The Sun. — London, England, 1801-05-12 00:00:00

r ~ • .. • \ : - `%.4l''' ?. - . • '. 1 T. • IVA IA I, 4 4 ' . NEirs. V . A' 14 i '• . ' ^ ,..k.•0 11 .. , „ . 5 . 6: •: • ' • ' Ce....t: ' . .1 . ..,•,,C. . . Ni iiii hitter ilinl t eldri ) savutnimettiVentea s i v ed 'wild aorAe dvitts. -........m......... PORTSMOUTH, M4Y U. .Aircavio last night, the French Brig Privateer Bogiaiwville, of r4. - guns, captured on the Bth inst by His Majesty's Frigate Eurydice. Arrived the Branch/I,y, MURPHY, from Bridge water. Also the Alliamee Armed Ship, Capt. Mecivisu, iron' Gibraltar, in 26 days. Commissioner ING LE. mu) gad Family, are on board her, Passingqs rrow Gibraltar. DE,4L, MAY I r. HriMajesty?s Ship Ttrpsichare sailed yesterday vening to the Northward, with those Ships of the Oporto Fleet under Convoy which are bound to Hull, Yarmouth, and Leith, in all about 3o Sail. The Alonzo, Falcon, Autumn, and Diligence Sloops of War, sailed this morning to the Westward. SHEERNESS, MAY 11. AttatbrD His Majesty's Tender the ,Ediwinstow, of t+guns, Lieut. MAVtk, from Shields. The Meteor Gun.brig, and Broederchap, late Dutch Careening Hulk, were this day undocked. GREENOCK, MAY 4. Tut George, Captain At.i.4N, one of tie ja miics Fle4t, arrived here on Saturday morning, p ar t e d convoy on :he z4th March, in 1at..3.4.. ss. io gale of wind and very thick Weather, :6 'sat then in company. The fleet, '4s' in number, tat teal of which were for America, sailed from 'Pott Antonio er the a6th February; under convoy of tbliSoprird and La Prompt Frigates. Off Cape Ni. elsabt.Mole, the Flora, Nat LL, for London„ sprung heimain.mast, anti the Miele, for Liverpool, eazried away her bowsprit and top.masts, and both • away for Jamaica. After coming through the Andlosid ?usage, a Brig belonging to the same -owners-4s the Vara, sprung a leak and bore away foaew: fligvidence. On the lith February, the 5,14 Iffie, of and for Liverpool, Capt. LIGHTFOOT, f oa m t 4:...4. 0 itie a way with the Convoy, was driven ip t rihon vita strong North wind, in Great River; vessel and cargo lost, crew-saved. • . . • cii,,y;retlneeday last a Court-Martial . was held on boird rho Gladiator, at Portsmouth, on Capt. Du NN, for : th e Logs , o f Hi s Majesty's Ship Incendiary, wh i ch wis taken by Adm. GANTHEAUME'S Squa.- e r ton , in the Mediterranean. Lieutenant' him'', ~co i n ma nder of SPrighily Cutter, was also tried for her beltig taken by the same Squadron.—' Th e ywere both acquitted. On Thursday Mr. J. R. pi s NZ, ?inlet' of flis Majesty's Ship ilindostan,. • was tried by a Court Martial, for absenting him self without leave, and for defrauding several' of the (Nicer* and Ship's Crew of money due to them.' The charge being proved, the Court adjudged him to be mulcted of all his pay, and other allowances • due to him as Purser of the Hilda:tam, and to , be•im. prisoned in the Marshal= six months. The Maria from Glasgow, and the 7G3L/e, NUTTALL ) erom Demerara for Liverpool, which were taken by the Braave Privateer, are re-taken by the Revolutionaire Frigate. The late LORD ADVOCATE is . appointed- LORD . CHIEF BARON, and the Hon. CI-Wi LE3 HOPE sue ceeds as the new LORD ADVOCATE of Scotland. Root RT DUWDAS, Esq. of Melville, is a cantli. date to represent the County of Edinburgh in Parlia ment, in the room of the LORD ADVOCATE. It is said that ROBERT BLAIR, Esq. Solicitor General, is to succeed Mr. Dump/is, as Dean of the Faculty of Advocates; and that 'JOHN nuarmr, Esq. one of the Advocates Depute, is to be Sheriff o f Orkney, in room of Mr. flora. We have the satisfaction to state, that in misc. :pence of the abundant supply at the Corn Exchange yesterday morning, the prices of Wheat and Flour e xperienced a covsiderable reduflion. There was yesterday a very lull Market at Smith. field, and a further reduction took place in the prices of live kattle of all sorts. T4cre are encamped between Dunkirk and Nieu von a body of ro,oco men, who are. to embark in ves se l s w hi c h arc arming in those ports. The fhtitla w hi c % is preparing at Dunkirk, will consist eq four Frigacs, each mounting 41 guns, a number of Corvettes, si o op4, and Brigs, and of six flat.bot. towed tend Gun-boats. These last are to mount Phittp-six an d forty-eight pounders, and the gun_ boats twenty-four and twelve pounders. All these essels were built three years ago, when there was en iateution of etfeEling a descent on England, ,and ire on a new construdion. At one of the ex tretnities there is a bridge, which can be lowered or raised at pleasure, and which is to serve to facilitate the debarkation of the troops when they approach near to the coast. There are 170 