The Sun. — London, England, 1801-06-08 00:00:00

SA- err . N ir A L a-,;.ti v N E Tr S. !6Vii im) : eriunt relagi, Scelltenlita tridentem, Sed m;bi tore Jailil 1. • FALMOUTH, JUNE 5": a r. ,ce lilt ARRIVED this evening, the King George Packet, Capt Yescoms E j twelve days from Lisbon: She brings an account of the Spaniards and Portugueze Troops having had three or four skirmishes ,on the frontiers oUortugal.—The latter claim the Vilory. The Spaniards have taken possession of OiiVenZa, small place on the frontiers. It was :reported at Lisbon, that the Spaniards had goo killed. The Portugteze are said to be 4.0,000 strong.... Sailed the American' Ship Eliza, Captain-HA ,. II r for Hamhurgh ; and the. Atlkie ,and DoWin Cutters on a eraize. y " J 7 iv)" '" , ).;* 'ir:;ix•-!!: . tr. 124..-. e . --......,---,.. ,- ' PLY 4 11OUTII, JuNE 6. THE American •Sliip Ar;atine, Jour/ . Lt Bus,- 8 41. master, from St. Andero for London, with tice):paSsed up Ch a nnel:yesterday. The 'Mate of the brig Brothers, of Dartmouth, JAMES ,13 . 44 t. tnasster, laden with fruit, froni Lisbon . bound to London, came pasienger in the Ariadne, and landed here. The Brothers was captured on th e 7th of April by La Gironde, French' .Priva teer, of 22 guns, and was wrecked on the 13th On the Coast of Spain. The cargo was lost, but it Was expeded vessel would be got off. The itriaa'ne wits detained fourteen months since'.by a srench Privateer; and carried into St: Ander°, btit liberated a few days since Sailed the Plymouth hired - Armed Lugger, • Of 14. guns) With the Highland-Chief, Extra Ship, froth Bengal, and several Merchantmen under convoy for the Downs ; also the Santateresa and Del Rosa4e, two Spanish Merchantmen, laden with hides, dc. frorn,the River La'Plata, captured by the Cambrian t ' ' P'Jgate, for the River, The 24th Regiment of root Ombarked yesterday on board the Aloninouth, of 64. guns, which ship *ailed this evening for Gibraltar. Sailed the hlancie and Naiad Frigates i and Su -4,oeirromta hired Armed Brig, on a Cruize, poRrsmo&TH„TUNE SAILE D His Majesty's Ship /adarious l of 74 tans, fur the Channel Fleet. Remain at Spithead the Royal William, Suiperbe, Prince of Wales, Shark, ruissant, " 5 in;cstigator, Anson, Buffalo, Hydra, 'Aggressor, 'Thames, Escort, Terpsichore, Censor. `the Embargo on the Danes and Russians at this "'Ott was taken off this day. YARMOUTH, JUNE 7. YESTERDAY the Ealus Frigate arrived in these Roads, and Ad m i ra l P OLE t hi s morning hoisted his ,s f og on board her, to proceed for the Baltic, where Ile is to take, the Command, ini the room of Lord The Fortuna, MARTIN, and Baltic, SADFORD, Ore got into the Roads' to join a Convoy (the Ann Itrrn,d Ship) for ihe Baltic several Ships are pre *parin g to join them, and it is expected they will !ail • m a day or two. DOPER, JUNE 7. I rnid morning at six o'clock sailed a Flag, of • 'lee, with a Dispatch from M.Orro, which seemed I. )' urgent, for there not being quite water enough n t he, Harbour for the accustomed Vessel to sail, it I VaS immediately forwarded in an open Boat to Calais. c A t eight o'clock sailed a Passage-vessel for having on board two or three French Liniilies of distinaion. ' SIX O'CLOCK, P. M. 11 :he Fl ag of Truce, is just returned, and has p 41 % p apers to the 4th inst. inclusive. SHEERNESS, JUNE 7. YL'TtlitmY arrived His Majesty's Brig Peed tv`.ll, Lie ut ...j musßlppy . having sprung a leak, , 411 e is com e into Harbour to have it stopped. „This day arr i ve d t h e Providence hired Cutter, 1-leut . Wtl. COWAN, from a Cruize. DEAL, it l , lll 7. +TUE &PPM, Gun.brig sailed yesterday morning to the Westward. wHIS Majll3tra Ship Thunderer arrived last night orn