The Sun. — London, England, 1802-08-20 00:00:00

NAVAL NEWS. FALMOUTH, AUG. 17, ARRIVEID last night, after Post, the. Duke ef . , k eork Packet, DEAKE, with Mail from Lisbon, after a passage of days. Passengers by her are, the Rev. Mr. BERESFORD, and Mr. G. PARKER. The Duke of York left His Majesty's Ship De. light, of i 8 guns,' lying at Lisbon ; the Milbrook Schooner had sailed from Lisbon with Dispatches for Government two days prior to the Duke of York. The Walsingham Packet, with Mails from England, tvas not arrived out. Also arrived late last night, and this day proceed ed on for the Downs, the Earl Mornington East India Packet, Capt. Parrox, in three months and twenty one days from Bengal 4 and forty-two days from Sr. Helena. The Hon. Colonel MoNSON, of the Army, landed from her with Government Dispatches, an d went off immediately express for London. The Purser also went o# ihis evening to the East India House. Sailed the Spanish Lugger San Franesseo de Paulo, P. A. ZAAZ.43A, for Ferrol, last from Lon.. don ; the Spanish Brig Nostra Sanora de Bergans, Capt. Culotta -TA, with oil, for Nantz ; the Brig Betsy, GREEN, for Swansea ; and the Brig Unity, JENKINS, for Malaga. The King George Packet, with Lisbon Mail of the loth inst. will sail in the morning : the wind failing this evening, prevented her getting out. The Auckland from Jamaica, the rownshmi froth •Leeward.lstands, and the Duke of Cumberland (Packets) from America, are daily expeded. The Duke of Kent will sail on Sunday next with Leeward-Island Mails of the 18th inst. The Queen Charlotte Packet is appointed to take out the next Jamaica Mail. PORTSMOUTH, AUG. 19. ARRIVED His Majesty's Ship Me/pow:elm, in thirty days from Antigua, all well ; His Majesty's Ships Coromandel, from the West Indies ; Chervi qv:and Penelope Frigates, from Gibraltar; Friends, HARPER, from Dantzic to Corsica ; Betsey, WIL. SON, and Friends, TAB RITO N, from Sunderland ; nor'/alma Susannah, STRUGNELL, from Plymouth; OCean, CARTER, from Newcastle; Thomas and JINN, SANGER, from Liverpool ; SelJerlt, HACK- VooD, frum Waterford; May, Isabella , HIND, 4rom Gibraltar. Sailed the Mag, Rovc BIEL, for Jersey. Passed by for the River, the Duke of Montrom, from Bengal. Passed by for the Downs, from the West Indies, His Majesty's AMMaer. DEAL, Atm 19. SA/LID on a Cruize the Firm Gan.brig. In the Downs, the Wel:more, Amelia, L'Oistalt, ealatea, La Sophie and Raceme Sloops of War ; Alood.keard Gun.brig. 'We yesterday announced the arrival of th e Mmartk and Duke of Montrose East Indiamen, off Plymouth. The Monarch left Madras the 27th of March, arrived at St. Helena the r3th of June, sailed from St. Helena, with the Duke of Montrose, on the 27th of June; spoke with the Commerce, South Whaler, in Lat. 35, 18 S. Long. 21, 49. Thy. Preston and Walpole, from Bencoolen, were at St. Helena when the Duke of Montrose left it. The Glatton, Royal Charlotte, and Brunswick, outward-bound, put into St. Salvadore—tlie two first Ships being leaky, and the Rudder of the lat ter out of order—all pradicable repairs completed by the 31st of May, and were to sail on the 4th of Jun<. The Passengers by the above ships are—Colonel • GORs, Capt. CHETWOOD, Capt. M'GREGOR, TICHBOURNE, Li eu t. J. H ODGSON , Li eut . J OH N DANIEL, Mr.S.BOUTFLOWER, Mr.J.BuLcic -LEY, 'l'. SHERLOCK, Master HEWIT, Master G. Ness, and Mrs. HARE. The above ships have number of box packets on board from the Govern- Itients in India. The Monarch, Capt. MORTIMER, is the first Extra Ship which has arrived of the season 1801. The Caledonian, General Stuart, and Ann, are now to arrive from Madras ; the Sovereign and the Northampton, from Bombay ; the Manship, Cornet, Sarah, Christiana, and Princess Mary, from Bengal; and the Elizabeth, from China. His Majesty's Ship Lark arrived on Tuesday at Plymouth from Jamaica, which she left on the 4th of last month. On the Bth she spoke a Bristol h orneward.hound Ship. On the 18 t h ult. in long. 33. she spoke the Hihbert anti Queen, Transports, with the z9th Regiment on board. On the i4th inst. she spoke the Monarch and Duke of Montrose East Indiamen, 19 leagues from Scilly. The 22d and 34th Regiments of Foot, at the fo r of Good Hope, are under ord ers to em b ar k 'or India, the former upon the Bengal, and the latter upon the Madras Establishment. Previous to their sailing, tkey are to be completed to 1000 rink and file each, by draft from the other Regi !tents of Infantry at the