The Sun. — London, England, 1806-09-24 00:00:00

LINES ON OBSERVING THAT YOUTH WAS AiLintirri AGAINST • LORD PERCY AS A CANDIDATE, FOR THE REFRE- .SENTATION OF WESTMI NSTER. Tilt Hope of Piacy's noble Line In Britain's Annals pants to shine, And prop her ancient truth ; • lint blind to Honour's rising flame, SOrne fain would check the righteous aim, Whilst all hii crime is Youth. Thus Pi T - r. was censur'd, who began I Ijs brilliant course a ripen'd man, Though yet in early days Thus Envy strove tq damp the fire That glow'd within his lofty Sire, And blight his spreading bays. PERCY, in their bright track proceed, So ruay%st thou gain each civic meed, In Glory's best career ; That all shall wish relentless Time Would still preserve thy manhood's prime Till his own final year. POOLE, SEPT. , Woodbury-Hill Fair commenced on Thursday last. Though the weather proved very favourable there was but little business done the first two days : of ' horses there was a tolerable show of the cart kind, but riding horses were very scarce, and but few good ones. Raw milk cheese fetched about three guineas P hundred-weight ; kecond sort about 50s. In the tloth-fair there was a, good show of spperfines and seconds, but nothing doing ; indeed, on the whole, it was one of the dullest Fairs that we ever remem bered to liars seen. Mr. GRAtiA:4, the Magistrate, 'with that inde fatigable zeal in the pursuit of justice by which his e ; :t harader is di§linguiThed, has discovered and appre ; tended the Carpenter- who is suspeded of having been -'cioncerned in the thUrcler 'of the unfortunate young N*orrian who was found dead near the King's Bench, in St. George's-fields, with eircuinstances of almost cruelty. . The new Sheriffs will be sworn into office at one WOock on Sunday, at Guildhall, and on the,.next 'dziy, being Michaelmas-day, a Coninion Hall will 134 held for the Eledion of LORD MAYOR. • There is at present at Hampton Court Palace one 'ol!'..the greatest curiosities of its.kind that perhaps can found in this or any other country, viz. a vine which - from one stock only has now 2204 bunches 'Of grapes, and has - annually produced more than that litimber. This extraordinary vine has particularly . cxtited the attention of HIS MAJESTY, who is very conversant immatters of this kind. The PRINCE of Went to see it before he set off Upon 'his pre-' sent_eictirsion, and testified much surprise at such • a remarkable proof of the fecundity of Nature. This vine is in a hot-house, which till very lately received heat froM sues on the old plan, bur fits MAJESTY baying hdrd that there was a, hot-house on a new construaion in the garden ofJOSEPH PRICE, Esq. of Hawk House, near Sunbury, ordered the Surveyor at Hampton Court to insped it. Mr._ PRICE, who is the inventor of the new plan, of course readily per mitted it to be examined and adopted. The'great advantage of this new principle is, that it only Te; quires a third of tile fuel usually consumed in the former mode. His MAJESTY, who is always a zealous friend to use:fill inventions, has, it is said, 'ordered the new principle to be introduced at all his other Palaces. This saving of fuel in an article of luxury, and which doubtlesS can be-, endered 'more generally useful, is highly honourable to the .public spirit as well as ingenuity of the •inventor, who liberally permits it to he employed as a com *mon benefit. • Tuesday the Ifith inst. a most dreadful fire broke out at two o'clock: in the morning, in the Woollen Manufaaory of'Mr. Win. Bowles, in Clare -street, Limerick : at four o'clock the garrison drums beat to arms, and the towa was alarmed by the cry of 'ire. Notwithstanding the exertions of the Magi; strates, Military, and a number of 'individuals, the dairies got SV:ch an ascendancy ) that the premises, with their contents, Ikere almost entirely consumed. Most providentially the morning was perfectly calm; had there been a breeze, probably the whole of the street would have been destroyed. About one o'Ciock on Thursday morning two vil lains made an attempt to get into the house of Mr. Leach. in New-street, Leeds, by climbing up the hack wall to a small window ; but their conversation being overheard for ,ii length of time, by a young 'than, apprentice to Mr. L. he got up, and. after charging a pistol which he had near him, inquired their business ; he was answered by a shot from them; in return