The Sun. — London, England, 1803-03-04 00:00:00

N4VAL NEWS. C PORTSMOUTH, MAACII 3. DEAL, MARCH 3. • tkilLtD the ifesle, MATut for Chichester ; Roe, PRI oa, for Liverpool, with wheat ; GovverpAr, VouNris, for Lyme ; and Waihinton, Scorr, for Charlestown. Tip* Hon. East India Company's Ships lVa l ale end Elphinstone, together with the whole of the outward-bound, sailed this morning on their respec. tive voyages. The Ships Casada and CaterleViii: remain. El -110 lair) be on 'on- lost the Anis his one dery Wes n of noi. 'lace will I di- Which. 4.00 x)ro. an of ional Inter' icier.• tions , e ree eon. send , en• reds• Pick ! two Both P GREENOCJC, Miatex X. • • tvrwsltt Saturday night and Sunday morning, it . caine on to blow a most taemendous gale from IN: N. W. accompanied with very heavy showers of snow, which continued all Sunday. The ship. Pitss at the Tail of the Bank rode very hard . ; the t'o It Es, which arrived there on. Friday, and WAS put under quarantine, parted both her 'ca. Mess and was' tun on the ground on the opposite fide of the river, below Ardarden House, where it is thought she will receive no damage. We are sorry to state, that the Ship GO'Otr., Piaem, Captain RITCHIE, for Trinidad, which "sailed from this Port on Friday evening last, Went on shore in the night time in Lunderston near the' village of Innerkip there was every prospeet •of her being got off without any damage, , had the weather continued moderate ; but It blew a very heavy gale on. Saturday dead on the shore, by which the ship beat so much, 1111 4 t she sprung a severe leak, so that th.: pumps were barely able to keep her free ; and, unfor. tunately on Sunday, after she had been got off the ground and safe to ;anehor, the gale check ed.. suddenly round . to W. N. We .blowing a mere' tempest, which forced them -to slip the cables, and run ashore on the beach, which is sandy, in Innerkip Bay ; but the sea running very 11.1 .4 11 i and ;the ship beating extremely hard, the Pumps became entirely useless, 'by which means, though the cargo will be all saved, a great part of it well damaged. Every exertion was made, and •*s*stang given, but in vain: nothing could con. ISO with the winds and waves. • The lifiorva, CARRICK ' from Virginia to this to arrived on the 24th Feb, in itelfaat , Lech, Au -3$ days passage. On the . 33d she, struck On 4 jock on the coast of Ireland, .which beat off her. /udder ; and she mig ht have been lost , but for the iassistance of two Workington brigs, commanded by Captains SCOTT and WALKIIR I who, with great exertion, succeeded in t owing her into Belfast. GIBRALTAR, FEs, 7. ••••0•••••• k ON the 4th, the Downed, commanded by Sir RicamtctSraitetimr, arrived here in nine clays from Portsroath Sir RtcHAto sailed with sealed orders for this place ; he met the Cynthia on the tat of this month of Cape Sr. Vincent's. On the Vh• Sir RICHARD sailed•to join the Fleet at Malta. he Drazon and ReHOOWN have both'gone into the. Mole to refit,. and are likewise to tail for Malta, whenever they are repaired, as is also the Mo.virsourk. The daisy, Frigate sails to.day for Malta. MILITARY INTELLICEISTE. Foot St. Crorr, &pt. is o s. G. A. By COVIXNULNT. The Right Non. the Governor in Council has been pleased to eppoint Major AI,EXANDtft 0 aa, to be Quarter-Master. General of the,rlrmv, with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel attached to that situation, *ft Kt CUAIDSON, permitted to tbrciship in Council his been pleased to appoint Cap tlia• MaNao to be, Deputy . Quarter. Master General to Vic Army, '.with the lank of M a. vice One. Yard; hip in Council , dire s, that the Commissions of lentenant,Colonyl Oita, antt o Major MONRO, shill bear dale flyrn the fit :the Right Hon. the Governor in Council, (Signed) • • G. BUCHAN, • Sec. to Government. ITO*, oP the Commander in Chief, (Signed) F. A. AGNEW, Adjutant*Gener -1 of the Army. A meeting was to be held at the Exchange at 'eheiter on Tuesday, for the purpose of addressing MAIIIITY on his late providential escape, and the discovery of the treasonable. Conspiracy lately flurried