The Sun. — London, England, 1802-03-11 00:00:00

NAVAL NEWS. MAIk C 8. ARRIVED His Majesty's Ships Amethyst, of 38 guns, Capt. H. R. GLYNN ; L'lmMOrtal;te, of 36 guns, Capt. HOTHAM and Hind Revenue Cutter, Capt. ALLAN, from a Cruize ; the latter has brought in with her the Smuggling Cutter Friendly Society, belonging to Polperro, having on board soo ankers of spirits, from Guernsey. Sailed the Leicester Packet, Captain SHARP, with Mails of the 3d inst. for Jamaica ; the Duke of Kent ditto, Captain DENNIS, with ditto ditto, for New_ York and Halifax ; the Brig Garland, Captain RODERICK, for London, having on board cottons, Wines, &c. from Lisbon ; and several Coasters, with tin and coals, for the Eastward. Yesterday arrived the Brig Betsey, Capt. OuNDY, With bale goods, &c. from Bristol for this Port. The Prince Adolphus Packet sailed the 6th inst. with Mail for Lisbon. PORTSMOUTH, MARCH 10. itatiztven His Majesty's Ships Bit tern , fro m t h e amore and Medus a from a Cruize. _ Arrived the speedwell Lond on; and , Perkins, a n d J o h nston , W est, from Sailed Hope, Hobb s, from Liverpool. Wood the La vinia, W a lk er, for Havre-de-Grace ; Fly, , for Deptford; Chatham, Weller, for London; Mar garet,Dodd, and May, Park, for Sunderland. DEAL, MARCH 10. united Came down the Lord Nelsn, SPOTTISWOOD, and Kingdom, Euu.ocx, for the East Indies, and remain, sr. IVES, MARCH 4. - t)l4 Thiir A --- b a b ! aY - last was driven on 'shore in this y, y a violent Stiffolk, o f Lund gale of wind N. E. the ship at goods and ricwith on, Capt. MILLER, laden bale P a ' ss age of s i x ' m fr o or n_ Bengal, after a troub re les . o n m a e i king and distressedall Condition s having split pieces the ni g h t befoie - and of twenty °ne h ands on b 1 ' do ° ant, six only were able toduty, - and therest being sick; the ship proving very leaky, ; obi' Water Continuing. to gain on them, they were obliged r o let her drift on shore before wind and .- s . e a• The crew remained on board in a peillOus; situation for some hours . ; but, by the vigilant ex. : ettio ns of the people from the shore (who always in such cases distinguish themselves by manly alacri ty), having got boats from the creek of Hayle, and s !arge eight-oar boat, carried from St. Ive's (three 111 . Ll es) by land, and being well manned, they at lllPted at all hazard to get to the ship. In the mean title the Captain and crew on board fastened a line !c'' Cre keg, an d l et i t d r if t from the ship ; the boat's w got hold of it, and by that means hauled the people on shore, one by one, until they were all sa fely landed, except two, who were so.ill as not to be able to struggle, and so died in their ham -1110 Mks. The weather next day proving favourable, all he bale goo d s, w hi ch consisted of raw silk and iilitislins, wi t h some hundred bags of rice, were .7ought to S t , fi ve ' s by boats ; and ye ster d ay t h e n iP, with part of the cargo of rice, was got off, , and brough t into St. Ive's sier, much damag e d. 11 '"ut T :his morning was brought in h ere b y t h e Do j _ , JOHNS, a sloop l a d en with spirits, and salt. tobacco , PENZANCE, MAICH 6. TH'I iitS DAY se'nnight, in t he morn i ng, about four N o'c E. as has lock, came on as viole nt a gale of wind from N. . been temembered for many years, which did considerable damage to the fishing and pilot boats of this place. The Hunter Sloop of War parted her cables in Gwavas Lake, and as she swang rouild, struck on the rocks at Point Lee, which greatly alarmed the O ffi cers and ficers and seventeen of the men. Th ree Of crew g over th e point ; q ui tted the Bri g from the bowsprit, w hi ch hun fortunately she got off again in a fe w but mi nutes, and went for Plymouth to repa i r damage. It is of great importance that the Ship.owners and Masters should be aware, that from a very re cent opinion of the ATTORNEY and SOL2CITOR GENE RAL, a vessel of any description whose length {aloft ) exceeds more in proportion, than three feet rithznd a half ito on. 11,...t breadth, must be furnished a licence from the Lords of the Admiralty, before the can be used far any plirpSe ewbatever. There has been a very general sweep among some of the Principal Officers of Plymouth Dock-yard, for abuse of their trust, and attempting to defraud Go - Vernment, by charging board -wage s , while they were receiving the allowances of the Navy. One of these Officers has had aetions commenced against him by Lord Sr. amoun t of 50001. VINCENT, for penalties to the sh The greatest bustle and confusion took place at eerness on Saturday morning last ; the Royal 14 I'd ' ~. ,va 1 s stationed there had previously received .tilgers to march for Dover Castle on that day t e baggage waggons were loaded ;—the drums a.llnea march ;—and at the moment an express r ived for their remaining : what the cause might ~.114ve been we have not been able to ascertain. It Zter_was reported, that they were to be conveyed by , and that gun- brigs were coming down from amit ptford for that p u rpose; a staff of marines, it is e Q ded, are to be stationed in the barracks to do th e duty in the dock -yard, and the usual duty in e garrison". the Pur Xidnapping, i t is sa n id, still P ose of goes on i n P ar i s, for g money b y way of ran:am. 1 eztorti THE OR At'o 7? 