The Sun.
London, England, 1801-12-25 00:00:00

.pqOL4,:. DEF. ;4.

YEsTERnAY moruing, the Mary, of. Lopdon,
CfIRISTOPHER LANE master, from London bound
to Fayal, laden with brandy, bale goods, and empty
ine pipes, run on shore on the Hook Sand, at the
entrance of this Hark)our (the Master having unfor-
tunately mistook the land for the Culversj, where
she
.will be totally lost, being bilged and full of
water. Whether• any part of the cargo
.will be
saved, is uncertain ; if it„cfntinues moderate, some
part of it may, as vessels'are gone down for that
purpose.

The Vesel sailed from Portsmouth only the day
before, and had got down off Portland, when she
was obliged to bear up. Fortunately no lives are
lost, all the crew being brought on shore at Brown_
sea last nights where they were provided with
lodging, and every comfort the unfortunate men
could receive, from Mr. Sru It; the owner of the
Island.

DR DRY:LANE TH EATR E.—A Meeting was con_
vened yesterday, of the Perfin-rays to whom arrears
are due. Agreeably to the plan which Mr. E
DA? suggested .on 'Wednesday before the LORD
CHANCELLOR, he offered to them the security of
the Tf,:st-dced, in the hands of Mr. ADAM, and
also theii- choice of another plan, tending very. pearly
to the same effect. The operation.of either, will go
to liquidate the debt .in • four years at 25 per cent.
per annum, with theltddition of legal interest. The
term of one month was given, to enable the Per.
formerS to consult with their Solicitors and friends.
The following article has ;ioeared ip one of the
French Paper, but it is SD difficult to.coneeive that
a French Aclor would be qualified to support F,ng..
lish Charafters,- on the English StAge, that. it is no,
doubt one of, those errors into which the French
Journals are too apt,o fall, in most affairs; selttive
to the manners of this-Country. •
" The Manager of the Grand Theatre of Lon.
don has sent a pressing invitation to Citizen 'FAL..
MA, to go to pass a few months in that City, in
order to perform occasionally. This Actor, it is
said, to a facility of speaking the
.language of
SIL'CESPE AR E, adds a perfect acquaintance with the
best' English Tragedies. However that may be, he
has not thought proper to accept the invitation, at
least for the present season,. It should .be observed,
that Mr. KEMBLE, the first Performer at the Grand

Theatre, and brother to the zelell:ated SiDDcuis,
made an offer to our Tragedian, .not only of .an
apartment in his own hotise,-• but also of his table,
during the time, he might be disposed to remain in
London. This offer is the greatest mark of esteem
that an English PerformeK could confer upon a
Foreigner." .
Mrs. SIDDONS is soon to come forward. in Bet.
videra. It is 'one of her best charaaers, and she per..
fowls it with exquisite skill. But the 'play of Venice
Preserved certainly wants. some revision, as there
are passages in it very likely to set fadious spirits
at work. Independently of these passages, which,
at all times, have an inflammatory tendency, it is one
of the most affecting and interesting pieces in the
whole English Drama.
BRAHANI is undoubtedly'an exquisite Singer. It
is only to be wished. that he would not be quite so
ornamental, as, in general, the Air is quite:lost in
the decorations.

A Correspondent remarks, that a great saving
might be made in Coals, if the following method,
pradised in some parts of \Vales, was to be adopted :
Get well tempered clay,.and mit it. with sniall coal
sleek, (say half the one and half the other) 'Make
them up in small balls, and dry them out.Of doors a
few
.hours ; a red fire made of cinders with sore of
these halls upon it, will make a hot fire for twelve
hours, without any smoke or stirring Up..

The Sisters, Ford, from Newfoundland to Pool,
laden with oil and fish, is lost at Scilly ; two of the
crew drowned ; th; ternainkier, with the passengers;
saved at'Scilly. • ' •

.10 D lIUTC MATSON,
(OF ALEXANT)R24) X. H.

