The Sun. — London, England, 1816-06-11 00:00:00

UIPORTIVNT VARLIAItigNTA;ty PAPERS. (r 0 k twiliiimed regularly.) 4 --••- , , . . THIfID it'EPORT NOM TllB gRLECT ON SEI;DS, WOOL,'&c: The Select Committee appointed to exitoilise into the policy'of imposing an increased flut the Import of Foreign Seeds, and to report their • opinion ttierenpon to the Utilise, Having bob's - flitted to the house the result of 'their hquiries upon the expediertey, ton! , :•r the present circomstunees, of introucio'7. anY 11011 in th e l a ws affecting the import and export of wool, as well as their opinion of tt,ie necessity of raising the import duty upon rape seed to 101. V e r'last, proceeded to an examination of the other ,mthjects referred to their consideration, and have come to the following Resolutions Resolved, th a t it is the optnioo' of this ,Com , c ulotte, that any legislative, i nter fer e nce which might affect the supply of linen, clover seed, and smaller seed, wad , ' not hold ma slid) n prospect of relief to the agricultural interest, as to induce your Committee to recommend measures which they find likely, in some degree, to affect the ma oufacenring and commercial tclationsof the coun try; but that your COlllinittee sere of 0/1110071, that the retumml of the antics now levied ou rape Oke arid lin s e e d ca k e imported,, would have a henrfi.;, ,ctal effect (Too t h e agriculture nl thecountry, and tend materially to increase tier quantity of grain for th•v,stipply of the•home-market. ftesolved, That it appearS to this Committee, . that ifilitlier the soil nor the cliniate of this coun try are ill Adapted .to the cultivation of tobacCo ; hitt the difficulties which would attend the tion of a duty on tobacco grown at home, and the temptation which would be held out to defraud the revenue, so long as the present duties on to bacco imported continue to he levied, are ,such as to induce your Committee to he'of opinion, that no alteration, under the present circumstances, should be mat(e in the laws relating to tobacco. SUICIDE.—rIi very respectable anti wen-tiressetl, yonog woman was this morning taken cost of the, River Thames,. near West minster-britlge,: on her person was fottild a pocket-book, in tVitich was a Bank of England note, tool banker's draft, on which was written the naine of Caroline. FATAL OCCURRENCE. —Ott Saturday night Serjeant and Caporal, lately belonging to the 7th Veteran Battalion, had swim IMspute at the Red House, Battersea, when the Corporal, in a fit of frenzy, took up •a knife and plunged it into the hotly of the Serb ant, inflicting a most ti c s. Berate wound, which was tied ttp, he was carried on a shutter to the, Duke of York's Hos-. Corpor d is. in custody. A DARING BURGLARY WaS CutHillitled early an Saturday morning fast, by some, .armed men, who - forcibly entered the dwelling-house of mr. \V. Neal, near Hinckley" Leicestershire. Mr. and Alm Neal (both 80 years of age), a servant girl, an ottl labom en, and a grandson, named James Rolyland, constitute the family. • About one. o'clock the villain's' succeeded in getting .nto the house, lone of the enteriog.Mr. Nees chamber, , with it torch and gorse-hook in one 'and, and a pisrnl in the c,:her ; the 'second with a bludgeon rind gorse-hook f,!11 upon the bed, is which were otames Holyland and the old labourer ; Holyland struck the villain, and a scuffle ensued, when he threatened to kilt them both ; the third followed into Mr. and . Mrs. Neal's room. Mrs. Neal cried out, " James, they *re murdering yOur grand father ; "—upon which the villains rejoined, " Lie still, Jame,r, or will Murder you ;" other entered the girl's room, presented a pimp', and took from her two one-pound notes; a andeighteen-pcnny piece: Mrs. Neal en treating them not to take the poor tufnlq, he :returned her the Is. 6ti. and locked her in the loom ; whilst this tla& going on above stairs, a panty below ransacked the house of 21/. in money, a watch, plate, &c. 'and then made off, leaving 'two to guard the, door until .the others bad got Away with the property. SINGULAR cIRCUMSTANCE...