against the Government of this Country. A Law" has been proposed. to the French Legisla. dye Body relative to Physicians, Surgeons, and Officers of Health. They are to undergo very stria examinations, and are to take the title of natant in Ptiys.e or Surgery. Mademoiselle DUMESNI L i a celebrated Aaress, died at Paris on the 21st ult. in the Both year of her age. Two instances of longevity have lately occurred ranee : a, Husbandman, an inhabitant of the Can:mune, o f Saint Chamaran, in the Department of Lot . , died on the loth ult. at the age of to 6, with. out having experienced any illness in the course of ivlarury .„bis lung. lily: and a .woman died lately at Saint in the Canton of, Montpasier, at the age of to 7. ~ HOXJARD, formerly'an Advocate of the Par. 'lament of Paris, and a 'Member of the ei.devant Academy of Inscriptions, and of the National In. • st itute, died lately at Abbeville. He was Author " Remarks on the Text of the ancient Laws of (ranee preserved. in the English customs, cotlefted hY LI TT 1.V1'014." "A Treatise on Anglo-Norman Custom s ;" and " A Diaionary of Norman Law." Shocking '...4re;dent.—Friday se'nnight, at the Brewhouse of Messrs. Fisher and Co. of Chorley, Lan. cashire, after the boiling water was put into the mash. tub, two men quarrelled about a spade, and the one • "Nein' , the other, they both fell into the tub at ,:he instant the wife of one of them .came to the place : she got them both out, but so dreadfully scAled, they died in a few hours ; and she is so 1).1:1‘ scalded that her life is deilitaired of. CITY BUSIVESS. A Coast of Ccamon Council was held yotertily at Guildhall, at which the LORD MAYOR presided ; ten Aldermen, Mr, Recorder, the Sheriffs, and the greater pat t of the Commoners were present. The Proceedings of the last Court were read and confirmed. _ _ The LORD MAYOR, in a concise speech, informed :he Court that they liAd waited on His MA) ErrY at, St. James's, on Wednesday last, with their Address of Congratulation on the late villainous attempt to destroy the Person of our beloved Sovereign, and to subvert the Government and our glorious Constitu tion, and that Hts MAJESTY had received them very graciously. His Majesty's answer was read, arid ordered, with the Address, to be entered on the City Journals. Several Petitions and Reports were read and agreed to, except one, which was from the Committee of General Purposes, stating, that in compliance with diretlions, they laid befote the Court an account of the expencew in and at the Mansion.house, in the Mayoralty of Sit JoHN Ea,meß, Knt, amounting to 53151. 7s. 6d. that 20091. I6S. part of the said sum, was by order Of Court, 1081. t7s. by order of the Committee, and 3031. Bs. usual charges, and which arise every year ; the remaining sum of 28931. 6s. was the expCnce of the State Bed, and the furniture of the room where it is placed. This gave rise to a very spirited debate. Sir Joutit EAMEL explained what he fired ordered, which 'amounted to about 601, He laid that he had represented to the Court that a State Bed was ne. cessary, and estimated the expence of it at 4001. curtains 2001. and other things, in the whole, 7601. He said, that if he had ordered a Bed, &c.amount. ing to the sum charged, it would have been a reflec. tion upon hii chlrader. • Mr. PHILLIPS, the Upholsterer,, said, many things were ordered by .Sir JOHN EANSER beyond those given by the Court; that patterns of every thing were shewn to the or Lady Mayoress,. 'who ordered carpets, &c. of larger dimensions.; and that Sir JOHN particularly slid, that if - the things sent in were not elegant, they should be sent back; that the silk alone cost soool. it was at last agreed that it should be 'referred' to the Committee to ex amine and again report. , - The Court proceeded to the elation, by ballot, of a Collator of Smithfield Market, and the ballot being cast np, it appeatecl that Mr. WILL' AM Tuc. KEY had the majority, whereupon his Lordship de. clared him duly elaled during the pleasure of this Court.