The Sun. — London, England, 1803-11-17 00:00:00

BLOCKADE OF THE ELBE AND iPIESER. THE Commercial inconvenience, and the mis conceived political tendency of this measure are now generally admitted by Men of Candour and lotcliigence, that to such it is as impossible as it is. unnecessary to address a single new argument—but, 11 5 in the present contest, there are immense num. bers of well.disposed . men who have more of the ,fire of Enthusiasm than of the light of Information, and who `are fully satisfied witltany display of Na. things! Force, without inquiring into the correctness with which that force is employed ; it is to the in. tentions of such gcind men that the tribute of ex. planation is due.—With reaped to the Commercial 'efreas of this measure, it is palpable to•every man - inhusiness, that, at a moment when the Trade of this Country with Italy, France,' and Holland, is totally intertliaed, .and the intercourse with Spain o and Po rtuga l rests n -so precarious a basis, that no prudent English Mer Chant would hazard any ad-. venture for his own account to tho‘e Countries, at such a period, it certainly would, have been wise to have cherished the only prktieable channels of inter. course with the•Conrinent which remained; of these the principal were col,fesiedly the rivers Elbe and : Weser —through these . channels the Ctinitnetce of this Country might have been pursbed with the greatest adivity, and without any interruption in neutral vessels*.—The stagnation 'of business pro duced by the measure under notice, has brought general emb*rrassnient on most of the Commercial. TOWS of chi': Courtrv, and total ruin on several NianufBcturnit and "trading Houses of the first re : , speetability.. \Vold it nor have be en easy f or English Vessels to have assumed the mantle of .neu •trality, anti is not the System of this Citivernment, in the case before: us, somewhat like detarbying, or, at best, jeopardizing the Tree of Comtnerce for the, take of the bar 4 ,t —These observations' apply to trade in gereral, but with respect to Manufactured Goods, the measure wider consideration rends "ab solutely to raise a Tax on. British, ManufaCtures, and offer a Bounty on rival establishments tan the Continent.---It is well,koown, that in many parts t 1 Germany; and particularly in Berlin, there are marmfadories in almost every branch practised in this Country, of course every new dif-• litulty imposed on the introduction of British is an k neouragement .to these' foreign manulanuros.— The motive fur the mea sure , d rawn f r O m t h e e retext of annoying the Enemy, is founded in •tallacy. The French have nu Interest in the question—they, -have compelled the Hanovefrians io supply theix . ,Army, without any promise, or hale of •yayrnenr; If thii en....,r,igernent is more in consequence of the blockade of the Elbe, 31 oppresses Ills Majecy's Hanoverian Subjeas, • Om Mi n i s ters sifted to cherish; in short, in a tomMercial view., the only voice that will be rais.. Od is that of the City of Hatuburgh, ,which too, feeble to he heard, and' by diverting the wonted Channel of trade from that City, the Interest of the Northern Powets.in its neutrality is much di. Minished, and conbequently the English FaCtory, sand many vcty ioyortant, indiVidual Estatilishments t here, are eXposed to the greater chance of French talacity,....These are some of the 'Commercial El. ••;- re " 3,. Of the measure..;-•As to its Political Effeels, the utsts and,perhaps 4 the most exceptionable, flows irons its tone anti manner-When - the integrity of the bermst, Empire was infradled by the occupa. . ' Con of Hanover, the Guaranteeing Powera should . have been first called upon, by a solemn remon. btrance to restore it, and, only on failure of redress b Ylemonstrance, force should have been resorted tu—instead of which, the same i..7ouriers that car. Situ the Remonstrances to the ditrerent Courts; car. tied also the Notification of the BliNkatle, and thus . the Force of Great Britain is immediately applied toga auhjeCt in which, 'a few duys beftire it was C,flicially, that Great Britain,_nor her King as King of Great Britain, had no kind of interest, +. • •• 4 —Then the Cou ntr i es of. the 'North were madelo feel the naval force of this Country, of which they , were always extretnzly jealous, at the very innocent when the only hope this Government had-Of con. ciliating an alliance in that quarter was, in,leading them to forget the posyer .of this Country, and in. creasing as much as, possible..thiir apprehensions of French aggrandizeinent.