The Sun. — London, England, 1812-02-17 00:00:00

POETRI: EPISTLE TO TIICLIVIAs MOORE., ESQ. 4 Y THE HONOURABLE WILLIAM RoUERT SPENCER Oh leave, dear Moore, oh leave arilhile The green hills of your native isle! lint come not with your seraph lyre, Your Muse of joy, your soul of fire; Not e'en your strains couli charm away The fiends which on my senses prey ; Fien Is, not with burning sulphur mired, But !aim Hell's "chillcNt winter burst; Fiends, who their icy javilins dart, At once to pierce and freeze the heart ! *rh, storms which shook my sumwpr days Slept to the music of your lays; The snowLblast of ibis wintry sky - • klears not the HalcyoWs lullaby. Conic, then, with mightier succours fraught, Your shield of philosOphic thought, Best patioiily when care invades, To lighten my unchequcr'd shades Bring me each day.dirfusing gem, Which beams in Reason's diadem, For sov'reign Reason lends to you Her armour and regalia too. The triflers think ) our varied powers Made-only for life's gala bowers To smooth Reflediun's mentor-frown, . Or pillow joy on softer down.— Fools ! —yon blest orb nut only glows To chase the cloud, or paint the rose; -- These are the pastimes of his might, Earth's torpid bosom drinks his light; rind there his wondrous pow'rs true measure, Death turn'd to life, and dross to treasure! I, 4F. Generally known by the d es i gnat i on of AWACREON 44°0 4a, a Gentleman of distinguished talents and learning. IPINDSOR, FEB. r 6. v. Yesterday the ArchhiSclps of CANTRRBURY and 4 01 1 R., the LORD CHANCELLOR, the Duke of MON ./110SE,, and Earl A YLESFORD , arr i ve d .at tlu Queen's L c 'dge, where they were received by Doctors Sir 14 "RN' HALFORD, HEBER DEN , BAILLIE,' and_ the . WILLIS'SWILLis's who bid their report of the state of t he K.ING, during thi-, past week, before their Lord- I hiPs, and in a short time afttrw;ircls they adjourned ule Castle where they held a Council 'with the ueen. • On Saturday files of the Calcutta, Madras, and Bo mbay Gazettesof the 26th August, came to hand, ...brought by the Countess Harcourt packet, from the i aland of Java. An Expedition, consisting of (our /essel,4, haring detachments of-troops on board, has sailtd from Bombay ,against toe Jowassimie pirates, 171 lb still infest the Persian Guiph and who have re cegtiY, by their desperate valour, aCtivity, and enter rise, Ill:A.001y rbarie .many valuble captures, but formed settlements along the coast. Thrir naval f o c) ;ce consiseeu or 45 sail of ditferent descriptions, Ptlt which they attacked the vessels of all nat ions . an attempt, however, to carry the ltlecauley, 7r ship, off C o u r j oun , b y uoard i ng, t h ey h ad been re Pnlsed with considerable loss. The conduct of ill's tribe, w h o h a d, i n t h e f ormer exped i tion against eir brethren, - been spared, had ex-ited some unea liaess at th e P ers i an C ourt, an d i n he mind of the 2 4111 fn of Muscat, and, combined with the hazarda P ersian loss t o w hi c h t h ey exposed the navigation of the Gulph, rendered their immediate chastise- 'grent an indespen sa bl e measure o f p o l icy on t h e part o the Indian Government. The Calcutta Papers, of the Bth July, state, that tf 9a lite had been fought at Cabul, between the army th kahmond, Shah, the reigning Sovereign, under command of the Prince Abb as , and a consider ad forco, uncles the orders. of a Chief named Ma (lltned Azid Khan, wh o h a d p rev i ous ly o b ta i ne d P o s session of the city. In thi s engagement . 300 0 fhill owers of the latte r were kill e d, an d one h a lf of ti shi ' of Cabill pillaged and burnt. Mahmoud " and Futteh Chan entered Cab u l s h or tly a f ter t battle, from Poshour, where Atte Mahmoud ‘ lias Po , ted. compantee of the 89 . h Foot have embarked 4t `-, aic , ilta, on beard the Bucephelus frigate, on a Particular service, w hi c h h as not transp i re d .— 46 y are under the command of-Capt. Oakes. PANTHEON OPERA.--A rehearsal of the proposed entertainments at this place was submitted to a ve r n um erous audience on Saturday last. Tl.'