The Sun. — London, England, 1811-12-09 00:00:00

CORRES POAPENTS *; 4l We are obliged to our Correspondent for his article on Bank Tokens, but the subjea has undergone so much dis cussion, and we have already admitted so many Observa tions on it, that we hope tie . will excuse us for declining to insert it. —We must urge the same pier to many other ,Wriors who have favoured us with Contributions on mat. ters not less familiar to the Public. • MAILS. AILItIVID- - 2 HalifaX, Dublin Heligoland. Dos—t leisey, .1 1 PRICit OF STOCKS TIM DAY ar TWLLVI &CLOCK. ''Cons.. for Opening . 6.; I Red. Ann. . 62}{, THE SUN. SOLKM guts utcsits fAIsUP.I AUOIL&T ' LONDON, MONDAY, DECEMbER 9181 i, This morning. a Heligoland Mail arrived. The folldwing iy the, only intelligence it brings : Hat.ionLANn, Nov. 28.— , We have not for some time had any intelligence from the coast. The re port rda!ive to the evacuation of Newark. ?roves 'to be without foundation. ,It is supposed to have been a pieconcerted fabricatien of the shippers ) from the Elbe to dilcoy out vessels within reach of a large 19ggre'privateer,; Which was obselved by' our crui z ers hoveiing about the Island two days *after the ru mour was circulated. Mr. MADISON, we should suppose, will have oc casion for all his influence to persuade the people and the Congress of America .to ,submit much longer to the continued aggressions which France and her dependent States commit upon American Commerce: IfJONAihAiT4 seizes American 'ships and AmeriCan property, as if he %vac 'aauallyat war with the United . Stites, and Mr. MADISON not only, submits without a rettriniar; but loudly calls . upon the British , Government, to repeal flip Orders in Council because Buorfifittetit has-rescind ed his 'Decrees.! It is.true, indeed, ~that the Presi dent does in hi; Message 'allude to the robberies which have been 'praaised by . order of BiYON'APAsTy, because he could not pass it over entirely; in,siletice but he does it in the gentlest language.possible; and merely expresses his •".dissatisfaaionr.at the confis. cation of severalMilliens of Atnerican property, and the imprisonment of numbers of American subjeCts, the territories of a friendly power. • Hu, however, quits this ungrateful subject as soon as possible, and expatiates with delight upon the suPpoied aggres- SieeS of Great Britain. following Letter will place in a strong light the conduct of France and her vassal pOWers towards .America. It is from Mr.,Eketsa, the Atnerican Minister at Copenhagen, to Mt. Admsts, the American Minister Plenipoten tiary. sit Petersburgh. nAfter noticing the capture of the brigs Hero and Radius,• by a French privateer, within six miles of. the Danish sltore, but navigat ing the Waters under the Swedish juriSdiction, he proceeds as follows 6 `l made, 'every effort With M.' lits'Oetens, the Trench Consul' and Cliaige.d'Afflir...s,,aed with this Government (Deemaik) to prete.itwithe pal eta, which, were immediately delivered' lii'the said M.. DESANGIERS, being sent to Paris, and to obtain that the matter should be decided in the Tribunalit of this country, but unhappily Withoutiftea, " There are three French priliateers on the coast - of Holstein but the, one in enestien is go4tg but again to/night, and I very much fear, intends to fill this pore with our vessels, which arc nowreturuing from yOur qiikifter. " The two vessels .now captured might easily have escaped, .but' the Fiends privateers, c.arryieg French, colours, they presumed him to be a Datm under, that flag,, , • " I am Unformed that a considerable number of oar : , iestehr have within theSe two nlontlis . E,one up 'under , convey... I have cucleavpured lo obtain some security ligainst DAnish cruisers for such Of those as rnay return without convoy - , btit the clause of the 'Royal Instru6libus on this point ,is construed to it fe all vessels which , have used enemy's convoy, either in the Ailantic.or Baltic, (luting the voya4e out and home in. which they nie . engaged, and this rule-will not be relaxed or tuediugd4!'l Our Readers, we ere sure, 'will read with plea gure the details in tile Gazette bt iblatordity, respetl ing the successful exertions of our gallant Allies. We have already published the substance-of these accounts, but we feel it to be our duty to extract them, at length from the Gazette._ The following Bulletin was 'issued at, Si. James's Palace:--- . . . " WIN DSOR CASTLE, DEC. 7, 14411. " Hts MaJusTY c:ontinues nearly in the same btnte. " 1-IALfORD. • M. HAI lAA • W. tiEIIERDEI , % .114 • 1, . NAVAL Nin,V3. PIA*MOUTII, Dec. ti.