The Sun. — London, England, 1804-01-12 00:00:00

POI" AL HUNT. In c...nsequence of the frosty weather, andfogs Provi ng un f avoura bl e to t h e sport o f hunting, on the several days lately appointed for the Royal sport, Fast Tuesday being a day appainted, the weather prov ing favourable, a very numerous field of sportsmen assembled on Ascot Heath, to joir Hls Majesty's Hunt. In a short time after tile arrival of His MA SEsTY and attendants, the Deer was started for the day's diversion. He commenced his run with great swiftness across the Heath, leaving the Dog-kennel to the left, and crossed the camp ground, taking to `th e right, through Mr. Go EST'S inclosures, crossing 'Hatchet -lane, thrOugh Mr. NORL's Park, taking his course towards Wood End, where he took to the left by the Brick-kilns, crossed the Race. ground towards King's Beach Hill, making a short double "to the right, near tire Starting-post, leaving the Dog-kennel to the right, where he made a dou ble and came by Wood End, from which place he set off with great speed, and took his course by Mr. CRUTCHLEY'S Park towards Sand Pit-gate, and running with'great swiftness by Holly-grove and Cranhourn-Intign, when he ran with great speed by the Park paling, making a double to the left,_ and crossing the Winkfield-road, he leaped over the paling of General HARcoutur's inclosures, where he made his way for a considerable distance; then leavin g Sr. Leo nar d' s Hi ll to the I.ight, where the Royal Sportsrnen and hounds were in full view of him ; and when he got near the top of tire EIJI, he leaped out of the inclosures and went through the wood, and crossing Winkfield-plain towards North. -row, he made a double to the left into Mr. Nov L's inclo sures, and was taken, after a h ar d run of above three hours. This was considered the best.- day's .sport there has been this season. The deer Was bred in Richmond Parke NEWCASTLE THE A Competition has recently started against Mr. trEPHEN ICEmzt,e, who has lung had the dire Lion of the Newcastle Theatre, in consequence of which he has submitted the following manly Address to the Proprietors at large. The secret mover of this at tempt to deprive him of the management, is sus. pe4ed. to be a man who was formerly on the stage, and I.y who as chiefly i nstrut i e n tal in getting the Ed inbiiigh - Tyleiitre out Of the hands of Mr. STE- Plitt; lc aritß LE. There are one hundred Proprietors of the 'rhe'atre at Newcastle, most of whom are in habits of friendship w i t h Mr. xptAire, so that it 'Can only be expeded that this new attempt of p h i. ',tate malevolence will terminate in mortification and defeat. " LADIES AND 46ENTLEMENj • igc li4 consequence of the Advertisement in the sTeweastte ChrOniele and Courant, respeain g t h e Theatieltoyal, I take the libertyf o intreati ng t h at ei - , ou - will h ave t h e which is adV goodness to at ten d the Meeting, ertised to be held at the Shakespeare 'Tavern, on Thursday, Jantiary i ith, i >30.>30.}.0. I ; Meeting takes place, I hope I shall be allow e d an opportunity of an swer i ng any th i ng that • may be alledge t t against my condua ; and I shall make a point of attending at the Shakespeare, in perfea Confidence of this f avour being granted to m e . . ," As s ome serious proposals are intended to be brought forward at the above Meefing, permit me to say that I have, as Mana ger of your 'Theatre, omitted non pportunity of gratifying th e Public • in proof Of which ;might be adduced a long list of I.:on don Performers ceeasionally engaged at a very con_ expense. I believe there is searcely.one Performer Of erninenee in either Theatre who has hot, dO.ritig my Management visited NewcaStlee " Whenever the Theatre could he; rendered use ful to the Public, I have readily resigned a ll pro. 6pea of emolument on such ocC as i onS. " I have now been yodr tenant during the best thirteen years of my lif e ; I oven I have no wish to leave you--I am rather too far advanted to form new connexions ; and I hav e very many friend s in l New castle that I should much regret being parted from ; a d ded to this; a great deal of my property would be ren d ered useless; on account of its having bseen prepared solely for this Theatre. It will have vetorel.ne W eight, I doubt not ; with several of the Pro. s, when the-- y are infornied that I gave Mr. umbels roo6l. when I entered into the 'rhea. tre ; and though it was but a yearly tenement, yet I was kindly assured ; by several Proptietors, that it was exaaly as good as a lease, for that I never Should be removed without some very sufficient cause !--I am unconscious of having givenlahy. " Some persons have said that the Company is not a good one : I .know it is impossible to please every body ; but I declare I have always endeavour. ed to have the best Performers that were to be_pro e_ured; and t h e Salaries I pay them entitle me t o have as respeaahle a C ompany as any Provincial Manger :—lndeed, when I last wint er , eve r perfor me d i n L ondon cerned w i t h had e Y P er son of th e D rama I was con ; castlefrequently aaed wi t h me i n N ew _ the char4aer s the b T y then were rep resent i ng . e h e l h s . ti is n ' su at lea s t ' . o "e ' proof th at I h ave not always itave.no w . h cc een l essful in my seleai on o f P erformers. 