The Sun.
London, England, 1808-03-07 00:00:00

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We have accounts from Madrid; that Portugal. is I
to be divided into three parts ; one of which- is to
be Given to the PHINCE'Or PEAca ; one to he given.
to the Queen of ETattatA, in lion of her Tuscan do-
minions ; the remaining portion to be held at the
disposal of BITONAPARTE.
• The French troops assembled at.Malaga menace
both this tOrtrebs and Barbary. It' s said that the -
Enemy hope to carry this place. by a tOup-de-rniiiii,
and are serrously,disposid to the attempt.
This Garrison is so abundantl'y supplied with mi
litary stores, that a Vessel from England, uith
powder, has fig nearly a month been lying in the
Mole with her cargo on board, there not tieing room
for it in the Ordnance Storehouses.

A Fleet of Transports is now getting under weigh
for Sicily, having 4000 troopi,(in-board.

THE THEATRES.—The very ini;•robable- but di-
veiling Comedy of The inconstant, rew Aumerou
audience on Saturday last to Drury-Lane Theatre.
ELLltirOleb Stittnehb and torrAiality begin to wear off,
and he was altogether, a itnritecl tepreseffiative of
Young liiiratel. BANNISTEIt'S- liaretete was indeed
somewhat too lareical, but was very eniertaining.
Bizarre was rendered very playful and animated by
111;s. Joßpoi; and Miss'BOYGE gave a strong
terest to the part of Orinna. The new Farce of
In, and. Out of Tune was brought forward again, di-
vested, indeed, 'of its more extravagant parts, but
retaining all its original insipidity. AS, however,
there wus nothing very. offensive to the audience,
.they were content to sutler its insignificance to pass
without tnotestation.

Thu Pastdral Drama of The Madman, which has
been very succesifully revived at Covent-Garden
Theatre, was represented again on Saturday last,
and received great applause. The =Sic is certain-
ly the best that its ingenious author, Mr. iiHIELD.,
has ever produced, excellent as his works in general
are; and the piece was much indebted- to, INcut-
Doty, MUNDEN, EMERY, BELLAMX, :TAYLOR,
BtactiettAan, and Mrs. Dicx,ONs. • The Farce of
The Illidaw's Choice followed, and afforded much
entertainment. . FAWCETT, LISTON, and Mrs.' C.
KIMBLE, were all admirable in their respe6tiVe cha-
ratters. e

M 15,; JAMESON.; of the path Theatre, has, we
end, considerably increased her reputation, by her
admirable performance of Ella Rosenberg, and Ed-
mund in The Blind Boy. This amiable aaress is to
perform Intogen, and Selina in The Tale of Mystery,
to-morrow, "at that place, for her own benefit ; and.
as she is deservedly a great favourite, she is expected.
to have a crowded house.

-The price ivhich has been given ,for Mr: Fox's
Historical Wtak much exceeds any thing that has
been paid for a Work of the same size. A warm
admirer of the author offered five hundred pounds
for the Manuscript after the Bookseller has done
with it but it appears that it is in the hand.
writing of Mrs. Fox.
The person known by the name of P4SIELA? who
recently left this country: on account Ober pecuni-.
ary embarrassments, and who..ought to have been
sent out of it on account of hes political intrigues,
is.called'" the interesting Pamela ". in an Opposition
Print. It is surprising with what liberality and ten-.
derness the Opposition Prints mention the enemies
of this Country.--This woman, it appears, was ar-
rested on her arrival at Calais, but contrived to
soften the rigid -he:tits of the police officers.till they
should obtain, fresh instructions from Paris.

