The Sun. — London, England, 1819-08-16 00:00:00

PRINCE LEOPOLD. t T hursday morn i ng t h e P r i nce LeoPor..o passed r Ibis place on his way. to the North. We b ilh ersfand that his Royal Highness slept on Wed night at \Vansforit ,„He was accompanied t ravelling s char i ot by Baron H ARDENBROCK, followed by Sir ROBERT GA RDIN and' Dr. j'eKtAntt in a barottelte. The Prince is about ‘ 63 ii several of the Nobility in Scotland.— v " l "flifoz d Mercu ry.) 4,, PriH ee 1 4 Ecora.ri and suite arrived on Thursday b:"i"g at Mr. BELCHER'S, the Angel. Inn, in " C aster, Rod imm e diately proceeded, we under ,,,i6T"l. 0 0 a sh oot i ng excursion in the North: It w s. i e " 0 means unlikely but that Prince LEOPOLD .1t I )4 Y a 1664 to this ancient city. His , highness has announced his intention of 11 4 a general tour of the Northern Counties. "es:cr. Paper ) THE THEATRES. the iC "'"G'S, THEATRE.—This splendid Establish /4 concluded for the season on Saturday. The , t s Pany was nu me r ou s an d b r illi an t. '1 h e Op era xi 4„ well supp or t e d by B ELLOCHI , G ARCIA , an d 1 1 .431 a"GETT I , and the Bullet most admirably, by +pvtSTE, MELANIE, VRSTRIS, &c. God save the th n g ' 4 '43 Sung Willi great effect at the end of wtiUltera, the audience standing and applauding fervent loyalty. 4 'o l! Heir at Law, one of our best itt "erit Comedies, was represented on Saturday f , t his Theatre to a crowd e d au di e n ce . L ISTON , flr , t time, performed Lord Duberly, and a ludicrous portrait of vulgar elevation...—. tift' " 8 Doct or ,P ang l oss was a l so cons pi cuous f or t ' ar acteristi e h umour . R. Aussimt.'s Zekiel Home -44. `ids marked by true rustic humour ; and lILAticHABD and Mrs. Gulag gave due to Caroline Dormer and Cicely Homespun. : s; " Beds excellent in Dick Dowlas ; and the Co ' throughout went off with admirable effect. 14 , STEPHENS concluded her engagement wtl'e Edinburgh Theatre on Tuesday last. Mr. FARR EN p er f o rmed L o rd Dgleby there on I N, l'ursd a y . t o ur 'Vg.VNG has been performing at Soutbamp i"Humiet and The Stranger, and is next to tear in the part of King Lear. 44413 . MARDYN is performing at Worcester. „-Itcrtson AuG. I , l.—The Princesses ride out 4 a n tiy unless ' prevent( d by the weather. Princess "sea in general goes to Frogniore. Thursday % ,"g the Prince Regent's Birth-day, it was ob •irred with every demonstration of rejoiciot:. L” e% rung merry peal during the day. In e t b vcni ng the Town-hall, the Royal Trades tvrr 'eu'b Iwo•es, and the principal inns in the town, e brilliantly illuminated. i t rrl 't Duke and Duchess of KENT were on last at the Cobourg Theatre. th "e Persi an A m b assa d or h as b een on a v i s it t o h e EA and Countess O f H ARCOURT , at St. tZ - i () ':" .11 's, near Windsor. His Excellency left n eatitiful retreat on Wednesday last. C• Wia..SELEY has lefr Manchester, for the se, as it i s con j ectur ed, o f pr o du c ing hail a t u:wick, to prevent an arrest. Major CART \%,',l4l', it is said, was arrested at Leigh, on '4: e 'day, and forwarded to Warwick. (1 1 ,0 CASE op HENRY STENT.—The Office at t l ,,rtinAll was on Saturday much crowded by the Nvi t :", who expected that Henry Stent . and his un fit w ould meet for the first time since the .Cl: il lte occurrence at the Saracen's Head.— we-i'e disappointed. Alderman ROTHWELL, t e .) ," entering the Office, stated to those assetn -11,-;',lbat the examination was not to take place " a Y, in consequence of the inability of Mrs. 't e e to give evidence, without injury to her li tne • f lue physician who attended her had sent `toting, tl • thought his patient was pro tressi improving, be did not consider it sate her feelings su much to the test for a few v,":', 83 to coufront her with her husband. It ‘t . „;"" opinion of Alderman Rothwell, that it tti " 1 " 1 be advisable to do away with the ceremony the prisoner brought before Lim, as was no addHonal evidence to be expected tidt of Mrs. Stent ; and it woul d be a 11,11-;01 unnecessary severity to exhibit him to ,the e without any probability of coming to a ' lO ll as to his case.