The Sun. — London, England, 1816-10-22 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF VIE SUS. SlR—'l ht Pol' I:rewer§' having received an aliowanee tour shillings per barrel. upon their stock of•heer, taken the-sth of July last, awl are to receive sixteen shillings per quarter upon the malt in their posses Sum at the same period ; jo& the i w it steels raised the price of their beverage on accou, , t of the - very . high 'prices of malt and hops, should it not lie made known that they tar 1101 justified in so doing ?lf, Sir, theExcist.would favour you with the amount of Ihe:beer and malt claimed by the twelve principal 13 . rewers in Lon don, at the above period, anti the quantity of beer brewed since, it will clearly prove to yon, and the Public at large, that the present high prices will not atfect them in the lei st,• as scarcely one :(4 them will have occasion to go to market this sea son for eithi r malt or hops. • I remain, Sir, your humble servant, • A CONSTANT READER. Saturday, Oct. 19, ISUL, Saturday, morning the Inconstant frigate, Com modore fit JAMRS L. l'co, arrived trout Citecoast of Africa, where, Turin}; her cruise of several months, she captured five vessels, under Portu guese enlOurs, with '2S( slaves on board. Many others were fallen in with, engaged in the inhu man traffic, but they were tinder Spanish and American colours and much of the treaties. be tween the Governments upon the subject c/f this trade, is so easily capable of a double meaning, thst, to prevent litigation and unpleasant disputes, they were notderained : these vessels were crowd ed vsith unfortnnatc captives. The. Inconstant left Aera (in the •Bight of Benin) eight weeks since, and Barbadoes on the 19th ult. The ships on the latter station had been rather sickly they *were proceeding to *ea to check its prevalence.— The Scamander, Captain W. Eworr, had cap tured- two American vessels, which he' discovered trading with our Islands, iu violation of treaty. She was about to proceed from Barbadoes to Ja maica with speck. Sir JAMES YBO fired'A salute, and struck his broad pendant, upon anchoring at Spithead, which was 'returned by the flag-ship in the harbour. . . . . DEATH OF EARL BRAUCHAMP.—We are con-, eprned to announce the sudden' death of this ami tt'lle and respectable Noblettiaii . , at his house in James's-square. Elis Lordship went to bed no Smidatnight in apparent good health. About Once o'clock yeSteriby 'Morning he was seized with an apoplectic fit and immediately expired.— Pis Lordship is succeeded in his titles - and estates by his son, Lord Viscount ELNILEY, now Hirt BEAUCHAMP. Lord BEAUCHAMP was in his 70th sear. His Lordship was created a Baron during theadittinistration of Mr. I'ox, after having re presented the county of NVorcester in six successive Parliaments. His advancement to an Earldom took place before the last Session of Patliment. 4l vacancy fur that county occurs upon the tiilC ce:4sion of Lord ELMLEY to the title. •On Wednesday last - the officers of his Majesty's s hip Q u een •Churlotte gave a parting dinner to their late much esteemed Cap-taln, Sir J. Bats *Alm, at the Fountain Inn, Portsmouth. Mr. itzuntx will go thro►►gh the whole range or his characters at Covent Garden Theatre this season. beginning an Fliday, with the character of Cato. Mr, and Mrs. H. Ketuntr, %slim a. few seasons ago performed at the Haymarket Theatre, are Dour with the Bath Cninporiy. ThCformer, who is the son of Mr. STEPltutv KEMIL.II, has much distin guished himself in the eharacter of Bertram, in the Tragedy of that name. The latter, who pos sesses a very fins voice, and has been some time a pupil 'of .I.3ltAkt4u, has excited much. approbation, both as an actress and vocal performer, in the part of iloretta in The Cabinet. At Perth, on Tuesday lest, the Synod; after same routine business, agreed' to an, Address to the PRINGS RtoetiT, to congratulate his Royal highness on the late brilliant success of his Ma jesty's arms before Algiers, which was transmitted by the Modetator to Lord Viscount Alttoitt.La, with a request to his Glrdship to lay it before his Royal Highness. The PRINCE& REIGEWT:S Stag ! hounds will melt ert Fri,Loy next, at Swinley, at ten o'clock., VkToodcocks have already appeared in many parts aq.Cortowo . oll atoll Devon ; five were killed in that neighbourhood lost week. _ "On Satin<lay last, the remains of the late Lord WALLSCOURT were removed from Fleming Villa, so be interred in the family vault, St. James's, We ars happy to hear that the manufacturers of this city and nei6hbourbood have been enabled to advance the wages of their weavers one shi ait►g cut.