The Sun. — London, England, 1816-10-24 00:00:00

LO:►i) :111\1'0"i:11. One of the most profound and universal im pressions of regret that can he conceived, was yes terday visible throughout this city, in consequence of it being understood that -Earl NlTnt'rwnwrn bad been suddenly seized with a violent illness, and that the - most serious and dejecting doubts were entertained of his Lordship's recovery. The , news came as tisurprise upon the Public; and the feelings which it awakened were acute and sincere, and bore noble testimony to the true state of opinion concerning his Lordship's just, impartial, and en lizlnened - conduct, since he was placed at the head of the Executive Administration in this country. We have the most unfeigned regret in saying, that there is bat too much case for the public anxiety, and that his,ExcuLLENcY's malady was severe and alarminl—and still continues to be so. About two' o'clock on Saturday, Loud Wu 1f• WORTH complained of being indisposed—and the illnets continuing to increase with alarming strides, medical aid was called in to his relief. The etforts of the Physicians to give immediate ease were un successful; and it was not until six o'clock this !sunning, that the medicines began to act with the effect which was looked for. His Excellency, however, is conceived to be in the most imminent danger. It i, supposed that Lnrd WIITTWORTH'S disorder was caused by cold on.lVeduesday, whilst he was engaged in the ceremony of laying the first stone of the new:' bridge which is to bear his name. Ills 1,014111 p stood, as it is thought, exposed to a cold blast on Arran-quay fat ton long a time, .after he had alighted from his carriage.—(Dublin Correspqadott, Aionday.) The same Paper inserts the, two Bulletins which appeared in Tait SUN yesterday. Sstur:OLtNo.r—The Public are probably little *ware of the serious extent to which the practice of smuggling is now carried on, part icullrly around the Kentish Coast. Some notion may be fortucil, of the mischief from the fact, that in Attgust hst,alone, it I t As .4teen ascertained that no less than twenty-four boa,ts, laden with foreign ma nufactured prohibited goods, were safely landed cu the Deal beach only. The truth is, that the expertness of.the mariners employed in a traf fick. so injurious to 0111 own 111811414CUITCCS, is unequalled by any which can be ctigneed to ,tleteet thaw, although every possible effort is ms de for the purpos,e, c ,, Several of the most respectable and well-informed persons in that quarter have lately established at Society un der the appellation of " The Downs Society of Fishermen's Friends," in order, tQ: use the su pe r ior local facilities they possess, of divert ing,t he labours of these able mariners from the r vresent baneful practices to legitimate. Alices suited to their habits. The Downs Society hav t a converted Deal Theatre into a manufactory,where the older persons and the women and children ore roployed in spinning and net making, and are ahout to open a cooperage tor the like end. They sre gradually establishing a fishery off' that coast, and have made a very, prosperous commencement , with .the herrings, which they cure in the Dutch style. Their fundamental principles arc personally to interest every individual whom they employ, by making the shares so low as 5/. each, and thus accessible.to- all ; and. to incur no responsibility beyond their present -means.. A horrible attempt (says a Paris private letter) %cis made, some nights back, to blow up the bar racks, new the hairier leading to St. Germain, on the south side of the river. At one .o'clock in the morning, a man was discovered with a tnatch in his hand : he was shot by two sentinels at the same moment, and at the place where he was . shot, it was discovered that there was sceret coin mmiication with the vaults, in which several bar , Ills of gunpowder had been placed, for the hor rible purpose of destroying 000 men in an instant. Sr.s.ve THAW& I.IY FRANCE: AND SPAlN.—Cortot na, Sept. 2.