he fired, audit is supposed wound ed one often), who appeared to be a stout man in a - great brown surtotit. The villains then made off. Friday se'nnight a policy, eleven hands and a half high, the property of a horse-dealer at Chard, started from Honiton for a considerable bet to go one hundred miles in sixteen successive hours ; the ~g- r ound chosen for the purpose was from Honiton . to Exeter, a distance of sixteen miles, which he was - to go over six' times, with an : additional four miles at:: .terwards. He set off from 1-loniton at a quarter ! past four in the. morning, arrived at the ilotel. in Exeter a quarter before six, returned to Honiton, sip/ arrived secondly at the same place at tern o'clock, 2-nefagain, for the third time, at three in the niter noon, went off perfeali fresh, and completed the distarie with the greatest ease in -thirteen hours and twenty minutes, , being two hours and terrrni-• nutes less than the given time. The poney was rode the whole way by one lad, whose weight was 'little short of ten stone. , •, , CORN-EXCHANGE, SEPT. 24.:---The fresh arrivals of Wheat to-day-are but few, fide old is in demand, and fully at last price; the foreign on hand, with other qualities, have few purchasers,' and the samples of new are not of good quality ; in Barley, Malt, or Beans, but little flu6tuation ; 'White Pease are lower; there are scarce any further arrivals of Oats, and the feiwAine sarnpks here are dearer; Flour as our last; fine American 445. to 47 5 . p er b arre l. IA , heat` . 556 a 725 a 880 Olt , nems . ' - • 455 'a Sts ad hoc ditto - gos a 955 od Tick Beans 38s a 455 t'd'' It)e . . 4VS a 5,S cat .Oats 243 a 2,8 s a 33s (xi Barley i.: . 4 . ;s _a 485 ed ; Poland ditto 345 a 3bs 6t; Malt - . 76s a bps ed Kap,: Seed , 271. 3 . 01. os White Prase - - 112 s a 68s cd Vine Floltr 7oS a 75S (Id G=rey ditto . 43s a 495 od Seconds . 6ss a7es iad 10) IPE`7ill.:\Sl r E : fit 4VEETiIVG. • Yes'terday A numerous. Meeting of tlw.,lnost spetiable inhabitants of Westrninster 'was held; :pur suant to public advertisement, at WILLIS'S 'Great Room, in King-street, St: James's„ Auiong the Gentlemen present at the Meeting, which consisted of at least 500 persons, we observed. Lord J. TOWNSHEND, Lord W. RUSSELL, W. NORTHEY, M. P. JAi\IES BROGDEN, M. P; COlOnel MACMAHONy M. P. SPENCER SMITH, M. P. WM. BALDWIN, M. P. EDWARD MORRIS, M. P. T. CREEVEY, M. P. Mr. CHARLES DRUMMOND, Mr. BOOTLE, Mr. FROGGAT, Mr. ADAM, •Mr. LOW TEN, Mr. WISHART, Mr. GURNEY, Mr. CLARKSON, Mr. WILLOCK, Mr. GRAHAM; Mr. FRANCO, &C. &C. G. BYNG, Esq. M. P. for Middlesex, was called to the Chair. Mr. WHITBREAD then call ed the attention of the Meeting to the great blankwhich had been ,lately made among them, by thd loss of that illus"trions Statesman, whom it had for many .years been - the hon Our of the City of Westminster to have for their Representative —who was the ornament of the Bri tish Senate, the great bulwark of the liberties of the People of this Connery, and the admiration of all Eierope.—On him the task devolved of proposing to the Meeting a Resolution in dicative,of the sense which the Citizens of Westminster must entertain of the ir reparable loss which the Country has sustained by the death of that great man. He could not think, however, of proposing any. man as a successor to Mr. Fox—the thing was utterly impossible—his place in Parlia ment and in Council must be ever vacant.— But a Representative for the City of, Westminster was' to be chosen, and he did not know a person now living Who was More worthy of being the Re presentative of that•city than the Noble Lord who then stood on his, right-hand ,(Earl PEacy).— Loud applauscs.—lt was impossible that he could say any thing of a young man at his outset in life, fur ther than What might be fairly augured from his pri 7 vate virtues, his independent circumstances, and the uniform attachment to the liberties of the subje of that Noble family to which he was the apparent , heir. This much, however, he could take on him to say, that if the person whom he bad the honour to pro pose, had not the experience of age, be had at least the innocence of youth. The Heir,to the House of Northumberland—a family particularly dear to Eng lishmen, would doubtless look to the condut of the beloved and ever-to-be-lamented , Representative,as a' standard by which he would endeavour to shape - the course of his political life, as it was most incontro vertibly a model wee-thy the imitation of every Bri tish Senator—(repeated plaudits). He concluded With submitting the Resolutions to the ,Meeting— [See our First Page.] Mr. ELLIOT declared, that it was with some de give of diffidence he addressed the Meeting.