The Sun. — London, England, 1804-05-09 00:00:00

A PAL N *I; IV S. P a , LYMOU TH, MAY 7.—Arriv e d tne Wirllt:or Castle, of 98 guns, from the Channel Fleet' ; and the banish Brig Gawle Norge, Capt. Itr E 1., from Dram. Sailed the Prince George, of 98 guns, and nien derer, of 74 guns, to join the Channel Fleet ; and the Belle Packet, lately arrived from the East In dies, under tOnvoy of the Eagle Cutter, for the River. PORTSLICKYTti, MAY B.—Arrive s the Juno, WARREN, from Sunderland. Sailed His Majesty's Ship Courageiii-, with the following EaSt India Ships under Convoy for the has[ Indies : Earl St. rincent, Walthamstorw, rtier Castle, Lady Burges, Asia, Bengal, and Mar_; qui; Cornewallis Frigate ; and the Auspicious, Lori( ( Family, and Ruby, Country Ships. • DOVER, MAY B . —P a ssed by, f o r Amsterdam, the /Wert, DUNKIN, f rom Baltimore. , The taptain of Loatti len the above Ship informed the who boarded her, that he had got the 13rother.in.law of BONAPARTE on board. S""t..110 ; MAY B.—Carne down the River to the Great Wore', the Eagle, of 74. guns, Captain e,UntY°LBY• As soon as she is manne d, an d pa id goo .. and advance, she proceeds to the Texel, to reCei v e Admiral HOROUGH'S Flag. Arrived from a Cruize, the Magicienue i Frigate; Captain MACKENZ lE. The Harpy Brig, • Capiabi IitYWOOD, was this daY taken into duck to be iepaired. Arrivd the Amethjst Frigate from the North_ ward. Sailed the Lick Armed Ship an 4 Conititb.t;on Cut ter, with the Fleet (about 4.7 sail) ilud'er Coutroy, for the Baltic, HARwicn, MAY 6.—The Lark Post.Oce packet, Capt. DELL, and the Lady Ne . peani Capt. • DEANt, Sailed this forenoon, the fortner, for B avarian with the Hatnburgh a nd B remen M a il s , a -uavarian Messenger, and other passengers; and the Ot her Packet for Gottenburg, with the Mails of the Ist and 4. , h inst. qlle Pegasus Frigate remains in The Harbour. 1\11 " 8 . --Last night the Auckland Packet, Capt. e kth ce, and t h e L a d ) Frances, Capt. ar. r ive t. d,,frorn Gottenburg, with Mails. At the same Dian a° Packet, Capt. STEWARD, arrived Dlll 71 H un with t h e Hamburgh an d B remen M a il s ; ‘.4-M4Lenger %—rith Di: r .,..che, cam: over Passenger, DEAL, MAt Majesty% Ship Dart, sailed a Cruize off Calais. Arrived the Speedy Sloop, from Elsineur, and IC;l igifisher from the Fiore. The Supply and Deptford,, Navy Transports; tailed for Portsmoth. eThe Arniston, Capt. JAMESON, and Tottenham, a ri DALRYMrL E , E ast I n di a Shi ps, came down orn the River, and sailed for Portsmouth, iirgi ‘ ,:in the Donarch, Utrect, Illustrious, Ardent, enie, owns—M Leda, Cresce h nt, Speedy, Ki ngEt i sher, is eus, Vesuvius, L uc if er, D i scovery, Sulphur, I 3 netts , %Urge, with the Transports as per last. Co laY OF A LETTER FRO:',I CAPTAIN GIBBON, OF THE ROBUST, TO THE OWNERS AT GREENOCK, DATED THIRTY 4TH AP LEA GUES NORTH OF LISBON, R.ll-, 1804.. " I am sorry to acquaint you of our melancholy tnisfortune, which happened on the morning of the 2d instant. At four o'clock we struck the ground; and drove on shore, and about thirty, or on e _and_ more of the Fleet, and the Apollo, our Corn_ ruodore. • A great many lives were lost out Of the Ikveral Ships, and the sight is dismal to for ma ny m il es . along our crew got shore. All no shore, without the loss of a man. The Robust is all together and fast ; but the water ebbs and Rows in the hold, and the surf is so heavy,iv as te n . tie her rs it impos s ible f or any person to get)tv near to h er to ; and Id o not think any thing belonging .wilt be ndaved, as she will break up' in a very short time, a don't ex ped her to hold fast till to.morrow morning. A s the wind was from the S.W. there was no occasion to stand so far to the Eatward. All the Fleet was sensible of being to the Eastward, and some of them tacked, whe n t h e Commodore fired feted at the m to bring them to ; b ut h e h i mself