The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1807-03-13 00:00:00

THEATRE.

. • DPURT•L AWL.
fib A tv Piece was produced last night, alter the
play dr Or' Goy: cv. • The dialogue and poetry by
Mr. DISIORM, un. to whose classical and elegant
taste the public are already so much indebted for
several most popultr Pisces. It is intitltd—The
reung fiesear ; or, Lose r,aJ Mercy.
DRAMATIS Pkaiott:C.
Fiorito . • t. 4 E'listna
flertrual De V.lta‘coArt . Mr. Evr....
Lamle . e!.2if7.
•
BONeenr • . Mr.
Capt. 1•e,51.4i! . . Mr. th:auia.
Friar;ge De Gurey . . Mr.
Laree . . Mrs. Ilor!or.e.
Caroi.or • . Mountain.
Mersa . . Mr.. Maud.
The Piece is founded upon a fan, which occurred
about the middle of the French Revolution.
Flivirro. son to the Caypte Ac Vilanrorrrs.haeing
ise. is involved in thit general ruin...of aristocracy,
and r' aced at once from importance to intignifi-
i compelled, as a Conrcerpt, to join a regi-
m...t quartered in one of the fomtier
too or Here, Love VA tens the rigour of his destiny,
and :,aides arolioo, a beautiful Rosogrorre,
rec,otc it the youthful Florian to the frowns of For-
tune. Mere and Cupid divide his hours, until an
nt discovers to him, that his father (the Er-
Cesente) is langui%iiing in the prison M the town, for
a trilling debt. Destitute of money, he pledges his
sword and accoutrements to raise the sum. Before
he can redeem them, a parade is unexpeßsdly
call; the deficiency of his arms is discovered,
end e h summoned before the Commandant, to
esto .:n the cause. The pride of noble birth seals
'43 Ir of the youth, and he prefers punishment, to
a tads ;on that might degrade his family name.
On his tr to the guard-house he escapes • reaches
the c .nber of hit Mistress, Biagi himself at her
feet, siid implores pros, Rion. (7orolise conceals the
fair e, unknown to her family ; the military
the house, and proceed to a formal search ;
a variety of ptirnit oral escape then ensues. The
adroitness of the girl, however, baffles each attempt,
sad Peoria• is still in safety. In the mean time,
chancy reveals to the Commandant, the real circum-
stance. Filial piety is permitted to expiate a mili-
tary error, and Merry is generously extended to the
Votaries of Leas.

Trot this story Mr. Drmoni has produced a
pinning Afrerpiece. full of interest and variety.--
The music is by Mr. Kzt.r.v, and possesses much
sweetness. The Overture is beautiful, and was
=aipplanded. The Pitcs was announced for
'en- amidst a tumult of applause.—The
Rouse overflowed in every pare.
Tiw Ihnewing is a specimen of the poetry :
ElNG—Sovemas.
in:tv. 0! ye Powers: while I live, a good name,
• Unspotted by eery or bats
Noe such as ambition perchance would call fame,
But humble, and inatcled with my state.
Let the world thus report 'me, a herever I :Die,
" Rough Item Nature's hist Ilan,
14 View a plain Emmet mail.
Stamm in ha friendship, and (...t1 fill in Inv.."

. Wen Times artain hand shall haw.) frosted in Fate,
And chard the quick .rives at in. heart,
;At no marble trophy thine peSiques await,
ay tom► a weak loom intl..,"
Aid posterity read, remind the sp,t as the) rove,
•' Jo this dark narrow *eau,
" Lie. a plain boaa:t than,
" Sincscs is his Irsend.th.p. and faubful i.t lieNe "

Vieceuntess ASH eIIOOK WAS .41. tb.• Drawing-room.
yesterday, for the first time this season. Iler Lady-
ship wore a splendid dri.ss of crimson velvet and
silver. _

'lke SPCA/Mel last levee, for this sca:on, will
be held to-morrow.

Sir WIMMSOS I+IMILOKB will give a grand din-
ner, next Sunday, at his I..onge in Albensarle.street,
to • large party ef. foreign Nobility.
The Canntess of CAP% AR VON'S grand rout, on
Tuesday night, was brilliantly attended.
Lady G. batimot.a's rout, on Tuesday night,
was nunotously atierd:d.
Lord and Lady Svnoeat.tn gale a grand dinner,
last Tuesday, at their hens, In Cavendish-square,
le the Earl and Countess of Bassoaoivi ; Lord
an I I,Ady Somas; liird Fosses; Sir WILLIAM
and Lady Scurr ; Mr. and Mac ../LPH:ON ; and
Mr... SMITH.