---('C'arlisle Math/0 On , Saturday a hackney-coachman was con victed on a spirited charge of .Mr. SCOTT, of the Sans Pared Theatre; for galloping his horses in the Strand, so as to endanger his life, which 'the gistrate cnnsidertil misbehtiviour to his fare. An ingenious artist in the cutlery business at Manchester has lately make a knife, which con 'tains three blades, a button hook, a saw, a punch and screw driver, a box, cork-screw, hook and gimblet, two phlemes, picker and tweezers, two lancets, With a ring at the head, and the whole sseigns but one pennyweight fourteen grains. llox no---Asa prelude to the sport cut out for the day, a. well-contested' battle was fought yes terday at Reain's Meadows, near Woodford,' be tween two good taco in Miniature, named Green and Pocock', which was won by the latter, in 33 . sounds. Both were tolerably willed, 'and their .fancies could only tell them by speech, froM the distortion of features.---The fight between Curtis and Turner will lake plaee this day at Moulsey.— Two other battles will also take place. The Eighth Wonder of the World,, as it may 'justly be called, is the Grand Bridge at Sunderland, being mere than 100 feet above high water Mark, of which Prints or large Medals, b eaut if u lly e 34,.. entedi'are presented td - every Purchaser in the t ru ly advantageous Lottery, Where the proportion of Capital Prizes is more than 8 times greater, and the Tickets above SO per cent. cheapel thou usual'. The whole :will be drawn the 31st of this-month, when the-First-drawn Ticket will have 5,1251. — Tickets 71. lfis. and Sixteenths Eleven Shillings duly, ,are selling •by the Contractor, J. SIVE.. %.ItIGEIT ) Loudon, antthis Agents iu the principal Tawas. moan' tONSPIRACMS 15ISCOVERED. We lament to state that the conspiracies -lately developed, and which led to the capital conviction of six nolivideakiii the course at tile last Old ley Sessions,liave not yet presented to the public the whole of .these extensive scenes of iniquity, which to the disgrace of our cumin y, atta the eter nal infancy of certain cold-hlooded wretches, have been but. too long and successfully practised...— The Lord Mayor, since the discovery of the•plotnt which three unfortunate Irishmen had been made: the victims of " the bloOd systemdeclaTell. his consciousness that theirls was nut a solitary case. Viewing, as he did, the other- atrocious scenes' which: ere brimght• to light; he considered that the plans of the co n spirators were too well or ganised,- and too easily effected, to be confined ; and he determined upon probing: the matter, it possible, to the qoick:. In consequenec•of certain information, received by his Lorliship•some time since, he-set on foot an inquiry, which: haeina brought to a sort of matu rity, he proceeded. to r 'Newgate, immediately atter Divine. Service on Sunday: last, and remained there bet ween four and five hours. Ills Lordship, who was assisted by Mr..Llobler, the chief Clerk, entered into a minute investigation of the case of nearly twenty persons who had been convicted at the last October and April Ohl Bailey Sessions, on a charge of littering counterfeit money, prin cipally • Bank of England tokens. some of these poor creatures were of the lower orders of Irish and English, but the chief part of them were foreign seamen, such . as Russians, Ger mans, &c. anti theroore the more likely to be- come the ready victims of designing men. The ,! principal scene of the conspit :store plans were exe cuted in t be.neighbourlniod of Tower•hill, where the deluded persons we have alluded. to were met in great distress, by