The Sun. — London, England, 1812-10-29 00:00:00

XtVv - PIuttiAMENT. MEMBERS RETURNED. Weymouth and Melcombeßegis.—Sir John Mur ray, Bart. Right Hon. T. Wallace, John BrOad-'0 hurst, Esq. Henry Trail, Esq. Berkshire.—Charles Dundas, Esq. Hon, Richard Carmarthenshire.—Lord Robert Seymour. Yarmouth (Isle of Wight).—Rithatd Wellesley, sq. Sir IL C. Montgomery, Bart. Newton (Isle of Wight).--Hon. G. A. Pelham, B. P. Blashford, Esq. Saltash..—Majorßussell,lV.Prenclergast, Es . q. Plympton.—Col. Duckett, --- M'Donald, Esq. Argyle (County).—Lord G. Campbell. Dungarvon.—General Walpole. (Ireland).—J. Laurence Cotter, Esq. ..ithlone.—J. Wilson Croker, Esq. Linzerick (City).—Colonel Vereker. _ CONTESTED ELECTIONS. CLASS, blindas: Neriilf . .1717 Hallett— .... 1:374 525 WEYMOUTH AND MELCOMBE REOIS.—FxNAL CLOSE. Sir J. Murray ' 617 I Mr. 11. Trail .403 Rigb,t lion; 'l'. Wallace 430 Mr. K. Steward 343, • Mr. liroaquir'st ...... 418 1 M. W. Williams 300 C.tRDIO BOROUGH ELECTION.-State of the Poll, Oct. 24, 1812 : , For Hon. Colonel Vanz,baa. . For Mr. H. Evans. Firt day ''. .Second day 61 55 !Third day ' 52 49 ,Ifosirtli day: 0 .0 q 9 ~rifth day Sixth dav 40 Si Seventh day ' 35 • '3l Eighth day • 4.1 4 O Ninth day... 9B . .1 33 Tenth ii•dY R.J , 32 Elevelitli 'clay 1 SI ' 28 Aris . Majority for Hon. Colonel Vaughan.. 27. ELECTION ANECDOTES. The Pig and the Phtinper.-,--At a former contest for the city of Rochester, the candidates, a Mr. Fairfax and Sir R. Twisden, were desirous of re ceiving the vote of a barber, who hung back in expectation of receiving some special mark of fa vour in returnfor his suffrage. Mr. F. going into his shop to he shaved,. complained that the razor -was not in order, in consequence of which Tonsor said, he bad been some time in want of oil, and -could:not set his razors. Tam one of :your friends, 'said Mr. F. and you shall not want for oil. The same day he sent him a large jar of oil, supposing it would induce flit barber to give him his vote.-- Sir R.T wisden having been informed of the cir cumsta7e, went also to be shaved, and took oc casion to observe that the barber had a good stye in his back yard, but no pig; the barber of course intimated that he was too poor to stock that part of his ?remises. If so, said Sir Roger, _you shall -not want a pig long, and a • few hours after; the barber received a good fat pig as a present. 'The next day he gave a plumper for Sir Roger, and being asked why he did not vote. for the candi date ‘vlio gave him the oil, he observed; it is true I did' receive a 'jar of oil, hut, hang it, Some bow or other, Sir Roger's pig knocked it do*n.. The late Dr. Barrowhy interested himself very much in favour of Sir G. VandepUt, who was no minated in opposition to the Court party. At this period the Doctor had for. some weeks attended the noted Joe Weatherby, naster of the Ben Jon son's Head, in Russell-court, Covent-garden, who'had been greatly emaciated by a nervous fe 'Ver.—Dhring the Doctor's . visits Ole patient's wife, not knowing - that Gentleman's attachment, had frequently expressed her uneasiness that her Joey could not get up and vote for her good friend Lord Trentham. Towards the end of theelection,' when .very uncommon' means were used on both sides to obtain the suffrages of the people, the Doctor, calling one morning On .his patient, to his great astonishMent, found him up, and almost dressed by the nurse and her assistants.—" ney day! what'S the cause of this ?" exclaims Bar 7 .rowby,". why should you get out of bed 'vithoht .my directions ?" Dear, Doctor," says poor Joey in broken accents, " I am going to poll." "To poll !' replies the Doctor with great warmth, supposing that he had espoused the same side that his wife did, " going to the devil you mean Why do you not know that the' cold air must de stroy you ? Get toped, man ; get to bed, man, as fast aiyou can, or immediate death may ensue." —" Oh, Sir, if that be the case," rejoins the pa tient with faultering accents, " to be sure I must act as you advise sue; but I love my country, and, thought, Sir, while my.wife was out, to seize this to go to Covent-garden Church, and vote for Sir G. Vandeput." " How, Joey, for Sir George !" —" Y.is, Sir, I wish bins heartily well."