The Sun. — London, England, 1803-04-16 00:00:00

I r IV 41 7 4 L NEW S. not VW Attrt 14; ies, It But PORTSMOUTH, APRIL IS. all, in.. the ibt Ist sth cr. ro Altatvtts the Dutch Sloop of War Eibo, of 16 suns, Cape: VAN Knott:l, from Batavia,- bound to tie Texel. Suited from Batavia the 16th Oaober last, and from the Cape the tst February, at which time it remained in pobsession of the British Troops. General DurfoAs was at the C.ipe, but his Lady had sailed for St. Helena. The Echo left at the Cape His Majesty's Ships Le:vaster, of 64 guns, Capt. T. Latitcom ; dolian, 54 guns, Capt. J. La GRos; lit/Jiff'', SO guns, Capt. J. LOsAeR ; Penguin, of 11' guns, Capt. J. IVPFAltt,ntiti, and another Sloop of War. Arrived the Dreadnought, of 98 guns, from Portsmouth ; and the Cultivator, Capt. Plitor, from Malaga. %MED His Majesty's Frigate Amelia to the Westward. Lord WILLIAM Iltwrirtcx it expeaed to ar. live this evening, with his Lady, and to embark in the Earl llerwe, for India. TORBAY, Aran, 13. just this instant (3 Jr. m.) arrived here from Cawsand-Bay, His Majesty's shiP, Neptune, Capt. ))tufty, (Admiral CAUPB/LL).', It is confi dently asserted, that several more are • hourly cupeCied, and that 14. sail of the line will imme dta,ely be made up hete : every thing at present news to bear the appearance of a war again. The The 144olationaire, at Plymouth, is re-commis. sioned by Capt. LOCK The Chiione, Captain STUART, was to be paid off to.day at. Woolwich, and tickets to prevent the Crew from being hnpres,ed will be Inue(' for fourteen days, to enable them to ace their friends. Capt. BEAUCHAMP, son of Sir TuotaAs BEAU. CHAMP PROCTOR, Bart. is appointed to the Com. mind Of the Zebra. While the six East Indiamen were lying to off tht. Eddrsteme, for the easterly wind on Monday Lott, the Cruixere boats in the. Channel, manned and arms d, boarded, them 'all, and made a fair sweep of nearly 300 prime Seamen for the service °f the Fleets ; the Crews of the Indiamen, till boarded, had not the most distant idea of any mis understanding with France. If the Indiamen should Want Seamen to navigate them to the Rive r "Thames, the men of the ships in ordinary in the Tatnar and HAIDUate, will, as usual, be drafted for that purposc. The s hips now in Dock at Plymouth under re. pair are as follow ;—l n the double Dock, the War. riot and Terrible, of 74 guns each ; in the south Dock, the. Firgard, of +8 guns ; and in the middle single Dock, the Ippetueux, of 84. guns. They are all to have a thorough repair. The whole duke repairing Docks are quite full in that Dock-yard. L'Aigh Frigate was a fortnight at Weymouth, whither she was sent • for the purpose of receiving Volunteers and impressing Seamen, without getting a single man either way. Upon the unfortunate' and melancholy catastrophe which wok place in consequence of an attempt to press, we forbear to comment, as it may probably he the subjea of le. gal investigation. The second Lieutenant and a Midshipman, who were dispatched by the Captain, to bring the account to the Admiralty, were ar rested and committed to Dorchester Gaol. The Captain and Officer of Marines who commanded the Party, both. returned.on board L'Aigle, which ship is , now at Spithead. • Mr. Astavrr was again examined o n Th urs d ay last, respetting the late discovery at the Bank. Nothin g further transpired than what has already been stated to the public. The reason why •wir. Aslett is not fully committed is, that he is wanted occasionally to anwer necessary questions :with regard to the deficit. Mr. Aslett had four different Bankers, one of whom paid a cheque of his for 30,0001. on the very morning of the discovery. He had some concern in a lead mine, but the speculation was not beyond what his income might warrant. It has been stated that the unfor. tunate defaulter now appears to be dtraNpd in his mind ; this is 'certainly not the case. The emolu. meats of Mr. Aslett's situation have been consi. 