The Sun. — London, England, 1803-03-09 00:00:00

r, NAVAL NEWS. 0 PLYMOUTH, MAaCH 7. e PORTSMOUTH, MARCH 8. cic the use ton 'tea lea ieng atn, Ima orn. vith otn. lave Ad )63l His s of the lock of a and .of ,•16 city hers' IC at 9a• some ;;;ea ache 3 ce at iSgary VIEN• sition have tdal. NI• • iniCt• r abic, merits 1e dC. ifitC:f GIBRALTAR, Fla. to. ALLIVED the Atalanta Sloop of War front a Cruize. ARRIVED the Friends Goodwill, from Havre-de -Grace, bound to London, blown out of Dover Roads. The Mary, Brown, from Philadelphia to Dublin, put in to Ramsey Bay on the 26th ult. by stress of weather ; she afterwards cut her cables and run for Workington ; has not received much damage. The Claude, Lane, of Blyth, is on shore at Dover, and it is:feared will be lost ; Crew saved. The Commerce, Brown, spoke in In. 38, 36, the John and Thomas, of Poole, from Valencia to Guernsey, out Is days, 'all well. The English Brig Dash, -, 4 2 days from Honduras, bound to Norfolk, was spoke off the Capes of Virginia, the beginning of February, having carried away her bowsprit, and sprung the head oilier foremast. The Two Generals; Whitfield, from Rotterdam to Virgi ilia, has put into Lisbon. The Vertrouwen, Jacobs, from Amsterdam to blmina, sailed from Lisbon on the Ist of February. • The -, Math. Welthuys, from Lisbon to Antwerp, has Tutinto Flushing with the loss of anchor, cable, and sails. he cargo considerably damaged, has been landed, and when *necessary repairs arc made will take it onboard again and VOSecute the voyage. The Drey Schevestern, Haesloop, from Baltimore to Bre - then. has been driven by contrary winds to Schutes Nust, hear Bergen, where she lies out ofdanger, and expeas speedily to be able to prosecute her voyage,. , The Amphitrite, Knusen, from Boa:dean% to Amsterdam, bat put into Stavanger damaged. the Omega, Melenby, from Sunderland, is shore on Coree Island. No hopes of saving the ship or cargo. The Tigre, Davey, which sailed from Plymouth for Am gterdarnon Wednesday last, is put back again to Plymouth , =wing XprUllVt leak at sea. The -, b o ren Rathzag, arrived at Lisbon from Peters . burg, has lost a mast and delivered her cargo damaged. The Amsterdam, Schornmaeher, from Amsterdam to Cur racoa, is lost; A passenger and four of the crew drowned. ON the 7th the Aaive Frigate sailed for Malta ; he carried up money for the payment of the Troops here. YCsterday His Royal Highness the Governor presented the Bth Regiment with their new Co. ' when he made them a very handsome speech on the occasion, doing . justice to the gallantry they had shewn throughout the War, and thanking them for their exemplary conduct, since they had been under. his command in this Garrison. There is a grand Boar.hunt in Spain to-day, about ten miles from this, to which many of the Officers in the Garrison have gone to partake in the amusement. We have at present a set of Italian and French Performers here, and a Spanish Company of Ecittes. trian Performers, by no means contemptible. THE THEATRE.---The new Comedy of John .72101 was represented again last night, at Covent. Gar. 4en Theatre, with undiminished spirit and success. We have every reason to support the favourable opinion we have given of this very interesting and very entert2iiiiiss Drama. Tic ctisraders, as we have observed, are drawn with force, and are well discriminated and contrasted. That they are ad. snirably adapted to the Performers none can venture to dispute, and the Performers fully justify the Author's designation, FAWC ITT has added verrconsiderably to his reputation, particularly as his powers appear in a new point of view. The pathoi of familiar life is exhibited by him with great skill, and yet' blended with a blunt humour not less diverting than . his parental feelings are affeeting. JOHNSTONE'S Dennit is one of the most luxuriant specimens of vulgar humour that the modern Stage presents, and LEW IS'S ShUileten is an exquisite satire on the mis. chievous levity of the bastard progeny of FASHION. The Theatre had a very crowded Audience. Mrs. Errttes second engagement at Edinburgh expires this week. The errors of Mr. Coop Elt, the new ACtor from ...America, are such as will soon wear away in the prattice of his profession. He certainly possesses ss• sound judgment, and delivers the text with criti. cal precision. When he has shortened his long pauses, he will play with more spirit and effea. The probable success of John Bull, at Covent. garden Theatre, is likely to prevent the intended representation of The ro;et of Nature,' during the present season at that Theatre. Law's, in the Comedy of John Bull, evident ly dressed the charader of Shujleton in the style of a well-known Baronet, once distinguished by his Lilly profusion, but who, according to all accounts, is now as much of a Sharp as he formerly was of a Flat. Mrs. BILLINCTON is certainly improving in her health, though not so rapidly as some of the Papers have stated. -Mad. Bot.r.A we hear nothing about, 'though it.was some time ago said, she was aaually engaged for the remainder of the season at the Opera. 