The Sun. — London, England, 1802-11-13 00:00:00

Inst. 0 le Sub- i c atioa penirg mpire ; rnoSt tion of of the robting ns the rithoa ch are Y, aid lea SO l ITIS 1 . I suref Lis Pc -0 Sub [1 co" T. " aru l Th 6 Tlinat e frail ruing► ,te b)' of the ill get e es of diver; 4,lLice-`3 ig 1 " s er w as na we ;a lent ' seal , es claY fro' urreo ~,a re' ,enc o f 'fi n v'' :Od i ' ers. Po lice p ros 6 ° OOP ) cletr a ;sou! :11;4 r ( I ° 4° NO" -455 4 je ct9 4, o ter - shir e • Oa' e Gb _ or , re t s ' lui"s me to fli g g n a OF o any over mu ch fil b 0 0 ' k El'° a fter 1 113 46 obi!' NA VA L NEWS, FALMOUTH, Nov. 10. ARRIVE D this morning, the' Duke of York Packet, Capt. DEAKE, with Mail from Lisbon, eight days Passage. The only passenger by her is EDW. As- LING Esq: of London.—His Majesty's Ships Fin. cep) and Cynthia, of 18 guns each, were lying in tl.e Tagus when the Duke of York sailed from His Majesty's Ship Thetis, of 38 guns, t• L. SHEPHEARD, sailed from Lisbon for C adiz on the zoth . ult. L'Entrelrenante Cutter ar. rived at Lisbonon the 3ist ult. with dispatches from Gibraltar. Also arrived the Speedwell and Hind Cutters, fro m a cruize ; the Brig Fanny, Captain Tilos. Alict.AN, from Charente, w i t h brandy for Lo n d on ; he BAN, Elizabeth and Bell, Capt. W .Nictum, fro m Bourd eaux , w i t h prunes , &c. for Hull ; t h e Brig Ceres, Capt. T. SMYTH, from Oporto, with . ' W ine for London ; and the French Brig Le Bien 446 ' 7 e, Capt. SUCHON, from St. Martin's, with S t' 641 4 to Dieppe, blown off the Coast. isailed yesterday, His Majesty's Brig Raven, of the guns ) Capt. J. SWAIN!, with Dispatches for Me diterranean ; and Nimble Cutter, Lieut. a , ° "LAN, with Dispatches for the Coast of Africa ; 80 sailed the Brig Navigation, Capt. Roartlsos, wi t h bale goods, tin, &c. for Malta and Smyrna. THE THE 4 i AE. Drury-Lane, f or ` t E Tragedy' of Hamlet introduced a new Per. leSt night to the Public, in the Hero of the Pieper* This Performer, whose name, we under stand . S-gu I.s 'Poor, is a very genteel young man. His g a l a Is of the middle-size. His features are re. and capable of expression. His eye is mark e _ intelligent. His voice is pleasing, but not i (l°4ll Y powerful in all its tones. His deportment ' e asy, appropriate,, and quite urraffeaed. u Mr. F OOT h as ev id ent l y a very j ust concept i on f the parr, and, indeed, we believe there is no Iktor at present on the Stage, except KEMBLE, who so thoroughly enters into the meaning of his yth o r. In the earlier stenes, most probably under the in_ hence of ti m idi ty, he, spoke in a very low key, pehich evented his bein g au dible to the full extent the this spacious Th eatre , b ut t h e en c o uragement of Audie nce emboldened him, and he , b ecame mere teini,itinattieiy das he proceeded; and . was after the first aft heard. • tes T t I ,l Nu gh the whole'of his performance he mani te4 good sense, and a critical knowledge of the ti e „,,, r "is faul t s - were chiefly the faults of inexpe and-we.e such as will vanish in the progress b llle and practice. The principal of these'faults f . a s an abrOpt violence of expression, and elevation t°11 ;) in passages that did not seem to demand so r n Petuous or sudden an exertion. Yet the passages question alw a y s justified strong emotion, and h e r e served the strength' of his voice to the close of oPPerformanHisce. voice resembles that of MURRAY, and hi s C nner ha s at t i mes some tra i ts o f K EMBLE ; b ut h as much ori g i na l me rit, and when we consid er y is Youth, his want of experience, and the un r i_ ailed difficulties o f the part, we have no hesitation inerier, oneronoun o Pronouncing his representation of Hamlet al to _ t the very ,best first appearances we ver, attended. t The Soliloquies were given with feeling and re- In the chief scene with Ophelia, he was m uch less rough towards her than Actors have ge rallY been, and in this deviation from the u s ual .4to t t e he displayed no inconsiderable degree o f gment ; for though Hamlet, stung by the de_ fli"eracY of his Mother, utters bitter reflections on L a e , s ex in general, he says nothing that is pecu_ liar, directed against Ophelia, whom he secretly \ri v s ! and whom he treats with wildness and le_ gil t ! , from motives of policy, and to confirm the 4,ll.icion of his insanity. t h;" l ,,e Was very animated, and very successful in t hi . 'lnset Scene. Upon the whole, Mr. FOOT ac_ to if ted hitnselfso well,• as to shew fair pretensions to t ,,, 4 , h .igh post on the boards of a London Theatre, cite, " 1 1 we doubt not he will prove a distinguished -- i t nent The : • Ato t • Th eatre was attended by a very nttmerous s% fav ut e ke, who gave the new Candidate for public o tail of a anost encouraging support through the de... el usi his performanc e , and ratified it en the con. qu. rte " by loud and reiterated plaudits from all .rs. I c.:l fr o , n jhursday a t three o'clock, was launched to n . " iv ir• SMITH'S Yard, an Indiaman, of 1400 of burthen, named the Wexford, in compliment .Arit. \VIGRA:sir, the opulent owner. to rl Tuesday morning died suddenly at Thornes. 