The Sun. — London, England, 1803-04-20 00:00:00

d NA V .4 1/EIF S. g 1 APRIL 1 8. PORTSMOUIII, APRIL !9. DEAL, APRIL 19. rota O'CLoCK, P. !.t. SAILED the Ardtnt, of 64 guns, for Torbay ; and Boadicea Frigate, on it Cruize in the Channel. Arrived the ddive, DkummuND ; and Hope. well, PAYNi, for Waterford ; the .4nprp,Captain STRINGRIty from Jamaica, with sugar, rum, &c. for this Port; nine weeks passage ; and the Raxger, Revenue Cutter, Captain FRA3VII., from a Cruize. AIRIVED La Sybille Frigate tram the East In. dies, last from Lisbon. THE. East India Company's Ship Amick Castle, from China, arrived in the Downs last night, and she remains with the Ceres, Arvid Scott, Ciren cester, Branswick, and Royal Charlotte. It has blown bard all last night and to-day, and this morning the Arniston, after losing two an_ dors, proceeded through the Gull Stream, and she is now in Margate Road. Hts MAj ESTY, attended by General GWYNNIt, yesterday morning took an airing on horseback, and inspefled the extensive improvements making in Windsor Great Park. Lord and Lady HARCOURT, the Marchioness of 13,..rn and daughter, Sir WILLIAM and Lady PITT, who have been for some time on a visa to the kovAt. FAMILY, left Windsor yesterday morning. Yesterday morning Her MAI esTv and the Pit IN. etSSES, attended by Lady CILANLEY, left Windsor at half past nine o'clock, in two coaches and four, with their usual Mott, and arrived at Buckingham. !wawa little before twelve ;soon after three o'clock Zits 1140.iisYY, also 'arrived at Buckingham.house. Tit; tit MA} osnies honour Coven r.Garde n Thea. tre with their proem rth.ITIOTTOW evening. Ytveratty the arrival of the 4/4 , u/irk Castle from China, was antlouneed at , the East India Rouse. She left or St. Helena the Waltham:taw, and 4aditiditts DuNkts, from Bengal, whence they sailed the sBth December, in company with the rcnicAvery and Masabifi. The two latter ships parted company. on the 10 . th February. . The following. is a list of the passengers on board the 4.4 Cookrealk East Indiaman, which weigh. ed anchor from SOielen's on Saturday last : Capt;in Towet4, gilt Royal Light Dragoons, Commanding the Troops ; accompanied by Captains-4-Broame, std 4101 Dragaons; Dick, 78th Regi. nutik 41 - 1 4 Mathewson, 78th Regiment. lieutenapts•--Conne, 2241 Light - Dragoons ; Martin, ath Light Dragoons; and M'Leoci, 78th Regiment. Ensigns--Morley; Bth Light Dragoon; Stepney, Voth Reg'_ rnent t Illoarner, gist Regiment; Coane 73th Regiment ; Orrock, 64th Regiment , and Fulton , 7Btli Regiment. surgeon M' Andy, 71Ith Regiment. Detachments of the Sth and 221 Light Dragoons; and . 78th Infantry. Lieut. Col. Montresor anti Lady, King's Service. Lieut. Col. Vly,ors Company's Service. Major Nlealey, ditt o . Mrs.Orrock;Mrs. Robinson, Miss MlKascall, and two other young Ladies. Mr. Chatfield, and ten other Cadets, for Madras and Bengal, We learn, by a Letter . received from Bengal, that Ahmed Khan Kuzulbashee, and other Afghan Chiefs, have determined to place on the Throne of Turan the eldest son of Mahmood Shah, who is now at Ca. bal. A guard is set over the house of Witfatlar Khan, the late Vizier. The younger son of Mahmood Shah is sent by his father to take posseshion of Peshaweer ; but a son of Zeman Shah is in that province.; he has collthed about 4000 men, anti having brought over by promise of reward some Sirdars from Mah. mood Shan's service, is levying a larger force. He has put the Royal Taj on hie own head, and is Preparing to encounter Mahmood Shah in the field. Nothing can more evidently prove the want of information in a Morning Paper, to which we have been of late induced by wanton provocation to allude more direttly, than its perseverance in deny. jog that any intercourse has recently taken place between Mr. PITT and the present Minister, tend. ing to the introdudion of the former again into olhce.—Thib perseverance is as impolitic as it is false, because it must plainly shew that the Paper alluded to has no claim to that confidence of' which it has so often boasted. Besides, as it is now well known that such an intercourse has taken place, though unfortunately suspended, if not wholly at an end, to condemn it is not to pronounce cen sure on Mr. PITT only, which has been so much the virulent aim of that Paper, but iS to censure also . the other Party for consenting to enter into any negotiation upetn the subjett.