The Sun. — London, England, 1817-07-16 00:00:00

---- try Slip NEWS. ORTSSIOVTFT ' , jtILY tris Majesty's 311ip Cherub frolii A( f ica, last &OM the liaY~,ti ltah ; touched at Jatnaica, and sailed from thence the 7th May . ; she also tOtiched at Charleston, and landed 100,000 dolfais the're„ on account of merchants. ills Majesty's . shie Inconstant ar rived at Barbadoes the beginning of June, and *ailed for Jamaica. . DEAL, JULY 1 . 5 —Arrived, and sailed for the 11iver, the Batavia, MAYNE, troth Bengal ; Re• Ward, BARCLAY, and Moutitaineet:, JEFFERSOW, from Jamaica ; Rambler, For ; GEE, from be South Seas ; and Seholfield, Evans, from Mogadore.— Put back several outward-bound vessels. f RAMSGATE, JULY 15.--Arrived the French brig Le Deux Ainis, from Dieppe for Lisbon, with her fore•mast sprung, having run foul of the Ceres, of Newcastle, at ssa, and did her considerable da• 'mtge. DovER,, JULY 15.—The Hawk, PERCEY, from flyimmth, in attempting to get in here, stove her bows in and sunk between the Head, but will be got off nest tide. HARWICH, JULY 15.—Arrived the Laik packet 'with a mail from'Cnxhaven. • FALMOUTH, JULY 13.—Arrived the Hind and Active cutters tram a cruise.—The Providence cutter, tender to the Superb, in getting, out of lielford harbour last night, grounded on the shoals, but by assistance from his Majesty's ships' Mod, Active, and Pigmy, was got off without damage. DOCK RATES.—We are sorry to find that the several applications which have been made by the Committee of Ship-Owners to the Directors of the EAST INDIA DoCKS to lower. their Rates, Since rhe war, have been unavailing. We did imagine that the praiseworthy example skeytu fist by the LONDON DOCK COMPANY, and after. wards by the WIEST INDIA 13 , ,cx COMPANY, who hare both materially • reduced their respective' Dock Rates, would have induced the EAST INDIA Docti. COMPANY to have done the same. It how ever appears they will .not, and we imagine the subject must be brought before Parliament or Government at no distant period. . The general charges on shipping in the Port of London are . far Coo heavy in the present distressed state of the Shipping Inteiests, n )r are they, in fact, war ._ tatutd by .any superior accommodation which is afforded - in the Rivet, as contrasted with Liver tioor, - Glasgow, and many wile; of the Out-ports DISTRIBUTION OF PRIZE-MONEY. the Rader and Recruit, for the L'Amistadt, on Saturday, the 19th instant, at No.'4,Clement's Inn. Recall's same place, every Tuesday and Saturday, for three months. Three hundred and thirty seven ships with car goes have cleared at the Custom-house, New castle, for foreign ports, in the (patter ending 111Stant, being above 100 ships more th:in cleared out on the same quarter in any of the three preceding years :and another gratifying cir cumstance is, that most of these cargoes have been shipped in consequence of orders from abroad, not on speculation. Newfoundland Pa p e rs to the Ilth ult. mention that the scarcity of provisions was no longer felt. There had been extensive arrivals of provisions from Halifax *tad from Ireland. The Royal Ga• zette of the 27th of May mentions that his Excel lency General Lord DALnotis . tc, Governor of Ha lifax, adopted measures immediately to afford re lief, and that they were carried into effect in the most prompt manner by GIN BALDW N of his Majesty's ship Fly ; every Officer attached to Go t;ernment using the greatest exertion to alleviate their wants. The Papers of the 3d and 10th Jitne mention the arrival of every description of provi sions, and pass high encomiums on his Majesty's Officers, who were the first to' afford aid. • 'Yesterday the PRINCE REGENT honoured Lord and . Lady CASTLEREAGH with his company to dinner, at their house in St., James's-square. The Duchess of GLOUCESTER, (kiting her visit to the QUEEN at Windsor, takes the air hit a garden chair drawn by a poney, at Frogmorc, &c. The Earl and Countess Of DARLINGTON : who have been in Paris about a month, intend le,iving 'it