The Sun. — London, England, 1801-06-26 00:00:00

N i t.. , ' •, . ,IV,AY A L 41 4 0 ~ ~i ~ i NEW. t . 40),(1 •:: : „ A ... :4 6: ; ,- 6 L . iv,. .mi i veri um pelagi, Javumque.trldeetteste; ,` Sed mibi t orte datum. i PORTSMOUTH, JuNs zs. ARXINT ED His Majesty's Ship Hydra, Captain Novi., who yesterday supplied the Loire with pro. visions, and left her blockading Havre-de-Grace, sothat the report of that Ship being - taken and, towed into Havre, is unfounded. PLYMOUTH, JUNE 24. SAILED the Prints of Wales, of 98 guns, Rear- Admiral Sir it. CALDER ) and Amelia, of 44 guns, Captain Hon. C. HERBERT, to join the Channel Fleet, in consequence of orders received by express from the Admiralty. The Arztmur, of 93 spins, and Robust, of 74, guni, will sail this evening ftom Cawsand Day to join the Fleet. DOPER, ju is: In is Mt/Mitt sailed a Flag of Truce fot Calgiai with Dispatches from M. OTT ti and this afterndon arrived a Pahsage,vessel from thencei bringing Paris papers to the 24th inst. FALMOUTH, kiim 3. ARtIVEU the A/errCutteri . Capt:'EVitzt, treitit, Portsmouth, having brotighi clown Consmissiorter INct.v.itELls and baggage] to go by the Packet to Halifax. Sailed the American Ship Cara; Capt. HOT H with tobacco, for London ; L'Hirode/k Armed Brig, with Seven Sail of Vi&uallets from the Fleet, for,Plymouth; the Shark . Sloop of War, Capt. CAlt e . VIEW, with the ,Flora, Capt. IVlAttsil EN, for Hon duras; and Kerrie, Capt. DUNSTAN, for Africa, to join the outward-bound West India Fleet, now off this Port, under 'convoy of the Garla'sd Frigate. Also sailed the Two Sisters, Moils, and Peggy, MIDI( 'for London, and several Coasters for the 4stWard. • P. S. A .French Cartel is arrived in Moutit's Ray in eight,daYti frorn.Nanti—cannot learn if she has brought any tidws. •r . ' SHEERNES',s', JUNE zs. ARRIVED from the Thames ..at the Note, the eirstri ! ft . and ,Chati g eri quo.brits. The' Pr;neets Charlotte and Aussisea Yachts paned the Nore this mor9ing,frouritte Thames. The reuns. hired Cutter arrived frotni and sailed naitl for, Ydrinauth. DEAL, JUNI sl, THE Royal Charlotte and Pritteat Augstitt: Yachts came down last night from the River, and proeeeded immediately through the Downs to the' Westward. The Miriner Gun.brig arrived early tithe morn. ing from a Cruize, having carried ;way ber main. top-rnast. Accounts from the Channel Fleet, received at Plymouth on Monday afternoqn, stew that the Combined Fleet, consisting of Twenty.one Sail of the Line,‘ which were distinelly counted, was at single anchor in the Outer Road of Brest. . The Lords of the Admiralty yesterday appointed Lord GARAI RS Commander of His Majesty's Ship .B elle rop n, of 1 74. guns. Captain Pii,vrila is appointed to command His Majesty's Ship*lmogen, at Plymouth. Captain BaovorrroN is appointed. to command the Bas4Dier, one of the Dutch Ships in His Majes. ty service. rilie brig Dragott, FRANCIS TOARIC master, lately arrived from the South Sea.; ' touched at the Islatid of Ascension on the 24th of April to pro. cure turtle ; found a longboat hauled on , the beach, and eight people procuring water, lately belonging to the Cresc-nt, of Liverpool, Cap. tain R O BERT CU ITR ; they left the Coast of An gola on the 16th of March;: on the z3d of the same month the vessel foundered with 298 Slaves; die Captain, Dotlor, and zo of the Crew, went for Bar. badoes with a decked coppered long-boat. The Chief Mate, Second and Third, and five people, sailed from the Island of Ascension on the 26th. April with an open long.-boat coppered, bound for the Coast of Brazil, supplied only with bread, wa. ter, and a little salted provisions. sirs. Et t.t.r Norow, it is said, is engaged at the Opera House next season, at a salary of 3000 guineas, but as BANTes last articles will not expire this season, such a report seems highly improbable. it is much.more likely that Mrs. Btu, NOTON will return to her old quarters on the boards of Covent Garden,, an event that will of course be very ad. vantagegus to the Theatre. As a proof, that some , of the dismission from brury.Lane Theatre are merely matters of form, we find Surer is among the efistooded Corps— though nobody is capable of more effdlive service in the field of Comedy. Miss 11 a 1,1.0 N had, it seems, a liberal offer from the Covent Garden Manager, as soon as it was un derstood' that she was disengaged from Old Drury but slw is among the number of those, who have been only discharged fro firma. liRANct. PAR/Si luta At the audience of- yesterday; the Minister