirmatio n of theik Loyalty, and in s uiport Of I,he..disckpline of the Service, as their brother Sofdicisin the Ships specified. C•ipt. JOSEPH BAKER, late of the Calypso, is nticle Post, and appointed to the Ganges, of 74 guns, in the room of Capt. FRFEMANTLE, resigned. It was stated in the House of Commons on Tues. that the French Fleet in the West Indies is great beyond example. It should, however, be re "olleded, that the Fleet of the Count de GRASS e, Which was so completely defeated by Admiral ROD. k tY/ in 1782, amounted to 36 Sail of the Line. tHE LAZE titirtAr?, M the trials of the Mutineers tin bdArci the te rneraire are now concluded, and the particulars made public, the various newspapers begin to press their sentiments 9n this subjetli With re gard to ourselves; we 'entirely coincide with the. wise and- prudent opinion of the Minister, that too little cannot be said on this subjed." As, however, others seem more willing to display their talents of moral and political reflexion, than to con sult the harmony and concord of this country with its Navy, we are prompted, by an eager desire to promote theie patriotic objeCts, ,also, to declate our sentiments on the subjed. • I • From every circumstance that has " come to light during the trials of the Mutineers, we are con vinced the - late _Mutiny, though-calculated to excite very serious alarm for the moment, ought rather to inspire confidence than to excite alarm with regard to the dispositions of our Navy. After the violent Mutiny at • the Nore, which was preg-• nant with the most melancholy forebodings to this Country, there was reason to dread that some roots of the gangrene might still continue to rankle un, perceived in the breasts of oar Seamen, and might :at a future period take such a hold and spread so. _Widely as to defy any remedies we had it in our power to apply. The introduCtion of a new spirit . of Sedition along with some disaffe6ted Irishmen incorporated with the Navy, increased the appre; hension of the Public, who began to augtir that this . . would give a new accession, to the vigour of• the distemper. As soon at the reports of: the late 'Mutiny having taken place reached' the ears ;of the Public, every one looked upon his fornier apprehen sions as, realized, and, with a melancholy. fore. 'boding, began to look. forward to the incessant re - petition of MutinieS, every one more daring and 'MOre disastrous than another, till at length, 'oar Navy—our pride, our glory, our defence—should , prove the means of accelerating our inevitable ruin. Nothing could have happened more favourable to the' dispelling of these gloomy apprehensions, than the iesults "of the late Trials at. Portsinouth. These . -proved, it the most satisfaCiory manner, that the vigorous measures taken by GovernMent on the . . Mutiny at the Nore, had entirely quelled, and we hope, for ever eradicated; that spirit of rebellious Mutiny which could excite our Seatneit to turn their Arms against the bosom of their -Country.. • The late Mutiny is demonstrated to have been merely a temporary disobedience to certain orders which excited momentary chagrin ; - and this dis obedience was entirely confined to one Ship, without being in the smallest degree propagated to the rest of the Squadron of which it formed a part --Had any embers of the former fatal spirit of rebellious mutiny remained, on their being once excited to flame, the conflagration would not have stopped short within such narrow bounds ; as on the former occasion, it would have spread like wildfire from Ship to Sitip, from Squadron to Squadron, acquiring strength from the security inspired by the present Cessation of hostilities. The evidence of the Wit nesses, and the dying confessions of the penitent criminals, prove that loyalty was never torn for a moment from their hearts, even while a sudden pulse.hurried them on to commit an adiOn which drew down on them the just vengeance of the violated laws of their country. While, therefore, we lament that any of our brave Seamen were.for a moment tempted to forget their duty ;. while we approve of the rigorous exe tutiOn of justice'on an occasion calculated w fill the Nation with such alarming apprehensions ; let us arthe same time reflex with exultation, that the spirit of rebelliOus . Mutiny appears quite extin-' • evished in our Navy ; that the present discontents .43 arose merely from personal and momentary causes ; and that even in the parOxysms of Chagrin, no sen timent was emitted in►mical to patriotism and loy alty.. Let us rejoice to see our brave Scipnen con vinced, that even momentary Mutiny justly de serves : to be punished With death, and approving cif the sentence inflited by the Laws of their Conn try---on their deluded companion's:. And let us hope, that . the present vigoroas measin'es. Of Government have for ever pia a stop to mol'ilentary Mutinies among . our Navy, as they formerly 'eXtinguished the spirit of Rebellion. The dreadful fire. which happened on Tuesday afternoon near DOWgate-hill, arose from the snuff of. a candle being imprudently thrown on the ground near one of the hogsheads, in the ware laouse of Messrs. Richard and. William Pugh, coffee merchants.