10. Covent-Garden. The Messiah was performed last night at this Theatre, with precision, dignity and grandeur, worthy the sublimity of the composition, This noble work of its great author was opened by BRAHAM, with an awful solemnity that strongly impressed the audience. Mrs. BILLINGTON, after having distinguished herself in the First Aft, went to the CONCERT or ANCIENT Music, and returned to conclude the Messiah at this Theatre. At the end of the First MI, a beautiful Con_ certante was perfotmed, in which Mr. G. and Mr. C. ASHL EY displayed their talents, on the Violin and Violoncello, with great success, and were pow erfully aided by WOIDNER, LINOS, and PARKIN SON, on the Flute, Oboe, and Bassoon. The numerous Audience which the Oratorios draw, so early in the season, may be considered as the natural and proper efreft of their merit, under the liberal and judicious superintendance of Mr. ASHLEY. Yesterday New-York Papers were received, to the 3oth of January inclusive. The Baltimore Gazette of Jan. '23, states, that a Gentleman belonging to a respe6table mercantile house in Alexandria, had received a letter from his Partner the night before, which said, « I am sorry to inform you TOUSSAINT is no more : he has been caught by the Blacks, and burnt alive !" two days — after this article appeared, a different account was inserted in the same Paper, given as a letter from Cape Francois, dated the 3oth of Dec. in-which it is stated, " that the Island was in a state of tranquillity, as if nothing had happened, and that business was entirely at a stand in conse quence of the Peace. The French, it was said, were hourly expeled ; but it was a matter of uncer. tainty whether they would be opposed by Tous SAINT, who was then on a tour through his domi, nions, and was not expeCted to return for two or three months."—The Editor of the Baltimore Ga zette acknowledges himself incompetent to decide which of the accounts are of the latest date. A private Letter from Paris informs us, that in con sequence of the late pretended Conspiracy, several Emigrants and Royalists are arrested, or sent out of the Country. Among these, it is said that the. Abbe SICARD, the Teacher of the Deaf and Dumb, is sent into exile. M. SICARD, it seems, was guilty of writing something to prove that, the title of Citizen was not applicable to Frenchmen. The Duke de IVIoN . rmoRENcy- LAVAL has been sent away, and the Abbe du PARc, lately returned from England, sent to the Hotel de la Force. . The following curious bequests art contained in ,the Will of THOMAS ROB INSON. late of Roebar_ ton; near Taunton, in Sornersetshire, •who died late - ly. The Executors are the Governor of the Bank of England, and ABRAHAM NEWLAND, Esq. the Principal Cashier : " All my property in the Stocks I give to the assistance of Government—it is my voluntary con tribution to the defence of the Nation ; and I ap point the Governor and Cashier of the Bank of Eng land Executors and Trustees ; and I trust they will have it placed to the proper account immediately after my death. " All I have in Taunton, in money or goods of any kind, I give to my servant,. Elizabeth Clerk, in requital for her taking care of me during two long illnesses ; the first of which was caused by poison given me by Miss Hannah Shute, which took out all my teeth, caused two or three impoStliumes, and from which I recovered by miracle, by a milk diet." The Haymarket Theatre is to undergo several changes in its Company next season. Mr. H. JOHNSTON and his %vile have quitted it. Mrs. LITCHFIELD is another of the seceders, intending to perform on provincial boards. POWELL, Mrs. MILLS and Miss MENAGE are not, it seems includ ed in the new arrangements. Mr. C. KEZ4I3 LE re sumes his former station in that Theatre, and the Company is to be strengthened by the addition of MURRAY, Miss Ho w E es, and Mrs. ST. LEG E R. — What is the cause of these secessions or these ac quisitions, we presume not to determine. The practice of folfeiting Performers for non attendance at Rehearsals, &c. has been discon tinued at Drury Lane Theatre, but notice is taken of all such ads of • negligence, and the offenders will probably be decisively reminded of their errors at the close of the season,—An effectual regulation is indeed requisite, as there are some Performers who do not think it necessary to burthen their memories with the (words of their characters, and others who contrive almost to wash away all sense of those charaders by co healths five fathom deep." JuNrus.:—lt is confidently asserted that indispu table proof has at length been found that Wi LK ES was really the Author of Junius's Letters, and this proof, we understand, is to be submitted to the Public.