P ortsmouth, and sailed immediately through t Downs to the River Medwy. The Eord Dun tali and ;Wolk Armed Cutters. with thp nir ll trA Navy ir i anspbrt, Alventwer, How ART), for Su. rinam, .and several other Vessels under their con. voy, sailed this afternoon for. Portsmouth. OUTWARD-BOUND INDIA FLEET. Prinevst Charlotte, May 4. Lat. 3S. 42. Long. rz. 64 We list night experienCed a severe gale, which, however, has neither dispersed nor materially da maged our Fleet ; but our sheep, pigs, and poultry were all washed away. We have t 25 soldiers on board, many of whom, as well as some of the passengers, are sickly; and %;/e have bUried` two men. A shark of immense size has followed us for four 'days, and is at this in stant lying alongside. ' * OJMideira, Mqy 9. The fleet, consisting of : H. M. S. Arethusa, Earl Howe, Henry Dundas, Lord Thurlarlue, and Princess Charlotte, Indiamen, arrived offthis island last night, less healthy than might have been ex_ pelted from the nature of our passage. ' The Heryniote Frigate Is here, haVing brought in four _ French _prizes. There are two large . French, privateers, the one mounting , 38, the other 26 guns, cruising in .this latitude ; they have captured four West Indiamen, and three other merchant ships. The 'Aret&ia," our convoy; leaves us as soon as we get clear of these islands. Wednesday. last, Lieut. M'NivErt, Who longed_to,the Danai Frigate at the lime the.Ciew mutinied and carried her into Brest, in passing through' Wapping - met a Seaman who was Captain of the Forecastle when the mutiny took place:. Ile instantly seized himi and conveyed him aboard the tender off the Tthver; from whence he con veyed to the Note for trial. It appeared. 'that he had been for some time .on board an American • schoooer Which had lain for a fortnight along-side the tender. He' liad an American protedion, and was disguised as an American, with earrings in his ears. -~ 'Tuesday a Chitit-lVfartial til'a - s held _on - bo - iiii . His Majesty's Ship Gladiator, in Portsmouth - Harbour, on ten seamen belonging to the' Tery.sii•hOir;Tor section. Being foand were . :sentaczd to receive, six dozen lashes each, - 'on board of_ their own ship, and to be muitied of all their pay: At the Admiralty Sessions Which began on Satui day last, Aiatthr;th - Connor was indicted fo'r High' Treason in 'adhering' to the King's Enemies—he was proved to haVe been on 'board a French Pri vateer which captured an English Ship - calk-111hr Diamond, and-,to have been aCtive in managing the guns, &c. His defence was,- that he topic the Ship } against which the Privateer was fighting, to hare_ been Spanish, and that as he had recently ,come &rim' America, he did not know Spain was an Ally of France. The Jury consulted upon his case upwards of two hours, and returned a t•erdid of. Not Gstilty. The. QtYl'EN's dress on Thursday was more than commonly. resplendent with :the richest diamonds. The• PRINCESSES likewise Wore a number of dia-, monds, some of which His MAJESTY had presented to them that. morning. Among the Presentations on the Birth Day were, the liOn. Miss MONCKTON, and • the Hon:.. Miss HARRIET MONCKTON, by their mother the Vis countess of GALLWAY. His Royal Highness the PR tlicE of• WALES this day reviewed his own • Regiment of Light Dragoons (the toth), in Windsor Great Park.