The Sun. — London, England, 1804-05-11 00:00:00

A miserable shopkeeper, near Nevriport-street, stands at this moment unrivalled for economy, and is considered the most extraordinary miser of the day. The penurious being alluded to, has long been the subjeti of conversation in the above neigh. bourhood, where, by hately supporting his existence, and denying himself the necessaries of life, he has accumulated no less a sum .than 18,ocol. at present in the Funds. The singularity of his way of living occasions much wonder how a human being, placed among civilized society, and surrounded by abun dance, can submit to privations so severe and gradirg,de while possessed of the means to satiate his wants, and procure comfort ; yet true it is, that the uniform happiness of this. man's life, has been ob served to centre in getting acre; and, at this hour, the property he has accumulated operates as a sti mulus, to persevete in the penurious course by which it was obtained. To describe his person and shop, he answers Shakspeare's charaacr of the apo. thecary. Sharp misery has indeed worn him to the bones, and Lis appearance is that of famine and in. digerce. 1-lis clothes, worn for a number of years, are in some ports ragged and covered with patches, rudely sewed on by himself ; not a living creature is sufnred to live with him, not even a domestic cat or dog, lest they should increase his experces by eating food. In the morning, after opening his shop, a blipenny-worth of milk alone serves for his breakfast ; and for dinner, he usually leeks his door, goes to the meanest cook's-shop, and there buys a small portion of stale meat, the refuse of the customers ; he is then satiated all day, and at nine o'clock at night, having shut up his shop, retires to rest under his counter, not on a bed, but straw, laid within a box, matte to his shape, like a coffin, a9d thus buried, remains until his usual time of rising, when he continues the sante round-of avarice, and fails not to call it frugality. Such is the coodua of this miser ; and, in other respeas, his sotdid con. due has become so publicly notorious, that he i s nor only an objea of derision, but the contempt of all ssho know him. Early on the morning of the 223 of April, the men of war having accomplished this latter object, the troops were ordered by signal to advance, in two divisions, in close order, till abreast of their respettive points of attack. The enemy, suspeCting that the principal impres sion would be diretted against Fort D'Arsic, over looked the defence of these stupendous rocks, which offered natural obstacles, sufficient to deter the" most daring invader, Brigadier Lambert's division, to which ttie Ml. rines under Colonel Mackenzie Were attached, W proached under this high coast, when it appeared to this gallant Officer, that a fit opportunity for enterprize presented itself. He accordingly moved onwards unperceived, and with a rapid resolution , Captain Paterson, at the head of the Grenadiers of the 19th Regiment, quickly supported by Captain I,(;N'' ON: Print u .;: . . k N A wM I ',LANE, (of Bow-Street, Covent-canirii) ; and I' At the SuN-O;rIc a, No. 1 it, &Pawl ; where Advertisements, ei r d t si tor This interval iihnied the display of many in stanets of bold intrepidity', amongst the individuals of the line and of toy corpsi from the many sallies which were attempted by the adive St. Cruix, dur ing the course of it. One of these being d LII d again s t a pest occupied liy Captain Wright, of the Marines, hating un.ler him three companies of his Corps, which will of peculiar importance, this uniisflmt by W lAm A RMICIR SCRIPPS, (ot South I'4l3ton-street, tosvenor-squar e )i the Paper, Litter; to; the Lee. ippl:44 . id), must bc 'At St. jatnes's Church, by 4ktil'hipLord 13ishoP;°'-c-if;atict— cTihoi!i.as l'orteus, Esti. ot kri-nyii-street,. CO Mibs i. # -trit ot t r i apri..dn, ot Little Dean's-yz.rd, Westminster. IrrWil' On the cth or Sepromb , r last, at Calcutta, Alt:l(am •itt.