The Sun. — London, England, 1817-07-31 00:00:00

Pia TUE SIN. GLOUCESTERSHIRE PITT CLUB. Mr. ED1T02,.---iil your truly respectable Paper, some short time since, you expressed a wish be favoured with an account of the proceedings of the different Provincial Clubs, on the days ap- P°ittted for celebrating the Memory of that great =old virtuous Statesman, the late Right lion. WILLIAM PITT. If you have not received a better accou nt of the Gloucestershire Meeting, the ful -I"ing sketch is at your service, though I much regret that it is not in my power to furnish you with the speeches delivered on the occasion ; it m utt suffice to say they were eloquent and ani- Ynced, and received by the company with rap lurnus acclamation. Yesterday, the 29th, was fixed for the Anniver 3all, to be held at the house of Mr. MARSH, the Bell Hotel, and it was most numerously and re spectably attended. Many new Members were 'fleeted, and after other routine business had been dispatched, the \ company, amounting in number to nearly a hundred, sat down to a sumptuous dinnerin the great Bill-room, where the business of the day was mosLably coaducted by MICH API. HICKS BEACH, Esq. M. P. assisted by THOMAS DAVIS, Esq. as Vice. At no similar Meeting could greater, unanimity of sentiment prevail : the toasts were truly loyal, and peculiarly adapted to the occasion, and the company appeared actuated but by one feeling—that of firm reliance on the wi•ie measures of Administration, and un attalified approbation of the public character et the PRINCE REGENT'S faithful Advisers. — AN, they long continue to merit that approbation by at•steady adherence to the principles of that treat and good man, whose eminent virtues gave rise to the present meeting, and who, it may be recollected . , early in his political life, pledged him self " that he would never sacrifice his vei acity, nor be party to a fraud, for any poor and inadequate ad wattage which he could reap from his continuation in • station for which he did not think himself quali- Jed."—How well he was suited to the high sta tion be filled, must be acknowledged by all ; and we have only to regret that he did not live to wit ness the accomplishment of his vast measures in a secure and honourable Peace. Fearing r may be thought to occupy too much latf your Paper, F shall briefly state that the Club 'was honoured by the company of its Noble Presi• sent, the Duke of BEAUFORT, Lord GUANVILLit SoIsEESET, and many other Gentlemen of the highest respectability in the county and city Thr Coluntit tee for the year 1817 is as follows: The Marquis of Worcester, Right Hon. Charles Bathurst, Crown, Esq. R. B. Cooper, Esq. W. Goodrich, Esq. M. H. Beach, Esq. W. Montag -tie, Eeq. J. Mountain, Esq. W. Co ther, Esq. C. Church, E. T. Davis, Esq. T. Okey, Esq. ker. Archdeacon Rudge, Rev. A. B. Evans, Rev. C. Craw ley, Rer. John Neale, Rev. George Turberville, and the Rev. Richard Wetherell. It ‘voulti be an injustice to Mr. MARSH were I to omit stating, that the Company bore handsome testimony to the superior style in which they were szeommodatcd : the dinner and wines were ex cellent ; and the whole of the arrangements were lath as to elicit the highest praise. I am, Sir, Yours, respectfully, Gloucester, July 30, 1817. A M EMBER. * * * We feel ourselves. much indebted to the Gentleman who favoured us witl► the above ac count, and tru,t that the example will be follow. ad by Nienshers who may attend any similar Meet ings in honour of nor late illustrious Statesman, or of any I n stitutions intended to render due homage to his htetnorY• ETON COLLEGE. The Provost of King's, attended by two Exa rniners of his own College, arrived at Eton on Saturday last a t two o'clock. The meeting be tween the Reverend Heads of both Colleges took place in the Lower School, from which they pro ceeded to the grand entrance of the College, where they were addressed in a complimentary Latin Oration by the Captain of the School. The two Provosts greeted each other with a holy Kiss, and then went to dinner. At Eye o'clock they attended speeches in the Upper School, Which way well be considered as most promising Oratory o f futur e specimens at the Pulpit, the enate, and the Bar- The Sermon was preach td by the Provost of Eton, Dr. GOODALL, and Ras admirably suited to the occasion. Mon tiav commenced with the speeches again, attended a udience of rank, fashion, b eauty, t'V ;I numerous tidents, arrrl learning. The Duke and buchess of LEEDs , Lord BRAYBROOKE, Lord per3ons