The Sun. — London, England, 1804-01-24 00:00:00

PORTSMOUTH, lAN. 23.--Arrived tilt Ship idzin, ISENWICK, from Demerara, boual to London. Sailed under convoy of the Ciebester Mari or War, and parted company in a dreadful gale of wind in about lat. 42. or 43. and 'long. 4.4. and a few tlays afterwards fell in with the Baceim and Matilda, two of the Fleet, all well. The Ants brought to about four o'clock, and before six all her hands were impressed; and it blowing very hard at the same time, she was expeded momentarily to be driven on shore, having no assistance on board. Arrived the William Briifon4 fioni St. Wind S. W. blows very hard. DEAL, JAN. 23.—Came. in the Jackal/ and Mariner Gun.brigs, from a cruize off Ostend; the Merlin from a cruize off Havre; and the Fury, from the Note. • Sailed the Bloodhound Gun.brig for the Nore. The'Ship Dick, reported yesterday, is carried into Ramsgate Harbour,' with the loss of her bowsprit. In the Downs—the Monarch, Utrecht, Leda, Inimorta lite, Arab, i3rilliant, Champion; Perseus, Fury, Autumn, lionnetta, Harpy, Merlin, Speedwell, Archer, Basilisk, Jack_ all, Locust, Starling, Mariner, Abundance Store-ship, Dept.- ford Lighter, with the outward-bound as per last. fYAAMOPTH, JAN,' 2 2Friday P. M. arrivied rom TOnningeirthe Embden Packet, 1-14Ns PE TTPR SON, with Passengers, who were landed here ; th e Packet having lost an anchor and cable, is come in here to refit ; also arrived from Heligasnd, the Lark Packer, Captain DELi v , with Mails and Pas. zengers. Yesterday arrived the. 'Svipe Gun.brig, to take the Ships bound front this Fort to ;reland, laden with barley, under convoy. Sailed the Magirienn e Frigate to Sheerness to re. ft; and the, Lark Packet, and G ood intent Bye ? bast, to Harwich. The Ships of War remain as per last, except the Magicians Frigate..... Wind fresh brce4c.at . ,w... SXTkACT OF 4 LITTER :FROM ON BOARD HIS MA. IRsTY'S nut AN JAN. ) . Loy I, D.vrap op• YLvsnING, 74, 1 804. " The ibadope, with a strong Squadron of Fri. gates, keeps .close in wi t h t h e Island of Walcheren, which enables us to see all the movements of t h e enemy, wh o are now exceedingly strong, both i n troops and gun .b oats ; th e y say they intend coming out immedi ate l y , b ut if they do, to a certainty i t so of will add anot h er laurel to th ose Our gall on C ommo d ore , ten e arne d b y 4• Sir sipszy, experienced a very narrow escape an undrawn sword hungrising up hastily, entered between hi s fourth and f i f t h rib, and gave-hima desper ate woun d, Imit, th an k G, he i s now well again. `, The Ene oo my for some time ast have been ver busy in marchin y Coast, b ut a g Troops from p place to place on t hi s ppear dism ayed at the formidable Squa uf Holland. dross that closely block up every Port on the Coast " To the N. E. of our station, the Africaine, Capt. ArlAwni-, s:vitlia SquadrOn of Frigates and Sloops under his orders, completely block s up every thing at H e his and Rotterdam; whilst Admiral 'IHO'RNBOROUGH secures with his Fleet every thin that m a y attempt to quit the exel. The Dutch g T Coast, thus watched by three such aftive Officers, ought to quiet the minds of all those who dread the approach of an invading army from Holland. " The Amtelope has not received any material damage from her striking the ground off Elanken. burgh. The weathe r has been very severe, during the last six weeks, which has caused several vessels belonging to the merchants to be wrecked offHel them o f great value.troetiluys—though principally America ns , some of " 4DAIIR4I4TY BOARD, .—„,... , Tat(itquisition of Sir HARRY NEALI and Col. -1;414011 would naturally lead the Public to hope that a °'at,nge Uf. . ntavners, as w eal as measures, would be tut. consequence, The Public mu st un clerstand that the whole direOion rests with three Lords, who will not suffer even the Navy Board to have a !oice : therefore, whenever we shall have occasion to speak of this Beard, our Readers will perfedly understand us, We have looked with im patience for the jive hundr and tzventy gun.ho4ts which Tbe T;mes stated we ed possessed--we hav e in. Suited of our different Correspondents at the Sea - Ports ; they cannot gain any tidings of them ; we bear, however, of some launches and flats at the D oc , that are armed with a carronade, and that ac4ert men of war have armed launches and flats on board : surely to humbug the Nation I. the Admiralty do not mean flotilla." 