Cape, who are to return Lome. WLY MOUTH, AVG. lb/ LAST night THEIR MAiy.sTtEs'came Ori shore at six o'clock, and owing to the wind rising in the Roads, the Boats did not moor. This morning PRINCESS AUGUSTA, PRINCESS SOPHIA Of GLOUCESTER, and PRINCESS CHAR LOTTE of WALES, bathed. At eleven o'clock THEIR. MAJESTIES and the PRINCESSES went on the Esplanade, to see the Boat Race. The Prizes were a jolly-Boat and a Galley. The jolly-Boat was won by Wm. BOLT, jun. and the Galley by four of the Bargemen. HER MAJESTY and PRINCESS SOPHIA Of GLOU CESTER, took an airing in two Landaus and Soci ables ; also PRINCESS CHARLOTTE of WALES, at tended by Lady ELGIN. The DUKE of YORK, Earl RosLrN, arid Mr. ERSKINE, leave us to day. A grand Felte was given at Oatlands on Monday, by the DUTCHESS of YORK, in honour of the Duke's Birth-day ; and it was one of the most cheerful of the season, equally gladdening the hearts of the Prince and the Peasant, The Dinner, of twenty-four covers, was one of the best and most elegant that ever came up to table. Among the Company were, the PRINCE of WALES, DUKE of CLARENCE, Lady ANN SMITH, Sir JOHN SHEL LY, Mr. FAwEENEtt, Mr. GREENWOOD, a Ger man Baron, the Gentlemen of the Household, and some of the neighbouring Gentlemen ; amongst wham were Mr. PIPPIN, the High Sheriff for the County, Mr. RossoN, and Mr. PAGE. In the evening the ,Pleasure-ground was illuminated, and the Skittle_ground was prepared for the Domestics and Neighbours to dance, which they did till six o'clock in the morning. The DUTCHESS, Lady ANN, and the PRINCE, all.dariced ; Prince, Prin cess, and Stable.boys and House-maids altogether, in the true style of jubilee domestic merry-making. For the Dinner Company an elegant Supper was prepared at the Grotto : the grounds around it were lighted up. The Duke's Bond played the .whole time: The PRINCE and DUTCHESS, &c. &c. sang Catches And Glees, and kept up the spirit of the Entertainitent till near seven in the morning. There was a Slipper in a large house of a Tenant for the friends of the Upper Servants. The whole even ing's Entertainment never was surpassed for convi viality and hospitality-. The Earl of. SititEWSBURY, Sir GEORGE Po cocz, and Mr. STEWART, M. P. are amongst the last arrivals at Brighton. Mr. GOLDsMID came up from Brighton with his Family on Tuesday last.' The report is contradifted, in the Paper in which it originated, of the intended marriage of Lord RANELACH to Miss MANNERs. Lord and Lady DERBY, it is said, mean to give a Masquerade next month, at their Scat in Lanca shire, to the neighbouring Nobility and Gentry. We can hardly approve of carrying mask: into the quiet abodes of rural simplicity. There are One Hundred and Forty-Five Mem bers in the present who were not in the last Parlia ment. This is not . so great a change of faces as was generally expected. The Worcestershire and Bristol Troops of Yeo manry Cavalry have enrolled themselves to continue their services during Peace, agr l eeably to the terms of the late Ad. Dr. RIDLEY, Reetor of Hambledon, Bucks, is presented by his brother-in-law, the LORD CHAN CELLOR, to the Living of Whippingham, in the Isle of Wight, worth tsool. per ann. vacant by the death of Dr. LEWES. The late Sir ROBERT SLOPE". was a son of Mr. SLOPER, so well known for his connection witb Mrs. CIBISER, the celebrated Adress, which gave occasion for a Prosecution on the part of her hus band, THEOPHILIIS CIBBER, by which he gained nothing but in . Mr. BAR R ETT brought his Cradle in hopes of be ing rocked by the , winds ; but, after all, it only turn. ed out to be a pad}'. Under the Antient Regime of France, the crime of Seduttion was punishable with death, and the Faux Pas of Married Women generally afforded little more than matter of ludicrous observation. — How different in this Country ?` It is in fact, nearly vice versa—Thousands are paid, in the event of Bete Lion with a married woman, a circumstance, which, in nine cases out of ten, the Husband con nives at, and profits by it, while the innocent and unfortunate girl is deprived of her virtue and lost for ever, by the insidious sedudion of some unfeel ing ruffian ; and no redress for her, or punishment for him, but in a fiction of Law, rarely resorted to, and generally inefficacious when tried.