flat ranee gun. vessels at St. Maloes, which have been lying there two years, built on the plan of La Bomparde, taken ome dine since and brought into Plymouth. They motnit forward a thirteen-inch mortar, and abaft, on high platform, a long thirt)P-two pounder. They can carry i6o 'froops, row sixty oars ) , and are flat. bottomed, to run plump ashore. Private accounts state, that a dreadful mortality prevailed on hoard of GANorttEAumc's Squadron before it reached Toulon, occasioned by a kind of leprosy, which was much increased by the great number of Troops embarked for reinforcing she ttepubliean Army in Egypt. It is confidently stated, that no less th.in zoo() Irmo were thrown overboard, ‘f whom had perished by the ditcasa. ♦ .•4. +.44.414 slit• Oven/ - 64 rddiri: • the tragedy of Richard .MM; Third; though hackneyed by frequent Representation, drew a large Audience last night. Mr. COOKE has often•pliyed the Chirader of Rieblrd so well, that we weft sur prised to see him fall so niuch below himself last night. Whether we are to impute this comp. rative failuie to illness, or any other cause, we know not ; but certain it is, that he by no means afforded that satisla:tion which he has been accus tomed to excite in this charac7ter. He seemed to labour under a cold, but afrea. ed a low tone too generally ; and was often hardly audible. Hence he was several times de sired te t spell:. louder ; and at length his temper was soured, and he forgot himself so far as to show great discontent towards the quarter from which some disapprobation issued, and after pausing a few moments, abruptly left the Stage at the close of the fourth MI, without finishing his speech. This disrespect towards the Audience was very strongly resented when he again appeared, and he was not suffered to proceed. However, he seemed so much agitated, and manifested such marks of contrition, that the Audience were pacified, and he went throUgh the rest of the Charaler without " let or molestation." , • From the event of last night we hope he will be induced to take more pains in his futuKPerform ances. We hope also that he will learn to suppress his " stern impatience," and refletc.l that before the Public " nothing so becomes a man as mild beha viour and humility." This morning arrived a Mail from yanfa;cer. MILITARY SEMI NAILY.---.4itfinStitUti O n has been founded, under the. immediate patronagex of His Royal Highness the DUKE of YORK, foi rearing up, and educating to the - profession of Arms, One Thousand-Children, -the legal offsprings of British Soldiery. The ground is purchased of Sir W. FAR . QuxAR, for the_ appropriate ere4iun Of this National Seminary . near Chelsea College., The funds for greet national undertaking are to be derived from a Parliamentary Grant, and one halfpenny out of each soldier's daily .pay. The whole superin. tendance is to be under the Management. of a Go vernor, and a Board of Visitors. We are happy to see by the last. Gazette, in which is the List of the Killed and Wounded on the Coast of Egypt, that the brave and amiable Colonel HI LL, of the 9oth Regiment, and who behaved so gallantly in the severe Aftion of the t 3th of March, is not among the former, .as was very erroneously stated in some of the Papers, which occasioned much dis tress to the friends and relations of that trtily wor. thy Officer, "who, we believe, is now at lades in is way of speedy recovery. Ensign jitiiitttisoN of. the Coldstream Guards, who was killed in the battle of the 13th neat Abou. lir ) is the son of Capt. JENKINSON. of Winchester, and nephew to the Earl of LIVERPOOL. His Royal Ilighneis the DUKE of CL.%RPNCE and the STADTHOLDRA were last night et Drury. Lane Theatre.- The jampwa/ At De:let:seam de la Pattie, con tains the following article : • " We are exprosly authorised to contradift, in the most positive manner, and in all respeas, the article relative to the Marquis de LUCCHESINI I given in the English papers, and copied into our Paper of the 6th. , 4 This note we give to our Readers in conse . - quence of a letter from the Marquis LUCCHRSIN in which we arc not merely authorized, but ex pressly requested to insert it." When the teveEtable authority. on 'which the Marquis of !Alec"' listrit's name was introduced into the account of our successes in Egypt, be con sidered, there will remain but one question, whether the Parisian Journalist has ventured to use his name improperly, or whether the Marquis has thought proper, "for reasons of State, to be guilty of this disingenuous conduEk ? By the returns made at the last Quarter Sessions f o r Wiltshire, of the mixed or medley woollen broad cloths, it appeared that