The Sun. — London, England, 1802-12-31 00:00:00

I At Santa Fe, a ToOH situate on .the plain of Ba. gota, on the height of theCordilleris, in. South America, the King of SPAtt4 has a .Botanic,Garden, which is kept at the expence of 10,660 piasters. an. sivally.. Ito Direetor, Mr. Mvrts, possesses one .of lillbratesbleit lotanical enlleaions in the world. s'' nifty pAttit r eiii" Mve been there employed, for .r.c years, under his diredion, in drawing represents. lions to illustrate the natural history of those rep Sons. They have finished 3000 drawings in folio, with all the neatness and accuracy of tniniaturesi We have had occasion frequently to mention the progress of the cotton trade in Dundee ; there are now tipwards of two thout4nd looms employed ! there, and the manufaaory is 'rapidly extending to the neighbouring towns arid villages'. vat e 4. S*l Nin llR.—Tlielollnivingeoup:efr mainwas played oft* at a shop in OifOrd.street,.not long since :---A Well.dressed man, apparently a foreigner, went into A woollen.drapo's shop, in , r. al, e afternoon ! he had a green bag in his hand, .isihieh he lidd on tbe:cbunter with great care,. Ord asked for some kerseiniere for a waisteoit and .. breeches ; he affected great hurry, and had ahoy, like a servant or errand lad with him. The ker . teytrietebeing cut off; he gave it to the boy; say. iag, 41i, Bid the taylor lose no time ; I must have,et to.n orrOW. highs for Lord's Concert; I cannot elg.witbout it's done—if Ho not ! shall loie twenty . guitteas The boy went off' in * hurry with the purchase ; the Draper asked the Gentleman if he did !tor want lining, wanings, .11kc: ? The answer was, " Yes; I fOrgot that ; God bless me! I shoat go *43 the 'fayldr now myself with them." He then talked o the Concert he wa s engaged for ; men. tioned the ~; iolin in his green bag, fbr which my f Lord had olTered liin forty guineas, and which he had *efusrd. He. next felt for his ptitse, in order to i'ay the Draper'sbill ; afreetedgietit surprize, but re. Colleakd he must have left it at the music shop, *here he had been to buy a Sonata ; it was cer. 4ainlY safe---he had been, no where else i and if the Gentleman (theDrarer) would give Rini leave to hang hid violin on the vacant nail he saw in a flitch be. -lhind the cOttnter, he would leave it till he returned . ..I*ith the Money ; hat may be he might nut ,come .. till hext morning, as it Was probable he Might stay ;')ate at my L6iii's, where lie was going to rehearse with Came amateurs. The Draper consented; a :,.I)Piendiii violin was drawn oni of the bag and hung ,; Up with great care, the musical gentleman observing '-it was lucky he hail another at home, fat which he .„< 410Uld Want the bag ; a Sonata was in the bag, which he took Vs , ith him. About two hours after another item') came for some 'small. article, and cheapened a piece of cloth for a coat, but did not buy it ; see - ing the violin, he asked if it was.to be sold ; the answer was, ~ no ; the owner would rot sell it for : forty guineas.'" , It must be.a good one, said the *trinket,. petniit mo to see it." He too k it, tried 1, it, antlowas in raptures. " It's a Charming instru. trient;Sits I'll give you twenty guineas:" "Sir, it is nntlnilter; I cannot sell it." " I'll give thirty,' Sirl'.dfsidt me have ii"—and he took out his p arse . "I cannot;" said the Draper again. "Let tue finger it a little tnote ; Sir, you must contrive to get it. ..!'. for me—thitty.live guineas, Sir, Oh, by G—, that's a divine tone! • I'll give the forty guineas, Sir, and pay yoti commission for buying it ; and I'll call to.morrow morning," '' I shall do my. en. deavour, Sir."—The Draper now thought he _should I. make a hit ; the commission probably on both sidei, 4 . IMO was not to be negleeled. Early next Morning came the owner of the violin to pay for his kersey. mere, and take his instrument. " Will you sell your • violin, Sir ?" " No Sir. Do yoU play ?" " No, but I have a mind to make a present, and you say this is a good one. Will you take twenty guineas for it ?" "1 tell you, Sir, I have refused forty." ''t Come, I'll give you thirty." " No, Sir , I should affront my Lord if any body clic was to get it." ig CoMe; .