The Sun. — London, England, 1801-05-02 00:00:00

Nt ''fc , u ji L • E 0 . , Nwl illi bapetium felagr, say:an:it it;denter;i. Sed vale datum. YARMOUTH, MAY I. Tilts morning arrived the Ptizee of Wales Packet, without Mails. She left Cuthavcn on Wednesday last, with a Messenger from Lotd MINTO at Vienna. Viscount ALLADIA, Minister 'of the Marine Department at Portugal, and General '‘IVITENZIE from Berlin, are among the Passengers. The Passengers by this Packet say, that the Danes are about to quit Hamburgh. The King George Packet, DE AN r, left Cuxhaven on Tuesday last, with Dispatches from Lord CAR YS. FORT at Berlin, and arrived at Harwich yesterday.. She brought no Mails. ' Arrived the Albion and Wrigbt, Armed Ships, from a Cruize. PORTSMOUTH, MAY I. AttIVED His Majesty's Ships Fortusde and Trent, from a Cruize off Havre. SHEERNESS, MAY I. Tins day arrived the Holstein, Danish prize, and the Mary hired Cutter, Lieut. MoRGAN, from Yar- • tooth... The Bitter" is undocked, and the Broderschap, late Dutch Careening Hulk, is docked. We learn from an Officer on board the Monarch, -that one-gun only burst on board that Ship in the loriuus Mtion off Copenhagen. - • Wednesday a Court Martial was held onboard the Cambridge Flag-ship in Hamoaze, Plymouth, on Captain LLOYD, of the Mars, and Lieutenants By it ictp and DAVIS, of' the Centaur, for those ships. tanning: foul of each other, off the Black Rocks, in . the -night of the loth ult. when the Court honour. -ably acquitted Capt. LLOYD and Lieut. BURNET, and sentenced Lieut. DAV Is, of the Centaur, to lose "six months rank, and be dismissed from His Majes ty's ship Centaur. In the reign of Queen ANNE, Captain HARDY, whose ship was stationed at Legara 'Bay, happened e‘u ocloubted advice of the al of seven_ receiv teen Span i s h galleons, under the convoy of seven_ ieen men o f war, in the harbour of Vigo, and without any warrant for so doing, set sail and .carne ap w i t h Sir GEORGE ROOK!, who WaS the Admiral and Commander in Chief in The Medi_ Aerranenit. and pave _l_l ;na Duals intelligence as - in - difeed.hini to make the best of his way to Vigo ; . where all the before mentioned galleons and m en of war were either destroyed or taken. Sir GEORGE was sensible of the importance of the advice, and the successful expedition of the,Captain ; but after the fight was over, the vitiory obtained, and the proper advantages made of it, the Admiral ordered Captain HAR DY on board, and with a stern countenance said, " You have done, Sir, a very inipirtant piece of service to the Throne ; • you have added to, the honour and riches of your Conn- Ail? by rolli• diligence ; but do not you know that l'ott are liable at this instant to be shot for quitting your station ?"—" He is unworthy of bearing a CoMmistion under Her Majesty," replied the Cap., tain i t' who holds his life as aught, when the glory and niftiest of his Queen and Country require him to hazard it." On this heroic answer, he was dis_ patched home With the first news of the viaory, and Ictfeks of recommendation to the Queen, who instantly knighted him, and afterwards made him a Itear.AdMiral. , The Gambia, .t.n London, is . ccmcleinhed it Surinam: We Understand; that Mr. A.R•rutia YoliNG's scheme,. for the Public to lend money to country pa_ rishes bn the credit of their rates, to enable them to settle burrhensome faniilies with land and cows, is likely to become an objet of public discitssiOn.—:lle ileduceS from various fads; that sal: aiid four acres of waste land, will provide for a family for ever at the expellee of sos: a-year, which, in the prcent rode of provision, costs from rol. to i5l. a-year, .whatever the price of corn may be. In one case; the poor are in a cOrnfortable state, and industry encouraged ; in the other, they arc miserable, an d industry prevented. Mr. joias, in the House of Coriniuind on Thurs. day evening; brandished a. One Pound Note with gtett indignation, vehemently inveighing, against the System of Finance by %%Ilia it was circulated. There are not many of his Party who have the same aversion as this Gentleman to 'Rant Paper: Ilivmtot, the celebrated Preach Punster, who left behind hini a refutationdied lately in Paris, has tke Contrat Social of ROUSSEAU. The reVe ries of ROUSSEAU might have been dispelled by i weaker antagonist than one whose chataaer for wit was so well established, WooncocKs.