have suf , With about two hundred of his crew, some of Whom were on the wreck these sixty hours, without 4ny subsist ence. The Clyde Ships which have suf fere e d h Gait ; the ere are, the Elizabeth, Peggy, arnochan ; Pe g gy, B art l ey ; A tt i ve, col ; C aledoni a , G amme l ; Albion, NVEwing ; N anc y, W e i r ; ` - aledoni a , Gil cr i son ; Trim, Od&ly, and ourselves. „ vve had much ado to get on shore, as no boat was ab le to stan d the surf. There was a great 'N i _eat of p eop l e l ost out of the rest of the Clyde ips : some o f t h em upwards of half their rt ws. There is a British Consul here at present, 1.,Wh0 came from a town about eight miles off, called viguero. Lhave nothing more to mention at the Present time; but I will write you when I get clear tl this, which I think will not be for some weeks; 4 s we are to wait here, by order of the Consul, un. til We all get away together, in a vessel, to Lisbon." Majesty's Ship Carjsfort arrived at Madeira 9th April, with 30 sail, from Cork, and proceeded . W ith them on the 1 zth for the West Indies. days are assured that t h e art i c l e w hi ch we yester copied from the Salisbury and Winchester Jour- . 113 1, retpelling . the . ailekiged conspiracy on ,hoard the I happyto find that Monteiku Man of War, great!) , exaggerated the fact.A mutiny l c t e t rtain a i s coYtonfilin place, b ut Wt. are confined to thr e e o r four despe iw radoes, with whom the crew refused to 10in, and the offenders have been sent home, to be tried by a Court Martial . . _ . The R osa nnah, CARSON, from New:York to Liverpool, has put into Barbadoes in distress. The Adi , ve, HARR IsON, coal.loaded, bound to Sttickholm, is on sh :re near Whitby ; crew saved. I. '''The Harriet, Rossort, sailed from Halifax for Newcastle on 16th January, and has not since been heard of. Minere'a, Cowc, from Abc.deen, with . .corn, was taken, March zB, by a Dutch Brig, and carried into Norway. The Lords Commissioners of the Ad6irplty have 'been pleased to appoint J. A. HARD r. RF, Esq. of the Royal Navy, to the Sea Fencibles at Yarmouth: A COURT OF ALDERIVIF,N.' . . A Court or Aldermen was Ma yesterday The Court ordered the price of Brend to beraised half an Assizes or one penny in the Peck . Loaf, to commence to.morroit , . The Ouartern Loaf Whp-ten will then be rid. and Household The Lore Mayor, agreeably to annual custom, named the following Gentle Men to be put in nomi nation to the Livery of London, on Midsummer Day next, for their choice of two of them to, i be eleled Sheriffs of the City, of London and County of Middlesex, for the year ensuing, viz. William Lushington, Esq. Citizen; Merchant Taylor. George Hibbert, Esq. ' Do. Cloth-worker. William Mellish, Esq. Do. Butcher. Edw. Kemble, Esq. Deputy, Do. Salter. Robert Slade, Esq. Do. Ironmonger. lohn Barehard, Esq. . Do. Dyer. . . Allen Pearson, Esq. • Do. Glover. William Merle, Esq. . Do. GoLlmith. Francis Gosling, Esq. Do. Stationer. The Lord Mayor recommended to the Court, JOHN SILV ESTER, Esq. Recorder of London, to he ._:;tew ard of the Borough of Southwark, in the room of JOHN GASCOiGNE FANSHAW,-ESq. deceased, and he was unanimously elected thereto. The first Courts of Conservancy were appointed to be held for the Counties of Essex and Kent, on the bth of June, a:ld ibth July; and for Surrey and Middlesex, on the list of June; and Atli of July next. • . The EleEtion of Rulers of the Watermen and Lightermans' Company is appointed for the first Court in June next. JERSEr, MAY 2. ThE ist Battalion of Reserve, quartered in jer, sey, is now made a Regiment of the Line. An ol der was sent over to them, in consequence of this new arrangement, for such of their men as were not more than 30 years of age, nor under s feet 4. inches in height, who chose to volunteer fur general and unli- Mited service, to receive the Army 11.)unty of 7i. 121. each. On the