—This part of our Criminal Jurisprudence, we think, deserves emendation. Madame Du BOCCAGE died lately in France, aged ninety.rwo. She preserved to the last that gaiety and equality of temper for which she was distinguished. The principal. Works which have merited her the rank she enjoyed in the republic of Letters, are her Paradis Perdu, in imitation of Milton, a Poem entitled the Colombiade, and her Tragedy of Amazones, which were played with suc cess in 1 749. _ _ LARNE, the celebrated Aaor, who lives in re tirement some leagues from Paris, unites at the pre sent moment three honourable titles, those of asso ciate Member of the Institute, Mayor of the Dis_ trift, and Farmer of his own land. INCLEDON has been singing about the Country to same tune. The Songs of the Entertainment which he gives, are excellent, most of them being the composition of the admirable SH t E In the Museum of Antiquities at Paris, is a frag ment of marble in bas-relief, , from the Temple of Minerva at Athens. It is known that the construc tion of that Temple was confided by PERICLES to PHIDIAS, who superintended the buiLling, and ex ecuted, or saw executed the designs of all the sculp tors which decorate it. This work is therefore attributed, with some probability, to that Artist. There are accounts in the French Papers from various parts of France, of considerable damage having been done by lightning. HIGH COURT OP C.:HAM:tiff, LINCOLN'S-INN-HALL, AUGUST LATHROP's BANKRUPTCY. THE SOLICITOR GENERAL was preparing to state the terms of a Petition on the part of Lathrop Mur ray, the late Partner of Mr. John King, in 111 Q Portland-place Bank, praying the Commission might be superseded, on the ground that the B rupt was not a Trader within the Bmkrupt Laws, and that there was no legal foundation for the Peti tioning Creditor's Debt. The Petitioning cr, ditor's name was Gill, and it appeared he had not been personally served • with notice of the present application. The Solicitor for the Petitioner stated, that he had served a notice on Mr. Paterson, the Solicitor who had taken out the Commission, alai who had informed him that Mr. Gill lived in Oxendon-street. After making every possible inquiry, he could find no such person, nor could he learn that he had ever lived there. The LORD CHANCELLOR.—" This is a very serious business. If a Solicitor presumes to take out a Commission of Bankruptcy without knowing who the Petitioning Creditor is, or where he re sides, it is an offence for which he will be treated as an Officer of the Court abusing his trust ought to be treated. He will do well to recoiled, that there are such things in this Court as making a Solicitor pay the expence of superseding a Commission, and also striking him off the Roll. How did you direl your letters to Mr. Gill ?" said his Lordship to Mr. Paterson. g , He direfted them to Oxendon-street, where Mr. Gill always received them ; he always thought he lived there." LORD CHANCELLOR.—" Do you mean to say, Sir, that you have dared to take out a Commission of Bankruptcy, and yet do not perfealy know the residence of the Petitioning Creditor ?" " He always (replied the Solicitor) attended me when I sent to him in Oxendon-street." LORD CHANCELLOR—" It appears 'to me you have taken out a Commission of Bankruptcy, and do not know your Client. Has he a local habita. tion as well as a name ? The Solicitor said, he never entertained any doubt of his being a substantial man. LORD CHANCELLOR—" Substantial! Why, he is described as a Merchant. What does he deal in ?" Mr. Paterson—" He deals in Irish linens." LORD CHANCELLOR to the Petitioner's Solicitor —•" If you will make an affidavit that you do not know Mr. Gill's place of residence, I will make an order . that service on Mr. Paterson shall be service on him, and the Petition may stand over till Satur. day." Mr. Paterson was retiring from Court, when his Lordship ordered him back, and made him deliver up all the proceedings under the Bankruptcy, which were impounded and placed in the hands of the Of. ficer of the Court. The Petitioner's Solicitor said he had made an appointment with Mr. Paterson to inspel the pro cee4ingc, but that the latter had afterwards refused to let him see them. His Lordship observed, that his expe&ation of Mr. Paterson's sliming him the proceeding, was rather a romantic one. CORN EXCHANGE, August 20. THIS day vVe have a tolerable supply of Grain in general ; mWdling and inferior sorts of Wheat are 2S. and 3s. per Quarter lowet, but prime Samples maintain their prices ; in Barley and Malt We see little alteration ; Grey-pease are some what cheaper ; Beans nearly as before ; we have plenty of Oats, and than article in general is about is. lower ; Flour, from the great stocks, with dif ficulty teach the current prices. Wheat 46s a 56s a 65s od Fine do. -66 s a 67s od Beans -33 s a 36s - 6d Tick ditto - 3as a 33s od Oats - 14 s a tgs a 22S oCt Poland do. 23S a 24s oil Rape Seed 331 a 381 per last Fine Flour sos a 535 per sack Second do. 45s a cos per do, Malt -47 s a sos a 525 od Fineditto -53 s a 54s 6:1 Barley . 