—" Arrived this day the st. Juan tie Cortina, Vidal, front Botirdeaux; with mer chatlise, for the '4l.e-trade on the coast of Gni ses', where the ,sa,id vessel is bound to, having come here to get her clearances as Spanish pro perty.,., LiA24I.IUHCLIT,. OCT. 12,.--Our market for Arne, TlLdil produce offers ;peat dieutivagetnetit for shil mots, particul.trly of rice and cottou the fo , fuer article has advance(' to 29 a 30 per 1001 b. consequence of the high price of griain ; and there iy scarcely 300 hales of cotton remaining for sale; Georgia, 43 a 16 groats, and New Orleans the •:+tnep there being no prime quality of the hitter reinatning. Pkill.AUßLPlit k Sarr. 6.—We just learn that a torinber of young men have recently been sedoced away from this place, New. York, and Baltimore, to join the revolutionary army in Mexico. A yes. eel, it is said, sailed from Baltimote list week with a large somber on board. They were ten►pt ed with the oiler of commissions, but their hopes of preferment .must prove illusory. They go, we presume, to'almost certain death. The remains of Earl BesocoAmr are to be re moved front his residence in St. James's-square, for interment its the family vault at Mudreshel►l, pear Worcester. }I was announced that the Insolvent Debtors• Court would proceed to [rosiness on Monday next ; but we are sorry to state that an express ivae re ' ceived in town yesterday front Brighton, that Mr. berieunt RUNNINGTON was dangerously bolls posed, and that he could not, in all probability, resume his functions in the Court before .the mid el)e of November. Died this morning, in Chandos.street, Covent- Garden, Mr. JAMI.IS PLATVAIR 'WILSON, in the IlOth year of his age. This amiable young' man was for fourteen years engaged in the Office of this Paper, where his assiduity and integrity re commended 'him!'entirely to the affection of his employers. Its his own circle he ►vas equally be loved and respected, for his great moral worth, atud exemplary attentiouto his religious duties. SU; r N ;;‘l'3. DEAL, 66. r. 23.—Arrivecl, 'limit ailed ' fo'r the River, the Minstrel - , IlAvAttn, from Bengal.— Arrived, and remains, tire Mary, Him, from Quebec. Came down from tilt River the Cain -11cl), BILIANOILU HST, for Antigua ; Britannia, Cr.ersrY, for Jamaica ; Trent, GRAKT, for Bar. badoes ; and Quebec, JACKSON, for New York, and remain' in the Downs. Sailed the William Manning for St. Kitt's.—Wind N.W. PORTSMOUTH, OCT. 23.--Arrived the Jenne Henrietta, 11aocx.. twin Arttverp for Charleston, and the Amicita, MY Ea, from Amsterdam for Su rinam.---V ind Westerly. hst.Mou•ru, Ocr. 21 —Sailed the Callope, GoonwiN, for the 111editerranean.—Wind N. .00T. 2.1.--Sailed the Prince of Orange packet for Holland, and Henry Freding wicket for Cuxhaven, both with mails —Wind N. W. MARGBTE, OCT. 23.,—F01►r large anchors, two chain and two other cables, one anchor, and about GO fathoms of patent cable, belotNi'ig to the brig Carvalho, Captain MoarA, hare been taken up and landed here. RAMSGATE, OCT. 23.—Put in here tor shelter the Union anti Vi te, from London ; from Shield's ; and Fame, from Ipswich. Ocr. 23.—Arriv0 the Christina, Roeloff, "from Amst , rdam ; Alert, Riches, from flamborgh ; Harmony, Pratt, from Mara n.iam ; Coventry, lloru, from St. Luria ; Vow, llLe roth, from the Canary Islands.—Sailed the Ill novo., Adam•on, .19r ; Eliz,beth awl Sarah, Summers, for Goree and 'kite ; Brit islt Queen, IVillimus, for Bruges ; Rose, for Havre; PeLershtirgh, horn, for l'etershurgh ; Ruby, Bryce, for Amsterdam ; Betsey, Chartie, Far Rotterdam; and Princess of Wales, Fox, for Ostend. Extract of a Letter from it Young Officer on hoard the F 1 n. East Indi c Company's Nitip Faiths, .1. E. Wxab, Eig Commander, dated St. tic- lena Aug. 26, 18 . 16 : " Thauk God we are safe - here, after having en countered one of the most dreadful gales than ever ship experienced, even in these lati'nd s, and winter season off the Cape. We sa , fed from Ili. tavia,the 9th of June, and had a fine and .t tiniek passage to the Cape4.' 'when tiff there, on the . 