l'he last arrivat.s at Rath are, •
fad ►esaLroke. Dean or W.ils, Lot! Coc'r•ane, Lord
Headley, I.ady Aot•ray, Lady Vernon, Fon. Mr. brown,
Hnn James Eiekr, S,‘ Janie, and I.4dy Du-
bi*, fir Jol`e Gnu r.on (luunk.), Cui. Lewis,
Cob Jack..n, Cu Way, C I Bulkale,,
Signora Sroesci di-played her inestimable ta-
kists id 7/4 bi,silah, nn Wedae•dar, at the Ont-
o:meth and was paned with the most unlionr.led
rapplata,e. Signora Stomacz never appear:d to
viol* advantage. She came forward, with all bra
•aturai good nature and kindness, to take the lead
in the performance, for Mrs. Dicrroas, who was
raying the last sad duties to her mother, Mrs.
root. I.
Mr. and Mrs. FOIRDTCS gave a grand dirn.r, oa

Tuesday, at theft house, Whitelt;ll. to the Dols
• and Duchess of Rirtimeorm, the Duchess of Goa.
mom, the Duke of Alto v is, the Nla;quis of lii:nr-
Lev, and several other Nobility; in the evening
Mts. Fonorce had a grand rf ut, which was at.
tanded by upwards of 300 Nobility ; three stipetb
driseilg-rooms were thrown open. and brilliantly
lighted '•.e their reception; and refreshments of the
rar,..t sort served to the company; which did not
begin to assemble till eleven o'clock.
T. e Duchess of Connow gave a grand supper.
last Tuesday night, atter the Opera, at her house in
Grosvenor-square, to upwards of forty of the prin-
cipal Nobility. Five elegant drawing-roams were
thrown open, and share tables set out in a magni-
Scent style. At twelve o'clock, the company sat
down to supper; amongst whom were, Prince Es.
;Lamaze ; the Dukes of ()mr.sAns, Ds Beast,
%osmoses, and A aovi.e ; the I)ochess of limn-
awn ; the Marquis of H . LL ; the Marchio-
ness and Dowager Marchioness of BATS;; Viscount
sad Viscountess CASI' LLLLL GM J Viscounts Ps-
//UNA SI. PllMlliftt, mid PALMBRSTCIII; Lord and
• Lady WI&LIA II Kussei.t.; Ladies Lsvcsow Gowes
ANN WIINDHAMLI2I Altai Lady Kitimat RD;
54
y, CAM a • Lear- Lady !twain's:tams ;
and Lade boatuooon, and Lady Masts
NAN I L7Oll. tee corfiramy, after supper, sat
Oulu le card,' Mid did no: separate until morn-
ioa.

HOME CIRCUIT.

