The Sun. — London, England, 1807-12-17 00:00:00

FROM THZ DUTCH PAPERS. .I.BERLIN, Nov. 17.--The Paper called the The 1 ; Telegraph, of the loth, announced that important ;' intelligence would be given in it froM England .on the 'following day.: The intelligence allnded to was accordingiy published under the head of London, and it is to the following purport : , " By an extraordinary opportunity we have re- i ceived information that Opposition Party in L'On- , don has obtained an important victory over the pre sent Administration. The King has given several private . audience's to Lords 'Moms, WELLESLEY, and other persons of generally acknowledged reCti tude and ability, and encouraged them to lay before him a plan fir a new Administration. This mea sure, it is said, is already decided on, and the King liassitemi the strongest disposition to make a change in the situation of the men now in office. The ne cessity of this is plain and evident, since the present , measures of the Government are calculated to bring about the ruin of Great Britain, and the entire destruc tion of her commerce. If any proofs were wanting of the aversion of the British people to the measures of this impolitic and inhuman war, it was 'atforded on the occasion of this fortunate ascendency of the Op position ; the whole city of London was , thrown into a transport of joy, and all the commercial houses were re-animated ; the Prince of WALES, who has been greatly affealed by the late very clear declara tion of-the public mind, through the medium of the Newspapers; it is said, took some alive steps to pro ()nee this important change. After a previous invi tation, he visited his Majesty at Windsor, where he Was received with the greatest kindness and affetaion. A conference, which lasted two hours and a half, took place in the presence of t*o distinguished . Statesmen, who have taken a part in the public affairs under the present Administration. We are assured that at this conference a plan was formed for a new Government, to be seleeled from the strength of the higher and most informedclasses, which will soon be completely arranged; and will, without de lay, proceed to discharge its citifies'. This . account was sent off in the greatest haste,. on the same .day that the intelligence it contains wasfirst known in London. Our correspondent promises to send, with the first opportunity, farther information respeaing events which are of the greatest importance,' not only to England, but to all Europe."--Flushing Courant, tf the Ist of December. KING MAKING. . The *following feu d' Esprit has been circulated on the Continent LETTER OF NAPOLEON BUONAPARTE TO HIS DUO'. r THEE LUCIEN. My dear Brother, . g' Why will you persist in declining the titled of illonsielif, my brother ? Why, when Crowns are raining down on the.heada of all the family, do you Continue unwilling to, try one on ? Doubt not that there will be one found to fit you, since there has been found one which fits pecfealy well. on the. little JEROI4I3. Play the child ,no longer; but be convinced that under existing circumstances therois nothing' better for you than. to' be a Ki. What are you afraid of ?Is it the toils of Sta g ) I will relieve you from them, for you shall he employed to execute my orders, Is it- the ridicule which is attached to the elevation of an upstart ? Trust to my power and my insolence for your guara nt e e. ' Do you fear the poignard of your new subjects begin by killing them, and they will not kill you. You see I explain myself with a frankness altoge ther fraternal. ' If at•length you leave off this oppo sition to my wishes, and to please me, consent in good time to take up the traded King, to which Yoli have such an ill-founded' dislike, but which after all is not a, - bad thing, I will then give' you those counsels which I shall enjoin you to 'fol low, and which we shall find to our mutual . advitit tage,- " Your brother Louts is always complaining of his kingdom as being too marshy and foggy, and that the air is bad for his health. He has a great longing for the Kingdom of the Latins, which I had . destined for you, net to put-you too much out %of your way. I have not yet, however, made up my mind on all thi s , an d a s I shall