THIS spirited and respeaable Officer, sirho,has of
lateacguired so much deserved celebrity, was born in
Mkiy, 1757, and is the second son of the late Right
Hon. Joxiv HELy HUTCHINSON, Principalt Secre-
tary of State in teland, and Provost o the Uni-
versity of PulAin.; a man', who, in point of talent
and :eloquence, was certainly one of the first of his
day. The family was enobled in the person,of his
Lordship's mother : she .was, in (Moller 1783,
created Baroness ti,oNocustoitE, of -KnockloftY.
• On the demise of this Lady,, the eldest son; Rt.
•
CHARD lately created Earl of ponoghthore, sue,
seeded to the p,eerlge
' The subje4 of this me7floirica/ 4-ketch, after ,at;
.
mining a respe4able degree of classical erudition at
those excellent seminaries, Eton College and the
University of Dublin, commenced his professional
career, while very young, as a Subaltern in a
giment of Light Pragoons on the Irish Establish-
ment ; from which he Was soon promoted to a Com-
panY in the 67th Foot. In this Corps be retained
his Commissiob fore some years, and, towards the
close of the American War, after passing througb
the intervening rank, was appointed' to the, Lieu_
tenant-Colonelcy of the 77th; .a Scots 4egiment,
Io the interval of Peace, his Lordship turned his
the
attention to attainment of a thorough knowledge
9f the Laws, Constitution, and Interests of his
Country at large, and particularly, of the local eon_
terns of Ireland as the same rime, het missed no
o'pportunity of iMproving hiiiself, rot only in the
theoretic; but the pralrcal knowledge of
.his pro-
fession : in the tatter view, as well as spurning 4
life of inglorious inaaiv itY, he determined to enter
. as a Volunteer into the Imperial Service, that
Power being then at War with 'the 'Turks, and had
aCtually proceeded a considerable way on 'his route
to Belgrade, recently the principal scene of action,
when a Pacification between the Court of Vienna
and the POrte, necessarily superseded his design.
This anecdote of Lord H !NSON'S prOfeSsional
Charaaer is far from being generally known. To
this should
,be added the relation 'of 'another cir-
cumstance; which equally. evinced his I,or4ship's
magnanimity, and qui& sense of honour. Can the
occasion of the General Election in Treland, in 17E3,
the representation of the City of COrk was-warmly
contested : his Lordship's father was one of the
Candidates, and in the event, returned elder Mem.
her. In the course of the Elelion, some language
held by the late Sir JOHN CUNWAy COLTHURST,
Bart. with respeti to his Lordship"'S. father, in-
duced him, whose filial affe6tion was e,qual to his
spirit, to call the Baronet to a personal account.
On hearing that the latter expressed his determina-
' tion to engage him with swords, on their first meet-
ing, the Noble Lord, then Colonel-HuTexiarsoN,
caused his-adversary to be acquainted, that he was
,better skilled in the science of defence than, proba-
bly, he imagined Colonel H. being esteemed one
of the best swordsmen in the Kingdom), and re_
commended the ordinary mode of fighting -with pis_
fols.- A meeting afterwards took place, but which,
on account of the interference of the friends of both
parties, was not attended-with serious consequences,
The subsequent remarkable occurrences. in ;he
Memoirs 'of Lord HUTCHINSON, are cetiAinly of
more public interest; they are, however, more ge_
nerally known, and many of, the circumstances of
too recent date, and too fully before our Readers,
to require touching- upon in detail.: a general no..
flee of some of these will suffice. A few years
after the period 'last' alluded to, he was brought
into the Irish Parliarnent, on the succession of his
elder Brother to the-Peerage, as Representative for
a B9rough (Taghmon, in the county of Wexford)',
in which the fainily were supposed to possess the
necessary degree .of influence. At the General
Ele6lion in
.1790, the Right Hon. I.OHII HELY
HurenissoN resigned his pretensions for Cork,
which City he. represented more than twenty years,
in favour of his son, still colonel HUTCH INSON,
whom_ he strongly recommended to the EleCtors, in
an eloquent and afFeaing address, as a most eligi-
ble and unexceptionable person to succeed him :
'-of course, he had the whole of his father's influ-
ence in hisfavour, which then included nearly the
'-whole of 'the Corporation of Cork, and a respeeta-
ble share of the Government interest. This elec-
tion was rather a contested one ; the Candidates
being, besides Golonel HurcritsrsON, Mr. LONG.
FIELD (now Lord Viscount LONCLIEVILI,4), and
Mr. BUDS/71E1,D, the author of some politiCal pro-
duetions, particularly one in answer to Mr. Burke's
celebrated " Refle6tions on- the French Rcvolu

tion." The result of this election was, that Mr.
LONGFIF,LD and Colonel HIJTCHINSoN were re_
turned by a considerable majority ; and
_from that
period his Lordship was a frequent, as well as a
very able and eloquent speaker,• on the important
questions which were agitated in the' Irish Parlia-
ment.

