The Sun. — London, England, 1804-12-07 00:00:00

THIS day there are very few fresh arirnals of Grain—last prices are asked for Wheat, and few sales made, and of those in request, at a small re dation. The Barley and Malt Trade are heavy, and a trifle down. Good old Rye ssq. per quarter. Pease and Beans at little difference. Sales of Oats are noted Is. cheaper, and not many fine at the top• price. Flour has heavy sale,' and rather at lower price. Wheat 86s a 98s a t ToS od Pine ditto . t t2S a i rss od Rye (new) - so a sgs od Batley . . 48$ a 53s oe. Malt . Bos a 85s od White Pease s6s a 62s od cley ditto 7 . 47s a 5 is od Beans - 4Ss a 54S ed Tick Beans 45s a ;is od Oats 305 a 33s a 3si od Pcditnd do. -36 s a 37$ od Rape Seed - - 4 11 a 44 1 Fine Flour - gos a gss od Seconds - liss a gos od 110 r. ARTILLERY CUIIIP ANY. THE PRINCE OF WALES CAFrAIST.GINEISAL. On Wednesday evening this, respeClable Corps held a General Court at the Artillery-house, for the Ele&ion of President, Court of Assistants, and Officers, for the year 'timing (being one of the pri. iileges of this Company, granted to them by Char ter and Letters Patent from the King) ; when the following Gentlemen were elated, viz. Sir W. Curtis, Bart. Alderman, M. P. - Preiident W. Dawson, Esq. - ...... Vice-President Sir j. W. Anderson, Bt. Alderman, M. P. Treasurer Paul Le Mesurier, Esq. Alderman - . . Colonel ‘, W. Curtis, Esq. . . Furbor, Esq. 14 ,„. W.Beinatis , , Adjutant Hatt Luttnoore And 24 Members to the Court of Assistants. MODERN FURNITURE. LAtRARY FAUTIMILs.—These elegant !metes, avo igned from the anilent Roman Cuirde s 'are about to be introduced - into all the principal Libraries in .the Kingdom, the Pit t NC/ of WALusi as the Patron Of taste, setting the .example. The form of these %hairs is taken from the ancient Greek'Car, so well known to the Literati. The whole is made of solid Mahogany ; the back is highly decorated with bronzed ornaments, after the cortstme of the Gre. signs, The elbows are supported by antique winged grifO ns i n b ron i e ; t h e f eet are pla i n and circular ; !Ind the mouldings are .massy, and in bronze. The teat is of a square (win, and covered with red Mo. teem leather, with the back finished "d ie ' A t the foot of the chair stands an highly decorated pi. latter, fixed on a . plynth, which serves as -a font. stool ; to which is attached an antique table, in. un4td to support an antique cup to hold pen, ink, &C. On the top of the pedestal is placed an antique 'vast intended for a lamp, on the side of which stands a bronzed owl, the emblem of wisdom. The above tittliC article, designed with uncommon skil 4. has tart with universal, patronage, hot only on account of its workmanship being exquisitely finished, but filto its utility 44 well as ornament. It stands upon . 1 broad platform, painted to imitate marble, and it eupyorted on antique paw feet. CatatatAattai.--These su tntb articles are meant to supply the place of giran. gales t they are usually formed after those beautiful /*linens found among the ruins in Rome. The following article deserves particUlar notice for the peculiar elegance. of its construtliun : . the taste of the design h as b een ascr ib e d to t h e Countess' of The body is of gold, richly d eco . ;Fated with antique ornaments in bronze ada.Gra. The base is painted to 'resemble marble, and is sup. ported byantique female chimer as i n b ronze ; ed with Vitruirian scroll ornaments. The stetn the Candelabra is entwined with Egyptian water. leaf. A cup of gold, decorated with bronzed or. haments, suppittng an antique figure for lights, or foliage branches, surmounts the whole of thii beau. tiful piece of furniture, which is more magnificent than costly.' • Yesterday a Court of Common Council' was held 41 Guildliall, at, which the LORD MAroa, 'even. 4 1 in Aldermen, Recorder, Sheriffs, Common Serjean t, Urn clerk, and other City UScers, with above two hundred Commoners, attended. The Committee for Letting the City Lands re. Ported, that