The Sun. — London, England, 1816-11-23 00:00:00

TIE:: GRAND num:, ,Nicncos. Yesterday, at one o'clock, the Grand aukc.Nt :noLas held a Levee at St. Alban's liouse.7- Ituong the companv were—the Duke of Clarence, lama Fagel, the Dutch Ambassador, the Swe [sll Minister, the Prussian Charge. d'Affairs, Anna Munster, the Hanoverian Minister, Earl 'erey, the Marquis of Headlint, the Marquis Choi nondeley, the Marquis of Winchester,' the Duke )f Montrose, &c. The L'eVee continued tilt half-, )Art two. At three the Grand Duke went to ..:atlton House, to be presented in due form to he Mince Regent. Robert Chester, Esq. the, kssistant Master of the Ceremonies , preced ed in private carriage. Count Lieven's chariot fol. owed, with the servants in their state liveries, in which the Grand Duke rode, attended by his Ex !elletey Count Lieven', Tire Grand Duke's suite, onsisting of six, followed in two of the Regent's • Carriages. The, Grand Duke was received at the entrance Curltuu• House by Sir William Keppel and Sir l'ohn Cratiock, the Grooms iit Waiting ; Vis !omit Melbourne, the Lord in Waiting ; and Sir William Congreve, the Aid-de-Camp in Waiting. Die Grand Duke was introduced to the Royal ;Inset by the Assistant7Master of the Ceremonies, sod into the presence of the Regent by Count [,;even, the Russian Ambassador. After the loyal interview, the Suite oldie Grand Duke were Reverally introduced to the Prince Regent by his Excellency tl►e Ambassador. The Grand I)nke wore a dark green uniform, turned up with red, and an Order with light blue ►ribbon. He has very little the appearance of a foreigner. lie has very fine light hair, without powder. fie is full six feet high. lie returned to St. ,Alhan's Mouse about four o'clock, and soon afterwards received a visit from the Duke of York. The interview lasted till past five. The Gitsnd Duke had a small party to dine with him. LATE DUKE OF MECKLENBURGH-STRELITZ. The Ifamburgh Correspondent gives the follow.; ling account of the decease of this Prince : " STHELITZ, Nov. 7.—Our respected Grand Duke was in gond health during the whole of his tour last summer, to Rebburg, Schwalbach, and Hildhurghausen, and returned.. amongst us in the same state. Some days after his return he was smacked by an inflammation of the lungs, from which, however, he seemed to have recovered in three days, and was quite well on the sth of No vember; but on the 6th, about five in the morn• in;., be was attacked by a fit of apoplexy, so se vere that be lost his faculties; and in. that state vernained till four in the afternoon, when lie ex pired. Of his childre n ,. the 2d tom, Duke Charles, ss as alone present, as she Hereditary Prince had not rttorooll from a journey-which he set out 'upon in autumn. To his subjects this Prince was a Ittie lather, who endeavoured to mitigate the distresses of the times with prudente, fidelity, an d a ffection, and by the sacrifice of his own per. sonal interests. Gentothy also will not forget that lie was amongst the first ut the minor powers to declare against the Oppressor, and support the common cause with all hiS vigour. The hts siarts will respect in him the father of their late , venerated Queen, and the English the brother of their excellent Queen. Charles Louis Frederick was horn on the 10th of October, 1741, lived long in the Hanoverian service, and in 1794 succeeded his brother in the Government of Mecklenborgh- Strelitz. The sovereignty, which the eNtorted Rhenish Confederation guaranteed to him, he did not exercise to the oppression of his own subjects ; end upon the liberation of Germany he received on extension of territory and the dignity of Grand Duke. ile was twice married, and to two sisters of the House of Darmstadt. fly the first mar riage he left tour children—the' present Grand Duke, George Frederick Charles, born in 1779, and the wives of the Duke of Hildburghttusen, the Prince of Tour and Taxis, and the Duke of I.7tooberlaint. By the second marriage be has left Duke Charles Frederick Augustus." jOSUPIIINE. We extract the following account of the eir eionstance which led to the death of BUONA. PARTE% first wife, from the lcttera written on board his lAtijessy's ship 'Northumberland, at sea, by Mr. IVARDON, Surgeon of the Northumber. land : _ " I shalt begin this letter by introducing a very interesting person to your attention ; and who, in . airy varinui quarter-deck conversations, had not been hitherto mentioned—it was the Empress Jo sephine. tier name happening to occur, she be came the spontaneous subject tat very animated enlogiums ; when she was represented as posses sing 'a sweetness of disposition, , an elegance of manners, and- 4 certain melody of voice that irre sistibly charmed every one, without any exceptiem as to situation or capacity, who were admitted to her pretence. The sudden death of this excellent Lady was very generally