—Th e prompt and violent , . ttianrter of establishing 'this blockade, not only re. , volted the Cabinets of the North . , but alienated from this 'Couritry the public opinion of that vicinity, and much facilitated the' ascendancy the Ereoch are seeking to acoolre—tke revolution ar y effeas of which are not, perhaps, Vety distant.—The language of the Frtnuk t at Hambuigh,•' on .the news of the blocklide Was, that if they could diffite the measures tel the Briti s h . Ninistry, they could not be. more promotive of their , views, and 'that they should t henceforth study to gain that opinion which Eng land was certainly losing-4E :should be known, that, besides' the 'distress produced in 'the middling and higher clashes by the blockade, ,there ate in , Hamburgh alone, upwards of twe l ve t h ousand liigivermen, a n d other labourers conneaed with • business,, who are entirely beggared by its suspen. Ilion, and it should be recolleited that this descrip. tion.of men do not trace out the mediate and remote .causes may justify a public measure to refined States Men, but deliver themselves up to feelings of desperation towards that Power that immediately oppresses them.; the cooperation of these men, wish a proportionate number of disaffect ed in other places in the vicinity, will go far to aid a ny Praiteis of Reform, which, the French may have contemplation: On thrOther haati, had this Go. rernment -put no check to the'impatience and im., betuosity natur a l to F r e n ch m e n , i t i s certa i n , t h at *fore this time, they would have committed some aggression whiCh would have awakened the apa thetic.Couneils, and excited the general feeling of that Country against them. All bloCkaeles- have a retrosptelive .and ruinous operation on the commerce 'Of distant and unapprized " Some striking instances'ot The' reipeit the Ftench were elisposed to strew to Ncul rat Flags, occurred. between the occupation of Hanover and the blockade of the Elbe, two Within the Writer's knowledge ; the. Port Mary, Captain Collins, and the, Joseph, Capt. Sallie, hoth richly laden ,it Hull, with nauutheitiredgoods,avowedis bhlppeti for British account were &uttered to puss, uninteriiiptod at Stade, up to Hainburgii. See the reasons of Mitiistty for relut,ing to ratify. the Ilartoseriars C:apitulation. f nrierala—An nistinee fottria a shade of . . °brawn, and of no light tint, against the measure under consideration— , -There cannot be a more neutral commerce than that between- the United States of . America and Hamburgh; this commerce, without any previous notice, is distorted from its course by an unforeseen measure .of hostility—this, joined to the other complicated restrielions on their trade, must produce extensive individual distress, and tend' to irritate the public mind in that Country.- / . As the meeting of ParliaMent is at hand, the Leaders of the Opposition will, as usual, prefer their various articles of impeachment against Ministers ; this important subjet will, no doubt, form a pro. minent item in their bill of cen s ure.--I therefore resign its management to those who have infinitely more leisure, 'ability and influence, and am satisfied with having proved myself at least, A WEL,L-WISHER TO lIANIBURCII • AND ITS TRADE. 4DjOURNED SESSIONS, GUILDHALL. TUESDAY last the Adjourned Sessions commenced at Guildhall, before the RECORDER, SHRRIEFS, and ALDERMEN, when William Williams was tried for au Assault. _ • It appeared that the Defendant kept a Register. Office for thehiring of servants, in Old. Bethlem ; that the Prosecutrix having seen an adveitisecnent in a daily paper, from this office, of a single gen. tletnan's place, who wanted two servantsi and .whose sister lived with him, thinking it might suit her, made application to the office, when Williams demanded 2s. 63. of her and gave her a direction to Mr, Davenport, a respeelable silk-mannfaelurer, near , Wood street ; do her application there, - she was