1 11 2e3 near Wakefield, in Yorkshire, MrsMiLNES, 1 401 4 .4 whose hospitalitie s w er e w e ll known in the Casi l°"a ble world. Mrs. MILNES'S death was oc. Il a ,i n k Tl ed by a d rops i ca l compla i nt, to w hi c h s h e p re len for several years subjeci. On the Sunday he a r th u ing her decease, she was in apparent good oE, t f,"' but the fcillowing day the common attacks th e h ~ disorder became more violent, and through of gilt they incre as ed so m uc h, that by the dawn gro,j 'enure was spent, and she died without a A ,letter (Irksh- from Bolmfirth, near Huddersfield, den t 1 I re, tells us , t h at a very melancholy acci. th e ' a PPened th ere on S atur d ay morn i n g.last, at Ci tti c ibbli ng m i ll belong i ng to Christopher G reen, da tr , ne r- About three o'clock the wall next the 4th s g c l e way, and, together with about two. Thre lh e roof, fell in w i t h a dre a dful crash.— ri tint e ' fine lad in one bed were buried in the (1; 13 ,: 'and all take n out d ead , , about noon the same The )et A •srie , , ereclion was cwite new, and scarcely niJ MURDER (_ig STEEL. YESTERDAY the Coroner's Jury met at the Ship public-house, in Hounslow, to investigate thceir. cumstances of the murder of Mr. STREL, After being sworn they vie)ved the, body._ Gyles Ddw, a Soldier belonging to, the r Regiment of Light Dragoons, was sworn. Fte deposed, that in consequence of its being gene rally reported that the deceased' was missing, he, in company with several others, went in search of him on Wednesday morning, an kvhen they came to the second clump of 'trees in he plantation on the right hand 'of the StainGs road;. which was aboui 6o yards from 'the roc lip f~lg covered some new grounctmade up in the clr . y ff iitch of the plantation like a grave, as if some person had been buried there. He therrcalled ,to the persons in company with him, and said, " here he' is," upon which one of his-companions came up, and palled a sod of earth which appeared 'to be taken from the bank, when they discovered the corner of the de ceased's neckcloth, and the flap. of his coat ; they then removed the earth,, and found the face of the deceased very bloody ; they found a leather strap tied very tight round his neck ; near the spot where they found him they discovered a large bludgeon, which was bloody, and from the size, no blow could have been given with it but with two hands; they likewise found near the body a piece of a coarse man's hat. Mr. Hughes, a bricklayer of Hounslow, said he went, in company with Daw, on Wednesday, in search of the deceased. He corroborated Daw's testimony, ,and stared, that when he removed the sods from off the deceased, he found the flap of his coat over his face, evidently put so by design.— The Witness produced a pair of shoes, which he found near the deceased, and which evidently had been worn by some man without stockings, and no doubt were exchanged for the deceased's boots. Henry Frogley, and William Wood, Surgeons, of Hounslow, were examined, and it appeared from their joint testimony, that in consequence of the body of the deceased being found, they examined the wounds, and found the skull was fraetared toa - very considerable extent in front, or on the forehead, and this, accompanied with a large wound of the integu ments, apparently produced by violent blows given with some blunt instrument or weapon, had most pro bably occasioned his death. They found extensive wounds of the integuments at the back of the head, but no fraCture of the bone could be perceived. Con. siderable marks of injury were on the neck, which was occasioned by the tightness, with which a leathern strap had been fastened round it, that ap peared almost sufficient of itself to have occasioned death by producing strangulation. There was a large bruise on .the tight arm. 'They were both of opinion that the injury he received on his head was the cause of his death, and this, there is no doubt, was given by the bludgeon, as the forehead was li terally drove in, and the blow must have been given in the most brutal manlier, with two hands. The jury brought in a verdia of Wilful Murder, against some person or persons unknown. A report had been generally circulated that a cry of murder was heard at the Barracks about the time when it is supposed the murder took place, but none of the soldiers went to the assis►tance of the de ceased, in consequence of a regulation that the men should on no account go out of the Barracks, unless the Commanding Officer was present to give per_ .mission. The Coroner asked the Witness as to the truth of this story, which he