The Sun. — London, England, 1804-07-05 00:00:00

.I\rd rit E W S. PLYMOUTH, JULY 3. -- Airitre4 ,Abe S~rrrt ate and illitrotaur, of 74 guns each, from the 'Channel Fleet, and Plover Sl oo p o f W ar , f rom a Cruize in the Channel ; also the Marigaretta, Capt. PARR, from Christiana, with timber, &c. for this Port. The Foudroyant, of 8o guns, which sailed hence ti few days since, supposed for the Channel Fleet. re turned here again on Saturday, having been only on Cruize in the Channel. She is since sailed to join the Fleet off Brest, with a completely healthy Crew, which on her former Cruize were sickly, ,in conse. quence of which the Ship has undergone fumigation. The Defiaftce, of 74 guns, is sailed for Portsmouth to rest, all the Docks in this Yard being entirely occupied with Ships of War under 4'r. PORTSMOUTH/ JULY 4.—Arrived His Majesty's Ship Defiance from Plymouth ; Spider Brig, Lieu. tenant 'romt.INSON, from the Westward ; and Char lotte, from Dant zie. 0w1M... juLy 4.-- Ile Choy, or 98 guns, Capt. iVi.ka'rtN, has come down from Chatham to the Nore. Ai bonn as she is manned, she will pro ceed to join theChannet Fleet. The inm"rfallier' Capt. Ow t rr; having been repaired, went out of Barbour this day, and was paid six months' wages. She sails in the evening, to teatime her station off Boulogne. The Kitty Armed Ship, Capt. BATENIAft, has a signal flying for a Convoy to the Baltic. ITAILW ICH, JULY 4. The Dorset Post Office Packet, Capt. HANtir,Torr, sailed this afternoon for Husurn, with the Hamhurgh and Bremen Mails. His Excellency PAUL Botrittreit, family and reti nue, with Major-Generai SASLOOKOIT, were pas. aengers in the Packer. The Mail for Gottenburg will be conveyed by the Lac& &tea* Packer, Capt. Geo. DRANE. A large Fleet of Ships from the River, supposed to be the Baltic Fleet, passed this Harbour in the morning, to the Northward. DIAL, JULY 4... Sailed His Majesty's Ship Castor, on a CftliZe• off Boulogne. Arrived the Argus Sloop, with Convoy from Ire. land ; lqadost hired Transport, from. Plymouth, unde'r Convoy of the Bet‘ey Armed Cutter; "I v y Transport, from Deptford ; teems*. Gun.brig, from a Cruize off Boulogne, where she took up two French Soldiers who had deserted in a boat, one a Sedealit-radj u , the other a Drum-major. Ia the Downs.--41onarch, Utrecht, Vpteran, VI ginie, Tartarus, Zebra, Argus. Locust, Findon hired Transport, Supply Navy ditto, and the Armed Veren‘e ;hips an d Transports as per last. The Military Preparations throughout the &stern District, are perfectly completed. The whole force in that . important District .amounts to 32,000 ef. feelive men. A material alteration has been made in the chief Signal Stations in Es4ex, conformably to the following Notification: Colchester, yuly 3, 1 804. slit—l have the honour to inform you, by the direction of Lieutenant.Chneral Sir . ) Ast ss Ca A t o, that the I', insaty.Sig 7. sva/ Am/ion: are now e s t a bli s h ed throughout the C ount) o r Essex, at the following places : Colchester . Thaxted ' Messing Brightlinsca Hatfield Broad Oak Rettenden Earls Colne Mum's Hedge Danbury . Cosfield White Notley Sewer's End Ongar Park Littlebury . . Conic l.3id° G li re ll et i t i . i A lk".6ite Prriis constantly flying at the Stations, merely to point it out more clearly to the Sentinels on guard at the coin monk:acing Stations. The hoiting Red Flag is in to be c onsi d ered the Signal fors gene ral the alarm, and will be future a sufficient authority for lighting any Beaccors already establish ed, and hunting th e R ed A'ag that inay have been provided at the thiferi.tnt 'row ns and Vt ' llages tor the saute purpose. I have the Honour to be, tke. ilk , :. • Rev. IL Bare ardi f cr, .' T. BIRCH, " ' " '''' ,& "&c. ' Lieut.. Col. A.Q .M.Gen. E. Dt. --...„,..„_. . . The last performance of the AMATEUR "MU"C IVI 22 i I b. 14 :11 took place m n Tuesday, in the new Rooms, Ilaover..quare. The regular Concert Was omitted that.night. The company began to a3' Seelf)le kt)9witieviro, and at twelve the Room was vet), tea.r we4,at.tended.. The in Dances then commence d thi oom. -..At LWO the company sat down to an ex,:ellent supper, in the grand Concert.room.