—After so many conjectures and reports upon this subject, it Will he difficult to excite pub lic confidence. Besides, though WrucEs was cer tainly a man of talents and literature, there is nothing published with his name which can induce a belief that his powers were adequate to such mas terly. compositions, to say nothing of the, con temptuous manner in which he is himself treated in those letters.—A man for the sake of effect ing or concealing a design, might speak Of him self .with indignation, but it is not very likely that he would hold himself forth to contempt. An Establishment is about to be erected at Ham_ burgh, which will be equally useful and agreeable, both to natives and foreigners ; the plan of M. HosTaur to erect a Society.house in the neigh bourhood o f t h e Exchange. It is t o compre h en d se veral large halls and coffee-rooms. In the . last of these will every day be found the lates t German, English, Dutch, Danish, Swedish, kussian, and American Newspapers, Prices Current, Ship and Coast-Lists. frotocols also will be lodged there under the care of a Librarian, to regulate, all mercantile and _Political atilirs. Five hundred of the principal houses have already subscribed to this noble building, which is expeCted to be opened in the year 1803 fur the accommdaiiQn of all Nations, ItERTFORb ASSIZES, MARcti MAIL ROBBERY. jen%les Sizook was indicted for feloniously asnault_ ing on the King's highway John Stevens, the Post boy who was employed to convey the letter-bags from 'l'ring to Hemel Hempsted; putting him in fear of his life, and taking from him the said letter_ bags. • I he darkness of the night prevented Stevens from having such a view of the robber as to be able to identify the person of the Prisoner ; but the fol lowing chain of circumstantial evidence was sub mitted to the Jury, to guide their determination as to the guilt of the Prisoner : Several Witnesses proved that he had been seen in the neighbourhood a few days before the robbery, riding upon an iron-grey horse, and one of them had met him cobbling the girths of the saddle, which had been broke. The morning after the robbery, an iron-grey horse of the same description, and a saddle, the girths of which had been broken and unskilfully cobbled, were found, with some of the letter-bags, in a field adjoining to the place where the robbery was committed. A considerable number of Witnesses were brought forward on the part of the Prosecution, by whom several of the Notes that Were taken out of the let ters in the bags were traced up to the Prisoner, who sent them into circulation the day after the rob bery. The circumstances of the Prisoner being possessed of this p roperty t h e d ay a f ter the °rob bery, his being a man of no. visible means of liveli hood, or possibility of coming honestly by those notes ; his having disguised himself by assuming different names ; having absconded, and at the time of his arrest having a brace of pistols in his pockets; 'together with the 'general evidence of his having been seen in that neighbourhood a few days previ ous to the robbery; formed such a mass - of circum stantial evidence, that-the - jury, Without hesitation, found him Guilty. Justice HEATH, in his address to the Prisoner, previous to passing sentence upon him, observed, that there would he no 'security for the lives or pro perties of His Majesty's good Subjects, if the mid night depredator was strfc of escaping the justice of the country, when: he had concealed his_ person ei ther by the darkness of the 'night, or under a dis guise ; he told him, that his crime was of a nature so destructive to .society and the commercial in terests of this COuntry, that -he must 'not 'flatter himself with a thought of pardon'. The sentence was, that he . should be hanged on Thursday, near the spot where he committed the robbery. BURGLARY. lobn Now land, Thomas Barnes, and Ric hard Dickes, were indiaed for burglariously breaking open the dwelling-house of Sir Abraham Hurne, Bart. at' VVorinley Bury, in the County of Hertford, in the night of the 31st of July, and feloniously stealing therein many articles of plate and jewellery. The evidence in support of the prosecution rested on circumstances somewhat minute ; but still such as left, on the minds of the. Jury no doubt of their guilt. Sir Abr.