—His ,Majesty's ship Toga' Sov art ereign, of 98 guns, Captain 'Mugs A.Y ) that arriv» , . ed here oh Monday last from the squadron off Toe lon, was this &If released from quarantine. Arrived this day his Majesty's - ship illetimpus, of 36 guns, Captain HAWKER, from Halifax,. with a :nisi!, after a short passage of t 6 days she also brought several passengers. The,elfrica, Tartarus, and ocher ships of war, that were disrnasted'cluring a tremendots gale of wind on the coast of Amerida, had been all refitted, and were gone to Bermuda.; the ~/BOlds frigate, Captain Lord Towssexu, was left at Halitax— Arrived the . Orestes sloop of war from a cruize in the Channel ; the schooner Duke of Clarence, JOHNS, from Faro, with a Cargo of wine and fruit bound to Bristol, driven in here by contrary winds and stormy weather; and the Good Intent, HAM, from Waleq, The &yet Sovereign and zilincrornlie men of war are to be docked at this port. ' Sailed the Queen and Plantagenet men at war for Portmouth the khin frigate' for' the coast of France ; the Intelligent gun-brig in the Westward'; and the Fancy cutter for liacrine Roads". DEC. 7.i-16-rived the Vengeur man of war from PortsmoUth ; and the ship Eliz& Farquhar, ,LENox, master, from Arnelia Island, wi:11 a cargo of timber for this port. ORAL, DEO. B.—Came down from the River a few ludiamen, 'and - remain with the outward bound. A few of the -ships that sailed the, other day have put bat ; others remain at sea. LmouTn, G.—Sailed ttie'Parlinglon pac ket for Lisbon and •Cadiz ; and his Majesty's ship Pheasant on a cruize. . DOVER, Duo. B.—Passed by the brig lane, 'OR CHARD, from Lisbon. A signal is flying, and has been all day, for an enemy on the coast. Set ILItNESS, Dec: 6.—Yesterday the signal for putlishinent S• 4 aS Made on board his Majesty's ship Namur for the purpOse,ol carving into execution the sentence of death passed on Thomas O'Hara, 'formerly a seaman an board his Westy's late tri. gate Nereide; ... .who,. it %ill .be remembered, was lately tried and conviaed 'on' board the fiaisonab/e, " for being one' of the - miscreants who ran away with the,Prize brig L'Agile; and . murdered Mr. Daly, the prize-master.''' . . • ',The Weather proving : uncommonly tempestuous, it was found impossible that the boats of the fleet could proeeed to the Note to witness his execution,. which 'wail necessarily ' deferred till tnis.. day,' when they all attended, conformably to the usage of the service, and exaCtly '6t twelikt o'clock the fatal gun was fired, and tl!eculpi,it launched into eternity. , He had been attended by allonnan Cotiolie priest and just before he was turned 00; he delivered to the'captain of th? ship the subjoined paper As I am sentenced, to die, and'appear before the iodgment Seat of Christ, I Collie:0i before God and Man, and I acknowledge ihe justice of my sen ' 'once in all its extent. i t. With rel tett to the murder of the nn, al- thongh i had no share. in the exterior iteltion, and had dissuaded my • companions limn . commit ting the crime, yet I. did not resist, as 1 ought to do ; and even during the cruel transpetion, I wds steering t he ship, and of coure consentuig, at least shei,ving myseF not unwilling to perpetrate the bird deed ; in this I avew,and confess my guilt.. As tor the two other eviiencei againstf:me, which are sufficiently known to the public, I con fess plainly that I an gAiiity, and deserve the ptinish . mew Justly inflitted upon me. I pray.. God to par don me; and I give a public warning to my fellow countrymen, and to all the subjeLlsof Great Britain, to,be faithful to the King, Government, and Coun try, and . to be ready to shed the last drops of their blood. for it. ' Tlt;it want' of these sentiments of a true subject, prescrihed to. us by reason, social duties,. -uatitral love of our country, reli gion, and.ithe express .word of God, has brought me to this fatal end ; which I hope, thryugh the mercy of .the Divine Being, .andthio,tigh the me rits ./eSus Christ - our ,Lord,, and tie intercession of all thee Saints in Heaven, sltall serve as an atone ment:for my sinful -life. Into thy "lands, 0 Lord ! .commend my spirit ! .receive my soul in: the name - of the Father, and. of the Son, atttl, 7 ol the Holy Ghost... Amen." Tiff; TOBATIIFN.