„ Come, you say you have another." " Aye, that is true, and as like this one as can be." st Well, I will give you •thirty-four guineai, and no more." " Why, to be sure, I would qlot like to let my Lord know that I wanted money, if I did even `Ni. • ant it • so as you seem to like it , if yo u will give ~.* the kerseytnere into the bargain, you may h av e i t ; my Lord does not know one from the other.. l',':e thirty-font guineas was paid. The Dranep has got at violin which the pretended pur chaseails/ill most asSzlredly never call for. Such arc * l }lSi Ist4 of hits which avarice sometirries makes, for the divine toned instrument proves to be a Dutch 4 ) 1 14%4 balf.a-guinea price. Ilitlewevertings since, Dr. GLovEre, of h Rush. 1111);, was stopped in a single horse chaise, on te Wandsworth road, by two footpads, ,near the four_ mile stone. One of the robbers got up behirid the chaise, and held die Dodoes arms back, , while the other put the lamps of the cha ise out. The Man be. ‘'.A e delveteind the chaise then deman ded the Doctor's money, '"iell bid to them. 1 • They then 'demanded ' h he likewise de not and pocket-book, wh ich fi i .0 , 'versa but hut which they, not being cab et W 4 n ., . ‘ ued his pockets themselves, al‘d t h en made on e ( toss the fichls. • cts*.p,;:n44,t C event Car4a. ' • - , .1, • ; ! ts ••i Tsta ,Tragetty or Cato was repeated lest night at this Theatre, and Coax' fully confirmed the favoia.. able opinion which. he excited by his first : perform. ance o( the great ; Roman :Hero.. There,was more digniti and feeling in his representation of this part than usually appear in his aftingi and,if he was, at times, somewhat rough' anti harsh, his manner, in this respth, corresponded much better with . the temper of the stern Republican Chief, than with most of the charafters Which he has hitherto ported. . . , • . Miss MARR 10T, in deportment and feeling, gave. grace and interest to the part of Lucia,. H. JOHNSTON was by no means improved in his representation of Marcus. His soletnenergy would' have been more appropriate, if he had performed It is evident that the broad a introduced in the pronunciation of Cato, at this Theatre, is not per fealy suitable to the ears of Englishmen, for it was hardly ever uttered without raising a sense of broad ha moor. Mr. Gout.O, we understand * has Putchased Mr. To•tox's property in the Opera House. It is somewhat strange that the Theatre should introduce John Doe and Richard Roe in a Panto mime, as those celebrated ,Gentletnen of the Law .have kenerally been concerned in very serious oters— • The receipts of Drury-lane Theatre on Chri'shiiar D a y; tare aitute.d In a Morning Paper to be 1751. snore than last Tbis certainly was a very 'handsome rece:pt,.comiidering that the Theatre was not open on Christtiias Day. , Madame CORALLI, the, dancer in the straw, is so anxious to snake hay whilst the, sun shines, that she can scarcely be restrained by het .aceovcheur from Making her reappearance ai .the Opera next Saturday. The Managers, however, ban ordered the doors to be shut'against her for at least another fortnight, tbai her strength may be perfeEllY re established. Signior Gottsi . whose first appearance in the Comte Opera is announced for Tuesday, is, we un derstand, a complete f3rro Caricatoi of the Neapo. litau breed ; see, have not lately had much of that, style at the Opera House. To-Morrow being New Year's Day is the firsi . Gala, or Collar Court Day of,the season, which will inds . t likely he the cause of a splendid sues at the Oivra that evening, it .beint,uatial for people of Fashion to appear in the dresses they wore at Court. Singular Omen relative to King. Cniitt La's I. When the famons J,"-,:;t of this Monarch BERNINt was carried to the King's house at Chelsea, His Ma: jesty; with a train • of. Nobility, went to see ,It ; and COLTE, in his Life of the Duke of ORMOND, iiifartiss us, that as they were viewing?, an hawk flew over their Heads; with a tartridge in his claws, which he had wounded to tleath Some of the par- tridge's blood fell on the neck of the bust, where it Always