1t is truly vext)tyl Callin gto re ad such boats of the numerous divisions of the truly 's one Port into liatntoi un boats escap ing From therY. .Iglie-Public to ld that they draw S „, approach' them. _e water that our v a es re se e ls ma c r a . nnot k to the Public, that uthoottrf part We shall been captured wer e tiat ew of therm kea by veryvessels small I w r hicll have war, viz. The Griffin, cutter: Speculator, 'lugger; Joseph, cutter; Lady Elgin, do. And in defi ance of with the b atter i es. The complaint small all our the i s, that if they had such craft they could W intercep t t h e gun -b oats . li why do not the Admiralty build, buy, or hir e i ONAPARTE has c ompletely e qu i ppe d above B°° gunboats since the War, and Lord Sr, VINCENT has launched One sloop of war, and hired or pur chased about zo vessels. Well may Ministers b e e in are such rep eate d frights about the Invas M ion, W rather inclined to think that the headless ghost which The Times has said so touch about, may have_ been some Membe r o abo ut f Admi n i strat i on wan d er i ng in the dark. Archer, gun-bug; Vixen, do. Basilisk, do. COURT K 7 G's BENCH, TAN. 23. TA Is - day - being ti:c first of the Term, the Court did not , sit :Intil•ne:x half after twelve o'clock. The first business was, as usual, that of the Jils_ tification of Bail, in the course of which the only thing remarkable was, that of Mr. Graham, Auc tioneer, late Candidate, as we understood, to rcpre. sent the City of Westminster in Parliament, offering to justify a Bail for the sum of 6001. but he_ was opposed, and he did not justify. HYNDE V. DAY. Mr. t aSKINE moved for a Rule to shew Cause why the Nonsuit should not be set aside, and a new Trial had in this case. This was an adion brought by the Plaintiff, as the Proprietor of the Copy-right of a ,S.ang, written by Mr. Dibdin, and set to music, against the Defen dant, for having pirated .an edition of it. TlNe Song ' was printed upon a single sheet of paper, and Lord ELLFNBOROUGH held at the trial that the Statute of the Bth of Ann, c. 18. made for the Encouragement of Learning, dtd not extend .to the publication of any work that was contained in a single sheet of any kind, because the words were " a bound book, or stitched in sheets," &c. which could not he the case of a single sheet—that this was not only the case as it stood under the Statute of Ann, but the same prin ciple pervaded sevoral other Statutes made for the protedion of Literary property—they all stated .their provisions to be applicable to Books bound or - stitched in sheets, &c. and the Song in question was printed on a single sheet—for these reasons Lord ELLENBOROUGH direfted the Plaintiff to be Nonsuited. Mr. EasiturE now moved, that the Nonsuit should be set aside, and a new Trial had. He said he moved this by the leave of the Chief Justice, hut Lord ELLENBoRoucu said, he did not recollea that he gave any such leave at the trial, for he did not know of any point that was saved in this case ; but, however, perhaps it would be as well to grant a Rule to spew 'Cause : after the Judges had con ferred for a little while, Lord ELLENDOROUGH asked Mr. Ert.stotlE, if he thought there was any thing in this point that he could make any thing of when Cause came to be shewn against the Rule ? Mr. ERszttrat Said, he had not been able to look into the Case since it was diSposed of at Nisi Pritks. Here the Case rested for the present. THE KING I V .CLARKS. The COMMON SER E ANT MOM' to quash an Order of Sessions, by which the Defendant was ap. pointed as one Overseer of the Poor of a Parish in the City, and that person had refused to aa, and by which the Poor were said to be starving. This was an illegal appointment, and these were the ef_ fees of it. . Lord ELLErrytottoucx asked, whether the better course would not be to move fur a Mandamus to order the Justices to swear in two Overseers, as the Law requires. But the COMMON SERI EANT said it was the wish of the Parishioners to get rid of the bad one first, and then they might move for a Man_ damus.—Rule to chew Cause why the Order of Ses sions should not be quashed—Granted. SEA WALLS. A Motion was made for granting the Cornmis sioners of Sewers in Hampshire, time to make a re turn to a Mandamus, commanding them to repair a Sea Wall. The ground alledged was, they had not fully informed themselves with resped to the level of that part of the Coast on which the reparation was required. Lord EL!,ENBOROUGH observed, that they had al. ready had sufficient time for making every necessary inquiry. What had recently, happened from the ne giea of repairing Sea Walls, rendered it highly pro. per that the Court should insist on an immediate compliance with its mandates on such a subjeet ; be. sides, the situation of the Country ,at the present mo ment precluded the possibility of granting even the slightest indulgence to the Commissioners of Sewers, if they were negligent of their duty.