• son, Esq. to Miss Mcwititosh, ,tiaugtrter of (..; corAc '‘'''''. , .Isg ow . Esq . " ( h :1 Ell'eq2s-t . of t i l o C (. t .' !illy last, aptain Charles D'OyleY, cay of t Sir lohn Hadley VOviev, I+art. and one ot t il miis, sistanti in the Gove-rni,r General's Ott-ice, in Bengal, ni or Mariana Gear, ywrigest daughter of William cat , '''''' . Keyhaven, near Lytnington. On the i7th ult. at Fe r, ° I. 3 fever, Miss Elizabeth Ilaillie Urquhart, 4angliter or t" - • eiO 3 Rev, john Urquhart, of oiotallt Eagle. . prix • On l'uesday last, in Dover:street, the Hon' Nirs e . wos t be rit)rolsEe,Din her eighteenth Y en „ c IaSO Marshatn, ot 'Baxley House, near Maidstc;ne. Si , „„ 0 , 1 10 r • eldest daughter of me lace Right lion. Robert Lora ti.,6a1,0; On Friday sennight, in the morning, Mr. .1Q.12%,,,i de, of Maa!,,cy; in Hull. confectioner. He wa• ,, '` ..ven ing w in his bed, to which he'llad retired the_preceding '' good health. He was about 6. , years ot "g c • i - Wh i l,,f On Saturday se'unight, at the iiii winced age 0 If o J: frw ., she ~.:ornpleted in january last, M I'S, ,1 Chair ri Sundetlail Bridge, near 1) urban). -------.---- preFerted that the man - was in distress ; his wife Was ready to Iy-in, and Sir John D'Oyley would settle as catly'as possible, it would be the more ac- No notice was, however, taken, after a m<►nth had el4psed. Wituess, therefore, served the I)•tendant with a copy of a writ. George Twining, Clerk to the last Witness, said, he carried the letter to Sir John D'Oyley's lodgings in Wd , vfn.strtet, Fitzroy -square, and was present atte• w at the conversation which took place at Mr. Hamilton's. Witness there heard Sir John D'Orlty .ay, he di , l not wish to take any airvintage ~me since the money became due, but was inclired to pay it, provided he could not find are_ ceipt among his papers. Witness, in other respetts, corroborated the preceding evidence. M , . Set 'rant 11FSr, ofi the part of the defence, can e ,' &e a ttention or the Jury to the manner in which the Aaiori was brought ; the Plaintiff, he said, came into Court as a pauper, and was excused from paying Costs incurred in the Alion under the Statute of the 23d of. Hen. S. the Attorney, also, was sure of his dues, and if either. of the parties obtained a vet.. did it was altke to him. The Action, he therefore contended, under such circumstances, ought not to gain credit, and when the tads of the case were laid before thi Jury, they could not hesitate in pro. nouncing a verdift for the Defendant. The evi dence for the Defendant proved, that the Plaintiff was discharged from the service of Sir J. D'Oyley as long back as the year 1796, and the latter had re. sided at his country scat in Hampshire from that time until thesyear iSoz, during which no applica tion had been made for the debt in question. Aft.r several remarks from Sir JAMES MANS FIELD, the panics consented withdraw a juror. MA.VCitLSTER, MAY S. A more awful ard. tremendous storm of thunder and lightning was never experienced in the memory of die oldest person living, than that which occur red last Thursday night in this County and Che shire; and the damage sustained is almost incredi ble. The thunder was succeeded by immense tor rents of rain, and hail. Not far from Warrington, on the Cheshire side, a bolt fell, which did great injury, and by which One person in particular suf. ~ e -6-rely in his property. At Bolton and, its vicinity the people experienced a most dreadful tor nado, and it is supposed that a water spout niu ,, t have burst in that neighbourhood, the river Irwell having swelled to so great a height as to sweep a way znany,huildings, and a large quantity of household furniture, &c. The duration of the storm was up. wards of two hours. At Holton Park a ball of fire fell with such force as to split in shivers, ard tear up an ash tree, which had long been admired for its strength and beauty. Several bridges have been tb,rowit down. BATH, MAY 9. . THE storm on Friday afternoon was attended with mnre awful circumstances in this neighbourhood titan ever accompanied any elemental convulsion of the same nature within the memory of the oldest habitant. Tropical deluges may equal, perhaps, the violence of the rain, but in continuance it exceeded the customary duration of tempests in the neigh. bf - ,thood of the Line. Unprecedented examples of devastation appeared, when'the torrents ceased to