The Sun. — London, England, 1816-05-25 00:00:00

NIA! t.s. Air Flv Cuernsey and Jer4cy, 1 Dublin, rz I) , JE-1 'Fiance, I flataburgh, I Oilttenbasti, liat,l;tit. PRICE 01 THIS DAY AT r -stank Stoel;, 2IR per Cent. ..... ..C1; 6'2 enl. 61k 4 per tents. 76 77 s per tent. N. Ann 94A Batik L. Anti ST()(10 7 . WEI,V , 1 111111;1 „ 181; 1111111 :Is. pr. Exch. Rills, par,4s. pr. ()won't:), . . 401 Ditto for raynxiit, ........ Cutts. for Opening, .. COITIttiE OF EXCIIAIMA, FranAY, MAY 24. Arn4terildro .. 3))itin, ar Sight A,,,,t,,,tam . .. le 1 C. F. 'Ditto, at Night )t , i.t.•i dam 'Antwerp Ila , iiipagli 35 10 .21 rs, Alton.' Paris, 1 I/ay's I)atc Diitti ..,4 41014141 , e:111X, dittii l'i 0 ilk fort on the Main i‘latt rid *Cadiz .11arceloint itillitia St. Sebastian's Seville Gibraltar ' 11 , Leghorn ...... 414 Ceinia... Hi-Venice ...... .... 26 60 l'Aillta 47 ---N41.Ic, Palermo i,i'shon . 57.E Oporto 11. to Janeiro Dohliii , . .... 151-C0r1f..... 1:4 per Cent. Agio of the Bank on Holland.... 2 Portugal Gold, in Coin 1 .4 0 (1 per 0:. Foreign Gold, in Bars 4 0 0 New 1)(101)143(MS Nil w Dollars Silver, in Bars, Standard 11161-1 WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. 54 militiles after 1. J Evening, 19 initiates after 2. 1 SUN. SOLE” M 1 At' lighi tit Expenditure, with an income of Vioo/. vet. annum. Lord CASTLEREAGH contended the Bill now before the [louse bought the Civil List more tinder the jurisdi"ction of Parliament than it could be brought by the Amen{!meta of the Right ilo nourahle Gentlentart. The new Officer, he t bonght, %void(' be , found' of great importance, and this had been the solemn and deliberate opinion of the Committee appointed to inquire into the af fairs of the Civil List. Ile further stared the PaiNceil.noeNT to Have directed that about sixty offices in the depat tments of the Lord Chamber hi 61 ;t ad the Lord Steward, should no't he filled up when they next fall vaeanr. These °tikes are therefore virtually suppressed. Ott a division, there appeared, For Mr. TmaNres Amendment -Avinst it . .--- IlAjority ll4 " Sedit!ous cries," says one of our correspond ents, " are still occasionally heard at night hi the vicinity of the Tuileries but the Garde Royal are very much on the alert to seize the offenders, au&l if they catch any of them in the fact, they ge nerally chew them but little mercy." (Times.) Yesterday evening the QuEFll.had a select party at Buckingham-house. Yesterday the. Princess CHARLOTTE and Prince Litornt.n took their usual airing. The Doehess of CUMBRRL4ND was considered much better yesterday, • The Duchess • of YORK left town yesterday even int; for Oatlauds. The Royal Sovereign yacht, tinder repair at Deptford Yard, is ordered to be got rt•ady for se a as soon as 'possible. It is said .she is going to IVeymonth to ►tttend on •l►er Royal 11 igrinebs the Princess LNAttL(►TTtt and Prince LF.opot.D. AVAL NO'S. VALMCIUTII, MAY 22.—Arrived the Trench sloop Deux Prere, LAnotti, from . Mot laix ; Lloyd, RAIIIZETT, front Exeter, Sailed his je4ty'S ship Jasper on a cruise. The following Vessels arrived off this port yesterday, and sailed for London :—Mary, l'usnmt, from Trinidad ; Ann, from Tphago ; tiope, lIBRtnBRT, Troin ter.-I,Vind N, POIITSMOUTH,• MAY 24.—Arrived his Majesty's ship SparrOwhawk from a ernise. Sailed his Ma jesty's ship Scatnandcr for the West Indies ; his Majesty's ships Grecian and Larne on a cruise ; Ellison, STEWARD, for St. John's.—Wind S. E. Porstotrit, MAY '23.---Carpe in the Heron sloop of war from a cruise, and the Good:lntent, BLyNDALL, from Bristol,' bOund to Guernsey.