The Sun. — London, England, 1816-06-17 00:00:00

.-AI - At, NEWS the COnipAn'y'S ship Carwttic urrivetl OT the 'Wight 4 yesterti - ity niorning : she left Bengd the 17th latinary, - Madras the 17111 Febittary, the Cape tbe Dth; it . ntl St. Helena' tire 2:lth April. The ‘Villiam Pitt autl Lord Melville sailed from 4adrai the Bth of February, to join the Marquis of Wellingt'en, Rose; and Streatham. then . at Co lurribo, and they were 'all . exPeetett to 'sail from Paint de Galle, the 18th Febra'ar. tender the or ders of his Majesty's ship Salsette. The Princess Charlotte of Wales likving got • agronnd on the Pulicat Shoal had been sent to;Ontl to Bombay to be docked ; and accounts ure said to have been at Madras of her arrival at Bombay. She was expected to retin n to the Coast in March. It is reported th►►t the Apollo and Sir William . Fulteney from Bombay are in the Channel. The Channel outward-bwmdiarrived at St. He. Lents tht• 9th, and the Lord Lindoch the 10th of April. ' The Sovereign, Providence, and Balkworth, Were in lot. 5. 40. N. lon. 22. W. on the 2.3 th April, all well. The private ship Charles Mills h arrived : site sailed from St. Helena the 150) April. PLYMOUTH, Joss 15.—Came in the Heron sloop of war from a cruise, with the Mary smug ling boat, laden with spirits. Arrived the Ferret sloop of war from St. Helena. It is said that she captured a Spanish slave schooner on her voyage home, and carried her into Sierra Leone, after an action of three hours. The Havannah - frigate is gone up the Channel, with the tate governor of St.• Helena on board. Sailed the Daphne, APPLETON, lOC the Isle of MM.- 7 Wind North. PORTSMOUTH, JUNE M.—Arrived yesterday his M►►jesty's skip Havannah from St. Helehtt; - left the Rock the 28th April ; spoke the Carnatic East Indintuttn, whicksailettfroin St. Helena eight dayi before the Havin halt. Arrived hisliajesty's ship Dec from the Eastwaid, ►►nd his Majesty's . ship Larne from a cruise. Arrived to•day. his Ailjesty's ship Sherhourne from Bermuda, 'and tke Thames transport from Jam►iica, with frOtip, P. S. The Climatic East Indianian, above al luded to, has arrived off this port from Bengal.— Wind N. E. ANoTtica LETTER, DATED Juan 15.- 7 -.." The HaVallnah, Captain HAMILTON, arriVeti alt Spit-' lA:ad this day, with a mail and dispatches front St: Helena. She Icit that island the 2311, ask/Ascen sion the 29th of Aril ; touched at Fayal (Wes tern Islands) the 29th of May, where was lying his Majesty's brig Ferret, which had left St. He lena about a month before. Captain hl stic.ioN brings information of the . Ferret haying on her passage front St. Helena fallen in with, and been fired at, by a large Spanish slave ship the fire was returntd by the Ferret, and after an action of about t..vn huurs,..she succeeded in captuting her. The Ferret had five men killed and wounded during the action, and was obliged inconsequence to put into Sierra Leona to repair damages. The Ferret left Fayat for England the same day the Hayaunah did. Colonel Wilks, the late Governor of St: Helena, , his (tinily and stiite ensue home in the Havannah. , —BuoNAPaara, says the report by this ship, was in good health, but More dissatisfied than ever with his situation.--- He has sent by the Havannah a string of coin. plaints to the Patxca ltaGENToupon the subject of the personal regulations to.which lie has been compelled to conform." FALMOUTH, JUNR 14.—Arrived the following packets:l—Ranger, front the Leeward .37 days Queenshory, from the Brazils, in 47 41 aY 3 1101 art, truth Jamaica, hi .35 days Eliza beth, front Surinam, in 30 days Qm.en char lotte, front ditto, in 27 thys, Sailed the Prince Btnest packet for Lisbon ; tiraee packet for New lenrli and Halifax. DEAL, Juita - -,l6.