The Sun. — London, England, 1804-05-26 00:00:00

GEYER AZ F ASI4. 121,11M:1141r being the Da y appointed b y t h e command of His Iltst sTsi•, for a G eneral Fast and hi humiliationblin before the Divine M a j esty, to implore s g and assistance on the Arms of the King, by sea and land, the Volunteers met generally in the Churches a n d Ch apels adjacent to the places at which they Were raised. The House of Lords set the ex ample' and Went to Xing Henry the Seventh's Cha pel, in the Abbey, where they heard an excellent sermon preached by the Right Rev, the Bishop of Gtottssa. The House of Commons having adjourned over to Monday next, that H ouse did not SIP go in Form is to howe any place o f P u b lic Worship. The Secs, went in amt, veer, accompanied b y about 4.0 Mem_ t o which h e was escorted b St. M argaret ' s Church, to yal V o l unteers y the Ci ty o f W estminster Lo, th e Hon. c ol. EDEN. The Rev. Dr. JACKSON, p ursuant to the appointment he for merly received, preached, on this occasion, an excel lent sermon from Proverbs, chap, iii, v. s and 6. The Hon. Artillery Company went to St. Paul's, where a sermon, appropriate to the occasion, was preached by the Lord Mayor's Chaplain. In con sequence of the accident which his Lordship met With, lie could not attend. The St. James's Volun teers, in consequence of St. James's Church being now under repair, and the neighbouring places of worship being already engaged did not go to any Church cola as Volunteers. At St. Martin's there was a most excellent sermon preached by the Rev. Dr. litast•ruar, to the Princ e of Wales's Volunteers, and a very numerous and respectable congregation.— The Texts were in general chosen fro m th e Old Testament, with a view to assimilate th e condition of the chosen People to the present state of this Country, and to recommend that a similar reliance should be placed on GOD b prese nt in stance, and to y us i n the infu se a similar degree of spirit and unanimity i nto the minds of the people. Dr. HA MI LToN':, Text was exceedingly well seleded from the 3 d Ch apter of the Prophet Ezeki e l , and the gth Verse ; t h e words, 'r As an adam ant harder than flint have I made thy forehead : fear t h em not, neither be dismayed by their look s ous hou Ne ." ,tho ug h shay be a rebelli The Duke of NORTHUMbER LAND was among the congregation. The Old St. George's went to the Pdrish Church of Sr. George's, Hanoversquare ; the New St. George's, or Duke of Gloucester's, to Grosvenor Chapel- The Sc. Clements, or Prince William Frederick's, attended the Service at St. Clement's, and heard also an ap propriate and excellent Serm on on the 6th Verse of the 4th 'Chapter f ra In short, most 0. ...aeuteronomy. of the Corps about Tow n went to their respective Parish Churchs, and the day was concluded with due soleonity. ............—_,_—___„,„_ Ki n This morning -came on to be tried in the Court of g's Bench, the Adion brought by Mr. PeuNKET, General Solicitor. of Ireland, against Mr. Con. " ? for a Libel. The Jury found a Verdid for the Plaintiff —Damages 5001. A l 3 it "DENBURGH Hot; s F.—The Theatrical on T horn at this splendid Mansion were attended -- e n : day last by a considerable number of fie. sumnable visitors. The first Piece was Poor Nod dle, a translation from the French by the MARGRA VINE of AesseAcu„ which we have already noticed. In this Piece, the ha ve Na, Mr. K. CRAVEN, Mr. KER PORTER, Mr. NIXON, and young CHAT TERLEY, exerted themselves with great success. The second performance was a Pantomime, entitled The Release of Eblis, the composition of which is attributed to Mr. K. CRAVEN. Mr. K. CILAV EN, IVIC.KER PORTER, CHATTERLEY, Mt. MAYNARD, and the MAR GRAY INF, supported this Piece with interesting effe6t. A very magni fi cent supper follow ed these enteitainments, quite in the style of Eastern luxury, and the company, which consisted of a very elegant audience, testified high gratification whol e o f t hi s varied mid sumptuous fete, at the , p. KELL Y , who is the regular C omposer of the 11:tymarket Theatre, was requested to furnish the Music to the new Billet on the subjed of SHAY tP RARE' S Tempest, but modestly declined the