'derably exaggerated when estimated A 50001. per ann. The holders of several Exchequer Bills parted with by Mr. Aslett, we have good audio. rity to believe, have been paid by the Direitors of the Bank of England ; at the same titne , they make, a distillition, and pay such persons only as are con. aidered innocent holders : not those who advanced money upon' them at first hand. MAlVSlow.Houst.—Yesterday four respedable Master -tradesmen of the City applied to the Lomb NlAvoit to assist them in recovering their Apprentices . from on b oar d /Us Majesty's Frig ate t h e Constiat at Deptford,' on b oar d w hi c h t h ey were carried, after being impressed o n E aster -M on d ay at G reenw i c h . ;1;1 1 Lordship immediately ordered Mr. MIA" the Water Bailiff's Assistant, ro take the indentures, and demand the Apprentices from Laptain MAx wilLtt the Commanding Orlicer ; when they were inmediatc lY given up. The Masters returned his Lordship thank s for the recovery of their Appren. tiers. His Lordship said he was•happy in support ing the Privileges of the City, .and cOmmentled the the Master s for their application to him. A shucking accident happened yesterday evening Icil h,-,ut seven tecluck - in S t . Ail a r t i n ' s .l ane .—A gen. y dressed woman, about forty years of age, tell • 4 " ir) a st' olposite Mr. Ainittuo d tracto r Ct. her skull in so rJ‘ t 's Stables, an d if 1 a iianner, that 'per lite is in imminent danger. A surgeon was sent `° l ') who advised her being immediately taken to 4 , 1 1 hospital, which was humanely done in one of Mr. Az.zateic..l's carriages, rarendedi4-tro D. tevirt• Dr2TCII ALVt, MECHLIN. Apkm Tits day before yesterday - arrived in this City a detachment of Artillery, which yesterday morn ing proceeded on -its march for butch Brabant. .Yesterday likewise, two Battalions of the loth DetnUtigade passed through, taking ~the same route, it appears that all the French Troops on this destination will be provisionally stationed in garrison or cantonment in Breda, Bergen. op-Zoom, Boisde. Duc, Gertraydenberg, and in the environs of those frontier places, and that they will not march into the interior of the Batavian Republic, except in. the case of an aaual War with England. Mr. MONROW, the Atnerican Envoy Extraordi. nary, is arrived at Havre, and was expened at Paris on the i ith. The Duke of DORSET on his arrival in Paris, caught cold, which has in several Papers been term. ed an inflammatory disorder. According to private intelligence from Paris, the differences between the United States and Spain, on the subject of New Orleans, are on the point of being adjusted. It is stated, that the FIRST CON. sat, has lately explained to Mr. LIVINGSTONE, the Ametican Minister at Paris, that the interruption of the navigation of the Missisippi, had been the result of mistake; and that measures should be adopted with the Cabinet of Madrid to remove all subjed of complaint upon that head. Should this intelligence prove correct, it will not be necessary for Mr. MoNitoe, the American Envoy Extraur. Binary, who has just arrived at..Havre, to remain long in France. • He will be enabled to succeed Mr. KING here much sooner than could have been expetted. At a Meeting of Congress at Washington, in November last, some difficulty was found in pro. viding for the remittance of the American State debts that were payable in Amsterdam before Fe. bruary and July 1803. The Manhattara bank of New York offered to undertake it at 43 cents, per guilder. The agent of the bankers VAN MIMI, VAN YANT, and Co. of Amsterdam, offered to do it at 424 cents. per guilder ; hut the agent of Messrs. BARING and Co. ...onLon, offered to do it at 4 per cent. - provided the United States would give him in payment 2200 shares, which they held of the stuck .of the bank of the U n i te d S tates at Phil a d e l p hi a , and which cost Congress 400 dollars each share—he