The Sun. — London, England, 1805-04-15 00:00:00

THE INSTALLATION. Tsts Knights are summoned to assemble in St. sorge's Hall at half past ten, and it is suppos. td will move with the Sovext lON, before elevens Upon a platform (open, if the weather be fine, but covered if the day appear cloudy), to St. George's Chapel ; those who have purchased tickets for the Chapel need not be there till ten o'clock, as they are certain of their respalive places, pre. cautions having been taken which must prevent con. fusion at the entrance, and no more tickets will be issued than the bearers can be commodiously seated In command a view of the Ceremony or the Procession : the business in the Chapel is to consist of a most superb Procession along the aisles and wore into the choir. The brunt:tart, rubes, with the garter, mantle, and sword, and the instalment, will take up about three hours. At about two o'clock the public banquet prepared for the Sovereign and Knights takes place ; at four the remnants of the feast will be distributed to the mobility, not as has been usual, by throwing them indiscriminately with the knives, irks, &c. upon the heads of the open. Mouthed expeaants, but by di s p os i ng t h em on tables previous to their entry into the Great Court-yard At eight the Drawing -room commences', where all persons, who have Erten presented, may be present. Drawing-fonin will continue about two hours, When ihe'evening party, consisting of mu. (la neing &C. in a variety of the Royal apart. r e ntts will commence, On the following morn. tit His Majarry will review the Cavalry sta. -tune i ll the neithbouthood. and i s to be en. t en able(' wi t h a sham battle, and other mancou. :fh so le: A Public B rea kf ast i s a l so expe ll e d, an d pYjl evenin g party on that day ; and on Thor!. fier Roy a l Hi ghness the PRINCSIS M ARY ' a f ittn 'tlaY) a sup er b Fe te i s to be given at Frogmore. Fou r y) of the installed Knights expelled at Wind f ro ler Ste prevented by ill.h ea l t h, or ot h er causes , In at tending t h e I nstallat i on. The Q ueen ' s b litr oe• nn the south side of the Altar, and the , 44 ex for rut g Forei gners o f distinilion, with a Gallery Stran ers, on the north side, are n o w ereding under the orde rs of Mr. WYATT. To prevent s f orgeries, i t is ordered, that no Tickets purchased ha ll be delivered till within two days of the cere. m "Y taking place. Muth has been said upon the subjed of alteration' beingthe about to be made in the dress to be worn by re Knigh ts at the ensuing Installation. We have anc l ui r'd, and ascerta i ned that so far from the re. zrrtd changes hav ing any foundation in truth, His • AissT Y has o r d ere d that not the slightest devia. tun front the costum e of the twelfth century be on *tiny account attempted. 7be magni fi cence of the arc account fir excels that of the Knights of the Bath ; ie " /Cry expensive, 4tol. the cost of each suit being about the:The waist coat i s o f silver tissue, richly emhroi. et ' with silver, and made to button behind : l i fe I re no less t h an net r goo sugar.loaf buttons on it, Which are worked in the most exquisite man. iilVer. The buttons are placed in rows i i"el'ent parts of the dress, particularly on the ~e v et, and the whole is after the Spanish taste. IttirThe breeches are very fully made, being much etit _and: are composed of the same materials 1 8 0 the w a i stcoat, and made in the same aryl*: I ...t i nd the knees are fi fty bunches of very narrow t • h c e e and sarsnet ribbon wove on purpose. Oyer ;L4, 441114 " is thrown a crimson Genoa velvet w hi ss to lined with white Barnet, and ornamented then.e hanging sleeve of the same material. On tens" I:ilht shoulder is placed the hood, which is fas- Wh;l la rge bow of white ribbon. The mantle, vet, line the whole, is made of garter blue vel. ,_ n t tined wills sarsnet silk, and fastened by a cor. ° f whi p purple silk and gold lace, from the two ends a nd le t t! are suspended two massy tassels of purple A xe r,"'• On the left shoulder of the mantle is ttni4 ci te Order of the Garter, encircled by gold titi,nrYs Around the neck is worts the CL.llar ril tt - ' l er. A very large rosette of narrow white A ke and silver lace, placed in