'We are happy to find that Mrs. HARRISON has again made her appearance in public. Her retire. ment was a great loss to the musical world, and we hope she will now continue to gratify the Public by the exertion of her. talents, which are certainly vetY superior. The Marquis TOWNSHIND'S Birth-day is to be celebrated in Dublin on the tth instant, for the t hirtY fifth time. We cannot but admire the un abated zeal and attachment of that venerable Noble. man's Irish friends. The celeb rate d B acc h ana li an Picture by PoussaN, Which a f ew years ago belonged to Mr. PURLING, and last to the late Mr. WALKER, of Liverpool, was sold on Saturday last for eight hundred guineas, and though the high merit -of the Pieture spoke for itself, yet the well.applied oratory of Mr. CHRISTIE raised it much above what it produced at the sale of Mr. Po It LING'S Colledion. INFLUENZA.---A Correspondent wishes to make the following simple recipe known A handful' of the roots of Angelica, boiled in a pint of water three hours gently ; strain it off, and make a bal. sam or rich syrup, with liquid Narbonne honey, and take two or three teaspoonfuls daily, and par. titularly two at night and morning. If attended With 30te-throat, add a few nitre drops. TIIE DUKE OF BRIDCWArER. YESTERDAY morning at four o'clock, expired, after a short illness, at his Mansion in Cleveland. square, in the 67th year of his age, His Grace FRANCIS EGERTON', Duke of BRIDGEWATER. His Grace's inferior titles were, Marquis of BRACKLEY, Earl of BRIDGEwATER, Viscount BRACKLEY, and Baron ELLESMERE. He was born on the 21st of May, 1736, artd was never married, In conse quence, the ,lYukedom and Marquisate become ex. tint, but the Earldom of Bridgewater, and the subordinate titles devolve to the eldest son of His Grace's relative, the late Bishop of DURHAM, the present General EGERTON, Member for Brackley. Of those illustrious charaaers who have done ho. nour, not only to the British Peerage, but to the name of Englishman, the late Duke of BRIDGEWATER deserves to be placed in the first rank.—That time and fortune which too many others, especially in the higher ranks, have devoted to purposes, if not injurious to society, at least useless, his Grace spent in pursuits that entitle him to be considered as a benefalor of his Country, and a promoter of her Commercial Interests. These great and stupendous works, known by the name of " the Duke of Bridge water's Canals," so laudably and patriotically under taken, and brought to perfe'tion by his Grace, to the great temporary detriment Of his private for tune, are too well and generally known to be here described. In all that part of the Country their great and growing utility is most sensibly expe rienced, and to these the Port of Liverpool is in a great degree indebted for its present opulence and prosperity , . Of late years, those works have been exceedingly productive, and are understood to have afforded abundant returns to their late illustrious Projeaor. His Grace, we understand, has left a Will, by which he bequeaths all his immense property in a . very clear and circumstantial manner. His Canals ' are left to Earl GOWER, with reversion to his se. cond son, and a stria entail upon his heirs, in failure of whom they go to the heirs male of the Lord Chief Baron, and failing them, to the children of the Bishop of CARLISLE. His pi&ures are en. tailed in the same line. To General EGERTON, now Earl of BRIDGEWATER, he bequeaths the estate of Ashbridge, in Hertfordshire, and other estates in Shropshire and Yorkshire, to the amount of 30,0001. per annum. His Grace died in a very easy way. He fell into a slumber at twelve on Monday night, and slept ap parently composedly till three, when he spoke to his attendants. He fell again into a slumber, and at four his servants found him quite dead. He ex. Aired without a struggle or a groan. The event of his Grace's demise will cause a va cancy in the House of Commons for the Borough of Brackley, in Northamptonshire, in consequence of General EGE VTON, its present Representative, suc ceeding to the Peerage. HAGUE, MARCH J. WITHIN these few days a spirit of tumultuous insurreEtion began to &blew itself among the Sailors at Amsterdam. The extraordinary length of the frost, and the continuance of the ice at the Har bours, occasioned this disturbance. Several Mer. chants of Amsterdam had hired Sailors to go out in ships, which should have sailed two months since, had it not been for the ice. The Merchants re. fused to pay wages to the Seamen for the time dur. ing which they were detained in Port by the frost ; and the Sailors would, in their resentment of this usage, have proceeded to the most desperate ex. ceases, if