CNELM,TORD, MAICU 11.
CRIM. CON.-SPECIAL JURY.
/ LYNN V OR•NT•

Mr. La was stated, that this was an aim% to re-
cover compensation. in damages, for the seduaiou
of the Plaintiff's wife. •
Mr. Seijeant SHEPHEICS" The Plaintiff, in the
present case, is Captain of one of the Post-Otfice
Packets at Harwich, and married his wife in the
year 1901, the daughter of a respectable tradesman
at Yarmouth ; they lived together in affedion and
harmony, until it was destroyed by the misconduct
of the Defendant, a Captain in the Westminster
Militia, then quartered in the town of Harwich.
How or wheA he first seduced the affedions of
Mrs. Flynn from her husband, it is impossible
to say, for the adulterous intercourse was pursued in
secrecy : certain it is, however, that Mr. Flynn
had not the least idea of any improper cenneltion,
either formed or forming, between the Defendant
and his wife, until he received information, that
his honour had been already sullied. Many levi-
ties mirlit have passed ; but the husband is gene-
rally the last man who is acquainted with these
things ; and others who saw them considered it
only as fillet/en—l wish to God such cenJuift was
called by its true appellation, namely, erimincl.
The manner of Captain Grant's first introduction to
Mr. Flynn's family, I shall now relate to the Jury.
On the occasion of the christening of Mr. Flynn's
two children, he intended to give a dance ; but some
of the gentlemen invited, having disappointed him,
Captain Grant Was introduced by another Gentle-
man, and from that time he continued to visit at
the house. I have already said, it is impossible to
prove when the adulterous intercourse commenced,
but I shall prove the fall beyond the' possibility
of doubt. I shall call a witness, whe will state to
you, that he held the adjoining garden to Mr.
Flynn's ; being there about eight o'clock in the
morning, he heard some voices in Mr. Flynn's
garden; looking through a crack, he saw Mrs.
Flynn and Captain Grant gathering currants; but
his attention was more particularly excited in observ-
ing tllr. Grant kiss Mrs. Flynn several times, and after
this prelude,he saw the m retie behind snrne raspberry
bushes, where he, however, had a distinct view of
them, and saw them consummate the ad of adultery.
What answer Mr. Grant means to give 'o this charge,
I am at a loci to guess; whether he means; to at-
tack the character of the husband, or the previous
charader of the wife. If he pursues the bitter course,
and adduces 'any evidence wnictrcould impeach her
former couchia, no man could be more surprised
than the Plaintiff himself, and I think the Jury,
when they are told the conduct of Captain Flynn,
after the discove-y of the affair, will believe that he
aaed as became an honourable man. The first
intimation he received of it was %bile he was in
London with his wife, by an anonymous letter,
which he gave to a friend, who made inquiries,
and naced the aCtital proof cf her misconduct.—
Mr. Flynn immediately carried his wife home to
Harwich, and abstained from all intercourse with
her ; but he did not turn her into the street, which
probably must hate driven her to the arms of the
adulte-er, if he did not refuse to receive her, as fre-
quently happened when a guilty passim was sa-
tiated ; but he left her in his own house, giving her a
decent maintenance, telling her there she should re-
main, until her guilt or innoceoce was fully proved,
by legal investigation." The Learned Serjeant then
adverted to the circumstance of the Plaintiff having
two daughters, who might hereafter be injured by the
contaromation which the mother's character might be
sopposed to receive. Imes true they c.,uld net demand
claei iges for this.because t!iey welt not complainants
in C•at aEtion ; butthe Jury might add something for
the father's feelings on this occasion, for it was ag-
gravation to the jury done to himself. He trust-
ed, that, upon the whole of the evidence, the Jury
would think it a fat case for exemplary damages.
Tie marriage was proved, as stated, in 1801, and
seers al P itnesses were called to prove that the Plaint-
iff and his wife lived affectionately. One of them,
Captain Darby, a naval officer, said, *1 that he was
intimate at the house, that they lived alfeftionately,
and much as man and wife usually did."— f
Jetj •
Captain Bridges, Captain of another Post-office
packet, stated, that he was the person who caused
Captain Grant, the Defendant, to be invited to the
ball ; be was intimate at the house, and Mr. Flynn
was complaining, that several of the ladies would be
left without partners, from the absence of several gen-
tlemen who had been expected. He named several
who would come, he thought ; and Mrs. Flynn said,
that there was a Capt. Grant, a good dancer. The
Witness thought it was not correct to invite him,
as they none of them knew him; but she over-ruled
him, and said, she would write to the Captain her.
set!, and invite him, which she did, and be came.

William Pickett, the Witness, who proved the
adultery, stated that hewn a publican, aud bad a
garden a.Jriining to Captain Flynn's. About eight
o'clock in the morning of the 2d of August last, l
was in his garden to teed his rabbits, and hearing a
noise of some persons talking in Captain Flynn's
garden, he was induced to look through a hole in
the paling. He saw Captain Grant and Mrs. Flynn
gath,,ring currants, and every now and then they
kissed each other ; at length they retired behind the
summer-house, and had intercourse. He saw them
di.tinftly, and could not be mistaken. He told se.
venal per.ons of it ; and a few days afterwards Copt.
Grant came to him, and desired him not to let the
',tory go any further, as he was afraid the Lady's re-
putation rai:;::t suffr. On cross-examination, he
said the lady made use of many provocatives to in-
duce Capt. Grant to the aft, which are too gross to
he detailed. He was also strictly examined by Mr.
G A allow, whether ke had not reported his having
seen other indecencies in the s.ime garden, in the time
of a former proprietor ? Hi. answers disclosed
matter too disgusting to relate ; it appearing that
the riputation of a Dissenting Clergyman had beat
questioned for gross practices, upon the report of this
witness. He Rho desctibtd the garden as being
overlooked front the road, and a mound upon which
a mill formerly stood.
Another witness proved that Capt. Grant had
come to lam, and desired hint not to clads** the
report of his criminal cnoneaion with Mss.
Mk. GAR lIpW, for thitiklendarlts in II tsas7 A.
stated syeaci,iatploied die Jury to girl 110 credit

