The Sun. — London, England, 1802-10-16 00:00:00

7 1 P7' PARIS, Oct. 13. LETTERS from Lyons state, that during the repre. sentation of the Marriage of Figaro, on the 6th inst. a horrible attempt was made at the Theatre, but fortunately the consequences were not so serious as might have been expeded. A case containing, as it was supposed, about half a pound of gunpowder, was placed on the top of the Staircase leading to the Side.boxes, and during the first Act, an explosion took place, and a small part of the wall was forced out, but fortunately nobody was hurt. The alarm Was general, and the performance did not go on. The perpetrator of this crime has not yet been dis covered, but the Police are taking every means to find him out., LAUSANNE, OCT. 6.—The Diet of Schwitz has addressed a new Circular Letter to all the Cantons, inviting them to hasten the levy of Troops. The Deputies from Lucerne have promised that that Can ton shall f urn i s h more t h an two t h ousan d men ; and those from Schaffhausen have also promised aid. VIENN A , SEPT. 26.—Citizen CHAMPAGNY re ceived within these few days a Courier from his Government, whose dispatches, it is thought, relate to the occupation of Passau, and to the arrange ments concluded with Bavaria. A Courier arrived here from Constantinople in his way to Paris, bearing to the Turkish Chargé de ifffaires the official news that the GRAND SEM NI" had appointed the PRINCE CONSTANTINE Int LANTI, Hospodar of Wallachia. His Vicegerent, MAußocoaDA-ro, is already arrived at Bucharest, and the provisory Hospodar of Wallachia, who had been hitherto charged with the Government of that Province, resumes his Government of Moldavia. The Courier who is the bearer of this intelli. fence, which cannot be a matter of indifference to the Austrian Government, left Constantinople on th e 3d of September. They expeaed there the E xtraordinary Ambassador sent to treat for Peace kith France. We learn from Presbarg, that the States of Hun.. gary again demand the incorporation with Hungary of the Provinces of Galhria and Dalmatia. They have sent to the Emi.EP.OR a Special Deputation, to obtain that union. HAGUE, OCT. s.—The Departmental DireEtion Of Rolland has presented to the Council of State, the list of four Candidates, amongst which the Go terument will chuse one to replace Citizen PrmAN, Member of the Government, who goes out this year. These Candidates are, Citizens N. CAL kAtiv, 5. B. P IHER , J. SCHIMMILPINNINK, and J. A. THEDING-VAII-BERRHOND. Deputies to the Legislative Body, which resumes its Sittings on the zgth, arrive from all parts. Ob. jells the most interesting to the Commerce and Po litics of the Country, will be discussed in this Ses ition. The Gazette of this Town gives to-day the following details of the arrival of General DAEN. ELS. The day before yesterday, at half past two, arrived Lieutenant_General DAENDELS, accom. Panied by one of his Officers of Etat.Major, the 4 djutant-General USI.AR he went to the Hotel Called Les Deux Fillet. In the evening he waited 'Pon the President of the Government, in full uni. form. The History of the pretended Conspiracy against tlle Government, appears to have had no existence, e xcept in the imagination of some weak and timid i ndividuals. We are now assured that every thing Is arranged to the satisfaaion of both parties. We e xPea this evening Citizen SCHIMMELPENNINK and General DIJMONCEAU. FLORENCE, SEPT. .4.—We learn from Naples, that a slight shock of an earthquake was felt there lately; on the preceding evening a thick smoke arose from Mount Vesuvius. The apartments on hoard the Spanish Admiral's Which is to convey Their MAJESTIES to Spain, is fitted up with the greatest magnificence. The Bar g e in which they are to be conveyed on board, is lined with solid silver, gilt. The Prince Rusrot, z, who has been eleEted Grand Master of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem, was born at Rome in 1754. He went to Malta in 1 7 8 0, and was appointed to the command of the Galleys of the Order in 1785. Since then he has been travelling- through the principal States of Europe. A Courier has been sent to the Prince, W ho iS supposed to be in Scotland, to inform him of his Eleaion. The Turkish Ambassador who lately left Paris, passed on the 7th inst. through St rasburgh, return ing to Constantinople by the way of Vienna. ARNIY OF ST. DOMINGO. Head quarters a: the Cape, Sept. 2. In the name of the French Government, the Com►n3nder in Chief, Captain General, decrees as follows Art. I. After the Ist of Vendemiaire, year rr, Se Pt , . 