fur Foreign Affairs presented Baron D'Attir :icH to the First Consul, as Counsellor of the Regency of, the f;LrcTokofSAxowY ; Baron d'Yyor, a Gentleman attached to the House of NASSAU OltAit ' OE ; the Senator RODDE, Deputy front Lubeck; 'And the Senators Focii Ea and KtEpLk G, Deputies from NUrernberg; At 'the same audience, Prince HOH ZOLLERtkr HECKINGEN took Icaire: General BERNADoTTE has sent an account to P ar i s , of t h e arres t o f T AN c REV, the confidante and friend of GEORGES, the Chonani JUNE 2S. The Count and Countess of Ltdocitttileave Paris at the end of this decade, and pursue their journey :0 Florence. His Excellency Cardinal Go wsn o'4 .Secre►_ary of State to the POPE, arrived at Paris yesterday. He was received, and had an audience of the Go. vernment. The First Consul had along conversa tion with him. A Courier from Spais passed through Bourdeaux on the r7ili insti who announced that Peace was signed with Portugal. It is supposed that this Courier has reached Paris but notwithstanding • these favourable appearances,, there' Still remains some uneasiness on the subjetl. They write from :Berlin, that the ,Marquis de I,uctirstrit, the Prussian Minister at Paris, is to repair to London in the same capacity, and that Baron j,s.coat is to ,succeed him atTaris. The Journal del Bastes Pyre/ es contains the fol lowing article :---"An extraordinary Courier reach ed Bayonne on the evening of the id, on his road from ,Crudad Rodrigo, with Dispatches from Gen. Mhtmer to the Commander in Chief: They 'state literally, that the Termit of Peace with Portugal= agreed on ; that the Pit INC E cif Pine E, the , Am bassador LUC IEN AONAPAATE, .General. ST. Ctit, and . the PorttigUeze Plenipotentiary, are immedi. ately to repair to Badaj6z,_ where ae meeting is to take place in order to sign the bef i oit ive Peace. General LEC LE RC set off on the 3d from,Bayonne to join his Army. Witsti,, knit t4.—to the question, what news from our neighbourhood ? the answer is, that all the stories of preparations on the parr . of Prussia are false. No idea seems to be entertained of in. creasing the number of Troops, and besides the common Garrison at Wesel, there are only four squadrons of Hussars and a battalion of iChasseurs. There are no magazines established, excepting two small OTICO. for the Light Troops, as the ContraCtots were at 'such a distance that the peasants were ruinsd by tit* carriage of necessaries. Vrottrest Jutta 6.—We learn from CollStMlibtO. phi that in order to atone for the insult offered to the Russian Minister and his. Suite, on visiting the Moatime of Solyman, four bf the most guilty were hanged, and twenty more received a public batiti:: nado. NORWICH, JUNE 25. TN It West end of our Cathedral is now on fire, owing to the carelessness of the workmen who, were new leading it. They have got plenty of ettgioes and water, and we hope it will soon be sxtinguished. On Monday morning, the following dreadful sui. cidc took place at the Lock-up-House, of Mr. Swete, in Pigmatket, Plymouth. 'A respeetable Tradesman of that Town, was taken into custody on Saturday last, on a charge of having King's Naval Stores in his possession, knowing them to be stolen) and put in the Lock-up-House ; from which he was to have been sent on Monday to Ex. cter Gaol, to take his trial at the ensuing Larmas Assizes. He was called at six o'clock; and said, he would be down directly ; but he had no sooner uttered the words, than he tell back on the bed, and expired with a groan. His fellow-prisoners got up and alarmed the House, when, on examining the . body, it was found, that he had cut his throat with a razor found near the bed, to the very Ver. tebrx of, the neek, Several Surgeons were called, but it was too late to render him any assistance.— I - k has left a wife with a large family to lament his untimely fate. On Monday evening, Mr. Eastlake, the Coroner, and a resyee.table Jury, held' an Inquest, on ,the body, and btoght in a Verdi& uf—Lsourg. On Monday there was found 'neat the Rock un der Stonehouse-hill, Plymouth, the body of-it young woman, decently dressed, who appears to have been most cruelly murdered. She, had a black mark, round her neck, asifstrangled with violence. Her tar-rings had been torn from the tip of, her ears, and a ring forced from one of her fingers. 'two Sol diers are in custody on suspicion of the murder. The unfortunate men who were executed on Wednesday, made an attempt to escape from the condemned cell on Monday morning; through the common sewer.