The Sun. — London, England, 1804-05-16 00:00:00

On Friday evening, a battle was fought between Craggy, a waterman, and Robins, a ship-carpenter, iu a field at Poplar, for a wager of two guineas ;. a • , I af!er an 'hour and five minutes hard fighting, the fortner was declared yiaor; they were both carried off the field ; _Rubins with two of his ribs broken. On three sides may be Observed what was once a deep moat ; and on. the western. end of the south front, are three half bastions projeaing from the Wall, of oaangular form, each side measuring about ten feet .1. the whole is in circuit more than a mile, and where' the walls are most perfel, may be twelve feet thick at the bottom, and eight or nine at top ; reaching to the height of twenty-four feet. It is impossible not to notice the pleasing and singular appearance of the ruins, in some places broken, mouldering, and melancholy ; in others agreeably diversified by a variety of foliage : trees and ivy adorn the ruins, and contribute to awaken sensa." tions of departed magnificence, now only known from the silent records, with which the place. nu merously abounds. There is no doubt but Agricola resided here for some time ; and Tacitus's ,assertion of his endea vouring to soften the ferocious manners of the Bri tons, by introducing refinements and specimens of the arts, seems realii,ed by the tessellated pavements which, when originally discovered in 1777, must have been beautiful incited. 1,01.11)0N: Printed by BUCHANAN APMILLAN, (of slow-Street, Covent-G4rde.n) and At the suN.OFFict, No• It Z, Strand ; w hcrsl 4d - uerlisemtnu o Unirrs Jur VACCINE POCK INOCULATION. A great deal having been said, and much being expe , :'l , -(1 from the Cow-pock Inoculation, in ex_ tinguishing the Small-pox, it may be interesting to publish an Extra& from the Report of the Vaccine Institution, lately read, concerning this question, from which it appears, that other means than the present must be adopted, to acoomplish the grand ohjea of extinaion of that fatal disease. One ajea of this Institution has been to furnish instruaioos for the practice, and this has been done by she wing Patients to Visitors and Students, and by Public Leaures, as well as by written and print eA Papers. This'lnstitution has accordingly dis seminated the new Inoculation throughout many rafts of the world. By this time its instruaions and matter have introduced the Vaccine Inocula tion in .New South Wales, as it did before in Paris, Vienna, &c. &c. It may be expected, from the ex_ tensive prafice of Vaccination, this Institution alone having vaccinated, and been the means of vac cinating 60,0c0 perlons, that the fatality of the Small-pox, must have been diminished. That di minution, however, does not yet appear ;. for the Bill of Mortality for London reports 1202 to have died in the year 1803, whereas tit! died in 1799, 522 only in 1797, and to4o in 1795' ; and although the number has been greater in the intermediate years, yet still the last year . 1202 is not much less than the mean number for each year during any five years for half a century past. How it has happen ed that no diminution of mortality is yet perceived may easily he understood, when it is considered that the number inoculated - for the CoW-pox are chiefly , those who would hair . e been inoculated for the Small pox, and that therefore the same proportion remained for the natural Small-pox. Hence, hitherto, Vaccine Inoculation, like the Small-pox Inoculation, is only a benefit to individuals, but that benefit is very much , greater than the Variolous Inoculation, although the Vatiolous inoculation, by preventing the natural Small-pox, was, till the Vaccine Inoculation, the greatest benefit in physic. DUBLIN, MAY JO. Sunday evening last, a desperate affray took place, we are informed, at Black Rock, between seven and eight o'clock : a person who is a Yeo man, was attacked by several ruffianly persons, overpowered, and his sword taken from him; and severely abused ; another of the Yeomanry, one of a Corps in this City, who interfered, was also mal treated, and wounded with his own bayonet.