The Sun. — London, England, 1802-01-15 00:00:00

NAVAL NEWS. HARWICH, J , kx. 14. Tats: moining the Diana Post-Office Packet, Captain OeBORNE, sailed for Helvoetsluys with the Dutch Mail. of yeß,z7:rday. Arrived the. Argus Revenue Cutter, Captain , SAIMDERS, from a Cruize. SHEERNESS, JAN. T 4. THIS morning - ar nine o'clock (pursuant to the sentenca. - passed on him last Monday) was.executed on board the Ardent, at the Noce, Jacob Godfrey, late of the . Albezizaise, for having " aided and assist 'ed a Mutiny on board that Ship, and running away With her, in November i 8.00.” He died with all the becoming penitence a man in his situation could do, 'exhorting the' Seamen around him, to take warning by .his untimely and ignominious end, and to be obedient to any commands they might receive from their Superior Officer. He was thirty years of ate, about . five feet nine inches high, of a fair complexion, and rather round_ shouldered. DEAL, JAN. ARRIVED the Dil i gence Sloop of War, from Sheer ness, and remains with the Ships as per last. LOSS OF THE KENT EAST INDIAMAN. "W E sincerely hope the following Extra& from Captain Px LKINGT6S'S evidence heff. - .)re the Mari time Committee as Bengal, will serve as a warning to Ship'Pwners with respea to the Arming of Ves: 2 wAlch they may let, on, freight, professedly etpippfitii for War.- " I drew the men up to the best advantage to gilmllpr. (the . French ship),a volley as she passed_ and, a s she ranged up under our starboard quarter; we„kept up as heavy a fire of musquetry as the arms would On*. I obserVed; in giving the first vol ley. that most of the muskets 'went off, but, on'the t_econd pre, v ery ftw, So much so that many of the- Soldiers threw them down and took up cuilaSses to ikei . end themselves, (N.B. rielese latter cost but three thillitip' kind . Sixpence each, and are .stated to have be6l..eut through by the fi,rsf stroke Of the French ' illfn's sabres);: 'My pistol missed -firelowing . to the . • badness Of the' took; and I was cut down,. I - di not ltstsitate saying, that if the antis had been Originally good, that• we could have prevented the - Enemy from hoarding ; artd - 'O , -rxillg- to the , badtze'ss of the 4 *1.1* . 1 cm olopimioi; thi•Ship 44)11 ceiptared." The Maritime Committee of Inquiry and the Marine *Board .at Bengal, as appears - by their Re pOrts,. agreed in this opinion.-;--We are 'afflieted to ? t that it now aears from authentic doctunents, la p p t th e num b er of Passeng,:rs and Crew killed and V7ouhded were between fifty and sixty. . Ve yesterday copied a*Paragraph from TEe Aforii l'ig Herald, announcing the. Death of the Earl of 5,a•••- '‘ P • have great satisfadian in this, day i i t Tg, that it was altogether - unfounded, :as *by - w e account;, frtim Dublin, his Lordship's hea.lth 4.e ,"si4erabi y• better. rrn e . • , by .oril annual donation of beef at Poynion - P ark was, n er cif Lard and Lady Bu i.ltEoty, distributed 4: f ) lir V.Y ear'S - dAy one hundred and thirty poor Iti 'a 47 —es td seventv_Of the women each a bethg,,own p ett icodri andtiOathing to fifteen men. of Norfolk, his announced his leases £alt' in, ide ii - arms,. is fast •as 'his He - will not let more than two huh. Bred „, 4 eres td Any teriabt, nor . suffir any tine to farm -Lr a * nti ,. This example it - is. to. be hoped, Ikl"*rally followed w 1!; 1 13 4 4;1, L ',49 D CriA. , ;C t'LLORy we understand, with I.llF,eal ,t;' , 3 , which he has been uniformly actuated • ..!Asettle„, complicated business of Drury-Lane • ..,.. "tie 'uon principles of. impartial • justice, has il l ; . questiz,ns . Which arc to be determined Y - t h e- Atbitzator, and which,. we.are 'glad tO t ' r e tt.; lead to a sati s f a dory adju s tment o f a ll disputeS., • • In cohstquehce of the, circumstances ‘vilkh lately attended t‘v:o conspicuou s ca s es of Gr im. Ccn. it tQ.he 9.