— After supper, Giees were performed in an admirable style by NIILD, SALE, GORE, VAUGHAN, EL. LIOT, &C. "Gem, Shephereh," computed by Lord IVl„,,okulticrom ; 4 ' The Might) Cuverrer,.." by Dr. CALLCOTT; and PURCELLid " What as Bee Such ,were among the most applauded .4 the Glees, The Tables were cleared during the pet. &mance 'of the Glee,, and the Company then "c -hurned the dances in the grand. Concert Room, till filled b y peo l nelr six o'cl ck in the .morning. 'l'he Room was pe of high rank, and Ladies of distin• guith e d b eau gets, M ty. Great essra. Sp I NCIM and G REVILLE , fur t he praise is due to the Mana. tropriety and elegance which have mark4d all these ntertainments, and for their liberality the pro fi ts of the concluding ni g ht to g the Musical Fund,in allotting !hThep, new Musical D e A rama, entitled The Hunk of' l went off last night with increas ed It has been judicious' - and the general y compressed, was .propo t ti eff t success. Una *ere retained by The Enchanted Wand, which : c p._ bly improved. The Audience devoted d e it'oel.ted am ply to gratify them for the time t_ 11 4 by the charms of music and scenery, a nd n 4nterest of the aftion. The It • t. Saturday next Br i g h ton Theatre is to open on Sal,lirut tst. 10',._. under the management of the veteran 11) and the Datre,n— ' - - DOMINGO. ORDERS ISSUED BY DEcSALINES, IN THE CAPA. CITY OF GOVERNOR.Gi(NRRAL. " All Proprietors that have produce to sell, shall previ ously pay a fourth part as a territorial imposition. The pow`er of selling produce of the it th year shall only belong to Proprietors who belonged to the Indigenous Army in the rth year. Persons who, since that period, have resided with the French, are nut to have the benefit of that year's produce ; their property being confiscated for the use of the Indigenous Army. " Mules, horses, and other animals !)elonging to the ha bit itions sequestered, are to be given up to the Administra tors of Domains. who are to give an account 'of the same to the General commanding the Department, who will place them in the most advantageous manner on the sequestered estates, to be employed in cultivation. 6 ' It is expressly forbidden, that any Officer shall inter meddle with the cultivation of the Estates. " AII Sugar !Manufactories previously given to Chiefs of Corps, shall be returned to the Administrators of Domains. " All Proprietors resident with the French to the time of the Indigenous Army taking possession of a place, shall for feit all the produce of their Li states during the tith Year. " The Generals commanding Departments shall cause Cen .rats of Brigade to execute the Fortifications ordered to lie ereded in the high mountains of the Interior; and the Gene rals of Brigade shall, from time to time, make Reports of their proceedings, and their works. " All sales, or gitts of moveables or immoveables, made by Emigrants. in favour of persons. residing in the Island, are annulled; it being understood when so made after the Indi genous Army had taken up arms to expel the French from Hayti. April g, (Signed) " DESSALINES." THE GREAT DEVIL. TROVB L ISOM g times produce great men and great criminals. Among the latter, none has inspired, for these last ten years, more fear in Italy than the famous Brigand, known by the name of 11 Grand Diablo," or, "Great Devil." Any person incurring his hatred was certain to perish. He has dispatched IVlagistrates, surrounded by pleaders and guards ; he has murdered husbands by the side of their wive, and in the midst of their families ; and he has stabbed Officers in the line with their comrades and soldiers. Blood, and nut plunder, was his principal passion. Alike generous and revengeful, humane and cruel, what he took from the rich he distributed among the poor ; but no sooner did he hear of an unjust or oppressive aft, th,in the name of the oppressor was inscribed on his list of proscriptions. He was neither fond of gold, nor of wine, u o r o f women. He had made for himself a co►ie of right and wrong, which he followed on all occasions. He restored several times plunder, k% hen