fall :—roads torn up, gardens destroyed, and con. siderable portions of land removed from their situa. tion. Among these phenomena may be reckoned— a vast body of earth from the summit anti declivity . of Beechen CIA which fell " with hideous ruin and combustic,n,7 (for it is doubtful whether it was oc. ca,ioned by the anion of the elelrical fluid or water) loaded with blishes aod trees in the field below : the dislocation of almost half an acie in a field he. longing so the Rev. R. WARNER, at flanging land ; and a siip of nearly the same magnitude in the Lid on the rricr.park estate. We hear of only , one life lost, (The fatal consequence of imprudence) the gar. dcner of Mr. LANGT: , N, at Newton, who was drowned in attempting to cross at. the tottom of Penry_quick-lane. Much damage was sustained in the parish of Combhay. BELLEISLE. The following Narrative of the attack on Belle_ isle in 1761, extrafted from a recent Historical Res,it-u, of the Royal Marine Corps, may not be found uninteresting at the present moment. A secret Expedition was prepared early in this year, which was committed to the joint condua of Major-General Hodgson and Commodore ICeppel, and was subsequently direaed against the Island of Eleven battalions of Foot, four troops of the.r6th Light Dragoons, under Lieutenant-Colonel Bur. Boyne, a detachment of the Royal Artillery, and a corps of TOOO Marines formed into two battalions, commanded by Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel John 'Mackenzie, amounting nearly to to,ooo men, corn.. posed the 'strength of the Army upon this service. The whole were escorted and spiritedly seconded by ten ships of the line, eight frigates, three bomb ketches, and two fire ships ; which set sail upon the zgth 'of March from Sr. Helens, but did not gain sight of their wished-for objet until the 6th of April. This force was afterwards augmented by troops and men of war. In addition to the natural strength of this Island, no means of defence had been negleted by the enemy, who, aware of the attack, had construtted works, and placed guns on every spot that afforded a possibility of descent. Upon the 7th the Fleet stood along the south end of Belleisle, with a view to reconnoitre its sttcogli, and to ascertain a proper quarter for debarkation. Coming to anchor in the road of Palais on the noon of that day, the principal officers of both services, accompanied by some of she engineers, proceeded to the northward, in order to fioisli their observa. tions upon the general state of the coast. The final result convinced all, that great obstacles were to be surmounted every where, and that the sacri. fice of many lives was unavoidable in attaining the first objea of their views. After mature deliberation, it was resolved to eirea a landing early in the morning of the Bth of April, for which purpose the fiac.bottomed boats were hoisted out, and the troops placed in them ready to advance towards Port Andro, on a signal being made. They were preceded by His Ma. jesty's ships Dragon and Achilles, commanded by the Hon. Captains Harvey and Barrington, whose orders-were to silence the battery, which priatefted the - entrance into this Bay. These gallant Officers soon accomplished the duty, and intinuted that no opposition to the landing of our forces was to be dreaded from that point of defence. The boats hairing proceeded under the immediate superintendance of Commodore Keppel, who had shifted his pendant from the l'a/irrnt into the Prince of Orange, were then ordered to row towards the shore, arranged in three divisions, under the direc tion of Captain Barton, of the Royal Navy. Not. withstanding a prodigious fire of musketry, our brave Soldiers made good their landing, and evinced a series of valour that must have conquered any thing within th,.: power of man. _ _ The French were intrenehed to the chin on a steep hill, the base of which they had cut into a perpendicular form, which prevented our gallant fel loWs from ascending their works without scaling ladders, of which there were unforOnately none. Alter a heavy loss, and a contest which did them honour, a retreat became the only alternative. On this trying occasion, the distinguished