The Sun. — London, England, 1801-01-30 00:00:00

TIIE THEATRE. D - Line. ASTER the Tragedy Of Jane Shore, a new Operatic Farce was represented, under the tide of ret r ran Tar. CHARACTERS. . • , Torn Sturdy, Mr. BANtilsm, jun. Philip, . Mr. Di. C.amp. DOdor Gossamer, Mr. We wITZ YRT:r.:l*, . Mr. SULTT . Henry, - Mr. TR L E.m4n, Torn Cludice, Mr.. CHIPTE.NbALL. `13 . 4:n Bowling, Mr. Wise. I.largery,'. Mrs. SPARKS. ViSCaa; - !NESS ST,EP HtNS. Mistywr ' • Chores of Sailors and F ABL ' The Scene lies upon the 'sea-cease of this eountr y. — Torn Sturdy, One \ eteran Tar, is the Captain of an Lng , lish cutter, which was Wrecked in a storm, but fortunate ly' so ncaf the shore that the Captain and all the.-Crew escape from the perils of the main: Philip. Sturdy, son of the old Captain, after haying' with difficulty, climbed a sock, arrives at the cottage of farmer, but able to make any body heat .at the door, •he gets in at the windoW.. The fanner (a huge feeder) is at thiS time - very impatient for his supper, but being also droiwsy, he falls asleep before it is. ready. Philip Sturdy, without ceremony, helps himself to all the table. attOrcis, and . Cicely, thefarmer'sdatigl)tcr-in-law, having brought the supper, and• found the Farmer asleep, 'shares the repast with the hungry Tar, - and both join in persuading the Farmer, when he wakes, that he had devoured the food `himself. The Fanner, having been tinder the care of a Quack podpr, .who had. recently phjukkid him into a delirium, with some hesitation believes - their story, though the craving of his appetite is : strongly in opposi , tion to it.—Old Sturdy, ignorant that his son had - escaped the fury of the: storm is in great - anxiety., and the son is equally uneasy respeding the fate of his father. Philip ascends a rock, wile hope, that he may-be able to descry his Father; -and in this situation; warbles a strain suggested by - the recent storm, and the contrasted serenity of theocean. The Old Man wanders near the spot, and, struck by the voice of his son,.,imagines that he Is deceived by supernatural sounds. At length they meet, •and a very atrecting interview takes Place. It appears, that Philip bad fallen in love with - Cicely, the Farmer's step. daughter, tut Old Sturdy will not consent to let his son, marry till ' he has discharecd his duty to his Country. Soort after e Freneh .I.)rieateer is seen near the coast. Phi lip summons his crew, they man a vessel, attack the Fri vatcer, bring . the Freneleflag upon the Stage, trample upon it, and raise the English Standard in triumph. The father • naturely rejoices in the valour and N-idory of th.: wr.. and the Fine concludes with the inteiid:A marriage of Philip' and Cicely, with the consent of all parties. The chief merit of this Piece is its adaptation to the-state of the Country at.the present moment, and its tendency to aniinare the oatrioiic feelings Englishmen. If there is.notliing new, in the - Fable or the CharaCters, there is a vigour and 'spirit in the dialogue, which is in that respeCt above the ordinary run of such:Compositions : , many of tne sent iments are noble, and yet ap propriate ; none them are extravagant, and most of then:are .impressive. _ As it was •necee'sary, to diversify the Charac ter:, the Author has introduced among his Sea. men, a Farmer and a Doctor ; but the Scenes in which the' two latter are engaged, are hk no means so well conceived as those which relate to his honest Tars: Those charaCters, however, though less - efficient, give the others a more forcible influence by:contrast. Several of the patriotic effusions were warmly rived by the Audience, particularly one which imported ,that the English Tafs would soon exert their .prowess on the French, the Swedes, the Danes, and the Russians. The Piece was very well sustained, 'particu. larly by young 1 - SJOINTST ER ) who played ~ t he Ve fleitn Herb i.vith admirable force and feeling.— Young DE Came also distinguished himself very well. Sutter made as much ,of hiS parf as it ad. .-" w itt,, , ,, 1 ; and Mrs:SPARKS was successful ih the 'arnser's Wife. Her rustic run very much vetted the Audience. • • Mrs. MOtrwrAix- . sung delightfully, though , considering the situation of the part she suStatri ,_..td, a little: more simplicity would have been more . characteristic., ,The. Piece was received with great applause . a crowded and a loyal Audience, who seemed to glow in sympathy with every patriotic senti. ,bent, and it was announced for this evening with a hearty consent. . The Drama itself was written by Mr. AR. SOLD, the 'son of the respectable Composer, Dr. - • ARNOLD, who furnished the which is al. iogether highly creditable to his taste, science, and genius'. •The fbllOwing Songs were all encored': . SONG.