• Theatre "s be e en coinmodiously consirutted, and alto t zther l , Xl Lbiis a pleasing appearance. In addition w Bea- Coeetst, CAUVINI, MUIti.LLI, and h er vocal Performers, with whose talents the ;"usical world are ' well acquainted, Mr. FISCHER Cie forward for the first tune before ii,e a , ( , ) rldon public. H e h a d, as we before mentioned, Peared w i t h great ec b it at he Bath Concerts, un— the diredion of Mr. ASHE. On Saturday he } ; i i lab our ed un d er a co ld , w hi c h prevented au ln l'om . displaying his ery extraordinary voice to e rf t Hage. It is, w e und eri t an d, remar k a bl y pow -I,tl which was the case with his father, whom we h t ', l remember at t h e C oncerts at H anover-square, ipr 'ih were so cre di ta bl e to t h e taste an d enterpris ve° s Pit it of Mr. SALOMON. Mr. FISCHER is mil -1141.,6a11Y admitted to be a perfeel master of his art, -e when his p owers are i n full play,is• likely to et ,, ° flae a great favourite with the best judges. The kiertainniecit commenced with " God save the i t , s 7g >" which, under the t: res en t situatioii of our "'y estimable Sovereign, excised a strong interest, a i nc i t was rapturously applaud e d. Th e dancing was 1 ,,,., e 11 49 t pleasing, t h oug h i t a d ur f is of no compar i son i. l the PertZeniers at the King's Theatre. It ti, a S in a Morning Paper of this day, , ihe original Li cense was sent to t h e ii n - " I 'leon on S a t ur d a y l ast , an d t h at " a ll ques fi.-11, 01 ille ga li ty i s remove d . " W e have already ad c ' t ''Y declared our sentiments on the impolicy of bu illit ting so many f ore i gners i nto t hi s country, and su r e Ll Y one foreig n es tabli s h ment may be deemed T o - ' c ient for th e grat ification of the higher circle s . te sanction another of the same description ap tiears to. us t o b e , i n some d egree; putt i ng the pub-- v:fety to h azar d. I t i s enoug h' that we su ff er the N v i -418 rnis(ortune t o fi n d a . , s h e l ter among us to 'en they ;ire d r i ven b y op p ress i on from their own t o l / 1 1 ,!rh's, but as our enemy constantly attemptinghi e ffect Our ruin ly ail possible means, and when 11 1 1 3 e mtSsaries are sent all 'aver the world, and under s haPes arid_ forms, to facilitate his views, to give anti'llthorative sanction to a new influx of foreigners, to c It' ountenance their efforts in opposition to / I ; sh enteitanamviita, while we hav e .already ari te u stitu tion, exclusively supported by foreigners, 14, 8 1 excite ieuch .surprze iinong the people a t lit; et, a nd cannot b u t b e cons id er ed as a very i tupo• rilleasure. iiii•i• ii6r3 izi'. ARCHES COURT OF CANTERBURY, DOCTOR'S COMMONS, Fzn.i's. BOYD AGAINST BOYD. • • This was a cans of di vorce ; or separ ation from bed, board, aiii rnional cohabitation, btought by Charles Boyd, E q against Isabella, his wife, on the ground of adultery, alleged to have been cona 7 mitted with a Mr. John White. It ?ppeared in evidence that Mr. and Mrs. Boyd were married on the 29th August, 1807, and that they continued to cohabit together as man and wife till the latter end of the year 1809, when she quit ted her husband's house, ,which was situated in Sid mouth-street, Brunswick-square. The leading fads pleaded in the libel were, that Mrs. Bond had formed a connection with Mr. White, a Gentleman resident in Millman-street ; and that during the absence of Mr. Boyd, who belonged to the Cust,nn-house, they frequently met each other, and walked OW ttko;et her. That on one particular occasion they went to a place called Highbury Bain, where they had a kivaie room, and continued alone together for some time; that afterwards they re sorted to the Key, in Chandos-street, where they had also a private room. • That, ,on one occasion, Mrs. Boyd was watched, and seen •to go into the Key, 'in Chandos-street, whereupon,Mr. Boyd, her husband, immediately went there, and caught his wife coming down stairs, when she exclaimed-- " Flow did you suspeel me me ?" to which MI% Boyd answered, " I have suspe6ted you some time." It further appeared in evidence, that Mr. Boyd ob tained a verdid of 2001. damages against Mr. White in the Court of King's Bench. On the part of Mrs. Boyd, a plea of recrimination was put in. The evidence on the part of Mr. Boyd having been read, the Ctsunsel on the part of Mrs. Boyd stated to the Court, that not conceiving any part of t (if defence offered by Mrs. Boyd to be supported by r►,e evidence examined on her allegation, he should ❑ot think it right to detain