— Win'd L. HARWICH, MAY 21—Sailed the Lord Nelson packet for Cuxhaven, with a mail.—Wind E. - DEAL, Nlior 24. —Arrived the Atlantic, SeI'ACE, front NlisrSeilletl, hOilnd to London, and remains. Also remains the Mariner, IIEtatERT, for the- South Seas, waiting for dispatches which she hug to carry.—Wind N.._ GaAvEsENb, Mar 24.---Sailed the - Britannia, IItiLLY, for Cadiz ; Difigence, CLUB, for tertian) ;. Argo, STONEHOUSII, for Hamburgh ; Hercules, RussaLt., for Hamburgh. Arrived the Iris, REID, 'from Hambttrgh ; Industry, COVE ) , from Haniburgh ; Hannah, PARROT, from . I Antwerp. The I‘fary, from Norfolk to Trinidad, came on shore 'the 15th tilt. on CUITitOCP. iit:flCii ; cargo expected to be.rsvett. A'T'ROCIOUS ATTEMPT AT MURDER. 114 F. EXAMINATION P MRS. AND MISS IAYLOR. • UNION-I - lar L.—Mr.Santaarez having informed, . Mr..Eraticc, the Magistrate at this °lice, that , such was the tlaogeions state of Mrs. and Miss ' . Taylor,' from the wotinds inflicted , on then' by,.'. Wright, the prisoner in custody, as to • him scarcelY the most distant hope of their reco very, Mr. EVaNcr,„ attended by the Clerk, Went on Thursday afternoon to take - the depoSitions of the unfortunate sufferers. Their depositions were to the following eflcct :—Mrs. Taylor stated, that she was sitting with her daughter in the parlour on Wednesday evening, between I I and I'2 o'elaelt• The garden door was open, and the prisoner, came up, and sAd, " How do you do Mistrev, . Mts. Taylor replied, "How are , vott, but I fit, not know you." The prisoner then asked if Mr. Tillett had been there; upon this question being put, Mrs. Taylor recollected the prisoner was .the - person who, a few days before, had brought II some flowers from Mr. Tillett, an acquaintance; The prisoner stayed half an hour talking about the garden, when he said he must go, as he thong!it Mr. Vim would not come. Instead of going, however,. he took his seats and soon at erwards seizing the poker, struck Mrs. Taylor several blows on the head with it, which laid her senseless on the floor. By the time the prisoner was brought back to the house, however, she had recovered her senses, Lod Immediately knew Miss Mary Ann Taylor corroborated the state' meta of her mother ; and iiddrd further, that after the prisoner had knocked Mrs. 'Fodor (("VII), acid rendered her senseless, he t u rned round al" )3 - the deponent and struck her several blows 01l th e head and neck—the deponent struggled with him, and at length got from him, and ran towards tht , door, culling murder. The prisoner followed her, struck tier another severe blow on the, hack of the he:ol, and then ran away. She recognised biro honiedintely on his being brought hack. tint' these conduct re vocation, n t l e t a l s. i tl e r t r e slid i l l y e t y ' l -f t r c t i l i ,‘ g e . e Xe r h n i :111 nor he ask them for any money. LONDON; S4TUI?I)..II', 111.4 Y 25, 1816. Tht! aecmints received in Town tidsi morning from the disturbrd districts are rather more f.• "voornble, except from Ely, where the Rioters, lye clod, have proceeded to liCti O great outrage. lite have no doubt, however, that the active ffica• sures which Goverment have adopted Will soon • have effect of resturing tranquillity in that neighiJourliood. iVe join heartily in condemning the eontblet of some Magistrates, who are bald to have entered i n t o -t erm/ ,of compromise with •i lawless mob. The certain consequeoce of such simultaneourand ill-judged conduct must be, as has been found on the present occasion, Co increaic mischig