The Sun. — London, England, 1817-09-13 00:00:00

traCt :4V OII. usiv e n 1111 .esq r ' s e~' a p ~7l~~r, icerti terda l rwar d ' 110)"3 lark" Mcil The dig‘ Ute C uke 6 cortt l ; ' If! otl' led 411 Ire bait: nid 6 .. a el' sa ri] , j} ap I wit.' afoot, ter' its, cr thar" 5" - whorl erVi' S rhot) ng 0 t o bi ,are i o nce with . thirci tlil ~ i:~~ ::ono l red I(' ssiO CIO' rtes''; 5"1 sba' is ~ c:: t; - sce' cat t 'OIIY I Lai` iIIC e 4 ait' l n~~~~ stile B de: t (7 . Mid Itcr tbo 2 6 ' Fa# Jane, for the Cape. The Baring was to sAil t he :10L11 July for Madras with troops. On the .t 1) August the Moira spOke tie American ship liararet, from Philadelphia fur Batavia, all well. t has been snppusul, we find, that the g Passage, which we have extracted from the krniug Chronicle of yesterday, is intended to ap- NY to the present Conductor of THE SUN :- 4 Nat a singl e writer can be named among the whole herd subor ned by Office (with the exception of one only) who did commence his literary career in support of can assure the writer of this passage that we tnineueed our literary career with as warm an Itttachinent to liberal opinions as lie or any other I l'st) could possibly feel. Our principles at the lie rtod nlluded to were the same as he then held, hu t the FaENCit REVOLUTION cured ws, and when \ 'e found that Mr. Fox pronounced that disas tiThis event '' the most glorious fabric ever r4iSed by human wisdom and integrity," our ktuiiration of that great man ceased, and no one Instance in the subsequent part of his public con °net in the slightest degree tended to revive it, ll4tticularly, as after all the horrors it produced he 4t ver retracted his rash panegyric. On the contrary, we turned to Mr. Purr and Mr. il tlttitE, from no impulse but that of convic :l4o. We have maintained the opinions of ` ll "se distinguished characters, but particularly the .I.iriciples of Mr. Ptrr, ever since ; and we can under anychanges, relinquish his principles, shall always feel deep veneration towards the I ciety w hi ch was instituted in honour of that 11histrious Statesman—an Institution that we ' l ‘nst will last as long as that unrivalled Constitu -1(11:1 which it Was intended to support. e NEWS. ti4awicir, SEPT. 12.--Arrived the Jane packet Gottenbtirgh, and the Lady Nepean packet roi4 Holland—both with mails. t i el ovEa, SET. 12.—Pissed by for the River " Ceres, H uNTeu , f rom A nt i gua , having on tier 6` 4 s l ;ze spoke s evera l vesse ls, among tvliorn was 1e tolus. o f an d f ront B r i sto l f or Newfound -44(1, with her main-mast head carried away. D EAL, Sep?. 12.—Arrived, and remain in the p: w ils. the Ann, WALEEK, from Newcastle, and L. sevvratic e , SCOTT, from Leith, both for tsho tt. t' LA PL 'iNtourt?, SEPT. Ml.—Arrived the Intrinsic. `° " 1 ", and Duncotube, SLILY, from Satnaica ndo i t , P At.atotpri f , SEPT. 10.—Saifcti the Eliza, Haa g' for Gih ra ltai. ) O ;;TvP•s. bbvT )2.—SAileil the Medusa trans ' Quebec, with trtJoys. THE PRINCE REGENT. LIRI GHTON.SgPT. I2.—The weather this morn- Was hazy, intermixed with drizzling rain, and ptetotts were the visits to the Cliff, to discover t ,,linsition o f th e R o y a l G e orge ; b ut t hi s vesse l her arme companios had disappeared, and 4 , th 4r huur was d snot) curre n t that his ROYAL FirGii• ct s, si Had sailed for Portsmouth, with the int en of visiti ng t h e I s l e of Wight. This rumour IQ generally believed until after mid-day. when /1 1 ,, befit and the armed vessel hove in sight from 0 , 4% "' E. At five Y. isz. the Royal squadron had the (oven, and proceeded, a considerable Ite4tlce Westward, when a Naval Officer, one of t r t, o Yal Pages, and some servants belonging to .1 4 t h loyal E sta bli s h ment , were put on s h ore f i om k()y ,1 George in a boat. This party brought 'itt r . -uf 'rinittion that the REGENT intended to con 't(),C.4l sea anwther night ; and the common °pi to,- " 0,1 1 is, that his Royal Highness actually ' I I IC IS to visit the Isle of 11/ight before he returns -p, t ,." Pavilion. It is impossible, however, to 4 t ' with any decided certainty upon this part of 441'ject. Otti„, ll e 4 We stated that Lord Exisfotrrx was ap- I ts ..'ett to the command at Plymouth, we should added that Captain J. PELLa\V is to be his I‘i,nttl , ' . ittilre wound in Lord CASTLEREAGH'S hand, we igte4 Hot vet he a led, but we learn, with plea 1111,.that Dr. B ANKHEAD l ong s i nce pronounce d it st 2"acirdship wholly hee from the danger which fri,4lixeited reasonable apprehensions among the °t the Noble Lord. 414, e Princes s CHARLOTTE, th e D uc h ess o f VoRK, 0 ) „ ince LEOPOLD, are amongst two and t wenty v cA o f the son of Prince WILLIAM Of PROS- I le Austrian Archd u k es CHARLES a nd Jo , 4 ar e a l so of the number. t ) p"blic farewell dinner was given on Monday S tI : II TAL,Bo T at the t'rhire-hall, Stafford, pre to his d eparture as Vi ceroy or Ireland. The 4: 4 Nobility and Gentry of the County were SEPT. B.