soon have Spain and Portugal - to dispose or, I postpone my determination till that moment, because I shall then have where- with to content you all. " Enjoy, my dear LUCIAN, the repose which you love, till the proper time arrive, Ere long, called Iva more noble destiny, you will display to the world a new sceptre, in the hands of a new BUONA-. PARTE. Then forget those arts' which at present. form your occupation, and devote your/41f to those which you may learn by serving an apprentice Ship to zue. Exercise the arts of intimidating and oppress ing mankind, by stall% their very murmurs—/ue tilikerunt (flies. There will be nothin wanting to Your happiness, it you'add another stil l more essen tial, and that is, the art of pleasing me. " NAPOLEON." Yesterday MEWS. WALSH and NESBITT waited oh t►te Minister, and concluded on having two df 26,000 Tickets each, instead of two of 30 A00, as they first prOposed. The payments arc to bo made as : Deposit, 21.(1 Dec. to 2;d lan. $ 0 i9th Feb. - 5 0 Three daysnefote Drawing 5 14 17 4 • - and a deposit of l Os.' per Ticket on the second Lot tery, t o b e paid at the same time as the deposit on tbe first. BY the late snow slant's there has been more ter rible destration Gll the sheep farms in the north of Engl4nd than • has ever been elcperienced in this countiy. Mr: Oliver, and another farmer, who oc !_upy two farms at Kid der, at the head of North Yrie, have lost no less than 1400 sheep ; Mr. S. gown, at the Dead-water, 400 ewes; Mr. Dodds, of ,Clintburn, ticoreof sheep; besklesnumerous `.among other farmers in that part of the country; of rich we have received no particulars. These no tappy events are not to be wondered at,when it is eon that the wreaths of snow were in many-in '4uges 16 yards in depth, and over the whOle of Altat.eo - entry, the snow INAS in general doever'ilitlis Anig ,reiumniaercti. IRELAND. DUBLIN, DEC. 12.—0 n Wednesday night last,' the Right Hod. H. GRATTAN sailed from this City fririflolyhead; in order to attend the ensuing Ses-' sion:of the Imperial Parliament. '• • - Arrived from Holyhead, the Right Hon. GEORGE KNOX, Lady, and family, and Miss STAPLES. 'The Court of liing's Bench has been occupied for some days past, in the trial of a cause before the Lord Chief Justice and a Special Jury, where in the, right .of ownership to the Strand, from Ringsend to 11,Ierricin and Black Rock, southward of the wall leading from the Pigeon-house - to the Light-house, by Lord Viscount FITZWILLIAM, is contended against by the Corporation of the City of Dublin, who have claimed it as their property. The proceedings of the General Court Martial, which sat lately in Dublin Barracks for the trial of two Officers of the sth Garrison Battalion, upon the charge . ; of having been found drunk upon . their guard'at Kihnainham, on the morning of the .234 of November last, are closed ; but the" verdita, or result of the deliberations of that Court of Honour, cannot be known until it be laid before the Com mander in Chief, and be approved or disapproved by the Lord Lieutenant or-his Majesty. The accounts from the Counties of Limerick and Galway are of the most distressing kind.— The entire face of the country is deeply buried in snow, which fell most heavily for some hours on the 7th no. . . . The Mail Coach from Enniskillen broke down a few nights since between Cavan and Virginia.-- The bags, containing the letters, were forwarded by the guards on horseback. Some of the passengers were enabled to get to Virginia by means of a re turn chaise, while the remainder were obliged to stop in a cabin all night. Fortunately, none of the passengers sustained any personal injury. Br ISAST,,DEC. I I.—Yesterday at a meeting of the Deputy Governors of this County, for the pur pose' of raising the required quota of men for the Militia, from the Upper Half Barony of Belfast, it was, resolved, that the proceedings should be ad joinned until Wednesday' next, when a general meeting of the Governors and Deputy Governors will take place. We have great pleasure in announcing the ex peaed arrival, in a few days, of the . Marquis of DONEGALL. The • inhabitants of the town and neighbourhood, happy at his Lordship's approach ing return to , resid e atuongst them, have t.iL•termined to ,solicit the honour of 'his company lb a public dinner, intended to be given to his Lordship, on as early ; u.day as shall bu found - convenient, atter, his arjr,i,tud,, as a (111 1rk of respetl and welcome .hrtrae. The list of signatures for carrying the above !into effea is• already most respe&able. and _nu m 'erons.