- The conflagration began in the lower part of the premises, and was first discovered by the strong smell of the burning coffee with which the warehouses were filled. This spread the alarm in the neighbourhood; the doors of the warehouses. were immediately opened, and several persons went in -and endeavoured to save a part of the .property ; but, from : the strong, suffocating effluvia . of the. coffee, they were obliged to relinquish their be nevolent intentions. Opposite to t► e. tire, was an engine.house belonging to the. Sun Fire-Mee ; one engine was brought into play before half after five o'clock ; several others arrived, and were put in motion by six o'clock, but the conflagration had by that hour extended, too far to stop the approach. ing devastation. The principal object worthy of attention was the opposite premises, a range of warehouses in the bottled porter line ; these were drenched by plentiful supplies of water, and saved . from impending ruin., The flames continued to increase in 'the warehouses of Messrs. Pugh until eight o'clock,• when the stupendous crane in the front of the premises gave *ay, and fell into the middle of the street with a horrid - cr . *, bringing down with it the whole of the frOnt,kud several waggon loads of coffee ; happily ri4aceidetnt attend ed. the fall. The lances continUetio consume the premises until midnight, by time the neigh bourhood was out of danger. The dwelling-house was providentially saved, and the houses adjoining escaped uninjured. Thursday was committed to Gloucester gaol, by Mr. JOYNER, COtOtter, Thomas Baker, of Chipping ' Sodbury, currier, for killing John Jones,. currier, by a gun-shot, the preceding day. Jones has left a.wifeand four small children to lament the fatal catastrophe. tAW REPO kt: (*)oll.'t OF tONINI6N IAI4. lINGS AT GtifILIMALL, REFORR LORD ALVANLEi AilL. A SPECIAL fUlt-ii. EEI4S gAtvtAN Klc IiARTUSON. • 9, THE Plaintiff; who is a Foreigner, having Certain claims upon the Government of this Country, ap plied to the Defendant to `solicit them for, him at the Treasury, and advanced him t 001.10 pay certain fees or gratuities upon the occasion. The Defend ant obtained for the Plaintiff a warrant for !tool. This alion was brought-by the Plaintiff to re c,over.back the loot. which it was altedged had not been paid by the Defendant in fees or gratuities on occasion of the Plaintiff's claims. It was alledged on, the part of the Defendant, that the Plaintiff had agreed to pay him lot. per cent..on the whole ,sunt which the former should obtain for the latter. This agreement, however, being considered by his Lordship as illegal, the claims of the Defendant were placed on the footing of a Quantum mertiit. The Jury_ gave the Defendant 51. per.cent. for his trouble, which,' added to a small sum for'ex penceS, left a balance of 391. 14.5. due to the k'Llintiff, for .whom they. found a . verdiet with that sum. BEFORE A COMMON JURY. MACNAB AND OTHERS ti. THOMPSON. This was an Action to recover a sum which it was alledged was due from the Defendant, who is a Bookseller, to the Plaintiffs, for the printing' of certain books at their press.. • h appeared that a person of the name of Griffiths, ostensibly, carried on the concern to which. the De fenaant was alledged to be indebted, that his name was over the door•trf the shoP; that. it was affixed to 'the„ books in question, and that his name only was entered with the Clerk of the Peace as carrying on the concern. Mr. Griffiths having become a Bank rupt, the Assignees sold to the Plaintiffs the stock In trade, &c. for.sool. and it was Contended on the .ot•her side, that this_ ; ,was only a colourable transac tion, and that ~Griffiths . uaually carried on the 'business on his Own account, and thereforeought to have been made the' ViAiiteitT in this anion, the present Plaintiffs bay ing no right -to•sue. Lord- ALVANLEY was .clearly of opinion, from the words and construaion of the Aft, called Lord anorr's Aa, which direas that no person should carry on . thetrade of printing without entering his name with - the -Clerk of the peace of the County, or place where he residfd,. that the -Plaintiffs had no.right of anion whatever, as their names were not entered in - the 'manner prescribed by the Al, the name of Griffiths' only remaining in the office. 