The Sun. — London, England, 1807-12-05 00:00:00

NAVAL NEWS. PLYMOUTH, DEc. a.—Sailed the Endeavour lired Armed- Brig with a Convoy for Wales ; and the pound and Scorpion Sloops of War on a orulze.. , The Narcissus Frigate is gone out of Harbour, and anchored in the Sound. Arrived the Revolutionaire Frigate from a cruize off the Coast of Spain. PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 40—Dropped down to St. Helen's His Majesty's Ships „Gdnges, Agamemnon, and the Alfred, where they were joined by His Majesty's Ship Defence, and will sail to morrow, if the wind is fair, with sealed orders, supposeik for the Mediterranean, after calling off Ireland. SHEERNESS ) DEC. 4.—This day a Court-Martial was held on board his Majesty's Ship Magnanime, In Sheerness Harbour, for the trial of Mr. G. SAN.. DALt., Master of His Majesty's Ship Astrea, for Drunkenness and improper conduet as an Officer, gm; when the Court, after bearing evidence for and against hitu, sentenced him to be dismissed His Majesty's Service. The Court then proceeded to try the Cool; of His majesty's Ship Procris, for Contempt and I)s -cliedielice of Orders, &c. when the Charges being Pioved, he was sentenced to receive 50 lashes. FIALINPLiT Fivs.--Arrived His Majesty's Ship nailleur frdiu the Baltic, and the Danish Ship Fuen, of 74 gun's. Vassed by- for the River a great number of Ships. DEAL, DEC. 4.—Arrived the Humber Armed ship from Falmouth, with a convoy, which are sailed for the River; al3o the inch's, -, from Madras, last from, Portsmouth. The Huniber remains in the Downs with the Ships as per last; also several other outward-bound Y!ssels, tsLANDs of SCILLY, DEC. I.—Came in a Fleet 1 5 . f Coasters from Ireland, under convoy of the. Ar gos Sloop of War and passed this morning a Fleet of large Vessels, seven in number, supposed to be Men of War,. with a fair wind, down Channel. Dec. 2.—The Ships of War sew yesterday pass ing close to Islands, were Sir SAMUEL Hoop's Squadron, Which, was.spoken with by the Pilot boats of this place, all well, Wood to Cork. Sailed his Majesty's Sloop of War Argus, as con 40y to a Fleet of Coasters from Ireland, bound to London. .t LVDI.I. M b y ADRAS COVERNMEN r GAZETTE, TV.1411 Letters received from t h e I s l e o f F rance announce !hat two very, severe gales of wind have been ex- VeriefiCed them, the last of which destroyed a great Out df the plantations on both the Islands: Many cif the buildings alsO were materially injured. The ba l m Brig Sophia; which had anchored the even -11:1g before the gale, was driven on shore, and lost Uith all her cargo. The Island of Bourbon has hanged its name to that of the Isle of Iluonaparte. Tlit utmost distress was experienced at the Islands breed the want of provisions, as there only. remained 'fit hand sufficient for three Months longel% Rice iVas selling at, tett dollars per cwt. A Danioi wh e t h alt cached Trangstehar from the Isle of France. She teriorts she was 'detained there for upwards Of three weeks, tO prevent her . giving intelligenCe of the sailing of the Piedthonte,e for India. The' Dane says;. that the abOVe Ship, and th e Ccatlio»ice, which is on the Manilla station, are the ' only Ships of War now cruizing agaimt our trade. The Sonillitnte had been dismasted in a him ..XiCane, and was returned, to repair. Shp further re-. ports, that all the Privateers were laid Ili) hi the Jtarbour, for want of men to navigate them. Nu, prizes have been recently brought into the Island., the correspondence which has taken place be tween Lieutepant NAU MAN and Captain BARCLAY, as the siibjea of their Pedestrian Feat, is to the fol lowing effect Mr. BnactAl refuses,to give the' odds required uy Mr. FAiiiviAN , (being the sane which he himself veceived from Wooo),•and declines undertaking a jour ne y of bolt miles Lon the tinevrtaintil•of 411 r being put to that inconvenience ; or, if at all, perhaps ' tor only a trifling stake: In the neigh tourhood of Ury, he offers to run Mr. ti :AIRMAN' 10 0 miles,Ll or a_l)7 distance above fifty, for his own iUtu. I M .0 'S AIRMAN has replied, that it is more. in compliance with the wishes of some spurt frig