lamented, and is awl &tett ItVa very extraordinary circumstance, and as very exalted personage: I will relate the event to you,in the words, as far es memory serves, in which tbe Count de 'Las Casas conveyed it as an undeniable fact to me. Jnoephine, it seems, hail so far woo the admiration tend high esteem of the tinperor Alexander, that his Imperial Majesty used to dedicate many of his leisure hours to the pleasure of hive fascinating conversation. His visits were not only frequent tint continual during Otis stay at - Her state of health was but indifferent, and on some particular occasion, her physician had prescribed medicines of a nature t':that ree l 'itired the utmost care and precaution, and an absolute confinement to her chamber ; but at this time the Kmperor paid one of his visits, when tier respect for hint rendered her incautious, and she received the Imperial Guest iu the usual luso -Tier They walked, daring the. time of his stay , in the gardens of Malosaison, and the consequence of this promenade was fatal : she was seized with violent inflammation of the lungs, which defied - all medical assistance, and in a few days she was Pu more," Tile Dew bell at the cathedral church of Vet -"flies bus been baptited; his Majesty stood god lather, arid-,l th lutits *wed godmother, by iiroxy. tl'i IZLN tit' :'; ;NIA:..ILYI. UULLEut . New Bedlam, Friday Evening. We feel the utmost grief at being compelled to acquaint the Public, that after some dreadful paroxysms endured by Citizen HUNT last night, he appears this day sunk in incurable idiocy. Unless his frenzy should return (which the medical Attendants would prefer) the Bulletins will in future be discontinued. (Signed) JOHN MALL G. C. O. THOMAS PRESTON, Sr:. THE TH SATRE. COVENT-GARDEN. The Provoked Husband, last night, introduced Alias O'Nratt. in a new comic character, that of Lady Town 'in which she was played to by the gietuest actor of the age, Mr. KIMBLE. RS her liege Lord. With such support it may be exrctet; that all the Lady's powers in this fine were•elicited, and if they were, we • can only state as our opinion that her ex cellence lies elsewhere. Not but that there was much to admire in her delineation of the part ; still it wanted the tone and fashion and ease which belongs to it,' and was, upon the whole, not well calculated to add to it reputation so high as Miss O'NEILL's. _ _ _ Same critics have foan , l Out that Mr.K EMMA Is older than he was twenty years ago—we wish all their discoveries were as true. But there was none of the failings of years in his Lord Townly, and all that was old about it, was the exactitude with which a Nobleman of the Old School was pourtrayed. In the more serious and passionate scenes, where connubial tenderness struggles with and is overcome by a sense of wrong, we never witnessed any thing more just and impressive. Talking of wrong, rem►nds us th►►t we have a compliment to pay to the representatives of the Wroughead family an:l their adherents. FAWCETT'S Sir hands, Airs. Gull's, Miss Jenny, LtsTotes Squire, Mrs. DavENPORT'S Lady Irronghead, EMEUYY'S John MoOdy were all highly amus ing of their kind. Mr. ABBOTT played Manley well, and Mrs. FAUCITT Lady Grace. The Officers of the 3d Battalion Royal Scots gave a grand Dinner at Valentiennes on the 211 instant, to celebrate the Birth-day of their Royal and illustrious Colonel. His Royal Highness the Duke of KENT, his Grace the Duke ot WELLING. I'ON, and Lord it:L, with their-respective Staff, h ono ured the Mess with their presence. A journal of the capital announces the sudden death of an, Advocate at Dunkirk, and attributes the act of despair . which induced him to put en en d to his days ti) poverty. •It would be more reasonable to assign, us the cause an unfortunate adventure %villa' occurred to him, and the pain. tot recollection of which was never absent from his mind. While lie Was practising in 1812, be fore the Court of Liege, he - was one day official ly appointed to defend a young man accused Of a serious crime. On going to communicate with the prisoner, he discovered him to be his own son, of whom he had not heard for five years. He pleaded with eloquence... Abe cause ot the untortu nate youth. and • succeeded in mitigating his punishment to hanishineot. The unhappy father, however, afterwards lust his reason melancholy and distraction of mind have at' length 'driven him to the net which has been improperly as cribed to poverty.--(French Paper.) There is now living at Kingdom!, in Hereford shire, a woman in the hundred and sixth year of her age, who retains all her faculties in a remarkable manner; her daughter, who lives with her, is nearly eighty, and on going to the Overseers of the parish for the relict all. wed her mother, a few days ago, she remarked that the old lady would have come herself, but she thought three miles too far for the venerable dame to walk in the rain. A Morning Paper says—" The decline of bnsi ness is such in Dublin, that the bankruptcies average about -25 per week."