remained. The wild goose Chace, or rather Voyage, of the young woman who sailed, for Petersburgh, in order to arrive at Peterborough, is very similar to a cir cumstance ihat occurred many years ago, but never Made known :—A poor woman, tvho had lost her husband, wished to send a boy to his uncle, at I+al. motith f and humbly, begged Pen tletnan, of AVllOStt humanity She had heard, to proture r passage for him. He happened to be a 'West India Captain, and concluding she wished the child to be landed at Falinotiiht in Jamaica, Whithei he was .bound hints self, he benevolently took him on board. Oti his ar rival he'produced a letter; but no such person as the MICIC, to whom it was addressed; could be found.-- A Gentleman was on the Island, howeVer; who was taken with the appearance. of the lad; and offered to provide for him about his house ; but the Captain, who could not conscientiously dispose rpi . him, without the consent of his mother, only agreed to the proposal , on condition that the boy's ptissage should be paid fur home, if, when he informed het' of the circumstance; she made ad objeftion to his stay. The woman, ho!vever, was satisfied; and sent her second son to li'almonth in Cornwall; It is a singular faEt, that both these Protegies arc now rich men, from the bequests of their respective Pro. teCtots; and reside in one of the Most fashionable squares of Londoit; nery near each other. On Christmas Eve, as Mr. LEV ESTON J Gunner, of the Print? Freder;c, of 64 guns, now lying in ordinary in Hamnaze, it blowing fresh, was going up Hamoaze to go On board his ship, according to orders, it is imagined the boat gnt athwart the hauser of some man of war in the Dock, by which accident he fell overboard and was drowned. His corpse has not yet been found. It was formerly mentioned, that two men were taken from on board the arnaburO, flow rr, from London, on suspicion of having forged notes of the British Linen Company : their names are Mackay and Pepper. After having undergone examinations,. they were, on Tuesday se'noight, carried to Edin. burgh by Mr. Williamson. A few days ago, -a woman from Fife, offering a forged five pound note of the British Liner--Company, at Dundee, was stopped and examined ; she declared having found that note, and another, in a pocket book, washed ashore upon the beach, beyond ‘Voodhaven4; With in the pocket book was a letter, direfted to illarkay, one of the persons committed. On the night of Thursday the 16th instant, the sloop Nancy, WILLIAM LYE!. L master, belong ing to Dundee, was, during a violent gide of wind, run ashore near Holy Island, when the• ship went to pieces. The master and 'crew. were ordi t tcp... nately drowned, excepting one hpy. The mister had been between 30 - and 40 years .employed in tte coasting trade from that Port, and was-'well respen. ed. 'What adds to the misfortune of-his family• is, that the ship was wholly his own property, and not insured. Ta; Last Tuesday night, the house of Mr. Defrand, in Queen's-row, Pimlico, was entered by some villaini, and robbed of wearing apparel, bed furni cure, table linen, and cash, to a considerable amuunt, with which the robbers made their escape. t• Walt` J.' ILL ri 12111.:. 3r. • ' ',-; 'f.-s'ii.4 have tri-447 -tiut few 'arrivals o . ~ Wit t .tv!t4it or other Grain; being a slack Market, we can:note no alteration in ttih article, nor scarce any in Barley or Malt, which remain heavy ; Rye somethipg less, and Feast, sell lower ; Beans nearly as before ; there are up fresh suppliei of Oats, and they fully support their. prices; sales of Flow continue the same. Wheat 4as a 47s aOs oft Tick Beans aps a 335 od Fine ditto - ils a sits dd Oats - . ifs a 181 235 Batley . 245 a 265 6:1 Poland ditto 245 a ass al Malt . - 435 a 41s od Rape Seed - -. 311 , a 341 Rve - - 3ss a 3 85 od Fine Flour -45 s a 4gs ,01 White Pease 3 31 a 4as al .Seconddo. - .05 4 45s Deans .. 