—Cicety. Yes, VII die an old maid, it a man I can't find That my fancy his pidur'd as quite to my mind; His heart shall be open, hisAountenance too, And lib'ral his hand, or he never will do : In short, to convince me he's this thing and that, My heart, when I see him; must bounce—pit-a-pat. I care not fur cash, or for acres in stcire i With a man that I lovel can never be poor ; Nor with one I dennt can I 'happy be made, Tho' I flaunted in sattins, in siiks, and brocade. In short, I'll neter %lied in this world, and that's Hat, Till my heart says—" he,"with a bounce--pit-a-rat. DUET.--I.lsErrA and CICELY. , , Hark, hark . 1- the village bells delightful sound, • In cadence sweet they die along the vale ; Now lowly murmuring o'er the broken ground, Now loudly - Swelling on the'fravelling gale ! Mark. how they echo round the rocky 'shore ; Now, soft they Meal responsive on the ear ; Now, caverns deep rebellow to the roar, In sounds harmonious, audible and clear. SONG.-=CI :when storms are sunk to year, •Atn4 thundets roll ho more,, The Sailor's heart how blest, Who seek*his native shbre ? TtLit shore, where many a fair His chering spirit warms, All tq'shate; Snug moorings follow storms. Then rake yc faithless winds, Ye foaming billows roar; The Tara wClcOme finds Upon his native shore. Tho' terrigest-tost at ' 522, ' A-shore affeaion warms ; \At! sailors' creeds agree— S 4 ritratucrings yellow storms. SO.NG..--LisLyr.A. The Sailor who ploughs thci - salt NI Far absent4cOni love and from home, Tho' he le* not a watery grave,: • Yet he sighs from his charmer to foatii. Thb' the tempest how: loud o'er Yet he tear; not the,wind's dreadful roar, For those winds wilhsoon waft him again To the arms of his Nancy ashore. SONG—Tom STURDY. Odds ,life when a sailor gets hotheed.with love, He's all one as a ship without ruatizr or sails:; That the roaring of butleting.billows must prove, . And must drive at the mercy of thund'ring gales. His cargo's afloat, all his masts by. the bo a rd, A sheer hulk without' ballast she heavily moves.; " Helm a weather" he whimpers, ire sighs " his ador'd," Belay boys" a lubber, he pipe's out " he taTc4 !'—,: But see.him tight rigg'd and for dui . ) , agog; - • A light hearted, jolly, brisk drew man the shrouds ; He springs upon' deck, he distributes his grog, Pipes all handi from belnw, and his light canvas crowds, No thoughts cross' his inindi but of drubbing our foes, The proud flag of Britain in triumph unferl'd, A signal, a breeze boys, three cheers awl he goes; Takes hiS prize,--and'is prlz'd by a wond'iing World. The Monseerslove to dance, let 'ern dance o'er the main, With Mynheer and the Don ; tho' they 'scape a salt dip, Why the French we'll soon teach how to dance back. again , And tho'. t'ot hers can't Zoto:, we'll soon teach 'mut° rkip Let our navy, he ready with eanyas,unfurl'd, . For when England is threaten'd we always,a4 ready, And our•dear little England defies,all the world, To our King and our Country still steady,boys, steady. LISETTA, CICELY, Mt:HENRY.' ' High on a rock, by ocean lashid around . , Britannia sits upon 11:1 well fled throno ; Views the vast maim, and bids her Waves resound, And calls unmovid the vast expanse her Bids the . swoln waters heave their angry heads, Securely smiling 'mid the bellowing dt;ep,„ Drives back The wild waves to their bitlawy beds, Till winds are hush'd, and storms are lull'd to sleep. r ,i . The hero 'of Mr. CoLmkN's new Comedy is said to be a strange mixture of the Doi: or, Slot-tin:an and Vaunt. rr. This Chara&er we understand, is worked up with great skill and humour. It is to be performed by FAwc if he supports it as Well as he does Dr.Panglcir, the Author will hav e no reason to complain. Mrs.. MERRY is so great,a favourite in Ame rica, that she is not in the least inclined to return to this Country, and has declined very liberal overtures from the Covent-Garden Manager. She is in the receipt of a high salary, and generally makes very profitable benefits. Mrs. OLDM IXO N i formerly Miss GEOItG is also in a prosperous way, and much respeCied. Mr: MATH lAS, to whom a certain popular Satire has been long attributed, has. printed an edition of selett Sonnets from Petrarch, for the purpose of distributing among his private f:iends. The work is a bputiful specimen of typography, and of tasteful. seletlion But why has he not en-, deavoured to transplant these charming flowers frOm.the garden of Italian Poetry into that of Britain, a soil as favourable to . the produalons of Genius, and if lesi so to those of Love, " the more the difficulty, the niore..the honour." The restoration of harmony among-the /our_ neytnen Taylors and their Masters, will not; we hope, be- injurious to the 'Dames of the.