the manufaaure has increased upwards of 50,000 yards more than in the preced ing year, in which there was'also a considerable in. crea se. Notwithstanding the immense public, salts of American Flour, ‘‘ hidi have already taken place at Liverpool, the last Paper announces the sale of nearly ig 000 barrels more, and we understand that the quantity still expected at that Port, greatly ex cceds what has already arrived there. Prices 535. to sgs. per barrel. A. very re:Tett-Ale Innkeeper of Bristol purchased, a few day since, a quantity of potatoes for half a guinea a sack, for which the farmer had, only a fortnight ago, refused s zos. per sack, demanding a guinea for them. Potatoes wcie last week sold at Warrington at hall.a.guinea a load of 7.401 b. CO A L S.—State of last week's Market : Carves sold. Monday, May 4, - from 316. 9d. to 41s. 9d. Wedlie,4ay, 6, 1 10 from 31s. 9cl. to 4 , 15. 6d. Friday, -8, - 49 from 315. 6d. to 411. 6d. On Sunday last, at Theobald's Grove, Hells, died of a decline, GEORGE PREDERICK PRESCOTT, Esq. nephew of Sir GEORGE WI L L lAN! PttsscorT, Bat. Hume's History of England is the most judicious and philosophical, Rapin's the most impartial, Dr. Henry's, as far as it goes, the .most elaborate and minute ; but by far the most valuable and most in teresting at this tune, is Grose's Military History of England, which is just republished, with great im provements, and brought down to the present time. Its value is known to all antiquaries, and it should equally be so to every General Officer in the Army. They might thus learn, how it has happened that the British Forces have degenerated, from having been the first in Europe. Mr. Grose shows, that for a period of five or six hundred years, the English cavalry-, and the men at arms, the archers, and the heavy armed infantry, distinguished themselves as much upon the Continent,. as the British Navy hws this War upon thv ocew, , ttICKT O F EING-413,ENCH, SAtu:r.D,A•:, CRittIINAL n 4, !FORMAT . IONS. Mr. : GARROW moved' i the Court for leave o tire ti Criminal Information against an Innkeeper; at NortliiiMpton,.•Orthe Mime pf Priestla,.nd, .for al_ ledged mi=onduEt towards an Officer of the Dragoon Guards. It was, stated, among other things, in , the Affidavit, on which the. Motion was founded, that a Private Soldier i n th e R eg i ment , o f w hi c h the Gentleman now complaining • was an Officer, had been much imposed upon, and being in a state of intoxication, was prevailed upon to consent to marry a woman in the neighbourhood, for which purpose Banns were published in the usual manner, but before the third asking, the man came to his senses, and forbad the banns—upon which another course was taken, and the man being again gat into a state of int o xi cat i on , a Li cence was obtained for the purpose of accomplishing this marriage, but that could not take place without the consent of the Officer of the Regiment, a' whOlesbme.regulation.by which many impudent Soldiers had been kept dear of a great deal of misery. This Officer who now applied to the Court for its interposition, had ex ercit.ed this power most humanely towards this Soldier, and saved him from the evils of this in tended marriage, by refusing to assent to it for which the man afterwards was• much obliged to him ; but on account of which it was imputed to the Innkeeper, that.at his Inn, when fill) of Com pany, he said of this Officer repeatedly, " That he was a rascal, and a scoundrel, and that if he was one _of the men, .he would retaliate on him." Mr. GARROW said, that Military Officers were 'Mich to be applauded for coming to that Court, when insulted, instead pf appealin g to arms, accord ing to the false Motions of Honouri which was to , ) prevalent in this Country. 'lt was setting a good example to the Public, for if Military Men took this course, all other professions would be called upon to do the same thing, and so the peace of the COuntry Would be perfectly protected by Constitu, tional means. But there was one defed of which he must apprize the Court, The Affidavit on which he moved this; was entitled as in a Civil Cause ; the Court would, Therefore, he hoped, allow that to be altered, and the Affidavit to be re-sworn. Lord KEN YON said, he might take a Rule to shew Cause, but the Rule must not be drawn up until the Affidavit was properly altered. Mi. GARILOW said that care should be taken of that matter. Rule granted. THE KING T. ARTS. This was a Rule calling on Thomas Ails to shew Cause why a Criminal information should not be filed against him, for some s upposed inhumanity . to wards a Prisoner he had in his custody, .