Soon after the late eventful War had commenced
on the Continent, .and before Great Britain was'
forced to become a party, his Lordship repaired to
the scene of anion, in order to improve himself
farther in the pra&ical part of his profession. It is
said, he visited the French Camp, while the.once-
.. popular and fortunate LA FAYETTE commanded on
the Frontiers ; and he certainly was soon after pre-
sent at some of the most important movements and
operations of the Prussian and Austrian Forces, un-
der the command of that justly-celebrated General,
the puke of ihttmsw 'cit.: •
Tn a very shoirt 'time after Great Britain became
a party in the War, his Lordship, eager to signa..
lize himself in the service of his Country,
.accom.
panied his friend, the gallant and much-lamented
ABERCROMBY, as a Volunteer, in the first Expe.
dition tt) Holland, or more properly speaking, to
BelgiUm. On this occasion he displayed an un-
Common degree of resolution and intrepidity ; and
`iris said, he was one of the first to enter the
Clenches at the Siege of Valenciennes. His' .Lord-
ship,'Was soon after raised to cornmand, and pro-
gressively, to the rank of Major-General, in which
capacity he served during the late unhappy Rebellion
in Ireland ; and near Castlebar, 3 Ditachment under
his command was opposed to a rmtch ,superior force,
chiefly composed of French veteran Troops, led on
by Ge4ralilu.Mankt—t in thif affair, the Fns: my

Ilad necessarily the advantage; but General Hcr
cHINSON evinced equal bravery and skill in his old
rations, and, not long after, he assisted in the fin
discomfiture of tale French Invaders, ‘vlien they
surrendered to the British Troops, by capitulation.
In the second xpedition to Holland,-theGener
was engaged in services the most perilous an'
• alive, and on every occasion distinguished himsel
in the most honourable manner. In the last Gene
ral Ation, which took place in the peninsula
North Holland, he signalized himself with
greatest ..eclat, when he.led on Lord CAV AN's
Bri-
gade; in cenSequence of that Officer's being disa-
bled in the early part of the Adion ; on this ocea,
sion General HUTCHINSON received a severe wound
in the thigh : throughout , the various Dispatches;
from the Chief Commanders on that Expeciitiona
his name and services were mentioned: in the mO5l
Rhonourable manner, particularly in that frdm the,
OYAL DUK F., descriptive of the important
just alluded to. , • •
In 'a few months after this, his Lordship had ocr
casion to distinguish himself in a way very diEcrenC
•froM his recent prefess;onat exertions, but in an ire
stance where, perhaps, his talents shone with a stt
perior lustre, and in a service of -much more ite'
portance to his Country--we allude to the disco'
Sion of the great National Question of the 1.,7,7ic.5.‘
in the Irish'House of Commons; on this' occasior,
General HtrctuNso;N: really distinguished himself?
and on the 17th of February, ;soo, delivered one
of the most argumentative, as well as eloquent. and
impressive Speeches, perhaps ever pronounced in
Legislative Asseimbly. One part, particularly
contains such a comprehensive and irrefragable de-
monstration. of the superior policy ofUnion, that
we cannot refrain from erraeiing it :
f` IriAt Independence, if it- could be obt4ineJ
cc without
,guilejt would he the height of folly ;04
madness•to aim at. Suppose for a moment,
" there was no honest prejudice in farour of Great
'f Britain—no common . links_ of attachroent-,-0
41 tics of blood—no similarity of Manners, laws,
" and langnage ; I say, that conneEtio:%
" and union with Great 'Britain, Ought to be.. the
counsel and sound policy of Ireland,• Surely it
" is'better for you to be- a component part of 4
" great and free Empire, than a-weak and petri
" State, alone, • and resting on the fBrbearance of
" France, a treacherous and despotic Ally
His LoFdshiP's services 'in Egypt Are too well
krioWn; .of too recent a date, and too fully before
our Readers, through VdrlotiS- mediums, to require
exposition in the present instance. ft is of perfeet
notoriety,' that alter the death of his illustrious-anti
ever to be lamented precursor in command; Sir
RALPH AI3E RC ROMBYi the rescuing the whole or
that valuable Country from our late Adversaries, is
chiefly to be attributed to the gallantry, aria
professional exertions Obis Lordship ; and of this,
theSovia,s EON seemed so senc,ibley that he. v/45
honoured with the Red Ribbon of the Order of ti.!°
Bath worn by his friend and predecessor ; and-'at the
conclusion of the Egyptian wzirfarc, which waster'
niinatcd by General HUTCHINSON in a Way so
ly honourable to himself and serviceable to -hit
Country, he was honoured by a still higher ma 4
of the Royal favour, in being elevated to 'a Peerag6.
of the United Kingdom by the title Of Lord l-1:-':CHINSON. Baron of A v1K:v0c..1,7
LOFT], in the county of Tipperary.