alternate rows, is kid' On the right knee. The shoes ate of white L la_r ge w ith red morocco heels, and ornamented with silver rosettes. White kid gloves are to 41'weowdorti, with three. sows of silver lace. The erro r w ith a basket hilt of gold, with c .._son Velvet scabbard and belt, The Ileatt`elsess in n free of a Spanish hat of black velvet, turned up whit e a nd ornamented with jewels : sixteen f ee e ("inch, Surmounted by a sprig of real heron xisrert• finishes of the the splendid h*iliments of a 71:e1Orl P Most Nobl e O r d er of the G arter. to t ut ne of heron feathers is said to cost from 60 Ps i 3 ti c ` r t u t"eas. Those intended to be worn by the ' 1 of WA Les and his Roya l Brothers have each ca appsapperho latter sum . The whole of the dress he ra nt a be very' light, but it is in effeet extreme. nothappily, however, the sun's influence is like]lnstall to prove so powerful atilt did at the last 27anon at Windsor, which took place in July,' 0 thirty.three years since, when the heat was that Atany o f t h e K n i ghts sustained sea; in ony. "nvenience is going through the Ce. iur ........... .......... ......... Lii"are• of I OJ RDAN is so mu c h recovere d (rem the ef.: --,is er late sacrifice at the shrine of Union, in she is likely to grace the boards of Old Dtuty in the course of the ensuing week. °P ly. it seems, had a Written permission to 0 . 41 ht th e Prirtrait 91 Master BETTY, expressly fur hole enuring Exhibition at the Roral Academy, and ,11'lit aside an Historical Pictu re that he might he 4 h 9 le to finish it in time. He has, therefore, we L. 41.1 determined to maintain' hie right , and " S ax. nibit the P ortrait in quettiOn. an : l 4 ". B t'rr Y ii Pu bli shing by subscription a ha,rt deter a itu6ole ievyk of his eon, and indeed seems • lined to take every method of making a hand of hi m. ti The Green.ronm Wags, referring to the name of the new Comedy forthcoming at Covent.garden, 1 - 4 1 „ 1 ' rits Wants a Chtilieo ? to the supposed author, i" , that nobody is better qualified to answer this nicrrogative title than kimst/f. . Lotd L • owalit it, it is said, has ordered a ri/ , r,t/- ( v " i 1 " t ° ire made at the experice of soool. • 'Phis _ 4 4able piece of fitruiturr holds forth bo strnobt a r'oPtatiun to inidnight invaderi„ that the N thie Lord may find it riectsury to ' 6 'watch bil %yawl," 1 XT R ACT rams 'fill PAPERS LAID BEFORE THE HOUSE OF COMMONS, RESPECTING SIR HOME rOFHAM. LITTSR. FROM SIR HOMR POFUAM TO MR. MARS. DEN, SEPT. 29 k 1804 SIR, The Report of the Navy Board, relative to transactions which took place on board His Ma. jesty's Ship Romney, under my command, in the East Indies, has at length been transmitted to me ; but without being accompanied by the documents and papers on which it has been framed, and the possession of which would have best enabled me to vindicate myself from the insinuations it attempts to convey. I trust, notwithstanding, that what I shall have to offer in reply will full justify me in the view of the Lords Comcnissionets, who will not fail to observe the conduCt of the late Adtni. ralty in withholding from me (contrary to an offs. cial promise made) both the Report and the Docu. Ments which form the basis of the charges it cx. hibits. In a Letter dated 9th March last, Mr. Marsden informs me, by command of their Lord. ships, that I should be furnished with a Copy of the Report of the Navy Board on my making appli. cation to that Board. The result of my application was, that in a Letter dated the loth of the fol lowing month, April, the Commissioners of the Navy acquainted me that they were not directed to send me a Copy of the Report, but that I should he supplied w ith Copies of the Papers to which it referred. These Copies, which Were then copying in that Office, however, never came to my hand ; and I was informed by, the Board, on my personal application, that they Could not be found after every search and inquiry lor them : and I have been obliged to wait, under the utmost anxiety, for the copy of the Report until the present time. Thus denied an opportunity to vindicate myself from the foul calumnies and aspersions which have gone abroad, their Lordships will judge what must have been the