informed they were not in want of a see. want, and found Mr. Davenport's situation to be different from what Williams had repre sented it to her, he having ,a wife and family. On the Prosecutrix discovering. it to have been a fraud, she, in company with her sister, returned to the office and demanded the half-crown back . • again, which was peremptOrtly'refused. On words ensuing, the Defendant bolted the street.door, when himself, assisted by his wife, severely ill-treated the Prosecutrix and her sister, by beating them and tearing their clothes, till their streams alarmed the neighbourhood. The Jury found she Defendant— Guiliy. Mynas Marshave and Sarab his wife, were india. ed for keeping a disorderly , house ; •as was jaw Buedet, and Elizabeth his wife. Both houses arc in Sil ver.street, St. Dunstan's. They were each found Guilty, and sentenced to one month's imprisonment in Giltspur-street Compter, and t 6 find sureties for their good behaviour for twelve months. ilppletrei, a butcher in Fleet.market, was indicted by the Inquest of Farringdon Without, for having exposed to sale about so lbs, weight of meat unfit for.human food. The Defendant pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to one month's imprison. Mem in Giltspur.street.Compter, and botind over for twelve months not to offend in like manner, himself in 2001. and two others in tool. each. The late LORD MAyo% condueled himself with so much good sense and liberality during his pos. session of the Chief Civic Dignity, that the thanks )(' the Court of Aldermen cannot be Coniidered as mere matter of form; but as the due tribute to offi. cial and personal merit. The eighteen.pnun carronades which are on board the Deal Boats, which are prepared to repulse the enemy, are so fixed on a swivel, tiftit they can be brought to bear in 'a.ny'direetion-; while the guns in tile French Boais can only bear in one dircc. tion. Upwards of scio casks of'butter have been washed an shore in the neighbourhood of Padstow, supposed to be part of a cargo of an Irish vessel, wrecked on that Coast. THE LATE METEOR.--. 4 letter from Southamp. ton, of the 14. th says, " Yesterday evening, between eight and nine o'clock, the inhabitants of this town were much surprised it a grand and unusual appear. ance of light in the element, about sixty ,:‘egrees Awe the horizon, in the W. S. W. quarter, which . illuminated the buildings, &c. in its passage upon the opposite point of the compass. it was not vi. sible mare 'than eighteen or twenty second` ; the night was fine, the hemisphere clear and starry, with a moderate breeze from the Westward : the streets were in general pretty much crowded : the evening service at the different churches, &c. having concluded but a short time before this passing tnestor was discovered." Between eight and nine o'clock on Sunday night, the same ball of fire appeared over Lewes, which, for several soconds, illuminated the hemisphere in an extraordinary . manner; A person returning from Brighton, on the roof of a coach, asserts, the light . was so strong, that it enabled him to see, not only the cattle and sheep in the distant meadows, but also the shipping at sea. Its bursting wAs felt at several houits, which it anually shook, and so alarmed their inhabitants, that they started from their scats; ' as if in fear of being overwhelmed with destruftion. , The amateurs of boxing were yesterday morning gratified by a long and hard.fought battle, in a field nearVatchet, between Samuel 'OW, a barge. man, and a Grenadier of the Staffordshire Militia. They fought for no more than a guinea a side, but Many bets were made by the spectators during the fight, which lasted upwards .of two hours and 'a quarter, when the Grenadier gave it in. Gill was before known as .a prizefighter. On inquiry, toe find (Nat it was not with the Duke de BERRI, but with one, of his•domestics, that the deceased Mr. Sinious was fencing, at the time of his sudden death. .On the first parry, the deceased clapped his hand to his 'right breast, and ex. claimed, " My Gon, I am. no more ;" instantly the foil fell from his hand. fle was caught in the 'arms of a Gentleman, who,was present, and expired in a few minutes. The Coronet's Inquest was sum. moned on .Friday before