first intimation of this, almost the whole of the men, with the utmost prumptitude and zeal, turned out for unlimiiv.lservice ; i t as .dl did nor come under the above description, a number of fine lads were selthed and sworn in for Bri:;adier-Gene ral aucEs's Regiment. The. remaining men, it is suppostd, arc to be turned over to one of the Batta lions that are to remain Battalions of Iteserve. A private Le:ter from India says, that Gen. LAKE'S condua since he took me field against the Nlahrattas, is the admiration of all the Military Men in that Country. At the siege of Agra, w . hen •the - Army least expected to he put in motion, he, at midnight, ordered Colonel MtiNsoN, Mr. LtycAN, and two or three of his Staff, to be 'called up, and having consulted with them on the tryde'bf attack, gave orders for the party destined for tllis desperate con: flid to march out of the Camp with the greatest si lence. , This was done in so soldier-like a manner, that neither the Enemy, nor the.rest-of the English Army, knew of hii designs, until the roar of the cannon began. If .it had not been carried in this manner, and at that particular time, it is thought it might have held out for six months, against all our Force in. India. There were found in it twenty. five lacks of Rupees in hard cash, and about fifteen or twenty more were expeaed to be discovered. — There was a French General of BONAPARTE'S found in the Fortress, with Copies of all his Correspon dence with the various Princes in the Country, ex citing them to take up arms .against the English : and it has been discovered, that the Soldiers who, Admiral Luvors said in his Dispatches home, were left by him at Pondicherry, turn out to be all Officers of the first ability, sent out in disguise as private •Soldiers, to be distributed amongst the armies of the various Princes in the Country. This was done too, at a time when niece had just concluded the Treaty of Amiens, or, at least, while Lord WHIT WORTH was still in Paris. A new Corps of frolt;geurs (Tumblers) is now forming in Paris. They are to be conveyed by the Cavalry whithersoever their 'presence may be ne. cessary.. They must be able, by a single leap, to get on horseback, behind a dragoon, and to dis. mount as expeditiously : they roust also be good marksmen,. They are to be divided into Companies, and instead of drums to have French horns. Several ancient silver coins were fund last week in the scite of the buildings on the .Vent side of Back. lane, Dublin. The inscriptions are those of Louis XII. of France, of Philip and Mary of England,' a few of Richard 111. and Elizabeth, and of James V. of Scotland. They were discovered on the scite of an old foundation of the Roman Catholic College is the aforesaid lane, and supposed to have been con cealed by some of the students. The College W 33 suppressed about the middle the' 16th century. - .On Wedne s d ay was i nterre d in Sr... Andrew's church-yard, Dublin, aged 11g' years and so months, William Mitchell, a Revenue Officer, born in Lon donderry on the ist day of July 1689. He had been for some time in America when it belonged to Eng. land, a n d was one o f those suffering loyali sts w ho lost his property, by the war, on which account he, was recommended to an employment in the Revenue, by Lord 1.0V11,7311END• ACADEMY. No t. Portraits of Mr. and Mrs. Rolls.—W. OWE ti. . . Wu EN we look at this Pit - ture; which, is one of the ci:ief ornaments of the present Exhibition„ we cannot hilt feel. some surprize that an Artist of so much . ability should not yet lave obtained, any aca demical distinction. His efforts this year are, hoN ever, so honourable to his talents, that we doubt cot the liberality, taste, and judgment of the Academy will be manifested id his favour on the first vacancy. The likeness to the original, thong!) very exact, is on of the Subordinate merits of thv,riaure, which is painted with great force and beauty,- and in a style of captivating elegance. The higures arc dis. posed with , ease, and exhibit an air 'of conjugal tranquillity, which shews that it is the aim of the Artist to express sentiment and chatader, as well as to gratify the eye by corretness of form and harmony of colouring. . , No. roc. A Landscape, Figures and Cattle.