feelings of an honourable mind; to say nothing of the impediments which have been cruelly thrown in the way of my professional ca. reer. Whatever may be the talents I possess as a Seaman and an Officer, I have been precluded from exercising them (1 hope I may say without vanity) to the benefit of my Country, and to that of toy family. To put their Lordships in full possession of the merits of my case before I proceed to reply to the Report of the Navy Board, I shall beg leave to touch on some circumstances, of an antecedeiat date. In a Letter of the late Admiralty to the Navy Board, dated loth September, t Boz, it was direCted not only that an imprest should be charged against Mr. Louis, the Naval Officer at Calcutta, to the amount of the Bills drawn by him, but likewise against me, by whom he was stated to have unwarrantably appointed " to an as a Naval Offi. cer, and authorised to draw' Bills." The princi. pie of this imprest, both against Mr. Louis and myself, would have been fair and expedient, pro. vided the faCt which was stated, of my having, in an unauthorised manner, taken on me to appoint him to the office he held, had been true ; hut as it was not the ease, I wish some mode had been adopted .to remove such impression from the Records of Office ; though, I trust, the result of his (Mr. Louis's) exa. mination before - the - Commissioners cif. Naval In. quiry, will not only satisly their Lordships, b u t the Public, when it comes to be promulgated, of the strid integrity of my conduel.• Mr. Louis's appointment, as I have more than once stated, as Dersity Naval Officer at Calcutta, was the ad of Admiral Rainier, who, in a letter addressed to me, dated the Bth August, tBot, speaks of him in the following very handsome terms: " Mr. Matthew' Louis, Deputy Naval Officer at Calcutta, is brother to Captain Thumat Luis, one of the Heroes of the Nile, and every way a de. serving character, Which was my sole motive for procuring that situation for him : he really appears to be an active, wcll.informed man." With 'so strong a recommendation of Mr. Louis, coming from such an authority as that of Adm. Rainier, could not do otherwise than repose the fullest con. fidence in him. I shall have occasion to return to this alibied in replying to the Report; and in the mean time must observe, that t'ae Order of the late Ad. miralty tar a general impress, on mistaken grounds, was the e.Pmittencemen t of the procceedings against With how much asperity these proceedings were carried on, will he fully evinced by the annexed Affidavit of Mr. Bartholemew, late Master's Mate of the Romney, to which Document I beg to di. red the most particular attention of their Lord• ' ships. Far the honour and credit of the Naval Service of Great Britain, it is to be trusted that an example will never again occur, of an individual. bearing the charader of a Gentleman, and waiting for the promotion to which he was reasonably en. titled by his services, being impressed, dragged through tilt streets, and put on board a tender — with what view let his own Affidavit determine. The late Boatswain of the Romney, after having been left behind from his proper ship, was pro. moted to the Zealand, after he had been strictly questioned and interrogated on my condul; arid who, in conjuni'tion with the other Warrant Offi.' cers, swore to the integrity of all my proceedings ; and I most particularly request their Lordships will reati,with attention the Affidavits of such people as were selated at Chatham for examination, consist. ing principally of the Warrant Officers who arc ex. elusively charged with the ' . stores. To be enabled to frame the Report of the Navy Board, the Expence Books of the Warrant Officers were submitted to the scrutiny of the Officers be longing to Dcptford Yard ; whose first Report being by no means satisfadory, nor calculated to answer the views of the Inquiry, the books were returned to them, but with as little success; after which they underwent the scrutiny of four other Yank, not agreeably to their usual mode of pro, feeding, forming, as it were, five Juries on the subject before their Lordships. To the earnest and particular attention of your Lordships, without a comment from me, I call the