The Sun.
London, England, 1801-12-12 00:00:00

1.1.V.E3 ON.II-I.E it/IPPY EKE? .OF PEAC.E..
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Aus iterous F ra! dire contentions cease;
Ahd lodging Nations hear the Voice-tit-Peace ;
P like some guardian Angel; waves her hand; •
To heal the woes of Many a.diStantLand;
Checki•Waes tilde rage, and Rapine's headlongthain;
Where crimson streams have delug'd all the plain ;
Where Vales have•echo'd with desponding cries,
The plaints of widow 6, and the virgin'S sighs;
(Per peaCeful honieS, where hostile 'flames ha ve,SPread,_
Whence infant trains, .and trerrihripg.age; have tioci„•••• •
The bliSSful'Change all Eurczy.S.Ons Ml* PFI P,i -
From the low Cottage to thekeptred 'throneW
The blissftil Change shall ev'ry..inind.empiplil
And ev'ry Muse record the raptutid joy, ,3 rT, • '

In this great Work, Britannia justly draW§
From ev'ry tongue, the treed of loud applause ;
Firm in her friendships, generous in each aim;
No lust of Conquest blasts her laurel'd fame;
sublimer motives call'd her to the
Nations _insulted, or oppress'd, to shield
For this she lcd her Heroes to the plain,
For this she pour'd her thunders on the-gain ;
In Friendship's Cause she drew her conqu'ring Sword,
By guilt untarnish'd, to its sheath restor'd.

Unsullied, thou, thy deeds, oh Britain, shine,
Whilst mad Ambition's'baneful views decline;
Which, grasping lawless, and unbounded pow'r,
Clar'd like the fiery meteor of an hour ;
O'er peaceful Lands spread terror and affright,
Then quickly fading,. shot. to'endless night.

Britons elate! with conscious pride attend
To those, whose Valour gain'd the glorious end;
To those who firmly prompt, when' Glory eall'd,
At death, at danger; never stood appa"l'd;
By sultry climes, by martial toils untied;
Whose gallant Labours e'en their foes aclmied
Let these your care, your fend respell engage,
Record their merit in the letters(' page ;
Let columns grav'd, their Patriot Virtue shew,
For them, let statues rise, and marbles 'glow ; •
Enrol their Prowess in historic lore,
From Nile's faired streams, to Albion's happy shore.

Britons,. forget not here your Yeomen Trains,
The Guard and Glory of your Native Plaint ;
In danger's hour, whose ardent"iial-sh.on&tokh,
Andstampt their tame, their patriotic wortitry
Dauntless prepar'd internal gjoils to 'quell,'
Or rash Invasion's daring vieWs ' •
Guardedby-thent, your cloud-c:,pt 'coW'rs
The Throne, the Cottage,.and the solemn Eine;
Guarded by them, your Rights and Fteedom stand .
Safc from a foivign, or a faCtious hand : '
To them his Thanks, a gen'rous Monarch pays,
Then, with yont Sovereign's, blend your warmest praise.
Stoke-upo.t-Tremi, Wm.-FERNYHOUGH, A. 13
Staffordshire, Nov. loth, igor.

Thursday last being the Anniversary of the In_
stitution of the Royal Academy, a General Assembly
was held, when the following Premiums were given
to Students, viz.

A Gold Medal for Painting, to STEPHEN FR AN.
RiGAUD ; the Subjea, Clytemnestra exulting over
the dead body of Agamemnon.
A Gold Medal, for a Design in Architethare,
to THOMAS WILSON ' • the Subjeet, A National
Edifice, adapted to the Commemoration (by Paint-
ing and Sculpture) of Bititish Naval and Military
Heroism.

A. Silver Medal, to RICH. ABEAHANI WATTE,
for a Drawing of an Academy Figure.
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A Sifver Medal, to H. T. Hoy/LET MURTO;4)
for a Drawing of an Academy Figure.
And a Silver Medal to Jos. GwILLT, for an ac-
curate figured drawing of the Tower and Steeple of
St. Dunstan's Church, in the East.
After which the President delivered a discourse.
The Assembly then proceeded•to the EleCtion: of
Officer's for the year t 802..