-i'lcseper of the Cold Bath-Field's Prison. Mr. Scot - r moved, " That this ‘ Rule ..be -now made absolute." • Mr. GAIRow said, he was instruaid to. sliew. Cause against this Rule. The Affidavit . on' which. the Rule was obtained, wr.s long,' and .coritaincd many circumstances, and it became necessary to draw the answer to this application . with care, for which purpose the Rule was .enlarged on the ivlo, tion of Mr. MARYAT. Mr. GARIOW said, he never knew, until this day, that the course of Pro_ ceeding on the Crown, was different from the Civil Side of the Court, which was, that the. Affidavits should be filed before the coining on of the Cause, a given time. Of this Rule he was ignonnt„, and owing to that mistake, the Affidavits, on the part of Mr. Aris, against the Rule, were not filed, but .al_ though the convenience of the Court and Bar . re, coired that the pradice slsould be regularly ob served, still the Court would not allow an advan tage to be taken of this inadvertency, •and" make the Rule absolute before the Party against whom it was moved, had been heard. He was ready to lend his Brief to Mr. Scorr, that he might read over the Affidavit on ' which Cause was to be shewn against the Rale, and he might bting the nutter on at his leisure, only he must have an oppor t unity of answering the charge, and he had a compleat answer to every wend of of it. Lord KENYON; said, that if the Affidavits were not filed, the Court could not go into the nutter to-day. Mr. G &RRolt said, that when the subject came on, he should desire that the Affidavits on both sides, should be read from one end to the other, bc. fore he should offer one word to the Court on the subjed, and then, he believed, it would hardly be' necessary to make many commentaries on the case. Mr. SCOTT said he would not make any Motion which he was not entitled to by Law. Mr. Aris had had a week given him to,prepate to meet this charge. He had the same as had been given to others, and there was nothing in his Case which should take it out of the usual course. Mr. Maryut had told him the other day, that he was instruct. ed to move that the Rttle be enlarged for a week. ; he consented to the delay without a word in oppo sition. The Rule was drawn up for Thursday, for the Defendant to chew cause, and it was further ordered by the enlarged Rule, 4 4 That all Affidavits in this Case should be .filed on or before Wednesday then next, " now last. He was informed by Mr. DIALTRY, the Officer of the Court, that if the Atli davits were not filed within the condition of the Rule, the Party was not entitled to make use of them, in shewing cause against the Rule. Such was the course of pr dice in the Court, and there was no reason for taking this Case out of the right road. He had more than once been refused such a favour ; he was pressing nothing out of the ordinary course of justice, against Mr. Aris ; the event of this Rule being made absolute would only he that of bringing Mr. Aris before a Jury of his Country, who, no doubt, would do him justice on the state. ment of his Case. Lord KnNyoN.-- , -“ The Affidavit must be filed before the Court can hear it. if the course which is now asked, on the part of the Prosecution, were followed by the Court, namely, that of making the Rule absolute without hearing the accused Party, we Should make the Proceciing by Information most grievous indeed. TlP:rc are many whQ , • td - thy whole of .tlvs protteding7 -- -by- JiAgrg matron]lngwhy or Wherefore, except .. for the puippse Of soun c ti ng in th:.. , :ars of the igpotittik; some fine words without *midi meaning, in their if whai is ini* afited were grAnted, then the eaviiS against proceeding by Informatiori; would be just; for the course would inded be intolerable; The Role must be ellargea..ii ft was then aiipainted by Consent, to collie On on edneduk. A Rule sas gr'atited. On the -IViOtiOri, of 14i.. A nor, a•Tiaciesmiti iu KOnuiOuth; to show Cause why a Ciiniinal Infoiniatiuti ihOUI4, not ite filed against him foi ropet• to have been used bk hitt) tOwards a Magistrate who had cont - ieted hini in the .tiCrialti' of 31; tot seflitig candles without a Licente; MONDAY] 141 Y'' 1 THE KING MP. iitKIDC; PAiK moved the judgment.Of the Ciitsft an the Dfendant, stool convicted of, publii , hing scandalous an• obkene Book •or pamphlet Called the Gentleman of Fas hion: It appeared the . Affidavit the Derendanr, that be acknowledged th e trut h an d j ust ice of the Prosecution against him that he had sold the book in question, but that he did 'not know it -contained any thing that was criminal, immoral, or indecent, or he Would not have sold it. He promised never to sell or publish any