The Sun. — London, England, 1807-06-24 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SIR, The veteran CUMBERLAND, in his very entertain-. ing Memoirs, speaking of GOLDSMITH, aCknOiilMges that his: ,Deserted Village and his . . Traveller, passes§ considerable merit, but. does ...not seem diSposed to allow that GOLDSMITH was - a Poet, alledging that his works are hardly of balk and magnitude Sufficient to entitle him to such a name. It might be thought that so acute and so, ingenious a writer as Mr.,Crmt- BERLAND would not have . ha,zarcled such . an observa tion;for, ; upon, this principle, GRAY; who wrote less than GOLDSMITH, was still less entitled to the name of Poet, though his , works will for ever do honour to the British Muse ; and upon the same principle, also, BLACKMORE was a much greater man than either. I am sorry that on this occasion there is reason to re mind Mr. CUMBERLAND of the story in Peregrine Pickle, in which a Dutchman . , speaking ,of his bro ther as a great author, took up a, large cheese and said, that the latter had written a book of equa l Z thickness. QUALITY; INFANT POPE.—When KING - JAM ES , visited the house of Sir M. POPE, in his progress through the Kingdom, Lady POPE had been recently delivered of a daughter. The child was presented to the King with•thb following verses in hur hand : " See ! this little mistress here Did never sit in PETER'S chair, • Or a triple crown did wear, And yet she is a Pons. • • No benefice she ever sold, SE or did dispense with sins for gold ; She hardly is a se'nnight ohi, And yet she is a Por E. No King her feet did ever kiss, Or had froin her worse look than this; Nor did she e'er hope To saint one With a rope, And yet she is a Po z. A gale PopE you'll say:--a second Jo I No, sure, she is Pope I NNOCENT, or none." THE THEATaE.-;-*-The season concluded -last night at Covent-Garden theatre, with the Tragedy of Ilan KEMBLE exerted himself with great zeal on the occasion, and never supported the hero of the piece with more ease, dignity, and spiri t. At the end of the play he came forward to testify the thanks of the Proprietors and Performers for the very liberal pa tronage whiCh had attended the Season, and to pro raise a continuance Of zeal to deserve future protec tion: It was one of the neatest and most pertinent speeches of the kind which . we ever heard, 'and was tittered in a very impressive manner. He was re ceived .with very great applause when be came for- . ward to deliver this elegant little address, and retired with the most flattering marks of public favour. MisS JAMESON, WI o has so highly distinguished liersellon the Bath stage, takes a benefit at Bristol text week. The play is to be Alphonso, Mr. LEWIS'S best dramatic work, and GARRICK'S interesting ro malice of Cynion. Miss :JAMESON has considerably increased her reputation this season by her spirited Performance of Lady ROdolpho ,Lumbercourt, and her interesting support of Florence, in the Cur, Bath has long been. esteemed an adniirable nursery for theatrical powers, and MisS JAmasoN is one,of the fairest of its fruits. Mrs. GLOVER has resigned her situation - at Covent - 7 garden Theatre. A difference with respect to terms• is the cause assigned for the proceeding. MUSICAL •PHENOMENON.—CASINER IiACCKER, a boy who has astonished all Paris by his performanee on the Harp, has just arrived in this country. His taste, .skill, and knowledge, have' excited suptise and admiration in the best judges and most able•per formers. As this extraordinary Boy is under the patronage of some persons of diStin6tion in this coun try, it is not certain that hewill be permitted to exert his talents in public ; but from all accounts he - ii likely to pro;►e another CROTCH Or MOZART. — • A Gentleman reading in the Paper s'recoinmenda tion of having ropes. at different spots by the Canals, for the rescue of such skaiters as were in danger of drowning, a hurnouritt observed, " That the old pro : . verb excluded ropes in drowsing." • The German Version of the