The Sun. — London, England, 1803-11-26 00:00:00

14 41 1 . TL NEWS. FALMOUIU, NOV. z3.-- ' Arrived this clay, the Auckland Packet, SCI3UVLER, with from .Lisbon, which she left on the igth inst. in company with 1-lis*Majesty's Brig Gannet, of 18 guns, which she parted . from the next day, the Gannet having returned,to Lishop, from 'Whence she "as expedell to sail in a day or two with Dispatches for. England. IBS MAjesty-ls Ship IC isgard, with a Fletior Eng. land, was to sail on the r6th inst. from Lisbon.— His Majesty's Ship Aurora, with a Fleet under Convoy from Newfoundi.md, arrived at Lisbon on , the 6th ult. By this Packet welearn Oat a dreadful deluge of rain took place on the Toth ult. at ,Madeira, by which the town of Funchal was nearly destroyed ; every thing was swept away in its course ; an , im. mense quantity of wine was carried into the sea, and from iOOO to 400 of the inhabitan t s ate missing. Also arrived the Portuguese Schooner Diligante, Capt. GomEz, frOm LOndon fin Cork; the Stt edish Brig Fidelitas, Capt. MICBRODT, from Lortdon, to load fish for the Mediterranean ; and the Ship .7.44,..TRELVDDRA, frOnl 'Penzance,. to wait Con., voy tar the M'editerranean. The Princess Augusta (temporary Packet) arrived' . here on Sunday last from Londop, and will sail next month with Mails for AmeriCa. - The Duke of Kent Packet will sail about the 27th inst. with Mails for 'the' -Leeward Islands. 'Sailed the Sisters., WELCH, for Portsmouth ; Lark, TAYLOR, for Chichester ; Diligence, WEBB, for Southampton; -and Nepitne (Dane) MULLER, for Ilamburgh. The. Ham , Returti Privateer, of Mevagissey, Captain GoDA, has taken and sent into St. Ives a large . Dutch East India , Ship froth Batavia, richly laden. • Passengeo per Auck/aNd--Mcss.Luc As, Wfi WARD, TRUICK ) HALL, and Sou u,. . PORTSMOUTH, Nov. 25. —Arrived the Portu. 'geese Schooner Bom7'emts, CUR I sto , from Lisbon for London ? with fruit, with loss of her anchors and cables,: • This day arrived At. the- Mntherbank the Ship Elliot, of London, bound, to the South Seas.' She sailed from ih . Motherbank an Sunday last, inet with a heavy . gale on Tuesday off the Start, and h Lipped a sea which carried 'away her bowsprit and teveral sails.• DEA L , Nov. 2 . s.—Came in the BarUirk G.M 13rig- from a Cruize off Boulogne; ,and Squirrel , and • Nilbrooke Schnonei from a Cruize off' Dunkirk. In the, Downs—Mowch. WreCIA, Raisonable, Champion, L'Antaranthe ; Vulture, Sloop ; Perseus, Zebri, and Fury &tubs ; Starling,Basilisk; , and COnii!et C ,UnArigs ; Milbrooke Schooner. 8118 EkNE53, Nov. 25..,--Arrived at:7the Note His Majesty's Sloop Avinir. .oatne into Harbour the Beaver Sloop, and Ter. .rar Boni') ; the mortars of the latter are to be taken out, anti she is to be stationed as a Bloch,. ship at the Mouth of the Thames. • Sailed this day the , Hope hired- Cutter, Lieut. CLEmENTs, with three. Merchantmen under convoy for Tonningen. Dr. BA I nu, of the Sick and Hurt Board, has been sent clown by,the Admiralty .to make some new ar rangements on board the Sussex Hospital Ship, sta tioned at this Port. ADMIRALTY 'UNDER LORD SPENCER AND LORD ST. VINCENT. . • • THE Tim er havi ng ma d e a pompous., Offeial As - , PAU of 2.B • Sloops of . War ordered to lie built by the present Bpard, • we promised we would lay before the Public a List of all the stnall'Vessels of differ. ent des'criptions sold or discharged out of the Set. vice, W e now petforro that Engagement, leaving tnour.lteatters to. tit:lke-their Own Conclustons; for every Individual is able :to judg e w h et h er i n t h e present War. w e have a greater necessity for small Craft than in the late. In the WU of the . Peace of Amity's, Invation %rat' threatened. —ln the present, we were told b y t h e CHIEF CONSUL, himself, that the attempt .shotild 'be made if Army after Army were sacrificed---.a n d at the end of eight months, the Admiralty begin to. build 28 Sloops of Wiir to replace the deficit underneath. , • . • • L ni List o f Sl oops of War, Ared,Ships, CMCfS, Schdoners, sow out. of the s e rv i ce , discharged,. orlost, Pluto Kangaroo Bravo' Busy • Raileur Campliaan Atalanta - udaLeti C COW al Small (;.irlanci Pyl - Otter Pedro L'Es'poir , Cygnet L'Arrogante Volty,eur Providence e _rrirnmer Incendia r y Selby "" . Rosario Livelyy ,IReq_ulen cour e La salarnule Vulture Wolf Snake Scout La Rai son Le Sardine Vrightly Thetis Voltigner. L' A wont= Regalia --.