—The appli cation was accordingly refused. Abraham Ergas was brought into Court to be charged upon an Indictment for a Libel upon a re speftable Lady at Hackney, with a view to defame her CharaCter, stating, that she took in and brought up, indiscriminately, il!egititnate chit dien, &c. &c. He pleaded, Not Guilty—and gave Bail, &c. but was remanded to risen on account of some other Detainer. COURT OF COMNION PLEAS, TAN. 23. A Rule was moved for by Mr. Serjeant BAILEY, to shew cause why the Judgment which had been entered up in the case of Levy v. Smith, should not be set 'aside for irregularity. The Plaintiff brought his Aaiun on a Bill of exchange fir 4001. accepted by•the Defendant. It was stated, that this bill was accepted by the Defendant for the accommodation of a_ third person, but had not been put in circulation until after it was due, when it was indorsed over to the Plaintiff. The Defendant is at present a prisoner for debt. The Court condemned this praElice which was now become very prevalent, of persons accepting hills merely for accommodation, without having any real value for them. Such persons were not much entitled to claim assistance in a Court of jus tice, on the ground of irregularity in proceeding against them for the recovery of bills so accepted. They, however, desired the Learned Serjeant to take a Rule. Rule granted. . On Thursday last a melancholy accident happened at Dean Gate Mill, near Winchester : as one of the grinders was attending the tackle for the purpose of hoisting the corn from the waggon, his round frock entangled in the works, and before the least assist ance could be procured both his arms were bloke, his shoulder put out, hi, hack dislocated, and his body very much bruised. fie is now in the infirmary in that city ; little hares are entertained of his re• covery. . , . V - gstEttbAY meroing the long-talked-of contest between Bourke, and Pearce of E?isto), ..known ,by the name of the Chicken, took place on. Wimbl edon Comm - on. The place of meeting was not de_ termined on until Saturday las'f, ,to prevent the interference of 'the Police. About ten o'clock in the morning the combatants sat off in two hackney coaches from town, attended by their Seconds and Bottle-holders, and followed by a vast concourse of people interested in the event of the battle. On Wimbledon Common by eleven o'clock, there were assembled upwards of a thousand spec. tators, many of whom were on horsenack, in gigs, curricles, or post chaises,; but by the time the ring was formed, which was about half an hoot - 4(er, the numbers cun: , idtrabiy exceeded ten thousand per sons. • At five minutes before twelve the parties stripped, and prepared for the contest. On strip. ping, the Chicken displayed so 'Much more muscu. lar strength than Bourke, that the Bets were hurtle. 'diately 6 to 4. in his favour. The first, second, and shit" Rounds were not dis tinguished for much science Of se vere blows on either side, though the advantage was throughout in fa. your of the Chicken, who threw his antagonist twice out of the three rounds. In the fourth and fifth rounds, Bourke received several severe blows on the nose, which bled profusely ;, but this did not prevent him from keeping upon his legs, and closing with the Chicken, wham he,threw each time. In the sixth round, Bourke threw in a severe blow„ which struck his .adversary under.the left eye.; and -he closed and threw him. The seventh and eighth rounds were in favour of the. Chicken, who threw in several blows at Bourke's head. Two of these struck him in the mouth, which bled so much as almost to choak him. The bets were then two to one in favour.of the Chicken. In the ninth round, Bourke had evidently the advantage ; he threw in several well-direaed blows at the Chicken's head, two of which took circa, and the latter fell. The tenth, eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth, were among the most se vere rounds, in which Bourke had the advan tage. From the fourteenth round to the twenty third the Chicken had decidedly the best of 'the hattle : he gave his adversary so many cross buttocks as to render him almost breath less. Bourke not having the advantage once In three rounds, convinced all acknowledged judges that he was unable to cope with the Chicken, who was in respea to strength, considerthly his superior. After the twenty-third round the friends of Bourke advised hi .:n to give in, which he refused ; but the twenty fourth round decided the battle, the latter receiving a dreadful blow on the nose, which knocked him down flat, and he remained in a state of inset'_ . sibility fur a few moments. The