—The corpse of Admiral fo r , r DticKwortTn, Bart. K. C. B. was re !hqllt" from the Admiralty-H ou s e thi s m o r n ing, I : i ne o'clo c k, Th e p rocess i on commence d `ly l , l ' ll tr, and accompanied the funeral through i i , tl , lol ll to the Turnpike Gate; during which, (ti tl ie. 'e gun s were f i red from the Impregnable, anti l k i_r ships of war in Harnoaze, also front the Cita ,it4ltlll the Battery in Mount \Vise. The proces lit%ousisted of all the Naval and Military at this ~Oe II Owing to th e fi neness o f t h e weat h er, t h e 1, u 4 vse of spectators were innuense. rt BLIC. iiOUS ES. The Bedfordshire 111agis haye directed all publicans ithin the county xtt~. or thei r h ouses a printed abstract of the I ttes against tippling, drunkenness, _!arming, INtillc:rofane swearing; and as often as it i s de •tp to apply to the Clerk of the i'etty Sessions t 'ew Copy. P 0 E Y. TO LADY NIORGAti o 071 her " F ANCE." FAIR gestitsatta, heed the counsels of a friend, A sturdy friend, Tun QUARTERLY p.Evitot— Counsels a little hitter, vet attend,' And leant *bat thou should'st seek, and what isctew, Lady, lay down the pen, take up the needle. Mend shifts, or stockings darn, a decent sight ; But if awl ran'st not sew, thrum, tweedle-t ireedle— In short, fair Dante, do any thing but write. Unless MkNERVAt sLile, all toil is vain— On thee she will not smile, then cc/tie to court In Duty's quiet sphere content remain, And leave the Pen to I:EDGEWORTH and to PatTER. * Vide the last Number of this truly excellent Work. -',vita Minerva. There can hardly be a stronger 'contrast than between the works of Lady Mottomv, and the Useful, interesting. and pathetic prcductions of Miss Ennftwotrrit and the twe Mi§ es PORTER. TH E TH EATRE. The light but popular Comedy of The Belle's Stratagem introduced Miss BRUNTON last night to the Public, at Covent-Garden Theatre, as Letitia Hardy. She is, we understand, the niece of Lady CRAVEN, who acts her part With as much propriety in her elevated station, as she did on the Stage. Miss BRUNTON seems to be about seven teen years of age ; her manners are easy, and riderably graceful. There is some resemblance between her and Mrs. At.sor, but she is some what taller, and below the middle size. Her voice is powerful, but for want of sufficient ex perience in adapting it to the area of this large Theatre, was not well regulated. At first she %vas naturally embarrassed, and her timidity prevailed through the first scene, but she recovered her self-possession when she assumed the Hoyden, or rather the bleat, and was playful and pleasing.-- In the graver and interesting scene her manner• was suitable and impressive. In the Masquerade scene she danced very well, and rather like a lady than a professed dancer. She was well received throughout.—CHAELES KEMBLE'S Doricourt was adrairable, and the audience testified warm ap plause on his appearance.—JoNes had all his usual vivacity in Flutter; and the Comedy was so successful altogether that it was announced for Monday. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANstoN-House.—Yesterday an information was heard be fore the Luau AlaYoß against a person of the name of Vide ler, charged with publishing a poem without having the prin ter's name to it. The proof being perfectly dear, he was convicted in the penalty of 51. The defendant complained very much of his Lordship's decision, and said he acted par tially, and had not dune him justice. He wils told he had a right to an appeal if he thought himself hardly dealt hy. The poetry was a satire upon a Clerk in the house of Sir Peter Pole. UstoN-HALL.—Yesterday Martin Goring was charged lay his wife, Esther Goring, a very interesting young woman, with violently assaulting her because she would nut carry a letter to a gentleman, in the hope that a seduction might ensue, in order to obtain money by this diabolical plan. The prisoner was committed for want of hail. EXTREME Cnuttrr.