—Sir F. linort 'CEO'S, R. A. This is the bnly Produlion of the Aitist in the present Ekhibition, and it posSesses so much merit, that it makes tls regret it is without a compa nion. The whole is marked by splendour, without any gaudy excess of light'. The cattle are admira bly touched, aed placed in a very easy and• natural manner. This pitture is, we understand, a tribute of friendship from the Artist to Mr. KEMBL E. ;%i*. 1(4. Sabit,itian DR.ti,imoNto. We consider Mr. DRUMMOND as one of the most promiSing Artists'of the present time, as a Portrait Painter, a§ Well as in the representatiCn of moral and interesting incidents of familiar life, consisting of small whole-length figures. This is a very good likeness of an Italian well known to the Artists in general,to ►vitom he is often what is technically called a Sitter. The head is painted with great force and 'spirit. The kinds are sotheWhit too hard. The Piaure has altogether an air of one of the old Masters. No. 15". Psyche.—Sir Wm. FlLEcrini , , R. A. A very elegant poetical stibleft, much in the style of the late admirable President. Perhaps the face is not qUite so well defined as we might expeCt from the accurate pencil of this Artist. The, Casket' is managed with great skill, in not being of any de terminate substance, as any obvious metal would be too vul.g. - ,r for a poetical - charaCter. We have not heard w►ho is the fair original of this pleasing off spring of taste and fancy THE OPERA.—The second reptesenCation of II Ratio di Proserpina, last night at the King's Theatre, ; produced as numerous an audience as on its first appearance. Indeed we have not seen a Tues&v highs so crowded for many years. The Opera has undergone no observable retrenchment, except one song of Grtiv , slNl in the first ad, which was omitted. The rest of the airs and duets were encored, as before. The union of such talents as those of BILLINGTON and GaAs. sitir, super...added to so fine a composition as the Open will fully acc.arrlt for the crowd whit.ll attentkrf last night. The :sirs are particularly well adapted to ihe respettive powers of those great Per formers. The bravura and executive is chiefly allot ted to Mrs. Br L LINGTON, and the pathetic is princi pally assigned to GRA:SSINI. The former was abso lutely wonderful in her exertions last night, and the latter very interesting. The P 5 de: Deux by DES HAYFS and his Wife, was transferred to the first AO, and was performed with extraordinary skill. An addition was made to the view of Etna last night, by a transparency, representing the rising of fi.mes from the mountain, forming a grand and piduresque spedacle. General GALLOWAY, and the whole of his cogno iii.lnti phalanx, were last night particularly active in supporting GRASSINI. BILLINGTON received 'warm support from them, lilit GRASSINI seemed chlefly to gain from them the shout of viaoria. The Amateur Concert is, as we prediled, likely to become the head quarters of FASHION. The musical and literary talents concerned in ir, are indeed calcu- lated to give it much greater' eilai than hai usually attended undertakings of the same kind in the higher circles. The abilities employed in the Pic "Vic wilt,' of course, be exerted in favour of the new plan, and the time of the year at which it is intended to be brought forward, must preclude all interested pre_ . judices against it. It is, in fad, likely to prove the • most innocent, rational, and elegant amusement that has yet been patronized by the Fashionable World. THE THEATRE.