The Sun. — London, England, 1802-04-29 00:00:00

NA VA L NEWS. PLYMOUTH, APRIL 27. LATE last evening arrived here a Transport, hav ing a detachment of the josh Regiment on board, bou nd to Cork, put in by contrary winds. Arrived also, the Alexander, Capt. HAt.Y, from London bound to Gibraltar and Leghorn; the Friend- Stmictx, from London for Nevis ; and the Cy 6el e, GRAY, from London for the West Indies, ;11l wind-bound. Sailed the Clyde Frigate, for Chatham, to be paid oft The Ville de Paris, of zoo guns, came into Har. bout yesterday, and is nearly stripped. She will be Paid off in a few days, and laid up in ordinary. Sailed the Unicorn Frigate, with discharged Sea. fief for Ireland. PORTSMOUTH, AP RTL 28. CAME into Harbour, His Majesty's Ships Bull. a' °g and LOlfre. Sa iled the Hop, TROIA/$.5, and Polly, WATSON, ()r London ; Burdon, HALL, for Sunderland; Si. °le f, DE/I:us-I.A, for Cadiz ; and Mary Ann, 4 '°14,0 41 , for Guernsey. SHEERNESS, APRIL 28. YESTERDAY evening sailed up the Thames, in orde r to be paid off; His Majesty's Ships Waal tamheidt, of 24, guns, and Braok, of 24 guns. Came down from Chatham with the men col.. leeted there, for a passage to their Homes to the Northward, His Majesty's Gun-brig Boxer, Lieut. 141 Teirp t , and this day sailed to the Northward. ' T he a;chester is paid. off here this day, all "'ding, and is to be re-commissioned immediately. ao Mond ay evening the QUEEN gave a splendid n " and Supper at Frogmore. The dining-room ~- {1 t he grotmd-iloor was appropriated for the ball ?rn ; it was chalked with devices applicable to the , e , ac e• The company met at a very ear ly h our , 1 1 " the ball was opened at seven o'clock with "Sir 4-l4rvid Hunter Blair," by --• th e Dof Cumberland, and Princess Augusta. - "r‘ ar l°f M orton, - Princess Elizabeth. Colo, of Cambridge, • Princess Mary. of Aboyne, - Princess Sophia. olo nelCoop_er, - _ Lady- A. Murray, e r , (l -lames Murray , . Lady Catherine H arr is . r)Lonel Thornton,' - Lady Anne M. Stanhope. A Youn g Naval 0 tticer, - Lady Mary Bentinck. ,The Zodiac, a German dance, was called by the V tI NCESS ELIZABETH. The Devil amongs t t h e el 'ibrr, Concluded the d ances , at ten m i nutes past eve.- • o clock ; previous to which the PRINCESS E LI /ABE.TH nearly fainted, from heat and fatig u e d ancing. About Jo° sat down to a very eleg ant lU„Per) a nd at half past twelve the company de. l e d• The KING looked extremely well : His I..L. a i es tY wore the Windsor Uniform, and s o did Iv Lewis e a l l the G entlemen present. The QUEEN itS to hi')ll b spirits. at l'esterday HER MAJESTY and the PRINCE SSES , e n ded by t h e C ountess o f C ARDIGAN an d L a d y 1t4"1./NE DAMER, honoured the Ware-Rooms of thZi lt4 ltTs and Pt° AN, Chandos.street, with presence, and were pleased to express the c i approbation of the elegant and tas te f u l i e ztY of t h e i r new M anu fatory. th e -t i s Said t h at t h ere are near l y 70 , 000 l amps i n pa s - t , r°6 t of M. Orto's house. The blaze must be c onCeption. the The LORD MAYOR and SHERIFFS have made up their differences, and proposed to drink a bumper to ri'e'r re conciliation at the Banquet given this 'fiY eat the Mansion-House, after the Procession. dispute was adjusted at a meeting held at Guild tia I fuesclay, when Mr. Deputy WADD nego )l:ted the accommodation, and both parties shook v an An ds• The Sheriff's allowed that they had been —4 er an error. Sir FlERift resigns his Alderman's Gown, which the next Candidate for the Mayoralty is "rir• Alderman PRICE. ast lieSterday a C ourt o f Di re a ors was_held at the of ,India House, wh en C apta i n T HOMAS B ARROW, ' -Britanni a , too k l eave prev i ous to d epart i ng aq 'v.ladras an d B enga l. — Th e C ourt adjourned at ea rly hour till Wednesday next. t i 4 The Lo r d M orn i ngton and Squallow Packets are b a l v y looked for from Bengal ; the former was to e left the Presidency in 061ober. r i t, t is reported upon the most respectable autho ,,av), tha t ove arrived at upwards of twenty sail of Merchant Ships Martinico, from France, but the ern or refused them the permission of loading the Prod uce th e o f the Island. We are, assured also, that itie‘3.overnors of other French Islands have even re. itifti n i the French Ships to anchor until the expiration ti v r e,e months from the Ratification of the Defini. -Ireaty„ /3,,,V,;:rY unfavourable reports are in circulation at In respeaing the ultimate destiny of Turkey tein t , n . rop e , The Court of Vienna has been as tiun l ing a considerable Force on the frontiers of 1 , 4 erY) which