•Hume. proved that one of the windows .of his house had been entered during the. night, the shutters having been opened by violence; that. there .were several marks. of, feet in the room that had been so entered ; that several small articles had 13een ,taken from that part of the house in which these persons entered ; but that the robbers,had been pre vented from entering the body of the house, by the strength of the doors and the goodness of the locks ; that there appeared many marks of force used to break open an iron door, by Which the most valua ble property in the house . was secured ; but the strength of the door rendered all their attempts fruitless ; and that in the morning -after the robbery he traced the footsteps of the robbers to the Lon don-road. • Mrs. 'Wright, his house-keeper, swore that she had seen the }ime secured, as usual,. the night 'of the robbery, before she wen t t o b e d ; t h at to h er great surprize she discovered, at six o'clock in the morning, that one of the windows had been entered, and different articles stolen. Among the number. of things taken, she mentioned that a roasted shoul der of mutton had been taken out of the larder, of a remarkably small kind, no larg er t h an W e l s h Mut ton, which had been a little cat. She also swore that a lamp, which her master was accustomed to use to heat coffee, had been moved out of its usual place, and that the spirits of wine with which they used to light this lamp had been all consumed, and several matches found about the room. A keeper of a public-house, within a mile of Sir Abraham's dwelling-house, proved that the Pri soners had staid in his house all the evening, and supped there, and did not leave it until the hour of midnight, when he was about to shut his house. Another publican, that lives about six miles distant, proved that the Prisoners came into his house a little after five in the morning ; that they were all wet, and obliged to change their stockings; that they produced a cold. roast shoulder of mutton, so small, that he took it for lamb ; and that two women were with them, who had a basket and bundles, and went to town in the stage. Three other men, who were in the public house at the time, swore" to the Prisoners, and the circum sance of the shoulder of mutton. Rivet, a Bow,street Officer,. swore, that on the description of those men as given by the publicans, being ent to Bow-stre et , t h ey were k nown , imme diately apprehended, and When sent to Hertford. shire, were identified by the publiCans : he also proved, that the Prisoners were not inhabitants of Hertfordshire, but notorious charaders in London, One of them, Nowland; being already under sentence of transportation for another burglary. Here the case ended for the p ros ec ut i on , an d th e Prisoners calling no witnesses, Serjeant BEST, who presided as Judge, summed up the evidence to the Jury, and dwelt on the strong circumstances of the Prisoners, who were Londoners, having spent the whole night in the neighbourhood, and producing early in the morning a shoulder of glutton, exay ansvauing the description of that. had been stolen ; that the lo)oio hats be entered by rioence, had been clearly proved ; that it was entered in the. dark (which is iecessary tc constitute burglary), the circumstance of the lamp 'being moved, the spirits of wine consumed, and the marches scattered about the room, seemed cleArly to prove : as for no part of the ptoperty being found on the Prisoners, when arrested in London, that was nothing extraordinary ; it usually viis the case with old offenders ; however, if they had any doubt, they should, lean to the side of mercy. The jury, after a very short consultation, gave their verdid—Guilty. The Judge infOrrnd thcm, before passing .sen tence, that their chance of pardon was small,.and if they obtained it. it must be on the terms of being transported for life, from that Country whose jils, rice condemned them. Two more Prisoners were conviaed and sen. tented for highway robbery, aggravated by cruelty, and one fir sheep-stealing. MANS: otc-HousE.