*pcEted th4t in the circles cf gallantry, ill•alway's accompanied by.. Madeira ezeitold- that..the . rea s on of: the rejedian of in A N by the. .he haCl writte French Institute; was,_, that .sPoken with severity againstthe conanc t of trie:fprtner Rulers ofrahce that could ,not be their motive for rejcAing.Mr- We see by an Advertisement in one of: theiltst Irish Papets, that 'the following Farms are t 9. let i n t h e County of Wexf or d ; Viz: K7iockstaii.gtee?", Scerrtnacrettiog ue , • Banaclobibany, -.Shannjbollyttuir phy, Pat hain'acartkeen, Rall.ybr'acklanahan;and Bair 1 jbt - gekjienl n , •S:co. . . . ' . It.was evident by the ;:ni=igy mode of disctission 'which' appeared in the Legislative Body of France, ~) ...t ha t they were quite out of their del - tient when the 'Were considering a eivil code. ••• —4 4 1 . il•R?crecorded o f G eneral LAscy, that he one 'faaLi wager of tcja ducats, 'wi t h his Valet de 14 -ilasitbre, that he would never wear a wig ; he was however obliged to put o ne 01, in cons equence o f a se . :ere illness. - The Valet / . who never:dared tO a4c - rrip master for the money / found iry the will of the lat ter, after his death / a legacy of too d-ucats, besides - -.1 pension fOr-his life. The legacy is mentioned as a debt. . . .. . . ,".Wh o is that little man,!' said aXing of France to the Duke de 1 " .loan —ONTN ( 2.I3 • " Sire," re_ !' li ed toe D.ake, " that little man has been able,.by fi eans. of a 'little bock; to do that which your Ma- . 3esty-coulci not do with 3o;000 men—he. has ...ade the Pope ask for Peace." The - littir - man waa,,t4c , ii mou4 jurisconsult Dumatnitn i 1 • TfIE Tl' AT RE, Ccevent,Garde. BY Comniand of Ti zi MAJ ESTI ES the Comedy 'of `Speed the Plough, and the new Pantomime of Harlequin's Almariack were represented at this Theatre last night. TiiET/ MAJESTIES were ae_ cornpanied by . , four of the PR INC ESALS.-•-•PRINCESS AMELIA was abient. The house was trcnvded, and the august visitors were received with every token of cordial loyalty. His MAJESTY was in military uniform, and seemed to be iq such health and spirits as,every good man must wish to see the Father of his VeOple enjoy. The usual. loyal airs were called. for, and the dra matic representations went off with great eclat." ON AN , ANGRY PAMPHLET LATELY ADDRESSED TO THE BISHOP, Of MEAT.H, BY A LEARNED SCHOOL-MASTER. To bear and forbear is a doltrine divine, . Qft your lips to my ears have convey'd if ; But alas ! tny' good DoCior, your conduet, I tear, In this warfare has sadly bewray'd it: ' Your Hebrew, your Greek; and your Latin we own, Acizdenius, a true Son, asserts you ; But the Gloria Vikcenti* translated is lost, - And the Pun, though a bad one, deserts you. If the Bishop+ and 'Doetort your rage hive ppovokid, • By asserting, like many before 'em, That false Concords at School arc more grievous esteenfd, Than a breach of religious decorum. Ille fulls qui capita good Dodor mark that, If on this they un'..uckili , meet you, Your Gloria Pineenti. will vanish in smoke, In plain English 'tis--Vincent 15!'y 'I/ b'eat yea. * i 1 motto which has not unfrequentiv- been applied in divers shapes and-forms to the Doelpr by his yo:,,trig friends. The Eisholvof Meath. Dr. Rennell. EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM A GENTLEMAN AT • PARIS, JAN. S. 'Y I wrote you last from Brpese f 's, dated 3oth Thee. on which day I set 'but for Faris: The roads from the latter city. to Falencieglies are very bad, owing to the artillery; for the DUKE of YURK'S Army, when it besioged ralencielmes, which entirely dFstrayed the roads. This once beautiful 2ity still remains a dreadful memento of the havock mitted by the besiegers. Mote than one third.of the town was destroyed,, and not a single house' yet Pebuilt: nay, not . ,even the rubbi:,ll removed.; but now that the blessings of peace is restored to this country, the town' is to he 'rebuilt, and the •• roads, repaired. Ftoni Videncienne i s to Paris the wild is pavee'all tae way. . , 7 The Barrier of this City I entered 'by the - FauX.. bourg St. Martin, eagerly inquiring foe every object which rendered-i 4 famous or infamous. At • the. Barrier I Slimed my'passport ; and when I ar rived at my lodging,-1 