The Sun. — London, England, 1804-11-17 00:00:00

iNTB7VDAD 731PROt'EMENIS,;11 47NDS OR CAS A LTHDIJCII the repairs of the above Pile of toildingslpvt occupied a considerable space of time, only that appropriated to the Rom FAM) LY has been rendered habitable. his M AJESTY, Who rises every morning at half past five o'clock, takes great delight in superintending the progress of the work. men. The attention of the men at .present is di. relied to the repairing of. the Round To.ver, and removing the very large French Windows which overlook the Court Yard. They were introduced there by King CHARLES 11. whose want of taste in architetture has been commented on more than once by HIS MA j ESTY, adding, to his remarks to Mr. WYATT, " as the Castle is entirely Gothic, pray let us have Gothic windows." 'The Round Tower is to beraistal +o feet higher, being at present overlooked by the South ; Eastern Tower. Among other alterations, the Round Tower is to be insulated by the removal of the houses which are contiguous to the Staircase'S lead, ing thereunto : they are to be pulled dawn with all possible dispatch, the foise filled up, and the glacis Made even. The great gate opposite the Qu Et Lode, venerable fkir its antiqUity, is to be altered, tepatred, and finished, with the addition of some beautiful pieces of sculpture. The mustering of the Troops every Sunday morn. log in the quadrangle, before the ROYAL FAMILY pes to the Cathedral, is a very grand speelacle.— They assembled last Sunday precisely at so o'clock; the Oxford Blues were on the right and left of the teed . entrance into the Castle; the Band .of - tha re Militia occupied the intermediate space between the Oxford Blues ; and the Staffordshire lined the remaining two sides, forming a hollow square: The Guard and the Oxford Blues presented arms when the .itsc passed. His TsiAt RE.TY, agreeable to his regular pradice, walked round theline before be w ent i n t o the Church, accompanied by - their Itt ) Yel Highnesses the Duxes of Corsa lIIILAND and `4)inalool. . • t Missy, Nov. ./0......0n Saturday last arrived at t.ilillier's, after being a month on board ship, 11 l experiencing a series of stormg, seven Comp "4llOf the ad -Battalion of the I Silt Regiment of Foot. Next day they marched' to Grouville Bar: " j ektiv Co ns id era ble 'apprehensions were entertain. td lA' the safety of the remaining three Companies, and also f \ wellie 2d Battalion of the s7th and 6 ist ; 'kUt last night they arrived safe in St. Hillier's Basi, sod ,are to disembark fOgrOOffoW. On-Friday the Slatitegiment embarked on board the Transports that Nought the seven Companies of the Ash, and loiled.the same evening with a fair wind for .Eng.. ilotte The. fl3d Regiment marched into Sr. Hillier's "'"4 day , to replace the 3 1 st. .' ,411 Trenlate—.-The /raj to Keep iliar was •' r atighs eepresented at Drury-lane Theatre. Mrs, ptrO4st,getreznimation and humour to the part of • thtlf/id aie Adm.'''. Mrs. H. jOH MT ON, for the ti c k time, appeared in Mrs. Loventort, and supported pert with feeling, The rest of the. charaarrs !are performed as usual, and call .for no.particular rro.,,„titte, In the After-piece, which was The Citizels, "Il li DUNCAN made her first appearance as Maria. 'iv ,• th e Audience she had previously performed prepared e Audience to expect that she would 'at least dis. play all requisite spirit in this Town.livdest, , and l e l - were by AO reins disippoinied. 'The bathing . .,"e and the A . /idled Ideas were well contrasted: t 11.1 ° the whole of the performance' obtained great applause, She sung a Scotch Air with Much taste; °ti t it was tediously long,' and if it had been re.. r'ilreas according to the wish of some of her inju. oiOns friend s , the Audience, in general, would have found it a /u//e4y. . ' ' . t I Vlrrs MLitt/on); is at Birmingham, and has i t le, l , l Prevented froth coming to town by a severe Z ol sposition. In consequence of this unlucky p e nr, the commencem en t of the Opera Season is e ljtatily retarded. . . rjestettley, arMarlborough-street, a Theatrical . rinieman was charged with . riotous behaviour, ;" a house w h ere.t T heatr i ca l - L a d y res id es . It L PPeared that the f ormer f re q uent ly sa pped with the. 7lttet after the play .; ones that on Thursday, the .4farallord ordered the Gentleman to quit the Lady's :Palltnent quietly, or he should be kicked out olit. rle accordingl y employed a W a tchman, who con till!ted the &Want to the watcb.house, upon the Principle that hi s h ouse s h ould not b e stigmatized !kith Indecencies ; which did not, however, appear t bra she ease in the present insiance. The Magi, !tray, thewore, disehaeged the Defendant. A few days age a Dual-Was f oug ht near Naas, in Ireland, betw een a G entleman of that town and a Young Surge on , i n consequence of a : suppose) eritni" hal intercourse which the latter had with the wile of Pie b y the husformer. The Surgeon was severely wounded band ) . who was the challenger'. A pr , Monday Mor n i ng a Detachment of the Sth 02. 