29th of July, It. 4. it came on to blow h a rd, with every appearance of tont weather, and 1 he• liese we may thank Capt. Ward's judgment and foresight for our safety. for rem y thine. was early, matte snug and secure--masts and yards nil struck --and every hotly on boatel ,prepared. To wank evening, the wind increased to a treineminni bor• ricane, and so contintod for 36 hours, the sea running mountains high, and, senat was worse, in all directions ; at this time we. lay with our lee•deck under water, up to the cnatitings of the hatchways : soon after, in a heavy •quall, the ship was over:on her broadside, and nothing but the weather side to be seen. Rotool•house awl caddy full of water, all the windows swishei in, Kild every piece of furniture broken. The scene wits now horribly awful : the ship being, pressed down by the great . wciat o f water under the heavy sea, the captain was up willioglyobliged to m iter t he overboard ; in doing which the poor fellows were so immersed in the sea, that at times only their heads were visible above water. On pumping, • • the water came up like syrup, the sugar, which WAS our dead weight, being dissolved by the wa ter, which got through from the seams working open, The cargo, which at leaving Batavia was . chock up to the beams, had sunk three feet. We have lost our guns, two boats stove, several sheep, one hammock, rails, Anil stauncheous, and VArigniti other damage : our people very sickly, this gale sent len to the Doctor's list, but nes er did poor fellows behave better ; and had it riot, been for the prudence, skill, and laborious exertion of the Captain and Officers, and indeed of evely man and boy itt the ship, we limit all have perished. Oor ship behaved nobly—has nut made a drop of 0 ;vier, and, wonderful to relate, neither lust It omit yo.d, •or split a sail. When the sea, came pouring in at the round-house, 1 then, indeed, thought it was all over with us ; butt 1 ‘ Flops leads us on, nor leaves ,us but with death," and !,turned to anti : baled the water out of the culltly, which was' above toy knees, until toy shins were broken by the shattered chairs floating about, when I thought it time to knock off, The Steerat,:c wa at one. time a lout deep in water. We arc now caulking, and Alth the kind assistance of the Admiral, hope to get away in a le‘v days. There has been dratultni work in and off the Cape. Two men of war went on shore, a thing never known in Simon's bay before. A ship, ntrived yesterday with loss of main and miz-n masts, and assed the wreck of a large ship after the gale. Indeed at one time, 1 believe, our Captain would not have given sixpence for our chance : and they all say, had she not been one of the strongest and best ships ever built, and well prepared, we no t o• have all ,gone ; but, thank God, the suit shines again, and hope to tee you all in abont two months. I think 1 shall get a peep at; Bony." It blew a strong gale on Sunday afternoo►► from the N.W., which occasioned the shipping in Leith Harbour to drive very much at high water, but we have not heard of any damage being done. A Leith smack sailed at mid=day on Friday from that rnrt, and at twelve o'clock on SimOy night arrived at Gravesend. It blew u 'hurricane nearly the whole.time. Off Ilarwich, a vessel at a short distance from her went flown with a sud den squall, and all on board perished. A coati r that was in sight at the time al‘o lost her mast. Saturday afternoon, about three o'clock, great crowds of spectators of all ranks assembled in the Long Walk in Windsor Park, to 'see is foot race of two hundred yards between WANSALL, the Eton man, and a soldier of the 3il regiment of Foot Ottani*, who was thought to he the best runner in the regiment. Much dependance was placed on the soldier before starting, but WAN sALL beat him by six, yards. It was an excellent race. This is the third tit►►e that WANaott.l. has come in first. It is thought that there is none in this part of the country can inn with him. THE TIT E.Vrilt?,. Dlit.inv-L%NE.