said was void of foundation, as the men were permitted to, go out to any cry of distress, and they always did, except those on duty. This was confirmed by one of the Gentlemen of the Jury, who said he resides in that neighbourhood, and was returning home on a very dark night last winter, and fell into a ditch, and called for assist ance, when several of the soldiers came to his relief. It appeared that the deceased left his house on Saturday night with only a one pound note and .some silverin his pocket. He was armed with a tuck stick, with which it is supposed he resisted the robbers. It is conjetured he observed them pursuing him, and from where he was found it is supposed he was running from the robbers. The tree was discovered from which—the. bludgeon was cut. The great coat of, the deceased . wasfoundon Sunday in the road in a bloody state. Sir RICHARD FORD and Mr. SHERIDAN were present during the examination. The most vigorous measures are taking by the Police for the apprehension of the murderers; but it would be improper to give the least hint of their nature. The Coroner's Jury likewise sat on the body of Mrs. Fish, who kept the White near Inn, in Houn slow. It appeared that, about eleven o'clock last Wed nesday night, the waggoner of the Farnham wag gon was in the deceased's yard, when he heard the deceased screaming, and making a most shocking noise, upon which he went to the ostler in the stables, and asked if his Mistress was subject to fits, as she was making a great noise, which in duced the ostler to go in by a back door, to see what was the matter, when he found his mistress lying on the fender, before the kitchen fire, burnt to death, in a most shocking manner, occasioned, as it i 3 supposed, by her filling asleep and her clothes catching fire. Her body was the most shocking spectacle ever beheld. Verdict—Accidental Death. Mr. THOMAS PITT, late Master of ti Prince, of 98 guns, is appointed Master AtiendanOta his Majesty's Dock-Yard in the Island of Antigua, in consequence of his services in the Mediterranean when under the command of Earl ST. VINCENT. Vie are authorized to contradil a Paragraph Which appeared in this Paper a few days since, stat.. ing that Mr. IVIANsFIELn was about to retire from the Bar. We are glad to find that that Gentleman has no intention of retiring from a profession in which his talents and legal knowledge have raised him to deserired eminence. On Saturday last was married at Walton, in Warwickshire, JorrN ERSMINE, Esq. Brother of Sir JAMES ST. CLARE ERstn;;E, to Miss MARY I :vicqvutkusT, awghter of Sir JOHN MoRDAUNT., i r RIB' RE.P.oRt.. COURT' OF KING's BENCH, Nov. 12. Tz-us was a day for the Argumeni of Special two of whit+ only were' argued ; the, last will be very important to the Public,. anti of Which we shall give an account when the Judgment of Court shall be given, which My Lord CHI EF Ttce said should be in a few days. The question is, to what extent . a Tenantitiay pull down, what he has erened on , the Premises of his Landlord, for the Improvement of his Farm, &c. and for the Increase of the Profits of it, &c.—a question which affeEts. the interest of; 'almost; every Landlord and Tenant in the Kingdom,_ It was very learnedly„ and ably argued by Mr. Serjeant V t AuGHAN the Landlord, who went over all the Cases which relate to the Rights of Land_ lord and Tenant, as they appeared in the Year Books, from the earliest times downwards_ to the decision of My Lord KENYON ; and by Mr. BAL.: Guy, on the other side ; but an account of which would be premature, before the decision of the Court. CRIMINAL 'INFORMATIONS Mr. ERSKINE moved for leave to file a Criminal Information against Kendal Allanhy, Esq. upon the Affidavit of Mr. Maddison, (as we heard the name) Justice of the Peace for the ToWn'and Cor p Oration of Youth, in Lincolnshire, a Gentleman who acted for that Corporation. This,Gentleman, Mr. ERSKINE said, together with the other Ma gistrates, had been the objeas of the Slander of this Defendant, and he had gone so far as to send to each of them an Halter, so that these Gentlemen were under the necessity. of applying Jo the Court in vindication of the Magistracy to which they be longed, and the Court granted a Rule for a Criminal Information against this Gentleman,which Rule after a full hearing, was made absolute ; but as the Assizes approached, when the matter was to be tried, the Defendant made an apology, which Mr. ERSKINE read to the Court, in which the Defendant acknow ledged his error, and - authorised the'Magistrates at whose instancelhe was prosecuted, to publish. his apology. They conceived, not for their own sakes, but for, the Public, whose Ministers they were, that the apology should be circulated as extensively as the libel to which they referred, had been ; ac cordingly they published the Apology in the News_ papers, but the