'of the Clerk of the. Peace; as attached to the con cern to which the Defendant was'. alledged to be in debted. • The Plaintiffs were therefore non-suited. EXTRACT OF A LETTER F;tONl QVEEEC, DATED Nov. 26; -' "'The - weather • is - remarkably open and mild, although the middle of November is now pasta Every article of life is now in the greatest abun dance here, and as soon as-the winter sets.in, pro_ visions will be sold at a very reasonable rate. The Inhabitants of the Country are all comparatively enriched by the high prices which they received for the produce of their 'farms last winter and spring.'.' On Tuesday se'nnight, at the Ball, Gloucester. house, Hotwells, Major HENR.Y VATICHAN LANE, in the prime of his life, formerly of the 134th Regi ment, and late of Cork, after (lancing some time, complained to his partner that he was tired, and sat down ; immediately after he was seized with a paralytic stroke, and conveyed to his lodgings, where every medical assistance, as rendered without area, and on Friday .morning he expired. On Wednesday last a .waggon containing fifteen hundred pieces- of India handkerchiefs,. together with too tubs of Holland's gin, was seized by some Excise.:officers on' the Whitechapel 'Road. It appears the ri-W•i - were brought from the coast of Essex on the fi l aerling night, and the. Smugglers had chosen the middle of the day to arrive in Town,_ as the most.likely to escape suspicion. The loss occasion ed to the Smugglers by this seizure will amount to upwards; of 30001. Li the disastrous crowd of vessels, with the wrecks of which the late dreadful tempests have covered-the coast of the Northern- SeaS, was one bound from the port of Archangel, in White Rus sia, fo Dublin, which, borne by the fury of the wind, Was cast away on'the drearylsland of North Faro, at a great 'distance North-west of'the Ork. nay and',Shetland.lsles. The ,Master,.Capt. Hard - - castle, and six of his crew, got 'safelyon shore s where 'these hardy Mariners, preffring to biave once more the dangers 'of the main to a dark and dismal winter resider ce in such a place,• purchased one of those slight skiffs called Norway yawls, and availing themselves 'of the scattered remnants of their Nessel,' raised the sides, and decked over this puny : bark, in which, having fixed such masts and rigging as she could bear, and-put on board water and' provisions that required no dressing, they boldly put to sea, and after a favourable voyage of seven days, entered the river Liffey on Sunday se'nnight, where this curious bark lies moored off the Marine School, a monument of nautical in genuity and intrepidity. • The following shocking accident happened on Tuesday se'nnight .ar- - HrightlielinstOne i— A girl about.six.years old, daughter of .a Fisherman named Daniels, was in the absence of her mother; entrust ed to the care of her elder sisters, who soon after the %%retinal) had quitted the house, ran to play in - the street, and left . their little charge alone in a room where there was a fire, which, on the child's too nigh approach, caught her clothes and set them in a blaze. Her cries brought some neighbours to her assistance, who extinguished the flames; but the poor infant was so miserably burnt that she languished till Thursday, and then expired in great aguny. 141 "ttrE understand, by the advices of &if Coifeis liondent in sun,, , rarvaii,.thift tnsign d. tit the Leitriii Militia, had been aita&ed by some Berson or persons unknoivn, on the z4.th tilt. and. was found the - succeeding - thorning in the streets of that. town, in a state of insensibility, froth a blow he had -received on his head. the unfortunate G:mtlemaa languished until the z7th, and died.;:--; The striC.est search is making after the murderers; or whose apprehension a large sum hal been offered. An Acccii4t of the quantities of Grain, Meal Flour, and, rice, imported into Great Britain between the sth of January, iSoI, and the roth of oao bet following, being a period of nine months t qua. bush. 107,067 6 —14,60 n - 539,7 0 9 2 - 39,39 8 2 7 .92,693 7 - 1 , 0 35 4 7 1 7 407 4 1.2 boils IUS. SO 124 cwt. qrs. Mt:, 16%,416. 2 19 *728,428 . 1 I 107,667 2 17 2 4503, 6 3 7 Barley Beans Oats Pease Rye Wheat - Indian horn - Oatmeal- . R yemeal Wheat Flour Indian Meal - Rice - Total 4869,656 6 S^ 124 4243,643 1 16 Equal to 291,311 Enilish sacks. The wreck of the ship Gates&ad, which has lain upwards of four years on the Herd Sand, at the en.. trance of Shields harbour, was last week turned up by the violence ,of the sea, and a great quantity of iron and deals recovered. Part of the - wreck has driven down to the bar,. and some ships have struck ppon - - - , - In consequence of provisions, &c. being - now.per. 