in a few days for Italy. The gallant Lord Ex mourn passed through Gloucester. on Saturday last, on his way to liaise 'more Lodge, the seat of his son-in-law, Captain ,HARWARD, R. N, where we understand his Lord ship purposes to reotain some time. The celebrated Madame de LAVALETTE quitted town last week for Paris. Her stay in this coun try was about a tortright, and the o . sje . ct of her visit was to sell out of our public fonds. Madame de LAVALETTE preserved a strict incognito, and both her arrival and departure were known to very few persons. We hear that when M. TALMA and Mademoi. selle GEORGES lauded at Calais, all their purchase's in England of flannels, cottons, shawls, &e. were se i ze d by the Custoun-hous'e Officers as contra (('horning Chronicle.) Messrs. EMMETT mid SAMPSON, from Ireland, are- CIiOACII to represent the State of New York in Congress. To-morrow, about two o'clock, the Royal George, , a new yacht, will be launched front the bock-yard at Deptford. Sir EDWA RD BERRY, flag Captain to Lord NELSON at the battle of the Nile. is appointed to the connnand, The Board of Admiralty Hod Comuni,,sioners Of the Navy will be present. Booths are erected for the reception of the nunicrous Couvany expected. THE PRINCE REGI!NT'S COURT. :Yest.ertlity-the PRINCE .ItEGr litld a Ctiurt at Carlton Mini"; whbh was attel&tiett by The Lord Chancellor, the Laid.ili•ivy Seal, the pre side it, the First Lord of the Treasury, the Cha teellefr of Ate Exeltegtier, the three Seeretailoof State, the Preisident of the Board of teutroul, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lin caster, the Lord Clitiniberlaitt, the Lord Sterard, the Master of the nors,, the . 6roo.tu 91.tileStole, and the Lord Chief Juitice of-the Court of king ' s 13ruch. l he RECENT hell a PrivY•Conncil, which was attended by the above dkibtgaished characters, lit . Sir BENJAMIN BLOOMMED %vas intro duced in doe fOriu, sworn in a lemltt r, and took his seat at'the Hon. guard aceordingly". Viscount CH ETWYND attended as Clerk of the Council. The RECORDER Or LoNDoti WaS altriwatils ad mitted into the presence of the PRINCE in Coun cil, and, made his Report - of the Conviets: Capi tally convicted at the May Sessions, at the Justice Hall, in the Old Bailey—when his Royal High ness was pleased to respite them all 'hiring plea sure.—Lord GRAVES and General Fitch were the Lord. and Groom in Waiting. His Itoyal Highness gave audiences to the Earl of LIVERPOOL and V.scount SIDMOUTH. FASHIONABLE PARTIES. He , . Majesty gives a grand Dejoene to-morrow, at Frog more;. most of the distinguished fashionables in town have received cards of invitation. The Earl and Countess Bathurst gave an elegant Enter tainment on Monday, to his Royal Highness the Duke of York, the Earl of Landerdale, Lord and Lady Castlereagh. and a numerous party of distinction,.it their seat at Putney. The Marchioness of Hertford gave another splendid Rout on Monday evening, at Hertford House. The spacious And magnificent suite of apartments were fitted up in the same ele4ant manner ac at her Ladyship'S last assembly ; the com pany 'exceeded 500 distinguished personages, including his Royal Highness the Mince Regent.... Mrs. Mitchell gave a Quadrille Ball yester'Viy evenini, at he house in Charles -street, Berkeley-square, ,w;iich was very fashionably attended. Lord and Lady Castlereagh gave a grand Entertainment yesterday, to his Royal Highness the Prince Regent, the Marquis and Marchioness of Cholmonileley, t 110. Marquis and Marchioness of Hertford, and a numerous party of distinc tion, at their house in St. ,James's-square. Mrs..Boelnn gives another grand Dirertisement this even ing, including a French Play, similar to the one on Saturday last. The Marquis and I Msrchioness of Cholumn► eley gives a grand Entertainment this day to his Roy-it Highness the Doke of York, and a large party of Military and other Gen tlemen, at Choimnondeley House: • Mrs. -Cranford had a Quadrille Ball last night, at her house in Park-street. The