he heard the plundered was near being reined by his loss, and he allowed several pensions to widow's and orphans, whose husbands or parents ht found out to be innocent, alter he had put them to death. The band of Brigands under his cemmand amounted to one thousand two hundred, dispersed in the Alps and in the Appenines ; but he was only personally known to twelve inferior Chiefs, who, under pain of death, were forced to execute his .orders within twenty-four hours. He was con vided of having killed 176 persons, either alone, or in company with other Brigands, though he denied having destroyed more than twenty-six duals. His first vietim was NOBS FRANC ICO, a Priest, who abused his mistress's confidence in the confessional, to debauch her; and his last was the Advocate RSTEO, whom he suspeled of having sold the Liberty and Independence of his Country, Genoa. The one he stabbed before the altar, in the Magdalen Chapel; and the latter he strangled in his study in the Senate House. He never murdered any females; and persons of the other sex under twenty, and above sixty, were always ropeeted by him. On the 17th May he was executed, and shewed, on this trying occasion, an uncommon firmness.— _ From the prison to the place o f execut i on, h e kept • the step'with his escort, as if he had belonged to their battalion. He would not suffer any bandage for his eyes ; he called out to the gens d'arrns who were to shoot him, Courage, Cvarades ! And he died in asking of Gad forgiveness for his mistaken Uotiont, not for his crimes. His bAy was buried i n t h e usual place for criminals, but it was dug up in the night, and in its place was interred the b :dy of Signor SEBASTIAN°, who had as a Judge sen. tenced him to death. These ads prove that his Band has survived its Chief. The amount of the Civil List has furnished the friends of Party with another topic of complaint. Let them look to their favourite France, and reflen upon the expences incurred by His imperi a l M a j esty NAP3L.VONE, by the Blood Royal of the Illustrious Hott:e of Box APARTE, and by all the Supporters .01 the French civernment, and they will find that the Civil List of this Country will dwindle in compari. sun into . a Milk-mare. The late trials in France affird no alisolute proof of a Catapirary, and Gitostoes seems to be the only nan, according to his own confession, who went N . .) France with hostile views against the 'Usurper. In die time, however, if the lat ter does . not put some bounds to his . ambition ;IA his pride, he may expea a tv;ispirary of the cuthJe people, sunk as they are at present in servility and bondage. If the French Government should not think pro. per to publish its Declaration, given to the Diet at Ratisbon and Baden, respecting the arrest and mur. der of the Doke D'ENGHIEN, it will probably never see the: light ; for the Germanic Powers, in publish. ing such a Declaration as satisfaCtory, can only pro. claim their own disgraceful pusillanimity. THOMAS PAINS hardly ever favours the world with his opinions, without taking some opportunity of representing himself as a very great man. In a former work, he says he was to have made a cam. paign with LA FAYkTTIS, for the overthrow of the Continental Powers ; and in his last letter, of which we gave an extrael, lie tells us that, by agreement with BONAPAITY, he was to have accompanied hint to this Country, in order to improve oar Gar:ferns/sent. It is probable that neither . the Ex.noble or the Chief Consul would ever have entered into close connec. tions with such a vulgar renegade, but he knows that neither would think it necessary to contradict his impudent falsehoods. The word Monsieur is restored in France, but the people will probably never be at•rest till the reality as well as the forms of the Old Government ate also restored. It has been asked, what is become of all the jam. hitir in France ? The answer is obvious—they are nibiaillive Slaver, or Imperial Courtiers. , at n ;T: i AY:4 EY. • •I WEDNESDAY, .lULY 4. • Tills day the Session commenced before the ta!tb MAYOR, Mr. Justice LAURENCE, Mr. jtlbtiCe ROOKE, &C. loreph jack:a/I,li young man, 