The Sun. — London, England, 1801-12-22 00:00:00

NAVAL NEWS. PORTSMOUTH, nEC. zr. ge d 'A f, its Lady races tht CNT NA Es, who in tht IsionarY YARMOUTH; Die. 21. xecutive Catncil Viinistec lann hag state Of 30,000 l ToNT , part in uence of alit - . -1 ;CH Ure v 'alga- v4ll Tip ion 'ital . , mon ot lange at )1a n red, of ZU: Z.7!•(.. 4 gut. ii.'„lnS) )etweea as prO,' mationc th0: 1 0 1 ' SrtAl'• `Ort i nc j. Twill i r. icit- mos t /1 -undo [Qspo* vc likce ~lle~otl' 'r:n~ ~n~. If t . Foreign he CV' ours Care' t 0 t"! Ttirkisl Sid :ady se! 39 ' rre4•l• quis. s isCis P . 74'e; 1•11' con' 'gar :I)'' --Gene'„ )Ideria.'l nosnv e under vilo 1 1 1 istry a,. Ci 2.OunCif s 'n Eng' Packet' day () post ' ctly to dmote ; bi ity f Cool' for the Cool' ';epti°l )orn , D f liar"' clidat° ►rnhlihlt 110 has fAlt / le r' 0 1 ; , °No, This day came into Harbour, in order tb A be dis. mantled and paid off, His Majesty's Ships Cleopatra, Aurora, Caroline, and Arrived the Swift, HYDE, and'Saka, Paaasori, from London; Ant, LAYS, from Lynn; and Friendship, MADDICK, from Plymouth. , • Attrtlizp frout - Cuxhavn, with Mails and Pa's_ tengers, the Diana Packet, Capt. Osio RN. Arrived the Lady Ann hired Brig, froth► a CrtliZe. Sailed the Favourite Sloop, and Kite Brig, to Leith. . , SHEERNESS; DEC. YESTERDAY evening arrived, His Majesty's Ships Chichester and Woo/with, from Spithead: Passed by up the Thames, the Kangaroo sloop of War, to be paid off. This day arrived the Conftia, Biter, and 14vuacer Gun brigs, from the Thames. The. Dolphin Cutter has come into Harbour to be tsaid off. IXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM WILLIAM HAR WOOD, CARPENTER OF THE ALBION, OF SCAR BOROUGH, CAPTAIN GRAY, BOUND FROM ME MEL TO HULL. " At eight in the morning of. the id November a severe gale came on. The wind was so strong, that the-ship lay half main-deck in the water, which cleared the deck of every thing moveable ; making a deal of water, all hands were employed at the Pumps, but to little purpose. We used every exertion to wear ship, but our sails were blown to Shivers as soon as hoisted. Our Master and the Crew then thought proper to free the mainmast over. b?aid ; but this had=-tio efreet on our situation. The Master. and ti:iy self 'Went aloft to cut the lee-rigging; but were4circed tiireiuro ; the wind blowing so strong that- the ship lay with her masts in the Water. Vit-ivete then obliged to get upon her broadside, - in doing which three of our boys were Swept off; one of them was drowned ; the other two, by great exertions, tecoveted the ship. All hopes .of . life were given up, but blessed be God, le did not forsake us; for after we had been about an hour upon her broadside, with the heavy sea, ; And the ship working so much, our foremast, bow sprit, and maintopmast went away,- and the ship righted so much, that we could with difficulty stand upon deck ; The ship being full of water, and the gale still continuing, we were every moment in e i~peClation of being. washed overboard, the sea faking a clear passage over her. In this situation I .ve r e mained from the 3d of 'November to the 9th, almost drowned and perished with cold, without a t4orsel of fetid, except 50111 C few tallow candles, which were eaten by the Crew and 'myself. Several Vessels passed-us in . the interval, but the sea running 40 high, they Could render us no assistance. About boon on Sehday the gth of November ; Providence So ordered it that the brig Cadiz Packet, Captain Tonilinson, bound to London, liOve in sights and I tt iscovering our signals, bore down upon us in a VeaVy sea. They immediately hoisted out the lng boat, came Under our lee, and flung a rope m ade l ast to the boat, by which we hauled it close along side; until we were able to get in ; but the sea running so high, it was with great difficulty we ept the boat from filling. We all got safe on board the Cadiz Packet, to the number of twelve Persons, and were landed at Elsinore ; but from the great hardsiAip we had undergone; eight of our crew were: obliged _to be left in the Hospitals at that place.'' Lieutenant tAI4I3OiJRN, First Lietitenarit or the ucesar, is appointed to the pro tempre command of the Pettei•el; and Capt. ING I. is, of the Petterel, is appointed pro tempore to the Vanguard, vice Sir Tito. Wt LL lAMS, who is come home indisposed. A survey has been taken of the 01 . 