friends, than from a confidence in .his own Pnwers, he is propelled to .the contest;. his differ ence in ltsturei.mid in every other requisite: makes lint seek agdini what he originalltdemanded, ,Out. that if MT. BARCLAY ' to the fast instance,. will tive him the odds to which his inferiority of make end appearance intitle him, in the event at succesa,. be will afterwards: run :him even. On these con 4 ditions, he has signified his readiness to meet . him l ictif way, and to' enter the lists with him for any sum not exceeding ,fivii thousaid pounds, nor. less than as many hundreds. Captain BARCLAY is upwards of six feet high, * l ,Ol proportioned, and very strongly built. I.ieut: is about five feet four ; slender, and ap - Parently of a delicate constitution. The Amateurs new look forward. with confidence and, eat neatness to the trial, being of opinion, ihat CaptainlCiaciioi catipot consistently with his charatler as the Chani- P : mtiof PilYateius, from the personal' drstidalitiere. bons of his opponent, reject the challenge in the fair and reasonable shape it was last given. The'general bettingsat present is, 2 to t that the match' does . take Place ; and tea to - one in . favour of the Captain if ever It should', bLE, OR BE FREE. INVA Slon'a fierce myriads now hover afar, To arms PatiGitli! Warriors alid rush unto war ! How pleasing 1 how glorious,! undaunted to stand, Or nobly to fall with our dear Native Land I. Shall they, who at Cressy and Agincourt bled, Mush to see their vile SorkS in captivity led ? No: hence ev'ry coward ! 'tis Nature's decree, Likc our Fathers of old, we'll die—or be free ! Can slaves, crouching slaves, our firm bosoms appal ? Ignoble, unmourifd, unreireng"d, must we fall ? Or toil, groan, :arid weep, 'math a task... Master's hand ? Hold life as a gift ? ad and think at command - ? Hail ! HAMPDEN, all hail Iby thy menitry we swear ! BysN ELSON ) 4 great death ! by cich tie we hold dear, To bend at the throne of no Tyrant the kneel Grim Death! thou art welcome, but we will die free Shall our fields be laid wage? Shall our hamlets be burn'd ? Our hoary Sires murder'd ? Our cities o'erturn'd ? • Our sweet smiling babes wear the hard goading chain ? Our Matrons, our Virgins, be outrag'd and slain ? Dread Ruler:of Armies„ on whom we recline, Who'pour'st through our bosoms the,ardour Thou know'st that we never that Moment will see, We'll guard our luy'd Sov'reign„ we'll die—or be fret I Ye Maidens of France, in wild agony mourn ! Your I.,overN are doom'd never more to return, But mangled and gury shall bite the cold ulain I Nsror. SON'S vast plans of ambition arc vain s„ Urimov'd still Britannia his efforts shall have, • . . • iter Navy triumphant still rules o'eltire,wave, • And ages upborn, hails, with joy, the decree, 'fill Heav'n pass away, favour'd Nation be free G. FIRE. A fire broke out, at eight o'clock yesterday even ing, at the Countess of CLFaotorcr's house, in Berke ley-square. Her Ladyship had company at dinner, and the cloth was just removed when-the alarm was given. The fire was raging with . the gr i eatest fury hi the back attic story, where it is imagined it had begun : the engines soon arrived, and , the. 'whole neighbourhood was in alarm. Water could not be proetired fora considerable time,. and when the plugs were ,opened, there was not a sufficient , quantity to work the engines', until the' mein was forced at . Pihilieo, and at the New River Head. By :that time the. flames had spread to such an alarming degree, as to threaten•destrue - tion to the houses of Earl Powis and Sir John Harrington. Lord Foley's house o stood in great danger, as the back draw ing-rootn Windows preje'at, and were very much scorched by the flames. At nine o'clock the square was filled with people, and carriages Job of La dies, who .stopped to . witness the dreadful scene; the flames by that time having extended to the, front of the house, and still keeping 'to the attic stories, burning in the most awful manner. It illuminated the whole atmosphere for many miles The engines by that time bad .received an ample, supply.of water, but it did pot seem to have, any effed on the devouring element it still burned with great violenee'in the back part of the house, and consumed the third floor room, with its fikrnituie.'