The Sun. — London, England, 1802-02-17 00:00:00

I I NAVAL NEWS. PORTSMOUTH, FEB. 16. SAILED His Majesty's Ships Gorgon, Diaator, an d Good Design, for the Downs ; His Majesty's Shi p Buffa/o, for Botan Bay ; and His Majesty's 13 ri y g Liberty, on a Cruize. Sailed the Sally, Rows, Eagle, JoNEs, and Mon \teglie, MO PPET, for London ; and Abigail, TOD, for Faro. The Indiamen this day dropt down to St. Helen's. SHEERNESS; FEB. i 6. TRis day went out of Harbour to the Nore, His Majesty' s Ship Conqueror, of 7+ guns, having been fitt e d . witojury masts, to be conveyed to Ply- DEAL, FEB. 16. Pr S AIL ED SAILE D the I n fl ex ibl e M an o f War, and Caroline ipte, for Sheerness. An elegant Sabre to Li eu and Belt were l a t e ly presented . GER RAR, of the Marines, late of His Majesty's Ship Fisgard, as a testimony of his gal. }ant and meritorious conduft for three years, during which tim e he served on board that Ship : the In. scription which it hears runs thus—" This Sabre and Belt are presented to First Lieut. GERRAYD, board the Marines, by those who served with him on ' 3 .rd His IVla'est sh• • din memory of / 1-, Aft. )•3' s Ship Frsgar , ton with L'hirmortaiite, the „ °arum°, Ex p e dition s 20th Oa. 1798 ; at the Saints, Penmarks, V.nimper Ar - Car ' ° " °4t iers St. Mathew, St. Andero, and bore u "na ; on which he served as a Volunteer, and , so distinguish I is to be hoped tne Country will et a part . '' —l t . am ply reward an Officer, who has sewn timesfr,olzertaril - sub' 't d himself to slaughter and death in her )eL e service, Captain c ....mtLts S ` L i , 1, ,),,eiie r rigate • A DAM, t h e C ommander of La with Ld.chif. , oan accoun t of whose gallant "'teflon t6'day, is so n o f w c French Frigate, we stated yes- Counsel. ' ILLI Am ADAM, Esq. the King's • v - Y ir • . .Rq'tx c i.Att anp L0;4 0 , 2 - ; . IC? c ar penter of His Majesty's th e t c ' ~s aPpotnted to the Vi ll e de Paris, in oom or mr. jo;-/ B Th e f. - - —ll RAID, Carpenter, deceased. • ' fa'n'' a the Life_b tp , * built by Mr. GREET ."' ° r South SI • IA °a'S 3 3 1 'of J. ra ss i ai . 1 d heins, has reac h e d t he snores IVle rtlel.. ‘• ri ' o ne i 3 ordered to be built forthwith for TIT , repeated tflats i t , rh ,testimonies of the utility of these ~ • -o.:resDo e Public Pape rs , a s well as by private ". d ' 11(1 ' 2 nce, in li i i , saved the . lives of hun ,,d, of 0.. _ .. , v n, roperty, 'a pliant Seamen, as also a great deal of ; "g i lt •to ropse the Merchants and, Un wrAter ' 1 1„.130r,Th - in.t iese kingdoms to a just sense of their a ce, and ca u se t he m to be used in all our : , ,Ort s aril 1 " lii't - s • k s - l'lirbours, which are so surrounded with and 'sand s Ploof, 1 as to have afforded melancholy ' s ate! y c letiow.tr of th e i r fatal effects to numbers of our beeri so P, tu .res, and immense property..—Thi s has would i,,,,11.i1Y exemplified,' that nothing more, one ci t y for:1/4in, can be w,inting to evince the neces- Tho l ii, 'me other invention than the. Boats corn. I Illaki u -v s _ , . of in this Country. ilei t ." L u ' re- Roat s IT,Ave never yet failed in efFeCting I hP, ii r t P . ose, „ r no man has ever received the elated, th a t t hem; and the Crews have always de 114de the aLttbY no other means would. they have security of ell':'•having perfea confidence :n the sea ; ,.. the Litei e-boat, in the most tempestuous I .--,.....______ ....—___._ txr t ip R --Is OpA LETTER FROM MARTINIQUE, DATED JAN. 2, 1802. , 1 cc I wrote you by the Packet that there was an "Jirreaion of the lac Packet at Tobago. * I have il Ow the pleasure' to infOrm you that it is entirely 9uelled, and the ting-leaders hanged. It was their intention to murde r all the White s in the Island on liristmas-day ; but most providentially the Plot ,\''as discovered by a Planter, who accidentally over heard tw o of his Slaves talking on the subjeet." ~...