2 3, 18oz f ), no o t h er merc h and i te or articles 11 0,. provision, except tho se speci fi ed in the ann exe d ' l 3 Can be imported into the Colony by foreign 111. All merchandize and products not specified in the annexed list, imported by Foreign vessels, are prohibited, reckoning from the zst of Vende miaire, year zl, (Sept. 23, t8o2). The Captains of Foreign vessels, which arrive in the open Ports of the Colony before that period, shall be ;Wowed to land their merchandize, on lodging a declaration at the Custom-house. Those which arrive in the open Ports of the Colony after Vendemiaire tsr. (Sept. 23) until rsth Brumaire next (Nov. 6) inclusive, shall be allowed to land the unprohibited goods they have on board. In regard to those prohibited, they shall lodge a declaration of them, and shall be bound to produce them on their departure, under the pain of their vessels being confiscated. After the — isth Brumaire (Nov. 6) vessels, whose cargoes are not entirely composed of non-prohi bited merchandize and produtions, shall not be admitted into the Ports of the Colony. Those not coming within the case of being admitted, which shall procure admission by false declarations, or which, after having been obliged to leave the said Ports, shall be found effening or trying to effect a fraudulent landing, shall be confiscated as well as the cargoes. I-V. Nothing in the present decree shall afte& that of Messidor 5, which exempts from all duties, till the 3oth of Frimaire, year I t (Dec. zr, r8oz) oxen anti mules imported into the ports of the Cape, Port Republicain, des Cayes, and Jacmel. All the dispositions of Decrees relating to com merce and the Customs, not contrary to the present Decree, are also maintained. V. The Colonial Prefect is charged with carry ing the present Decree into execution. (Signed) LECLERC. List of the merchandise and productions, the im. portation of which, by foreign Ships, is permitted, on paying a duty of ten per cent. ad , valorem : bricks, coals, cables, and cordage, train oil, sper. rnaceti oil, pitch, tar, rosin, &c. essence of tur- pentine, oats, barley, maize -flour, rice, biscuit, salt beef, salt pork—hams, sausages, &c. are not comprehended under this denomination ; salt butter, mantague, codfish, bacaga, &c. salted inackarel, dried herrings, pickled herrings, shads, codsounds, pickleci mullets, stockfish, live catttle, horses, mules, asses, hogs, sheep, ducks, fowls, turkeys, geese, timber for building, &c. MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.—A most distressing scene was exhibited at Canterbury, on Tuesday last : Lieutenant FRASER, of the First Regiment of Life Guards, after leaving Canterbury at one o'cl oc k, in his tandem, accompanied by his groom, had pro ceeded two miles on the road to Margate, when, ir. the sandy lane, just beyond Sturry, they overtook a broad wheel waggon, when Mr. FRASER, in at tempting to pass the waggon very quick, struck against a post which threw both Mr. FRASER and die groom under the wheels of the waggon, the foremost wheel of which, and instantly after the hind wheel passed over the body of Mr. FaiksEß, before the waggoner could stop his horses. With great difficulty the servant (who had escaped in jury) and the waggoner got the unhappy Gentleman into the chaise, and returned with him to the King's Head Inn, Canterbury. He spoke but few words. When arrived at the Inn, he said to the servant— " You cannot .take me out of the chaise alive ;" but which they with much difficulty did. On being conveyed to a bed-room, he said, " Lay me on the bed—lay me on the bed—l shall soon be dead." Every attention possible was paid him by Mrs. LOWEN, the landlady, and her servant; but human assistance was in vain, and he• died in less than two hours. The body is still at the King's Head Inn, the Coroner not having sat on it. The following notice appears in the Maniteur of Oft. S : it is important in two respens; first, as it shews the desires of BONAPARTE to keep up the Military Hospitals in Italy ; and, secondly, as it shews that the Italian Republic is entirely under the Government of France, which even contrafts for its hospitals : wAR-oFFIcE —The Direaor of this Department of the Military Administration gives notice, that, from the 22d of November 1802, to the 23d of September 1803, it is the intention of Government, that the whole Service, in the Hospitals of the Italian Republic, shall be executed by con tra Ct. A Paper, containing an exat account of the different Services which are thus to be performed, may be seen at the Office of the Di redory of the Military Hospitals ; where