40 years at my trade ; and, without Pretendih g tO any superior intellea t I think I ought to kno . tv good workmen : and, if I have any . judge meat, the present Newcastle C om p an y is, at least, as g•Jod as any Provinci4 Company in dom. the,King. " I have been inform e d t h at some persons have pton at my havi ng altered the theatrical season ; this step was not taken by me, sugges t i on of a Committee Of the Proprietors ' who but on the kindly advised e.o.n m e to t h e more beneficial to the c• measure, as likely to b e sea:m n as usual *ie. Had I o pe ne d t h e cont a , in Oauher, when i t was sa id t h at a gious fev6 was raging, and wh en a l so most of theyourtg men were laudably, employed in even itn.; d r ill s, what coul I expeE but tot a l ru i n ? Y et evets• - this d • I should have encountered, but for the previous suggestion of the Committee, rather than have run the risk of displeasing any one. i i " When th e P ropr i etors have weighed all flies" t Consid erat i ons,' cannot allow myselfto believe that they Will think a Stranger has an equal claim with \ me to bid for the Theatre : For if, as I understand, it is iot::-%!eci to be let to the best bidder, .there can be no doubt !b a t m a ny will prese . ait themselves, who • will gladly °Fr v R any thing, and certainly much more th:in it would be prudent 'in me to Bite. " The standin g scenery, Ladies and Gentlemen, not being my own, I had no power either to alter or renew : it is your pr o p e r t y. Th at y our scenery', after fifteen years service, though - ail possible care has been taken of it, should decay, can excite no very great wonder ; indeed it is matter of surprise that it has lasted so long, Considering that the Theatre is let to all sorts of people, and for all oc. casions, when-I am absent ! I assert that more in jury is done to the scenery and painting one of those extra.nights, than in ten of the regular the atrical season ; added to which, the Manager's property rarely escapes being much damaged, and is very frequently purloined. Indeed the scenery is now in such a state as to require entirely. new painting, nor can the Theatre be creditable to any one concerned in it, till it has received this em_ bellishmer \ t. " The Magnificent chairs, sofa, &c. once so ot% namental to the stage, I had new gilded and thoroughly repaired, at my own cost, only two years since ; but they are now again, in a great measure, either broken or destroyed. " The covering of the seats in the boxes is either worn bare, or else in such a state as to be no longer fit for use ; some of the benches too have fallen ; the matting is also ragged and dirty ; and, in short, the appearance of things altogether is not at all befitting Abe opulence and elegance of this great town. 1.4 " These particulars I mention with regret, as I well know, from experience, that they cannot be remedied without a considerable expence, much too great indeed for an individual, who is no more than a tenant at will, to undertake ; nor can I allow myself to suppose, cotisidering the liberality with which I have always been treated ) that it ever was expeded I should do it. " It only now remains, Ladies and Gentlemen, for me , to say, that if, after a trial of me for thirteen years, upon a calculation of the expence it will cost to put the Theatre into as handsome and as good repair as it was the first hour it was opened, you will do me' the honour to entrust me with such a lease as you shall judge will make the undertaking on my part prudent, I will willingly engage to pay every shill to which the repairs may amot3nt- 7 . and further agree, that whenever the time shall arrive, either from the expiration of the lease, or any other cause, that I am compelled to leave the Theatre, it shall he put, at my expence (all reason able wear, &c. allowed), in equal good condition. " I am, Ladies and Gentlemen, '' Your obliged and obedient Servant, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, " S. KEMBLE." Dee, 31, zBo3. It is reported (upon what authority we know not) to be the intention of Government to prohibit horse_ racing throughout the United Kingdom during the war. The Privy Council we understand have closed their investigations respelling the Charges exhibited against the late Governor of Ttinidad, but the re, suit is not yet made public. The following melancholy fart is related by a young Prussian, who landed a few days ago at Hull, in his way to London, whither he has been sent by his parents for the purpose of attaining improve. menc in an eminent mercantile house in that city— Needy two years since, a young lady, then resident in the neighbourhood of Ravensberg in Westphalia, the very evening prior to her intended marriage with the son of a respe&able and wealthy inhabi tant of the same distritf, suddenly disappeared from -her family and home, and it was generally