they were prosecuting the reference from the Court, in regard to the improvement of §mithficld Market s with as much expedition as pos. sible, The Court proceeded to the Elation of a Second Clerk to the Court of Requests, in the room of Mr. Lencm. The Candidates for the. above pl jce were Messrs. DAVIS, LWOW, and YIioWARDI and, on casting up the ballot, there appeared, For Mr. Fasson 95 Mr. Davis to Mr. Yeowatd Si When Mr. F4sson was 'lettered duly elated. The Court also proceeded to the Elation ;of a trcond and Third Cipic, to the New Coal Markel, Wider the Aft .of Parliament for r establishing a Free Market in the City of London for the Sale of Coals, 4 :c. and on casting up the Ballot the numbers were is follow r. 44rti3 '. , n 5 Mr. Mankin • 25 Richardso n • - 1,30 Mr. Daley, . -. 1$ Fly? Hitch 9/ 4 41 Mr. 'Utica $ When thst'lotto NLVVOR declared the Elation to Lave fallen upon Messrf.CurrlS and RICHARpSON. , We are happy pa state that Lord Hiotßowsir Much better last night. Ile is attended by otter Vit s and Surgeon House A numerous Oft of Nobility and Gentry went yesterday to in usafter his'Prdsl)ip . 's health, Hex M43/sTY * graciously pleased to be in the list of in (pi Government have at length closest their Contra& *il . l ) Mr? gP 474 - for 4*(4,4445 coinage aPmpencf for Ireland, at his celebrated Mint at 13 . kftea4 of the Crown andßurp on'the re at4t (.911Ae! fTEctiji al' of that wing' 1 74 the 'impression of Britanni a will appear like I 4 coinage of g og j an d p emblem atical of the Union; arnll Itls 49id, as ti step towards equalizing the t „ C in a&e• twelve, and nut thirteen of these pence ere, 4n future, to be the change fur a shilling. 3o r Died on Wednesday last, in Loodgn, acts Sitouca, EN. of Islc,wuk quo Teener 'IMAM Fl ZritZ IV ri a 4y j!6/, IVIAURIIY, OCT. Y6.—=We have just received the disagreeable intelligence, that near oat) galley slaves. at Carthagena, have made their escape, after murdering the guard. According to an accurate statement of the mor tality at Malaga, anti its neighbourhood, the num. ber of the dead, from the commencement of the Epidemy to the latter end of SepteMber, amounts to 2i,000 persons. STOCKHOLM, Nov. :3. —Yesterday the melan. choly intelligence arrived here, that a dreadful confia. gration has destroyed nearly two-thirds of the City of Christenehamm, a place celebrated for its annual fairs of iron. The snm granted by the States of Pomerania to the King of Sweden, amounts to zoo,ooo six dollars. HAOU r, Nov. 22.—The Government of State has demanded of the Legislative Body, authority to receive a million of florins, for the expences in. cuffed in 1803, for building and equipping the Ships of the Republic. • General MARMUNT has left Amsterdam to assist at the Coronation of the Emperor of the French.— General VIGNOLLE will command in his absence. 'PAR IN, Nov. 27. --Admiral GANTHRAUMS and General AUGER EAU have left Brest, for the puff. pose of attending at the Coronation of His Majesty the Emperor. IVI. MeLzt, Vice. President of the Italian Re. public, is also to come to Fontainblealt ; he travels three days behind the Sovereign Pontiff. M. MA. "itiscALcut, Ambassador frciM that Republic, has left Paris to meet M. MeLzt. The Archbishop of Paris has ordered public Prayers in his Diocese,on. the cicession of . the C. secration of the Emperor. It is said that the Emperor will take the Oath. on the sth of December, At the ChamP de Kni t dine at the Hotel de Vile on the 7th, and that . thc,§ciwo will give him a fete on the 9th. ROTTEILDAM, Dec. Batayian l o egisla r ; dye Body, in theii Sitting on Friday last, wifh closel doors,_after haying heard the gepori . of flip Committee of Finance, rest.tlyed . pot, to san4ion fife Protiosition of the Government of State, as it is at • present, containing an estimate of the wants of the State for the ensuing year, 0305, an the ground of a difference which has arisen respeeling one of the. Financial Articles of the ConstitUtion, and which !oho decided by the Commission of Twen. ty.seyen. FRANxvottx, Nov. ig.