--4 singular circum stance happened at Corstorphine on the King's The Society of Carters had re solved to celebrate what is called the " oni, that dhy. 'the .hrevvei of the pillage, as usual, had accommodated the Society with the• use 'of his large barn for dinuer. In the morning the tables were regnlarly set out, the /dales Were laid, the"barrals of beer and, other quor, 'for the accomModation, of the company, -itvere placed in the house, and the caterer was in the act of putting down the knives and forks :tvitii the victuals (usually 'cold On 'suet; arca whoi some Hillocky boys having gut Into the . cort-house adjcin!ing, discharged a pis to4, the Wadding- of whim Living lodged in the thatch, the whole was alunk:-t astantaneo.,,ly iir it intone, The tAbles, knives and forks, beet', Ric weer totally eviv:iiin ell, and the catervr, tti endeavfmrin 4 ;l o save the wreck of the materiel, narrowly cS , caprel hik life. P 1 I los accident, however it mast have tor a s h ut . ' t i me d all ,ped, did tot altogether depress the spitits of the company. 'The .sd lai ,i..h ot .sre was_soon fitted up ; and atter the usual sports . and reitivititls of the day upon such an, occasion, the droner was there comstuned. and the firmly (knee kept up until an early hour next INeULST.---VesterdnyVest esdny an tngiiesi was held at the Coach and Horses public-house, Bine- Anel.iir alley, Bunhili-row, on the body of M I , G. c re w, bililder, of Twiss-row, Finsbury-stpare, who was I . (tind hanging in his workshirp:' - It appeared that ,the deceased lost his wife and Oree.eliildren ahout asix years ago, by the 'falling of some premi , es in jronniongee-row, when five others sittrered ltke nvise ; since I , slrich he bad been devomijog 4 c . sY, and which bad been increased by the loss of Iwo more child ren . Verdict-Lunacy. On Thinsdav a boy fell from oif the forecastle -of the Queen Charlotte bulk into Portsmouth ,harbour, which being perceived by 11r. G. Gn". AlltiSttillt Surgeon of that ship, who was standing upon the 144 in-cloth's, he immediately proceeded to . the lower deck, and jittuped Out from 4me of the ports into the tide, and happily leached the boy lust .as be appeared. fast. approach ing to the last moments of lac.' Ile' it now , per tuay recometi, POETRY. .TO MISS STEPFIENS. Sent w;ti, Pank:note far a Box Ticket. • Go, pit;tili.'4l s,s : wealth, Tti tunetui ti,trv:'.NS speed thy'way, And tell her (io a n.en hy stealth), Like her's, thy Nutex hare suereign sway. Say ali 11 , af''s blind in India's mines, Or commerce wafts from f.ieign shore, This wait:, illy inaipc combines, When stainp'n by EsigiautlN rc4alpow'r.. But . to these notes, thus sprung 'front carat, A far inferior fate is given, While her's, that boast celestial ho th, Arp such as Angels use in Heater. 4, The poetical Reader will perceive that these elegant and plrtyfut lines were suggested by StiENST(INE's beautiful Ad dress to the... Skylark. THE THEATUX. Crivverr-GARtlEN.—Thedramatic attraction last night at this 'Theatre was of a very interesting nature, for it %VHS the final appearauce of the Chief Actor of his time its the character in which be made his fist entrance on the London Stage. The character was Hamlet, and Mr. liEbilME was its representative. The perfortnance was to us peculinrly intervo. in g, het:lll4e we witnessed his onset, end have stodioosly traced hint through the whole oft his brilliaut career. \Vhen K smbLe: first appeared in the ar- dtions, pat't of Montet,, though his action wag • graceful, antl.thongh he threw many new and just lights upon the text, it was evident that his per formance, on the whole), was too measureti and artificial. Yet it denoted the higher mind, that I took nothing upon mere tradition, hut resolved to investigate the pgrt thoroughly, 'and act ac cording to the matured dictates of its own judg ment. In the progress of time his peculiarities wore oft, he, had settled the text in his own mind, and nothing was left for him to do but to give all the passions and qualities of the dia meter, with all their operations and diversi• ties, doe effect. his personation of hamlet, therefore, which we