— MONSIEUR, and several of the French Nohi;ity, were expected 'to be present. Lord ELGIN is to he succeeded in his Embassy to Constantitiople, by Mr. DRUMMOND, our late Negotiator at Copenhagen. By a Gentleman just arrived from Bengal, we have been favoured with the following account of the Forces' which were embarked at that Presidency for Egypt. The ships sailed from Bengal on the 7th of De cember, r Bbo, under convoy of the Hon. Company's armed ship onruch, Captain CANNING ; but on the itch she quitted them, when. they were taken charge of by His Majesty's Ship Suffolk, off the Sand Heads ; and it was u nderstood' they were to, proceed to the Malabar Coast, to form a junetion with the rest of the Fleet intended for Egypt, and that the whole number of the Troops would'amount to about sixteen thousand. The Fleet consisted of the following—a. Ships. Troops. Cuvara soo of the loth Regiment. Gabriel - 415 ditto. Ann and Amelia 335 part of the loth Reg. and part Sepoys. Calcutta .. 400 ditto ditto. Experiment 200 Sepoys. Friendship 150 ditto. Pearl • iso ditto. Eliza 2 , 3, ditto. Ganges 200 ditto. Ruby 64 ditto, and tins lkitgitz.inc Glapw Letters from Paris say, that General MAMMA has been put under arrest. He was nominated to go as Minister to the Court of Stockholm.. Against this he strongly represented, and called it an exile. He took a house near Malmaison; and it is said that he t was suspeeted of caballing with some intriguants, in consequence of which he was put under arrest.— His great ambition was to command the EXpedition against this Country. Upon the late divisions in the House of Com mons, Mr. JOHNSTONE, Member for Aldbro', who supported Mr. Pint's Administration, joined the ranks of the Opposition; and Mr. JEFFFILYS, Member for Coventry, who afted with the Oppo sition in the late Administration, has voted with the new Ministers. The Ist Dragoon Guards have succeeded the i 7th Light'Horse at Birmingham. One troop of the r 7th Regiment, has replaced at Blackburn, a troop of the 4th which h.is marched to' Sheffield. During last week, immense shoals of Whitings and other Fish were caught on the Beach in the Bay of Aberdeen. Every receding wave left numbers behind it, and the only trouble was to pick them up. The cause is thought to he, that the, D'og.fisli now begin to infest the coast ; and to escape their voraciousness, the small Fish push for the shallow wa ter. LAW REl''),. COURT OF KING's BENCH, JuNE 6. KERSLAKE 2/. SAGE Alit OTHERS, THE ATTORNEY GENERAL, Moved for -a Rule to shew cause why a New Trial should not be hid in this case. was an AOion brought upon a Policy of Insdrance upon the e Life era Gentleman of the 'name of Robson, of ~ the age of 23 yeais, war. ranted " to bi in good health, and unaflliaed by any dis Order tending:toshorten human life." The Contratl for the Policy was entered-into on the-19th of • March,' and the 'Policy itself executed on the zest Of March, 1799. FIC-said, it appeared on the trial, that Mr. Rob whOse - life was insured, had attended the Otliee of which the Defendants • are the Dieeeturs t . the_Westminster Insurance Office for - Lives, ivberc the'Policy- was entered into, and being . asketl,tite usual qUeOtipn; "By -what "Medieal Gentleman he was attended ?" in, order that the Office:might in quire, in.the customary tnanncri As to- his &c., said, " he never had any . Medicalt,Person..tui attend hint ;" and a person of the name Oflio'ward. confirmed that assertion, by, which the Office lost the means they otherwise would ha 4 had, , of 0b... taining full information of the stare of 'the healiii.of Mr. .Robson, and the Policy ,was entered , into --as if Mr. Robson" had never hati.any medical assist_ ante whereas, -the truth was, that Mr, Robson had long previotls to that time; been afflicted 'with aPulmonary 'Complaint, and luta, been ilt;ende4 Dr. C. Smith, Physician to., klis-Majesty,", and; also by'a Surgeon, Mr. De Bruin. This, the ATTOR NEY GENERAL—said,- was a - wilful suppressiOn of a Taterial fall, and a fraud upon the Office," and skixuld be