certain persons ,whose mimes for the present we decline mentioning, and Who, under the mask of pity, furnished them with base shillings and•;Bank tokens for3s. and Is. 6 I. The unfortunate creatures, nearly famishing no doubt, irastily rtisheil into a baker's or chandler's shop, but -being previously placed under the eye of a lurking villain, who assumed the character of an officer, they were seized and searched, and the tnotteywhich had just been heaped upon them as bounty, or for part of which they had perhaps en tered into a treaty, being 'found upon them; this was Of course considered prima facie evideace of -their No less: titan fifteen cases of...this description have already, according to the repott of the Il2ornit4; Papers, been discovered. The following, arc the names of the unfortu nate individuals to whom we have alluded, and who havesuffered, or are now suffering the punish ment affixed to theirseveral convictions. It is lamentable to add,- that one unfortunate being, sonic short period since, is now thought to bate. suffered. she • dreadful punishment of an iguomi nionsdeath, through these unspeakably infamous "-de vices.' • • • ; • Names or persons convicted for passing, and having in their possession, Bank of Englund to kens (tlnit estaUli,litnent paying 101. to tlie of ficers for each conviction), shillings, sixpences, Thooris Snail), John ITawlcint, Thomas Hickson, John JoMel, Josvpti Thonini Philip Yitseplio, Catherin 3 Connor, Etlwurd Blakeney, William Carson, J.:hat-les Orem, Thomas Priest, Thomni Wikon, William Williamson, John Covey, John F. Brown. • Thig opprars to be. the only foreign nan►c in the list. though it is stated above that the " chief kart *ere foreign seamen:* lu. A Morning Paper adds the following particu lars A Jew named Solomon:, 1010 has, on account of a deformity in one of his feet, been nickuamed Bubbiefoot, forms one of the leading characters in the plot. This man was employed by several officers (if the Police to search for abiects : be did not fix upon characters notoriously bad, be cause his own personal exertions and appearance were necessary, Anil as he bad beetrninie than once tried at the Old Bailey, those whir have been under similar circumstances might have recognized an old acquaintance in him, and shunned or implicated him. He looked amongst the most wretched, but not the most abandoned, and selected his victims`froto amongst the Russians, the Maltese, , the Germans, the Irish, as well as the English. His plan was to station himself somewhere in theutighbOur hood of the Tower, and, when he saw a sailor Who had spent all his money, or been robbed of it, he would;with pretended humanity, give him a shilling, or in cases of extreme necessity a 3s. token. The first place to which his necessities would lead the wretch to whoin thus buistity was ex tended would be the baker's shop, the estiug-house, in the public-house but as soots us the supposed va lue was tendered, a police officer started into his pre smiee, . seized the money, marked it, and bawl coifed the pOor creature that offered it. Upon being brought before a magistrate, the story was just such as is usually told, and no suspicion ex cited. In other instances this ingenious Jew, with= out pretending to be influenced by any compas, sionate motives, would Merely propose to poor tattered sailors to purchase certain articles at slop-shop, or marine stores warehouse, With a promise to give them a ;drink for their trouble. Upon proceeding to execute their commissiou, they were scented by tho officer, who was sure to let them .go juke us tar as was necessary to nuke them guilty in the eye of the law upon his Lcfili• mony," STUCK-EXCHANGE, OCT. 19, 1816.—Six to four RICH/1111)40N, GOODLUCK, and Co. and G. CAE ROLL and Co. against the a till, fur the sale of the Three Capitals of 20,0001. in the present Lottery, which will be all drawn in One Day, Thursday, the 31st Instant.—There are hardly any takers of the odds, in consequence of the great success which attended the Offices of the above parties in the late Lottery. Thursday, the 31st Instant, the State Lottery will begin and finish. Only 6,000 Tickets. Three of 20,000/, Three of 2,0001. Three of 1,0001. Six of 500/. besides 1001. 