—Reports have been in circulation resprding some misunderstanding be. tweets the Courts of 'Berlin and St. Petersburgh.— Prussia thought it right so strengthen its connexion with Russia as lung as . that Power was disposed to maintain. the Peace of Europe; but when she saw her in close connexion with England, she renewed to her the determination to preserve a stria Neu. Russia chewed some coolness ; and expla. nations followed between the two Courts, which have not been satisfaftory. It was even reported, that a body of Russian Troops was to be assembled in Russian Poland, and that Prussia was forming Magazines at Warsaw ; but the last accounts' state, that the two Cabinets arc reconciled, and that the Neutrality of Prussia has ceased to be offensive to Russia. The Germanic Diet not having hitherto taken into consideration the support of the Imperial Chamber of Wetzlarohis superior Tribunal of the Empire, finding itself menaced with approaching dissolution, in consequence of this inattention, has t4ten the resolution of issuing Decrees, by which it condemns a great number of Princes end States of the Empire to the payment of such sums as are due by them to it. GIBRALTAR, Nov. s. The Fever has now gone completely through the toivn, there not being a single house whose inhabl. tants have escaped the contagion ; and the deaths in Fever have now decreased in consequence to about four or five daily. At the S roth part of the Rock it still continues to rage amongst the Troops; and it is the general opinion of the Faculty, that the disease will not be extirpated till every person has been at. ticked with ir. It it now clearly ascertained tube the malignant pestilential Fever s such as has pre. Vailed in the West Indict since. 1793 ; and it is a remarkable fad, that the only persons who espy; the contag ion are such as have had the: Fever in t he West Indies, or the'Fever at Philadelphia or IVlalaga. Jr does not appear that any instance has occurred of any person here having received the infeEliOn a se. COO time.. More than one-third of the inliphitanit have been carded otr by it ; and all newly-arrived people are infallibly attacked with it, and it gene. rally proves fatal to them. Several ramiliee who had escaped the disease at the South, / .where they were encamped, have been univeleally "ttacked on their moving into town. The principal deaths, within these few days, are, Major Andrews, a Bar. rack-Master-Getteral, and his wife; Mr. Dent, of the Naval Hospital ; Dr. and Mre. : Geddes ; Dr. Galbraith, loth Regiment; Mrs. Pownall, wire of the Naval Storekeeper; Lieutenant Weisernbach, of Da Rolle's Regiment ; Mr. Glynn, Danish Cqn., sul ; Mr. Gazzo, Imperial Consul. Marlborough great sheep fair was well furnished with sheep and lambs, which sold brisk in. the morning ; afterwards ;he sale became fiat, and cloud with a Tedium price, that rook off' the gra4t.eikt part 9f the stock ; and we are inlortued so many sheep never before appeared at this annual fair. y c ,te i jsy morning, owing to the fag (which was the thickest that we remember for some years). several accidents happened atnpng the Craft an she kiver. Two or three watermen had their boats stove, and one man was dreadfully bruised. Sc. venal \Tench under sail were obliged to drop their anchors. Wednesday se'nnight a than walking from Qin raw to Dum b arton, owing Iv site 'Naomi, the draw .bridge . m where the read eres t h e Grand Canal, and fell AWO .w 044 Altltauglt speedily taken out, he was found tube liCttleas, and the c. n n. Ton methods toed for restoring suspended anima. lion weee tried without tiled. COURT OF KING'4 Dietiqzg, 6. if AMILTON de. taNGI4/64 ) EXCCUTOR OF EVANS. Mr. Etsxine, in 'stating the circumstances of this case, said, it - Would afford a lamentable proof that the sordid passion of avarice would, if en: eouraged, deitroy every generous feeling of the human heart'; and not only that, but it woulasalso swallow up the source of every moral