might have been unnoticed, had it part accompanied by similar movements on the Said '2' the Russians and Prussians. Negotiations are tion t o ? , be carrying on, whose object is, the restora tof he t , Pol an d as a distind kingdom, in t he person Of 7,4 Pke"rand Duk e C oNSTA NT INE, and the partition Y Europe, between Austria and Rustia. tia(34l R I EDES DALE was obli ge d to l an d at t h e crr:nllto.Kd.autci,co:) , ther e b e i ng no carriage for his ac ublin he w as o b l i ged to be conveyed to • with in Wha t they call ther e a ji ng l er — a Catt i age . on C hotsc that holds sixeople The Th part . vo o i , , 11:_• p nsley, f rom D emerara to Liver. put into St. Kitt's 4th THE HAMBURGH MAIL. THIS morning one Hamburgh Mail arrived. From Franckfort, and different places on the Banks of the Rhine, we have the pleasing intelligence that large importations of English Goods are announced in these parts. It is stated, that a num ber of Russian Merchants had als'o arrived at Frank. fort, from which we may predia a still more extent sive circulation to our English Manufadures. In order entirely to do away the alarms excited by some evil disposed persons, it has been officially announced on the Banks of the Rhine, that " there is no secret article attached to the Treaty of Amiens." The Porte has appointed another Plenipotentiary, the AMEZ I EFrENDI, to conclude a Definitive Treaty with France ; and he has already left Con stantinople for Paris. THE THEATRE. Covent-Garden. The success of CooKß's Falstaff in Henry the Fourth induced him last night to assume the same chara,ler in The Merry Wives of Windsor. We cannot congratulate him on being equally skilful : indeed there is not the same scope .for the exercise of his powers. He began in too boisterous a key, and maintained the same stormy elevation of hiv voice throughout the part. He gave the text with precision, but without sufficient variety in his man ner, and may be said to have read the part with judgment, rather than to have aeted it with humour. His best scenes were with Ford, whose jealousy he ridiculed with vigour and spirit. Mr. SIDDONS conceived the part of Ford judi ciously, and exhibited his jealousy wiih force. He attempted too much by. play, and therefore gave too artificial an appearance to the whole of ;,:, per-, formance. His soliloquies were addressed too de_ terminably to the audience, instead of ippearing to be the workings of his feelings. He c , 'lninitted one gross mistake, for instead of beiriHng' dis appointment and vexation at Falst,-;ff's having escaped from his furious search in buck-basket, he seemed delighted at the embarrassment of the fat Knight, amidst the foul linen and the drenching in Datchet Mead. The other personages in the Drama were not so well supported as to demand any particular notice. LINES, TO WILLIAM THOMAS FITZGERALD, ESQ.* Arm so, friend Fi-rz, thy lib'ral Muse Resolv'd unkindly to refuse Her tributary lay ; Content that thou, so oft her boast, Should'st merely put around the Toast And thy subscription pay The thought of such a churlish part, Proves Man but little knows his heart.— Thou quench the Muse's fire ! No—when thy heart is dead to fame, It still at suff'ring MERIT'S claim, Will animate thy lyre. * Mr. F. had signified, that he no longer intended to pre_ sent his Poetical Contributions on the Anniversary Dinner of the Literary Fund ; but at the request of the Society, he de. livered a 'spirited Address, of his own Writing, at the last Meeting, with his usual animation. Mrs. BILL mc-roN drew fourteen hundred Per sons to one of the Concerts, at which she perform 'ed last week at Bath. The DUTCHESS of YORK was so much gratified with the performance of this great English Svren, that the latter was presented by Her Royal Highness with a very elegant gold Cross, ornamented with a beautiful Amethyst. The revivalof The Man of the World at Covent_ Garden Theatre .has not been quite so troublesome to the Aaors during the Rehearsals, as it was when it was originally brought forward by MACK LIN at the same Theatre. The difficulties attend ing these Rehearsals will not easily be conceived, for such was the anxiety of the Author to have his meaning fully understood, that Mr. LEWIS was kept above two hours before lie could quiet MACK. LIN in delivering the word no, and even then the latter did not appear to be thoroughly pleased with the negative. The Liverpool Theatre, it seems, is to be peremptorily sold," without favour to any body. Mr. A rcicrs, who has long been conductor of it, and has been very successful, will pro bably