3os a 33s od Rye -32 s a 35s ocl White Peaft 36s a 39s od Thursday se'nnight was held at Knavesmire, near York, the first shew of the York Agricultural So ciety. It was attended by a number of Gentlemen farmers and breeders of cattle,from various parts of the country. The cattle, sheep and boars, exhibited for the different premiums advertised by the Society, were most capital in their different kinds. The shew finished about halfpast two ; after which the Meet ing adjourned. The York Agricultural Society (an Institution lately entered into), is likely to prove of the utmost benefit' to the surrounding country, by , the judicious and impartial exertions of its numer ous Members. About twelve o'clock on Sunday, a party, con_; sisting of eight persons, took a boat at Blackwall, intending to land at Greenwich Stairs. They had not proceed far, when the boat unfortunately ran athwatt the hawser of a ship at anchor in the River. The motion of the ship elevated the cable with a sudden jerk, and overact the boat. All the boats within sight of this accident instantly put off, and every effort was made to rescue these unfortunate persons from the death with which they were threatened. Seven were instantly picked up, but one, a very amiable young woman, perished. She had been only one month married to a Mr. COULTMAN, one of the Principal Clerks in Mr. PERRY'S Dock-y.ard, who accompanied her on this aquatic excursion. When this Gentleman was taken out of the water, he' looked round for his wife, and finding that she had not been taken up, plunged into the river, as he said, to search for her. —He was rescued a second time, but with much difficulty. The scene was extremely affthing "to those who witnessed it. Care was taken to prevent him from repeating the attempt but he has been ever since in a state of delirium. The body of the young woman was found, and the Coroner's Inquest, who sat on it on Wednesday night, returned a ver. did of.—dkridental Death. THE KING V. SaivittEL COLLII ; ;SI i E. D. FREE: Tuts was an Indiament tried at the last Middle sex Quarter Sessions against the DeferOiarirs; f t a fraud and conspiracy. It a a peared ovi dance, that the Defenlant, Collins, cone in the ninth of Septernbar last, in a genteel claitiar t accompanied by two Ladies, one of wham he called his wile, the other his niece, to the Hotel, in Vere street, Oxford -street, kept by the ProSecutar, Mr Jahn lir!retsoto they rem lined there .coi or three days, and then he went away, saying he r;:id tAcan a house, No; 1, in Mortimer-street. He continued ho,vever to frequent the Hotel, a, d having by aia pimauality acquired the good opinion of Mr. Iba bctson, he offered him, on the r7th of Septea.be,-, in payment for twelve dozen of wine, a bill lac 651. los. drawn in favour of S. Collins ; Iraq.. at, six weeks, by Wiliam Stucker, at Chester, on and accapted by B. D. Free, Esq. No. 9, Harley-street, Cavendish-spare, and payable at the house of Wil liams and Co. Bankers, Birchin-latie. The Defend.: ant Collins, at the same, time toat the Prosecutor, that he was lately returned from Chester, where he was going to open a Bank ; that he had a large fortune, and was to he shortly created a Baronet ; and that he was intimately acquainted with Lord KENYoN, whom he should surprize by a treatise which he had in the press, upon the subjea at Country Banks. The Prosecutor iairriealiately Sent to Mr. Waters, a Stationer, in Conduit -street, to Macon Collins referred him fur a charaaer ; and hav ing received a satisfaaory answer, discouoted the bill, by giving him the balance in cash, after de duaing the price of the wine, part of which was ordered to be sent to the Prosecutor's'house, No. t a Mortimer -street, on the z4th ; but the porter who carried it, was met by a Mr, Thompson a who turned him back, and said Collins was a swind ler.