—lii addition to the account which was contained in HIUSt of the Papers of Thursday, respecting the cruelty exercised by Mrs. Osborne, of Holborn-bars, ou her friendless servant, we have to state, that she has been, by order of the Lord Mayor, conveyed to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, where she lies in a very dangerous state—not only in consequence of the dreadful bruises winch she has received, but from a violent attach of acute rheumatism, caused by the repeated pailfuls of cold water with which she sluiced this unfortunate girl ! Her state, therefore, is one of extreme hazard, as combining a severe state of fever with the irritatio❑ from the violent contusions which have been indicted. THE FEVER IN IRELAND. KujiENNy, SurT. 6.—Yesterday 6 persons were discharged from the Fever-house, in a state of convalescence. Trifling as this statement may appear, the tact will afford consider able relief to the afflicted poor, as many applications were unavoidably refused from the want of sufficient accommoda tion, until those cures were effected. It is proper to add, that although many cases of fever exist in the crowded parts of this city and suburbs, no extraordinary mortality prevails, and we rather think the frightful disease is on the wane.— Wednesday evening a man, about 30 years of age, was brought to the house in the last stage of a putrid fever, who, nOtwith standingevery medical and kind attention,expired in the course of the night. Ile had been found in a wood near Ennisnag, where be is supposed to have lain at least two nights. As the man was not able to articulate, his name is unknown. It is presumed he was a tailor travelling for employment, as the only articles found in his possession, hesides a penny piece, were a tailor's titimble and a slime of thread. ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE.—On Thursday night a young %% annals, residing at the Horns public-house, High -street, \Vhitechapel, made an attempt to . put an end to her existence by cutting her throat with a razor, but fortunately was prevented from completing the rash act by a person who was pre sent at the time, who, observing her on the point Of cutting her throat, snatched the razor, hut not before she made an incision. She was taken in a state of mental derangement to Whitechapel watch house, to he taken care of; and being asked what inducement she could have to commit the act, she said that she had retired to rest, but by some means a soldier, who was in the habit of drinking in the house, gained admittance to her chamber, and hail violated her person : being somewhat composed, she was taken home to her friends. Early on Thursday [limning last, as Harrison's Birmingham waggon was travelling; near St. Al ban's, the waggoner, who was asleep in the wag gon, leaving the boy to drive, was suddenly wakened by some person treading on him. He got out of the waggon, and told the boy to get the blumierbuss (although he had none), thiAing to intimidate the thief, but he discovered three other thieves, %who beat him unmercifully, stole two hales of stockings, and got off. The waggoner lies in a dangerous state. On Thursday morning last, between five and six o'clock, a poor woman was met near the Highgate Archway by a man who asked alms of her. She said she had nothing to give hint. He swore he would not leave her till she gave him something, and then robbed her of the bundle she had in her hand, and stripped her to her under petticoat and shift, and made his escape into a wood. The poor woman was discovered in that state soon after by a gentleman on horseback, who learning the track the robber had taken, traced him by the dew, and succeeded in apprehending him, and had him se cured in Highgate watch-houie. UDINBURGII. HIGH COURT OF JUSTICIARY, MONDAY, SEPT, s. CHILD STE.ALING.