Chicken, of course, was then declared the vido. Throughout the whole of the rounds hut little science was displayed on either side, except sparring a great.deal, and which was praliscd on both sides before the heavy blows were struck ; but when the combatants became warm they fought more fiercely. In many of the latter rounds Bourke attempted to throw in several blows with. the whole force of his body, which were avoided by the shifting of the Chicken, and Bourke fell upon his face each time, and was, of course, much weakened by these repeat ed falls. Owen was Second to Bourke, and So!ly his hot-, tle-holder. Gibbons was Second to the Chicken, and Caleb Baldwin bottle-holder. The match was for so guineas aside, but several thousand pounds were depending.- The Chicken was the favourite throughout. Among the cornpany present were, Col. STEW. ART, Captain HALLIDAY, Lord CAMELFORD, Mr. FLETCHER READ, &C. &C. The contest lasted one hour and z 5 minutes. After the above battle another rook plate, ,be tween George'llfaddocks and one Seabrook, a dust man, which was settled in three rounds ; the dust man complaining that he had sprained his wrist. Maddocks afterwards fought a Black, whom be likewise beat after a few rounds, the last of which was settled by his giving his sable opponent a dreadful blow over the right eye, which felled him to the earth. Bourke was carried off' the field in a hackney_ coach, and taken to `vVandsWorth, where he was bled by a Surgeon, and afterwards carried to his lodgings, near the New Church, in the Strand, and put to bed. Although he is dreadlully mangled in the face, and otherwise much bruised, no se rious consequences are likely to ensue. So 'far from the Chicken being materially hurt, he jumped about a fter the contest, apparently unhurt. He is twenty six years of age, and a native of Bristol, W. Ward said he would back him against any man in the Kingdom for 5031. • A Sporting Gentleman, of:Yorkshire, won a con siderable bet the other day, on the extreme extent to which.a pound of cotton could be drawn in a thread, by one of the Manchester Spinning Jennies : the loser said that it would not reach two miles in length"; but on admeasurement it was found to ex ceed twenty-tierce. The High Court of Justiciary at Edinburgh met on Tuesday last, to pronounce sentence on the ver. dirt of the Jury in the case of John found guilty of culpable homicide. The judges, after delivering their opinions at some length, sentenced him to he imprisoned in the Tolbooth of Edinburgh for nine months, and then to be liberated. John Cowie, convifted of the murder of his wife, Was executed on Thursday, at the 'West end of the Tolbooth, Edinburgh. Ele*was assisted in his de votions by the Rev. Mr. BRUNTON, one of the Mi. nisters of that city. On Wednesday se'nnight, about seven o'clock in . the evening, a Gentleman was attacked at Low Hill, near Liverpool, by three footpads, who dragged him off his horse, and robbed him of se veral bills, a silver watch, and a pair of saddle bags ; with which they got clear off, and have hitherto eluded the u'most vigilance used for their apprehension. . • . p c p Ts Thorns ..Ralnsh.y, who is in-custody on suspicion cf bei:g concerned with Ccnoi gang inAntstling robbing Messrs. HAMMERSLEY'S Clerk, of Qxtr,i bank-notes to the amountof near 30001. in isle , er,. street, about twelve months since, was brought up for further examination. The evidence of Ben-, nett, who stated, that he utteled OxfOrd bank notes, which were proved to he part of those stolen, which be received from the Pris Oner, and had ta, tered in different parts of the country, and for which he received half the amount, was fully gone into This man's evidence was confirmed by a wtiiter from the Flying Horse Inn, at Warwick, who proved Bennett, and the Prisoner, to have been in company together at the time of the last races for that county, when the notes were uttered. A wo_ man from Litchfield likewise prayed a similar cumstanee. Mr. CONST, who attended . fo't the 11:14, said, that with this corroboration he certainly should ad.. vise the Prisoner to be inditted as a principal, as he could not account for the possession of the notes. The Prisoner was committed for trial at the next Assize for the County of Warwick, and the parties bound over to prosecute. CHARGE 01; NURDER. Information being received by Sir RICDAR FORD; on Sunday, that a man !ed been shot in Major Mußcor's garden, in Kensington-gore, on, Saturday night, he gave 'direaions to Bacon, the Captain of the Parrole for that Distfift, to make . inquiries respeCting the circumstance; when it alt... peared, that on Thursday night the copper and lead belonging