The Sun. — London, England, 1805-01-12 00:00:00

!I- 31N• ches it the to be 50 1 0 he rbu!' fs CO I I.°l nd fro; •pa I°P qtlar ilY en SVII 0 14 ' V 1131 3W 31, 1.11313,0.1 ►ll 1.1.1111. 4..41a Va from Portsmouth. Wedne , day nigh! the , Surgeon of Hl3 IsibjestYig Sloop Argus 'way unfortunately drowned, as he was going on board in a shote-bnat. Friday Ric Majesty's ship Euryalus, Hon. Capt. LACKWOOD, arrived in Cork Harbour from Ports. mouth. Saturday morning His Majesty's Ship Venu't, Captain MArsort, arrived in Cork Ha►bour from a Cruise. She left the West India Fleet, which sailed from this Port the 4.th of November last, Under Convoy of His Majesty's Ship Seine, and the Nimrod Sloop of War, on the z7th of the same month, in Ist. 33, co. N. long. 20, 30. W. all The Fleet colleiting in our Harbour, for the West Indies, is rapidly augmenting. The Convoy is Appointed to sailon the loth inst. We subjoin two Letters written by the Masters of two Merchant Ships, which, in company with the Thetis, lately engaged and defeated the Bone:- Parte Privateer, in the 'West Indies. Their ac. count of the Engagement differs materially from that which appeared in our Paper of Wednesday hit, and which we copied from a respeelable Dub. lin Paper ; but we think ourselves bound in justice to lay both statements before the PUblic, without pretending to decide which of the two is most cor. ref}. We cannot, however, avoid expressing some surprise, that a Morning Paper should Imitively assert, that the account in our Paper of W ednesday was incorreel, a because, it is well known that no later intelligence from Barbadoes has reached this Country than of the i4th Novem. ber."—Yet, three or four days since, that very Paper communicated to the Public a Letter Itom Barbaclues dated the 16th November. " board the Ceres, aritige.ttrun t , Barhadoes, Nov. to, 1804. 11 I am happy to inform you of my safe arrival here, in company with the Penelope and Thetis. Th e day we came in we fell in with the Bonaparte !lench Privateer, of 20 gu ns , w hi c h b ore d own upon and commended a very heavy fire, which we returned as warm as possible. She attempted to hoard the Thetis, and, in the aft, lost her bowsprit, and soon after her foremast went over the aide ; a fortunate circumstance, as I understand she was the ter ror of the West Indies. She sent a challenge in litre, by an American, the day before we arrived, to any of our Sloop s of War to go out and fight her; tire understand she had beaten off one of them a little time ago. " The ilftion was very smart for about two 'lotus; we began firing at nine o'clock in the horning, and did not leave Off until half after twelve. My Ship was on fire three times. by ne. klift of the people with their cartridges ; she once got on fire to t h e cabin, but by the exertions of the trew it was soon extinguished. They beh ave d w i t h , t he /greatest spirit, and I believe, wo u ld h ave loligh , t to the last, though one.half of them were I( neipers. I had Rectal - shot in the hull ; and iny tining an d sa il s were very much cut. The small t and grape cam e o n b oar d us l i ke hail, though t_hurney did not . hit on e man . I h a d two men blown bY the cartridges taking f i re who are very muc h uos "On hoard the Penelope, Pridge.town, Barbarker, et " November 10, 18 04 . / take my p en to in f orm you of my safe arri. is here, after a passage of thirty.three days, in comp any with the Ceres andTheth, and shall '4c detained here some time to refit ; having on the Bth inst. (in lat. 13. z 6. N. 5 te.7• had an en. kagentent with th e Bonatar Privateer, of 22 guns and 2 So men, for three hours : in which engage. tnent *e had ten of our guns dismounted, which I lutist repair here and like w i se replenish our powdei : I suppose I shall, be ready for sea by the 13th. " I am sorry to say, that Mr. Li NDO was killed in the engagement, and hisconsolate poor wife is very dis hut s h e w t I wish her to r eturn home from hence, ill not. I send this by the Bartoni of Li let.Ponis who is now under weigh, or otherwise would be more particular. The attion commenced when at 9 A. M. and we engaged until half past meridian, bows we left off ga' chace. •The Privateer lost her We and foremast, in attempti ng to boatel the 217rtir, which had 2 men killed ands wounded." ..............