The Sun. — London, England, 1801-08-10 00:00:00

rivar (T no 'rancc ibove ruize were y arc .;tta, W ES, ver- a rd 4 lane un- ?il l 5, tire' rj(~f/~ 'nod, NICK, ;00j t 7; \Vilr ): 1 1 . 0- Snip ) ast. I 1 , ito assist in. o rtf., >pE. by RISt )Cgt ogo LEP Ex' Illi~ Vitt ACS, WY) she voo rfeY qt. « , Bt:thcr immediajely, whohad .eiirjlled their names it that Corps, and intorm them 111 1 i in the present situation oil-if-Flits irappeared very :Rely that his •Lbrdship would have occasion to citlj upon them for theii- services and it was; therefore; necessary for him 'to know how far lie Tight depend, on their assistance, should he have occasion to reciairetir ;..but at the ssme time. to as. ,Kui:e. them, that all those who came out should be dismissed home again, as soon as the particular. service was over' which they might be called upon The answer kiyen to his Lordship's Message -was, That the Ramgate Sea Fencibles were ready to' attend. hi*,. Lordship's summons , nvlietieVer ,E,103e to _call' on tlern for their as-. sistance aid that if ,he thought proper to send a C/tin-veSsel Tor..them, =they would go on board - A Qalliot (was boarded on . Friday by the Nile Lugg er , v had just come out of Boulogne : the CaPtain iiifbrined diem, that the slaughter was very ; .• great 00 ~hoard -the French' Gun-boats he saw .1 6 dead-bodies brought out of one of them only, be.: sides I,vounded,.and a great many were drowned in those - that 'sunk ; ten of - the Gunboats are totally tendered useless, and most of the others got more' or less damage ; but no.datnage is tlone to the Town: • three shells fell into the Harbour, but, not bursting, did no mischief. The French were so• intimidated for fear pf the' toWn's_ being destroyed, -,that the . General gave orders not to fire from' the battepes . -on our cuuers and small craft. . Lord FOC HRANE is " made Post Cantain, and ap_ pointed to. /4 Raison Frigate. The Lords of the Admiralty have appointed Capt.. BOYLE to the command of His Majesty's - Ship' 71 7yInalerer, - of 74. guns. We have the most undoubted: and respeaabk.au lbc)riTY., for contradieting the statement which has aPPeared in several Papers, of the America, of 64 which Was wrecked near Hispaniola some time since,..bein g - weighed by, the Spaniards, and.con yerted into a Prison-ship. The fa&is, the America w t .'s wreck e d g o i ng f rom H a lif ax , near t h e E ast en d °1 Jamaica, anti was' in - a few days afterwards , we ighea, and-carried into Port Royal Harbour under j ilr y 4l3 / I VN7,ffirliesg•Slie now serves as - a Prison_ship for French and Sparkish Prisoners of War. Saturdaya,yjail from Lisbon, dated the 9th nit. 4 the . k . o.rtutt j er Privateer, was received -at the P ost - ..Oftce."- -- \Dispatches were at the Same, time ie . ceivtd from Sir JAMES SAUMAREZ, Aro Mr, FAIR E, our Minister at Lisbon; the latter communicaiing ..the official details of the recent treaty b etw ee n Sp a i n „,and Portu'gal. An Officer : belonging 'to the Douot.AS , was the bearer of Sir JAs. °A ;JMAREz's'Dispatches, : being duplicates of those c% , .cii - dly announced to the Public ai the commence. • inept of the week. ' s Saturday a Mail, from Halifax was received at the Post Office, dated the Bth ult. it was brought to • - Portsmouth ,hy .the. St. Alban's, of 64 r zuns, bear ing the flag of Admiral PARKER. . . The San Anton i o, of 74. guns, taken in the Ac .. tien of the 13th, in the Btraits of Gibral6r, was given to France three.ye4rs' since by the KING of SPNIN, to replace .one - of the French, Ships- -of the Flect-of Atinii.fal tit urx which, in consequence of havi ng run foul of a Spanish Ship, was lost in-the Road of Cadiz. • - - small Squadron, consisting of the Centurion, ' of 50 guns, and three Frikates,, has swept.l3atavia a( ''s.) and taken - possession 'of Onroost and Cow -per's Island, and five . French Privateers, which -were . d great annoyance. to our trade in tliPt part.,of the . world, . . We have the pleasure to announce the capture of _a Pretid l Privateer in India, by the Honourable ' E ast Indi a 'C ompariv ' s Shi p t h e Phanz.y, comma n d e d . b .E Y Captain WILLIAM IVIOFFATT, on the loth day °F November, in Jar. 20. 