2eryssfl, Ad_ Ural LirrwiDGE'S Flagship, and she is in copse. ( Nene.: reported unfit for further service.' The price of Wheat fell yesterdayaabout ss. from the preceding markets. Had. the frost contipued, lnd the navigation been stopped, there is no doubt hot it would have risen as much. ey ark Herald says, " Mr. StMrsoN's Time -Match, noticed in our last and former Heralds, is. . t3 f 4 ; we understand, by mutual consent, of the PartieS. This information we think necessary for those any way concerned in the match." • t , Mr. CLARxv, heir to the great estate of the late CHARLES FARNARY (a young gentleman lately married), who went with' his wife to. Paris, on the tkcasion of the late magnificent commemoration of t he Peace at Paris, unfortunitely fell from a scaffold; and was killed on the spot. A most dreadful accident happened on Thursday e vening, at Mr. Dc;kera's worsted spinning_tnill, 4 t the Holum, near New-church, Rossendale, Xork. ihir e :—A number of the work people went to di. vert thernietves on the ice of the mill-dam, but in ( Instquence ; oftlicii- colleffing together, the ice gave v ;+ arid,' before -;: . t . sistirnce could be procured, eight those unfortunate peOple were drovVned amongst !hettrtVirs . .a man about seventy years of age, 'who, Ill attempting to. save some of them, fell into the water, and pethhed with. the rest. The following melancholy accident happened, at I. . r apellord,. near Cambridge, on Tuesday last : :!11. Wright, coach Mar - to Lord F. OSBORN, at Very old Bills, h a ving provided him s elf with a old -f ow ii ng -pi ec e, went i n pur s ui t o f some l ir lid geese, -when,- in attempting to fire the gun,- 1 4 st, 'by which means 'his left hand was so mach 1- :erateci as to tender amputation necessary. ' • A DO 'tOROUS Oi4ositiolV . DITTY; Aliil By the VoITOR of the MORNING POST. • AtiOMPANSED WITH COMPOSITORS, PRESS - 545:4, AND " Cadmi Atricoloribus,"—(.thrglice Printer? Imp:).' Magno'que'utulante tumultu. "%rind. KIND AUCtItOrS list to the disitallest straint, Ever yet nranufaetur'd by heads without brains OPposiTior: is ready to giVe up the Ghost, And what will become of the fain'd Ilformi.yg Posoy3) What Gallant Battalions We niuster'd at C A NI Y Brags' 4 , Of Whigs from the Senate, the stews, gna the shambles ; While at War with the French, and Niquie Y.i r r ,rul'd the roast ! Ah those were fine times for the grand Monzirg Past By BRINDSLEY, Fox, RUSSELL, FITZPATRICK, and How ARD, What orations were made, and what Sirloins devour'd ! What bumper 4 wash'd down each Republican Toast !: All the Columns they'd till of the sage Morning Pest Wllat inveEtive was mix'd with punch, wine, and wassel, How Counsellor ROBINSON - I - sung like a throstle— What eulogy DIGNUM'S I Da Capos engross'd— Forned a dainty detail for next day's Morning Post ! But since ADD t rrc•roN bade animosity cease, And entwin'd round the Sceptre the Olive of Peace, All-our wit, wine, and rhetoric, are drawn to the dregs, And the Morning Post travels upon her last legs. The efreet of this Change ivhich Whig-Newsmonl7,ers rue, Makes our. Pressmen look black, and our Editor blue : Troubled Waters provide us with viauals and drink, When the Stream's undisturb'd to the bottom we sink. For the Peace that won't yield us a tankard or slice, Altho' most folks account it " a Pearl of great price"— Is a pearl our Compositors all disconiposes, Other purl they !Ave need of to fuddle their noses.— Tho' united at home, and tespeeted abroad, Tho'vninity ceases, and faction is aw'd, We abhor the smooth course that a Minister steers, Who no parties has left us to set by the ears. At the Statesman, alas ! wham we daily defame, The fool's bolts that we shoot still fall short•of their aim; While our Club us the cause of Insurgency slack, Won't attinti us one Traitor to clap on the back! The Whig Chiefs we extoll'd,.nll secede from.their Whence our flummery . hangs a dead weight on our : We've prescrib'd it to GREY ft but so fulsome and gross, Was ithrew'd, ten 'to one but he nauseates pe dose.