- Some o thers who came out of houses in the neighbourhood to quell the riot, so iminecous was the mob, were obliged to retreat, and the houses they fled into, the whole of the night kept in a state of siege by this outrageous mob. The most part of this des perate rabble were composed of the Drivers of the abominable vehicles which ply upon the Rock-road, who are chiefly most ruffianly vagrants, and some other persons of the lower class of society, num..' bers of whom of a very suspicious kind, besides de cent persons, go down in jingles every Sunday to Black-rock. Two Gentlemen of Cork, a few days' since, had the curiosity to open • a vault, belonging to the fa mily of the GRANTS, in Lower Shandon Church yard, which had not been disturbed for about 22 years, and to their astonishment discovered a cof. kn empty, with the lid removed, and the corpse lying prostrate alongside of it. From the in ascription on the coffin, it appeared that the body it contained was that of a Mr. GRANT, who was interred in the year 5782. "As many instances of premature interment have occurred in this Coun try, it is highly probable that this Gentleman had been only apparently dead, and might possibly have recovered, but for the culpable haste of his inliu maticn. A curious trial came on at the DenbighshireAssizes, held at Ruthin, a few days since, before the Judges MANSFIELD and BURTON : It was an action brought by Mr. ROBERT WILLIAMS, Attorney-at-law, of that town, against Messrs. RICHARD Hoc:its, and WILLIAM ELL IS, twoof the Aldermen arid Justices of the Peace of Ruthin, to recover a compensation in damages of moot. for an assault and false impri sonment. In consequence of a meeting of the inha. bitants, called by the Defendants, as Magistrates, in July -last, several hundreds of persons, it appear ed, enolled their names as Volunteers, who assem bled on the 2oth of August, for the purpose of tak ing the oath of Allegiance, which was administered in English and Welsh, by Mr. ELLIS, to 270 per. sons. The Plaintiff Was present, but did not offer to take the oath ; and, at a parade on the following evening, he placed himself in the front rank ; the men who had not taken the oath on the preceding day, being direaed to advance a few paces, .and form in the centre, in order to their being told to attend on the morrow to rake the oath, they all cheerfully obeyed, except the Plaintiff, who, on be ing desired so to do, not only refused, but behaved very insolently : upon this the Defendants ordered their Constable to turn him out ; which was done, and this was the ground of the anion. After the evidence had been gone through, the Chief Justice ;MANSFIELD) proceeded to sum up, and, in an im pressive address to the Jury, he ridiculed the - charge of imprisonment, enforced tl necessity of im plicit obedience on the part of Volunteers, as in- • u ')ordination would produce destruction, and was of opinion the Aldermen had done no more than they had a right to do, and what he should have done in a similar situation. The Jury Withdrew for a few minutes, and, on their return, gave a ye:dia. for the Defendants, to the satisfadion of a very crowded Court; upon which the Judge certi fied double costs to the Defendants, according to the statute. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS. DISORDERLY HOUSES. Two persons of . the name of Lauder, were in ditaed for keeping a disorderly house, upon the Sta. tute of Geo. Ij. for preventing such abuses, which enatls that those convided of such offences, besides imprisonment, shall be liable to pay a fine of tool. The Prosecution was carried on at the instance of the Society for the Suppression of Vice. Mr. Morgan, one of the Members of that Society, having heard that an assembly was held twice a week in Roll's.buildingi, Chancery-lane, for the purpose of dancing, called at' the house, and purchased a ticket from the Defendants-. Conceiving the as sembly to be of a licentious and disorderly nature,' he gave information to the Society, and Officers were procured from Hatton Garden, to take the Defendants into custody. Mr. CONST, Counsel for the Prosecution, pro_ flounced an elaborate panegyric on the Society for the Suppression of Vice. He then entered upon the circumstances of the -case, from which he en deavoured to prove, that this was little else than a place where people of every description were admitted, and where riot and licentiousness pre vailed, to the great prejudice of the lower orders of the community. From the general tenor of the evidence for the Prosecution, it however turned out, that the place in question had been for a long time in