The Sun. — London, England, 1815-01-16 00:00:00

f ~, he Revolution. The act; and the writ. of that eriod are like foundlings, Whem tr - (11e will acknowledge. his brings to Our re •Follection the'expression of a Surgeon on board a till] of war, who after a severe action gate direc tions to- throw the dead overboard; besides the dead, lir-Weyer, there were some wounded men, whom it Was supposed the Surgeon wished to get rid of, who were also ordered to be thrown' overboard.— Some of the unfortunate men remonstrated against this cruel order, but, the Surgeon replied, " Come. 'throw away, if you attend to these fellows they ilia all swear they are alive." The contrary, however, is the case with the : I ‘ren Of the RevOlution, instead of being all alive lb eY are all dead. Those of them who have not lost their lives, have lost their memories, or at least part of them, for they now .only recollect The good they have done and the serviced they 16 " Performed. One Man only incited by his /v T i tings the murder of the King, in order I "re effectually to serve the Royal cause, by deceiving the enemy ; another only took a Part in the massacres_ in the prisons in order to s ave some victims. This man only published the most atrocious writings to conceal his real senti ments. That one forced the Nobles and the Clergy to expatriate themselves with no other view but to ensure'their safety. These observations apply to the legal 'proceedings instituted by AL de la Touche. 'Qr some time past the Newspapers have recalled to the public recollection someparts of this man's .conduct ; , they republished SOIJIe writings which for twenty-two years he has suffered to be at tributed to him without` remonstrance ) and they have re-stated- souse charges against him, Which never till this time were denied. He has . llowever, lately intituted a process against these 4ournals for Defamation. He complaias that 41 r- Geuffry, thelPrinter of a Journal, fur hav ing inSerted two Orders of the 24 and 4th Sep tember, 1792, signed Penis and Sergent Admini strators, and Mehee, Secretary. They related 1 9 the dreadful massacres in the prisons at that Period. After a very full hearing the Court de cided in favour of the defendant, and condemned M. Meche e de la Touche to pay all the costs of .the proceedings: • • The-East .ludia Fleet, consisting of the Ships David Scott, Charles Grant, Inglis; Essex, - Van sittaq, and Marquis 'Camden, under the consmand tlf Capt. tooKE, of the David Scott, sailed from' the Downs on Saturday, and has since had - a - most favourabje strong wind from the Eastward, which bas by this time carried them clear of the Channel. The case of Baron D'ImBERT . was finally deci l e;ed this morning. The Baron was brought before Mr. Justice DAMPIER, upon a Writ of Habeas Copes, which, after due consideration, the Judge, disallowed, and the Baron will therefore be sent out of the country immediately. In our last.page wilt be found a copy of the new Roman Catholick Petition brought forth at Lord FINGAL'S, and proposed to be presented this Session to Parliament. It is more moderate than heretofore. -Prince RAsANl6usxv's Palace has been burnt down at Viciina.. • - We are sorry to learn by a letter from Rotten, dated the sth inst. that the - .English visitors at that place have not only been treated with great in , dignity,. but with - such violence as absolutely to threaten the most fatafcrinsequenees. A striking instance of this hostility towards. our cOuntrynien took - place on Christmas Eve, when a solemn Mass was performed at 12 o'clock at'night in the Cathedral, where after the service some English Gentlemen who had been present were pursued by about 30 persons on their return home, and assailed With such fury, as even to threaten the lives of the. former. In one of,these attacks a bat was left in the scuffle, and traced to the delinquent. Appli cation was' in consequence made to the Police, but 'with little Pvespeet of SHCCCSS, and Englishmen are now Them obliged t o h ave a military-guard to escort to their lodging s, Saturday, Mr.JonNsott and Mr. YOURES, king's Messengers, arrived at the Foreign Office, in Downing -street, .1% ithrdisPatches Ifrom Lord•CAs-, TLEREAGR, at Vienna, and the Duke of VVELLING ToN, at Paris. On Saturday a Mail .was received from Halifax, brought by the Merop e sloop of war, Which arriv ed at P qrtstnauth on Fri day, in 28 days frGna She brought dispatches from Admiral GRly- PITH, which relate to several ca descri ptures of a trifling ption. The Officers of his Majesty's late ,ship Fantome came home in her. Letters (says a Morning Paper) have been re ceived in town of the Isutilt. from Philadelphia ; and the 4th from New York. Those from the latter mention, that Congress had finally ridecnd the proposition for the re,-vstablishinent of a Na tional Bank. Affairs wore a most gloomy ap pearance in America previous to the arrival uf the Chauncey, with dispatches . from the Commissioner; at Ghent. These had, however, no soo ne r reached the seat of Government, than the tre n d s o f th e Presid en t ;zea l ous l y encouraged the most conflticmv. expectations of peace. The immediate colisequeir,.e ' 4 :as, that bills upon this country, which- a d ais before were at 10 per cent, discoUth, r t-, 10 per cent. pternium. MISCELLANEOUS'. WINDSOR, 4t , :. 