15' S. North, and long. 91., 18 . East, after a' long chase. This .vessel is called t he General Malertic, after the late Govertior-Ge -I;eral of the Isle of ,France, and has been 'a, consi nterable t im e i n t h e Indian, Seas, and made many SCitizen JEAN Din E RTE.' t ae mounts 1 6 gu ns , th ose on t h e b. Avs are 42-pound r °nades, and-was.marmed, at the time she snr-.. l de re d 0. t t:J'Phc nix , tv i t.h 1.20 men. • C ofr ommittee of, Underwriters at e-110,i,e have, with their' acenstorned liberality, vot e d a :iarge Siiiier Cup, .value 1701. to be pre - le d to'C.:pt. HUGH CROW:, Of LivrrOol, for his iletei,:c of the irrill against a French, Priva teer, .on her p:li,sage - from the Coast of Africa to ' Jam aica, • i; - 1 Pc:b. 1800._ The Half_paY drre 'r6 the Officers :of His "Majes ty's Laud Fo;:cc-s, for the half.year, ended th.'is lll ' of June, i. 801; .will-,commence payment a : t - the Horse uards 6n Thursday next. On 'Monday last 'the Sheffield VoltinteerS had a • grand field 'Liar, - attended.by their Colonel; the Earl of F.,FFINGHAhI,_ Wrlo 11 - i6 been with hi s Regiment cvcry field day since.. his return into the icountry.: There was also present the Earl of DORCHESTER, ' w ho saw the Battalion go through the eighteen ma l's4ivres recommended by 'General •PuNDAs, and • la s pleased to pay the Regiment very high and r atefUl compliments. On Wednesday. th r ee Companies of the Canter bury Volunteers hsiembled, when the-Commanding O cer read tb them the Circular Letter.from the Wax... Office, informing them of the preparations on' the French coast to invade this country, and to . • k now wh at effe6live 'fore could be depended on.— The whole Corps expressed their , readiness 'and hearty desire to serve their King and Country, by. reiterated huzzas, 'when arid wherever it may be necessary. The Importation of Wheat continues in the Me trotiolis greatly to exceed its-consumption. The supply between the 31st of July and the 7th of Au gust inclussve, was 18, - 34.S quarters. The impor • ration o f Oats comprised 22;868 quarters • ; Flour, ,5 . ,934. cwt. ; and Rice, 4000. The supply of Bar tey and Rye was 'small. The average Price of Rigor, computed from the Returns made 'for the week ending . the sth day of * A ugust., 18ot, is Fifty-one Shillings and Eight P Three Fartl.7ings per Hundred Weight. • II<EY/1/0 UTI-J3 AF7 C; 7; . . THEIR MAJistir.yeSterdaY ‘:vere high :•-v pleased with the. entertainments on board the - .For,iup;e'e, given 'by Lord AM-ELJUS EEAiICLERC; Before breakfast Country Dances Commenced, the fiat' led down "by Lord A. 10AIICLERC and Her Royal Highness PRINCESS AUGUSTA, on the deck, under a canopy' consisting of, the colours Of . the different. Nations; the• whole of which had a grand.elfeCL--- The ROYAL FAMILY came aShore soon after six, and after partaking of some refreShment at GlOuces teriodge, visited the Theatre to see the Comedy of The Suspicious Husband; Ranier' by Mr. LE w is ; of Covent Garden Theatre to which ,was added, the Musical Entertaininent 'of The Pa-dlcia. Lady licii ESTER arrived last night. This morning the KING bathed; and afterwards walked on the Esplanade. At one o'clock the ROYAL FAMILY went to Stacie's Rooms, where THE JR MAJESTIES gave an elegant Entertainnient in honour of PR INC E6S LIA'S Birth-day. The tables *ere laid out with great taste, and consisted . of every delicacy of the season ; a number of the Nobility were invited.— In the evening HER MAJESTY had a selea Party, and gave a private Concert, in which Mr. TAY LOR, 'from the Theatre Royal, Bath, sung two of Handel's favourite Songs, with great judgment, and was highly applauded by the ROYAL FAMILY and their, company. SATURDAY, AUGUST 8. This morning the KING, QUEEN,. and PRlN cEsszs, 'accompanied by the DUKE of KENT, "and PRINCE ADOLPHUS, and their Attendants ; ,went on board the Charlotte Yacht ; and there being a fine breeze of wind, soon took them out to sea. - • Lord HAWKESBURY and the Russian Ambassador arrived thiS morning,tand had a long audience with the Ktrkrt, previous to His MAJESTY'S going on board the Yacht. , • EDINBURGH, AUG. 7. THE weather for• these few days has