the possession of the father of the Defendants, who is a Dancing Ma ster ;- that Dancing Assemblies had been regularly held there, but that no disorder had .prevailed, and that the whole was conducted with decency and pro. Fiery. _ _ Mr. GURNEY, made an able speech in behalf of the Oefendants, in which he observed that his Learn ed Friend appeared to have had instructions to praise the Society for the Suppression of Vice. It put him in mind of an Attorney, who pralised a great deal on the Western Circuit, wh'o constantly concluded his Briefs with the words, " pray, Sir, abuse the. At rorney on the other side !" He then entered upon the general views of the Society, and had no doubt that the motives of many individuals who were concerned in it were laudable, but at the same time, he contended, that from the encouragement it afforded to Informers, it promised soon to be come a greater nuisance than any of the disorders which it was designed to suppress. Praise, when undeserved, he said, was' only the severest of satire : and he put it to the Jury, whether any praise was due for this Prosecution. He then•adverted to the evi dence; and contended, that the Law, as applied by Lord. KENYON, did not bear upon this case. The Chairman was of the same opinion, and the Defen. dants were accordingly acquitted. DESCRIPTION OF CAERWENT. FROM A 'TOUR IN MONMOUTHSHIRE.) ITS present appearance has nothing respeaable or inviting, yet it deserves every , attention that cap be bestowed by the antiquarian or lover of those scites memorable for having been the scenes of magnifi cence, genius, and heroism. Roman greatness has at thin place shone with a splendour little inferior to any other part of the kingdom; fragments of stately piles, and innumerable coins and medals, have been found, to prove the consequence this place has borne among their stations. It is situated on the Via Julia, or military road, which, Camden informs us, was made in the year 80, by Julius Frontinus ; but now few are the re mains whereby it can be traced ; the walls which inclosed the fortified space may still be ascertained by close investigators, and those parts which are distind, exhibit, perhaps, the most perfett remnants of Roman masonry in the kingdom, and prove the judicious means they used to render their works as lasting as could be done by human perseverance. Some idea of its original strength may be formed by a part, nearly ten yards long, and of the whole thickness, which has separated from the rest and completely rolled over. Leland, who was here in the sixteenth century, says, it had then the appear ance of having been " sumtyme, a fair and larg'e cyte;" that the " places where the rt r r gates was, yet appeare ;" and " in digging they finde fundations of great brykes, tessellata pavimenta, and numismata, argentea, simul et area." British histories of the central ages are in general silent relating to Caerwent, nor are the Welsh writings very communicative, and the spot which was originally occupied by numerous Roman edifices, are substitued by few houses, cottages, and a church, all of which were apparently raised from the frag ments and facirv,s of former splendour ; and, in all probability, where ro,ooo souls have inhabited, there afe not at this time more than son persons. This was the Venta Silurum of Antoninus, and is supposed to be the capital of the Silures before tile Roman conquest ; afterwards it was considered to have held its dependence on Caerleon, to which ptice there is a tradition, that it had also a commu nication by a subterrancous passage, whose entrance was from a lane which still retains the name of Arthur. BONAPARTE. As the French are on the eve of raising a Foreign Adventurer (if he .is hot already raised) to the Throne of their legitimate Monarchs, with higher powers than any of ,those Monarchs. ever possessed, it may be proper to remind them of some traits in his charaler, as drawn by Sir FRANCIS DIVER NO Is, who, speaking of his address, versatility, dis. cernment ofthe passions, and skill indireEting them to the promotion of his own views, 'says, or ice v i,, • - - - 's . r'' leis car i He 11:19J'i.c )vered their prednminant 1,1,,, also, and contents liiinielf with sAyinz, y acquired 111,,re consideration abroad ttian til' .: • , t i narchy ever enjoyed. Or i s it needful to clis s i t l' . , e the alarms of certain