concluding sentence of the Report:" That they had trained their Report without calling on Sir Home Popham, agreeably t) their usual mode, for an ea. vlAnatigo on any of the Ci/OUnlitiknOtii to which it referred, beCON:t th,:y rsll;•rm.ible to the intrntion of their Lorchhips that they- should pro ceed in this manner." The Report chiefly relates to purchases made at Calcutta for the use of His Majesty's ships Rom ney and La Sensible ; ar.i it is therefore evident that Mr. Matthew Louis, the Deputy Nival 0111. cer at that place, ought to have been called on fur such explanations as would have elucidated many of the points on which it touches. He would have proved that no previous intimacy subsisted between us ; that he was appointed and rec;:rnmended by Ad. miral Rainier, and not by me, which will appear from the following extra& of a Letter of Admiral Rainier, dated at Trincomalee, August gth, a copy of which was in their possession. " Mr. Matthew Louis, of Calcutta, who is " Deputy at that place fur the Naval Officer at " Madras, has lately informed me, that there is a " great glut of Naval Stores There, which have " been offered to him at prime cost and freight. " I should therefore recommend your diretting 41 such articles to be purchased there as His Majes ‘,‘ iy's ships under your orders may require, as " otherwise our M.'gazines at Madras and Boni. • 1 bay may be too much reduced, and oblige the " Naval Officers to purchase stores, when they " will in all probability have _become very dear, " particularly if the war with the Northern Powers " should continue." The first article of the Report which calls for my reply, relates to the Boatswain's and Carpenter's Stores purchased at Calcutta. It states that they appear to exceed the 'allowed proportion, dec. Granting, however, that the excess was not appa. rent, but real—not nresumptive,but certain—towhat does this very futile charge amount? That the Stores were in. the Ship, but not that they were to be improperly expended. Tne necessity of receiv_ ing them on board was to be calculated on the exi. gency of the service, of which the framers of the Report could not judge. It appears by the article next following, • that of four anchors supplied at Calcutta, and afterwards returned into store, three had the King's mark ; and that the cables rectum), so far as the non.con. version of a part of them could enable the Inspec. tors to judge, were likewise of the mandatory of the King's Yards. What. this is meant to imply or insinuate lamat a loss to ccojeture. If an im. potation is conveyed by it, that imputation belongs to the Naval Officer; but ij; en the other hand . , it is intended as a paaegyrick, I give r: all claim to it ; and I leave it with this solemn declaration, that I did not then know whether the anchors were so marked or not, or from what source the cables had been drawn ; but I have since particularly learnt, and their Lord-ships way have the sflidarit of Mr. Louis and Mr. Hudson, and the corroborating proof of the Court of Direetats, that all anchors weighed by the Master Attendants at Calcutta are his perquisite,' for which he is obliged to keep up an establishment of weighing boats; that many of the large country ships are supplied with the King's anchors; and probably the very anchor from which we. cut at the mouth of the river was purchased by Mr. Louis at the Bankshall, and supplied to the ship ; for, as I before declared, I know nothing of' the weight of these anchors, nor do I ever remem. her to have been in any ship where the specific pounds were scrutinized. Their Lordattipa must know, that in speaking of anchors, we in general say about so many cwt. (To le continued.) The South Essex Regiment of Militia, corn. mantled by Colonel STstu . rr, marched on Saturday from the Barracks, at Harwich, to Colchester, on its way to Chelmsford. Saturday morning the West India Dock Volun. seers paraded in the Dockyard by Companies, and from thence marched to the range of fields leading at the back of the Docks from Limehnuse to Poplar, where they were inspeeled by Col. ADDRIIIIROoKa, the Inspetting Field Officer, and afterwards review. cd by the Commander in Chief, the Mita of CAM. BRIDGE, Generals