Countess Dowager of Essex bad a select circle 'of fa shionables yesterday evening,'at her house in Curzon-street, FASHIONABLE ARRIVALS. Lord Rivers, at Grosvenor-sqUire, from hip seat in Hants ; Lord Yarborough, from Norfolk; Lord Carboroogh, at Cook's Hotel, -Albemarle-street, from a tour; Lord Lynedock,' at Jerwyn-street, from %Ir. Brand's seat in Harts; Mrs. Jen nings and Family, at ditto, from Brighton; - Ambrose, Esq. at ditto from ditto ; Colonel Ma4enis, M.P. at Albe marle-treet ; George H. Rose, En'voy to the Court of Prus sia, Charles Rose, Esq. Colonel and Lady Bowies and Fa go:ly, from Paris; General Meadows, Berkeley -square," from his seat, Bradley House, Flants. DEPARTURES. The Duke of Marlborough, for White Knights, Berks ; Lord Gat.c:, for Scotland ; Lady Gage, fur her seat in Hants; Lord and Lady Barnard, for their seat in Hants ; Captain Southey, fur Caullmty ; Sir J. Bervsford,Bart. for Ireland; Mrs. Baker, and her son, Mr. Baiter, from their house. in Portman-street, for Brighton ; Dr. Yeats, for Tunbridge Wells. The Countess of MAcct.EsFmn, Ave under stand, by tisu MAJESTY'S command, has the care of inviting the Company to the GRAND FETE, which, as we mentioned yesterday, is to take place to-morrow. It is likely to be one of the most splendid Fete Champctre that has ever been seen in this country.. All the neighbourhood of Frog more, and distant . as well as adjacent places, are on the tiptoe of expectation. in a trial in the Court of King's Bench on Fri day, a female witness underwent the following curious examination :7 — what is your husband ?--An independent man. Is he not a blind fiddler ?—No, he is a gentleman, an inde pendent gentleman of 501. 4-year. Do you mean to swear that he is not a fiddler, and that you have not led him about the streets asking' charity I—No, not about the streets. What then he gives the squares the benefit of his muses No matter for that, he is an independent man—as inde pendent as you are. He seems to have two very musical instruments—his fiddle and his wife ? , --So much the better; then he has two strings to his how, which is what all yon gentlemen have not gut. is he not a fiddler?--He was a musiciancr. Is he not blind ?—Suppose he is dark, many others that I see are as dark as he a ditfvrent way. He is an independent man of 501. a-year, and that is more than most OM say. THE SOV ERElGNS.—Yesterclay morning, at nine o'clock, the LORD CHANCELLOR, the Duke of MoNTHosH, Earl of LiaßßowtiY, the CHANCF.LLOII' F:QUEII SCOTT, ' , Sir WILLIAM of the EXC Hand the MASTER of the Rou,s, being six of his Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, held a Court in the Exchequer, Westminster, for swearing in a Jury of the Goldsaiths' Company, 14 - fir the trial of the Pix of the Mint within his Majesty's Tower of London. After the Jury hied been s worn, the Latin CHANCELLOR charged them in an able and impartial manner on the duty they had now to di:- charge between the King, the Master of the Mint, 1 and the Country. The Court broke up at a q,:ar ter before ten o'clock, and the Jury, attended by the proper officers, procteded to the Mint and As say.ofFe to their important duty.--The verdict is to be given at Goldsmith's-ball. A set of fellows, putnorting to he merchants at Liverpool, by name of Cotterall, Derbyshire, and Co , have succeeded in committing seteral frauds in the neighbourhood of London. Their plan is to buy or order paper, and, on the brat trausac 7 . tion, to pay fot it at the time. 