BENJAMIN WEST, Esq. was-re-eleaed President.
MARTIN ARCHER Sara, JOILN-F-b-ARMAN,
JOSEPH NOLLEKENS, JOHN YENN, FrRANCESCO
BART6LozZI, JOHN SlNoL4ioll7;CoviElt, and
OZIAS HUMPHRY, Esquires, Connell,
HEN. FUSEL'', J. FLAXMA:R; M.A. SHEEi J.
OPIE,J`As.NORtHCOTE, HEN. TRESHAM, J.
ZOPiANy, .Esquires, Sir Wm.: BEscHEy, and Sir
FRAN. BOURGEOIS, Visitors. •

GEo. DANCE and Jos. Wi LTOtsl, Esqtsi Audi tdrs.
BEN. WEST, J. RICHARDS, J. YENN'y and JAs..
WYATT, Esq. Trustees.
The President of the Royal AcademY, in his Lec-
ture on Thursday evening, threw-out 'a hint which
we hope will not be lost upon those Noblemen and
Gentlemen in this County, whose taste and fortunes.
have led them to make fine tolleaions of Paintings.
If these were occasionally opened to the Students
here, it would prevent . the. necessity of theitenii.
grating to Foreign Countries for subjedis of study,
and consequently save annually some money, and
the risk likewise of still more consequence, of our
future Artists imbibing political principles incom-
patible with the praetice of their Art.
Mademoiselle DE BE AUH ARNO'S, the First Con.
Sul's daughter-in-law, is to marry CHAR L ES, son of
the Duke of LUXEMBOURG, who was President of
the Nobility at the and emigrated
when the union of the three orders,. in a Constituent
Assembly, took place. This marriage forms an
alliance between BONAPARTE and the., House of
MONTMO R E NCY, the most illustrious and ancient of
the former French Monarchy. The Duke de LA-
VAL'S son is just married to the Duichess- of BE-
TH UNE CHAROST, widow of the Duke- of that
name, and one of the richest heiresses in France.

,
Madame 1-110.icsB ERG has Met with a disagree-
able accident :—ln walking oulrfiirsday she struck
her foat against a glass flint hottleot.piece of kikiliich
cut the great a3d second toes,, crating. thuvstit.
rounding part.,--The glass has been extraaed.

last Wedn'elday afternoon, as a tenant belonging
to an old houst in Great Guildford-streeti in the
Borough, was removing his goods, he had proceed-
ed from the place but a few yards, when' the whole
front of 'the house tumbled to the ground with a
great noise, which greatly alarmed the neighbour-
hood. A passenger going by at the time was near
being buried inthe ruins.

The BrOok Watson, Fleck, from Shields to Lon-
don, is lost in :lie Gun.fitet,

lAW Rki3ORT.

COURT OF I,:ING's

SITTINGS BEFORE MR. JUSTICE LE BLANC Ii
GUILDAALL, LONDON,

BREACH OF PRO.".7ISE• OF MARRIAGE

ANDREWS 'v; MORRISON.

This was an Aclion bra Breach of .F4Cmise of
Marriage niadely the Defendant to the Plaintiff.

. .
• 't'he plea• the General [sine-, tha(citihe,
fendant made no such promise, upon Whichlisie:w-as
joined: - .

