The Sun. — London, England, 1802-08-30 00:00:00

WEI 'MOUTH, Aucirvi i 7. !°~ THE IR ATA J'ESTI ES and the Pk Itccttst . s, accom panied by the DUKES-Of GLOUCESTER and ..Ct.Tryt. BERLAND, PRINCESS .SOP/lIA Of GLOUCESTER, PRINCESS CHARLOTTE Of WALES, the I\ilar4uis of THOMOND, Lord and Lady ROLLE, Earl PAULETT, Lord HINTON, and Mr. and Mrs. FREMANTLE, went in their carriages on a fishing. party to the Beach. where they made a beautiful excursion : the whole of the fishing party was under the direaion of Captain GREY. The morning turned out very unfavourable ;':about twelve it began to rain, and they were_obliged to retire to the tents provided for their reception, where they Were refreshed with coffee and tea : an elegant dinner was provided, and consisted of every delicacy-Of the season c , after din ner the weather cleared; and they all walked out on the fortified ground, where they viewed the old castle. After Conversing with the inhabitants, they walked back to the Lodge:, in company with the DUKES of GLOUCESTER and CUMBERLAND, 'Lord WALSINGHAM, Marquis Of THOMOND, Lord ROLLE, and a number of Nobility, They re turned about six o'clock; and visited the Theatre, to see the Comedy of The Chapter of Accidents, and the Entertainment of Ways and Means. In the course of the evening Mr. BANNISTER sung two comic songs. This morning His MAJESTY, Pittxt ESS CHAR LOTTE Of'WALES, and the DUKE of GLOUCESTER, bathed. Ai ier breakfast, Hts MAIESTY, accompanied by :he DUKE of GLOUCEsTE R and PittrtcEss SoPHIA, on horseback, and Lady CRANLEV, in her landau, rode our to Ormington, but it raining very hard, 'they soon returned. The DUKE of CtMBERLAND left us this thorn ing. A 1341, for the Master of the Ceremonies ) is to be given this evening. AUGUST 28. Tilts morning- PRINCESS AUGLISTA and PRINi. CEGS SOPHIA Of GLOUCESTEk bathed. The KING walked for - some time in company With the Marquis of THOMOND, Earl PAUL ETT, and Lords RoLLE,, WALSINCHANI, HINTON, CO. iOnelS _CARTWRIGHT and FITZ ROY, Mr. DRUM NOND, GROSV E NOR, Sir R. FORD, Sir H. B. NEALE, and Captains \ GREY and PAIME R. After breakfast THEIR MAJESTIES and the PRINCESSES, attended by tar], PAULETT, Lords WALSI NGH AM and HINTON, Ladies STAWELL, CRANL EY, Mrs. DRAX, Mr. and Mrs. DRAX GROSVENOR, and Mr; a n d Mrs. 14'ItEMANTL E, went on board the Royal Yacht . . Lord ROM, E took leave of THEIR MA J ESTIES this morning; Earl PAWL ETT and Lord HI NTDN, Will do the same to-morrow. THEIR MAJESTIES have commanded, at . the 'Theatre, this evening, the Comedy (never died Mere) called She "would and She would not, and the Enter tainmen r called The Anatomist, or The Sham - 1 )&aor.; being the last night of Mr. BANNISTER'S performing. Mrs. JORDAN met with an accident in the Theatre Margate,ttt on Friday night, which had nearly terminated in a most fatal manner. She was playi ng the favourite charafter of Peggy to an overflowing audience. In a scene near the conclusion of the Piece, where she speaks from a WindOw, the flame from one of the lamps behind the scenes caught the train Of her dress, and she was instantly in a blaze. The one side was totally consumed before it could be extinguished. Happily she sustained no other injury tha n what arosP from terror. The Audience testi 4ed their' extreme 'interest for her safety, an d throughout the whole House .there was a general expression of alarm. Mrs. JORDAN, notwithstand ing the accident, got through the part, though she evidently laboured under considerable depression of spirits. A. few nights ago, about nine o'clock, as a Lady who 'resides tn. Bloomsbary_square, accompanied by C.;entleinan, was walking through. Long. Acre, she suddenly received a severe wound on her head, Nvhich, from the manner and etTe6t, was supposed to be occasioned by an Air-Gun. The Lady was put i nto a Co ac h, an d carr i e d i n a p i t i a bl e state to a s urgeon in her neighbourhood, and still remains v ery iii. As no cause can be