- kepublidain ilanly- V iaoire Albacore I.e Babet L' Ltspcigie tiobart • Dolphin . Daphne Cockittrfte Atiel &late • . Fulminanre L'Atheniene Aniboyna • Tota' of Sloops of War, 56. List of - Gun BOatg, Fjre Vemielt, Armed Hoye, A rtned Ba rges, & c. 'built and prtv rad. by Lord Sp . r tNCIta, or i Lie notat o I • 1 .- 'IG • ICA t Britain, Ire land. &e. an .the. late . intriglsa Invasion t• sold •and discharged by the present Board of Admiralty; viz. Safeguard Scorpion - Tickler . Speaker - Teaser ' Piercer 'terror . Pelter \ Pincher • Flurnpeti Pouncer Bouncer • Biter - Bruiser Blazer Sparkler Griper . , Cracker Clinker Wrangler Viper Flamer Swinger Sandtly Tiger - Torride ' Scourge Ready Manly Meteor • Urchin Vengeance Wasp Wolf Asp E'clipse . Furious Furnace' . Hasty - • Staunch • Haughty Steady Hardy Tigress Defender keine La Vesuve . Crash P Eclair Defiance Eagle Fury Force Firebrand Ferret Badger Leopard ' Hornet Attack , Shannon Camden General Lake _ Kingsmill Success POrtlanil .:. Pskenhain Satisfaction ' Friendship, Ist Friendship, zd Bishop Amity Love & Friendship La Legere Mary & Martha Nancy General Duff Grace . lames & Elizabeth Kent Fowey - Elizabeth Forrester Caroline. . Brothers , Agustus Ann and Teresa Tyrone William • William & Ann • 'Gallant. Total of Gun Boats,- Fire Vessels, Armed 'Flays, and Barges-96. ' • Hired Brigs, Cutters, Luggers, Schooners, and Tenders, amounted to—s t 6. Thus it will appear, that during turd SPENCE R'S Administration . ..febad of small craft, as aboe, z6z , Armed Vessels of War which no longer exist. We admit that some may have been lost. and unfit for service ; it was the duty then, of the present Bard to have replaced them. What have they done Hired a few bad Cutters and Luggers, and after eight months consideration, have eontraded for z 8 Sloops of War. In addition - to such numbers of small craft, Lord SPENCER equipped 'a Fleet for the Bal. tic, though the Country was then threatened with Invasion. • ' The Admiralty are obliged c) answer the ofleti, of service from Commanders,. in acquainting them that they have.no Sloops or Gun.boits to.give them.. Excepting Boulogne, the French Potts have very, few . Cruizets before them, and : our . Convoys want , • better protedion. The Nate, from the Ilwanna to Liverpool, a very rich Ship, is taken by -a French PriTateer. Notice of this Capture was put upon Lloyd's Books this forenoon, . Captain BLANCHARD, of the No:ander, froml Archangel, arrived at Hull, saw, on the tBth of October, the Atlas, of Plymouth,' and the b'a'by of London, on shore, about two or three leagues to the South of Cross ; one of • them was upset •in his sight. On the roll November jell in with the Telemachus, of London, Capt. H R with loss of mainmast, in lat. orth, long. 4. 30. East, who had two of her Crew dead, and two sick ; and had on board only one' bucket of water : Captain BLANCHARD supplied her with 36 gallons. A very valuable Dutch East-Indiaman, named the lirufle, homeward-bound from Batavia, is taken by the Happy I?etkrn Privateer of Guernsey, and sent into St..ives, in C.ornwall, She is , laden with sugar and coffee. It is now stated that Captain RICKETTS S and.not Captain intim, as before stated, is appointed the Treasurer of Greenwich Hospital,'-iii the room of Admiral PAYNE. Captain RICICITYS is Lord S. VINCILNT's nephew. Saturday, about 250 more French Prisoners ar. rived at: Bristol, for Stapleton prison, under an escort of a troop of the Wells Cavalry.—Five had escaped from Wells, but were taken live miles dis. tant, anti are now properly confined.