The Sun. — London, England, 1802-12-29 00:00:00

IT hßzoirrolv, fiEe. E Duke of NORFOLK, from Arundel, Colone %It I-1, Baron MUNCHAUSEN, Capt. BLOOMFIELD' the Rey'. Rev• ME. BLOOMEURCH, the Rev. Mr. Mrs. Tlol Miss S NEYD , t h e tuiii Miss MOORS, Lord ROBERT MANNERS, Mrs. FITZHERBERT, the Hon. IVlrs. BUTLER, Mr. DAY, the Officers of the loth Light D ra g oons , an d a very l arge party o f t h e N o . b i lltY, dined w i t h t h e P RINCE O f WALES at the p "Ilion, 'on Christmas Day, and on Sunday. The eneral hilarity which prevailed throughout the rown is this morning succeeded by the gloom of re gret, as t h e PRINCE has set off for London, and, it Is said, does not return to the Pavilion until the en suir'g Spring. The Duke of NORFOLK, Baron , uNcHAusEN, the Hun. Mrs. BUTLER, Mrs. r I TZIIE R g gRT, &c. have likewise taken their de- Parture. 13 Mr. T HOMAS K EMP , t h e l ate Member f or the p? r°t] g of Lewes, gave his annual donation on ay '4litirsd last, to the poor Inhabitants of this place, consisting of one thousand qUartern loaves. The weather here yesterday was unusually tem- P e stuo" us throughout. the day, and the greater part O ilast night. A Brig, in great distress, was observ= td i n the offing, about ten o'clock A. M. but the sea fjoton high for any assistance to be afforded them Th nl the shore. The vessel, at length, after firing t q l nY guns to obtain relief, anchored in the midst th t hee bre a k e r s , at three P. M. about half a mile to e ,7West of the harbour's entrance of New Shoreham. A h boat containing fourteen men, was soon after L ' . l ,, t off; which reached the shore in safety ; but a :" ° ntl, with three men only, following the ex -nlPle of the first, was not fortunate ; it was pre tentlY overwhelmed, and those on board perished : e ven others, which remained in the vessel, were DPreserved. The ship proves to be French, had left unkirk but the day before, with ammunition and lililitary stores for Louisiana. The Crew of the Bonaparte Packet having as_ ' 4 ,embled to di ne at t h e O ne T un h ere on F r id ay , lspatch e d t h e B oat to t h e P ac k et, w i t h two men , s Q two bottles of olives, two bottles of the cor dial, called noyau, and about a pint of brandy, Par t of their sea stock, to regale with in the a fternoon. On their return, the Custom-hduse , "fficers sei z ed t h e art i cles, detained t h e b oat , -'2nd sent the disappointed seamen to inform their friends of the event. The utmost confusion, for a Short tune, prevailed ; the Captain the dinner was left untouched , and and crew , who are French, in stantly hurri e d out for France, on board, weighed anchor, and stood Their first aiaim, however, having subidetl, and they, that their rightly conje6taring Precipitate departure might occasion suspicions to their disadvantage, and believing that our Govern -I:ei"t would take no serious notice of the error weir they so thoughtlessly had committed, altered w elt . course, and conveyed the Vessel into New. ay e° Harbour. \'A i rs• Stnno Ns h a d her benefit at Dublin on e "nesday night. Every part of the Theatre Was . as crowded. The Tragedy of Mary Queen o f "ms performed. The new Pantomimes drew Bumpers to both Thea- It bs last night. These Pantomimes are as good as xrl most things of the kind that the Public' have seen for l, n Y Years, and a re as likely to be full as 'attractive. es, ,Y are, h owever , rat h er to o f u ll of g ood thi ngs , - ' 4 should be shortened that they may not satiate. p . ,4 4, he introduction of the Coffin ,in Harlequin's Ho not in intuit-VW black, but exhibiting all the r l c m's'which chareterize the garb of the molly Hero, " )r i Pet,haps lead to a new Fashion in Funerals. i m ene e the Various classes of the Community may be d u ce to h ave t h e i r l as t earthly mansion distin 'lished by appropriate decorations. t .There seems to be one egregious mistakein the ew Pantomime of Harlequin's Holiday, viz, in the Rtr nduetion of two Citizens, bowing with great :"Pea to a quailing turtle. It would be more 6 e ,rMain to the ' .business, ifthe Citizens were made 'seize upon the poor turtle like beasts of prey : r . t't r e are sur p r i ze d t h a t t he Board of Manage ment , Ifu, Theatre, did not first think of e n _ i i.a onE' the two celebrated Pantomimic Performers, ." 