sufficient to sustain, : the Motion he was now submitting .w the Court bttt.this was not al',, for Dr. C. Smith swore on :the trial # . that .at the tinic when this Polity was effefled, i# Itc, had beenn-asked how this Gentleman) Mr.. R 9.1400, -wasp, llic have said," because i , in thelinguage of Me-.; dical Men, a person is said to he well, when he-was free .from the - syrnptoms of Any, tornplairit, but. its should. have thought it his duty to add, "*.That: ;on, sidering his age, and.habiti,, - anal that he, had but cently recovered, he did • not, think hitnsapable of those glive.exertions which are cominonly made by. 'persons at his time, : of.life:'-' This was the Evidence produced for the Plaintiff in this Anion, whickwas brought ao'recover theisum insured:(alls Gentleman, havingdied_the following Autumn). Bcoides-,this, the Widow, ,of:the deceased Gentleman proved:his having been ,affliaed with this complaint , a long time bcfore,thks Policy, was entered into,, anti she waS always extremely, anxious about . him : That'Jle ,, was Clerk' at the House of Messrs,. Ross and Ogilve, whose service he was compelled to quit on account of his state of health. By this Evidence the war. " that this Pentleman was, in, good health, and free from any complaint tending to shorten human life," Was, be said, completely falsified add: iisg to this,' the. fraud praaised upon. the Officephy the wilful : nii§representation,of the bet- that he had, not been ,attended by a Medical Person, there W4s abundant reason,,for .tbe,,Verdika being for, the D. fendap,t l and no reason for its being otherwise. He Lad, Indz...ed, 1,-carda rumour, hut that he head no Affidavit,. 'and therefore he should not press, it, that -,•)me persons intimately concerned - in the determina, tion, had Life ; Insurances at the, same Office. The jury and brought in r! ,Nerdid for ,the 'Plaintiff, which, : he said, was , contrary/ to, the di - .., reiftion of the I.ear r ed Judge (Mrs Justice-LE ilt...Atvc., who sat ler my Lord KE:srl9N), and be Would add, not.only to the astonishment, but .also, to the ailliCtion'Of every, honest and intelligent per, son in Court. " 1 think it proper," said the AT- ToRNEY GENERAL., " to add, that if there be fre. quent recurrences of such 'Verdias, I shall think it my duty to revive a Writ whiCh, although it has been a good while asleep, is not yet dead.; tmean, my Lords, the Writ of Attaint *." Lord ICEINTYON.--" Take a Rule to shew Cause:" Rule to shew Cause glinted. * It may be necessary, for the information of Such of our Readers as are not -Lawyers to state what is the nature of a Writ of Attaint, with the operation of.wnich the At- , torney4;enctal threatens jurors. .The Writ of Attaint is a Writ that lies after judgment, against the Jurors . - *no have given a false Verdi& in any Court of Record, in any Atti,,n real or personal. It lies also where a. Verdi& is Crary to evidence.. Its etre& is,: to sitnrmon a Jury to inquire whether the former fury have returned a Verdict contrary to their oaths. It, is observed by the ancient writers on the law, that a Writ to attaint so many men of so foul a crime as Per jury, ourt seldom to be used, unless the corruption is very ' gross en apparent; and that the Juiry, to try the false Vet did, must consiat,of twenty-four. The . W rii is founded upon the Statutes of the sth and 34th of Edward 111. c. 7 and is called Intaint, because the party th e ir brings it endeavours thereby to attain the credit of the Jury with perjury, by whose verdid he is aggrieved.