Pro posals will be received till the 23d day o f Octob e r next." There has been discovered at the house of BR I GETTE MATTH EY, a Bookseller, in Paris, a kind of Club, where the English and other Newspapers were taken in. RctoERER and several Legislators attended it ; but, on account of his disgrace, it has been ordered to be discontinued. Another Bookseller, by name GILARDIN, has had the same order. From the signature of the Peace till this time, the City of Havre has sent to' the Colonies sixty.. six ships of all sizes, to wit, thirty-eight for St. Domingo, seventeen for Guadaloupe and Martinico, one for Cayenne, three for the. Isle of France, and cren for Africa. stipi nestle On be eXportett by tb same a}~ip~3 but molasses, Syrup, spirits and rum; dye woods, and wood for Cabinet.:makers, guiacuni, coffee and provisions or merchandize of every kind ; im ported by the French Merchants: IL After the same period, the duties on the merchandize and provisions specified in the annexed list, imported into the Cdlony by Foreign ships, shall pay at the rate of to per cent. duty ad - va lorem in the Colony, according to a tarif, which the Colonial Prefect shall settle every three months, from the medium prices of the preceding three months, in the open ports of the Colony. The duties on Colonial produetions which, ac cording to the permission granted by the first arti cle, shall be exported in Foreign vessels, shall pay, over and above, one half more than those exported in French ships, according to the tarif annexed to the decree of the 3d of Messidor last, (June 22.). These produetions shall pay, besides, the war tax, established by the decree of Messidor 25, ( July t 4..) Produftions and merchandize arising from the French commerce, exported from the Colony in Foreign ships, shall pay no duties. "lii 7°IIEA7'RE; e i ertitnt-gardeit: 'THE CaAiet was performed at this Theatre yes_ terday evening, hut on account of the sudden in_ disposition of BRAHAM, the following Handbill was very generally circulated, previous to the.com mencement of the Opera. The Public are respeelfully‘ acquainted; that Mr. BR A - m, being confined by a sudden attack of the Gout, to pre.: vent Disappointment to the numerous parties of Ladies and Gentlemen who have made Engagements for the Opera of the Cabinet, this Evening, Mr. WOODHA M, from the Thea tre, Brighthelmstone, will, at a few hours notice, attempt the Charader of Orlando; trusting that the above motive will secure to him the accustomed Candour and Protettion of the Public. Mr. WOODH AM, we understand, is Trumpeter of the Band at this Theatre, and during the Summer he has performed at some Provincial Theatres. He was very much agitated at first—so much, indeed, as to sing the second verse of his first Song, instead of the first, and then repeat it.—We cannot compli ment him on his voice, which is hut indifferent— and he attempted too much His Duet with STORAC E, in the Second AO, was omitted. His figure is not good, and his anion is ungraceful, and too redundant. However, every allowance should be made for his following so excellent a sing er as BRAHAM. One of Orlando's Songs in the third at was encored, partly from good nature towards the new Performer, and partly from a mis chievous design of raising a laugh. There was a vehement contest between the Noes and the Ayes upon this occasion. At length INC L EDON came forward with a short butyertinent apology, alledg_ ing that Mr. Woonm AM Thal taken the part without being prepared for it, and was too much under the influence of his fears to be able to repeat the song. This apology INcLEDoN delivered with laudable earnestness, and it allayed the storm. The Audience were very indulgent, and he got through the Cha; rater tolerably well. The farce was High Life below Stairs, for the first time .these ten years, at this Theatre. FAR LEY and KN GH r, in my Lord Duke and Sir Harry were • very diverting ; and BLANCH ARD'S Lovel was excellent. The House was very full. Mr. HEATHCOTE, who was to accompany KEM riLE on his journey to Spain, has been prevented by illness from proceeding beyond Paris, and had relin quished the intention before the late melancholy event occurred in his family. KEMBLE therefore proceeds to Spain by himself. The Proprietors of Drury-Lane Theatre are so well satisfied with the success of STEPHEN KEM- BLE's Falstaff in Henry the Fourth, that they are desirous of having hint play Falstaff in The Merry Wives of Windsor, a few nights before his return to the North. A Wise-ac Critic, in a Paper of yesterday, has invested honest Eow. MooRE, the