duty. . The man of whbm he was about to make mention was dead; but while living, .he was an instance unri. valled In the annals of parsimony and avarice. The alion was brought to recover fool. on a bill of exchange, given under the following circumstances A son of old Evans, a bookseller in • Paternoster. row, had married a sister of the Plaintiff': and they being distressed, the father was applied to ; but upon that, as upon all other occasions, he refused to put his hand in his pocket. The friends of the young man being anxious to serve him, and having it in contemplation to send him to America, it was agreed that a Mr. Wilkie should borrow soot. of Longman, on the understanding, that although the father : would not then let his son have the money, he ,had, half promised to repay it if it were advanced by any, body else.—Long man acctirdingly advanced the money, upon the Plaintiff agreeing to indorse the note,' and Long. man agreed that he would take the value nut in printing work, as Hamiltonused•to print for him. The tnntley being, thus raised, .the young man was tent to America. Failing in his objett he returned to this copntry ; but his - father would , never either see or assist him, and fled from his son and hid himself from :an the worlds , lie continually re. fured all intercession made in behalf of him, and suffered him literally -to wander a beggar through the street, anti from no other motive but his sordid avarice, because he 'would not spare him any money. The young man, c;hauated with fatigue and hunger, one day fell down in the street near Shoreditch Church, having only just strength . enough to articti -1 late 6 . No. 32, Paternoster-row." He was put in a coach and carried there, : when the father 'Finset! his, son admittance. lie was accordingly turned Irons the coach, and agairi•Arictered the streets all night. The next day some' one gave him sixpence and procured him admittance to Bartholomew's Hon. 'Vital, •where the wretched being shortly expired. At the.time he behaved with this inhumanity to his son, he , was possessed of 7 or 80001. all of which, instead of leaving to.his grandchildren, he bequeath. ed to ashopman. . • : i •- • Mr. Wilkie was called, 'who proved his inter view with old - Evans, and his •endeavours to get. the 1001. from .him for his son. :He used to do any thing to put Off lhei . evil day of parting from his money ; but he seemed inclined to make himself an ' towable, if ' any . body would; •rsise - the Money for the present moment. He, clidAtot, .however, pro. anise him absolutely that he would pay it. ' After the ton's return he 'could never 'get - access to' the old man, he hid himself front all the world. 'Robert Butters said htf . knew old Evans. The son called on him when he Was: ino , starving state, and was literally eating , the leaves from off the trees. He repeatedly called . on old Evans- on his behalf, but hc.neverenstl4l ger.isn rthing from him 7 , ' , The old man always complained of poverty, and said he must shortly go to'the workhouse. . He would bear nothing about the boy, for ha could not aiSist him. He spoke to him about the notnin.question, and. about two others of Sri. ; - the latter he said he knew nothing abctut, but that the tool. was a just debt, and he would pay it' when he vas able. The note was not produced in'evidence, it being admitted to be burned in the fire - at Mr. Hamilton's house' in Fleet-street.. --• . .• - - Lord ELLemeottotion observed to the Jiffy, that they must do justice by the ruleS of law, what ever their feelings might be, The last witness had proved , old h:vans's 'acknowledgment; but at the same time, Mr. L. the Defendant, as Executor, was bound not to pay any sum out of the estate that was not legally proved, and, therefore, not blameable in defending the ailion.