—Mr. TIICKEY returned the Court his sin. cere Thanks for the favour he had received, and begged leave to resign his situAtion as Collator of Newgare Market, which the Court accepted, and ordered the Elation of another to take place at the next Court. Ir is decidedly the wish of the Togvn that Mr. ICSMIII.I and Mrs. SIDDoNs should be brought back to the London Stage ; and it is surely , the duty, as it would certainly be to the interest of the Manager to comply with that wish. Mrs. BILL I NGTotr's complaint, from Which she is rapidly recovering, is said to have been the French influenza, and not a brain fever. Mis% DE CAMP has experienced much benefit from dm change of air. She is now at Plassy, near Paris, where she will remain for some months longer. Coosa is at pretent so much indisposed, that Moa.. RAY has studied his part in Mr. COLMAN'S new Comedy, and is to perform it in case Coosa should not recover his health in due time. Miss ST RPHINS performs Mr,. MOUNTAI N's cha. 'rafter in The Hero of the North, in constquence oI Mrs. MOUNTAIN'S illness. INct,aDON has returned from Bath, and resumed his eharatler last night in Family Quarrels. Little SimmoNs.is upon the sick.list at Covent Garden Theatre, and his part in Family Quarrels is assigned to DAVENPORT. Mrs. ESTEN has renewed her engagement at the Edinburgh Theatre. She is deservedly held in the highest estimation there as an Adress. Why is she not invited to perform at one of our Winter Theatres here ? There is surely a very good opening for her at either. STEPHEN KIMBLE has made a golden harvest of it this year at Newcastle. He has been not less successful in the Spanish than his brother JOHN, without, the trolble of travelling so far. Moorty, the Player, went to an Auction Room, a few mornings since, to purchase a Share of Drury. Lane Theatre ; but being very deaf, he discovered, when the lot was knocked down to him, that in stead of the Share of the Theatre, he had purchased the Lease of a Barber's Shop in the Strand. A Mr. WYNDlinm made his debut as a Singer on Monday, in a Concert at Oxford, under the direr, lion of Dr. CROTCH. We know another Mr. WiNDFIAM who is chiefly tiireeted by Crotchets. It is mentioned in one of the Papers, , that Mr. PIT I's Physicians are of opinion that his health is perfeelly re-established. In this case, as well as in most others, his own opinion is probably the best. The vacant office in BONAPARTE'S kitchen is not again to be disposed of, it being the intention of the Flan Com'. in future to cook for himself. A Noble Opposition Lord means soon to open his heavy battery against BONAPARTE'S Five Hundred Thousand Men, while General Wt NDUAM will come upon their flank with his sharp-shooters. All the English Nobility are hastening from Paris, whom La Grippe does not keep fast there. We hope.M. LASNES will conduel himself with more propriety at Lisbon than he did before, though from the hint given him by his Principal at parting, we have no great right to expect it. The approval of his conduet, which appeared to all Europe so re prehelisible, will no doubt he understood in its proper sense, as an encouragement to, we, wish we could say fair trade. The Bretom are likely to fail in the. &l e n of their Petition to Parliament. Indeed it would have been odd if they should have succeeded in such a modest reitiest, as to , have every private house opened to the visits of an Excise OftiCar I CORN gxcriAlvc, -mmtcit THltitt are but few arrivals of *heat ; a thin Market, and the prices appear at something less ; Barley is still very cheap, as well as Malt ; we see no alteration in. Pease; Beans of both sorts are rs. lower ; 'we have a great twiny Oats, but they are not cheaper ; Flour at small variation. Wheat 4ss a sos a sils ad 'Mk Beans -23 s a 325 0:1 Fine ditto - s9s a 6a5 od Oats - - 155 a 17$ a 2oS Barley - 213 a 265 of Poland ditto aIS a 221 ad Malt - - gos a aiss oil Rape Seed - - ;al . a. 331. Rye - -32 s a 3 5 s ad Fine ' , to u t -44 s a 47* ed White Pease 335,a 395 od Seeonddo - 4n 5 a 44 5 Beans - 3is a 315' 6d The cold at Genoa has been . unus - ually intense. The Thermometer, on the 7th