present , Defendant now felt himself offended, because his Apology was posted up in a Barber's shop, in Which, ERSKINE said, he was unreasonable, for that such a step was in his favour, since if it had not been so posted there, the , probability was, that the owner of that shop, would have increased the report and improved upon the circumstances of it. Rowever, this Gentleman found himself much offended, andlvtd, on meeting the Pro secutor on a sudden, given him a challenge to fight a duel, the, Words of which Mr. ERSKINE read to the Court. For these reasons Mr. ERSKINE sub mitted to the Court, that these Magistrates were entitled to come again for the extraordinary inter_ 'position of the CoUrt. Lord ELLENBOROUGH asked what became of the Criminal Information which the Court had already granted against this Gentleman ? Mr. Ettsictris said, that that Information was at an end, for that the Magistrates dropt it upon receiving this Apology from the. Defendant. ' Lord ELLENBOROUGH said, that with regard to this kind of Apology, a good deal depended on the mode of its circulation. Mr. ERSKINE said, that the Affidavit on which he moved this, positively, denied that the Defend ant's Apology was circulated in this manner. Lord ELLENBOROUGH said,- that if the De_ fendant in this case had committed a bread - v . O the conditions on which the former information was dropt for the time, there was nothing, to hinder the Prosecutors from renewing the prosecution Of it, that if they did, the Defendant could nut stop them• in the course of it, without coming to the Court for that purpose, and upon such fads as were now disclosed, the Court was not likely, to comply with his request. The Parties wete, therefore, entitled to pursite their original information. . Mr. ERSKINE said, that if that, was the case, the purpose flir which he made this motion was partly answered. The Lord Chief Justice .said, he knew of no thing to restrain the Prosecutors from pursuing the original information, -if the Defendant had- aban doned the conditions on which that information was stopt, and that the Party making an apology, tacitly acknowledged that he should demean him. self decently in future; for these reasons. the Court declined interfering in this matter at present. Rule refused. Mr. CLERK moved for leave to file a criminal information against John Moffat, Esq. and Thomas Hovey, for a libel on a Mr. Hedger, an Attorney in 'Worcestershire. The Prosecutor in this Case was an Attorney, who did business for Mr. Povey, and drew a Deed of Composition between that Gentleman and his Cre ditors, containing a clause which declared the Deed to be void if any one of the Creditors,. who had a demand of more than Joh should refuse to execute. —A Creditor of a sum much larger, did refuse, and afterwards employed the Attorney to take out a Commission against this Defendant, which he did; upon which the Defendant published a Book, pur porting to be an account of the Case, with obser vations upon it, &c. in which the, Attorney was accused with afting merely with a view to his own interest in obtaining the Commission, &c. to the Defendant's prejudice—reciting a number of the circumstances of the Case, &c. Lord ELLENBOROUGH observed, that this was a mere squabble between a Country Attorney and his Client, which might be very safely referred to a Jury of that County by way of Indiament.. Rule refused. , DUNCAN V. REEVES. Mr. GARROW said, that in this Case, in which the Defendant had been arrested in Troyer for 5001. which had been so often before the Court, he had now an Affidavit, stating that the Defendant's At torney lead applied to the Plaintiff to know who hit Attorney was , .tfria. : tll4.ol6 had. returned f)r . swer, " he would be d..=--41 if lie' knew who the Attorney was ;. that he was a very. respenable 111116,, an'd that for further particulars they must apply to Mr. Dehlin; the Sheriff;s Officer."--Referring io the fads already stated in this Case, Mr: PARWONi* moved fora Rule to chew cause why 'proceedings in this Anion should not be staid, why the Plain tiff and the Sheriff's Officer, Deglin, should no't answer the matters of the Affidavit, and why they shoUld not pay the costs of this Application;-:—ant that Service or this -Rule on the Plaintiff anik Deblin May be good Service; Stc. Rule granted: UNION HALL. CHALKING UNDER THE'IIAt. rViMain Hill was yesterday brought before th-ls. , Magistrates at this Office,- on, a 'Charge' of having fraudulently taken from the person Of James Mease, twenty-five pounds in Bank Notes. — Mr, "Mease, who is literally a countryman, said, tb.ts , on his return from Westminster, yesterday Mornin,7_:, 1' about eleven o'clock, he, Was accosted ,by a well looking elderly man, who, With the coimnon s:;111.. tations of .the morning, asked him if he was, not from 'Yorkshire ? to which Mr. Mease answel ed in the