to Major Meta cor's house., had bee 4.4, stolen therein ; and on - Friday, when some men were turning over a dung-heap, they found the cop_ . per and lead 'concealed, supposed to be for thc• purpose' of carrying them o at a convenient op. portunity ; in consequence of which, two mea were appointed to watch the dung.heap, which they accordingly did. On Friday night nothing particular happened. On Saturday' night two rozri came and attempted to take away the copper and the • lead, and in the scuffle with the two men who were sitting up to secure them, one of them was shp;- The man who did the fatal deed was taken into cus. tody. His name is Miniel Done; Viz. Yesterday he underwent an examination beforo Sir R. Foal), and the account he gave was, that he, in company with another man, were engaged to watch on Saturday . night ; that they were armed with pistols ; and that they stationed themselves in the wood_bouse„ About half-past eight o'clock on Saturday night, two men cause into the yard, and proCeeded to take out the lead. He then went between them and the gate, intendit, to drive them into the yi',l-d; and' • there, to apprehend them, desir og them to surrender. The smallest wits armed with a drawn sword; the, deceased said to the other Man, ''Go round him,'" and cut . his head " The deceased •accordingly . made a cut at him, but which missed him by Ilk slipping on one side ; the other man threw a brick-, hat at him, which hit him on the breast : * several. more were thrown at him, which missed hiM. At' this time the deceased was closing with him,. and. he then fired a pistol at him, after which the de., • cease d moved ,about twenty or yards, - . 'a-113 - then fell.• He was discharged, it appearing that he had ac ed self-delenc6. Strange Circumstance.—For some time back, the small_pox, at - Bolton.de2Nloors,.has been remarkably fatal, and great numbers of children have died there. of; a family in Spring Gardens, in that town, hav ing a child dead of the same, about a cottniglq ago) on the day of interment, the parents, with Fort . attendants, went to the Old Church, with the body of their infant, as they thought, and all due cere... many was performed ; after which, on their return home, the utmost surprise was occasioned by oer ceiving that the dead body was 'still up on t h e b e d,,, and an empty coffin had been interred: an applica tion was made to the clergymm concerning the same, but he would not suffer it to be taken up, - and they had the consolation to be obliged to purchase a fresh coffin and pay extra dues, for an inattention that we should have utterly discredited unless warranted to us on good authority.---Blackburn Mail. A melancholy accident happened at Deal on Thursday last :—A daughter of Capt. WEST EAC H, of the Navy, about nine or ten years of age, being on a visit at Mr. How si,n's (her Grat4lather), was left alone in a room .where there was a file, and it is supposed when endeavouring to blew it, a spark flew on her, which set her clothes in a blaze. She ran screaming into the yard, when the servant maid, on seeing the child on fire, ran' to the pump for water, and poured it all over her, which extin guished the fire, but the child being so dreadfully burnt, lingered until next day in great agony, when she expired. A singular phenomenon has lately been witnessea in the Canton of Vaud, in Switzerland. Several Foxes, in-A state of madness, have approached, irt mid-day, the dwellings of the inhabitants, and fu riously attacked both men and beasts. &nue of them have been hunted and taken, and on their being disseFled the organs of digestion were found to be much inflamed, and in one the teeth were black and carious. In .consequence of these circumstances, some dogs have been shut up, with a cock, which was bitten by one of these !Foxes in a•state of madness, in order to ascertain whether the disorder affeding these animals is the canine hydrophobia. A melancholy accident lately spread desolation amongst the inhabitants of Cervo, a Commune si tuate in the Genoese .territories. A large portion of finely cultivated land, on the side of a mountain, being loosened by a heavy fall of rain, suddenly se parated from the mountain and was carried by the torrent to the sea, where the greatest part of it was swallowed up, together with a vast number of olive trees and vines. Many of the inhabitants have b e e n in consequence ruined, wbilf.t their d.vellings are equally menaced with destruaion from the conse. quences of the accident. Wednesday seirmight, a dreadful fire broke Olt in the Spinning Factory of Mr. Witlenbury, at Stockport, which. as totally consumed in wfore the flames could be ex*guitecl.