The Sun. — London, England, 1817-10-20 00:00:00

justice would have been iMpcded, and that it Would have been necessary to resort to iniyary fo rce ; an d consequently thAt notch blood might have been shed on both sides, particularly as we tvery clay see the'Jacob'iuical rapers of the Me tropolis endeavouring to spread their baneful doctrines, and to excite and justify .Sedition, under the cloak of Reform. Our Ministers can har(!ly be too much praised for proposing that Act, and the People at large behold the go:HI effects of it in the tranquillity with which the trials are pro ceeding, and the awe and respect which ,ittend the course of „Justice. TRIALS AT DERRY.—The Morning Chrrnicle of this day says—" No evidence in tavorr . of a pi l antler, nor any thing said in liis de:es:ce, eau L.:o forth to the Public, while. the owler the commit of Government are made z vehicle for the dissemination of all the infairniation, true or false, which it has received from its various agents, spies and informers." This observation is intended to Ipnly to The Courier,. thich The Clzrodicle is every day puffing, B.tt we can under pretence of political hostility. CONFIDENTLY ASSERT, tbdt Ooveruu►enteu►piuyS no eXpreSSCs to bring intelligence, and has given no information on the sohject .to any of the Papers usua!ly styled Ministerial, whatever any of them -may insinuate. It ~vouid be hard, unjust, and ungrateful, indeed, if Test , Sur:, which has always been eonsistent.in supporting the principles upon which Ministers act, should not at. least be as much attended to ;s any other Journal on the same side of the question, Lotto SIDMOUTtI.—The indisposition of this Nobleman has, we find, been more serious and alarming than ire even stated on Saturday ; but Ive have the pleasure to learn, by accounts front Itchmond Pork, this morning, that his health is much improved. The independent :Editor of The AntiGallican, ye.iterday, expresses his regret that it has been thought necessary to send a Minister to sue for a Commercial Treaty to BERNADOTTE. We should have been glad, indeed, &there had rather been occasion to Send an Embassy to congratulate On his restoration the unfortunate and injured GUsTAVIJs, ‘s louse only fault was his attachment to those principles and that system which accom 'plished tire deliverancv of Europe. The QuLEN has refused all the houses tender 'ed tor 11c.r arColuttridatiOn, it she stiOrild (Aise to rest for a n4:,lit on her journey to Bath. Eler MAJESTY ii id dine at Marlborough, and it is there Only that she intends to stop. The distance from *Windsor to B .tti is eighty-six miles, but the QuEEN's carnage is so cal. that her Physicians do not oppose the attempt to made the joutney in t.ne rhty.—(lleruld.) 'ti,ere was no Cabinet Council held on Saturday. Lord CA , TLFUEAGII teas closeted .a considerable tune at Carbon-honse. Saturday the Duke of CLARENCE visited the PRINCE REGENT. Uu Saturday the PRINCE REGENT, after trans aciir,L! a variety of public business, partook of an early dinner, and lfierward s lett Carlton-house for Br:ghton, to remain there a few days. •Friday night the Dike of YORK arrivedin town lrom the shooting patty at Sudholiro-hall, Suf folk, the seat of t. .e Marquis of HERTFoRD. On Saturday his Royal Highness paid his respects to his Royal Brother the PRINGE REGENT, and trausactrd military busineqs with him. Lord BINNING and Mr. LEYLAND are mention ed as likely to become Candidates for Liverpool, at the next Election. We refer to a paragraph which appeared in an 'evening paper of Friday, containing an account , of a pretended distorbance in the Derby Theatre on Wednesday night, as a remarkable instance of - that spirit of exaggeration by which petpolar tee ings, and even positive facts, are often shamelessly mist epresented. The plain truth is, that a few hisses did proceed from about half a dozen per sons in different parts of the house, during the performance of " God save mite King," for which the audience had not called ; but whether directed against the King, the orchestra, or some particu lar intheidual, it was impossible, from the short. ness of their duration, to discover. The asser th.it atiy person or persons cried out " tons go tree," is utterly false. The colouring of - the rest is snch as to • give to the shadow of truth that may belong to it almost all the characteristics 'of falsehood ; and we should not mike Ibis state ment with so much 'confidence, if we spoke from any other 'knowledge than that of personal obser vation.--('Times J••• - NonwlcH Fv.silv AL.—The Norwich Mercury of ~so,artlay last gives an ample and interesting ac ttount.of the recent Musical Festival at that place, in which .the ,Eilitor, with great taste as well as icattdoor, rendets : dae vraiae to the respective per 4urmers. seems part iculArly to exult in the ;triumph of the fitt . 