331 a 37$ ad . - - NAVAL NSW& PORTSMOUTH, Die. 30. Allures) the Charlotte, STITHINS, from Ply- , mouth; Stag, : LA Clove ) from Faro . ; Prosperous, MUSGRAVE, from Sunderland; and. Afutilda, DA. Vl3, from Grenada, with her ridder unshipped. Sailed the True Briton East indiaman, for the River. • • Monday the Ardent, of 6+ guns, having been completely repaired, was' taken out of dock, at Chatham. • ' '` His Majesty's Ship La M;nerve, Capt. JAHLt EL yetwrow, is fitting out at Deptford, with all pos. Bible expedition, for Channel Service. tuesday, before Commissioner FANstrAw, at the Dock.yard, Plymouth, commenced the very large '• I fales of condemned old junk, ovice.laid rope, sails, running.. rigging, standing rigging, and old canvas, by pblic , atlition. The articles fetched in general good pricee, and will afford profit to the bUyers. TEMPLE BAR. Tile spirited improvements so !Ong ago projened and begun, for widening and improving the entrance ,to the City on the West side of Temple Bar, are now proceeding . rapidly, and fortunately the cbsence of frost at so late. a period of the season, has enabled tlikbuildings to pro6eed. 'The entrance of the new &relit opposite TWining'd, intended to lead into Lincoln's Inn-fields, is formed, and curb stones of the foot paths are in part laid ; the houses on each side * * some distatice,, are erected ai,lar at, the fi rst story, and some of them hikher. The foundations of the magnificent and massive stone arch, which is intended to lead to the New Inn,,goswell-cotirt, &c. are laid, and great progreris is already made in the cutting and preparing the stones fur its erection.-- Nearer to the end of Wych_street, the new court House and Vestry RooM for St. Clement's Parish is building, and has proceeded td. the second story. Round St. Clement's,Charch, the wall for the iron railing, to inclose an eliptical ,area for the new Church Yard; is set out, and mote than half of it is already carried up, and ready for the stone coping ; it was necessary that the foundation for this wall should be as much as six feet below the surface, to . enable the future interment of corpses close to it on the inside, without undermining or letting it down, and in crossing the old Church-yard at the .West end, it was not possible to avoid disturbing and moving, a little, many of the coffins there interred with becoming resped, however, to the feelings of the friends of the deceased, the part of the founda tion at which the men, were at work, has been con. stantly boarded in by high and close boards, which were moved on as they proceeded, and the report is untrue: that any interruption had been given to this necessary, .though certainly not akreeable work, In a very few days cite whole,foUndation. will be com pleted. On the South side Of the Church the rails will be close to the Church in : cue part. The new "Church-yard, appropriated fur burying, ; will be near as large as the old one, on account of the addition to it at the East end and North side. , WATIRMEN.-1110: conduct of these people has for sometime past nor only exciied the attention of the Public of this MetropOlis, but those froth all parts of the British Enipire; who are occasionally drawn to it by business or otherwiae, and created their surprise and censure, in proportion as this branch of the negleded Police 'ha's been made known through the medium of the PUbliC Prints. 3liew the•impOrtancc of-tb6 Atibjea we will, by way of illustratitin, point out,, that there are 1200 hackney. coachmen employed, but all tinder due legal control ; so that by simply iaking their number, the greatest stranger, or timid female, may employ one with the utmost safety ; neverthe. less, the unworthy part of this Community ven ture to commit sets of abuse ; however, the good effeaa resulting froM their regulations are obvious, as they essentially check their bad inclinations, by the eitample of proMpt punishments. There are about r watermen (ten to one) under iitithet regulations or contioul, although their rank in life, and ideas of right and wrong, exatily assimilate ; hence it is that the honest and industrious part- of their body suffer for the mal. prauicei .of the idle arid unworthy, against whom the Public-hive no redress ; the consequences are, the have lost all confidence of the whole body, and put themselves to every inconvenience, rather than employ any one, for fear of ill treat. meat: It will be almost unnecessary to point out that the evils complained of have been occasioned by the. Lord Mayor and Aldermen not carrying intti - effeet the Aft of Parliament passed eight years agn, entrusting them to carry into execution this' important branch of the Police. What justifiable reasons they may have for not doing it, are not well known; Whatever may be the cause, it is certain. ly reprehensible. MA:i3tos.aiduss . .