cou. rage and coolness of Generals Crawford and Carle. ton, were very highly conspicuous ; the . latter was wounded. One boat landed sixty 'of Erskinefs Grenadiers, under Captain :isborne, who were unobserved h . , the rest of our force, and not being supprted, fell vkliins, excepting twenty, to very superior num bers, after the most noble resistance. Their brave leader was classed among the unfortunate. The lire from the ships was opened to cover the return . of our troops, who sustained a loss of nearly Soo men. A diversion was carrying on in another quarter. during these operations, in order to aid them by attracting the enemy's force from the real °Ned of attack, towards Saucon. This was composed of the 96th and 97th Regiments, and the Mari►.es ; but nothing could avert the disaster. A dreadful gale coming on after the return of the boats, occasioned the losS of many of them, which was felt extremely ; and the transports were also very considerably damaged. After it ceased, the attention of the whole fleet was turned to repair these accidents. Having obtained some reinftircements, and after a second very minute review of the Island, it was determined to make another descent at Fort D'Arsic, to be supported by two separate attacks, in order to distract the enemy, near Sr. Foy, and at Saucon. The last, which was intended merely as a feint, was composed of the four troops of Light Pra. goons under Lieutenant-Colonel Burgoyne ; which being distributed amongst a number of transports, and escorted by a large naval force, appeared the most formidable of the whole. Ships of war were allotted to co-operate with the other two, headed by Major-General Crawford and Brigadier Lam bert, in covering their debarkation, and silencing the different batteries. Murray, with a company of Marines, landed and climbed the rocks. Soon afterwards other troops fbllowed their intrepid example, . when, having reached the summit, the whole formed upon it. The French were amazed at the attempt, but pushed on p veteran corps of 300 men, to atone for their want of precaution. Contiguous to the ground occupied by our troops, there was a wall, which suggested itself as an eli gible post of defence. This enabled our inadequate numbers to oppose the enemy, until they were far ther reinforced by Brigadier Lambert, at the bead of the grenadiers of the 3oth, and tht rest of the Marines under Colonel Mackenzie. The tables were now turned, when the Regiment of Bigorre was beat back to the rising ground from which it had advanced. Captain Sir Thomas Stanhope, whose duty it was .to co-operate with this Brigade, had watched these spirited eff,rts with 'an anxious zeal: He instantly manned and armed all the boats of his squadron, which rowed ashore as a farther support, while the force that had proceeded against Fort D'Arsic, ob serving this unexpeled .success, also pushed on to unite with Brigadier - Lambert. Thus strengthened, that alive Officer allowed no interval, but moved against the the enemy upon the hill, whom he drove to their main body, taking their field pieces and some prisoinets. Captain'Paterson, of Beauclerek's regiment, Co_ Mackenzie and Capt. Murray of the Marines, were wounded ; all of whom were much distinguish -ed during the whole course of this short, but sharp service, which did not exceed the space of two hours. About five in the evening the debarkation was completed, the Army was pushed upwards of three miles info the country, and took post upon an eminence through the night. The enemy, during the day, had withdrawn all their detachments from their extensive batteries on the coast,- blown tip their magazines, and united ail their furces under the command of General de St. Croix. On the morning of the 23d, the British Army was in motion against the town and citadel of Palais, .while that of the French occasionally seemed deter. mined to dispute our progress, at last retired with out a conflid, into that strong fortress, and its dc_ pendant works. Some d;lys of boisterous weather prevented the landing of our battering cannon, and other necessary stores, that were essential for commencing opera tions against Palais, of which General St. Croix availed himself, by