supposed had eloped with a rival of her deatined spouse, he having absented himself the same evening. The disappointed and disconsolate lover, as may naturally be supposed, suffered severely in his health, and had nearly been thrown into a state of mental derange ' ment ; but tim e , aided by the anxious care and soli. citude of his relative s , a t le ngt h p reva il e d, an d t h e young gentleman endeavoured to bury in oblivion the supposed inconstancy of his mistress. One day, hoWever, in the late summer (184 while he was diverting his melancholy with the amusement of hunting, his favourite dog accidentally came to a kind of hillock in a forest of Westphalia, where it set tip a dreadful howling and barking, at the same time scratching violently among the earth, and, notwithstanding its master's utmost endeavours to diaw it off, would not quit the spot. Alarmed at this uncommon incident, the Gentlemen procured the aid of some inhabitants of an adjacent village, and . returned to the place, where they found the sagacious animal still employed in scratching up the earth, and howling hideously. By the help of spades, &c. they quickly removed the soil ; but the feeling mind will recoil at the recital of the shocking dis. covery then made-- . --the youth stood petrified with speechless horror un beholding the mangled corpse of the woman he once loved most ardently, and whose loss he had lung deeply deplored. We think it unnecessary to dwell too long on a subjea so truly dreadful and melancholy ; suffice it, therefore, for us to state, that a strong suspicion immediately attached to the fugitive rival, which was strengthen. ed by the fad. of his never having returned since the period of the fatal catastrophe. Every exertion was instantly made, in order to discisver his re treat, ant.l he was at length traced to Paris ; 'an 'ap plication was, in consequence, made to the Police of that city fur his apprehension; but it seems a re. !nurse of conscience had operated so powerfully upon him, as to induce the guilty wretch to enlist as a private soldi'er in a French regiment of the line, hoping, by that means, to bury himself iirobscurity, and escape an -ignominious punishment.—We are sorry to add, that his hopes have not been disap pointed ; for the Chief Consul has hitherto resisted every application, and adually refused to surrender him to justice, allcdging that the laws of France bound him to protect every individual that may seek an asylum in its territories—But his Consular nest would have verged more closely, upon the truth, had he plainly declared that he deemed such diaboli cal assassins the fittest instruments to' be employed in the execution of his Own villainous and sanguiesery projeas. Ul* ri 73,1,r LI". . . y, tiznAY the,Sessimis commenced at this place b Fore tie City Officer . , the CH F F BAito N of the EXCITEQueit, Mr. justice ROOK E, and Mr. Justice E NCt: CUTTING AND MAIMING j 'ereei a b James Draper, Edrward Tafrar, and J ant Newman, were indiaed, to_ getlier with another person, who is not yet taken, upon an ACI of Parliament which was passed in the last &lion, against the thaliciouS - sho.qing, stab. ing or cutting any of His Majesty's subjects, with intent to do Ahern any grievous . bodily harm, &c. making such ads, or either of them, a capital offence : an Ad which was brought into Parliament by Lord ELLENBOROiICI-i. The indidmmt charged, that Jeremiah Cornellie, James Draper, and Edward Taylor, wilfully, maliciously, feloniously, &c. cut Boatman, with intent to do him a grievous bodily harM, &c. and that John Newman was privy to their design, and advised them to commit the crime, which is what the Law calls an accessary before the fad. This was the first case upon this Statute, and the following is the substance of it, as it appeared in evidence, and from the opinion of the Learned Judge. It appeared in evidence, that certain Officers of the Police of the - City, from Hatton-garden, went into several Public-houses, under the authority of a search-warrant, to search for disorderly persons, and that Boatman was one of the Constables who atted under the authotity of that warrant, and that he was - cut in the course of his executing it. Samuel Bridgman produced the search-warrant under which he And others, among whom was Boat man, aced, which warrant was proved to have been signed by the Magistrates of the Police Office, by the evidence of the Clerk of that Office. Bridgman, - the Police Officer, said, that he went some time ago to Old -street, in obedience' to this Warrant, having desired other Constables to attend him for his assistance—Boatman was one of them. They went to a public-house called the Cock and Bell, where they saw the Prisoner, Csrnellie, taking a pint of beer in the bar - -Bridgman apprehended some persons there whom they thought proper ob. jets of the Law against disorderly persons, and they took them to the wateh-hoitse; he sent Boatman and other persons with them' to the watch-house. They then went to the Oxford Arms in the same street ; and as they went, they saw Newman in a box with many suspicious characters ; they also saw Draper there. Newman said, " D—n the High Con. stable," and used other expressions which are. fa- miliar to persons of his description. They came • u s ' to Diaper, and all was still then ; they told Draper that they were come to execute a Search Warrant; and Bridgman, who hod known Draper before as well as his family, told him that he must not be partial in the execution of it, meaning that he could not favour Newman. "Upon which New. man abused the constable very infra, both by his name and by his office. 