fliSril tier. We understand that the Lord Lieutenants of the disturbed Counties have gone down to put themselves at the head of the Magistracy, and that the whole nt' the disturbed district has been put tarter the eunituAnd of a General Officer. We are without Foreign arrivals to-clay, and devote our columns to the Parliatnetitqry Discus sions, which embrace-many important subjects. The Earl of .STANHOPZ, in the.flouse of Lords, last night, obtained the assent of tltcir Lordships to an Address to the for the appoirit v rucnt of a Committee to be composed of own cniaent in science, to inquire what may be the best sf.andard, according to Nature, tor establish ing an noifortnity in Weights and Measures ; not 'only with a view to the Weights and Measures of this country ; but to those of Europe and the world in general, if possible. In the Home of Commons, the Snap Bill was read a third time and passed. The CHANczt.Lon of the PoccitEcitratt stated, that the estimateil produce of the Duty was between 300,0001. and 4 . 90,000 L and that the Talc would preSs in the proportion of three-penre per annum on each in 'the House went into n Committee, on the state ,of Agriculture, when Mr. F. Lewis proposed a Resolution for allowing the Exportation of Wool from the Ports , Of Great Britain and. Ireland, wi der certain regtilationsTia the Amendment Lod • CASTLERBAell'objected on the ground that he had not had sufficient' time completely to understand s h e subject; andproposed to adjourn it till the next Session. After some discussion, the Amendment was negatived. Mr. TIERNEY moved an Amendment In the Ci vil ,14i$1. Bill. which went to preclude the Crown from coming to Parliament for relief (hi the event of any future eXCCSS occurring), till the funds ex cim.ively at the disposal of the Sovereign, the Ad miralty Druits, &c. should have been applied to meet the same., SO far as they will go. lie ob• jected to the appointment of a new Officer under the Loft) CHAMPERLAIN, LORD STEWARD, 'tlPl MAiTE.R of the Hansa, to coutroul Last night the Princess Cinstami-rit and the PrinCe' of Cueu aG honoured Covent-Garden The atre with. their presence, to see the admirable Comedy of The Jealous IlVe. They entered the Pei NCB' 11.1.:GE [IT'S box before the Play began, tinit were received with the warmest - acclamations.--. The whole Comptiny of the Theatre then came .forward (the Ladies dreased in white), and sw sure the Kink, to which were added. the, Stanzas on the !Oyu' Marriage, admirably este emed by Mr. SINCLYIR and Mr. DuituKF.7._ At intervals, doting the whole evening; their Royal Highnesses .stood up, and gave the Assembly an opportunity 'of paying, their dutiful respects to. Arm, which .they repaid with graceful enott e uep. sion. The play was admirably. performed. An address Of tougrattilatiou on the marriage of the. Princess CHARLOTTE, trout the City of has been prettented to the QuEMI, by, the Marquis of tAnDeig, tie Recorder, and the Menthers of the City, Lord JOHN IIiYNNK., awl Livnt..C9j. PALNIEB i itod tilost .graciously rcceiveil.