the Court by en teripg into the particulars of such evidence. The Judge, thereupon, in giving sentence, stated that there %as full proof of the adultery toe! ween Mrs. Boyd'and Mr. White, and the husband was en.itled to the remedy which he prayed, unless the defence se" up by the wife would prevent it. Two kinds of defence have been set up, recrimination and inattention. on the part of the husband, neither of which have been m do out in the slightest de gree; I can hardly express in terms strong enough the di , app•obation of the Court at the sort of de fence attempted to be set up., The husband ap pearalhroughout to have coudutted himself with great propriety, and I must pronounce for the sepa ration as prayed. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, Fsa. BANE NOTES.-BRAY V. 111 LT. .The plaintiff in this case was a livery-stable keeper in Holborn, and tenant to a Lady named Shepherd, whose agent the defendant was. This was an adion of replevin to recover back goods to the value 0f541. t 2s. taken under a distress for rent, a tender having been made of that sum by the plaintiff previous to the distress being made. The defence was, that the tender having been made in Bank of England notes, was not a legal tender.— Mr. Barker, the plaintiff's Solicitor, proved having made the tender in question. Mr. Shepherd, how ever, refused to take it, saying Mr. Bray had teen impudent to him, and he would punish him ; for unless the rent was paid by four o'clock in the af ternoon, in the current coin of the kingdom, he would put a distress into the house. A distress was in fact put into the premises on the Monda yfollowing, b e i ng th e 23 d J u l y. T h i s fad was prov edby another witness. Mr. GARROW, for the plaintiff; said this finished his issue. Mr. PARKE was about to addiess the Jury; on the part of the defendant, when L , -rd ELLEN BOROUGH interrupted hini by himself addressin,;, the Jury. Mr. PARKE ect that he might be al lowed to say a IL us by way of explanation. Lord ELLENBOROUGH said—" Not a word:" His Lor,ship was sorry to be oblig.7d to tell the Gentle men of the Jury, that, in point of Law, na legal render had, in this case, ht.en made. As the Law stood, Bank of England notes were not a legal ten der. They did sit there to make law, but to administer the L.iw as it stood. He was sorry. to tell them that such wac the Law ; but he could not help the Law more than the Jury could. Mr. PARKE assured his Lordship that it was no fault of his that the present case had,come before a Jury. Lord ELLBNBOROUGH again addressing the Jury, said his _inclinations, he was convinced, were the same with theirs, but their duty also was the same. To the inconvenience which such a verdia as they must pronounce in this Case must necessarily impose on the public, his Lordship was far from being insensible; but still, both his Lordship and the Jury must do what their duty im posed on them. The Jury accordingly found for the defendant. Lord ELLENBOROUGH, after another trial bad been disposed of, reverting to the present case, ob served, that to the best of his recollealion, a provi sion had been made in the late Ad of. Parliament, (Earl Stanhope's) - as to tenders in payment of rent. Mr. GAtutow said, unfortunately, in the present case; the.distress had been put in on the very after noon previous to that on which, the Aet in question receivrd the Royal Assent. It could, therefore, haVe no rift...a on this case. CONVESSIPN OF A MURDER IN LANCASIIIIIE.—A man of the name of 'Melling, who formerly kept a publie•house in Wigan, but wholaiely removed to Liverpool; being on his death-bed, last week, sent for a clergyman, and told him he could not die till he confessed a murder committed by his son (since dead) and himself, on two recruits quartered in his house, one night, abbut ten years ago, when his son returned from robbing a mail. Fearing they might lead to a discovery, they determined to murder them, which-they did,--and buried them in • the garden. This confession was sent to the Magistra:es of Wigan, who on Mbnday caused a search to be made, and on Tuesday the remains were found near the place de acriLed by the mutdrier. 