—The Comedy of Tqwelfik Nigh: did not .attract so large an audience last night to Drury-lane Theatre as its intrinsic excellence, and tuie• tnerit of the acting deserved. Dow Toe has a very gPod conception of Mahvoho, and is the best representative of the part that we have seen for some. years. Mts. JoRDAN's rio/a has been long admired,. and it wanted-none of its usual merits. last night. Sir Toby and Sir Andrew had all recitlisite support from •PALMER and, Str ET-T. BARTLEY. was more shewy in his dress than in his talents in Sebastian. The former was, indeed, too gaudy for a man„who is indebted to a friend. Mrs. POWELL communi cated a tender interest to Olivia.' The rest of the charaders were tolerably well supported. The tragedy of Macbeth was represented last night at Covent-Garden Theatre. 1(E1113L E cer tainly plays with more emotion this season than usual. Having, we presume, now thoroughly settled the text in his own mind, he gives way to his feel ings and imagination. Mrs. StoooNs gave grandeur and effed to the ambitious partner of the bloody Thane. The andience are now satisfied with seeing Banquo enter without .the awful preparation of a trap-door. The terrific aspect of the spectre with, " gouts of blood" upon his face, is indeed terrible enough. HILL, in consequence of INC L EDON'S illness, played Hecate. He gave the airs very well, but made poor work with the dialogue. It is somewhat curious, that while Mr. AD- D I NGTON and his associates were about to carry into effel a measure that was to have all the solidity of stone, their own uthorky should tralable into no. thing. - . - THE 11 AMEURG kiirt. . , HANOVER, .A.l.'R IL 24. —Thc prop,sal the States,, on the 24. th, by General Dt. , sOELLs, are said to relate,u; the securing of the pay ofthe, Frencil Soldiers far three months tn.lre; also some Fro'posals to fortify the banks of the Elbe. Conscripts are continually amving from ill part? of the French geinblie; in hirge and small detach., ments. Some daYs ago a wag,g , ;n with several Ham noverian subalterns and soldiers was .br0..,,i6( who had been arrested as Etignit,l) recruits. It is said the pay of the Han() veriatl a ? atm, as well as the pay of the servants 'of the Palace and Court, will shortly be withdrawn: HAGUE, Arßit. 78. 7 .—T0-rnorrnw, the Minister at War, General BERTH' E R, is ex i .ecied at 4J;rrcht from Zealand, Where he. has been ftotr. Boulogne,. He will review, all the Troops destined fur the ex. peditiJn against England. From recht ire will proceed to Amsterdam and North H..ii..nd, and thence return, by the Hague to France. It• is generally believed that the expedition against Fs—gland will now soon take place. A great num be r o f T roo p s are assembling at Utrecht, which will be reviewe3 by the Minister at War. HAM BURGH, MA y I.—The passage int') the Flue s , through what is called the Watteo, ,is completely blockaded by His Britannic M , jcsty 4 s Cutters other small craft. L is said, h , wever, that Sir .GEORGE RUMRrLb. the Britis:i Residgnt bere t suffers some Hamburgh bottoms to pass thri.ugh the Warren, and allows, for this purpose, an I ffid l e'er tificate—Letters from Vienna, of the z Ist ult. mention, that the Note which the :Minister of t. e Eleaor,of Baden has presented to the Lnperial Court, respeffing the arrest of the French emigrants on the Ele6tor:s territory, particularly the seizure of the Duke of ENGHt EN, has given occasion,to a Confe rence of State, the result of which is not very favour able to the French interest. The Austrian army now consists of 4.11,988 eintlive men.