Mr. I%IAt.oNE,, who is,indefatigablo in pursuit of
every thing that relates to our great dramatic Bard,
has recently printed.a 'shUrt 'work on' the origin of
The Tempest, merely,. however, ,for private -circu-
lation among his friends., As the Public infreneral
must he interested in all that concerns our Chief
tiunal Poet, it is to be regretted that the work all
luded to should only appear in so restriaed a channeh
M A DAME CATALANI'S PARTY.--A few. da3s a!:oo
,Madarne Catalani entertained a large party .ot
sons of the first distintliOn: Among the company
Were His Royal Highness the Duke of Berri, the
Duke of. Devonstire, and Lady IL Cavendish ; the
Marquis and Marchioness of Stafford and their
daughter, Marquis and Marchioness of. Headfor t aed
daughter, Count and Countess of Ilesborciugh,Mar
quis of Abercorn, Lord and Lady Boringden, Lord
and Lady Harrowby, Lord Grenville, Lord Castle-
reagh, Lord L. power, Lord Robert Fitzgerald, Lady
Elizabeth Foster; Comte De Vatulreuil, and tnaey
,other Gentlemen belonging.. to the Duke of Berd's
enite. Madame Catalatii gratified the coMpay
with 4or.crill favourito airs. At tWelv-
' coinymy pikrzouk of an elegant supper.

L4IT REPORT.

COURT OF CHANCERY; MARCH t.
• OPERA .HOUSE.
?*ATERS V. TAYLOR. -

The LORD, CHANCELLOR gave judgmtiio-tiajr
in this case. Aftet entering at .considerable lchgth
into the various deeds from which the rights of the
Parties were to be colluded, his Lordship declared
it to be impossible for the Court to, interteie, with-
out, hi effed, putting the deed in !BM between
Taylor and Gould, into the 'fire: - There was-scarcely
a single possible event for the'adjustaient. which
that, deed had ot provided a -domestic forum;
to-
tally excluding' the idea of any interference of a
Court of Law: But even Wert the Court to inter--
pose, an the ground that some of the rights cove-
minted for by-that deed had been violated, it would
be an interterence which could have no possible cf-
la. Hardly a step could be taken, which either
the one or the other of the parties might not render
abortive, under the enactments of that deed, by
withholding his consent.... The Court was called ori
by the present application, to give all proper dire&
lions for managing the affairs of the Opera. This
was neither more nor less thansequiriog of his Lord-
ship to judge of the merits of 'he persons engaged,
from first-rate singer, down to the degree of expett-
nest required' in a eandle-snutter. This was an em-
pluytnent which, considering its various other aVoca-
lions, -the Court would not Willingly undertake.--
its proceedings were not remarkable for. celerity ;
and, if the Opera were once fully in Cow t, it ought
not to be regarded as any extraordinary delay, if, in
the year 1809, the Court should be Wood occupied
in the inquiry, what perfursn rs were tit to be en-
gaged•for the season 1808. There was nothing in
the Opera-house which thstinguisha it /Joni any
other joint concern, except thaz tt u4rt'possibly be'
Inure complicaited and ito,olved. nis, however,
• 'wai no reason why the'Court should interfere. It
'Court
with equal ptopriety 17e expeCted that the
,Court should become the general manager of every
mercantile and Other speculation in the country;
that every brewery, distillery, sugar-manufactory,
candle-munutaL-tory, &c. the proprietors of which
quarrelled anion:.'; themselves, should expett the
CoUrt of Chancery to conduct 'their business for
them. to the management, therNige,..his Lerd7
: ship had no doubt whatever : I.e could not ioter..
fere iu it. 'The only pUint oft which tie 'did:hesitate
was as to the appointment of a treasurer,: Mr. Jew-
ell, he had no doubt, was a Person above all ex-
ception ; bet even he, his Lordship presumed, like
perStins• in Much higher situations, could only hold
his ()dice qyamdui selbene gesscrit. The deed, how-
ever, here agaio .intertered, and declared that Ito
servant employed iii the concern could be dismissed,
but by mutual consent of the proprierors. On this
part ofthe case his Lordship should be ready to-de-
cide, whenever the Plaintiff was prepared to point
out to 'him in what manner the money which
might Cgillt, into h s !Wilds as a treasurer could, in
the present state•of matters, find it's way otit•of his
hands agreeably to the deed. - •

On Saturday evenini„ a young man, a blacksmith,
residing in the Mint, SAthwark, for a wager, eat
btillocrs heart, weighing five.pOur:clS,. drank two
quarts of ale, and afterwards took a welch rabbit
The time allowed him vas two hours, but it was
completed, seemingly with ease, ten minutes within
the time.