o f di stinction, were touroti, and other present, an t h e cowPanY in general were highly gratified. The speec hes were alto get h er i n t h e highest degree crediO le be respective speakers. Tuesday came 00 the tug of war, t h e nation of the thirteen Selma KING'S ScuoLnits, Who succeed, as vac,inc:cs occur, to King's Col- Cambridge. Prom the well-kno4n and uni versally-esteemed learning,, talents, and essicirti ty the present Head Master, Dr. KEATE, there can be no doubt that were these Exami nations made publicthey woulddisplay a degree of genius and sound learning not surpassed by any Other, on any other occasion of the . same natine. The school is in a most flourishing condition. Tice diScipline is admirable. It. is characterized by firMness combined and tempered with suavity of mannera. Eton can now boast of a WELLINGTON, a GattNvit.t.a, a BATHURST, an Ancuats4op of CANTP.RIIURY, a CANNING, and other distinguished ornaments of the country. The number of Boys at present is 478. And here we may properly ap ply the words of the Poet, though originally in tended to designate a seminary not to be compared with the dignity of Eton College : " Yet nurs'd with skill, what dazzling fruits appear! E'en now sagacious Foresight points to show A little Bench of heedless Btsnors here, And there a CHANCELLOR 'in embrio, Or Bard sublime, if Bard may e'er be so, As MILTON, SHAKESPEARE, names that ne'er shall die Though now he ci awl along the ground so tow, Nor, weeting how the Muse should soar on high, Visheth, poor starv'ling Elf! his paper-kite may fly." THE THEATRE. HAY-MARKET.—The new Comedy of three acts, brought forward at this Theatre last night, under the title of Tenzing Made Easy, was written, as %re stated yesterday, by Mr. JAmtsog, a Gentleman of the Bar, and Author of several popular Dramas. His dramatic reputation will certainly be aug mented by his piece of last night, which is highly whimsical and eutettaining. As our Country Readers will mtatu•ally look for some account of the fable, we sohjitio it. DRAMATIS PERSON.E. • Justinian Litigant Somerville Glow-worm 6aniznon Mr. MATHEWS. Peter Pastoral Mr TOMMY. Miasma • Mr. WATIUNSON. Dumby . Mrs. Tearer Mrs. Crumpton Mrs. Co'NOR. Julia Crumptou Miss CAREW. Molly Miasma Miss :14 ATTIIEWS. Miss Manly FAIILE. Gummon,a barrister's clerk, attending his master on the circuit, outruns him by some miles. and puts Hp at a public-hawse called " The Rising : Sim," belonging to a dry chip of a landlord, a hose name is Ahrens. It so happen,. that daughter, Molly, ;s the Dutcin'•a of Gammon' , ado ration. He had seen tier at a bn.irdi• g-school in • London, where she was educated, and having supposed that she was an heiress. he addressed her under the *wowed name his master, So merville Glow-worm—a name which requited very little addition of sentimental verse or figurative prose to catch the heart of the romantic Molly: Glow-worm is less of a lawyer than a sportsman and lover•. - lie shoots his way round the Circuit, and is just amusing himself, when he is attacked by Squire Litigant, upon wa•hose grounds he was found poaching: This quarrel, however, (Avis in amity, for Litigant is up to his chin in law, " a pre cious hot bath," as Gammon calls it, a•td learn ing that Glow• worm is a Barrister, retains hint in a cause about to be tried at the approaching as sizes, in which he was the plaintiff, and Mrs. Teaser, a neighbouring Lady, ►citlr whom he was in constant broils, was the defendant. Litigant, in endeavouria,g to make the Barrister master of his case, developes his story, which is in itself of very common materials. The vicissitudes of the world drOve hint from England to America, where he remained for some time, 1(41-getting a wife and lovely daughter, whom he had left behind him in distress. The death of a relative haying, how ever, entitled him to an estate in this country, he returned, got into possession, and also it►to Chancery, still forgetting his wife and child, who went under the names of Mrs. and Miss Crampton. The latter, Julia, is the objerl of Glow-worm's affec tions, and being the niece of Mrs. Teaser, both she and her mother are invited, as poor relations, to spend some time at his lady's mansion. On their way thither, Glom worm meets them by accident, •but his advances are repelled by the mother. — The ladies pursue their way, and-by an easy mistake go to the house of Litigant instead of Mrs. Teazer's, where a discovery takes place; but Mrs. Crampton , avoids her husbaud, and goes on