--__ , Yesterday the LORD MAYOR ordered the Bread '° bc l owered half an assize,. to take place to_ sold Quartern- Loaf will then be sold for 1 Ild . On 1 lvk Tnursday last, ABRAHAM MOORE, EDWARD I:nwillcliAM, SAMUEL' WOODFORD* PAUL, and a dtni t 4 te lt : ) , i SAMUEL` AM ROBERTS, Esquires, were Lin coin , i , ,9 the Bar by the Honourable Society of ' I ui. • PerfOrlT A "" bextr4ordirary.feat of naive running was led --)" Lieut. RoW AN, of the 29th Regiment f. PO O t t o l v : I • ' quartered at Dock Barracks, Plymouth, On to be the re ; the bet was fifty guineas; the match i 1 e fl Perf° rlted in 4 2 . minutes. Lieut. R. dressed I\:1 31--;l,,tl.nei, jacket, set off from Clarence-Street, it' ° 1" '' e'evell o'clock, a. m. a Man of War's ill-°"re(l 13 orge-Was in waiting at Mutton Cove. ttlerlt' R. crossed the passage, jumped over the barge 1r I , e b each, ra n up the very steep hill of Maker's seeiglies to the Middle Barracks, in presence of hi,ll.eral ()Mees, touch e d the barrier, .ran down the 411! juntped into the boat, crossed the passage again, 41; 1 ,,,r et utned to No. 4, Clarence -street, in forty is:L'es. aPparently without fatigue. . The distance t kclusive of the passage, two miles and a half ,.. C( is Barracks, and two miles and a to e l . ~trence-street. half back . 0, ruestlaY se refight, between ten and eleven atc'ock, an accident of an affeaing nature occurred Navin old house in tritain-lane, Dublin. A Nitake ag attraCied, as is..usual among the lower ranks, IllsonsidQrble-nurnber*of persons in a back apart e"t,f the upper rooms, the joists were unable to ati , t ; ll ll the weight, in• consequence of which the floor ,12-itnly gave way, forcin g also the floor beneath, 40"% preopirating the whole 'assembly,. with the v.. n -titits'of .the apartments, to the ground. Nile I,,'rk), , t.. 'IS ltetre'l'alt6n lifeless from the ruins, and about ,:z1 others severely cut and contused. PARIS, rEB. ij. SEVERAL discussions have taken place In the Conservative Senate, relative to the propriety of filling up the vacant seats in the Tribunate and the LegiSlative Body, out of the National List of Nota bles. It is alledged on the one hand, that it is the duty of the Senate punaually to execute the funCtions devolved upon them by the Constitution, and that it is necessary to proceed promptly to the Elec tion, according to Law, in order to ensure re_ spelt for that Constitution. On the other side it is objected, that the List is not complete, many of the Departments not having completed their re turns; that it has not undergone the prescribed examination by the Tribuniite, without which it cannot be considered as voted ; and that the Senate by this EleCtion would renounce the right given to it by the Constitution, of erasing a tenth of the Departmental Lists. The Senate has referred the whole to a Commit tee. A vessel which entered Bourdeaux the 3d of this month, and which arrived in 30 days from Cape TO.T.DIZ ) in St. Domingo, brings intelligence, that since the execution of MOYSE, author of the late insurreetion in the quarter of Lembe, tranquillity. was completely re-established. It is believed there, that the French will meet with no opposition. MUST, Fea. 6.—The Division of LINOIS, on tlie,azth of last month only waited for a favourable wind. to proceed. The Gaulois, Capt. StmEoN, has put into Ferrol. The rest of the Armament has continued its route, and will no doubt arrive in time to overawe the revolt. MILAN, FEB. I. Official intelligence of the close of the labours of our Consulta at Lyons, was was brought to this City by an extraordinary Cou rier on the morning of the 3oth ult. We have learnt with the most lively satisfadion the details of the Constitution of the Italian Republic, and the choice of NAPOLEON BONAPARTE for the office of President, as also of MEL ZI for that of Vice. President. The General in Chief ML RAT arrived here yester day, at four in the afternoon, and on the same day Te Dew,: was sung in the Church of St. Fidele. The concourse of people was immense. At night all the houses , were illuminated, and there was a Ball at each Theatre. it is asserted that the new Government will be 'in stalled on the 9th. NAPLES, JAN. so.