agreed to allow them 575 dollars for every share. The bargain was accordingly struck, and BARING's house will clear 40,000 i. sterling by the bargain. Yesterday • afternoon, at five o'clock, as Mr. SPENCER TowNaaN D a - Gentlema n w h o holds a high situation in the Navy-Office, Samerset.House, was returning. from the Office to his house in Cleve land-court, St. James's, he was stopped within a few yards of his own dour, by a Gentleman of the name of GRANT, lately, we understand, a merchant in Lawrence Pountney-lane, with a pistol in each hand, who approached, and thus addressed him : You, sl—d v--n, you are the cause of destroying the happiness of my mind ; take one of these pistols, aid you shall shout me, or I shall shoot you." Mr. TOWNSEND, perceiving Mr. GRANT assuming an attitude which indicated a resolution to carry his desperate purpose into immediate execution, made an attempt to rush suddenly by and gain his own door ; when GRANT, who stood in his way, turning round as it were with intent to follow him, discharged one of the pistols at him. The pistol was loaded with swan shot, but the parties were so close at the time of the fire, the charge i.ro. bab}y passed him like a single ball, and Mr . Tow w . SEND fortunately escaped.unhurt by it ; Mr. Tow N. SEN D, however, was not thus freed from danger, for the sudden spring to gain his' own door, his foot' slipped, and he fell upon the pavement, and GRANT, seizing the opportunity, followed up his diabolical intent, by discharging the contents of the second pistol at him, while he lay prostrate upon the ground. The contents of the pistol passed through Mr. Tow tabstriu's coat, and slightly wounded one of his knees, and the wadding lodged in the skirt of his coat, and set fire to it. Mr. TOWNSIND, however, made 2 sudden exertion, and recovered his feet. Mr. GRANT was secured, and immediately con. veyed to Bow.street, where he underwent a long examination before Mr. Born and Sir WILL tAta PARSONS ; after which he was committed for further examination. Mr. GRANT, We understand, ap. pears to be insane, and the cause of his melancholy slate , as well as of the crime which he attempt. ed, is supposed to be this : Some time ago he paid his addresses to a daughter of the late Lord DUDLTV and WARD, who was bequeath. ed by the will of her Father a sum of 40001. Mr. Tow Ns END was one of the Trustees in the will, it) whom the above sum was vested for the use of the youhir, Lady, in ease she should marry with the consent of her friends. • This consent Mr. GRANT was unable to obtain ; and Mr. Tow Nsz No, as a faithful trustee, adhered to the Will. This dis. appointment is supposed to have preyed upon the mind of. Mr. GRANT, and to have produced that alienation of understanding, under the influence of which he made die above desperate attack. The celebrated Mademoiselle CLAI RON even in her last. moments preserved a grateful sense of the testimonies of public favour which she had received. The following clause appears in her Will : " It is to the indulgence of my country alone I owe the degree of reputation which I. have enjoyed, and I call upon it now to accept with condescension the gift of my Bust in marble, by the elegant and accomplished chisel of LEMOI N E, and the Gold Medal which some respc&able patrons and friends had direded to- be struck for me. The Minister who presides over the Arts, in setting some' value on my attainments, may make - them a source Of emulation for others." Thursday night a fire broke out in East Smith. field. The glasshouse of Mr. Sm frit was entirely destroyed, together with several pf the adjoining iNzusts. ROYAL ACADEM fI sc,).vaßskr_nACL. Aprd 15, 1803. Tits Council of the Royal Academy feel them. • selves compelled to notice a paragraph in The Mosn. ing Post of yesterday, of an unwarrantable kind, levelled at the President, and the Royal Academy at l arge ; t h e circumstance s which occasioned the paragraph are as follow : Mr. WEST sent, for the Exhibition, an Histori. 