—The Cavalry halted here on Saturday night, returned for Wells Sunday morning ; and arrived here again on Toes , day, •with abuut the same number of Prisontrs, des, tined for the same prison, from Plymouth. _ . ThurSday and yesterday sennight the Regi ments encamped on. Wooe:N:0.01M, struck their tents ; the ,first Somerset Regiment ' of Militia marched into . Exeter, where.the principal p.rt now remains. The second- Somerset took their route to Tomes, Newton,. and ,that neighbourhood ; and the • Artillery Company, with part of thF Montgomery Militia, marched to ExMouth. A subscription has,beeri set on fdt in Birmin . ham, which already asnountato '2oCivby the • Latt' s, for the comfort and relief •of :their 'Volunteers,' y the provision of flannel- dresses. The Leicester Paper of last week, we regret to see, exhibits the names of eleven seceders from the. Volunteer Corps of that County, and brands them . with 'disaffeetion and cowardice.. • Pittes. l -:-Allout -the environs 'of Cambridge the Inhabitants preserve their very destrudive Pikes by literally immersing them in water ! It might appear astonishing, but it is. a certain fact that they:con. 'raft no rust, but, on the contrary, are rendered - far more-injurious by their subaqueous Situation. The different Public Offices have formed , Com. missiOuers under the Property Ad, to levy and col. tett the proportion ' of each individual employed in the several departments. ,A private letter from 'Paris, in the,: Courier de Londre: of last night, says, " It is reportecl mysterieuily in' the COnsular Circles,. that. BUNA• PAR'fr has diScovered the mc.z,ns of ' conveying himself to the British dominions, without running the risk of being taken - by the English cruizers. He will pretend to go on boird one of the princi— pal vessels of his fleet,- but will in reality emlYark. in a Neutral ship, which will tike its depa'rture from a Port at some distance from theSe which can. tain. - the giptest . .number of - vessels.? . lll this vessel he will wait for or join his' rroopOin the coast of Ireland." it is Said ..upon the wine autho'rity that the FIRST 'CONSUL , has intrusted 1,560,c00 francs to SANTE R RE, for the purpose of distributing amongst the ;.!cobins, to keep them quiet dur ing his absence, \ CAM 11 Ac s:ttE s,.in the ine,in time, is to have a: Council of Five, whose thy ics he is to be obliged to conform to, unless un.,er any sudden and unforeseen circwnsiances. The formula of an oath was, it is said, to be submit ted to the Senate 'to b'e'taken by the Civil and Mi litary Authorities to the person of NAr.ot.poN BO NAPARTE. It was . bOWCVer, Whether the. Senate, blind as it is, would Adopt, witlivut great resistance, so strange a measure. L NIP R ~ z Porch COURT OP BENCH; Nciv. is. Tit a Court proceeded immediately ori its sitting to pronounce Judgment on a great number of De fendants who were brought up on former days in the course of the Term, and who were committed an. ordered tip this day for Judgment. Nothing remiloed but to pronounce it, their different cases having been heard before. Mr. Justice GROSS, addressed the different :De feratnts in a very :able Manner, in the 'course of which he observed. to Robert .Redhead .and Neal Nl' Bride, that, they , stood to receive the. JudgMen t of the Court, convitied of a very bad misdernea. flour, and there were circumstances peculiar to the case of both. They were found guilty of a con. spiracy to commit a Fraud, upon the Revenue._ That the Defendant Robert Redhead had deposited Bran. dies as for exportation, but not with a view or purpose to export the same, but to put a miserable mixture. in its plaCe, to defraud the Public of the Drawback, and that Neal ,M' Bride, an Officer of the Excise, had cotnrisi'ited 'a breach of his duty, and betrayed the trust that had been reposed,in him as an Officer of the Revenue, in conniving at and assisting in this fraud attempted to .be .committed on the Revenue. This was, the rum anti substance of the offences of these two Defendants, and verY bad