—Vertliet lot Plaintiff for tool. rioUNSY otr! CRORGg SHE HERD. The Plaintiff" is an 'ironmonger, the Defendant brandy merchant. The latter wishing to have a kitchen , range and topper, had given an order to the forther to trait them. The copper did not' ad. join the range, but intermediately communicated with it by a flue, which was to convey -the heat from the culinary fire to the copper, without 'any expenditure of coalein addition to what was re. quires* for the purposes 'of the. kitchen. By' some strange' mismanagement, the bottom part of the copper Was placed below the region of the fire . in the grate, so that the heat, which, like the sparks, naturally flies upwards, bad very little circa upon the , copper. Under a violent fire in the stove for the space of fourteen bouts, the water in the copper with di ficulty acquired a .blood hear. This ad km wvj brOuglit fur t7l. to'. Bd, being the value claime&for these articles. . _ •_. _ Mr. ERSKINS, for 'the Plaintiff, admitted, that the grate and copper were not construtted on those philosophical ptinciples which , modern ingenuity had acknowledged ; the order was, however, exo. cuted precisely trt conformity with the . direeliorr of the Defendant, end if the latter had made 'a mis.. take, and had presumed. to intt dere wish the' su perior information of the Plaintiff in the immedi. atestticle.s of his own trade, he must suffer for his Mewl. PARK; and LAWS{ argued, that the Plaiptilr received no such enters,- and That it• was out The 'absurdity oftheir Client-, but c►f the De.. fondant, who expected that the eternal sild lire« vocable laws of nature should pay. obedience to his fist. The Jury being Informed that the grate and other materials were in Westminster .11,111, and could not be conveniently brought into the body of the Court, with the permission of the Loa o Justice!, they were pertnittrd to ermine them. They were attended by the Titistair, who had cx. Tress orders nut to permit them to communicate with any perion whatever. Lord Et.t.attuotte►ur►tto-w►"There are two quest tiaras to, which 'your attention wilt be diretted. First, if the work were done according.to the terms of the order next, if not executed according to %HUN. lii 1,0,6&.1iLVIIII. 1%0.. 1.1 TV p i • all objediun, on (lit noti,compitance with hl3 in:- strUnions ?" His Lordship then entered'tnintitely into the dencc ; and, after two minutes consideration, a din wal foUnd (or the Defendant. . One of:the Jurors ininiediately afferwards sign'. fed to his Lordship, that on a mhiute inspettion of the materials, his colle.lues had all agreed they )ifere wholly unfit for 'the inlopose for which they *ere inten - TUR;IBR DESISKOW. The fibintifr is a paWnbroker • the• 1/afend3nt..i4 a than of 1. 0 residitig in arm 6th-street, Berke, ley-square. action was brought on a Bill or Exchange, dated the 7th of 414, at two months, for the sum of loot. , Mears. Gross and MAR RVAT, for the Plaintiff, proved the authenticity of the. accept. ance by the Dc(Oll4,lM. Mr. GAlttioW, for the lielendant, said, this Bill was payable to a Gentleman of great business in bill negotiation, whom the Jury would recolleo when he mentioned the name of William Stephen. son. This was the friendly connexion. by which . the Hon. T. W. Coventry, end his turf acquaint ance, Mr. Emden, whom the Jury had di4overed in a late cause had been accommodated with sock considerable atnounts. Hq. lloutti skew on the present occasion, - by the same Witness, if it were possible to extraa the truth from him, that tilt Bi.ll in question was usurious, and could Pot support the pretensions of the Plaintiff. He then congratulated Mr. Stephenson On seeing him in such gOod 4414 p, latnented extremely his own pnWCIS tot the interrogation of so flipC,IV, g o gspondtnr, .44t1 invited hint into the Witiost's box. , Mr. WILI.IAti STEPIIHN4oN extimintq. Q. " Is this bill indorsed by you ?"—A. " Yes; it lA." Q. " To use the technical 'term, Sir, it is dthe by you with the Plaintiff ?“—A. " Yes, it is," Q. As, Sir, you arc a man of business, and your valuable moments cannot be misapplied, I shall he glad to know on what terms it is afore."