—Mrs. Steer showed I,,ron,ntost nox . et y to attend at the Office on Sa• le•, d Y , but n o t; l i og cou ld i n d uce h er to te ll t h e IL at -i " of her to appear before the Magis thi Supp ose, " sa id she, " I h a d no ot h er it,4 t e t tlian t h at of see i ng toy husband, wou l d not b e of itself stifficient r But I have something iliduce me." allb . I Stir ill 19 coif itOYAL &c. 11 , 11011 A CORRESPONDENT.] , W a as Mer l ' I;g^ , gi ' ;004. v I, icli out' s , froar We ll the well iliall fol' lc° ll ' ..h.O act, 30 1 aid o rd ') ; er► OOO► ed, , J )t• ) ; p. ; el, eSI Of PoRTSMcuTU, SUNDAY.—The Royal Squadron it s niowin,s off Cowes. When the PRXNCE kk-(' • ENT first went ashore there, the 1 nding -1)!"ce was covered with green cloth. His Royal l it " n ess lilts. since dispensed with the ceremonies that l have b een usually o ff e red him. On Friday '"( the Yacht went a little way up our harbour, at til then ;twilled to her station at Spithead. It ramoU t ,d't hat a poor woman, whose husband is sentence of transportation, forced her way <- 'ile,bthe-soldieiy. and presented a Petition to ;, I s tiue e idas favour, who graciously received atilt assured her it should be attended to. Sir eocktittrn went to town again yesterday. Duke of York is expected here to-morrow, I a visit t o t h e P r i nce , who intends to go round II Isle of Wight; through the Needles, and to "tUr n by w a y of St. Helen's. Our town is tin 4ersuallY full, an d the company seems to in o " The Vengeur sails in the morning Plyme,tith ; and the Hyperion, the Commo br r e rile Pt in , e's convoy, is in the expectation t b eing reli eve d, f or t h e p ur p o s e o f proceeding e Z a f"reign station—rumour says, South Ameri di% Some of th e Congr e ve rockets have been f"aged from the Hyperion, to shew the Prince tgvnt their destructive effect. 'THE AIAIIKEI'S. CORN-EXCHANGE, AUG. 16.—Althougb the sup ply of Wheat was small this morning, it was fully adequate to the demand, and sales were heavy at last Monday's prices. Several sample's of new Wheat were at market, the quality of which were, various, some being fine and others very ordinary, but none equal to the produce of last year ; Fine Barley fully supports the prices of this day week, but there is no demand for the ordinary qualities ; Fine fresh Oats are Is. per quarter dearer, but the trade was heavy, particularly for the inferior de scriptions ; Beans and Peas are offered at lower prices, but scarce a sale could be made of either. IMPORTATIONS LAST WE EK. English. Foreign. Wheat. • 5,515 6,940 Barley 502 Oats 5,358 5,650 SMITGFIELD, AUG. 10.—This morning's Market was well supplied with all kinds of prime Cattle ; the prices remain as per last Market; Lamb, Veal, Mutton, and Pork, much the same as last week's prices.—The Hay Market as per our last quotation, but rather looking downwards : Straw likewise remains as per our last week's prices.—The annexed is a cor rect statement of the Numbers and Prices at market.— (To sink the Offal ; per Stone of Blbs.) Beef 4s. Bd. to 5s 4d. I Veal ss. Od. to 6s. Od. 1 Mutton ..4s. Bd. to ss. 4d. Pork ss. Od. to 6s. Od. Lawn , ss. to 6s. 6d. CATTLE AT MARKET. Beasts 1620 I Sli,ep and Lambs ....17,900 Calves HAY AND STRAW PER LOAD. Hay.... ,C 4 0 0 tok6 0 0 I Clover.. £6 0 oto ,C 7 10 0 Straw ki 12 010,0 2 0 THE SLAVE TRADE -- 7 -We learn by the return of the Tartar (Commodore Sir G. R. COLLIER, Bart. and K.C.8.) from the Coast of Africa, that Princes Island, near to the Bight of Biafra, on the Guinea Coast, is now the principal, and indeed the only point of rendezvous on that part of the Coast of Africa for the dealers in slaves. Spanish and Por tuguese vessels (the only extensive traffickers in this inhuman trade now) from Cuba, rendezvous there. On arrival, the supercargo shifts his cargo of bale goods and hardware into small schooners belonging to the authorities of that settlement, and proceeds to the Bight of Benin or Biafra, either to Bona, Calabar, or Benin Rivers. Here lie bargains with the respective Chiefs, or Kings, for so many hundred slaves, which are generally ready by anticipation : they are now purchased for goois, of the value of 31. 