The Sun. — London, England, 1812-01-11 00:00:00

NAVAL NEWS. PA.ymotrrg, JAN. - g.—Sailed this (lay his Majes ty's ships Malta, of 80 guns, Captain INGLEFIELD, for the Mediterranean ; and the Favourite, of 18 guns, Capt. CLEMENTS, 011 a crvize in the Channel. Arrived the Lively, WHITE, from Chichester. CHATHAM, JAN. !co.—Sailed down the River and anchored at Blackstakes, his Majesty's ship Nymphen, Captain HANCOCK, having had a cornpleat refit. DEAL, JAN. 10.—Put back by contrary winds, his Majesty's ship Aboukir and Cumberland. Arrived his IVlajoity's ship St. Fiore. zo from Portsmouth. Came down from the River, the danatella for Aladeira, &c. PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 10.--Siiled the Ilitii/071 on a cruize. FALMOUTH, JAN. his Majesty's ship Rapid from the Downs ; Carteret packet from Surinam and M irtinique ; 50 dais from the latter place, brings one mail; the Carteret left Surinam, sutti Wooer, Demerara, Bth November, and Barbadoes, 14i11 November; the Express packet left Barbadoes, i3tO November, for Martinique ; the jidary /1.7 n packet for New York, will sail to morrow. Mr. SOANE, in illustration of his Lecture on I Tlysrdav la,t, at the Royal Academy subiniited to the obs . ,:rvation oc his.:Aditors nearly a hundreki be. Le liful drawings, re;Jesen lug sections, ground-plans,. and comple , e views of the several distinguished buildings which were the admiration of anti quity, and which will he held in veneration as long as taste, judgment, and knowledge of the Fine Arts are properly valued, and duly cultivated. The Professor signified that as th speCtwors could have but a cursory view of toe drawiligs thus pre sented to them in illu4ratiOn of passing comments, he should propose to the Academy to let them be 'laced around the loom for a certain period, in order to give the Students a full opportunity of pro.- fiting by a deliberate contemplation of the beauti ful and superb edifices which the drawings repre sent,. and of reflecting upon the principles on which those edifices were erected. This liberal appropi ia lion of drawings so highly valuible, was, of course, received by the whole of the audience with the Warmest applause. Mrs. C. K EDIBLE is still the subje& of anonymous comments, though she has left the metropolis in the lauJabie effort to exert her talent• for the ad 'rant ige of herself and her family. She may well say, with Beatrice, " Oh ! that I were a man!" for then, perhaps, she would be exempt from these covert assaults. Yet, indeed, her husband came forward in public with his name, in answer to these lush : fighting attacks, but the assaihnt perseveres in his safe warfare. Some of the public prints have sent Mrs. Sin ?IONS, not to Coventry, indeed, but to Edinburgh, though she has not yet let tow n, nor is likely to do so till towards the end of the: present mouth. W e however reg,et that the public will not have an op portunny of itnessing her professional excellence till she returns from the North. A young Gentleman belonging to the Post-office shot himself on 'Thursday morning, about seven o'clock, but ineffectually. The report of the pistol was heard in the adjoining office, from whence one of the Clerks was going to inquire into the cause, when he saw the Gentleman run out of the office, and down the yard, in a disordered state. He was pursued into Lcmbard-street, but turning up .a court, the pursuers lost sight of him, and he has not since been heard of, though persons were sent out in various directions. It was evident that he had wounded himself, as blood was traced for some distance in Lombard-street. Tile unfortunate Gentleman usually carried a brace of pistols, which he was seen to load the preceding'evening, at the Virginia Coffee-house, where he lodged. No cause whatever 'can be assigned for this attempt, as he is a Gentleman of regular and unimpeached character. No account has yet been heard of whither he tied after this rash attempt. The most anxious inqui ries were made yesterday, by his frieeds, after him. but without avail. His father came yesterday to town, and went to the Virginia Coffee-house, where his trunk waa opened arid searched. Nothing, however, transpired, to throw the smallest light. upon the motives which .Irote him to this ad of desperation, nor did any thing appear casting the slightest slur upon his deportment while in the Post-office. He has been frequently seen in a very contemplative mood by his fellow Clerks, and upon inquiring what was the matter, he complained of the embarrassment of his pecuniary circum stances, and once or twice he said lie thought he had better blow out his brains, since his affairs were in such a low condition. Hand-bills were yesterday circulated, offering a reward, by his friends, for the produCtion of his nody, dead or alive. His coun tenance is a good deal remarkable, from the loss of One of his eyes, which he sustained in childhood. • IRISH BEEF.