be one of the bidders. KEMBLE is also likely to come forward on the same occasion, and if he should succeed, with the summer efforts of his sis ter, it will in all probability be a very advanta geous speculation. On Tuesday, Belcher, Burke, and their two se conds appeared at the Quarter Sessions for the Coun ty of Berks, held at Newbury, to take their trial for the riot occasioned several months ago by the celebrated boxing match near Maidenhead. They were attended by their bail and several friends. Mr. DUNDAS, the Chairman of the Sessions, addressed them, and said the prosecution was at the instance of the County, but it had been moved by Certiorari to the Court of King's Bench. He admonished them to leave off the prattice of boxing, and particularly addressed himself to Belcher, of whose peaceable and decorous conduEl he had heard a favourable re. port.' Extraa of a Letter from Berlin, dated April Y 7. " A few weeks ago the PRINCE CHARLES, youngest son to the KING of PRUSSIA, was inocu lated with the Vaccine matter, by Dr. BROWN, First Physician to His Majesty. The Prince has gone through the disorder in the most happy man. ner, and it is not doubted but that this unequivocal proof of Royal approbati on o f an i nvent i on w hi c h promises 'to be so beneficial to mankind, will cause the Vaccine Inoculation to be universally adopted throughout the Prussian Dominions." LAW REPORT. COURT OF KING's BENCH, APRIL 18. STTINGS BEFORE MR.. JUSTICE GROSE AND A SPECIAL JURY, IN GUILDHALL, LONDON. BURKE V. GUY. •Tits was an Alion for Damages for a Libel al ledged to have been published by the Defendant, of and concerning the Plaintiff. To which the De fendant pleaded Not Guilty ; also a Justification, that what he published of the Plaintiff was true. The Plaintiff is a Wool Broker in the City of London, and in December last went down to Chip_ penham, in Wiltshire, which is a considerable cloathing town, and solicited the-suffrages of the Freemen of that Borough, to represent it in Par liament ; on which the Defendant Mr. Henry Guy, a considerable person of that town, published a printed Letter, signed with his own name, insist ing on the unfitness of the Plaintiff as a Candidate to represent the Borough in Parliament—stating, " That as a Wool Broker, he was bound by his bond, as well as by his oath, to confine himself to the mere busines of a Broker, which was that of a mid dle man between the buyer and the seller of wool, who was bound not to deal on his own account for profit, &c. That if he was an honest man, he could not favour the town at all in the way of trade, as it was said he pretended to do : that however he had carried on trade in wool for himself to a large amount, had, contrary to his oath as a Broker, and contrary to the specification of his bond which he gave in when he was sworn, dealt largely for himself and in the course of his dealings, it was imputed to him that he had been guilty of many dishonest pradices ; such as having, on his own account, and in his own possession, large quantities of Spanish Wool, writing to his Agent in Holland to send over what he had there with false marks, and to use various arts to raise the price here on that ar ticle, &c. ; and charging, specifically, that he had fraudulently put into his own pocket 2d. in the pound on Wool, which he was under contrail to de liver as a. Broker (being many thousand pounds weight), to a person therein named." The latter part was the only thing insisted upon by the Ac tion ; and by the averments of the Declaration, the Plaintiff was bound to spew_ that the Defendant's assertion was false. The Trial lasted the whole day. Much of the merits depended on the statement of accounts as they appeared in books ; and therefore the Learned Judge left the case entirely to the Jury as Mer chants, to say whether the Plaintiff' had made out his . Averment or not ; for if he had not, the Defendant was entitled to a Verdi. He took occasion, how ever, to say, that the Bond in this Case war not duly attended to ; for the Plaintiff appeared to have dealt largely on his own. account, although he was most solemnly pledged not to do so'. This was abominable, certainly. Still the Defendant had no right to say of the Plaintiff what was false. Whe ther it was false, was the question—the Jury would judge of that. He was afraid that this was a Libel on a great part of the Trade of Brokers ; and whether it was so or not, the Defendant could not do better than to read it every day he had to live; for it ap peared to the Learned Judge to be an admirable Dis sertation on the Trade of a Wool Broker. That the publication was proved to be made by the Defendant was beyond a doubt ; but the main question was, Whether what was said was true, because the 'De fendant had justified what he had said ?