• They had explored as fir as Milk street, Cheapside, when the intolerable stench - and filth overpowered their senses ; with great difficulty they found their way to the iron grating, and en treated by their cries to be liberated. Asistance wac immediately procured, when they were released without much' difficulty. A.EMPP. COURT Cif KlNG'riZENtH,lutis KiNb v. 111 - mArott titip jtYsTreEs bp BAI,. . Mr: El6lti i ',V t said, he Was to shew cattse against this Rule obtained by Mr. GIB US ) wiliCh . was, to shew cause Why a 1144ridam4 should not issue; dit ea- Ing the Msyor and JustiCes to proceed in a Manner specified in the Ride, to take the Average price of Corn prepateitory to the . fixing the Assize and prke of .Bread in - the City Of Bath, &e, Which Motion, Mr. Easairee said, was' in other Words, a Motion for a Mandamus to keel up, if' not to eahance, the price of 'Bread • Lord KENYON said, that on the first view of this case, it should seem that the Rule could never be made absolute, because it appeared that those Ma gistrates were not obliged, to set this ocany other Assize on bread at this City. That thnmatter was optional in the Magistrates. i Mr. Gx aus•said, it was very true .that it was optional in the Magistrates, .whether they fixed the Assiie and price of. Breed,or not, 'Ralf Alley did so, he contended they mug _ aft according to the provisitins of the Aet of parliament, which was made for reguleting this matter, and which he con toldede they did not, in this case, as he had stated when he made the Motion on which this. Rule was obtained: He complained that .they did not take the ..Retorn . of_ the price, of Corn froth War minatee, or the Peviees e ea used . to be the ease, and they excluded the City of Bath; although there was there a pitched stand. alai , Peblic Market for the Sale of Corn, and they resorted to• the pride of Corn,as it took place at Bristol, where there was no fixed Market or pitched stand, for the Sale of corn. . That the Magistrates had . also discontinued the praaice of entering in a book the Returns of the price of Corn and Flour, and the Assize and price of Bread, end. of keeping, that ,book open .to , the inspeCtion of the Bakers, svho had been alwa,..s, un. til lately, permitted lo state reasons why- the 'As sizewas not such as-should be affix-de allowing to them a liaing — prefit, Ste,. , Be added, that he had no imputation to offer on the integrity of the Magi strates, he only submitted on behalf of the Bakers, that tittles, some of the Regulations which hadbeen discontinued, apd which the Act of Parliament pro vided, were restored, the Bakers could not live. As a proof, that he had no hostile intention against these Magistrates, he said, he had only moved for a Mandamus direaing them to perform that which the Ad requieed them to perform, if they. acted at all in ta4 business : wheteas they had been served with notice of Motion for a Criminal. Information.--- He admitted, that the lower classes of the comm. nity had, for some time, been unable, by their la bout', to, support themselves, owing to the high price of the Articles. of Life, and particularly that of ; .Bread. ' That therefore ,Magistrates were wor thily employed, in watching over the price and As. size of Bread ; hut he submitted that the 13akeri were not a class of persoes who had it in their power to ,oppress the poor. That a person ..who was a Baker, enlesa lie was also a Mcalrnan, was one who seldom got very rich ; it was certainly a Trade in which the profits were, yery tnoderate, ~ He said this 'merely to do away the impression, if arty such had been made, that the Bakers were the persons 'aVho Caused the high price of Bread ; they certainly were not so. His ,objea wasrnot to compel these Magi strates to take the Returns of the City of Bath, as to the price of Corn and 'Fitior, nor of any one place, but that they might not exclude it, and take the Return as they pleased from one place alone, es they had done, by taking the Return from Bristol only. He knew the Magistrates were not bound to take this Assize at all, but If they did, they should do' it according , to the provisions of the Aft of Par lan ent~ - , Mr. I!;RSK INR said, that the Rule was to compel the Magistrates to take the Assize according to the Sale of Corn at Bath, in the Market there. The truth of the mat ter, Mr. ER AI N E stated to be this : Thar the Custom of taking the Average price of Corn, and fixing the Assize and price of Bread for the City of Bath, was from