—" Do you "i" says the medical politician, " hold, nurse, ;don't pull off his stockings again ; let me feel his ptrfre. Hey ! very well ! a . good firm stroke; (egad, this will do ! you took the pills I, ordered last night ?"—" Yes, Doctor, but they made me :Very sick."—" Aye, so muchthe better. How did your master sleep, nurse ?"—"- Oh ! charmingly, Sir," replies the nurse.—" Did he ? Welt, if his mind be uneasy about this election, he must be ihdulged ; diseases of the mind greatly affectthose cif the body, Come, come, throw a great coat or blanket about him—it is afine day-,--but the sooner be goes the better—the sun will be down very goon—flere, here, lift him up—adad ! a ride will do him good—he shall go to the hustings in my chariot." The Doctor was directly obeyed, and poor Joe Weatherby was carried in the chariot o the place of poll, where he gave his vote ac cording to his conscience—and two hours after Lis medical friend had left him at his own house, lie 4bsolutely departed this lite, loaded with the reproaches of his beloved wife, and of the Court party. Tuesday evening an elderly• Gentleman, named Cashmere, who resides at Brompton, was stopped in one of the narrow lanes leading to the Swan, by two ruffians, who after having rifled his. poc kets of their contents, were proceeding to corn- mit further acts of violence on his person, when they were alarmed at the approach of a female effected pas- Ca % seng their escape.er, and instantly 'darting - tfirough'the .hedge, SOUTH A.MEititA. • A Gentleman arrived a, day or two ago 11.01) the We3t Thdiesy brings: the, following intelli gence:,— " Trinidad, Sept. 16, " r ile late rebellion and consequent civil war. in the kingdom of • Veneznela is at an end, in all its branches. The whole of the territory, with the exception of- the small village of Guiria (si tuated on the western coast of the gulph of Paria) chiefly inhabited by Frenchmen, have returned to the allegiance of Ferdinand the Seventh, without any foreign force to compel theiu, but by the ge.= neral wish of the inhabitants. Don Diego Mon- . teverde, a Captain in the ls'avy, who, about the' middle of March, set out from Coro, with an original force of only two-hundred and fifty regu- . lars, at, the request of the Oppressed inhabitants, having beat Miranda and his partisans in several, rencontres, and taken Puerto Cevillo, July 6, and' all the inland districts, the inhabitants of which eagerly embraced the opportunity of shaking, off the yoke of Miranda, and return to the allegiance of their Sovereign, entered Caraccas, July 27, under loud acclamations olthe inhabitants. Mi randa and several ringleaders, (amongst whom were: many Frenchmen), :were taken, in attempt ing to escape; on the news of the success, of Monteverde, and the ; desertion of Miranda's troops, the Provinces of Paraguay and Barce lona, with their capitals, hoiSted the standard of Ferdinand VII. and arrested their revolutionary Chiefs, " Barcelona hoisted Ferdinand's flag, July 16 ; Carrupa and Rio Barbos, August 10 ; Cumana and Marguerita, Aug. 26 ; all the. Coast within the Gulph of Paria, as far as Point Prida, hoisted the flag, .Aug. 30." " SEPTEMBER 1 - I.—The news of. Guiria having hoisted Ferdinand's flag has justtarrived.7 f‘ SEPTEMBER 12.-•:-This moment: arrived here in an open boat, Gaynerns, one of Miranda's Aides-de-camp, escaped frOm Cumana. .He-con firms the whole of the foregoing intelligence, and further states, that Miranda, and about 40. Other principal revolutionary Chiefs had been tried, and sentenced to death. The Marqiiis de Toro, a principal leader, had escaped from La Guira, in a schooner bound to America." COOKE, TIIE ACTOR.—The death of this eccen tric character is 'confirmed. It took place on the 26th ult..at-New York: lie was to be buried - 1)n the following day: lie had just completed his 57th year. The.disorder which closed his mortal career was a dropsy and schirrous liver. Ile - had married again in America, i circumstance which proved very fortunate "for him, as it enabled him to experience through his" illness unrethitteclat tention from his new'connections. A& au actor, his merits and defects are too Well known to re quire any particular connuent. ! 