'limy have bills ready drawn, to ‘'arious amounts, nearly to cor respond with the amount they intend to purchase ; but usually rather above, that they may bus's: a few pout's to take. THEATRICAL FEUD. II romesly Oats wag yes'terday 'ainhimieetl: at thiS Tlie";:tre, and .Nle.Tnkw:k!' WHS r(1 play the pa-t of /?.tivCr",':aotl introduce . theatrical iiht I,r u;:ts tsken ill, an d b e in g linable to perform, the Matia L ;ers did a ll that 'a cns : e;' by is. united h-His allover the town, iraiiii!; the circumstance.' and that IZussEtt . would li', rltfrn► Roc t r in the play,' and TP-RRN' Sir Fretful Pliigktry i n ?'he C-ritte, which MATHEWS W.AS- AIS(P-to hut performed.. , It might. be •;thought th,it this active effort out die part of Managprs to preveht appointment would also :have, prevented all cla mour, 1)111 the moment RU3Sezt, appeat.ed an op, roar arose, and a demand for. ' .I..ATH F , ”'6.itUSS ELL Made a rCASl;l)allitt e_xphiriation• anti a pologv, 134nNitto afterwards' did the . s;t r inc, hut thc tlis coeiten ed oLirt I not `rear of ex : .hitiatinii apology, AS WI hey hall been' edateitted:in a school •Political Reform. However,.wlten these unruly Critics :.were told that they might receive their money apin at the door, they'retired, and matters went on smoothly, and happily cooduded. ENGLIHT OPERA..—The Cabinet, My Uncle, and The Deserter of Naples, were the pieces pertorined at this Theatre last- night. The chief novelty was the rural decorations of The Saloon, %viler,: the Ny m ph s an d Swains reposed, -and refreshed them selves it Arcadian Bowerspf real vegetation, during the intervals. Patent Lamps and Chinese . Lanterns illuminated .these rustic retreats; and the Whole twtned a sou of Town-Vauxhall, which scented very gratifying to the IRELAND. As this conatry is an.essential branch of the ,British Empire, 'We feel much pleasure in mani festing the present state of its agriculture Suco, JULY s.—The styli!) , of Oars anti Oat meal into this tuarket since our last publication has been plo(kigious—a corresponding reduction in the prices has been the consequence. Oars, sir.ce Tuesdly last,. fell from 465. to 365. per sack, of 24 stone.—Oatmeal has experienced a reduction of front 325. to 235, per 120!b.-1 n this instance a COm plete transposition of figures within tour daysl ! This day a very considerable supply. of NeW Po tatoes is expected into market,. •at GI to 71 per stones The appearance •of the cireumjacent count ry'ls truly delightful. Tire Potatoe crops , are moil; abundant, and-have •at this season a more promising appearance than has been k now n. the memory of the oldest person. IVheat,..oats, Barley, flay, all, in a word, exhibit thernost health ful aspect, T e homily of Pro‘idence is most strik.ugly' exemplified in -the present period.— The poor here - have bat a very short time to.la boor tinder privation with their wonted fortitude; the finver of God points out a speedy termination to their wants, in a harvest of unexanipled and ustboun[led benefi , enee. First Flour Gs. 3d. per stone, Barley 2s. G-I..per stone, Oats 3Gs. per. 4 stone, Oatmeal 225. fid. to 21s. per 1201b..Pnta toes,.10d. to 101-d per stone, Butter best, 84s. to .':?ss per cwt,, Butter 10 , 1. [ker. lb,• • LIMPIIICK; ,Int.Y 5 —About 26 bags of wheat appeared at market to-day, prices 15.3d.t02.3..511. per stone, dull sale ; Oats, Is. 6 tI .. to ls. per stone;• Oatmeal, 325. to 325. 6d. per 'cwt.; Potatoes, 10d. per stone, N'cw db. Isd. to 16(1. ; Butter, SG, 665. 7Gs. to 86s. Per cwt. CAhTLEtAAR, JULY 7.—Oanneal, from 275. to 30s. ; Oats, front 13s. to 14s. per cwt.; Butter (prints) from Bd. to 9d. Potatoes, frdm 11(1. to per.stone. • NEwRY, JULY B.—We have lately seen a field of oats, in.the lands of Robert Thomson, of Ha vensdale, Esq. which are completely shOt. They are potatoe oats, which were sown in Septembei a practice which we strongly recommend to the farmers of this country for general adoption.— {Newry Telegraph.) BeLr,ssT, JULY B.—On n'iday last, our market presented a greater quantity of oatmeal than ever was known there upon any former 'occasion; a number of loaded cars could not get into the mat ket place. Prices fell considerably, and at the close of the market might be quoted from 28s. to 31s. per cwt. Yesterday, also, a great quan tity was in the market, anti prices again declined, and were from 265. to 295. Gd.