The Sun. — London, England, 1803-10-13 00:00:00

FIRE AT ST. ALSIP:. Ifirre•upAr MOrning a dreadful fire broke out in the White Hart Lin, at -St. Atban's. It was first di,covered hf iween foni and five O'cloek: flu :the warm being given throughour the town, the panic. strudt'-initabitartts ..rose from their beds tq aSsist in stillting the pr gress, of the flames ; but the fire burnt With. such irresistible fut.y as to render all eForts vain. In the course of half an hour, the greatest part of the• Inn was consumed, .and the con. flagration spre tl to the stables,. where ten capital • horses ,were destroyed. Amitist"the alarm and con. fusion , t !dll must naturally occur on such an ocea. sinn, and more especially at an Inn, it is some con. sn.at.i , :n to find thatna buman.lives 'were Icist„ Mr. HA rWARD , the master of the Inn, with his wife and fsmuy, were in.the most imminent danger, being at the rime in the upper part of the house; they how. ever all escaped unhurt. A Mr. Wmtatt, and two friends, who were there on a s h oot i ng party, were saved by thei r promptitude in jumping out of their bed.ronm windows into the yard, leavitig behind them their clothes, which were burnt, together 'with five pointer dogs,. -Several travellers, both male : and kmalr, escaped . the, devouring element by similar m eans , with the loss of them clothes and p rim inteaukt. It Was , -froly pitiable 'to' see these distressed .people,,walking about the yard, with nothing m re than the slender covering which the humanity of the iiihahii nfs prtieured for them at Ilie miinent. We did not hear that any fite-:en. g;nes `wt.re em i lnyed ;and perhaps there—was ho 'water at hand. The ruin of the premises was c9IPL:. Plete. Pie cause of this accident ,is nor yet asc4r.: . .. tair~etl. It the Landlord is . .not e nsure d , his _toss must -he coii4ferable. ' * • . py „ . uesday the Comp'itny 'of Deal Volunteers, Com. mantled by Cant. Kett, marched to. Sandwich to Le brig!"led with tito,e 01 Sandwich apdjtamsgate, the whle, of which will form the Second Battalion ot'Citique 'Ports Infantry, under thi'command of Lo td C A allt NatoN. There. are now at Deal, be: snits the Above, one Company of Infantry, Corn. ru 'tided by, J. MAy, Eq. one of Bombardie rs , c nutiaiitted by R. Kkst.se, E,9. ; one TrooP or Genrietnrn Yeomanry, under the command of J. M. POYNTER. Esci;ind about 600 SeifFeneibles, who are etigagrd to man the boats fitted up with car. roil ores . A lertet'fforn Fdlkstone states, 'that on the sag. gestion of. Capt. Racittn, who commands the Sea lencibles at that place, several fishing boats with twenty men i n each, provided with signals are to be stationed during the night oft" that part of the Coast, and parties of inhabitants to patrole both beaches. They also are to be provided with sig. twits .which, in case of discovering . the Enemy, are 1 41:K.1144 e to a guard stationed at furze beacon near the town, and in sight of the beacon at the , Camp Under Gen. MODE a. A the differ: t eight welts* on Friday evening ens are -beacons on the East Riding Coast of York. shire, were lighted upon the signal of the firing Of, a gun at Spurn Point, t o as e e r ta in whether or not they could communicate with each other, and . in pursuance of an order of a Meeting of Lieutenanicy. held at Beverley, on Thursday sennight. Several of the lights on the Holderness Coast, and also the' one at Itainton, were clearly discernable froni Hun ; and it is understood the objet was own pletely answered. • On the Bth inst. at twelve o'clock at noon, the flags were hoisted at the proper stations in she vici. bey of Whi t b y, and at eight in the evenint the fire acons were lighted. It appears that the signals were communicated from Spurn Point to Whiiby,.O distance of sixty miles, in eleven minutes. Within these few 'tiqs a very great number: of pikes have been landed at Leith, from a vessel whit It brough t them from London. They have been sent ro the castle. • The extensive ereeiions, on the New Road near Newcastle, calle4'Egypt, lately. employed as recap. tacle s Int grain, , aTe converting into barrack s for a part of the n u merous forces intended by Government