---The rational friends of both parties, however, do not view this matter in the same light as a rancorous scribbler in an abusive Print. They wish to see a man revered by all the world, again in a situation to serve his Country, by the exertion of his unrivalled talents. They wish to superadd the bond of political concord and confederation to those ties of private friendship and esteem by'which they have been connected from their earliest days. Such has been the laudable desire of all wise and honest men attached to both parties ; such has been,, for some time past, the ap. Parent purpose of the Parties themselves:and nothing we are persuaded could give more satisfaftion to the People , at large than the firm public union of so much virtue and so much ability. ibieedarr. —TALLEYR AND PERIGORD was one day questioned by the Ft aST CONSIA on the sub. Jed of his large for tune, and the sources from which he had derived it, after having been despoiled of all his ecclesiastical revenues by the Revolution. The wary Courtier answered with great presence of mind 4. General, I aCtually purchased, and caused to be purchased, an immense quantity of stocks, on the 18th of Brumaire." (It is in the recolleetion of every body, that the French Consols which now 'en lot 54, were worth only 6 or 7 livres at that time). To such a flattering and ingenious answer, the ,CossuL could not but smile ; and since that time, 11e has no lo nger ma d e any i mpro per quest ions 'Ps his vrafty Miaistet about his private concerns. • G.ll.;Prifi - , la. T►at Assizes for . the Connaught Circuit ended. here, and you may judge of the state of this part of - the country from the circumstance of only one capital convittion taking place upon the whole route ---this was the case of a fellow who had conceived some jealousy against his wife, to.whom he 'had been about three weeks married—he had decoyed her into a field where be strangled her, and then laid her in a ditch—the murder was some time un. discovered, but suspicion having arisen, and the body being found, some strong circumstances arose, upon which the Prisoner was found guilty, on Fri. day last, in this town, and ordered to ,be hanged to-morrow. Last night a very melancholy accident hap. pened in this town—a man, named James Molloy, said to have been an old sailor, but by trade a hatter, had some words with his wife, and being heard giving her a very severe beating at the time, a soldier and a woman passing by, entered the house, to make inquiry of the cause, and, if possible, pre. vent further mischief—the villain took up a gun, , which he had in the room, (which was a street. parlour) it was loaded with slugs, and he die. charged it against the persons who had thus at. tempted to interfere, whereby the soldier and the woman were both instantly killed—and a Gentle. man passing by was severely wounded, two of the slugs having lodged in his arm—the Offender at. tempted to conceal himself by hiding under a bed, but he was immediately taken, and committed to gaol to abide his trial. The Hun. AB. HUTCH t NsoN has been appointed Collector of the. Distrid of Clonmel. "DETRACT OF A LETTER FROM PARIS, APRIL 14. " It is reported in some societies here, that Du ROC in his late journey to certain Courts, was trusted not only 'With political, but with fermi& secrets, and that an arrangement is on the tapis which will astonish the world. " When the Neutral Kings of Sr At x, PRUSSIA and Deratnax, addressed themselves to the former Direttors, REWREL, BARRAS, MERLIN, Sec. they styled them Great and dear Feiends, (Grands et diets Amis) which no doubt encouraged Raw BEL in :798 to demand a certain Princess in marriage for his son, a Republican Officer. This insolence was not resented but overlooked •, and Rawest., with the other Kings of different faEtions, is now become the subject of BONAIPARTR, and with his son is confounded amongst the nameless thousands, whose existence could only be known out of their ,native village by such a Revolution as the French, where crimes and intrigues have received the dignity and reward of talents and virtue. Monarchs, in degrading their Ancestors, them selves and their Families, by unbecoming Alliances, endanger Monarchy, and encourage , Rebellion and Revolution; because, when ambitious G-zrman sub. jells see ci.deruant French. subjects become the bro. titers or sons.in.law of their own SoVereigns, they naturally conclude, that what a Revolution has et'. fated in France, a Revolution may effect in Ger. many. A Prince, who gives his sister or daughter to a Foreign upstart, approves the revolt that pro. cured him power ; he has, therefore, no reason to complain, nor can he expen pity if 'he complains, should any of his own subjetts conspire to ascend his own Throne. It Princes do not respect themselves, how can they pretend to respect from Subjeas, whose opinions and fidelity their own conduct has overturn. ed and subverted ? Whatever their Ministers, Coun sellors and Favourites say to the contrary, neither the Diamonds of Brazil, the . Treasures of Peru, or Provinces in Italy and Germany, can indemnify or repair the honour of a Prince, who voluntarily stains the honour of his family by an improper conflation. •' When British Travellers consider the humiliated and enslaved" Continent, they are proud to be the subjefts of a KING who, in protciting their Giber ties, has not