17s. to 41. per head, for children under ten or twelve years ; and above that, for 51.; women of a handsome shape and appearance are one or two pounds sterling higher. At Prince's Island they are landed, and ' if no English man of war is in the neighbour hood, are le-embarked at twenty:five pounds charge per head to the Spanish Captain. If any man of war is there, they are received into factories, un til opportunity offer for sending them off to Cuba. —The vessels are generally schooners (termed American clippers), bought by Spaniards at St. Jago de Cuba, and pretend they are bound to the coast south of the Line ; and to carry on this deception the better, the Portuguese on board the smaller vessels are told, they are anchored off some port south of the Line, such as the Congo or Benguela. The most unmitigated cruelties continue to be inflicted upon the poor African race by these barbarous slave dealers. It is an astonishing fact, that two slaves who were res cued by a boat's crew of the Tartar, and brought on board that ship, belonging to a cargo, which had been re-lauded on the appearance of the Tar tar, were weighed by the Officers, when it ap peared that the weight of the lad was 45, and the man 641bs.—(Portsmouth Paper.) Saturday morning arrived at Portsmouth the Spartan frigate, Captain W. F. \Visa, C. 8., in fourteen days from Halifax, having en board Admiral Hon. P. WODEHOUSB, late Commissioner of that dock-yard. The Spartan has been only five months absent from England, during which periods he has visited Madeira, Dominica, Vera Cruz, Jamaica, Barbadoes, and Halifax; and her movements have been attended by remarkable celerity, particularly homeward, having been only three weeks from Jamaica to Ba:badoes, thirteen days from that place to Halifax, end fourteen from thence to this anchorage. At the time she left Vera Cruz, the greatest good order prevailed ti:,ronahout that part of the Mexican territory ; to the capital cr which, convoys passed and repassed, with (specie, without the slightest interruption.— The squadron at Jamaica were very healthy, and that of Barbadoes eqtrally so. Whilst at Vera T•;~ , ttenant GEORGE BECKWITH, and two of the crew of the Spartan, died, after four days illness, of the yellow fever. The Princess Eli zabeth packet had arrived at Barbadoes. The Spartan has brought to England about 140,000 dollars from Barbadoes, for Merchants.—Admi ral GRIFFITH had sailed for Quebec, in the Newcastle, as had the Cyrene, with 570,000 dol lars on board. The Active had arrived at Quebec. Major-General Sir JAMES KEMPT, K.C.B. it is said, is appointed Lieutenant-Governor of Ports mouth garrison ; and Major-General Sir DENIS PACK, Lieutenant-Governor of Plymouth, vacant by promotions. The Alexander, SURFLEN, from the Mauritius and Ceylon, is expected to sail on Thursday. Ma jor-General KEATING (formerly Governor of the Isle of Bourbon) goes out passenger. ':Liroberwall and Peckham Fairs being just about to commence, persons disposed to attend them will do tvtll to bear in mind what has re cently occurred ►►r West End, and at any rate, if they value their lives, not to remain after dusk. BROADBENT, the ASSASSIN.---The unhappy cul prit who was misled by the effects of intemperance to commit the dreadful murder of Serjeant Wat son, of the 90th regiment, suffered the penalty of the law on Friday. fie was removed from Lewes gaol about twelve o'clock. Ile was perfectly re signed to his Lac, and died aLuosi without a Strugle., 112 AT ST. JOLIN'S, NEWFOUNDLAND. Lieutenant COATES, R.N. arriced on Saturday at Portsmouth from Newfoundland, having taken out the sth regiment to Antigua and St. Kitt's, and embarked front those places the Royal West India Rangers- to New Brunswick, where thcy were disbanded., Detachments of the Sappers and Miners, 15th and 74th regiments of foot have come zhoute. Lieutenant Coates has hiqught the particulars of another dreadful tire at St. John's, which broke out at one o'clock on the morning of Mondry the nineteenth ult, in a house lately