affirmative, and said, he was in the 'cheese ama bUtter line. Gad so, returned the Swindler, " can perhaps be of service to you ; a friend of mine has just established a son of his in that line of htisi ness at Woolwich, where he , has a contra Et to sop_ ply the Navy ; he is at a house in this neighbour.. hood. lam to meet him this morning, you may as well go with me ;" to which Mease consented, and on their entering a Parlour, 'the Prisoner was there introduced to him as the Gentleman who had a son at Woolwich, :and who after .some rela tive conversation, promised a speedy order. Some Hollands and water was drank, when a third man came into the room, who, to use Mr. Mease's ov.rn phrase, was a very simple lookiv many" and who after calling for some beer, inquired the way to St. James's Park, saying he was going there to see an Officer who had run away with a young Lady, and that he had lost 101. by them. The old Gen.. tleman asked in what Manner he had lost so consider. able- a sum.? When the other said-, he had 14.001. left him, and did not mind the money, as it was won fairly by the Captain. This led to a conversation. 'which introduced the game of Chalking, and or. Mease's producing his Bank Mites,' the " looking man" snatched them from him, saying he had won them, and made off, but the Prosecutor followed, and seized him in the street. The Prisoner w,as fully committed for trial at the Sorry AssiZes. EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM GIBRALTAR, OC;, TOBER 28. " By the last accounts from Malta we learn, that Sir RICHARD BICKERTON had sailed from thence with the ships under has command, to join the five Sail of the Line which left this on the 6th inst. ",It is now certain that the objea of our squat. dron is to watch the force which the French have colleded at. Toulon, where they have now twelve Sail 61 the Line ready for sea, and thirty thousand troops. All our ships, were prepared for aetual set-- vite, they had Again Mounted all the guns which they had put in the hold, on hearing of the. Peace, and it was generally believed in the Fleet, that then .should attack the French Armament if it Offered to put to Sea. There can be no doubt, from the force which the French have been gradually colle&ing in these seas, , that they have some grand object in view, if we do not prevent them from accomplish ing it. Two more French Line of Battle ships passed this to the Eastward three days ago. " Orders are left for every ship that comes here to jolll , Sir RICHARIS BICK‘ERTON without delay. " The •Dey 'of Algiers still threatens to go to 'war witty's, and it is conjectured, from his e assuming so unusual a tone, that he has been secretly urged on by the French to a& as he does, perhaps with-a view. of calling the attention of our fleet from ToU lon Another letter from the same plaee says " Appearances here look very. suspicious. We should not be in the least degree surprized to hear of an action between our fieet• and the, Toulon squadron; for it is no secret here that our fleet has orders to prevent the French armament at Toulon from sailing:" PlibLiC OrfICE, HATTON-GARDENi-Yester day a poor ailing woman belonging tosa Benefit Sa , ciety summoned the •Managers for stopping her ment for six weeks during her illness, though she declared herself to be on the fund. The pretext of refusing her relief was that, keeping a small shop, she was seen serving an article not worth 2d_ whereaS by ar Article of the Society, it is expressly forbidden any Member to do the least labour when they declare themselves sick, There being an in formality in the conduct of the S)ciety for not mak ing an entry in their Journal of the Case, the Ma.. gistrates, ordered her to'be reinstated, and all arrears to be paid to her, A singular accident happened yesterday in the Strand. Whilst a hackney coach was upon the stand in Bedford -street, Covent4iarden, the horses suddenly took fright ; and galloping down that street into the Strand, they ran against the shop windows of Messrs, Miniers, Seedsmen l opposit6 with such force, that the window was dashed to pieces, and one of the horses broke one of its legs so that the bone came through the skin. The horse was irn. mediately killed, The other horse escaped with little injury. circbrmstance of a singular nature, lately oc. curred at Naples, :, A Gentleman with his Lady, walking near , the Sea-shore, was struck with a, poignard by a former Suitor to his Wife, who had the address to snatch the weapon instantaneously ; and with it to lay the aggressor dead at her feet, Henry Elmsted, conviCied in last September Ses sions, of feloniously extorting money from John Bonham, a servant to Lady Lee, under a criminal threat, and ordered for execution yesterday morning, was on Thursday reprieved. Harpy', the other felon, ordered for execution, suated according to his sentence.