—New potatoes were plentiful at IS. 4d. to 2s. per stone. The growing crops have recently improved so much that a most abundant harvest is generally expected. -- The weather continues extremely propitious, all kinds of grain ale getting into ear ; the potatoes are boxitriant, and more than au ordinary quan tity has been planted. Similar accounts are re ceived from all parts of the country, and in every market grain is rapidly falling in price. It would be superfluous to quote the market prices in the different districts, tiiey are all to the saute put-- pose.— (Belfast News Letter.) We base no pleasure in stating, that every species'of provision is rapidly declining in price, troth in this and the maikets adjacent. Oatmeal, that a few days since brought from 355. to 365. per- cwt..sold at our last marker at 28s. and 295. and we are assured that an abundaut supply is in the country. Oats fell to 275. per baud, and the best potatoes sold front I 1 d. to is. per stone. The re duction in the markets adjoining is still greater : at Longford, we are informed, potatoes sold at Bd. per stone, and that on last in,rket day, a 1.).0 , ket of excellent new ones were exposed for sale.(lfest meath Journal.) Cram ExtnitNoe, JULY 16 --‘ l o s , had plenty :of Grain left over from last day for the demand, as the sales this morning are very dull, and nomi nally the same as on Monday, etteept where they are forced, when lower prices are submitted tO. The best Flour is selling at lOUs. per sack. The prospect of the hop crop has altri c d so Int;eh within the last fortnight. that the old ditty, which was laid at (35,0001. is tio%v estinliited at 105,000/. PLY Nim:rtt, JuLt 14.--=YestthiHy eat the Mary, AMER, to , . NeivYork, with 60 or 70 persons, many of them people of property, who, not contented with Deranshixe dumplings, have ciAiguated tut the Laud of Peoniiie• nOnril D. -1.U.1?;1)17,F5. • A ribiiible rdurcler io Lisbon i-t . #4 fßonfli;••irftieff fiiiitiTst. Potftigiitie OiHee'r baying drc'!..a.ri s‘i•ord at fsoe of ftis si'§tetir ? 1111 Caellttelferitnet 41r cut 00tsc uud.ht - abb„,i) he .tittcr - nse t;l4, , et Ea ~!so drsperatvi,v tv . o . oritted .;• the afteolpf ~ h er. r ser4;)e froth 'the. eirarnbet• . wherit this, crag' y w-4s • %I-as prc;ripitattd wo a ti!g lit 9f stOlie al.(1 'ber ae:•• hired tue ‘"vi et ch e d . th, ?moo Cite • Abreet, inn apPitarcd totnily indifferent to the blu9dy,deelis he had ter ptirdtt2d : "*, . • A mu.' ntrricioni• Initrder at a tilLige near A'obinn, on the horderS'of But , ;:ingloon,Lite; on Friday last, I,y Irishman, nained.Putrick • Free, upon d and f . .mnpa. [lion Skerret, also a ratite . 4,1 . The sister country. It seems that the•raO- men had been ra:. • ve11in , ,. 4 in that.ovighbonthood for stone time past; i search of work, and•on the night menth tied bad retiredth an outhouse belonging to a farmer, fur time remaining, there till iitatnin. About the middle of t he nigh t the inhiibitants of the I:arm-house • adjoinmg the place in which they hadtaken ehige, wet e alarmed by mo s t d rea df u l g .MS S one in the •ag,nies 'of death Some pursuits got tip, and proce - eded-to the-pi-lee whence the groans seemed to issue, • and, having .procured a light, they-discovered Skerret lying on*some straw, wel_ tering in • his . .:bloyd,-and his head and various parts of his 'body : mangled in a most horrible manner. The instrument •hy which the bio6ny deed had been - effected rhls found lying near the unfortunate sufferer.:, , It was what is call 7 ed a bill-honk, the .point end of which had entered the poor .fellow's skull.. He lived about ten ;ninnies after being found by the people, anal . he , had just strength sufficient to inform them that. his companion haul risen upon in the night, and-h avin.• n beat hint with the 'bill,h o Ok aid lime stick until he was rendered helpless, he het rifled his pockets of about 335. and stuipptd hint of his clothes and left hint. The poor ctea e, shortly after relating these circumstances, (.3t l ►tretL A Coroner's Inquest was,held. , the follon'hig day, and a verdict of Wilful Minder ; against Patrick Free was rettuned. A ilreadtul murder was committed on Tuesday:* last on a young woman, named , Elizabetli Shep-; .herd, age ( ' about 17 or 18. The body Was dis 'covered lying in a diieh, in the parish of Sutton.;,• in-Ashfield, Nottinghatuthire.