The Sun. — London, England, 1802-02-15 00:00:00

PARIS, FEB. /1. 141 ,I. INTe -leas fro m M arse ill es announce, that three 3 • -Pnbian Frigates from Ancona have arrived at -44 , where alsp is expefteci from Cadiz the Di vis - inn under •the orders of the Contre-Admiral Du 'MAN°ls, consisting of four Ships of the Line. N T he Pop e has appointed M. MEZZO Apostolic un,: - ei to the KING of ETRURIA. • 7, 4aree Armed Vessels belonging to the Barbary state s were seen off Genoa on the .20th of January ; hut ito , r the 23d they had not c om mitt e d any a d e t)! 11!stility against the Ligurian vessels, or the ‘9ltl ne rce of Ge noa . it IS said that the number of Candidates who have presented themselves for the sixty vacant seats in Ilse Legisl at i ve Body, and the twenty in the Tri-.. bunate , amount to near three thousand ; in con_ formic,., how ever , to t h e C onst i tut i on , w hi c h di reEts tne National List to be exclusively consulted for the Choi ce of perons to fill these vacant seats, the Senate Will reduc e the number of Candidates to less than half. Potr R EPUBLIC AIN(ST.PomINGO) 1 DEC. 1.-- The Government will no doubt learn with the greatest pleasu re , t h at the sp i rit of nd i s not Propagated beyond Distria ';'ha t the Pl antat i ons i n the ot h er parts of the Isl an d Afford a at , la a prosperous state, and prosper} of ters are successivelygreat returning ; and, lastly, that the frightful massacre of the Whites in the Northern part of the Island courag e o f th ,is so far from abating the that they are at cla ss i n other parts of the Colony, one means o f y th e more active in seeking the guaranteeing themselves from the effeas of aimilar conspiracies. CALAIS, F EB. 5 ~ . . - -.ln the course of a month up tillslisll, to thi .1 s `" 1 Y1 twelve Packet Boats, nine of them glisil' and' three French , con * ing altogether bine V-eigh t p ass - "gets, two English Messengers, and one siFienehi ar , ; this Port c ''' eleven Prisoners, have entered - from tine Dover ; a nd twelve Packet.boats, of them E n i • . 1 8 Isi, and three French, containing , 88 l'ag3eogers, h ave sailed from hence.to Dover. eciNslA'N'Tit"l'LEt De 8 We have just le eeived n ews f dri that rorn ,k r.x e t. General 11 ' P ,'D o i a z ve . ssel frO b M Alexan- Tied with IrrchiNseN caused to be bu. ~ great fiv e D er fun,. ral po m p, t h e b o di es o f t h e 1 5i3t the , tl° who w ere killed i n attempt i ng to re . 45n mera eb ent which w as conduaing them board t he Fl eet . iC44. The di , by order of the CAP ITAN pA- t ook ,. 'e difference which arose between the • ,T AN p t 'eral, h Ac HA and th e E ng li s h Adm i ral and Ge. ad fitt er kv beco me so serious, that it was feared the 1. r , Ind tu rn their forces against the Ottoman o ciss„ It ; t • • 4 test und e 0 w r stood t o b e t h e i ntention of the Porte z th e E . ZIP entirely from the Government of ey s . L . . so . ' °tit it is thought th ey w ill experience rat d ifht • ' l ever. 1 41 tY in carrying this into execution, as 4 1 a 0 posse• who ss ' Beys st ill exist in Upper Egypt, • I . tenni 1° °1 3 5 and money, and who seem de- Bed to n i ,-, . of the c Api nt4l ll their power. The KIAJA Br x of all E TAN' D ACHA, who is appointed Pacha commanded them to submit. It ;h a. P a l 7 a c r o sj u ' gtlYl3Ptt' th h e as GRAND VIZI:ER will not quit tilt . r ttrY with his Army until tranquillity is ire' -. . y it-established. R4ic Pak; JAN. 29.,.--It is regarded as a proof ' 5l. the a r 1 • Inn b PP oac iing cession of the Right Bank of the c V Baa)aria, that the ELECTO R has fixed a day for tile payment of the arrears of • imposts due in that ‘.. 0 ,, 4ntry, under penalty of military execution in vas e of non-payment. MILAN, JAN. 28.