12, / Doe and Richard Roe, as these Gentlemen It'ould probably have found themselves more at home, at th at T heatre, than at Covent Garden, where they `lre , at present engaged. is JOHNSON, the mechanist, of Drury:l ane Th eatre , ;as tile merit of framing the new Pantomime of liar_ t ig 4 in's H o lid ay ; an d cons id er i ng t h at i t i s a Wor k I "E Was not long in preparation, though it abounds n so much whim, as well a, good scenery, it is very creditable to his talents and industry. qz _ls. Morning P a p er o f yesterday says, that Mr. i tittptay has not any C omedy for representation for season at e i t h er of the Theatres. We are sorry orthe int erests o f the Drania, it this assertion be well founded, particularly as a Comedy was pre ;tilted by that Gentleman to Mr. BANN irrErt, and it was said to be in a train for speedy represen tation. The attempts which have been made to justify ll!e br oa d pronunciation of a in Cato, as adopt edt in t h e l ate performance of that Tragedy, have thatfailed; these is no such mode of pronouncing that letter bre d in the E ng li s h L anguage. It has been urged 1 . 114 t Cato, bei ng a L at i n name, it requires clas. pronunciation ; but it is well known that the ZL,a,sical pronunciation recognised i n E ng l an d i s i n tViconformity with that of the Engli s h L anguage . h aterer, therefore, may be the difference of opi- C, upo n t hi s suhiea, between the classical sell° _ ja rs of Scotland or : lreland, and those of England, it certainly incumbent upon Theatrical Performers, t hqj rig before an English Audience, to conform to te t mode of pronunciation which is generally re v tril t ekt and adopted am o n gs t th ose who witness their rdance. S• • b t , t " dt t'.rclity night three French sailors, who h a d t. 11.4 ashore regaling themselves with Christmas i t er, returni ng b ac k to t h e i r s hi p , w hi c h l ay o ff I% u ngate, t he b oat upset with them, by which they e te all drowt:ed. The bodies of two of them vt.e been picked up, bat th'e • third is still missing. 4 "Pi 4 cied they s‘ , ere in a :;!ett.. of i-PebrierY• Ak7S i E D AAI 1 A A'k Tap following i'aper, relative tip the Bank of Amsterdam, has never been published in this Coun try. It is certainly of considerable importance to the Commercial World : The intermediate Administration of the Co!'nmune of Amsterdam having nothing more at heart than to establish upon solid basc3, the well-being of this City, and particularly the prosperity of its Com merce, has the satisfadion to make known to whom ever it concerns, that the Commissioners of the Bank of this City have declared to them, by their Report of the 19th July last, that the deficit which was found in the Bank, has been entirely filled by the payments made by and on the part of the Trea. sury ; and that it appears by the account they have drawn up, and of which they have sent a copy both to the said Treasury and the Superintendants of the Bank, that all the pretensions of the Bank, at the charge of the City, have been fully acquitted and replaced by specie, so that at present there is no Bank Money in circulation which does not rest up on effe&ive and metallic value, in specie, ingots, and monies deposited in the abovementioned B4mk : that the Bank being,thereby radically re-established and restored to its primitive institution, the City has completely satisfied the guarantee to which she is at all times engaged, whilst, -on the other hand, there has been taken, both on the part of the Ad ministration of the said City, as on that of the Com missaries of the Bank, the necessary measures and precautions to render in future impossible all attack upon that primitive institution, and to give to all persons interested the most assured pledge of the in violability of that Dqat, and of the unidterable will of the Adthinistration, that it shall be sheltered from all infradion. That the Administration of the said City, endea_ vouring to operate this precious establishment in the must easy and advantageous manner to the per sons interested, and in order to favour, as much as possible, the circulation of the Bank-money, have determined from the 19th