— Throughout the coarse of his political life he had most generally differed from their late Worthy Re presentative, whose loss he HOW deplored'as sincere ly as any Gentleman at that Meeting, or through out the Nadel), could do. But at present he could not think that the confidence of the Inhabitants of Westminster could, be placed in better hands than in those of Earl I'ERCY. kid therefore seconded the Motions. They were then put and carried unanimously.— The) Were afterwards ordered to be published in the, -Daily Papers—and the Thanks of the Meeting were voted to the Chairman. Earl PERCY, in the most modest manner, return ed his sincere thanks to the,Meeting, for the una nimous declaration of their: confidence in him ; and assured them that 'it should ever be the ambition of his life most zealously to attach him Self to those principles, and to endeavour, as fir as his abilities would permit, to persevere in that line of condu& which had gained his family the esteem of the In habitants of Westminster.—(Three distina peals of applause). The Meeting then adjourned. The following is an. accurate' statement of the cir cumstances which gave rise to the 13t61 that took place on Sunday morning last, on Blackheath, • be tween Lieut. General Baron HompEscx, and Mr. IticnAnnsort, of Lexden near Colchester, and it is considered necessary to insert it, ,because several er roneous statements have made their appearance in the Public Prints. On Thursday' last Mr. RICHARDSON, with two of his sisters, was passing along the Strand, between Temple Bar and George's Coffee-house, towards .Charing-Cross ; Mr. RICHARDSON: was walking on the edge of the foot-path, and the • Ladies bet Ween `him and the houses. They ‘were overtaken by Baron HOM PESCH, who appeared to wish to pass by Mr. RICHARDSON without leaving the, toot-path, and pressed against, for that purpose, but Mr. RICHARDSON not yielding, but keeping his ground, the Baron left the foot-path, making use of some expressions in a low, angry tone of voice, which were not distinaly understood, passed closely to-the right of Mr. RICHARDSON, and turning towards him, by a violent motion of his right hand knocked Mr. RICHARDSON'S bat froth his forehead. Mr. rticlIARD 7 sot.: then struck At the Baron, who fell in consequence of the blow which he received, The parties then adjourntxl to a Coffee-house near, exchanged cards, and the Baron observed to Mr. RICHARDSON that he should expea to hear from him; to which Mr. RICHARDSON answered, that he was perfectly satis fied, having at the moment . resented the insult which, 'he had received. , As Mr. RICHARD . SON now unfortunately lies in a very dangerous, state, the parties best able to give ac-' curate information conceive that it would tx..- improper to give a statement of the unfUrtunate cir cumstances which were the resat of this transadion. The public mind, as to them, it is conceived, ought' at present to receive no impression Whatever from : - a statement of faas irr the public channels of inthr ination'; and it is regretted that details should have been already introduced which we are authorized to say are all of them extremely defective and errone ous, and some of them most incorrect and untrue. Mr. RICHARDSON now lies at the Par liamen't-street Cotke-house. - It cannot possibly be expelled that he should be otherwise than in the most weakly state, after having received so dangerotis a wound as has been described. It is some consola tion, however, to the fends of that Gentleman, to Ite.ir, that there are now .hopes of his recovery. DAIVIEL . S. GUILDHALL, SEPT. 2j • •- This being the day app o i n t e d f or th e thir er.amv nation of Mr. Daniels* before the Commissioners un der the Com Mission of Bankrupt issued against him, an utiCainnin'asseinblag'e of persons colleeted,before twelve o'clock, in the 'Court 'of King's Bench,,at Guildhall, Where the l'•:eting had 'be&ti appoitited•to take place. Mr. CONST, Counsel for Mr. 