Psalms, which has been tolerated ' and sinCtiOned by the Catholic Church, is not exaetly conformable with the transla tion' of Luther, which is used in the Protestant Countries. From the division of one of the Psalriii in one of the, Versions, or from an omission in the other, the chapters do not exaelly correspond. This circumstance was unfortunately overloolted,clUr ing the celebration of the acce§sion of the BleEtor of Wirtemburgh to the kingly dignity. On that occa sion, public service was performed throughout the kingdorh, and the Court ordered an the clergy to take for their text the 23 stPsalm, versesti, 7. The Protestant Ministers preached from the words, " For thou bast made him blessed for ever : thou has made him ex ceedingly glad with thy countenance. For the King trusteth in the Lord, and through the mercy of the inost,fligh he shall not be moved." Not so the Catholic divines : they were peremptorily required to obey a command which admitted no deviation, and did a&ually take for the great and joyful occa trod,'the verses which in our arrangement are iu the 22d chapter, " But I am a worm and na , man, a reproach of men, and despised. of the people. All they that see me langh me to scorn !". There is no foundation whatever for the report of Sir Jams MANSFIELD'S intending to retire from the Chief Justiceship of the Common Pleas, over which Court he presides with so much ability, his Lordship having . tiever been in better health. and spirits. • The'aetion against Dr. WoLoorr, for criminal conversation with a Mrs. KNIGHT, stands last but one in the list of causes to be tried at the present Sittings. TRADE WITH IRELAND...—III the• week endirdg the loth ult. there were'imported thence into Lon don . 840 tons of Bacon, 70 tons of Beef, and 342,,t'94. yards of Linen. . . . The first division of the Warwickshire Militia are gone to Sunderland. . The following i 3 Pablisked as the otaer d the FRANCIS which is td attend the, chairing of Sir Y RAI4CIS BtIRDETT, on his being returned as one (5( the Members for the City of Westrxiin,ster: The persons who -have adjusted this ceremony l)aye very freely dispOsid of the Beadles Of the several Parishes On this occasion; but we presUme . that it will be nu cessary to procure the assent of the tespe6tiVe C hu rch- Warden's. I-lOw far it May be proper for such a ce remony to take place at all, so lOng after the day of eleetiOn, on which. day alone, according to immemo rial custom, it has ever taken place in Westminster, is another question. That it will draw together an immense crowd of people cannot be doubted, and as it is impossible to say what inischiefs may ensue, we dOubt not that Government Will take all due mea sures tb preserve the peace of the metropolik, on an occasion so likely to produce disturbance, confusion, and more fatal consequences : ORDER OF THE PROcESSION, FOR • CHAIRING SIR FRANCIS BURDETT, ON' MONDAY, JUNE 29, 1807. Marrowbones and Cleavers, tour and four, Four Trdmpeters on horseback. Two large- Flags used during the Eledion. Three small Ditto. Ditto, Ditto, Ditto. High Constable on horseback. Nine Assistants, Three and Three. .One large dark Blue Flag, Motto, " Burdett and our Country." • Band of Musk, -three and three. Three Bugle Boys on horseback, with small Blue Flags, The Majority . painted thereon. 'Large White Flag carr►ed on Horseback, Motto, . " Purity of Eledion." ' r. Flag of St. Anne's Parish. Four Beadles of Sr. Anne. . _ Electors, four and tour. z. Flag of St. Paul, Covent-garden, and St. Martin Le Grand. Four Beadles. Ele&ors, four and tour. 3, Flag of St. Clement Dines, and St. Mary Le Strand. Four Beadles. Eledors, tour and four. 4. Flag of St. Martin in the Fields. Four Beadles. , Eledors, tour and four. S. Flag of St. James. ,Four Beadles. Electors, four and four'. 