—Celonel .1 , 1. C. MO N TGOAI •of the ldidl, is arrived in Dublin from England, on 'IA4 way to the county of Donegal, to offer • himself a candidate to represent it, in the room of H. 'V. Blioolcc, Esq. deceased. . . SPORTING ANECDOTE.---A few dayksince,:as the Steyning hounds were trailing through Treakles Wood, Sussex ' they found a hare, that,,gme them. a hard run to flew!) Common,. when puss being exhausted, sought for shelter under the roof of a cottager, of lhp.mime of MAZE ; but in Mr. MAZE the timid animal found an enemy equally as fero cioustis her . pursuers, for he • instantly killed her, and concealed her under his bed ; but in doing so ,MAz2 1 , 7 s POt alvare of the danger and diffi culty he was alput to experience, for the hounds coming up in a few mingtes, and the scent of the, 145a,heing strong on his person, they immediately setAqiii ; on him, and had it pot been for the fortunate appearance of the ,huntsman, who found him in a: very,,perilous situation, the consequence might have been Mr. MAZE was alningly glad of an opportunity to deliver up the hare, that be himself !.might have a safe deliverance from such troublesome visitors ! • • On Tuesday Lord Dami tortied out, at Potters-. End-lane, near the Oaks, a remarkably ' tine deer, known by, the name of the Tunbridge Deer, to 3'. numerous and well mounted field, which aftbrded them one of the4Dost excollent - runs his Lordship ever experienced. He took across the Domis, over BOx-hill, crossed the ITh r Moler, and was taken, after two hours, the horses at speed, without the smallest cheek, On the .borders of Sussex, at least 26 miles from the place where he was turned out Considering the vast speed, the heavy weights rode very forward ; his Lordshio was in, and, we are happy to say, looks extremelfwell; life Newmarket CoUrsing Meeting was wholly impeded last Monday on account of the snow There were 60 brace ofhigh-conditioned greyhbundS. who all returned withoUt a'course. DISAPPOINTBD Lovans.—A Gentleman in Port" land-road, who has retired from the busy scenes of life, received an unexpeaed letter on Saturday from• a clergyman at Wellington, near Devizes, at whose house his daughter, a young Lady, I t years, of age, Was receiving private tuition, stating, that it was ab solutely necessary for her to be removed, to prevent her eloping with a Student of Winchester, who had sought, by various stratagems, to accomplish such, tnt object, and, by a billet dour found in the possession of the young Lady, a day WA fixed for what was term-, ed hen/ail/era/la. A Gentleman of t:wname of Leach, uncle to the young Lady, proceeded to Wellington with an Officer ; but on their arrival thither, on Monday morning, they found that she had escaped from the houie of her instrator two hours'before,, and placed herself under the proteaiOn of her para- . mow. The fugitives were pursued to Marl, a lage in Somersetshire, where it was ascertained they, bad apprised the parish clerk of their intended Wed.' ding on the next day, and they wore surprised at dinner by their' pursuers. The young Lady arrived' at the Dublin Hotel, Charing-cros4, , yesterday, with , her uncle, who conducted her home. .-, • • Last night Gregson and Gulley met, by appoint ment, and appeared in excellent health and spirits : they, have agreed to tight of the first of next May, for, 500 guineas a-side. The knoi,ving ones appear thi have changed their opinion of the combatants, Gregsen being tinder the tuition of Mettttozu, whose report is of the most fiattering natal*. • • POLICE. MANSION-tloxistt.