occupied by Mr. George Garland, adjoining the residence of Mr, T. Williams, but which during the last month, had been vacant. Mr. Williams's house caught soon after, and com municated the fire to the dwelling-house and shop of Thomas Meagher, Sons and Co. and from thence to the residence of Dr. Duggan, on the opposite side of the street, which, with the houses adjoining to the, westward as far as Codner and Tracey's, were laid in ashes. The brands of tire flew through the air to a great distance, some of which falling on the stores of J. F. Trimioghatn and Co. and Parker, Cheever, and Co. set them in a blaze, but this was discovered in time to prevent any material injury. The fence in the front of the Roman Catholic Cha pel was partly burnt down, and the Bishop's house and chapel were in considerable danger, though eventually no damage was done to, either. By five o'clock the fire had pretty well spent its fury. It will be recolleeted that the fire of the 21st of November, 1817, ,extended west ward to just where it was this time arrested in its pro gress eastward, thus completing in less than two years the destruction of neatly the whole of the old town. On going over the ruins 98 chimnies were found standing, besides several that had fallen down ; from which circumstance it is conjectured that the houses destroyed were occupied by at least 1,500 inhabitants, and the loss of property, upon the lowest calcuat ion, may be estimated at about 150,0001. Those in the MI ! mediate neighbourhood. bad scarce time to escape with their lives —many more saved but very little — while very few succeeded _in rescuing more than one-half their effects from the flames.—The dis tress occasioned by this fire is calculated to be more general than either of the former, notwithstanding the loss of property is much less. The Governor was present the whole, time, and all the officers of the garrison were conspicuously active in their ex ertion to extinguish the flames. It is not known how the fire originated. The following is an extract of a letter from Carbonear, Newfoundland, dated 22d July : " I am sorry to communicate to you the advices received last night from St. John's, that another dreadful fire took place there 'between one and two o'clock in the morning of the 19th, by which 170 families are deprived of their habitations, by the destruction of nearly the whole that remained of what was lately called the Old Town. Among those who suffer very heavily are, Mr. Thomas Williams, Mr. Dunscome, Mr. Kangh, Mr. W. Newman, Mr. Elliot, Mr. Bayley, and indeed all have suffered who resided in that part of the town. The fire broke out in an uninhabited house, and is supposed not to have been the effect of accident." ►SEDITION AND BLASPHEDIY.—On Saturday a Preacher, named Wedderbourn, who has the care of a small chapel, known by the name of Hop kins's Chapel, in Hopkins -street, was brought up to Marlborough-street Police Office, by Whales, the Officer, and underwent a private examina tion, which lasted nearly two hours, on a charge of blasphemy and sedition. The Solici tor to the Secretary of State for the Home Depart ment was present, and a large box, filled with papers of a blasphemous tendency, was pro duced and carefully investigated. It appeared that the prisoner bad latterly been bolding dissertations at his chapel, in which he has evinecti the greatest contempt both for reli gion and the law, and has endeavoured to instil into the minds of his bearers, that the Prince Regent, and all Potentates, should be destroyed, for nut administering justice, as theyought to do. The Prisoner was ordered to find bail, himself in 1001. and two sureties in 501. each, to appear at the next General Quarter Sessions for Middlesex. He seemed quite indifferent to his condition and in default of bail was committed. A Court Martial was held at the Royal Marine Barracks in Portsmouth, on Friday se'nnight, and continued by adjournments until Tuesday the 10th (at which Lieut.