6. Flag of St. George, Hanover-square. Four Beadles. Electors; four alld. tour. 7. Flag of St. Margaret and St. John. Four Beadles. Eleaors, tour and four. Large dark-Blue Flag, Motto, " Burdett the Choice of the People." Band of Music, three and three. Large dark Blue Flag Motto " Committee" on one side, " l'uiity of 111eaion" on the other. Committee, three and three. Chairman to bring up the Rear. Large Sky Blue Banner, Motto, " The Constitution." Mr. Jennings, supported by Messrs. Glossop and Adams. Large dark Blue Banner, Motto, " The Triumph of Westminster." SIR FRANCIS BURDETT, In a Grand Car, drawn by tour Horses abreast. ' Small dark Blue Bantir, Motto, " The Sense of the People." Horsemen, four and four. Carriages to close. A letter received in town from Smyrna by a Mer chant of the first respeEtability, states,. that the fluence of France at Constantinople . was on the. decline. The vigilant blockade by the Russian . Fleet had produced such a scarcity of provision?, that the people had been induced to emwesi their disapprobation by loud hisses and groans . as SEBA.s- TIAN' passed the.streets. In consequence of the increased demand for pro-. visions for the Naval and Military service, the Commissioners of his Majesty's Navy have found it necessary to contract for a further supply of se veral thousand barrels of pork from the original Contrators. In the City it was yesterday reported, that a Loan of five millions is to be granted to our Allies., Yesterday a Deputation from the Committee of West India Planters and Merchants, consisting of Mr. ,LYOtv, Agent for Jamaica ; Mr. MARRYAT, Agent for Trinidad ; Mr. flizaEßT and Mr., Bo- SANG,ITET, had a Oonferetace with the CEIANCEC LOR of the EXCHEQUER, at his house in Downing street. The following is, we' believe, a pretty accurate statement of the numbers of the new Irish Repre= • sensation, viz. 67 with Administration, 33 with Opposition. Only three Petitions against returns are expected from that Country, one of which will be froth Mr. BAGWELL against the Sitting Member for the County of Tipperary. ' • - 'Yesterday an elegant Silver Cup was rowed for 14 six of the best Cutters on the River, manned by Gentlemen who sustain and row them at their own experce, and for their own pleasure; the agree ment was made in,this tvay—that the Cutters should be rowed, not by their own hands, but by those of the others, on the fair ground, that they knew the trim of their own galleys so well, that i t wou ld b e a fairer point that those who belonged to one galley should row any other than their own. In this way they started from the Widow Smith's, at Alillbank, on the flow of the tide, to the Swan at Chelsea, and returned down again, four rowing each Cutter. Six galleys started, but vi&ory was, soon divided in favour of three of them, the'Diana, the Northumberland, and the Venus Funney. On drift ing down, the - Diana took the lead, and kept it—was followed by the Northumberland, who was backed by the Venus. They came itfin that order, and •the ••Judges gave the cup (a most elegant one) to the Captain of the Diana : 'it was a well contested race with those three gallies, and afforded much ainuse mew. A great number of boats were on the River, pleasure boats as well as others, and it atiorded a pretty aquatic spectacle. Mr. THOMPSON, of Castle-street,. Leicester square, has received a - letter from Mr. CHARLES STURT, dated at Bitch, in France, 27th May, stating that the accusation against him of his taking plans of Boulogne and the flotilla, is entirety false; - and, that, after a long confinement, he was proved inno cent, his accusers not having been able to bring the slightest proof against him. The - whole originated in private pique, and a most nefarious plan to extort money from him. , The Sick and Hurt Office is removed from Somer set House to the Transport Office, in Dorset-square, Westminster.. , CHRISTOPHER BiIYNES. Yesterday,.purguant toodvertisethent, a numerous cotivany of the Friends of lr CiiRISTOPHER BAYNE met at the Thatched House'Tavern, for the purpose of testifying to that Gentleman the esteem they felt for him, and the regard they. had for the cause ,in which he was engaged when he stood Candidate to represent the County of Middlesex