—The person who utiderweiti a'tirst examination, on Saturday last, for stealing a time-piece from the countinghouse of. Messrs. Wind us, coich-makers, in Bishopsgate-street, was yesterday again brought up, and the several circum stances of, the charge having been recppitulaied, wei.supported by the testimony ofMessrs.Windus; of Stoker, a watchman on the premises ; and a young man named Groves, the apprentice of Messrs. Windus. • The Prisoner told a very lame story in his de fence, and, in tears, pleaded for mercy. The Loon MAYOR, however, after professing his own regret that aloung man of such respectable appearance, and posse*ssing the means of earning his livelihood reputably, should bring himself into so disgraceful a situation, added, that the nature of his crime was doubly, aggravated, by the circumstance of its being committed under the roof of his old master, where he had so long enjoyed confidence, and derived proteaion and support ; and by his having endeavoured to seduce two younger boys in the house to become the unsuspecting instru ments of hiS guilt, he forfeited all claim to favoura ble consideration ; and therefore his Lordship committed him to prison for trial. Davidson, who was remanded yesterday for fur ther examination upon the charge of endeaVouring to seduce Mary Anne Petrie, a parish pauper be longing to the parish of. St. Peter, Coleman -street, was again brought up, and, on further interrogation, still persisted in his story that he was the girl's god father; that she was the daughter Oa man named• Ramsay;now i►i America ; that he himself . hadlived in the house of ber aunt, in Cole Man-street, for about nine years, and under her immediate, care this girl was until the age of seven, and that he had sought her out by inquiry froM the Parish Clerk, with no other view than to „prow& and provide for her. _ _ It appeared, however, from the testimony of the Sexton's wife and Beadle, that the girl bad been under the immediate care of the parish since her infancy, and had been nursed and maintained for twelve years at the parish charge : that she was never baptised until about six years ago, and then.at the desirc-.of t4e Sexton's - wife, who, and the Beadle, were her sponsors. And it also appeared, that the Prisoner bad: taken her away by stratagem and fulse pretenees, from the woman in whose service she was employed, and brought her to the publie: , !Rinse in the Old Jewry, where she was fortunately rescued by the manly and humane interference of a Mr. Swallow, who overheard' him promising to make her mistress of his apartment, to give her new clothes, and make her a present of ,the ring hom his finger ; AO it also appeared, that his bringing her .to that public-house was preconcert-: ei by the Prisoner WA a woman named Clarke,. the notorious keeper of a petty brothel in Bell-alley, and whb carae. there to.. look, for the Prisoner im- Mediately after he hacl been taken to the Cempter, and had sine attended 'him it: prison. The Loan Who has 'taken great pains to investigate this business, committed the Pri soner to take his trial for the assault with an inten tion palpably criminal. MA 111.130 wrelatimoi:oto ROLTGEt•STREET.•-- The ,house of .Mrs. *,',arl,of Banbury, was euter ed on Monday dutine,the.absence of the ser vants, and sonic valuable property; and a trun k, con ttlitijilg East India' articles of value, were Nolen.— I n f orkwi tio ll was giccu avthis OtEce, and tiamilton, an .aaive Officer, :was diSpatched to find out the thieves. The Orlicer apprehended six persons, throe of whom ,were hackeey-coachmen, two fenrale ser vants, ; who were. left in care of ~the house whilst: the family were at Bath, and' a cook-maid,' who•re-. eently left Mrs. Jervis's, service. It appeared; that on the evening of the robbery, this cook-maid intro-, d uce ,' the three hackney-coachmen to the other two female servants, who bad the care of the. house in Somerset-street, and the whole left it and spent the evening in the Edgware-road, and did not return until one o'clock in the morning, A female called at the ho“se of Mrs. Jervis, at - eight o'clock in the evening, but she could .not gain admittance, and qn her return thither at.pine o'clock, she found the street-door open, and the rchhery was discovered, Waa proved that one of the coachmen, of the name of Herbert, had.lett the company of the.other coachmen and the females from seven , o'clock uutil nine, and that he appeared in a perspiration on his return.' The stolen property remains nndisco verel, and Herbert and the three, females were com mitted tin' further examination. PUBLIC-OFFICE, HATTONGARDEN.