of last July, to cause to cease at the opening of the Bank, which took place on the 3oth of the said month, the imposition of a demi_sol for each hundred florins, stipulated by the resolution of the Council of Commune, of the 31st March 1796, upon payments in Bank, and to fix it on the ancient footing of three sots for each Party written in Bank : the Superintendants having be sides been charged by the said resolution of the 19th July last, to revise (in concert the Commis saries), the regulation and ordinantes of the Bank, to make in them the alterations required by the present circumstances, and to offer them afterwards. to the sanaion of the Administration. That all the Regulations and above-mentiOned Ordinances being essentially to remain in all their force and vigout until the necessary changes shall have been made in them upon the proposition of the said Commission, and being to that effea, and ne cessarily expressly confirmed and renewed here, the Intermediate Administration have jndgcd it in all respeas suitable and useful in changing what has been ordered and decreed by anterior laws upon the payments in Bank to resolve by the present : ART. 1. That the value of every Bill of Exchange which shall be drawn or negotiated in this City, after the 3oth of the month of Odober, approacning upon places situated out of the Republic, and the amount of which shall he 303 florins and upwards, shall b..: acquitted in the Bank of this City. 11. That all Bills of Exchange upon, or payable in this City, of the value of 300 f9rins and upwards, drawn from laces situated in the French Republic, G r e at B r i ta i n, S pa i n, rortugal, and Italy, shall also be paid in Bank after the gist January, t Bs3. In. That every Bill of Exchange which, conformably to the Articles I. and 11. is to be acquitted in Bank, and shall be proved 'to have-been dorje in any ot..er manner, shall be held to be all paid, an d each o f t h e two contravening persons shall pay a fine of 5 per Cent. upon the total sum of these payments made out of the Bank. IV. That, as payments of Bills of Exchange will not be considered good, but conformably to the Ist and ad A rticle.3, the usage introduced for some time cif writing in Bari , . to oneself for another, as well as that of regulating the paymen t of it in current money, shall cease at the periods mentioned in the said Articles; the Resolution of the Council of Com mune of the 6th Ottober, 1796, being in that respeCt revoked by the present. A. TEYLER VAN HALL. • Decreed and published the 04th Sept. By order of the intermediate Commission of the Commune of Amsterdam. F. J. PELLETIER. EDINBURGH, DEC. 25. ON Monday se'nnight, ALExANDER. WAR itAcK, master of the Lark, of Aberdeen, lost his life near Holy Island. The vessel had gone ashore on the be4ch, and the master went to Berwick on the ship's business ; but on his return, had either mistaken his way through the sands, or . was sur rounded by the rising tile, and drowned. private letters from Havre we leain, that four thousand Soldiers, of the most disreputable descrip tion in the eyes of the French Government, are or dered to embark for Sr. Domingo. They are men who have been taken from the gollies, or have served under the Allies ; those who are accused of Revolu tionary Crimes, and whose loyalty to the Consulate is suspeaed. The embarkation of these men, while it shews a determination on the parr of France to retain St. Domingo, implies that the Regular Troops are not very willing to go upon the Service, or that the Government does not wish to throw them away on such an enterprise. The Dublin News-Letter of the z3d inst . , an nounces a liberal Subscription being set on foot for the distressed Families of the nine unfortunate Fish ermen lately drowned off Dunleary, who had often ventured their lives in the preservation of others, and we are happy to find among the list that Dr. SOLOMON, of Liverpool, remitted to Alderman How ISON a very liberal donation for this laudable purpose. We notice this, as We have frequently witnessed this Gentleman's liberality to have been extended upon many occasions where unforeseen misfortunes claim the aid of humanity, As an instance of the mildness of the present winter, there were