'Montefiori, said, that before proceeding to the examination of the Bankrupt, it would be necessary fir him to allude to certain objections of a Jegal nature which had been started against' Mr. Montefiori's right to prove under die Commission.. These ob:leetions, if be at all understood them, consisted of three : -First, that Mr. Montefiori was not entitled to prove a debt which,was not entirely in his own person, he not having paid for the whole of the, Omnium stated in his affidavit to have been sold and delivered to the Bankrupt. Secondly, that it was not his own pro perty, but the property of third parties,' which he had purchased for Mr. Daniels, not sold to him. And, thirdly, that the whole, or greater part of the Omnium in question, was not a6tually in the posses sion of those with whom Mr. Daniels bargained for .it at the time of entering into the contra6t. These several objections, however, admitted, he conceived, of very plain and - satisfaCtOry answers. That Mr. Montefiori had not paid for the whole of the Stock delivered by him to Mr. Daniels, he had no ,hesita tion in admitting. He had, however, made himself responsible for it : he had given, drafts for the amount, which had been paid so far as his Banker had. film's. That they had not been entirely paid, proceeded from the fraud pradised on him by Mr.. Daniels ; and it would rather be hard to say, that because a man was ruined by an imposture which he could could not foresee, and because, in this situation, his creditors did not complete the work, by Calling On him to perform 'an impossibility, that therefore he was not entitled to the red: ass he would other wise receive from the original injury. As to the idea of the'Omnium sold not being Mr. Montefiori's property, but that 'of the persons from whom he purchased it on the employment, of Mr. Daniels, it was true—that he (Mr. Montefiori) might not have purchased that. Omnium on his own 'account, had be received no a uthority from Mr. Daniels, whose agent, so far as Mr. Daniels was concerned, he cer tainly was, and did appear; but it was equally in disputable that Mr. Montefiori was the only person with whom the sellers of the Omnium transacted, on 'whose credit they disposed of it, and 'to whom alone, not to Mr. Daniels, with whose name or con cern in the purchase even they were unacquainted, they could look for payment.—AS to the third ob jection, the Learned Counsel thought it sufficiently apparent, . from the bare statement of the fait in the present case, that it did not apply. Here, whatever • might have been originally. intended, a-real purchase and sale of Omnium, and an actual delivery, to the whole extent of the Sum bargained for, 'actually took place- and was concluded, accounts being settled at the same time, and a draft aiven, not for, any dif ference, but for the real value of the Omnium de livered. It could make no alteration on the trans aetion, whether the persons selling - the Omnium were in the actual possession of the individual quan tities sold at the time of bargaining for it—it was quite sufficient that they spewed it to be no gambling speculation on their part, by handing it over on the day fixed for the delivery. The Learned Counsel therefore 'hoped the Commissioners would have no diffictilty in allowing Mrti, Montefiori to prove his debt, leaving it to those persons who objected to it to • appeal to the LORD CHANCELLOR, when they would have an opportunity of. stating the grounds of their application;and of pointing out in what manner their interests were to be ati - Cad by Mr. Montefion's being permitted to prove his debt. • Montefiori was tlieri examined by Mr. CooK, as Counsel for the Creditors who had already proved under the Commission. He said that he had been employed as Agent or Broker for Mr. Daniels, in purchasing quantities ofOmnium. The bargains he was to make were time-bargains. When he made any stfch, he handed over to Mr. Daniels a note, containing the name of the person from whom he had so purchased. To that person, and not to him (Mr. M.) was Mr. Daniels understood to be entitled to look. On the other 'land, howev,er, it was solely on the credit of the \Vitnets, that the persons mak, ing the sales contra - 610; to none of whom was the name of Mr. Daniels ever mentioned by the Wit -ness ; nor, so far as he knows, could they have any suspicion that the purchases were made for hit - n. The Witness himself dealt in Omnium ow-his own account, besides ailing as an Agent for others. • Mr. Daniels confirmed this