-- The punishment by the Common Law Was, that the, urors meadows should be ploughed up, their -houses brokedown, their woods grubbed up, and all their lands and tenements forfeited to the Crown but by Statute of the 23d of Hr.na Y VIII. e. 3, the severity of the Common Law is mitigated to a fOrleiture of 2vl. to the party,. a tuft at the discretion of the jusi l ies, .via disability to give testimony in any Court ofjustice.. THE MING T. ALDRIDGE. Tit E Defendant,. a Bookseller, who keeps a shop near Covent:garden, was brought into Court to ye cei% e its judgment fora Libel, on the motion of Mr, PiNkx. The Libel in question was a Pamphlet, called " Memoirs of 4 Gentleman of Fashion," &c. The Defendant had suffered Juclgment.to pass by default, and he was brought up on a former day, when he presented an Affidavit, and Mr. ERSKtty e addressed the Court in mitigation of his punishinnt, when the Defendant gave in the name of the •Atithor, .and proathed to do 411 he could to bring him to justice. Nothing remained now but the Judgthent of the Court, which was pronounced by Mr. Justice Caost, who said that the Defend_ ,ant stood to receive the Sentence of the Court upon a Judiment suffered by him to pass by default, upon an IndiEtment charging him with hav ing pUblisheEl a nauseous arid mclst, obscene Li. bel, so obseene, that his Counsel, with a dis. action and propriety that was never better exercised, desired that it should not be read, and most assuredly decency forb.al the reading of so shocking a btx)k. The learned judge then expatiated on 'the immoral tendency of s u c h i m m o d est publications, especially on the ciTcas they must have on the youth of both sexes, whose passions were so easily inilamsd. while the i r, judgments were unable to guide and rule them, &c. The Detendaix had indeed give 1 in The name of the Author, but he had not enab:ed the prosecutors to bring him to justice, find there. fore he must, in a Court of Juitice, be treated as 'rich the Author and the Publisher.— lhe learned Judge also paid a tribute of praise to the sockry, of which the Bishop of. London is the President, for their laudable endeavours to check the publica tion of obscene and immoral works.—He then pro nounced the judgment of the Court, which wa's, that the Defendant do pay a 'fine of six :maks : That he be imprisoned in the House of Correction for the County of Middlesex for twelve-caleidat months, there to be kept to hard labour, -aod that he be further imprisoned until such fine be paid. • , , Mr. Eitstost-''sato, tnat tne jliagment of ti l e Court was LI 11CUI C t ionably jest. 4 but this poor. man sas really tiesirous, and be hoped wpiiirl able, to bring the . ' A‘.) I. hot. eeo justice, which he ho t ed, wotiM appease ihe'idst wrnth of'his*PrOsectitors. 14r. Justice GaosE saici, -that if thzt ~ ,va, done, those whorhvti the'care ; ol the , ai,:nt's interest, kne.w..vcry, weLl.. that application.iu his. bella be, mad,: to the,Fountain of Mercy ) , where no jtnit WaS, made in vain: . „ • CONVEYANCERS. Upon a motion to set asiit: an,Anctuity, it appear: ' tli,,tt it hdd licqn ogte;:d that the eirpence tho Deeds s.hculti noteNcecj Lord is. E N:SrOg ollacr;,.ed„ - tihtt be had the utmost corifitlence 're Lviastcr, that h?..‘vould d. hatevet vas ;Oerenc.:, 41,tkle hint in tLe3e, cases., Bat lte,coulti not hc , i , saying that he had now and then bills oi - ;Convepin;xrs coming before him at ,bv...t4 r 114 . 1%,S oal ;Pt t WY) mach .n) )3,t( his cyntcnts ;;.? I.le ach . anlekok.4o,-,sit),,...i;nkll?e.,rt;4i4k ithat !