—The Committee of Govern. tent t h being informed that the Merchant Vessel s of isat • ...pine Republic trading on the Coasts of the Ad • • Fl a I.l4tic, navigate under the Imperial or Papal ' l ` i g: ailed g i ng tarn • itercelielin.t seenrity; that their own does not afford them invites the Commissary of Coln . the P lat t i lati ons of the French Rep ublicto cause and to ~. , t he Cisalpine Republic to be reepeded, 6 1V e . ?L TD ., o r d e rs to that area. - " sB trac ti j,,,, 8 The EMPEROR has i granted • ' * a Millio n of roubles to finish the works of t he Port f r 1 6 30 , ' 4.0 72414dt. He has made a present of tiet 'd roubles to the President of the Economical so f 3 ' of , Petersb urgh, and conferred the Order of ,L . is__?;4"'ze upon the two permanent Secretaries, and Fu two other Members of that Society. BERLIN, J. 28.--It is ce r t a i n t h at t h e Mar quis of L ! to be uccHesteri is re ca ll e d f rom Paris, and is sent eithe r to London or to Petersburgh. He w ill be su cceeded at Paris eith er b the n kie'r•-rz, or by y Cou tde rein . Baron JAconi, who . is now o ur Mi ter at the Court of London. . St taLlN, JAN.lB.—Although PAswA N OGLOLT is negotiating for a reconciliation with the Porte, and has refused to countenance the rebellious Janissaries t)i-elgeade in their revolt, it is still believed that the Pa ella Was murdered by his orders; and it is said that the foreign Janissaries who were found at 4el3rade four days before the `rune, iv eta. the Janissaries of thiscommi ss i on o f the Rebel. Vt. SIERRA.LEOgE HOUSE, iz. DISPATCHES have been received from the Go vernor and Council of Sierra-Leong , dated t6th De cember last, which state a sudden and unprovoked attack on the Settlement to have been made by some neighbouring Natives, on the 18th of November. The following is the substance of the Governor and Council's communication ; ,‘ On the morning of the ath of November, a body of Timmaneys (the subjects of King Firama and King_ Tom) made a furious and unexettcd. assault on the Fort. A small but sele6t party of them, said to be headed by two Rebel Settlers*, forced their way into the Fott, supported by a number of Marksmen who kept up a very destrudive fire on thosc.yho ad vanced w repel them. In about is minutes Lieut. Laidlow and Serjeant Blackwood, andone privale'of the African Corps, Mr. Cox, Mr. Crankapone, and several others were killed ; and Governor Dawes, Messrs. Gray, Carr, and some others were wounded. At length, a small, body of soldiers and settlers collected from different quarters, and headed by the Governor in person, gallantly pushed for ward, and with the bayonet drove the enemy from the Fort.—The retreat of the assailants sc...n be came general. " Their loss appears to have been considerable, and at least equal to that sustained by the defenders of the Fort. " The Enemy, though baffled in their enter_ prize, still maintained a threatening position to the westward of the Colony, apparently with the hope of recruiting their numbers. " It became therefore an objea of the first im portance to dislodge them ; and several successive expeditions, undertaken with this view, in, wh:cli the Maroons assisted, were attended with such suc cess, that by the 4.th of December they had been completely driven trom the distrift which lies be tween the Settlement and Cape Sierra Leone, with scarcely any-loss on the part of the Colony. " this treacherous and unprovoked aggression is exclusively attributed to the Timmaneys, and it ap pears to have strongly excited the indignation of many of the neighbouring African Chiefs, several of whom had repaired, with a considerable number of men, to the assistance of the Settlement, and had joined . in the excursions which were undertaken against the enemy." The Governor and Council observe— " We cannot pass unnoticed the exertions of those brave men, both Europeans and Setr►ers, who defended the Fort on the morning of the at tack : some of them are now insensible to human praise, and others lie languishing under the.,-effed of those wounds to which their intrepidity exposed them. Mr. Cox, the store-keeper, was shot dead in attempting to save the magazine from the ra vages of the enemy. Lieut. Laidlow, at the early part of the Adion, met with the same fate ; Mr. Crankapone, a Nova Scotia Black, came up