—The breed of this bird in Eng-' land, was Clearly ascertained last week in the county of Suffolk. A Gentleman shooting in a wood bp hinging to. Mr. Wennive, of Brittenharn, in that aunty, flushed a cock, which he shot at and missed; but the Wit) wheeled round, and then hovered near the spot from whence it arose; this induced the Gentleman to look upon the ground, when he dis covered a'Woodcock's nesr, containing three eggs. Mr. Wennive being informed of the circumstance, had the nest carefully watched, and two days after, the eggs were h atched , and the y oung , w hi c h lik e partridges instantly leave thdr nest, were safely taken Off by the old bird, A Couri of V.,OttiniOn Council wa's held yesterday at Guildhall, at which were Present the Right lion. the LORD .six Aldermen, Mr. Sheriff CADELL I. the Recorder, and a great number of COmmtilietsi Mr. CHAMBERLAIN id an introduNiy epeech laid, before the Court abed* statement of the City'i Cash, up to the 3 xst of beceinber last; which was ordered to be printed for the use of the Members. The Report for building Warehouses, &c. at the Bridge Yard, was read, agreed to, an d referre4 back to the Comthittee of City Lands to be carriecl, into execution. Mr. Jos); BROWN *as eldled a Coat Meter in trust for this City, on the recommendation of the Coal and Corn Committee. The several Motions for the Thanks, &c. to Sir Ht 1317. PARKER, Lord NELSON, &C. were post_ poned for a future consideration. Mr: SAMUEL DIXON expressed his wish that the Motion respeding a Subscription at Lloyd's, for the Relief of the Widows and Orphans of chose whd fell in the glorious Battle off Copenhagen, might he brought forward, but the Court not wishing to go into the Business at present, the consideration thereof was adjourned until a future period. CORK, APRIL 25. On Monday the t 3th instant, the Rev. Mr. Fox, Parish Priest of Muilinahone, -in the County of Tip perary, while sitting in his own parlour, at the hour of one o'clock on said day, was barbarously shot dead by some villain as yet undiscovered.--Mr. Fox was distinguished for humanity and loyalty, and his murder his suspeaed to have been 'separated by some rebel whom he had cautioned against trea sonable praWces. On Sunday morning last, William Curiii, farmer, was found murdered in a shocking manner, at Bal_ linaeurra-bridge, near Limerick. He had been in company the night before with three of his neigh bours, of the name of Lynch and Irwins, by whom it is thought the bloody deed was perpetrated. Lynch and one of the Irwins have been committed to the City► gaol, by the Worshipful Ralph West_ rope, jun. Esq. Mayor ; the other Irtrin has fled. The Spaniards are considerably distressed by two Enemies, who are contending for superiority in their capital, by intrigue of every kind, the French, and the Ex_ Jesuits. The latter, whom while his Ca tholic Majesty was at War with France, he per mitted to return, have proved violently hostile to his new Allies, and the latter are not patient under the constant abuse which the Jesuits fulminate against them. It i s t h oug h t , however, that the Republi. cans will be successful : several of the Brethren have been arrested, and the greater part will, it is said, be transported to Italy. Citizen HeMBLOT, a Member of the National Institute, who has been sent to New Barcelona, for what came we cannot sat, has written a Letter to another Member of the Institute, in which he gives an account of his perils and hair_breadth esespes, that we have seldom seen equalled.