ur.derstand has always been his favourite etiaracter, may be fairly considered as his primary achievement. It is hardly possible that the character will ever undergo a wore severe scrutiny, or be fixed with more critical precision, than by title great Actor ; and his performance of it may he considered as a lesson 'in the. art which all its votaries must have 'attended with pleasure and improvement. With respect to bisecting last night, we esn only say, as we have often done. be• fore, that it evinced the powers of the Master of Iris Art, - the Gentleman, the Scholar, and the Critic. He seemed to be determined to leave a good impression on.the audience ; and it was with much pleasure that we observed among them 'some of his earlier friends and admirers, whom lie Etas iittnelled and secured by his personal merits„. as well .as . by •hiS high attainments and command ing talents. His reception sin his .entrance, dur ing his progress, and on. the 'conclusion, was in die highest degree zealous end -persevering, and universal applauseTrevented d• 'syllable front be jug •nt t cred when fiarldet had brettthed his last. We ()tight not to to conclude without.. at brief tribute to' the simplicity *lnd feeling which CllB, lacterised: the Ophelia of Miss STRPHRNIi. JOHN WESTAIACatT, ESQ. prid on the 4fh of May twit, at Halifax, Jontt Wesiluxeon E•q. a Captaiii in the Royal !Staff Corps. His dolt h Was the consequence of Mmnds received while discharging his duty, in visiting the Garrison Guards early on the morning of the 17th of April last, front two men whom he met near the Presbyterian Meeting-house- carrying :articles, by which he sospected they had come ,dishonestly, which he charged them with having stolen ; and which, as was subsequently proved, had been stolen from the store of Messrs. Jona than and John Tremain. lie was on horseback and alone; the dread of detection urged the villains to abandon their plunder, and to murder this excellent officer, in whom they viewed a wit ness of their . crime : they dragged him front his horse, with a sword struck him the deadly blow, and departed. Though , faint and weak from the loss of blood, lie succeeded afterwards in gaining the 'King's Wharf Onard i front whom he received the assistance necessary to enable him to reach his lodgings, where, until the time of his death, he latignished in extreme pain, which hardly for ,a mom of was alleviated by the consoling idea of teeovery. ca w . WESTNACOTT entered the Army it, the Spring of 1807 ; set wed in Porttigal and Spain ; .tr the siege of liadajos greatly rlistin g himself by his br a ve r y, and re ce ived a sevete wound from to grape-shot, which confined him to his quarters far nineteen months, and from IA hid) he never perfectly recovered. His mur derers are still undisenveredi but we hope from" the large rewards.whicn are offered, anti the exer tions making by GoVerimieni, they will yet be tio, public justice. The remains of Capt. S T ACOTT woe interred with the military ho nours due his rank, and at the particular desire of his Exceileitcy . Sir Jon N SrR itinlinuiLE WM de posite4 clue to those of the hie Major-General !loss. • A great timber of the inhabitants at, tended the mournful solemnity. l'his meritorious and unfortunate officer was brother of Iltcnattn Wrsrstscorr, Esq. R. A. a Gentleman not less distinguished in private life for his virtues, titan conspicuous for his professional talents.• NINTING JOHN IttITHVKA of Edinburgh, has' been employed in improving, Ant i applying to practical purposes, the itnportnnt art of printing drawings, ate. front stone. This is tendered notch mote extensively useful, b?' being combined rtifil the ingenious press lately invented by Mr. fturtivatt, by ntents of whicb oily, individual tti.ty take off any 'mower of iftt pressissil, wide the utmost ease. 117iii::AA Evans, convicted of fot;ing hills, was executed at Ayr on FritOly sentlight. bcleav* eti Stith bet;Otilli% ~~J .' ;110114.