The Sun.
London, England, 1808-09-28 00:00:00

SCOTCH CIRC, IT COURT.

The late Circuit Court of Justiciary in Scotland
was opened at Giasgow, by the Right Hon. Lordi
CULLEN and HERMAND.

• Rachel IFisight, a native of Ireland, accused of
stealing Flora Amos, w child of about three years of
age, pleaded guilty ; but the Advocate • Depute, in
respell of the extraordinary nature of the charge, and
to satisfy the Court and the Jury, adduced two wit-
"nesses:to prove the leading circumstances of the case.
%-By their: testimony it appeared that the child was
stolen from King-street, of Glasgow, on the evening
of the nth of July last, and that it was recovered
from the prisonei at Prestwick toll, in, Ayrghire, on
the. following-Monday forenoon ; she, being over-
taken' by the partnt, as she, was travelling towards
Port Patrick with the child. • The Jury, which was
inclosed on the case, returned a verdiii in the after-
noon,. unanimously finding the prisoner guilty. •

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-1:101,-
* ROW.

Morning. 41 min. after 9. I Afternoon, 14 min. after lo

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The necessaries of life are of .the, beSt quality,
'here, especially .those which 'are every where the.
first in demand, viz. bread, meat,••,ine, and water.
:With regard to }he bread, thete are four different
sorts, all made.of wheat.
• The fineSt, called pan candial, has the form of
fiat. quadrangular little hats, and costs five quartos'
a pound *. It is beautifully white and well tasied,-
though at first it may seem to lie somewhat heaiy
on the stomach., This 'probably arises. front. the
great quantity of dry flour with which they knead
the dough .over again, even .after being fermented,
purposely to make it the whiter.
The secead sort is called pan fermes, made of less
white flour, but baked'as light as. French bread. It
is sold at four quartos and a half.
The third is coarser still, and sold at three quartos
and a half, and the fourth, which is quite brown, at
two ...quartos and a half, finds .its chief consump-
tion among'the poor, for whom it-is an excellent
resource.

to water, conduaed to Madrid, almost from a
distance of seven leagues, over nothing but sand and
pebbles, from 'the mountains of Guadarrama, it is
so peculiarly excellent, that it is scarce possible to
find it lighter and purer, even in the towns of Swit-
zerland.—lt has been -diiributed through the dif-
ferent quarters of the city' by means of two-and-.
thirty great fountains, :two of whiCh are.considered
as the best, viz. la tuente del Herr°, before the Al-
cala gate, and la fuente Castellana, before the gate
of the C-anciscan Friars. Besides this, I\l-diiit
has no pipe or
_river water, the Manzanares being,
dried up for the greater part of the year.
The meat, particularly mutton, is good too ; but
this is• not to be understood of the summer months
a pbund of beef costs from 13 to' 14 quartos, accord-
ing to what it is (ox or cow beef) ; mutton, 15 guar- •
tos, pork 16, veal 14,' bacon 23-, deer 8 or 10 quar-
tos. A brace of partridges.B or 7 real% a
,bare 7 or
8, and rabbits, which are mud'', eaten here, shoat
4' or 5 reals each.

The Wines generally drank at Madrid are th.rse of
La Mancha, Valdependas, and Matizan.i-ies, but
'the high duty renders themvery dear. Fu..- Instance,
a pint of these vines, which costs no more than
One quarto in the country- where it grows, cannot
be had finless than seven quartos at Madrid.
- There' is both red and white La Mancha wine.—
The former in flavour, taste, and colour, excels the
best Burgundy, especially if draWp of and laid up
bottles, but at first it causes a little heat: The
white 'La Mancha looks like Champaigne, and hasr
a•titt medicated herb-like taste,' but is stronger than,„
the red, and is dearer. Besides these there is,a great
quantity asweet wines from Arragou-and Navarre,
a vim of which is to be. had :for twat two to tour'
reals.