'The Cc. , .7lsfable said he must take him into custody. Newman " D—n the High Constable and his Traps," Mean_ ing the Officers of the Police who executed "the Search Warrant. Newman rushed out of the box, and putting himself into a posture to strike the Constable, he was soon secured. But he said to the others, that they were all a s e t of fools to suffer thernselVes to be taken, and with many impteca. Lions, he said he would die firs:: A confusion then arose ; they seized Draper by the coat, but he got away after his coat was torn. They took Newman to the watch-house, and then went to another box, where Draper had got to, who pulled out a knife; and said to the Officers, " I will cut your bloody liver out." But he could pot open the knife; he was struck on the arm before that could be eEded. He was seized again. Newman was at the watch_ house at this time, - where he continued to abuse the Chief Constabks and Officers of the Police. The Officers informed him after wards, that Boatman, one • of the Constables, was cut O -and that Corneille was • taken, and that his hand was bloody. Newman said, " I wish he had cut his liver out," and used expressions which were more shocking than even the Officers of the Police ever heard before. Cot nellie said, some of the bloody traps had done it. One of the Constables said that was impossible, for that neither of them had any instrument to do it with, on Which Cornellie the 6 said, that it was cut wi t h a glass.bottle. Newman was a noisy, idle, disorderly fellow, but he was taken into custody before any body Was wounded. Thomas Miers, a Constable, gave evidence that h e accompanied Bridgman to execute this Search. warrant.—They went to the Cock and Bell, and to the Oxford Arms in Oid.street : They saw many disorderly persons there, among them Draper ; they said to hint, ," You must go with the, Constables." —He said he would not ; he then made a lounge at the Constable, but missed him. Newman at this time was making a great riot. Another Constable who accompanied Bridgman to these public-houses of the Cock an,l Bell. and the Oxford Arms, said, that as they were going up White-cross -street, Corneille and Draper and others formed themselves into , a line. 'The Witness went up to Cornellie, hut was immediately knLcked citiwn and severely hurt. , Draper struck .him several times over Contellie's shoulders—Boatman was there a6t. • ing as constable. When he was bending dawn, the Witness heard a ,person, he thought Draper, say, " D—n Lis eyes, cot him!" The Witness was wounded; he ran . away, got. to a grocer's shop where he took shelter, anal afterwards went to an apothecary's shop, :wherefhe was dressed : he was some time in the Hospital in consequence of his wound.—On his cross-examination, he said, that he was in great agitation when this happened, but had a good opportunity of seeing the prisoners, and he knew Draper well„before, and believed he was the Own WhowoUnded him. Samuel Juniper, another Constable, accompanied the rest, and among them Boatman, to execute this Search Warrant. • They went first to the Three jolly Butchers, and there they saw some disorderly rersons, one of whom said of the Constables, " they are a set cf thieves, and I will cut their livers out ;" be believed Cornellis said this. (This was only to sh:w there` were di - si•Ve persOns iri. t well a; the other house , .) It then . appeared that Baattan was ittoonded in this scuffle, and the three Prisoners, Carriellie, Draper, and Taylor, were aPprehended and taken to the N't 7 atCh-hotiSe. Newt u: bad been apre hernled before. Mr. Smith, a Surgeon, swore, that Biatm2ii's wound wa3 occasioned by a sharp instrUthent; that it was several inches long and one deep. Some WitneSses appeared to the charader of Ness. roan, whose testithony went to prove; ;that he was not a bad man when sober, but that 14 ivas much given to drinkiog, and that when intoxicated he was boisterous and troublesome. The Ca P2F BARON observed to the Jury, that the Prisoners ti, ere indided Upon an .Ad of Parlia ment of a tecent dare, and the itMit - talent stated, that on the third of Novo - Tiber last 'they maliciously, wilftilly, and feloniously, Made tin assault on Thomas Boatman, and struck him with intent, him the said Thomas Boatman, feloniodsly, unlawfully, wilfully, and of their malice aforethought, to kill and mur.: der, and that the other Prisoner, Newman, was ac cessary to this crime before the withresped to Taylor, there was no evidence against hiin; no. thing appeared