—" For three months," says the Astronomer, for that we find is the profession of this Scavan, " have I slept in the woods, with tigers,and serpents for my bed-fellows, and during that period I have had at my dinner a crocodile fbr my messmate." He then proceeds to a narrative of the marvellous, which Sir joins Mana'c'ville might envy, but which we are con vinced he could not equal. " Among what a va riety of the Indian race have I been!—all of them free—all of them governing themselves, and all eat ing their neighbours. I have 'seen a pigmy race, the Guiacas of Gehetta, among whom the tallest man was four feet two incites : I have visited the Otomacos, every man of whom eats a pound and a half of clay per day ; and I have spent some time among the Marivitanos and IVlarguentares, who feed on pismires and resin." The French Journals make mention of a horse without hair, which is stated to have been bought at Vienna ten years ago. He is- about twenty years old, eats the same food, and in the same quan. dry, as ordinary horses ; is lean, and very sensible to cold. Over his whole body he has no other hair than one at the lower eye-lid. The skin is black, approaching to grey, with some white spots about the groin, soft to touch, shining, and rather unau cus. The skin of the nose, of all the nostrils, and of the lips, is like that of the rest of the body. The hones of the nose are deptessed, which embarrasses his respiration, and makes him utter a noise when ever he takes or respires breath. Citizen L.UTEY RI E, by whom this notice is given,. is of opinion, tha‘t this horse forms a variety in the species, and that its state is neither the elle& of art, nor of dis. ease. The HiStorical Painting ilovb ethibititig at the Lyceum, displays mare of .the pitturesque in its design than the former stibjedi the Storming of Seringapatatn, Was capable of; the situation df St. Jean d'Acre, and the variety of objects - embraced by the sea and lafid operations combined in its de fence, Were advantages which Mr. Porter has cm. ployed on the canvas With the happiest died; On Tuesday the . i ust of April was married, lit PAY E ft T jArtitirr, Esq. Of Freernantle, Hants, to Miss STE cF.NS, only daughter of JAMES Sttv r 14s, Escp of Cametton, near Bath; Cnthef4ne Fortes was on Thursday fully commit. ted by the Imo MAyorii charged with haVing . robbed Mr. Richard Dixon, an . eminent in Fenchurch_strcet, of sloes to x considerable amount. Mr; Dixon told Ins LordshiPi that the prisoner and her husband had worked_ for him for sortie years, and having reason to sus et she had pil fered slops from him, he ordered her to b€ Witch ed, ands in going out, she was deteded with five shirts about her, And .seventy-twO pawnbrokers' duplicates; all of Which, bit: four; were for. Mr. Dixon's goods Whith the confessed. Mr. Dixon likewise said, he paid the PtiSoner and her htisband from 31. to 41.: a oeek foi work clones A number of Pawnbtokeri s who kid the &kids in pledge, *etc summoned; but not ittettding, the Lord Mayor told Mr. Dixon he would Make therti deliver up the property without paying, - which amounts to above 401. • ; .:COUR'i' OF KING's itAy, MAy t. COUSINS. Tut!: .vas a Cisetipon a Policy of In.§nrance; and ,etse( ed for arglttnenti And for the opinion of the. Court, upon which the lue.;titin was shortly this, (‘, Whether - the profits of a i:•oyage, goodi Saying been_put adually board;, are or are not 'Apbica matter of losurance was ilbly argued by Mr. WARREN for the laintitT; ;Ind Mr. GitEs for the Delendatit. ' " Mr. WARREN contended that as 110 trad6 could exist unless there ivas that probeility which amounts almost to a.certaintv, of profit in it; the profits of a voyage were such as gave' the owner of the goods being,- put on board -a reason able expedation of gain; and that reaJmable peaation created an insurable interest, therefore, the Plaintiff was entitled to recover in this Ac tion. He relied on the authority of A Case tried at Guildhall,' before Lord MANSFIELD, (Grant, and Parkinson), reported in Mr. PAak's Book upOn Insurance, which was, indeed, in point. 