The Sun.
London, England, 1801-09-24 00:00:00

WEYMOUTH, SEPT. 22.

THE ROYAL FAMILY were at the Theatre last
night, which was fully attended.
Between the Play and Entertainment an Inter-
lude was performed, called Tarte ; Mr. Carmine,
by Mr. WooDLEY, and Lady Pentweazle, by Mr.
SHERIDAN (whose benefit it was), the whole of
which, with the Comedy of The Clandestine Mar•
riage, and Who's the Dupe; went off exceeding
well.

This morning Her Royal Highness huNctst
MARY bathed.

' The KING, ParscE ADOLPHUS, and PRIM.
CESSES SOPH /A and AMELIA, Lord WALSiNGHAMO
General GARTH, and Colonels CARTWRIGHT, and
FiTzgoy, took a short ride to see the Ships in
Harbour, dressed in compliment to His MAJESTY,
it being the Anniversary of bis Coronation : the
Cambrian Frigate, commanded by the Hon. Capt.
LEGGE, was the most brilliant, the decorations of
which wery the grandest ever seen displayed.
A Royal Sakte was fired from all the Troops in
the Garrison at Weymouth.

A seled Party of Nobility are invited to spend
the evening with TitErit MA-JEST/ES at Gloucester
Lodgc.-.

MARGATE, SEPT. 2Z.

Mr Citizens of London seemed determined to
shew their contempt of the notion of Invasion, by,
coming in such crowds to a place, so very near the
French Coast. There is scarcely even a Lady who
has not frequently been upon Sailing and Fishing
Parties, ten times as far from shore as the advanced
gurird of Admiral LATOVCIIE TAE`; IL LE'S Squa-
dron, The weather, however, appears inclined to
change and Packets, ci-ti.fruant Hoys, arc now
laden up to London, but they return nearly empty.
Two Ornsiti-on Packets 'have been set up this
Season, and have prevented a rise that was, 10
understand, meditated in the prices of the others.

Pizarro has been got up here this season,.
RUSSELL was the Rolla, and performed it very
ropeEtably. If he does not stand in the foremost
rank of his profession, he is a very useful Adorf
and merits a situation on the London Boards much
better than many who now encumber them.

Hrs MAiEsTy has been pleased to confirm the
Sentence of a General Court Martial, held at Go,
vernment House, Plymouth, on the 31st of July
and following day, on Lieutenant TuomAs PHIL:
;Ars, of the Scilly Fencibles, for sending a chale
lenge to Lieutenant J. Jowls, of the. Royal hie
valids, on the 45th of June last, requiring
satisfaction for being expelled a Masonic: Lodge
on the 24th June (St. John's Day), and having
declared on a subsequent day that the said Lieu.
tenant J. JuiiNs was a coward. The Court Mar:,
tial thund him guilty of both charges, and judge
ed him to be cashiered.; bur, in consideration of his
youth and inexperience, and general good charac-
ter, Immhly recommended thin 'to His Majesry'll
clemency, His MdqEwry, however, having taken
into consideration all the circumstrmeel of the cabc,
deemed it necessary, for .the sake of example, to cotl•
firm the sentence of the Court Martial.

The Cavalry encamped near Brighton are ye/
shortly, to strike their tents and go into quarters,.
The idea of sending Infantry there is given up, 0
in case of invasion, it is allowed, that their ser vice
on the hills, would not prove so efe6tual as that of
the horse.-

At \Voolpit Fair, in Suffolk, last week, there
was a very large shew of Scots, and short-horned
beasts : but the Drovers asking still more advanced
prices, the principal Graziers declined buying, atl3
very little business was done.
On Saturday last the Postmaster of East.Grin'
sted, distributed the sum of 1261. Its. 4d. which
he received for that purpose, from the Merchants
of the city of-London, as a reward for the rccoverr
of certain drafts, bills, &Q. contaitud in the milit
robbed by the Beatsons on the zoth of July last!,
in the manner following, viz.
To Edward Daniel and Rich. Walter, two i. 11.•
dustrious labourers, who first discovered the prcfr
perry as they were reaping in a wheat field, near
Hartfield, and gave information thereof, fifty pounds
each ; and the remainder amongst those (about ten
in number). who proteeted the same until the Post.
master above-mentioned arrived at the spot, and
took possession of it.

A King's Messenger arrived at Plymouth oa
Saturday, with a Warrant from the Secretary of
Stare, to apprehend and carry to London three me° '
who were put on board one of the Prison-ships is
Hamoaze, as French Prisoners, but who have bee°
discovered to be Irishmen. They arrived in Lon'
don yesterday, under a strong guard.
Yesterday William Pooky,a seaman belonging r°
a smuggling vessel, was brought to town from Burn'
ham, near Maiden, in Essex, by a King's Messe°'
ger, and Revett, one of the Bow-street officers,
arrested him under the authority of a warrant fr'j
the Secretary of State, wherein he stands charge
with High Treason.