to the testimony of Pickett, the witness who deposed
as to the feet of the criminel conversation; and with
respect to the injury which the Plaintiff had an.
tail:aid, and the quaatum of damages, he said, they
were absolutely nothing. When a man seeks repa-
ration for this, which is often the roost serious injury
that can be received, it must appear, that the felicity
of the married couple must really have been di,.
turbe4; but here there wa■ no evi 'encc of the man-
ner in which the Plaintiff and his tv:fe lived, so as to
entitle him to damages. The order of the family
might be cone... Red from the evidence. The first
Witness could only say, that they lived as man and
wife usually do--which so obviously insinuated, that
there were contentions between them, that the very
mention of it occasioned a loud laugh. As to the
christening balls the scene was curious; they acre in
want of lens:, and therefore a council of war was
held, in which Captain lit idges was called to assist
Captain Flynn and Major-General Mrs. Flynn. who,
when there were some objet irms started as to inviting
a Mr. Macklin, whom the Plaintiff did not know,
over-ruled every objection; and afterwards, in the
absence of her husband, sent a billet-dew to the Do.
fendaat, whom she had never seen before, to invite
him to the dance. In such a case, there could be
no claim for damages. But he principally insisted,
that the story told by Pickett was so Indecent, so
improbable, and so revolting to human nature, that
if an angel were to repeat it, one must pronounce
him a fallen angel, and unworthy of belief; for it
was absolutely impossible that a woman could so
prostitute herself, in the face of day, and in a place
expoyed to public view from every stage coach
which passed the London road. In order to de-
stroy the credit of Pickett, he called Mr. and Mrs.
Whiting, who stated, that five years ago he had
come to them, and accused a Dissenting Minister
of committing an unnatural crime in the same gir-
den, with the late owner, Mr. Feinting, and that
they had raised the paling for the purpose of con-
cealment, but he could see through a hole in the
pales. He had sworn, on his cross-examination,
that he had never accused a Dissenting Minister.
Admiral /Milton also deposed, that he would not
believe him upon his oath.
A Magistrate was called to the same effoet ; but
he said he thought he should beleve him upon his
oath, though he was a bad cbarafter.
Serjeant &reenter) made a very able reply, at
great length ; and after the case was very atten-
tively summed up by the Learned Since, the
Jury retired, but had not delivered their verdict
when our express came away.

NAVAL INTEL LIt,LPICE.

toarsaiurrit, 7,1•RC11 11.

Arrived the Corea. packet. Captain Harrison,
from Liverpool, bound to Hull, and tile Lawnia,
Howland, from the Downs.—Wind E.N.

ri.vbsourit, mAr.cu 10.

Came in the Pm/ kaki, horn Guernsey ; Jamaica,
from a cruise; Crocodile and Dedalus, with a fleet
of coasters, nal:r convoy from the Eastward.-.-
Wind N E.

DEAL, 74•11CIII 11.

Sailed through the Downs this morning from the
river for Portsmouth, the Hon. East India Com-
pany's ship the Ciapitais. Captain Wood, bound to
India ; also f lis Majesty's ships Clyde, Commodore
Owen ; Railleur, and several gun-brigs, for the
French coast.

At the Whig Club Meeting, on Tuesday, Lord
HOLLAND in the Chair, it was resolved, That The
Memory of the Right Hos. C. 7.1F0r, should be an
established sentiment at every meeting.
The nature of the alteration made in the House
of Commons, on Monday night last, in the Pream-
ble of the Bill for Abolishing the Slave Trade, bas
been greatly misrepresented is some of the news.
paperL—lt is true, that the words of the Preamble
were altered, in order to conciliate some Gentlemen,
who entertained fears of the effiet which it might
produce in the West Indies, as it originally stood—
fears in which Ministers and their friends did not
at all participate. The substanceol the preamble,how.
ever, was fully retained, and it contains in particular
a distina and explicit recognition of tbefreirseiples of
;attire, humanity, and salad policy, as Lose which
determined Parliament to abolish the Trade.
This has been effeded by declaring, that it is fit
to abolish the Trade upon '• and every of the
grounds," mentioned in the Resolutions of the Lords
and Commons, oa the 10th and `lth of June, 1606.
Now those Resolutions were, that the Houses " con-
udering the African Slave Tradc to de contrary to the
driaciples of justice, humanity, and sorsd policy,
would, troth all proamails expedition, take ej/i.lassi
measures.* the abolition of Me same."
A dispensation has passed the Great Seal, to en-
able the Rev. .1 ast rs DAINWOOD, M.A. to hold the
vicarage of Long Sutton, in the diocese and county
of Limas ; together with the teeter! of Dodding-
ton, is the ttncese of Ely, and county of Cam-
bridge. computes worth 50001. per annum !
An immense ball of fire was observed at Glasgow,
on Friday night, fifteen minutes before ten o'clock,
.direiling its course from, seemingly, south-east to
north-west, with a very long streaming tail, and,
towards the end, of a sparkling appearance.
An inquisition was held on Tuesday night at St.
Saviour's Vestry-room, on the mutilated remains of
the unfortunate persons found among the ruins of
the Globe publec-house, in St. Saviour's church-
yard. It appeared in evidence that there was in the
house, on the night of the tire, twenty lodgers, five
of whom, Thomas Smith, a Portsmouth waggoner ;
William Ebditch and his wife, and Sarah Borrows
and her child, were burnt to death. The other's
escaped chiefly through a trap-door at theltep of the
hossse.—Verdia. Accidental Death.