--The Oxford uticllvSS is to be presented to the PUINCI4 Ft,ZtiENT next Tuesday. . It has been reported that CAMILLE Jounct.sx svgs here as au Emigrant from Fraoce, . but this ih not the case. He came to London .on private business connected with the City of Lyons., Sir CiOEl4O/4 DEVIvIMOND, by .a Proclamation, has retored the trade between Lower Canada and the United States. BIJONAPARTE (Ex-king .of Spain), has removed his establishment front the ne4,hbour hood of New York to Lanadown, on the banks of the Schnylkil, and .about four miles from Pitila . Yesterday the LORD MAYOR proceeded in state to Stratford, where he lick! a (:ourt of Conser vancy for Essex. He afterwards returned to Blackwall, whenhe went on hoard the City barge, and crossed to Greenwich, where he held another Court of Conservancy for Kent. His Lordship, the Sheri ff s, &c. havin g partaken of a sumptuous repast, returned to town in the evening. The coMmemoration of BURNS to-day at the Frerimason's-Hall, promises to be as splendidas its best friends could wish. • About 301) Tickets We been issued. A poem on the occasion, by one of the best of the living Bards •of Scotland. will be recited. The songs by Sinclair, nod other 'Mttsical Gentlemen, who will give softie of Burn's: best airs; the Pipes by AVGregor, and Gov's Band ; and indeed the whole arrangements are such as to promise a high treat to the Assembly. On Thursday Gast the Lords of the Privy Coun eil a meeting in the Council-office, White hall, when a curious case, relative to the Patro nage and Strperintendance of a Maboinetan place of Worship, came before them, in consequence of an appeal frnm a decision 11,SirJAMCS MACKIN TOUT, when Recorder of Bombay. It clearly ap peared that the Respondent wits entitled ;0 the office in question, and their Lordships accord ingly affirmed the decree of the Court below. A House of considerable consequence in the Linen Trade- stopped on Thursday. Lotto .COLUMN:.^.IIC tipper or .last scaffold is now erected—the- plinth of the pedestal, upon which will stand the figure of his Lordship, is also set t. and it is expected, that, the whole will be completed in July, and its opening com memorated in a manner 'suitable-to the event.— ' (Shrewsbury Chronicle.) Lout Htt.t., who has been at Hawkstone save, ral weeks, visited Shrewsbury. on Wednesttay.— His Lords4ip, we hear, will shortly return to the army in France. WALES."."-At a numerous and most respectable Meeting of the Freeholders of the county of Car digan, on the 14th inst. convened for the purpose. of nominating a proper person to represent the saitl ct►itnty in Parliament, in the room of the late truly latnented T. Jon NES, Esq. W. E. POWELL, and PAYEE.Payne Esqs. were 'unposed, wuen the show of hands being in favour of Mr.Pownt., at amicable arrangement took place between those two Gentlemen, calculated to preserve the peace of the county. Several mad dogs have made their appearance in the county ot Durham, and four persons have bcea bitten by them. THE AttMY. His Royal Highness the Dake of Ci.oucnsTEß, and his Serene Highness Prince Lcornto, says a Morning Paper, arc appointed Field Marshals, and gill be anetted this night. And in this night's Gazette there %Vilf: al3o ap pear the following appointments Lieutetaant-General Sir Lowny COIA, G. C. R. to be Colonci of the 34th, vice Sir EYRB core, G. C. 11. Alajor•Gener 11 Sir G. J. WALKER, K. C. B, to be Colonel of the 70th; vice Sir.Lowiy Co Ls. ,Tlre regiment of DE Mniaos, lately lick!. by Sir G. J. WALKER, is ►oo he reduced, • 'The: 47th regiment and t wo- sqt:adrons of Dra goon Gnard4 have proceeded front Chelmstord to Colehestel.. of the GOtli regiment triarcllcci into Varmontli on,Friclity to pei foi in the duty of that town. Yetiterday the disbanding of the veteran Bat. talions commenced ; and by the Adjutant-(;ene. rat's Circular for that purpose, Li',e Men, alter be ing. disembodied, are as 'speedily as poisible to be forwarded to pass the Ilm‘rd at Chelsea. WINDOR, MAY 23. On Monday, her ' MAJESTY and Princesses Et t 2 kIIPTIt 411(1. arrived