----Yesterday an exciseman brought ►t man to the office who w;vi feund working ai private still, in St. John -street, Clerkenwell. The Prisoner was committed for re examination. ........ Mu Prot:ior, a reputed thief, was, after a stout re.,istahce, brought to the office by Hancock. An iron crow, picklock, keys, matches, and phosphorus were found in his posses s ion. He was committed for re-examination. UNION-HALL.-Johrt ems, an old 'man, who has been tried and convicted several • tittles at the Surrey and Weqminster Sessions, for ,petty lar cenies, was brought up again, on a charge of going into a house and taking away a complete set of fire Irons,quite new, which he put under his round frock, the ends being put down his trowseri,' He was fully committed fur 7"- 'The following extraordinary robbery was commit ted at . Liverpool, last WednesdaY stentlight. The London snail coach haring, arrived, as usual, early in the morning, the parcels were carefully deposited in the coach-ottice; but ,when they were afterwards examined - previous•to their being delivered out, a box, 'cOntaining dollars to a large amount, was mis sing,' and could not be (mind after the most diligent search. No traces of violenee appeared on the door, nor did the lock, on being minutely inspeCted, ap pear to hate been picked. Two persons are already in custody`; suipicton of being . cOncernecl its this . aud:lcious robbery. • At Edinburgh, on Wednesday the oth instant,' Burbari2Nakolm, alias Sutherland, was committed to gacbl, by a wAfrant of the Judge of Police,, on a cllargo of administertag poison to her own daughter,' a child ofi4;m:intits old; The poison was given on * Tnesiii - y — toreisenn adtfilie Child died about ,fii"e its . the ti.ellloo, 41, LAW ~PO :re. COURT OF KING's BENCH, DEc, tar 1c.n49- V. HECTOR CAMPBELL. This was ate information filel on the prosecution of the Ruptl`Coliege of Physicians against the Delo 1- ;dant, for a lit*. After INIT. WARREN had stated the several Counts- in the laortUation, ,amounting to seven, ~ • T6',ATTOaNEY-GENERAL sa id , t hat ,as soon as the facts relating to this case were known- to the Jury, they would be of opinion, that if any future regard were to be paid." to the College of Physi., of which the prosecutors were members and ornaments, 'this plocieding was absolutely ne' cessary. It came before the Jury under the direc tion of the Court of King's Bench, which had.grant. ed a criminal information against the Defendant,, which information the Jury were now to try. It' could not be necessary to enter at large into the im- • portance of the duty imposed upon . the ColiegeAl Physicians ; it would be sufficient to say, that it was. their- business to take care ,that no persons, who, were not sufficiently skilled is .Medicine, were to havecontroul over the health and dives of the Mini. bitants,,ef the City of London. The mischief that might arise fromlnattentiod in this respea, the Le.'. gislature had early perceived ; and in .the reign cif Henry VIII. a charter was:granted to the College of, Physicians, which was afterwards cOntirmed,,giving, to that body a contrail! Nvithin the City of London ) , and seven miles round it. By' this grant they «eve .enabled to make bye-laws, arid - to call all ' persons, who praaised without their authority, before thein. It was likewise their duty to examine all who presented themselves betbre them, to form a judgment of .their tittuess to pradise ; and. in case they were, .discovered to be sufficient. ly skilful, a licence was to be given by the College, This office was generally performed by a Court called. Commitio - Alinori, consisting of the President and four Censors. In the'course of the present year, it was communicated to this Body, that a person of the name of CaMpbell was prattisieg as a physipian, withqut &licence; and they itiStivd a summons, re quiring his attendance.. This demand was disre garded ; but when afsectind summons was served upon, him, he thought tik to attend, and it was for his condu4 on that occasion that the,present intbrmatiou had been tiled. The Learned Counsel would be sorry to make any observations upon Dr. Campbell which he did not deserve ; but he knew nothing of his charaaer