'l'hat,Case was argued before the' Conn. both by Mr. DUN NING and Mr. WAL LAC E, who contended, that the e:vedation of profits of a Voyage, was not an In surable Interest; but the Court held; thiit reasonable profits of a Voyage did create an insurable interest, and, therefore, in that case; there was judgthent for the Plaintiff. • Mr. GII.Es, on the contrary, contended, that Profits being in their nature uncertain, could not give to any one WhO expeded them an insurable in terest—That a Policy of AsStirance was a Contrad of Indemnity - against loss ; noW; before any man could be said to lose a thing; lie Must ante have had it. He contended, that the mere expedation of gain, however reasonable, Could net be insured, be- . cause it being dependent on chance, it might happen . that not any profits shoUld attend a voyage at all— the goods-might Come to a level; or they might come to a falling market, or they might not come to it at all. In a word, Profits, although they generally ,did . attend Trade, yet they were not sure of attend. ing it ; and as they were dependent on hazard, the. Policy of Insurance on them was ahalogou to . a Gaming Policy, Sec. &c. ' He said there were au thorities in the books. to this effed, some of which lymuoted ; and he said also there were very high Authorities not published, who held that the Case of:Giant and Parkinson was not Law. Lord KENYON..••••••• 44 1 will just say a word or two on this subjed now, not for the purpose of giving Judgment, for as I see Gentlemen taking notes, and as ; it has been repeatedly pressed upon us to day, that there are greht and high authorities who entertain ' doubts, or rather no doubt upon this case; that this is not an insurable interest, it is fit for us to hear these great authorities, that if we err, we may be enlightened, by them, and therefore I wish there should be a further argument in this case. Although I am not going to touch the Law of the case now, I can hardly forbear saying a word or twoon it ; one's tongue almost itches for a sentence or two upon it. In the 22d year of the reign of Geo. 111. a case was tried (Ceani and Parkinson) before my Lord MANS- F I ELD, who reserved it 'for further consideration, and it came under the consideration of this Court as it was then filled ; and Lo T a. MANSFI ELD, who.had inclined at the trial, to non-snit,the Plaintiff, had, upon reflation,. considered his opioion .at Nisi Prius erroneous, and theretl;re:had, altered it, and the Court Mel with that altered j oPinion. On that case it appears also that Mr. 'Dunning and- Mr. Wallace (Gentlemen nor remarkable for giving up any point that could be 'at all' supported) bath ar gued the same side; as Mr. Gt L Es, did to-day, and. they did not prevail, for the Ctiurt decided against them in that case. That is now twenty . years ago, or thereabout. The Defendant in this. Cause, whose charader Mr. G ti.Es consigned to the reproach which beloogs to that character, by saying he has nothing, to urge .upon the morality of the Case, has taken from the Plaintiff 75 Guineas (the premium of - In surance). He .has subscribed to this. Policy of In surance with this objeEtion to .its legality in his pocket; ready to pull it-out on the day of trial.— He, I dare say, never would have urged this objec tion to the legality of the risk, if he had not been called upon to indemnify the Party from a loss which has happened, and which loss, he by subscribing the Policy, solemnly. .promised to make good. In that case he would have kept the 75 . Guineas, and his objection to the legality of the Contratt, in his poc ket together, a n d hi s chardier would have remained entire.