evidence, admitting that not he, but Mr. Montefiori, was liable to the persons from whom the Omniuin was purchased, and who, unquestiobably, trusted to the credit of Mr. M. whom alone they saw. in the transaction: Mr. Cook, for the Creditors, contendedthat Mr: Montefiori could not be allowed to prove ' his' debt under the Commission. He admitted that Mr. M.'s situation' was one of great hardship. He was of opinion too, that he had acted with the •highest honour through the whole of the transaction ; but still the rules of law were.all that they were entitled to look in considering the present - q u es ti on . There was an Ad of Parliament passed for the spe cial purpose of regulating transattions.on the Stock Exchange, and be entertained no doubt that he should be able to show, that the present case was struck at by that Ad. The Ad to which he allud . s ied wa4 the 7th of Geo. 2.'c. 7. by which it was declared unlawful for persons dealing on the Stock Exchange to dispose of, or bargain to sell, any stock not actually in their own pOssession at the time. That Oniniuni was comprehended under the geneial 4lenomination of Stock he was warranted in stating, in consequence of the deciiOn in the case of Brown, v. Turner, Seventh Term Reports., In that case too, the hardship ,was even greater than it could be al ledged to be on the present occasion. There the draft sued for, which was for the amount of the difference on a bargain for Otunium, had got into the hands pf a third party, a bona-fide holder ,; 3et there she Court held that no :talon could. lie, the tra - nsadion bring from the beginning illegal. Here in like wanner it was proved by Mr. Daniels, and net dispuied by Mr. Montetiori, that the mode of dealing- was by time-bargains, not by delivery of • the stock, but by payment of the ditfelence ; that. Mr:. M.'s praatice Vvas to baud over to • Mr. D.. a note, of the name .of tt t A perscn whom tl e . pita:base n h;i; - eh c ise the t i s k l a y. on M. 13. C-.“:ept in sonic few . ir:•-inces I,vbere he did pnct chuie to disclose the'tnimes of the sellers, in Vtgliicl: event he hitusOlpassed tie and was 'rc.- 111 00 instances cenneaed with the present transaoioo, except two, had be followed this latter plan. in. all others, t he:vivre, ,be con fessed that be i;tied only as ah Atfent, and having •once,assumed that eliaratier it was impos,ible that he could be allowed to turn round aid/say that he was the Principl, and of cotiNe entitled to prove. - the debt, as due to himsa: lint suppbsing that Mr. Montefiori should be still entitled io himself • free from his charat,l- ofop A.,7;eJt, and to appepr as the seller of thn Oinuinin, wits nut his claim Still more evidently cut downcby the At‘kof Parliament ? would he pretend to alledge that lie was pos' sessed of the quantities of Omuhat» sold Daniels at the different dates specified in he account produced not, however, the Learned Counsel ,contended, follow as; a consequetice tha t , because Mr. Mont e fi or i was not entitled to prove this debt under the 'Commission, no other" persons could prove it. Let the persons .'ho aetualy sold the' Omnium in question to Montefiori, who purshased, it not for himself but as Agent for Mr. Daniels, come and claim to be allowed to prove, , and if they could shew that they had not aged con trary to the Statute, but that they were,tona s fide possessed of the . ditferent qulintities of Omnium sold by them at the particular periods vs hen they were so respeaively bargained for, there could be no doubt that their claims would be sustained. All the Creditors wished was, that the to,iialide Propri. tors and' Sellers of the. Omniurn should themse lves come forward, not that they should, put forward Mr. ,Montetiori, who could not be supposed, s: ; well as they did, to know whether they aacaily had the .stock at th . rt time or cot. Mr. Cossl, in reply, repeated and enforced his former arguments, and particularly ridiculed the idea of supposmg, that any man, who kite;: nothing or Mr. D. as the purchi:s:7 of stock belonging to them, but who knew that they sold such stock to M. and had taken his (1 art for the amount, Should attar wand feel themselves at liberty to tuzll-,e affidavit that they had sold the stock to Mr. D. He was certain, had the Gentlemen alluded to a&d so by Air. M. they would have been entitled to, and should lizi-ve re-= ceived his best b.ny ; and he should with pleasure have left them the task of chiming, under Mr. I)a_ niels's commiss:on. 21s, it was, however, this seemed to be an attempt to prevent from proving, a person who could do so; for the purpose of introducing others who could not prove. The'Commissioners gave. it as their opinion, that there was nothing - in the smallest degree illegal in the transaaion between the Bankrupt and Mr. which should deprive the latter of his Privilege of proving under the commission. He was accerding,y allowed to 'prove, his debt. Mr. GURtil , :i begged to be allowed to_make a sin gle observation on The p ; rt of Air. Ainiels.