Author of the Tragedy of The Gamester, with a Dolor's degree, ignorantly supposing that this Play was written by the late Dr. MOOR E, the Novellist. But to do the Critic justice, he knows full as much of the Drama itself as of its representation. The custom which- prevails in the American Theatres, of drinking Wine and Porter betwixt the Ads, is not so barbarous as it may appear to be. of the Managers will not furnish Entertainment, the Audience must _provide for themselves. We are happy to hear Mr. SI4ER IDAN has once more resumed his Dramatic Pen. If this really be the case, there will be no danger of People of Fashion being shocked by the introduftion of Punch 'and Porter in the Theatres, for want of better Amusement. As the Pic-Nics have been unfortunately burnt out of their premises in Russell_square, the best thing they can do is to adjourn to The Horns at Kennington, which will at least have an appropriate sign. — The Committee of Apothecaries have agreed that the new Medicine. Ad wants purging. We are glad to find it is becoming fashionable, at Paris, to wear powder in the hair, and swords by the side. We may, perhaps, once more see a Frenchman look like a Gentleman. As the Gentlemen in France are again going to wear bags and swords, the Ladies may, perhaps, be induced to mount, at least, one petticoat. A rival to GARNERIN has started at Paris, in the person of M. Ac ARD, who ascended on the 3d in stant in a magnificent Balloon from the Gardens of Tivoli, and descended in forty minutes between Garges and Pierrefitte, without the least accident. At a village, on the Surrey side of the Thames, and distant about four miles from the metropolis, are two Magistrates,.possessing excellent Gardens, who have promoted a Subscription offering ten pounds re.. (ward, on conviction of any one robbing an Orchard, &c. Several pickled rogues have in consequence entered into a conspiracy, and an accomplice being deteaed in a Garden, they seized him and carried him before a Magistrate, who conviaed him in the legal penalty of Ten Shillings ! at the same time paying Ten Pounds to . the apprehenders,, who then retired with 91. ios. clear profit. Thursday week A pitched battle was fought in the Cottagers Piece, near Nuneaton, between T. Cart and James. Sidwell. The combatants set to about twelve o'clock. In the first four rounds there was hard fighting, and many severe blows struck, but Cart had the advantage, which caused the bets to run greatly in his favour; the odds being too guineas to to, though for several weeks prior to the battle taking place, they were greatly in Sid well's favour. The contest lasted an hour and ten minutes, during which time they had nearly sixty rounds, when Sidwell finding the battle was greatly against him, gave in. Considerable sums were lost on the occasion, and the knowing ones were com pletely taken in. It is supposed there were not less than 6 or 7000 persons present. Last week, two women (mother and daughter) were committed to Gloucester County Gaol, charged with the murder of an illegitimate child, at Aherg. willy. Very shocking marks of violence appeared on different parts of the child's body, which was. discovered buried in . the garden of the house where the horrid aa was perpetrated, DOkEk; dcr. , ' . , l l l tißeikds of people ha v e lieeti3On die Fleielt this day, tp view the Whale which tezas teen sogr days ago upon the Good Win Sands, t this morning towed on shore here by two iiiircr /Lauf they fell iri with it aboUt Mid. Channel, aril it lie Upon .the shore i near Arclicift length is about eighty feet, and its height - as it lie.: on its side, about ten feet.—lt iii SUppo,ed'tO be of the species called the Finner. A man has bed) seti. for, to proceed to cut it up and preserve the Valtiaille part of it; THE CIVIC FESTIVALt Tki following is an accurate Copy of the Bill Of Fare for the Dinner at Guildhall, on the gill of next month, as settled ,a few day s ag o by . the . . Committee of the Lord Mayor Elea : - go 'Preens of Ttittle 79 Moulds of jelly err 58 Dishes of Fish Blancmange 64 dhto Chickens alt) Dishes. of Roast Tut.. 25 ditto Pullets and Oysters keys, Wild Fowl, & - c. 14 Turkeys boiled &Oystets i 8 Dishes of Sweetbreads 44 Hams and Ragouts 8 Rumps of Beef Z Dishe> of Tongues and 41 Raised Pies cold - Greens z Pigeon Pies I Tongue and Uddet 2 Chines of Purk .. i Goose 65 Mince Pies • - a ChuMp Beef . 