—Pizarro was represented to a crowded audience on Saturday, at Covent-Garden Theatre, taunted, iklubtless, by the- Itolltt and Eluira of Ksmrst.E and Mrs. SIDDON,S. It is to be regretted, howevQr, that these performers ,lintild so misemploy their great powers, when they have such' mange of charaders more worthy cif their 'talents. • .LYCSUM.—At this Theatre.a serious opera, written by Mr. Antaratul, was again brought forward on Sa turday, and- BRAUAM, for the first, time, performed the part of, of Henry Cleveland. He sung with all his usual skill, and Was so much admired in the' song of Rabin Adair, that the audience having heard it twice, were. anxious to have it again. Mrs. DI,CKONS, for the first time, was Claribel. Her execution of the airs also manifested great - skill.— The-test of the parts had all requisite support troth DOWTON, KNIGHT, Miss KELLY, and MrS:- 'The :.Proprietors of 'Covent-Garden Thestre . , among other reasons for satisfaction with their new Qua4ruped Palo: mer, are sure that be will not re quire orders for any of his family or friends., • Para is engaged to perform a few nights at din burgh, and hs he takes his pencil, as well es his truncheon. with k,irri, he will, doubiless 4 be able by their respeaive operations to gain an ample recant-' pence for his lahuuro. . ~~ bcc. 7. Yesterdayae't moon; Do4bitt Moxa6 - and Sith moNnt arrived lure, preparaithii to a consultation talon the state. of the KING. arlendql this morning at the Queen's 'Lodge, with Doctors HAL* roan, HEISERDEN, IL WILLIs, and J. WILLIS. The latter resides conkfantly at Windsor, and has the principal care of his MAJESTY'S person, for which purpose he was lately called from his resi dence, in Lincolnshire, by a Treasury ,Messengeri by order of Mr. PattcEv4L, with the advice of the queen's Council. The Doflors went to the. Queen's Lodge diredly after breakfast, where the whole body agreed upon a Report of the state of ' the KING, to be laid -befoie the Members of the . Qtteen"s Council. They arrived about twelve o'clock, and consisted of the Duke•of MONTROSE, Earls WINGIIELSEA, and AYLESFORD; Atter re ceiving the Doctors' Report, they walked to - the ' Castle, and held a Council, which sat, a consider able time. ' • - The 1.) , .1ke of Yon arrived this day about , twelve o'clock, to dine with the QUEEk. DRCESIBER 8.--Yesterday the Queen's Council broke no soon after three o'clock -1 the Members !ben left Windsor. Doctors MONRO, SYMMUNDS, and HEIIHRDEN, left about the same tine.• •- The DLik.,! of YORK, after dming.With the Clu eEi4 and PRI ricussEs. sei offor Oatlancli , POETRY, THE GQ.I,D . E/1 AGE. When Edinburgh Reviewers 'To 1' ER CEVAI pay. Court, Stick Bards no inure on skewers, Nor.roast thcir 1 1 .ibs for sport; When Ugliness grows pre:ty, And Ilebrews sport stye. Rejoice, good London City, The GOLDEN Ant is nigh. When. Flu NT VNCDON I S tall pulpit, R esounds to aught but stun; . George null! draws a full pit, AnctQuakers kick and cuff; When Lottery Puffs are witty, And Irishmen are shy, Rejoige, good — London City, Tho'CoLnstr Act is nigh. When Pickett•street.has Tenants. When Cold supplants Bank Notes, CARA writes a Tottr like PINNANT'S, And K EMI3 L E aaS like COAT/3 When Farmers change their ditty, , Nor dance *lien Wheat Is high, Rejoice, good london City, . The GoLDEN AGE is nigh. When Aldermen h•ttc haunches, When Ho at.l t TOOKE says his pray'rs, When Curates fill their paunches, And Bishops lc::se:n their's ; When, like his grand dame KiTT The'Muscovite grows sly, ` , • Rejoice, good London City. 'The Cotor:l4:Anz•is nigh. When Girls in town kept hack-wou'd Dislike a Nlargate trip, GFRAM II repairs to PA eX 00n. And SIIAVCS his Upper lip; • When Gingerbread's na s gritty, And Lambeth Road 1: dry; Rejoice, good London City, The GOI,DAN Ax.k. iy nigh. THE Attra.—Mr. 