The genuine' tine wines are sold in houses purpose-
ly destined for their sale, collet! alinacenas des.:Linos
genorosos. Whoever wishes to drink Xeres, Mal A:
gas Alicant, Canary, &e. "wines, pure and, titi4L*,..
'terated, find them here., his true they are dear,
a small bottle of old Malaga, for instance, wilt cost
fifteen reals.

Other provisions, vegetables, fruits, &c. are plen-
tiful and pretty cheap ; for five or six quartos one
gets vegetables enough to satisfy three or four per-
sons. A pound of gerbauzos costs twelve quartos ;
.a pound of rice the same ; a dozen of eggs, three.
reals ; a pound of goat's cheese, 20 quartos ; a pint
of goat's milk, 7 quartos ; a pound of coffee 7 or 8
reals ; sugar 6 or 7 reals, • and so forth. All the
vegetables are-sold here by weight, and being more
cotnpaet and substantial than in other countries, less
of them are required. Fish is seldam to be had fresh,
and•then the price -is exorbitant, and, the taste in-
different.

But the fruits are better, of which we findhere al-
mast every sort, which the south or north produces.
Cherries, plums, oranges, lemons, apples, pears,
limes, water-melons, rigs, walnuts, pomegt.kiates,
and bergamot:pears are to be had in abundance.
Oranges and. figs,- in particular, are extremely
cheap; oranges are every,where sold at three Einar-
tos for two, and a whole handkerchief of figs are to
be bought for one quarto.
The prices of all these commodities are marked oil
a list, taking up two fblio sheets, and placed'at the
entrance of the Plaza Major. It is reneWed every
Saturday, and seems to be rigidly attended to:,:
It is, however, to be regretted, that many of, the
first necessaries of life are burdened with ekorbitatit
imposts, and that a very oppressive systent of mono-
poly is oberved in supplying Madrid with, provisions;
which gives birth to a'great inany shameful
It teems as if a reform would also be made in this
respett. The importation of bacon, 'oil, arid soup
has been quite free since the latter end of 18-00,and
pains are taken, from "a sense of precaution which can
be'easily accounted for, to puran end, by every pos-
sible care, to the dearness of other provkiog.h, b
Ar A real has E quartos and a half, and is Worth44o,lEo7o.!iv
lish. A quarto is atlittle better than a tarthing,,each•quata
has two ochavoes, and an ochavo is halt an Engligh