—Yegterday Nathan Nathan was summoned before the Lain g MAYOR., by John Lawrence, a Custom-house Qtfi:er, who stied for the conviCtion of afpenalty, he having seized thirty-five pounds of raw coffee in his house, which had, nor, paid the duty, and charged him with knowingly harbouring and concealing it, under his shop-board, he supposing him to be a taylor. Two persons who - were, present at the seizure of this" cofFee;proved it to be found in 'Nathan's-house, but could not prove it to be with his knowledge,. as. they did: not see him there. Nathan denied any knowledge of it,: and call. cd two witnesses to prove ttl3t he let out part of his house, and they might bring in any thing with. out his knowledge. Alderman BoYDELL, agreeable to the Aet 'of Parliament, assisted his Lordship in this inquiry, who consulting together said, there, was a probabi, lity at the coffee being in: the house without his knowledge, as %uFlt they did tot convict him of three times the value of the cofie, although it was ccmdemned at the Customhouse. Tudidity a young woman, under twenty years 01 age, went .to visit her 'mother in St. John's-tan , Clerkenwell, ‘v.isen a disagreement arose ; loot - ) after which, tlidaitAhter insisting . on treating her mother with a dram, went out as if to pnrchise some liquor ; brit, on het return, presented to her a tea cup, containing some ilea forth, . which the old woman raised. to her head, and was about to swat. low, but fottunately was ~ p revented by the effer vescence and nauseous tfiluvia of the deleterious tincitlu Iv 11FitlelD, DEC : ;8. LAST week an information was laid against Primer,: before.two of the Magistrates of this.ieJty, for printing o witlgatt. alfixingitis,namc to the paper. 51* printing being proved; ,it was urged, in favotiv• of the Defendant * that the under which the information Was laid, was entitled, ". An AA fur the More 01 . 1'4hull suppression of So. cieties establishetLfor - stditicra and treasonable pur. pOses ; and fin- better, .preventing rrearogabie and seditious praeliccs," and .that as,the paper in goes. tion contained nothing which could possibly be con. strued into, a udificas .or heasoaable tendency, it .could hardly the provisions., much within the spirit of ,the MI.. in support Of this defence, the case vbf. Mr.-Holmes, bookseller, the Royal FxChange, London, was cited, as de.' Bided in Otlober last, before the Lord Mayor of ,the City of London.. Proof , was. given in- court, ihat Mr. flohnei had published_ " Baron Munchau. : sen's Adventxtre.s," the said book tint having the Printer's name affixed to it.—After hearing Coun. set for and agaMst the prosecution, the Lord Mayor said, " I aut convinced the Legislature, in framing the Ati under which this prosecution is carried on, did - not mean that it should extend to persons print, ing books or _papers which are . not of a seditious tendency. At the same time I ,wish to observe, that when informations., are laid 'for the benefit of the Public and Government, they deserve atten, tient ; but, in this instance, they merit reprobation. I am .happy - to have it in my pmver to t)e inatru. Mental io ,protetting the honest Shop.keeper, when I do' not find.him offending.against the I iws of hit country ; and I advise the informer to pursue ail • honest and .reputable .way of life, and not. get hi* bread by such . praaices in future." The Dclend. ant, i n t hi s case, was then acquitted.—The Magi. strates, however, for this city, declined it their duty to cond& the Printer in the sum of twenty pounds. .The author of the hand-bill was known. On Tuesday afternoon, as Mr. ST v Ens, of Chel. sea, was going from Vauxhall to Battersea, h e passed .through the Gardener's Grounds by the River side, he perceived a young Woman sitting among the rushes in great apparent distress. Fear.