-11er bead pre , senteJ a most Shocking sp e ct ac l e , b e i ng so dis `figured't hat her features could scarcely he reCog nised—the brains protruded front the skull, anti one eye was completely knocked out of the soeker i and Ity upon her cheek. From the disordered state of her dress there is reason to conclude, that the rutlian:a3sailant had made some attempt h upon her chastity ;• arid it is not intpro!iahle that the efforts she wade to r,:sist h , m.had•aroused•the fury of the Wretch, Hod iletermiocti•him instantly to depti%e - her of Inc.t From a vat iery of circum stances, which we . hav e not here rown to detail, tell upon a 11140, who rear Loughbolsigh. Fie ,says ; his name is Roilterham, that he is a native uf Shetrield„by trade a scissor grinder. On exa miniog his clothes, stains of blood appeared in various places': and lie had sold in his flight a pair of shoes t:ttid an umbrella, which are believed to have been the - property of ti , e oniorrullate inte resting, girl. Ile was conveyed heavily ironed to Sutton ; and we have cause to state that he was yesterday•fully committed for trial. The ototliei of the deceased has been in a state of phreuzy since she heard of her daughter's melancholy end I .—(i.Sttegeld Mercury, July 12 ) CITY PHlSoNS.—Yesterday the Loaf:, MAYolt, accompanied by Sir WILLIAM CUR fIS, &c. visited the different pri.ons of the City, and sttictly in vestigated the state of the prisoners, and tlie sys tem of government adopted towards them. Newgate, since the appointment of the New Keeper, vatious rules and re4tdations have been adopted under the inouediate direction of the Loa D MAYOR, which afford not only Comfort and security, but proniise to produce much Mural good to the inmates. CniatNuY-SWEEPING.—A very curious machine has been constructed by a Mr. JAMES BUTTERS i junior, which is intended to supersede the inhu man practice of sweeping chimnies by climb ing boys. This apparatus, in form, is nut unlike w hat' is called a Turk's-head brush. le has a strong spring .enclosed' within it ; this being wound up, the L4ol)4E:ails is introduced into the thr'bat of the chimney, which it then climbs to the inmost height. Having found its way. through the top of the pot, its remain ing• power k then rapidly epentledi when it May be pulled down by an bleached cord, whielt it takes up along with it, and so sweeps the chim ney as effectually as a boy could do. As lIIRIVf chimnies are irregularly formed; being narrower in sonic places than •others, -the inventor has, very:judiciously, made the brush to dilate and con tract that it may touch the flue in every paet, and pass through it with ease. ' As this sWeeping au. 1011101011 is ttflittii, by experiment, to ascend crooked chimnics %till) • the saute facility, •ag straight Ones; it admits of being generally ,sp plied, and cannot fail (if the plan be adopted) to protvote the desirable object for which hutha. Wily is.so laudably exerting itself. Z•.:' , “lRlNG.—Scroggins bat! a . benefit at the Fives-court yestei (My , and the company that although beaten, he was not forgotten.--- Giegson, Littler, and Painter arc nut in London, but thet'e was good setting-to with Oliver, Bel cher, Richmond, Purcell, Lancaster, &c. Scrog gins did' hot e,tltlbit from Litheness, nor did 'fur tier, who svias present. 01.-er weS the star of the flay, although there was a flue e b bitiJrl betiveeti Belcher and Lancaster. Oliver was first pitted againgt Spring, a Athler:C young butcher, wholll the ghi ye had represented as an oat ante outer ; he was howevet shewn the- difference be tween tapping.and hitting, and his promise was much•lessoied. Last week a butcher tnneracteti With o public iostizatim t in Exeter, to solip;1 , it With meat at Itreepenre liaitinutty per pourick, to deliver only Tillie Vic CM