The Sun. — London, England, 1806-08-29 00:00:00

BR/GI/TOY, AUG. 27. , . t The C liffs remain just in the same state as when I last wrote.' The sun shines by day, and for some time past the moon has illuminated our nights. It has not appeared that any of the visitors at this place . have relitiqiiiShed the pradice of eating or drinking, or that aft;er being fatigued with the exertions of the day, they have, at .hight, wholly denied them Selves the refreshme n t o f s l eep. Gamesters are still fond of play—Coquettes, of adiniration—Tipplers, of drinking—and Politicians, of` party. But what will" appear still more , extraordinary, the Ladies have not wholly abandoned their propensity to talking. We have, however, many other pradices here which re semblewhat passes in London,nob,vipstanding all the wonderful reports of Brighton, which appear in the public prints: Musicians do hot appear in the orchestra with thegeeseofTailors, and few people go to the Ta/- low-chandlers to purchase perfumery. Hatters conti nue to provide coverings for the head, and Shoeniakers - are chiefly employed ia preparing' prOtedions .for' the other extremity of the human form.. We have many dogs that bark, and a numerous train - of the feline-order who amuse themselves at night in catterzvalling., Oar Theatre is not permitted to be open on Sunday, and the Clergymen of this neigh; bourhood have not appeared on- the stage. A.lively Wag at this place said, on Monday last; at 'exactly five minutes after six in the evening, that " if Par sons were, indeed, -"-to appear upon theatrical boards, they would be aaing out of character." This ad mirable ton-mot was soon circulated over the Steyne, and the Wit is now the envy and the admiration of the whole town. ' • It is observable here that board and lodging can not be had for nothing, except by ,those wilco have neither cash nor common honesty, but much artifice. A Sheriff's Officer lately appeared in this place, and , it is but a fair tribute to the understand ing. of the inhabitants in general, to acknowledge that he was universally • suspeded - to come in of a Debtor. - It was also with equal saga city concluded' that the latter would do all he could to escape the talons of this legal bird of prey.' As this information is much - more interesting than the general reports from Brighton, which- appear in the London -Prints, I doubt nor that you will give all due encouragement to such a valuable Correspon , dent as sends you' the presentfaskionalk record. Mrs. STFWART, who Is performing with some auccess, as a Singer. ' at Cork,, was formerly Miss thurFurns, of the .Haymarket Theatre. She was a pupil of K5t...1.4e: Migs SMITH, the Miress, after a successful trip to Edinburgh' and Glasgow, is now at Cheltenham; where she is much admired. She has appeared in Belviclera, and the IVid6w Cheerly, in both of which hara6ters, different as they are, she was highly ap plauded. - Signora CATALTNI has excited enthusiasm among the Parisians by her great musical talents, which they represent as superior to any that were ever beard before in that Orany other place.' Whatever refieetions may be thro wn upon the languor of our countrymen in patronizing public talents, com;.)are:i with the warmth of. French admiration,, we douOt not that when CATALINI appears on our Opera stage, she will be applauded with as much judgmeni and as much zeal as may haVe paid hoinage to het merit in any other place. We are sorry to learn that Mrs. HANNAH . MORE is at present in alatniirig state of 'health.. Her religious opiniOn s n i a y appear somewhat too 'rigid in these times of licentiousness and dissipation, but she may justly be considered ,as a diStinguished Or-, riament of British Literature, and her Works, in support 'of taste, morals, and piety, do hOnour tcY her talents and charafter, and will preserve bOth in respeetful remembrance. _ _ . . Mr. MobRE, whom the Newspapers denOrnihite ANACREON MOORE, has been more severe in his comments pri . the Charatier of the Am er i cans t h an the Scotch Reviewers were upon hiS Poetry ; yet we do not know that any Hero 'from the other side of the Atlantic is disposed to resent his strictures. ' A Pamphlet has- just made its appearance, con taining some important documents respeeling Dr. TA,YLOR'S Remedy for D ea f ne S s, , f u ll y proving its efficacy in the Cure of that Complaint,. and the per fed safety with which it may be applied.