2TEADiTL FIREI'MERICA , 1 , . , [FURTHER PA RTILAYL ARS..I , .. The followihg is the fullest account which we have, vet seen of the dreadful fire which destroyed the Theatre in America and the Eves of So many of the untdi innate visitors : FROM THE RICIIMO'2I4 INQUIRER, 626. 28. I.lt 113 coiled our idcas - as well as we can. On Thursday night a new play and a new after-piece were played fdr the benefit of Mr. Place. Crowd; swarmed 'to the theatre—it was the fullest house this - season, there were not leis than 600 present.— The play went off—the,pantornirne began, the first a6t was over. The whole scene was- before us, and all around us was mirth and festivity. , 0 ,, God ! what a horrible revolution did one minut e produce I The curtain rose on the 2-1 at of the paritominae—the orchestra was in fill chorus, and Mr. West came on to open the scene—when sparks of fire began to fall on the back part of the stage, and M•. Robertson came out in unutterable distress, waved his hand. to the ceiling, and uttered 'these appalling words—" the house is on fire !" His hand was immediately stretched forth to the per sons'in the stage-box to help them on the stage, and aid their retreat in that direction. This is all that we caught of the stage. The cry of fire,! fire ! passed with electric velocity through the touse— every one flew from their seats to gain the' lobbies and stairs. The scene baffles all description. The most heart-piercing cries pervaded the house, " Save me, save me." Wives asking for their hu,bauds, females and children shrieking, while the gathering element came rolling on its curling flames and co lumns of Sinoke—threatening to devour every hu man being in the building. Many were trod under foot—several were thrown back from the windows, who 'were struggling to leap. The stair-ways were immediately blocked up—the throng was §o great that many were raised several lea over the heads of the rest—the smoke threatened an in stant suffixation. We cannot dwe;l ou this piaure. We saw—we felt it—like others, we gave up our selves for lost—we cannot depid it. Many leaped from the-windows of the first story, and we re sav ed—children a n d females, and men of all descrip tions, 'were seen , to precipitate themselves on the ground —most of these escaped ; though several of them wii h broken legs and thighs; and hide o u s con _ • tusions. Most, if not all, whowere' in the pit, es caped. Mr. Taylor, the last of thc musicians who quitted the orchestra, finding his retreat by the back way cut off, ,leapt into the pit whence he enterei the semicircular avenue which lea:ls to the door or ,the Theatre, and found it ,nearly empty. He was the last that escaped from the pit ! how melan choly, that many Who were ir, the boxes, above and below, pushed for the lobbies—many, as has been said, escaped through the ‘vitidows—bUt the most of them had no other resource than to descend the stairs, many escaped in that way—but so great was the pressure, that they retarded each other, uh til the devouring element approached to Sweep t hem into eternity. Several who even emerged from the building were so much scorched, that they have' since perished —some even jumped from the second window--some others have been dreadfully burnt. The'firo flew. with a rapidity, almoSt beyonclex ample. Within 10 minutes after it caught, the whole .house was wrapt in flames. The , colour d people in the galkry most of them escaped th roug h .the stairs but off from the rest of the house—some have, no doubt, fallen viditris. The pit and boxes had but, one cominon avenue, through which the whole crowd escaped, .save those only who leaped through the windows. . . But the scene which ensued it is impossible to paint. Women with dishevelled hair, fathers and mothers shrieking out for their children, husbands for their wives, brothers for their sisters, 'filled the whole area on the outside of the building. - A few who had escaped plunged again into the flames to save some dear objed of their regard, and they pe rished. The Governor perhaps strared this melan choly fate. - Others were frantic, and would have rushed tallestru6tion, but for the hand of a friend. The bells tolled. Almost the whole town trashed to the fatal spot. ' The flame must have caught to the scenery from some light behind—Roberrson saw it, . when ,it xa, no longer than his arm—YoUng saw it on the roof, when it first burst through. Every