proved ie markably favourable, and Harvest' is upon the eve of commencing in this quarter of, the Kingdom. The crops are very' heavy, and of `uncommon 4p. pearance. The Militia Regirrient commanded by the Earl of DALKEITH, is about to quit the Castle Duty, and to march to Dalkeith. This Regiment makes a very fine appearance. The West York , Militia takes the Garrison Duty in their place., The Hotels here arc crouch:Kt with strangers on tours to the North. The Peter s bur g h C ourt G azette o f t h e 3ot h o f June, contains the.following article under the head of Bamberg : " The Ecclesiastical Princes are, in the Constitu tion of the German Empire, a part full as legiti mate as the Secular Princes. .The one and the other have for their support the, .Peace of We3tphalia, which has placed the shaken Empire upon a ba sis on which repose the rights *Of the Ecclesiastical Princes. This Peace has • strong guarantees, none of whom has yet • made known his opinion. The wise CATHARINE. 11. always took care to support' with a firm hand the bond Of the' Germanic Consti. turion. Her Successor upon the Throne wishes' to follow her system, and the Ecclesiastical Princes may confide in his powerfULmediation. The delay in deciding 'the bUsiness . of the Indemnities, affords ground to believe that the peace of the Empire wilt be yet subjeeted to a great many. changes. Prussia herself, notwithstanding the Friendship that unites her to France, does not treat this important - affair - with precipitation," &c: As the supposed likeness between Carthage and Great Britain has induced the.wags of Paris to fore see our speedy destrudion, 'in the capture of our Hannibal, we would recommend it to. them to con sider, if the flight and narratire of LINdIS bears no resemblance to ,these same'tarthaginians, of whom:, the real. Hannibal, 'in the Woi-,N 'of Horace, has ob served, 1; •. y: Q p : 7114 5 Fallere et eager . e e's't tri urn. pliis• The Frekh may perhaps; 'even in the degraded state of. their Marine, be able to remedy the mischief dune them by .Lord NELs'oN, but we do not con ceive they Will so soon recocoer the fright. bolendi , m3dus, timendi non item. They can estimate` the extent of the injury they have' sustained, hut have no means to measure the danger, which probably awaits them. The two persons who were advertised in an hand-bill of the Yst instant, as being suspeded of having robbed the Mail near. East Grinstead, in July last, have been apprehended at Liverpool, and' are now in pustody. GLEANING.—On Wednesday four women were • bound over to stand their trial at the next Ipswich Quarter-Sessions, charged with. gleaning at unsea sonable hours, and before the Corn had been carried from the field: The offence, we are given to un derstand, amounts to felony, and as great• depreda tions haVe been praised under the pretence of gleaning, Magistrates , are determined to, inflil a heavy punishment. A shark, eight feet long, was last week caught in a salmon net, at Ross-bay, North Britain. Last Thursday morning, about nine o'clock,: a fellow cut the shop window of Mr. Salter, jeweller, in the Strand. He was oliserved by a tradesman's wife opposite, who was loOking out of her bed-rpom window, and gave the alarm, but too late, as the villain had made off with two valuable gold watches, and a silver one. • On Friday morning a cxendeman , observed three men of a suspicious appearance lurking in Bedford court, Covent garden, and watched them into a Woollen-draper's shop, and immediately one of them came Out with a whole piece of kerseymere, upon which the Gentleman pursued, and secured him, and one of the other two that were in the shop was likewise secured. It appeared they had taken the advantage of seeing only a boy in the shop, and had contrived to send him into the back of the shop while they stole the cloth. PA: IS; Atia.