the Police had not vigorously interposed to check the tumult. Tranquillity has been, by its exertions, entirely restored. The Government has officially announced, in the Public Papers, what was before sufficiently known, that all the West India Colonies taken by the Bri. tish during the War, have been finally given up, in consequence of the Peace, to the Batavian Republic. Last Tuesday arrived from Paris, one of the Aid.de.Camps of General VICTOR, with an order from the FIRST Cowart, that General CXSAR BER. THIER should remain in his appointment of Chief Officer of the Staff for the Expedition to Louisiana, and should not obtain that new employment, which was some time intended for him by the F !AST CONSUL. The Naval Minister writes to General VICTOR, that he has given the necessary orders for the departure of the Expedition in the end of March. Its departure is what we devoutly wish. We hear that a new arrangement has been made by the Postmaster-General, in consequence of which the Mail from Edinburgh to Glasgow is, after the Loth inst. to be conveyed in a Mail -cart, the driver of which is tq be armed with a cutlas and pistols. This mode will afford a greater degree of security than formerly. An estate in Caithness, of 1681, gross rental, full nine miles from the sea or any town, was lately sold by private bargain, at something above one hundred and three and a half years purchase. Nine acres of building ground, part of the lands of West Paisons Croft, in the immediate vicinity of Glasgow, were sold last week, by public roue, for about 16,0001. ; the price to be converted into a feu.duty at five per cent. per annum. The island of Scaraha, with other lands in the counties of Argyll and Perth, were lately purchased by a gentleman of Glasgow, at 26,0001. and up wards, being about fifty years purchase of the pre sent rental. The LORD PRIMATE of all Ireland, has pre sented the Reverend THOMAS CARTER, A, M. of Trinity College, Cambridge, and Domestic Chap lain to His Grace, to a Stall in the. Cathedral Church of Armagh, with the Rectory of Ballymore. On Friday, the 25th ult. the Godwood hounds run a fox for several hours in the neighbourhood of Chichester, followed by a large field of Sportimen, very few only of whom were in at the death, A fine horse belonging to Captain joHrisort, of the Prince's Regiment, dropped under his master, and expired, in consequence of hard riding in the field. The above chace afforded several remarkably fine runs, with reyaard in full view, and was esteemed the best before the Godwood dogs owing the ass• Nap AMERICA. The following Resolution was passed on the 26th of January by the House of Representatives of the State of Delaware, Resolved, That this General Assembly view with regret, the little disposition shown by Congress to relieve our Western Brethren from the difficulties and embarrassments under which they labour, from the obstrudion of the Mississippi, " by recent irregular measures carried on at New-Orleans," by the Spanish Government or its Agents; this General Assembly, however, rests confident, that die Representatives from this State in the present, as in every other in. stance, will advocate measures, which will tend to preserve the honour, and be for the interest and happiness of the United States. From the Ist of January, 1802, to the Ist of January, 1803, new coin was issued from the Mint of the United States of America, to the amount of 516, 1 15 dollars, 83 cents; of which, to the value of 129,730 dollars, 91 cents, was in gold. By a statement of the Exports from the United States of America, officially published, it appears, that the Exports for the year ending the Ist of October tBor, amounted to 93,020,513 dollars ; and for the year ending the ist of Oclober, 1802, 7 ;,957,144. dollars, being a decrease of 21,063,369 dollars. The value of Exports from the United States to the following Countries, has increased : Russia, Prussia, Sweden, Denmark, the Imperial Ports, France, Portugal, and Italy : with the United Netherlands, Great Britain, Ha mburgh, Bremen, &c. —Spain and the East Indies, the value has declined. The difference in the value of Exports to Great Britain and her territories, between the last year of the war and the first of the peace, exceeds eighteen millions of dollars, nearly nine tenths of the aggre gate decrease of the value of them, The total value of Exports in 1802, exceeds that of the year 1800, which amounted to 70,976,800 dollars, nearly one million of dollars. The excess in the year 1801, above 1800, was upwards of tweoty two millions of dollars. The value of Exports has increased in the States of New-Hampshire, Rhode-Island, Connedicnt, New-Jersey, Georgia and Kentucky, and has de. clined in the States of Vermont, New-York, Penn sylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina ; though New-York, by a small excess, still ranks first