8 Orange Tourts 6 Tureens of Muttoli and az Aspices Broth; 5 Sirloin.of Beef 4 Rounds Ditto C;flunii ditto, - Pieces RiW dittO COLD 6 Pieces of Rdast tied' 6 Plates of Pickles and Sallads. DESSERT 42 FrdmeS-of Ornaments s 8 Dittd of Fruit 9► Dishes bf Sweetmeats no Ice Creams 53 Ditto Fruit 26 Pities, 88 l';ates of Cakes WINE. Doz. Cliampaighe Claret Hock Madeira Lisbon 2:1 Fherry iz Port . ii Burgundy Dot.: it 5 2 16 I td The number of robberies and other crimes by night has so increased it, town, and excited so muvh apprehension for personal safety during the approach ing winter, it is in contemplation to form Parochial Associations of the Inhabitants, to assist.the present Police in preserving the Peace of the City.--The subjeft ,has been very much spoken of within these two or three days, and seems to meet universal ap. probation. A Tradesman in Russell.stieet, Coventt-garden i received a very singular present on Tuesd..y even, ing :—A lad knocked at the door and delivered a large parcel, wrapped in brown paper, which, on being examined, contained the plate which hdd been affixed ,on his si/ifr's coffii, who was i - ioried abut two years ago. There were also two !Inman bones and part of a coffin. Application was Made to Bow.street,and the Magistrates ordered the C! wardens to attend, in order to sit on foot- an quiry. MANSION-HOUSk.— Yesterday Daniel Miiivetj and Jahn Baker underwent a private examination before the Lord Mayor, charged on suspicion of Set_ ting fire to a public-house in Upper Thames -Street ; - Mr. Laurence gave evidence that he was the land.. lord of the Feathers ale-house, near the foot of Old Fish-street-hill, Thames-street. • That his house at present was undergoing a thorough repair; and that the Prisoners :were, a journeyman bricklayer and his • labourer, who had been at work at his, house; that they having left the house, the labourer return.. ed a little after six o'clock, to fetch their tools; and having a candle to go to the cellar, was not seen to bring it up ~gain; soon after this the pot-boyhav ing occasion to go to the cellar, returned and gave the alarm* of the cellar being in a smother of smoke ; that he finding it so, gave the alarm to the nearest fireman, who, upon examining, found a candle burn ing below a cask, which was raised upon wooden brackets ten inches from the floor, which was burn jog, and it, waa surrounded by some chips and shay. ings, which had not caught fire ; and how the can., dle came there was a mystery to him, exceping it had been carried there by a rat. ,The pot-boy con.. firmed this evidence. Spencer, and some other of the Royal Exchange firemen, explained the state they found the house in,-but could not account how the candle came in that situation. The Prisoners both declared their ignorance of any knowledge of business ; the labourer confessing he went to bring the tools from the cellar, hut brought the candle up again. The bricklayer was proved to have been very much in liquor. The landlord said nobody had been in the cellar but these men and his boy and girl, but who was to blame he could not tell. The Lord Mayor said, from the attention he had given to this investigation, he was at a losS to know who was the intended incendiary ; but fr.on what he had heard, he did not think himself justified in committing the prisoners ; it was a dangerous si tuation in which this candle was placed, and had there been proof of any of the prisoners . putting it there, they would haie been indi&ed for a capital offence. He asked a Gentleman from the Exchange Insur. ance Office who attended) if he thought the Gover nors of the Royal Exchange Office 'had any more evidence against these men, if not, he ord ere d t h e y might be discharged-Th e y were detained till that should b e known. John Archer, a sawyer, lately in the. employ. ment of Mr. Yartaway, an eminent timber-met.- chant near Blackfriars_bridge, was committed for trial, on the charge of having taken payment, with. out ordeis, of a bill dile to his master, and of having fraudulently converted the money, without account. ing for it, to his own use. He was besides privy to similar frauds committed by a Clerk in Mr. Yarra way's service, who is likewise in confinement for trial. PUBLIC-OrerlcE; I-TATTort.GARDE/c."-YeSter. day the wite of jatnos Briscoe, and his ss ter-in-law, were.privately. ex3Mined before the M.?gistrates, and before Messrs. Rhodes ; Cook, and Handley, Solicitors for the Prosecution, by thrt diredion of the Church-wardens of the Parish uf Sr„ J ,mes s Clerken%vell, on suspicion of being Privy to the murder of Thornits Pamphlin, and t wm anding John Shevenen. After due cc nsiderttinn tite; , , were dis charged, upon a promise that they Avkl:a appear when called upon,. !t, 11 :S. Of fa ,ell :c6 al CY Of