—Letters froth' Petersburgh, of the loth ult. mention, that the division of the Russian Army in Livonia has receiv ed orders to hold itself in readiness. to march... The French still occupy Meppin, to hinder the c0nv!.1.4 ance of British goods. A French Journal, publiihed at Rouen, and called Le Repertoire; has been sup.. presssed, by order of BONAPARTE, for having dared to insert some remarks respecting the Emigrants. CORN EXCHANGE, MAY 9. TH E supplies of Wheat ; at hand exceed the de mand, fine samples scarcely keep their price, and other sorts are difficult of sale and at less ; pritnc Dantzic 575.; Rye something cheaper ; Barley, Malt, Pease, and Beans, have little variation ; Oats are in middling' supply, with some car goes of Foreign, and they are not lower ; fine American Flour 235. to 31s. per batiel of i cwt. 3 .quarters. Wheat 2-gs a 4os a 52s od I Tick Beans -27 s a 34s 'oil Fine ditto -53 s a 545 6d 1 Oats - rgs a zo, a 23s cd Rye - - .. 24$ a 27s od 1 Poland ditto 24$ a 25$ C. 4 Barley. - ' - 2os a 25:: ed Rape Seed - - 371 a 4;":. Melt - - - ST , a 5,7.:A '.7.11 rule Four - 39,i; h. 43, ca Vihite Pease 35$ a 42s od Seconds , 34$ a 39$ , -.4 Beaus - - ps 0 395 od A famous brigand, called Saint Rochetto, has late. ly been arrested in Piedmont. He has been the Chief and creator of sixteen bands of barbets or rob bets in the Alps, of whom 306 have already been executed . . He never had any fixed house, but he knew perfeCtly well the Alps, and all retreats in these mountains, arid wherever he went, he bad the talents to forts new bands, and to inspire'his fol lowers with the most violent hatred against the French, of whom he acknowledges to have killed, with his own hands, upwards of one hundred and twenty,'and that his comrades, .duritig the last war, have, by ambuscades which he had prepared, des stroyed upwards of tsoo Republicans; The ;ea.: lousy of one of his mistresses delivered him uo at St. Benigno. Memorials concerning" many~ Of . : his transaftions were found upon him; ant different Priests and Friars for 2,560,000 !ivies, which he has given to churches and„convents, to have masses and prayers said, for obtaining the as sistance of the Virgin Mary in his undertaking.He had besides upon him a list of thirty persons; whom 'he intended to dispatch this year ar• soon in . possible, .among whom were two BoNsil'iaTss j , Vice-President MELZr, Generals MtNOU, MuRAT, ST. Cfit ? &c. On his way to Turin, he knocked out the briqins of a genr-d'arities with his hand-cufn, and bit thenose, of another, Who attempted to tie his hands . on his back. He is a very strong man, and his body.is covered over with hair, like that of a goat. On Tuesday as an itinerant show . .man was exhi• biting a hear near the public-house, at Withington's - Marshinear Hereford, the anirnal,.by some culpable negligence, got loose, and was not secured till lit had exhibited his antics for, a distance of nearly two miles along the country, eading towards Here ford ; in his passage he bestowed his friendly hug; upon several people who were unfortunate enough co encounter him, and some were severely hurt by his caresser; but after a stout resistance against fourteen men, who had succeeded in driving him into a corner, he was taken without doing for,her damage. A most extraordinary circumstance' at present en.. gages the public artentiori in Cardiff and its vicinity, which will also, we presume, attract the notice of the medical speculatist : .4 young woman recently died in child-bed at Cailuxtone, near Cardiff, 'soon after deli very, and the infant pining for that nourish. ment which Nature designed for i:, the mother of the deceased, upwards of 70 . years of age, put the child to her own breast, !rum which it soon drew milk, and a c(ipi mus supply speedily following, she now continues buckling the infani, to the admiration and astonishment of the whole neighbourhood. Oti Thursday last was run fur on Brugh Marsh, in the County of Cumberland, an elegant Silver Cup, of excellent workmanship, which weighs six pound, and holds a gallon, the gilt of V vaunt Lo ER, by horses bred upon the Barny, It was wvn by Mr, M. LiuD3vres chesnut mare.