13.-011 Friday the Princess 'CHARLOTTE Of PiALES visitecl the QUEEN alitl PRINCESSES at the Castle.' Her Royal flightless repeated her visit yesterday at the Castle, and re turned to Cranbourne Lodge.—To-morrow morn ing, provided the weather will permit, the Royal. Stag-hounds will meet on Kingsbeech-hill,.and on Friday on ilacot 7 heath. The hunt will com mence each day at half-past ten o'clock, when a fine Deer will be turned out for the day's di version. BRIGHTON, JAN. 13.—The.retscE REGENT has not appeared bey` owl the enclosed grounds of the Pavilion, either yesterday or to-day. The Duke of CLARENCE has taken his pedestrian' ex'ercises -as usual. Lieutenant-Colonel KERRISON, of the 7th Hussars, stationed here, and Coloszel QT- WAY, have had . the honour of Knighthood con ferred on them by the PRINCE REGENT. THE DUKE 01' WELLINGTON.—As several erro peons representation asppeared in the public prints. ef last week, respecting the purchase of an Estate for this illustrious Character, we think it neces sary to state the real fact upon certain informa tion. Sir GEORGE BOWYER'S Estate has not been purchased for his Grace, nor has any positive measure been resolved as to what Estate will be purchased for the purpose of affording a national tribute of esteem, admiration, and rratitude, to one of the most distinguished heroes that has ever reflected on this or any other .country. _INTERESTING CASE.--A case of peculiar interest will very shortly be brought before, the LORD CHANCELLOR. It is a petition on a statute of lunacy, preferred by the brother of a Noble Peer, who is presumptive heir to .the title, against the Noble Lord: J9HANNA SOUTHCOTT S ILL:—The Will of Johanna was to have been proved in the Preroga-• tive Court on Friday last ; but her brother, who resides in Devonshire, having entered a caveat against it, anti administered to her property, it could not be done. This will bring on a litiga tion between him and the present executors. • The brother's objection rests upon the unsoundness of his sister's mind, and her consequent inability to dispose of her property. -It is even supposed 'that the presents which have been sent for the promised child, cannot be returned according to law, until it- is legally ascertained who is the rightful owner ; as immediately upon her death they became the' property either of the brother or the executors. A Letter from Ghent of the Gth says, " our na tional army is to receive a considerable augmen tation ; ten new battalions of infantry are now forming for that purpose. The Hereditary Prince, who had followed his August Father to the Hague, returned to Brussels yesterday.". The British Government, at the instance 'of Baron REHAUSEN, the Swedish Ambassador, has directed the re-establishment, of packets to Sweden. It said that one half of the expellee will be defrayed by the Swedish Government.. The Ex -King of Sweden,• in a letter, accom panied by a Menzoire, which he has addressed from Baae . to the French Institute, announces his intention of immediately repairing - to Paris. The Lusanne Gazette intimates, ,that this Prima proposes to fix his resideace France. • • , A plan has been aLiopteti at Paris for forming oil the coast of Africa a tree colonial establishment like that of Sierra Leone. A Commission has been established at Paris for liquid•iting the Royal Debts contracted in foreign countries. The Paris Papers of the 10th state, that there are dciw three vacancies in the Institut, viz. those of Messrs. NAPOLEON, JOSEPH, and Liu CIEN &JONA PARTE. TwO brothers of considerable business in the drug-line are now under prosecution by the City of London, for violating their oaths, and acting contrary to their bond. The trial is expected to come on oriß term, The failure of Messrs. MARSH, DEANE, WEST IRROOK,, and DEANE, has caused the greatest dis tress, at Reading, Henley, and Wallingford; at each 'of which towns they had banks. The rich and poor of the surrounding country are almost all sufferers : Mattsa and Co.'s was the only bank at Reading that