rherwere, for by this fraud not only . kis. Jet. jcsty's Revenue and Government were to have been defrauded,,but every individual, among whom are to be found many.who must feel the - pressure of heavy . . duties. However to the most affluent it was little, it made some difference to those whose income was considerable, but the' generality of society was ,very severely injured by these frauds. Thisihow. ever was 'not the only bad efrA of this offence, even the Affidavin produced in behalf of the De fendant Redhead aggravarei his offence. It ap. peated that he had corrupted an Officer of the Public Reyenuei, and 'be, bad alscicorrupted his own ser.: - vants. Ana as to Mißride, it appeared that, .he had betrayed the trust reposed it) hire ; he had com... tined to aefraua the Pbbirerivhpse 'interest it was his duty to proteCl'as their servant, •in whom coal-, &lice - was placed. FrOm the contrivance, and the mode ofsproceeding observed in this fraud, it was hardly probable that this was the first attempt of either the one.or the other of thew offenders. The rho& in.which,this fraud was. to ha ve,been carried into execution, seemed to be a great.aggravation of the guilt of Robert Redhead,' as it was by corrupting bis,own-two servants, youtits whom' he had taken from a seminary of industry anti learning, the 'MlL nifieent institution of which, would do honour to this' country so ; long as the virtue and, abilities of men educated diet... continued to grace our biStOry. However unmerciful to himsell,..he might at least have spared these youths,'. whose ; poetty and de. pendent - station might nut, in an evil hour, have enabled them t() . teSiSt tempta tion. The learned Judge. • said-he would not now mention the names of these young men, as far as he did mention their ,case, he hoped nothing would be remembered of them but the lenity which had consented to bury in oblivion their guilt, and which he trusted would be no injury to the Public ; as to them the punishment of the two., offenders • now before the Court, would have the' effect of example, while these youug 'men who had yielded.to his arts of corruption,. Nould prove they have deserved their pardon, by an uniform. system of integrity and obedience * fo • the laws —on. that Subjeel he could not but lament that men, and t)tr ticularly young men, whose profession or trade threw them in the way - of temptation, did not learn that a fatal violation of the law, on any, one given sehjen, will ever plane tine offender d.lity into 440 crimes, tram , one offence 'to another; until he finds himself, at lost, :surrounded by ruin, dis. grace, and beggary, in which intimare' associates and near relations were too frequently compelled to take a part. These observailons applied.not to the offender Redhead only, but abio to the other oilers. dens tww before the Court, who, not tecintent with earning a miserable livelihood by clandestinenightly fraud on the Revenue, but also brought up :their children in the same' disgraceful Course,„,' which unavoidably led. to ruin. There was one observe. tion whicji the !carried Judge t jeid he could not help making because it appeared to him to apply to the. case of all the D4endants now in Court, which was, that had their industry. been as earnest and- Mire. misted, in an honest pursuit, as it bad been to de, fraud their neighbours, they not only would have been more respeded and be more happy,* but .they might also have been owners of much more property than their frauds could ever enable them to acquire, and that every one might he well assured, that how ever prosperous fraud may chance to appear at its inception, justice, though, slow, will* overtake the offender, and anacctunolation of punishment, must : be the consequence of his crimes. Nothing could more fully illustrate 'this than the. histoey of the offendex, Redhead—from ci rcumste nee s ptiiveti 'at the trial, and the consequent punishment he stated,;in his Affidavit that he had buffered, frottethe timebe might have been Consideeed