Ministers, it is said, have refused to place the Bri-
tish Squadron which is to at in the Baltic under
the command of the King of SWEDI:N. The army
will be on the footing of anxiiiiaries.. It is pre-
paring with great expedition. It is to comprise
twenty thousand men, and to be followed by a con-
siderable Reserve, The King of SWEDEN /19S sti-
pulated to co-operate with an effective force of equal
number in the field, independent of his Guards,
• Garrisons, &c. The Provi'stens,• Hospitals, &c. for
our Troops are to be furnished from England.—
Lord CATHCART, Sirs A.: WELVESLEY and J.
Moona, and some. other Officers, are mentioned for
commands in this ExpeU;tiou. , 7
We. understand that it is in the contemplation of
Government, with a view- to render the Volunteer.
force of the Empire as dilciely as possible, to eel!:
Out the entire of it in fait` division's, (hiring tour
months of the ensuing Sinnirier,'Ocli *division of
.c9rps.to be encamped
.in their respective .Counties.,
for a month. For inskatice, a forth part, ot,,_the .
Volunteers of Middlesex io be'placea on permanent
duty,. and be encamped during
,the Month 'of May,
-another fourth in June,-; the third in July, and.the
remainder in. August. Au arrangement which, it is
supposed, Would conduce to the coevenieneel and
general accomModation' Of the corps, and fit them
for the contest to which they may be'expased. The
Government, in particular cases, to pruvide clothing,
pay, end provisions:
A Policy was on Saturday effeeted at I.Loyie's,
giving 40 guineas to,pay Ina proviad Preliminaries
of peace with France were not signed OII,Of before
the Ist of February next year.
•" SOCIETY, OF ARTS, MANUFACTURES, 8/C.'...."TiliS
Siefy,..*hich is always laudably attentive to eVery.
useful invention, and liberal in testifying its sense
of ihe merit of the author, had awarded a gold medal
to Mr. DANIEL for his Life-preserVer.-4A Member
lately. induced the Society, in a dim attendance, to
revoke its resolution in Mr. DANIEL'A favolir, upon
the alleged plea that it was not anew invention.
'This eireunistanee produced another meeting on the
subjeet last 'week, and, after a very long dismssion,
the Members divided, when the business was finally,
decided in favour of Mr. DANIEL by a considerable
majority. The 'public will look with increased re-
sped upon the Society for being anxious to encou-
rage and, reward discoveries. of importance.to man-
kind, and to.rescue merit from pertial_oppositien.
Tranquebar, it is thought, is at present oecepied'
by a British. Garrison. The Government of Goa,
we underslud, is to be assumed by ,the Presidency,
of Bombay, older the same LOniiiliOUS that Madeira
, bas been occupied by our Troops..
A nephew of CAMBACIIRES,• holding the rank of
French Admiral, feel succeeded Admiral RtAILLY in
the command of the Preach Fleet, at Cadiz. ,This
Fleet lately ventured as tiir down es the Rota, but
were prudent enoueli to return will •eq'''sliti°ll' •
Cz'4b and Hamel :tie Iv light lot: lon ohms, on
the eeeie, tiay as Geiley and Gee4rsun
,i and crefitcy
ind..Diud4 Saw are to have a coiiibat spoil. after.
T4ere, is at present at Pla ill a D'ancrr lVtZledipu-
?OU 40 T, W 4 tepoited to be infinitely superior to
Vateeuss. •

HOME anon'.

HatTirOun, QIAR.CH 5.

fnwood was indided for the wilful milder
of William Goodman, by giving /Jim levertil
wounds with a cutlass, on the 6th of Oduber last, all
Ilichmansworth, in this enmity.
Mr. COVIZON SHRJEANT, as Counsel for the Pro-
secution, stated, that the Prisoner at the liar rentvd`
a fishery at Rickmansworth, and on the morning of
the 6th of October, the deceased, William Good-
man, went to the water, no doubt for the purpo,e
of illegally taking the &h. Ho admitted fairly ttEtt
the deceased went %sit!) an intention of committing •
a trespass, for which, by a particular Ad of Parlil,•,
ment, he was liable to pay a fine of tiol. suffer
month's icopri)onment. TL Prisoner and four
other men were on the watch, and about four o'clock