-1; Ot* LORDS', Moms)Av, Ju..qt: 10. Tiearin,Of ;Mlle I.llthiel 'firsisht4—Btlllen 711it,7hei 'wily beard. , • The Doke of St. ALBAN'S tools the oaths and his seat. • MOTT'S DI VO rt cE Upon Dyott's Divorce Bill wit nestes were again examined. The further proceeding wits ailjotan ed till the servu'ut, Hanuall Barker, now Turner, could be brought forward. ABI)Y'S DIVORCE. The report of the Bill was received, and the Bill was ordered,to be engrossed.: The Earl of List ERICK stated, that there would be no objection on the part of Sir W. Alisly to allow her, the lady, the full interest of her fortune o it their Lordship's thought proper. He did not think that it was for him to propose it ; but he would have no objection to it whatever, if the House t bought it right ,to give her that allowance. The Bari of LAUDERDALE eXpreSSed his. wish that there should be an understanding as to the d a y on w bkh the Bill was to be read a third time, and stiggested Monday for the 3d reading, if the should be then engrossed. ' Lord Kat4vosr adverted to the notice which he bud given of his intention, on the 3d reading, to. move for the insertion of the clause for prevent ing the intermarriage of the offend ing parties. It would he impossible for hint, however, to at tend on Monday, and he was anxious that some either thty should be named for the 3d reading.— He slid nor feel, however, that he was entitled to insist that the 3d reading should he on a day on which he could attend.. '.The matter was in his opinion of very great importance ; but any other Noble Lord might to up the subject, and do snore justice to it than he could. He only wished it to be understood that nothing short of almost an impossibility could prevent hiin tram being pre sent in older to prosecute on object which up. peared to hint of the greatest consequeuce. It appeared to be understood that tue third reading should be on Monday. ALI ENS. Lord FIot.LAND expressed. his wish to know from the Noble Secretary of State, in what man ner the Alien Bill was to apply to Americans born before the Treaty of Peace: he wits also desirous to know. whether any record was kept at the Alien Offh:e of the offences and -suspicions under which individuals were sent cult of the kingdom the powers given by the Alien . Acts anti if there was, he wished further to know, whether. an tic.. count of these offences and 5119,160113 (conceal ing the names of the individuals) inigiunot, with out inconvenience, be kid before Parliament. Lord SIDMOUTH observed, with respect co the , first point, .tnat it was a question ot 'cry great •ditiiettl . ty in tireo6r i though it hart not givvn rise to any practical inconvenience. He had under. stood that i this was one Of lite questions whieh the Noble Lord had intended to put to the jiniges. As td the f!d point, there was,a record or the na- , tore filet - Wu:la by the Noble Lord kept at the Alien Office ; but, as to the 3d point, he, did not conceive- that it could be ot advantage to the public to lay Vic:fore Parliament an account of these offences. Lora Hot.t.AVD `He;:tel whether there would be any objection to the motion for the appointment of u Committee to inspect the 'record. - Lord SIDU9UTIt said, that there woold be no objection to that course, if there eiNt , Scl , Any. suf fietent grounds for it ; but he i:AIV nti reason for such is• proceedin7. The Earl of CAIIDEIMALE postponed his mo tion for a Committee on the bilbject of the Coin till Ihnrs&ty, as the di.cussion on the Alien Bill and Civil List Bill might take up some time to-tun:l.oo% Lord SinstouTit stated, in answer to a ques tion from Lord Holland, that the 2d reading of the Alien Bill might be postponed, in case it should 'he found incottveiliinit to move the "2d reading of the Bill to-mni row. Ltilt6Y. The Archbishop of CAN rLanumt gave notice, that he expected to he rt hie mil kVedoe.okv to lehy before their Lordships the Cler g y Farma UilL— Adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS. Colonel WOOD save notice of a motion to-morrow on the Owine laws. The Report of the Mad Reuses Bill was ordered for Ire Ll. nesday. The Irish Election Bill Committee was postponed till Fri day. - The HaiMil Carriage Bill was ordered to he read this day three months. The Aolcricin Convention Bill