. By ten o'clock' , the roof fell in with a dreadhl crash, which stopped the progress of the flames, although the ruins of that part of the house, oy the great heat, threatened destrudttoii to the se cond floor. About eleven o'clock it was nearly got under, but it still had an awful appea'rance. Lord Foley stood on the roof of his .own house, during the whole time ; and Lady Foley, who had 'packed hp, her jewels, remained within, with the greatest thrtittide and composure, ''being determined not to - retire until it was 'thought 'necessary. Her Lady ship's carriage was at the door during the whole time, in case it was thought prudent for her to leave the house. At half-past eleven the fire was , very much abated. The St. James's Volunteers at tended, and kept excellent larder. The firemen also exerted themselves to the tamest of their pOwer ; one of them .having got access to • the top of the hotae on fire, through Sir John Harrington 's home, he broke the windows of the dormers, stripped the lead off the top of them, and beat down the rafters. This bad a very good etfeel in stopping the regress, of the flames, which, at that 'period, had nearly caught the roof of Earl Powis's house. At twelve o'clock the engines were all at work, and the . square. was crowded with people.. Every Gentleman ; s .house in the square was opened, and ready.to receitge any thing that might be . saved from the conflagra tion. , • Lieutenant M. of the oth Regiinent of Native fantry in India, was tried at the BombiySessions, in April last, on, an indictment , upon , the Statute; for having wilfully and maliciously fired a pistol loaded with small shot at e Capt e ain -111AnTrbtr's .of the t p i . peared in. evidence , that th Offict Rattaliorti.of the 9th Regiment gave a dinner to , . those of the sth, at the Mes s Room at Poonab, at which the Prisoner was present. The Prisoner, -- in consequence of repeatedly intertupting the corn. 'pany,. WM at length turned out of the room. Pie afterwards returned with a drawn sword, which'was wrested from him, and he was a secc n td time turned Out. He again returned with piatoll, one of which he fired, and \ wounded Captain IVlxterfr; (who was' thereby - deprived. of his sight), and three . other ,Orlicers. The, Prisoner delivered .in a long written defence, which was read, by his Counsel, and the purport of which was, that he was so-much toxitated at the, time as to ire entirely unconscious of what he was doing, and that he bad no malicious Intention. The Recorder (Sir J. INlAcsatsTosn) summed up the evidence, and pointed out the bear ins of the case to the Jury, who, atter retiring' rot' about an hour and a half, . returned a verdict of Guilty 'but strongly 'recommended the Prisonet' to Mercy. Some points of law were afterwards: re: strved for the opinion of tlitr Judges in India. Soma coachmaker's appear to he running against each` other, but pethap the public may think tha there are wheels within. wheels, mid that notoriety is tlfe' main spring . . Though Mrs. C. Kitatit.i hfiltates, . Mildness sO well in the new Meld-Drainti at Covent-larded' Thealre, yet, considering her sea, it May be fkongbi that her merit in that respect is not equal to . What it was some time! ago. When' the appear; it-114461i OLD BifILEY. THIRD Li . A.l7—pv,c. 4, Mary Crooks w . as ,capitally indiEted for stealing in the dwelling house of Jaie4Maystotie, in Ox ford-street, on the 23d of O&o ber last, 'a purse; containing a bill of exchange for 421. 