23 years of age,. a . Money-broker in Eagle court, stood charged with forging an indorsement on a Bill fur 13001. and for having uttered the same; ,knowing it to be forged. The evidence adduced upon this trial was very long. Mr. CUR WOOD, Cotinsel for the Prosecution, having opened the pleadings, Mr. GURNEY stated the case to the Jury. The substance of it was as follows : Mr. John Brown, a \Veit India Gentlemen, a re sident of St. Vincent, having come to Landon, had purchased an estate, and wished to raise the sum of 25001. to assist him .in paying the value of it, by certain instalments. He being at a loss from whom to procure that sum, applied ro a friend of his of the name of Acres ; who, having perceived an ad_ vertieement by the Prisoner, offering his assistance in raising money for those who required the loan of it, at an exorbitant interest, he made application to him, and acquainted Mr. Brown of his having dis covered a person who could supply his immediate wants. The Prisoner, by appointment, accordingly met Mr. Brown on the 16th of March, 1804., at twelve - o'clock at noon, at Baker's Coffee.house.— After some negotiation, Mr. Brown gave the Pri. goner two Bills - of Exchange, draWn by him (Mr. Brown) upon, and accepted by Messrs. Learmouth and Lindsey ; the one for 1 fool. and the other for 13001. For these Bills the Prisoner granted a receipt, and engaged to bring a person at five o'clock in the evening, who would discount them upon their being indorsed over to - him by the drawer. At the time these Bills were thus delivered to the Prisoner, they were both unindorsed. The Prisoner, however, did not attend at the hour appointed, but sent his clerk about six o'clock in the evening, with a note to Mr. Brown, alledgieg, as an excuse for his non. attendance s some slight indisposition, anti disappaint ment in not seeing the person from whom he intend. ed to procure the money. Mr. Brown,, who had . refused an engagement to dine near Manchester square, in order to meet the prisoner as concerted, was somewhat exasperated at this disappointment, and sent back a verbal answer to the note, requir ing the prisoner immediately to return the Bills, and then left Mr. Acres to go to a Mr. Webb's in Thayer.street,where he had previously been invited. About haV,past seven o'clock Jackson came perso nally to Mr.Acresond said he would be certain of the money next day at 1a o'clock, if Mr. Brown would allow him to have possession of the two Bills again next morning at nine o'clock, and said, that he (Mr. Brown) might depend upon getting the money by twelve o'clock that day (Saturday, March 17). As Mr. Acres had an appointment at ten o'clock that day, it was impossible for him to be at home to re-deliver the 'Bills to the Prisoner at nine, and therefore he told him, that he had better keep them in his own (the Priseotes) pessession. They agreed to meet again, at Baler's Coffee-house, at twelve o'clock on that Saturday, and Mr. Acres gave Mr. Brown information to that pur. pose. On the setii of the same month of WI-irch, Jackson had communicated his desire to raise some money to a Mr. Win. Coomb, a warehousemen, in Queen_street, Chearside, with whom he had been acquainted for about three weeks. He eold Cuomb that the Gentleman far whom he wished to raise the meney was a respectable West lodian, and that he was so desirous to have the stun 0f,25001. against a certain day, that he was willing to allow him - (the Prisoner) Is per cent. it he could procure it fur him, and that he (Mr. Brown) would 'give Bills, accepted by Messrs. Learmeuth and Co. for that am elm, at nine months date. Mr. Ceomb said, he did nut think he could procure the money for him, but that theme was a certain de. scription of goods which he might purchase with these Bills, and sell them. at a very small loss. Irish linens were the goods he alluded to, The Prisoner agre e d to t his proposal, and having satisfied him self o f t he respedability of the drawer, he made application to Messrs. Webster and Cubbet, in Fri. to give goods to the a mount day -tseehearlif who agreed the sum, when they were thoroughly satisfied of the