to the Fort at an early hour ; but his solicitude for the safety of those who remained in the town, caused him to return thither. He received his first wound in his way back to the Fort. Still pressing forward with unabated spirit, he received a second and a third, which terminated a life distinguished for years by the most important services. Such a loss will long be felt by the Colony. Others who were wounded or escaped unhurt, are perhaps on this occasion entitled to equal praise with the fore going. The gallant nod undaunted spirit of Mr. Wilson, prompted him to volunteer his services wherever they were most needed. George Clark and John Gordon, settlers, were among the fore most in making the charge which drove the enemy out of the Fort. The soldiers in general behaved with the steadiness of men who have seen service, and through the whole adion kept up a very galling a n d effeffive fire on the enemy. " Captain Bullen, of His Majesty's Sloop the Wasp, has been solicitous from the hour of his arrival, to meet and even prevent our wishes. The presence and aid of a Ship of War, in a situation like our's, are invaluable." When the Dispatches came away, some pacific overtures had been made ; the conditiOns of peace proposed by the Company, being those of having the Rebel Settlers delivered up, and the distrid to the westward of Freetown, which had been pos sessed. by King Tom, the principal in the War, ceded to the Company. A few days after the attack, His Majesty's Sloop of War the Wasp, arrived in the River Sierra Leone, and the presence and co-operation of Cap tain Bullen, had been of essential service in the Colony. He proposed to continue in the River until Peace should be restored ; a reinforcement of British troops from Goree was also expefted. The Governor and Council also acknowledge the services rendered to the Colony on this occasion, by Captain Haib, of the Ho/e, and Captain Stott, of the Fraternite, two Liverpool Letters of Marque, then lying in the River. LIST OF KILLED AND WOUNDED ON THE MORNING OP NOVEMBER IS. Killed.—Lieut. Laidlow, of the African Corps; Serjeant Blackwood, of ditto; W. Hooper, a Private of ditto; Mr. Cox, Store-keeper ; nine Settlers, viz. six Men and three Women. .Mortally Trortna'ed.—William Baker, a private of the Afri can Corps, since dead; J. Steel, ditto; 5 Settlers, of whom 4 are since dead. Wounded, but already recovered, or likely to recover.—Gover nor Dawes, in the shoulder and breast ; Mr. Gray, Mr. Carr, and Mr. Wilson, in the leg; Mr. Gordon, in the head and shoulder ; 7 Privates of the African Corps ; 24 Settlers, viz. 18 Men. and 6 Women. Total Killed, or since dead IS Wounded - 32-56 Subsequent to the 18th, the following loss was sustained in an attack on one of the Enemy's towns, by the explosion of some powder kegs. Mr. Wil son, and .five natives, allies of the Colony, were burnt. Mr. Wilson has recovered, but 'three of the natives died. In another attack one seaman of the Wasp was killed, and four wounded. * At the period immediately antecedent to the arrival of a Charter of Government lately granted by His MAJYSTY, and of a small detachment of Troop:: from Goree, an attempt to seize the Government was made by some Nova Scotia Settlers, some of whom were punished. The two Settlers in question fled into the'interior, and escaped the hands of Justice. In one house at Exeter, last week, there was a wedding, a christening, a churching, and a burial, on the same day. LAW REPOR7'. COURT OF KING's FZE. SITTINGS BE/ORE Mk. jus ricE GROSE, IN WES-11.1INSrER HALL JONES tt.). JENKINS. The Plaintiff is a Taylor, and the Defendant is Clerk to a Distiller.—This was an a6tion brought to recover about 701. for board and lodging, to a woman of the name of Price, the Plaintiff' ailedging that she passed for the Defendant's wife, and (hat he trusted her with the lodging as such, at the rate of three guinea per week ; and also for the sum of nineteen guineas, which the Plaintiff lent to this woman, as the wife, and by the desire of the De fendant : and also for cloaths, made by the Plaintiff for the Defendant, amounting to 61. and upwards. It appeared in evidence that the Defendant oc casionally visited the Plaintiff, who did not keep the house he lived in, having only the first floor of it, for him and his wife, and that Mrs. Price lived with them.