assigned for such an ar 'tack, it can only be supposed, that it was-made by at different of those Monst e r s , w h o h ave , f or some years , ' n t ,difFerent petiods, vented their b ruta l rage on tin_ Females. Information Of this inhuman as sault has been sent to the Bow-street Office. -Mr. RICHARDSON is gone to spend a few days at Lord 'rtiANET's Seat in Kent, where he is likely to complete the restoration of his health. e n n ‘vi:sr and his Wife are to join the Theatrical P s. a t Covent-Garden Theatre in the ensuing season. Report speaks very highly in, favour of the Lady. M9uNTAtx does not resume the conduct of the Covent -Garden Orchestra next season. He was certainly an able and attentive Leader. The roice of Nature has been performed with eclat at Cheltenham. Miss MELLON is performing at that place with great success. The Dutch Cominissary General De Mist and been obliged to put into Plymouth. While the prices of postage•are reduced by most of the Innkeepers, those on ,the Brighton road charge fifteenpence a mile. It is singular that the charg e from Cuckfield to Brighton is fifteenpence, 411 (1 from Brighton to Cuckfield sixteenpence a mile. Lthree Saints, St. George, St. Nicholas, and St. zarns, have throWn the Province of Bosnia into 4 state of agitation, by menacing the inhabitants with the immediate anger of Heaven if they do tot alter their mode of living. All old man died lately in the Commune of Thiet, in t h e De partment , o f Gers, at the age of 0 6 . He was t h e father of General MANco, and left duu merous poste r i t y. H e never exper i enced any Illness 1 .0 the course of his long- life, MALT- LA , , JUNE i7.-- , -General Pot sain thi'S clay in the ilfaia'iton• Frigate, for Sicily, on a party ef.pleasure, for. a fortnight. He is attended by a Tender, in which park of his &tire is etribarked; He returns to this Island ; but we are withtiut the least-means for 11)i-thing an opinion as id the proba ble period of his surrendering the comMand. JUNE 24.—:-Our Commissary General sailed on the z9th, in the Greyhovfet, Captain HoRTi, for Napless on his route to England, through France.; and the-Deiiiht has been sent, bTSirli.. BICKER.. to N, with dispatches to Gibralta`r.' The heat here is intolerable; aLtd the Mosquitos are insufferably troublesome ; but the people here are gay and hospitable. Wh - en I left Egypt, part of the Asiatic trciOpt,had embarked at Suez, on their return to India ; our people in general were healthy, and experience from the Natives much respect and kindnessi ST. DOMINGO; THE Arrest of TOUSSAINT, and other Leaders in the late Rebellion, has occasioned fresh troubles amongst their followers, who are encouraged to in surrettion by the reduced state of the French Army. It appears by Accounts, *hiCh reached town on Saturday, that a numerous body of Blacks had assem bled, in .its Montagne Noire, bad destroyed some Plantations about Troa-Bordet, and had surprized. and murdered a small French Corps stationed 'there. At Rouilione, Ester, and about Leogane,, they had, on the II th July, appeared in numbers ; 'and small bodies covered the Country tow,irds Goa e cve, Be.net, and, acquensel. They ha,d ilikewise, with a view to divert the attention of the French General, com mitted fresh excesses in the neighbourhood of St. Mase, and burnt some Plantations on Les Trois Ri .vieres. These Accounts have, we understand, been re ceived via America, The New York Gazette, of 'the z6th ult, contains the following Article on the subjed: " Captain STEELE, from Port Rebublicain ; in forms us, that the Blacks', taking advantage of the weakness of the French Atmy, which is much re duced by disease and death, were again on the rise, and had already begun to forth encampments on the Plains of Leoggne. This circumstance gave great uneasiness to the Planters, who had reason to expcd another scene of trouble and massacre. " The rising of the Blacks was supposed to be in consequence