—When • I was a Student in this Court, which is now a good many Years ago, it was understood that _Policies of Insurance shoUld be construed Werrime fide . i—An Under-writer was another name for Sir Andrew Freeport; and it will nor be wrested out of my mind that that is still the general charaaer of the true English Merchant ; they arc, in the mass, honourable men—They are; I believe, all over .the world,..so considered and understood to be;As to this Gentlerrian, I do 'not know whether his character has in it an insurable intertst or not, but this I knoW; that ;reason, justice, and good faith, stem to me to be pretty clearly on one side in this ease—lt is-now near . 20 years since the Rule was laid down to . govern these cases ;, if they are all of there to be- set afloat again, I can only say, that at present society' seems likely to suffer 'ma from doubt.--I have dOne now; the ease must be argued agaiii: ll Case ordered to stand tor farther argurrient: Mr. Etsg t 1 4 1 mni7edifor a Writ .of Habeas Car. pus, to be direEted Curtis, George Cur_ tis; and Samuel Curtis; commanding them to bring up the bckly , tif William Curtis; the younger, He moved thit.upein diiclOsingfaets which; if true; are highly -unWarta'ntai)le;• for they charge the Parties with 'Conspiring to take away by forets and iletdin"from his Ivitb; William Curtis, a young Man near t*entk.orte, lately - married; and; merely because the Father did not approve Ai( .thematch, &c.---We abstain front details in this; as we al ways do in all Casts that rest uptio rx ptirte.. Etidence;— The Court granted the Writ , • The gamuel,' Clark, from Yarmouth to New castle, was raptured the 2 Ist April ; near Shields, and is carried into Dunkirk, YO:IDEMf: i 74. rfom P'r ywoL6: WE have often seen Mer,* ZotintoPrints fromthis . Attist,. kit Ida not rec.:Alen' to have noticed any PiOure frdm his luind before: This is a very cx.: eellcut Woijc. ict the style of t!o:o.arinz; insoMuch that.. if it 41);:eirej in rtny other ylscc: is woOlt! by no Means be e.onsideri:d as : a protiudijn.oi the pre . e , entdaY;fitn4flioti;rit exhibits a fahaitiiir ;716 1• 1 vested with a . piOuctqueai r . We kco‘if ttothir,g of tl.is but what idve have seen Works, l ' and frwa • the !I/cult/lea lie has shev.'n of leis taientS as a Painter this year; , w't re induced ti_i wish that lie would renuunce the drudger -, of e;igrrivil - ig,: aria de‘snle his "poweis 'compoSition: 80l ton Briagc.—T. Grit t There seems to bea. - sort of ornpetitiori loetwetzi this Ariist and Mr: Tt/ fi 14 Eit. The 7 - ;ire bOth Artists of uni..ormnon and sorprizint nierit; con, sidering their time tir life, for we Understand; that they are bath very-fount. In Heir tipitiion, how ever, Mr. C=rx iN EFelll5 to tread with a: fifm step irk the pi-1t Which leads to T the higher excellencies of the art. tie, is not ieos bold inhis porihtits of Nature; and he: is more distina than his 4enii'les `lhis Landscape AS . one of the t ery beSt workf,, , which - the present Exhibition contains: I: is cencei yea in a siyle of impressive grandeur,; very much in , the manner of ' , eV t.sO:sr, and strongly indi cites a.gcnius_ of : the sa:ne coMpiehensive charaacr.: No. 2g2.--The Rev. Dr. Valpy, Misttr of Reading School, painted for flisTupilt:. by Stibscriplion. j. O'rx, R. A. 'i lie fatidAble purpose for whPi this Portrait %Yds interdecl; is orLls degree of pleasure to the libcrai spc,'.iator, far beyond-what the Work: itself is cal. culated td produce; as the gratitUde of-the Pupil; icnplics the virtues of the is taster: The Artist seems to have . partaken in the generous, impulse wliit.h led to the eitiployment of his n t4lents upon* this occasion; and has exerted these talents with peculiar success. this is, indeed; the very, hes: Portrait Which we vci seen from the Artist; and should not have been thrfist into th aimpa: native obscurity of the Anti-room. • No. 3t. The Teggat's Daughter of ,13etTital Crecn.