--See Ad- - vertisement. Aturied, yesterday, the Rer. T. W.'COGAN; Vi car of Eashdean, in Siissei, to l‘lis!i S. PABlcilt, daughtei of HEN . IiY Etiiiiil; Esq. of Stoke New- , ington. . DUEL PREVENTED. Bow -STREET.---A dispute of a private nature hav ing arisembetween Lieutenant PEARCE, of the First Battalion of Tower. Hamlets' Militia, now quartered at,i-lackney, and Mr. Mn-cuELL, an eminent rope maker, of Limehouse Hole, several letters passed between them .upon the..subjcd, which ended - in their 'agreeing to fight a duel 3 the time and place only remained to be settled, This circumstance coming to the knowledge of their families, informa tion 'was given at the Office. On Wednesday Mr. Mitchell was brought, by Miller and Atkins, before Mr. GRAHAM, and held t o b a il, himself in .5001. and two sureties in 2501. each. • Yesterday Lieutenant Pearce was brought to the Office by the same Officers, and gave a similar security to keep the peace. THAMES POLICE OFFlCE.—Yesterday Eleanor, Skee, an inhabitant of Wapping, was finally exa mined, on suspicion of forging the Will and Testa ment of William .Cooper, a seafaring man, who died in 1799, *hereby she came into the possession of some freehold Premises, and 3001. in the funds, the interest of which she enjoyed uninterruptedly till within the last fortnight, when a claimant ar rived from the Orkneys, who asserted a right to the property, as ,being.next of kin. Two ' subscribing names appeared to. the Will i those of a respeelable Solicitor and his Clerk, who denied any knowledge of their being their signatures. The prisoner was fully committed for trial. Saturday night a fatal accident happened at Kip pax, near Leeds. Mr. Simpson having had his garden robbed : , took his gun and went out with his servant man at midnight to search the grounds : oh entering the garden they each went separate ways, and when -nearly meeting again, from 'some cause yet unknown; the - gut) in the master's hand went off, and lodged its contents in the servant's breast,' which caused is instant death. - • \\ PiYA' 0 L P'E I)Eh2QRs. • •. SURREY ADJOURNED SESSIONS, Aec. 20. .„ James Robson was opposed by Mr. NOLAN, on 'behalf of Sarah Pickman, the Insolvent's sister-in law, upon two grounds--first, under the'4.2d clause Of the Ade for making a fraudulent: conveyance subsequent to his iMprisonment; and, secondly, foi.. a defedive schedule. Mr. NOLAN, iii opening this case, stated it to be one of the most malicious and wicked attempts that ever was made to defeat a fair and just creditor of her demand; but for whose kindness• and assist- ance - hip unfortunate wife might' have starved. He said, that the Prisoner formerly resided in worth, where he carried on- the business of itcorn fa&or, and was also possessed 'of five houses. in Robson-row, Walworth, which ,were .a part of. the subject of this present discussion. For some length of tiniehis wife and he lived on the most happy terms' of connubial affection, but the introduction of a fe -male servant, of the name of Matilda B—', sowed the seeds of discord ; and, from that time, the con ' dua of the husband to his_wife was totally changed, and he treated her with the greatest, cruelty and :harshness ; but she - had the fortitude: never to com plain, until, lie became so outrageously gruel, that even this very servant maid, Matilda,.:With whom he was' then criminally connected, had the hu manity to tell her sister., who nay. opposed 'his liberation. •In consequence 'of this„ - she was taken' home by her sister, who maintained and protected her.' She implored to be restored to the bosom, of her husband; but he drcive her from .his doer, re fusing her admittance, except on the terms of be coming the servant of his maid Matilda, who then openly cohabited with him. At- one time, whn he was accompanied by her brbther to the house of her husband, the latter threatened to fire on them if they:attempted to approach nearer; and actually discharged a gun at his- brother-in-law, well-know ing,who he was,and what was his business. From this time all attempts at reconciliation were in vain, and she must have starved 'in the streets had not the 'humanity of her sister rescued her fr6m so