task, though the merit of his compositions in The Hero of the North, and other popular pieces, would have fully warranted more confidence in his own powers. The offer was then tendered to Mr. CONDELL, who ac cepted ir, when he understood that KELLY had absolutely declined the undertaking. It is said char the Aristocrat -I,a seventy-four, is soon to he employed against Mr. PITT. "f his We cunsider as idle rumour, as Mr. PITT is impregnable, in the R. 1 NC'S SHIP the Old Britannia. , A half letter has eppeared in some of the Morn. tug Papers, said to have been addressed b y a Great Personage to a Learned Lord. It Was at first sup. nosed that this helpetter was written by the deli cate Plen4o, of half-letter notoriety; but the sus picion was soon removed, as the half-letter alluded to:etshe:tugh etesterious, has meaning. ;torn Ir " sumevvitat ludicrous to see, in the accounts Mil an, that there i 3 n intention of offering the Cr°74112 V-4"iSeerety to t he Founder'ofthe Italian Republican. Th e complaint which the Opposition Writers vent against the exercise of the Royal Prerogative, in the appointment of the new Administration, must ' re mind the world of the Jacobin- discontent et the -o,eto given by the the to the late Kin g of 4 , ne e ; which discontent produced a repeal of that l 'eto. the' overthrow of the Monarchy, and all the horrors that rendered France a scene of bl oo d s h e d , and h as convulsed Som e M an ev ery Stat e i n E urope. ale a atstrip ale. t St rtno dverti se d for s lij, by an unkno wn Author, withi n t Quer e —D o they not come he Medicine Ae.t, under the h ea d of Sopori fies p A Widower advertises for a yruij who can write. ne wAild probably find it much testes to obtain urie who can Make her mark. It is a fadt not generally known, as adverted to in the Strietures upon an historical Review qf the State of Ireland, that OLIVER CROMWELL 4 6 first aually accomplished a legislative union of the two K in : for Lope() w, in his Niemoirs, informs °l f that by the famou s it instrument of Govern. f den „t drawn up by CROMW ELL a Parliament was summoned for the three Kingdoms, now United into ?tie Commonwealth ; that thirty Members were al. lotted to' Ireland, who were elected accordingly, 11 'd tat as r e l a nd, of that Kin dom in the Peliale, et tiei l d at Westminster." g ) F 1 2')Al THE LEYDEN GAZETTE. RATISBON, MAY .--VVe ate assured that Cirj. zen BActit a, the French Chargii d'Affaires, has transmitted a new verbal and confidential Declaration to the principal Comitial Ministers, signifying that the two Mediating Powers will not delay their pro. raised interference for the regulation of the Affairs of the Einpire; but that in the interval things should remain in the same state as before. FRANKFORT, MAY B.—The Affairs of the Em. pire, or rather the conciliation of opposite interests of the German Princes, still remain in a state of on. certainty and suspense. The public, at least, can entertain no other opinion, in judging of the true sense of Citizen BACHER'S verbal Declaration at Ratisbon. We are curious to learn, on one side, whether the Princes of the Empire will patiently attend to this exhortation, and, on the other, whe. ther the Chief of the Empire will abandon the exe. cution of the decisions of the Aulic Council against those Members who have seized the domains of the Equestrian Order. Of the latter, Citizen BA. cHER's communications seem not to entertain the least doubt. EXTRACT OF A PRIVATE LETTER FROM PARIS, MAY 15. " Do not imagine that the Addresses of she Pre. lea% express the opinions of the Departments and of the People, more than the Addresses of the Ge. nerals, the sentiments of the Officers and of the diets, concerning the Hereditary Imperial Dignity in the BONAPARTE Family. No, the fortncr, as the latter, have either been extorted or bought from individuals, whose ambition or cupidity will write any thing, or subscribe any thing ; and who have formerly addressed ROBESPIERRE as they now do BONAPARTE; and as they will du hereafter Lours XVIII. should he be restored to power. The mass of the French Nation is tired of the War, and dis . gusted with the Revolution ; but, at the