was obliged to give: my name, occupation, date of my passport, and by.whom given. " Paris is full of foreigners,, but not many' Eng.; lish,. excepting many Officers • who return through France from our Army-in Egypt. LO4gings are very dear ; and I was much disappointed at finding. every thing very dear. Every species of extra vagance and dissipation is - pursued - here, and in that respect Paris is not altered but - I confess, that having:seen Pais - in the ancient find „there is not so Much real splendour as heretofore the shops, .it is_ true,` are as full as ever ; the Theatres, of which there arc no less than thir teen open every evening, besides other amusements, are every night.filled, although the prices of admis sion" are as dear as ours, all but a shilling, and the Palaise Royale as full as ever ; 'still there is a je ne .sfair quo; wanting, there are not So many spleri did .equipages, nor even so many people in the streets as formerly ; this last may perhaps be owing to the want of thelitistle of trade, but to appearance Paris has declined in population. " The once celebrated 13Alia ER ‘ g ; lives here in a very obscure station of life ; hesubsists brtratiSlat ins English works into'Ffeneia.fnrttie booksellers. TuomAs • PAIVE is also hete„,nd,... i a.pplies himself very closely , to mechanics, and is l about to present the world With a new discovery."._, Fifty per Cent. on the Exchequer Bill Loan' be came payable this day. The Redemption Day of :the I t Loan at the Bank on the 22(1. FILL VErt I-IL IN:, appointed Charge d'AfFaires front the Court of .Stockholmi arrived in town - yes:. tetchy morr:.ing. He came by way of France: _ . Cclonel and • Majoi bOYLE arrived in town late On TtiesdaY night from Egypt. .They : travelled with Lord. Va r :: BE NT I NC K. A singular .circumstance riappen6d On Twelfth night.—A Mr.. H. went to a pastry-cook's shorin . Fleet -street, abOtit twelve 'o'clock at night, 'topar ! chase a cake ; and after repeatedly. knocking, a' woman,balf asleep, came from a back ,parlour, and on entering the shdp exclaimed, " Q hudiancli we have lost.our Xing Ce4e I" The husband tan into, the_ shop, and taxed Mr. 1-I:.wi th. having stolen it.; however, after an explanation, it. appeared 'some other. person had dntie that, 'and accordingly Mr. H. purchased a cake, andwent abdat. his business. In. his way home, on the §urry - side cf -Black friars-btidg.e, he overtook a Kan with--a large par-. eel upon hi's head, and iiadeliatefy walked tip to hint, and endeavotired to leafn the contents, sns-. petting he -was . the person eominiffi.d the: theft he followed. hirer some - 14:0, , till .an oppor- ; tunity oft - erect of e . otnmuniCating his4=stispicions• .Patrolei,xt ha .assiskekleuiing the Thief, but not, until after a. most desperate. resistance, in . . Whieh . the fellow die* a knifq . and thretttened in stant destruaitiri to any one who should endeavour to take him, _When it proved . to be the very cake jest stolen from the . shop. On 'Thursday he was bad before the Ntagistrstesat 7 Vnion'llallisVhenThe pastry-cook was sent for, and his-servant proved • the ornaments upon' it _to' be those he placed' there.. "I.'he cake was, valued at 4:5•5. anti. he was accord ingly- committed upon: the capital. charge . of pri vately stealing to that arawint,.. and will take his trial at the Old Bailey Se lions, bLD BAILEY. 'CONI:3 JAN. T 4: THE ATTORNEY GE ivERAL appeared in Cputi a little. after ten o'clocK, and,prayed that joi'eph Wail might be called - in,and arraigned. - Giverno . r. 'Wall theoappeared; and the Clerk "Of the Arraigns read an indiciment against him. The "substance of which was--That certain persons, to the Jurors tinknown, ,had . On the loth of July, in the zzd year of His Maies:ty's - Reign, with a Piece • of 'rope, heat, penetrated, and wounded, one 11(vz jamin ArmsoviT, ,in several parts of his body [re ferring, as we presutne . , to the floggini supposed to have been ordered. by the Governor], ai . Goree,,, &c. of Which wounds he languished, and languish:.. ina, did live until the /sth of that month, and then died; and that he the . said Joseph Wall was present aiding, abetting,• helping, assisting, comforting and maintaining the said persons so to wound the said Benjamin Armstrong, whereby he the said Joseph , Wall, the said Benjamin Armstrong did kill and Murder.'