The Sun. — London, England, 1812-05-04 00:00:00

SPORTThG INTELLIGENCE. NEWMARKET SECOND SPRING MEETING, 1812. SATURDAY, MAY 2. Sweepstakes of toogs. each. Ab. M. Major Wilsot►'s f. by Walton, out of Erebus dam, Sst. tlb. Ld G. H. Cavendish's c. by Trumpator, out of Pagoda, )3st. 41b. I.d F. Bentinck's c. byTrumpator, dam by PotSo's, Sst. 4 1120 . " 6 to 4 agst Major Wilson's f. by Walton Mr. Shakespear's loiter, 7st. roll". beat MajorVilson's Erebus, Bst. 'F. Y. C. sogs. 5 to zon Jolter. Id Sackville's c. by Walton, bought of Mr. ElWes, Bst. 4 1 b. beat Gen. Grosvenor's Lazyboots, by Young Drone, 7st. 131 b. A. F.. sogs. h. ft. A Subscription Handicap Plate of Sol. for all ages. D. I. Mr. Mellish's ch. c. Bodkin, 3 yrs-sst. rolb. Mr. Shakespear's br. h. Chester, aged. Bst. 41b. Mr. Craven's b. m. Dimity, 5 yrs Sat. 31b. 1 ). of Grafton's Whalebone, 5 yrs Bst. 71b. 7to z agst Bodkin-5 to 4 agst Chester. Sir I. Shelley's Phantom rec. 30:1s. from Mr. Mellish's Beverley, Bst. 71b. each. B. C. socls. Mr. Shakespear's Tumbler rec. wogs.. from Mr. Payne's Crispin, Bst. 71b. each. AcrOss the Flat, zoogs. Ld G. H. Cavendish's Handel agst Ld Stawell'S Cato, 4 1 b. D. 1. 300 gs. h. It. Otlby consent. . .2 T4SHIOPABLE ARRAN C EMENTS FOR THE WEEK. ViIS EVENING. ALltilsiA, Countess Dowager of BucKlNGßAMstlittes 1413 ,,ut. Hobart Rohn, Grosvenor.place. 'mEs and LadyCrt Awforto s Rout, Burlington-street. Lady Crti.immoND Sstrfli% Rout, Terrace, Piccadilly. Lady LT Era EN's Rout, Piccadill). Mrs. Horn'; Rout, Duchess-street, Portland-place. IVlr6. CORDON'S Rout. Stanhope. street, Mayfair. 'TUESDAY. Mrs. SAMUEL SMITH'S Rout, Berkeley-square. Mrs. Coui.,o Gr.wr's Ball, Portland-place. WEDNESDAY. Marchioness of LANS nowt4E's Rout, Berkeley-square. BoEuses Rout, St. lames's square. 441 3. Rost NSON'S 13;111, Albemarle-street. THURSDAY. jady CICROL I NE BOR kl A m's Rout, Queen Anne-street. Euw AR o Hut.st's Paity, Cave,dish-square, CktAN 'Jos PoLb's Rtiut, loucester.pla,ce. FRIDAY. Il archioness Dowager of IttoMo N Les Rout, George. street. Countess of - Ox rort o's Rout, Grosvenor-place. Countess of Li ral ER ices Rout, - Nlanstield-street. 111 4 4 M. Quires Rout, Hertford-street. 14 attisores Annual Grand Concert, attlie Opera-House. SUNDAY. 144 SUNDAY. Music Party, Whitehall. CAPTAIN AIAN L3)'' S INVENTIOA, ' On .Saturday considerable numbers were attra&ecl t 0... Hyde Park, by Captain MANBY'S experiments 'or saving the lives of -shipwrecked person. A ;little after twelve, the Duke of YORK . arrived, and the experiments commenced. The apparatus l vaa placed_ on the south side of the Serpentine eti "'lye'', on the level bank near the new water ' tu arse ; a few of the Guards were stationed round to keep off the multitude ; and the circle was fill'. • ed with some of our principal chemists, and people 4)1. distinaion. The ropes attached to the balls were Coiled in different forms on the grass. The first ex- Periment was, we presume, merely to shew the range ' the mortar, which threw a shell across the river, and to aoonsiderable distance on the rising ground to the north. A shot was then thrown with the rope attached to it, which felt with great precision at the water's edge on the opposite side. The shell was next thro wn in the dire-lion of a tree, which was to repre tient the masts and rigging of a ship in distress.— The shell fell entirely over the tree, and left the rope. . a nging, as was intended, among the branches. 4 he nearness and 'obvious utility of this experiment excited great admiration. A young person, equipped 3 .n tie life preserver, then walked into the water, l ernained perfectly at hjs ease at a considerable dis tance from the side,- blew a post-.horn, moved his { arms in all directions with complete facility, and con -421 LI dby swimming across in'the direction of the buoy which was fixed as the centre of operation. 