Republic an s, who still a ';' l l•li to the Constitution and the Grand Principle' et ,„ stops their mouths by fervently invoking, like I 'l l er y the sacred name of the People, and adds rhese V' significant words, " the Sovereign of us all. J Their Graces the Dutchesses of Rutland and 1 . -X f: ° the Right Hon. the Counte s ses of IVl o unt-S" ) ; tri h ; Darnley, Shaftesbury, Co r k, an d Derby, th'-' , Ho Ugh: Ladies Spencer; Sherburne, Cape', 13 ' )5—n n i Say and Sele, the Right Hon. the Lord 8i314, er Carlisle, the Lord Chief Baron, and several. ot`lir Noblemen and Phy s icians, having witnessed extraordinary Cures performed fry Ching'; Fa t .l, a Worm Lozenges, have. confirmed their approbao-to of the Medicine by their li o nou t able tostimonY its peculiar efficacy in removing Worms, sion Fits, Pains of the Head, Side, and Sto olac . : and other Consumptive Complaints, Obstruc_iions the Liver, S:e, there could he ztny farther•e/i dence needful, to demonstrate the unrivalled eX•ce:ii knee cif Ching's Patent Worm Lozenges, be orhuestionably established by a late calcul3u°,4 ascertains , that above Haif a Million 011 ) %; sons have' been restored to goo] health by the,fil%, of this invaluable M e di c i ne , w h ere t he mos ( ( 7 10 1 neat Phiisicians and Apothectics have' con, without success. A s o p en i ng Ph ys i c at t his S'' a s ',,),l they are superior to every ot h e r iVledicine.;T; wholesale, at Ching and Butler' s , I\l‘.) L '„ 11-11 61' side, corner of Paterno s t e r. row ; an d rt:ln nit most Medicine Venders in t he U n i te d Kira for in boxes at gs. - 61 half boxes 2s, 91. Charitable Purposes, in boxes at zzs. each. " Thus, for instance : when he wanted to rouse the national taste for crusades, he wrote to Paris, that he had just sent Citizen Arnaud to Ithaca and Corcyra, to plant the erriscoloured Flag on the ruins of the Palace of Ulysses ; and it may be re membered, That the Ex.bishop of Autun, to whom he addressed this dispatch, conemunicated it to the admiring Parisians, with congratulations, that the heroic ages were effaced from the annals of fame, and that the fabulous ages had become their own . history. Shortly after, to draw them into a distant expedition, Bonaparte calls them the Great Na tion ; and immediately the Great / Nation over-runs Egypt. Again, before he lands, this new St. Louis, knowing that the very name of Christian may, in his projcEted incursions into Asia, preclude him from running the' career of Gengisklian, has his profession of faith ready, and immediately claims the merit of having destroyed in Europe the enemies of Islamism, and thrown down the Cross. Nations - of Egypt, says heo on his arrival, I resped, more than the Mamelukes, God, • his 2rophet, and the Koran. He soon perceives, however, that the Egyptians are distrustful of his Islamism, and prefer to his the yoke of their Mameluke Legion of Ho nour : but having already discovered that supersti tion forms the basis and generic character of both the governors and the governed, instead of any ' longer professing his resped for Mahomet, he as sumes the , Prophet himself. Since the world is the world, it was written that I should come from the extremity of the West to fulfil the task that is imposed on me. I might call every one of you to an-account for the most secret thoughts of his heart ; for I know all, even what you have not spoken to any one.— But the day will `come, when all the world will clearly - see, that I am condoned by orders from above, and that all human efforts are unavailing against me. It is well for you to know, that all I undertake must succeed. Too wise, however, to persist in his desperate enterprize, no sooner does he see the fatal crisis approaching (these are the very expressions of Kleber, when complaining of a precipitate departure, which, left him all the re sponsibility of that ,crisis), than he secretly returns to Europe. But to prevent his companions in arms, whom he has left behind, from sinking under the discouragement with which' he had just been seized himself, his first care is.to write to them, that the day When they shall return victorious to the sacred land, will he a day of joy and of glory for the whole Nation ! Soon after this, the English Fleet takes them prisoners, and brings them back to him. No matter, he considers his prediaion accomplished, and evert reminds