—. On Tuesday sennige tt t h e Ship johIS Bull, of Liverpoz4 • Sand` s was in a very, perilous situation, 'at cove s near the entrance of Kinsale Harbour. her she was riding with three anchors a.heatl, and e , stern in the tassel wash, her two bower anchors Zmelt . In thi s d angerous situation, she was for. t at elY supplied With an anchor and cable from "ri 1 "'Iles which save d h er f rom destruflion. She ved on Monday Wety. at Kinsale, where she lies in Bay, under t o strong fleet is collefted in Bantry h - ,;", 11 ,ere of Lord Getentrea. His Lordship . is to 117 uls flag in the iiiherssia' , 'the fi nest ship in the rlt ish Nay h . his d a y expeEted there Y. W IC every fro m c• ,m • lYmow h. 1„„",°54 House.—Yesterdy a Colin of Direttors into the Comma n d of the COliiii, consigned to China ! 1 •! r ell• The Court adjourned, at .six o'clock, till Wednesday next. IndiaYe'Lerday intelligence was received at the East House intelligence of the safe arrival at Milford Haven the nti,,,;„ Country ship, Capt. W. B. G II" * 44 ' I front Bengal. The Maria, we understan d , 1 48 in great distre s which obliged her to put into that Pot. 1 ' Pa3sett 14„, anti ors per ittsrl4.—his. S. Aare, H. C. BriIMP! 14. Mrs. Vandenrs and child ; Mrs. Glee and child; kart Si " v rnan t Mr. flebbert, Sustain of the Prlnll tdd if t Mr. MiCrae, 2d Officer of ditto ; _Mr. et.eicont . be. 1.,,,, e lcgr o f the karl Spencer; Mr. and M. Hart ; C t c r 3. , rtom ilitteputy-Coveroor of St. Helena; Lieut. Kinnal Patsseou' Tn i .,,, r Irs Per Are Extra Ship, left at St. Helena,..—Ca„,ol* chi ld ~,,J.l,oinbay Marine; Mrs. Turner, Mrs, irP.V" tnc ht : ff',44 AlME.trOng ; Capt. Nl'Laren, of the Stith _,!. Ik tvi . +lll at sta in UEiober t , Lapt. De tersey, aum In .01,. , nt I Lk.. Atilps, Bombay Marine ; twists. Simons t„iniztritr, from Madras ; Lietits. Phillips and laynce front N , I L , Mr. and Mrs. Ssndroch .; Mr. R. L. Ainbros!; Na vy ; L le ,lv . , (lied A t sea in Oduhtl; fames Clarkl,c!!,,t'sr Of the ;oho Cole, 01 the 77th Regiment ; Alex. MIA -"“iii, 7ath Regiment. We w,. • • vaiu.. , ..re niiNinforrned in stating, in 0111 last, the of d te Q: the Spanish ship detait;rd by the Neptune, 1 11 4 ed nae k , at p00,0001.--iler Cargo is not sup. 25,00Q1.--(Chiprlo 4 COliritr.) flow bless'd the syMpithizing heart Which sighs at tarrows not its own, Feels the warm thrOb, the kindred smart - . To meet-ey'd Pity only known. Like the soft dew which Heaven distills, To cheer a drooping world below, It sheds a blessing o'er our ills, And soothes the keenest pang of woe. Tx e TH E ATR E.-- . -The Man of the World, sup ported by CooKE's Sir Pertinax, attraEled a nume. rous audience last night to Covent.garden Theatre. His performance of this charatler was indeed ad mirable. To say nothing of his merit in the Scot. tish dialect, his form, satire and humour rendered the part highly entertaining. Mrs. LITCHFIELD improves in the charaCter of Lady Rodolpho. The new Pantomime of Harlequin Quicksilver went off very well. BRUNTON is properly released from the humiliation of playing a Pantomime Lover. The part of the Clown was last night performed by Bs. V ERLRY, instead of BLANCHARD. BEVERLEY proved himself a very good Clown throughout; and in point of aCtivity was a powerful competitor to the motley hero of the Piece. The Belles' Stratagem was represented last night at Drury-lane. Theatre, and was very well attend. ed. Et.i.rstost shewed great improvement in the part of Doricourt, which he supported with more case and sprightliness. Miss DUNCAN's Letitia Hardy is one of her best charaCters. She played with spirit and sensibility. EMERY'S charatter in the new Comedy of The School of Reform, is said to be admirably adapted to his talents.