'lt may, however,be observed; that alfogethei• hi,s.talents were con fined, and such as hardly' Justified the popularity which attended him. fie was very deficient in taste, and wholly deVOid of grace. In characterS dtawn..;,wilh energy,' and which required bitter sarcasm in the detail, he was very :successful, as Was evident in his Sir Archy and Sir Pertinax, in which he displayed strong - humour, as well as precision in the dialect. Indeed, is hardly enough to say 'that' be Was devoid of grace, as his action was rein:4ll:4l)le for peculiarity, and„ a rough disregard of all eleganCe and dignity of de meanour, However, he was an original performer. The Merit he posseSsed was found2d on observa tion 'and experience, and his actin.- d... displayein parts suitable to his abilities and habits, a vigor ous spirit and accuracy that gave the energy of nature to his pertmmances. Altogether he pos sessed a coh;iderable share .of merit, and it will he a very difficult matter to fill the space which he has left in the theatrical world. • A newly diseovered Iskind in the latitude of about - 54 South, named Macquarrie Nand, in Compliment to the Governor .of,the'Dritish pos sesSions of Austr4- Asia, has opened an addi tional fruitful field tno athenturers in the Seal Fishery; and the enterprize of those individuals who prosecuted the fishing at Macquarric has . been 'abundantly rewarded.—Upwards of 80,000 seals; had been caught. at that Island in the course of a few Months. On Tuesday,, as Mr. WELLS, with his btother and wife, Were returning from spending the even ing, about eleven o'clock, they were stopped at the corner of St. Ann's-court, Deau,street, by no less than eight villains, who, 'after surrounding then), attempted to rob them. They 'immediately called the , watch, and seized one of the villains, when the rest made off. During tjle last week four Luddites have passed through Leeds, on their way to York Castle. = On Saturday week, at night, four villains 'attaek ed the house:of - Mr. Joseph Hirst, of Lepton, clothier, one of wham fired at Mr. Hirst's son, and:the ball grazed"the top' of his bead, passing through his hat. Numbers are apprehended daily, and - taken before-Mr. Radcliffe, at Mans- Bridge ; indeed that indefatigable ;Magistrate is wholly occupied in the examination 'of these infa tuated people. • About three o'clock-. on Wednesday morning a respeCtable inhabitant of. Staiths; a considerable , fishing 'town, about. .1 . 0 miles north of Whitby, was awakened bythesea beating against his house. On getting up,.he found the water a foot-ileep in the lower room, and the road to his house was overflowed . occasionally by the sea, 6 or 7 feet 'deep. Waiting an opportunity, he got out into the street, and found the scene awful in. the ex treme, the raging billows threatening destruction to all the lower part of the - town. A house be longing to Mr. Smales, shopkee , ,,)er, situate near high-water mark, and surrounded by a massy wall or staith, near 100 feet thick, Was shook to its very foundation. The resistance' Offered by this wall to the 'heavy • seas which broke against it; caused, at every repercussion, a body of water to rise a considerable 'height above 'the house, upon which it descended with amazing force; At in tervals, the water was throWn by this . means to the full' height of the cliff, at the foot of which the town is built, equal to 150 feet. About 80 feet of this'whil, or staith,,is worked away, though many of the stones which composed it were up wards 'of eight tons weight, which will re4ider it necessary to take down the house, to prevent its falling. OLD IIAiLB WEDNESDAY, OCT. 28. Ti Morning- the Sessions commenced at the 0:.11 .I.lailev; before Baron Tnomtsor.i, Mr: Jiptice - The prisoners-first put, to the ba:r, Were; George Sampson I;7mi-ton and -George Morton' Hutton, who were capitally