them of it, at the same time thank. ing them for having legit in Egypt immortal re membrances, and congratulating them that they re turn to the sacred land with the glory due to four years of labour and of bravery. As to General Menou, to console him for his defeat, he takes him aside, and acknowledges with hid], that the fate of battle is - uncertain. When word is brought him at St. Cloud that the Council of Five Hundred are re. newing their oath to the Constitution of the year 111, and that this oath is restoring to them their. lost courage, he presents himself in the midst of them, and exclaims, Remember that I always march accompanied by the. God of War and the God of Fortune. He speaks, the Council of Five. Hundred disperse, all the Republicans believe him, and sub mit. The Royalists, however, and the Priests of La Vendee, still resist ; but in order to embroil them with England, the very man Who in Turkey had made a merit of having destroyed the Cross and the Pope, does not hesitate to denonnce the English as wicked heretics. Again, at the opening of the campaign of I 800, -wishing to induce the Conscripts to resort in mass to Dijon, and assemble beneath his tic ) " banners, he accomplishes his purpose by assuring lEN Professional Men of Etialessrs'leisa them, that the effort he asks of them will be unne- WResponsibility deviate from the general :00; - the sele6tion of a peculiar branch, the sanettev s it° cessary, if they appear but ready to make it. Is it ttnued success is the best criterion of superioritY• of important to him to bring back the Captain-General Eight years have I devoted pay praetice to tI 1 re 6 l Toussaint to the bosom of the Re üblic or is he treatment of Three DiSorders and thesuccessTo AS p, my plan gives me additional ardor to oppose, a' Elie apprehensive lest his remorse for what the Planters able, the ravages ' t 500 1 ! call the usurpation of that Negro, should drive him important' in the Cat t al t o ho u s e e o C f 9 i i i n u - i ) n i to ads of desperation ? The man of the 18th of Bru. After initiation into g every Branc;ll, as an . A r f„ Y res`-'', e t t lt 4 Iformed a wish at an early period of V r aelice maire thinks himself better qualified than any one d i viduals. from the ignorance of uneducated. Pl, , oe rs, to apply the sponge of absolution. He writes to equally dangerous precipitancy of general rO l6llll l` ho.ese him, that it is by his talents, and by the force of . The Three Disorders, to the Cure of whir l' nt - I",4li ies circumstances, that he is the first man of his colour voted ßx L mir i\ r F tt i lo s i T l h c N om s!7!, r il isz tiler ve o r l y a fr 0 , 40 1- who has arrived at so high a degree of power in. Sr. ration: idly, All kinds of debility, Domingo, and holds there the first command. But the habit i s o l f school-boys, pr the indoltl,o4 v o,ete i r .c a s o f he does not stop here ; for knowing that Toussaint' mag,een: which s as c t a lyi e , d a A t It tir E ai N igtme s n s t o o t r r i has the name of the Deit constantly in his mouth, Numerous Diseases are the result ig n fatd )I ` ) „ t e .l y in the treatment of a simple Gonorrltce,.. •.! are v oitA:'-' 3o o' he thanks him above all for having again ,brought frequently happens that the seeds of a stiiier'.._qPel into honour Religion, and the worship of that God the indisZretion of an unguarded hour. -- '; even''-ler from every thing emanates. Knowing also that this tisoa such Complahirs are easily cured; a r l c li ' s ' a ' ir - te ip `others have failed,. I trust that 1 may V - ;ref s African is bound, by all thaois most dear to mans to lls , . radical re-establishment. thi F s ew, prevent the Negroes from being again brought on_ der the yoke of slavery, from- which France herself ticate s u i .. lat ior to e disorder, crimpared -with th e in ca a la s m o it i o ta u r s y • st .. ito e howev , r, are the casts of covrni? had emancipated them, he writes to him, You desire p M re en v;le " n h t o g , a t i r etTe l s a O'f iantis4t;iToltneabie 1 i fe, acq r c c of ;tic their .liberty ; you know, that in all Countries of Debility, 'which is the tzlia where we have been, we have given it to Nations P ernicious habits. ;n fierer broods over his 4,0'4 that possessed it not. Whatever be the origin and ear, Ire); tconceals a p p y s iobriurie, it m ay be - art `• c s., the colour of the