1 ; 1 4 marched into Derby from Nottingham ,on 4 route to Lichfield, where the effeEttve then th t e aa drafted, and the invalids 'discharged. Qn a allie day a Troop of the 7th Dragoons 48,0 ma .. r ehed into Derby, and on the following day pio.. en to Lichfield. . . . om A great subterraneous fi re has burst forth 'near br Taman, Fortress Plianagorio, on the peniOsula, .. where a similar phenomenon took place `Oole years since. . . . ‘N r ednesclay evening, about sevet o'clock, as ,s°ltes LRITII 9 I sq . was returning from Sand. ;lop Market. to Deal,. he was stopped at a place le l e d Minn Gap, by three men, one in soldiers' ik !inientals, the other two in round white frocks : h " i c i Y robbed him pf upwards of seventy pounds and W atch; .anti left him for dead on the road. He hast t aken up some time afterwards by some perspns " l ing on the road, and taken home to his house at 4 .,,Ter Court, - where he lies •dangerously ill. sin men that committed. the above robbery are n n_re found to be three Suldiers belonging to the . :a v rO w ent of Guards in the Barracks at VV . almer. a ' -e re discovered, by ;he Setjeant on _nt r guard ; ow the viould not • . mendropping a five hi guinea note, hut ,_ say it was his, on which they searched they whenand in the sleeve of his waistcoat rnore of the wh en h notes concealed and the watch ; vilm e. e made a confession, and discovered the h 4,. They are all three under confineMent, but ve n o . yet undergone an examination. iqW ko,,!bc)N OCiCS. Yesterday being the day appointed for filling these,noble Docks with water, the Proprietors, Di. teants,, and persons attached to the Cotnpany, as. sembled upon the ground at eleven o'clock to Wit. nets this grand process. At twelve oiclock they were joined by the Duke of MONTROSE, the Mar. quis ut BLANDFORD, Lords HAWKESSIIRt, MRL. VILLE, and CASTLEkEAGI-1, Mr. PITT, Mr. LONG, Mr. Hulitissorr, and . several other persons of dis. tindion. Immediately after their arrival they proceeded to inspea. the walls, the Dock, the various bridges and sluices, and the immense pile of warehouses. Having gratified their curio sity in all these points, they took their station upon the hank of the river, about the time appoint. ed for inundating the Dock. Previbus to this grand operation all the ships, vessels, and boats, in the cinity, were ordered to keep clear of th e sluices *i wwithin the possible sphere of the action of the cur. rent as it should flow into the Dock. The signal beintgiven for admitting the water, a moment of awful suspense followed ; at length the sluices were opened, and old Father Thames rushed forward with irresistible force, to take possession of his new do. minions. It is impossible to conceive an •adequate idea of the grandeur of this scene. An earthqu:ikc, or any other convulsion of nature, could not have produced a greater circa. 'The river apptared to be deserting its bed, and seeking a .new channel. The rapidity of the stream, the foam and dashing of 1 the swelling waves, and the reflux upon their en. countecupon. the opposing sides of the Dock, pro. duced a scene of awe and pleasing terror. During the first quarter of an 'hour after the opening of tke sluices, the water ran with such amazing rapidity, and such immense quantity into the basin, as to produce an ebb in the Thames as high up as Billingsgate, although it was then running at nearly full tide ; a circumstance which, of course, rendered the influx into the Dock rapid and tre mendous in the extreme. The whole of this im. mem , e, excavation was completely filled at. four o'clock. At that hour the sluices and drawbridges wert•laid down, and the water appeared in as quiet ar;d pelc(%ible possession of that which has been dry land since the deluge, as if it had been for twenty yeats in quiet and uninterrupted. possession. The irlunditiion being completid, the Director's, NO . , prictorg, &c. accompanied by Mr. PITT, Lord MoLvt Lt.' , , Ana the rest of the Nobility and Gen. try from the West End of the town, repaired to the London Tav'ern, where a most sumptuous dinner was. provided. ' The conctiurse. of speetators at this grand wed_ ding of earth and water, for such it may be called, was immense ; and, if ever the beautiful was hap. pily combined with the tremendous, 'it . was in the contrast between the picturesque scenery of. folded by the groupes of lovely women, &c. on the hanks, and the terrible rush of the water into the basin. Accounts at Boston from St. Domingo state, tha the Black Army of DESCALINES had begun its march 'for the purpose of besieging the City of St,. Domingo. The same accounts add, that the Eli. tish have blockaded Aux.Cayes. DIISSALINIII was proclaimed Emperor of Hayti on the isth of September. The rejoicings con tinued three days,. the illuminations three nights. This measure might, perhaps, have been hastened, in otder that DesSALME . S, being an older Emperor than the Corsican, might take, precedence of him among the Sovereigns of the world—Borw.Arra not being strietly so until after his Coronation. BOSTON, OCT. 3.