in the scale of commercial consequence. In the Sitting of Congress of January the 28th, Mr. Speaker laid before the House a Letter from Co. lonelHumphreys, late Minister at the Court of Ma. drid, stating, that when he was about to leave that Court, the Minister of State urged his acceptance of the customary present from His Majesty. Col. Huin. phreys informed him, that he could not, consistently with the Constitution of his Government, accept the present. The Minister continued to press the accept. ance, and urged, that as he was no longer an Ofti. cer of the United States, there could he no impro_ priety in his receiving it. Col. Humphreys replied, that though he was then out of office, there would still, in his opinion, be an indelicacy in the accept. ance, and that if he should receive the present de. signed for him, he should consider it as his duty to deliver it into the hands of the President of the United States, to be disposed of at the pleasure of the Government. Under these circumstances he left the Court of Madrid ; and upon his arrival in the United States, he found a casket of very valuable female orna. ments, addressed to Mrs. Humphreys, which, though unaccompanied by any letter, he presumed to be a present from the Ou s str of St.n. t tr. Doubting the propriety of accepting it under such circum. stances, Mrs. Humphreys presented the casket to the President of the United States, who put it into the hands of the Secretary of State. The Se. cretary of State, declining to decide the constitu. tional question, whether Mr. Humphreys could with propriety retain it, ordered it to be return. ed to him for the purpose of being sent back to Spain, .or otherwise disposed of as he might think proper. Mr. Humphreys refused to receive it back upon such terms : it consequently remains with the Chief Clerk in the Department of State, and Colonel Humphreys now requests Congress to give orders for sending it back to Spain, or for disposing of it in such other way as they may think proper. He makes the same re quest respetling a Sword presented him by the Dey of Algiers, which is also in the hands of the Chief Clerk of the Department of State, under similar circumstances. The subjed, after considerable conversation in the House, was referred to a Stied Committee to report their opinion thereon. Yesterday a woman was charged before the Sit. ting Magistrate at the Police. Office, Marlborough. street, by a girl of about eleven years of age, with sending her into the streets to commit depredations on the Public. It appeared that this girl had ran away from her aunt about two months since, and meeting with another girl in Peter -street, had asked 'her if she knew where she could be taken in, as she had ran away from her aunt; to which she answered in the affirmative, saying, there was a woman, (naming the Prisoner) who lived in Marlborough. row, who would take her in ; and while they were talking, the woman in question passed . by, with a pair of boots in her hand, being a shoe-black, and was immediately pointed out to the witness as being the person ; that she went home with her, when the Prisoner immediately pledged her gown and apron, and employed her to go round the different places to steal whatever she could lay hands on; and not content with her em. ployment in that way only, she used to send her son, a lad about eight years of age, about the neigh. bourhood, to steal also ; the son stole a band of pork from a house in Pulteney.street, on Saturday night last. The Magistrate ordered an officer to go to the house as described by the witness, to see if such an article had been lost ; when a person at. tended, and said she had lost one at the time men. tioned by the girl. The boy, whom the mother had brought with her, was fully committed with his ItEß7'l%ofib ASSIZLI. MONDAY, MARCH 76 Tests day the Assizes for the County or Hertford commenced before Mr. Justice HEATH. There were but five Causes on the Civil side, and of them three were Nonsuits ; one was a Special Jury Cause, upon the Game Mts. «~ LUCAS .U. DEATott• Mr. &dant SHEPHERD stated, that this tvas an anion to recover penalties ; first, for shooting without being qualified ; next; for shooting with out a licence; and lastly, for having exposed pheasants to sale. The Jury, he observed, were many of them men of landed property, and per. haps some might be Lords of Manors; but all the comforts and advantages they received from their situation as landholders would be nothing, if the manner; of the Defendant in this cause could ever be tolerated. A Gentleman who had a character to sustain in his neighbourhood, would conduit himself with propriety in his sports, and must also pay the duty, to qualify him to enjoy field sports ; but the atty. , whtrtians residing near the skirts of Lan. don, sported all round the home counties, as far as a horse and buggy could carry them, without