construding six different re doubts ; all of which were to be carried before breaking ground in front of the town•and citadel. The English Commander also profited himself of this interval, by dispersing assurances of protedion to the laws, religion, and property of the natives, who should submit themselves ; which were not without their effed. A short time, however, en. abled General Hodgson to employ more convincing arguments,' by opening his batteries upon the 23 of ,May. The brave St. Croix's answer to a summons was, that he would defend his charge to the last ex. tremity. The enemy attempiel a sortie on the night of the 3d against our most advanced works, which they carried, killing a number of our troops, ann making General Crawford and both his Aids.de. Camp prisoner's. Following up this success, they advanced against the trenches, when a sharp action commenced that remained doubtful, until a party of Marines, under Captain Hepburn, arrived, who charged the enemy, and forced them to retire with considerable loss. In order to facilitate our approaches, the engi neers pronounced that it was absolutely necessary. to carry one of the intervening redoubts. Accord. ingly a detachment of zoo men, composed of a part of Loudon's Regiment, and Marines, under Captain Carruthers, of the latter corps, were warned, upon the evening of the izth, for this duty. A heavy fire of shut and shells s was kept up during the night upon that object, with a view to make some breach, and to harass the enemy. Soon after the dawn of day, those assailants advanced against the works with fixed bayonets, when after a very spi rited contest, they soon carried the redoubt, and maintaine.d it. Captain "Carruthers, with a ready promptitude, observing the panic amongst the French, did not permit it to subside, but instantly pushed ov against two others,. which were successively eva cuated by their defenders, who retreated with pre cipitation into the Citadel. Tbis party becoming reinforced by 370 of the 69th Regiment, under Major Nesbit, achieved the conquest of the whole of the French'redoubts, and with an impetuous per severing ardour entered the town of Palais, pell ma, with the flying enemy. The gallantry exhibited by all who fought on this memorable day, very justly immortalized the mili tary fame of every individual, which extended its honourable influence to those corps at large from whom they were detached. Very distinguished encomiums were bestowed by the enemy upon " Les Petits Grenadier: ;" a title derived from the caps worn by the Marine Soldiers. Thus was every Obstacle relmved, which pre vented the close investment of the Citailel of Palais; a fortress that had beeee planned and raised under the superintending genius of the celebrated Vauban. During this period the fleet rendered very materi. al services, by their stopping sulaplies from the Con tinent ; and their vigilance during the subsequent continuance of the siege was highly meritorious. The condua of the French Commander tetitded honour upon himself and the French arms. From the r 6th of May until the 7th of June he persevered in maintaining his post against an unceasing fire from 4,4 heavy cannon, 5o mortars and howitzers, besides field pieces, which, in many places, ruined the works, killed numbers, and from which there was no safe retreat but within the casemates. brave Officer, notwithstanding crier; were. g'v en •to retreat from it, assumed a personal . respo nsibilitY r e t and, well knowing its con seq uenc th e futu r , operations of the Army, determined to maintain `He repulse the enemy, and receive I the fiatterinig, sanction of Brigadier-General How', who , in t course of duty, after Wards visited i:, for his Or/ resolute condua. Another conspicuous instance of this kind occur.' red in Lieutenant Lachlan Cuthbert, of the Arcot) who evinced thr greatest personal courage, ank,f though aba n d on ed by hi s men , p o inted and 'fired f"; guns of a battery at which he commanded. Tiei ng soon supported, t h e enem y were forced CO feu' . with loss. - After an incessant cannonade, which had effet l 4 a large breach sufficiently oraeticable to encourage' a storm, preparations for it were