of February, stood at nearly four degrees below the freezing point ; the ri ver had begun to freeze near the banks, and .a very heavy fall of snow took place. The novelty of this scene drew all the inhabitants of the city to =item- plate the phenomenon. It furnished the entire plea sures of the day ; the theatres were shut, and the balls were suspended. Nobody could forego the pleasure of trampling the snow ; even the most de licate Ladies, for the rarity' of*the thing, impressed upon it their footsteps, amidst the buffetings of a very cold wind. Some young Engravers seized this opportunity of exercising their talents, and exhibit ing their works in public. A Venus was seen emerg. ing froM a sea of snow ; and a Bacchus was eleVated on his tun. The Learned also repaired to the scene, with microscopes in their hands, to examine the snow, and the starry particles of which it was corn. posed. The English and Dutch sailors who hap. pened to be there, immediately construeled some sledges, and exhibited to the wondering Genoese, a spetlacle of which they had not before the re motest* idea. A body of Gentlemen at Norwich have it in con. temptation to erea machinery for spinning cotton twist and weft ; a measure which is likely to prove highly beneficial to the Inhabitants in general, as well as the individuals who may undertake it. • A letter from Copenhagen, dated the i 201 Feb. mentions, that there was then in the hospital of that city, a woman who had slept eleven 'weeks without interruption. Some attempts have been . made to awake her from this trance, by violently shaking her . ; while the motion lasts, it seems to revive her ; but, as soon asoit is discontinued, she immediately re. lapses into a profound and death-like sleep. During this period, she has ntit received any foOd, notwith standing which there is not the least alteration in her appearance. She is only twenty-eight years of age, but :remarkably corpulent. . Mr. Alderman COMBE a few days ago met with a very disagreeable accident. Having gone into a dog.sl , op near the end of Piccadilly, a dog laid hold of his calf, and before he could be disengaged tore his leg in a very severe manner. An inquest sar, on Monday evening, bef o re GEL Ls FAq. Coroner of the City of Westminster, at a public-house, in YV:ardour4trcet, on 'the body John Mackintosh, the apprentice to a ,pawn:broker in Prince's-street, Compton-street. It appeared in evidence, that the deceased had been eighteen months bound to the above,bosinesi ; and on Fri-. day, about two o'clock, he went •up stairs .to the ware room ; that he had previously loaded a' pistol, -which he tuck up stairs, and shortly after 'discharged the consents into hia 'forehead, which, • passing quite through the head,,came out at the oc riput. As no report was heard, he .remained un discovered until the remit) of his Mastcr,, who was then out upon business. No answer being giveo on ringing the bell, the Master and one'of , lns.Cictks went up into the mom,' where they found the on. fortunate youth quite dead. Near the body was found a paper,. in the hand-writing of the degeased, by which it appeared, that. love was the cause 'of this sad catastrophe. `lt purported, that not having it in his power to make the (skied of his affections ,‘ happy, he had . resolved to commit this rash action. The Jury, on this'evidence, returned a verdict 'of Lunacy. On Wednesday morning, about three o'clock; a fire broke out in the house of Messrs. BRANDER and Do NB AR, London-street, Fenchurch-ltreet.