forgot, or stiles - a .to be. forgotten, his own high Dignity, and who has adorned His Royal Rank with Pirtrees which would illustrate the m ost obscure individual ; when posterity justly reprobates some Kings, who by their Egotisms, Negotiations, and Alliances, have made Republics fashionable at the expellee of Monarchy, it shall render GEORGI 3 111. the same justice as his Contemporaries, that in the most difficult times, he has ailed and transacted as a KING, and by it saved Europe from being an Universal Republic, under the Didature and Pro. ?dila', of a Corsican Adventurer." Yesterday the Purser of the Honourable East In. dia Company's Ship the Dorsrithire, Capt. ROB FRY flincrEtt. BROWN, attended at the India House, and received his final dispatches, with which he imme diately proceeded to Deal to join the said Ship. The Dorsttshite is consigned to China dired. The Merchants of Poole have very liberally of. fired, in addition to the King's Bounty, Three Guineas to every able Seamen, Two Guineas to Ordinary Seamen, and One Guinea to every Lands. man, that shall enter with the Regulating Officer at that Port. Yesterday the LORD MAYOR and several of the Aldermen attended at Guildhall, for the,purpose of forming a Court of Aldermen ; but there not being a sufficient number present, no Court was held ; therefore, his Lordship, after examining the Meal weighers' Reports, otdered the price of bread to continue at 9d. the quarters loaf. To-morrow a Court of Common Council will he held at Guildhall, for the eleAion of a Comptroller, City Mason, and City Painter, and on other holi ness. Lord NeLSON?iI command has lung been arranged, and no change at the Admiralty,Board will alien it. The Mediterranean will he his station, hut he pro. bably will norgo unless there is a certainty of War. A Camp will be formed in the neighbourhood of Brighton, which will contain ten thousand men at least. On Saturday afternoon a post chaise and four drove with great violence through the town of Ken. sington ; inside were a young lady and a man strug gling.- lie grasped the lady's throat in a most brutal manner, apparently endeavouring to prevent hturn calling fur asiistancr. COg ' XC 'GE, rRIL so. Totat is but little fresh Graiti here la-ay ; expeaing a little alteration from . the prospcst of public atfairf, we have not .much business doing ; Wheat is as our last ; garley - and Malt go off heavily ; White Pease sell cheaper ; the supply of Oats is not great ; they vary but litti: in prices, if any, incline downwards ; Flour without alteration. Wheat 445 a sos a 575 od Tick Beans - 253 a 29) od Fine ditto . s a s9a o n tats- - - 143 a 173 a 203 Harley - 2ot a 2,ti.. oil Poland (lilt() ltS a 223 64 Mitt • -43 s a 44) od Rape Seed .. - 311 a 341' Rye - - -32 s a 3si od Fine Flour -44 s a 475 od White Pe:iie : 345 a 41s od Seconddo . 40 5 a 44 ) Berns - 2Ss a 335 od The LORD Btsuor of Lotsuots has issued his Notices for a General Confirm.ition and Visitation of his Diocese this year and for the information of our Readers, we ate authorized to give the fol. lowing Statement of the Times and Places at wlich he Visits and Confirms : April s', at St. Paul's, Visit. 2it, St. l'dul's, Visit. 29 , St. Martin's, in the Fields, Visit. May z, Christ Church, Middlesex, Visit, ----. 17, St. Alban's, Visit. and Con, ---• IN, -,- Storttiard, Visit. and Cori - 1 9 , Walden, Visit. and Con. -o, Dimmow, Visit. and Con. .....-•-•-• sr, --. }tasted, ' Visit. and Con. - 23, Colchester, . Visit. and Con. ...—..... 24; -- Colchester, Visit. and Con. ............. 2i, -- Mistley, Con. ................ 17,. NlAien ' . Visit. and Con. —....-'-:,. 28, --Chelinsford % .Visit. and Con. --.. 30, Ongar, Con. —....—. 31, Rayleigh, , Con. June 1. liurntwood f, Visit. and Con. .......-..... 2, --• Rumford, Visit. and Con. * N. B. The repairs of the Church at Chelms ford not being finished, the Visitation and Confir illation will be held at Great Badow Church. + The Confirmation which used to be at Burnt_ wood, will be now at Southweald Church : the Vi sitation as before, 'will be at Burntwood. The present Ministers very properly express their most unqualified contempt for, and detestation of a Journal that endeavo►►rs to flatter them, at the ex. pence of their Predecessors. The attempt, how. ever, is as feeble as it is malignant and base ; for Mr. ADDINGTON, with that candour and honesty which belongs to his charagter, acknowledged long ago in the House of Commons, that the merit of the glorious Campaign in Egypr, and that of the Battle of Copenhagen, belonged exclusively to his Predecessors. It is universally acknowledged that the Vrc seal' Of CANTON was a very amiable and just man. No Officer in his situation ever concluded himself with so much disioterestedness, for he always refused even the customary presents from European Mer chants, because he would not expose himself to