— What if GRky,wliat EitSKINE, or fEK Y L , Will scarce take a sip of our eulogy treacle— All our i'itricits are not of so squeamis : h a sort s For R-13 S-44 engag6 to lap up a quart. Now deafness befriend all the Treasury Bench, At St. Steptwes, when operates so copious a drench, While he raves (as our drastic , applause flaws effect) I oppose—l deny—l contend--I objea." § Then, since k —as —Ws so kind. as to come in the nick, And swallow our praise that makes other folks sick, Let our Readers henceforth our Old Title forget, Aga our Prtper R r Fbr of R-13 s—n's deserts and atchievements sublime, We 'll descant as he speaks, without reason or rhyme, Aloft, on our paragraphs propp'd, he shall soar Like the scum when a kettle of porridge boils o'er. And what Member with R----ss—N would vie in renown, Could we once make a shift to write An nlNC T 64 down? And down be must go, Sirs, you know very well, When the world shall believe half the lies that WC4 Rut one charge is too true, (we speak truth now iud ihen), " The best Places he fills with the honestest men ;" Hence ourselves and our Friends of Advancement despair, And devoutly unite in this new Form of Prayer. "May Culprits give Law, and be Magistrates lash'd, " Be impudence honour'd, and merit abash'd; 'Let the Minister's Friends, for their rrobity "'And let Traitors protal oUr dear Country and. King. " Let ADDINGTON' Su x -from our hemisphere fade: " In the Zenith be R-11,--res DARK L'acM- (ORN display'd; " For When Ignorance mounts Wit shall find dur right level, And grumble who list, 'twill be nuts for the Devil !" • The Shakespeare Tavern; , . + The Whigs are infinitely indCbted to thi,s leatned Patrio tic and tuneful Counsellor, who may be deservedly stiled "The Throstle with his Note io true," as he never tails to enlist Harmony in the cause of Politics, dud to temper the tervours of , Whiggism with the mblOdies of " Ora," and the Grand Punchinello," Frfornied i;64 adriiira tion, and rapturously applauded (as Out Friend Jl'S. loß o informs us from fountain head), at the recurring festive solemnities of their Club. t After this incomparable Warbler of the Rai, little Die- N OM, whose modesty emulates his merit, will readily con tent hiniself with the Second Place, and allow us to depic tore him as the " Wren" in the subsequent line of the quo. tation, an image equally expressive of the spherical graces of liis person and the sweetness of his voice, Coun . s. ROBINSON—" The Throstle with his. note, so • , true ; Mr, C. Di cNuzu---" The Wren with little quill." SHAY Z.5.141D. NIGHT'S DR.EAIit. 11 See The Morning Port of Friday, Dec, IT, iSo t. § The 2110,;euseg Post Editor challenges tl* acknowledge ments. of his hearers for the Epitome of Political SLience presented to them in this single linc, in which the whole amplitude, extent, and dimensions., the Alpha and °Mega, the substance, quintessence, and marrow, the heads; and extremities of R—RS—NEAN eloquence arc simplified, condensed, and concentrated, like the Iliad in a nut=sliell. Amongst those Who hold Offices under the present Ad ministration, The lifordifig Post Editor deems an invidious Statement of the Names of three of Mr. Asiati4c•rox's rela tions sufficient to ensisre his recent scurrilities levelled against the Minister, an easy reception with the Public; This Might indeed be not unfavourable to the purposes of malevolence, if he cguld instance three Genthenen whose abilities dp greater credit to the appointments tliey hold,„pr whose cha r3elerka4 knore,deservedly respeaed in private life. It is torions; that 'since the Cons,yloi form of . GO, vernment has been adopted. in Prance, the Republican form has disappeared from very species 'of Est lblish ment. The Theatres_ which were formerly Linder the conciaa of several Managers, or as