'These experiments were exhibited to the whole ex lent of Captain MANBY'N inventions. The light 41i, which on occasion of shipwrecks at night is used to point out. the vessel to the people vn shore, was thrown up to a considerable height, burst at its highest elevation, and . poured down 4 shower of stars, which, in the darkness of a t empestuous night, must have-thrown powerful Wu • It lination upon its objea, The process of discharging ordnance without the application of fire is one of Ca ptain MANBY'S inventions, and one w hich will pro bably be of signal importance to the service ; but the Conception of the plan for preserving human life, and that perhaps the most Interesting and valuable spe 'les of human life, deserves a higher praise.than ours. s no country has. a finer and more tivful race of men exposed to the.perils of the sea, there is per l'aPs no shore on which, from the peculiar nature of its difficulties, the invention can_ be applied with mote entire success. The idea of forming a aim• tnunication with the vessel when no boat could' yen. lure to sea; was of itself honourable to the persor who conceived it; but the subsequent arrange , rn enta,—the contrivances .at once delicate anll durable, and the simplicity 'which now •.makes the whole apparatus at once within the corn Pass' of almost any purse; and the manage ment of almost any hand, finish and complete the merit of the discovery.. There is not a shore of E urope on which it may not be established ;. and we must hope - that no exertion of wise and active burnanity will - be wanting to its establiShment on every perilous district of Our own. The day was cold, and the multitude, of course, co mprehended many who were not philosophers ; but the admiration excited by the process was so S trung, that they lingered through the length of the experiments without • reluctance. The swans had, * Perhaps, the greatest reason to complain of the ex hibition ; and the moment the lad in the life pre server plunged into the water, a detachment sailed rapidly towards him, to reconnoitre, or take ven geance on so singular and unusual an intruder: 1 1- Lord COCHRANE on Saturday transatEfed business with Lord MELVILLE, at the Admiralty. The officers and crew of his Majesty's ship Caro line have presented Capt. CHRISTOPHER COLE With two handsome.swords, in testimony of their ,"teem for him. The asst India Company have lately presented this ga l l a nt officer with a piece of Plate, value 300 guineas . , as a memorial of the high sense they entertain' of the services rendered b y "tin in the Indian seas, particularly at the capture of Banda. Pit EN CH PIPER,c, LINTZ, APRIL 13.—The Silician battalion of musketeers, which was in garrison here, marched yesterday Morning for Upper Siliciai and the same' day paised through this place the battalithis of chas seurs, and grenadiers of the Imperial Guard, a bat talion of artillery; and one of flying artillery, on their route from Berlin to Erislau. VIENNA, APRIL 13.—1 t iS reported that Upon the multiplied demands and solicitations addressed to the Supreme • Authority, the Austrian:Government has come to the resolution of rescinding the ediEl published some wears ago, relative to the' disuse of coffee. The use of this article is again to be per - - milted, under certain modifications, which mer= chants and tradespeople who wish to traffic, will be bound , to obs rye. It is supposed the ge neral prohibition of coffee will cease op the Ist of May next. IS'ETERSBURGH, MARCH 31.—The Emperor has 'lately several times presided in- the Senate. The _deliberations lasted for a considerable time. During the last few days, a number of Estafettes have been dispatched from hence. 'Wince Augustus, of Olden burg, Lieutenant-. General and Governor of Riga, has art ived - here. All the regiments of infantry be longing to the Guards have lett this place. General Armteldt has entered the Russian service, in quality of General of ,Infantry ; he will be attached to the person of his Majesty. • BRESLAW, APRIL B.—Large magazines are e,ta blishirtg upon the right bank of the Oder. The Prussian provinces are to furnish a - considerable num her of horses for the train. • SALBallo, APRIL 12.—0 n the morning of the sth the enemy appeared to recommence the attack, but it was in vain he attempted the execution of his projects ; a fire kept up with the utmost bravery by our vessels, forced ludi retire. ProteCted by the batteries ot par towers, his Majesty's flotilla_obli4ed the enemy to relinquish all his designs. , APRIL 26.-= To-d.iy, after mass, a number of petsons had the honour of being presented to his Majesty. MoRLArx, APRIL 22.