mise rable a. fate; who afterwards maintained and sup; pined her entirely at her own expence. • The hus band, in return for all this kindness to his wife, at tempted to calumniate the chargters of .both i wife 'and sister 7 in-law ; saying, that theonekept a brothel, while the other walked the streets for her support. ,The present Creditor, Miss Pickman, was afterwards under the necessity of bringing her action against the Prisoner, for the maintainance of his 'wife (of which Trial we gave a full. report in our paper at that time). Upon that occasion the Prisoner had the audacity to produce,- as a.Witness, to confront the evidence of the Plaintiff's Witnesses,ns' to his •conduet to his wife, &c. the woman with whom he then lived in open adultery,.the very identical Ma tilda, who, Much. to 116 r credit, although so circum-• stanced, when cross-examined as to the terms on which she lived with her Master, shrunk back with shame, expressed great agitation, and, after an aw ful pause of near hve minutes, retired from Court in confusion; declining any further questioi.s, upon the subjea. The Jury found a Verdi& for thePlain 7 - tin, and upon that ac - tion the PrisoiVl was now de tained. In order further to shew the malicious hr-i tent ions of the Prisoner, the •Learned Counsel said be would prove that he had ample. means of paying. all his -.debts since he went to prison, had he but chosen to at like an honest man. He would shew, that •he bad received 3821. since his imprisonment, in one sum (by his .own account), and the debts with which. he stood charged duly. amounted to 2821. He should also shew, that 2091. of that sum was expended .in attorney's ,bills,of costs, the Pri soner having employed not less than five Gentle men.pf that profession within these two years. • He .therr•adefted' to the . first ground o f ohjedion—that of • MakingYfraudnleitt conveyance of his houses in nobson-row, which, the Learned Counsel observed, had .been conveyed to one William. Jackes since his imprisonment ; yet, it was -evident, he had exercised various pats of ownership over those premises, not only in receiving the. rents, issues, and profits, hut in • dire&ing some of the tenants to be distrained for rent due; all which was done- by. his own direct autho rity, and constituted a fraudulent at under the Sta tute. Hesoncluded by observing, that. it was only necessary for him to lay these fads before the Court, and it would lie for the Prisoner to shew, that this conveyance was a fair bona fide transa&ion for a limbic consideration. The greater part of this statement being corrobo rated by evidence, Alc. MORRIS, for the Prisoner, enterd into an able and spirited defence, and endeavoured to spew the transadions between these 'Rarties in a different view. He contended that the conveyance was a twia fide, transaction for a valuable consideration, which was expended afterwards by' the Prisoner in payment of his fair creditors. Mr. Jackes had 'fairly purchased the premises, but allowed the Prisoner to receive the rents as his agent. • • It appeared, upon the evidence 'of Mr. Jackes, that he paid the Prisoner, at sundry times, 3411. for his interest in ,the premises,; and suffered him' afterwards, at the time he was confined a Prisoner in the King's Bench, to Continue his receiver, After an able reply by Mr. NOLAN, _ The Learned 'Chairman took a' general view of the case, as it came under the meaning of the 42d‘ clause of the AEA; and the intention of the Legisla ture in providing such a clause. The obje6t of the Prisoner appeared, to be to- &Orate' the wishes of his wife and family ; and, from the general tenor of his condud ; it was evident he had' done all his poWer for tbatpurpose. Thesurns he had receivedUot be ing sufficiently accounted for in' his schedule, it was necessary he should amend it so far; and as to the fraudulent conveyance to Tackes, that fad depended' Upon the credit which his brother Justices gave to the evidence of Jackes himself. If they believed his testi mony, the transaction' was a fair one; but, if the contrary, it was: fraudulent, and consequently came Within the'provisions of the A6l. '' • - Having consulted the Bench, 'the Chairman de cured they were unanimously of opinion, that the c.opveyance was fraudulent, and the Prisoner Was ac- cordingly redianded. 