Inhabitants of St. Domingo, they lation for hint to knoW, that ald,iough beitrc,r, t he doubt or uncertainty with other I „ raetitt , are all Frenchmen, all free before God and before the of these Deficiencies by the g racmal pro,, es t t oc. E,r.perience.s,„3oly Republic. Observe, however, that' the very same tion, 'is the acquirement of my week in which he signed his dispatch top acify the Laechus or Venus h a vif. bega , n voidable consequeric rot tti uccaerilvi c lulu , ty Blacks of Sr. Domingo, he endeavoured to quiet the ll alarms of the Whites of Martinico, and of the Isles tonicutte will occur. . a b id S c ta P te re ; " l c i " n t t t caYscs ' s ex! • , - lionr uc lt of anxiety th.ia s w u d of France and Reunion, by declaring to them, that s for elrsto„tiol',ed , re the-Cons.1.10011; .0 they no longer had cause to fear that the Mother r rse. ermg Sparks of Life arid to re-annn , deat it „ o u t v e ‘ , N r ah n e c r e e fi p c e i : e i t; a c o y i ha y been Country would establish the slavery of the Whites, ED WO,AEN, who have in their expeciatii. los 0: a ma l y ot- v by giving `liberty to the Blacks. Observe •l a SO, mast ingtin ,, s such defects are c urah.e. b,. Nc' w .„ier. A 7 1 , 0, that he was at this very time silently preparii 0. the The secresy . which is -- es t o s projet of a law, which, the better to enable those ands l the-qu' alstisstions which Principles to triumph which began the Revolution, t ti tt u e s s i i e s tr o , ts at ~?17 is re , i t l e ,, ri r s , r t a l s i • • & ,, enttai to ntY at 11r. there may X re) ,: • . t pr• has reestablished the Slave Trade ; that is to say, house, personally, r. or 2 by A the buying and selling those wretched Africans, who to• "' are all free before God and before the Republic. At • - • -th the doors. su rg adjoining, anti the Name IS on n c, 11,4 _ of ho rn ,. does he wish again to 'attach the Roayalists to Martin tirec„ Member of the l(w/at c ru L n e a t e te i rltr ( c i : -I ,r, tc t, lo ,; s t in ra g m a i, s m x 4: l l l , . Th--e is an addition.ll Entrance I Iblishvd by W:l, - ..tAm ARMIOIR SCRIPPS/ (of South Molton -st reet, G resvencr-stio3re); :he Paper, L et , , c r i io r the Edaar, ecc. (pm.paid), addrcsicci, SHIP NE/S'S. GRAVESEND, MAY T 4. culu joh n • Passed by—tile Hope, -Hodge, from Lisbon ; -7" vir , Baptiste, —, from Bilboa ; lames, Waternl"''' nfrotiterf,t ginia ; Ocean, Quinton, from . Cork ; and the , from Lear. bra Lana" Sailed—the Jan lack, Veres, for Embdert rat/ wick, for Bostock ; Zecling, Anderson, and G 1 . 1 "' S win, fOr Tonningen. MARRIED, Yesterday, john Unwin, Esq. of . t h e Treasury, t° ; 11'iiS cif Sargent, eldest daughter of john Sargent, Esq• " 1 . IVoolavington, Sinst tissex. On the lath .at Milton, near Gravesend, .C 3 P r ; Budo Wilcken, of tile King ' s German Leglon, to the ;Ca Dorette de.Bar. Captain John Fredeick Molin, of Gottenburg (S weJci l) tli r Miss Marianne Kenley, of 13el1 ist. . I Thursday se'nnight, in Ki i kenny , C a p tain Philliflii. the 47th Regiment, to Miss Finn, daughter of the late round Finn, Esq. - ___---. DIED. • On Sunday last, at his house in Bromptoa Grove, 1- ri tPC • Soh year of his age, John Savage, Esq. Yof t On Monday, at llamPton, Mrs. Gouldsrnith , w" the iate Edmund Gouldsmith, Esq. . , ; , 5 On the 3oth ult. at East Clandon, in Surrey ,' j) . " .-- - ler, daughter of the Rev. Dr. Weller. year s ° On the Ist inst. at Ockitain, in Surrey, aged Miss Mary Bennett. • voias A 'few days since, at Byfleet, in Surrey, Mr. • Dear. • f On the bth ult. in the Citadel of Valcaciennes,, wg. the Rev. Danvers Graves, I.L.D. late-of East W° °- perks. L otte ately, at Bath, at Anthony Garvey, Esq.' late of in France. PRICE 0 STOCKS, 2LST~ Bank Stock, 152 152 Navy 5 per Cent. 921 itb 5 per Cent. 1 797, 95 ilk. 95 Irish 5 per Cent. 4 per Cent. 71 -; 72 3 er Cent. Red. 55 k 54 3 per Ccnt.Cons. 56 551; al) AY. Bank L. Ann. i 6 5-i 41 v t Bank Short Ann. India Stock, 171 171 Oninium,.3 a 1 ' 2 ` Imperial 3 per Cent. Ditto Ann. Con. tar uly, 5611 A FREEHOLD FARM. TO BE SOLD BY PRIVATE C0N1..--AC- • T, d of FREEHOLD irt A FREEHOLD FARM, in the. C,. ° ,., ° ,fredrst w 0 RC ESTER, conisting of about One 1 1, g L . - o rre" Sixty Acres of excellent Pasture and Arable Laria . ;" within a Ring Fence. st-r For further Particulars please to address, 9 9- X - .Y. No. 50, Conduit -street, London.