of the nightly strjtragems •of the French Troops, in raking and massacring all the Blacks who had held Commissions unde,r Toys- SAINT, being deemed a necessary precaution by General LECLERC , to deprive them of their Com. manders, in the event of another revolt." CONSTRUCTION OF THE WET DOCKS THE rocks are 29 feet deep, built round with brick work, filie feet in thickness at top, and co vered with large square stones as coping to the wall. About two feet below, the top is a groove in the brick-wOrk, ab=►ut six inches deep, kind a foot wide, into which a timber , is inserted to keep the ships from injuring, or being injured by the brick work. Such are the Wet Docks, or rather the Wet Dock, at present, for there is only one finished, the length of which is t 600 feet, and the width p 4.. That which is yet to be made will be of the same length, but narrower by "too feet. A magnificent entrance or gateway to the quays is intended, with allegorical devices, and there will be a high wall round the whole,. besides' a s l op i ng ditch. The numbers of houses for the residence of the clerks and workmen, will convert the marsh in time into a town ; so that London will really extend from Paddington turnpike to Blackwell without any interruption whatever. The Docks were filled nearly to the height. of the tide at high water on ThurSdaY. 'The tern. porary bridge, under ,which was the wooden bar ricade that resisted the water when the Coffre Dam. broke,' was_taken away ; and over the first sluice was erected a horizontal drawbridge, on a new and improved plan. It divides in two in the middle, and each half Moves off horizontally on a pivot, being supported in its horizontal position by an equal- balance made in • the parts themselves, and a circular ring of cast iron, twelve feet in dia. meter,, on which • are rollers that are seaions of cones, so as naturally to move agreeable to the curvature of the circle, in a manner similar . to that in which the roof of a hindmill turns upon the walls. We had particular satisfaction in examining this bridge. • There are two floodgates at the outer lock, be tween- the River and the Reservoir, and two more between the Reservoir and the "Wet Dock. • The floodgates all open inwards, to resist t h e p ressure o f the water in ;the Docks when the tide is low. There are at each lock perpendicular windlasses of cast iron, placed in circular wells dug in the ground, and built round with brick and stone, for the purpose of opening and shutting the floodgates; those ate worked from above by men ; the ropes which conned the windlasses and the gates being altogether under water, -The average price of Sugar, computed from the returns made, for, the week endiiTg the zsth day of August.' Soz, is Thirty-three Shillings and Seven' Peace Halfpenny per hundred weight. Yesterday afternoon a man-servant of THOMAS MEYERS, Esq. at Harwict4 bathing, from a quay at that place, was unfortunately :carried' by ihe cur..• rent out of his depth and drowned. The body was found about two hours after; about ;in hundred yaids from the spot, • and every means used to restore motion,. but without effeet. Last Monday, 11;' , Kingzett, of Campden,,Gloti cestershire, was fined 201. by.tlie Magistrates, for stealing and killing, a valuable greyhound. The 'dog was found in an out-house with his brains beat out. The Prisoner was a tanner,iind had .stolen *the dog for the value of his skin. - 4 f At.. Yeoerkta;, as Fci‘Vi) . A.i. reipeEtahle At torneY I)oeft,ors Comthuns, and a Mr. TP.LiriS, Mertlttnt in the City, IVere going in. a one horse. Chaise', in company with .a .hultieroui, party of tidies and Get - lat.:mei; on horseback and in carriages, to. pass the day ai hchiAlkate ; about three qtlarters of a mile oii 'this side St. P•eter's, the boric in Mi..Po.w- NALL's chaise took flight, and, ran about half a mile with the utmost.tpeetl; Mt - oPtWNALL jurtip ed out, and . escaped with a slight bruise on his