-N CAPITAL FELONY. The Court proceeded to the trial of Janet Dou glas, indicted and accused of plugiam, or man stealing. The indictment set forth that the pawn, did, upon Monday, the 12th day of May last, wickedly steal and barbarously carry away Mar garet Reach, a child betwixt three and four years of age, the daughter of James Reach, mason, at King's Stables, in th►e parish of St. Cuthbert, Edinburgh, front the house of Baer father, or from some place in the neighbourhood thereof ; and being pursued after the said inhuman theft was perpetrated, she was apprehended at the colliery of tialbeath, in the county of Fife, upon Wed nesday, the 14th day of the said month of May, having- the said child in tier custody. To this in dictment thy panned plekded not guilty; and no objections having been stated to the relevancy, a Jury was and the trial proceeded. James Reach, mason at Kim's Stables, has three children ; his daughter Margaret is betwixt three and tour years of age. On the 12th Of May, being a loinlay, on coming home to dinner his wife told him his daughter Margaret was lost. Witness went to inquire at the Police-office; sent the town crier through, but could get no information concerning her: Next Morning, about tour o'clock, rus e and w e nt t o wards White-house-toll, from thence to Leith, and inquired at the Police-office there if they had seen a strayed child ; got nu in ; returned hum,, was, told the child was certainly s'solen ; went on the Queensberry-road, inquired at every howte,-and some VVolliell at a I;.lrn ; thought they saw a woman and a child of the description he gave the day before the toll man at Craighleith told him the same : came to a ,Hiss Mar shall's, who told him she had given a woman with a child, who said she had cume from the Cape of Good Hope, a penny to help her ever the ferry. Witness went to the ferry, and found a wOnian and child had passed, hut the boat man said he thought the child was at the breast, and that be had taken her over gratis. Witness returned to Miss Marshall's, and stated lie did not think the child was his ; told him to go to a porter's lodge, where be got farther in , - formation, and crossed the ferry ; went to a man who had seen the woman with a child, who said he was going to Dunferm line ; went to a Magistrate, who ordered the lodgings to he searched. A man gave him some information, and he went to Halbeath, and found the child in a house, but the woman was not. She was out for smile necessaries, and upon her re turn he asked her where she had got the child ? she said she had got it at Edinburgh from her aunt. The child hail all its clothes but bonnet mid slip, which it said was in the woman's bundle; the child said that a woman had taken her from Lo gan's entry; gave her some sweet meats, and said she would take tier to her grandmother. The woman said she had given her child. to her aunt to nurse, and had got this one in its place ; and if she was in Edinburgh she would soon clear her self. The pannel at the bar is the woman; he got a warrant and tools her into custody. When taken before a Magistrate, she acknowledged she had stolen the child. When the child saw the witness it expressed great joy, and took him round the neck and kissed him. Marion Brown, wife of the preceding witness, stated that the child left the house about half-past 11 o'clock to go to a neighbour's house; she did not go there, and every search was made for her, and witness did not see her until two days afterwards, when her father brought her home, saying he had found her at Halheath-colliery; child was dressed in a light frock, a green bonnet, and a checked pinafore. Helen Brotherst one, wife of john Anderson, labourer at Bell's-mills, recollects the panel coming into her house on a Monday with a child. Woman said she was going to Dunferm line to her father, who kept the head inn there. She named the child Jeanie. The paunel at the bar she is quite sure is the woman. William Halliday, at Craigleith Toll, remembers in May last a wmnan and a child coming to the toll ; either next morning, or next again, a torus came inquiring for her. The woman asked for a drink, which the witness gave her : thinks the panncl is the woman. She went towards Queensferry. Grace M'Pherson, wife of Wm. Brown, at Braehead, pa rish of Crarnond, recollects a woman and child coinin t z to her house ON a Monday in May, about half-past three o'clock ; wished to warm the child. Witness asked her if she had car ried the child from the town; to which she answered, she had carried it from the Cape of Good Hope. Witness gave the child some broth, but the woman said it could riot eat broth with turnips in it. She said the child was three years old, and was born on a New-year's morning. The child was not crying, but looked so pitiful that the witness asked her what ailed her; the woman said