-Col. JOHN MILLER was Presi dent, and Lieutenant and Adjutant PATTEN, Judge Advocate), on Lieutenant PETER Means, of the Royal Marines, on a charge exhibited against him, of being drunk and unfit for duty when on guard in the Dock-yard; of which charge the Court found him Not Guilty, and acquitted hinh—The Court cautioned Lieutenant MEERES to be more cautions in his conduct in future, and not to turn out in front of his guard to the grand rounds, with' nt his belt, sash, shoes, or hoots, being contrary to the established regulations of all guards. A PROMISING YOUTH.—Saturday afternoon a boy, 12 years of age, undertook to cat 20 two penny mutton pies in half an hour, for a wager of 2s. Gd. which he accomplished in five minutes less than the given time. Each live, on the average, weighed two ounces and a half. Instructions have been received at Sheerness for the embarkation of Rennett, the stealer of Mr. Hortsm's child, on board the Dromedary store-ship, which is about to sail with convicts for New South Wales. A most extraordinary herring was caught in Montrose ricer, on Thursday night, by a salmon net ; it measured 16 inches in length, 81 inches in girth, and weighed one pound eight ounces Mts.. MYDDLETON took possession on Wednes day last, of her large property at Chirk Castle, which has so long been a %object of litigation in Chancery. She eras met at the town of Chirk by her numerous tenantry, who preceded her in procession to the seat of her ancestors. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCN. CORNWALL ASSIZES, RODMIN, At OUST n. HOUSE OP COMMONS PROSECUTION. BRIBERY AT PENRYN: THE RING V. HENRY SWANN, Intl. Mr. MOORR opened the pleadings, whicb charg ed (he defendant, in the first four counts, with paying money to procure votes, and in the last two counts by employing a promissory note foe the same purpose. Mr. Sericant PELL said, that this was one of the most important causes that could possibly be brought before a Jury, from its peculiar circum stances. At the late election for Penryn there were three candidates—Sir Christopher Hawkins, Nlr. Swann, and Mr. Anderdon, and there were about 300 voters in the Borough ; among the voters, he Was sorry to say, corruption had run vet y high, and it required that something should he done. For many reasons he wished well to Mr. Swann, but on this occasion he had to dis charge hiS duty ; and when a charge of this de scription was made our, that duty required him to seek a conviction. If, however, there was a feel ing independent of the cause, let Mr. Swamp have the benefit of it ; but if the offence be made out, he the person who he might, it was his wish that the purposes of justice should be fully answered. lie should be able to prove that Ihe • day before the election bribes were given by the defendant and received by some of the voters, and as the contest became more doubtful, the price of votes advanced. lie was sorry to say of .Penryn, that the grand aim of the candidates were to bribe as low as possible ; but that bribery was universally prevalent it was impossible to deny. The money received in this way was fatal to the morals of the receivers ; and though it might gratify for the mo ment, it must be baneful in the end. Still, how ever, the tempter was more criminal than the tempted, and, under existing circumstances, some thing must be done to satisfy the ends of justice. Every Newspaper teemed with accounts of Re form Meetings, and the outcry of men, women, and children was borne out by circumstances re• cently developed, and by the idea that a man who buys a vote would sell a vote. It was under the cloak of reform that sedition was work tog her way, and unless the practice could be checked the ultimate consequence must be dreadful indeed. — The chief contest in the election for this Borough was between the defendant and Mr. Anderdon : there was a majority of ten in favour of Mr. Swann. Mr. Anderdon petitioned against the re turn. He (the Learned Serjeant) was retained on that occasion, and the greatest pain he felt at the present moment was, that though others were proved to be equally amenable to the laws with Mr. Swann, yet, for some reason—God only knew for what—Mr. Swann was alone brought forward