—Last night Mr. KRAI played Richard the, Seecnid, for .4 he firq tinie this Sen• 011, autl met with the warmest applause. His great merits i this character tare wdl knokyn. It itlroftis the opport u nity for •displaying all hi: arivantitges, N t od does not obtrtide any Of his defects is little violence of declamation to urge' his voice heionnl the pitch where it ceases to he agteenble anti while his countenance expresses all the . eon. flirting passions of . the weak King, - his figitreis not, as in . Hamlet or NaclOth, inconsistent with ivhat eve tray assign,to the victim of Bolingbroke.— The Quito Gate is not stint yet. ma. I\IACREADY. TO THE EDITOR. OF TIIE SUN. Sin,--Youiimlicions and liberml criticisms on the performances of ?Ir. AlAcatiAny imditee me, through the channel of your paper, to correct an orar which on his first appearance pervaded every daily print: namely, That he was to be coml.- derrd an Actor perfectly formed, because he had grown up as it were behind the scenes, and had heen trained from his earliest .years to the Stage. lle certainly is the son of tt Provincial aLtuager, but 1 remember hint in the year eighteen hundred and eight in the sixth form of Rugby-School,. of Which he bad been some time a member, distin guished both by talents and acquirements.. To :his ,ickssical inoticiency was certainly added a Ma stoperioriiy in 'elocution: he bore aft the palm at the Annual speeches, and impressed ibe whole n e i g hbourhood with astonishment and de li:4lli by his inimitable performance of :Lava, iu The lierenge, got tin by the senior Boys for their amusement. 'flie Bar, however, at th3t time was co n sid e red his flume profession ; ant! to family circumstances is it chiefly Owing that the Stage has been-substituted. Or Mr. MACHEADY'S qua itfitat ions as an actor I. am not competent to mige, al.holigh I confess that bis Othello, liontlet, and Mentecole (the only tragic chartcters'in which I have seen him) impressed me u ith the idea of 111 . .6 dramatic excellence. I know him to he a (;'tenth to and a.Scholor, -and that to an i. gitlv enirirHri•ti Mitt(' lie unites an unblemished chatac ter. Under this conviction: , 1 deem it the ditty of a friend to correct tie idea of Mr. AIACEMADY having been brought up entirely behind the scenes, or being destitute of those. soureesiof discrimina tiou anti judgment which a good ethic:abt can alone bestow. I am,, Sir, Warwickshire. YOUR CONSTANT READER. Mrs. Gagnicr, who made her. first debut in the fon‘ical woad at Covent-Garden, When Mi•s Goay, in tile Opera of the troudmam is now the v'tu attraction st the Liverpool Theatre. Miss Gatma.Nt, the sisier-indaw of Mr Yougn, of Covent-C.arilvn Theatre, is now the heroine 01 the Chester Company. Mr:. Wat.t.s St./MARIA. has again emerged from retirement, and displayed tier talents to a crowd ed house on ‘Vetinesday last, at the Richmond lirr next tAlort will be to-morrow, at the Ahsemhly-root» tit Ealiag. DEATH OF CUltTls, THE BOXER. In 'our report of pato ti,ty we gaiFe. a doploruhle. account ut the state of the vanquished Curtis, by the superior hitting of Turner, ho made his debut as a pugilist—sinee that re port Curtis is nu more. One instance of the sort has occurred within these 25 years, of a man dy hog nutlet the operation of hitting ; but we pro ceed to the relation of this tale with the best re- port which can at present be obtained, 'the writer 'if this article having been present on the spot, and furnished us with yesterday's report. The deceased man was desired to give in every round, riot only by the umpire, but b r his seconds, and he persisted in his notions of winning to the -I"st. 11. '4) SO melancholy 311 occasion► we mention game, we lament munch that it shotild have led to that foal;ty which has befallen . him. In our renurt of the bAttle yesterday, we stated that Cur !is was as dead as a 'linacker's lacquey. The ex pression WAS used technically, and it was applied to m,kny other combats where men have been'eVen worse beaten. At the close of the fight Curtis fell, end the manly manner of his opponent did him credit on this occasion, as it bad d i ne throughout the combat. Curtis at length 'fell, 'when 'some suPPosed he had.the best of the fight, which, from the e xertions of the men, had rednred.both to simptetoas. He, fell in earnest, and the moment he Ml hie left - hint. •- - The deceased was *conducted over the water as a bra v e laser, in a lifeless state. 