'Samuel Francis Stephenson was opposed by Mr. LAws, "oil behalf of Mr. Frece, a Creditor, under , the 37th Clause of the Ad, for misapplying the money bf his employer. ,It appeared that the ,priSoner had' been a Clerk in die LOng-Room of the Custom-House, and the • • • I ' entries tif t :ietusomici to snake i - entries for tie, Merchants, who deposited., the alYlc 2nl, of , lhe "entry 'with them: . he , Creditrif in this. case had gi.yen to the- Prisoner, • in the usual «a ay, Z l 4. 01. ' to:pass an entry of, goods, and, upon settlement of accounts, thew appeared. a deficiency of 1261. The 'Prisoner pleaded Breit - poverty, ", and said; there. had been . a long uns(qt.led: account between him and the Collector, M. Deacon, Tipen which a balance would be. dile in .his, faviidk, which would rectify the accounts.lbis . - Credifor very hurnanely, through_ the me dium_. of'Mr. Annesley, his Agent, assigned him Counsel ; but the. Court.considcring the objet ion a good on ordered him to be remanded for an ,irn perfeel schedule: . . . .John Thos. Serres ; the celebrAted marine painter; was neg,oppoSetl by Mr: MORE Is, oh .the grounds Of ; an imperfe& schedule, and having 'been seen without the Aules of the King's Bench,,on 'the first of February last, at twelve o'clock at night, and con sequently after any day. ileac had expired. :It appeared that tile Prisoner, alOng with a friend, Major . Poole had, supped at..the. Bull In n , Bishops gale-street, . on the night in question and from the - testimony of the, Landlady; Mrs: Mary, Mulgrave, they, stopped till pear twelve o'cl9ck at night„ This Witness was closely examined by Mr. Mott nu, as to theregUlarity of her Clock.; when she assured the. Learned Cbunsel that it was regularly wound up every night. This objeaion was over -ruled, because the time `could not be ascertained, and the Prisoner, having two successive day rules, was entitled to that. time. The next objeelion was, that the Prisoner had painted two pi6tures for Mr. Wigram,‘representing the famous Battle off Trafalgar, for which be re ceived 2001. and had not inserted it in his schedule. That he also had - painted several pi6tures for . Mr. Jones,.. the Marshal . , for which he was to have been handsomely remunerated, but bad negle&ed to insert this also. : On these latter grounds the Court remanded him. AIERICA. POLTGHOPSIE (NEW-YORK), JULY 'l5. —On Wednesday last was' committed to the jail in this village Jesse Wood, ch arge d w i t h t h e murder of his son 'Joseph. A brother of the deceased, liezekieh, was committee at the same time as an . abettor. The circumitances of this awful transaaion which have come to our knowledge arc as follow : On Wednesday the Coroner, Major SAY RE, was called to hold an Inquest on the body. It appear ed in evidence, that on . Tuesday last the said . Jesse Wood, with his • two sons, Joseph and Hezekiah, had been at work in a harvest. field. That on their return liorrielVard towards evening, being somewhat intoxicated, they got into a quarrel about some domestic affairs. The father, Jesse,. entered his: house, took down a loaded musket, and itn mediately Went - out:, In a few seconds his wife, hearing the report of a gun, .1-41 out, and about one hundred yards from the house found the dead body of her son, Joieph, lying, on the grOund, and the father and the other son near the place. The gun, 'discharged, lay not far froth' the body. . Other cor roborating circumstances appeored in the testimony. • Verdi& l of - the •Inquest=z" Murder by the Father, Jesse Mod,.atetted by . his Son Ilezekiah:' The deceased was about' 24 years'olage, and had recently been married; the father upwards of 50, and his son, fiezeki - ah, about 22. The gun was loaded with a heavy ' . charge of slug Shot, the whole. of which appealed to have enieted: his right breast, and to have put an - imMediateperiod to his exist ence. • I A man was t a k en up and examined by 'one of the Magistrates laSt • week, charged with some p e tty. crime, who -being pr ove d guilty, Was told, that if he chose' to serve the Kinghis punishment should be dispensed with ;' he - ask7ed 'Mr. Justice in what . Way " In - what way,"' - replied his Worship, " what country Man are you, fellow ?",--‘‘ Irish an please your Hooour."