same time, as totally indifferent about BONAPARTE, as about Mort EAT, or any other great men who have figured in the Revolution. Though they want spi. rit or patriotism to assert their rights, and to publish their opinions, they have sense enough to see, information enough to judge, and experi ence enough to know, that the return of order and of tranquillity depends entirely upon the return of the BourteoNs ; and that neither Senatus Con sultas, eitcrees of the Tribunates, or commanded Addresses, can ensure the rank of the BONAPARTES any longer than during NAPOLEONE'S life ; and that those very persons, who have now been the first to proclaim the Hereditary Sovereignty in his fa mily, will then come forward as the first pre tenders to his dignity, to the exclusion of his rela. tives, persons foreigners in France, and who have performed nothing to be tolerated, and less to be ele vated. Here exists a faaion, which BONAPARTE calls the faaion of Generals, of which MASSE NA and MAC. DONALD are regarded as chiefs, but to which neither JOURDAN, ST. CYR., BERTH TER, nor even MURAT, are strangers. The latter, though related to the Bo- NArA.It TES, detests, as cordially, JOSEPH, LUCIEN, and Louts BONAPARTE,RE MASSENA himself; but po. licy causes him to keep upon good terms with Napo- LEONE, who, in his turn, sees him without confidence, and employs him from necessity only, not knowing really to whom 00erwise to trust the important place of Govern or of Paris. This faction of Generals is regarded by the Senators as very dangerous, and they have therefore advised the FIRST CoNstn, to exclude for the future, as much as possible, Gene rals from being Members of the Senate. The Tri. bunes, on the contrary, jealous of the power and pay of the Senators, court the disaffeaed, and svir.". the Legislative Corps, desire in their body as many Generals as possible ; and, it is believed, that these t c w an oConstitu t i ona l C orps w ill, at an y future "- cy of the Chief Magistrate of the Republic, join the faaion of the Generals to exclude all BONA. PARTE S from their future pretensions. " Even among his Brothers, NAPOLEONE Bo- NAPARTE look s upon JOSEPH as hi s on ly f r i en d, as Luc i EN is his avowed opposer, and Louts is led en. tirely b y hi m. As to JIIROME, he is in complete disgrace with all his Sisters and Brothers, for having married a woman who has Enghrb 4/ood in her veins. General DUROC is vet the FIRST CONSUL'S friend, though he envies MURAT his place of Governor, and TALLEYRAND his place of Minister ; a place to which he has promises to succeed, should TALLEY.. RAND resign or die. " The late Votes in the Senate and in the Tri bunate, report says, have been bought at the price of one year's salary to each Member, taken from BONAPARTE'S p;ivate Treasury, which, many pre. tec', contains in diamonds, gold and silver bullion, five hundred millions of livres. The same sum of One year's salary is, besides, the reward of each Commanding General, Prefea, or Bishop, who have sent or send Addresses. The private expences of BONAPARTE, on this occasion, are calculated to amount to one hundred millions of livres.' " Several thousand works and pamphlets have been printed at his expence, and, with large sums, distributed in the Armies among the Officers and Soldiers, and great presents are preparing for the day of his Coronation." The seamen pressed out of the four East India. men, viz. Charlton, Lord Gardner, Sir Stephen 4ushington, and Earl Howe, last Monday, at Ply. mouth, ate, by order of the Port Admiral, to be returned to theirrespedive ships to navigate them round to the River, and then to be sent back to 2 -that port, and distributed on board the different men of war. As Mr. ADDINGTON has comparatively retired into private life, nothing can be more illiberal than a continued use of those nick-names, by which he was marked during his Ministerial career. The merit of good intentions was never denied him, even by his adversaries, and therefore they should at least, on his demise as Premier, imitate Zanga, who has generosity enough to say, " And art thou dead—so is my enmity !" A young man, a pupil of BLANCHARD'S, arrived lately in a balloon at Cussionieres. H e had been as high as 2,400 yards, and much above the moun tains of Bagel. He was only four hours and a half in making twelve !clues. LAO' REPoRP. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, MAY 19. IDiSON , TJ . Rowßit. This was an aftion for money lent and avanced. The Plaintiff is Vestry-Clerk of the Parish of St. , James's, the Defendant a Publican in the same Parish: the debt in question was a bill for 291. 1 Bs. which the Plaintiff accepted for the Defendant and paid. This was proved. The defence set up was a demand by way of set-off against the Plaintiff, for dieting, lodging, and maintaining several Recruits for the Army of Reserve. The Plaintiff, as Vestry.. Clerk of the Pari•;h of St. James's, had employed the Defendant to procure men for the Army of Re serve for that parish, and had paid him the usual bounty upon each. Patrick Fallon was the first Witness produced on the part of the Defendant, and he swore that the Defendant had been employed by the Plaintiff to procure men for the Army of Reserve; that they used to be supplied with meat and drink by the De. Pendant; and that the Defendant used to be fre quently in advance for the Plaintiff upon that ac. count. The cross-examination of the Witness by Mr. Gaßtow excited much laughter. Ecing asked his name, he said, he was bred and born Patrick Fallon ; but he was christened liter Martin. Some other Witnesses were then examined on the pazr of the Defendant ; but upon the whole of the evidence it appeared, that the Defendant frequently paid but a; or :6 guineas per man for the recruits, and used to charge the parish twenty, and that in paying over the bounty-money, he always deduded the man's maintenance out of it. Verdid for the Plaintiff 291. 1 Bs. and costs, It being necessary, in the course of the morning, to call a aecond Jury, and only nine Jurymen at tending, the Court was obliged to send into the Ex. chequer for three more, in order that business might proceed. His Lordship ordered that the whole of the Pannel absent should be fined 40 shillings each. MAY 23. AINSLIE V. SIR WM. GIBBONS, BART. Mr. ERSKINE stated, that this was an anion brought by the Plaintiff, Mr. Ainslie, a Gentleman whom they al►l knew, against Sir Wm. Giobons, for slander. The Piaintiff was a Gentleman of the Bar, the son of Sir Philip Ainslie, and was a man of most unspotted and pure character, so that he was not only unsuspected of the crime which the De fendant had slanderously imputed to him, but was a man of unquestionable virtue in every respell. In bringing this anion, he was anurted by motives worthy a Gentleman of his reputation. It was far from any 'iew of gaining a pecuniary recompense, but it was to repel the calumny which had been most shamefully levelled at him, and to vindicate his charaner, which was to him the dearest thing in Mr. GIBBS here interrupted Mr. ERSKIN3, by observing, that the case - had been opened in the manner lie expede,:i; and, as Mr. Ainslie professed he did not want pecuniary damages, but merely to vindicate his chara&er, he, on the part of Sir 1 ` -alt Gibbons, who sat by him, was ready to mak e a most ample apology. lie would not have done this, if Sir William had not been present, becaus e it might hereafter be said, that it was merely the prudence of Counsel, who said more than the principal would sanction ; but in the present case, St William himself authorized him to say, that Mr. Ainslie was a man of unquestioned virtue and charader, and that what he said was owing to irri tation arising from the misapprehension of a mes sage which had been sent to him by Mr. Ainslie, or which had been mistated by the bearer. He was sincerely sorry for what had passed, and now offered the most ample .atonement that an apology could make. Mr. EasKINE agreed to accept this apology, and Mr. GI Bac, on the other side agreed, that the Plaintiff should take a verdkt for the amount of the damages laid in the declaration, which was zo,oool. —Verdid was accordingly taken to that amount. Lord ELLENBOROUGH observed, that die atone ment was, as ample as could be made. The words, which the Counsel from delicacy had not stated, were