arm. ,The horse continued on - :rt frill gallop; and . While Mi. Tke.vE'; 'endea',4n.iring to. recover the command of the reins;- the .animal turned ShOft, and ran uii a. - hede with the, greatest, fury; and doWn into a dryditch: Mr. TintEVEs Was thio,wn oUt, hisiiead pittbed againsta tree; and he remained foir some time in aiipeatance (lead. By the. jerk the traces broke,, the horse got his liberty, and ran on until 'stopped about A hundred yard s , dista n t, It was a providential circumstance for the laud Gen_ tlentan that the traces broke, for had not that been the case he world probably hate been killed; Hap_ pily he escaped With bo other injury than being much bruised by the fall. At New-York, between the i'9th and 20't only one person died of a lever. At Baltimore, the' Board of Health tirade a geport on the 22d. 'After inStanjing eight cases of Fever, the Repirt cabaudes as follows In the investigation of the circumstances on the above cases of Fever, the Board of Health have as certained to their entire stitifaetion, two point s of material interest to our Citizens : Ist. That in no instance has the disease been commun cated to the attendants or friends of the sick. 20. That from the ditnrent situations of those whd,have fallen vidirns to the disease, they could'not hive derived it frgril the same neighbourhood. The Board are,thertlfore, willing to believe, that those instances of disease Which have unhappily appeared in our City, are solitary cases of a. Malignant fever, train which, of late years, we have ;AM betn Wholly exempt during the hot months. These observationi are not made to lull our CitiZens into a security that might prove fatal ; but to suggest the,nscessity of vigilance, without alarm; and of an attenti o n to individual cleanliness, which no police can sufficiently- enforce; for, from whatever source the Yellow Fever may be derived, it is now adniitted that iMpuiv air is necessary to its fatal prof a gation. A. ALEXANDER, President. A young man genteelly dressed, and having the appearance of a Creole, who said his name was john Hughes Edey, was Charged on Saturday be fore the Sitting Magistrate . at Guildhall, with having swindled several tradesmen out of goods to a large amount, under false pretenCes. 'The first charge was made by Mr. Dark, a partner in the house , of Jones and Co. No. 65, Holborn-hill, Linen-drop. ers ; who said the prisoner came there, pretending to be recommended to Mri Jones, made choice of two pieces of fine Irish linen, and ordered them to be sent on Friday morning to his lodgings, No. 5, Spanish-place, Manchester-square. When the servant ,delivered the linen at this place, he was so dazzled with the elegance of the Prisoner's lodgings, that he was induced to go away with-. out the : money ) though strialy enjoined not to 'leave the goods without it He was desired by the Prisoner to go hack, and bring .him some cam bric, When the servant returned ' he was order e d to go again direilly, and get the money or the. cloth. • ‘then he went back to the Prisoner's lodg ings he could not see him, and' could only find one piece of cloth, which he brought away with him. The people of the house could give no account oldie Prisoner, and it appeared that near two cart loads of goods had at this time been sent to his lodging ; that several livery servants were then waiting at the door to be lilted by him; that a tailor was- there with elegant suits of livery for the use of these in tended lacqueys : and that a groom had two fine grey horses in training for his corriele. The. Pr isoner in his defence, said the man left the linen of his own accord,' He said he was the son of West-India Planter, but could give no reference to any person in London . who knew him ;. but said he had a letter of credit on Mr. Fullarton, of Liver.: pool, from whom by drew money. He had no document however by him to prove this statement. He was ordered to be brought up again ona future