—We are sure this news is neither obtained from the Gazelle not the the Newspapers, which do not mention one. tythe so many bankruptcies. it Would appear by the Orders already given for Tickets and Shares of particular Numbers at the different Lottery Offices, that the Pahlic mean to give the present Lottery more .general patronage than they have given to Lotteries of late—Cer tainly the Scheme, being as it were a Bantling of their own, it would b 9 unkind, after having brought it forth, not to foster it. RIOT AND COMBINATION 'AMONGST THE RESUR. RECTIDN Ml:lN.—Tuesday evening the inhabitants of Canterbury-square were extremely alarmed, in consequence of a riot, which assumed the most alarming aspect, having taken place at the house of Mr. Millard, beadle to the dissecting-room at Guy's Ho s pital, whose family was attacked by a desperate gang of resurrection men, namely, Ben jamin Crouch, captain of the gang, James Hol lis, William ,Naples, Patrick Uarneth„ Peter Ilannagan, Israel Chapman, and several others, who were proceeding to acts of violence, and threatening 'destruction to the family of Mr. Mil lard, in consequence of his infringing on their' profession, by employing men ignorant in their art in procuring snbjecta for the numerous stu dents at the hospital. Their vengeance, it ap peared, arose front the circumstance of two or three persons having been emplosed by the stir geoos to procure subjects On one occasion, which came to their knowledge, and they were deter mined to be revenged on the beadle, who was not at all concerned. The inhabitants having col lected, the rioters signified that their allowance_ must be raised from four guineas to six, that they wool(' allow fourteen days for an answer, and unless their demand was complied with, they would pay the beadle a more severe visit ; at the same time %visiting it to be made known, that they could command trade, bad as the timesAvere ; and In the country their payment was no less than 201. on some occasions. The niob became exas perated, and but for thelnterference of:Mr. Mil would have torn them to pieces ; they, how ever, got clear off, and Mr. Millard applied to the Magistrates at Union-hall, where procured a war 'vent for their apprehenSion. Some oldie party were held to bail a tray weeks ago, at the cum plaint of Mr. Ashley Cooper, fos a similar offence; ILM PLOYM EN T aid li L 1 ET of Mc PO 011 As recorders of all events which are of sufficient weight to merit notice, we have 'many painful, and some disgusting duties to perform. To .the latter class belong ',Lose accounts of factiows meet ings, which have of late so much disgraced the Bri tish character with those who do not consider them in their proper light, as excrescences growing out of our national liberty, endured foribe sake of a better principle, which might be invaded eren by repress ing licentiousness too soon, and despised by the mass of the people. Like other follies, this is dying away, and what opposition might have ren dered important sinks into insignificance under the weight of its own rubbish. As public Journalists, we have also pleasant duties to pertorin—duties dear .to humanity, in discharging which the humble individual who condUcts a periodical walk May feel himself exalt ed among the philanthropists of the age, em powered.to contribute his share to the patriotic purposes Which improve the condition of his fel low creatures ; inspirit chat ity by shewing its prevalence'; :and aid the spirit Of benevolence by disseminating'the means in which it •can be. most beneficially employed. It is with these feelings that we continue to copy front our provincial friends such intelligence as suits the title given above. Such honourable proOfi of the virtue, christian compassion, and humane sentiments, which exists in this great and glorious country, compensate us for the min tifications we endure in devoting our columns fit other time to the annale of vice: and depravity. • We have only one ivord more to premise : it is this—" EMPLOYMKNT Is the TRUE RELIEF for the Poor." M Liverpool a Meeting of /be clergy, gentle men, merchants, &c. convened by the Mayor, was held on Friday in the Town-Iran, to take into consideration the most effectual means of afibrd ing relief to the labouring poor of the town, now destitute of employment. A number of plans were proposed and suggested, and certain resolu tions were finally adopted by the unanimous con sent of the meeting. The most prominent lea- . _ . lure in the resolutions is, the recommendation to raise a loan, in order to enable the Trustees. of the Docks to employ an additional number of labourers upon their stupendous works at the north and south extremities of the town, during the winter season. The Trustees