i n that ►neighbourhood. • A 'recent letter from Calais says, that the French Arm . ) tlest inci4,..to invade this Country, 'amounts to Veal' 300,000 one hid. :hey calcUlate will be (fest r,,yed, or taken by our shipping ; , with the re, m.tinin g 150,000 they reckon .that - theCouniiy Is theirs': indeed, si folly convinced' do they:appear to he of'ultimate. success,. that a Staff is appointed'at Calais to accompany the first embarkation, who are to make provisions for the coping Tronps,, and lay the Country under heavy Contributions to maintain them, r. Lard M rADDWRANIC's Speech respeftilig the De. fett cc of the Firth of Vont), is not very honourable to the ch.oaaer of Ministers. From what his Lordship said, it is very evident, that sufficient vi. siiiince had not been used to• proteC't an important place, and the'Duke of BucciatiowEdeclaration, that an awmer from Government might be expelled ill alerts) days, can by no means be detruetiSatisladory, cut , sttlering the vast preparations of the Enemy, the adivity for which his. chargter has always bee n distingui s hed, the enormous poWer he possesses, his readiness tii.emplOy that power • by any 'means that funning, perfidy, and cruelty can suggest; 'and above all, his determined ranCoUragainst this Country, and its Independence as a Nation. In the present moment it cannot be wholly,unin. terming to our Reader's to lay befOre them a calcu. distant e 4 between' the point's of assail- Mint from the Enemy's coast,and theprinciPat Ports on our own, which have been' Menaced With a De. scent in former wars :--•—Distance from Brest to Gal. waY tBo leagues ;to 'the Shannon -150; to Bantry "Bayl is ; to Cork and Kinsale 190 ; to. Plymouth 6o; to Torbay 70; Cherbourg. to Ports Mouth 26 ; • Havre to Newhaven z 9; • Abbeville to'•Pevensey i 7 _Boulogne to 'Rye ; Calais to Dover 7, DunkirkiiiDe a l and 'Margate t4i Flushing to the Nore 35; Helvoetsluys to Harwich 30; Texel to .Yarmouth 30."' Lord HOLLAND is detatned at M a d r id, b y in. dicpo s i t i on Family.,He has, however, sob. -Serthrd to the Keniington Corps, and signified his readiness to conforrn to any thing' which GOvern. rrt tha)i . &ere 'necess'arrait- the' National De.' fenta, rHar?z,t. , I evvtal. sari. Tat sterling old •Comedy of The Pr/yoked Jim. baud, to the credit of public taste, wasagain attend. ed, by a numerous audience last night at this Thratre. )(Imolai!' Lord Torten& may be considered as one of his very best charaders in the drama of ordinary life. It was throughout dignified, and we may say classically corred. . , Miss turwrox again representeli - the - .part of Lady Mundy. She was more in possession of her powers, and delivered the dialogue 'With good sense and firmness, • though. still ill rather too high a key. Her conception of the charafteris just, and she only wants the mellowing influence of time and prattice to render her an easy, elegant, and animated Comic Aftress. In the last scene she displayed much feel. ing, under the deep rebuke and determined separa.• tior of her offended Lord. • • • • • : MUNDEN'S Sir Francis Wren:Ma has been thought defeeliVe'in provincial dialed, but it had the better 'reeoMmendation of charaderistic truth and strong humour. KNIGHT' and Mrs: Grans gave effective support. to theludicrons scenes in Syatre Richard and Miss jenny,. and Mra:litvaNpoßT was. a good forcible epresentative ormotk. quality in Lady Ifronplvad. FARLEY'is somewhat too heavy fur Conti Basset, Which requires more of the light frivolous Coxcomb.. The-after.piece was theonce popular Farce of the `Pad/ock, 'in which Miss .MoRTIMER' W:4 for . the first 'time, Leonora. She sung th e Air s with t aste istiod expression, - . particularly .!' Say. Little Foolish Fluttering Thing;." in which she was cowed. There it a plaintive softness-. in ,her ; :voice acid manner that qualifies t er.for charaeters .of tender. ness; and when she•is , etnholdened by .pratlice,. ahe will doubtless prove a; valuable acquisition to this. Theatre. • The Dueintals-to - be brought fat ward next week, at Drury.lane Theatre, fur the purpose of inno_ dUei6g a rieVir - Vocal Candidate ih the charader of Carlo:, of whom report speaks highly.