= 7 —Atrived; and sailed for, the itiver, the : Britannia,. SIMTH, and Fortitude, !11/or WARTOrtitlt Jamaica ; jams flay, STEWARD, Irani 'the South Seas ; and- Archibald, • B1,710(E ) from the flavannah. BetonTow, 'JUNE 1.5 . .—A seizure of a quantity, +, Of rrench lace, concealed in wooden images, &c. 4tas been made by the Custoto-house. Officers dur. lug the week;—Scarettly, a sitting passes hut ap ,Plieations are made 'to the ilagistrates °Caa , Itlsce for certifiWttei , to -enable the applicants to obtain passports 4o 14*rauce. Since the affair of L . AVALETTS, 110 passports have been grautei by the Trench Ambassador without a previons certificate that the individual is known to the Magistratef, iSte. of the place where he usually resides, which is transmitted to his Excellency, who returns regular passport. These passports ate now be come -absolutely necessary, atul some persons who lave left this country with Out (bent, have been sutpleasantly circittustanced on their arrival on the cOntiticot. 11-1_14: TIIEATI2E§. . , . COVENT-GARDEN, —Saturday migh . t Oti:vOy's Tragedy of Venic'e Preserceel, was performed, at this Theatre, %their Mr. KeieeLe appealed, for the . last !ine this season, iii toe character of Arid diSplayed ail his accnitonieu etergy. lie was luuctl y Had generally applauded thrmign out by a crowded hno se . New 1 1 ..stoLl8n OeeitA.---Thi's Theatre, 'ci-de vont the Lyceum, was opened on bm.orday w;th " U,7 all Nil.lhl" kid " The &circling Huuse." We gave a very brief descriptiou of it in our last .puloiesition ; and thoie who saw it at the period we did on Friday, wl-,en we made our remarks, will agree with us in thinking that Mr. Austocii and five Imudred workmen muse have been per tormiog the first piece, independently of rehear sals, the night before. A greater exertion was pertaitily never made to prepare every thing for the accommodation and gratification 4if the yht). lie. 1-la4 we not kuowit that the Licence re strieted the Manager to Operas, we should have believed that Harlequin's in44ic wand had been at work in the extensive transformations--a mass Of scaffolding into an elegant Theatre ; the endless clank of a hundred hammers into harnionious music; carpenters; scene-pointers, carvers, Oilers, Hod a stage only tote heap of rubbish, into good actresses, actors, singers, and one of the finest spaces fOr theatrical representation in Europe ! The following nutty be styled the official de scription of the New House Its form is a portion of an,ellipsis, whose transverse adiameter is 35 feet. The distance front the pout boxes to the Orchestra is 30 feet. There are two circles of boxes, with slips level with the lower gallery, and slip lobbies with the upper .gallery; Hod the ac cess to the boxes is so contrived, that'the company going to the dress circle do not intermingle with those g o ing to the other boxes. The seats, hoth in the pit, galleries, and boxes, are so much raised above each other as to give the audience an atio tetrupted view of site stage from every parrot the Theatre. The ceiling is raised, and supported by a series of ground arches, pursuing the whole line of the ellipsis ; ant mirrors are placed in the compartments of the arched sothtes, which reflect and multiply the lights below. The dome, and , the dress circle of boxes, &c. are beautifully ornamented. with subjects, paint ed in imitation of basso relieves, mostly se lected from the imagery of classic . literature, re presenting the effects of music on savage nature, as well as on the various passions of the human mind. Amongst the subjects thus selected and displayed tire the following the centre compartiuent of the dress boxes is delineated the invention and construction of the lyre by Memo' y." The god is `reclining on the shell of the tortoise. and is in the act of receiving from Cupid the Ileaven-invented string of his bow, which the little urchin pesetas, 'to form the strings of hislyre, The next conipsrt , tnent represents the story of the escape of Arion, a lyric Peer, and musician of Lesbos, who gained .by his art immense riches. The adjoining coin. partment contains an excellent allegorical repre sentation of the flight of Music Irmo' Egypt to Greece'. 