15s. tid. five 11. Bank notes, half-a-guinea ,in gold, and some silver. Mrs: Maystone stated, that on the night above.: mentioned, a chimney of her, house having caught fire, the family were thrown into .alarm ; . and she, went in a hurry from her dieing-room, •to give a blanket to servants for the 'purpose of wing it wet to extinguish the Are, and- inadvertently left her pqrse upon the dining-rootn table, which, so soon as the tire was exlingitishedand . the alarni had subsided, she missed, and she' went down to 'the kitchen for the purpose of inquiring about it of her maid, when she saw the Prisoner, whom shehad never seen be fore, in the . kitchen. Her servant ..deoied having seen any thing of the purse or its contents. The Prisoner, who had made herself busy in 'carrying water.up stairs during the alarm, immediately said, that.as she was the only stranger who had been up stairs, Mrs. Maystone might search. ber; or she would. give her address ; but Mrs. M. not . Suspea - t-' ing her at the time, suffered her to depart, without taking her address., ' Mr. Maystone stated, that having heard the Pri soner was in custody in. Marlborough-street, he went thither, saw her for the first time, • and asked her how she could lie so cruel as to commit such a reb bery, upon a family in a state of such alarm and dis tress,. and what she had dorid with the bill cif ex change ?-She answered, that she had given the bill of exchange to a ; Mr. Dawson, .a friend of her's, at VV-alworth,. to keep for her.. He then asked, if there was not something else in' the purse, and where she got k. She answered, that she kickertagainit it on the stairs as she came down; and heard it jingle; and that there was nothing else in it, save the bill of exchange; but immediately afterwards said she had paid two of the pound notes to her landlady for rent, that nigh t, and that the rest she had lost. He then lodged the examinations against her, and she was committed. • Mr. Blackstone, a Pawnbroker of Norfolk -street, Middlesex Hospital, said he knew the Prisoner well, as she frequently pawned articles at his shop; that she came shortly after the date of this affair, in coqi patty with another woman, who offered a ring - to pawn ; that in conversation with this woman,the Prisoner took out the bill of exchange, and skewed it to her, and then to the Witness, and said she supposed it was worth nothing. Ho answered, it was worth nothing to her, and asked her how she came by.ir. She replied she ha& tbund it. Upon which he observed, that her best way would be to take to the acceptor, and she might get so*i:thing handsome for her trouble, and in rdward , tiir her honesty. She went away ) and scion afterWarth, Mr. Blackstone. seeing an advertisement , in the news p I)ers, describing the bill and the robbery,. went, immediately to the Prisoner's lodgingS, and interro gated her as to what she bad done with the bill ? She answered that she had given it to a Mr: Daw son, of Walworth. He had her-detained in custody, and went directly to Mr. Dawson, and asked him for . thq Hill. 11 , 1 r. D. immediately took out the bill from his poclet-gook; - aiid 'Said he would give it to' the Prisoner's 'husband, which he accordingly did; and the husband said ;he knew nothing aboOt it, and immediately gave it to the Witness, who dire6tT ly went to Marlborough-street Office, from Whence theadvertiSement describing the Liu:, was issued, an d surrendered the billond lodged information against the Prisoner. This concluded the case for the prosecution. Two very ropeaable 'Witnesses gave the Prison er a most respeaable charatiei for 'eight years Fist ;• a nd one of them said the Prisoner had been in' ver,y great distress wiihin the lait year, owing to maltreamient from her husband, Who is a working shoetisaker. _ _ - Mr. Justice Gaosa summed up the evidence for the Jury, whO found the Prisoner Guilty, but recom mended ker aspn object of mercy, on account (Aber good character hitherto. George Edgar, a 'youth of sixteen, W 45 capitally indicted ,for feloniously 'stealing; in the dwelling hOuse of Mr. William Clarke, watch-jeweller, in Clerktnwell, to whom he was an apprentice, si con' siderable quineity of watch diamonds ; and William Edgar, aged 21, -brother to the first Prisoner; and who had served his apprentice Ship to Mr. Clarke, was inditied, at the same time, for receiving, those diamonds, knowing them to be stolen. Mr:Clarke stated, that iniconsequence of his mis sing numbers of diamonds at various tittles, he was at last inclined to suspect the Prisoners, who .were his apprentices ; and having mis.ied a considerable quantity of diamonds on the day stated in, the India went, he sent for a constable, and charged both the brothers 'separately with robbing him. The elder • brother denied any knowledge of the iii ; tint the yo'unger, on b e ing told by hts master that it would be better )r hinr, if he would tell all he kne*, mediately confessed that be bad stolen some ; and upon him were found 2 t diamonds, and some Pawn . - broker? 