501. &c. &c.---Tickets and Shares are selling in this valuable Small Lot tery, at the old-established Office, No. 26, Coto hill, by the Public's Euttslit obedient Servants,. BOUNIBY and Co. 1 1 0E T y. A MONODY to Tim MEMORY OP TAR - IA - Pri? PICILIRD .BAISSAEY,SHERIMIN, 41. Written by a fiENTI.6I4'N of Ilublin,and spoken by - igrc-ED. at the Tberttre Royal, Crow-street, on l'uestlay last. Hark I heard ye not that lonely sound, With awe investing all around ? Pouring its wild notes on the ear In strains siiplztintive—sad—and dicar, • As seem bcyond our earthly sphere; When Genius sighs its paAing breath In the last awful hour ofd li, r Snehsirains are heard arOund/tiitai4 As if to hail the mighty dead ! And ilia there not he sung on earth, The requiem of departed Worth ? • Shall meinory fail to shed the tear, For hint who Once was held:so dear ? Or shall his ashes unwept lie ! Shall SULFUDAN unhonour'd Harp of the Green Isle ! thee I call, Thine be the task to mourn his fall— To weep his fate be thine alone, Erin, be was all thine own And is he then for ever gone ? How oft is traced that tbollght of glpom— 'Recorder of the fatal tomb! Clos'd are thoie eyes in everlasting night, Which once in brightest splendour beinn'tl, Mote is that voice, which like the torrent's might, ill Eloquence . resistlessstream'd ! Oh ! fur that soul-inspirioji hour, When India's groans aron's Ii each, power.. And bade hint fearless gaze on Freeautu's Sun ! Nation's welfare on hitt, hung, A Nation's wrongs sate on his tongue, Invincible he rusted along! Pale Tyranny, astonished, beard the while, And Slavery's self assuued a woe-worn smile : Strike louder still the Warbling lyre, Breath forth a strain of holy tire— For, oh ! how sinks the in4nareh nit hiS throne, Mow falls the victor in - the criutkuti fight, 'Neath hint who dauntless stands alone, To vintlicAte a [movie's right I But nut within liis breast alone, ' And vu'd of every lighter grace, . I)id noble stemless hold its place; _ • For in that Patriot soul of Fame •• Thalia breatli'd her sparks of brightestllante, • Who lung had luv'd riud " niark'd biro fur her umr.'' Yet why attune the lyre to joy? • Why aught but sounds ,of woe employ? Who hath nut mark'd hi. bright t ning.morn, When in career of glory borne, A thowiand voices him; upon his word- A thousand eyes on him reposed— In darkness drew-, wh,i hat! out !Card HO* sad his vet: of life bath closed ? nehold! where on the lied of death lie lies, And casts around his languid eyes— Fur those . who his happier Who seened to live but in his gate, Scarce one renutins to hear his parting sigh, oe ,uut he diseases apihy ! Cold is his smil—d ee4 y'd ,are all her fires— And with a feeble sigh the mighty man expires ! So perished hr who jilt lusth been The glory ol our Drama's scene; The I'atriut'i prith—the Senate's pr:the—. The Klusc's lore , —the People's ',use — So pvrisli'd be, whose memory. long • be the theme of Yain's song : The Isonebing Laurel o'er whose tor a b In vs:Wore fresh shall evvr blootu, • And unborn ages loud Exalt his lor l d—bii Indrow'd name. Harp of the Green Isle! fare thee well, Vor the.' 'tit lett to sound h;.; knrll : Fur thee the suitton voict: to ta 4 fiei Thr Herald of his nation's praise! CHORUS. Hall! all hail, his mighty name, Lank shall live that name in story—. Lung shall burn his 1)1112e of.glory— And like the vestaisi holy Beam forth rays for ever brighl.: Sound then the anthem of his fume, Bail! all hail, his mighty name! SPORTING INTELI,IGENC. NEWMARKET HOUGHTON MEETING, Nov. nna. BUTTING, OCT. 21 . The Hatch between Sir Thomas, Bst. 711.). and Milton, 7st. Clb. 6 to 4 on Sir Thomas. The Match between,SirJoshua, 0t.91b. and cutrella, 7st, 61b. tveii betting.. THR DERBY STARES, 1E037, .to 1 agst D. of Gratoo's 1$ to 1 agst 14 G. 11. CAven- Waterloo dish s colt to 1 atist 'troth. to Stnolelisko 14 to 1 agst ally' other. to l agst Brothel to Tigris ' Tfie OAKS ST . I ti) t figst Mr. Forth's AXES, 1817. to t agst any other. Lu 