'Next follows a representation of 'limo thesis playing at the feast, of Alexander. The next compartment depicts the uoion of Paint ing, Poetry, and Music, who are supposed to be joiniqg .their labours on the stage the English' Opera house, to render its amusements worthy of public patronage.---The several other compartments are ornamented in a similar man lier. The last which we shall now notice is that of St. Cecilia at the organ, intended to re present .the perfection of the art. The drop scene is part of a composition selected from Pyranes. It is intended to represent an entrance to the'temple of Apollo, and the group in front represent that god, accompanied by the Tragic and Comic Muses, illustrative, as we imagine, of the olliOn of Music with the Drama. It struck us, howeeer, that the shade is too strong ; it has the effect of giving to the whole a heavy and sombre appearance. The Orchestia is construct ed upon a new and peculiar principle, which has 1 the effect of impelling the sound into the body of ' the Theatre. The Saloon is decorated with ta blets, on which are the names of Acne, Loots, ARNOLD,r and others, the must celebrated British Composers, encircled with wreaths of laurel." To this accurate description we have very little to add. . The lower Chandeliers appeared to. us rather to went brilliancy ; and the 'classic orna. ments of the dress circle ate in so low relief, that they look sketchy and meagre when compared with the Scroll gilding on the tier above. We stated oil Saturday how admirably site Horse was coustructed for ,atfording a perfect vicar of the Stage from every part, and to this high requisite we cats now add, that it is at least (Arai iii another quality of as great impottnece, viz. that of couvqing the sound perfectly over the l'it, round each box circle, and up to the top most Gallery. tlaviug said so much of the place, we most now say something of those who are called to fill it. On drawing up the cutlet's, the loyal antheM of " God save the King" watotutg by the full company, and introduced to us many new feces and new voices. In these faces we saw nothing bad, end its the voices we distinguished a great deal of good. Both had a great recommendation to us, eta being altogether British. Miss KacLY then spoke, with lunc h animation, the Address a titten by Mr. AtttsoLD, tool inserted in OUr next This excellent actress sustained her original character in the Opera with untliminiklted etlect. BauADnuasT 'sung the songs of the indifferent part of Meddle With uncommon stseetness ; and all the other performers in the piece,, with whom London play-goers are acquainted, were respect able. BARTLBY Alit, perhaps, the least efficient as a substitute for DowtoN ; but much is to be excused, not only whets we consider the talents of his predecessor, but also his own avocation as Stage Manager, the exertion attendant on which could have lett him as yet but very little bane for study. 6f the new Candidates Introduced on SatfirdaY we rejoice tube able give a favourable report. Some of them were positively good ; some afford ed abundant promise ; and all were agreeable. Mr. T. SHORT, from Dublin, was Young Heart well bib voice One of tilt; most pleasing tenors we have heAttr, ontl Iris ixettalnii ‘lnturaJ and easy. A hide more ttree was. ; appre h4-itst'uat of a prAt apiwaraope, we hare noltnilbt 16weirti lOnt a levy not es,in his compass.. As an Atlor, this voinktientlentan is aleo very respect able I . anti thete is one remark be well to carry in remembrance through, all the on this Theatre—that