roses fully blown, in the open garden of Dunninald, in Scotland, the seat of DA_ v i Sc OTT, Esq. M.P. on the zist insL In the garden of Mr. G tasoN, hosier, at the Sciennes, in Scotland, then; is now a Fear-tree in very bc,autifi4l,lllos.v.rm, MANSIO VJ O &SL . YESTERDAY a well-dressed *rtman, inhc),called herself Sarah Spencer, with a little girl in her arms; was charged before the LaRD MAtOR with having robbed her furnished lodgings. It ap peared this woman had taken lodgings for her self and child, at the house of a Mr. Charteti, in Sion-gardens, near Whitecliapel, but in two days after left them, taking with her the bed furniture and every other moveable thing she could cart* away, which some days after they found pledged at the shop of - Mr.Windsor, in the Minorics, at which shop she was deteded on Friday last, offering another bed furniture, &c. in the name of Warren, and had taken the lodgings in the name of Walker.— When apprehended, she told many contradictory stories, which induced his Lordship to order this • bed furniture, &c. to be advertised, suspeting them to be stolen, which proved to be the case, for a person came - forward and owned the furniture, which she-had stolen from his furnished lodgings•the day before she offered to pledge them. A Mrs. Barber, from Pentonville, likewile charged her with robbing her lodgings. A woman from Webber-row, St. George's_fields, and a great many others whom she had robbed in a simil a r wa y o f ever y portable thing in the room, but could never hear any thing of her till they saw it in the Papers. Some of them said they suspeled this little gill was not her child, but had been prOcured the better to carry on her deceptions. The Prisoner said the child was her own, but confessed her guilt, and pleaded for mercy. The persons who claimed the property found, not living in the City, she was remanded to a County Magistrate, and those whom she robbed in the City could not, as yet, find their property. MAR G BOROUGH-STREET. Monday a young man, named Fortescue, applied to the Sitting Ma gistrate for redress, having (as he expressed him self), been very cruelly robbed and ill-treated. He said he was a porter, and worked exceedingly hard ; that by his industry he had saved up three seven shilling pieces, and money enough to buy half a pound of tea, which he had designed as a Christ mas present to his aged and infirm parent, who lived at a village in Staffordshire. He accordingly put the seven shilling pieces and the tea into a par cel, and booked h at the Green Man and Still, in Oxford-road, to go by the mail-coach. The par cel had been delivered according to the dire Lion, but the money had been taken out ; it had proved a serious. disappointment to his father, and had made him very unhappy. He wished the Magis trate to tell him how he was to aft, as he could get no redress. The book-keeper at the Green Man and Still had referred him to the proprietors of the coach by which the parcel was sent ; but on stating his case to them, they bid him go about his business, and get the money as he could. He hoped he might •get it back, as it would break his poor father's heart to think that so much money should be lost. The Magistrate very humanely told him he would make every possible inquiry for him, and immedi ately issued his warrant to apprehend the coachman who drove the mail, on suspicion of taking "the money out of the parcel. Yesterday three persons were brought before the Lord Mayor, who had been taken into custody the night before, by some of the City Ofiicers, as re puted thieves. On searching one of them, a bill of 2001. was found, which was recollened to have been taken out of a .letter, some time ago, on, its way from Liverpool to the house of Eso A u s and Co. in London. Two out of the three prisoners were remanded for a week, until proper information had been received from Liverpool, respekaing the bill in question. A short time since the stables of Mrs. HORSL EY, of Harley ford, were broke open, and her two coach_ horses, hotness, and the livery of the coachman stolen. The horses were seen the following day in BP.rnet, in the custody ()fa man who was known, and he was traced to Northampton, where he - sold one of the horses. Here