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1 . , IRELAND. - _ .
• POLICE.
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DUBLIN, SEPT. -23.—Government are taking the
MARLBOROUGH•STRUBT.---A Hackney coachman
most active steps towards placing the Yeomanry of the name of Hunict wli .chaig-ed with a violent
force of this kingdom on the most respectable and assault on a Capt. Smith, on Monday
.evening. ' It
efficient footing, which the demand for the ulterior apc)eared by •the statem.,mt of the prosecutor, that the
services of the regular troops has, no cleiubt, rendered defendant's coatis was standing along side the pave- .
necessary. Two companies of riflemen, the
-cue nick at Charing-cross, and on the driver being re-
commanded by Captain
.TOWNSHEND, the other by queued by M 3-. Smith „and his friend to-drive to „OP;
Captain COB, in the city of Cork, which from their. ford-street; 'he acknowledged that he was not hired,
first establishment were volunteers, providing their but he refused to proceed with his fare without Ire
own arms, cloathing &c. have lately been put on the received half-a-crown. The Gentlemen,: however,
' regular yeomanry establishment of that city. We
got into the coach and insisted on the driver proceed' understand that similar measures either have, or will ing, when an altercation arose, and after a good dot
shortly be adopted, in other parts of the kingdom. . of abusive language, the defendant dragged both the
The Earl and Countess of BESBOROUGH, and the Gentlemen from the coach, and beat Mr: Smith eerf
Hon. WM. P_ONSONBY, landed at Donaghadee, from Severely.—The defendant was followed and lodged
Portpatrick, on Sunday last.
in the watch-house. Drunkenness was the defence;
His Grace the Lord Primate of all Ireland held. but the prostiltor refils'ed any apology, and the;
his Triennial Visitation for the Dioceses of Down defendant was held to bail to answer for his corttlud
-and Connor, on Wednesday last, at Lisburn. After at the Sescions. . • .. a sermon on the occasion by thellev. W. DnioN, an. ' ''''s. Reverend Gentleman was charged by a Lady 0(
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eloquent and impressive charge was delivered to the . ,thcoaili,e of maithms, with violent abuse an] as-
Clergy by the Lord Primate, in which he adverted, saint. 'Ffotn the testiino:l- of Mrs. Mat t ilf2ws, ;.iap-
with' much force of argument, to the various alle- -poried'isorise. other wit ; wssei, it appflarA that Elia
gatious broughragainst t-he Established Ci! rcli.
Reverend Defendant had lodged ;0 her house; and.
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• being a notable housewife, and somewhat exa6.t in
MADRID. • the gloss of her mahogany tables; the b.rilstfiess of
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her grates, and fencieri, arid . the cleanliness of tree
Extraa from -a Work entitled " A Pidure of Madrid." ,
carpets and WindoW-curtains, she found her lod,.;er's
•' . I.,RovisioNs. . .1.1,:tp ic-,...na.. n;iy.,........ .... .., • .
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the gloss of her mahogany tables; the brilittiess of
her grates, and fencieri, and the cleanliness of 11
carpets and WindoW-curta;ns, she found her lod,.;cr's
4aSte totally .different on• these points ; and alter-
many remonstrances on her part, much disagree-
mein 'and alrercation had arisen. Mrs. Matthew 9
eternally- 'complained of the injury done to her furni-
ture and jire-arms ; and her. Rev. inmate, -like .Ino!iier
Socrates, complained,of the, ceaseless annoyance of
a- second Xantippe.
, • On Snnday afternoon, however, the DoEior having
returned after sermon, Mrs. Matthews proceeded to
read him an Evening Leaure, on rusty grates ; tar-
nished mahogany, and sullied carpets and .curtains.
The Doctor way rather warns in his responses. Hi;
hostess became still hotter in her reloinders, until at
length the Do6lor, who was exceedingwratii,' called
his hostess ‘‘ a Brimstone,- This spark was in-
stantly caught in the tinder-box of Mrs. Matthe,,vs's
tempen, and soon kindled a raging flame, whicit
,shortly proceeded to that which, in the rhetoric of
Billingsgate, is called a blaw-uP. The Doaor, meeic
as he wavin the spirit, waxed oUtrageOus in tho'
flesh, and, forgetting the exemplary calmness oc'his,
cloth, laid violent hands upon the Lady, and shoved
her down stairs ;;• and for this assault she came."
demand reparation by due course of law.
On the other hand, the Rev. Gentleman denied
the truth of Mrs. Matthews's staternisot. But she
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persisted; and declining all overtures of a pacific
nature, the Rev. Gentleman was required to compli
with the usual and necessary form Of finding scoot'
ty ticaabide trial.

ATTON-GA,RDEN.-Yesterday the Stewards of .11
Benefit Society attended by virtue of a sunirnons at
the instance of a Member, who is in the Midalese%
Hospital, in conSecitience of. wounds he had inflicted.
on himself in a state of mental- dcrtingernent. The
Magistrates, after looking over the articles,- adjudged
that the man should have all his arrears paid to hi: 14
and be. continued a Member of the Club.

The intelligence of the deliverance of the Sp!----r
ttoops in the Baltic has been proclutilve of o°lef
Sal jJy in Spain. It is not that 800 or t
are added to the armies of Spain, 'which clause' SI()
lively a pleasure; but it is the slitting p
panish Gila
root..wl'i
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the heroic deliverance affords, that th S
ratter hainot been lost in dkant.clitnes, and arg°l4
foreign nations.
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