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7'o 714- EDITOR OF THE SUM t LET VER 111. tit, tr I, were to continue my examination of the de« felts and inaccuracies of what i$ tailed Mauer Ilert.Y's inaccuracies I should have exhausted your pa".• tienee and my own leisure long before I had ex. haul subject, ' I - h truth, I find it would be tare compendious and convenient to select the pas sages in which he did not utterly fail, and to at tribute to all others the negative success, of not 'saving been hissed, only because they were uttered by " so dear and so interesti ng a child." rThe fi rst i nstance of any thing approaching to rielY of enunciation which I observed in the ° Y , was, at tht! pasiage in which he adjures Re. te a4 and Guildenstern to inform him whether they were sent far or no ? The " wild and , . Whirling" delivery with which he mars almost stir if other speech in the Play, was here not mss. ilPPlied ; and, as a cluck that does not go will cer -1444 (by reason of that very defetl) he right kni/ in tweet •, hours, so the same faults lhat destroyed Iliegeneral effed of the Play gave to this 148° Vo end epic or rue) others, an accidental lient. i„ 4 e 40 gave 41 when the wind is southerly, I Ztl:4‘ol hawk from a hancl.saw," with no inconsi able led, for he Uttered • these words nearly as thquCould does. I need nor add, that if he pettedly have imitated that admirable actor, „ h it rsha_tda have had no fault to censure in him, and ."' 'UMW tt*Cellance to expeft. In o l i 2 * ev ., . ;Closet Scene he was, .in two instances, b . fi t i l ksc r il'above his usual merit ; the descripion hi i t il lilara person he ranted, as he does every b he 1. out_ ranting is there, perhaps, not antiss, And h te _ c ds beitilles, an expression of tender remem. lshat Which to me, I confess, was nothing less e i rt fat having been borrowed—l wish he could SA l L a g h t to borrow more, for, except in the Ease ' l i m it ' 1 . am about to mention, I never have seen ilici.svertatoleta4le, ►except where he was an imi toilf;• At the appearance of . the Ghost, he, of . et Harts violent' ••• so does every Ist the so und • - S pirit ' s) ' Hamlet ; but t o a f.‘ of the voice, be stif f ts (learn:, , • ) ta i , " a ;ners in my opinion, both natural and or iv kyean,u,n this,single point does he appear to me to li ry eltn ibited the slightest mark of genuine alai. i s i ns i " n t. l I am afraid that we must confess, that it stell .auctoriere probable, that Mr. HOVCII, or some I)4r ichis tau ht this solitary specimen of on. eln t lit Y,' to tlre 4fitiy, than that the B•y .who had tsa ie t4 ill e6nleelve it, should have been so servilely ii tua :. l3 t In dully inaorreet) in almost every other 7 , I " Of Chit sublime and diversi fi ed Drama. ies s i y htt i ii s l ii4 h s . vea Mr, Editor, favourably noticed ' trltitl e d t °I. t hc Bora Hanelez which! think hltvaii„ L ° 'any praise. I do not indeed say, that a I , . 4 "" Wird and ti . entence were delivered oho. e i ll ~ L L that while many of them We re is' ta1.r314 I do say, 1 ht,.. 4, ‘ I AI 1 Y erroneous, the remainder had nothing ktiotTet to distinguish them from . what they '.. haVe been if uttered by the schoolbo y - its of t 4 4-4 ?row or of Reading. ( g irt iiinb. sentimente, however revolting they may b y no - to the Lucite of Rime intelligeilt critics, are 4011114144 40 eingular as they would have been a No e i l h eQt and, now, • tha t this B,y 's shin t iet hav e b they eVen ten times greater than they are) te r it % be en to liherally rewarded, now that he is, tilltd,"lt ofhti life, beyond all his hopes, pro. k 1 41 40 e that us ed or p. P I may say' Without being ac. N t q•na toe, that I Ain glad that the reign of ear i t iih a llnd common sr is returning. The N.... rise the ps-loor excited but . one fOrtnight's notice ; ill fishrqii4 Were not more than a month or two Si a ; 1 1 and the dog Carlo may be considered itf_ animate, in having attrafted fur one sea. to,',ed",,,taaat brilliant audietees, and in having ob. th e ttit'ine most universal and judicious applauses ; Leg er „ 111 1 ) _ 11 of* two.legged wonder may be of a 4141.41411bn, but nut of a asurb longer ; time, " I li tlWil etty.s fu r „ 1 II 111 little for boys as for men I Prop orti ,, " 0 Must in a year or twit obtain its Manly force: ~,It.hi.s countenance, expression ; his voice, jc e / 0 : 4 41 Ile 1: 1, 'fi.) , liir be must, in short, become 1 . 