- litrawr Roscrus. —A young Gentleman only elei)enyeart old 'has lately made his - appearance on the Stage at'Belfast, .with surprizing success.. He' has performed Otman in the Tragedy of Zara, Young Norval, Rolla, and Romeo. Such a theatri.. cal phcenomencin has naturally excitedsteat curiosity and attention, and the accounts of his. several per.: furmances represent them as absolutely: . wunderful. The judgment with which he entered into the-several characters, and displayed all the variety of ern°. tions incident to them, almost persuaderthis hearers that there is a theatrical inttinß, not dependant on tuition or experience. His person is as much dis. tinguislied fur beauty arid elegance as his mind for extraordinary poweri, and' h6P seems , indeed• to have !been " formid, in the prodigality of Nature."- , ..Mrs. H. JoHrtstoii 'is a I HTMISiO g yoong . aftress, but she shoUld not attempt such difficult clraraders ibe CPirlozv Behnpur . , which has'iong been consi. dcred as a. test of high comic merit, demanding the: most polished manners and elegant vivacity. Mrs. H. JOHNSTON 15 even mow fit for Betvideria or isabella, which we rum she will never venture to attempt. Miss FAR*IiN, who- was so excellent in the IPidocm. BelmJur,J . elicimot appear in it tilt she had had cOriaidcrable exlkirience in her prolessiOn, 'and in a great degree had qlSalified,heraelf by an. hi tercourse with the higher orders of society,. ' Poor SEDGWICK, the Singer, 'is at list gone.;— Ilis Vocal Powers, by introducing 'him much into Convivial Circles, led to', The Destruaion of his Ifealth ; so that he - might exclaim, with Falstajf, g g Company, villainous company, has bcc:n the ruin of' me." The Dutchess of DEVONSHIRC, it is said, has already begun to entertain her friends with a con. cert and petit romper. This is good news for her medical in repar att endants, who will probably soon again b e • • • puttign. The East.lndia Company's Tea Sale eiiierienced yesterday morning an intertuption, front. the very alarming sudden' illness of Sir 1.301 1 / 4 :EL DARELL, wim Wits ire the. Chair. He was immediately taken into the Court-Room, and in a short time attended by Dr. BRADLEY, and four Surgeons, who ordered him to be removed to a commodious room, near the Secretaty's (Ace, where he was laid upon A so. pha, • and a considerable qUantity of blood. taken from his ,arras. After .an interval of nearly three hotiN, Sir L10 . ;42i,. was sufficiently: recovered to give diieEtions to his servants for his removal ; but one .of the Surgeons giving it as hi,r.,opinion, • that such a step would be - highly dangerous, ;,lied. was ordered to be fitted 'up by' the Company's u ) ;hOl. stcrer. We are .happr to add, that late in the evening, the Surgeons had giyen the strongest hopes, that by a proper . attentton to rest and regi. turn, Sir Ltorqr L be completely restored. A Letter from. Captain SUTTON, late of the Prince of Wales .Packet belonging to Dover, dated . Valenciennes, toth Sept. last, has been receiied, bit pia 'Father. Captain SUTTON announces the agree. able information of t he English Priioners detained rn that City, being treated with much humanity. They, in general, have, liberty ro walk about the town, and on the ramparts; but cannot go out of the gates of tite Fortress without leave of the COm. mandant, who is r'epresent e d benevolent Offi cer .. • as a very worthy and TheSubsctipti:mfor elna'thing the Volunteers in Monmouthshire, titnonnts tO - 56871. A man of genteel aPpearance was apprehended at Ortn' onFriday,last, suspti,died of being a French Spy. 