—Our Sovereign ITSideS con_ scantly at Pabr:7:s, and does not appear disposed to return to this Capital, although we are in a state of • tranquillity ,and repose. The Russian Troops still remain here, affording an example cif the best dis cipline, until it is decided who is to have the right of garrisoning Malta. BRUSSELS, FEE. 9.---Some Foreign journals have asserted, that the Ex-Direaor BARRAS had de parted for Paris. • This news is, however, untrue : 13AR.RAs resides constantly here, and there is no rea son to believe that he will quit Brussels. There are more Private Theatres in this Metro polis than the Public are aware of; and much• too many for the interests of Morality. Many a trades:. man's daughters have been tempted to indulge a propensity for the Stage in those haunts of dissipa. tion, and have closed their career in infamy and ruin. If an institution of this kind should be pa tronized, and obtain an establishment in the fashion able world, we believe no class of the Community are so likely to profit by it as the Gentlemen of the Long Kobe. BARRYMORE is so much indisposed that he was unable to perform at Drury Lane Theatre last night, in the Tragedy of The Orphan, which was therefore deferred, and the Comedy of She Woted and She Wou'd Not, was the sullstitute. KEMBLE continues much indisposed : his disor der is a very severe cough, which at present wholly disables ,him from all professional labour. Mrs. YOUNG, late Miss Blocs, has been com plimented in a Public Print on her performance in 'Pizarro, in whi6, alluding to her recent mar riage, it has been observed, that she " appeared still more natural in the exemplary discharge of her maternal and conjugal duties:" As it is little more than a week since the Lady's marriage took place, we conclude that the writer is' disposed to say with Leon, " She conceives, as our jennets do, with a West wind." For the credit of our Police it should l be stated, that when Miss DE CAMP add htr sister were as saulted and robbed last week, in the neighbourhood of St. Giles's, not a watchman was to be found near the spot, or, indeed, within a considerable distance, for the Ladies raised very loud cries upon the oc,. casion, - but none of these Guara'ians of the Nis& came to their assistance.. It is supposed that there were about a dozen of ruffians 'in the gang, Who kept at .a s h ort di stance from each other, an who could not easily have been overcome, unless the watchmen had be-n upon &eir posts, and had con vened in a body. This negligence of the watchmen is by no means peculiar to - that . part of the town, but is shamefully conspicuous in the Stfancl, where they seem to be chiefly employed as Proteaors to the Women of the Tocan. We - apprehend, that if the Private Theatre should be persisted in, it will become a subjed of very. Iriblic discussion in more-ways that Cone: LAW REPbRt COURT OF KING'ayENCH, Fin. i 6. itTTINCS iIEfORE mk.JusticE LAivatrabz, tN WEST. MINSTEit-HALL. GRIMALDL Mr. Gialis stated, that this was an Aaion brought by the Plaintiff, Mr. Grimaldi, who was a Miniature Painter of eminence in his profession ; to recover of Miss White, a Lady of fortune in the East Indies, 1331. and a fradion e for drawing a certain number of miniature pkiures and some other trifling articles, ordered by this Lady to be sent to her by Mr. Grimaldi, such as an ink-stand of the value of seven guineas and_ the like. In the year ISot this young Lady of fortune was in England, but about to return to the East Indies ; she was de sirous of having Pictures of all her friend;: she etn ployed the Plaintiff; Mr. Grimaldi, to paint these Pktures, and he did so accordingly ; they were seven in number, and he made his charges in the usual way, the propriety