'At the inn at ll4uipron his case shewed mire prominent danger than had been anticipated. 'Die fetnalts were alarmed, and surgeons were promptly tent for. lie iyas bled, and the blood flowed freely. lie WA exhausted in the fight, and hiS death is much • re grilled, as he was a brave main.- -` above is the , account of the litigiliAtic Reporter, and a .ae b oidal to a Country where there.is any in:Ocoee CO civilization. There is no instance on record of Sixty Thou. sand Nandi to he had fur little more than Sixty r „ nntls, and yet the 31st day at the present Month will forni,h is new Ara in Lotteries, inasmuch as, tor the first time, there are Three Prizes of 420,000, besides lots of minor ones of Two and One Thousand, and 011 to be drawn in Out Day. A correspondent, who has remarked, that when a fire breaks out, it is a considerable time 'before any water can he obtained, owing, he believes, to a want of information as to where the plugs lie,. and as to the means of opening them, suggests as a remedy, that there should be a greater number of plugs, and that every housekeeper should be furnished with the means of turning the water on, in case of an alarm of tire, without the ne cessity of applying to a tnrocoek for that pnrpose. Yesterday morning the prisoners committed on charges of Felony were removed from the several gaols in the City of London and County of Mid dlesex, to Newgate, preparatory to taking their. I trials at the ensuing Sessions at the Old Bailey, l which commence on Wednesday next. The Sessions for the County of Middlesex be gin at the Sessions House, Clerkeawell, on l\lon day next. AGitiC CLIUitE. TO THE EDITOR OI"11112: SUN. Stlz,-,-That rich province of the new Nether landish Empire,l(Mg called 1 - 11/lIiiMI, has, it is 3nt~t, during the list 25 years of the CrIHICS of follies-of France, antra the fears and tvastes of England, greatly improved iu agriculture-and-prothiction SO MUCII, the •notwitlisiatiding its close p.iptila lion, and the little sound heads and caps - , and large hodies and spreading petticoats, of its nu merous prudent people, they; tit this titer, 410 not thenowlves cons‘une more than five parts of thirty- fire, or onc-seventh, of the total- produce of the well managed soil of their territory this he correctly nod truly stated, it deserves much re- section, inyead; In many consitkratimis The first of manufactures, because the most im portant ;Ind essential to us in its products and uses, is the mantilacture of the soil ;--the most anrient, - dronourable, and powerful of all machines still, and the most economical of human labour, is the plough; moved by the brute and tpdet torte of the patient ox, (who makes, besides much bet ter food than spades and mill-stones will, if we discard him)—trom our soil, if we manufacture it aright, repay, the toil of those who cultivate it, we can have food, raiment, and habitations good liquors, to support and cheer ; stone, fuel, pot tery, china, glass,'und all the useful metals, play houses and. halls, bridges and palaces, colours and plantings, churches and penitentiaries; what more . do we want, but sugar and tea, cotlek: and wine,. which Europe, Asia, and America are glad to ex• • change with us tor at little of our urptus produce of ingennity, slciii, and initchiner). And of ill this, too, we have means enough, as in 'Holland, for more than INlCi.the number a the present -inhabitants of these Islands; with fair sufficiency for every one who is industrious, economical, and prudent ; and for the young, be fore they should ►abatir ; for the 'aged., when y should rest from their labours of half a century. When the difficulty of the passing hour is re . ferre'd to, let it be . remembered, thei at this time 30Ibs, of excellent potatoes can still be had f o r one shilling !