they were called Direeleurs, have for the most part changed their form, ani passed under the controul of one mar.. • DUBLIN, DEC. HE Kini's Lettei is ar t rived for appointing the SALCITOR GENERAL a BarOn of the Eich'equer. MrSMITH has attained this Judicial Station at the earl age of five.:and:.thirty. .Te Hon. F. Htrrctit Sr-sbi; is about totanvast for his tiother, CHRISTOPHER, to represent the City of Crk. This lattit-Gentlemhn accompanied Lord Ht tir rtisorr lo Egypt, and is, we believe; with the English Ambassador at Constantinople. M. litNitY PANEL is hourly expeded from Engl.nd, on his way to tibe Queen's County, to comrrence an alive canvass. A nost alarming- fire broke out early on Sunday morOng, in the concerns in Phcenix-street, be longiFg to Mr. BRETT, which did considerable damage to the premises. The 'second Representation of King Henry the Fifth, or The Battle of Agincourt, drew a very numerous Audience to Drury-lane Theatre last night. MYSDEN was taken ill yesterday, and could not perform his charaaer in the new Opera of C/.•ains of the Iktirt last night at Covent Garden Theatre. EMERY was the substitute. Mr. T. DIBDIN lately presented an Opera to Covent Garden Theatre, which was rejefted. lie has, either altered that Piece, or written another, and it is expeded to be soon brought forward, with Music from the united labours of MooiturAn and BIANCHI. REYNOLDS'S new Comedy of Folly as it Flies, was represented for the first time last week at New_ castle, and received with great applause. It was performed for the benefit of Mrs. STEPHEN KEM aLE, and her charaeler and talents, with the aid of a new Drama, rendered it a very profitable night. Mr. Moo ItHEAD,,WIIO by some unlucky mistake had been induced to relinquish his past at Covent Garden Theatre, is re.instated. This re-instate ment, we understand, he owes to the unsolicited good-will of the Manager, who has afted without a Leader.- The Glee Club 'dined together last Saturday at the Crown and Anchor Tavern. Dr. ARNOLD presided, and supported the convivial authority of . the Chair with his accustomed , -propriety. The most applauded Glees were two of Dr. Coox E's, viz. " Gaily I live," and " Fair 'Susan," which were received with unhoUnded commendation. The Abbe DEL ILL E 0 'receive for his Trans lation of Paradise Lost, 30,000 francs, being seventy times as much as MILTON received for the original ! And yet these are the times in which we are told Literature receives no encouragement. On Thursday last an ;talon was brought by J. E. JONEs, Patentee of the Theatre Royal, Dublin, against Mr. ytt ;LIP AST LE y , senior, Proprietor : of the Peter -street Amphitheatre, for causing 'to be performed the Farce of Lock and Key, which lte considered an infringement of his Patent. The ac tion was tried before that distinguished and - able Judge Lord AVONMORE, and the Jury •found a ver diet for Mr. JONES ; the result of which will be that he will recover Penalties to the amount of 9001. M. DESFNVANS. in hip; recent Publication; with his usual acuteness and discrimination, finely il lustrates the distindion between the knowledge of an Artist and that of a COnnoisseur. " A good Painter," says he, " must be a 'good judge of Piftures, and may frequerilly point out, better than those we call Connoisse'urs, their qualities.and im perfetions, without being able to ascertain, their authors, which is truly the business of a Connois seur; as in fat to learn .Painting ) and to learn the different manner and stilei of Pai4teiS, are two distinet pursuits. An eminent Wilting Master will judge better than a Banker's Clerk, of a piece of penmanship, though he may not even be acquainted with Abrahath Newland's hand.writing, becatise to write well, and not to know the different hands, has been his. chief study ; bdt the youngest Clerk of a Banker; who can scarce write his own name, is not only well acquainted with the• hand .of Mr. Newland) but is also flnniliar with the hand of hundreds and hundreds,besides4" • The Lawyers do nor seam to have beeri much scratched by the War; or if they have been so, the Peace has effectually recovered thin. Lord KEN YOWSPaper in London, these Sittings; contains 174. Causes—Word AI. ANLEY'S 109. . The conviaion of the LORD MAYOR on Saturday' before his own Lordship at the Mansion House, will remind our legal Readers of the conviaion in AbridgMent, of a Pope Who \sentenced himself tobe burnt; The story is extant, not indeed in choice 'ltalian, 'but in Norman Frelich; as follows':— " Il y avoit auterfois un Pape et it avoit faift une grande flute--Les Cardinals vinrent lui dire, Pei cavi.