-Thimbb, who were employed as Substitutes, during the late Insurreaiths. We rather hope to hear of a Union _by .which the breed may be improved, the Things com;erted into Flints, and the whole gene ration so much raised _ in the scale of exi s tence, that .Nine Taylors may hereafter - rank as so many Men. The journernen Taylor! are now presenting themselves for work, nine at a thvc, in many places, with the recommendation that they can do a Man ' s Work well. BONAPARTE'S = idea of placing Liberty in a shell is somewhat extraordinary, and it is rather difficult to conceive his meaning, except it is an allusion to the old story of the Lawyer who swallowed the Oyster, and gave the 'shells 'to his Clients. The Defendant who tore an Ad of P;irliament to pieces on_ Wednesday, in the face of the Court, has - shewn, on other occasions, that he did not en tertain too profoUnd a resped for the Laws of Eng land. What a responsibility would th e Ci t y o f London have .incurred, could it.havx been possi ble that a majority of their citizens should have elected such a man Sberif re We find a very extraordinary advertisement in the last. German Papers. It is-t{-person whO ad vertises for a servant to accompany him to France as a valet : if he can'ebok-a. little it will be the more agreeable, .17m...it is absolutely necessary that he. should understand' enekavi.vg:"' If the insanity or a cerraiir Potentate is merely an• assmintd'one; as some peolile .seem to think, it rmtstbp" - aCknoWledgqd thi4 there is no " merhod in liiimidness,ll and - heeleigns so well, that his imitation cannot 'be'distinginshed' from rea/ity We have heard of men being as dull:4 as an Emperor, but never had a distina notion of the meaning of the comparison, till P.autila Christmas revels. -The Letter of Si t orntrEY S~tlTt', while he was in conken:suit at- Paris, addres s ed to. BON PAR TE, puts the charatjerof the Corsicm Upstart_ in a Very, imrivoutalite:poira or — view, and shews that he is , devoid of all 'that generous sympathy which marks the true hero. He was fully aware of the situation of Sir I.;IDNEY, but contented himself with .a cold expfession of pity, ,without making the least effort to mitigate the diStres4cs of a noble adversary, though a word would have been sufficient. .Sir St 11N EY'S Letter is, manly, eloquent, and larding appeal, that would have had a due influenei:.nron tiny liberal 'mind. • , , I. A fir REPORT. COURT OF KING', BENCH; JAN. 2 9. Mr. Glans moved for leave to file a CriMinal . Information against Samuel Baker, Esq. Mayor, as we Understood, of the Borough' of Yarmouth, for having given to a Party a copy of an incor red Conviction, by means of which the Party wholati the copy moved for a CertiOiati and then the - Magistrate made out a Orred Cupric. tion, by means of which again the Party who moved for the. Certiorari had all the costs to pay: - This was the fault of the Magistrate, for had the first formal the'Convidion been the same as the l last was; thisiParty hevcr would have moved the Case by Certiorari at all, whereas by this. mis take he was led into error. If a Magistrate had this power, he might invite Parties to move for Certiorari W r i ts , o n t h e ground of defthive •, ConviElion, whenever he pleased, and then after; wards' make out a corre& Conviaion, by which • all the expence would fall on• the Party suing out the Certiorari, by which all security for the 134) , merit-of - costs was ebtirely lost ; for the Certiorari could not, be had in these Cases, without security *for the payment of - costs, and these costs must always fall on the P art y su i ng out the Writ, - if it appeared ultimately that the Convidion, when re-' turned, was regular, which it might be, although the first draft of it, of which the copy was giveui as in this Case, was irregular ; • this Motion was therefo re i nten d e d to put Magi strates a little more on their-guard. ' The Court field, that -in the. first place / the giving of any Copy of the Convilion in this Case, was mere ma:ter of favour, for that the Magiitrate was not bound to ,give it at that it frequently, happens t o Magistrates, after: hearing evidence, •to draw out 'the form or the minutes ot'a Convidion, and the 'whole isafter , wards, sometimes, settled by Counsel before it , comes to maturity, and is recorded as a Convic , tion ; and:that, therefo r e, i t wou ld b e t h e g r eat . cst Of all hardships . to ,Make a Magistrate liable to an Information for the inaccuracy of a draft of which he had good.naturedl given a copy.