in Parliament. The meeting ivas as respeaable as any We ever wit tiesSeed: Sir WILLIAM GIBBONS was in the Chair, which he filled with great propriety. The cloth being drawn, and, each Gentleman hai• ing taken a few glasses Of Champaigne, the Chair ilian gave a toast" The King, with three times three ;" which was drank with enthusiaSm. Song by Mr. •GinioNs--" God save the King !" . Toast-- The queen, with three times three." Song, by Mr. GIBBONS, on the Death of Aber- Oombie. • ToaA—" The Prince of Wales, with three times three." Our friends, the Eleaors of the County of Middlesex, and prosperity to that Connty, with three times three." • " Song, by Mr. OTtouRKE, in an excellent ,manner, in 'ridicule of the Great Nation—the French. The last verse was encored. Toast—" The Duke of York and •the Army, with three." • " Lord MUlgrave, and the Navy of England, with three."-r—D,rank with great enthusiasm, and . . three times three. Song, by Mr. GIBBONS—•" The Wooden Walls of Old England for ever.", The CHAIRMAN then said; " I now Call your at tention to the charaaer of a Gentleman to whose exertions we are so much indebted' whose health-I propose we shall drink With three times three ; I mean Sir Christopher Baynes." Sir CHRISTOPHER BAYNES.--.." The honour You' .have done me in drinking my health, calls for the ,warmest acknowledgments of a heart overflowing with gratitude. To pay you that debt of gratitude is grateful to me in the extreme ; and be assured, Gentlemen, that the .flattering manner 'in which you have conveyed to Me this favOur, has made an impression on My mind of so deep a nature, that 'I shall always consider this as one of the proudest days of my life. With respeft to the late EleetiOn' for the County of Middlesex, Gentlemen, pertnit me to say, that I am - greatly mortified that your, generous efforts and able exertions were not clowned with success at the late Election. You are all well acquainted with iny'principles, to :which I shall always adhere; yet, notwithstanding my attach ment to them, I fear that I have been deficient in my endeavours to second and promote your wished (No! -no no !) • " Gentlemen, your kindness and indulgence have quite overpowered me, - and. have remunerated me for the trouble which I took at the late ele&ion for this county, nor can help feeling the most lively gratification at the cheerful sight of so many of my old friends, and at the acquisition of so many new ones. NoW, Gentlemen, I cannot refrain frOm de claring to yoti, most explicitly, my sentiments; they are the sentiments which first recommended me to yOur notice, :and which, trust, will secure to pile your. fut4ire.fayom... They. are sentiments of pure attacharent to our gracious Sovereign. If ever I.desert the principles w%ich brought,about our glo rious Be elution--which fixed our happy Constitu tion,- then shall *you; Gentltnpm, as of course you will, withdraw. your confidence from • and be assured that I think the loss of your good, opinion the greatest punishment 'that can be infliEted on a man in my situation ; to• me, it would be more severe than death itself. . . " GentlemenJ beg leave to return you my thanks _ once more, and to add my most fervent wishes for your welfare and yoUr happiness. Gentlemen, be fore I sit down, permit me to propose to yoti a Toast; which is that of " The Health of our worthy Chair man," who has, by,his *Eons, • shewn so warm an attachment to our King and Coristitution." "Sir WILLIAM GIBBONS, With three times three." Sir WILLIAM GIBBONS—" Gentlemen, in return ing you my roost heartfelt thanks, I can only say, that whatever. I may , want in ability, I will endea vour ta , make up in zeal 3 more I cannot say now, for lam overcome by your generosity." • Sott —" Rule Britannia." • The CHAIRMAN then said—" Gentlemen, I will give you the health of a. man who conquered the Cape, and opened a source for British commerce in South . America," The Conqueror of Buenos Ayres, Sir Home Popham, with three times three." Sir HOME Pomo' returned thanks handsomely. He took a view of the manner in :vhich. he had been accused and tried by f` 411 the Talents ;" ..by which he meant the late Administration.