— The wind being high,' the conflagration, at one time, wore a very serious asped. It was, however, pily confined to the 'premises in which it broke but, which are entirely consumed, and to the lodg ing immediately south of it, possessed by Messrs. Ms wolot and MITCH ELL, which has received con.: siderable damage. The progress of the flames, be, fore the attention of the watchman was attraded,' rendered all hope of preserving the effects in the house where it began, unavailing.. The Lady be longing to it had been delivered only a few days,, and was in a weakly state, and it was with'diffi.' culty she could be carried out by her husband, one of the watchmen, at the same time, taking care 'of her infant child. The aceident toltave hap. pened through the carelessness of a servant. Qo Wednesday night, about ten o'clock; a man genteelly dressed, hired a hackney-coach at Charing. croas, and ordered the coachman to drive to Sc.. John's Farm, near the one . mile-stone, on the EdAe.' ware-road. When the coach got to the top of the lane leading to St. John's Farm, the man pulled the string, and told the Coachman to let him our, for he had passed the' house he 'wanted; upon which the Coachman let him out of the coach .; and the man asked him what his fare was ? He said, "ea„.6d. - when he pUt his hand into a - side-pockei, Oiled our a pistol, and swore he wthdd umitediately shoot him, if he 'did not deliver his money and watch, which the Coachtinin delivered, and the robber made his escape across some fields. • Qn Monday night, about twelve. o'clock, as a Gentleman was passing through Charles -street, Soho-square, he .was accosted by a man 'whited like, a sailor,, who inquired his .way to a street, and. while the Gdntleman Was diretting him, be snatched his 'watch out of his pocket and ran off with it : the Gentleman pursued him, and, being very nimble, came up with him, and would have secured him; but a companion of the rubber came -behind and knocked him Jaen, which cau-ed .his hat to fall of, and the robberi got clear olf. with the hat as well as..the watch. - i Ail/ REPO MT: COURT OF KING's BENCH, SITTINGS BZIGItr. 1.016 ELLENOGROUGH AND A Sir CIAL. JURYt iN GUILDHALL, 1.0441)00. 4IIELLUSSCibt Alll5 (iTHiIiS '6. otiki.zmO3. Mit. G 11309 stated this to be an Aftiori upOri Policy of Ingurance on the - Ship Malabir, And tnciL on board her, on a voyage from the Isle of &pr. bcfn and the Mauritius Co Toulon, her FT 4 of till- charge in France. The property insured helfingea to persons in France, to whom the Plaintiffs, Messr3. Thellusson, were Agents before the War. The Po. liey was effeeted so Tong ago as the year r figs, and the lesson why this Attion was not tried sonnr was, that the Defendants would not permit it, be. cause they availed themselves of a plea that the pro. ',coy in question belonged to alien Enemies, and. therefore this Adion could not be proceeded in un. til the War was over. The amount of property, in all, depending upon these Policies, was not Jess than +o,oool. The whole of this case had tinder _ &tie a full examination of a Committee of Gentle men on behalf of the Underwriters, and the case appeared so clear, that two Gentlemen of as much respeciability as any in London, Mr. Shed:lon Mr. Wood,' were so satisfied, that they p.iid tae amount Of their sulwription. The same Case 'v, , as tried bei . ore . a full Special Jury in Guildhall, audit verdiet was found for the Plaintiffs ; and an aMica. tion was made - to "the Court to sec anti aside, and to grant a new. trial ; .hut the Court had ao_ proved of the verdict. However, the Underwriter who was not satisfied had, a right to appeal to an. other Jury. The 'circunbtances.of the case were shortly these September 1792 this Ship was at the Mauritius anti the Isle of France, hound. t(i. Toulon,• as he had stated. There was a cargo of great value on board. The Captain, Who is dcad, had a trifling adventure on board, but,he had no in . , terest in the cargo. Before they left ;he Isle of France, they. received information respeding, the situation of Europe, by Means of a Ship that ars rived there a little while 'before, by which they learnt that the King of Prussia and the Emperor of Germany had declared War against Franee. They . . _ . had heard nothing of the situation of England prior to their sailing. In, conseqbence of this informa: tion, they armed themselves with a few guns, which they called their artillery, and they increased their crew. On their voyage towards the Capeohey met With bad weather, and they were under the neces. city of putting into St. Helena; this was about three months after they came from the bled Frame. When they left St. Helena, between that and the Island of Madeira, they met an American vessel.