or his acquirementS„ nor did the .Collt gee of Physicians, any further than could be eolleCted from his conduct, when he was summoned to at teed, which was the foundation of this"prosectitioe. He might, if he had ,pleased, upon , that occasion have obtained the necessary licence, by passirg ,the examination, and showing that he was. qualified for the duties of a Physician ;_buf pow it was almost impossible that be could ever obtain it, because sa person.: who could cooduEt himself in a manner so gross. and ungentlemanly, •must have something so wrong about his, head or his heart, that he could never be, permitted to pranice. : It was unneces sary for the ATTOIMgY-C4I3NEILAL to repeat the de grading and centomelious CXVR•ASIO:IS the Defendant made use Of when he was called before the College,, where he himself Was treated with all the respea due to him, and was 'only required to skew his qua lification, to entitle him to his licence. In cook , (pence of this . denastanour. it, wan. judged. utx.iissarS' to set ve him with ion interdiaion froth . praaice ; and he then thought fit 'to send the most scurrilsus and abusive letters to the President and.censors ut , the Court, before w h o ' ll h e was c i te d to app ea r, which would be read in evidtme. Not satisfied with preceeding thus tar bevons the bounds of pro priety prescribed, in writing a most tic wdalons he returned the bentenee ot interdiction of the Col lege,. signed by the Register, in a s tat e whi c h t h e Learned' Counsel could nut hod any terms in lctta guage . sufficiently decent to e4press. It wouli, however, be produced by the Witnesses ; eked ris.: Jury would have an opportunity Of t'rmin> a jo*.t estimate of the grossn es s and vulgarity ot th e De fetularo condu6.t. It .would be enough to say of it; that no man who pretended any thing above the rank of the. most degraded 'individual io society would have condescended to a praeAlc.e so indeeet t and offensive. The Jury had only; to dett_riu'o, ;f the Defendant was guilty . of - the libel complained of ; and if he was, the Court, at a future peried,. would have to decide what punishment should i)c hifliaed upon a person who had thus concluded himself. The Charter of tienry'Virf.' was then put in, as, also the Book containing the byelaw of the Col lege of Physicians, entitle% Statuta collegii Medi corum Lomli . nensium, ,by which it appeared, that this body had authority to call before'them all prac tisers of . physic without a licence, and iu C 360 Of; non-appearance or inability, to:interdi6t them front such proceedings. Court . issuing these pre cepts, was to CollSiit of the President and. four Censors. Mr..NOLAN, for the Defendant, here to .k t‘vo legal .objections.to the record the on. was, that. it was ayerred that the Commitio .11inori was to be formed of the President and tour Censora whereat , , by the bye-laws it was shown, that it Wai sufficient. if those persons were present. .The other objection was, that in the declaration the stuntwins to the Defendant was not signed by the Register, when by the bye laws such signature was required. 01 the floc. of these the Chief Justice took a note 3 but the lat.. ter was over-ruled. . . . . . . The Book of Annals was next produced, by .which it appeared that the Defendant attended upon I he : second summons from the College t Physicians, anA that an interdidion was afterwArds i*sued, and .ser‘eCt 'upon hint. . _ _ - Dr. James Hervey deposed, that be, was Register, to the Commitio Alinori,..and.. signed a silo ittl.Ql)s-.14 the Defendant 'on the tith of February, vu the b;h7 of March, and likewise ~the interdiction on the 3d of April. On. the 4tb of. April he_received a leiter, containing his attestation to the interdidion 'thy Defendant to pratlice, . This inclosure W 34 now produced; and the pap.c.r, in which. it val v.ll t was read .by Mr. Lo‘rr h e former appeared to be in a state tQco disgtlqiug ! and (.Iffensive. to describe, without ()trending evei, the nuht insensible and degraded of the human. Apt;-1 , cies.. Dr. Hervey added, that at the time, hp rtept , ed it,. it was in the-sat*:l,.k.:4ndition, •... - , ?Allier,. tire Beadie to the Collei , •e, gaff! eviaencet to thvservice of did ditfereat )1.1111111011S;n