GEORGE _HODGSON. El. Coroner fur the Courtly; and after a minute irives. ligation, returned th e i r Verdict, Died by the riti. tatiou ofCead., Mr,, SimoNs was a respettable hat ter in Vere.street, Oxfoid.xoad. , . Ow Wednesday last His Royal Highness Prince MILL of• thrittc emit hon oured this place :with his presence. He was accompanied. by T, CHOLMONDELEY, Esq. the Memberfor Cheshire, and several other Gentle Men 'of the first rank in the County. His Royal Highness's principal ob. - Jai in this excursion was to 'see the Rock Salt Mines at this place - ; one of which, the most spacious, was lighted up on the occasion. His Royal Highness stepped into the bucket with the greatest comp sure, anti, accompanied by Mr. CHOLMONUELF was lowered by means of the steam engine about too yards into the bowels of the earth. On their arrival at the bottom they were saluted with three times three cheers by a great number of workmen and other persons who had previously gone doivn in or. der to receive his Royal Highness with the greater eclat. That, together with the glare of near three, thousand candles, the brilliancy of the roof of this tee mendous cavern, the immense pillars left at proper intervals for its support, the noise and clatter of the workmen; the singular situation so far below the surface of the earth, all conspired to astonish and delight his Royal Highness and the party. His Royal Highness seemed particularly struck with the beauty of the scene, and could not help expres sing his satisfaction at every step. Dining his stay several blasts were made by gunpowder, the eifett of which was truly grand. After exploring ev er y part of ,this stupendous work of industry his Royal Highness ascendedi and was received at the, top of the shaft by a vast concourse of loyal subjeds,,.who, saluted him with three times three cheers: His Royal Highness then set off with his party to, Vale Royal, the seat of Mr. Choltnondely, to dine. A great nUMbei of Cheshire Elegantes were assembled upOn .this occasion, who were particularly pleased with the affability arld good nature of the Prince. No accident whatever occurred during the many trips that were made but a' parcel of jolly trades: men who had sent down some liquor, and were de: termined to stay below and drink the candles out, and sing " Goth save the King," &c. were unfor. tunately, from the forgettulneas of the man who concluded the engine in not providing plenty of coat, and his water growing short from the great number of people who had gone down, obliged to stay there till next day, when they were again landed upon terra firma, to the no small diveroion of theit ac. quaintances. THE TREAT!' first part of King Henry the Fourth was represented; last night at Covent.. Garden Theatre. Kama Le was as usual very spirited in ifitspro, and particularly successful in the animated speech relatiVe to the'Prisoners. CooKst• ga ve a good outline of Fatal; and coloured it With hOmour, hut the sarcastic parts were most rirominenr. MURRAY in his pathetic address to the Prince of !Vales manifested strong parental affedion and concern, in the part of . King Henry; and CHARLES KE.teLR was gay and impressive in . The Prince of Wales. The After-piece was LOck and Key, in which a Mr. BYRNE appeared for the first time in the part of Cbtedy. He is a good looking young man, but exhibited nothing conspi cuous in point of merit as an actor or a singer. Unless he was embarrassed by his fears, his vnice 'in . the latter capacity , is indeed 'hardly powerful enough for the Stage. Some of the tipper notes are - pleasing but feeble., • • INc Leocii4,. by permission of the Covent Garden 'Manager, is gone to warble his Wandering Melodist at Chelmsford. The Author of the Three per Cents, would make an unfortunate Broker-..for the moment he brought his Stoi4 'into ,the Market, all the Bath became Bears. Ketout,e . has procured, from Spain, through the kindness of LOr4 HOLLAND ' , a, set ,of figures for theatrical purposes, dressed in the ancient Spanish Costume, of male and fetuale,attire. The designation in the Property Bill, of the •ecedent Attiog Partner" is quite unintelligtide to Commercial Men,• and is in ,folly and 710111 C Il,fe without a precedest. The Dublin Theatre was to be opened on• Mon. day last with an Occasional Address by Mr. H am. GRAVE, but in consequence of the non-arrival of soma of the Performers, that event was deferred. We see some very stale jokes and paltry puns in some - of the Papers about the Volunteers being mustersol, and BONAP4R is being peppeed.