— There would be no end to, this, if applications o( this sort were to be encouraged :—it Might go to all the minutes of Courts upon which the most solemn ads are. done ; • for instance, a per Son might be convifted for a capital offence,* even executed upon a Vertlid of Guilty, and - the solemn Record of the . Order, to be . hanged -"by the neck until he be dead, &c. was Made up due forM 'of Record afterwards. These things were too plain to be disputed. The Magistrate here had done'nothing that was Corrtipt;.and there was no pretence 2or this Motion.-L..-Rule refused, Mr. PRACI VAL Moyed for a Rule to shew cause why a Writ of Ilabear Coffins, issued some time ago, and direded to a per,,on of the name of liorzust,,and others, commanding them to ,bring up the Body of Letifia Fleteker, a young Lady of the age of 25 years, alledged to have. been put into a Car . riage, in London, and carried away by Force. This Motion he made on the ground that the Wrie,had improvi , lcntly issued, and had been obtained through SLJIKirtiOUS Misrepresen. tation,of Fads ; and he. stated, from Affidavits, :t multitude of facts which were there sworn, tending to shell; that the Parties, on whose be half this Writ had issued, had entered kw -a Con spiracy to robb, this young- Lady of her Fortner_ in the Funds, whick. was abou l t, 15001. two hundred and, fifty pounds of which che had been prevailed on already to self Ont; and that this was done under a promise, from One of the Parties, that he would marry her, which was legally possible, he having a Wife now alive.. That this Young Lady was now in Country, under no restraint whateVer, with her Brother, to. whom she expressed the greatest gratitude for rescuing her from destrudion, &c. Lord Icligrom quoted the 'Case of a Young- Lady, who was supposed to be_ under the influence of Sir F. Blake Delaval.—Slie was Drought into Caurt , brilte Authority of the Writ 'of Habeas Corpus, and had she been of age to judge for-her selfb, she might afterwards have gone where she pleased ; it was, desired that she might be de livered to Sir F. B. Delaval, . but the Court-re fused it, because that woullhave been evidently to deliver her up to 'prostitution ; she was there fore deliVered to her Father. who was her natural Guardian.' But • this Lady was at, an age in which the Law -gave her. Credit far Dkzretion enough to aft for : herself ; " althoug!i, -God knows, she may have but little," said his Lord ship, and, therefore, the best thing the COurt could do, was that of ordering that she be brought before the Court in order that the Court might learn from herself, who was to blame in this. business, for there was a great - .deal of guilt some where, and it was fit the Court should be-made acquainted with the real truth of this Case, which they could 'only be from the Young Lady herself. . Ordered accordingly-. THE KING fr)*„.NEAI,. The Defendant was under Convialon for a Libei, in the nature of a :Caricature, on Mr. KEA rE, the Surgeon-General of the Army, and was permitto*to stand excused upon the pay ment of the Costs of this Prosecution, and a no. inival Fine, by the cannel-a of Mr. KEATE. Mr. Serjeant CilcicEt.t. Moved for leave to file a Criminal Information apinst the Hon. Charles William Stewart, and set coral other Officers of the t Sth Regiment of Dragoons; for a riot and violent outrage in the City of York, oh the 18th of January inst. a day that was marked by fes . tivity in honour of t h e U n i on . After the Sol. diers had determined 'on, this celebration, the streets were stopped up and whops shut, &c. wu that no business was permitted to be carried on, The Soldiers paraded the Town with their sword drawn, and no one molested them ; but haiir% doll:, perhaps, top freely, they aanally wound. ed several helpless peoplc, and , one man had his skpll fraauted, ecc, although people pulled of • their hats, &c ., as they commanded passing. 1. '1 his Motion was made to bring Officers to a St:ILSC. of this truth ; that it is their duty to keep tLe men under their command within the rules of humanity at least, and that the more especially when they were not drawn out in array otsbattle. Lord Ka NYON. said, he did not think there was : enough' here to induce the C ourt to go so f ar even as to grant altule to shew cause, There was no- thing of fault 'broughtliome to any one indivi dual Officer in the whole Regiment upon this sub— jett, and this was an application, In the gross, against them all. Mr. LAw said, he was instrufted to I say that these Officer/ Were very much atiii6ted at what had happened ; to no part of the excess at' which' did they assent ; so far from it, that the very next morning some, of the Officers called on the' Mayor of the City, and offered to make any %a_ tisfaftion in their power to the individuals who Were accidentally injured by this excess , of joy on the subjedt of the Union. They offered tO distribute zoo!. among the PoOr, and to make the mast ample retribution for all the mischief that had happened ; but sotne.individual, from an im proper zealin this business, had caused this Mo tion to be made. - • Lord KiNYON said, he was very glad . the Court ,had delivered i ts Opinion on this Case be. fore this apology had been communicated by the,, Defendants' Counsel, because it. had ,dre a dy ap.. pea red the Court did not think this Role ought to_ be granted upon the shewing. of she Platutill's, J . themselves, and of t hi s o pi n i on wa.s the rest o the Court ; and it . was o l met yeti, that it woul . be hard if a few drunken Soldiers mikht have had a quarrel with Others; aid had conunitted some . excess, the whole Regiment were, ro have a,Cri: urinal Informaiion . against them.