'pitted to be imported, the price of fresh pork is reduced in thelsle of Wight from 16s. the score to ti.•6(l,:' vei-y good,in quality. Eggs, which ten ays ago sold for 3d. each, sell at one penny. — tench hareS. is. 3d. and partridges 7d. each. It now appears that the depredations committed It . the I Burial Ground near Lady Huntingdon'S chapel, 'in Spa fields, 'far exceeds what was at first 'imagined. Besides the two dead bodies which the .man had in a basket, who was stopped by the.pa. trole about six weeks or two months - ago, but made his escape from them, many other bodies ~ are missing from the ground. Thc. Parish Officers of elerkenvielf have, much to their credit, been very aetive in endeavouring to find out the offenders. They, caused many graves to ,be opened, when, shocking' - to relate, not Only the corpse, but the • shroud, cap, pillows, and, even the nails from the coffins weretaken away. Suspicion having fallen on the.Grave-digger, he is indiEted for the offence. • ' PUB LI C.OFF IC E, HATTON-GARDEN.-Yester. day a seller of bread, afting under a baker, was charged with exposing for public sale a large quan .rity of bread deficient in weight, who sold the same three halfpenee under the Assize ; but by the de ficiency in the bread, it appeared that the profit of the baker on it, exceeded that of the fair dealer very considerably. This being the case, the agent wat, convicted in the penalty of. 4.5. an ounce, being 84 ounces, amounting to 161. r6s. besides costs, and . the bread forfeited to the poor. ~ ~ . AN E COOT Countryman who had, by a con. currence of fortunate .circumstance, , , become pos sessed of considerable wealth, wished to have his family arms, and for this purpose repaired to the Herald's Office, but unfortunately none were to be fonna; upon which he desired to have a device,. if it could be executed, as he had prided himself upon his family arms.. For this purpose lie was asked if himself pr . family had done any brave• or. valiant deeds, &c. After considering the matter some time, he honestly told of his grandfather having been con, Etnedin Newgate, and,after much labour and diffi, culty„ effeeling his escape by tying a line to .the statue - of King jowl, and letting himself .down to the street. This was sufficient for the Herald, who immediately told him arms should be prepared ;• for it• was evident he was in a lineal descent from King John ! Mons, St. Clair, whose ingenious and . truly wonderful Phantasunagoria of Supernatural Appear. ances, has itirpriied and drawn the most respeaable Audiences to the ROyalty Thtatre for some weeks past, takes leave of his numerous admirers to-mor. row night ; this most plea Sing, thou&h at. the same time extraordinary of all'medern• amusements, being about to appear at the . Theatre Royal, Li: veypool, in the course of a few days, and afterwards in' Dublin. - - • • Twoofthe Fortune-Tellers lately examined at Bow-street, lyere l on Saturday tonvided at Ccrken well, and sentenced; the" one to three, and the . othtt to six months imprisonment. Ort Situ day night a .torribk riot took place in SMithfield, between a desperate gapgtand the pa vole belonging to the Parish of st. Se z pulchre but after a stout resistance, on . the part . of the latter, three of. the principals weri safely lodged in Gilt.. spur-street Compter, to the joy and satisfadion of the peaceable inhabitants. POTATOES PROM THE PLum.—Andrew Ander son, a'nail:;niakerrof Aberdeen,.raised from the.seed last year,: potatoes of a surprizing size, some of them weighing between 4 and 5 ounces. His..me.. thod was the following :--Heitook the apples from the stem in the preceding autumn, cwt them in pieces, and squeezed the seed,among water, which separated it from the pulp. The seed was care. fully dried, and in •the beginning of April sowed in a bed, • in the same manner as onions: Or tur nips-. • When the young. plants were - from 3 to 4, inches high, they were transplanted, and the wea. ther - being dry, were carefully watered. They throve amazingly, and when dug up, had at some of the stems 20 of the size of a pigeon's egg ; at others so or 6e. The seed was taken-from what is commonly called the Callico Potatoe, that is, white, roundish, red nose, and red eyes. From this, the following=five varieties were got :—r. A. round white ; z. The common kidney • 3. A long kind of a blush colour ;. .4. A long kind, with very prominent eyes ; and, 5. A round =nice,. which was the mast pradative of all. i" t f~