—One Witness only, swore that in a conversation between the Plaintiff and the Defendant, he heard the Defendant acknowledge that the Plain tiff had advanced to his, the Defendant's, wife,-nine teen guineas, by his desire, and that he would pay him.lt was then proved that cloaths, to the amount of about 61.. were delivered_ to the Defendant from the Plaintiff; and it was proved that Mrs. Price lived with the Plaintiff and his wife. In answer to this, it appeared, that as to the cloaths the Defendant had been for years in the habit of dealing with the Plaintiff, but that his custom was to pay for the articles, either dire Elly or shortly after he received them. •It was indeed stated by the Defendant's Counsel, that he had a paper con taining an account of all the business transacted be tween these parties, and the word " settled" upon it, in the Plaintiff's own hand-writing, but this he could not make use of, because it was not stampt, and the Defendant knew it, and took advantage of it.—This the Learned Counsel said was a scheme, set on foot with a view to ruin the Defendant. But if a verdict went against him in this action, for want of his being able to make use of this paper, which, in point of honesty, put an end to the whole of it, he should take care to institute a prosecution against the Plaintiff, for having signed this paper, without a stamp, there being a penalty by law for so doing. It then appeared in evidence, on the part of the Defendant, that this Plaintiff, at the very time he said this money became due to him for the lodging and board of Mrs. Jenkins, as he called her, had borrowed 'soh of her, and gave her his bond and warrant of attorney, to confess judgment for that sum, and in which she was stated to be Mary Prosser, the daughter of J. Prosser, of a place (the name of which we did not hear), in the county of Hereford. This was not all, but it appeared that Mrs. Price, or Miss Prosser, whichever name belonged to her, was the Cousin of the Plaintiff's wife, and was with them in the family, taking care of the chil dren, and cleaning the house, &c. like a domestic in the family.—Upon which the Jury, after hear ing the observations of the Learned Judge, found a Verdit for the Defendant. HUGUENIN eV.- THORNTON, ESQ. Mr. M INa/ix said that the Plairirirrwa6.a junior Partner, in the •House of BurgOis and Company, Perfumers, in the Haymarket, who had the honour to serve his Royal Highness Prince Edward. The Defendant, Colonel Thornton, was not personally known to him, but he understood him to be a per son of very ample fortune, 16,6061. per annum, as well as high rank, and had in Yorkshire a very beautiful mansion, which he called Ville Royalle.— He had occasion for some Articles of Perfumery, and sent to the House, of which the Plaintiff was: a Partner, a letter—" I wish you would send me a dozen pounds of the best hair powder—and two pots of scented pomatum." He didi not himself, Mr. Mingay said, know the use o sending these scents down to Yorkshire, the air they breathed there wanting no such per fumes, nor, did he believe the people there would be improved by acquiring a desire for such things. The letter also ordered " some Lavender Water,• together with some Cheese," of a sort, the name of; which Mr. Mingay said, he could not very well pronounce, but, he supposed, it was to accompany. the perfumes to relieve each other—" If he could not get a whole one, to send half a one."