BURRARD, DAL. RYMPLE, LAYARD, and GAIARLLE, COlOllOl6 MAR. TBN, Ross, TAYLOR, WILSON, &C• The first division of the Fourth, or King's Own Infantry, snatched from Canterbury, on Monday morning, on their route by Maidstone for Horsham, in Sussex ; the second and third divisions followed yesterday and this day. This movement has taken place in consequence of Lord CHATHAM'S removal to the Sussex District, his Lordship wishing► to have this Regiment, of which he is Colonel, under his own immediate command. The Lascars, of the Mahomedan. Faith, had last week a grand festival of a religious kind, in honour of their great Prophet, who, shout this time of the year is supposed to have been translated into Para. dise. The scene of this solemn revelry was the East end of the town, in the vicinity of Itaieliff Highway, Shadwell, arc. The'procession consist. eat of a great number of thoSe people, who gratified themselves and the sprdators by a variety of panto. inimical tricks and grimaces. It appears that a number of persons ere going about the country to collect, in the way of chang, 7 ', those utieful coins, the penny pieces, the price of copper being now so high as to atford a consider. able profit by their resale alter being melted down. A Publican of'Cork, a few days ago, annally broached a begthead I,t;rits with' a red hot po4er 1 The blunder nearly cost him his We, as he was shockingly burnt by the explosion. ArrtttliTMENTs.—Capt. NaKe R., to the State ly ; Lieut. Sir GEORGE KEITH, to command the grotrtior Fire. vessel ; Lieut. Do RHIN to the Royal Hospital at Hadar, in the room of Lieut. WI L. LI AMI D who is appointat to Gfeeowich Hospital. 'The time which has elvsed since the Seaga/ Sloop, Capt. Iluaxe, and the Ilartvh Sloop, Capt. TIPPVT, ghoul% have returned to port-from c,ruiz. ing in the Channel, gives rise to icars that they are both lost. I)ed at Exeter, on . the 23 inst. in the 23a year of Li age, James BE Esq. lately from Qathzc, son of jamas fh t.t., Esq. of Berwick-upOn-Tweed. Luly EDWARDS, Grandmother of Earl CT-10L• MONDRLEY, died on Wednesday lair in fiamvton Cnurt Palace, at the age of 93, in tho Ntf't enjoy. uant of Vier facultiet). CORN EXCLMNGE, APRIL 15s Tins day our supply of Wheat i, in middling quantity, and the trade is dull at a , e,luclt , oo_of about 3s. per quarter ; the supyly of B.trlev rem.eir. ing is cAnsiderable, and continues with little sale, at less price ; Malt, and good old Beans, have not mush variation ; Tick Beans are at less; having large Oat arrivals, many cargoes ( f foreign, canst e A reduaion of Is. and zs. per quarter ; Fiuur of the best quality remains as dear, not having much at hand, inferior sorts at lesi. Wheat 67; a 84i a 96S 01 i:earlS 42S a 49s od Fine Old - zoos a 103 oci •I iuk Beans 405 a 453 od Rye - - szs a 58, od Oats 22S 25s a 27, at Barley -42 s a 473 od rvtand - atis a 2.9 i 0,1 Malt - 745 a SOS od Raps: Scot - —I - —1 White Pease 42i a 48S od tour - Bas a Sys NI tit ley ditto 355, a 405 od - • 72s a .5,.:0; At the Bath Fair.day last, month, a respeetahle and opulent fanner in the ne , ghbourhood bruti e; t a sum of money considerably above too°, to a relation who was about to purchase an estat, bur the writings not being in readiness, he, in s public-house, gave the purse with its con,ellts his wife, with a strict, but not ov , ..r.cati , ifaus charge, to take care of it. The woman thrust 't into her stays, and shon afterwards entert. , g cle fair, was accosted with a is how d'ye do," aid .1 gallant chuck under the chin from a man wta pretended to be an old acquaintance, when in an instant her hidden treasure disappeared !