-; .Tkt?. ;amicable connection which subsisted be tween the;Frentiv-Republic and 'the United States of Amerid . had beetiinterrupted '['he Convention '.re;:•e,stablithing- thern •.has beer ratified by the. First Ctitistil, and the exchange, of the 12,ttifications, of the two CovernMents..his been made at Peiris. The Merchants of both Nations had already resumed their operations with confidence ; the American Flag waved in the Ports of France, and that of tl:e Re public-vvas-well received in •the, Ports of the United 'States, while. the Union of the. two People, led to the supposition that the Governments would soon agree. It was a family quarrel, which a mere ex planation was wanting to put, an end to. AUGUST At .the accustomed audience of Ambassadors which took place yesterday, there were among others presented to the Chief Consul, the Baron D'Exx E NSW AR.D, - Envoy Extraordinary and , Mi nister Plenipotentiary of the King. of Sweden, who delivered his Credentials, with many, othei- Swedish Noblemen and Gentlemen. .M. KALITSCHEFF was at the Audience, as Mi.: nister Plenipotentiary of His Majesty. the Emperor of Russia, for the rtestablishment of Peace, and he presehted M., DE BAcH i ti-of r, Colonel and Aide de-Camp of His Imperial Majesty, who took leave of the Chief. Consul. , . tMUkR AY, the Plenipotentiary Minister of the United States, presented Mr. STORY, a Citizen of those. States'. , .? • - We Ilearn from Brest, that the Corvette •La Che vrette has been cut out' of Catnaret by the English in the middle of . the night, but that the resistance' which those on board her made, is not the less honourable ;- surprised, without arms, surrounded and attacked at the same. moMent, they defended themselveS 'with. a valour truly French ; three times were the/English reptilsed, and it is proved, by, the 'accounts of the wotmded, that they were every time dreadfully mauled, although there was but an'hand ful of men to engage them. The small b6dy of Marines on 'board .performed wonders. Captain CHAISSEREAU did not yield ,until after having kill.. ed or wounded several trigliSh. The Captain at Ai-ms was riot less distinguished s• he is now in the Hospital much wounded, but noti.it is ' thought, dan gerously. The' Officer who commanded the Marines is killed. The English have sent in 'a Flag of Truce, : ,with the French who 'were wounded, amounting to 40 in number. It . is melancholy to , see the situation of them, which, is however, !a"" 1 sufficient proof that the English .did. not owe their prize to the cowardice. of the French, but to the artifice which they • employed. Taking advantage of the darkhess of the night, they approached her in silence, and when at only a short distance, sud denly rushed on and boarded her, which was not difficult to be done, as three-fourths of the Crew i.Vereasleep, and those on deck unarmed. The oars of the English' Boats weremuffied. The English were in their shirts, and had a black string on their arms to distinguish one another, but notwithstanding these precautions, they must have 'killed a 'great number of their own men, as their loss is greater than ours: The letters from Of the 'l4th Julyi give the following details of the terrible disaster which befell the two Spanish Ships' in the engageMent which took place in their passage froth' Algesiras : . ~ • " The combined'Squadron left . A'lgesiras on the evening Of. the 1 ztli of July, consisting of Five Spanish Ships of the' Line, Four French lihe of bat tle Ships,,and three French and one Spanish Frigate. ,The Engligh, consisting of five Ships of the Line and 'a'Frigate, , hict sailed before them and taken a station at a'great distance, in 'order not to alarm tbe com bined squadron ; but conflision and disolder had in the very beginning of are' night arisen among then. The HermenegildO fired upon the . Formidable French Ship, and killed several, besides wounding 40. ,The French, Captain saw the' error of the,Spaniard, • and sheered offi'inStead of returning the fire. An English Ship then placed 'herself between the 'Real C a rlos and the Hirmenegildo, fired, a,broad-side yn . each side, . and ,sailed .away. ~ These two unhappy ships could not disyerft the manccuvre of the ag.: gressor, and taking Organother for EngliSh; began to board, caughtfire,randlilew up ; the Real. Carlos' first, and the Hirnienegildo twenty, minutes after- wards. - These explosions produced terrible shoCks, ‘yhich were felt at cadiz, at d quarter past one in the morning, •and were