undertake to finrl employment, during the winter, for two thousand persons BOW unemployed, in-addition, to the num ber of a bout one thousand at present employed by them, upon different public ti , ter,d works, provided the sum of 20 - ,000/. or Upwards, be subscribed for the Trustees, arid lent to them, upon the security Of their redeemable bonds, payable in fire yews, but convertible, at the option of the purchaser, into untedkentable ones. These public works trill not only be beneficial to Liverpool, but also to-' the whole empire. Twenty thousand pounds, says the Liverpool courier, is a small sum, when distributeiramoug the . Wealthy inhabitants of Li verpool. The sum subscribed for this purpose, we rejoice in saying, already amounts to 23421. and the columns are rapidly swelling. At Fiona., for the relief of the industrious Poor, it has been arranged, that so many as arc out of employ, on application to the Parish Offi cers, are instantly engaged in quarrying stones by the load, at which they earn Bs. or Ws. per week : .the stones are then taken to a - depot, and disposed of, for ..the purpose of budding stud re pairing the toads. A Subscription for the Relief of the Poor has commenced at l%Voicester.' The plan of relief is referred to a Committee. Sir W. IV . ..WYNNE, Bart. has taken into his employ all the poor in the neighbourhood of the hospitable imantion of Wynnstay.----Their labour is directed to Agricultoral purposes, the repairs of roads, &O. agreeably to his 'recommendation to other Laqd Proprietors at his Cattle Shew. W. A. SANFOHD, Esq. of Ninehead Court, near Wellington, with the sole view of giiing employ. mem to the unfortunate people of his neighbour hood, who were oat of work, bus engaged up- ' wards of, three hundred of them in digging ti canal through his grounds of very considerable extent, the completion of which will necessarily require the continued labour of many months. We have already noticed the Dublin Meeting 3 Ireland is not behind her Sister Isle in deeds ot blessed Charily. We add the following %%WI .great satisfaction to our honourable list On Monday a Meeting of the principal in habitants of ; Belfast and its vicinity was held at the Exclicange Booms, for the !apalm of consi dering of, mut adopting a plan for raising a food. to purchase:provisions, to he distributed, at first cost, in aid of the industrious and necessitous poor. " We understand the •collectors appointed to solicit money to purchase coals tor the poor, will continence the business to-morrow."—(Netury Commercial Telegraph, Nov. 19.) rErriVITIEs AT El LAN D.—On Monday week, Tuotass BVTLEn CoLK, Usti. great nhew of Ilune.a, Esq. late of Kirkland Hall, and BEAUMoNT COLE, in the county of Lancaster, cattle of age, NM into possession of the very fine estates of his, highly esteemed uncle, who so long and so ably filled the chair of the Magistracy of that County, The day was ushered in at Garstang Church Town with tinging of bells and other de. manstrations of joy. Mr. Cold , : gave a select party of friends a sumptuon3 and elegant enter tainment, consisting of every seasonable delicacy ; and his numerous tenantry partook at a bountiful dinner at the different inns in the village. On the Tuesday following, the festivities were conti- . nued with great conviviality, and on Wednesday Mr, COLE gave each individual of his extensive establishment a handsome donation in money, wages to all bis labottrers timing the festivities, anti to eighty at his cotta} ets it liberal distribu tion of beef and one guinea each. In ;he evening the ftlinilieS of the tenantry tumid neiglinonri joined in the mory dance, and the n hole Co3cllldCd Vitt.l the utmaq bannany and .oy. LAW MLitt or KING'N BENCII, Nov. as. CRIMINAL LN.I. , oK);ATEor., The Arrous:p.v GE:NE:HAL MOVed tor a crimin4 information against a Gentleman of the natne of Freres, on the affid,:tll of a Mr. ll'aPace, who complained of various libels and trovocations to fight a duel. The differences bet‘ . reen the parties had been of considerable standing . , and, in the latter part of the li:st year, Mr. WaHite receive:l a letter from Mr. Freres, containing these ex- pressions—" When I met Mr. Capper, and the , other Gentlemen, at the Royal Lintel (Birming ham), you thought proper to say, that you Itu derstood that I was hurt that you did not notice . me. 1 did not make any particular answer, be cause Mr. Potts was then present, &c. As my father is now in London, I have an opportunity of telling you, that when you make tote of the expression to which I have referred, von lie, and you know you lie. No other person could have asserted such a falsehood. My own personal pride, and the advice of my friends, will never let me be the Emaciate of William Wallace." Ot this insult , Mr. Wallace took no notice; but subsequently, in the month of October, he met Mr. Frere4, woo was on