she cried for mammy, because, when in the Capc of Good Hope, a woman kept her while she washed clothes. The pannel at the bar the witness is quite sure is the woman. Witness saw the child again when taken home on the father's back. The declarations of the pannel were then read; one emitted at Dunfermline before the Provost there, in which she said she got the child from ti woman on the road ; the second emitted before the Sheriff of Edinburgh, in which she admitted that she took away the child. That she had been a coal-bearer at Gilinerton Colliery, and having been out of work, went to Halbeath quest of work, and the only inducement she had in taking the child was the hopes that she would thereby get employment, as she was starving, and intend ed to send it back. The Loan JUSTICE CLERK having summed up the evidence, the Jury, without leaving the box, immediately found the panel Guilty. The LORD JUSTICE CLERK (atter hearing the opinionv of Lords Yit►nilly and Succoth) ad:ll . es:- ed the prisoner in a most impressive manner, in which he pointed out the enormity of the crime she had committed, and sentenced her to suffer the punishment of Death, in this city, on ►Wednesday, the 15th day of .October next. The prisoner is a young woman, apparently about 20 years of age. MURDER OF THE CHIMNEY-SWEEP BOY. The Court next proceeded to the trial of Robert Reid, chimvOy-sweeper, accused of the murder of John Fraser, alias Thomson, who having stuck fast in a vent in Albany-street Chapel, was, by him and Joseph Rae, pulled by the legs by a rope fastened to them until he died. The facts of this case are fully before our readers in the trial of Rae, the principal culprit, who was sentenced to 14 years' transportation. The pannel, Reid, pleaded guilty to the extent of culpable homicide, and to the facts stated in his declaration before tl►e Sheriff. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL stated, that as the case of this patina was not of so atrocious a na ture as that of his associate Rae, he would restrict the libel to the charge of culpable homicide, and adduce no proof but the panties own judicial con fession. Air. HUNTER addressed the Court in mitigation of punishment. Their Lordships were of opinion, that there certainly was a marked difference betwixt the case of the pannel and that of Rae; the latter bad. been far more active ; and a - charge also lay against him, and which had been proved, of malice against the boy, and extreme cruelty and ill treat ment on former occasions, amounting even to the atrocity of making him eat his own excrement. The LORD JUSTICE CLERK, after a suitable ad monition, sentenced the paunel to seven years, transportation beyond seis. MELANCHOLY CATASTROPHE. About half-past 10 o'clock last night, a middle aged man of deceut appearance called a harkney chariot in Piccadilly, and ordered the driver to take him to the Fleet-street cud of Chancery-lane: the coachman, on alighting horn his box at the place appointed, found, on opening the door of the chariot, that the person inside was insensible and linable to move. He instantly gave an alarm, and the night-constable of St.Dastan's being on the spot, assisted in taking the senseless body out of the coach to a neighbouring public-house. Medical aid was itnmediately summoned, and two professional gentlemen soon arrived. On exa mining the body, which was already cold, two vials were found, one containing an ()twee of laudanum, the other empty, but which bad evi dently been recently filled with a similar liquid. There being no hope of restoring the body to ;mi.- illation, the next inquiry was, who this (inform nate person might be. His poLkets were searched, and on him wete found several articles, the enu meration of which may probably lead to a disco very of his identity. The most important article was a small slip of paper, on which were written the following sentences:— " A persecution the most unjust, iniquitous, and dreadful, that can he imagined, bas driven me to despair. I have na thing to wish for but the grave to hide me, and to terminate my miseries, " P. DAVY." " God forgive the authors and promoters of my death." The last sentence was written in pencil, anti the whole manuscript had theaippearance of much agitation and hurry in the writer. Theme was also a silver watch with a steel chain and a metal seal impressed with the head of Shakespeare. The maker's name on the watch is Clones of Livet pool ; the watch-paper has the word Birmingham On it ; there were also found upon him a gold brooch, an eye-glass with a horn-case, half-1.