with Julia to Mrs. Teaser's. Molly, who had been sent there to ap prise Mrs. Teaser of the arrival of the Crumptons, is taken for Miss Crompton, which pleases her highly. Mrs. Tearer is scolding every body, and Miss Manly, a kind of a female factotum in her esta blishment, through the blundering of Gammon, re ceives an amorous letter, which his master intended foi Julia. This letter site supposes to come from a little fat man whom she had met in thefieldsill) At torney's clerk, who is caracatored as a Poet and a lover of rural scenery, by name Peter Parsley, and who bad been sent down to serve a subnceua on herself to attend the approaching trial. Hence the name of Glow-worm serves for three different persons, and the denouement of this scene abounds. in mirth. After this, every thing hurries to an cod, and the Barrister and his Clerk are. blessed With the objects of their choice, although much • at Gammo►a's joy is abated by learning that the " heiress" is only a pahlican's daughter !.! We hardly need enter into any critical analysis of this Comedy. It is sufficient to say, that " the argument is not offensive." The piece is full of bustle, there is intricacy without confusion, some novelty of character, and altogether abund• once of amusing materials. It was well-supported by the Performers throughout, and very well re ceived by a numerous audience. The PRESIDENT of the United States has 'issued a Proclamation, directing tae sale of no less than 800,000 acres of laud, recently acquired by the Nutiunal Government from the Creek Ihodi ORIGINAL POETRY. DON JUAN. Don Juan was a Libertine, And lived in the city of Cadiz; Who► he went out to dine, he drest very fine, And when he had stow'd away plenty of wine, A courting he went to the Ladies. :Ma Juan, w•han nothing could tame, Its amours they were so many, So Out of pure shame, be at length chang'd his name, Bni his s•ices 'continued precisely the same, Though . coMmitted by Don Giovanni. One night,. when ',was dark as pitch, He beard a soft sigh from a window, If from poor or rick, he did nut care which, For the moment he heard it he felt the same itch, Beginning to burn like tinder. " Is it my loved Honore 7" Said Isabel, sighing above, Qnoth he, " l'es"—sigh no more, but open the door, "I've been waiting below for these two hours and more, " Su pray let me now come in, Love." She screamed, and, ti combat her foes, Papa came in the foremost; Don Jnan arose, but 'ere out he goes, He dealt her pour father a couple of blows Which laid hint as dead as a door-post. Don Juan felt no remorse At the u►urder'd Don Ilenediet's doom, While a mighty concourse, on foot and on horse, Assembled to follow the Princely corse, Aud a Statue was plac'd o'er his To►nb. Here often fair Isabel came, Sure so,er . ow could never be triter, Till a sight of the dame once more raised And Don Giovanni astonished the Dame, By boldly attempting to woo her. He smotheed her cries with kisses, Albeit the Damsel forbade him, Quoth he, my dear Mistress, what happiness this is, To meet once again, what a delicAte Hiss is— When the Statue began to upbraid him. " Don Jima," it said, '' he civil, " Thou art a sad prollipite sinner, " Your soul is so evil, you'll go to the Devil"— Says he, " my old Buck, I'll give you a revel, " If you'll but accept of a dinner." " I accept your ofTLr"—the Spectre said, " (And Satan shall be my proxy.)" Juan called up Ned, ere he went to bed, And bespoke a dinner, a guinea a-head, And then went away to his duxy. To the dinner room Don Juan goes, And with him led his priest in There the Spanish Beaux, all as hungry as crows, Were assembled together in Sunday clothes, Impatient for the feasting. Don' Juan waited for one guest more, And while they stood debating The clock struck four, when rushed open the door— " Ah ha!" says Dun Juan, " you shall pay your score, " Fur you've kept us prettily waiting." " Peace," said the Spectre,—an odious smell Pervaded the room in a minute, The guests all fell, hat no one could tell, What wai the cause of the shocking' smell, But '►was terribly bad to stay ►n ►t. "Thou Don Giovanni,—Don Juan, "On the brink of a precipice sporting— [ruin, " Of fathers you slew one—brought their daughters to " And every evening have found out a new one, " But now there's an end of your courting." Don Juan he touched with his dart, His eyes goggled out of their sockets, His nerves sorely smart, and asunder they part, And the skim and the bones and the skeleton's heart Went to hell in a bundle of rockets. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF CHANCERY, Juor 30. THE NABOB OF THE CARNATIC. RAITHEY AND OTHERS V. BALFOUR. In this case, which was an application for the payment of 2,500 pagodas, with 12 per cent. in terest, from 1797, into the Bank of England, in the name of the Accountant-General, his Lord ship also gave, udgment. The Nabob, in 1784, gate a bond to a Mr. Davidson for the payment of 5,000 star pagodas, with interest at 12 per cent. who transferred it to a Mr. Cassall, from whom it passed to a Mr. Massey, who are a bond to a Mr. Lenney for 2.500 pagodas. Mr. Lenney be ing about to leave Madras. the defendant request ed the bond to be given up to him, and be would remit the money to Great Britain. The defen dant, it should be observed, agreed to pay the rate of interest to a Mr. Reynolds ; and the simple question was, Whether or not the defendant was bound to stand by his agreement ? The defendant waa willing to pay 3 per cent. interest, which, it was contended, was all that he was in equity lia ble to pay. About 1815 a ncgociation took place between the Bet India Company and the Nabob and his creditors, which ended in the Nabob agree ing to cede Isis territories for the payment of his debts, and certain Commissioners being appointed, who accordingly decided as to the manner in Which the debts were to he liquidated, keeping in view the dates at which they had been contracted. The Loan CPIANCELLOR, after taking a clear and able view of the case, observed, that the facts Were - too stubborn in their nature, and too hardy, to be shaken by the trifling breeze of allegations. No allegation, however strong it might be, could alter, in the slightest degree, the facts of a written agreement. Mr. Balfour, who accepted the bond at the full rate of interest at which it was originally given, was bound to pay it, notwithstanding any agreement that might have taken place between intermediate parties.— His Lordship therefore decreed, 'that the sum of. 2500 pagodas be paid into the Court, with the 12 per cent interest, as prayed for, and the bond in the mean time to be assigned. Mr. WINGFIELD trusted his Lordship would he pleased to order the plaintiff's costs to be paid to him. The LORD CHANCELLOR considered the giving of costs as unjust, as the plaintiffs htsd got enough ►y the decision going in their favour. This ended the third Seal, after which his Lord ship resumed the hearing of Bankrupt Petitions, none of which were of the slightest interest. At the rising of the Court, Mr. COURTENAY, having received his patent on Tuesday evening, attended his Lordship in his private room, and was sworn in as a Master in Chancery, in the room Q f :11r. Steely, lately deceased. CONFESSION OF DANIEL MUNN. The case of Daniel who was convicted tot nturi:et' at the Hertford Assizes, was oar of the most atrocious that ever occurred in the criminal :words of this country. He was convicted of the murder Payoe, on his return from Hemp stead market, where he was in the habit of selling corn for the farmers, and receiving their Money, which he frequently took borne with him. The prisoner was intimately acquainted with biro, and consequently knew his habits as well as the road • he travelled home trout market : he attacked the onfortunate tnan in a lane unawares, struck him behind the ear and upon the head with a ham mer, and then cut his throat. He was co,. victid on a chain of circumst not 611 evidence, so strung that no douht could remcin in the minds of the Court or Jury as to his guilt ; nibt tt tistand ing which, ho weer! , it is satisfactory to know that, previous to tiis execution, lie made a full confession of his Built, and stated the only cireumstam e which did not come out in evidence, viz. where the h went r and knife were deposited wiih which lie committed the murder. The unhappy wretch also made a voluntary confession of two other ()ratio !waders which he had committed; the one on a poor old woman (by the name of Hail), et h.. kept a small shop at Dagnall, near his own re i dence—(he rented a small farm in the same parish, under the Earl of Bridgewarer) He stated, that t.e n ear into her honse (being known to her) about nine o'clock in the morning; that he took au opportunity of getting behind her and striking her with a bill, which lay in the house, behind her ,ear; That he then cut her throat with a knife si milar to the one he cut poor Payne's throat with (a butcher's knife) ; and on being asked where he had secreted that