• . • To this Indiament Governor Wall pleaded— Not Guilty. , • He %vas .charged with two other Inditiments, precisely of the same. nature as the former; the one charging him with the murder of Thomas Upton the. other of George Paterson, to which the Goitr nor also pleaded—Not Guilty. He wAs then informed - by the Officer of the Court that his trial would-be called on at nine o'clock on Wedoeiday morning next---and he retired. . The Court then proceeded in the conimon busi ness of the day, and several Ptisoners were convict_ edoffelonies, in trifling, articles. 'Edward IVarrea• was tried for a burglary in the dwelling-house - of Mark Hodson aud Edward 'Par don. The Prosecutors are partners in the Brewery at Bow.. 'fheir, counting - house belonging to the' brewery was robbed on the 4th of December last, about one o'clock in the morning, .arid. a great, civantity'of Bank Notes ; some money ; and a bad half-guinea, .a bad. dollar, some bad. half-crowns, and some other -bad-silver ,Was taken- away. • , A Clerk belonging to f essrs. eteyre and Co. Bankers, swoie that a.zudn came into their house on the morning , of the 4.th of December; about nine o'clock, and got zzl. in payment for a check. They gave him a zoi. lyre. Shortly after, - the Prosecutor's Clerk - came to stop payment . for the . check. The Witness -wept, instantly to the Bank of England, to desire that the 201., note, he had given in payment for the check that morning might also be stopped. The Prisoner having in the course of the day come to get change-for it, he was taken up, He then stated, that he had it of a man named Pritchard, who was -also taken up. The Officers who took this man into custody said, they went to his house, at No. S, King-street, Mile-enti New 'Town. They searched his house, and the •pockets of his wife and daughter; on them they found two sixteenth shares in the Irish Lottery,, together with some Bank notes, all of whizh had been istolen frdm the Prosecutors' count ing-house. They then wcnt to* Bethnal-green road, and searched the 'house of the Prisoner, but 'found nothing in it. The' next day, in conse:., qucnce of Some. information they receivcd,, they. searched the privy belonging to hi.s house, and there found concealed a bundle, containing a qqatitity of false anti picklock keys, of ail sorts anki - sizes; toge-- ther . with a bad half guinea, a bad dhilar, and Iwo bad. s hillingsand a sixpence... One of the keys opened Hodgson's elunting,-house ; atiother,Picked,the (loot leading into the yard ;:andanoiher a cupboard door., On cross-examination the Officer.; said,. the privy belonging.to the PriSoner's house,',yhere they found the - bundle; was in . such an open situation that any person miglif have access to it. - .. Benjamin Pritchard- said ; he was the Prisoner's, accomplice. :About twelve o'clock, on: the night of the 3d it. they went to,Mr..Hodgson's Brewery; they. staid lukilg about till one, when they un locked.. the wickc; 7 4 . oat pith a false key ; then they opened the ciiu,ikking-house door with . another ; made. a light hy , !titans of- phosphorus, unlocked the door of the itork'cuPboard; broke. open four or five desks; and took away all the propety they. could find; :they. ' took away a Bank note of - 251; one of. 261: one of 151. one of 51. with ,several 21. and 11. Notes; two shares of Lottery Tickets; a "book, a Banker's check, a bad half_ guinea; a bad • dollar;', two, bad shillings; and a bad. sixpeoc.e.: They then 'skimmed • the doors after them, and went. • 'away to : : Bow Fair rields ; after which they pro;. ',Ceeded With .an intention .of committing another., robbory.. They Went to the Prisonces house; and , counter.i.over the ijooty. The 'Witness took the check, and.Canie