1.. e e h ; 1 411 ha., itrat'ters he plays ; and as soon as that ne ver hel4lSn, the tvonrlcr will cease, and we shall 'shole . r . r Ohio) more : As the Page of a Queen, hon e , ,reue depends on his diminutiveness, no 44 esr, ()W I t" hc a man, than he is presented with fo r ev . Voey, and cashiered from the Royal presence et, Ev e • slit n w hile I. write, F. • Perri n , Mr. , diror, the clouds are en e f es g, the illusion is vanishin g • tbose who s ...—. 11144 L that thil Hoy is ;mien -vine, do also confess • t ut inte the a k t ien r cia he excites in therm is deertathe. 14Ppeareel Ih " r ec6ve him every night on his Ivith 41101 4 i nce, and before he hat uttered a iyllable, the Nl.' ft"lintlers of' applause, grow lazy towards tip' s t : 4 O tilhle evening, and are generally content e last atilt of the Play in sileat adinira. Is Li ) 4 fo r''' tot Public Papers themselves, which tarlet,:`,4 oyx' extolled him even to extrava. a nd , tuat could discover no errors in his playing, p Would ,admit f .. aller s L. t) no rival to his fame—those very and.Perittigth rid to see that this child is not all trtat" all-Peweria; and one of them (his tai1d,,,,., ildMiter). has been obliged by truth and 44,47`) virtually to give u It er s in the ' P all defence of his , ne )s t ,,_ se words, 'We would rather wit i!iickaosil4 Manner in which the 80 ,. addressee the Pas t i taunts the Kip during the at ex -4I 4"tes wi ththe 44 ai r a . 1). I meet; in .er closer, than i 1 ' l ' 'lteliter sustained tkrasisk five arts with n on E , mediocrity -" which 1 f ‘ 4ll lilts , '4 a elah, is . is to say in torn. we would rather see this Boy play a :: PZ‘elsik-itiliththe exception of three passages) abo t4o4eii* ars tee all other player give a forth. ~ otatio n o f h.,* I should wit. tditOr , e , 4 pro , 'am or. a widely diffusor opinion; ether prefe r t h c fataitien pi,' ee a nd , to go still he 911,:div "id (even so i ' y 1 of each Iposlng the talents t/fe lliit i rallit r see ilamlft re ,re by" a man teg '7, tita n • 4. oirts.represented by a child of four. am, Sir, Your most obedient, Ana Very humble Servant, H. ii." ttUßtiN, MAcw i 6. ON ninilay night Captain Wt t, ov, that is nive Chief Peace Officer, surprised, at the house of one Conlan, a publican, at the corner of New.row amt Ward's.hill, in the Liberty, fifteen journeymen silk. weavers, who had before them, in council, an ac count of money colleded from different persons of their own trade, in Vilti011) parts of the Liberty. Though reprehensible the measure of raising money for the purposes of combination, yet this was sup. posed to be for contributing to a much worse put.- pose. At the head of this junto was found one Leech, who was some time since whipped, pursuant to his sentence, for treasonable pradices. These persons were brought before the Superintendarit Magistrate, and underwent a very stria examin. ation. There being, however, no positive proof as to what purpose the money collected was intended for, they were discharged, after giving stificiint At a late hour on the night of the 4th inst. a number of ruffians, from the County of Tipperary, went to the house of a respectable Farmer, near Cutraghmore, in the County Waterford, and after treating him in, a most barbarous manner, corn. pelted him to swear that he would immediately abandon the land, on the possession of which he had but recently entered. A fetocious intimation was added, that a second visit, should they find it necessary, would be fatal. Early on Sunday morn. ing a breach was made in an embankment on part of the above farm, for th e purpose of drowning the cattle ; the circumstance, however, was perceived in time sufficient to' enable the proprietor s to f rustrate the design, which would otherwise have proved effeCtual. SHERIFFS' COURT. JONES v. FAIRRRoTHER. The