---'There were three fellows in the public-house at the time she received the money who were known to be no. torious charaeters from London. Another new 'Planet has been discovered by M. HARDING, of Lilienthal, near Bremen, to which he has given the name of Juno. It is of the eighth mag. nitude, and attracted his attention while comparing with the Heavens the so,ooo stars obseived by Messrs LALANDE. It appeared to have a peculiar motion, and after observing• it for several days, he clearly ascertained that it was a Planet. Its right ascension on the sth of September w..s to.p. its North declination 00 H. The same Pl anet was o , served by M. By RCKHARDT i on the 233 of Sep. temper, at 3590 7 40 6, from which - he inferred that the duration of its revolution is fire years and a half. The following particulars have also been ascertained : its inclination is 21,-, Its excen. tricity is a quarter of its radius. Its mean disk tance from the sun is three times that of the earth, or about roo millions of leagues ; it is consequently farther than Ceres or Pallas, whose distance is 96,000,000. Its diameter has not yet been aseer, Stained ; but its size appears nearly the same as that of Ceres, or the Planet discovered by PtAzzr. This is the twelfth Planet discovered within a le o / years, HEESCHELL having discovered Uranus and its six satellites, and two new satellites tn Saturn ; Ptnzzi discovered Ceres, abd OLE tits discaveted Pallas. M. LUSSAC, in his late Arostatic Voyage, when. at the height of 21,487 feet, filled a • glass 'vessel with the air of that elevation, and another 306 Net higher ; and on his return to Paris this air was carefully analysed, and prolied to he itlentica'tly the same with the sir obtained in the Court.yard of the Polytechnic School. The experiments' of Messrt, CAVSND ISH,NACARTY, ItTllOl4 PT, and I.).svY, had previouily established, that the eitnp.tsition-of the Atmosphere is the same over all the surface of the earth ; and M. LUSSAC, supported hy the ex.. periments of Messrs. SAUSSURE on the Col du Ge ant, and on the summit of Mont Ilane, has now proved, that the Atmosphere is the same at the greatest heights to which we can ascend as on the surface of the earth. On Saturday as a young man, the son of a fartrwr named Wiegman, at Kingston.upOn, Lisle, Berks, was lacing on his shoes, his father came behind bins in a passion, and knocked him down with the broad end of an axe. He then, with the sharp edge, cut him desperately across the neck. The poor youth expired on Tuesday evening, and the father, an being committed to Reading Gaol, aliewed no marks of insanity, but confessed that he was atluated to the crime by an idea that the son and his mother were secreting money from him. The following extraordinary and mournful event lately happened at a village in site neighbourhood of Alfreton, Derbyshire. Two boys, sons of re speetable parents there, having been amusing them selves by the side of a pool with catching and de.. straying toads, one of them, about twelve years of age, was so thoughtless and imprudent as to put a stick he had been using into his Mouth ; having name of the venom of the toads adhering to it, Wetted his lip, that was sore, and produced so much swelling and infLontration, as to occasion hit death not many days after. Last week, at Gosport, two children of nine years of age, who were in a room where a kettle was boiling over, one of them caught hold of the pin-a-fore whit•h the other had on, to attempt to take the kettle from oit the fire, which catii ; !tt it, and so dreadfully scorched the poor infant, that she lived only a few hours. Siturday a desperate battle was fought in Pad. dington Fields, between George Wheeler, a pugilist of notoriety, and J. Harris, a wheelwright. They were considered as a tolerably equal match. At the onset, "buil received a severe blow on the head, but retorted, by laying hii antagonist prostrate.— Ten furious rounds then succeeded, when Wheeler being worsted, was compelled to give in. The battle lasted zo minutes. Saturday, ANdrew Tiempsien was finally examined at the Office in Hatton Garden, on a chins*, of swindling, and committed for trial.; Th 4 231 of next month is announced by BoisiA. PAITE for his Coronation at Milan ; in which riot an individual in the universe is really inierested but himself and family. What a far more sulistatilial scene opens in London on the 13th of the tumuli l— a scene - which ri4rply interests not less, probAbiy, than too,ooo British Subjeet,i—a LoTrritsr, in short, of the highest attrattion, by which noinbets of adventurers will be crowned, not with vain pageantry, but with the noble and dur title blessing of Immense wealth t--As pellng '1",:m; exclaims, rovertion to the ,41111, one's own p osseativii) u t A " Talk Of a COMILItiOti!"--.Wileit's ,in itai;:m Co. urine tit Guineas