of which. could not be in question, because the rule of the Plaintiff was to ex hibit Paintings in his room under classes which were numbered, and the price affixed to each number. These Pk - tures were chiefly of No. 8, the price of which was guineas two of them he charged rather less than the usual price. All these Pk - tures were delivered to this Lady, and she objeCted to none of them, but one, and that was the Piaure of herself. She was not pleased with that Piaure, because a better was presented to her Sight every day in her glass • she declin e d to ta k e i t ; an d Mr. Grimaldi did not desire her to take it. and therefore he took it back, and of course made no charge for it. This Lady being Lout to. go to the East Indies, and the Plaintiff having received no money, nor. any secu rity for his money, he made application for it, and Miss White wrote him a note expressing that she would be happy to see-him ; that she was making ar rangements to satisfy Mr. Grimaldi, upon his .tak ing a security for a month or so ; but all he could get was a Bill on a Gentleman of the name of Till for tool. payable at six months, and on waiting on Mr. Till, he was told he could have no more. — This was short of his demand by 331. and upwards, and therefore he commenced an 4Ction against thi s young Lady. She was then at Portsmouth. She was arrested there. He was informed that the Of ficer who arrested Miss White behaved- very im properly towards her, for which no person could be more sorry than the Plaintiff was, but he could not help it ; no Plaintiff could be answerable for the coarseness of a Bailiff in the execution of a Process. This he mentioned to obviate any prejudice which might arise out of this, and for which the Plaintiff could not he responsible, nor had it any thing to do 1 with this cause. This Lady had ordered these Pic tures : the prices of them were marked as -he had stat ed, according to the size. They were delivered to her, and she objefted to none of them, but that of her own, which was taken back and not charged. Some of thcfse Pk - tures were set in gold, at moderate prices, and the rest were framed, and crystal placed before them ; all which charges were reasonable,- The tool. was paid into Court ; this was short of Mr.Grianaldi's demand by 331. and upwards, and it was for this difference that this ACtion was brought. . . It was then - proved that the order,for the Pidures was given and 'executed ,by the Plaintiff, and the charges, the usual charges.- 7 That they were not objected to except..that. of Miss White herself, 'and that was taken back and no charge made for it. Mn. ERSKiNE, on behalf of the Defendant, dis claimed all . intention of depreciating the genius or the skill . of Mr. Grimaldi as a Painter, on the con - trary, he admitted bOth, and, should the Income Bill be repealed, he did not know that he - should, not some day apply to him, to paint likenesses of .- Some friends of his, which if he did. as skilfully as the likenesses he had draWri . of His MA .1 ESTI'', - would be capital. He did not wish, to-give any account of the arrest of this Lady at midnight at Portsmouth, for as Mr. GIB BS said, the .Plaintiff w as not an _ swerable, it w as hard any but themselves, should be answerable for the bilutal.coarseness and inlituna - nity of some of these Bailiffs: The Defendant was a Lady - of family and fortUne, and defended this AAion on the ground that what had been paid into Court was sufficient, and 'more than sufficient, for these PiCtures, as she had been advised.: As a proof that this defence was pure and honourable, he ad mitted the delivery oldie ink-stand, which was 71. and some other articles, of the delivery -of which the proof was not very particular. His complaint was; not that Mr. Grimaldi wanted genius or skill as a Painter, but that, he hadnot employed that skill. and genius upon the Pktures in question, but that they were much below the medium of