—Tuesday three women who had been taken up on suspicion of robbing Mr. Loxland, of Leadenhall-street, of a quantity of plate and money, were re-examined before the LoRD MAYOR. This was a case of unparalleled depravity; The principal and only evidence against these women was a girl named Alice Minster, between 14. and is years of age, of genteel address, and apparent innocence. She had been in. the habit of occasion ally visiting at Mr. Loxland's before and after the loss, of the property, when by accident a ciFetun stance transpired that induced Mr. Loxland to think she knew the parties who had .from time to time been pilfering from him. She was taxed with such knowledge, but at . first denied it; at length, how ever, she confessed that she was acquainted with those who did know of the robbery, and who had.mad6 away with the property; mentioning the manes of the women atihe bar ; . they were apprehended ac. cordingly, and 'underwent several examinations, - at all of which this girl positively swore to their guil ty knowledge of the robbery, and to .their having pledged several articles of plate with different pawn brokers whom she named. To corrOboratee this wickedness on the part of the women, and to make her story believed, she told his Lordship that one of them, Mrs.. Austin, had tied her down to a bed while she was on a visit at her house, and that in that state a man-was admitted to her for improper purposes, :Mrs. Austin all the while standing by the bed side with a drawn knife, threatening her . de.. •strudion • if she cried out.—After .some time she was released, when Mrs. Austin -and the man went to bed together before her face. A story so ex traordinary, 'and improbable - at once excited his LordshiVs suspicion- and determination to sift it to the bottoms : he accordingly persevered in his in terrogatories till he led this abandoned girl to. a full confession that the story she had been telling was a fabricetion, and • that she had done it to- make his Lo'rdship believe they had aaually: robbed Mr. Loxland, when in point of fad she had committed the thefts herself. A number of Pawnbrokers attended with various articles of plate, all pledged by this girl, who stated herself to live at No. 9, Little Moorfields, wren in point of fat.% she lived with her mother in Woe& street, Cheapside. His Lordship observed, that a similar case of wickedness, artifice, and depravity, in so young a creature, with a countenance of such apparent sim plicity and ingenuousness, could not be paralleled ; and bus for the most fortunate circumstances, join ed to extreme perseverance, the lives of three inno_ cent persons might have fallen a sacrifice.. They had suffered much, both in body and mind, but they shonld be rewarded. They were at liberty. As for the girl, she shoul. be detained to answer for her wickedllC6S. The following arc said to he the wishes of his Grace of •BEDFORll ) contained in a letter to Lord JOHN RL7S3ELI. : 60001. to Mr. F(ix 60001. to Lord Preston (son to the Earl of Ludlow.) 60001. to Robert Adair, Esq. his Cousin. • 20001. per annum to Lady Maynard, • 30,0001. to Lord William Russell to exonerate him from any embarrassithnits iie ) may have incurred, which, together with the estate at Streatham, will make his income 400e1.. per annum. The Nottingham Militia commenced their march from Dunbar last week, in .three Divisions, for Doncaster, Retford, and Newark, where it is ex peaed, they will arrive the zzd. 23,1, and 24th imr. there to be quartered till disembodied. Conversation turning lately on the delay that has attended the signing of the Definitive Treaty, an Irish Gentleman present observed, " He hoped, by j —s, it would be a warning to all future Ministers of this Country, when they made Peace with the French, always to oblige them to sign the Definitive Treaty first, and the Preliminary Articles after wards !" A Dispensation has passed the Great Seal, to en able the Rev. G. BE RESFORD, M. A. Rector of Saxulbv, in the County of Leicester, to accept and hold the Redory of Bedworth, in the County of War.vick, to which he is rresented by the Right Hon. the Earl of AYL E SEO RD. The most intelligent of our Agriculturists being at a loss to account for the rot of sheep, the fol_ lowing brief statement of its origin in this king dom, as recorded by Walsingharn, may prove ac. ceptahle to many of our readers : " In the reign of Henry the First, a deli man of France brought into Northumberland, a Spanish ewe, as large as a calf of two years, which ewe be. - - - ing rotten, - infe6ted so the country, that it spread over all the roairn. This murrain .Continued 28 years 'ere it cnded, and was the first roc that ever was in England," 7 ,7 Tuesday a Twopenny Brewer atten d e d at ta 1 iq Public-Office, Whitechapel, by virtue of an infc,r mation of a Publican near Wapping, for giving him receipts on unstanirt papers for money received oft account. The Magistrates bearing both sides, they decreed that the brewer should pay the m i t ig ate d penalty of 51, with oc;s:s,