'He is, or pietends to be, deofand dumb. At the'Ggnerill Quarter Sessians for the County of Kent, held at . the CA d Castle, in Canterbury:, on .Vriday last, James 11 1 ;bber, for an .assault on. Sir EDWARD KNATcIH uLt Bart. one of His 14.1je5'. . ty's Justices o f t i lt: P ea e , was sentenced to be un- . prisoned trx calendar lno'nflis, and to fini:lnreties far . . t,apo years, viz. liimself.in 561. and . twp.. sureties In 25!. each. joAn..Alieston, for an assault' upon JOHN HEAD, and for attempting to reseue Win. Maddon ,out of confinement, in. the parish uE Sail wood, to he, imprisoned, two ealeratr inonths,, and rind sureties'. for,R9e year, vii,hims:ll in :pl. and two sureties in Jol . each. ittißttki , eu,MPEk egatOn i3EGAN On Monday, ; at the New Sessions House at s Hor:iemonger.lane ; the common busineSs occu pied the day. On 'Tuesday an indiftmentreame , to be tried, pre. ferredby a Surveyotof the.higbwaYs of the.parish of Camberwell, ,against, a , Schoolmaster of that parish, for insulting in the execution of his duty, and false imptiionment. In the course of Atm evidence,- it..came out that this Surveyor.has the revetati9n of being extremely vigilant in his duty, an'keallecl one morning inuring school • honrs on the rVendant fur the ,highway rate; he asked rather .rudely for it, and .was so peremptory and. noisy, that he brought the, School-, master down, who paid the rate with some repri. mand for his rudeness, shut the front gate on him, and going 'across the court-yard opened the back gate to shew him pttt ; Mr.. Surveyor refused to go out that way for fear of a dog, as he alledgcd. However; after staying there for upwards of halt' an hotir, the Officer's .choler cooled, and he marched off,nresorting to this. indiament as his relief. The Counsel on both sides .made some acute-obser,. vlations on the case; which was at length settled by verdid for the Defendant. r litany 'Mears was charged with stealing sundry tiles of wearing apparel, the property of Eliza. llethJones, widow. The prisoner keeps a house in St. George's Fields,. the prosecutrix"was her lodger.- In the 'beinining of September Mrs. Jones had occasion. to go en . Finsbury-square, -'acd finding herself short of. money, got a- man who keeps a coal. shed to take the key of her trunk , .to her landlady, and desired she would bring her a napkin from her trunk, in 'which war contained a . 201..n0te, twelve silver spoons, snit!. 'salt, a silver pepper -box, and a pair. of sugar tongs. The man deli ve.red his message, and brought Mrs. Mears over wiih hiM in a coach ; she pro.' diked the' artielea sent 'for, and change being re gusted forthe 20t. note, - it was obtained.; part of the: change was a 1 0 1, note,. which it appeared the prisoner had secreted. On the next morning,- on examining her trunk, she'discovered that a 'great number of arrieles'olvearing apparel had, been taken out. Mears denied any knowledge of them ; but apart of the articles stolen and laid in the indilmenr, were discovered in the Prisoner's. possession. - A pair of stockings .the Prisoner wore, as well as .a cap on her head, were also sworn to, as being the property of the Prosectitrix. • Mt.'Srat Tit, the Chairtnan, summed up the ,dence, commenting .on the various points as they arose, and flirt) left it, to the Jury, who, after a short consultation, found a verdiE. 3 / 4 The Chairman, after a suitabk admonition tan, the aggravated 'circumstances of her offence, son. ttriccd. her to 4e transported for severs years. TH-1 KINO Till INHABITANTS OP THE PARISH ST. GEORGE, SOUTHWARIC. . . . The,ca3e, wri; opened by'lVir. MARRYATr, as an indifiment 10 a 'very serious offence 800 yards of she . foot..path nn the Northeast side of the road leading from Kent-street to the Green Man Turn. pike, being in so dangerous a state as to be gine.' ra lly jrnpaia,ible, to the great annoyance of the foot_ path,: passengers, it being the general straight foot. path from Deptford .to London. Mr. Searles, Surveyor; proved - the foot-path to be in the' most dangerous state, particularly for the two last years. He lilies now on the spot, and has known th: place from a child. The Parish of St. George, .by their Roadsmen, 'always kept it in re pair until.the last two years, when they suffered it to go altogether to decay, and become an intoiera. ble nuisance.. Mr. Siretr, a resident there for the last twenty. four years, deposed to the same circa, with the ad. dition, that he has seen the Trustees olthe Roads.. men frequently, when they have been making the water-table (;. c, sloping the high road down, so as tit carry off the water) thrOw the scrapings of the road on the foisGpath, to raise it higher. In this stage of the case a question of Law was raised and ,argued by' the, Counsel on