---so that a good food is not yet dif ficult to procure. The stout hearts .ond uobla courage of many of the -brave men of Salarnmtea and Trafalgar, Waterloo and Algiers, were nou• 6,110 and formed on the sustenance of this good root—now in Stich excellence,of quality and great , abundance in this tnetropolis. km.. 42, Md. R. IRELAND. LtmEracx, Ocr. 18.—Ou Saturday night List, about the hour of nine o'clock, us Edward Bourke, slater, and his wife., with two others, were return- ins; h o me from the Quarter Sessions of this city, they were fired at from the. shrubberies of Mr. .FinuessY, near Castle Connel—a volley of stones also accompanied the shot, fortmiatety without doingAnty mischief. • Ott that night month the said Botirke's house was maliciously burnt down. That part of the connti y has been remarkable for its peaceable conduct—but it appears some villains have a set 014 this unfOrtmtate inane are happy to . say, Bourke leas identified the perseitt who fired at him. OCT. 19.—lutormarion having been received it , " the Right Worshipful John Vereker, Esq. Mayor, fly concealed arras being-in several houses in the county of Clare, on the :emilles of the North Liberties, which certainly have been used its committing depredations, his Worship last night sent Mr. Murphy,' High Constable, with a de tachment of the 4th Dragoons, under the warrant of Alderman Watson, a Magistrate of the,County of Clare, when Mr. Murphy was so fortunate as to obtain a new blunderbuss, a ease of pistols, two muskets kaded and primed, and a sword, which lie at the Mayor's Office for iospeerioo,— Upwards of twenty stand of fire-arms have beets .lately voluntarily surrendered to the Mayor, by persons in the Liberties. CLONMCV, OCT. 19.—0 n Monday last two fat wetbers, the property of Pierce O'Donnell, of Linville, Esq. were killed on the tenth of Cool bonen the carcases, &e.• were curried off, the thieves leaving only the heads behind them. • UNtd:WFUL OATHS.-1n consequence of infor mation recrived, of an intended meet ing in the town of Antrim, of persons associated together under unlawful oaths, (denominattd RibbOnmen,) an active Mggistrate, with a part) of the regiment,iti the garrison from Belfast, on Saturday evening suddenly heiet a public.housa in Antrim, where they apprehended ten They wereitumediately taken to the Market-house and searched, and the form of the unlawful oath, it is said, was . found concealed in the neekclatis mof one of the en. They were all committed , to SOUTIIWARK SESSIONS. YesterdayJurnes Taylor was convicted of heat ing Joint frisker' most brutally. Tim particulars ate too shocking For insertion: his sufficient tir. mention Mr. Wicker lost one .eye, and is at pre.' - sent in danger of losing the lititor. The court adjudged him to twelve months' solitary confine ment. Bartholomew Kennelly, aged 30;was convicted of stealing 71. and a quantity of silver from the person of Bryan Riley, a labourer. The inni t ey was found in his possession. . Je called antra %% it n:.a to character, who being asked by the Recor der what he could say about the prisoner's Ito nesty, replied, 'I Oh, i"y i i you're the best judge•—ltort47ltt try know how ha i --" wtts t judge about honesty—no honest man comes here."--. Sentenced to seven years transportation. John Rielitrs was convicted 6f stealing a , piut pewter pot, the property of 'Jr. Denver, landlord of the Rockiugliam Aires. Alt. Deuyer stated, that in the last six months he had lost upwards of six dozen pots. He was committed tp- the House of Correction to hard labour for six months. Thomas Harris was convicted of assaulting WM. head night, October s c i l t w l i ( e j s b e c e P a r s n i c i a l i t e 'e c t s i cel t en p , 7 e 'e a whileltt i n the act of ever, after the tray began, made a stout resist. once, and called two witnesses to prove the assault, one of whom, the prisoner said, was en adulteress, the other a murderer 1 4—Judgment re spited.