—Much is expected from this charac ter as to the general effeCt of the Piece; and the Performer himself is not likely to disappoint ex. *laden. If Mr. SHERIDAN should bring Forty Thieves to old Drury, the number of Judges will be commen. suratc, and they will have the advantage of an impart/at jury. Yesterday the Skaiters recommenced their slip. eery diversion on the Serpentine River, and like. wise on the Canal in St. James's . Park. Mr. ROBERT DRUMMOND, the grandson of the great DRUMMOND, of Charing Cross, came to age a tcw days, since, when he took possession of his in. heritance, said to amount to go,oool. per annum. On this occasion he opened the noble mansion of his ancestors in Scotland to all corners, and has kept up that good old English custom ever since, by a plentiful distribution of mutton, ale, and whiskey, to ail the neighbouring poor. A Clergyman of Yorkshire, for one hundred guineas paid to a Nobleman about two years ago, is to receive a guinea a.day as long as B;)NAPARTE lives. Yesterday se'nnight the post.boy conveying the Mall from'Clonmel to Waterford, was stopped near Fiddowne, three miles below Carrick, by a middle aged man and 'a young boy, who robbed him of the bag, with which they got clear off. On Saturday se'nnight, on Whiddy Island, Cork, the Stables of Mr. MAHoNY, who had contraeled for building the Batteries there, were accidentally set on fire, by which as horses were unfortunately consumed. . Wakefield Fax Cattle Market on Wednesday was well supplied, and not many buyers; the sale con. sequentiy was tlull at declining Prices. There were zoo Beasts and f 000 Sheep in the M ar k et , Major-General THORNTON has taken the COM. mend of the Garrison at Ashford, in the room of Major• General Lord SOUTHAMPTON. The itt Battalion of the 18th Royal Irish Regi. ment, in barracks at Canterbury, which were under orders to embark for foreign service, have been countermanded as to embarkation, but are to hold t h emse lv es in readiness to move at 'the shortest notice. On Monday as two young men of the names of Jackson and Jagger, were working in the iron stone pits at Birley Common, near Sheltield, , they were both suffocated by the damp. On Saturday, about twenty men being at work in the Pond-Lane. Colliery, Sheffield, they had a very providential escape from death.—.An old Engine having given way, and sunk down so as to communicate with the goit of the Pond Forge Dam, caused the Pit to be filled with water almost in., scantly, and it was with the greatest difficulty,cite Colliers avoided being drowned. They were under the necessity of leaving pan of their clothes, and all their i working implements behind them. . On Sunday the 3oth ult. about the hour , of seven o'eloCk, Mr. Crone's house, at Ardnamober, ty of Limerick, within a quarter of it mile of the town of Galbally, was attacked by two armed men, in Mr. Crone's absence, who, after breaking the windows, broke into the house, went up stairs where Miss Crone, her mother, and four children, were, and seizing her by the head, threatened t g bl ow Mi ss Crone's brains out with it pistol, which one of the ruffians presented at her, if she did not iinrne. (lively deliver up her father's gun and sword to them; which she complied .with they then went off. These ruffians were armed with a case of pis. tots and a blunderbuss. On Wednesday morning, about eleven o'clock, the remains of the late Marchioness of ROCKING HAM were conveyed through York, in funeral pro. cession, to the cathedral, and deposited in the vault of that ancient family : the hearse with biX horses, decorated with plumes of Wad( leathers,, and escut. aeons, waiiprecaded by mutes, and a nmober of the tenaiits of the ViftifW,OßTH family, in black cloaks with silk hatbands, and attended by three mourning coaches and six. The corpse was met at the iron pie within the cathedral, by the 'Rev. Archdeacon Mnaxtima and the Rev. JAMES RJCI4ARDSON, by whuni the funeral Service was read. The cuflia was covered with crimson velvet, ornamented With rich gilt tire. On Tuesday a Coroner's Inquest was held on the body of an infant daughter of John Broadhead of Wakefield, taylor. It appeared that on Sunday morning the mother, in her hurry, shut the child up in a bed, and tecolleCted her aiistAke eno late to save its life.