Mrs Eitsit.i:,7tt sti*ed the Case on the part'-of'
-the Plaintiff: He obserVed (among other things;
that if there were . airy cases that more than
others deserved the attention ' of. Juries, they,
were those 'Wherein the interests and the in-
juries of Women were concerned.—Man, they
knew, was the Lord of the Creation.--Men made.
Laws ; men administered the 'Laws which were
made by Men—Women were in no -reapeas, that he
knew of, inferior to Men, except in being weaker,
• which together with their virtue and their beauty,
made then objets of our Flotation and love ; And
accordingly; they had, in all ages, and among all.
Nations under Heaven been under-the protalion -of
the other sex, as they ought to be, for as we make
Laws, and we carry-them into execution, we should
protect those who have no share in. either. It would
not be respatful in him towards the Jiiry, if he
were to endeavour to convey into their minds any
ideas of his own, concerning the nature of the in-
jury of which this Plaintiff complained ; thin is,
the nature of the iiisappOintment of a Woman under -
such promise as that of marriage. The Jury knew
the nature of such a case. They knew that no in-
. jury under the son was so great.. A man or wo-
man might bear loss of property, loss of health,
and many, otheri of the calamities which this
world brought upon us—hut a wounded spirit
who-could bear ?" A woman who is addressed by
a man, and who, for any cause Whatever,' is disap.
pointed in her_expeelatioos, is disparaged. Let her
be as unspotted
,as Diana, as beautiful as she is un-
spotted, as -accomplished. as she is beautiful, she
must, nevertheless, suffer in the opinion of others,
at least, of our sex, if she is- once addressed and after-
wards deserted by a man whom she is intended to
wed ; because there is a sort 'of pride in mao,-which
will make him shun what another appears to think
unworthy of his acceptance. A. man argues- with
himself thus :-=" There must be a reason for thiS;
although none-be given, 'There' is no smoak without
fire ; there must be some sort of blame attached to
this Lady, although it does not meet the eye or the
ear of the Public." He said, he did not know, whe-
ther any considerable part of the July, most pro-
bably sonie:of them, were Parents. Most of themap-
peared to him to be many rears younger than him-
self; but to such of them who were Fathers, he
would' put it as a' question, what they would
think of such- -a disappointment. to one of *their
daughters ?. He should "therefore content himself
with saying, that if the case was made out as it
was stated to him,, the Jury would_ feel they had it
not in their power to compensate, for no money
could 'Compensate the injury this young woman had
received., He was ready to admit, that it was not
every-breads cf prbaiise of Marriage that ought to
--be scourged with severe damages ;' there were cir-
curnstances under.. which a promise might be made,
and afterwards 'brokeh, and yet the party disap-
pointed' Should not have any action. 11a-mail-made
.a prOmise of marriage teea *onnao who afterwards
appeared not to' be prudent and modest in her be.
!saviour, the party. promising Marriage shall be
absolved ; or if prudent and modest- -in her be.
haviour, yet that she may, be, 'known to have
-some-- Meets which were not known at the time
Of rnAking the promise,. a man shall not be bound
by his promise,' for a man is not bound., by a
promise of this - sort to affiia hiniself with the
contempt Of all who knew him; If she.hatl4my..
disease which-oiight be communicated to her Qff--
spring; and that was discovered after the promise,
the promise shall not be held to be binding: If a man
without any establishment in the world, depending
merely upon the good will Of others for his Main-
tenance,whO was Under the
.government and con-
troul Of others, and had' nd support but
,fronl them,
and had yet; either-ficitri.-the inipetOosity of his pas-
sions in his youth, or from some indiscretion; made
promise which would be a ruin to himself and every
body cOnnaled with hitn--such it promise, should
not he binding, fore such a promise was more ho_
floured in the breach than the obserirance. But this
Case was like none of these; it bad no excuse which
either of those would haVe for' a non-performance ;
for here the 'Defendant was a than at the years of
discretion, a substantial tradesman living in respeet.,-.
able business for himself. 'The Plaintitlvas not a
Lady likely to draw him, to an expence which his
circumstances in life would not enable Ishii to bears
She was - the Defendant's neighbour; the daughter
of another tradesman, educated as the Defendant bad
been, and with whose connnalions he was peg-calk
Well acquainted, and therefOre it was not too much to
suppose that their pursuits were similar. ThePrornise
was presumed to be discreetly made, and therefOre
there was no excuse-for the breach of it; and for the
breach of it the Jury were not Only called upon by
the tilleg of Law, ..but they were bound by the
principles of Humanity as well as the dictates of
clear Justice; to give serious damages; for nothing
short of seriousdamages could amount to a compensa-
tion to thiS young woman, Having said this by
way of preliminary, he should nOW Shortly -state the
circumstances of the ease which was to be laid ber'T.
fore them. The Plaintiff was the daughter of a -
-Mr, Anderson,- who lived-in Goswell-Street,
potable groCer there.. The Defendant was alstl'a
tradesman in the same street, and. tespCdable. in
every thing, he dared to say, except-the occasion of
his. being before that Court to-day: The Defen.
dant had; for three years paid his attention to this_
young woman, and some time in February last; A-
tained her father's leave to court 'her in marriage;
and under that qoletun
,sanction, he-visited the fa.
roily, the sanaton of honour ;.,and honour was not
to be found only at St.- James's, or in the purlieiss of
a palace; it was to be found under humbler roofs,
and was indeed the companion of all ranks of. per..