arti cle of the theatre was consumed, as well s as the dwelling-house next'to it. But what is wealth in, comparison of the valuable lives which have gone for ever ? The whole town is shrouded in woe. Heads of families extinguished tor ever; many and many is the house in which a chasm has been made that can never - be filled up, EXTRACT OF A LETTER •TO A GENTLEMAN 1N BOSTON. " I have just conversed With a young gentleman, who was one of the last that got out of the house before the roof fell in : lie bays, he saw, he thinks, fifty ladies lying dead, some ❑aked, others nearly so, and horribly mangled and crushed beyond all power of descliption. Many ladies were thrust from the second story window., by men who followed them themselves; some were seen jumping out with ladies in their arms. The good Governor bore•lais lady out sate, and boldly returned to rescue his son, but, alas ! in vain ; his remains I saw taken' from the ruins (which was designated by a stuck-buckle which he wo►e) a crisped lump. The brave Lieutenant Gibbon was enamoured of a young lady, the first ornament of her sex, Miss Sally Conyers; he got inn, but finding that she had not escaped, was heard to sax, " I'll bring her out, or perish in the attempt." He rushed in, and was afterwards seen with the lady in his arms, when the wall fell, and closed the scene for ever to that ill-fated pair. I have not heard of any New England people among the deaths. It is judged that an hundred and fifty perihed," EXTRACT OF A LETTER DATED MCEIMOND, DEC. 23. Many more human skulls have been found than we ye , know of persons missing: It is, therefore feared many Strangers 'were .in the theatre. Al. most every person who escap , .-d was in some way wounded. The Theatre was badly constructed here was only one door fur the pit and first a, d se cond row of boxes. 'More than half of those pc, - sent who survived, leaped from the windows. La doing *lda, however, others were murtaliy wound-, • ea: the wAnclo . w , s of 'fie first row of boxes Were . shout 15 feet, thOi e o f t h e second; 24 feet from tho gro.iPti " . . , al . the day tolloy,'lng ; th.e. dreadful scene at the Theatre, at Richmond, the en ,m C•run: i! passed au der for collecliug the: rerna • • sufferers, and depusiti lg them in ,urjrs cptii ig ; (ex c ,p t .. itig such ;is should be claitned bjr:their relatives); and removed with all prop er respeA and ,so , erunity to the burying ar , litid,a.sitig ino , luments to be ereded, and inscriptions wide, to prcserv e m the reentbranceof t!,e !I:llitii ng eYont ; —more oi,er recorprriencling the 3 ,,, i):ension , Cf all business for 48 , hotirsj - and further, prohl)itiog any person; under heavy, penalties, to clii 6 l l r- -1 !' 6, !!: ; 1 (4 or Speetacle, or to open _any pu.nlic.dancing aasern bly; within the city;for four ninntlis. The.unclairneclrernains of upwards of.fiftjr of t hevi urns of the flames, in flichino , ld, were deposited in two large. boxes, and bUried in the Rt of the Tli-!atre. Vt:e ci tizong ha : ye pu r cha se d t h e ground the TheJ tre stood, for the purpose of ei eCt - inka Church in its stead, and 'more than 2460 dol . Jars have been subscribed:, Among the iMinber whO so awfully perished, it is said there were not six of th6 .... p00r class. POLICE. , ;--- •. . fi6 w•sT . rzEtT.—g: Gawler, late Cleik in the Navy - Otilce, after a private eiamination on l'h .rsday, vvai ftilly-coinutited for trial; charged with six forgeritc, and obtaining money under false pretences. When he landed at South Shields, where he was an entire stranger,- it is said he had but three pounds. abos:-. and.that he intended to settle thereabouts, to keep a school. When he ,was taken lie had but one pOutid.. On his first Seeing /V. ( kins he burst into a flood of tears, having known him ..i , der ,lit ft:Tent circnnistatices, and continued :n that state for above an hour. He had in his pocket a petition to the Prince Regent. Bill Tleornty, who was apprehended near 13ishop'a Stortford, for being at.large before the expiration hiS sentence of trananortation, was te-examii , eil ott Saturday. , Captain Read, the Superintendint of the hulk's atyVoolwich, stated, that the prisontr escaped from the Pru,i,ntia hulk on the sth of March, 1805, before the expiration 'of his sentence. He was' . committed for trial. Richard Waddle, who .was brought from Hrthe a few-days since, charged with ._issmi-g the escape of French prisoners, WJS led to bail. Henry Russell, alias Charles Chalmers, was brought to the Odice, charged with various acts of swindling at the Bath Hotel, -where be kept a carriage, and ‘s:hile he ' , Aged at a china-sl—}p, in Mortimer-str:tet, in the same style. He lies hved Ls an upper•set vant in.families by false chara&crs„ for the puroose of learning their connee.iobs,. in which he was de-. teaed at General Cupplge's, at Shooiei's-bill. He was committed for trial. UNTes-HALL.