more than that he was apprehended with the others, and therefore he would be entitled to his acquittal. This ooliarrient was founded on a recent Judge Statute? for which the Priblic were indebted to a N o bl e an d Learned (Lord ELL El`o3ol:otrtH), who first proposed it to Parliament —who saw that the livei of His Majesty's Subjeds were often exposed to grievous ihjiiries from crimes of the Worst kind, loit the perpretrators of them were not sufficiently pu nished, because the party •injured happened to escape death, although death was intended by the perpe trators of the deed; and therefore for the further protedion of His Majesty's Suljeds, this Aft was brought into Parliament by that Noble and Learned Lord, and passed with veiy general public approba. tion. it provided, that if any . person or per Sons shall wilfully, maliciously, unlawfully, and feldi. niously shoot at any orii.e of His M , jesty'i Subjedi (which was not the present case), or shall Present, point, or level, any fire arm:, and attempt, by drawing a trigger, &e. (which was not the preseni case); or shall wilfully, orthwitinv s and feloniously, stab or cut any of His Majesty's Subjects, with intention to murder, rob, or disfigure, or d any grievous Bodily, h.tftn to an y one of His Majesty's Subjects ; to prevent ,be apprehension of ilfoolers or accomplices, or otht•t i . wise, shall he guilty'of a capital off nee, and shill suffer death, &c. His L odship observed; chat by the Law, as it stood before, it any one was wound. efi by' another,' who was in the par Suit of an lawful. purpose, and the person so wOwidrd was to die within a year and a day, the per Son who in fioded that wound would be guilty of murder. --His Lordship thtrt summed up the whole of the evidence, and mile obsrrv,,,ion, on the material parts of it, observing, that if the parties had one common 'purpose, that they torte equally intent on biliding this woond, no !natter which of them did it, they were all But it was possible for onz man to intend to oosot 0 - lc...Officer with an instrument, so as to the Of ficer some grievous bodily har.n, and another was determined to resist only ''with his fist or a stick, but not so as to do the person whom they assaulted any grievous bodily harm. The former of these would come within the meaning.of this Act of Par liament—the latter would not. As to Newman, the Learned judge thought it would be too. great a re finement upon reasoning, to conclude that what he said before this fact took place, Wa3 the cause of it— what Newman said was to he considered as the bias terhaz and boisterous language of an ale-house squabble, by a mar, who had,the folly to give him. self up to drinking. The questions were, first, whether the Jury were satisfied that Draper infled; ed the wound—secondly, if he did, whether they were satisfied that Cornellie had the same view and objet} as Draper, namely, that of cutting Boatman with intent either to kilt hint, or to do him some grievous b:dity harm. - The jury found jercrniA Corneille Gu;lty—Jas. Draper GuJy, Death—Edward Taylor and John Newman Illct job,: Lindsey was indided for burglariously breaking and entering a dwelling house, with in. tent to steal, &c. It :appeared from the opening that the Prisoner was apprehended in the.garden of the Prosecutor's house, at a late hour, by the watchman'; that the family was alarmed by the noise, went to the win. dow- which they found'to have been opened. The Prisorier•dropped an iron crow, which was applied to the windoW, and it fitted the tnatk ; it was stated, but there was no evidence, that the Prisoner entered the hOuse.._ Mr. Justice 'RoorcES.iid, Upon the opening of - the Counsel, this c:ie could- not be made out. The Prisoner was indiard for the crime of Burglary,. To constitute that offence, it was- necessary there, should riot only he a •breaking of the house in the night time, but also an' entering. To constitute that entering,- it had been held sufficient that the hand or any parr of the body be put en the inside of the house, hut some part of the body must enter the house,• before hurglary- could be committed. Here it WPS Manifest from the opening, that the window was . opened - , but there was no proof of entering' the house ; • and therefore the Prisoner was intitled in point of• law to his acquittal4-7.-No.Guihy. • • • - • Rebecia Sta,y;fortk and Mary Smi/h; were charged with a cdpit4l offence, in feloniously stealing, on the 3oth of December,. the SUM of 891. sg. the pro. perty of William Hauxwell, privily from his per son. It appeared in the course of the evidetici, that the Prosecutor (a young man, an Officer rOn board an American Ship), was accosted by the Prisoner,' Mary Smith, in the Strnd, about eight o'clock in the evening of the 3oJi of December. She a:iked him to go home, with her, Which he, ill-advisedly, consented to. They went to the house No. 5, Vine -street, and retired to a room up two pair of stairs. Smith calltz:l to the; Prisoner Staniforh, who was in an adjoining apartment, and desired her to come in. The party agreed to drink same gin