day. One of the servants, of Jones and Co. pro. duced a list of various persons of whom the Prisoner had ordered goods. Among these was Mr. Bur. gess, oilman in the Strand, from whom he obtained about tol. ,worth of pickles, hams, etc.. From a . Mr. Wedgewood he had obtained goods. to the amount of 341. ; also a quantity of goods from a Mr. Davis, in Bond-street, Saturday, morning there was an Eclipse of the Sun. The conjunction took place about five minutes past five, which was scarce visible from the inter vention of the clouds. The morning, however, Was . so fine, that the observation was consitierably diminished, and the Sun emerged with so much. splendour from the clouds, that the Eclipse was vi sible to the naked eye. The sublimity of the sight drew an immense crowd of_speftators, and many persons . slept out of London the preceding night, for the purpose of beholding what .may be . truly called a Celestial Speetacle. The digits eclipsed were s•deg. on the Sun's north limb. The duration was 61 minutes. • A house in Norfolk-street, Strand, was robbed of several valuable articles' about 'nine ck on Saturday morning, in the momentary absence of the servant who was cleaning the passage—a caution to others not to leave their doors open. On Saturday three of the desperate villains whO cut, wounded, and robbed so many, persons at Peck ham Fair, viz.,John _Haines, James Keele, and John Collins, 'were fully committed to 'the County Gaol, for trial at the next Assizes for the County of Sur rey, on several capital charges against them. A number of persons appeared, all of whom swore posi tively to the identity of the Prisoners, and bore evident marks of their._ brutal conduct. Two men had tficir heads severely cut ; one woman her ear torn, and her face bruised ; and the other had p her cloak torn off; her upper garment cut, and her pockets dragged off while she lay on the ground stunned with the blows she received. - - CORN EX Cli ANGIi , • . .. • ~_ . • • . Attliert 30, , ' • This day we hid A good supply of tpot ?.rtic!es Of Grain ; Wheat ,iri keiieral. had a dUlfsiilc, and father lnWet; but 'prime parcels retelied g, - i0.,1 price; •,... .. In Batley and Malt . ; there appears little vziriV:on i , Peal . ft'and BeauS incline ,illiwards ; t:lere is plenty Of Oats lt IVl,tik.eti ,i,Vlicci) go off rather at a &deo . , ion ; - Flour t cintiritiek . utarly as our last. „ , „. Wheat ilss a sss po - od 'leans - 5s a 38s od Fine do. bis 664 ,oci ditio - 3is a 34s 6d Mart - 464 a '4Bs a 523 od ()atS - i4s a kBs a zrs od Fine ditto - a 54i of Poland do. 22s a 23s 6ci - a . 32:, otr )tape Seed 331 a 371 per last P.4e - - 3os a 33$ od Fine Flour sos a 53, per sacY, White Pease 38$ a . 42s - ad Second do. 45s a sos per do. LEWES SCRUTINY. Eleaiori took place on the sth and 6th of- July, t i3Ot. Candidat6:Laighe Fion. Lord Fit,Art. Ostoß:tE, Wi(km, the Old Member, and Capt: Sii_ELLEr, The numbers at the Close of the l'uif were ; Lord F. Osborne, - 214 Mr. Slielleyi - - - 179 :Ur. Kemp, - - - - 1173 .4 Scrutiny was then detnanded for Mr. Kr_rstr ; being-granted by the Returning Officers, it corn menced on Monday the 16th instant, and term's_ nated on Monday the 231 instant. Counsel for Mr.- SEIELLEY, Mr. MARIerATT Agents, Mr. KELL, and Mr. HILL, ofLewes. Counsel for Mr. KEM?, Mr. Liitox, of New. Square, Lincoln's-Inn ; Agents, Mr. GWYNNE, of Lewes, and Mr. M. DEAIcE, of Carey-street, Lifi. coln's-Inn. At-the dose of .the Scrtitny the numbers were'ct Lord F. Osboine _ 20 8 Mr. Shelley .;• •• 16 9 Mr. Kemp - 164. Much legal discussiOn On v a ri ous po i nts too k place on the Scrutiny.