—The beef season closed in C.)rk on th e e st ult, and notwithstanding the great export of live stock, the number of cattle slaughtered exceeded that of last year by 1d25 head, The returns for the crane-book for this and the last year are as follow 1 810—,5774 oxen, t 0,086 cows, and 209 nulls.— Total 16,069.-1811-4317 oxen, 13,026 cows, and 351 bulls.—Tot,ll 17,694. Early on Tuesday morning last, the houSe of Lhomas Cobb, Esq. at Elstree-hill, was broken into, acid robbed of plate and money to a considerable amount. The house of Colonel Strutt, M. P. in Upper Grosvenor-street, was broken into a few nights past ; but the fernale servants hearing ti;e noise, got up, and tecasioned the robbers to decarnp without their booty. ALIENS. :v in.',1%1417 impression of Thursday we published Ciretikw Letter, issued from the office of tie Seat 'tary of State for the Home Department, calling hp on the Magistracy of the cnuntry to carry into ef fea, as tar as they are concerned, the provisions of the Alien A6t, against Foreigners residing among us without the authority of Government. We learn, with much satisfaction, that this salutary measure for the internal safety of the kingdom has already been attended with beneficial etfeas, and that no less than forty Foreigners were yesterday appre hended at the East end of the town, who have hi therto evaded the Alien regulations. METEOROLOGICAL JOURNAL, BY R. BANKS, PHILOSOPHICAL INSTRUMENT MAKER, STRAND. IThermometer. II Weather. . .I t i ,I e. —• 1 ...I c ' Z . • 9 tie" ~. a 0 2 c. , —.I 0 . c r, Z —2, cr, I c cr• a Z 0 0 0 o 4 37 37. 39. 34 2 9.44 Rain Rain 5 35 37. 3 7 . 3 1 . 2 3 Snow* Do. f 10 3z 38. 38. 32 .za . Cidy. Cldy. 7 I 33 37. 39. 34 . 61 I Snow Do. 8 35 34. 3 8 • 3' 30. 0 5 I Fair I Do. 93 2 34. 3c. 34 1 .t 4 Cldy. Snow 10 135 35• 3 6 . 35 . 1 5 Dis- Cldy. mai 1 II I I I 1 77: 9) 1 * And rain. t Boisterous night. • The whole of this day gloomy, dismal,-and rainy. N.B. An accident in the Rain Gauge prevents giving the daily quantity fallen, but the above s tatement is near the truth. POOR'S RATE. • A Vestry was held yesterday in the Parish of Christ Church, Surrey, for the purpose of declaring a Rate in aid of the Poor. Mr. FARQUHARSON stated, that be attended merely for the purpose of inquiring, whether Mr. Rowland Hill had paid the Rate lately assessed upon his Chapel, in Blackfriars-road. Mr. GREEN, the Overseer, replied, that the Rate had not been paid. - Mr.-FARQUHARSON then gave notice to the Over seers, that it the Rates were not enforced against the Methodist Charels, he should not only objea to the allowance of the amount of them in the Overseers' accounts, but should himself decline, and recommend to every Protestant parishioner to decline paying the Rates, till they were colleted impartially. Mr. HAwitS observed, that this subject had agi tated the whole body of Methodists in the coun try; that not Mr. Rowlsnd Hill alone, but the en tire mass of Dissenters, from one end of the king. dom to the other, were preparing petitions to Par liament, for the purpose of obtaining exemption from this and other taxes, similar in principle. He should therefore, move, that until those petition. were disposed of, the assessment on Mr. Hill's Chapel should not be renewed. Mr. Fox, the Chnuhwarden, remarked that the liability of the Chapel to be rated having been ad mitted, th,, Vestry wouid be aciting with great in consistency, if, after having made one rate, it did not follow it up with another. The only question was, whether, fur the present, the rates should be demanded If any parishioner insisted upon it, he undoubtedly had a right so to do. He was, there fle, of opinion, the rate ought to be made, and that the Overseers were compellable to- the per formance of their duty. Mr. MEYNIOTT, Vestry Clerk, said, it was ne cessary he should set the Vestry right with regard to . one circumstance. The principle upon which the last rate had been made was admitted, consequent ly the Vestry were only convened for the put posewf assisting the Overseers with regard to the quantum upon each individual. He was clear that the Vestry had no power to prevent the rate being tnadeupon the principle already adopted. Mr. HAWES then moved, that the Vestry should recommend to the Overseers not to collect the rates of Mr. Rowland Hid. Mr. FARQUHARSON protested against such a mo tion bein; put. . Mr. 1 - I:II.VES then moved, that the persons present should, as individuals, make such recommendation. In support of this proposition he had a .rnajority of three. Mr. FERCLUITARSON observed, that the Methodists might vow what they pleased, but he should con stantly objea to