—The Prosecutor then made farther inquiry, and being told at the house of Messrs. Williams, that the Bill would not be paid there, as it imported, be obtained a Warrant against Collins for a fraud, who was shortly after apprehended, when Mr. John King, the Banker, Portland-place, and Mr, Waters, became bail for him. The rest of the evidence went to shew that the description of the Bill, ani of all the parties to it, was fictitious. The Defend. ant, Free, the acceptor, was implicated in the• fraud, by being present at the time of passing the bill. He had never lived at ,No. 9, Harley-street, but had lived as an Usher at Mr. Webb's Academy, in a house opposite that number. He had been for many years before in a similar situation at other schools ; and was decoyed, as he says, from Mr. Webb's, by Collins, with whom he since lived as Secretary and Agent. He came in the month of September, to the how of Williams and Co. in an - elegant chariot, and introduced himself as the anti.; mate friend of Sir G. P. Tuner ; at which time he made a deposit of some money, but there were only nine shillings and six-pence in their hands at the time the Prosecutor's - and other Bills made payable by him, at their house, amounted to 10661. The Defendant, Collins's, name, was ritgill. He was the son of a weaver at Taunton, and went when very young to live as footman in a family near Bath. He was afterwards Clerk in one of the Banking-houses there, and after living in aradie for some time, was discharged for improper condua, and went to France; on his return from France, he officiated as Usher in several of the minor schools in and about London. Afterwards he became Master of a good school at Hammersmith, which he sold for a large sum of money and within these last four years, he opened a small day.school in Portland -street, Oxford-street (under the name and stile of the Reverend Samuel Virgin, a Clergyman of the Church of England), which he afterwards sold to Webb, before spoken of (who removed it from thence to Harley street). He then went and officiated as Curate at Hertingfordbury, Herts, where he soon established a school, and had seve ral' young Gentlemen at 6o guineas a year each ; but was obliged to part with that school, and leave the place on account of his debts. He wiks after wards a Clerk in the Cromie Bank, and on the failure of that Bank, was employed by Messrs. King and Co. to go to Chester and Liverpool, toendea- Your to form a firm at each of those places, tor cor_ respond with the Portland place Bank. Previous, however, to his going to Chester, he first procured the King's license to change his name from Virgin to Collins, under the pretence of having a large for.. tune left him by a relation of his wife, of that name, and got the necessary documents enrolled at the Herald's Office, and afterwards juggled his credi tors into a belief of his good fortune, and prevai!ed on them to sign an agreement to accept their debts by instalments, which have not as yet been paid. While he lived at No. r, Mortimer -street, he was called ',Spire Collins; but he spent most of his time for the last two years at a lodging in Tottenham court-road,' at the hOuse of a Mrs. Barnard, where he was constantly visited by Free, and went by the mime of Vee, then Vir, and afterwar& by the appel. lation of Dr. Wilson, under which last name he ad. vertiscd as a Curer of Cancers. Stocker, the drawer of the bill, described as a Gentleman at Chester, was for some time Messenger at Mr. Wright's Lock-up-house, in Carey-street, till Collins took him into his service, and made , him a party in his business. In June and July preceding, he lived with Collins, at the Cambridge Coffee-house, as fox'. man, and used to wait upon him and Fiee at table. The hand-writing of the parties to the bill was proved . by - a person who said he believed they were all in desperate circumstances, and the jury tidying brought in a verdia of guilty against the two De_ fendants, the Court immodiately sentenced Collins to he imprisoned two years in Newgare, h;,:e one year in New Prison, Clerkenwell. A number of miserable distressed objels were on Satuiday taken before the LORD MAYOR, brought up on a charge of being concerned in ilk. gal insurances in the Lottery. The LORD MAYOR not thinking the evidence strong enough, dis. charged them all, except one woman, who was convicted in the penalty of p ool, or six month imprisonment. 114 rfs; tlC'e szt ur4 tful ~. DOC , iteii not ha's : liS- iti, )lii; Ofll Ith be of s has et* ce4 ts!, vcs the voa fes- CCSt ili* ere para eac e ,ha ago; ices fop , bicl• s jtl ~ as t he :5 °I