- 'flat untbrtunate person had, unquestionably, been guilty of a highly improper and of a temporary deviation froni reaitticie. He begged, however, that it should be remembered, that it was merely temporary ; and that when Mr.'Fli;ler saw him in the Isles of Man, he described his 'situation to be little short of insa nity. From that period he had endeavoured to make every reparation in his power for the improper at into which 'distresses . of several years had driven him; and, as one strong proof that such were the feel ings by which . he was now actuated, the Learned Counsel 'begged leave to read a Letter which his So licitor, Mr. Tomlinson, had received froinhim three or four days ago : Messrs. PALMER, TOMLINSON, and THOMSON. SIRS, • London, .Sept. 20, 18 6. Having been informed that in consequence of some e al :question it will not be in Mr. Woutiori's power to p,uve his debt on my estate, and as it i, my sincere wish th..t ,very reparation 1 can make him should be atiopted, 1 therefore hasten to acquaint you, that it is nay firm resolution nu t lo myself of such benefit, but that I am willing and desir ous that in this case the t.tr plus ot my estate, :titer my Cre, ditors are paid in full, be paid unto hurl, provided my Corn -mission be supersethd, and Mr.Mode.iori be discharged by hiS Creditors in toe Stuck Exchange, by their Committee be iiilowed to do bttsiness there as before. It must be obviouS to you, Gentlemen, however reprehen sible my late conduct has. been, that t acled, under the fatal impulse of a moment, under the inlictesice of a serious im pression of mind for a number of years, and that I must look with. pleasure to every opportunity that offers to show Mr. Montefiuri that. there is nothing more satistattory to my mind than to make a reparation to him tor the loss he has sustained, by me. " This being my firm resolution, I beg you will make such assignments. over to hint as is necessary, in case Mr. Alontetiurt should nut te able to prove on my estate an Tuesday next. 1 am , respeafuily, Sirs, YOLif 11104 OthNiient Servant, JOSEPH E. DANIELS. The Commissioners then asked Mr. Daniels if he Surrendered himself under his commission i—To which he answered in the affirmative, .Being again asked, if he wou ld Nrtish :to have a faPther''diiy to prepare himself ? he again bowed assent, present ing, at the same time, an , account, containing _a statement of his affairs to the best of his present recoiled ion. Having thus freed himself from the contempt un der which he lay, Mr. Daniels %Vas discharged. His Grace the Archbishop of CANTETZBURY bai been pleased to confer the degrecof Doctor of Phy- sic on THomAs DAY, Esq. of Maidstone, a Gen-' tietnan whose exemplary private chargter, eminent abilities, and unwearied attention to the duties of his profession', in a very 'extensive and successful prac tice, haVe long entitled hitn to the respe& and regard of his numerous friends in this and many distant parts of the Kingdom. • CAUTION TO SERVANTS.—James' Evans has been committed to Lawford's Gate Prison, Bristol, for the mitigated punishment of one month to hard labour, for having forged a Use written charac ter, whereby he got into the, service of J AMES ALLAN, Esq. of Clifton. Th e 32d of George HI. chap. 56. subje6ts the offender to the payment Of twenty pounds, or to three Months hard labour in prison. • SPANISH DOLLARS SUPERSEDED . BY ENG LISH. GUINEAS.--HOW gratifyi ng t o the feelings of Eng lishmen ,was the procession,' on Saturday last, of eight waggons laden with Dollars' to the Bank of England. The 13th of next month another cargo, containing nine rich Prig, .from, 60.001. to 20,0u01. will commence distributing by D..me Fortune to those who volunteer their service on er iz.tfore that day.