away to get cash for it; while tlie Prisdner pent-off%to Bow -to 'tee thet -any en. Auir4 , makeaneerning the burglary. The Witness . camp. into town; an at the end of GraceChoreh • street- m ..he et a man, 4•Junn lie Asked if he knew wheie,•the cheek" . .Was payable.. The ma' .under-- : . took to caw the: check to the Bankers; and ask .. Payment for it. It was then nine o'clock in the morning; After waiting some 'tittle; the man brought him the dioney the. check, —being 01; note; and. 21'; in cash, - He gave the . Illatl ' ettri % shillings far his trouble. ithmediately afteb he :unit the Priso6er, who. told Mitt he had lust ,fir , frotri -Bow; where there was giCat distuthance about the robbery. rtk Prisoner's afterwards took -the 20: note, and. saifrhe.would go and-get small notes fot it at the Batik. The Witness adviied himnot; but he went away and when the Witness next Saw him; be4V-tfl at the Police Office in custody. , . Tire Witness mrp - fross-exatiiin'ed by Mt. 'ALL E i., He said, lielii4l64ionee fore in chat Court as a be, King's eridtink , ilytalkitt Irdoldridge j , vho was -tried for forging - Itulk".Notes; and I.l'' 'once tried for felony at Staff-drd. - • After a yet) , long tfial?it was objiaeri Ott' the part of theTrisonerf by Alt LI hi . Coutseli that as this countinhouse was:act:tat& to .the brewery, JO neither of the Partne . rs' lived -in any part of the hayinl; each a Etpaitithouse, upwards of iob'xardS'tiff,.rhis could not be called-their dwelling 'houSe; ante then :fore he submitted' that the capital part of the Indiatnerity eonsiderin4 the . r:ase either 'as a burglary iierilin§ it the could not be supported, and that the Prisoner eould not therefor!! be found ..guilty of any : thirg More than the mere stealing of the gOods: 'Next to this tie gubititied also, that the Parish was misstated 'in the Indictment ; it being called St, Mary Stiat: ford, Bow; whereas the real name was ,"-Saint Mary Stratford Le Bow;" But the Court observed that a this ()tinting.; houSe was phited to lie - adjoining to a building; with an internal Commuriiotion from it to the place where the servants ate their viatials, and where one of the Clerks had - a bed and..slept every night,. and the A - Vlitile being cOntineed bu'il,ling under one roof, this plate .was dweiling_honse of the Prose cutor's; It. Was not necessary for a person to lice himself, in a hotise, in order to constitute it his its was isnfEciint_ that •he should haVe a serv.ant, to liWell tliere; arid 'therefore. this Objeaioh was over-ruled; As to 'the 'other point of the name of the Parish; it tieing called by both names in common, the Parish, was well stated, and this objection was also Over-ruled: The whole: case therefore went to the Jury, who, however, as so much of it depervied On the evidence of the ac- complice, whom they did not like td trust tO; brought in their Vercliti==;Nid Guilty. : • The Master of a Genoese vessel arrived at Innis, reports, that the Fiench Government has caused is to be intimated to the. Regenties of Africa; that if in the course of forty by.* they do not set free all their slaves, and•deciare theniseives in peace with all Nations, (hey will be compelled to do so by force of arms. • • IQ throwing dot ihduse near the rue Sts: nore„ at Paris, to.rtiake room for some ir.cv build ings, a it•illar forming one of .the angles was found. to .be covered with a very extraordinary allegorical, sculptures A numbetof young apes aresepresented. as eagerly graying at the branches - of a , tree, in order to.ger,at its fruit,. while an old ape, .who sits quietly below, regards them with an air of mockery, and holds in his paw a fruit which has' fallen,,in .consequence,or their exertions. The whole is sup posed to be as old as the r ith century; The pillar is tobe placed in the Museum of French Monument: A most. Unhappy accident happened_ near Brent, about ..fifteen miles from' Plyrriduth, last week aChristmasleas: of some respeetable farmers' daughters: and -their friends, a young man, out of fun, presented at