the possible suspicion of venality. It is therefore con. ceived that he has really fallen a sacrifice to the man who had deprived.hins of his 'post, and that the story of his having poisoned himself is a posthumous fabrication. Capt. MACNAMARA will not probably he re moved till Friday morning, on which day his trial will come on at the Old Bailey. Though his wound is doing well, there is still a good deal of fever about him. Dr. LAY D, the late Dean of Bristol, who was a most estimable man in private life as well as in the discharge of his sacred duties, has, - we under. stand, left a large family, by no means in such pros. perous circumstances as must be desired by all who knew his worth, and are acquainted with the merits of those who no longer enjoy his kindness and protedion. It is to be hoped that the indecent uproar which on Sat ueday night disgraced the Opeta.house, wilt point out to the Proprietors of that theatre, the ne. cessity of either totally putting a stop to, or in some way regulating the admission of strangers be his' the teen's. This indulgence has long been scandalously abused, and if some decisive 'measures. be not speedily adopted by those whose duty it is to prevent the recurrence of similar disturbances, the Public will very soon perceive the folly of pay. ing their money to witness a drunken broil instead of what it ought to be, the most elegant and brilliant exhibition in the.metropolis. &LISTON will certainly be the Deputy Manager of the Hay Market Theatre next season. From - all accounts we may expel to see several performers of little repute at present, but who are likely to be. crime favourites with the Public, when their talents are brought into a conspicuous scene of alion. We hope the report is untrue that Mrs. Si DDONS means to retire from the Stage. The loss of such talents to it would be universally and sincerely re. greeted. The Dutchess of ST. ALIIAII26, and her lovely Sisters, were the only Fashionable* in Kensington Gardens on Smutty last, and we are surprized they escaped a mobbing, as the brutal conduct of a great part of the company towards the female strangers, could have been excited only by the elegance o their appearance. It is to be hoped that the ixtolent footmen who wait at the gates of Kensington Garden', and to whom we recommended the attention of a Pres:, gang, will not be furnished with ProtrBions them. helves, since they are- disposed to shew unoifending females no protalion. - Several forged Bank of England Notes for . 51. and soh have been passed lately in the neighbourhood of Christchurch, Hants; and a person resident there being suspeled to have assisted in circulating them, the Rev. Mr. Wit.t.ts, of Sopley, issued Warrants on Thursday for apprehending him, anti ibr search ing his home. Three, forged Notes were found in the house, which the man confessed to have received from one Sylvester, -alias Jones, in exchange for smuggled pods. Sylvester is a suspicious .charac ter, well known at Fairs, &c. where he passes for a horse-dealer, but was originally a button-maker at Birmingham : he has resided sonic tune near Christchurch, Hants, anti occasionally at Mere, in Wilts. It was judged he was then at Mere : Mr. WILLIE, therefore, immediately set all for that place, accompanied by a farmer, who had taken one of the bad Notes, anti travelled all night, in the hope of apprehending Sylvester ; but these laudable exer tions failed of , their merited tuccest, as *lves:et wai not to be found. COtißT . 6i fSEFOR E !Mkt% FLI.F.NRORM . I.IOII, 4 NO 4 3E'Letitt INJU 1Y 0.111.1)11h L4)lSilOl4. M!.A DAM ' V . M`r.voy; • T • Was an Aftion brought recover eora'; which the Piainiifr had paid to the Defendant. opno a loss on a Policy of Insurance.—The Plainta . wa! an Underwrite', with whom the Defendant had underwritten a ship on her voyage from Derrierara to London : the loss which happened in this Case was adjusted and paid, and this was . an ACtioo brought to recover hack the Money so paid, oo the ground that. the Insuranee was unfairly effeded and void, because the Assured concealed front the Un derwtiter, at the time of efreditig - the InsuranetS a 'material fad, the which, if disclosed, would have • operated on the mind of the Underwriter, so that he would not have underwritten the Policy at the premium which was paid in this Case; and this was clearly made out in evidence. Mr. ERsKINE, on behalf of the Defendant, ad. Mitted, in the most unqualified Manner, a proposia tion, which he said was for the benefit of ti commercial world, and an inducement to Under writers to pay just demands upon them without , litigation. " That in a Case where the circum. stances, when they came to be disdoseti, were such as would have furnished the Underwriter with a defence to an Adion upon a Policy of Insurance, and he pays the money without litigation, anti afterwards discovers those