Plaintiff, formerly Chief Mate of the Afrm, a South Whaler, sought to recover damages for an as: sault committed by the Defendant, his Captain. It appeared by the evidence of three of the crew be. longing to the 'abOve-named.Vessel, that the parties sailed from Plymouth on the r Bth of May, 1803, and lived on fristuily terms .with each other, until their arrival at the Island of Btrbadoes, when a mis. understanding arose in consequence of the following circumstance. The Plaintiff went on shore and pur. chased an enormous baboon from a Slave Ship, which he brought on board the dine, and the creature was soon discovered to be so mischievous that the crew were in continual dread of its tricks. The animal was described to possess all the cunning noticed in' the ape species. It had been accustomed to climb with the greatest rapidity every part of the ship's rigging, from whence it would throw down blocks, ropes, and any loose article on the men's heads, and At other times bite them by surprise. In revenge for such treatment, the seamen had often seized the offender and thrown it into the sea, but the enemy could not be disposed of that way, for he was on board again in a few seconds, and in some place of security. The Defendant remonstrated with the Plaintillon keeping the baboon on board,. and - de aired him to send it on shore ; the latter, how. ever, refused, promising it should do no further injury, and he kept it secured by a chain in the. long-boat during a considerable portion of the voyage ; the animal, however, found means one - day to escape from confinement, and stole unnoticed into the cabin, where it opened the Captain's chest, spread his books, linen, &c. on the' deck, and sprinkled the whole, with ink and a quantity of hair. powder, While the creature was thus employed, the Defendant entered, and perceiv ing the destruttion of Iris property, ran immediately fore pistol, and 4hot the Baboon through the head, as it was escaping up the companion ladder. The Defendant then kicked fallen pug about the deck, and .a violent altercation commenced beiween the Defendant and Plaintiff, which ended with the for. mer knocking •the latter down With a handspike, in consequence of • which. he was unable to walk dor. ing the remainder of the voyage. After these fans had _been proved,• the Jury fund a verdiet for the Plaintiff, with ;l. damages. COUNTY AISiZES, Nom ziourANt.—Fritlay Parity took his trial for ottetiit seditious words,— Mr. Serjea`nt VAUGHAN, Mr. D. P. Corte, Mr. BALctrY, and Mr. cLARKE, concluded the Nose. cution.; Mr. Rottort and Mr. Cot°i.Rv were Conn se' for the Defendant.--Mr. Serjeant VAuotyist: dwelt with considerable eloquence upon the usual topics, and stared, that he should be able to prove words of the most inflammatory nature, such as, " Damn Farmer I wish Bonaparte were here, rwould rake up arms, rind meet him." The evidence fur the Crown being closed, Mr. Ilormit, addressed the Jury with much feeling, and contend. ed that it was impossible words of such kind e st) foreign to the minds of Englishmen, could have been uttered with the serious intention imputed by the indidment ; the learned Counsel was, in many of his illustrations, very ingenious. Witnesses to cha rader.were also called. Upon the summing up of the Judge, however, the jury, after some deliberation, returned a Verdi} of guilty of uttering the words " Damn Farmer but negatived the other expression laid in the indiament ; Varley was, in the course of the day, sentenced to three months prisonment: Yesterday, at Marlborough street, David GievUlt, a middle-aged man, of genteel ap. pearance, was charged with picking the pocket of 5. Reddington, Esq. of his purse, containing a quantity of gold and silver. 