4Gustf S,C4:looj, on this occasion. ZELLAMY and Mrs..SALZ4OI.I, of courses, are Men- !tioned with merited honour. 1 e gives a liberal eit .cottragetnent to Miss Enivrti .and Mr. Cvz, a .counter-Senor s inger, who is a native of the 'place. VAuGHAN., it appears, retparkAbly himself.; and his Recitative and Air Total Eclipse in particular, received the warmest applause. :vlrs• Jr.3l.lrtclu LAci was also very prominent oil 'the occasion, gad cunt.. in 3 Style of impressive sim plicity and pathos that was highly admired. From ,the account aitogrtlket, we are heartily iu.clined to join with . the Editor, in his satisfaction eau the triumph of the EtcatAsit ScHoot. a 11.)uEL.....00 Friday morning last a meeting took place in Greenwich Park, between Mr. CoKow and ?Mr. W, %VALL.ACE, both Gentlemen of the sister kingdom. The former was attended by Lieutenant Colonel HODPF.R, and the latter by -- BURKE, Est], late of the 44r I) regiment. 'Tab . 6 .hots eac h havib been tired, the was terminated ami cably by the intertgreace sit their friends.—(Morn jns P,opr.) SECOND EIHTI4N. . .• ; SUN-OFFICE, Two &CLOCK Captaiil HALL, of his ritijestY ship 'Lyra, ar- rived this morning from India, and has, as .%ve understand, brought Dispatches, announcing the hatch of our Armies from the different • Presi- . . . , d:ncies to the Interior, in consequence of Hostile Movements on the part of the Maltratta.3, the Pei,havv, and the Rajah of Berar. Further particulars have not transpired. Alit' i\g\Vs.. PORTSMOUTH, OCT. 19 —Arrived yesterday his Majesty's • ships Grecian and Rosario from cruise. The s fine country ship Dorah, EDWARDS, fitting.in this harbour, will be ready for sea in eight or ten days, when she will sail for Madras and Bengal. The Morgan Rattler expected to sail in a day or two for South America, with about 30 young men, to join the Independents : The ship Lady Raffles, from London, is to touch at this port for Sir THOMAS STANFORD RAFFLES, who is going out as Lieutenant-Governor of the Island of Sumatra. DEAL, OCT. 19.—Remains the Severn frigate. PLYMOUTH, OCT. 18 —Arrived the City of Edinburgh, FAULKNER, and Johan Otto, SCHER HURST, front Boordeanx ; Voyager, DUNBAR, from Havanna!) ; GOod Hope, GRATE, from Bil bon ; Hopewell, SMITH. from Barbadoes ; and Redlidieden,GEELmEvpatii from Charleston—the latter with loss of bowsprit, and the Johan Otto with loss of mizen•mast. Sailed the Nautilus, STEWART, for Gibraltar. FALMOUTH, OCT. -17.—Arrived the Duke of Marlborough packet with a mail from Lisbon, in 12 .days, and• Princess Elizabeth packet with a mail from Gibraltar and Malta, 19'days from the former ; also the Good Intent, from Cadiz, and Lavinia, Claws, from Dunkirk . . The Good Intent, in working into the harbour, got on shore on 'a rock off St. Mawes, occasioned by the Muster refusing to take a pilot on board she was got off again without damage. On Thursday the Tiber, Captain DACRES, ed from Portsmouth with water and provisions for the assistance of the homeward-bound trade, which has been prevented by contrary winds trout getting into port : she will cruise in the chops of the Channel, until the wind bas shifted and blown fair forty-eight hours, for -bringing the trade up. Channel. The Inconstant was taken- into Porttnonth Dock on Tuesday, to be repaired, but was found so extensively tlefective, that it is expected she will br broken tip. Some other ship will he com missioned for the broad p,iidaot of Sir JAMBS Yv.o. The Traave has been sold our of the service the Xolus has' beef. taken to njeres. • PORTUGAL. " OCT. 2.--The packet originally appointed to take the mail on Friday night, unexpectedly, a few hours since, announced her intention of having it closed to-night. Without vouching for its authenticity, - we have to mention that some post letters of yesterday spoke of an irruption, or rather entry, of the Spaniards into Portugal at two different points of our frontiers : as we have had many reports of a similar nature during the last it months, much attention was not paid to it, until the extraordinary measure of sending off the packet so shortly after her arrival, and 24 hours sootier than was first appointed for her sailing, caused it to he sup posed as decided on in consequence of the movements of the Spaniards. How far this may be the case we cannot take upon ourselves to say. All that we could find out with certainty is, that the packet is thus hurried off, inconsequence of Don M. P. Forjaz's request to our Envoy here, Mr. Ward; but whe ther (as many will have it) in consequence of the Spaniards having actually entered Portugal with an