—These are Writers of uarm imagination—Why theil don't they tell us, that should the CHIRP. CONSUL come he will be be.drvit'd at once ? The Vrench soldiers captured a few days since in' the Gunboat, witnessed on Sunday night a strong proof of British prowess and British justice. The Captain of the Gun.boat, who with theother prison. era is ,on board the Utrechi, be6me refraftory and struck the Master of the Utrethi : our pliant Tar instantlY challenged him to' single combat, which rook place—" fair play" was the cry, and the re. suit was, that which we that will ever happen- to the slaves of Bo NAPARTB contending with the Free. Men of Old England—ei compltit defiat. • On Saturday se'nnight a servant of Wm. Shaw, Esq. of Clonmel, was killed by a fall from a. horse. Upon this, unfortunate• occurrence, the Iliberwitiii Journal makes the following observations :—" If any collateral circumstance can aggravate the loss of, a faithful domestic, it is that his death was oc casioned by, the periverren . ers of a pig, which threw the horse with such violence as to occasion the man's instant death. These aniMalif are too ire. quentlY permitted to endanget the lives.of the pas sengers in all the towns of Ireland." A Coroner's Inquest was taken within these few days at Westham, Essex, on the body of a man who was found hanging by the side of a wail. Front rile testimony of Witnesses examined, it appeared that this unfortunate man had got over the wall with the intent of stealing wood, and having tied up a larger bundle than he could manage, he got it on his back with the rop e roun d hi s head, when getting back again over the wall, the rope slipped over his head and hanged him, and he was found in this situa. tion. The jury gave in their verdict , —..Dird 6) the visitation of God. DAVID SKENE, of liallynrds in the County of Flic, El. died at l'Aritt on the 16,h Of, I• 4 • 11: - , PEPoPr. COURT OF KING's 23 NCII , Nov. :4. , The firs Olree hours were taken aj, in the cation of Bail. TfIE KING v. W I LSGII. ... . . . [For a full Account of the ,pcoing of this CAse, tee Tar. SuN or the 3:11 instant ] , . Mr. PARR said he was to trouble the Court on a business of a very unpleasant nature; :rid which he 'should do in a manlier, that would nit _draw forth any initnadveriimis from the court; The pers.m, .against Whom 'Mr. •Eltslitteit moved for an ment for a Contempt in' not °baying .Writ of Habeas Corpus to' bring tip the body of a young woman whom he had in his custody, had a family who had applied to him (Mr..Panit) through the .medium of an Attorney whom he knew,' thia man's own Attorney, who attended Mr. Justice attics upon this very case, having very property' declined to lift for him any lnnger, on accOunt• of , his great miscondud in this matter ? evinced as it was then before she learned Judge noon that arca sion. 'Mr. PARR said he did not Mean 'either to justify or even extenuate : the eondua of this person, he trusted that no man in Caart;felt moreintligna tion at it than hirnselfit Wasnot7on'behall df tkit • • per s on he applied to-the Court,-'he was inelipab:e. of defending such a. man, but he was instrudekto ply to the Court in behalf of his Family, who as'Wyll as himself were unable, as th e y` weee no offer to the COtift any apology for this anisemultiel ; *he was so far from thinking that an'apnlogy could he made for such a man, that heknew of no l: argue that was strung enough to Mark the indigtiarion which-every moral man must feel - at 'the 'canduCt of this person. The whole of the Case of this' than had been laid before him' and hislearned friend Mr. HARR ISON, and they had collo rett in' opinion,' that although there might be, some circumstances thlt Might in some degreernitigate the matter, yet they were far from being sufficient to ex,use hint, and therefore they would not offer any exeu , e for him ; certainly his eonduet was most. atrocious But what he was.initruited to submit to th 6 Court, I he