—The manner in which his trial was conduEted on the part of his prosecutors, whom he accused of faEtious and party motives, in the same manner as those of • the trials of Admiral Byng and Lord Keppel ; and he main tained, that he triumphed in the: opinion of the people. There•was no fbundation for anger again'st him by the late Administration ; but the - truth, was, that they were determined to-c'ensure the execution of every scheme which they did not plan ; but he was satisfied with the opinion of the country on his conduEt. - Toast-L" Lord Castlereagh ) and success to the Expedition." Toast—" To the Momory of the Immortal Pitt."—(Drank with still and solemn deuce) Song " The Pilot that weathered . the Storm," by Mr. GIBBONS. Mr. O'lloyiticE entertained •the company with a' song, accompanied on the piano -forte, in ridicule of our foreign professors of music; which was so highly reliShed as to be encored. The ec►mpany then became convivial, and sat till a late hour. Yesterday evening, at 5 o'clock, an Inquest 'was held at the Distiller's Arms, Great Saffron-hill. be fo)e G. Honosox, Esq. one of the Coroners for Middlesex, upon the body of Stephen Byrne, a la bowing man, who lost his life on Sunday, in New court, Great Saffron-hill. It appeared that the de ceased and one Tovey, a hair-dresSer, having had a quarrel, went out to fight. They had not fought abore a minute when the deceased suddenly dropped down and expired. •VerdiEt,—/Iccidentai Death: DUBLIA, .TuNE . . . , . Monday last a dispntc. took place at Talla, in tHs County of Clare,, betweeii . a,man tanned Namari.; and other persons, when Daniel . Minnoage; a tar-. nicer,., interfering, received a blow from M'Naruart . l on the head, which it is feared will proire 'McNamara has absconded. . ThUrsday Morning, tit an early . Wow', two farmer'?i houses on the lands of Knoctarai:illv, near Cullen, in the County of Limerick, were set on tire byshole 'villains, and entirely consumed, together with the furniture; beddingi. potatoes, &c. belonging . to 3. Ryan, the hel - dSman; wiio occupied one of - the houses. The follotring melancholy accident happened to Mr. Masterson, of Dull:1-y, on his return from Mr. SpaiTow'i ftineral, on Tuesday evening :—the horsti on which he rode became restive., and threw hint with such violence against the ground,' as to cauie his immediate death. . . Jutic-20.—The camp is forming in the Phcenik Park, is, we understand, to be Composed entirely Orthe light companies 6f several reghneuts formed together :' was a measure to which that gallant Officer, the present Lord 6ail; was alway very partial when Sir CHAALss GitE V, and eonJ. 7 manding . the Eaitern Distria of England ; he had two brigades of flank companies ffirnied at Canterbury the one comprising all .the- grena dier, companies, and the other all trio. light Wan-. - try companies of All the regiments in the whole of the Distri& which he commanded and a tmer , body 'of pith' fur 'their numbers, amoottting to aboiat three thousand each, was perhaps never seen. The .18th Dragoons, at present ou Dublin duty, are under Orders for foreign service on the shurtet notice. - On Tuesday last the 25th 11 . egirdent, .upder the command of Lieutertant-Colobel STEWART; Marched into Cori: city from Deneraile, and Imo-% ceeded next • morning to Kinsale, to replace the 32d .regiment, who are under orders, for enibarka tion. A division of the first regirrient of the Light Ger man Legion arrived in - Dublin on Thursday, from their late country quarters at Gort, and other parts of the country in that heighbourhood. The 32d regiment, now at Kinsale; and under orders for England, were reviewed on Sattrclay last; previous to embarking, Sy, Major-General CANti). BELL. Their manoeuvres in .the field, as well . a§ the interior economy of the corps; called forth the high approbation of the General. Vhj - light companies