—The Returning Officers had for their legal Adviser Mr. Co3tra.Top, the Bar:. rister, who assisted Mr. MAI NWAR ING at the last Middlesex EleCtion. I(Mk'S . Counsel contended, that the Right of Elettion in LeJes was vested in Inhabitants Householders, legal& left/ed, paying Scot and hot, and to this position the Agents ot Lord FRAN CIS OSBORNE assented. Mr. SHELLET's Counsel) on the other hand, asserted, the right was in Inha'.. bitants, 'Householders, paying Scot and Lot, with out the additicinal qualification of being legal?" settled. In support of the former position, it was proved that it had been. the usage of the Borough, .at all Ele&ions, to rejet the votes of persons who resided in Lewes, under a Certificate from any Parish out of the Borough, but to admit pers(44 to vote, who .resided in any one of the Parishes of Lewes, under a Certificate from another of those Parishes. Hence it was inferred, and indeed such was the universal. opinion. of the oldest inhabitants in Lewes, that a legal ettldtnent in some or one of the Parishes in the Borough, as well as residence as an Householder,, was a necessary qualification. This point would have been established, had a pamphlet, written on the occasion of a disputed Eleaion in 1734, been admitted in 'evidence. On that occasion, a i'etitiOn to the House of Commons being presented, , and the House deciding a patticolar point against the Peti_ tioners, they abandoned the Petition, and the House then determined in whom the right of Eledion was, vested. As the retruning 'Officers 'did not think them selves competent Li decide this question of Right, the contest became much narrowed, and Mr. K.Emt. was consequently induced to relinquish the Prosecu tion of the Scrutiny ;Mud his claim to the return is now, therefore, reserved for the decision of a C,utn, mittee of the House of Commons. At the close of the Scrutiny Mr. KEMP addressed the Eledors : after thanking them for paSt favours he observed, that he had represented LeweE more than zo years, during which time he had pre-. , erved their honour and his' ownL---He had been teinpr t t, ,but had ever resisted—He had been a Member in substance . , not irtformz-Lnever pairing off, 'but mak ing:a'point of attending his duty in Parliathent ; that they were Pebtors to him for - hip time-spent in their service, and he to them'for the 'gratifita. tion, the honour Of representing th&n 'had -doer his feelings. A temporary interruption had taken place between them as'ConititUents, and him . their Representative; but he .was - .not the leis Ilttaelled to - the - Borough, nor' were his whites for their-suc cess and prosperity less sir.cere. The extra duty ,in g.Osia on Tar has been re.. duced from 96 cop. - per ton to 13; making the whole export duties no move th;:n 2; cop.:per ton. At Archangel, &c., the price of that article hai in consequence advanced: to 29 , 0 cop. per ton. The stock on hand, both, of the last year and prevent summer,s is very large, so that a t&iuttion is ex.. petted, the more especially as the deniand from Eng-. land is. greatly- reduced 'Lately was married, at St. Anne's,. Westminster, Mr. BRADLEY, jun. of Reading, to Miss L4wa RENCE, of the same place. .At the Assizes for the county of Somerset,, on Wednesday last, Miehtiel Raxter, John Green, and JohnVei mara, were tried on a charge of com mitting a rape*on a young woman named Sexey Hicks, who swore that on the 4th of M.iy, as she Was travelling on foot from Wells to Star Easton, the; Prisoners, with. several others, who were all soldiers, and were escorting .a baggage waggon, - took her into a lane and effetted their purpose. The evidence of this woman was contradi,sed in the Most material points. Capt. MORLAND gave the three prisoners a most excellent character ; - they had fought under him, and were as remarkable for hr., manity as for courage. The Judge said, nothing could affeet Baxter or M‘Naniara, and as to Green, the evidence, against him was vague and contradic tory. The Jury acquitted the two former, _and, found Green Guilty, The Judge desired them to re-consider their verdil. They did, and persisted in it, but recommended Green to mercy. The de- tem ne.nr .7 7' Izer, , Dard fined vith 'C W ~,: nS, , ...- JO. esS ;lie - en ey r. )1_ K 4 Lac ty if , p )3 En