—An individual who left London the Ibth. inst. has furnished us wish the following details ; the authenticity of which may be relied on : " Commerce is in a state of stagnation difficult to be described; . merchants dare . not make aiiy shipments for the ports of the Baltic, since France so decidedly avowed her intention of excluding them ft om them. What the French Journals have said of the immense French forces marching to the Oder and the Vistula has even added to the fears of the speculators. " Pressing never proceeded with so much aCtivity as at the present moment. Tli'e privileges of the city have even been infringed, and people D ressed in it for nine days by special permission. There is no example for this innovation. The colliers-have also been subje6led to the press. Out of 400 of these vessels 1700 salors have been taken. . Every, where depressiOn is at iw height. 'ln the interior Pro vinces the fermentation of inen's Mikis continues to increase. Many partizans for war have joined those for peace, " All the proprietors of coal mines, the pers:ms who work thou,. :Intl the sailors who transport tiHr produce, are ranged on the side of the latter party. The dock-,-ards are filled with ships of war and transport vessels, which are repairing :* it popular reports are to be believed, they are intended fur America. " The manufaaurers continue to discharge their workmen.' A new cause has just augmented public misery. The duty upon timber fer cons!ructing ships has been raised to such an height, that mer chantmen have ceased being built in England, and dock-yards have been established in the colonies; great numbers of . shipw rights and other workmen are out of employment." CONSTANTINOPLE, MARCH 10.—On the 30th ult. an extraordin iry Council was held at the Kai macans ; the result was confortrisable to the resolu tions of the last Grand Council of State. Mustapha PiTendins appointed Differdar (Minister"of War nance). Muhib-Effendi, who has been Atnbassa dor-to France, is named Buynk-Rusnamedschi to the Minister of- Finances. • . - BERLIN, APRIL 18.---The following Ordinance has jus been issued -4' In' order to render still 'more complete our Or dinances, which have for their objeCt theinterruption of all commerce with England and her Colonies, and render all attempts - she may make, to infringe them nugatory, we have judged right to decree as " From the day, of this public4tion, . all importa tion of colonial goods from Russia is, prohibited without exception ; so that all colonial products ar riving by land from-RuSsia into any of our provinces, whether they have or have not paid in Russia the Continental tarif, or others in existence, and al though they may be accompanied by unsuspeded certificates of origin agreeably to the. Continental System, shall be immediately .confiscat ed, without any formalities whatever, for the advantage of our treasury. In return, the trade in'all other naerchan • dine but colonial prOduee, between Russia and our States, continues to be permitted as heretofore. All our faithful subjos, pat ticularly those employed in the excise and customs upon the frontiers, must conform to the present ordinance ; and in order not to curb, by this ordinance the commerce tarried on in the interior of the country, with the old colo nial maids, or those coming from France or other States which observe with the most rigid strictness the Continental System, we order all our officers of excise, from the present time, to give to senclers,o4 goods above described of more than -a quintal weight, particular attestation in Getman and French, stating that such merebandize did not pro ceed froth Russia, in contravention of the present Decree. In places where there are Commercial Commrs , aries, these attestations shall be presented to them. We impose upon them; as well as those employed in the Excise, the indispensable obliga tion of ascertaining in the most exael manner the origin df those goods, before they are dispatched into the Interior of the country. FREDERICK. WILLIAM. Charlottentourg, April 15. _ ...Nom.* a.........m..........1........... Upwards of a hundred vessels are shortly expea ed to arrive" at the.dilferent oat-ports, with grain, from the Baltic. GEr,, , ,IAN .4ND SMEDISH PAPERS. WARSAW, MA tt_bn 28.=—A grand review of the troops in tlfis neighbourhood..arnounting - to 25,000 men, . took . place yesterday. The concourse of people who assentbled.to witness the manoeuvres was immense... Nearly at the conclusion of the. review, PrinCe Pouiatowski assembled the principal Officers in a circle, and addressed them as, follows : " GENTLEMEN—The independence and tranqui lity of our country is again menaced, and` impor tant circumstances have rendered your assemblage necessary. Whether the ,Power, whose ambition has so frequently desolated our fruitful plains, will listen to the admonitions of reason, a short time will shew in the mean while, it is incumbent upon all to manifest their devoted attachment to their, country, and their particular' affection to our great protector, by rallying around those colours, which. hia genius has so often led to viciory. Gentlemen, remember that we owe the independence of our country to the greatest of heroes—that he merits our gratitude, our - affeelion, and the most profound devotion : let us then be Frepared to follow, either in the North or the South, the bright career of glory which hi genius may trace." • In an older of the day, Prince Poniatowski con eludes his Address to the soldiers as follows :,-- Fellow Soldiers—Remember the trophies which your brethren have gained in Spain under the banners of the Great Napoleon—emulate their deeds, and merit the highest reward—the thanks of the Etriperor of the Ftench." • • GOTTENBURGH, APRIL 25.—Late events have rendered tile friendship of Sweden of so much partake to Russia, that it is currently reported that General Von Suctitelen has proffered the restoration of the island of Aland upon certain 'conditions. STOCKHOLM, APRIL I B,—A letter from Gotten burgh contalits the following passage :- -" There has lately been published here, aC the expence of the, Swedish Gov,ernment, and most e tensively circulated among all classes, a little trii&i. entitled Reiiew of the Relations of Sweden wit h the Northetn Powers, and with France and Eng- I land.' This work was Written at the desire of .Ber- nadotte,by his Aid-de-Camp. The author warm ly recommends an alliance with England in pre• ference to France, and in some parts speaks freely of Russia•. It is not disguised, that the object of this publication is to give a decided tone to Swedish pi,litics, and induce the nation to resist-a degrading submission to France." • DUBLIN, APRIL 29. On Tuesday night last, an outrage, (and one of the- most diabolical description that can well be. imagined) was committed near Sallyparrick. While the family of a tanner there, named Patrick Keeffe, were heavy asleep, the dwelling-house appears'' to have been set on fire, and wii h such effea, that the firs! :communication of the dreadful event was by the falling in of the particles of the roof, and of the burning' timber : Keefle, from former visitations !wide upon him,, by the villainous banditti that infest that country, had, sometime back, gotten iron gratings to his windows, and a strong lock to his door. On the first *rnu,. being awakened the cry of " Fire" from his wife, they both jumped out of bed, and, in the sudden agitation • of their' mind.i s - lost the few short moments that - might have saved some of this unfortunate fa mily, in a distracted and ineffeEtual search for the key. Missing this, K...effe recolleCted a win dow through which he might pais, and made for it, the' burning timbers still falling in upon them in increased number : and, while lie was making this effort, his wife ran for the purpose of bringing s , ime of their children froM an inner room, but out of which neither'she nor they ever came alive.— Out of a family consisting of nine persons, either in youth or. middle life, within a few minutes, but ene was' left to'relare thiS horrid story. Patrick Keeffe was removed to the House of In dustry, through the humane exertions of the High Sheriff; most dreadfully burned. Mr. HILL, one of the Coroneri, held an inquest at Keeffe's house on Wednesday, when the Jurv,_ after examining all the evidence (and little it war that they could obtain) found,, that-eight persons named came by their death by the house in which they were being maliciously set on'fire by some per son or persons unknown. Major Prendergast (the 'High Sheriff) went to the place on Thursday, and made the most diligent investigation in his, power, when from a very mi nute examination into a variety of minor circum stances, he found ample reason to confirm the ver di& of the Jury, and has offered a liberal reward for the apprehension of the monsters by whom the hor rid ad was perpetrated. On going to -the" House of Industry, he found Keeffe, covered' with ulcers, from the fire; unfriended, . and, unattended; and..no threat, or intreaty, nothing of reward 'or punishment, that he could hold out, was sufficient to procure from the surrounding savages, a car to convey Keefe to this town. Determined at length to use for,ce in procuring otle, he went for militaiy assistance to the next station, and, on his way, Meeting a return carriage from Nile Mine House, he wade use of that for the conveyake of the un fortunate sufferer into town. It is stated in a paper of Saturday, .that Mr. PER CRVAL has determined to offer to the Catholic Body three of their principal demands :—" The removal of every existing impediment to their prom:Minn to the highest ranks' in the Army ;—a simihr exten sion of the opportunities of acquiring promotion with respe6t to the Navy ;—the same advantages in the profession of the Livv : but that he will not concede, at least for the present, the right of- being elected to the House of Commons, or of sitting, as British Peers, or Representative Peers of Ireland or Scotland." The report of some persons having been sent to the Tower, originated in the following circumstance : —Four French piisoners who made their escape, were ,taken in Hampshire; carried from thence to Alton, and from that place condu6led to the. Police ,Office at'Wesminster, whenCe they were sent down to the Thames Police Office. It is .understood, that two 4armers are implicated in. their escape, after whom inquiries are Making. It is said that one of U prisoners is a French General. POLICE. ILlMlALL.—OnSattirday the son of a respeE?ib`ic tradesman in the Old Bailey, Wai charged before Sr, .1 - SHAW, the Sitting Alderman, with being cotwerp , with others the night before, in robbing a trad-svii3 , l of hispocket-b(iok,containing five one-pound &c. The complainant said he was going hone; between twelve arid one k, through the (Ad Bailey, and (hat hearing4yiolin, and seeing sever,l persons eolleFied in a ce)urt, he went past them, when he was knocked doWbrand robbed of his boc k by one of the tm , n, who handed it over to the pri soner, who ran ~ f f with it, and was puriued nd taken, btit no book was found. The prisoner clew flied having hid the book, and seemed much affe6l - at his situation. The prosecutor was confirmed in his story by a than in company with him, who said the' man with !he violin .was surround by pickpockets, one of whom called out to floor him, and his companion was immediately knocked down; lint he did not see his pocket-book taken from him. The prisoner was - remanded till his father and friends could appear for him. • - A genteel •dressed man, who had been managing. clerk to-a Proctor in Do6tor's Commons, was, charg; ed by his wife with 'cruel S and ,shatneful treatment to her and his children; and with threatening het life. This wascanfirnied by the neighbours,. who said they had been alarmed many nights past by the prisoner's coming home in the middle of the night ; and• ntlce he set his bed on fire. Tire man attempt:- ed to juatity all he had clOne, and appeared in a tie ranged state. He was committed to find surety. W-STREET.—Private information having beeri received by Humphreys and , Clements, belonging tcl the Office, that a strong suspicion was entertained that .a gang of comets resided at a house in Skin:. ner's-place, St. Pancras, they in consequi:nCe went .several eights last weel< to watch the tirltise desctib , ecl ; they were not able to gain any certain informa tion, but from the smell that proceeded from it ; they had a strong suspicion that soap was, being made in it ; they in consequence applied to,two Ex-; cise Officers, w,ho *accompanied 1 hem on Friday , • night about eight o'clock in besetting the house, front and back ; one of them got into the area to force his way in with an iron crow; this alarmed some persons in the inside, who' were heard run. ning up stairs. lirealy afterwards the Street doot opened, and a man rushed out without any hdt or coat on; he was stopped., Another.man followed him out of the house in great agitation and confu sion, and witnout a hat. - They called out violently murder, thieves, &c. which culletted a large. mob of people and a violent scuffle ensued. Humphreys came op from the back of the premises: where he_ had stationed himself, and secured the men by ty- ng their arms and legs, and they were conveyed to the watch-house. Afterwards the Excise and Po- lice Officers .proceeded ro search the house, and found in the kitcrie:r seven vats keparing to make soap lees. Some of the vats had_materials; and se veral instruments charged with soap lees, and grease used in making snap. Also some frames with the remains of cleansing soap, others of the fraares fthd soap in them. , The Excise officers, whr had been in the habit of seeing soap, had no doubt but soap had been made in the bourse of that day in the kitchen. In the vault - under the street, they found a great quantity of ashes which had la,-en used in preparation of lees. In the room up - stairs there were several empty grease tubs. On Saturday morning the two men, John Ste phenson and Georte Simpkin were brought before Mr. Graham, and conViCted of aiding and assist ing in manufaCturing soap hi a place not entered agreeably to the Excise Laws.. The? were fine.' 201. each, which they not being prepared to pay, they were, sentenced totwo , months' imprisonment. In the.course of the afternoon Stephenson paid his fine and was discharged. Simpkln was committed agreeably to his sentence. MARLBOROUGH STREBT.—John Holden, a dis . carded servant, was charged by Mr. PLEsTowc, the Magistrate, with attempting to impose on him a forged written character, as a focittnan. He sus pected him to he an impostor, and desired him to wait on him on a future day, and he would write to a Mr. Wilson, in Sussex, who was referred to . for charaaer. Mr. P. did not write until the day after he had promised, and then In ,(de Mr. Wilson acquainted with his suspicions. Mr. W.' made a .fac simile of the Magistrate's letter, together with the London post-mark, arid left it at the Post Office, from whence the defendant obtained it, the post.- master having been in !he secret. Mr. W. wrote to Mr. P. and informed him that the fellow was then in his kitchen, and that he had ascertained, that be formerly lived in the country, and was of a bad character. On the day after the receipt of his let ter another was received, signet Wilson, giving Holden an excellent charaaer. On hi' waiting on Mr. P. again, he was taken into custody. His stsier lived in Mr. Wilson's family. He was committed for three months to the Hou.e of Correction, it, de fault of paying a fine,ol 201. SMITHFIELD MARKET, MAY 4. This day's Market Iliad a middling supply of pri ne beasts, and the show of Cattle in general was pretty good ; Veal is dearer ; Beef, Mutton, Lamb, and Pork, Were cheaper ; and the trade for the most part, was somewhat brisk ; the sales in *the market were ratlter considerable; Straw has drop ptd in price; Hay and Clover have got up in pi ice ~.--WeNsubjoin an accurate statement of the prices and numbers : To sink the Offal, per stone of 8113. Beef, is. 4d. to 6s. 4d. Mutton, SS. 4d. to 6si 6d. Vca', ss. od to 7s. 6.1. Polk, ss. od. to 6s. Sd. Lamb to Ss. 6d. Beasts, 1,830. Sheep and Lambs, r 1,500. Calves, 95. Pigs, 30, SIVTHFIELD HAYMARKET. Hay, sl. cs. od. to 61. 6s od. Straw, '2l. od. to 31. 6s. Clover, 61. os. od. to 71. 15s. od. CORN EXCHANGE, MAY 4.—To-day the fresh arrivals of Wheat make but an inconsiderable sup ply, the dernt•U not great, and soles nearly at the . prices last quoted; Barley fully supports the last quotation ; Malt likewise ; Wh . .te and Grey Peas, and the two sorts of Beans, at little variation ; there are but few arrivals of Olts, and_that trade again quoted somewhat ; 'Flour at late priers. Wheat 985 a I z6s a 1:8 T'ck Beans -66 s a 72s !nine ditto - t•. a 145 s Ditto (fine - old) 735 a 74s Rye - 78 S a 4 • - ) 9 ' a 545 a 57$ Barley - - 6/1s a 7ob >'e,l. o ditto --53 s a , 9* Malt - - - 95, a toss Potatue ditto - oos a . Qs WhitePeae:boil.) 7, a 97.5 . Rar,2, Seed - 701 a 761 G rey ditto - ^,, a 7Si tine Flour - loss acos 7J5 a 7aS Z•coads . loos a toSS