A bathing-machine was on Monday blown Ore!
at Ramsgate, with a Lady in it : the horse w 3;
killed, but the Lady escaped unhurt. A sirilil3t
accident happened at Margate on Tuesday maw:
ing : A bathing-machine belonging to Hughes wa'
blown down, with two Gentlemen in it, while bath.;
ing. The machine was totally demolished, and th
Gentlemen lost a gold watch, and all their clothes;
themselves escaping with difficulty.

- ,
An accident happened at Enfield Races, of a cu,
rious•nature tax.cart,_ in goinedown the 18116
(just before coming to the flour.mill)'leading to the
Course, the wheel broke, threw the horse into
th
ditch, which was full of mud, and the poor animal
was completely smothered. It was supposed d'ar
.
the horse had run away from an inn door, a cons':
derable distance off. No person cline to claim lb!
cart. A great number of people colleted, but
one could give the least tidings to whom it belonged'
The Washington, Bettie, for Virginia a
market, is repotted to be lost.

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DUBLIN, SEPT. Iry.

Ccevent-GarLlen.

Last night the Comedy of Seed the Plough was
represented with very little variation in the cast of
character.

Mr. LACY fippearel for the second time on this
Stage, in the part of Sir Philip Blamdford. If this
Gentleman does not possess talents equal to the
more arduotis parts of the Drama, he certainly has
;every requisite to sustain with respe&ability cha-
raaers similar to that in which he appeared last
tiight. His conception of the part was correa, and
his enunciation distinka. Upon the whole, his per-
formance merited
.what it received—general ap.
plause.
Mrs. LITCHFI LD appeared for the first time in
the chara&cr of Miss Blandfard. It is unnecessary
to say, that her
,performance was animated and cor-
reC.l; in the last scene she was particularly impres.
sive.

Of the other Performers we have often spoken
before; Mori-DEN was, however, more irresistibly
comic than ever.

James ani Joseph White, two Soklicit of the
/Zorcli Cork Regiment, have for the last two days
been on their trial by a General Coart;Martial at
Dublin Barracks, upon charges of forming a plat' to
deliver up a post in the County of Wicklow to the
Rebels. It is not for us at present to say any thing
of the evidence, farther than that we are happy to
observe, that nothing which has appeared tends in
the least to implicate any ether man of this very
excellent Regiment. The Prisoners were recruits
lately enlisted in the County of Wicklow.

A country girl residing between Waterford and
Passage, who was confined with a fever, and was
in a delirious state of mind, being left alone, dress-
ed herself, and got out through.the winclow. In a
short time it was discovered she had direeted her
Way to Ballygunner, towards which place some
feisons having proceeded, they found her smother-
ed in a stream, her head and shoulders in the Wa.
ter; and her body on the .bank: It is imagined
She knelt d'lwn to get a drink, and, having fallen
In, was unable, through Weakness, to extricate her-
self.

The Opera of Artaxerxes was rehearsed yester.
(lay morning. at Covent Garden Theatre, prepara-
tory to the appearance of Mrs: BiLLENorora, who
assisted on the occasion, rather to prattise the Reci-
tative than the ,4irs.

4BRAIi ANS IS not to appeat in the Opera of Ar-
-I,axerxesi as was expedied. The part of iitbaces
1S still to be in the hands of Inc LF paw.

The new Candidate for theatrical honours, who
31 to make his firs.t appearance oil he Covent

Garden boards on 11/lon:day next, in the arduous

ciiaraaer of Hamlet, has acquired so much reputa_
tion in a private Theatre, that he has been en,

couraged to venture before the Public. tie has,
we understand; performed o,3wvian in The Moan-
`raieers, in the same place, 4-ith very great six-
Cess.

The London Performers of known takers derived
rent profits from their Theatrical rambles in the
innmer. MUNDF 11, by his trip to Irelatrdi is said
to have been more successful than most of them,
and returned heavy laden with the fruits of public
favoUr.

The Reaor of the Parish in which the Cleric-a/
-impostoi-• lately officiated, has aoed very properly
la giving notice to those who wete not legally
zi ,itted„diat the ceremony be perforrnekagain
;Zratis, as many o: the patties may perhaps think
they-have rdrei:dv paid tor,- eL,arir:
All the Papers agree in stating that the officiating
parson at St. Martin's is a Gentleman of an tio.
17eaning vacuity of ccuntenance, and stares horribly.
rice f'alstaff, this is not only a starer
llimself, but the cause of staring in others.