—W: Owzrr. There is much greater merit i i the cooUring than the design of this YiCtitre.' As 0. Beggar's chtugh:er is intended by the Artist to be the. chi;:i . figure, she (wet to have been rendered Much more interesting.. There nothing innocence rind . simp!icity iii her katures, fiut rathcr an exv. - ession of mcretriciciii fortintrfe. -. The Beggar's .her:.d s&nti to be Sir josut7A's Ugili4o. profile:, The shadow is too strong in tlieforetround 7 .• Upbn the 'whole, h6w ever, this is a good Piaure, and marts a di3tinguidt_ el figure in the .SO. land DOWNr.: A IC; A. These are two Pictures on the suble6t br Quixctie; and the Artist seems tb bile had SiIiRKE in his eye, though the :fiiltfret are rather_ .larger than we usually see in the works..of the latter. .__. Mr. Driw:atAri seems to have a better conception of the figure of the Knitht of - the Sorrowful Countenance thin Ofhii . whunsieal,Squire. -'These . ,Pielutes are much too light; find 'dip Aitiat has committed a strange bluadef,.bi.introdueing .Eng.; lisle characters, with modern dresses, in st scene.sup posed to hare passed in Spain, and - at. a , remote riad: . No. I i 3. rortraits of a Lady:arid . . This Artist is such a dpler.in el/oply and .. ffly.r.: ory, that We 'ate surprized to see deicendihg W this " visible diurnal sphere.". ,kle..lAs. here shewri• that.he :can represent mere fresh and tio6d He stems td hai , e adopted the stile ofd Bitice.F y in point of colouring. The mother. and are placed in an easy state o doiriestie - The back ground is too flat •aid formal:, . The attraaion of such Pieces as the 'fine Sinaaele cif the Iron T6we r ( so ere ,: ira bl e the taste of tins Manager, the Artist, and the composer?, the ex. cellent Bailer of the Cotintry 'Wake; the splendi4 Pantomime of iliirlegitin Victor, and the late bri. liant Engagetheiit at, COpenliagei, have tended to ank • the Roy. f Arapitheatre, :Want - tinker-bridge, as a place of amusement that,. for sterling Merit, may vie with any Theitte.in Among all the representations of Naval Ccimbats . ever exhibited:On a ny s tak e ; no ne ever Came'so - neat to reality a 3 that Of the Northern s7lecC bi'ought out at the Royal CirCus,, Sr. George's Fields—A real 74 proudly sailing with tit: -intrepid Nelson, his Officers and Crew on.deek, subduing the Ship and VOrii of the hardy Danl.'s, is a Most aiilinating sight . to every. Eriton ;, and, 'joined to the charming Speetacle or Kinaldini, the splendid Pittornime of the )lagie t:ltitei and the Ijucstrian Feats Of 'the Infant, Phenomenon, Master "Siunders, which , are indeed trulk'aitonishing, bid defiance to all rivalship. At the lite Assizes of Carrickfergus, William John Magee and Patrick Marrarz i were /Lica before the Solicitor-General, for a. very atro dons murder, and were all ennvitled on the testi. Mony of Patrick-NPOWerts, a bov of fourteen, and son rti the prisoner William. The Court seemed. shocked At sb strange and unnatural a speClacte, as that of a child giving evidence against lri fathees life ; but the boy's story bore such,strong marks of veracity, and was to corroborated by ot h er ev i-. dente, that it vas impossiblt nut to find_.the pd. sorters Guilty.. _t'reviously to passing sentence, the Solicitor-General' remarked On the striking eireutu., stances Which distinguished this case, and which re. sembled an awful, interposition of l'rovidentei The Nisoner MEOwens, instead. of training up his son in the path of virtue, had tmbrued his :hands in. Mood; and, at the age of foci te en, had Made him his agent and accamplice in committing er:rder : this very. son Heaven had chosen for: its instrument in bunging the guilt to light,* Lildluid, iriAlfteel on the, unhappy father a se'vere'r punishment than the Toss'of life, by making his own child th e p erso n who shoul d bring him to an ignominious death.-- They were executed pursuant to their veneenct on Wednesday the Bth inst,