'rite principal deponent was a boy of fourteen years old, who was leaving Sutton. street Chapel, Mary.le.bone, on Sunday morning, in the crowd, when he observed the prisoner's hand in the prosecutor's pocket. The boy, after the prisoner had made off, asked Mr. R. if he had not been robbed. On putting his hand in his pocket he missed his purse, and the youth pointed out the prisoner, who was secured with the property. in his possession, The prisoner was fully committed fur trial. it is a capital offence. This species of rub. bery has been practised with success for some time at the Chapels at the Vest end of the town. KENT ASSIZES. MAIDSTONE, 14ARCH 19. MR. justice HEATH, and IVIr. Justice Rooks, ar. rived in to 4:1 last *night, ;Ind opened rheir Commis sion for holding the Assizes for this County. This trforning, after Divine Service, they pro. ceeded to btwines); it being, however, rather later thin usual before the Court sat, nothing very ma. terial was duo: to-day. FAR SOMNER9. This was an action to recover the value of 38 cwt. z quarters of hay, sold by the Plaintiff to the Defendant ; but, it appearing that the hay wait to be of prime quality, and to be delivered at Deal Birrocks, within a limited time, which condition sVas not performed, the Plaintiff was non. suited. GILPIN a). CRAM This was an aelion of trespass, for pulling down some old houses of the Plaintiff's. By the evidence, it appeared that an uncle of the Plaintiff's was the Proprietor of the premises in question, which con. sisted of some old houses in Deptford, three in num. be; ; they were leased by him to a man of the name of Gray ; the present Defendant married a daughter of Gray's, and came into possession, which he held for several years, without paying any rent ; at length he pulled down the houses to make a rope-walk. The title of the Plaintiff was not thought of during that period, but _at lengths he claimed the ground', and it was delivered up to him; hut the present aetion was brought to recover damages for pulling down the old houses. Mr. Serjeant SHEPPARD, for the Defendant, ad. dressed the Jury ; in which address he urged, that the old homes were of no value, and that, in fat), the ground was of mere value cleared from the in. cumbrance of them, Verdid fur the Plaintiff— Damages 601. HARRISON v. PARKER. Mr. GAR ROW told the Jury, that the Plaintiff in this case, was a pour widow, and the Defendant a sturdy blacksmith. The aflion was brought to re cover a compensation in damages for a trespass in the Plaintiff's orchard. The widow had a little orchard, in which she fed her cow, and it happened, that one morning she-found her poor cow turned out of its pasture, and the blacksmith's cow quite at ease, feeding in its place; she, in her turn, sent out the black•mtth's cow, and reinstated her own ani mal in its lawful possession. But again the widow's cow was dispossessed, and the blacksmith') cow usurped her right. She next gave the master notice, that she would bring her ktion against him fur t res p,iss unless he fed his caw at home; but a poor " lone woman" had but small chance against the powerful arm of the blaeksmirh, fur he nut only turned her friend, the cnw, out of the orchard, but he bound up the dour in iron hoops and chains ; and, finding his individual power too strong for her, she was forced to hate recourse to the law to aid her inefficient strength; and he was sure the Jury would give her that recompense which she could oot obtain fur herself. - • He then called three Witnesses, who proved that . the Defendant had turned the Plaintiff's cow out of the orchard, and turned in his own. Mr. Ser::ant SnErrAtin stated, that he should prove, o: oehalf of , the Defendant, that the De.; Pendant was heir to the orchard in questipn, and that his uncle was in possession of it ; and also that the Plaintiff's husband had devised it to him only during his lite, and on condition that be maintained the un cle's wife during her life; but that, so far from ob. serving the terms of the bequest, he sent the old woman to the Workhunse, and consequently that the Defendant ought to have , possession, and was warranted in doing what he had done. Mr. GARROW, in reply, contended, that as this was a mere possessory affirm, the Plaintiff would maintain it, however the rig/a might be. The Learned Itroott was, however, of. opinion, that the Possession of the Defendant's node, tend his slsewing his heirship, called upon the Plaintiff to skew a regal right of possession, and diretted the Jury to find lot the Defendant. The Jury found accordingly. CROWN SIDE lIRPORZ Mit. JUSTICZ ROOK/. The Calendar contains 77 prisoners, of which six only were tried this morning. James Perincr, a private, and William a c in the Monm out h Mili t i a, the f ormer for ba s si j iTat t :Aen a box, containing divers articles of wearing apparel, and the latter for having received it, knowing it to have been stolen. Miss Cruttender, stated, that being a passenger in one of the Maidstone coaches, on the loth' of December last, she lost her trunk, which was missed from the basket, but she did not know how it was gone. She saw the things whet' they were brought to her by the box.holder, and identified them as her property, Edward. Ayles stated, that the Prisoner, Fenner, offered to sell turn some handkerchief's, of which he shewed him one, and told him the others were at the house of Serjeant Brackley, the other Prisoner. • in consequence of this, the Witness, arc:imparried George Wilking, the box.holdet4 to Brae::.;ey's house, where they found the ari isles which had been stolen from Miss cruttenden.3 trunk. Th e Prisoner, Fenner, confessed to them, 'lilt he had followed the stagecoach on the road, and got up behind, and contrived SO throw down into the road the trunk, without having been perceived ; he O. terwards took it up, and car Lied it to the house of Brackley. • The Prisoner, Fenner, said, that he found the trunk on the road, and carried it to firackley, in order that it might be safe if any body shoutti come to own it. Captain Piggote, and several Officers of the Monmouth, spoke to the good ehanitter of , Brattier. Verdict, Fenner Guilty—Brackley, Not In the other three vans the Prisoners were all acquitted, and the trials were eery uniiiteresting, HATTON-GAR D RN.- Yesterday George Darin r, 66 years of age, a native of Switzerland, a pauper in the Weflchouse belonging to Stilt Andrews h hove the bars, was cortnnittod for trial, eharr.d with a rap on Mary Rl* ten years of age. NAVAL • , As Notices have b een.g i ven i n b ot h H ouses of Parliament, Motions respecting the Tenth Report of the Commissioners for Naval Inquiry, we now think it our duty to submit that Report to .ur Readers. THE FIRST TREASURERSHIP OF THE RIGHT HON. HENRY DUNDA9, NOW LORD VIsCOUNT MEL. VILLE. _ Lord Melville succeeded Mr. Barre as Treasurer of the Navy ; he held the Office from the 19th of August, 1782, to the loth of April, 1783, 4d at present stands upon the List of Ex• Treasurers. Hi, first Account was made up in the Office of the Troy« surer of the Navy in the beginning of the year 184; the general statement of it was then trans. mitred to his Lordship to attest, but it has nut been returned to the Accountant, which prevents the Account from being delivered into the Auditot'j Office. Soon after the appointment of Lord Melville, a Warrant under His Majesty's Sign Manual wag given, for granting to him an additional allowance of two thousand three hundred and twenryLfour pounds six shillings and sixpence, in arder to make his net official income four thousand pounds a year; which was stated to be, as in the case of Mr. Barre, " in full satisfattion of all wages and fees, and othet profits anti emoluments," previously enjoyed by former 'Treasurers. .The additional sum of two thousand one hundred and fifty pounds granted to Mr. Bizrro . , not prodoc. ing him a net annual income of four thousand pounds, owing to the taxes and other charges on the addi. dorsal sum, the grant to Lord Melville was thete: fore increased, and a Clause was inserted in the Warrant; authorising him, in ease the additional allowance should not make up in each year the net sum of four thousand pounds, to charge the deli. eiency in the annual account of monies disbursed by him for fees of divers natures. A Warrant, similar to that granted to Lnrd Mel. ville, has been given'on the appointment of each succeeding Treasurer. Mr. Andrew Douglas, who aded as Paymastei under Lord Melville, being dead, we had r, course to his Lordship for information, whether the condi,. tions of the Warrant had been complied with To the