hostile intent, on the arrival of a vessel after a very short passage, from Rio (the dispatches by which received for England, Don Miguel may wish to send forward as quick as possible) , we will not nor can we determine: though we are in clined, from many reasons, to think - the latter is the. most probable, and that the origin of the reports re lative to the Spaniards rest in the : strong measures which the latter observe in preventing the introduc tion of contraband goods into their kingdom from the Portu guese frontier. It is difficult to suppose that the Spaniards would undertake a war at this moment; and a war would in evitably be the consequence of their eodeavouring to take possession of Portugal, though it should be sanctioned by Treaty, which, notwithstanding the various reports that , have been spread on the subject, hardly appears poll .6;hle. Depeesstal as the natives are, and dissatisfied with the absence of the Royal Family, they - do not stem in clined-to put up with any government that would be forced upon th.em.7 " 2.—This packet goes off express; the Cause is unknown to us. Some say it is believed a Spanish force IS approaching the frontiers of this kingdom it is not certain- Others think it may be to advise the death of Sousa, a Nieni.berl of the Regency. .The Baron Quiutilla also died yestertlay.” ANOTHEit LETTch•—" I trust I shall not mislead.you when I tell you that the S;ianiards have invaded us iu three divi sions, and art rapidly advancing. They have wirb some po licy waited until our troops have been reduced in numbers, and our people out of humour. The Regency, we learn, is in a bestir ; but the public, of course, are ignorant of what is going on. That the three divisions of the Spaniards con sot of 15,000 meµ each, and Out 9,000 of the troops were pushing ou for Elvas.". POETRY. To a Shoemaker's shop a spruce Ii att rothcr day For a pair.of.ttew boots matte the b r ,t,,f hi s war; After trying and twisting and stainpLn,s-a;vhi;e, He began both the trader attil.bootp cttidr. ; ‘,‘ I'hy rot it, yonr bouts .here are , too shotTby ha!f; 4 11;ey ought ; (volt ye here, man, to cover the calf.''' . paoth ,old Snob, as he measur'd the Beau 19th his eye, •:The , boots to do that must be six feet, Sir, high.": GrosrenoT-plact!, Bath, Oct. 12. Pfi f f C Ez.,S 1 A tiLOTT:E. it. A. CLAREMONT..Ocp. I.9,—Tiis afternoon the di vine seryke of the day,wis pet formrd at the Royal Residence, before Serene Highness Prince LEOPOLD and her Royal Highness the Princess Cttryat.oTTE : of WALF s,,ll),viOtqr, residing at Claremont, ,t he ,whole of the Royal. Establish ment, as well .as the servants, of the Nobility. The Rev. D r . SHORT officiated-111.01e prayers, in the absence of the Rev. Mr. HAMMOND, the re gular Chaplain to the Royal Household. The re 7 gular presence of their Royal, and Serene : Highs nesses,,togeth,:r with the pleasing and punctual attendance of ,every one of the Establishment, af ford mos,t pleasing and laudable example for imi tation._ We haye, the pleasure to retnark, that the observance,,of. the Sabbath is scrupulously en couraged. py,,t,he presence of their Royal and. S erene Highnesses,. After the close of divine wor ship . lier Royal Highness the Princess CHARLOTTE enjoyed, a short ride in the pleasure ground ad joining the house. Considering the present state of her Royal Highuess, we ate happy to observe that she enjoys good health. His, Sere,ne High ness Prince LEOPOLD is also in good health and spirits. • , INHUMAN MURDER. It must have been too apparent, of late, that scarcely a Newspaper is published without some . criminal offence to stain its pages, but especially the horrid crime of murder. From whatever cause this dark catalogue may proceed, it is un deniably a-disgrace to the kingdom at large, which the utmost efforts, both public and private, shoold be employedAtbsemove. Bailee bears the nearest proportion of any other country to England in the point of general crimes : but, even she, demora lized as she is, is comparatively pure from such atrocious and deliberate murders as are continually occurring in this moral anti Christian land. These remarks have been excited by a lamentable event of this nature, on Thursday afternoon last, which has occasioned the deepest sensation throughout the neighbourhood. The following are the cir cumstances of the case, as they came out before JOsElni WHITEPoRD, Esq. the Coroner. It appeared that John Green, attendant on the boat %%hick conveys the Cornish mail to Torpoint, and Rebecca Smith, wife of Gilbert Smith, a rig ger in his Majesty's Dock-Yard - , met toge• ther at the Lion and Anchor in Cherry-garden street. After driuking a pint of beer, Green call ed for another, requesting the landlady