issued 11. notes, consequently al- Most every poor person who was a pound before hand in the world became the unfortunate holder of their paper. The denouement of this tragedy was precipitated, it is understood, by Govern thent calling on Mr. DEANE, one of the Receivers- General of Taxes for the county of Kent, for ar rears to the amount of 30,0001. For a day or two after the stoppage, great confidence of a good OM dead was entertained, and a Gentleman in Reading bought up notes to - the amount of 10001. at 101. for the pound ; but this delusion has vanished, and the notes ate now considered as ljttle better than waste paper. . Last" week, at the Quarter Sessions for the county of Southampton, Lady HOLLAND, of Cran bury-house, Winchester, appeared irt Court, and exhibited articles of the peace against Chamberl-ayne, Esq. of Weston, in consequence of certain threats used by.hint towards her Lady-' Ship ; :and_ the Court ordered hint to enter into recognizance, himself in 10001. and two sureties in 5001. each, to keep the peace. At the Quartet:, Sessions for the town. and "coun ty of Southampton, on Thursday, the lion. Mrs. BROWN, for an assault on Miss ALtasota, after four hours examination, was found Guilty, and fined twenty shillings. On Thursday, a grand dinner was given by the . Royal Marines Mess, at their barracks, Ports ato-tith, to Rear-Admiral Sir G. BunuroN,K.C.B. - Mr. KING, his e s ecretarv, and Captain and Lieu tenant FITZCLARENCE, previous to their depar ture-from this country for the East ladies ; many other Officers and distinguished characters bo noared the festive board with their presence. About three weeks ago - a bricklayer sold a wo man, at the New-Cross, Kent-road, with whom la' bud cohabited for some length of time, to a i-,:aineyinan baker, for a 21. Bank of England liz)te imd six gallons of, beer.‘ The baker, after Lis plicila . ;3 . c, took her to his lodgings at Green .ll-11c.reshor-tly after she had the good. for r,..cc.ive I , ..tcy of 7001. left her by her de.. c ased h!'other, V:1 ; 6 resided in Blackman -street, on -iSl:iusday last the parties were NAVAL NE 517,9.. Dr. AT., 15.—Sailed yesterday the Est India fleet, consisting of the bllowing•ships : Inglis, Essex, David Scott, Charles Grant, Van sittart, and Marquis Camden,to Portsmouth.— Caine down from the giver, and 'sailed to-day, the Lougee Family for Bombay, and the Chap 7 man for Sierra Leone, for Portsmoutb -4 Alio sailed for , Portsmouth the Phcenix frigate.— Wind N. E. • FALMOUTH, JAN. 13.--Arrived yesterday his Majesty's ship Thais, from a crnize ; Princess Elizabeth packet, with a mail from Lisbon, in II days. Also arrived the NaviO Linlio, from Ame 7 lia island. Sailed this day his Majesty's ship Thais on a cruize ; his Majesty's ship .Sheldrake on ditto ;' Chiches:er packet, with email for Gi braltar and Malta ; Lady Wellington packet, with a mail for Halifax ; Walsingham packet, with a mail for Jamaica ; and the Sandwich packet,with a mail for the Brazils.—Wind W. to N. W. MARGATE, JAN. 15.—Arrived, at two o'clock this afternoon, the Britannia packet, from Ostend, which place she only-left at five this morning. PLYMOUTH, JAN. 14.—Arrived the Emperor Alexander, HART, from Sunderland. Sailed his Majesty's ships Achates and Rolla, with a fleet under convoy,. for Bourdeaux. Arrived his Ma jesty's ship Sheldrake from Falmouth.—Wind W. HARWICH, JAN. 15.—Arrived the Henry Free ling packet, with a mail from Holland ; and the Generous Friends, MITCHELL, with a general cargo, froni Leith for Leghorn, in a leaky state. Rear-Admiral Sir GEORGE BURLTON, K. B. hoisted his flag on Tuesday on board the Corn wallis, 74, Capt. KATI:EY, at Spithead, under the usual salutes. The Cornwallis and Amphion will take under Protection any ships that may be at the port bound to the Brazils, the Cape, and the East Indies; but we do not understand that the six China ships, which are - under orders to proceed on their voyage to the Down, will sail in corn pany.--The Amphion goes to - the Brazil station. Captain GEORGE FITZCLARENCE, and Lieutrenant HENRY FrrzCLAnENCE, who arc going out to join the respective Staff's, Of ;Loa Minn, and Sir T. 