'dtiplitatesi.• which lei to the discovery of many mire, which a young man named Neill, clerk to a pawnbroker, named Patmore, proved to have been paWned at his maSter's shop by both the Prisoners. As the confesSion of the. ymuiger Prisoner ; elicit ed by an Implied promise of mercy on the part of the Presecinor, was the only evidence which could have convicted him, and, as the other Pri4otier was only inttiaed for reteiVing,• Whereas, in fad,' it ap peared by the evidence of 'the pawnbroker that he was a principal in. the robbery, Baron Gninhy. direeted the Jur)ito'acqtiit the Prisoners. • - The- Prisoneri were again tried for a larceny, foimded *upon the fad of their pawning together a parcel of the stolen diatntinds,• with the of the pawnbroker; who, ,upon' being 'exaMined, would Only swear te , the fa& of the:diamonds he received being pawned by two' young fellows of respeetable appearance but he could nut swear to the persons' of the Prtiurtersi and' they were consequently quitted. fn the traVibee of New Brunswick, id llritislt Atierica; ItkV-itlilk has Wen'etaled; tO cut planks' cut the E*lish market,' Whit!) works fifteen SilWi kr and frame; Mad is capable of cuttiu t F anAually coooputr feet of timber. 'DDLESEX ,SESSZONS. stammesvvems.. . I Vie cert Pierce, John Pierce,' Elizabeth Lucia • , dud Lucy Rolph, wdre indl6ted for a, rid and assault at Sadler's Wells, •on the night of the 15th 06tober last. The threelrst appeared to take their trial, and pleaded Not „Guilty ,but the .fourth. had. absconcled; Mr. CONST, in opening the case on t he part .of tfits prosecution, regretted the-necessity he felt of calling the attention of the.Qourt and Jury to one of the most! melancholy cases that ever appeared in a Cowl of Jus tice;• namely, the dreadful catastrophe that took place ditring the , performance at, Sadler's 'Wells on the night of the, t 5 th Oa. Althotigh he Waseonvinced that t he Defendant's at the bar had no idea .of being the instru ments of so melancholy an event, it became, however; the duty, as well as. the inclination of the managers of that Theatre to sift the matter to the bottom, and make pdblic examples of those who,were the cause of -so shocking an accident, lipun the night its question, the three persons at the bar, With another woman, who had deported herself: very badly, and had since absconded, bad seated 'themselves in the pit; and Were extremely riotous during the whole of the evening. They, began by .annoying and abusing a young Gontlenian, .whose sforbearneee , Was very great ; : .but at last the Police Officers were obliged tci interfere, and they also . were isbused - their turn, wheil there wag a general 'cry of " flirts, bins out!" Use OtliCers then v endea mired to take:. him into Custody, and its the struggle to escao„,' there was a cryof " - a fight ! a tight !" winch wa, ;us, t Medi:46ly construed into a ay of " firs.; !" and, way reiterated through every part of the house; in con sequence of which the alarm became so great, •thai; in the struggle to getout, the fatal catastrophe torsi' place, Which he thotight it then unnecessary to com ment upon. One of the .first objeCts, in - such metropoliS as this, Was, that pla ces of public toriuse ment should be preserved free from'.riot and disor der; and he hoped the result of the present prose cutioe would be an example to Others in futUre;• not. to purstie a like improper and perhaps mischiev ous condua. - • • George , Shuter deposed, that be was in the back part of the pit, upon the night M qUelition, an 4 about eight o'clock observed 'the three Defendants quarrelling among. theMselves, but this he after wards thought was i‘ sham." They ,wete several times spoken to by the people about them to desist;'' but they continued this disorderly behavibtir ten