to warm a glass of it for the female, whose mouth, he said, was sore. They set opposite to each other in the back parlour, with the door open to the passage, apparently on .the must amicably terms. Soon af terwards Smith left the room and returned again, when Green went to the tap-room tire, lightest his pipe, and rejoined her in the Sallie apartment. About a quarter of an hour subsequent to this, the land lady (Sarali Coates) saw Smith coming to the bar, moving her lips as •if endeavouring to speak, though unable to do so, while blood flowed pro fusely from. her throat. Mrs. Coates instantly called out for. assistance, and having seated Smith in a chair, and placed her tinder the care of ano ther woman, hastened in search of a surgeon.--= In the mean time the landlord ran to the back room, the door of which was stilt open, where he discovered Green behind the door, in the act of wiping off.the blood from his face and hands,with which his clothes also were.nearly covered. The landlord exclaimed., .'• What have you been doing, you scoundrel?!' . Green replied, "She attempted to cut my throat, and I have cut her's." He was then taken into custody by two men from the tap-room, who conveyed him to the Town Hall prison. The surgeon, on examining Smith, found there was no chance of saving her life, the wound in her throat being fatally decisive. A case knife, dyed with gore, was discovered by the peace offi cers, secreted under sonic shavings in the apart ment where the prisoner and Smith had been sit ting, and afterwards sworn to, as belonging to Elizabeth Simmonite, at whose house the priso= ter had lodged five weeks. Gilbert Smith, hushamV of the deceased, stated that she eloped with Green a year and a half since, leaving behind her .two children, and had' cohabited with him in Ireland, until two months' preceding this event, when she entreated permis sion to return to him and her children, to which he consented; on her promise of fotnte amend ment. Soon after her arrival here, Green. made his appe4ance, and being frequently seen by the mitering about the. door, was desired to abstain from such roodnct. Nlrs. in .a room adjoining that occupied by the deceased, at No. 17, Fore -street, said, that in an interview She witnessed between the prisoner and deceased, the latter said to the former : " Jack Green, you mean nothing but to murder me;" to which he answered,. " 1 value not my own life, but I don't wish to. bort.. you.'' She theti requested that be would never again come into her presence; which he promised, but neither of the parties had resolution enough to abide by this wise determinatioo. Theyniet on Thursday last, and were . separated for ever. The Jury, .witiomt any hesitation, brought in - a ' verdict of `" *ll'6ll Morderi" and he was accord ingly committed to Exetet gaol, to he tried ,at the Agsizei in March next.- (Plymoulh Telegraph, Saturday, Oct. I 8.) UNInN CANAL.—It is Said that 'trial pits are immediately to be sunk in the vicioity of Edin bUrgh, to ascertain the nature of the soil, beti're beginning the operations for the Canal. A large part of the track has been surveyed to the west ward of Edinburgh, and there is little doubt but the work will be begun as speedily as pos sible. • CORN-MARKET. OCT0131.:11 '2O. - 7 We had a muddling supply of Wheat morning; from Es sex and I. fine samples of ‘vltiO were taken of readily, at the . prices of tltis day week, but samples were dull ; the same remark ap plies to Oats fine Malting Barley and Malt are each 2s. per quaOter dearer . ; Pease have also advanced 2s per quarter.—ln other kinds of Grain there is no alterat Foreigo Wheat - 455. 555. Fine•ditto' - - 945. Os. EnL.Y,lisii Wheat - 46%. Fine ditto - - 7?.5. Stis, o.lil ditto - -88 s. 98s. Rye • - - - 335.38>. rine ditto - Barley - '24s. Fine ditto - 465. New ditto - - 5.25. —s Grey Pease - • - -38 s 445. Fiiie Grey Pease - 469. —s. • TiCI% beaus - - - 345. 445; Ohl ditto - • - 4;35. 535. Small I'ick Beaus 38— 463. Ohl' ditto - - 433 533. Feed Oats - - -14 s. 16s. Fillettato - IBs. Polaod ditto Fine'ditto - —14 s. 1 ds, R 94.375. Malt Fine ditto . - - %Bs. •84s. WhitePease (boilers) 535. 68s. Fine ditto - - - Otatoe ditto ' - -31 s. 40s. Rape Seed 441. 501. per last. Fine Flour - - - 755. 