all trace of him was lost. Yesterday the man, as described by the persons at Barnet, was seen at Shepperton,ln surrey, where he was secured, and taken before Mr. Justice Bon), who committed him for further examination. Sunday se'nnight, about seven o'clock, an officer of the i gth regiment of foot, and his wife, return ing froth Dundalk to Dublin, in a post-chaise, were stopped by four villains armed with horse-pistols, little more than a quarter of a mile from Drogheda: the gentleman fired at them, which was as suddenly returned—the ball passing close by his head, pene trated the roof of the carriage. The villains fired a second time, broke the windows and pannels of the chaise, and his wife fainting, he .was obliged to submit : they were then plundered of their. watches and money, and they' also took his sword and one ;,,f c, his pistols ; they asked for the other, but did put wait to search the carriage for it.--F rum their roi ner of speaking, he supposed them to he above She common level of robbers. They appeared much agitated, and made a very precipitate retreat. Curious Anecdote of a Distillguisked DAVID BECK, was a disciple of VANDYCK, and in favour with CHARLES I. whose sons he taught to draw ; his rapidity of execution was so great, that the King used to say, he could paint riding post. He afterwards passed into the service of the Kings of France and .Denmark, and was at last appointed Painter to CHRISTINA, Queen of Sweden, for whom he painted most of the illustrious persons in Europe, One day, as he was travelling through Germany; he was suddenly taken ill, and appeoing to be dead, was treated as such, His servants, who watched the corpse after it was laid out, endeavoured to con sole themselves for the loss of their master, with the bottle. When they grew intoxicated, one of them proposed to give him a glass, though he were dead, as he was far from having a dislike to it when he was alive. This was accordingly done, and the consequence was that he tecoVered, and lived many years On Wednesday such gluts of herrings were brought into thighton, tha . t they were cried about the town at the low price of 25, per littndred ) Hastings tale : or 32 fur 6de 'EZCTMNaE, ii; WITH a few fresh supplies of Wheat, and tome Mond'ay't simples unsold, we have tOleralik quan— tity ; the sales being rather brisk, mist prices arc tained ; Rye is lower ; Barley and Malt contint; in plenty; at a trifle less ; we have a IA sapply of Pease, which are also decliniog; Oats, for the great irriportation, may be quoted quarter cheaper; the prices of Flout are stationary. Wheat 43s a 47s a 56s od ine ditto -57 s a Os od Radey -23 S a 275 od Matt - - 4os a 455 61 Rye . -34 s a 37s od White Pease 33s a 495 od Beans 335 a 375 od ileafiF . ; - 3oS a 335 6./ ()As - - 1S a r§s gas Polao(litt.6 ais a 24 0. Rape - - 311 a . 34 Fitle Flour - 45 , a c 4, Secomido. 4oS a .43;,. Smile clays ago, we Mentioned an Elope:tient of a Lady of Fashion from Isleworth; Our inforniatiori we took from another Paper. The Lady' pointed at was evidently the beautiful Miss KEPPPL, so lor4 a reigning toast in the Fashionable Circles, and for whom the Son of a Cornish i3aronet ag . tt put 'a period to his existence. Ml 5: has lived at Islcwotth with her rcuther, the Hon. Mrs. KEP,PEL, last week gave her hand to Ros FR r FooTE, Esq. of Cot-Iron-place,. near Cduterburyi. The marriage took place Viithotit any elopement of clandestine proceeding; • In addition to the beatitiful Fornittire of '‘/Itithitne RECAMIER'S bed, which has been already mention ed—the curtains, which are of frail muslin, at edged entirely round with rielt broad lace, atf . fiee4 guineai a yard. A Dr. BERGUILLON has published a Treatise on Canine Altzdnesi, which he is said to attribute in.: tirely to the effeft of Imagination. We do not know any body so well qualified to treat Upon such a subject as a Frenchman_ A Lady on Monday caused her hUsband to be brought before the LORD MAyolt at the Mansion.: House, on a charge of ill-treatment exercised upori repeated occasions towards her. It appeared from the evidence of the wife, that so far back as the year 1797, the frequent instances of brutal usage aedincontinency on the part of her husb,:nd, had compelled her to claim the protedion of the law, by the interposition of which she had remained five years uninterrupted by him, but the . period We' which security had been given for, his good behavi our had no sooner expired, than he again invade t. her peace. She rented the City Chambers, by the letting of which she was enabled to obtain a liveli, hood; her husband, however, kept the lease, and under the authority of that had forcibly got posses sion of her apartments.