both sides with much ability, gs whether this was such a foot. path, it being appertaining to the tarnpike.road, a s the Parish of St. George was bound to repair t''' M.taityATT and Mr. Not. - Att, for the Prose. cation, contended it was, and cited several cates'in suiport of their argument. Mr. WrrxsrHm.t: anti Mr. LAwss, Counsel for the Parish, as strenuously contended that the Parish was not at all bound to repair it; that the persons who were bound were the Trustees of the Roads,. who levied a toll on the passengers' carriages, horses, Ste. that passed over it ; not only this, but 'that a issat of the communication for the stature labour raiseti within the Parish was paid O'Ver to the' Trus_ tees of tit;. Roads, to keep that part of. the foot.way next their road in repair. . The Bench, vn coniultation, delivered their opi. pion, that the Parish was liable to repair this foot. way. The question submitted by the Chairman, Mr. EVANCE, to she Jury, was'aivided into two heads ? on the two counts of the indieivnt. The fire count laid the nuisance to be committed by not re. pairing the highway for horse anti foot passengets. The second, count laid it to be a foot-way only. The Learn'ed Chaitman clearly pointe4 out the bear. ings on each of the comas, andleft to the Jury to determine it by verdia• The Jury, after a few minutes consultation, re. turned a verttit, the what it one hisirwety. The Court desired them 'to reconsider their verdia, as that did not meet the case. They then turned found again, anti found 44 that the Commissioners ought to repair." This was.stated to them as an incom. pctent vcrtlia, the Bench having already determined that the Parish °sight to.re,air. Three times more did the Jury consult, and their ji,:a/ vrtdid was, "the Ps risk °1 St, Gtale ket Guilty." Charlotte Alleq, Jane Htrn, Marj Ann Hern, Harlot L. Perllevirtra Lovell, and yd.,;: Lova!, all of the Gipsy tribe, weie pot to the WE to answer' ' .the matters of complaint e x hibited against them, -this was stated to the Court as a proSeeution itiar..l h.. .1... .tz.. 0.. _c V l ;ce, to entteavour io t the icancialous I ice of those.Gipsies in briogiis j s ale.pergons aboqt th In at Norwood! to have their forturiel told on a Sunday ; it was -to co*rial slut iuppras that evil that had induced the Society to come forward to punish ttem',tifti wiuhing t that were there,a ray-of hope of atne.ntlinentithe parrivs might be ;kr:pitted .for this time. T e lie„ - vVere.riatnined, and the charge of fortune-teilirig proved against 'them, bui att expressing their contritinn for the past, nd pro: mising never to offend again in like niannet, they were liberated. Charlotte Allen, who appeared the mothet* . and leader of the set, having six young children, way discharged on filleting bail - fur her future good be:- havioor, Pentevinny Lovell did not meet so milda scri- • tence. • The evidence' against her proved that she nor only, told•the young Gentleman's fortune be ; rich, happy, and have a : full enjoyment tif, his wishes, but seeing him, when he eame up' with a . young Lady, she asked him the nature ~t their col).:, nexion . ; be said she was his sweetheart : the wily Gipsy then, in very plain tering,' offered her set'_ vice to tell her fortune, when site Wedged herself that:she would so work uoin,lir.r . a to make her Sub. servient to, all his desires-- his, it ihotita, secth, by the evidence before the C..ort, was the main point of their schemes, it tieing a general rule with abandoned libertines to i grautte tli.m.selves with young and inexperienced I es, A hoin they take as on Aiple4tsurable ty:Ap iyr Noud ; there they dine,. ind, -tie. Pool wine, sa.ly inith to set, their (attunes told; ihGentlenta.n has his - fortune told first. The rlan is then laid what is to be said to wnrkupon the feeling+ of the poor vietim, who thus, hyrt . 