of the 6th' and t st.regi ments, stationed in Limerick garrison, and which were to have proceeded bu' Sattrdajrilak foc Dublin, have been countermanded. . Last Tuesday the Riglit•Worshipful Sir 4icumw HAlkiE, as Coronet',.held an Invest at Cioughaclo ka, in 'the Liberties' of the city of Llnierick, on view of the body of one Catherine Sullivan, the wife of Thomas. Sullivan, 'of the 'same- place, la bourer. It appeared by evidence, that the deceased, togetlith- with her husband and son, Patrick Sulli van, were attending their business in a potatoe-gat den on the Wednesday preceding, and that two brothers riathed Edmund and Patrick Shaghnessy, were working in another part of the same garden that a dispute arose between the two :parties on some fathily concerns; and the Shaghnessys having quitted At dinner tine, they returned ataut, Sage ther with another man, armed with wattles and a weighty stick, and imtnediately proceeded to beat the Sollivans that Catharine received a tuoital wound on her head, 'whereof she languished until Monday the 15th inst. and died.----The Jury found. a verdid that she came to her death by means of a mortal wound on her head, given her by Edrriond Shaghnessy. Thomas and Patrick Sullivan lie dan . . gerously ill of the beating they received at the same time. , FOOT RACE.—The long dependin g Foot Rac6 be tween Cooke, the soldier, and theßrieiton Shep herd, for 50 guineas a-side, took place at half paSt, eight, on Monday night, in Lord's Ciicket-ground. At seven.o'clock nearly 2000' persons viere upon the ground. The distance was measured from the Sith scribers' stand' to the paling, 140 yards. Bets ran high upon the Shepherd, who was the favonrite.— At twenty minutes past eight the two 'champions walked up and ,down the course, after which they both stripped ; and the signal being made,for stalling; they ran nearly equal for 1116 first 100 yardi. The Shepherd then took the lead, and won without much difficulty, his antagonist having given hini two yaids - at - coming They performed the race in ten secondi. Several sporting Gentlemen were present, amongst whoni were Lord F. BEAUCLERE, the Hon. Mr. UPTON, Hon. Mr. BLIGH, Col. MitTLANb, Csptaia. BECKET, GEO. LEICESTER, Esq. ,Mesars.FREEMW TLE, HAMNIOND;aIId F. LADBItOKE. To-morrow the 'Prisoners inlthe Eteireral Gaols iri the City of London and. County of Middlesex, charged . with felonies, will be removed to Newgate preparatory to taking their trials at the erisuiug Ses•' sons, which commence on Wednesday next at Jus tice Hall in the Old Bailey. On Thursday last came on before the Court of Ex chequer, at Edinburgh, an information, at the in= 'stance of his Majesty's Advocate-General, against NICOL STENHOUSE, sem and Nrdor. STENHOUSE,jU.: nior, brewers,.in the neighbourhood of Duns; for mixing various drugs in \the ale, porter, and beer, manufactured by them, contrary to Ad of Parlia ment, which allows nothing else to be used but malt and hops. Alter a. trial of considerable length, the Jury found, a verdiet for the Plaintif on one count of the information, for a penalty of 2001. It came out in the course of the trial, that in a room ad joining to the brewery, there were found packages of nine different sorts of drugs, amounting to 3061 b. weight. CORN: EXCHANGE, kNE 24.—At the New Mar ket to-day part of the Fe:tors attended, and but few sales were made,.- rather at a small declension in Price; ordinary samples on Monday - and'to-day are almost unsaleable, though at more reduEtion ; Bar ley and Matt. scarcely support last prices; in Beans but little alteration ; Oats this week are lower; Flower likewise; fine Arneridan, 38s. to 4.35. per barrel. I W neat 46$ a 6os a 72s od Beans (Old) 43$ A 49S od Fine ditto -76 s a 78s od Tick ditto (do.) ns a 39s od Ry e - - 38 s a 42$ od Oats -23 s 26S a 32s od 1 Barley - ' - as a 37b 6d Poland ditto 34s a 355 od Malt - -62. s a 68s od Rape Seed - - 241 a 281 White Pe 78$ 4,85 s od fine Flour - 6os a 65s od Grey ditto 4 , 44 s ;A 4883 od Seconds . -55 s gODS pa