circuinstancesehe shall be allowed to maintain an anion to recover back the money so paid, because it was wrongfully paid:a for notwithstanding . the adjustment of the Policy, th 6 Underwriter 'misfit bring his Adion to recover that money again, and he was essadly in the same situation then, as Plaintiff, as if he had not paid ,it at all, and was Defendant in an Adlon upon the Pu. Hey of Insurance; so that if the circumstances would have.furnished hint with a defence to such art Anion; they would support the present case to recover the Motley so paid." This was the first proposition. The second was, " Thal' the As,. sued received from his Correspondent abroad in, strudions to make an Insurance, and received more letters titan Ore eonnetled with the subjed of the Insurance, and which mixt itself with the risk, and the Assured sheered to the Underwriter only a part of the correspondence, and the 'remainder, :Which was with-held, even if not wilfully, but by nee's; Bence froM the Underwriter, and would, if coma naunicated, have varied the risk in the opinion of the Underwriter, then the Policy was void." There was a OW proposition"to which he begged leave to call the attention of hid Lordship and the Jury, which was this If the Assured heard a Rumour upon the state of the ship on which - he was about to tired an insurance, but not _from his coerepondent, nor from any au thentic quarter, but a mere vague rumour, he sv„ts not bound ,to communicate such rumour :to the Underwriter, for that he was not obliged to cis,. culate every thing to the discredit of the concern of which he had the care ; but if that rumour should afterwards turn out to he true, then the con. cealment of it, although there was no fraudulent intention, should avoid the policy, and that there. foie, .whenever any rumour of this kind came to the knowledge of the Assured, it'should rest with to prove the falsehood of that rumour, if he did not communicate it ; but if he could prove that rumour to be false, then -the concealment •of it , from the Underwriter, at the time of etreding the insorance, should not avoid the Policy." This was casting. t:,e burthen of the proof on the Assured ; and he sub. mitred, it was affording to the Commercial Worl s l i all the security that could be desired against frau. Solent representations. lie meant to apply this: proposition to the present Case, and to chew that the rumour which the Assured hid heard -of, but did not communicate to the Underwriter, was an account which did riot come front the correspondent cif the Assured, per in any authentic shape, and that in point of fact, it was a false rumour, anal that therefore the concealment of it did not at all ailed the Policy in this Case. The evidence for the Defendant did not at all support this allegation of the account, which was concealed by the Assured, being false .--'.Mr, SKINS said he could not support his case. Lord ELL a Nuokouott observed, that although the point made at the 13ar, was nut material to the the case now before the Jury, as the evidence did not support it ; yet, he would not have a misapprehens sion of the law upon this subject, which he took to he this—That if any information, material to the risk, came to the Assured, under such ciretunstances as to be entitled to credit, he was bound to disclose it to the Underwriter, as well as to avoid any unisrepre. sentation ; and in case either of concealment of a material fad, or of miurepresetitation, this anion was maintainable. This point was pot veeyft by Mr. East IN Li bur the fats of the caledid rest. support the.: principle- he laid down. If an Assured Was informed of what he ought to believe, and what he did.believe, he should trot conceal it from the Underwriter, for he ought to have all fair comrnu. nication made to him, that he might judge for him self.• His Lordship wished there should he 110 doubt upon these things, but that it should be felt that the common sense which pervades the whole system of Insurance, is the Law on the subject. \retain for the Plaintiff, for the Suns }laid, ,Inc. with Interest from the time of payment. A serious affray took place near Birmingham on Thursday morning about one.o'clock. The servants of the Canal Company, understanding that sonde per. sons had opened the valve belonging Lathe firming. ham Canal, which had been banked and stoltpd up near the jundion bridge, for the purpose of widenirl the canal, and that they were letting the water oti, Went down to prevent 360 Ch deprettettioos i Arid found the men endeavouriog its cake the fish with a net. A violent scuffle ensued, and Richard Brothers, - .one of the Cturipany's servants, was st) terribly vioundeti, that he died in the afternotm ; several others were also severely bruised. The Coroner's Jury sat upon the hotly on Saturday, and alter an examination of ten lionts, returned a vetdia Qt Mts,4, azain.ft Petions, - 14 •