the Overseers' accounts, if they did not oblige them to pay their rates. The PRINCE REGENT has confirmed the sen tence of a Court Martial held on Lieutenant Ed ward Tully, of the 75th regiment of foot, itto.lober last, at St. Helier's, Jersey, fur leaving several places without settling his accounts, and negleding to pay the baker who supplied the detachment, though he regularly received his own pay, and that of the men under his command ; fur having appropripted to his own use two sums of money received by him, in July, tBoc9, from a Supervisor of Excise; for guard ing a seizure ; and for denying any such receipts in letters to his Comminding Officer, dated July List and esth, ! Bog. Lieutenant Tully is dismissed from the service. During Sunday night an express arrived at Nor wich, for a draught ru he made from the 2d batta lion of the 69th regiment, to march, which they did by ten o'clock of Monday morning, on their route for - Portsmodth, to be embarked there to join the Ist battalion now at pitavia, and who, at the taking of that place, experienced considerable loss. The sentence of a Court-Martial, held in Sep. telpher, at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, on Lieutenant Jou PERCY, of the Cambridgeshire Militia, for cliirespeNful conduit to two of his Commanding Officers, has been confirmed by the PitiNCE REGENT, and he is accordingly dismissed the service. 'JiZVDSOR, JAN. to. The Duke of CUMBERLAND arrived here yester day, and after dining with the QUEES\aild PAM• crissas, set off for London, as did. the Duke a YrRK. .This morning Doctor A. WII . LI.s iettirtieCl Windsor.—At one o'clock the Earl of AyLasiokt) arrived at the Castle, and is expelled to remain heft all night. DUBLIN, Jam 7. " Upon the subject,which has ebgrossed ad much of the conversation of the Metropolis for the last two days, we are enabled to lay before our readers an accurate statement of all the facts which are .khown. On the authenticity of our statement the Public may impose implicit credit—these are the facts : " About eight days ago a meet'ng was held of the Trustees of the Charity School belonging to the Ca tholic Chapel, in Church•street. The School-master neglected to attend at the usual hour, and art ived in a state of intoxication, as the Trusiets were about to disperse ; he was severely reprimanded for his • absence, and requested. to state the reason of it. He endeavoured to,excuse himself, saying, that he had been detained by important business; but, as Its duty requited that all his time should be devoted to the school, the Trustees remsed to admit any such ex cuse, and then he stated broadly that he had been engaged in the business of the New Association, to one division of which he said he was Secretary. The nature of this Association was inquired of him, and he gave the following account ;—That it was an Association instigated for the purpose of separating Ireland from England, by force of arms; that it hail also for one of its objects the extirpation of heresy; that, however, the most ae , ive person he knew of in it was a Mr, Fisher, a Protestant, who assured him, and the other persons he 'engaged in the plan, that it bad the sanction of the Catholic Committee, aryl Mr. Hay was their Private Seeretaryi that he had been supplied with a blunderbuss, and many others were armed, as it was easy to procure arms . out of the stores of the Castle ? and that an attack was shortly to be made in Dublin, as they were assured that the garrisan was at present very weak. Such was the substance of the statement made by this man. The Trustees adjourned to the next day, and then called him before them. Being sober, he wished to cchiceal or retract' the fans, but being closely pressed, he admitted that he had become a member of such an Association, and repeated the account he had given the preceding evening, with this addition, that he believed the name of Fisher was not a real, but an assumed name. The Trustees instantly dismissed• him horn his employment as School-master, and endeavoured to make him semi- s ble of the crime he had committed, and of the evi dent falsehood of. the representations that bad been made to Wu. On Thursday, the 2d, these facts were communicated for the. first time at the rooms belonging to the Catholic Committee, in Capel st feet, to Mr. Hay, in the presence of Major Bryan, The Gentleman who made the communication was not present at the examination of the School-master; and it therefore became necessary to ascertain the facts from some person who was. This could not be done until Friday. On that day several mem bers of the Catholic Committee met at D'Arcy's, in Eat (.street ; and the facts being stated to them, they unanimously resolved to communicate the entire transaction to the Attorney-General, in