'BROWNP. i whose intaglio - of KEMBLE IHP4 been so inoch admired, ,hs, just added . to his series of distingnished characters of the pre. sent day a Portrait of Sir JOSEPH BAN ICES, engraved 'on a gem, which is and spltited as A likeness; -and excelleht as a work of art. ~•• Mr. HOLMAN'S Comedy of The Gotette Ertraor dinary has beeh represented on the Dublin Stage s with great succ-ss. • Thts Duke of DEvortstuae, has, it is said, settled .30001. per annum on .the widow of his late father, in addition to what was bequeathed to her bythe departed Nobleman. Ti,e ged Regiment, landed at Poktsmouth on Wed. nesday from Guernsey, and marched tor Ciliates-7 ter. . Detachments of the Royal Wltggon Train, and Corsican Range's, will embark this week at Ports. Mouth for Portugal, The folloWing regiments were landed last week ,at Portsmomh, and marched to the Undermentioned places, viz. the 29th, foi Battle Barra, ks ; the 85th for 13rabourrie Lees; the !nth, at Gosport, fdr Winchester Barheks, The Argyleshire Militia marched on Wednesday , niorning from Edinburgh Castle, on their route to Ireland. They are to be replaced by the Berwick shire Militi3,:froin I.6dctington. Deputy Inspector Buttaows is appointed to suc ceed Dr. Dl`Giticoa, a, Inspector of Hospitals in the Pfirtsmouth,tliitria. MartelloTowers are ordered to be ere&ed imme diately on various parti ot the coasts of Essex and Norfolk. The chief Patrons of the new Opera House at the Pantheon are said to be the Lords RU11(11{8E511 and BRUCE. These Noblemen took a conspicuous part in the disputes between the Manager of the King's. Theatre and the Subscribers, on account of what they deemed an improper arrangement respeaing the bo%es. It vas yesterdaicurrently reported, that a broker who had been entrusted by a high LAW Ofßeer with 22,0001. to be laid ow in the purchase of an estate had appropriated 16,0001. ,of it to his,own use, and ab sconded : it was also added, that of the money so taken, he had laid. oat 10,0001. of .it in the Ame rican funds., We have heard this morning, that the report originated,in a mistake, but we have not been able to ascertain the, fact, was in A 'young lady, named Roulstone, eptern 'her killed by lightning on ,Rhode Wand. The Ame rican Journals attribute her tragical death'to her wear ing steel bracelets,' whic.th.aced' as vondualors to the eluaric fluid. . . ~~~•~~P~t~~. cOVRT OF coMmON PLEAS,Dtt:. 7 f). CRICKETT. This Was an 06tion of ratite: a curious nature.--; The . plaintiff and defendant had been schoolfellows, and about , a twelvemonth since, a dispute arose be t Ween them upon the subjeet of their respediVe agv4, the defendant asserting that he was the, yotingest,; and - that the plaintiff was the oldest. --;• The osispute terminated in a wager of " a romp and, dozen," which was to be paid by him who should prove, by ad inspettion . of the parish register, to be , the oldest. The wager was decided against the de fendant, who turned out to be five yea'rs,older than . the . plaintiff'. Accordingly the defendant was called upon to pay his " rump and dozen." A meeting of the pereons Wlio.wituessed the wager was called, , and vne of whom, a Mr.' Keene, was deputed by thu4fohdaht to fix the day for enjoying the spells of wager. At this meeting the defendant did not attend, but a splendid dinnei was ordered by Mr. Keene, through another person, named Iford, to, which were invited sift or seven other persons, the friends of the parties. They were all eittremely convivial on the occasion; but the defendant, whci Was not present-at the, feast, afterwards d enied the validity of the wager, and refused to pay tthe tavern"' keeper's 6M. wh;ch amounted to abo ut 181, the liquidation . vof which deok;ed upon the p laintiff. The terms of thte wager in writing were pro-. duced in Court, bueneither the.name of the plaintiff' or defeedant were attached 'thereto, it being onl y . attested by the signatures of the versos p resent when the bet was mode. Sir JAMES MANSFIELD treated thi s dis p ute as a very foolish and ridiculous sebjeot of . an aai" at law, but, tieweVer, direr.ed the Jury , if they thought the proof of Mr. CI icketes engogernetit to pay the debt sufficiently made out , to find their verdict fueling! him. The Jury found a verdict for the pla i n t i ff e ntages 181. subject, however, to a tnotton wt Court at Westminster. " POLICE. .. • ...._____-- Po •STREET.