— Verdict, Accidental Death. THIRD ISAY-FRIDA.Y, JAW. 11. MURDER. Sa►auel Mitchell, alias Samuel Wild Mitchell, was itiiiittr:d for the wilful murder of Sarah Mitchell, his daughter, a child of nine years of age, in the parish of Christ Church, on the t Sill of December last, by striking, cutting, and penetrating her throat with a razor made of iron and steel, and inflitling with it a wound of four inches in length., and two inches in depth. The circumstances of this unnatural and shocking crime have been already before the Public. •As proved on the trial, they were shortly these : The Prisoner, who was a weaver, in Wheeler.street, Spital Fields, having quarrelled with his wife, a se. paration was agreed on between them, on'the day preceding that onwhich the murder happened. On the night of the day of separation, the child, with out the consent of her father, had slept with her mother. She had been accustomed to assist her fa ther in that part of his business of a weaver which is called quilling. Her wheel had been heard on the morning of 'the day on which the murder was committed. About half past eleven o'clock the Prisoner called down the stairs to learn the hour. A person below informed him of it. He was abort. ly afterwards heard to go out; and, about half past twelve o'clock, the child was found stretched out on the floor, weltering in her blood, with her head almOst severed from her body. Within half an hour after, the Prisoner called on a friend of the name or De La Force, informing him that he tilt, something particular to communicate to him. Seeing him in a violent perturbation, his friend, though inconve. nient to himself, yielded to the Prisoner's entreaty, when he informed him that a thing had happened that day which would send him to Newgate. When they had proceeded so yards horn La Force's house, the Prisoner, turning about to him, with a coon. tenance full of grief, said, " Ned, I shall die." His.friend inquiring what, was the matter, or what had happened ? the Prisoner immediately replied, " I have killed my . Sail;" and, on being again questioned as to what he meant, and if the child was dead ? declared, " Yes, I have cut her head half off." He then . stated his intention of going to Shadwell to get some money from his ftiends there, to keep him in Newgate ; asked when the Sessions commenced—and declared that he would give hitn. self up to Justice, and suffer the punishment due to his crime ; adding, what odds will it make to me if they cut me into a thousand pieces ? When I go, hundreds will go at the same minute. When told that he should not have killed his child, the Pri soner,looked in the face of the person to whom he had divulged his-guilt, and said, " I knew that; hut do net you retort 'on me. It is done." At the Watch.honse, when taken into custody, on the same evening, the Prisoner, in answer to a question put by Armstrong, the Officer, stating, that be had Seen a razor and cap that day taken from the Pri soner's apartments covered with blo .d, said, " I have often shaved myself with that razor, and, with that razor, I committed the horrid deed." He also made a similar declaration before Mr. :VI Imo., the Magistrate, who had previously fully warned him of the nature and consequences of the con fession. The Officers who went to the Prisoner's apartment found the child lying with her held towards the door, about two feet from it ; her wind pipe cut completely through; a quill.wheel stood at a little distance, on the foot.bnard of whiCh was a quantity of blood,nnd there was a track of blood from the wheel to the place where the body lay. There was a stool standing alongside the wheel, as if some person had been sitting on it; at the stool there w'ia'a razor all bloody ; and between the 'Wheel and where the' child lay there was a cap stained t►iih blood. In' his defence the ,'Priionar pled, that though he was in general esteemed a man of recolledion, he was in reality at times ii an insane mind. So far. front regarding hia child with any portitin of malice, he hail for her the must ardent affedion; and it was only the fear of being deprived of her, or of receiv ing her merely . as'a wisitur, andia resolution, if he could not have her, that neither should his wife have that privilege, that:drove him to the com. mission of the dreadful aff. • The LOAD CHIRP lAltoll informed the Jury that the faft'of a person's