a- young woman, ,a caroler's daugh ter, a piece, left by accident it-. the entry of the fat-tn . -house, which was tinfartunately loaded.. The contents lodged- in her thigh, and She languished several days and expired. To add to. the distress of her Inver, , one of the party; she was to have been married , in a few days. On Saturday night an urifortnnate affect happened on board a boat belonging -to the Resistance Frigate; at Portsmouth: in consequence of one of the sea.: men not behaving agreeably to the orders of the Lieutenant; . the latter struck him; in a passion; with the tiller on the head, which_So ,badly fraetured the skull, that he died a .thort, tiirie after. , The I.leutenant .Was taken immediately into custody, and was on Tuesday corriMitted for trial. An inquest being taken or the body; the' Coroner '..yrotight, in the verdil Wilful Murder. On Monday last, a young man; of the midi of Northman, whose parenta - reside in Bond streef,*-Wctit to skait with .otne of hiS companions; on the Serpentine River;- when ~h e anci another agreed to rin :a face on the_ ice; in their skaits; anti having proceeded . to; some- dietnnee, unhap pily. they ,run,Agait-At each othef; which caused them to fall on the ice With :such ,ii,iplence as td break it in and plunge them. both into the wa.: ter. After having struggled .tbgethcr for a short, time under the ice; 'one of them extricated hiMself from the dangerous situation; but young Northman was irrecoverably lost; Immediate assistance was procured to'cleaf away the ice; to drag for his body; which was foUnd after a short search. The rules pref. scribed • by the Humane Society wet put . in prac.. rice, but it was too late to afford relief. A Coro.: ner's Inquest has been held* upon the body, and a \Taft brought in of Accidental Death; A man on Wednetday fractured his Slz.till; skaiticig on the ice of, the Serpentine Miter; Two fell in, one Of wliotti was tinfOrtunately drowned: . • MUSICAL.REMARI.IitiefI upon Key'd Instru; MeDts, Dr: BURNEY informs use are' frequently performed by German Musicians. This int4ligerm and scientific Musical liistorian, a,few years.agoi published his firSi,DuttS for the Piano-forte in Eng; land: The late HOnourable Ti,AINES BARR:INC.; 'roll,. the great nitron Of real Genius; instigated this idea for two digan. PcifdiMets. The Messrs: WEsttY, at, the request of thiS Gentleman; corn posed and seleaed froM HANDEL, which cortiposi; 'tions'can only lie-heard to advanzßge by Performer 'who have early in.life been aCcustonlecl - to play withi accuracy. We liear the late Royal Concert ,Room in Tottenbani-street, is fixed On by ,these Men to . regale!th,eir friends, the ArriateiirS of Orgair Perfohnance. ,"- , . ~ When the Managers of ari eicellent Institution akc itOefatigable in. the sublime office Of preserving ':ifie.li've,s Of, their fellow-creatures; such a cOndiet ' e' it cotrinand the esteem of the candid and iMp•rtrial cif every denomination.---Our. Correspw.: (Wilt :was . naturally_ led. into this train of reflection; . by' 'seeing several l rsons with a badge on their arms; signifying the liiimAxii Soctu•riN They caution all ranksdf 1 ,.! . 0p1e no't to vesture oil dan gerous parts of the 6,e.s:pentineßitier; and have likes wise poles and a l'irvarive ladder; which hag, ' saved the lives of thi4e Gentlemen.;—=Curiosity' ,prompted. the wri ter to'4 P - ify - the Receiving-house which, to the honour of tiit .ikis'titutioo . ; contained every necessary article. for 41 .6. rtt tofaticip of life.— .. .. The aid thus' affordeL'i-for eilt4 7 4'hore intoftant puil., — pOSesi must, . during this', inittl 2ttit season, b. at : te.odq.d.. with considerable 04 - ty: expense.--Th friends of huirianity . indulge ,tfi l epleaSing. hope; that a' Society;. replete - with strtail`yaluable blessings to every, order of men ; will rneit with dig countenance acid - apprOation of tly6se whom , Providence hay blessed with the means. of E. cothing . the calamities of their species; IV kind condolence; ox suteouting by substantial services. ~s