as the acknowledged violator of the. Law 'of the Land, by schemes for defrauding the Revenue, and' seducing others .to partake of:his guilt. Conscious 'of what 'he merited, he became, first a bankrupt', then a fugitive; compelled to ' re_ turn to his country,. he betiome, for his ' offences, a' prisoner ; an d now h e was to a n swer , perhaps, for " all his oftnce s , w i t h out t h e p rospe et o f relief from this punishment now. to beinflided upon hiM, until he shall have. paid a debt, which, by the paper now . before the. Court, appeared to ty zz , ooo . which Ile now owed to his Country, for hei was now under an Extent from the Crown to thettenionne. - The case therefore of the offender Redhead should be a warn ing to in tiftisi who now are, or who may he'em_ barked in vice ; i ,t should convince them, that even in thie wethi, industry and virso, and obedience to the'Law, ever :Will be their own 'reward. 0n the ease of Neal, M'Bride, - the teemed Judge -oh. served, it differed in enormity from the former, but was yetatrociousi it being a scandalous breach', of trait reposed in 'him by those whose interest it was his duty to prote4l.—"kbe Court , . said the *learned Judge, 'having _coosidereti all circumstances of the eesea of these trio offenders, cloth order 'aed adjudge, "IlJet — Yoti, Robert Redhead, far the offence yieu have committed, be imprisoned in His Majesty's G 461 of Newgate for Two Years; and that,'duting tti tithe, ijoti coo once stand id aid upon the Tory in that part of curnhill, in the-City of Lioodon, which is opposite to the South - Orte of the Ittyal Exchange, for One Hour, 'between Twel.tre ax Noon ond Two in the Afterooon t— And tha t for that part iu this otrepce winch you Neal,, havetalcen, that you lie imi.ti,oned in His Mj; Jesty's Ct+oi of. Newpte, Itix Eighteen Caleilltr Months, and.then dibeharged. The learned Judge thet , ponotto&d..on either offenders, ;titer a short address stnt,dni: to chic c ;i, e of each, the filllowing sentences-1:1w: were all Smuggleks who had ob . .t toned of the Re ve. nue in the execution Of their duty. Amos Hearnderi—to be .linprisOtied In Miidstone Got for 'Ong Year, .md then dischar&etl. John Staddon---to be iinpriioneti in Exeter Cirf Common Gaol for One Year. Wiiiinm Fennick 'awl George Fennick—ro. be imprisoned in Durlhnn Glut fur Six G,i(rntiar Muntipo. Joseph Fennick—to be imprisoned in the same Gaol for Three Calendar Months. John Nl‘Ledd--to be imprisoned in the King's Bench Prison for Six C.ileAditr M.onth , , to,givp curity for his good Charitaer for.T;tree Yettr:., him. self in 'sool'und,.two Sureties in zsol. Bentley NiPLe'eft-- T to pay a fine of . col. Therms Retiinson—to he imprisoned in Maid. stone Ga;:3l-for Six•Calen !.:r Joseph Webh,-t o bt- -wed in linrshant Gael for Three Cal .encar John Savage—the saint. • John Conolly, the elder, jrdin Conoily younger, Mary 'Cottony, and Mary West, wcre brought np to' receive the Judgment of the Court, for having rescued a quantity of Nav;tl Sores aficr they had been seized by the, proper ()leer. The Judgment on them w as follows : r -On John Conolly, the father, impri,onnic,nt in 'Maid. stone Gaol for s wo Years. :-011 Jt,ho Conoliy, the son, One Year bh the same ph.'r tt-.011 MarY West Three Months :—As io ntry Conolly, ttlr. JAR v Is, Counsel fir the Prosecution, 'at-sited he'inight beset is liberty, on-aceonnt of her haying' been der the control:I of her father.and hrothei-d-,sVC jr:,! only 16,—She was aceordinr p ly disehargcd.. :DUBLIN, Nov. 22. , On SAturchy night last a villanotrt attempt . was made in Cannon-street (rnrick's elo,c), to artsapti... nate Mr. M.AvrettsoN, a Member cf that v Qr yl o y a i: and ative Corp, the Liberty Itangers, Mr. M. wa3 on leis w a y to the guard-house on the Coombi., when a_shot, which appe?red, to be' fired - rrotn direction or Myler's-ancy,- struck 'him in the cidar part of the thigh ; he. saw Or:, 1%011111 had fired at, him, and instantly ,. prviented Isis Muss.. quet, hut, tinfortunately, the.l;•elc