—" Have you ever been at sea ?" " Have I ever been at sea . ? Why:4es your Wor ship think that I was trundled over, here in a wheel- barrow' from my own country ?" On - Sunday last the following singulai.,instance of the sagacity of the 'feathered tribe occurred. .As 'a party-of ladieS 'and gentlemen 'were .walking on Tynernouth banks, towards Cullercoats, they.ob- Served-a hawk in full pursuit of a lark, on which one of the gentlemen shouted, and beat a sod fence near the place with. a'stick, in order to frighten the rapacious bird from his objea - , but apparently with out avail. The lark, however, made an exertion to escape; .and flew to the .feet of the-gentleman who shouted, for prote6tion, where it stopt for some mi nutes, till . the enemy toOk.his departure. A helper in. His Majesty's Stables at Windsor put a.period. to his existence a few days ago ; hi s name was SaMuel Goodi er : i n a state of frenzy he got out of his bed, about three o'clock in the morning, took a cord from off his box, which was in' the room where he slept, in the King's Mews in Sheet-street, and went down stairs in his shirt only, into the , privyin the yard, and hung himself; he was found about half past four o'clock by Mr. Bullock, His Majesty's coachmait,under whom he w o rk e d, qu i te lifeless. The Coroner's Inquest Sat' on the body, and brought in a v.erdi& of Lunacy. On Monday evening last; a bOy about 14 years of :age, in a fit of intoxication, fell into the,water near the' Public Wharf, Leicester, and 'was taken out ap parently;ip a lifeleis state; fortunately a party of Gentlemen arrived soon after, 'who carried him to the nearest Receiving-house, when, after the means recommended : by the LEICESTER HUMANE SOC IBTX M had been pursued fb r ore than an hour, under the direaion of Mr. LUDLAM •and Mr. ROBERT BULLEN, Surgeons, suspended animation was happily re stored.—Much praise is said to be due to'Mr . . RICE, at the'ReCeiving-house, fur his promptness in pre paring the 'portable bed, and .afirdin . g assistance on the above occaSion. • SIiOtKINCi wlek, - Master Sax ton, a fine boy of nine years 614 son `of Mr. Saxton, of Bri,ic6t, in Suffolk - , who. has a Very extensive mill near his hou'se,; after rising from dinner, ran to wards the water-wheel; and advancing too near, the cdgs caught the skirts of his Coat, and, in conse quence, the lowerextremities of the unhappy boy were shittered - hi sixth a enanher, that be opired . less thasPkwo LtifileATEE At these Assize', which closed on Monday la , t, thireen Prlsbners Were capitally Csiivitied, and re ceived sentence of Death, viz. • John ilorlow, for stealing six pieces of calico in the bleaChing gronnds of S. NaSh, T. Jackson, and 1,1o ( 7 - i, 'of Fails ;north. Luke Loi•kard and Peter Higgins, for having been •concerj*hin foroing and utterinwa Bill of Exchange for 20: 10s. with intent to defraud G. Gardner, J. Hud:.4well,, and J, .Thop, of Salford. - • ; Jamei Sidebottom, tOr stealing a - waistcoat; Itc. the property of Z;Fletcher. Ralph Bolton, tbr a burglary in the house of W. Horrocks, and' stealing therein a desk containing - a quantity of gbld coin. • CharlesVohnson and Robert Tho Mas, fo:- forg'i a Bill of Exchange for 301. with intent to defraud and J. Irwin, of .I\lanchester. James Yates, for wounding and ravishing Mary Hoyle; of Spolland. Isaac Hitchin, aged -62, for an assault ; with an intent to commit an unnatural crime on John- Knight. Samuel Stockton, Thomas Fox, and Joseph Hol land, for a similar'offence on Thom,as Taylor. • And_ John Powell, for an unnatural crime v4th John Knight; The Judge (Baron GRAHAM) in the most impre!:s sive manner, advised the eight last-mentioned, tiia. lefktors to prepare to Meet the fate which tilt laws of their Country had affixed to their heinbtis fences. Hopes of mercy were held out to the other five. It appeared on the trials of Hitchin, Stockton, Fox, Holland, and Po*ell, that they replarly as. sembled at the- house of Hitchin, on Monday and Friday evenings, and that they called one another brother. The Judge very properly ordered that no notes should be taken of these trials. Five of the persons chi:Ted with unnatural of fences were adnuttQd as evidences for the Crown. At Stafford Assizea a cause eame'on, ROOXEIT z. NEWTON, which is of considerable importance to trades-people. In January, 1804, the Defenttaiit inserted an Advertisement' in the public Papers, that he would not pay debts of his wife's contraEt , ing ; but as Mrs. Newton still resided in the !mdse. with her husband, and as some part- of the goods (nercery) were used in his, the Defendant's house, the Plaintiff conceived Defendant was liable, and brought an atiion to recover the amount of his bill, 141. 