—He had. heard, that half a loaf was better than no bread, and he did not see why the proverb might not be ap_ plied to cheese as well as breati. The Plaintiff un dertook this dangerous service of supplying, and endeavouring to satisfy this Noble Colonel ; and, what was still more dangerous, to call for payment for it. He went to Tattersall's, a place well. known by some people of Fashion, but the Colonel was not there : he learnt that the Colonel was to. be found at No. 35, Leicester-square. The Plaintiff went there for the purpose of obtaining payment of hiS bill, which was 81. and a fraction. He went in a decent and respeCtful manner, for the payment of his bill; but, would the Jury believe it, he was treat ed With blows, instead of payment. • His object was to have his bill paid, and he had no other. He saw the Colonel. He begged the Colonel would be so good as to pay it. The Colonel said, " I will pay according to the letter, as I have ordered ; but d—n me, if I will pay any more." There was no accounting for taste, Mr. Mingay, said, but that was not the way in which, he thought, he should have spoken, if a tradesman had called upon him for the payment of a bill. He said, he thought he should not do so, but God only'knew what he might do, if le was a man of fashion, and possessed a palace for his dwelling. The Plaintiff said, "indeed I- must be paid the whole of the bill, which is 81. iv." Upon which the Defendant paid himthat is, he collared him. This I call . cowardly, said the Learned Counsel, and what you will call cowardly, if, what I am stating be proved.. The Plaintiff considered, "that if his bill •was not paid, he ought to take care that his bones were nor broken. He, therefore, tried to run away,.. .but the Defendant followed him, and struck him over the eye, and half blinded him. The Plaintiff, whatever his indignation might be, made no return to this treatment, because4e knew the „Colonel's house was full of servants, - who would, of course, come to their master, if he hal the tvd - nit was glad his Ciint dik! Colonel, but had brought lii`s'cae before a Jury of his equals, who would tell men of Fortune v. hat they are to pay, if they beat a tradesrii:!n, instead of paying his bill, when he calls for jury WeiT not to charge the Colonel more on account of his large fyrtune, in this case, cer.taiolv—he asked only moderate damages, such as would suit the case, after a Fall con:.i.leratin of _ir ; and, indeed, the Colonel would t'.,a►ik the Jay Or giving smart da tinge, against him, by way of a cheek, for the rest of.•his Mr. Majhr said, " I keep a liouse•in Leicester_ Fields : Thornton lodged •there in the rnoa tit of Augu,t last : I remember the Plaintiff coining, these with his bill h He saw the Celonel: I was not in the room with thein•at fir,t. I saw the Piaintiff when he came down stairs ; -the blood was alLover his . eyes and face as he came out Of the room from the Colonel. He came into inv parlour, to me and my wife, and servant. f. did all I could to help, him.down stairs : ,he could not, 'then, speak at all. My. wife, and I, and my son, did what we could to help him; and we also stint for a Surgeon. ..-The • Surgeon came and dr6sed : when he, got -a little better, the Colonel sent toe him -up stairs, which was full half an hour after he came down stairs. When he came up stairs to the Colonel, the Colonel said he was very sorry he striick. I went with the Plaintiff up stairs, for,be":could not go up without me: he was not aide - to go by --- himself. The Colonel said, he was very surrrhe struck hint, and said, •it - •was a trifling stroke he gave him, for .it - was onlya'black eye:. The. Sot.. geon went up stairs likewise. • We all went up stairs together. The Surgeon said the b10 , .v was a very bad one, for it hurt his sight.. The Colonel said he would not pay the bill : the Colonel was in a very great passion. - He said he h.] no right to pay this bill. He gave it to Mr. Sinclair, who was with him in the room, and. Said, " if you think Ibave a right to pay the bill, I will pay it." Mr. Sinclair advised him to pay the bill : Mr. Sinclair was a relation of his. The Surgeon was at this time waiting below to be satisfied for his trouble. I went up stairs to the Colonel, after the Plain tiff's bill was paid, to say, the Surgeon was