—Ott Saturday evening. :it the ~......, %v . time of . the opehing the doors of Co vent-Garden Theatre, at the going in of the first crowd, when boriardson, the Constable, and S m ith, belongi n g to Bow-street Otfiee, who are employed a t the Tile- , atre, were on the look-oat for pietpocicen t, they observed among the people, on the st airs leading to the two-shill , gallery, a well-known c haracter. of the name of M y a tt; they pulled hirn out, and, oo searching bitn, they i found two poc ket -handlter' chiefs, a pair of scissors, and a kni fe. The Otfi'. cols' took him before Mr. IllaNza, the. Silting Ma' strate. They stated, that they knew the p risoner obe a person of evil tame, and a rep uted thief, and' that the prisoner was among the pose of committing ,felony or picking pocket s, a' ld. to effect it with the scissors and knife. Mr. BraNie. convicted the prisoner as creputed thief,ugler llid Police Act. • ' , Last Monday. Mr. John Roberts, , r people for the pe , g rittier, 0 4 . Harlech,.in Monmouthshire, attended at Ingatestood- Fair, with a large drove of cattle. At night, when, he went to bed at his Inn, at Ingaiestone, he put hit breeches with his pocket-book , under his pillow.i His son followed him to bed, about an hour. atilt . Irina, in the same room, it , being a double-bedded , room. His son, on entering the roturr, irerceiO4 his tather's•clothes thrown ab out in a slovenly ol"1J :• ner,•different from w hat his father was accustolr: to leave :them, which induced hiM to av/1110 father, when it was discovered that his pocketboykil, containing bills and . antes to the amo unt. " 01 had been stolen. An alarm was g iven, bu t . - 4 1 ; * trace of - the robber or property cou ld be 0)"3 l'. however, it. was recollected that a m 913 of a " 5 4 , - . . picious'character had been seen about the Intl, no , he,riot being to be found, an expre , s was Relit off to 'Hiles Public ()thee, -Bow-street, and. by the v 'g lia ff, of Lavender and Aditing, the suspected two '" poi's...led, ,and traced, to a house .in 11,ie 13orougq* v.. lier,A•,ibey they. apprehended him on Fritti-Y aria boon. 'O tt • i • ~.• • mo unt cht ' . beatc ling mat, votes to toe 4 ~ . ~ 901. were found.. - UNION-H4L.—fames N olte, a master chitunt;: sweeper, was Conviaed in the penalty of int. pan costs, for ill-treating his apprentice , George p, '' Ittiti; from the , testimony of t he boy, tt.. '; his in was in the constant. praaice of hca, ) " . „ :Min, and keeping him without sufficient hod. I": p'peararice of the child was evi,lence corroboranr. ofjll)e.truth of his story ; amongst other ins'a nc d c : of inhumanity exercised by the defendant o w 3r d the poor boy, it' was stated that, he lately, on 0 . 11 ,. to oblige him to ascend a chimney occasion, placed some lighted hhavings under 11 % 1 .; A Surgeon was sent with great er a crity, and that his arm . was burnt by the flame. 3 , mined the child's arm, and it appeared to be much scorched. ' The Magistrates, under these circumstances, 6.11 i tiered the indentures to be cancelled, and the for to the Office, who to be delivered to his mother, who was in the Or''"' and gladly received him. • ° , •••••••••••••••••••••••••• By a private . letter we learn- the follo win g Pldi . culars relating to' the death of Lieutena nt John 1"; ; kins, of the Cherokee sloop of war. l a thel"nte ot July this officer, with four seamen, took, 0 3114 , e of a small prize, for 'the purpose of navigating 11% Intel Leith Roads; the vesseLshortly after spra4ri teak, and was in a sinking state, wben 3 Dal I T galliot, bound to- Norway, appeared, and shotoY alter took Mr. Perkins and his four h eartier ) 1 board. The Master of the galliot had teri r; 41156 ,:i seamen on board his vessel, yet fearful of his ve; ) ; horn the circumstance - of having these 'five r he shipwrecked men on board (Whom be knew t 6 - i; them, which long to a British vessel of war), actually came.' the cruel and dastardly resolution .'of destroylobt 'stet- who has, r b!,thrown into the sea ! excepting one man) " 0 „, he effected by causing titan ° too 'w,.lin American ! We understand that the 1 110 tions and humanity, was cast into prison 0 11 t_.. and gallantly arrival in Norway, to take his trial tor t,he dicer thus Outraged the laws ot civilized 04; distinguished Li4:ut. Perkins served from his yonth.in the ril l: mortal Nelson in the bat tie of Tratalgar, wh ete lis i t was • near perishing on board one of the 6 01 Prizes, which sunk irurnecha(cly after the action` himself tinder the 0 F