accordingly 9bservir.g which, General St. Croix proposediD capitulate, after a loss of 9'2 n , n within/the - W alls of the Citadel, upon the 7.n of June. Inconsequence of their gallant defence, terms wtre granted to the garrison, whiCh'wos mediately shii , ped for France. , During the whole of this service, so highly Bitable to our Army, a nd to the C o rps of Marl , we have to recount 34. Oflicers, 30 Serjeantsf Drummers, and 710 Rank an d Fil e killed as wounded. General Howe was am ingst the latter, is Wet! a Brigadier Carleton, aircady mentioned. ,s , •( SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. CHESTER RACES, t 834. FRIDAY, Y t, o gle The Ladies' Purse, value 501. 'l' lie - best of three 4- heats. Three-yr olds to carry, a feather, 4-ye old' 51b. s.yrolds Sst. 51b. 6-yr olds Sat tzlb. and aged i f a - 21b. A w lar.s allowed 3:b. A winner of one 501• to a; 3/b. extra, of two 51b. and of three or in,,re, blb• " a ' c ep. and Sweepstakes excepted. Tile second best horse ' ed. 101. Sir S. R. Glynne's Captain Absolute, 5-vrs Capt. Ryan's Prior, b. h. s.yrs Bst. - - A Handicap Stakes of Jogs. each, p. p. with gigs, added the St ewa.cts. Two miles. Bona tide the property oil • Subscribers. ih Sir S. R. Glynne's ch. h. Capt. Absolute, 5-I . rs, Sst- S' 2, Earl Grosvenor's ch. It. Northampton, 5-yrs, Sit iilb• A Match for too;s. h. ft, Ist. each. 0 lice round the Coti rj "; T. L. Brooke, Lsqr's. hr. c. by Telescope •-' Lord Crusyenor's;:n. f. by John Bull - • , STATE OF THE BETTINC FOR EPS ONIf Betting Room, y For the I) F. R BY.—T 6 be run on 12 hurday D ex.t. 3 to t agst Mr. Wiison's Waxy 3 to I agst Lord Darlington's Zodiac. 7 to 2 agst Lord Ewanont's Hannibal. 4 to 1 agst Mr. Da•a'sou'y flippccarnpus. to tar agst Mr. Dur<ind's CirsinA Gift, by Guildror4* 12 tot agst Sir F. Poole's Waxy Colt For the OAKS.—To 13! run ott Friday ; 6 to 5 agst the Duke of Grafton's Pelisse. s tot agst Lord Derby's Sir Peter High odds agst any other.. The Berlin Gazette contains thel-Howing v' c ' f oo ice of the death of a very distinguished rinitnal the night of the 37th of Ap r il di e d, o f an air op l l 9 , in a good old age of 40 years, the favo ur ite lo rse s Of his late Majesty FREDERIC the GREAT. It called Con(q, and was kept in the. Royal V et erilL School." An elegy has already arpcared on death of this favourite of FREDERIC the GK.Eiti' which reached an age which that quadrupe d i s 'T o , dom known to have attained. His - memory has'l ~..jjog been preserVed by drawings and engravings. 1 in famous horse had been Purchased in Eng view 1 77 0 . He was always calm during the li"roc cannonade. FREDERIC: the GREAT had ile ci f l o o very fond of this animal, who was l e d - o ut 11 t o him a i knost every day, when the KING -W“ ,„ - 115 , feed him with sugar, and, 'in their season' vale melons and figs ; he would, in return, 1011° c : ea r KING into his apartments. One day his I "s g ott permitted him to enter' into the - saloon, at i; his Souci, but having injured' the fine floor • h ard hoof , , he was never mare admitted. . The P"iro tha service which Conde had to perform, w 35- ,, o 't t he Porzdam reviews. Even during the wir 3t Bavarian Succession, in 1778. Conde [4 131 Sans'Souci, and was, by the KING, given i 0 nil the clahir charge to Count SCHWERIN,- the mast er f .,"poi l mews, who was obliged froth time to time t ° ;trice to his master the state and condition of his fa l° ( i c This was the horse on which the KiN O Ilia last attempt to take a ride in July, 1756 SHIP NEIIS. GRAVESEND, MAY 9. ftil" Passed by—the Mary Corran, Cline; 1Nt21111[43; 0051 00 511 ' stone, and M.lria Carolina, - final Lis b°,7" - v Heath, from Waterford; Endraght, ' Fal;en, 33 ' 11 - Xs, v ir f o l t li f nah, Holman, from Tonningen ; Elizabeth,,'"'g - Embden ; Johanna, Winkes, Young l'etcri ' ll o c ro e' r lWstcr- Camelia, illoop, and the Henry, Corsiickston, , . Bragan 43 ,' dam. Sailed-the Fanny. Alatthz - ws ' for Don lin“: " 'lan Luc 1;al Coles, for LLisbon; Maria, Geodes, Vrow Anna Att , st for Tonningen ; Friendschafl; ,Ornerliand, for 1 longe A ITIY, arai vitt-r, •••••--, 9r Lad/ On Wednesday the 2tl inst. at the Earl of Derby Stanley, of a Daughter.