being, °Witted to have Vocal Performers, it is a most diftcult thing to procore that accomplishment united even to tolerable potters in dialogne and action. - llr. Rus•et., front Edinburgh, us Peter, Made a famous sails r , and trill, we ve; , :ture to prophecy, speedily establish itimsell as a favourite here. His artist; Was appropriate, and II is singing charac teristic. Mr. IsAACS, front the Royalty Theatre, has a tine basi voice, bin is an indifferent actor. The farce introduced several excellent comic recruits c►t provincial celebrity, but of whom we did not see enough to pronounce a very decided o!►inion. Mr.. WlLKtNsoti, fron► Norwich, dis played much humour in Splatterdc►sh ; Mr. CHAT.. TEHLY, from Bath, was nearly as successful in, Peter Fidget; and Mrs. BROOKE, front _Manchester, pleased in Fanny.. At the er►d of the Opera an apology was made for idnie' slight defects in Managing the scenery. None was req u ired, for the liberality of the au dience was not much drawn upon toonake't his allowance spontaneously ; and, indeed, we were more surprised at What had been accomplis bed I ban inclined to dud hiult with these very trivial imperfections. , . We have only one Word ttiore., to add : all the avenues, -entrances, staircases, &c. belonging to the Theatre, are correettient and capacious and for this, as well as for the re St of his labours, Mr. ARNOLD is most justly entitled to encouragement land support trout a puhlic not iloW to discern and reward Merit. ADDRESS, SPOKEN BY MISS KELLY, ON OPENING THE NEW ENGLISH OPERA-HOUSE, SATURDAY, JyINE 15. Well I here I am at last !—and what's as - true, Nor less surprising--here--at last, are pa. Though we du meet, too soon,' I fear, to part, Yet welcome! kindly welcome !—from my heart ! Our . humble Edifice triumphant rose In spite of threatening flame's and Patent Foes ! The Foes who'd stint your pleasures—hut in vain, To Covent-Garden and to Drury-Lane. Who kindly wisk to prove, as it appears, Monopolizers of your smiles and icirs ! Who love you all so dearly, that they swear You shall go no where—if you don't go there. Pray how d'ye like our House? Is't snug and easy ? Upon my life, we've done our best to please ye Z. You alt can hear and see, I hope—Yes—all ! Those are rare virtnes of a noose that's small ! For 41101, are ,dctors ever hound to pray. Where you can see the Strt4re and law the Play. Where you with ease can flunk our real faces, Without the aid of Glasses, or Grimaces! And each inflexion of the voice is beard, Your ears preserved ; and our poor , lungs are spared I To thnt small stage which here our steps would press, Full n►any an Actor owes his first success ; Your cherish'd favourites n►aw on wider stages, Here grew beneath your smiles, - -their noble s t Wages! t %tend those smileaj which rear such valued fruits, To cheer the labours of. our new Recruits Support the timid, who from dread may waver, And rouse their talents, by your generous favour. So may their zeal repay the Wuon we crave, And-learn to merit what your kindness gave. Ye Gucls ! who reign aboie in illstunt wonder— For GOdi we know you, by your dreadful thunder Nit always dreadful tho'—tho' loud—because Here I tinit blest your Mulder., of Applause 1 Ye Boxes 1 say, are you well cramed (to the Pit) and You? Pray sir, *it close—theri's room euQugli for two ! • "The man who•haii , not music in himself, " Is fit for"—nothing good, a peevish elf ! • So SuaKSPEARS says—and adds, pray Critics note hit% (`a r t must not art him here, but we may vote " Let no such man be trusted"—such we fear— So those that don't lore music—don't come here. Is there a spot through all the varied earth, Where Nature triumphs in a human birth, But yields to music undisputed sway, And owns the magic of her hearen-born lay! 