1 .hot Sister to Sir Joshua PENERAL 001,Vr , ,W$ STUD. TATTERSALL:S Mews has not, for a considerable time past, experienced a more extensive assem blage of persons than yesterday. Independent ref the • numerous Gentlemen of the Sporting. World, who meet for the express purpose of ad justing their late Newmarket etigagetticnti, the valuable stud of the late General GOWER, of spbrting notoriety, was brought to the hammer, when ont of 21 lots, we ;Attrition those most im portant Raphael, by Roberts, out of Iris,. was sold for 205 goineaS. The celebrated brood mire Land teape, out of own sister to Raphael, the winner of the Oaks for 300 guineas. The two-yearold buy chit "out of Iris, in training at Newmarket, engaged in a sweepstake of 100 guineas each ; yearling colt by Orville, out of Iris, 300 guineas ; each ; and a foal cult by Haphazard, uut of Iris, 161 4 _165 guineas. Lord - 140 WTH RR purchased several lots, and the whole were sold for 2563 guineas. Great Succefs.—G. CARROLL has the highest sa tisfaction in announcitigthe great Success that has attended the Purchasers at his Offices.. On Fri day, October 4, the Lottery finished drawing, when the following Capital Prizys were all sold in Shares at CARROLL's Offices No. 7,736, a linio of 4. 3 0,000, in 19 S! 'P r e B 12,810 1,000, in it Silures - 1,000, to 5 Simrot Ivo) - 1,000, in 11 !bates 3,020 - hOO, in ht Sinues 5,500 -50 u, in R Stoat es 1,860 . bQU, in i I Silures. The fortunate Adventurers may receive the value of their respective Shares on demand.—The New State Lottely, to be tiraWil all its One Day,- 3lst October, contains Thiee of &20,000, &c. Ac: and Only 6.000 'Pickets.---'Pickets and Shares. are selling by CARROLL, the COntractor, st - . his fortis. nste ()dices, No. 7, Coitilifil. nut' 26, Oxford street. - _!_" - zriZONCittEN 4 S*'net)K E rs. 4, 7 — rr ipk. , The itioniteilr contain* rra we °followin g observit lions on these impletnetrfir„ — rtitil to have been writtetrby.a.tlistingnisite,d OttieerofArtill, tr in theYrench service. 'Filey itr . e, written, it will is obsrved, in anst er to t ec tines( ions:— " 1. Are the Congreve rockets, .when they fall in .tbe.ranks, mole ttnirtierons ttyin bombs 1' " t-os suppose the ro . i.;ftvt cli:oged_ with three grenades (tor it could .opt contain a greater tpiaro' tity, witfout the greoades . rieia4' very small, and therefore,of no effect), and; which is the otos -ta. rourable supposition, that it falls ami!ist a ticpta cL:a Of cavalry, and by ii, fall puts one horseman out of vi ; (liar every grvo.tde . p)iis`lin'ritiog, iu tike,:manner puts u loan out of 'service; this stroke, the .mi t st itikvantituous it is possible to imagine, will have vitt out of service only four men in all ! • `° But the execution of one bouib, including the via/theta, is ns k known, 15 men put out of IctVlCtt; Creii reducing this number to 12, the expluSion of the hdrtib is three (Mies more murderous than that of the rocket. Besides, is not the etreet of the rocket entirtly paralyzed by the separation' of the turf or ,chapiter from the bodY of the riicket; . and -is not this separation easy with the blow of a sabre, while the rocket of the bomb. cannot be torn out, and even by cut ting it, its .action would :not prevented, since the fire is already communicated to the portion of the rocket contained in the interior cal the bomb ? " We remark, in passing, that bombs produce from - 9.t0 10 splinters, anal that small ioenades seldom give more than two ;:so that it would ep. pear the, number of splinters k its proportion' to the size of the diameter Of the projectile. '2..-Do the Congreve rockets, on falling into a place,. effect mare damage there ; do they set fire to it more speedily and certainly than bombs, tihells, and red. hot balls ? "''!'he experinients made ut Boulogne in 1803 proved, :that a rocket 'passing through a sail sel. dom set fire•to it ; that passing through a fir plank of an inch io•thickness, it hardly set fire to it once. in n dozen times ; while the sail and th . e plank. Uniformly-409k. firewhen pierced by red-hot bolls. 