was sv;:urtql by leather . against rain, .and be•twissed tire. Mr. MAsTEßso.et, who so prdvidontially escaped. assassination'on Saturday rkiglir' last, was wou.,deil in I 798;bmh at the battle'a Cdstiebar anLt that • We arc sorry to hear that the Yeoman 'Ofßeet who visited the South tounds on Sunday night, was fired at in going his ro`unds. • There is so much filial: tendertiess and are.f - cng self-reproach in the fullowini; letter, that we col.. ceive it Will be interebting to. our Readers. It was written by a ydung Lady who was lately seduced from hertfrientisi and was the subletl of a trial re. speeting a Country Inn.keeper, an account of which wasgiven lew days agojrx‘this Paper.—:The let. ter, we believe, _was read in Court. " By what title 'shall I addtess you in dear Nitdrn : I say clear Madam, for I no, longer dare to call royselt yout child, since I am going by toy flight to break •t lirougit ttio:Je connedions . which attached yon to me—lly my. Hight—Alt ! what could have reduced toe to stich an extremity—the Ms order or my mind : I am no. longer accOunted that innocent and virtuous girl which you brought up and.chetished with Ito much tenderness uneaten --P ty and. sometimes think. of Attu unfortunate I, hza.--alid. let hct tot be tergoitten,, but do not yourselvei by rity.ahsence-'--Shottld you: tender lleSS fdr• me draw tears from your eye, when you think Of Inc, afar trom you, do not 11CCUtit the of ingratitude, that not my Crime 7 do not suppose it--. 1 shall never lOrget what I owe to you, tint the tenderness, the respett, the ruhrdration which 1 have tio'you ail all those. sentiments are eryraved in the bottom of my hear t I will preserne them as long I live. I scarcely Jtitow the people I ant going )vith, nor the country I 'am going into, hut 'Whitener . filte.amilds me I could not.avoid tt—it was ahAtitely necessary 1 should go frutri am suspected of i crime which makes me shudder. VOR even blame my once-loved friend, for being the compaalbn ht so'clisholical a sctwine,; which I can answer tor, was as far from her heart as from. my own hut now I bid dteractiett for Geer;l'4 llWAlt" 6. t ' yota—Pity anti love me alw a ys-.,My dear, toy gold, my ; tender Mother--my most kind friends, permit ow :rill to call ,rou by these names so dear to my '-wart, and to' `implore "your •pardon on my knees, Parton , p.erdon me all o? yon.—Let toy hrothrrs and sisters bless . tree also -. rrniinil i ew ., sumelitnca tit' their uittortunatc and poor El'sza:=-=.ldiett, aulu.u-=atl my clear, dear and. fatal , • • . . , . . Rs c olt,ot . PO t erday the Recorder Made a RePurt M,ljeuo of the following , Pi i. idners under Sentence of Death, in Newgate, viz. Ann Windsor, William Houlton, John Jones, Wm. Bolton, James Shlip, John Pant, Harkuah ttrion, Wm. tve:6 John Rimls, &towel Beach,baniei\B2n. nett, John Simmons, John Cuepper, Susannah Doubt. fire, Willitnn Tiller, John Robins, John Fisher, Janies Steel ; when they were all r6pited during' His Majesty's pleas Ute. The caie'of Humphrey Crawley, for endeavouring . to seduce John Hall, a soldier in the Tower Ham. lets Militia, was not reported. Qn Sunday se'rinighr, at Captain Cor,s, -of the R ose i n unr , toying 'off S.,vansea pier,. Sysioing on boarerbis. vessel, owing. to the darkness of thenight, he . unfortu6tely walked over the pier, and Wasln. standy killed by the fall, A friend who was With, " him', supposing the' tide to be in, iminedi,ttely leaped oVetthe pier, in hopes' r; f' rescuing hini•frorn a w,.itery grave; bur unhappily for him; there being no wilt er,up, he susiainiti . so nihny brukeg, Tilsit a per: nt little hopes are enter rained of his lecoverv . , ' Wecint 8:lay 'aftern.)on t wo boys playing at ao!ctico,, ,belonging.ro HattunGartlen School, attacked ea c h other with pistols charged with pov:.der ;' one about eleven ye us of age, happeLed to put some . tir;niet ston e s to the charge, which tonic . . place in the face of another boy,' fourteen, and wounded biro dread. fully.