—lf, there fore, it either appeared to the Jury, from the in speetion of the hooks, that what , the Defendant had said of the Plaintiff was true, or if it did not appear that what the Plaintiff complained of, as published by the Defendant, was false (for in this case the Plaintiff had, by his declaration, cast upon himself the burthen of proving his own allegations in his declaration to be true), in either of these cases the Defendant was entitled to a Verdid. On the other hand, if they thought that either the Plaintiff had : proved the truth of the averment in his Declaration, or the Defendant had failed to prove the truth of his justification, the Plaintiff would be entitled to a Verdia. On the subject of Damages, it was pe culiarly the province of the Jury to determine. The Jury withdrew, and returned with aVerdid for the Defendant. , The Officer of the Court informed the Gentle men of the Bar, and Parties in Causes, that to-mor row there will be no Sittings. That on Friday the Causes which stood for Thursday, and those which remained of this day, will stand for trial ; but no alteration was made in the paper as it stood for Sa turday. About a fortnight ago, a woman of one of the Scilly-Islands.(St. Martin' s ) h av i ng the misfortune to lose two or three sheep through sickness or starva tion, possessed herself with a notion that this cala mity had fallen upon her through some supernatural agency, and that she and her sheep were bewitched. Determined to sift the affair, she took a passage to Penzance, to consult a genuine son of the Druids, who is content to sell his oracles under the appella tion of a Conjuror. The Wizard proceeded to work, and soon discovered that the malignant spirit who had caused this mischief inhabited the frail body of an old mare, the property of the un-: fortunate woman, and who had long inhabited the same fields, and cropped the same herbage with the deceased sheep. He assured her, that while this mare lived, nothing would prosper with her, but that if she burnt the mare to death, her future sheep and herself would live long and prosper. She re turned home, assembled her neighbours, who, as credulous as herself, were ready to assist at this aute.da-fe. The mare was tied to a stake, the straw and faggots placed about her, and, surrounded by a circle of ideots, was offered up a sacrifice to the genius of superstition ! In plain English, they aflually burnt the old mare to death. The De Witte Vosse, Lorentzen, from Hambro to Buenos Ayres, was spoke with on Sch Feb. in lat. 26-5. 8. long. 35-9. W. out is weeks by the Fortune, Capt. Halcrow, from the South Seas. The Edward, Martin, from Air for Memel, has been on shore in the Orkneys, where she received considerable damage, and intends to .proceed to Shields to repair, OLD B AIL EY . WEDNESDAY, APRIL 28. TUTS day the Sessions were opened in the usual form, before the LORD MAYOR, Lord Chief Justice ELLENDOROUGH, Mr. Baron THOMPSON, the Rs_ CORDER, &C. John Harris, :Joseph narhail, &tikes, and Henry Borcombe, were charged with a capital offence, in...feloniously assaulting, on the 14. th of March, on the king's highway, Peter Tl2odore, and forci bly taking from his person a silver watch and chain, with a seal, together with several articles cf weLr ing apparel, his property. The circumstances of .this case, which took up the attention of the Court a considerable time, were substantially to the fillowing effect. It appeared that the Prosecutor is a Portuguese Mariner ; on the day above mentioned,_he had been drinking in one of the public-houses in Wapping, • and had got rather intoxicated : in this state, soon • after his coming out of the house, he - was marked by a party of young depredators, with whom the Prisoners associated : the number at first consisted of five or six.: they followed him until he came to Hunt-street, when three or four of the party closed with him, and the Prisoner Harris knocked him down on the steps of the house, knelt upon 11;s stomach, and took his watch from him : another DI the party took a bundle which he carried, and which contained the other articles laid in the ment. They ran off different ways. This took place about two o'clock in the afternoon. The whole transaction was beheld by one of 'the Wit nesses, a Mrs. Smith, who happened to know Har. ris's.person : and the Prisoner Raphall was seen by another of the Witnesses not far from the spot, running away with a bundle. In the evening, about -.