1 omit the enormous difficulty of throwing rockets lio as to hit the object: we shall speak of that by and bye. " Besides, the combustible materials of the Oche( tire neither more inflammable nor more • difficult to extinguish than those with which bombs are.eliarged, and-may.-all, when ana• lysecl, he rethiced to those of tLe Oche u feu. Tile Insect of bombs and shells equally bur►t in the writer ; but what damage is not. done by a booth of 12 inches falling upon a building, e►en ii bout its bursting, or even setting it on tire, While tt slight bedding of earth ur dung prevents the effectcof the rocket 1 341. Is the aim of Congreve rockets more certain...than that of bombs, shells, or red-hot halls ?—is>their.r,an,ge longer ? Zwitif ion is simple and easy. The English titet►mselves admit that they cannot an• ewer for the direction; and 6tiii 101 for the range, which never, exceeds Iboo toises. At that dis» tance,hombs, shells, and red-hot balls are thrown with almost certain aim, and even up to 1800 toises, without speaking, of the' new mortars :which were triad.beforeEnden, and whose range is almost double. " It results from these observations, sufficiently simple, and easy to he verified, that the Congrevo rockets are far front being so dangerous as some affect to say ; that they are,on the contrary, much less terrible Limo bortibis, sltells, and,red-hot balls; and 1 sec not that we cpn deduce any other conclusion- front the prodigious noise .that has been, and As endeavoured to 'be made about thent, titan the certainty that. those who din it i l n your ears have no other obj e ct b ut to irt fluence the moral of the soldier; and it is with the sole view ,of enlighteonm the, soldier as to the real effects of .Congreve.yockets, and to forth), hint against..the .exaggerated' fears with which tt may be sought to inspire him in regard to them, that I have thought it right to commit ~rase oh- SerVatiOnS to paper. 1 shall leetnLit a duty to re ply to any objections that may he made to me:" • DARING ROBBEItY :016 OUTRAGE. Extract of a Letter. froth Otendartiel House r Ar• gyleshire ) dated yesterday morning, the 17tli 'instant c- • I must inform you that this house was broke into this morning, about s'tx o'clock, by two men. Their attempting to force the door of the butler's pantry, which was fortunately locked , (as it con tained. a good quantity of plate), alarmed Mr. M . lslllar, the boys'Ainor, who got Up, took the poker in his hand, and seeing a man in the act of forcing the.dtior,, lit !moved to go down the stair which , leudi to .the kitchen, but finding it locked, he returned. On coming op the stair, he \yips perceived by one of the men, who was Looting. out of the tlining-roont,.and knocked down, He lay for a short time insensible, buurecovyring 0. little, he attempted to call out, when the other man came from the door be was endeavouring to force, dragged him into the little parlour by U throat, threw.him on the ground, kicked! stud heat bit till he agaittlost his recollection. The noise, alarmed the people below i who were'hy thot tittle astir, .00 coating up, found him ou the grotina bleetling,,, and, stablu!ti in different places ; no doubt the murdered him, but:i ern glad to say iii; lututi and shoulder roily were moth cot, though his breast was graAed. and his shirt tut up .the breast. The. first attempt. of the robbers was on the high wit,• chits of the west wing —these they entered ) hut finding the door locked, they left it and corner tin The east wing, which they entered by a wintio - 4 about ten feet from the grotimit and by the sante window they mode their escape, Nothing 00144 bemore audacious than the atteropt.a* the thiitlf maid was at the instant staking her churn in the kitchen, and the alarrtt shgaiivl given. n t bn wi t , t i r o h , t: was hanging on the shutter of the rOOM they entered, was token away.---The country around this is swarming with Irish 'Jokers and pedlars, who have committed so many acts of theft in tihe glen lately with impunity, that it is no semidry they may havo at last attempted this house; anti it would appeAr we not only have retikry but ?n der 40 fear: