The Sun. — London, England, 1812-10-22 00:00:00

IZEJECTMI:ADDRESSES. have Wore been indebted to a very inge nious Work under the above, title, written, as we havereason to believe, by two getktlemcn, brethren in genius as well as in consanguinity, to whose talents we have often been obliged,, and hope to he more so for future favours. The following, though it does not belong to the class of Addresses suppose d . to have been rejected by the Dru r y -lane Committee, is humorous as a travesty of a. cele brated soliloquy. " MACBETH. Enter Macbeth 'in a red night cap. Page following with a torch. • Go, hoy,'and thy goodmistrese tell (She knows thatmy purpose is cruel,) I'd thank her to tingle her hell - As soon as she's heated my gruel. Go . , get thee'to bed and repose, To sit, up so late is a scandal; But ere you have ta'en off ybur cloaths Be sure that you put out that candle. - • Ri fol de rol toI de rol 101. 'My stars, in the air, bere'sa. knife! - I'm sure it cannothe a hiim! I'll catch at the handle, odd's life, And then lAA not'cut varthrimb. • I've got hinti!—no, at bird again, . • Cowrie, come, I'm not fond of these jokes; This must be some biao.Of the brain : Those witches are given to hoax. I've one . in my pocket, I know, My wife left' on purpose behind her; She bor'o-lit this of Teddy-high-ho, The po.,r Caledonian grinder. I see thee again ! o'er thy middle Large drops of red blood now are spill'd .Tust as-much as to say diddle diddle, Good Duncan; pray come and be kill'd. 'lt leads Ili his chamber I - swear; I tremble a.mt ouake.cvery joint.; No dog nt ti , e scent of afiare, - Ever yet made a cleverer point. Ah no! 'twas a dagger of.gtraw,.. GiVe mehlinkers.th. save tne from starting; The knife'that I thought that I.saw, • Was nought but my Eye r etty Martin. Now o'er this tertestrial hive A life paralytic is spread, For while the - One half is all; e, • Thenther is sleepy and dead• Ring. Duncan, in. grand majesty I - las ;:ot m state bed for a slionze, ry, lent 111T1my slippers, so I ' MAy certainly stand in his shoes. Elow softly ye rnurmering gales Ye feetronze no echo in walking, For though a dead Mari tells h o tales, Pcad walls are much given to tall.;ing. This knife.' shall be in at the death, I'll stick him, then off safely get. Cries the world . , this could-iMt he Macbeth, • Forhe'd ne'er stick at any thing. yet. • , Hark, hark, 'tis the signal by Boles, It .iounds like a funeral knell; 0 hear it not, Duncan, it, tolls . - To call thee to heaven or hell. Or if you to heaven wont dY, • Butrather prefer. Pluto's 2E - ther. Criliy . wait a few - years till I die, - And we'll go to the Devil together. Ex_tract of s a letter from an Officer in the. Mar quis of WrELLigGTON'S Army, dated Madrid, Sep tember Ist : " I left Salamanca. on the '4:3d ult. and arrived here after a very pleasant journey. On leaving Salamanca, I had to pass over 'the field of battle, and travelled for four days. to Arevalo, on the same road that. the French' retreated, and though it was storethan a month. after the battle, it was excessively. unpleasant .from the stench of dead bodies - Of Frenchmen and horses still laying unburied ; the inhabitants are so enraged with the enemy, that wherever they fall they lay, if their own army have not time to bury theM, of which they had not much to spare on their retreat. , Af ter leaving Arevalo, the road was pleasanter ; we passed - over the Guadarama Mountains, and slept one,night at Palace of the Escurial, whichaS a very grand building, but muchilestroyed, though there are still some things well worth s 64 - , and some of the paintings, are very good ;. and the vaults where all the Kings and Queens of 'Spain are deposited in marble "urns, are extremely curi ous. On n;y arrival here - , I found head-quarters preparing to move, and - this morning they are 'roae. oil to* Arevalo, where they will arrive about three days. I have,stopped a few hours be hind, bat ,lIIUSt start immediately after dinner for a short ditstatice, to enable me to overtake them to-morrow; F shall be obliged to travel with all my baggage, near 811 milesin the next two days, and My-animals,have had oniyone day's rest since r left Salamanca. This i fine city, and a man with plenty of money might spend' his time very pleasantly ; and I. hope sonn to get back again, as we are now only going_tO drive the French out of the North,' When we shall return', and move down Soult. I arrived in time •to be present at the bull-fight given by the Governinent to Lord Wel lington and the Officers_of the Allied Army.. It was a very grand sight, when his Lordship enter ed his box, he was received with repealed' cheers , all the Lathes waving their handkerchiefs, ribbons, &c. Ho was dressed as a Spanish Grandee. Eight bulls were killed, and two horses in fighting them; they are turned out one at a time, into a very large place, surrounded by boxes, and are tact by some men with • darts, and others on horseback with lances 5 when the brill attemptsto 'attack the men _on horsebaek they turn' him oil' with the lances,' but if they fail, they generally get horses gored, and are obliged to fly over the railing to save themselves ; When he attacks the men they drop their cloaks,-which he tosses, and in the mean time they escape. into the lower boxes', over rail ins about five. feet high. After tcazing 'the bull for about ten minutes, one of the fighters comes forward, With a-sword in . one hand and his cloak in the other, which, when the bull 'darts at, he runs the, sword in between his shoulders through his heart, when the poorTheast falls almost imine diately dead; and ,on sounding - a trumpet, three mules, richly. caparisoned, are brought in, and draw him away, when they let loose another, and serve him in the same mannet. I went to the Prince's Theatre in the evening, which is a very good house, nearly as large as Covent Garden.— Thisanoraing I have been all over the Palace, the furniture, paintings, &c. 'are beautiful, and the whole building is very grand ; during my short stay, I. assure you I have lost no time. The Ta verns and Coffee-houses are as tedod as in Lon don, and every thing to be got . that a man. can wish far." , • LONDON : Printed by THOMAS WOOD, of Ng. 35, Maiden-lane,_ • Corent-gard.4l;• and Puhlitied by WILLIAM ARMIGER •SCRIPPS, South Moitt At the SuN 112, p•ancl, where ilaccrtiselnents. Ordcts:tor the Pirper, Litters fur the. 1;;;Iitar, ac. (Postitiaid); .1; , n-styeet, Grosvenor-qvare, gust be addressed. Lr.TTER MADE:IIOISL LE-DE CLA ,JN (Coniclaeled from oar. Paper of I'l - Way.) One night, during 'warm. weather. the keeper of the privy pprse and L.not thinking of the hoar, or. the,:apparition, had opened the window, and woe=ioaning over the balcony, when the struck eleyep. At.this, moment I,Ve beard the usual re• port of the musket, which drove us-irito the middle .Of the room, where we lay as if struck dead.— As. scion as we were.recovered of our fright, and had found that we bad received no' hurt, We'oom- pared- notes, ant found that each of us had re ceived a violent cuff, he, on the left side of. the head, and Lon the right. Recovered from our fright, we laughed most immoderately, like two fools as we were. 'rile fii\t night npthiug parti- cular happened but the, .night alter, being iu ,vited by Modemoiselle_Dumenil, to make one 'lva party at her house, I got into a hackney coach to go thither about eleven o'clock, .accompanied liy my waiting-maid. It happened to be a . clear moon-light night, and as the coach passed along the Boulevard's, which was then nearly built over, and whilst I was taking notice of the houses that had been erected, my attendant aAed me it it was not here M. de S. died% To this question I re plied, that, according to: what" had been told, it must be in one of those two houses, pointing at_ . the sArhe time with my finer. lanediately the , report. ot a ghn was heard, as beforc,at my:house, smilingly issuing - front one of the. two I had. pointed at. The coachfiran, supposing 'svewert: attacked by robbers; whipped his horses to mend their,,pace, and we arrived at Mademoiselle rnenil's, in a state of mind more easily to be con ceivedthan described. For my own part, I did not recover front the fright for a considerable time. But, after this night, .the same noise 'MIS never heard more : another, like that of clapping hands, succeeded it. This was continued, and appeared to he regu lated according to tithe,' or measure. As the lo dulgence of the public had accustomed me to , hear sonnds'of that sort very freqUently, I was inatten tive to these until some of my friends remarked to me, their having taken particular notice that this, noise was repeated constantly at my door at the hour of eleven. "We hear it very distinctly, (said they), and yet we see nobody ; this must certainly he something of the some kind with those noises you nave heard before." - M there appeared nothing so very frightful in this noise, as in the others before heard, I have lost the reCollection of the length of its corm.- nuance. As little did I attend to certain melo dious sounds which Uheard some tithe after- , .wards. It'Seemed as if some fine voicewas, pre luding or humming over an air, preparatory to the execution of . The sounds seemed to begin at some little distance from' my door, and to cease when arrived at it ; and, as in the cases already related, they were followed, vere distinctly heard, yet nothing was ever discovered that e could occa sion them. At the end of about two years and a half, no thing extrr ordinary was ever beard by me., or any of my family. 'About that time, I found the house I occupied, from its neighbourhood to the market, and the number of persons inhabiting under the same roof, to be disagreeable. i wished for a more quiet situation, not,only on account of the necessity of it, in order that I might pursite rvy studies without interruption, brit because my health, which' was declining, required it. Be sides, I was somewhat more easy in point of cir cumstances, and I wished to improve them still more. I was told of a house in the Rue du, Ma rais, which went at the rent of twelve hundred , livres. They informed me that it had been been pied for forty years by Racine ; that it was io ibis very house that he had composed his immortal works; and that he had died in it; tbA, after his death, it' had been inhabited by the, pathetic Lecouvreur, and that she likewise had died in it. The very walls of such a Mansion, (thought I) will inspire ine with the sublimity of the author, and the pathos 'of the actress ; this shall he my dwelling-ploce l ; therein 'will I and .therein 'will I die, ! Accordingly I agreed to take it; and I affixed a bill upon the apartments I was about to quit. Amongst the numbers who were in search of a house to reside in, . there, were many who came 'out of curiosity to look at mee As l was.rarely to. be seen off the stage, sonic people were desirous to view me when at home,. and without the dis guise of the theatre. They wi s hed to hear what I should' say, when:l had no speech .put into my mouth from the 'works . of Racine; Corneille, or Voltaire. lam inclined to hope, that I have not less morality off the stage than on it;. and that my conduct and sentiments are decently con..is tent ; but von know that me stature is diminutive, and..you must Undoubtedly have heard it asserted, that 1 was near six feet high. Now, as at home i , I employed none of those artifices which I prat- tised at the theatre, I was.there wholly mySelf, and I feared lest people; finding the shorter than they expected, might report me to be shotter..than 1 am. Iliad learned, - that whoever expects to be e nefitby an intercourse with men, must endeavout to deceive - them'; fortunatelyfor me, my country men Were at that time little given to' make re flections on 'things, and I had -1,--eaSon to think they believed that I grew daily taller and to you will say, why this digression ?• You; story is already span out' to too great a heng`th. A truce with • ythir remarks; lad finish your-nar rative. I confess yodr reprehension is very just ; but you asked me for this history ; I know not what you mean to do with it, yet I think I ought to omit no circumstance -.elating to it; there is not a single word that 1 - trace with my pen but brings to my recollection how near you are to my heart. Is it my fault if my feeling heart continues to de ceive roe, in spite of. years, sickness, and misfor tune? It is to'you 1 write.; lam inclined to be lieve that you attend to my little narrative, and will over-look the tedious dulness of it, with all that good humour which renders you so dear to your friends-, and gains you so Much esteem in all the societies of which you 'make a part. Alas ! it is with regret that I quit these pleasing ideas to pursue the sequel of my story. One day I was informed, that an elderly lady wished to see my a'partments . ; and, as it is a rule with me to pay the utthoSt possible respect to.age, w: - .titeA upon her inintediately: A cEtrtain etuo tioD,.for which I was not able to account, caused me to ey:amine her . person from head to foot, and my eniotion 'was' further increased, when Lob served: het acting the same with, me, I, pressed her to' take a seat, which she did; and indeed : W'e had both of us need enough 'ofbeing seated. We Continued silent for some time, but the eyes of both. of us discovered a desire of speaking. She knew of cOUrs'e who I Was, but uoknocv- ledge of herperson ; she therefore considered it as incumbent-upon her to, break this silence ; ac cordingly she began in the following manner : It is a long time, Mademoiselle, since. L have had 1 most earnest desire of ranking. myself amongst the nit►nber of yo:Ir acquaintance ; as I am no frequenter of the theatre, - and.asl. have no knowledge of . any person who has the happi ness to visit - yoti, and being moreover .unwilling to address vent by letter, lest any -explanation, in that way is►ight. leave -roc m for suspicions, and thus defeat my, purposes, I have therefore taken advantage...of the bill you have affixed for letting yonr :apartment, to introduce myself, and enjoy the satisfaction I have so long sought after. You will be good enough to excuse the liberty I have taken ; it is not to hire your lodgings that I mu conic hither, they are, indeed, above my sin►ple means ; but I beg, however, you will permit me to, see them ; any place which you have made. your residence must be interesting, to my curiosity ; your talents have obtained you such a degree of lame as can leave no doubt of your understand ing, and I see now that I have not been deceived. in the account I have received of your person; I wish :to know only if the descriptiom I have had of your apartments are equally exact, that I may follow my unhappy friend step by.step through all his hopes and disq - uictudes." To this I hastily replied, You cannot but see, iThl.ciain, that I am alreudy much surprise'!, and even alarmed, at your discourse ;tandevery word that pyopeeds from your lips -does .but increase my astonishment more and more. I ninit. therefore insist that you explain yourself as, to Jour errand hither, of whom it is you speak, and . who you are yolimlf. - lam not orie who can submit to be tr:fled wit:) You must, Madam, either explain .Ourself to my satisfaction, or I must beg you to leave my house. " You are to know, MadernOiselle," continued she, " that I, was the most intimate. friend of the deceased M. de S—, and the .only one he per mitted visits from during the lust year of his life. We have passed whole days, togethei. in talking solely of you ; one while speaking of you as a di vinity, another time describiJigyQtt to be a fury; I at the same time conjuring him to think of you no more, and be declaring _that his, love of you - should accompany him beyond the grave. But I perceive that your eyes are swimming in tears you will jtvt allow me to intrude only so far as. to ask What could induce you to make his life so miserable 5 and .why you refused one who enter tained so violent an affection for you, the conso- - lation of seeing you once more?" The heart is nut to be controlled, replied I; M. de was a deserving man, and had many good, qualities - , but his temper was vindictive, melancholy, and absolute, so that I dreaded his , love, ,as much as 1 disliked bis company. T,o have satisfied him I Must hive renounced all hu than society, and must have,giv-:n up my proles- . sion ; I was.as proud as I was poor; it was ever my maxim, and I hope it.will continue to be so, to be tinder. obligations to no one, and Co depend for support upon my ovn indlotry. I had a par tiality for him, anti ,therefore3l' strove what I. could'to make him entertain principles more con sistent . with prOpriety and justice; but it, was, all in vain, l'cotild . not pre, ail Arith 1 ; so, that, • ,• finding his ini'ituation nroceed` rather from violence of temper than the force of. his passion for me, I . cante to the cleerminatiou, Which I re solutely kept, of breaking, off all, connexion with him. The reasonlwby Irefus,ed to visit him. in ' his last moments, was, because the sight would have overpowered my feelings, and because, had I after that persisted,,in my,former resolution, I should but have appeared the more: cruel and in exbrable and, hail I compfied with his wishes, should have made myself the most miserable of women. - You haVe now, madam, heard. the mo tives of, my conduct, which I flatter myself is not, altogether so ,blameworthy. " I am far ft:int blaming it," rejoined the old lady, " I should think myself guilty of great in justice if I did ; we owe no 'Sacrifice of ourselves but to our - vows, to o,ur parents,. or our benefac tors ;. an4iit•this last respect, I know well it is not you - %kilo were under - Obligations, for I have heard him express Low, greatly he was in your debt on that ,core ; but: his overbearing disposi tion, and -Ilk love tyrannized over him ; he'was not maste: of himself, and your last refusal' to - see, hint cert limy hastened his end. When his ser vapt rot trued..with the message, exactly at half an bout pu. , ,t. ten o'clock, (for he counted every Minute'as , it -pissed after he bad sent him to your house), findl told him that You mere positively de - terminc duever to Stye hiamore, he remained silent for a minute or two,lhen; taking me by the hand, he pres-ed it in an agony that alarmed me, pro 7 nouneing these words at the - same time, Oh the cruel woman.! -She shall: safer for this refusal —I will haunt her as long after death as I have followed her whilst -living 1 endeavoured to soothe him, but he was no more." I believe, 'my dear friend, I need not tell you what I felt when the old gentlewoman pronounced rhese last WordS ; the correspondence betwixt them and the noises Lhad so repeatedly been tor mented with, instantly rushed upOn my mind, and tilled me with terror and astonishment. lat first imagined that all the powers of Heaven. and Hell had combined to render my life wretched . ; hut the quiet I afterwards exper-ienced; and time, with the aid of reason and reflection, veFtored calMness to my breast. I thought within myself, that, as the course of things continued to be-al ways the same in.the universe, so was it not pos., sible that a dead body should be restored to life ; that, as the existence of a God was discoverable t in e vety tit:mg tirbtain us, he must he just and merciful - ; and, that when He, ill his, appointed time, thought proper to summon any living soul to quit this earth, There could be no return to it. And, 1 said tb Myself, wLo am 1 that I should suppose: 1, am.become an object of Almighty ven geance Th0u.,,, ,.1 .1 tie vilight judge. prope,r in his toidisc.:ver, by alteraticul;of -- the progress7af-nat..ire,, eiii:ex his wrath or his ben c-. ticence, and therebv.slinv t:let the race of man is the object of his care '; vet that aliy of mankind, who, compared to the whole of the litimanrace, is but iigrain of Ts'and to . this globe of earth we inhabit, :sliould become the inasked•victim of his cLastisement, seems neither probable uor c - misistent. prai.Se*hiip, Jet . us tnc.rit his divine, protection, and let - us not be presumpt ui , ns Reasoning in this manner, scrutinizing into my own•coneience, anal fiinling nothing in what ever had happened that could tend - either to my edification or eorKection, I have been inclined to think the whole of what I have related to be the effects-of chance. I know not the nature of 'chance_; but. this I can to. believe, that xviiat is so termed, has the greatest influence over all•that is passing in thig You are now reica , :cd. This is the whole of, my.history, and. of my obseyyations on it. Make what use, of them you please. If it be your in tentions to communicate this letter to any one, I beg, of you only, in that case, to use the initial of the name ; I have sent it•to you at length, that, , you may judge by such confidence, as well as by the labour which`this letter has cost me in pen ning, under my present weakness of body, and, mind, the perfect attachment and very highes teem, with which I am,4c. • At Ross fair, on 'Thursday, there was but a small shew aril the' few that were dis posed ofsold at reduced prices,: Of good hor.set and si- t co there was liitewise a - scanty supply ; and few buyers attending, the same Was extreine ly dull. Best cheese sold from, 86s, to 1;4. and... - second from.66s. to 70s. percivt. WTelch Butter, - in tubs, averaged front Ns:. 6d, to 155.6 d. per stone. During.. the burry of the fair, a fanner bad-hit. pocket-book "stolen,.'. hills.to a considerable amount ; het the dep:Tliator was'. soon detected, and sent to Tlerelord gaol. Tie travelled with a female companion in a one-horse chaise, •and said his iianie Was Ricb<rl Duncan; A physician at Naples,. named Faracce, has, lately published a memoir, in which he under takes to prove that the human body may be reri ,, dered insensible to the power afire. He directs., it to be rubbed with the following embrocation ; One ounce and a half of allum, ,dissolved in four ounces. of hot water-; to 'this must. be added., one. Ounce of fish glue; and half an ounce of gum al - a : - bic. We suppose it is recommended, at this pe.- culiar momentyfor Alpe. use of the French army amid the burning:ruins of Moscow ! Burglary .--Two tWeves effLcted an eritrßuce into the shop of Mr. M`Kemzie, of Puitcne7- street, early onSun4y,even,ing, stole the till money to the amount of 111L--Thy:w,ere, seen with a glimmering- light in the shop, be Iz lodger, who. went APW:I# stairs for an, article. Re did not su,.peet them to, be thleves, until ran 013 1 ---and, unfortunately, haye not 'since beets beard of. .on, Sunday, evening last,. at eight o'clock, Mr. iipherte,i, one, of. the 'Common Councilmen' of Ward of.Farringdon Within, was stopped in Qut tcr-!mle, Citcapside, within a fe‘V yards Of leis own house, by. alang of•genteellv dressed men, .one whom put a handkerchief 'his, mouth, tiN laid hold of each arm ; they then tot*, his lvvitch from his pocket, and made their escape into Cheap side- ~ . . BIRTHS. ' • On: the Bth ult. at Bowsear Lodge, Cumberland, the Lady of Colonel Youngson, of a Daughter.. On the 11th inst. at his house in George's-square, Edin bu?gh, the . Lady of Gilbert Chisholm, Esq. of a Son. - On the 12th inst. at Keith-Hous,;, East Lothian, Lady Margaret-M‘Lean, of a Son. On Thursday last, in High-street., Portsmouth; Mrs. Read, wife of Mr. William Read, of a Daughter. On the 14th inst. in Prince's-street, Edinburgh, Mrs. Henry Dayid Ershin-, of a Son. The same day, at Nottingham-place, the Lady of Willizra Key, Esq. of a Son. • ' • On the 15th inst. Mrs. Lamhton, wife of John George Lambton, Esq. of Lambton-Hall, in the County' of Durliam, of a Daughter. On Monday last, the' Lady of Quarks Harris, Esq. of Bourn-grove, Southgate, .of two Daughters. Aititl ED. On the - 12th inst. at. Stolfe-uponLTrent; - Dr. Bent, of Bas ford; to Frances, secot:d daughter of Sir John Edeasor Heath cote, atongton, Staffordshire. lln MOndarlast,, at Castle, Coombe, Mfchael, Sum sion, Esq. of Coombe, to Miss Newman, eldest daughter oif E. Newman, Esq. of the former place. On the 20th inst. the Rel.. Isaac Nicholson, of Great Pax ton, Hunts, to Miss Mary Frances' Green, second daughter of the late Major Green, of l3uckdcn, - Bouts. Yesterday, at St. George the Martyr, Queen-square, .Rev. Thomas,Fry, Reetur of Emberton Bucks, to' iViss 4i4- dleton, of Bruswick-row, tineen-Sq:late. A few days sinz;e, Death, of Norwich, son. of Mr., Thomas Deistli, late Comedian of the Norwich Company, to Mi=,s Eliza Sudgon, Londou. Last week, F. Layton, ESq. of the Royal Marls, to .7e mima, youngest daughter of the late Rev: Dr. Plun*re, ter of 4ueea's Col,lrge, Cambridge, and, Prebendary of Nur wick. DIE!), On the 14th ult. in the nelghhourhood of Crayford, Kent, otheyine,,the wife of John Cowbell, Esq. of the Nory. On the 2d inst. at Hackney, Mr. Willian:Heather, Chart seller and Stationer, in Leadenhall-AtrE et. On Saturday last, at Chelsea College, John Wilson, Esi- Dekutv Treasurer. In Ilarzourt-3treet, Dublin, Barrett Tyrrell, l llii ch: try, iAthr County - of Kildare, lat e a Major ih the, Kil dare Militia, and one of the Magistratesof the said Cutuity. COAL MARKET, OcT. 21. Ships at Mnriret. Ships sold. Price.- 274 Sewr.istte .. . 19i.. . . 425. 0. t. 625. 3.. i. Of `4 ,, Juirriand . . . . Of . . . 4is. 3d. to — , s. Oil• 1 Stone c 04 1. .. . . . 0 . . . --S. od. to —.5. 04. PRICE OF STOCKS YESTERDAY. I3at* Stocli, . Old Ann , 5 7 Navy 5 per Cent. S 9 gxclieq. Rills, s3+d. per dap 4 per Cnt. nE4-. 2s. 4s. pr. p per Cent. Rrd. 57+1 Ditto, Md. per day, par, Is. ~, per Cent. Cons. at pr. Is. dis. Pank L. Ann: 141 15 14 15-16 Ornnium, 4ti4 pr. IndiA Stqvis, imperial :3 per Cent. India 80nd5,.2 , . 45. dis. Cons. for 25tli Nov. 58W .. wqn wxrpt x.c- LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Murnipg, 1.1 zaiptites after 4. I Evening, $G minutes after