horseback, and who addressed him, say-, big, that he (Mr. Wallace) was a liar and a scoundrel : again, on the 23d of the same month, as Mr. Wallace was entering the Royal Mr. Freres, who was standing at the door io company with a Mr. Dolphin. said, " Mr. IVal. lace, 1 tell you again, in the presence of this (ietu r tletnam, Mr. Dolphin, that you are. aliar and a scoundrel;" .and he afterwards threatened to op- ply a horsewhip. Mr. Dolphin took down the expressions at the time ; bat of course the indivi— dual making this n1)0.04011 could not compel him - to sign an affidavit. The Attorney,Genersi, observed, that the odds against Mr. Wallace were fearful, if Mr. Freres could have compelled him to enter into a personal coutest : the Wier was a ynung unmarried man, while, Mr. Wallace had a wife and six children. Under such circumstances, it was not unusual for the Court summarily to interfere for the protection of a Gentleman so situated.. Lord ELLEN sonouctr.—ln what station of lif►: are the parties ? Tl.e ATTORNEY GENERAL replicd,that they were merchants of high reqiectability. The place chose(► by Mr. Freres for the last insult deserved notice.---Rafe to shetv cause granted. /ICELAND. DUMAN. Nov. COVRT OF KING'S BENCH, Nov:. 16. TIM XING V. WALTER oGRAPY. ' Jurors being sworn to try the information in this calm, Mr. Kumuts stated the pleadings. He said that this :tills au information in the nature of a writ of ' quo warronto; filo by Majesty's Attornoy nerai. it stated that the office of Clerk of the Pleas in the Exchequer was an ogee ot great pub. lie trust, and that die defendant, 'Walter O'Grady, had usurped that office without warrant or au thority, &c. Th e , defendant's plea in substance stated, that the office was an micient public office relating to t h e busi n ess of the Conn of ErschcqUar ; by letters•patent the .flight Hon. Standish O`Grod‘r was aptiointed..Ghief Baton of said Court, With all and singular the powers and authorities belonging to it ; and by virtue of said appointment, and by t h e usage and course of said Court. he (the Chief Baron) had a right to the nomination and ap pointment of any proper . person to till the office of. Clerk of the Fleas, It further stated the VR vaney that bad occurred, and the grant of the at:. lice by the said Standish O'Grady to the said Wak., ter O'Grady, and that the deed was duly enrolled. It also set out, that the said Walter O'Gr a dy b u d pro d uce d' t h e . deed containing his appointment to. the Barons of the Court of Exchequer, and Was thereupon a d m i t ted to said office ; that he took the oaths, and has since exercised the ditties. of clerk of the Pleas ; and he traversed the fact stated in the information of having tisurped the office, &e. - . To this p l ea a replication was filed on the part of the Crown, which stated, that from the time whereof the memory of tnan rnnneth not to dip contrary, his Majesty, in right of his Crown, had the sole and undivided right of appointment to this Otfite, Btc. There were other averments in he repheatiou, denying that the Chief Baron, by he custom and usage tit the Court, was vested with the right of apPointineut to the Office. To th e se were added a rejoinder and a surrejoiuder an d ‘t h e i ssue t o be tried was, whether he, the said Walter O'Grady, had usurped the three, o ree, no being the Appointee on tile Crown, or was legally' entitled to exercise it by virtue of the right he de rived front the Chief Baron, and the rest of the' Barons of the Court of it 'lobe/pier. The ArrifaNtri-GONKHAL stated at comi'ider-i able length the ease on the part of tl ? e Crown. Mr. 'famous() then read the evidence given to sustain the information. It consisted of certain records, by which it appeared that the Crown, by its letters-patent, had exercised the right of sppoio. ment to t he °dice of Clet k of the Pleas of the Coot t at Exchequer from the 41st year of the reign or his present Majesty, in the administration of the Earl of Hardwieke, in this country, up to the ith year of the reign of Edward 111. over France, nod the 9.0111 of his reign ii England ; or, in othve words, from the year I'Bol, up to the year 1346, ti,etehY otqhlishiNg an exertd%e of the right in the Crown for a period at 455 years in appointing to the ()Mee of Clerk of the Pleas. Mr. KuNtitrryeoicrday (the IStb)comtneocett his statement of the defendant's ease will conclude it on this tlay, (rnesdayt) lire hare a Dublin Evening Paper of Wednes day, but it dues not state f/n. result.) The Coltlotreant Uand have limited at Dover from Calais,-after being fix trips rate the water. and experiencing very tempestuous weather.o.- They %.% ill be in town ant Ms'# n Two companies the abkth regiment trturehed front Uliseu on Tuesday ; one for Carmarthen, detaching a stthaltern'i party to ,Altifotti ; the other to Breei,nt, douching the like number to Aberystwitit.