--A. 14 I cannot at all recollea the conditions," The Witness being pres s ed further, after a king pain, acknowledged, that the returnfor tint bill t)y the Plaintiff • was not all in hard cash, but that la had been interchanged in plate and ,je vellcry. Q. " And pray, Sir, wag all this pore humaniry, to assist ti.e Defendant, or did you rectiVe Write little frivolous commission for your trouble A. " What I did was from the itnpulie of dis. interested friendship." Q. " Excuse me, I. thought you *ere the grid 'iron, whether hot or cold I do not decide, upon which this money was thrown ; and I could not exactly tell !how much had fallen through. Pray, had you any other money transaftions with tifir Gentleman ?"—A. Thiat was e;se second renewal of the same bill." Q. " Now you recollee some of the circum. stances, perhaps you may call to mind what the Plaintiff paid for it i"—A. " I think it was eighty rano;111 Tlll and twenty pounds in goods." Q. "Now, Sir, upon the peril of the pillory (I wile not say to you upon the sacred obligation of your oath), iva's a single article of there goocii - de. livered to the Defendant, fie witoot you profess this sublime and generous friendship " Memory cue's not supply me with an answer to your question ; hut thus much 1 can say,' that the De, fondant was in the habit of delivering tne bills, td get discottnted in the best way, and upon the most advantsfiout terms I could." Q. " - I have asked you, Sir, what became of the goods ; and there arc but three ways in which you could have answered me ; either you delivered them to the Defendant, fluid them to otivers, kept them yourself. Now, I will hatte an answer, to which of these three modes of conveyance you condescended " There is a fourth way, whiCh has eluded your ingenuity ; I Might haves pledged the , property for account of the lHentlant." Q. '' Where, Sir, may I find you, if we shnuld want to hang you ?"--A, " At your service, in ig At last d have done ,some service to the corn. munity, if not to my client, by giving information of the place of residence of this useful merubtr, o l society." Verdict for the Plaintiff, principal a u interest. 10214 101. At Ipswich Quarter Sessions, on Thursday tart, yhis.siott, for stealing a .rdl. note from Ralph, Stilton; and Irilfia;m fireilim, for stealing sundry articles of wearing apparel from Joseph Orford, were sentenced to be transported for seven years. `On Friday last William Brooker, one of the su. perintendants of the extensive colliery at Staveley, Oerhysliite, king at the bottoroof one pf the shaft,. (which are n e ar three hundred feet deep), a piece of bind fell front the side upon his head, and traCtured his skull in so shocking a manner, that he langui3hect and remained totally insensible till he died the nigh hut ohe following. A Coroner's Inquest has been taken an the bidy of an inlet abOut a year old, heionging to and Sarah Shghtan, of Coalrit.larte,, in Nottitigh,im, whose life was lost nn Tuesday se'nnight, by a titu4 administered for Antimonial wine, but which. fottun'ately, turned out fq o f The drug watt, sold .hy mistake at the shop at a neighbouring druggist,,,and given by the p:itint s without the least suspicion of its baoeftil qualities. Medical ald proved and the p little innocent died in the most excruciating agony. Yesterday a Coronet's ,kcpie,s wa s held at t he Brown Bear publicAtousc, in Worship-preet, upon the body of a thiutan between fifty and sixty years of age, who died in the street on MondAy after noon last, in an apoplectic fit. The Jury•r,etttrned a- yerdja, O M she Lied ly tittifisitatiou of Pod. A keelm,m; . svho was Cutely employed to carry anme pu n che o ns, of new 3* 1.1 111 hi* vessel ft'orrt Shields, d rew c if a coosiderable triunity, with which he treated his neighb,tiurs as . soon as,he mr_ rived at home. The evcni, however, watt' AWEIJI . ; for the donor, — ln eon;;equeatte thedeleteriuOs'ef. feels of the new liquor, vs'as seize& with a locked jaw, of 'which he died, while the lives of several ot his guests were much cmiatigercti. I r