--The Cities of New-York and Philadelphia have been remarkably healthy during the past summet; but we are sorry to observe, that in many of the inland towns, .both of. New. York and Pennsylvania, a very distressing mortality has been experienced by diseases-of various kinds ;in some places bearing strong marks of the malignant fever which has so often visited their large and po. pulous towns. YouNC, who arrived at PrOVi., dente a few days since, in fourteen days from Cadiz, informs, that our Minister, Mr. PINCKNEY, was, when he sailed; n his way from Madrid to Cadiz, to embark for America, having abruptly left that city. Mr. SWARTWOUT, Second to 'Vice-President BURR, in the late Duel, has arrived at Savannah. Mr. BURR was at Mr. BUTLRR'S Plantation, but was expelled at Savannah. Capt. SWAINS, arrived at New-York from Lis bon, mentions, that shortly before he sailed, .a Fri. gate had been dispatched from Lisbon for France, with a Crown for BortAvAare, a present from the QssesN of PORTUGAL, which was said to have cost two millions Sterling, being ornamented with dia. monde and precious atones.- (Bastox Palladium, OR. S.) BOSTON, Ocr. S.—Two-very respeflable Socie. ties in Charlestown, the Cincinnati, and American Revolution Society, have set on foot memorials to the Legislature of South Carolina that measures may be taken to put a stop to duelling in that place.— Thia memorial is offered for subscription' in all the public offices and bankinkhousea in this city. , PROVIDENCE, OCT. r severe storm cam- DISOCeti on the morning of Tuesday last, attended with thunder anti lightning, and, at intervals, with very heavy rain. Towards night the wind varying to .different points ,from N. E. to S. E. increased with great fury, and in the course of the night this town experienced the heaviest gale within the recollection of any of its, inhabitants. Several yes vela were driven from their moorings to the shore, among which were the ships Paterson and Susan. Sever.il barns and other buildings, in town and its vicinity, were considerably injured ; some, we understand, were destroyed. A number of chim. nevi were blown down, and many trees, fences, &c. destroyed. It is thought that the shipping on the coast must have suffered severely. The Senate of Hamburgh have come to the reso lution to demolish the inner Fortifications, Owing to the danger it would he in were it to be exposed to the horrors of a siege, which, under the present troubled circumstances, might probably happen. Another Earthquake has been felt in Tuscany, which threw down several houses at Siena and at Pozzibonzi. DUIiLIN, Nor. i 3. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCH P.VJEA. ha, just taken a very strong, and; we trusti a very effici ent measure to promote tle!.colleaion of the Revenue in Dublin. Yesterday misfiling almost all the. Excise Officers of the Dublin Distria, in number nearly two hundred, were put nut of charge, and their places immediately supplied by other Excise Officers previously ordered up from the different County Distrias of Ireland. So suddenly was this change effetled, that excepting the Beard of Commissioners, and one highly confidential Officer under them, no one had the least idea of such - a thing being intended. It is supposed. that the close intimacy of the Dublin Officers with distillers, mo n sters , ant other minutanuters of excisable goods, preventing them from looking too stria& to the interests of the Revenue, was the cause of this great change of situations. SUICIDE. YESTERDAY the Coroner's Inqueit sat on the body of art eminent Solicitor, who had shot himself at his houie, near the General Post. Office. About six o'clock on Thursday evening. this unfortunate Gentleman suddenly left the office, and went to water.closet up stairs, where he discharged a pistol in his mouth, and the two balls with which it was loaded, i passed through the occiput; the consequence was instant death. . He was discovered in a sitting posture, with his head reclined against the wall, without any signs of life, and on a further investigation, the wound was observed, and the fatal instrument which gave it. • It appeared from the evidence, that about a year ago he had a very violent ,fit of the gout, since which time I , e frequently appeared not pertetily collefled in the exercise of his faculties ; his habits of industry induced him frequently to continue at business till the stupefaction under which he labour. ed rendered him incompetent to the duties of his profession. The Family Apothecary confirmed the evidence given in regard to the infirmity of the deceased from the effeds of the gout, and said, it not uncom. manly affeeted his head ; it is probable, therefore, that it was in a paroxistn of this kind fie had com mitted the deed which terminated his existence. — The Jury brought in their verdift—Lunary. A Caution.