— This was in the course of February 1793 they hailed and spoke to her, and through the Means of a French Sailor, who could speak English, they . re: ceived sonic further information. This American vessel ,came froin Lisbon ; .by this vessel they, learnt that France was ,at War with the .E. a 'averor of Gee. many, the King of Prussia, .anal the Icing of Sardis , nia, and that England was arming briskly, but that Spain was 'quiet. This was spoken to them by means of a trumpet,, and the two ships continued togither.about two minutes. They made Cape St. Vincent's in about twenty days. After this they saw two Spanish Frigates, the one of them within *gnu-shot ,of them ; one to windward and the other 'to leeward of them. These two vessels hoisted their Colours, and fired a gun tit certify.who they were ;- in consequence of which -the Malabar hoist . miller Colours, and also fired a gun to certify who . - she was ; after which .the two Spanish Frigates sailed away, by which. the Captain of the': Mala bar was well assured that there. were n hostilities :between France and Spain, for, the• _Frigates, could have taken the `Malabar with perfeel ease if they • had been so minded she' could not possibly have got cfr. After they had passed the Frigates they met with four Merchantmen, They, were together four hours 'afterwards, upon Which 'the Malabar hoisted het .Coloors.' These' vessels came from the Havannab, or Vera Cruz.- After this 114 -Captain • =held a consultation with the rest of the'dflicers upon . what they,ought to do., in consequence of the in... formation 'they had received ; upon which it was detefinined to 'go. into Cadiz, in order nis preserve the general interest. This consultation was held on the t eth of March 1 . 792,and they put- into - Cadiz ,-on the 17E14' Before they - came to this resolution, they had no reason at ,all to suppose, or to suspea, that Spain was at war with France. On the- con.- •trary,- they were assured the two Nations'were at peace.. ,They ,therefore determined to go-into the harbour of Cadiz. They had a pilot before they went -into the harbour ; the pilot was a'Spaniatd, but said,not a word,to them on the State of Spain, •. and therefore, - to. the last moment, they thought they were going' into, a friendly port,, when they were going „into Cadiz.; they wished to do so, to order to coiled further information respehing the r English, and to avoid_ danger from them. Just as the Ship entered the harbour of Cadiz, she was, takers possession: of, the Crew detained, &c. and the Ship and Cargo lost to, the Owners. And this ,Mtion was brought to recover thai loss. -The facts were all proved as they were stated,. Mr. EaSKINe, on the part or the Defendants, protested against the idea of. the Jury being biassed by. any thing that had happened in any other causes and insisted that the Jury _should try this as if - no . other like it had ever happened. maintained that this Ship had gone, out of tier track without justifiable encase, and that there. wits a deviiroint here which excused the Underwriters. He admit- . ted the Captain of this Ship (the Malabar) might he deceived as to Spain being in' a state of tranquillity :with France, since the evidence was so ; 'hut he L . maintained that the'Ship had ratight to enter. 411 v. Port in Seain, or any where else out of the tr i ck of her voyage, unless was Afjusrifubie cause. 'That they'had heard Great Britain was . armitql, Was so far C. - pm being a cause for delay on, the voyage, that it was a reason for their making the ltc.st of their way to their Putt of destioatioo, which was Toulon, instead' of putting into Ctliz. That •in Order to excuse any Ship from iating frond het h course,'the danger which is intern .1. to De !d, must be imminent, pending, 1 - 0. use the wards ..of his Lar,i,hip m the former Trial -; whereas, he .00risidered'atii . ,at, a judgment flirined by the Captain and his Officees, upon.grourde, that Would not justify -,then ; it was a weak andlbol;sh