A number of daring highwaymen and footpads
have infested the roads leading to London, for se.
veral nights past. On Saturday evening, about seven
u'clock. as Mr. °resew's, of Birebin-lane, was re-
turning to his eountry-house, at Southgate, on hoer-
back, as be was passing through the Green Lanes.
the four-mile-etesse, at Herncey tea•house,
be nits stopped by three footpads, two of them
sailed his bridle, and ordered him.to dismount j all
ethic= presented pistols to him. demanded his
moue". and presseded to rifle his poetess of his
cultostaWb. and pocket-hook:And afterwards made
off with their booty, across the fields.

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StFETING! OF CURIXTOILI A? GUILDHALL.
tro-tmasitt
il. 11,
John Mix& Ktrig-atteet, Civaat-Garden, airmen II
Witham (kiln, tie Yummier, Gemge Mylra:, and ,
.I.itin Chalmers. Jell;eosequare, Louden, men.lints s 11
Gdtge Reynolds, Seek-lane, Sheave', Middlesex, tow.
. . . keeper ^
Leonard Lister, Sheerness, Kant, elivicsinaksr and slop-
seller . . . . .
Jams. Many, Ilfai'vollead•cnuct, Gracechurchetreet,
Lnndun merchant . '
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Richard routes, of the same place, merchant • 2 Is
George Parkinson, London, tror‘hant • ft I t
Thomas Erie', Elton, Rettord .1-.4,, betc4ser . • i it
H-airy Mew, Newport, Isle of Wight, kitop•k•eper .g I,
Henry Michsel Trion, late of folltriscueN Fleur-onset,
London. •intner . • $ 12'
George Iron, lev , Ch 3 intler.street, St Gar ft 6, Hantleer-
equate, Micidlesex, grocer • • .
John H.II, Rotheihrthe. Survey. merchant . .
George Gregory, late nt Cumptnn•strett. Soho, ahem.
monger . . ..
Christian Augustus Eschke, Slmborneslane,tenders,
merchant . • I I':
Joha Godfrey henry Rimenbeek, of the sane place,
111 etch., nt . . .
John I lattney, late of fronessonger-Lure, London, nser-
c,.ant . .
John Haileness, Addle-street, %Vourl•street, Cheapvidc,
London, inwshatst . •

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DI VIDENIJS.
Join Hayes, Maidstone, a:Nit, taper-n.aker
JJ:I,I Brookfield, late of didounat.bur; , London, jeu.
oiler .
Fanny &sped*, Preston, EnDeasitits, nullaber
John Arson, Daslitigton, Durham, ntoney•scrivener .
CEKriFICAIES.

John Percy, of Liverpool, itt the comity of Lane-atter, blab.
maker dram :not hapunn.
James Gardiner, late of Clensenes•liane, Lombard 'tree,
in the city of Lankino, and of Seethe plcce, Lan,.
beat, in the county of Surrey, brionserchant, brewer, and
sceitsman.
.L.ihn Smith, now or late of 'tidings to Wontdale, in the
parish of Kokburton, in the county of Sink, eluthier,
dealer and cbapmaw.
Joseph Rowland, of Gresstoke place, Fetter•lane, in th• city
of London, earPcnsi".

PRICE or siocKs Ykati Uacun a.
9 per Ceut. Commis ♦ 6141
5 per Cent. Navy 96:e
Imperial Annuitiaa 6 9-16
India Saudi 4s. Ss. prem.
Exchequer hilts
Inghot Lottery Tiekra
Consals far ...
T. DISH, Steck-Broker,
Ne. 4. Conahill. and 9, Chaiingcnv..
EARTHS. _ .
Tuex.lay, in Lower Grwavenor-,treat, the Eight flotioarailla
Lady Amherst, of a sou.
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On the 7:11.:.5t. at h:1 bowie, in GeorgeNsig:mre. Edinburgh,
the Lady of Henry Viotcli, Esq. of Elioek, of • daughter.
On the 6th inn. isf:s. W. Stuart, of a daughter, at Came-
ron-house, Edinburgh.
On Wednesday lait, at his house. Coins, Dulwich-h.:7,
the Lady of Richard Shaw. Esq. of a sea.