'Cal PiCture, representing Hagar and Ishmael in the Wilderness. On the first view of the Pkiure a Member of the Council expressed his opinion of its having been previously exhibited, although the words &' B. WEST, 1803," were on the face there. of. The next morning, the same Member having examined former Catalogues, found that a pidure of the same subject had been exhibited in 1776. This circumstance led to furiher investigation, and the words " B. West, 1776," were observed in ano. tiler part of the pidure, BUT WITHOUT ANY OBLI. TERATION WHATEVER —the Secretary was di. reeled to communicate these circumstances imme diately to Mr. West in writing, which in the hurry of preparing for the exhibition, he omitted to do ;: and it is to be observed that the first intimation Mr. West had of the paragraph in question, was through the medium ofan evening paper (the Courier) sent to him at the Royal Academy yesterday evening, be. ing the first time.his health had permitted him to attend since the pittures were sent for the exhibit ion, The Newspapers referred to stare, " The Mem bers of the Connell, indignant at the deception, re garded each other . ar some time 'with silent astcnish meta." TH Is CIRCUMSTANCE THE CouNcti. SITIVELY DENY. The illness of the President naturally suggested itself to the Council as the cause of the mistake, a mistake which deprives the Exhi. bition of the Pitture, as the usual praftice of the Academy expressly forbids the. second exhibition of any Picture whatever. It necessary to observe, that Mr. WEST states, that he is in the habit of altering and repainting his PiClures, adding the dare of the year in which the alterations are made : Upon this principle the Picture of Ungar and Ishmael has been altered, and in a great degree repainted, and the name and year 1803 added. J. S. Cont v, Deputy Chairman. JOHN SOANE, F. BOURGEOIS, J. M. W. TURNER, CHARLES Rossi, OZIAS HUMPHRY. THlt THEAIRE.—The translated Play of D e af awl Dumb was represented last- night at Drury_ Lane Theatre before a numerous audience. Miss Dt CANti, who has been several ns , nths abroad for the recovery of her health, appeared, for the. first dine this season, in her character of Julio. --\\'e always thought her representation of this part much too pantomimic in gesture, and we did not see any improvement in simplicity of expression.—She does not seem to have entirely recovered her health, judging from her delivery of the Epilogue, which was languid and hardly audible. The audience re ceived her with very flattering :narks of applause. originally perf o rm e d by n The ß c A li t t ß ra i tl , m e o r R o! e I.l'vraasn-Ltt last i ight 'undertaken by , BARCLAY, whose manner, was marked rather by plain sense "than forcible expression. WROUGHTON, as usual, exhibited the anxieties of pride, fear, and conscious guilt in Darlemont, with great skill, and rendered it o ne of the very best achievements of the modern Stage. The departure of KIMBLE from Drury, Lane Theatre will be a severe blow to that property, unless the Managers exert themselves more than they have done for some time. iN(U. Stir tt t OAN must draw forth his dramatic powers. Mr. RICH ARDSON du the same—and they ought both of them to employ the summer vacation in hunting for genius in provincial Companies, where,we doubt not, it lurks in humble obscurity. It is said, that Mr. BstsitANt is engaged for the Opera, next Season, to sing with Mrs. LLINGTON. The original Performers in John Bull begin lobe indisposed ; We hope she disorder is not infe..9;our. The late Dr. THOMAS WARTON is mentioned i n a respalable morning print, " as a mere mortal, fashioned of the same homely clay with multitudes of his species."' This is surely a very harsh nide of describing an admirable Scholar and a Poet of no inferior order. Dr. WArt•roN's learning. and taste are .:onspicuous in all his works, and his " Triumphs of hie , alone evince a high degree of poetical ener. gy, as well as the genuine, ardour of a British Pa triot. The name of WARTON will live as long as the English language, and, therefore, such a man ought not to be mentioned as " a mere mortal, fashioned of the same homely clay with multitudes of his spe cies." if such a reflation on the poetical character of honest Toia WARTON, had been Written by any but an anonymous Critic, we doubt not that all the Wits of Oxfind would eagerly kindle up in vindica tion of his memory. SCHILLIR, the SHAKESPEARE of the Germans, has just produced a new Tragedy, in five ads, called " 7'he Bride of Messina ;" which is said to be a most capital produttion. It has been per formed at Berlin with universal applause ; and 32. carriages, full of young Students, purposely came from the University of Jena to see it aced. The FIRST CONSUL, it is taid in Letters from Paris, attends High Mass regularly every Sunday, and that on the last two days at Passion Week, all those who were domesticated in the Palace of the Mud/crier, were compelled to keep a most rigor ous fasts The French Ambassador at Constantinople, and the GRAND SIGNIOR seem, in their late interview, to have been perfenly well matched in the competi. tion of high-s4,unding langt.age and unmeaning. cont. 'Violent. • On Wednesday last Abraham Pike, a journeyman currier, was brought before Sir Wm. LEIGHTON, the Sitting Alderman at Guildhall, charged by his ctn. ployers, .Messrs, Wyatt and Co. of Coleman.street, with deserting their employ, and leaving his work in an unfinished state; when the fad being fully established, be was committed to BrideweU for six weeks. ',l)tA i. YESi•ERDAT Sit RlC}!Akti nab attentitd BLAKE'S Hotel, jermyn-streer, order the .thic depositions of the different witnesses respeNitl the Duel, miaht be read and sworn to in the preseno of Captain MActime.A.x.k, which being done, thg parties were bound over to give, evidence on the trial. After the usual forms had . been gone through, ' a Comtnitment to Newgate for the Murder vs , made out for Capt. MActiAtiAtt A, Mr. E:Litif , i and three other eminent Surgeonq, who attended the Captain, were examined and . they declared, on oath, that he could not at present be remped with safety, on account' of an inflamination taking place in the wound, occasioned toy a part of the clothes. IlaviOg heen . forced into it by the ball, which had produced a considerable degree of fever, My. ERSKINE and Mr. KNOW LYN were present, on the part of Capt. MACNAMARA, but they did not think it necessary any application should Le made for his admittance to bail, in the present stage of the business, as'aie Sessions were bu neat at band. Yesterday afternoon, application was made .• Lord ELLFNOOKOUGH, 10 issue a Writ of Habeas Corpus, to bring Mr. Ht the surgeon s tram Newgate, in order to he bailed ; but Mr. Wool), the Counsel, who had attended on the part of Mr. fieAv SIDE, having been obliged rq go be fore his Lordship, after a tong consultation retutneA honk. The merits of the lubinesti were Consequently not entered into; it being necessary, Mr. Wooi) should be further consulted betiire another applica, Lion is made. SPORT! N 1 INTELLIGENCE. NEWMARKE'r CRAVEN MEETING, Arita. Itft Subscription Plate of oh tor 2- y f olds, carrying 7st. 3.yr. olds, Bst. 51b. and 4 yr. olds, Bst. 1110: Two-yr old Course. • Lord G rusvenor's Squire "Teazle, 4 yt: old • Mr. Sitwell's b. e. l'ipvlin, ►s old A . Mr. I.atibroke's b. 1. J itlia, 3 yrs old Mr. Delnie 1. by I"n:capitate, 2 yrs old Mr. Watson's gr. I - . by .Beningbrougii, 2, yrs oid Sir F. Standish's ch. c. brother to Eagle, 3 yr, old Duke of G ratfon's Pic ?Vic, yrs old Lord Clennont's ch. c. Piscator, 3 yrs old The f udge could pltice only the first two. Five to t asst Squire 'reazle-4, to t agst to 'a asst Julia—and 7 to 4 ago Piseatur. Sweepstakes of togs. each. Two-yr old Course, Mr. Wilson's Surpriae, Sst. talb. - . t Mr. Coventry's Jenny Spinner, 7st. bib, Lord Graves's Mittinius, Bst. lib. . 