'tombination of circumstances, is plunged into: inevitable Thi) faU,. melancholy as, it is, ,has been established beyoial couttadittion, and is the chiel.re,43on of the Society using their utmoat effor)s to suppress the pratlice: She vias sentenced to six months imprisonment in the Mouse of Corrcaion at Newington. Yeiterday morning the Frigates the Vestal, lie. nitre, Iris, and Unia, intended for Block Snips, sailed from Woolwich and . Deptford to their place of destination at the Lower 'Hope, to guard the entrance of the River Thames. The Triniry-howe Colours were flying on board each ship. Previous to their departure, boo of the Trinity-house Volun teer' Fencibles arrived from the different Quays,- where they . nrustered and embarked to take ;heir' proper stations on board their respective sides of, the' River were lined' with peopie,io see them: - Yesterday — morning a detachment from the Bade. of Guards, under the command of ColoneL. , marched to Uxbridge,' to escort two . hundred and filly Priioners toNormlnCrUS4,' , Lincolnshire. 4 . !Th , Yesterday trr)rning the: 48th Reginnent , olFoot;,' passed through London from MancheStet', , Opt their route to Horsham Barracks: •.- - The' Brst regiment commanded by Colonel HA. • mtl.rozi, which arrived - in May from the Cape of Good liope at Jersey, sailed thence , the 29th, arid landed on Sitmday at PlyinAlth. They are in good - health' and spirits, arid look rem:tikAbly welt after five years service in the East ; they are 706 strosigil and will be immediately joined by .coo or the Army of Reserve. , Lau week the remains of the 66th Regiment marched into Winchester, where they are to reinaiu during the winter. Several shopkeepers in Manchester were con vined last week of using defeetiVe weights., and bitlatnces,;, one of.them had the conscience to,,use.a weigh; as, pound,. although an. wince deficient. • In consequence of the promotion of Mr. Justice., Doivras to the Chief JustiCeshirollreland,,a....isciw arrangement tales. place 'in the .Law 'Depsrtinent . Mr., Baron DALY goes into the Klpg's I 3; r,ch snit will be succeeded by, the BolicitniGenetal, LAND. Mr. PLUNKET is to be the hew solicitot , General:- " Two young Ladies of Qualiry are to be. tried Carrickfergus, before the Special ..Comrilissiuti just made our, upon a charge of having endeavoured to# seduce some Soldiers from their duty., . Ara Mr: Detur's coach:-was coming from the, North, ,through Prmskirk, on Sunday last, . a sad., accident happened : Whilst the coach .was standing opposite the inn-door waiting - fol. the passengers, a Gentleman who wag" an• inside' passonger, jumped upon the box, and imprudently stamped his foot, when the horses immediately set-off in full galicl the "coach-door being open, two Gentleinetuv , :to thrown into the stree t : one h a d hi s s h oulder dislo cated„. and another his arm broken. The frinses were stopped at about 200 )'ards distance. NOt%vitlistanding the ;riotta steps taken try tire, West India Dark Company,' and rite vigihince of the persons appointed iii' prevent the produce Item being pilfered,. depredations are frevently• mitred to a great extent.. 4 cdoper on ,Saturday last, employed on the goats, having stolen twenty two, pounds 9f coffee, placed it -in a hag' under his smock:frock, and was going Out.of the di.cks, when, unfOritinatefy fur liitft, but 'luckily 'for public :jus tice, a hole .burst in the'botttim of the liag, and the plunder . fell on the grotipdfor some distance behind him, without his knowledge. The constables at the gate attempting' tO-tillte burn into custody, he ran away, and was cloiely pursued . to' a .. house'at Litiehouse, ; from whence he ,however found' rwans to escape, leaving the remains of the, property be hind. Another offender was not so fortunate, k was detected with his 'potketit fall of sto , r, con. verid before a 11171gistratO, andenrurnitted for triA. It is much to kse 'Wished r reW b 13tices wereetna. pletely prevented by the dtrettott.;, Leing so highly trip:pions to the interests of this great natioitid cencern, Loot Sunday, abuot ',three eclodc in alter: noon, a fire broke nut at Hatt-place School, IlExt e) .' Kent. By the very siii,rited exertions of. .the habitants of Bexley and Crayfrird, it was• tiriguished in about an Lour. Soine y tori ago a chimney .had, been Ruinfrir,lized, ;Ina th e grate brought forward into the room ; a beam Wa9 n,.ar flit grate anJ c4nglit fare. Owing•to the kind arid, timely assistance of the neighbonrsi the damage was