acceptances being just. Coomb ac. cording!) , infinmed Jackson of his success, and the primm e r told him that he would g ive him a share in the transaCt and that Mr. Crown would not scruple so accommodate hies in the same manner with some thousand pounds more. Goods to the amount of the Bill fur 13001. were accordingly Intr. chased. by Coomb from the house he alluded to, and the other Bill was employed in paying for a similar purchase from the house of Edwards and Co. Cheap. side. The Bills were restored to Jackson upon the 115th March, and he agreed to procure ilic indorse. ment that , same evening, and to hi ing them itnme diately to Caomb, to pay them over to these trier_ chants, before the goods were delivered. That same evening the Prisoner met Coolish at the City • Cufne.house, and gave him the Bills he hatl got Mr. Brown to indorse on the Saturday morning. The goods purchased for these Bids wet e delivered at Mr. Coulon's warehouse, Qeeen.st fret, be tween the hours of six and seven, at which time Jackson attended. By a previous agreement, Mess. Rickatby and Co. of Gracechurch-streei, were to purchase the whole quantity of linens, at 20001, Jackson went along with the carts to superintend the delivery to that company, and Coomb fol lowed. As the goods could not be all examined sufficiently early to entitle Jackson to immediate receipt of the whole price, he was contented to receive ibool. ; the remainder being to be paid when the examination was, completed. He re. ceived a check for that sum on the house of Newn. ham, Everett, and Cu. abotit half past twelve o'clock. Instead of going towards Baker's Coffee. house, where he was to have met Mr. Brown and Mr. Acres, Jackson, on leaving Rickarby's ware. : house, turned down towattle London. Bridge, saying to Coomb, that he was going to see his wife or in the stage-coach to Maidstone. He -aid not ap. pear willing that Comb should accompany him, but agreed to meet him at the Anti-Galfican Cot. fee-house, near the Royal Exchange. Comb, beavever, conceiving, 41 this time, some sows. cons Gr the Prisoner', followed lon roe a slaflt distance, and perceived turn doWn Carn . o n. Street, where he soon after fostsiAht of him Prisoner not appearing at any of the places he had formed engagemenTs, soon proJtic:d t covery of the forgery, but too late to elf.-!:t page of the payownt of the check he hail Contri'o met with Mr. Brown, whom he i ;h i her :e before seen, at Kiker's Cotrze.huuse, and what had passed betwixt him and the Pri ? Several Witnesses were adduced to prlve that the indorsement *as not of Mr. lirown's • 4-3 t and othei.: to chew the impossibility' of i; s bein4 . hif; signature, from his having been englged conyany at a distant quarter of the town daring the very space of time when that indorsement must neces. sarily have been written. The Prisoner was soon after apprehended at Enniskillen, in Ireland, and was confined in the New,gate of Dublin, from whence he was brought to London by (ate of the City Mar. steals, sent over for that purpose. He was !o have been tried during last Session, hut, owing to the absence of a material witness; the trial was post. posed. - The Prisoner's Counsel, Mr. KNAPP and Mr. BARRY, called several witnesses, none of whom an swered. The Prisoner, in his defence, Solemnly declared'. his innocence ,as to the crime of forgery, but confess. ed that he had aled wrong in having eloped with the money. He alledged that he had procured the indorsement of Mr. Brown at a, particular appoint_ men. for that purpose, and compl a ined t h at none o f hi t i witnes,es had attended, and that Mr. Brown had not been examined, so as to prove hiS innocence of the crime charged against him. He concluded by mak. ing a short appeal to the feelings of the Jury, and said, that though his charatler by this transaaion was already totally ruined. in this world, yet he had a thousand ties to make him wish for existence---a wile, an infant child, and a parent. who would be rendered miserable, Whatever might be their ver dia upon this occasion, he hoped that his innocence would he made manifest at a higher tribunal. Mr. Justice LAUR ENCR informed the Prisoner that it was not.in the power of the Counsel .for the Pro. secution to call Mr. B. to disprove the validity of his own Bills but if he was advised by his own Counsel so to d:), Mr. B. might be called on behalf of the Prisoner. The Court then waited until Mr. Daniel Simon Mercereau, one of the witnesses called for on the part (4 the Prisoner, was sent for, by the request of the Gentlemen engaged fur the prosecution. lie is a Clerk to an eminent Bar.king.house in the City, and stated, that on Saturday the 17th of. 