that of the Markets of the Devizes, and Warminster ; but the worthy Bakers of Bath, who were now complaining of the Magistrates of Bath, bought Corn in these two Markets, and, by certain pradives, better ailuded to than described, raised the price of Corn, so that the Magistrates of Bath, in their regard to the in. wrest of the lower classei of Society, were obliged to abandon the Markets of Warminster and the De. vizes, as the criterion by which .o . fix the. price of Bread at Bath. There was, indeed, a Market set up at Bath, but there again the same worthy Bakers influenced the price of , the Article by their prac tices, and they easily did so here, because the Mar kit was so incon,iderable as not to have above a couple of Sacks at a time exposed to Sale. Far these reasons, the Magistrates did ,that which he thought the Court would approve ofoiamely, that 'of ordering the Return to be taken from the Sale of Corn - at Bristol, where' the Sale, from the great quantity of Foreign Corn, and the advantages of that Port, was so Considerable) as to he a4oVe the artifices of these Bakers, and where the Ar. ride was more likely to find its level, than either at Warminster, the Dcvize, or at Bath. He then went over the Articles of Complaint exhi. bited on behalf of the 13akertt, the substance of which we have already stated. Now, he would ask, what it was that ha had to shew cause against?' What were the Mayor and Jnstices of Bath to an_ sever fbr ? They had rejdted the Returns of War. minster and the Devizes, because the Market had been unfairly influenced there. Bath was out of ,the question ; it was ridiculous to call it a Market by which Curb or Flour would find a levd price, there not being above a couple of Sacks at a time exposed for sale there. He had, however, the Al. fidavit of the Mayor of Bath and other ju , tices ;10. ing in that City, stating, That until Nov., last, they procured Returns to be made of the Price of Corn from Warminster and the Devizes, consider. able Markets for Corn in the West of England, and therefore supposed to be fit for tlking a sae of the price of that article, and thereby affixing the Price an Asqize of Bread ; and accortingly, the Assize and Price were regulated b) them from the Returns of that Market. 'Filar soon after this, the Bakers ,of Bath attended these Marl:ets, and bid for Corn ;Lai I'‘ititl7, so as to OCC,ISIOIIa cons;derabie nrit arm:it; r:iltable rise in_the price of Grain ; tipon which the l\r7ayor and justices sent ;to- officer of their own ;o Bristol; to obtain Return : of - the Prl i ce of qin asp it svas sad in that .great Port at ?Mai ket That the Mayor of Bristol was kind enough to fur_ ntili that officer rtitti the dile Returns oritinually; was said dlao. Theialidavit of these Magistrates went on to sate, that the Returns thus obuihv were duly entered upon oath in a book; which boat was opeki for the inspeCtioti of the Bakers, if they chused to resort ui it. That, gienerally, Inc Bakers were present at the fixing , or . the Aisize ; but for the last two or three tuenths -pitst; the Bakeri ne. gi ceied to, attend. That :/;tr, . reason of the Ma. Cistrates for not taking the Return of the Price of orn and Flour from the Market at Bath was, the smallness of the quantity of that article sold there, there not being above two s'itok.f., exposed At a time for sale there, and that little was too much under the controul of the Bakeis .there. That the Ma. giwatet went as far as they wete able, to do Jui nce between the Bakers of Bath and the Consumers ../Bread therd. This, Mr. E R SKrisiS s aid, was t h e substance of the case before the Court. He knew his Learned Friend might say that the Price of Bread was fixed by these Magistrates too Soon, and without timely notice to the e Bakers; and that Bristol Market should nor alone be made the cri. tenon oF the Pace in, this ea , e . If there was any foundatjon for such a complaint, let the Lakeis, rtiilce that specific Charge .anti it should be met or tti:iwer. cd ; not was it difficult' to foretel - the Elm ocsach motion. hi the mean time,, enough appc;Areci now upon the face of , the present case to discharge 'Olt rule. Mr. Serjcant IMF Ni was on the same side as Mr,; ERVONF . .-41e'ontencteci that this motion i was tat . a Mandanms to compel the ju4tiees to do that which„, by. the Act of P:irliament, .they were no: bound to ( . 