mistaken ...at first for an earthquake. Of the Real Carlos but, one man was saved—of the Herminegihio about 40. " These beautiful three-deckers were almost new,. and carried rii guns,' They each ofthem above .1 zpo men on board.. We .elo not yet know what is the fate of the St. Antoine,' but it is feared that she has been attacked by the three English ship 3 , taken, and carried into Gibraltar ; but these. are ,at present but vague fears. There remains at gesiras but .the English ship the Hannibal, on. shore, and taken, but it was impossible, to makeit follow, so bid Was its condition." It is stated, under the head of Copenhagen, July 21,, that an -English Frigate, the /Ea/us, has been cast upon a saad bank in the Road of Einbrit_ sham, in Scenia. Every thing on board the frigate has been carried on shore. The efreas of the Rtcr India'CoMpany in Eng land and afloat, consisting of Annuities, Cash in the Treasury, Goods sold and not paid for, Goods un sold, Cargoes afloat, and other articles in. their commerce,/ amounted in the';yettr 'Soo to Sixteen Million, One illundred..,and Eighty-five Thou:sand, Nine Hundred and Fiftysix Pounds. The Sales'of the Cdinpi,my't Goods, which in the year 1 793 were , estimated, On'an average, to.ahrount to 4,988,3001. amountellast year t 01,367,7271. The importatfon of linen, during the last week, comprised 1,233,300 yards from Ireland, 1,654,660 / yards from Germany, and 3,183,000 from Russia. Saturday a fine boy, ten years of age, the son of .a tradesman in the Borough, looking alter some pi geons he had on the top of the hOuse, fell from the parapet, three stories high, into the street, broke both his arms ; and fraftured his skull in so•dreadful a manner that his life i's despaired of. J Cl:O 4 (D , r NA3I{ i;RO.';27, ;.';DA SPEC[.‘L 13UANET 172 i tam f,RAUDS IN THE C.:()At, TRADE. . , . This was a yiiitahz, . againSi Bucklaod, a Coal Merchant; to recover a penalti:, of eto6l. fer selling Coals as Pool measure.; wh:cli were not of that description. Mr. oAaltow, in opening t hi s cause; said; he 'felt himself entitled. to that, Which he v. as sure of ob taining, the - attention of his Laird Ship and the jury, while he disclosed thettreurnstances of a case so im portant to the Public in `every point of ie~tq ,fit the last Assize, he had got the whole - length .of proving this case ; he had 'subjeded his WitnesSes to the whole artillery of his Learned Friend's cross., examination, and, was ors the point of recovering a verdin, when it was discovered that the ; plea of the' Defendant had; by nie re accident, been omitted . to have been entered on - the Rectird. The Plainti ! f. was, therefore, under the necessity of coining down to the Assizes again ; but no length' of time could be deenied too long, no expenctor trouble too much; in bringing forward a, case in. ,which the Publ ic were interested, and w h ere the object was to pro tett that Public against the most scandalous 'fraud and imposition. When he first opened this Cause he, did it with some degree of reserve, because he could hardly persuade hiniself there -must not haVe been some mistake in the -instruetions lie , had received ; but he new should open it without the least degree of reserve, far it had been proved, and would again be'confrrineci, to contain a 'charge of one of the most gross, infainOus,and 'impudent frauds ever prac tised. He pronounced it so,' not loosely adopting his own lanVage, b ut t ha t of M r . Justice LIP,Ani, 'who presided'at the last Assizes ; and, to use another• phrase of the sane Learned' Judge, kt was a stiilki.4 fraud, double hatched.: ,We ,lived in times of the most scandalous imposture—We lived in tittles when one-half of mankind appeared - to exist for no other purpose but to he -the dillies of the other half. We daily saw, in the Public Papers Advertisements from men who disititerestedly eared ito advance e'o, too, or ioool. to any body who would merely be at - the. trouble of asking for it"; and Ole ' result of attend., ing to such invitations generally was, that the.cre dulous party found himself defrauded Of that security which 'he was induced to give in expenation of. a Supply he never received. In like manner, we saw persons concerned in the Coal Trade advertising to sell, their customers thirteen sacks to the chaldron, Pocil measure, or, in other 'words, the 'fUll measure the merehant received from the Newcastle trader.