In the advertisement of a rcertfiting party for
tight Dra2-oons are the following most Nrsuasive
encouraging arguments :—" You will be mount-
-011 the finest horses in the world, with superb
~lOtl, g and the richest accoutrements ; your pay
attPrivilegeS arc equal to two guineas a week ; you
are every where resleded; your society is courted;
You are admired by the fair, which, together with
the chance of getting s,tvisbed to a buxost (widow, or
hrushinz with a tic!, heiress, renders the situation
truly enviable and desirable. Young men out of ein.
ployment, or otherwise uncomfortable-i-, There is a
" tide in the atlitirs of men, which taken at the good
leads on to fortune;' nick it, and instantly apply,"
&c.
COUNTRY BANKS.—Among other grounds of
ohjeC.tion to Country Banks, their reluclanee to
circulate the Notes of the Bank of England should
he mentioned. They do not anually refuse them,
but they avoid them as much as possible, in order
t° give currency to their own Notes. Travellers
Put to great embarrassments in this respeft ;
rthe evil is of such an extent throughout the
espire, as to deserve the notice of the Bank Di-
rs.
MANsIoN-Hotst.—Yesterday the noted Mrs.
i:orr;”gton, and two other females, were charged
the LORD MAYOR, with having robbed a
entleman of his pocket-book in Fleet-street. The
s°.!lstable who had them in custody told his Lord.
huP, that the Gentleman, whose name is Davies,
a been surrounded by these women, and that they
13'1. Picked his pocket of this book ; but there
'ing nothing valuable in it, he supposed was the
wasun Mr. Davies did not attend. The pocket-book
that conveyed away. The LORD MAYOR observed,
t(1 she was too old a praaitioner to be suffered
gO at large. They.were ordered to be remanded,
at
"Ite the person whose pocket was picked ordered to
nd.
htti,, bullock-hunter was charged with driving a
ertittlek. from Spitalfields to Moorfields, and from his
kitiel usage to the animal, it gored a horse, and
Qa him on the spot. The butcher said, he had
,e a- Obliged to pay to). for the horse. The boy
').O c°minitted for further hearing to the Poultry
Ipter4

C A Y. 11,44.,

. -
ntilt4e'r A LETtER iItCSU QutEle tAini
ituG. 9:

I hare just returned from an excursion to Up::
per Canada. The soil, the climate, and iMprove.:
meets of that Province, I found greatly to surpass
every conception, which, from the information of
others, I had formed. The Population is already
very great, and is rapidly increasing every day.
Families from the United. States frequently come
into the Province, bringing with them their stock
and utensils of husbandry, in order to settle on new
lands ; invited by the richness of the soil; the mild-
ness of the Government, and exemption from Taxes.
These either purchase lands from the British Sub-
jefts, to whom they had been already granted, or
take them upon lease, paying the rent by a certain
part of the produce. The immense forests of oak,
which every where are to be seen, give an undoubt-
ed proof or the fertility of the lands. The common
produce of the fields is forty to one in wheat, or
any other grain, and some spots that have been in
cultivation for sixteen years without manuring, still
yield forty to one. The winter is very incon-
siderable, as during the last season there was only
snow on the ground for a fortnight.

tf On the arrival of the GoVernor at York, the
Capital of the Province, in the month of May last,
he received petitions and memorials from several
places, setting forth that the Inhabitants were dis-
tressed by the superabundance of their produce, that
their barns and granaries were ready to fall with
the weight of the wheat, that their cattle and hogs,
&c. were become by tar too numerous, and that
unless some mode of transport could be afforded, to
enable them to send their wheat to the Lower Pro-
vince, it would be impossible to find room for the
produce of the ensuing harvest. Since that period
many thousand•barrels of flour, &c. have been con-
veyed to Lower Canada, through the rapids of the
St. Lawrence, upon rafts, and what they term scows,
a superior kind of rafts, without any material injury.
The conducing of that mode of transport, although
unwieldy and difficult to govern, has now become
more familiar, and immense quantities of wheat and
gout will thus be conveyed every year into Lower
Canada. The attention of the farmers is now be-
ginning to be placed on the cultivation of hemp, an
article for which the soil seems happily calculated.
The Legislature have voted 'zool. per annum for
two years, to be distributed in premiums, at the
rate of 51. per ton to those who shall raise the first
hemp, and ship it in a marketable state for Lower
Canada. This sum appears trifling to us, but it is
nevertheless considerable for a Province that has
not existed above twelve years.