either licence or qualification. The Defendant in the present case was of that description. There was a party of them of five or six four.legged dogs, and four men, which came down to Lawrence Aytes s in this county, on the ad of Oaober last, and went all round that part of the county killing not only the cock pheasants, but the hens also, which was most unsportsmanlike condiatt. The Defendant on the record, Mr. Charles Deaton, was one, his brother another, and a Mr. Tarlink, a hay salesman, a third, with a fourtb, whose name they had not yet learned. He thiPidd prop's the fart by the ostler of the public-houke 'kheie they put up, and when he had done that, he wlti entitled to the verdict of Cher` fury. He had no doubt but his Learned Brother (Beer) would make an.eloquent speech on the other side, but he was sure he had no legal answer to give to this charge. He called a witness of the name of Sherrington• to prove these facts, who stated that four persons came down to his master's house, a public.house, in Oaober last, and that they went out sport. ing. They went into Mr. Gerrard's wood, and they fired several timer.--He hunted their dogs. —The Witness, however, could not state any thing very particular. He could not tell who fired, He could not tell how many birds they killed they might kill some. He did not (cue: them, &c. He did not know who they were, and all he knew of them was, that they called one of them Charles Bea ton. R. Nash, a sawyer, stated, that he saw the last Witness in company with four men, on the 2d of Otlober last, hunting their dogs: he heard several shots, but did not see any birds killed. Mr. Serjeant BIST, for the defence, was proceed. ing to comment on the insufficiency of the evidence, as to identifying the person of the Defendant, and observed, the Jury did not know who the Plaintiff was, the Mr. Lucas, who appeared in Court as the trorhein ami of the Game of lierttOrdshire ; when he was interrupted by the Learned Judge, who said he did not think the identity of the Defendant was sufficiently proved. The Plaintff was nonsuite& HOLDIIELD, an :hi demise of PIARCEs V. CRUTCH. FILLD. Mr. i MARRYATT stated, that this was an ejea. ment to try the tide to some lands in this county. The fa 1s were shortly these : the father of Mr. Richard Pearce, the lessor of the present Plaintiff, was seized of the lands in question, and devised ;hens to his son, Mr. Thomas Pearce, with remainder to his other eon, Mr. Richard Pearce, in case Thomas should die without lawful issue. On the death a the testator, Thomas Pearce succeeded in conse.. 9uence of his father's will ; but not liking his father's further directions, he himself made a will, devising the same lands in .another manner, and to make all sure, suffered a recovery. In this he committed a gross mistake, for supposing the will was good, the recovery was a revocation of it. He Wished much this case had been stated to them by a Learned Member of the Profession, peculiarly learned in the law of Recoveries ; for that Learned Gentleman (he alluded to Mr. EMI lc had large estate left him; and the Attorney who drew the will, to make "assurance double sure," advised s recovery to be suffered ; the consequence of which was, that their Learned Friend lost his intended bequest, These fads being admitted on the other side, the Plaintiff had a verdict, subjea to the decision of another cause, on which the same point has been re.. served at Middlesex, CORN EXCHANGE, MARCII 9. THERE are large quantities of Grain here to thy, with much of Monday's untold; the tumours of War have caused a small advance on most articles; Wheat is up zs. per guar= ; Barley and Malt hardly get better prices ; Pease, Beans, and Oats, sell more readily at a trifle dearer ; the latter are in immense quantities ; Flour lolly suppori i its prices. Wheat 456 a $24 a 59$ od Tic*, Bons - 2RS a 33s 6(1 Fine ditto . 6os a bIS 0 0409 ~. • 13$ a 17s a awl Rye - - 3:s a 35s Qd Poistriii ditto ats a 22S eel Barley . 21% a 269 oct i lispeSeerl - - 321 a 351 .1%"..141 r 1 . - APS a 45) od Eir4 Hour . 44$ a 4Ss od white easo 33s a 444 oil I Sect:lEo4o - 4r;* a 411 beaus . 32s a 37s od On Sunday night, ,about eleven o'clock, a coach was hired at Chards _cross by a man, genteelly dressed, WhO orthred the coachman•fo drive to Sr. George's.row clrt the Uxbridge ,Toittl; 'hrt the coach arriving at that place, the ittery got our, and, with horrid threats dettranded iftki.joachman's money, at the same tihte ilefitaing vitry long pistol to his breast, and slightly VVOLtAding him in the side with a tuck in a stiik The coachman de. livered his money, WlOOO .- 600 two seven shilling pieces, and eight slaings aivir sixpence in silver. The robber, on partitur:, told the coachman if ite attempted to pursue him he wriuld shoot him.-- The robber returned towards London, and is sop, posed to hove got over the Park wall.