--On Wednesday last a farmer near Whetstone, in Leicestershire, by mistake, put into the corn for his horses, Ratsbane instead of Nitre, with an intention of preventing their heels from swelling. Four died worth 601. and two mares in foal, being the whole of his stud. At Loughborough fair yesterday sennight there was a large show of neat cattle :—Fat Beef and Mutton met their full ♦alue, but halfmeated beasts were very heavy sale at reduced prices. The show of fat and lean cattle at Soulmas Fair, held at York on Wednesday, was unwually large ; the sale of both sorts very dull, and a great num- ber Were driven off unsold. On Saturday night last, as some men were fishing at a little distance from llawlish, a young shark e,n. tangled MAW iv their net, which, in two house, with great difficulty, they cowed on shore, It weighed tour hundred weight, was near nine feet in length, and had a cod fish of 3olh. in its belly. MANsiox-Housi.—Edward Jones, a labourer in the East India Warehouse, was charged before the Loan MAYOR, on suspicion of stealing a quantity of tea. It appeared, from the evidence of two watchmen, that the Prisoner had leit the warehouse the day before at three o'clock, hut was discovered again within the gates at five o'clock, where he haa no right to be. The watchman being told of it, he was taken into custody, and the bag of tea was heard to drop from him near the spat.---One of the Beadles of Bishopsgate produced the bag of tea, which, he said, contained about fourteen pounds. John Bride said, he was sent from the warehouse to inform his Lordship they had been plundered of a great deal of tea in the place where the Prisoner worked. He had orders from the Company to state, that they would prosecute this man. The Prisoner, in his defence, said, he had not possession of any tea, and that the Witnesses could not prove that he had when the watchman took him in custody.—His Lordship said he should re. mand the Prisoner for a further examination, when he expected some others from the warehouse to at. tend. Yesterday evening, at the early hour of half past five o'clock, an attempt was made to rob a young Woman, well dressed, of a bundle which she had under her arm, by a man, a little beyond the Wa. ter.works, on the Cheisea.roail ; but she holding ittight, he snatched an umbrella from her, and ran off; she raised the cry of 14 Stop thief f e ,and he was pursued through Pimlico, into Ranelogli. street, where he ran into a stable, and was secured with the umbrella in his possession. He was taken into the guard.house, near the. Queen's House, where he was recognized to. be one of those on duty at the King's guard, St. James's. On Saturday afternoon, Thomas Kid, a sailor, belonging to one of the Greenland ships at Dundee, whilst carelessly looking down one of the hatch. ways, lost his balance, and was precipitated to the bottom of the hold, a depth of 16 feet. He was conveyed to the Infirmary in a state of insensibili ty, and surgical assistance procured. He languished, however, till six o'clock the next evening, and ex. pined. The situation of his poor wife, who had been delivered of a child only the day before, may be more easily imagined than expressed, A col. lielion was very humanely set on lout by Lieut. Stenhouse, of the Royal Navy, for beltoof of the family of the deceased. 4 man who was some time ago apprehended in the neighbourhood of 'Leeds, declared, that there was not a house o r warehouse in that town, if the door was merely locked, but and his accom. } dices could enter with ease ; and as a proof of his dexterity, added, that there was .one wArch , 3l9C in that place, that the gang had entered hobitually, from which they had :don; supplied their friends with goods to the amount of 2001. COURT 01 tING') jov. is. REV. It. lIINCI,IAIst cv. sE.tt' WE have behae had occaf,ion to mention this cause much in det;ril. It will he recollected, that the claim of this Reverend Gentleman was to 0 . 16 extent of 14,0001, aod upwards, on the Defendant; in his official capacity as Receiver-General: The Aa 43, Gen. 111. c. 55. was pas:,cd to enable His Majesty more etfehually to provide for the security of the Realm, and to appoint Commissioners tr,v, take possession of certain land and property upori it, in situations favourable for the public defence whether on the coast or in the interior of the king- dont. The Officers of Government were to treat with the party who occupied, or were •he pro prierors of such land nod property. and if they could not agree upon the compensation, two tices were empowered to put the Officers of the Crown into possession, and these Magistrates were to issue warrants to the Sheriff to summon a. Jury to ascertain the compensation due to the individual or individuals so disturbed in their rights, for the pur poses of public defence. The Plaintiff, who occupied a itpu6e and some land, at Gosport, which