went through the Cam miner : Report to7nearow. A. Petition was iiresenieii form thristchurch again a the Salmon Fishery al STAGE-CO \CUES. The Arronstay-GliNalot. moved for leave to bring in a Bill, the object of which was the pro• tection of itom lives and limbs of his Maiesty's subjects, by correcting the enormous abuses of stage-coach ;drivers. Within these few days it would be hardly credible what a number of appli cations he had received on this subject : some ac counts were enough to freeze one with horror. A Gentleman of veracitv, whose name he should not mention, irst he should let loose on hint a hor net's nest of stage-coach drivers, had informed him that on "rursday, at half-past five, the Trafalgar and Regulation coaches set off from Manchester, tend got to Liverpool 20 minutes lifter eight, doing titis journey in t wn hours and fifty minutes, at rite r a tept 12 miles an hour. The coachmen flogged their• horses all the way down a Bill of a toile at the entrance to Liverpool, anti in getting into the town one of them roll for a considerable time on only two of its wheels : Itie ily uo accident hap pened. At present the Magistrates could impose tine of 101.; but the propriettirs generally •at 'elided, paid the money, and told the coachman that, es he had beaten the opposition, he might do so again. Cases of , desperate driving had ocen i rretl, when a passenger refused to be driven at such u dangerous rote, and insisted on getting oat, a nd being itecommndut e d with a post chaise: but the ansu er was, you can have no chaise, as the contrait was to curry you to such a place within tt certain time. The weight placed on the tops of coaches was an important consideration, and it was use less to tryst this to the Adverts discretion. He slinnl3 not .lIQW 'inz;ltnle tintt lnhje‘t in Ent wAs.ronly to.tis,34 in oily tneoures tile rilrpoge . pt rlectillg 1,"011 , o1 11.11.3 kinti He wish.. pft to give Abe twagistvare, the tn./ et ~f ti,r;:‘, anti nut Lens th ill 41 e nt • t i ll etrffrctops 1;0%04, ittlAitii4 to Ilk ou t,,e im. nt fin ;/)g. Jr, ,GRENFELI, ObSCrYc(i that lhr regulation .of the number of was evaded ,The ~AT,T.ottNEY-PRNE,RAL. the pro piety of owe Nutter atriNness on this s.,tije..t.— Perhaps the turnpike-keeper,ought . 'o be hoed for lettingstich overiLiaticli coarhel pas,. After a few ivotds from Sir ittitirk and Arr. Bennett, leave was .givettto bring. itt tie Bill. Mr. ttoßliisoci brought up, a ';ill rt..uolate the carriage of passepgers b e tw ee.n N e , !owl lldnci and Labrador. Read a first t.me : tai eutto time to- morrow. Mr. LUSHiNGTON broilght up a similar Bill re rppeeting passengers to America. Read a first time : second time to-morrow. . My, W. SMITH presented a Petition from M r . Gill of Soho, praying against a, monopoly being given to persons making hydrometers. • A short conversation passed between trougham.and the Cuancellor of tliq Exchequer on the subject of giving an exclusive employment . , to particular hydrcimeter-makers ;' and Mr. B. ex-. . . pressed himself satisfied with•th'eChancellor of the Exchequer's explanation. TTl..ift; STATUTE LAW. On the motion, of Alr. lirtAoott ahTUUItST, the ad:wart:tit Debate on the Conference with the Lor'ds, tespeet;ng the arrahgtiltent of the Slattite Law ander,,distinet heads, tuns restnued. The question Was' then put, that 'the .flOnse should ilgree t<s the Resolution (4 the linrd,, titl Antendineut, that it sliotiid include the Statute Law of Scotland and heland. Air. ilottNEtt wished to know what it was pro posed to do to the Statute L3w. Was it prOposea to enact all the Statutes anew, comprehending and consolidating them into one Act, which should he passed next Session ( - )1: was it intttnic,l merely to make an Index to the Statute Lqw ? the first of these was, the ,object„ it would be t very inconvenient arrangement would oblige them to repeal the whole of the existilig,Statom Lim's, and to re-enact them in the 'new shape. There wits'mure difficulty in this th:nt the tio;uts tnight. ut first benwure of and it would need all the learning of all the lawyers in England to class anti statc the matter embraced, in the diffvrclit Statutes now in force in vari mOtcria; it wouhl likewise go to affect the rights owl property of molly persons in the . 