— II repondit, Judica me, mais its repondirent, Non pointmus k- juditare ¢rcra to es cape erclesia , jitdieg teipstillt.. Et it jugeoit quit devoit estre brule. - Er idea cot - thus/ifs Ainsi s ' says the legal reporter, " neteit it pas inconvenient qu'un homme wit juge de mesme." At a late trial in Scotland for rioting, the Lord Advocate declared, that no Crime.eould be more atrocious than mobling. This do&rine will set all the fashionable females in England up in arms just at the commencement of the_ rout. reason.. The younger Beatspr, the man charged with having robbed the Mail; who was advertised by the Post-Office as having ekaped from Horsham Gaol, has been retaken. Revel, the murderer of the late TFiomAs BAP T, Esq. of Dublin, on his arraignment last week, at the Commission in that City, pleadedgui/o. The Court humanely, remonstrated with him on its consequehces. - He persevered in theplei, - and 'Was ordered for; exe.. cupon on Thursday last. On the same day s the maid servant to Mr. i3ARRY was tried as an accom plice in the murder, but acquitted, the evid6ce be ing merely . circumstania, unaccompithied with any prof of fgt. The murderer, indeed, on pleading gutty, solemnly averred he has the sole perpetrator pf . he horrid ad: the Dash, Hill, fronfltilemel to Hull, is lost near Vie.- LAW REit.iii, kINCOLN's-INN . -HALL, D. 11. DRURY-LANE THEATRE. THE LO RD CHANCELLOR sat this Morning Ofd Cause Petitions, but nothing material or interest: lug to the Public occurred, except an obSeivatiOl'i which fell from his Lordship; respeding the Pe titions in the above matter, which stood ,for Morrow. His Lordship saidi that several of the Affidavits delivered in support of these Petitions, did not appear to haire been filed; consequently they could not be read at the hearing: In order, therefore', that the parties might be apprised of this circumstance, his Lordship direaed, that the ter should stand over till Wednesday next, and that they Might be at liberty to file such- Affidavits as had been Sworn tO oh or before Saturday last: COURT OF KING's BENCH, DEC. 21. SITTINGS iE.FOR'T LORD KLNYON AND A SPECIAL ,F;ay, AT GUILDHALL, LONDON,. ROBERTSON AND , OTHER3, EDINGTON: The ATTOR.NEY GENERAL said, that this Ac . ., tion was brought by the Plaintiffs, who were con:. siderable Merchants in the City, against the De fendant, who was the owner of a Vessel called the William, engaged by them to cake in a cargo of deal at Petersburgh. The Charter-party contained the usual CoVenant, of the Ship's duly sailing, &c. That in breach of that Contrad the Captain did not .proceed to Petersburgh ; but, instead of that, came from Dantzic to London, for 'reasons best known to himself; for he had assigned Several in his Protests, at different places :—some, that he had met with bad weather, and he was detained for re pairs ; at other times that he lost his crew; at others, he was short of provisions, &c. ; that he was afraid of an embargo which was laid on in Russia on all. Blitish vessels :—none 9f which, he contended, would avail him ; for it would appear in evidence, that other vessels, which passed the Sound after this, arrived at Cronstadt in safety. That as to the Embargo which was laid on by the Emperor PAUL, it was taken off long before, upwards of fifty days, before . this Captain left Dantzic ; the Post from which place to Petersburgh was only twelve days ; azol therefore. he. must have known it, being a thing too notorious to be a secret:, to hiS want of provisions, the Captain ought to I .iave 7 61: • ken care of that ; it being the constant. custom fot. vessels in that trade to be provided with Sixot - seven Weeks' provisions. In a word, he contended.... that there was no real excuse for not performing this Contraf 'according to the Char'ter-party, which was dated on the z3d of Augtist z 800, and signed by the Defendant; owner of the ship William, Cap tain John Stevenson Master ; the substance of which was, .that the "ship should sail for Petersbtirgh as soon as could be, and there take in a cargo of masts, &e. and other deal for stowage, &c.