to stand the Intit. The prosecution bad been instituted by the Crown at the instance of the House of Commons, so that it, came in the most weighty shape possible. It was but right to men• lion, however, that all the witnesses %thorn he should call were participators in the crime, and if that was to weigh with the' Jul y; he was perfectly willing that the defendant should have the benefit of it ; but he had no doubt that the evidence, upon the whole, would bring the crime so completely home to the defendant, that the Jury could have no alternative, but must find the de fendant guilty. Mr. BALDWIN produced the writ for the'elec tion of Members for the BorOugh of Penryn, and also several records at different periods before the several unions with Scotland and Ireland, to shew the custom of the Borough. Mr. WHITE, the Committee Clerk of the House of Commons, produced the poll which he had re ceived from the poll clerk. Mr. FENDER, the poll clerk, proved the poll book, and that the candidates wete Sir Christo pher Hawkins, Henry Swann, Esq. and John La.. vienum Anderdon, Esq. Thomas Rosman—l live at Penryn, and know the defen‘ dant ; he was a candidate at the last election ; the days of polling were on the 19th and 90th of June; Mr. Swann came to my house on Saturday the lath of June, and asked me if I had yet given my voice; I said no; he said I always expected you would be my friend. I said I had not yet determined; he said if you will vote fur me I will procure you a permanent situation, so that you shall not want, and will li'Aewise do for you and your children ; and if you want a friend at the pre sent time, there shall be one found for you ; be put his hand in his pocket, and said, if you were not present, I would pre sent you with sometcing now, hut I will call on Monday morning, and leave some money with your wife for you, Mr. Swann then went away. When I returned on Monday even in„ my wife gave me five 11. notes ; on Tuesday evening be asked me if I had yet made up my mind to vote for him; I said 1 had given bile voice to Mr. Anderdon ; he said you will do well to give me the other, for we are the two fighting par ties; he asked me, and I told him I had not received parish pay; lie said, tell me all the facts, that I may make yours a legal vote; and added, what I left with your wife yesterday morning, I hope you will make yourselves comfortable with. My vote was rejected. Cross-examined by Mr. SWANN (who conduct ed his own defence) : 1 made an affidavit before the Committee respecting the 13th of June. You were at my house before the 13th, but I was not at home. The candidates came there on the Ist June. Mr. SWANN here observed, that the witnesses for the Crown had undergone an extraordinary training, and that there were persons in Court who made concerted signals to them ; for instance, holding up the finger to the nose, meant that a witness should say " No," and so on. Mr. Justice BEST observed, that the defendant had done perfectly right in suggesting the matter to the Court : be was determined that such con duct, if proved before him, should be visited with the utmost severity. Mr. Serie:lnt PELL repelled the charge on the part of those for whom he was more immediately concerned ; aid, added. that for such a thing he would undertake to say that the parties would be prosecuted forthwith. Mr. Justice BEST—Any one who dares do such a thing must take the consequences of such prac tices. Cross-examination continued—My wife never told me she had told you of tier distresses, though she told me of the 51.; I do not know whet the notes were; I am no scholar, thooglt I have a good recollection; I gave the notes again to my watt, and nay base had some part of them to spend. [Oil the suggestion of the Jury, the witnesses on both sides were ordered to leave the Court, and their names were called over for that purpose.] Continued-1 do not know what the situation was to he; I am a lahourer, and not fit for any situation; my wife never told Inc that, she was tu:loot far me to have work nearer home, thy vote was rejected by the Poctreeve, LI/4;11150 it wag!