being overcome by any sudden paroxisins of passion to coutniit a deed of a flagitious nature operated as no justification of the crime. If God Aided any man with a temporary, or, occa. siOnal want of reason, that was a different question. There, from the mere occasional suspension of the teasoning . faculties, the crime might have been corn. mitted; but such could by no means be compared to the case where the dereliCtion of the reasoning faculties had been occasioned, 'either by the concern. plation of a circumstance by which alone the mind was affected, or by which, after its completion, the mind could be supposed capable of being agitated. Here a strange mixture of affedion was discernable amidst the cruelty which had prompted the perve. trarion of the deed ; bnt he could see nothing in the Case to induce hint to point out to the Jury any dis.: tindlon between this case and the •various other cases of a similar kind which ,presented themselveq. The jury immedia telyfntind the Prisoner —Guilly. The RecostOre then passed •on the Prisoner the awful sentence of the Lil‘v, appointing him to he executed on Monday next, aria his body to be, ana. tornised. •3. Tennant was indieled for burglariously break. ing into the .dwelling-house of R. Shaw,: Esq. and stealing there 20 guineas in gold, t several7s. pieceso number of CrOWni and half.croivris, some Frencls crowns and half-crowns, 31. in strait ney, a number of ti. liatik.notes, three 51. notes, one 201. note, three 21. notes, a -Bill of Ex c h ange f or 3007.1. Bi, i rd. another for cos.% iitiother tor 4 3 4 .1,3:;-, another for 3601. anothe:r for 1001. iind anotticr for 25L all the property of the said Robert Shaw.' .In other counts he is Charged- with bttrglariously bre 4k. ing out of the house ; itr separate counts with bur. hlarioUsly breaking into, or out of, .s4id dwelling. ouse, and stealing certain of said nosy, described as the' property of different .persons, whorn they had been committed to the care tyf idlr. Stow ; Isstiy, the Prisoner is chlrged with the Crivila of stealing said property in the dwelling-house. torne; e 4 resitting-in Bridge-etteet o -Blackfriars, and that his office looks into Todotosefeet. On the fifth of November dij dceirs.of his office, consisting of a front door towards Tudor-street, having no key. hole on the outside, which was double locked, a glass door fastened by a bolt, end an iron doorieed. tog into the • clerk'e office, were prOperly secured over night. In the morning, however, when Mar e the Stevens, the hou,e.maid, c.one to clean out tho Pr o secuto r ', ro om, s hefnund the fi reo,irons were mis. placed, and thee.the upper drawer of Mr. Shaw's desk had been broken open. On looking farther, it was found that the iron door .and the outer door by Tudotostteet were open, so that the robbety must have been committed by some persons having eon_ fleetly!) in the family, the more particularly, as the . only drawer broken open was that in which Mr. Shaw was accustomed to keep his money and valuable property. The Prisoner, who had for some time been footman to Mr. S!law, was im. mediately suspected ; hot the Prosecutor smothered his suspicions till he should see what a few days might produce. In the mean time, the zol. Bank.note, stolen from Mr. Shaw's drawer, was traced to the Prisoner's wife, by whom it had been uttered. The Prisoner's house was searched, and in a box in it were found almost all the articles stolen out of the Prosecutor's drawer. One of the Notes had been passed us early a, November 6; others siece; and., tin the reth, all the other Bills were fotoof in the Prisoner', poesession. One of the Bills of Exchange for 3601. had, in the mean time, been offered by his wife, in payment of certain articles porch iscd by her, at Farnham, in Surrey, from a Mr. Eladdle, hut had been refused, in consequence of its being discovered that the Bill was not indorsed. It also appeared, diet the Prisoner was not at home after twelve o'clock of the night When the robbery way committed, till nearly fOur o'clock in the morning, and that the excuse for his absence, made to a per. sun who lodged in his house, and who informed him, that his wife and mother