- crown, six-pence, some half-pence, and a pound note, endorsed with the words " Servant from Woodford,"—and " Chatfield." His coat and waistcoat were black, and his breeches drab coloured. His age was estimated at 40. The body now lies at the Rainbow public-house for the double purpose of being owned, and a Coro ner's Inquest. CORONER'S INQUESTS. FATAL ACClDENT.—Yesterday an Inquisition was :taken before THOMAS STIRLING, EST Coro ner for Middlesex, at the Volunteer, Upper Baker street, Mary-le-bone, on the body of Thomas David Burleigh, son of Mr. Burleigh, of Park street, New-road, Mary-le-bone, who was acci dentally killed on Thursday morning. Elizabeth Serie was servant to Mr. Massey, 46, Palk-street. Between nine and ten o'clock on Thursday morning she was looking through the chamber window, and saw the deceased in the middle of the carriage road, and a chariot driving up the street ; she saw no person near who had the care of the deceased ; the road was sufficiently wide enough to admit four carriages to pass each other; the chariot was going at a gentle pace ; the deceased stood still in the mid die of the road, and the horses knocked him down and trampled upon him, and the wheels passed over him ; she saw the deceased was dreadfully hurt, and looking towards his father's door, she saw a hoy who had the care of the deceased, and who ran and picked him up ; the coachman stop ped when he had drove several doors beyond the child, front some persons calling to him, but de clared he had not seen the child ; there were three Ladies in the chariot which passed over the deceased. Air. Wm. Turner, surgeon, New -street, New-. road, Mary-le-bone, said, that on Thursday. about ten o'clock in the morning, the deceased was brought to his house; he examined him, and found that his loins were crushed nearly flat ; he died in about five minutes after he saw him. Samuel Burleigh, aged 14 years, was uncle of the child ; lie was on a visit to his brother, Mr: Massey ; he was phiviitg y ~ with the deceatd a little before ten o'clock on Thursday morifing ; bid brother called him to bring some water, and dur ing that time the deceased went out of the front door into the carriage road, and was ran over by a coach the deceased was IS mouths old, and just cPpable of running abort. Some of the Jurymen throught there was great negligence attributable to the conduct of the coach man. The coachman (the driver of the hackney cha riot No. 7) swore positively that lie did Hot see the child until after he was called to, and the child picked up. Verdict—Accidental Death. STAHVATION.—Another Inquest was held before the same Coroner at the Vestry-room of %Yapping . Church, on the body of Jacob Longbottom, an old seaman, who died from long fasting.—lt ap peared in evidence, that the deceased had a small pension from Greenwich, which was his only sup.. port, except au occasional job amongst the ship ping. The preceding day, the Captain of the ship Clio, of Sunderland, met the deceased on shore, and knowing him, he bring from the same town, ordered him to go on board his ship and get his dinner. When he went on board, he said he had. not tasted a bit of food fOr three days, and had no means to procure any. He complained of a pain. in his bowels ; and an Excise Officer on hd,-at gave him a little coffee with some brandy in it, part of which lie drank. He was afterwards of fered some tea ; but he was so weak he could not drink any. He was given some hot meat, part . of which he ate, He attempted to vomit, but could not, and became so extremely weak, that he wag undressed and put into a hammock, where he died. shortly after. The Surgeon's opinion was, that his death was caused from weakness, proceeding from long fasting, so that he could not digest what he had eaten. Verdict—Died from long Fasting. PENDLETON MURDERERS.-A paragraph In The Liverpool Courier of Wednesday, giving au account of the execution of the Pendleton murderers, at Lancaster, states :—" Our inFotTnant, who was close to the foot of the scaffold, reports, that he thought be heard one of the Ashcrofts ejaculate Lord ! forgive me tor these murders Of this, however, he is not positive, as there was ceniide rabic uoise at the moment."