'Thine! Music thine ! to strike with posvirfnl art Responsive chords on every feeling heart! To lift the soul on meek devotion's prayer, To solace sorrow, and to snathe despair ! From lisping infancy to life's decline, In every age, or state, the art divine Still claims o'er Man, its soft, yet strong controul, And sways, at will, each passion of the soul ! Who has not marled the Infant's playful smile, While some fond Mother's Song its pains twgoile ? Its *Tit! which struggles still to wake, and Bear 'rise sounds which lull its pangs and charm its car e Who has not mark'd that still reluctant eye, ~ Clued by the Mother's plaintive,billahy ? The rudest savage of the rudest clime, In some wild measure, and discordant rhyme, Provokes the mad'iting dance, or warrior throng, And rules man's passions by the charm of Song. The lowliest peasant who prepares the soil, With cheerful ditty, half beguiles his toil And labour done, around his evening blare, Recounts, in Song, the deeds of former days...-. So on the deck, the sturdy seaman takes His patient watch, and spite of nature, wakes, And as the darkling waves around hiM swell, The Helmsman channts the cheering sound, i All's Well !' Rut now a nobler subject we disclose—. Behold what Misery to Music owes ! This Isle, so fain'd whereer our NVarriors roam, Is scares less fatted for Charities at home. Of all its noblest mansions--those the chief, Where Age, and Want, and Sickness, find relief. Where youth is snatched from crime—the hungry fed, And Vice itself is hark to Virtue Of these--the proudest acts, by man displapl. How few, but draw their funds from Musie s aid ? Thus Mask , " Heavenly Maid !" alike hestows Joy in our Claduess—Comfort in mu Woet! 'To her, then, is this modest Temple doe Worthy of Hers .1.1 but approved by You! TII S MARK ETs. - CottN-EXCHalloe, JUNE 17.—We had a mid- Supply of I'Vhent thii morning from Essex. and Kent; and.a C!!.3iderable quantity from Scot land, consequently the sales were heavy , at Fri day's prices (2s. per quarter cheaper than this day week);-aild a quantity left u nsold; Boiling PeAse are - in demand, and 2s. per quarter dearer; Barley, Malt, 'awl Oats are . dUll at Friday's prices, In other articles uo alteration. Foreign Wheat ." 545. Ws, Fine ditto - - - 8.25. --s. English Yheat 68s. 88s. Fine ditto - - 884. —s. Rye -30 s. 84i. Fine ditto - - - Barley - - 225. 275. Fine ditto - - - aes. —s. Malt -- - - 535. G3s. Fine ditto - ' 6Ss. --is. WhitePease (boilers) 88s. 40s. Fine ditto - - 455. •-•-s. Grey Pease - - - .333. 365., Fine Grey. Pose - 375, TICk BentlS - ass. 36%. Old ditto - . --s. Small Tick Beans 335. 38,. Ohl tlitto —s. —s. Feed. Oats - - - I9s. 90%. Fine ditto - - els. 235. Poltlnd ditto -20 s. 245. Fine ditto - 7 925..255. llntstoe ditto 7 • 304. —s. Rape Seed 321. 361. per lost. Fine Flour - 701. 755. Seconds - 70.. , , SMit7llrl JUNE 17. —This day's Market had a consi derable snub', of priMe Beasts, and the show of Cattle in other,respects was tolerably . good ; .Mutton was dearer; Beef was cheaper; Veal, Pork, and Lamb, supported last prices; And the trade in general was somewhat brisk. The saki: in the 1-lai , Market were pretty lively; Clover fetched last price- ; Hay and Straw have rot up in price. We annex a correvt. statement oft he priers altd numbers : To sink the Offal, per stone of 81b. Beef, 31. JOd. to bs.64i. 1011, 4i. to ss. 4tl. Lamb. 51,. Od. to, 7s. 11,1., ,Veal, 45,•3d. to . Pork, to 6s. Od. Beasts, IMO. Sheepand Lambs, 14,700. Calves; C2O. Piki, Hite44.liMPT.