—Thoma s Smith was on Saturday examined on suspicion of stealing a copper, copper stewpau, and copper saucepan, and twfi fowls. It appeared that the Bull Inn, Shooter's-hill, on Sunday, the gth instant, broke ope 6, and a coo per, and several other articles, taken away. On inquiry being made next day, a farmer's servant in the neighbourhood said that he, on kr, nday morn ing, about six o'clock, took tap a copper for a man on the road, and conveyed it for him to a brazier's in the London-road. The landlor I applied for a seai t ch-warrant, and Glent:on was sent to execute it, and at the brazier's found the copper the man httt there, which the officer took away with him, and desired the tradesman, who is one of respeetability, should the man come again, to detain him.' On Saturday morning he came again, and offered a stew pan and saucepan for sale; and the brazier, on pre, ience of weighing the articles, ,detaineil him whilst he sent for Collingbourn ; who went instantly, but on his attempting to takes.him into custody,-he made a stout resistance, and it was 'not till he received several blows with the butt-end of a pistol that he was secured. On being asked ho. he carte by the things in question, he said they were sent him by his mother from Hertfordshire. The ohlicers, how ever, in the. course of their inquiries, aseti - ' , ained that the stewpan and saucepan were the prorerty of Mr. Ward, landlord of the lied Lion p!,blie-hOuse, Shooter's-hill, whose house was broke open on Fri dav night ; the copper was that 'taken from the Bull Inn ; and two fowls found in the prisoner's pos session belonged to a French Gentleman, residing on Shooter's- hill; named Molatte. The Earl Moir4 public-house was broke open a short time since; - as was, the house of -- Johnson, Esq. o f WV.llmg, whose butler being alarmed, got up and endeavoured to secure the villains, but was severely wounded in the attempt ; in short, scarcely a house in the neigh bourhond of Shoot• J'- hill has escaped being at tempted within these few weeki. It is susiweled there is nuinerons gang of depredators ) and that the prisoner is concerned with them. Committed for re-examination. SMITHEIIiLD MARKET, FEB. 17. This day's Marl:et was tolerably well supplied with prime beasts, and the show of cattle in other respeas was midiling: Beef, Muttoni . ani Pork are ckarer, and the trade in general was ra+ ther brisk.—The sales in the Hay Market were pretty considerable ; Hay fetched last pi Straw— has got up in p ice; Clover ha; fallen in plice. To sink the Off.ll per stAc'of 81b. Beef, 4s. Bd. to 6s. 2d. Mutton, 41. Sq. to 6s. 55. Bd. to Ss. 4(1, eOrk, SS. OCI. to 6s. B‘l,, beasts, ti 7 3. Sheep, 12,6e0. I.:Alves, 95. Pigs, 3c o SMITIIi , ItLD HAI MARKET. Hay, 41. cs. od. to 51. IoS. Oa. Straw, 2.1.,02. Ctl. to 21. Ifs. Clover, 51. os. od. to 61. los. od. V.ati, CORN.EXCHANE, FEB. 17.—. The arrivals of Wheat to-d 'y 'make the supply rather consider able, sales dull at a declension of price of abo,it s. and 3s. per quarter, some samples of fine old White fetch 15"..55. ; Barley rather deirrer ; Malt and White Pease fully at last priceS; Grey, and. Beans of . each - sort, at little fluathation ;. there is a continuance of short supplies of Oats, - and this trade • likewise quoted somewhat higher; Flour ‘,‘ ithuot variation. Wheat ' 66s a BSs io6s Fine ditto - -114 s a lids Rye - 54, a Barley cos a 57,5 Wilt 8 , 9,, a ats Wilitereas,bJilers 78s a SS> Carey ditto. - - 6os a 65s Beaus 54s a óes Tick Beans (new) sQ9 a 569 Ditto (film old) -57 s a 5 S Oats - 3o; a 36; s Poland ditto -3,9 s a 4's Potatoe ditto aps. Rape Seed - 6. 4 . Pine Fleur - el 5 s Sccando • 'Sss as s fi.`\..