wait ing to be satisfied ; but the Colonel said, he had paid the bill of the Plaintiff, but that he would not pay the bill of the Surgeon." On cross-examination, the Witness said—The Colonel said the Plaintiff's bill was of old stand ing ; that he,had forgot it, or he would have paid it sooner. After Mr. Sinclair had looked at the .bill, the Plaintiff said, " If you are a Gentleman, and mean to act as such, and will pay me the bill, and pay the Surgeon, I will be satisfied ;" bat the Colonel said, ‘. He would pay the bill, a!al no more." The Colonel went to the Plaintiff, and took him by the hand. Mr. Hastings, an Apothecary in the neighbour, hood, who came with Mr.,•Carfew the Surgeon to the Plaintiff's assistance, proved that the P:aintiff could not attend his shop - for a forkhight, his face being unfit to be seen, &c. - Mr. PARK made an able speech to the Jury, by which he submitted, that as this . was amisunder standing, which the Pli'lir k tiff offered to make up upon payment of the Surgeon's bill, as well as his own, a, there was -no proof of the coarse exotes. sions imputed to the Defendant, a 0 as the parties had aktluallv shaken bands, the damages, in this case, should be moderate. • • Mr. justice GttosE—" Gentlemen of the jury, you have heard the case proved before you, .and it is for - you to say, what damages the . Plaintiff ought to have. It does seem to me, that. what has happened was totally unprovoked. A Trades man going to demand payment" of his bill, ought not to be thus treated. He ought to receive nei ther more nor less than payment.of what is due to him. if nothing was due", or the Defendant had, by mistake, thought so, his language to the. Plai ntiff ought to have been, " Sir, I owe you nothing, go about your business ;" instead of' which he struck the Plaintiff' This was an assault, and a gross assault. It is, howevei, a pity the Defendant was not advised ,to pay the Surgeon's bill as well as that of the Plaintiff, for it appears that, at one time, the Plaintiff would have been satisfied with that, which he does not chuse now. You are, therefore, to say what the Defendant might to pay to the Plaintiff on this occasion. • You are in the sameline of life as the Plaintiff, and will esti mate the damages for him. The measure of them is for you to say. My opinion is, that they slhiuld be such reasonable damages as any one of you would expea in the same situation." Verdict for the Plaintiff—Damages 301. CORN EXCHANGE, Felruaty 15. Tills day we were plentifully supplied with Grain in general :—fine Barleys f)r.z.„iang fetched. a good price ;—Flour fell 3s. and 4s. per sack ; Oats and Beans a dull sale, • :d something lower. Wheat - sgs 63s a 79s od I Begins - 3os a 36s 61 Fine do. - gos a 3ts od I Tick do. zBs a 33s od Malt -43 s 48s a 495 , oct i Oats - - - t6s a 235 oct Fire do. - sos a is od Poland do. - - ..z4s ad Barley . - - 403 a 435 6d Rap e Seed 341 4371 pet last Rye - - - 385 a 42$ od Fine Flour 55s a 6os per sack White Pease 375 a 45s 6d 1 SecOnd do. sos a sSs per dd. A woman- in the neighbourhood of Fleet street, was last week apprehended under authority of a search-warrant issued by the LORD MAYOR, in con., sequence of an information laid at Bow -street, that a quantity of property contained in a boX stolen from a boy in Chiswell-street, was concealed there. A part of the property in the .)ox was found. Six teen gold, silver, and metal watches, stolen in a burglary .committed in the house of Mr. Haddacks, a watchmaker, at Bath, on the night of the 23:1 of November hist, were discovered in her house. The Prisoner was first examined before the LortD . MAYOR, but .on Friday was sent by him to Bow-strect. A t night she underwent a long examination before N. BOND, Esq. and fir WNi. PARSONS. Mr. Had_ Back, ciaimed the watches. A., great number of counterfeit seven-:ihi;l;ng Oieces, half-crowns, and shillings, „were also found in the said house : the seve'n;shilling pieces are ex tremely welt exeCured, and supposed to be worth about half a crown each, t