1o; because the ALt left it to them as a matter of discretion, whether they would do it or not : to support this pOsition, he referred to the Act of the tst of •GEC)R.GE TT. Sec. 2. which governs the Case, and Which gives to the 'Magistrates an option' whether they : will take the R•eturn of the Price of: Wheat' or Flour from the place where the Atsize and Price of Bread are to be fixed on; or some' other place in the neighbour,. hood. Therefore; What the Bakers by this Motion called upon the Magistrates to do by command was, by the Actof Parliament, lest to their discretion whe. titer they would do it or not. To. succeed in th , :ir. Motion, they should . shew that the Ait of Parliament `was imperatiee , on the MagiStrates, but as there was an option, it was impossible 'that the Court should dire& this Mandamus to issue.—AitO the merits of this case, it was unnecessary - to go. into theta s becauSe this point, of the discretion of the justices, was an answer to this application—lf there was any complaint to .beexhibited against these Gentlemen, the . only regular' course ' was, to move. the Court for a etuninal Information against them, Which he knew WOuld never be done, because the Bakers knew the' conduit of the Magistrates to be with_ out spot or blcmish.—The truth was, he said, that' returns had been taken from. Warminster. and the Devizes, with-Which Markets the Bakers tampered» The Magistrates therefore .took the Returns frost. Bristol,. where the sale was much larger, from the advantagei of that place, on account of the immense quantity of Corn which hail been imported there. As to the complaint of the Bakers that the Market at Bath was not taken into the talctilation on the a verage of price, it was absolutely ridiculous—lt was a piaci wholly at the mercy of the Bakers as to the price of Corn and Flour, trod, therefore, instead of taking it as a test, it-ought to be, totally ex eluded in the consideration of - the prk..e .of Corn or Flour, for the purpose Of Setting the Assize or Price of Bread. Mr. GI was 'defended the Bakers from the insi. , nuations hc said, hod been tindeServcdly throWn out against them, and submitted to. the. Court, that this ,Mandatntis oeght tairsue Lord KaNyok s4id, that if ever the day should. , come when an Inquiry was called for into the con. ;duet of the Magistrates of Bath upon this subjeit, - that Inquiry should be pursued. He saw no ground for making any harsh ,observations on their conduct .at present. 'What was sufficient to strangle the pre. sent Motion was.; that it was discretionary in the Magistrates whether theV would ait or not in this. matter—if not; the Windanaus could not compel, them. Whether these Bakers, or any persons 'con; need with:them, ever meant to opprer,h, the Poor, or cause the Price of, Bread to be fixed higher than it ought to be, he'would not attempt to say, be. cause he did not knew:: but if that had been their intention, the mode in which they had ailed,,would have been pointed out to them by any keen per son who wished to see them •accomplish th at jcl. He,would tell those who heard hint, why— , There was a considerable Market 'at Warminster and at the .Devizes ; they bad been widely influ. enced, its it stood upon the Affidavits; the Market at Bath had' only two or three Bags exposed at a time for Sale. Those who know any thing of the Human Charaiter, had no doubt, but that those who possessed the article so to be exposed for .sale, could sell it for the higheat price that could,' any how, he got for it, without caring how much that might be grinding , Jilt race; of the Poor. These who knew any thing o this sort of traffic, would know also that it would be the interest (the .pe. cuniary profit he meant) of the takers' to crease the pt lee of Flintr. bought in that small quantity, tit Bath ten.fold, while they Could lair., chase tht! bulk' of the romi - ottity elsewhere, much lower, provided the Assize 'and the Price of Bread were ttk4:4l from.' the Price of Corn and' FlOttr. itt Bath- But this , 'pert of artifice was as distant from the Law as it was from 'Morality.-- "f-hcgreat ohjA of the Ait of Parliament whk,h governed , this case was, t' that the real Price of C'orn, fairly sold at open in:irker, and finding its true level without artifice, in the neighbouthoiad of tt place where the Price and Assize of Bread 'w , tie to be fixed, - should be the Measure by Which that Prerai ally ,s tilly t l a ut s r Assize aylha th s e h O salettltt,at be eß if it h could 14r.?as any sech measure. It was quireimpossible fer the Court to grant this Mandamus.' The other Judges concurred, and - the Rule wr therefore discharged,