indicted for giealing. a large (limn tity of Irish linen, to the value of.lol, and up warls, in the dwelling-house. Of John Morgan,. linen-draper, in Old Bond-street. • a long examinaion of the prosecutor, John Morgan, by Mr,,ANDIEws, and a strict cross-examination by. Mr. 64NEY, itappeared, 'that about the time of the robbery, he was very much "embarrassed _in his circumstances, as several heavy bills; ainotint ing to 3,5001. were becoming due, and he had rot sufficient .Honey to meet one-fourth of the demand. At this time he was at Hastings, endeavouring to dispose:of his wares ; arid while lie ~ s:asTthCre, the prisoner, Wharton, first by letter, and afterwards .by his personal. attendance; endeavoured,accord ing to the prosecutor's statement, to prevail upon him to connive at .a scheme of pretended iohbery, to defraud the creditors. This suggestion the witness asserted that he received with the utmost indignation : yet, notwithstanding the baseness of the proposal, "he treated the prisoner with the utmost kindness, walked with him, drank Stith him, and carried hiM in - his gig part of the way on his return to town,. and still entrusted hith in 'perfect confidence . with the care of his business. As soon as the prisoner returned to town, the supposed robbery was committed, and an account of it was sent down to Morgan, who nevertheless did not appear in town till two days aferwards.— Two of the creditors of Morgan having entertain ed some suspicion of Wharton, commenced a pro secution against him' and Hutton . ,' -but thought proper afterwards to drop it, when Morgan himself became the prosecutor. „ • The story'ofMorgan appeared so contradictory , and unsatisfactory to the .Ttiry, that they gaVe Credit to the prisoner *Wharton's ,account, echo said it was a plan contrived between himself and his master to defraud the creditors'hya'pretended robbery:. They, therefore, acquitted both the prisoners ; and,, indeed, there was not a title of evidence to support the charge against Hutton. There were three other indictment's against the prisoners, but Mr. Alley ,alleging that the cir cumstances were precisely the same, the prisonerS were of course acquitted. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, OCT. 28. A man named 11ealy stood.indicted for a vio-. lent assault on a :Mrs.. GoOdman, and a man n:-tined Wilkins, on•the 10th of August last, at It appeared; from the' evidence, that the proseputrix, aethe time of the assault, was a bilsk widow, and the hostess of the Bird-in-hand pUblie-honse, Highgate. The'defentiant, Healy, is an _Hibernian, -ands gardener in : the same neigh bourhood. The prosecutor was also an inhabi tant of the same place ; and both were 'competi tors for the fair hand of this, agreeable witioW.L-- Healy, it seems, thought him Self the favoured lover ; and as he had obtained his own consent to the, match, he considered him Self bona file as the host apparent to the Bird-`in-hand, and relied that he . Should-be very speedily called to the bar. The widow, however, who was a matron of ex perience, had heard,. probably, that Irish gentle men were fickle, and finding her other suitor tlie more ardent and obsequious lover, and'llu:t he was some seven years younger and brisker than Healy, gave the latfei• formal notice to diicontinue his suit. Vexed at his disappointment, he went to the house on' Sund.riy morning, the 10th of August, and called for some dr:nk ;7 but lie *as told he could not be served. Not choosing to take this answer from n servant, the lady,.r. - 11 , t war up stairsi.dresNinz. for the -day, calrie down to enforce her orderS;by repeating the refusal of liquor to Mr. Heals., who, exasperated by her Unkindness, very eallantlykruiCked her down with a forMidable shilelab he carried, and while she was prostrate, indU . stribusly repeated blows.' Her screams brought his favoured rival to her aid and be, with another gentle touch from the same instru ment, was laid across Mrs. Goodman, and then tolerably well thrashed for falling. .Healy was found Gui/ty, and sentenced to four teen (lay's imprisonment for the former, and