-(4ru", nf,, I-I' ccpe,,o 4ntd, to be ..4„, such 4 sur r h per phi cau cotes I,e c, 11;3 vet . maL14.4.; /4,u . m, as nor 4uty. thingrlile it, all,: ;.:yances .410 ho};{ up ;hell „c„ , . rid W bo r .ileala it,lokCki . , ~,; !.. though. to be sure, front ;II could. be inure ktiaxish. , . . ' EXTRACT OF LET;rI7R PR.o*,t .NrIk.SOUTti *.ALF.SI •, 4 ( GoYextior K. 12, C. LOA CC):: - 1/1111 : ;:it.,n the nit. and O(jvernor sain: d,tv —I: OS left us with the,good the Settlement. ' . , c A, very unpleasant citentoitanee to have occurred herc.lately,--'l'ile „I ri.s!l win) were lately transported into thus c lyd im. them their dangeroF,i . princip'es, mercaied than- subAed ley, thAir fiemoval fco.n theit% native cotintry.. "f hey .I)egan . 1.. r .„; circulating th,eir. doflrin „ni6s aonithe Convicts, an,', ,Conspitacy scared)! been fprrtledW,fore it We'. sappily discovered. They couldoeveilir tibjed ,--but from their d4p;i:249,n, 'l4lltu.itio,t,„ aid, sanguina v y trots) . 1)1,00tsh ! -,d ,p,ro e lykly ve Cnsticti They had cond t o•Ai, thc SCllefili. S‘.C4Ol gni:tt and seCrezy, td Which they wsre,,ge c ie„raily oirsniskvii , we,:pops e% en fro:n teols'of agrictijuire,for c rr y ; , .:)- 1 ) 0 5 into e'Ceution, Irt noti , , , art of the Dmninions,. tioUn anyOceasion, cout,i and - principal inhabitants shecs' more •Aeal and uLtcrity . i,, coming fobl'iara in nsuplioit of 'the:Government, anti even some of the worst of the FcalgiisJi Convntls cv.. .„ pressed their abhorrence of sucica diabolical plat,. . " Governor .ICiNa; has added 'to the Forge, by fbrining a Co;roany a. eaeh—Sertlement of the principal and' which" named "./'*ht lkyal Parr.:. , ;L:ua and: , „eftroda. flans. • ff Excepting these tumults, excitedby. the United Irishmen, the Colony is ternarkably quiet and pros. perous, abounding in grain, and live stock incie:is, ing in quantity, and failing in value; sheep have , lately ,sold for from 4os.- to 50 ti. per head; and horned cattle at 351. per head. f' There are two Whaler on the coast. The Albion about a month ago had eighty tons of srerm (ail. The seal-catching Seems to answer on ;he coast to the Southward, but we want a market..:* Our flocks improve in an astonishing degree in their fleeces, ,and, from a late imported Spanish breed, this Colony will probably soon contribute to the Woollen Manufadure of `England," The quantity of Wheat imported into the Port of London in one month, nameiy, from the sth of May to the sth of June, inclwive, amounted to 201,47 quarters, independent of Flour, Barley, Rye, 84 . c. Notwithstanding the above extraordinary ,uppties, the prices of most kintis of grain contintu:, to advance both in the MetropoliS and in the Conn.. try. At Chester, Newark, and Uppiugh a m, Wh ea t has risen about I is. per quarter. At Coventry, Warv, icir, Devizes, Nantwich, Leicester, Lynn, and Stamford, it is likewise dearer. At Oxford, Birmingham, Lincoln, Stratford, Northampton, and some other places, Wheat is rather below the pvices of the preceding week. Hereford and other' places are calling Meet ings for the purpose of petitioning Parliament, ac already done by Worcester, that grain, turnips, and potatoes may he, sold by weight instmid of measure. The Magistrates of Plymouth Dock have der,ite:l Colonel the 'Earl of 'CArtt NmuvoN to signifr to Regiment, the high sense thcy entertained of the good conduit of the Wiltshire R .giment of Militia, during the whole time of its residence there, which they expressed by saying it had been exceeded by no Regiment they had ever remembered. A. Baker at Plymouth was On Tuesday -fined 2sl. for selling Bread which had not been Baked twenty., four hours. Sixteen rolls of butter, deficient in weight, w?re last week seized in Harwich market, a►►d di,trib uto i amongst the poor. A journeyman Silk-weaver was on Saturday sen. tenced to two rte)nt.hs imprisoninent in (.1.21d Bath. Fields, by the Magistrates in Worship-street, for not completing a piece he was engaged t(i weave.