the presence either of Mr. Grattan, or of the Knight of Kerry; a precaution %hid), circumstanced as the members of the Catholic Committee were, they thought-peu dent, and could not be improper. Neither of those distinguished Gentlemen were in town on Fri• day ; but expresses were sent them, and also to Lord Fingal, who was at Killeen Castle; snd early on Saturday morning the three arrived in town. It was the opinion of those Gentlemen, that they ought, in the first instance, to wait on the Attorney- General, to inform him that Lord Fingal and some other Catholic Gentlemen had a communication to make to him, touching the existence of a treasan able conspiracy ; that they were ready to make it ; and to know if the Attorney-Genet:ll was ready to receive •them for that purpose. This . COlirSi2 was cordingly adopted. Mr. Grattan - atick Mr..F4ge.- sald accordingly waited on the Attorney-Genet•;il, On Saturday last, and stated the objet of their visit. Mr. AttorncyeGeneral was not then ready to receive the communication ! We understand that be asked it there were any informations on. oath ; and recom mended to Lord Fingal and the other ,Gentlemen to go before a Police Magistrate, arid give their infor , niation to him—said, that she usual way was, to go before a Magistrate ; and did not seem to think it at all necessary to see the Catholic Gentlemen himself ! We understand that the Attorney General was, strongly pressed to receive the communication;and to submit it to the Irish Government ; that he asked, whether the Gentlemen Meant to come to him as a Committee; to which the Knight of Kerry replied, " No, Sir, they will wait on you merely' as individuats. - -At length the Attorney General appointed the hour of twelve, on Monday, the Gth, at :Mr. Pole's Office, in he Casale, fur receiving the communication. He said, he wanted' to go to his country seat, and supposed there could be no danger in the mean time! " he Earl of Fingal, Major Bryan, and Mr. O'Connell, %%ere appointed to go to Mr. Pole's Office at that hour. They did so accordingly, and were accompmied by Mr. O'Gorman. We un derstand that they gave a brief statement of the confession made by the 'School-master ; gave in his uaine, and the names and residences of some of the Trustees who were witnesses w that confession; and also some , printed papers belonging to /his As- . sociation. They were received by the Attorney- General and Mr. Pole with ceremonious politeness, and„,having made their communication, withdrew, leaving it to the Government to ad as they should think tit. We have beard, too, that the Attorney- General offered some excuse for postponing the rneetiug from Saturday to Monday. He said he had, on second thoughts, written to Mr. Grattan, to say that he would be glad to see Lord Fingal on .Sunday; but as Mr. Grattan had returned to his house is the country, the letter had followed hitn there;'.where Mr. Grattan had written, in answer, that the matter did not press. Lord Fingal replied, " Mr. Attorney-General, we felt that it pressed on us to make the communication as speedily as pos- Zvening Post:, THE IVEI COMET,. CFROM Tiat WESTFHALIAN MONITEUR.} LiorTl l .4agfi, DEC. t 4.—Havin g been in formed,on tlaeOili of Dec. by a letter from M. de Lindenau, that M. Font had distovered, at Marseilles, on the 16th of Nov. a hew bonnet in the Constellation of Eridanias, looked for it according to the observations made on the 18th, Otis, toth, and 21st Nov. by M. de Zack who is at present in the South of France. Hitherto I have obserVed it only three times. The following are the results : • at 1. Mean Time. 1 Right Ascen. 1 c, South &eel: Hs. Min. Sec. Deg. Min. Sec. Deg. Min. Se Doc. 9. 10 6 5 2 63 49 4f,4 to 21 55'5 It• I to 34 1 I 6 3 13 18 ,0 I 9 39 4 6 ,4 U. ft 5 52 63 26 25,3 7 54 25,9 The,light-,of t his Comer being extremely feeble, it is not visible,-totbenaked eye; but, as its nucleusis more detetwined.tlign that of the great Comet of this year, the Osety4kions are susceptible of a higher de g ree o f precision: J. : , was not able to resist the desire of calculating previously ,accor ding to the observations of of M. de Z.lck ant my own, the elements 'of its or bit. They appear to me already sufficient to etia. ble me to prediEt generally the path the Comet will follow, and to assert tivit it is not identical with any of those which have hitherto been ob served. I have also found 'hat the Comet has passed its perihelion, and that its light consequently will not increase. Porabolick Elements of the new Comet. Passage through the perihelin.), Nov. 12, 1811,--;lsh. Longitude of the perihelion, 48 sic,. 30 min.—Lon;- gitude of the Ascending node; 92 dog. 4'j min. --= Inclination of its orbit, 31 deg. 38 min.—Perihelion distance, 1.5908.