—;The Lotto MA , eoia., find ing all means of accornmodation between the nartien beyond his persuasion to accomplish, ordered the husband to find bail, which was given by a eery 4 respeelable Gentleman ; this atriir will, the! e..fote;• again claim the attention of the Courtt. An affray happened near Sr. Giles's, on Mo.oley night, and the parties were brought before the Sit. Ling Magistrate at Marlborough street, tyesterday.i . It appeared that a Carpenter in the Sevier. Dias 11e6 been regaling with some friends, and returning home at a late hour inebriated, felt muchsorpri zed that DOM." _ of the watchmen were going their respeetive rounds, He thought -it incumbent on him to iequireio6.)this abuse, and accordingly went to several of the boxes ; all of which he found deserted ; but meeting after wards with - some stragglers, arid expostulating with them, perhaps Poi in a very diso•cet manner, wor t s; were soon exchanged for blows, a.nd the - unfortonate champir:n, With . his opposers, passed the night iii the ~vaich-house.—Mr.Bkontr, th e Magistrate, ad.. monished the Carpenter„ and told hire it would have • been more prudent, inste4of his •Q e hixotir exptditiod round the parish, to have made a regular conplolirt ; he felt disposed to dismiss the present complaint, and hoped the parties would be reconciled. - On Thursday; as one of the Labourers employed in the Laboratory at Apothecaries Hall, was charg ing with Oil Vitriol a glass retort, 1)7 some inattena;, tion it was thrown over the than's face, intense.: . quence of which he was immediately blinded, and his forehead and cheeks vesicatcd. Eurturiately -for the sufferer, !Ether Was instantly applied, gnd.A. constant stream of air kept up by Means of a pair of bellows, which in the course of half an hour, by its astonishing production of cold; relieved him entire ly of pain ; and by a continued arplication of it one hour and a half longer,.the bladders were completely redticed ; leaving the face only swelled; with a sen sation of stiffness on the skin:. The whole quantity used was from a pint and a half to a Tian. This is .a second instance of the wonderful efficacy of "Ether; it also has been found highly beneficial in burns and About half past four o'clock, on Tuesday 'even,: ing the 14. th instant, as a son of Mr. SArdUct,- PICOMINC of Sittennam, near York, whdis,about. twelve years of age; was returning froM school; he was much surprised and frightened at a stile about half wa, on the foot road from Sheriff-Hutton to Sittenham, on feeling something like a . sudden touch, or grating of his hair upon the top of his heath He looked about, but could see nothing he heatd no repqrt, nor could he conceive hoc: , so sin gular a sensation could be occasioned; His parents, however, were greatly alarmed to find, on tlis ar rival, that -a ball had penetrated his hair, and had passed through bdth sides of the crown of his h.►t, On Monday sennight, as Mr. Turner s of Alping tol, 'Devoni was standing in his out-honse, he was suddenly alarmed at the dikharge of a fowling-piece, the shot of whiCh passed through the partition, and' slightly wounded hini in his arm. The occasion of the accident is singular - : Smith, of the sante neighbourhood, had levelled his hi-.cc at a bird above the house, but it hung fire, and he w a s retiring with it on his shotilder it weni.ool. On Sunday sennight, early in the morti:r7.47, a fire broke out at the Black Swan TM), in Wile, which had gained so great an as,:endanty before it was discovered, as to occasion the, most .erions aldrtr; but by great exertions, and a plentiful ply of water, it was fortunately extinsuishcd. The accident was caused by a candle having kit burning in thz lodging room 01 a Gentic , ll4.7. i was much scorched by the tint/c9. -~,~. 3