—dangers of the seas - , restraint of princes, &c. excepted. It appeared in evidence, that other vessels passed the Sound ten or twelve da) x after this ship, the William, sailed, which was about the 14. th of Sep- - temher, .t 800, zind that they, some of _them, pro, ceedod to Petersburgh or to Cronstradt without* . much difficulty - , &c. The case on the part of the Defendant was, ;hit after the ship wervz through she &send, it -met with 'tempestuous weather ; 'that she was "seven or eight days off Gathiatid, &C. and that by meredistress the Captain was obliged to put into Dantzic. Thai on the 29th Of September a signal was made by a British ship of force for - vesseh to come to, which she , was not able to'Come up with ; that *a •consulta_ ti 66 was held; the result of it Was, to make to'the . first port they could; *hid!' ryas Dant2ie . i that he was then short of provisions, s and cotihi not 'sail. He did not arrive at amtzic . until_ the t7th of dap- her, at which . time there *as a report that an em`- Margo was laid on - British Ships it Russia that part of his 'crew, six iu number 'were . Danes • and Swedes, who went immediately on shore at Pantile, and applied to- their Consul ; in conseqUence of whoSe representations at that place; the Captain wit'Ordered to •deliver 'up these met ",` fOr they appreheilded danger in going td burgh in a British Ship, vvitiCh Was a POwer''Wliicit the Captain could not - resist. This Crew was after= wards delivered to the . Captain; on condition he should deliver them up to a Danish Mail of War at Elsineur-'--That he could "not get fo Peters.: burgh before the - 28th of 06.ohcr, and then he.took in a cargo. to come to England, &c. but hot before his hopes of going tOPetersli .:gh were ()lief-, which 'was - less beneficial than if he had gone to Peters_ • burgh; by gool: That afterwards,• when - he came to England, and the Embargo being taken off', he tendered the - services of himself and the vessel to go to Petersbargh, but the Plaintis:i would not then take it. These and many cither.PartiCulars appeared by the evidence of Captain Stevenson,lwho 'swore that • he did not loiter, but did every thing according to the best of his judgment, upon all the circumstances of the case. That the• reason he did not go to - Petersburgh 'was, the, report he heard 'that British vessels were under Embargo when he was t Dant ziei as well as judging to that elfeft, from the signal of the British Ship of force, although 'he . could ndr conic up with her. The .same circurnstances were confirmed, by the IVlateof_the - Williatrt; and it appeared also that they had encounieteci • much wore weather than those who came ten or twelve days after them. - • tnrd WityrwoliTH 'proved his givingorders for a signal being' given by a Vessel from Copenhagen on the zoth of Sept. for the purpose,of preventing Brig tish -Ships going. into Russian Ports ; that the post, as his Lordship believekWas ten or twelve days in passing from Petersbuigh - to Aantzie. It appeared that the Captain did not apply to the British Consul at -Dantzic, to , know, whether the Embargo was taken off at I'etersburghi akhouglt he *as therb near flity days after that eitenc Us.W place: Lord KEi4YdN said, that the single questkqww&s, yvy, Whether the Captain, Stevenren,,had fwlged as he could, under all the circumstance:3, and aced for the best, for if he did he must stand, acquitted in this case; for it was not to be judged of now by those who felt not the dangers and apprelicnbic os