O'clock, when the Constables intertered and to monstrated with them they, hoWever; bid the Constables defiance, and derided them. .Tbey t hen sent tbr some brandy, .which seemed to incrca.e their inaination fur quarrelling, and teen afterwards they beeatue so riotous and disorderly; that the Con stables were obliged to call assistance to .take them out. When in custody, they made light of their offence ; and upon being told Of the fatal eWecis of ' their conduf, one of. them (V,ficem Pierce) ex claimed, they could not hang hini:et all events., These facts, with others not necessary to detail: having been 'already before the public; were fully . corroborated by Johns lagbes, a boy who 'attended the Theatre with fruit, and two constables. Mr. Charles llibdin, the Proprietor of the Theatre; was also examined, to. shew that everrihing had been done by the managers and conduators of tl4 Theatre, to prevent the dreadful catastrophe. Upon his cross-examination,. he admitted, that Wine was sold at a cheap rate at the Theatre; during the per formance ; .but, denied-that any complaint had been, made to him respeting the officers , of the house vouding spirituous liquors to the audience, as in that event 'he should have immediatitly dismissed them' but he said, he had been told that such pradicsm were sometimes carried on.. Mr. K Nary, for the Defi;ndants; admitted the great it - N:0'131101)f securing the persons of the pub lie from such accidents as that under consideration, and ag reed in thesame sentiment with him, thi t t h e Jury should discharge from their minds every pre mature prejudice, and look at the case betere them as if no such event had taken place. The question which they bad to try . was, according to the wordi of the indictment, whether these Defendants had assembled together in a disorderly manlier; with intent, to breed a riot, to disturb the p u bli c peace, and to injure and assault his ;Majesty's liege subjects. In order to constitute a riot, it should ap pear tbatthree or more persons had been concerned in it; but in this case; although the evidence went to spew that the three Defendants had been very tut.. Went and disorderly, yet it did not appear that ties; cry of ." fire," which was the real cause of the dis turbance, did proceed &OM them;k nor did an ., cry take place until atter they were in custody ; the ,her pr6- y violas intention, therefore, of commitang a riot did not exist; and in his opinion, although these par-, ties had condo&ed themselves very impeoperl did not conceive they ought to be found Guilty under this indiEtment. • .The JUry; after a Short consultation.; found all: the Defendants Orii/iy. Sentence was not passed. John Briggs, rib attorney, was intik:led for assault ing Mr. John Macdonnell, a stirgoon and apothecary, in Groat Mary-le-bone•strect. The Defendant 'went to the bode of the Proseeti-: - tor to tender 51. as payment in full of, 171. "%ti. ad: being the amotint of the latter's bill for cetiani.ho lusses, nostrums, and medicines; against a 1l iss Nit r; ray,' one of the frail sisterhood ; and upOti the Poe.' tor's refining 'to accept it as such, the beleadant grossly abused' hitn, which irritated .the riatSior so, attach, that ht retired for his horicw4ha to cstise, the Lawyer'. In the mean tithe the hawyer Sei z ed the Doe or's professional cane, find shaking it over his head in "a menacing post are, threatened to I: wok' him down ; and this ad of the Law canstituted the assanit..cothplained of. - The.Defendant was fotind Guilt 1,, and the Court' ientineed hith to pity a fine of s 4 shillingA and eilhtpence. . • Our new Books of Cookery are become a Lola more particul-ar thug . fprmetly iv 'their diredior. one of (hem, in' orde,riug a species of, pudding. b e ,. 0 . .ins thus—c‘ T a ke your maid, and send ,4er for a pfitck of f100r, ,, Sec. . . , • , •., At' Ingafestone Fait, in Essex,. on Tueiday anti Wednesday last, there was 2.141 - ger show of Welch arid Sotch cattle than - has been kno t' in for niarty years : ' the prices were lolyer full 2.5 _per .cea I. than at those of the last year, and .imby c4ni, , ..ierab!li crows - wont off titii.QM