he held under the Bishop of Winchester, had resigned hi§ possessions under these.circumstancesi and a Jury) lawfully summoned, according to Ole terms of the MI, had given a verdict in his favour, of the sum stated." The question before the Court was, if this verdiel Were valid, or it such an irregularity appeared on — tite . facc of it as to render it nuga. tory Mr..SCARLSTT, for the Plaintiff, contended, that the Inquisition of the Jury was regular, and that the Plaintiff was entitled to recover ; and he cited the various clauses of the AEI, to chew the consis. tency of .the appointment of the Jury, and of the verdia. He said there could be but two ()hie:lions to the decision : First, that the proceeding by the Officers of Government, upon which the Jury had proceeded, was irregular : Secondly, that the jury having assembled, have done something. which vas not within their jurisdiClion. The Learned Counsel examined these propositions very minutely, to iltew that the Warrant was accotaitig to the terms of the Mt ; and ;Wit the Jury had conformed with tht strations of the Warant. Mr. Gaz !LEY, for the defence, direaed hig ar gurnentS to the three following positinns . : First, that a grass sum cannot be 'a proper compensation for an occupancy of uncertain duration : Secondly, that all the proper parties were not before the Court : Thirdly, that it was uncertain, upon the face of the inquisition, what 'interest the public take in the premises for which the compensation its assigned. The Learned Counsel took a general review of the Aas of the 223 and 2 3 a Geo. dircaed to the objett of Fortification, and applied the principle and construCtion of these to the hue Aft, in support of his argument.--Judgment ROBERT DOUGLAS. • On the 27th of April, t 803, this person became possessed of a Freehold Eatate of the .annual value of about 601. He was a Mate on board the Hennes, • West.lndiaman, and on the 27th of April, :Sol,: was impressed into His Majesty's set vice, ankl.i,aken, on board the. Hero ship of War. Mr. ERSKINE moved for a lidieat Corpus, star inzt that he had been taken on bosid contrary to his inclination, a nd wishing to bring b , ..fore the Court the piestion, whether, being a Freeholder to this extent, he was entitled to his discharge ? Ile • cited the Cabe from Mr. Jus;ice 14.ACK , TON '8 RC. ports, tst vol. 3sl, when .the Learned judge, who was then at the 11,, moved tor the discharge of Richard GoUd, under similar circurnstances Lord ELLENDOROUGH.---" It does not appear he was taken from his freehold, but he was in the service of the. Merchants at the time. Had this person quitted the sea, and imsided on his freehold, without the animus revertekdi, it might have. been a strong case, The question now is, if his hay. ing a freehold exempts or discharges him horn the service It does not strike my mind that it should." • HUNT DAVIS. The late John Vaughan, Esq. had five menial servants of various descriptions, who were made Freemen of .the Borough of Carmarthen, under a conveyance real or supposed, to a freehold interest in a public-house oe inn called the Old Bull, of that town, This estate hail since devolved up Lord Cawdor, and still the Freedom. was claim. cd by. these ,companions of the kitchen, tin.. til three of them, on an Information in the na cure of a Q,140 WarrantO being issued, thought proper . to let judgment of ouster go by default. Henry Davis was one of the two against. whom no such application had'been made. It is well known, that incite Borough of Carmarthen parties have run ex. t,emelr high, the passions have been violently in_ flamed, and in cansccinencp of this spirit of faaion, very improper persons have been admitted to be. come Burgesies. Mr. Genus now moved for an information of the kind we have noticed against this person ; and he produced an Affidavit in support of his motion, which stated, that Henry Davis, to the best of the belief of the Deponent, had never received the rents of the Freehold .under which he claimed, but that they had always, since his introdndion to the Borough, been paid to the late Jelin Vaughan, Eq. or to Lord Cawdor. He. further said,. that the Corporation, instead of examining into .the' pretensions of these domestics of Mr. VaUghsn, had passed over them without inquiry or examina.. Lion. Lord ELLErauoßottoo.-.0••• 4 : 1 My objet •to grant the hula is, that the Atfilavit in What respeds the rents is not positive."-- - I utf refined. ROBINWN ,BUWLEb AND 9.OIItAT 'These Gentlemen were appointed Commissioners of the Taxes in a Diszri;:t of the Esst Riding of Yorkshire. The Rev. J. Gilbert, Itedor of Set. terington, in that part of the County, had ordered his. servant, J. Boys; during his absence, to stop up ten of the wit - v.104 , s of which notice was given to the Assessor, according to the ditto (ion of die mt. On his return home he found that Ice was charged with the penalty of idol. being tot. on each. Ondowt, on the ground t h at they were