'bump, at Calcutta and Madras, , are arrived at Portsmouth, to p re p are f or t h e voyage. A. Court Martial was held at Portsnmouth, on Wednesday and Thursday,.for the tri4l of Captain ANDERSON, of the Zealous, for returning from the coast of America, without previously executing the services pointed out in his orders. The Court fully acquitted hint, it appearing that the great severity of the wearier prevented the orders from being carried into effect. On Saturday a remarkable policy was under -Written at Lloyd's, •on a ship with German linens, -destined from flamburgh to the United States : the assurers refused to subscribe it, unless a clause was introduced, that - the vessel shoull s..il with license to penetrate the blockade, and the clause was accordingly inserted. All licenses of the kind, in the present day, have been positively refused. The value of the cargo is 50,0001. S COTLA ND: 4.0 n the sth ult. Mr. James Part, of the Fleece, Astley Chapel, sent as a present, by the carrier, to his , friend in. Warrington, a dog and a cat (tied up in a bag) who have been cpmpanions more than ten months. On the Morning of th e 9 t h De cember, the dog and kis cat took their departure from Warrington together, and arrived in the evening at their old habitation (Mr. PART'S) a distance of 13 miles.. They were observed jogging through Culehetlt, side by side. At Green Lane End, the dog gallantly defended kisiellow=traveller from the - attack of another dog - they met in the Entry on Monday morning last an attempt was made,by,two men to break into the cottage at Willowbauk, near Glasgow. rortunately the noise awakened the Gentlethan of the house.— One of the assailants having forced the lock, got one of his legs inside the door. The Gentlemen immediately closed it on his foot, and he was forced to dr.tw it out, dreadfully mangled, and with ,Out the shoe. His associate, in the meantime, tried to get in at a window, but was also scared. In going otr they said they wanted nothing but to be first-foot to the servant-maid. The wounded man was traced by the blood which dropped from his wounded _foot, and has, along with. his corn 'panion; been taken into custody. The shoe is preserved as evidence against him.. They are said to be young men good characters, but had become intoxicated in celebrating the season. . On Thursday morning last, about nine o'clock, as a boy incautiously went with a lighted candle into the magazine of a brig belonging to Blyth, then lying at Berwick-quay, half a barrel of gun powder unfortunately bleW up with a dreadfutex plosion, by which the boy was killed, and some others much hurt. The inside of the vessel was very much shattered. A . gentleman in Scotland having missed a par cel, containing 2001. sent from a . remote quarter of the country to Edinburgh, wrote to his factor to inquire the reason of it, and having been inform ed that it had been forwarded by the mail from Inverness to Edinburgh, summoned the principal in the coach-otrice.before the Magistrate. It was discovered by the way-bills that a'parcel- had ac tually arrived on the very day expected. A war rant was then issued for apprehending the por ter, who is named DsummoNo, who denied all knowledge of . the parcel, but, at length, by the 'adroitness of Sedcaut Major 'Nous, was in duced to confess that he had secreted it, and that the whole, excepting about 301. would be found in a place Which ,he described in his mother's house, lie is committed for trial. Mr. BYtiG has given notice, that at the next MiddleseN Sessions he will move for the appoint ment of a County Treasurer, in the root* of Mr. Mazu-wArtiNG. THE ITALIAN OPERA. On Saturday the performances -a- Theatre in the Haymarket were rerk: , .'' diversity of opinion has existed, d Writers have espoused the opposite ide; questlon„ whether an establishment 0 ought; or ought not, to be tolerated vocates for toleration have enlarged fined nature and elegance of the amuseithAfts duced, 'as well as the'encouragement given delightful science of _Music. Their opp.o:::1t.. have, on the other hand, dwelt, not _only upon the political, but upon the moral danger which undoubtedly flows from the overwhelming influx of foreign- principles and vices, of which sw.h a seminary must be reckoned the hot-hed : they have forcibly described the pernicious tendency of these vices, patronized by the higher - orders, and spreading their contagion through those, whose example so prevails, to the humblest classes, and from the metropolis to-the remotest provinces of the - Empire. There is truth in the arguments of both ; and, without leaning to the side ot' fana tical rigidity, we must express our conviction, that twless such a concern is conducted with the utmost circumspection, -Cho evils to be dread ed from it• a million -of times outweigh the pleasures to which it can give birth. The former are national,-of important consequences, and whether politically, philosophically, -or reli giously considered, of suthpient ,magnitude to awaken a lively interest in every thinking mind. The latter are merely superficial, partial, and ot no value to cause a- single reflection beyond the insignificant question of an evening's fashionable