offered with all possible deferetice. He deed nothing -to offer, except that of stibiaitoing that , the great objeet of.,the Court was. gained, namely, that the young woman whout he'had taker) away from her friends, was now restored to them,arAl this man had no longer any dOrgirlitP l °Vet her, aild 'this,was.not only the main, but the' sole objed of the family of Ole young woman. This objeCt had been obtained by putauing the course which ,Nlr. Justice LAWRENCE had been kind enough to hint at when the Case was stated by Mr. ER9cINE on the first day of Term far the Luau CHANCELLoft had,, upon application made to his. Lordship, ordered (1.14 `yoong woman to be delivered up to her frielida, and which was done on Monday last. Now as this wits .the case, as the main objet} of thicyoung womaies friends had been obtained, .What he wished ao sub. mit, was, Whether the Court could let this Case • stand over, to see whether the ,partiev could •,be somehow or other satisfied. lie was quite aware that no petted retribution could be had in such a case as this; but when this Defendant came to be reported in contempt, the Co*, would find it." necessary, in viridicatioo of its own dignity, to ins. pose some imprisonment' on till, man ; but what he had to subinit Was this, whether he might not he allowed to etaleayour to make some compensation to the faiuily of this young noruan, fie was aware that any asecaniary sacrifice that could 'be : Made Would be ii:idequate'to the ,injury which hail been sustained ; .but alt he had to submit to the Court was, that they would consider, whether they could 'allow this, course to' be taken, or whether they thought aheirdignity tequiredthat this man should be attached, and that -he should answer interroga. tories ?---He must again' repeat, that he should be ashamed' to otter any thing in extenuation of the conduCt of this man ; what he had submitted was merely on li - chaff of his family.' The Cfiri4 jirrelca observed, that this' Con. tempt of the Court, and disobedience. to 'His Ma jesty's Writ of Habeas Corpus could never be made the subjeft.of private compensation.' All His Ma jesty's Subjects were interested in a ready and prompt obedience to the King's Writ this principle bad been disregarded in this case;, and therefore the Court • could not cominutt the punishMent due for the offence, by allowing the attendee to'make pri_ vate satisfaftion to the injured party, the Rule' for the Attachment. must therefore be made absolute. Mr. Justice LAWRENCE observed, that the De. 'fendant in this case hadnegleaed to return rife Writ, of Habeas•Cotptis for several days. 'That- it' was' always in his power to produce thii pang: Woman, for ahe was rUtallyill9hr hi, controul. Instead of producing'hcr, he said, he had her not, which w a s false t- 7 -all the ()Nett of her family was to takr! bet out of his possession,. -and out of the way of further mischief; but this Defendant, iastead of following the advice or his Attorney, .who tined hoaotirafile, kept possession 'of this child until the Cia.asicatt,- I.OR forced her out of his hands. Rule for Attachment Absolute. THR KING V. COOK. Mr. Claus shewed Cause against . this Rule, which called on Mr. Cook to shew Cause why a Criminal Information should not he filed against him for a Challenge sent to, and gre,tt abuse of, Mr. &canter, who was his neighbour, and whose families were conneaed by marriage. The parties lived at Merton, in the County of This case, Mr. Gratis .stated, was an instance of what might be done by gising a false colour to sonic firdspy suppressing some things that did exist, and by stating others that never existed :—su that the whole matter was represented precisely the re.. verse of what tt really ,was. He had ati Affidavit which diredly and plainly, and po,itively denied every fact related as, a charge against this 1),....- fentlant, and positively stated that every in ,nit and provocation which took place between the par ties, caine from the person who had complained, and not from the Defendant in this case. He then read the Affidavit of the Defendant, by which it certainly was sworn that the Prosecutor of this Rule was greatly, and grossly, .the aggressor, instead of being a sutTeret in this dispute, which appe.rred