in the morning they discovered the deceased, who
finding that persons were there, plunged in the
water, and swath up the stream to a little ayte,
osier bank, where he evidently meant to laud. I
this time some of the party.were on one side of t1:0
stream, and some on the (31her,..and the Prisoner,
with a cutlass in his hand, ran round to the osii

island. As it was dark, the rest of the party could
not see what passed; but he should call a witiq
who would prove that he heard several heavy blows,
like a man .lopping a tree, and a that time it seenivd
Altd Prisoner gave the deceased no l sa than eightetn
wounds notwithstanding which he. escaped, and .
got home to his own cottage, whete he Lxpired vu
the followirig_Seturdtiy: With resped lc; the law of
this case, as the matt was merely counnittlng a ma-
Os,t, the Prisoner was not %vat-sawed
alihough the deceased resisted npnrehension, and ,
it most be at all 'events an tig,;ravated manslaughter
butif the Prisoner was aclumed by rteuge.lOt thu
injury the deceased had intended apinst his pr-
perty, then no doubt but it would amount to i;1411
liigher offence of murder.

Thomas Toehlield said, • he was a labourer at
Aickmansworth ; On the night between the. Gtli Laid
6th of 06tober, he and the Prisoner, together witi.l
Davy, Ellinghatn, and two otherti,l Nyclrt •to watch
the fishery of the
.Prisoner ; itbout tour t, clock in
the morning, the Prisoner, who was outside the..
Wier-house,„ gave them .notice that some one was
near the wheels, and desired them to wait until le
should get to
,work.. As' WWI as they thought the
man would begin, they all sallied out, and the w.:)
finding himself di3coveredi plunged into the middleuf
the stream and swain up against it. Inwood, Davy,
andEllingham were on the north side of the-river,
and two others on the south side; they'called to
the man to 'surrender, but he made them. no an-
swer... Inwood, the Prisoner, said, he would :Tin
round to the ozier island, to prevent his escaping
that way. In a short time he heard a splashing in
the water, and Inwood calling out that the man had
got hint in the water and would drown him if they
did hot make haste to his assistance. They went
round and found that the Prisoner had been in tins
Water, but the man had escaped. They then went
back to the Wier-house, and there found the jaLket-
which the man had left behind him, with a bokLt
and a bag. By the jacket they discovered that rues'
man in the water must be Goodwin:, :,as they had
often fiecn him wear it.

Ellinghatia, Davy and Walker, other persons .on
the watch, gave the same account a the transac
t* ; but it also appeared that the eels were in
baskets confined, and that thp deceased came
not to catch fish, but to take away those already,
eat-cited.

The Learned JUDO& here observed, that it made
a considerable difference in the casea.as it, was cleat
he came to commit not merely 'a tropays but a
felony.
The Prisoner being called upon for his defence, slid,
the deceased, in getting• up the bank, pulled him
intu.the water,. and he was afraid he should have
been drowned, and that what he did was in, his own
defence.

Tho Jury found him Guilty of Manslaughter,
and he was sentenced to one mouth's iinprisonmenh

A duel took place at nine cecina on Saturday
•
morning, on Droptnore Common, near Moredou,
between Lieutenant H-, an officer belonging to
,a dragoon regiment, and Mr. 11-,, a student at
Westminster, in consequence of a disagreement itt
,Berkeley-square on Friday, respetaing an affair of
gallantry. The Lady Who had caused the dibagree-
meat gave information on Friday evening that the
duel was to take place, on Finchley Common, but
the parties eluded pursuit ,by settling their difference
on another spot., The .Lieutenant was wounded
'lightly in the pistol hand the second tire, and the
parties returned' to London in post-chaises.
• Mr. DOWNC,. the pedestrian, finished his tenth
day:s. performance ,of 35 miles a day, at Preston,
Lancashire, on Thursday last, in good, condition, be
having performed half his Herculean task. The
.odds, which v were 7 to 4' lignitiNt liISMVrOMIatICep
~are now in his favour. • He contiunes to alei:p e'ght
hours in 24.