the• efforts of that ingenious Artist ; and that therefore he was over-paid by the tool. which had been paid into Court. l-ie admitted that a Painter was not obliged to come 3 in every Picture, up to the excellence he may have displayed in some; that 'works of art were not to be sold by sample like bops, or any other ar ticle irrtrade ; but then, when any person employed an Artist to paint a Picture, he had a right to ex_ that such an Artist would .eniploy reasonble care to execute the work in a way that was worthy of his name. When he was to paint a Miniature of any person, it was to be • supposed to be something of a likeness, and not a thing that was no resemblance ; and this brought to his recollec tion a story - told him' by his late friend, Sir Joshua Reynolds; of a Painter who was a great Wit as well as a great Pezine.r; whether that. was the case of the present Plaintiff, he knew not. This Painter - was employed by a great Swindler, - who being much involved; was at hide and seek with his creditors. The Painter painted the picture, but he was not at all happy in his likeness, and Sir Joshua, who looked at the pilure, said; good-naturedly to the Artist; " You have not hit this likeness at all." To which the Artist said, " The Picture is just what the man who desired it to lit painted; wants it to be-;—• his desire is ; that he should not be known;" He did not - mean to say; that this sort of-excess applied to the.Pi6turei of Mr; Grimaldi in the present case, nor was it- the fault of Mr; Grimaldi that his .ttire of Miss. White was not a likeness: she was "so entirely beautiful, that no - Artist could Make a likeness of her. She 'Was not made to be painted ; btu' as to her oldfrienifi the dead General, OiliO Was • I ode of the sitbjcei of 1 have thought that a bold Outline; and a few gashes of a sabre, might have clone pretty well for thr; semblance of a departed Soldi:n-.—Fie should prOv" , ;' , these Piaures wore indiff'rcnt lik , lnesseS, aria below the medium of the skid of him who painted ;:nd also some of the setting was ovcr-oharg; ed, and tfierefore, he would lei 'e it to the Jury is say, whether the Plaintiff had not already heed. over-paid by the tool, which was paid into Court:, Some Witnesses were examined, who gave, it as their opinion, that these Pictures were not sb" good as many of the works of Mr. Grimaldi's perteiL—L- Others stated, that the setting of some of them 14'itA over-charged by about two guineas; Mr. Justice. LAWRENCE observed, that as to the character oldie Paintings, perhaps the Defendant might have a right to not that they shuidtl be equal to any thing the Plaintiff ever piintcd, brit equal to what might be reasonably e.kpeeced from a man of his .skl . 11 ; nut in this case, the Defendant precluded hcrelf from going into that evidence, by accepting the Pictures. If they were not done as they ought tc . , have been, by a ma of the Plaintiff the Dtendarit's way Would have been, to re turn:the Pictures, on the ground that they were nut ao - b redabl to the colithia, and then, evidence might have en given to show that they were ill:: done, &c. : b t 'that question Ifild been concluded by the Delefilant's accepting ,he Piaures, . The contract here as an entire Contra, and . the Plain tiff here had or nothing' "_and the Plaintiff must he taken'tAW earned all or it, be c au s e t h e - .lx-:!- • . questio'n , upon . the vli 4 ad Lad. been l, shut up by the. Defendant taking the _Paintings, &e. _Nor was this new doOrine, „Lord, ..VEYoN had held the same in the Case of th7e Paiioig- of a Hortse'for an eminent Solicitor in the' City ; a nd t he saint had been held in the Case of the Nnting of a ilirse of Sir Harry Vane. - As to the ovr - r-charge in the setting, which was two guineas, as :spoken to by one of tlie - h it . nesses, that m i g h t reduOed fairly, if the Jury . thought fir, and therefbre the verLli6t would. be for the . difference between the tool. pid into Court, and the amount of Plaintiff's dentand, which was 1331. • Verdid for the - Plaintilf—Damv.gp 311. 