'Witch, at ten in the morning, he saw a person sign a paper in Baker's Coffee.house, with the name of John Brown. A paper was produded in Court purporting to be a receipt from Mr. B. for the suin of soot. in part payment of the two bills .which were cashed at the house of M,:ssrs.•Newman and Co. and which were roved to be those laid in the indielarent. When the Prisoner was brought to the Mansion-house he sent for the witness, and he there saw the Mr. Brown, in whose name the Bills had been passed, but lie was not the person who signed the paper at Boker's Colfre-house. The Prisoner was, after the exams. nation before the Lird Mayor, sent to the Compeer. He then sent for the Witness, and had a statement drawn up,ticclaring that he had seen Mr. B. sign the receipt for part payment, which the Prisoner desired him to sign. This he refused to do, and said that he was not the same person. The Witness then tote the paper. He saw the Prisoner several times after that, .both in the emitter and in Newgate. 'mica-. voured to draw a disclosure of some feels from the Prisoner at these meetings, but he always carefully avoided entering into any explanation, and frequent.. ly threatened his life if he would not swear to the receipts being fairly signed. Mr. Justice LAu ILE sic e delivered a very minute and able charge to the Jury, in the course of which he adverted chiefly to the contradidion as to the point of time at which Mr. B. might have been supposed to have indorsed the bills. The Jury, after a shnrt consideration, found she Prisoner guilty of uttering the bill for 13001. (the only one charged in the indictment), knowing the , indorsement thereof to be forged.—Deoh. CORN BILL.--The schedules attached to this Bill, which is now before the House of Commons, contain the several rates and prices of grain, &c. when ex portation or importation is to he allowed. Exporta tion is to he permitted when Wheat is at or undt•r 4.85, per quarter, Rye 325. Barley 281. and Oats 16s. If Wheat is above szs. Rye 3.p. Pe.afe and Beans 3.0. Barley 301. Oars 18.. then no export is allowed, Thus far the schedules have obtained the siwaion of the Committee. A. detachment of two hundred of the East tsset Militia are to be encamped at Sheerness, for the purpose of assisting in completing the works naw carrying on there. On "Tuesday last a Dad eras fought in llyde.Park, between Lieutenant of the Navy, attended by Lieutenant \-s, and Ensign F-, at_ tended by Mr. It The rinarrel arose at Vaux. hall Gardens the preceding evening. On the tirit fire Lieutenant B. was wounded in the shoulder, when the Seconds interfered, and an accommodation took place. A REMARKABLE INSTANCE OF Two swine, of the Chinese breed, belonging to Mr.- Thomas Radcliffe, in Glen of Cummertrees, Sew land, have., within these last twelvemonths, brought forward t t 1 pigs, viz. first litter, zoth May, 18 , 03, 36; second ditto, 7th Nov. 1803, 36; third ditto, 7th May, 180+, 39. SHOCKING ACCIDENT.—Monday evening, at five o'clock, a fine boy, seven years oht, belonging to Mr. Kennedy, of Elgware.road, running across the way, unfortunately► got entangled between a dray and the coach of Mrs. SheritTe, and the liinti- M3it wheel of the latter passing over his loina, he died in a few minutes without a groan, amidst the distressing screamx of his affikted mother, who remains inconsolable. The Ladies in the coach were so afiettied, that they fainted away, and when recovered could with much difficulty► be prevailed on to leave the place. They left in the hands of friends, some handsome presents for tbos aftUteti family.