" The greatest part of the houses in the pro-
vince are construCted of wood, but a degree of
taste-and neatness is here prevalent which we in
vain look for in the lower country. In most of the
branches of their business the farmers evince a su-
perior degree of skill, and fields of wheat are here
to be seen as fine as in any country in the world.
The winter wheat alone is cultivated. A stranger
is struck with regret on viewing the vast quan-
tities of fine oak timber, which -by fire are daily
destroyed in clearing the lands. The,Mode of first
settling is by cutting down the small wood, and
_sortie of the larger trees, collaaing them in heaps,
and burning them. Some of the remaining trees
are girdled, that is, a groove is cut around the
tree; to prevent the sap from mountingi and thus it
very soon ceases to grow. After passing over the
ground with a harrow, to scratch it a little, the
grain is thrown in, the harrow passed over it, and
being thus left, a most copious increase is produced.
" The roads in the settled part of the country
are at this season excellent, and two stage-coaches,
the same as those in England, run daily between
Niagara and Chippawa, a distance of eighteen
miles, and two miles beyond the Falls, The scenery
from Niagara to Queenstown is highly pleasing,
the road passing along the banks of one of the most
magnificent rivers in the universe, and up-on ascend,
ing the mountains, where the river is lost to the eye,
-the traveller proceeds through a forest of great oak
trees until he is agreeably surprised by the Falls
opening to his view, amid the breaks which are
now formed in the woody banks which bound them.
" Queenstown is a neat and flourishing little
.town, remarkable for the beauty and grandeur of
its situation. At this place all the merchandize
and stores for Upper Canada are landed, and trans-
ported in waggons across the mountain to Chippa-
wa, a distance of ten miles, the rapid course of the
river rendering the navigation of any vessel what-
ever totally impraCticable for that space. In the
course of last winter a vessel of So tons, which
was navigated in Lake Erie, was brought upon a
slay, from Chippawa to Queenstown, across the
mountain, drawn by oxen, having her masts and
cordage standing, and was launched into the river
at that place, without having received any damage.
" The Falls of Niagara surpass in sublimity any
description that has hitherto been afforded of that
celebrated scene, the most wonderful and awful that
the habitable world presents. No drawing can ever
Convey any adequate idea of the magnitude and
depth of the precipitating waters.
" The breadth of the river, including the Island,
and following the curvatures which its violence has
produced in the American and in the Horse Shoe
Falls, may he estimated a mile and a quarter; and
the heighth of the Table Rock, ,which.with proper
assistance I accurately measured by a plumbline, let
down perpendicularly to the edge of the water, is
one hundred and forty feet..

Along the boundaries of the river, and under
the Falls themselves, the lofty and rocky banks are
every where excavated by means of sulphurous
springs, the vitriolic acid uniting with the lime-
stone rock, and forming plaster of Paris, which is
here and there scattered amid the masses of stone
which compose the banks beneath. These exca-
vations extend in many places to a distance of forty
or fifty feet under the summit of the bank. Cast-
ing the eye from the Table Rock from whence the
waters are precipitated into the bason below, the
effeEt is awfully magnificent and sublime. No ob-
jet intervening between the spedator and that pro-
found abyss, he seems suspended in the air.—The
lofty banks and immense trees which envelope the

. . .
'ttipetc,oes scene; tiie irrei,istibli! force, th faptdity
of n4dilon displayed in the failing waters; the
coma on brillianty and changibg of colours and
of shades; the ceaseless intur*seence and swift agi-
tation of the cla'shing waves below; the solemn and
tremendous noise; and the Volumes of vapour rapidly
ascending; which the- report and the smoke of ten
thousand cannon could scarelyequal, tend to IMpress
the imagination with an 1.3,-!ion of elevated sensa-
tions, which no other combinations are capable of
producing—and which error, lest the treacherous
rock crumble beneath elle feet, by no meaas con-
tributes to dithinish.

" The Bason of York, commonly distinguished
by its former name, the Bay of Toronto, exhibits a
scene beautiful in a high degree, being of an oval
shape, environed by fine banks, although not lofty,.
which are covered by Oak trees. Its depth from
the entrance to the extremity of the town, is up-
wards of two miles, and its greatest breadth, about
one and a quarter. The town has made extraor-
dinary progress, having risen from the midst of
woods in four or five years. But the Inhabitants
of Upper Canada possess a peculiar facility and
skill, in cutting down; with the greatest dispatch,
the largest and hardest trees. It is almost to a
stranger incredible to mention the number that a
single Anleilegni with a good axe, can in one day
level With the ground. A Gentleman who had
newly` arrived in the Country, ignorant of the ex-
pertness'and expedition with which the clearing of
lands is here performed, engaged a person to cut
down some trees at sixpence each. He began his
task at day-break, and before noon, had earned
seven pounds. This circumstance convinced the
owner of the land of his inexperience of the
Country."