— He advised mankind to be cautious how they dealt , with those Wholvolessed - to sell 'more for the same money than their neighbours, for it always turned* • out that the buyer received less;,-=The lair trader had his rent and taxes to pay, and his family to ,keep ; and he could not do this but by the 'reason, able Profits attached to his - trade : those,profits, how, ever, must prove inadequate ; in thn, he 'could 'not , carry on his trade at all, if his next door neighbour was enabled, by false preteoces, to undersell him.— The way the coal merchants, who meant to de fraud, the Public; went to work was this: There - was a wholesome Aa o f P ar li ament upon the subject, for it was the business of the Legislattlie'to de ten and prevent frauds, which provided, that there should , be a penalty on every person who professed to sell coals as Pool. Measore and did not do . so. When a cargo was'unloadedfrom the ship into a lighter, it was diVided into rooms or chambers, 'each contain ing five Clizildron, with what was Called the ingraio. • These were filled not b . ) , the bushel but by the vat, into which-the coals were put by-tile persons in 'the shill, andohrown over the side into the rooms, of the lighter.' Therefore, if a nersop tontradcd to buy five chaldron, he was entitled to receive the five chaldron contained , in such room, with the in grain, a4d the measure by the bushel had nothing to do with it; The charge against the Defendant was, that he sold, to a person,of the name Of Chadender, a five • Of Coals, that is, a room of five , chaldron, with the iOgrain, and did nor deliver that quantity. mueb would the Jury think the deficiency in five chaldron was in the quantity. delivered. by the Difendant, , who professed to sell more than the 'full measure ? Perhaps they would imagine there was such a' deficiency as .Might be imputed to the negligence of. the carman in loading them. Even that, he should contend, , would be ho apology, 'be, cause the merchant who sold by retail was answer able for the negligence or pillage of his carman ; but the deficiency in this cake would place out of the question all idea'of plunder upon the part of the carman. 'V.That would they think, when he informed them, that,•oat.of five chaldron the quantity. out of • which theDelendant had robbed his customer was no • less than eleven sacks, and al half, or 34. bushels ! The Defendant,had already heard this,provedd He had rode'Off in triumph, only because, by' die :amis, sion of a clerk, the plea was not entered on the re 'cord : 'and he had now come dOWn again to adver tise himself to the country as - a cheap coal-merchant. He was persuaded there - could be no defence. He knew his witnesses would be attacked, and thatit would be said this was the anion of the Coal-me. ters. Ije had no hesitation in avowing it was the anion of the Coal -meters, and their endeavoursy by such a prosecution, to proted the Public from imposition and fraud, were highly laudable and me- • ritotious. Mr. M alailender said, he-had occasion to purchase Coals in September last" ; he, was recommended to . • Mr. Buckland. He contraeted for a of Coals of Pool MeaSure expressly. The Coals were:Adj . ._ veered in two waggons ; they• Were afterwardS mea. sured, and the deficiency stated discovered., Mr: BiggS, Peputy Coat Meter; undey the Plain. tiff's Father,: the principal Meter for the .County of Surrey, said, he was attending the nvasuring of some Coals in Dover.street, .11ackfriais toad, with the Plaintiff in this'adtion ; while they were doing so, Mr. Burner, the,son of the principal Meter served, that waggQii of Coils had gone past., which equally required 'measuring. A Nccond waggon , passed, Which he, the Witness, folln;vLed,to Chanel). der's yard. Both Avug' ons had been. unloaded, and , put' into bulk: he measured th e m" by the law tul bushel i&ttie usual way ; he carefully attendeti to the 2flinpaitrit3pau-nr i-budipt h. h.‘,1..1