certainly of a most groSs nature, and such as imputed a condud to the Plaintiff not to be endured. He had, however, offered a verdict for the whole damages as an atonement, which, he concluded, was understood'as a matter of honour between the par. ties, and not be exaled in payment. • In this Couse the damages were merely nominal, it having been agreed that an end should be put to the action on the Defendant's paying the Plaintiff's costs. A feat of arms of a novel nature was exhibited the other night in Pall-Mall, and the broad.sword exer cise was performed by a Military Officer in an extra ordinary style, and to the no small terror and contu sion of the neighbourhood. About two o'clock on Sa turday morning, Mrs. JEFF aßys, of Pall. Mall, was awakened and alarmed by a violent noise at the street door, and by the screaming of one of the fe male domestics. In great trepidation, and suspen. ing the house to be on fire, she awoke Mr. Jr:ar E. ays, who immediately threw open the window, and beheld an Officer, in full uniform, brandishing his drawn sword, making lunges at- the parlour window and the fan-light, which he demolished ; and defacing the name on the door, and cutting it. Upon asking the reason of such behaviour, he re ceived much abusive language; he immediately sprung a rattle, and the Officer made a precipitate retreat into St. James's-square, where he was pursued by the watchmen, and after a long struggle, in -which the latter, with sticks and staves, wtre g-.pposed by the drawn sword of the former, which fortunately' did no other mischief than cutting the hat of one watch man, and the stick of another, he was secured, and carried to St, James's watch.house, where he remain ed all night, in a state of intoxication. The sale of the Corporation Lands of the Borough of Carmarthen, closed there on Tuesday ; and such was the eagerness of the bidders, that they sold for the immense and incredible sum of r 5 , 4 34.1. the yenta! of which produced to the Corporation little more than 2001, yeas purchase ! per annum, being upwards of 75 btaILIN,MAy tg. iIII.EA.CI4 (itz PAOMISE Ot MARRIAGk FITZGERALD IJ. HAW IiSW Old il. , Yesterday in the King's Bench, a ierdia for' t goof. and 63. costs were given for the Plaintiff against the Defendant. Few trials at Nisi Pri4i. ' have more engaged the public attention, or excited an higher degree of interest ; and whether we pe skier the nature of the action, the portion of thte it occupied, or the celebrity of at least one of the parties, it was• eminently calculated to call ford: much curiosity. The trial lasted three days, from Tuesday .morninA till late on Thursday evening . The Defendant is a young Clergyman, who has figured as a Preacher in most of the churches of this metropolis within the last five years, and whom his admirers consider as scarcely inferior to Kirwan himself. In the year 1794, Mr. Hawkswosth, being then in his twentieth year, and on the point of taking his degree in College, became attached to Misa - Fitzgerald, who was then scarce sixteen. This young Lady was the datighter of a respeFtable Officer, who had retired from the service with muds honour, but no great share of wealth, and had fixed his residence in Castletown, a beautiful vil lage in the neighbourhood -of Mountrath, in the Queen's County. Mr. Hawksworth soon gained her afFedions ; but still he was not satisfied, as his father was an enemy to early marriages, anti, of course, an immediate union was impossible. Thne or accident, he apprehended, might defeat his hopes, or a parent's authority consign her to the arms of another. In his letters, therefore, he urged her,_ with all the ardour of a doating lover, to enter into a solemn engagement never to marry any btrt him; and to encourage her to make this vow, he called upon his God to forsake him when he forsook her. These letters were read in evidence ; and though they exhibited no very finished specimens of epistolary elegance, they seemed, at least, to flaw from the heart, and were not ill adapted to make an impression on a girl of sixteen : at length they made that, and thus the connexiori continued until the year 18oz. Meanwhile Mr. Hawksworth