knife, he said in a well on the old woman's premises ; that be took 401. from her, 231. of which he paid to Lord Bridgewater for rent, and the remahider he paid away to dif ferent persons in the village in discharge of small debts. This occurred about a year and a half ago. In respect to the murder of his wife, he stated that he followed her into the cow-house, where she went to give some hay to the cows, about 2 o'clock in the afternoon; that lie struck her unawares with a billet of wood behiud the ear, which nearly killed her; that he immediately afterwards eragged her to the and put her down it, head foremost. This oc curred about six weeks before the murder of Payne. She was found in the well on the same day, upon an alarm being given by her husband. He could assign no motive for this horrid act.— He admitted he and his wife had ft eiviently words together, but not on that day, end stated that site was a good wife. It is not only fortu nate for the ends of public justice, but more par ticularly so far the inunilliate neighbourhood in which these horrid transactiuns occurred, two in nocent men having been sit ()ugly suspected of the murder of the old woman at argued, and the whole neighbourhood being under the most horrid ap prehensions of repetitions of.the cruel scenes which had so recently taken place there. It is worthy of observation, that the first suspicion of this man's wilt, who had previously borne a good character, and upon itom the slightest suspicion had not at. 'ached, arose out of an act of Providence. The mur derer had hidden a pocket-book, which he bad taken from Payne, in his barn. One of his own men west into the barn with a pitchfork, to get some loose straw. He observed as be tho.ight the motion of a rat in the corner of the barn under the 4traw. He struck at it with his fork, and instead of a rat, pierced the pocket-book, which came out at the end of his fork. Amongst others, no person has been more satisfied in a business of so horrid and disagreeable a nature,. by the confession of this wretch, than the Earl of Bridgewater, to whose indefatigable exertions, it is but justice to add, is to be attributed the bringing to justice and condign punishment the perpetrator of these atrocious crimes. Munn was executed on Monday morning, in pursuance of his sentence ; he died as penitent as a man could die with such a weight of guilt upon his bead. On the scaffold be begged time spectators to take warning by his fate. Pnrce OF BULLlON.—Yesterday Foreign Gold in Bars, was at 41.—New Dollars at ss. 2d. and Silver in Bars at ss. 3d. SOUTHAMPTON, JUL: 26.—Our Annual Sailing Match is fixed for Saturday the 9th August next, when we expect his Excellency GRoP.oz HENRY - Rose, one of our Members, with many of his frierli!s, he being recently arrived front his Embassy at the Prussian Cuurt. The match is under his patronage, and bids fair to be well at teltded. PILLAR OF THE CHURCH.—At the visitation at Doncaster, a Churchwarden, for one of the to ships within the parish, was sworn in fur the 49.1.1 year of serving the office. Three hundred and thirty-seven ships with car.. goes have cleared at the Custom-house, New castle, for fore'gn ports, in the (porter ending th e sth inst. being .abuve 100 ships more than. deare l d out in the same quarter in any of the three preceding years ; and another gratifying circum stance is, that most of these cargoes have been shipped in *consequence of orders front abroad, not on speculation. On the 9th inst. at Lamberton Races (Berwirk npon-Tweed), Mr. DAwsoN's filly, Lalla fell, and the celebrated rider, W. Bus NTON, re ceived so much injury, that lie died shortly after.— (Country Paper A cut ions shoe, which appears to be one piece of leather, dressed in sortie manner, het not tanneA, as the hair of -it:e :.oittod is still visible, was ring Op, I,st week-, by a man getting peat, from the depth of five feet below the surface, on the moss belonging to 'F. Lowa - llEa, Esq. near Dornoch, in Scotland. I; is open before from the toe upwiods, hut laced ‘‘ith a thick leather thong. A young Gentleman, Mr. WM. MENZIES, a ma nufactnrer in Carl'sle, in travelling to%varus Dion ft its in a gig, on Sunday night, was ucd by allowing his horse, in the dark, to go too near the side of the road, as he w;ts descendi,g the hill on the of her side of the Sark toll-har. Eat ly on Monday morning he was discovered by rite of the mail coach, and t,ken up without any signs of life, the home and gig having Lin all night oz% his body.