seven days for the latter assault. A respectable elderly gentleman, named Freeman, of 'Judd-place, Somers -town, was indicted for vio lently assaulting, on, the sth of. September last, Wm. Singleton, a boy of eight years old. From the tenour of the evidence, it appeared, that the defendant resides at Judd-place, and that there is before his door a flow Cr-plot with some poplar trees inclosed by a railing. That-about noon on the day above stated, three I•ttle boys. had got within the railing, and one of them had climbed up a tree, and was breaking off the branches. Mr. Freeman ran out to catch them, but they ran away..; two . Of thent ekaped, but the little prose-, Cutor not being able to outrun the defendant and his servant, was made "prisoner, brought back into the defendant's .the doOr shut upon him, and the hall window, which waS raised, pulled doWn; when the defendant gave him, seve ral strokes of a bamboo walking-stick upon the arms, ribs, and face, which made the child, serum out loudly, and left livid. marks of severify on every point of contact where he was struck. Hav ing received this severe chastisement, he was shoved out of the house. A man named Roberts, who was accidently pas sing, saw the child seized and taken in, and saw. him shortly afterwards -turned out, 'crying : and agitated ; and took •him ltbme to his 'father,, who is. a journeyman carpenter in the neighbourhood. The child's mother, went to the defendant' to 're monstrate on his* severity, and. stated the bruises the child had received; but he neither made apo-: Logy nor compensation, and only offered her a letter; to a Dispensary, where the child might haVe charitable assistance. The father went after wards; and repeated this remonstrance ; and the only consolation he received was, that the traver ser told'him he had often beaten boys until they were not able to stand ; and that he had often seen men whipt till the flesh was stript from their bones. The Jury found the traverser guilty, and the sentenced hini 'pay it fine of 4ds.. to- King. A young man named fielder stood indicted fOr a violent assault upon a'Ali% J. F. SepteMber last, at Ponder's End. The prosetnit9i .is a respectable silk-dyer, residing at Ponder's End, 0.10 The defendant, the agent of a booksellei, etn ployed,. like many Others, to traverse the villages round the metropolis, to leave printed catalogues or lists at every house of the.bOdks they are coai missioned to sell, calling again for the catalogue...3, and receiving such orders as they: Can elicit by their persuasion in this Way of traae: The de fendant was commissioned, amongst other work:,, to urge the sale Of a new, splendid, hot-pressed, and highly adorned edition of the Bible, in nurnly:r:;. A carter had just brought a large-sack of pots toes to:the ,hOuse of Mr. Williams, and bad car. Tied it within . his gate. The defendant ith mediately followed him, with, hi. c.talOgties and Bible nun:hers. Mrs. Williarirs-lold hint, " slk did not want none of his rubbish;'' and Mr. Wil liarn'S, wlio Was in ills inquire; and : hearing some tercation, 'came - to and to .semi the de fendant off his Pir..".thisesi.:-.134.. was greeted, by him with the appellation of -"a, riciitY , •pupicyr')-lle desired - the defendant to go, out of hi,s and,. •on- hiS declining, endeavoured to push' him out ; but the defendant struck _ him a desperate blow with his fist under the left eve, :and cut him ca sevci'av, that he bled for four hour;. He livid not used any aousive language to the defenda”.4 bordotre any thing more than merely endeavour to-push him-off his premises. The Jnry found the traverser Guilty, and he vac sentenced to - three days imprisonment. POLICE. SHADWELL—Mitrder.