14'11100w, and we should then. lose the great atiValltageof foi . Ning our Statute LAW distinctly stated and iii chronologis:4l order. It ( i n the other haud it. was -only intended ti) ITllike an luticx, it really appeared to him that it uoiliti be a task beneath tliv dignity of Pmliament. as there %were persons found witoalreatly had son. a great way to the completion tit this work. The old Index was a very good one, and it SO much could not be said in favour at some of those of It later date, still, for pisctical purposes, ettolighs, could be done without the interteretKe .of Pat.l4l. Anent. But before a complete ilige,t could be made under the authority of Parliament, so much must be done, and the o bje c t it se lf way „ o di tiicult that he thought the House should have further information as to what steps were to be token. Iqr. IlnAorle.BaTnuavr said, that he supposea the Honourable and Learned Gentleman ‘vlics spoke last had not been present at the time when the subject was first bront.ths under the ronsiderw tibn Of the House,, The measure now proposed, had . nriginated in the other Muse of Parliament ; end . : the intention undoubtedly was le produce some such arrangement of the Statute Law by way of consolidation as would be funmil extreme ly convenient in praetice, and remove those in conveniences and difficulties which now exkteil in so great a degree. It was very rvident that the Ask would be a difficult one ; but t here were many, branches of the Statute Law uhiels could, without matcrial difficulty, he arranged under distinct hearls-,-soch, for ithtance, as the laws relating to different .branches of trade, For his own part, he could only say that. he thought it very expedient that measures shoul‘l be taken for the purpose of arranging, classing, and corisoli dating the Statutes as far asmossible. By agree.. log to the Measure now proposed, the Honing well not precluded from taking such steps as it ;night think proper. . . . . . Mr. BANKEs thought that the }imposed tneso. !! sure 7,vtt`.t : likely to CalitlC it eery coniderable ex pence, greater than the woi tit of any livueo which /night be found to result trout it. lie was not, disposed to deny the utility. of having the Statute* consolidated ;And arranged under tliminct , heads but it did ti k .)t seem to him thitt,this WII4 ly to he done nhl better by public Comunissionets than by private indivinnalo. When the text of the Statute MIS. completed, the next thing► watitet4 would be a good index., Under all eiretatnitanees„,,, he thought that for the present it would be better to restrict the operation to some one branch of that Statute Law—lor , instance the Criminal Law; and. when it was rlonc, they would be more able to judge ai to the expediency of carrying on souk a work. At 'all events, Ott Session Was now so far advanced, - , that it could ,not he expected that any thing would be done this season, He Owe fore moveti, as an hnent, that the debat4 be adjourned till this d a y th ree months. The ATTORNdY-06NR,RAL. had great difficulty its, ngreeing to the Anternhhelit t, Lich hag jt,, beets moved, tts it would not be treating the 'other lionse with proper rtvect, Toe object in view mis certainly difficult, anti could- not soon, bent. -11.r..IVYtiNg objected to the Anrenthrient ns hi point of. form it would Rot be proper to treat nn invitation to a eOnference from the other Liouse such .a way. Mitch heitetit might result trem,t ha appointment of Commissionets to consolidate ilia Stattnea, as it was a WOrk of such time, awl sts little emolument, that it eotild not It e expectrot that private persons could adequately accomolisis it. He hail not heard the detaiis of the plait. now In contemplation ; until he had infortocion. on this subject, it was iu to form to deo billed opinion. Sir J. Ni PonT thought titat there shonl.l be an exami.aation of t h e lows of F:oll4l,ititl and Irelat u with the view of liy;tiuxilut l ng thcin anti ikat tlltt