such Works infuture. That his wife bought this book of a person whOm he named in the Affidavit, and that petion the Defend.: ant believed to be the Author ; that all the Copie3 Which the Defendant had of this book are tied uj in a parcel ready'to he delivered back to the of whom the Defendant had them, or to• be other wise. disposed of as the Cotirt should order; thaf the 'Defendant and -his wife were Virtuthisly , and religiously educated, and, , would 'not willingly or knowingly offend the rules of decency and modesty ; and that the Defendant . is Pot worth above tool. sd that a heavy Fine would crush him, 7 Mr. ERSKI NE said,• that this' unfortunate De_ fendant had cAlled on him yesterday, and from- what he•heard from, 4itri then, he had reason to believe that the circumstances stated in the Affidavit which the Court had . just heard, were ccrtett. He could could not pray for a light Judgment on, the llefeed ant for such an offence, beCause he would not i at;. tempt to confound moral principles 'so far as to ask the Court to do that which would appear incon gruous on its Record, namely a slight punishment attached to an enorrnous crime. The book in ques tion was the worst he ever saw. He had read it with horror.—}W had rather die than ask for a slight punishment on, any body who was to be punished st all for sending it intO - the world, bUt perhapis the present Dctentiant , might be instru mental in bringing to justice the Author of and tdat, he apprehended, would answer the puipose of those virtuotir•persons who were the Prosectitbrs of this -Indictment ; the Court might therefore be pleased to aliciw this Defendant to bebrought up at a fiittire' day, and if in the mean time, he should condua himself in such a way as to enable the-Pro seeutors'to come at th€ AUthor, he might be spared ; but as to the tiook itself it was most infamous. Mr. .),11',.K said he appeared on behalf Of the Prosecution.---The Prosecutors were a Society iii London, of which the Bishop of London was:the President, and their objet was to check the ob, scenity and licentiousness of the Press in these Pub lications,- and this . .person had been charged ,t.ltt count of selling and exposing to sale this infamous pamphlet ; there was no- desire to .call for - pUnish. mein vindietively • against this individual, and therefore if he could . tiod ine - iins to _ get a; the Author, perhaps the porycle of the Society' would be better answered by bringing MM . forward and making him the sublect of punishment ;- but at all events, the interest of Society &Mantled that this business should not be compromised, hot that `an example should be made of th guilty Who. ever they were, for the siike of public deeetiey and- Morals. He had no obienion to the case of this, man standing over for a day or two, to give him an, opportunity of discovering the Author; Lord KENYON said, it was grievous to rellea upon these rublieacions, the cad they might have on the minds of the rising generation was frightful ;* they tended to debauch and intlanie the bind, and to give it ayile disposition: Mit. Justice G%(-3 - !,r said, tht this cast was too interesting to the Morals cf . . the Pub►_ic to be co.:n promised, it must be disposes of in a serious man.. ner. The Defendant wary ordered to be brought up on. Friday. i l / 4 H;: KINt T. JOHN EN3c4. Thts was an Lldi , .lrilent for an Assault, c'hintej to have been committed by the rieferkflnt, on :t Fr son of the name of Kowl.ing, at the Buffalo Head, Alsop's Buildings. judgment byDefault. It appeared that the Proeeutor seas indel)ted to the Defendant's Father, who is a tavlor, in a consi.. detable sum of money, and upon the whole of the Affidavits it was very doubtful s hether the Derma dant committed the first Assault on the Prosecutor, or the erosecutor on the ll.fendant. Some cif the' parties who gave testimony in this Affidavit were -Quakers., and they affirmed in faycur 0 4.2 the Delen_ dant. The reason svhy the Defettdan suffered J,Llg, merit by Default ‘7as, that h would oat beat the expellee of a Trial. LOrd KENVOI4 said, that this being a Crimitiiii Case, the Court would not rceeive the affirtnation of Quakers ; but they had heard it only, because it was containect in the Pal= on whkh st 45 written the Affidavits of others, Justice Glttra alrerved, that as juigment had past by default, the Ccnrtt mint take it for granted, that the Tt•fendtht was Guilty►, and there., tore fined him 11: Ftidii Its Lung (!t1 St: Michael's Flirt, Brk tol, pursuaht to hi; sentence, Capt. W. Hbwie, The crime tor wEich he stint-N.l i veins for havinx wilt - oily sunk tl.l- Merry Andtew j to the pf*.l. jut.iict of the.