—lt was reported, some time• ago, that the. Captain of the•ship Adventure ; employed in the South Sea Whale Fishery; while in the act of striking a Whale, was 'carried over board by the tackling, and drowned, and that the ship wis afterwards lost, off Cape Lopez, on her passage,home., The agents of the ship in Lon don, having' heard • that ,some men, who were known to be of the crew, had arrived at Liverpool sent down to have them examined relative to the loss of the. Adventure, in order to settle with the Underwriters. A ''env days after this, a young man, named Henry Maides, who was an'appren tiee in the Adventure, made his appearance in Lon don, and gave the following information to Mrs. Keith, the Captain's wife, residing in - Wapping: —That as the ship was returning. home from the South Seas (she was then near the Island of St Thomas; :a Portuguese settlement), when the crew, who were composed chiefly of Danes„, mutinied, and murdered Captain_ Keith, the mate,,, and a cabin-boy, being all . the Eng lish then on board except the i witness. .They also murdered: two Blacks,. who were natives of Cape Lopez. Thi:s . appears -to have been with a view to possess .themselves of the ship, and to remove those Who might afterwards appear against them in evidence. This communication to the Captain's Widow was forwarded by her yesterday to the Magist.otes: at Shadwell, who immediately sent for the boy, Maides, in order to examine him more partjotlarly . tipon these facts. lie stated, that he, as' likewise the Captain, were in bed, when theyheard a noise' upon deck. The cap tain rail up to see what it was, and some time at ter the boy•followed him. He then saw them. in the act -of throwing the Captain overboard, ,whom; it appears, they had previously murder ed by knOcking his brains. out. The iiist alarm was occasioned, as the witness supposed, by their murdering the mate and others, whom they bad ,by this tiine.likewise thrown overboard. The witness was next threatened to be murdered, as the other apprentice had previously been; but they only enjoined him never to divulge the cit. , enmstance, and swore him to that effect. On these conditions, he was permitted to live. The ship was afterwards scuttled by the crew, and sunk, when they took to the boats, being eleven in num ber, eight in one boat, and three in another.— They arrived at the Island of St. Thomas, frOm whence they ,got on board of 'another ship ; • and 'came to Liverpool, where some of them are now in the hospital sick, it seems, with a .fever and ague. WHITECHAPELe--A French Officer of the rank of Colonel, who had broken his parole, was yes terday apprehended in Five Bell-alley, by the ofl ficers, Millar and Freeman, of the Whitechapel Police, by whom he was conveyed to the Alien Office to be identified. combination among Journeymen.—A prosecution .was lately brought at Kelso before the Justices of the Peace of the county of -Roxburgh, at the in stance of the Procurator Fiscal, against a number of journeymen shoemakers, for having entered in to a combination far regulating the wages to be paid by the masters. It appeared that such a combination had been entered into—that inone was subscribed and collected for the members who refuSed to work below the wages fixed by, the so ciety, and for the support of their families—that they were connected with similar societies at a distance, both in England and Scotland—that when any of the journeymen belonging to such societies .eft their place of residence, on being re-i fused the wages they . demanded, were furnished with tickets, entitling them to support from the societies in the towns they went to, so long :Is they remained out of 'work, and in the case of pro seeutions 'being brought against them for their conduct as members of such societies, relief was to be afforded them from other societies with whom they were connected, to enable them to pay the fines and expellees incurred. In a Court holden on the 9th inst. four of the defe,viers, namely, William Lillie, John OiniWoli, Alexander Bu chan', and John Bell, being. found guilty, were committed to the co-may gaol for 1 , 1 days. Jolla Pringle another o'the defenders, had absconded, and has not since been heard of. The Justices, on pronouncing judgment, pointed out the illega lity of such combinations ; and -the bad effects of them even to the delinquents themselves, and at time intimated, that should a similar instance again come before them, they would inflict a more severe punishment.