5s . . An A&ion was brought on to be tried, in Whieh a Printseller was the Plaintiff, and a Member of Parliament was, the Defendant. The denial was for a certain number of Caricature Prints, tn - dff.r ad Order of the Plaintiff for a co; - aplete ,set of all the Caricature Prints that ever were published. • Mr. ERSZ r N'E displayed great powers of ridicule on the subjed of Caricature, &c..,anii the Cause having proceeded a certain lz•ngth„ and - it being 'hinted on the paxt of, the Deleodant,. that, .bzsidcs much of this colledion was trash, many or these . prints were obscene, Sze. and totally unfit for cxhi; bition, Bcc. Mr. Justice LAWRENCE said, that- if ii should appear, upon looking 'at any of these 'Prints, they Were indecent and against - the rules of morality to exhibit them, or if they Were an individoals;- so that. if the P.aintiff were- ffied for publishing them., he might be found guilty of a libel, he should tell the jury, that they ought not to allow the Plaintiff any thing for . such Print's ; under any agreement whatever, far no agreement to perform that which would be a breach of the Law,-could be enforced in a Court of justice. He did not mean to say, that this was the character of every CariCature Print; for such as were ridicule of folly, or general" manners of the age, were not to he deemed Libels:, Upon these observations from the Bench, the par,l - agreed to refer the Cause. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, FEB. 16. FEFORE LORD ALVANLEY. STURT ru. LEE. This Was an aaion brought .bY the father of A young girl - who had lieen debauched by the De fendant, under a protnise of Marriage. It appear ed her creddlity had been irripoSed upon by an as surance of the Defendant's honourable intentions, and the consequence was; the birth of a child, The Defendant reiterated his proniises, and the father was induced CO take a house for the re ception of his daughter and his expeaed son-in. *h6te he still - continued to Saii6tion. The Defendant, under various pretences pretraaed the nuptial engagement; when the birtlfof a second child tonVineed the Plaintiff his daughter was the vi&im of sedudion. The Jury gave a veidiel for the Plaintiff, but Ootibtlessi considering he had, by imprudently Admitting the Defendant's Visits,. facih litated the injury his daughter's honour had received; liidited the damages to . s'L upon the first Count in the Declaration, and is: upon the second. HUDSON Ti/i4EircitT§E, The Plaintiff, who was a waggoner] brought his Mtion against the Peferidarit, a wealthy farmer at Lee, in Kent, to recover darnages for an assault-. The Plaintiff; it'appeared, eras Walking by th side of his team, when' the Defendant rode furiously by and his hotse biushing him as it paSsed i plished him into a ditch by the roadside: Indignant at 'slid: behaviour; the Plaintiff asked the DefendariE if there was not rooni enough for him (the Defend,, ant) to haVe bode by WithoUt . touching him, and threatened, if he fettirned to bestow cid him the chastisement he Merited . . lhe Defendant did re., turn, and struck the Plaintiff violently with a stick, and repeated his blows till . the Plaintif was ex, tremely bruised and hurt--==for this injury the Jury gave the Plaintiff a verdift . with.s,ol. damages: CORN EXCHANGE; Febritaty t 7: This day we had a Middling Supply in general Oats great plenty ] inferior went off very low; and fine continue is. lowei: Wheat and Flours little variation. Rape Seed is lower: . . Wiaeat = 6os 70s a 7s od BeanS (new) 33s a 36s od Fine do.. -78 S a S S od Tick acy: 3os a 33s 61 Malt 44S sos a SIS dd Oats 16s 'a t$ ad - Fine do. - - 4 _szs ed. Poland do. 22s a 23 s o d Burley 33s a 4zs 6d Rape Seed 321 a 351 per last Rye - - 39 5 a 425 (Al Fine 1 , lou(sss a 605 per sac k White PeaSO 3 3 $ a 41$ 6d 1 Second do. sos a 55s per do,;