3 Mr. Creswell's Tulip Filly, 7st. tllb. - 4 Six to 4 asst Surprtze --and :o to t agst jenny Spinner. Mr. Sitwell's Pipylin, Bst. 31b. beat Mr. IVvinlhaiit's Cal topper, 7st. 71b. R. M. 5.)45.--Six to four on Pippin. Na C. Bunhury's Orlando, lizt t i lb. ice. It. flout the Duke of Crafton's Duckling, 7st. Slb. R. M. wogs. h. it. • I SITTING 3 appointed in Middlesex and London, I,c -fore the Right Hon. RtcuAaD PEr rick Lord ALVANI.EY, Lord Chief Justice of Ills Majesty'A Court of Common Pleas, at Westminster, in and atter Easter Term iBo3. IN TP.RM. I ONLON MID D L zsix. Friday, - April,2) Saturday, - April 3, Friday, - - May 6 , Slaw - day, - May 7 Friday, —•- Nay 13 I Saturday, Ittor 14 Wcdtitlay, - May it 1 Thitroday, May 119 Arrilt TFRNI Wednesday, - May 2; I 1 bursday, - May 26 .The Committee of the East India Diredors are postponed till Wednesday next. The Earl of DE*riY turned out a Stag yesterday morning at ten o'clock, to the left of Wallingham Common, six miles beyond Croydon. The stag set out at first-in a line towards the county of leaf, but afterwards turned to the right to /lactic Hill, and pursuing that diredion over the hills topic the road to Godstone. Thence he made for 33illiSte4A Park, over Sutton Common, leaving Ewell on'the left. He Oleo crossed the Epsoru Road, and ovet the fields to Kingston, Miele he took to soil on the Thames, between Kingston and Hampton Court, and after crossing the river twice, was laid in Lord FITZGERALD'S garden, He - remained there some time at lair, and upon being roused, took again to the Thames, and was taken by a boat near Kingston, after a run of four hours and a half., The scent lay remarkably well, and the dogs hunted with suit spirit, and so little interruption, that most of the horsemen were thrown our, there being but five in at the time the Stag was taken. The oldest Sports. man perhaps never witnessed finer sport, or a more severe run at this season of the year. On Thursday a quantity of household furniture, taken from the Mansion-House, in order to make room for other of more modern fashion, was sold by public auftion at the Guildhall, and the money de. posited in the Chamber of the City of London.— Several articles sold extremely well, and fetched high prices, persons having a strting desire trl possess the remxrants of civic grandeur, and the easy chairs of otiftebialred Magistracy. Yesterday se'nnight Mr. Whitmarsh took an inquest at Downton, on view of the body of Mr. James Randall, many years House-steward to Mrs. May, at Hale House, who had been transading some business at Downton, on the Wednesday pre. ceding, which detaining him late in the evening, he was tound dead the next morning on the road, by a labouter going to his work. He had received a wound in the head by a fall from his horse. Tfie Jury returned a verdid of " Accidental Death." Yesterday morning, about six o'clock, two men of the name of Herbert, a journeyman weaver, and John Oakley, having hid a dispute about the merits of Belcher and die Ruffian, agreed to fight for five guineas a side in a field near Homo's. Thecontest laateder,7 minutes, when Oakley was declared vie. tor. They were both taken off the field by their respedive friends in a helpless state. You t. c-OvF e, Woasll S . ra s itT.- 7 -Yester. day a woman, occopying a house in 134th,street, Cold-bath-fields, Underwent examinalion, charged with keeping small Lottery Wheels in her house, commonly called Little Goes, from which numbers Were drawn, in the form of the Stye Lottery, blanks and prizes, and upon the event of the day's thawing, insurances were made upon particular numbers. The Magistrates convided her in the penalty of roof. or in default of paying that tutu, to be cormitted to the House of Correttivn for six mulrJabs, i~ •;ir. 16,11