entertainment. . This is the state of the case, even when such a Theatre as the Opera is most properly managed, i. e. "!ben the Foreigners employed are of as de, cent character as can be produced *in a profession not over-burthened with virtuous members ; when these parties are so intermingled with native -per formers as to be at least as likely to be restrained .from•the indulgence of their worst propensities as to infect the entire mass ; and when a rivalry of prejudices serves as a check tipon total and un bridled depravity. lint constitnted as the existing Company of the Opera House is, there - is no admixture of this kind to correct the general corruption. French li centiousness is kept in countenance by the (per -haps more) atrocious obscenity of Italian man ners—there is no British presence, the, shame of being utterly guilty before which might at least cause a covering to be thrown over the deformi ties of undefecated profligacy. It is therefore that we enter our protest against the Opera on its present plan—that we raise-our voice. to say,that it is, in all points of view, Offen, s'ilT to• every patriotic feeling. We cannot help considering it to be 4 den of spies, politically in jurious, and of characters morally • dangerous to our Country... Far, however, be it from us to condemn individuallyit is the ge neral conformation that provokes .our censures. France, from her abundance,- may have spared us chaste Dancers, and Italy most virtuous singers ; there may be respectable persons even among this Corps of Suspicious fame. Such persons, when we become acquainted with their rare merits, shall have our wartnest,support ; but in the mean time`we cannot approve .of the entire exclusion of native taleut to make way even for them, nor can we approve of the i\lanagers boast that his Per formers are " all Foreign." With rept d to the Performances of Saturday, they confirm the. opinion of the new people which we expressed on Wednesday—Madame SESSI favoured us with a few high notes; in addition to those she attempted on her first .night, and certainly af forded us grounds to' expect ftirtflei progress in the - dor - elopement of her powers. She is nehaste and scientific singer ; and if we cannot forget that MARA,- BANTI, BILLINGTON, and CATALAN' pre ceded her, it is still satisfactory to have a prisiea donna so respectable in the art. GENI did not im prove upon us, He seems too much given to retard Time, arid we often thought he would come to a stop altogether, which perhaps would have been the case, had the excellent Pianoforte not goaded him on. But for this, .his' melody and the ac= companituent would have been at opposite poles. The Ballet was the same as before ; a beggarly 'account of empty Boxes; and the Pit so thin, that the audience bad room to avoid the' rain of wax, which, however, decked • some of their shoulders till they resembled ermine-tippets. THE THEATRE.—Ai Mr. KEAN wes too much indisposed on. Saturday to resume . the part of Romeo, at Drury-lane Theatre, it . was- assigned to Mr. RAE, WO' exerted every nerve in the cause, and displayed more ability in the performance than we ever observed in any of his former, efforts.— The audience were obviously of the same opinion, for he received not only warm, but enthusiastic applause in many passages, and particularly in the scene in which Friar Lawrence informed him .of " the Prince's (loon].'' Mr. RAE has certainly, and deservedly, increased his reputation by his performance on this 'occasion. Mr. CARE; on. account of the illness of Mr. R. PHILLIPS, per formed the part of the Friar, and in a respectable manner.—As we really wish well to Mr. KEAN, and are, in effect, more his friends than the mass of his more enthusiastic admirers, we take some credit to ourselves in finding' that our opinion of his Romeo has• been fully justified by that of the public. We are also disposed to give much credit to Mr. KEAN for having (as we hear), 'relinquish ed this character,. which did not afford due scope for his peculiar talents, and which was not con genial with his powers. By returning to the other parts in which he has been so successful, and by his expected performance of Richard the .Second there can be no doubt that his popularity will be. revived, and efface frona the public mind .the miscarriage of his Romeo. . . The celebrated French tragedian; TALMA, is daily expected in town. Madame • QsoaoEs, the selected mistress of BLIONAPARTE., is also reported to he on the wing' to read .French tragedies in London. DAVID, too, the 'celebrated painter, intends us a visit MAcaaanv, from Bath, is ,engaged at Co vent-garden, and will shortly make his first ap. pear4 4 ce in