had been lamenting hi; ab_ sence, and expressing fears lest he should ileve been taken, or grabbed, as they termed it, was, tleAt ho had- been at a dance with an acquaintance. Two letters were also produced, written by the Prisoner s the one without an address, the ether addressed to a person of the name of Benjamin Setnuelv/in which he endeavoured to persuade the perSoes. to whom the letters were addressed, to come for. ward and excnlpate him, at the expence of ether persons, whose names are there suggested. The former letter, written between the tst aod zd exa. mination, was to this effeet, that he would esteem it a favour if the person to whom the letter was ad. dressed would come, with another person of the mime o f jeerer, who lodged with the Prisoner, anti %Need say, before the L'ird Miyor, that two men, minted Samuel Grace and William Parker, had brought the things to the Prisoner's house. All they would have to say would he, that they saw these men give the Prisoner a small canvass bag and a browne bag, 'about the size of a small ehot-bag, and desire the Prisoner to keep them till they asked fur them; and that this happened on the Bth of November, about two in the afternoou. He adds, that he tied told the Lord Mayor they would come, which la hoped they would do, and he would give them ;toy compensation they might desire. The second let. ter, addressed :to Benjamin Samuel, was dated this ta.th December, is nearly of the same nature ; only the persons supposed to have given the bags to the Prisoner arc changed, and are represented as being a groom 'and. a footman ; the groom a good hii larger than the footman ; and that the Witnesses heard the Prisoner call the groom William Harris 4 and the footmen William. They did net hear the rest of the name---only he was a little man. nest were both in name and ,in figure the groom and footman in the service of Mr. Shaw at the time of the rubbery. - All these faCts were clearly proved ; and the Bill of Exchange, the 201. note, and the il. notes found in the Prisoner's possession, or uttered by MI wife, were proved to have been in the possession of Mr. Shaw, and in his drawer, on the evening of the eth November. After a very articulate charge from Mr. justice Lawitexce, the Jury retired for nearly an hour, when they found the Prisoner Guilty of Stealing above .eos. in the dwelling-house, being a capital offence. Mr. Shaw then stated, in extenuation, that the Prisoner had, since his imprisonment, sent to him Bills of Exchange not mentioned in the. Indictment, which had been carried off at the same time, but which` had nut been found in his possession, to the amount of upwards of ,roof. The ReCOUDER said, the circumstance should be attended to. ;ohm /bilis, for returning from Transportation —and Jobs Silk, for burglariously breaking anti entering the dwelling-house of Charles Taylot% and stealing therein four tin canisters, co9tain. ing about t4lb. of tea, and .other 'articles, his pro.. perry—were both capitally convined.—And three were Acquitted. be rkt Off 1 °t :r. void vibe 'riadf NToti Vogt , O'Cl. • in th. r 4,1). z jilPf r. leo' ~ stile P►'k a" z 9 ?oA► MIDDLESEX SESSIONS. Yesterday jaw Rafe& (who was convifted of coining in 1797) was ilidijted for uttering a coun terfeit half.crown nud a shilling, on the Bth janu 4ty. , The fOI was clearly proved aga i nst h er by' William Gorman, a potatoe merchant in Golden. lane; and the Jury found het Guilt ) . The. Court sentenced her :to be imprisoned one year, and at the expiration of that time to find suretics tot two years. Ow.trtn Reproith was also found guilty of uttering a counterfeit tialf.guiriea, at the ltiause of Mrs. E. Chapman, Mercei's,arrns, Mercer street, Long. acre, 00 die Bth December. The Court b entcnce4 him to be imprisoned six months, and to find aura. ties for six month 4 after. liz. Cbarrivton was inditied for defrauding , Mr. Jones, a grocer, in Christchurch parish, of qu,thrity of grocery, by representing herself as the servant of Mrs, Lucas, one of his eustotners. The cvidence wa3 defective, from Mrs. L. not being pre. srnt to prove Iltat the Pri9oner was not Sen t by tier; 4 ,1 i t s: kt co.isequenily nevriftert.