80i. Seconilg - -70 s. 755. HORRIBLE OCCURRENCE. Doring the last two ..or three weeks, persons passing along. a road near PelYnt, Cornwall, were annoyed by an ,offensive slued, that appeared, to. proceed from a 'field adjoining ; but the cause was not sought after until Vriday last, when in an un frequented corner, a. person discovered what ap peared the Mangled carcass of- a , calf; but on a nearer approach it proved to he the headless frank of a human ,being. . Horror-struck at the sight, the person gave the alarm, and several individuals hurried to the spot. The body, which was half devoured, appeared to be that of a man ; and soon after the bead was discovered at some distance in a very mutilated state , ;-=-the whole was highly putrid. Tattered remains of clothing were found on the body, amongst which was part of a woollen frock, such as is worn by stream-tint - wits ; there was also found near, a small bundle, containing some articles of apparel, which might be sup posed to belong to sorb a person ; but no thing appeared that could lead to a discovery of the name or residence of the unfortunate owner. A halter used for horses was found tied to a stump of a tree, not above two feet from the ground. It is probable that the person had ebna [rived to strangle himself whilst be lay on the ground ; his head and shoulders being raised a little by the cord. In this situation ,the body be coming putrid, was discovered and torn by pigs, which had access to the field ;—it is sup posed that it was by the efforts of these .ani. orals to tear their prey, that the- bead was separated from the body. The whole that has yet been learned of this wretched being is, that about six Weeks since a man who, bad the appearance of a miner came to the house of Mr. Northcott, a 'respectable fat mer, to whom the field (where the body was found) belongs, and said that he was in search of employment,—he was invited to cat, but be sail he should take no more in this world, and left-the houSe dejected. Th e same day . a tatter was missed from the staple; but no idea was entertained of its being stolen. An Inquest has been held on the'body, but the above is the w hole .of the facts that were given in evi dence ; consequenily it did not 'clearly appear how the deceased came by his death ;—the body has been interred in a proper u►anner.—There seems to be but little doubt that the wretched man was driven by povefty and distress to commit suicide, and as he appeared to be at least 40 years of age; he has prob.bly left a wife and family to lament hi: wretched fate.—(Plymouth Telegraph, Satur day, Oct: 18 ) MR. HAWTHORNE. - The Guild of Merchants have unanimously voted the freedom of their Guifti to Mr. HAWTHORNE, as a distingusbed of their approbation of his conduct - as Chief Com missioner of Excise. kiestimonial of tllis kin', coming front so respectable a body, and so well merited by the individual, cannot fail to be highly gratifying to this Gentlenian, whose private and public worth have long since been known and. justly appreciated by the Citizens of Dublin, to whom, upon every occasion, where his services were required, he has . invariably evinced the greatest courtesy and attention.—(Dublin Jour nal, Oct. 16.) _ _ . PREFERMENTS.-John Quick, Esq. has present ed the Rev. George Terry Carwithen, LL.B. to the Vicarage of Newton St. Cyres, in Devonshire, and,, Richard Johns, Esq. has presented the Rev_ Jon. Trevenen, jun. to the Rectory of Caud, in Cornwall. On the 7th inst. the Rev. Richard John Geldart, M.A. Fellow of Catherine-Hall was in stituted to the Rectory of Little Billing, in North amptonshire. 'the admissions to Cambridge Uni versity thiS Term are much more numerous than in any former year. Lord and Lady William BENTINCK have left their 'country seat at Terrington (commonly call 'ed Marshland), near Lynn, Norfolk, for Sicily. The following is an extract from a letter writ ten ,by Colonel OUSELY, dated Pernambuco, 29th July, 1817 :—" The brig Calliope, from Messina for Pernambuco,• R. GooDwis, Master, ran aground' yesterday evening, near the Bar, and was lost. Fortunately, however, the crew and greater part of the cargo were saved, by the indefatiga ble exertions of the Governor, who instantly put the troops tioder . arms, and repaired in person to the spot, where he assisted trom'five o'clock in the evening till twelve at night, often up to his chin in water, and in danger of being dashed to pieces by the surf. When pressed ; to q u i t hi s most fatiguing road peri i tittus situation, No,' said the Captain-Generid, Britons never failed their friends in the breach; and there is some differ ence hetween wading in bhmd and Salt water.---; Can I forget Salamanca, Roderigo, Badaj•iy, toria, St. Sebastian ? No : I shall never leave alt Englishman in his distress ' hLis reply bled evt•ry exertion, and h a d the happiest effect." Thurto!ay the several prisoners in the ttictropo. c harged with tel o: ,i e „ iscc. trill he remosted to Nesvgate' preparatory to the Oh! Bailey Sessions, which eommenee on the 29th instant. VO - are sorry to learn that the another of pri,oners for trial is - very "!.reat, although the Sessions have not been over above thirteen days.