-1 - Tay, 41., Os. .to 51. ids. Straw, li. IC,. Rs 41. Bs. Clover, 41. Os. to til. 10s. IRELASID. Outrages still continue in the North Liberties of Limerick. At the hour of one o'cloCk ofte morning, upWards of 80 fellOWs aimed, one day last week, levelled two (*buses at Knock, within a Mile of this town. In one of them, belonging to Mr. O'Halloran, a poor man placed to watch the ground, was fldgged most unmercifully by the villains, who had disarmed him of his firelock, and swore him, on pain of death, to quit the tteighhotirhood—after completely taking off the roof front the hintse, with sledges', cro vs, &c. (which they brought fot the ()cc:m.4)lo the lultlF., marched off in, regular ort4cr, and tired several shots. Au affair of hononr took Place on 'Nest! Ay )noroing last, at Burne-brook, near Athlone, be tween 'WILLIAM K.sma, Esq. and Doctor KANE. Two eases of pistols were dischargq I by the par ties, without cloin;„ ; any injury—atter which their friends interfered, adjusted the difference, toil t h e parties retired from the ground in perfect friend ship.--(.4thlone Herald.) . Major Vtrailnirton, superintendaor Magistrat t i of the proclaimed Baronies of the County of has passed iliough Limerick for his station, an t i has fixed his head-quarters at Kiirtilt. Monday last', thiriY-six Cavalry arrived in L;nirrick trim) Dublid, on 'their tray 14 rush, town, nntl..utlier parts .the . Wtst, COnty of Chat e. . Ott the road front Lisntoic Cloglieen, ahont noon, on Monday, a (tentlemun was robbed of 4, gold watch with a gold chain, and two gold seals; and of. about nineteen pounds ,in money, by five Highwaymen with fire arms. Immediately after, a traveller wa.s stopped by them, but, as he hail only a few tenpennies, he was allowed to pass Mi. molested, We are concerned tO hear, that nnbert Pepper. Esq. of Cappa, a Magistrate, (in concert with Citpt. Standish, Alex. Odelt, Fag. and other Gen tleinen), in endeavouring to quell a riot at Bailin got: v hir, on INlonday, received several niiituidi front the couutt periple;---(Littieriek Chi'Ottlete) SINGULAR CIRCUMSTANCE. have enquired into the eictirnstances de." tailed in the tollowing letter, 'and can vouch for their correctness To the Editor of the Waterford Mifror. " Most singular circumstance occurred. in this city a few days tip, in the boklie of A WOlllatt living in, Coleheek -street. She Was work ing in lief toom,„where she had a cut and kitteni, when on a itiatielf she saw a hitge rat running perfectly , tmconcernett in the room ; the goon woman instantly got up, anti sliewed the rat to the cat, but the nut took no noticepf it, neither did the rat appear hi the least idartned in the pre sence-of the cat. At length the womunTnok rrp tint cut, and threw it 'at the animal, but s ite to no' effect. Next day the woman harti occasicm to go, to a cupboard, in which the kept the tat anti her young--she found one kitten dead, and saw, to her siaprize, the tail of a rat, stirring arnOrYttla. the surviving; kittens. Alarmed, she hastened 11%. to the shop, where'a man bad jtist entered, told hint there was a rat -in the room, and begged he would 1611 it. He went in, and on opening that cupboard, he found the rat lying with the cat anti kittens, and apparently sucking the cat. lie ink. tnediately killed it. The cat and kittens were al. terwards 'rhe Old Military Barracks lit Gosport, anti those at thirst Castle and Bridport (in that dis trict), are to be sold. There was a tumult in the Dublin 'theatre on Wednesday, in consequence of some mistimicr standing about a sung to beating by Mr. L'utwrs. No mischief was done. Nothing of interest occuirtgl in suy of the Courts in Westminster Hall on Sattiritait. he Coitus rose early. Mr. *Justice Alit:lo'T 60111 ti.; Court of King's bench, and Mr. Jostive from the Common Pleas, left town yesterday. fin Ely, where they will this morning open the Special Conimission for the trial of the persons at present in confinement on charges of rioting. We understand that David Staig, Esq. bas oh-. tallied a decision u the Conn of Seaiina against'Mesrs. Mesrs. William 1-lysinp, ,the, Ilyslopi-stul rsnil Glen, of Dumfries, for a libtibiooptititsys one hundred guineas with costs.