in Oleic travelling. carriage, a little before.tivelveo'clock, from Lon- Queen,,immediately after, went to the King's aprtments,acCompanied by the Doctor in waiting, and. remained. with his Majesty some time. The Queen, and Princesses Elizabeth and Mary,'afterwurds went_to,rrogutnre, where they part(Juh•of an early and, so4in alter live o'clock, they - left that place, on their return to London. The Archbishop of Canterbury arrived ut the Castle, On Monday, :us President tattle Queen's Council, to be in attendance on the King, during the OneWs absence from hence in London. Lord Arden, one of the-Queeti's Council, was relieved fromitis attendance on the King, by the arriva . , of-his Owe, a lid let t :for Lond4m..- .Princcss Sophia is .so much indisposed, ibmishe only takes tidas• in a•carriage. Pripet:SS Augnste in general rides on .horseback daily. Yesterday, being the .Princess Elizabeth's , irth-day, :the morning was ushered ii, with- the 'ringing of, bells, &c.. In the eve ling., the mulct men of her ,Royal: Highness illuminated their houses; - The Duke of Yolk arrived in the morn, log, and after going to see the King, returned to London. Monotay, -the ,First Dragoon Otards morche , l front Hoottsloor U►t(l Brentford. Some of them timl ti►eir route to NortintoytoO the others, to Colchester. As smug doubts haVe arisen respecting the state ments. relative to the French por t s being open for the tveir importAtion of Corn, we snb . join » copy of the ordinance issued by the King 'of France upon the subject which remedied us yesterday nitMNANcE . • tnnis, by the Grace of God, Kis t ; OfTrance and Navarre, tke: &c. The statement which-bas been laid lo•fore us rvid tive to the produce cattle harvest of the y e ar 1615, an d of t h e grain whirli exists in our kingdom, - ohligts us to look towards the means - of subsistence.' on behalf of Our Subject, ; and wishing that they should mat be left solely to derpeud on the departments of the smith, the interior, or the north, fron t whence assistance can hot, slowly arrive, On ,4.. e ort of Our MinisteridFiliatice, Ike have decreed and du decree asfollows • art+. I,All French or foreign vessels which import a eoln plete cargo of grail), thiur*, wheat, rye, barrel"; and Indi.oi corn into the ports of llourdeatix, Bayonne, .Cette, and Air seilles,-,frons the 10t1Hlay of , Maytioming, to the loth (Tay of August following, wilt he exempt from the navigation d talcs; and will be pei milted to eiport, free flow all duties of the tariff, wine, 'brandy; ire , ;,.sttill, and all other produce of our IMltittfACtllll.* of Ito Litlit . .llllnlbet of tonnage which the ettrgo of gi 3in may conik of. O ur , Mi nisters of Finance an t i Ihe int er i or itre eliarced pith tine ekeention of the present Decree, whim shad he itibtqt,:d is the Holletin-offtftws. . . Dune At Pau, this liol clpnl, t BIJ, and•2lst year of our reign. (Signed) lAIDIS, (Cuulitcrsignril) LE COMTE COIWEVj'O. Ronn ERY OP TIIE. CORONTA NDEL IWY. TUAMES Poues.—Yesterday the investigation of alit 'robbery was resumed, and Corhy and Brown, suspected of hf..ing two of the principals', were re-examined. After some further e-viitetter" chiefly eiteumstatitial, they were again renianded, together with Chapman and Connor. The \ conten7:s of the three chests of dollars'.. found in Gaition's-reach are recovered,exrept the two bags 'left in Chapiniin's boat. The dollars" found on Corhy and Brown are supposed to bee part of a fourth chest not yet discovered. THE. NEW IMPROVENIEhIfs.