question put to Lord Melville, Whether, during the period of this Treasurership, he had de.; rived any profit •or advantage from the use or em. ployment of money issued for carrying on the cur. rent service of the Navy l--he objeded to answer, under the fifth Clause of the Aft by which we are constituted; which provides, " That no person shall be compellable to answer any question which may criminate, or tend to criminate, such person, or to expose such person to any pains or renalties and upon the ground of not di , closing delicate anti confidential transaftions of Government,' alluded to in his Letter to us of the 30th of June, 1804. We shall defer the discussion at this objedion, as toms; ing more in order when we speak of the second part of his Lordship's second Treasurership. His Lordship having ohjyled to answering this, question, and Mr, Andrew Dip.iBlas, hi, Pay master, being dead, it :was nor in Ou t 'loin's' to pursue t his inquiry further ; :otherwise we should have thought • it our duty to investigate the ,manner in which ths Public Money had been employed, and the extent to which the use of it had bean carried. Wa ever deemed it necessary to ascertain, wl ether his Lordship was aware of the conditions of the War. rant, an. what construftion he put on them. By kis answer to a question for this purpose, we learn. ed, that he certainly did cons Her the additional salary granted to him to be in lieu of all wages, lees, profits, and other emoluments, previously en. juyed by former Treasurers, except coals, candles, and some such small contingencies. When a Treasurer of the Navy has g , ne nut of ',office it has, been usual to continue to nifty the pay. ments in his name to the end of the month in Which his successor has been appointed, to prevent confu sion, and the rece.sity of making out two Ac, aunts fur the same month The payments were tin dine continued in Lord: Melville's name to the 30 th of April, 1783, at-which titne he stood charged' ► ith the suns of two hundred,and twenty thousand f ur hundred and forty.six poundS fourteen shillings d nicepence halfpenny. We have enteted in the pendix an Account, she Wing the amount of the SUMS received and paid, anti the bulasice wiro which his Lordship-was charged on the pied December in each:year during his Ex. Treasurership; by which it appears, that no payments have been made upon that Account since the 3131 Of • December, 1795, when the balance, was reduced.to five thousand five hundred and 'sixty-threei puundi six shillings and twn.pence one farthing. This balance was pai d over to his Lordship about the time of his (pitting the office, of Treasurer a second time, in Mty or June, J Soo. THE SECOND TREASURERsHIP OF LORD VISCOUNT MaLVILLE. Lottl Melville ;vat re-appointed on the sth of January, t7}34., anti cantinutcl in office until the tit of jure, 2 boo. In speaking of this Treasurership, it will be ne. eessary to divide it into two parts, as, from the Ist • of January, 1786, the business was condutied under the provisions of the asiii of His present Majesty, cap, 3t, which instituted s new mode of Account for the Office of Treasurer.. The old mode of Account of course ceased on the 3131 01 December, /786, at which•time Lord Mel. ville toud charged with two hundred and seventy. five thousand Sight hundred and twenty pounds hi'. teen shillings and eleven.pence,- out of which sum, and others advanced to him, fte• 'hats; continued to make payments as an Ex.:Treasurer. 7 ' • The late Mr. Andrew Dangles hating also , gifted as Paymaster. to Lord Melville tineint tile part of his second Treasurership, wequestioned Lord Mel. ville, whether he had derived any profieor advise.' sage from the use or employment Of dee money is., sued fur carrying on the current service of the Navy, between the Ist of February 1784, and the pet of December 1785, wtOeb question his ender the provi. P th n e b fi je ft ed cla r :se a t n ir t e h r e in L ' t by which we ate c sli on ni s dsi ti oh tu fi ted, and upon the ground before slatted sane; alluded to in his Letter, We have entered in the A;,;aenthx Us. er rAlf arh ctn sr• l!V •