• ing she meditated on self.destrualon, he went rp to her, and demanded why she sat in that .forloin state. It was some time before he could get any reply from her, but her reluftance .made him more urgent to inquire into her Misery. She at last, told him, that she 113,1 lived servant with a. iVI Wi-ti - rE, a Corn chandler in the city, and had ad(td • to go out uhMonday, which was assented to by her master. She had former: an acquaintance with a young Man, a journeyman . watchmaker, in the neighbourhood, who, had promised to take her, if she got' a holiday, to see his friends, who he t old • her resided at Wandsworth. On their' arrival .at that place be pretended iris relation had gone Out holiday making like thethselves, and that they Must ilke a comfortable dinner at one of the houses.' They did so, and remained tbere till thee. d a rk, when he told her it wo:iid be dangerous for them to set, out for London at that tini.f, an , ,l endea voured to persuade her to remain all night, assuring . her the their marriage MK:mid be soleAphizett 10 a few days. She listened to the person' and con. sensed, The next Morning, when it was too late, she "perceived her own folly;' the perfidy Of her seducer, and,the misery she had brought upon her. self; as herpromised and deititied husband was no. where to be tbund. He had Made an excuse to leave the room, and had taken that opportunity of run. ing away from her. 'The bill amountiiig to nine shillings. she was herself obliged to discharge, and fearing to return to her master and mistress again, she had wandered to that. spot, where she had sat down in bitterness and misery. She added, that her name was Cosby, that her parents lived' at New. castle, from whom she had Only been is •montbs, and that the had not a friend - •in London she' could go to, of knew a person that would take pity on her wretched condition. Mr. Stevens very humanely cold her he would befriend her, that he bad childieh of his own, and if she would go borne with him, be 'would not only write to her master, but would 'en.• deavotir. to find out the man who had so be; trayed her; adding, that if Mr. White spoon} re. fuse to receive her again into his service, he would take her into his own. Wednesday, whilea workman in the employ of Mr. Chi:item:ln, Silversmith, in St. Martin's-le. grand, ViDS preparing to solder a hollow ball be. longing to the head of a Parish Beadle's stair, on putting it upon a charcoal fire, without leaving a hole for the escape of air, it burst, with a loud ex. plosion, into a million of pieces ; by which the workman and an approntice lad were severely blunt on the face, neck, and hands • and, it is timed, the sight of the yoon&man is in Clanger, Five suffering housekeepers, from diffet•ent parts of ,the .Town, appeared yesterday at the Public Offiee,'Shad Nell, to give evidence against Sarah Walker, hid been referred from the Mansion. House on To.siday last to that plaee,,and . fully corn. muted fnr at charge of . plundering every kir:A,: lodging she took. -Being informed 'of the commitment, they went away, with an intent 'to prefer bills against her at the ensuing Sessions. Saturday evening: last, as Mr.. Brownsmith, Gardener, in Roine-ltine, • Chatham, and his son, Were on their rettlin trom London in a chaise-cart, they Weil: stopped between 'Bexley-heath and Cray. by three footpads, who robbed them of between t o anti 30 ; after Which they took a hag out 4-thee:at, and finding it to contain only a few pout & of vitien seeds, they beat the pap:fr parcels to.piect'fi with their bludgeons, so as 'to scatt e r the seed abatit the road; after whieh they made off. On Tuesday, in the night, the watchman passing by the h)ttse of Michael Abrahams, near the Fhg, in High.street, Chatham; perceived the Cellar wintowi broke, and listening, heard per. sons in the cellar; he alarmed-the hOuse and kept watch at the window, until .Mr. Abrahams ennie down, when ir. a closet they found two Marines, With all the implements recessary for the boil. net's holise.breakers ; they:Lue 'committed for trial.