---St Albati's•streeti in a few clays, will totall) disappear. Monday the bricklayers began to lay the foludations for the celebrated Institution, to. be called the troite 4 Service Club ; it will be at the angle of Charles' street, and immediately opposite to that beauti.- ful pile, supported by stone columns, which it is reported is to be named the St. Alhan's Tavern. Galloway Honse - will - Temoin . in stuta quo, the Noble &sit having re-putebased it ; it is now un" dergoing a complete renovation. St. James'o Market goes next. The inhabitants will all quit arthe Midsummer quarter. .The new College fa Pliysicians'will soon after rear its,heati. Arrange . ' merits are at last completed for building the Rem gent's-Street to Portland-place. We understand that the Author or " Obero ll4 Oath" is Mr. THOMPSON, the Gentleman who adapted the play of the Stronger for the btage—ic increases nightly in public favour. CaueLrY Purnsttan.- 7 -At a Petty,Sessions 0( the Bath Forum Magistrates, held at the Guild lull, on Friday:last, a-complaint was exhibiled by Mr. Gat.s, a respectable farmer, of Wittox.' mead, against his servant in husbandry, for diver' , fiCal of misbehaviour, and particularly for 0 0 committed on the 11th inst..wlien it appeared' , that on one of his master's horses being a little tardy in forcing back , a Waggon, the inhuman monster took .out a knife, with which be cut , the phor animal's mouth in a mos t br u tal manner, 0( which offence he was duly convicted, and, %ye re joice to°say, sentenced ,to three months hard labour in the House of Correction at Shepton Mallet. We are requested to 'state, that the following,- works will be piddished by Mr. CoLnuuty iii - The cootie of the ensuing %reel : 7 -I. Adolphe, Nou velle, by M. Benjamin Dc Conitant.-2. Edgar, a National Tide, by Miss Appleton, Mithor at A System of Private Education."-3: Eighteen Iftmdred and Sixteen, .a Satirical Poem, by the Author of " All the Taients."--4. The Florists' Manna!, or, Hints for the Construction of a GOY Hower Garden, by the Author of " BotanktiL Dialuguesii* BIRTHS. On the :21st inet, at Shopwick, near Chichester, the Daly ,°E' CaptArit Vahhon Ballard, It. N. C. B. of n hon. f , At Woodtheater, Gloucesteilliire, Mrs. Flawkor, wife " , .)w Major-Orner.ti !lowlier, of a %on. Heuvitree, it, Devonshire, Mts. BliehleY, of the La wn* South Latnbetli, of a daughter. 1011 El). On Wttlnesdas hst, the Rev. W. }f. Ward, to Amelia, se' clod tighter of W. C. Pilhino E 4 li . of Bracondale-hill, i!elq Norwich. On Tharsday last, at. St. James's, Westritingteri Mr. • Price, of Orchard•streut, l'ortn44ll-.o%ire, to Aliss ca P.lll-,‘lall. DIED. • On the 14th, at his house 'White's View, flinr v" . chotait titittil,le, Esq. late 0 1 in thy Ki ng 's , ConntY' Yeiitertity, :it 'the Vicarai,Pe-hotise; Kensingt .ti, the Het., Itietart! Orn.erott. Uit Til , :i3a.ty, at Ilat!t, the a Sir William itiehakkio n s Bitrt •of Castle-still, Coutitv Tyi John Lewis,Esq. matey el; t he Arraigns in James kluilseky, 41%. olu• of his Majesty's Jusl ices 0. t4 4 ' Pe;ier, ati.t Deputy Lieutenant of the of Starforti• O n .Sunday' itioroing the wife of a tl2 Bath, A+44111, cage! tt,osts..st-' ll4 where pritxpvt tell; rittecting . - her son just re , tirnt.n.frorn done vicioy !Lid 4V - ; Oat the diet,' will' ) E.g hint by , Lt vsrp. IN: Pt ittteti , tw .1. 11. t: , it., l'A (ft%;, 'o % 7, 6.0011-` builtb..gb; 4,141 t•tthic.4lttl IIY NV, A. SlCltiel'N. of kirittvl. At, tat: :4tat-Ofett 6, S•• 112`, szywol : ww, re Ativertisz.. tutit's, 0;11,1'4, 14:,:c.r. uh - ,i:-1, - itt<i,s ; Ca:. 04.15 t I c :Id Lirrait 4.