had been ordained, had become a popular Preacher, and was much followed. In January 18oz, he called on a Mrs. Palmer, a particular friend of Miss Fitzgerald, and after some preliminary conversation, he told her he was ready to fulfil his engagement with Miss Fitzgerald, if her friends would give her moos. and begged she would communicate his intention to them. Mrs. Palmer delivered the message. A council of war was summoned. Captain Fitzge rald, the father, agreed to give four hundred pounds ; . the uncle, also an old Officer, agreed to give two hundred ; and the brother to the young lady, who was then serving with his Regiment in Malta, uo n being written to, immediately pro mised to the remaining 4001. out of the ho nourable ea - ngs of his professioo ; and though he wa s then adually in treaty for a Majority, he cheer: fully postponed his own promotion for the happine s s of a beloved sister -= he did more, he came w Ire. land to be a witness of that happiness. Hawks. worth seemed delighted with his arrival ;every thing wa s settled, the weddirrg-cloaths prepared, a special licence procured, and even the ring purchased. Mr. Hawksworth and young Captain Fitzgerald went down to the country on Friday, the next day, Saturday, was to be the'happy (Sy ; when lo! iii. stead of the bridegroom a billet! Lti.ewas delivered to the company at .Castletown, begging to be ex cused, as he was obliged to go from home ou pecu niary, business. FlOlll this period until the action was brought, the interval was filled with eva s i on ; the torch of love seemed completely extinguished, and the visions of his early days to have vanished _ for ever. The adion was then brought, and the verdid 25001. is commensurate with hio property, EXETER, MAY 23. AT our fair on Monday last, there was a larger, show of cattle, than has been exhibited for many years past. Fat beasts sold well at good prie6 ; but the major part being lean, the sale of them was heavy. We understand there were not less than 4.000 shown, of which about 1200 were purchased. In this fair Mr. Win. Sarell, apprehended tw o no.. unions pickpockets, of the names of Washington Patrick and Joseph Biggs ; several persons in the course of the morning had their pockets emptied of Bank notes, cash, &c. to a considerable amount, but the villtiins were at last detected in robbing IVIr. Roberts, of.Crediton, of his pocket-book ; they ate fully committed to Southgate prison for trial at our next general gaol delivery. There were four others belonging to the gang, who, on the alarm being given, Made their escape, and are supposed to have gone to St. Austle, in Cornwall, to commit further depredations at that fair, which i, on Thursday. We have obtained a list of their names, which are Garcey, Wilson, alias Paddeford, Macpher son, alias William Wilson, and Edward Gill, 4 Scotchman ; the two former are in the consiant ha bit of issuing forged notes of the Bank of The following is a desetiption of Wilts 2, the most noted of the gang : he is a small man, about five feet one inch high, much marked with the small pox, and for his adroitness in picking pockets, is con. sidered superior even to the noted Barrington ; be ing stiled by the light.firiger'd gentry in the me, tropolis, the Kinrr of the thieves. We hope they will all terminate their tabours in the West of Eng land, by a reward equal to their merits. Lirti-YARBOROTJGH has purchased out of TOR NER:A Gallery " the Opening of the Vintage of Macon," for four hundred guineas. On Tuesday died, at Ripley, aged 14 years, RICHARD OWI,N CAMBRIDGE, the only Son of CHARLES OWEN CAMBRIDGE, Esq. A daring robbery was last week committed at Winchelsea, by ix soldiers of the 1411), in the house of Mr. Martin. They much ill treated the Fundy, and broke Mr. M.'s attn ; they carried off r . 71. in rn•)ney, besides a watch arid sonic small plate. Colonel Barnett has most zealOusiy exerted himself to di cover the perpetrators, and some men were MI. Mined under very suspicious circumstances. O s Thursday night last, Mrs. Renshaw, of Lilt. terwurth, was safely delivered of four children, three males and otse female, all of whom at': living, and- likely to well.