--Rule refused:, PUBLIC-OFFICE, BOW-STREET. MORE DOG sfrEALEits. I) YESTERDAY Sa m uel Aferr si fiq 7d, , 0,4 P fl,f ! and Ann Carter, otherwise Edlotir j df c e , otherwis Sadler, were brought before T. R ua iNsoN, by Townsend, one of the Bow-street patioles, who apprehentled them on suspicion of having stolentand killed a number of dogs. From the testimony of Townsend, it 'appeared; that on Wednesday evening, in consequence of a private information he had received, he went to the prisoner, Carter's, house, in Dennet's-row, Blackfriars-road, which consists. only ,of : two rooms, where he found, in -the back room, the carcase of a dog, apparently just skinned. On, .ripping up the; poor of both rooms, be discovered a number of dogs' carcases, without their skins, buried there ; in the house a hammer, knife, &c.: used in killing them, and two small bitches of the terrier kind alive. ,That while . they were there the prisoners, Merryfield and' Pallet, came in to inquire for Carter, and having reason to believe they were:concerned in the business, Pallet nein father to the boy apprehended at the other house where the ,dead dogs were. found, witness took them into aestody. The two terrier. bitches were produced ; but it is supposed they were used for the purpose of seducing dogs to follow them, by being rubbed ; with a certain preparation. A, woman, who lived near the house c deelated she had seen dogs follow them home, and almost itn: mediately after heard them The prisoner, Carter, had a young child in her arms, .the father of wSich, 'the said; was the pri_ softer Merryfield, _ though, she at presein cohabits with another man . . • Merryfiebi in his defence said, that be went to fetch the child a way from her, and that i'allett went with him. Their Account of their way of liviag pot being fy any means satibfattory,, t h e y w elt comm i tte d or further examination. The Isle of SKYE, which was little more than a barren waste when Dr. joHt4soll visited the, Hebrides, is now likely to prove one of the best cultivated and most ornamental spots, owing to the liberal spirit of Lord NI:Ac ooAr.n. This N9bleinan has built a Church, as well as a con. siderable number of cottages, and has ordered many other improvements to be made, according to plat% of Mr. GI LLESP tE, a young Architect of Scotland, of very promising 'talents. Web* this munificent example of his Lordship will be followed by many of his wealthy Countrymen, as the progress of civ c ilization will ,be thereby ad., vanced, and the means of comfortable subsistence affbrdid to many 'who are at present suffering under " ti* hard hand of an oppressive need." The introduaion of the use of f:rze into the stables of the Rich, where the consumption of oasis extravagant, would, to the neighbouring Poor, be a vAst source of plenty ; as thereby much nutritious, aliment would he converted to human use, which has hitheito been unnecessa. lily-expended on the brute creation, to which the furze, when finely chopped, proves a most grate. tia mid • most nourishing food,; but, being of a hot nature ? it t.hould be used in moderation, and given only' to horses who are constaNtly worked. Itt Wades,' where Oats arc too expensive to come within the grasp of everrlarmer, furze (nr gore, as the Welch call it) and Gass constitute the sole support of thir labouring 'horses, who, with this, ate fund to be in :much better condi. tion than th,)se• fed, on Oats, on which account they ate ' , refuted by twiny Pc:admen of Fortune. The imtrinnent usecl in W,tles to chop them is of the simplest construction, consisting et a slum log of wood, with a handle, in which arc inserted twn sharp blades, interseeting At right angles. The Innkeepers in several, parts of the Country (says our Correspondent) have adopted the re gulittion of no longer maintaining their respec. rive Post.hoy s ,by this measure they will be better,enableil ti) meet the exigeme of the time's, and the Drivers, comparatively, suirei little, .s the liberality of the Public puts tin iri into a situ:!.. lion beyond the attainment of the lower classe,s of mankind. •