—The motion is direa. GAus. Much has been said pro and con respening tips quntion whether BUONAPARTE has amually and substantially repealed his Milan and Berlin Decrees. The AmeriVa r p, Rulers may du as they please as to this Ifieilfbi`i,:o far as their country alone ig-con cernedVlC,:lint they must not expea that other StateS"zivilllieliound by their municipal regulations or to rising policy, and, to adopt the words of a judicious competitor, we are of opinion, that " there is but one proof, which it is consistent with the huttoor either of America or England to re ceive; and that is A SOLEMN PUBLIC EDICT OF REPEAL, by BUONAPARTE himself, with the SAMS FORMALITIPs which attended the PROMULGATION of the OBNOXIOUS DECREES." otosftrve by the form of the new French 11.- censes fortheexportation of raw silks, that they are subject:tothecondition of returning in b +Oast, or of importing iliAtaranceCertaiti artictes,yi t. sail cloth, ship4imiliv;rr&c. Part of these articles, it will be remarked, are articles of war, and cannot therefore be legally eltoorted from this countiy. Being conk trabavd of war, they cannot be a'lowed to be im: ported into France by neutrals, which render them: selves liable to capture by us for having such artielet on board. The other articles, though not contra: band of .war, are not the produce of this Country or her colonies, and therefore we can have no interest in encouraging or giving effect to these licenses-1. quite the contrary: An Evening Pper of yesterday contains the fol lowing m)sterious paragraph : " The town was agitated last night, by a report, that a female of great distinction was missing.—We have heard a great deal on the subject, but, in a ca; of so much importance, it would be very improper to say more, without mature consideration, and up on undoubted fads." Mr. Prophet WHITBREAD was woefully out in his reckoning when he predi6led such melancholy events last year as to the fate of Portugal. It is to be hoped that he will manifest more of the true spirit of prophecy respecting the fate of Drury-Lane l'heAffeVariti•the rapid manner in which the edsfice • • • • is tising sheWs that he is not likely to be erroneous in ibis . prognostications. Indeed it has been coati det!ltl'ymi`enetrted that he means to complete the St ructlVe fi'orti his own resources, if all others should fail, which, however, can hardly be the case, as matters at present wear so promising an aspect. Several persons who have recently tied to Cala bria from Sicily, relate, that the town of Catana, which is seven leagues from the crater of Etna, greatly threatened by the torrents of lava with which the valley.of I\lizzara is already filled. I_,lssiv.wiCek,. as a sentinel belonging to the picket, gu . rCat'/Ydxley barracks was on his post at one of rita l eit , gi,4ls, a French prisoner asked leave to go throstgill . ; of being questioned as to his business, he said tw:ltstas going for a bucket-full of water'; ert which the soldier observed, that he already had one t(whicht was at.ii ally the case),—but scarcely were the woods pronounced, when the prisoner threw the contents of the bucket -la the sentinel's fate, which sudden application had such an effea upon him, that he dropt his firelock ; this was taken advantage of by -the Frenchman, who unfixed the uayonet, and ran off with it. The soldier, however, quickly re covered hi, recollection, and having snatched too th2t piece he discharged it at the prisoner ; the bad ens tered belOw the shoulder and came out at his breast, but did not cause instant death—we understand that the wounded man is still alive. . William Smith, a gipsey, resident in C.irnbridr,e i has been apprehended on. suspicion of being c ,nw cerned in the murder of M;. Carter and leis daush. ter, at Cratfield, iik Suffolk, about 18 years ago.--• He is committed •to the town gaol for further exa' mination, Raid the number of depredations which have bcen'enliittiltted at Boston, in Lintoinshire ; dues in thilait:ten days, arid the cessation of bosi• neks . during: that period in StamfOtda ire think it probable' that some of our marauding corps are on a Visit at that town. Athong other lit de iticuriiOril we have the followthg to record t On Wed t+,d4y etien. ing an attempt, sithilat to that made to roll tbd clerk of Mr. Duggan a te* days befol'e, was made on the clerk of Mr. Hart, merchant. On his way to Wiltiatn• place with the eash , 36ti from the offiCe, a fetid* dame up to him near the church and attempted to wren the box from him; he did not SatcedJ, hoskever, add the boy escaped with his charge by taking tb his heels. On Friday night some malitious persons broke into the breWhothe of Mr. Sutton ; • the Wiaite Horse, Id West-stre e t, and let out of the tat a brewing o f beer ; the whole of Which was 111 consequent o lost.