4s. Id. A part of this bill the Defendant had bTfore admitted to be due, for which, previous to the aEtion, he hat tendered seven guineas, and had subsequently paid that sum-into Court. —The Learn td Judge said, that after such notice, a tradesman was highly blameable , to give credit to the wife, (which was the case here) and tbat the wife being in the dwelling-house with her husband,* made it highly so; as -it could not be supposed that she was not provided with necessaries there.--The Plaintv was nonsmited. Lifford Assiies commenced .on Monday, the 11th instant. No conviction of consequence took . place in the Crown Court. A ' great nu m b er o f infOrmations ag a i ns t P ar i s he s in which unlicensed Stills liad been found were brought ferward, and many were ,tried; but the cOnviaions were but few; and far the greater number of the informa tions were given up or Postponed. In the Civil Court, the case of Wauchob v.' Dill, from its cir cumstances, excited particular attention. It was an a&ion of slander brought by the keeper of a pub- lic-liouse at CaStlefin, against his Pastor, for words 'spoke'n of him, before the congregation. at the Meet- ing=house. The defence was, that the Plaintiff had given scandal and offence to religion, by encou raging cock-fighting, cards,. hazard, and other irregularities ; at his house, during the prepara tkin week preceding The holy sacrament; in - conSe- quence of which' the Defendant bad thought, it his duty to admonish the Plaintiff, and finding bin/ , refraCtory, had proceeded to a public rebuke, Which . it was insisted he had a right to do, by the rules of - the Presbyterian Church. On the other side, it. Was alledged that the Defendant acted rather from motives of private malice, than of zeal in the cli4- charge of his duty. After a long trial, the Jury retired, 'and brought in a verdiet . for the Plaintiff 40s.—Th atajOii: had, been tried at a former As sizes, when . the Plaintiff recovered 6d. damages, but the proceedings were set sside for some legal defeat. On Friday se'rmight - John Davis liendell, con demned at the late D evon A ss i zes f o r forging an in= dorsement on a bill of exchange, with intent to de fraud Mr. Peter Clark, of Ply Mouth Dock, was executed at Exeter, and died truly penitent. He was a farmer near Newton Bushell, possessed of con siderable property, and has left a-widow and nine children to lament his ignominious fate ! On Friday Andrew Powell was executed in Dub lin for the murder of Timothy French, as near 'the place of its perpetration as the circumstances -ad mitted. The merited punishment was condu6ted with a solemnity calculated .to make a due im pression on -the surrounding multitude, the pike with which the murder was committed, and thf:. bloody neckcloth of the unfortunate French, being suspended from the gallows. The wretched 'culprit appeared penitent, and, as we understand, 'conti,!ssi-4. his guilt and the justice of his sentence. His body was afterwards given to.theSurgeons for clisseCtion. Abraham .Hearn arid George Hewitt, driver s o f the,Stowmarket wa g gon,- and A nn Cro,n, passen ger, are committed to Colchester Gaol, charged wi! h aiding and abetting in a violent assault and rape on - the body' of JANE HABBERTON, aged about Seven teen years, of respe&able parents In Needham ?41ar -ket, who was.travelling by th-.: said waggon • to her service in London, on - the 24th-ult. near Lexden heath, about midnight, from whence she was taken. up by the mail-guard, and conveyed to Colctiester . in a state of insensibility, from which she has•F , :t just recovered, to give her evidence against the att... cis)us culprits. •, MORE PRIZES AND LESS TIdKETS. — Tilii.iS truly exemplified on peinsina the Scheme, of the pre sent State Lottery, which agins drawing 06tober 13th, It contains 3 Prizes of 20,0001. 3 of 10,0001. Zi of 50001. &c. &c. and only 20,000 Tickets, being the smallest quantity ever contraaed fat.