The Sun.
London, England, 1801-05-25 00:00:00

BREMEN; rvi;ti r 9.

I'4l bvii of Ot-Diriskitiblii Eiti his ilissiht
through Pedbi on his road toPriershirgir,
on His PRUSSIAN MAJESTY tha! his butehy :,h*ould
be evacuated by the PrtissianS: They Will there•
foreleaveOidembrirth on the iad, and the Ikeki.;
ment of Prince Lewis FekDINA tc D, NV biCil 11:1S been
in garrison since the beginning.of April, will pass
through 10e/ran on the i3d, in order to take .pos.
session of iterebui and .itey' er, until farther orders.
Perhaps, if anything can give iBONAt E UlWe
uneasiness than the successes of the Erigli,h in
Egypt, it is the secret resistance which Prz.:T.:ia
makes Ito giving any. equivalent in Germany to the
GRAND DUKE' of TUSCANY. •

There ha:, been in circulation since ynstertlay, an
nrtiele of news too extraordinary to he believed on
light grounds—The KING of PRUSIA is said to
have required of the lleavinn Republic, 163
Millions of Florins; and the re-establishinent of
the STADTHOLDER, for whom the money is in.
tended as an indemnity for What has been taken
from him ; that the Batavian Republic hai written
to BONAPARTE, who hai returned for Answer, that
he took no concern in the business ; and that the
Republic has in consequence sent an Ambassadcir to

The.Prusiian Officers persist in saying, that they
shall not so soon evacuate Bremen and the EleCtorate
of /lawyer. Their discipline is in all respects cot.
re4l, and we have nothing to aCcuse.them of.

THE OAK BliTT.—The standing joke iii the sport.
ing world at present is the Oak Butt. A few even-
ings ago a wealthy Nabob and a little Creek yoked to
at Billiards, at-a- fashionable house in .St. -James's-
street; the latter giving this odds to 'the for-
mer, that he should play only with the butt etd
of his queue. But the Indian knew not 'that 1114
antagonist, by long study and much practice, had
brou4ht his play was much perfeetion with:this end,
as with the other. They played all the early part
of the,evening for small sums, the Indian generally
winning, till towards one o'clock • the speetatora
having all dropped off except two or three of., the
Greek's friends, the „challenge was given to the.
Hindoo to play deeply. This was accepted, and, in
a short time the little Gre,ek won a snug zOOO gui.
news, with which the play ended.—Now it happens
that. a queue is usually made of oak, • and the over.
reached Nabob being beat with the butt end, has
been, nick.named the Oak Batt. ,

'Mr. ARTHUR YOUNG'S Plan for bettering the
condition of'the Poor, and at the same time greatly ,
lOwering Rates, :is founded on the {aft, that from
401. to 601. 8o1.: &c. Will build a cottage,, buy a •
cow, a hog, and find seed,' potatoes, &c. 'for a fa.
milt', 'and fence in three or four acres of land :; as
Well as in some•soils, Purchase the land itself. This
he' Shews. from many cases; Such sums to 'be bor,
'rowed of the Public by :the Parishes, .on• the credit's
'of the faces: Stippose 1001. ibr a family, the in.
terest is is: a week l; where:ix'the parish allowance
in.the best times is riot less than gi. 64. and to Bs.
a week ; and 'in times of scarcity,' it oq. 1.28. 15s.
Bec. The saving, therefore, would. be very great ;,
and such possessions lieirig held .in.property so long
as the family' applied fof no °thee parish relief,
would ensure 'great industry, frugality; and .so-
briety, to preserve them. This Plan teems; of all
others, the best calculated to answer this important
purpose ; and agrees. in all the material points with
Mr. Piresptoposition relative to the Poor, as ex..
plained in his first Speech in the I-louse of.coemlons
on that subject. • .
• 'A theatrical insurreaioti, ,similar, tia gut"
vent Garden Theatre, lately occurred ..in Svcr tit H
Ksbau'Ll's Company. The several T.twatfes initte •
Manager's circuit have lately bap so unproduaive,
that the.lVlantiger found it absolutely necessary to
propose a ReduCtion in the Salaries. of the PerfOrm. -
er3,, for otherwise he should have. been olAiged to
disband the Company, or ruin hiniselliby keeping
them together., Nine -of the Aaors, however,
who, in imitation of their Reforming predecessori
in London, called themselves •t•THE 6i.oa loos •
NINE," resented this proposed Reda-lion, and
signed .a paper to stand richt
,by each other, and
perform detached pieces: in all the towns in
which the Company usually exhibited.--The
Manager, • with prompt decision, discharged every
one of them, chusing • rather to shut The-
atm till he could procure other Fierformers, than
to submit to a combination. The consequence
was, that when the day arrived on which they were
to emit the Company, they very Wisely applied to
the'Manager, and begged to -be restored to their
situations.

Two men named Hill and Wilhadrs, convia•
ed at the late Cardiff Sessions of being concerned in
the recent Riots at Mertivr, .were some,days since
executed on Cardiff Heath. They admitted the
justice of their sentence, and expressed a hope that
their fate would deter others from the eommi:,sion of,
like offences. A woman named Watkies was to
have suffered with them for Sheep-stealing, but on
the preceding evening she hung herself in her cell
by fastening her neck-handkerchief and a small
piece of cord to the bars of the window.
A. man was killed by lightning on Sunday even.
ing the 17th inst. in a cottage at Spoiforth ; 'his
wife and children were sitting opposite him, and
happily escaped unhurt. The thatch of the cottage
was 'set on fire, bur soon extinguished by the heavy
rain.

Mr. Wilts, of Cateaton-street, was on Frijay
evening stopped in a .post chaise on' Kennington.
common by two highwaymen, but on his tiring; a
pistol, and some people coming up, they rode Olf.
The Catherine Slave Ship, was blown up near
Bonny-bar, on the Coat of Africa, and only eight
of the crew saved,