- four o'clock, in consequence of the information received, and the exertions of the Officers, these four Prisoners were apprehended in a pubiic.house in Spitalfields. The Prisoner Harris, who it ap peared was that morning discharged from the Tower Hamlets Militia, was taken in the dress of a Sailor. And it further appeared in evidence, that Harris sold the Prosecutor's watch, in the interval, to a Jew dealer, who gave him 11. 6s. for it, and that the Prisoner Raphall came soon after to this person to inquire if Harris had sold the watch in question, and what he got for it. The whole case against the Prisoners was nar rated in detail by a lad of the name of Walker, who had been an accomplice, but was admitted as an evidence.. He was, however, substantially cor roborated in all the material parts of the case by the testimony of Mrs. Smith► above mentioned, an I the other Witnesses alluded to, as well as by the person to whom Harris sold the watch, &c. The watch was satisfactorily identified by the Prosecutor—the Prisoners offered no circumstantial defence, but a few witnesses appeared to their cha raders. Lord ELLENBOROUGH summed up the evidence, and delivered au able charge to the Jury, adverting to such points of the evidence as seemed to him to implicate the prisoners, with the exception of Bor combe, whom his Lordship deemed to be Very slightly aticeted by it. The Jury after conferring some time found the prisoners Harris and Raphall, Guilty Death—and acquittted Stokes and Barcombe. Samuel Clarke was tried for a capital offence, in burglariously breaking and entering a dwelling_ house, which, by different counts in the Indiament, was laid to be that of Henry Styles and Mary - Styles—and to belong to each of these persons se verally ;—and for stealing therein a quantity of plate, their property. The Prosecutors it appeared were brother and sister, and resided together in a house near Staines. In the course of the night, between the 9th and loth of March, a noise was heard in the house by the Pro secutors, who, it appeared, took no particular notice of it at the time, as it4lid not continue long; but on the servant maid's going down the next morning, the shutters were found to have been forced, and a beaureau broke 'open ; from which the articles laid in the IndiElment were taken : these fads clearly appeared from the evidence of the Prosecutors and of the maid servant. The Prisoner, it appeared was affected by ano ther chain of evidence.—On the morning of the following day he met a Jew pedlar who was going to Chertsey, whin he asked if he would buy any wedge, a cant term for plate, and produced a salt.. spoon—the Israelite enquired if he had got no more —to which the Prisoner replied he had, but that it was planted; i, e. buried.—After some conversa tion on the subjed of selling stolen plate, the risk of detection, the Prisoner was induced also to bury the solitary salt spoon—which he did in the presence of the Jew when it was agreed he should meet about seven in the even on Staine's Bridge, in order to settle their bargain about the whole batch of plate. How ever, they had not long separated when the Hebrew chap - man, deeming it unwise to let slip even the least possible advantage, returned to the spot, took up the salt-spoons, and buried it in sanother place, known only, to himself. In the interval, upon ma_ tttrely considering the affair, he determined to go to a Magistrate, and disclose all he knew of it. This he accordingly did, and the Maczistrate recom mended him - to keep the appointment with the Fri soner, and on the produCtion of tie Plae to call in the assistance of those whom he should send with him,. and who were to lie in wait for the oppor tune moment, when the Prisoner could be effectually charged with the transattion, and secured. This plan ;was carried into eireEt, and the Prisoner con dufted the Jew to the spot where the plate was buried—he soon got it out of the ground—in was in a brown bag ; the signal was given—the Constable rushed to the spot, seized the prisoner, and charged him with the commis3ion of the robbers-, saying at the same time, that die bag which he (the prisoner) still held was the proof of it. It happened that the place was very near the river Thames, and the pri soner throwirig, the bag from him with considerable force, it fell into the river ; however it was soon drawn out of its watery receptacle, the contents explored, and which proved to be the plate which had been taken from the prosecutor's