The Sun.
London, England, 1801-12-08 00:00:00

COA.IRION COVNtaIL;

YESTERDAY the LORD MAYOR held a Court of
Common Council at Guildhall, at which his Lord-
ship, ten Aldermen, Mr. Common Serjeanr, the
Sheriffs, and upwards Of.zso Commoners were pre.-
sent.

It was referred to the Committee for General
Purposes to consider the expediency of,purchasing
the places of the Clerks of the Pipers, Clerk-Sitters
and Attornies of the Sheriff's Gout, for the use of
the Corporation.
The Report for regulating the Sale of Fish at
Billingsgate Market Was agreed to; and a Petition
to the Legislature WaS ordered accordingly.
The Committee appointed by this Court for as-
certaining the Duty and Fees of the Town Clerk,
presented an Account of ,Fees taken by him,
which was read, and it was referred to the same
Committee to ascertain and fix a plan in which way
the seven Superior Officers of that Court should
take precedence of each other on all public days.
The Petition to the House of Commons, praying
that a Survey of all Grain, Flour, &c. from which
Bread is made, be taken from time to time, was read,
and after some amendment being made, was agreed
to, and ordered to be presented by the Sheriffs, attend-
ed by the Remembrancer, to the House of Com-
mons ; and such Members who have Seats in Parlia.
ment, were requested to support the same.
The LORD MAYOR, at the request of the Court,
appointed the Eledion of a Town or Common Clerk
for Tuesday next, the :sth inst.
The Court broke up about four o'clock.

LINES ON THE 4PPROACH OF PEACE,

• INSCRIBED TO THE
RIGHT HON. MR. ADDINGTON.

At length, by thy superior wisdom won,
liar bright ey'd Peace, her radiant march begun,
At length, undaunted by the cannon's roar,
Her dove-like pinion wraps our favor'd Shore;
Celestial forms, the children off' delight,
In rosy fetters hold the fiend of fight, , •
Hang his dark helmet on the myrtle bough,
Or bind with olive wreath his blood stain'd brow,
While clouds contagious fly at her command,
And gleams of glory lighten o'er the land.
Tho' memory still will glance a Mourniul'eye
To where the gallant sons of Britain lie,
Yet let no less repining murmurs breathe
O'er blessings, bonOt by honorable death ;
Or meaner sorrow, impotent to save,
Profanely blight the laurels of the brave;
Since from their ashes shall, refulgent, rise
The Phcenix, Happiness, to glad our eyes,

Consummate Statesman, to whose soul are known,
All excellence, and merit, but its own:
Again, beneath thy renovating sway;
Shall smiliQg Commerce urge its fearless way,
Again, each nerve, new-strung to aaive toil,
Shall Industry enrich the blooming soil ;
Laborious Learning seek its glittering
And star-crown'd Science tread her native skies ;
Nor, iby thy matchless worth inspired to-sing)
Shall silence slumber on the tuneful string,
But the fair Muse, whose charming art bestows,
To ev'ry bosom, but her own, repose,
Fix in th' eternal adamant of Fame ,
Her Algot:: o-ro res imperishable namee.

The Duenna, as usual,' drew a very numerous
Audience last night to Drury-Lane Theatre, and
Mrs. BILL I NGTON had the most gratifying tribute
of universal applause.
Cooxt closed his campaign in Borivokth Field
last night, for some time. He has wielded the
Theatrical truncheon with greit success, in the
charaler of R;chard, and he managed it with so
much spirit last night, and was so well-attended,
that we may say,

6! The weary Sun has made a"kolden set."

A French Writer has observed, that the Compo-
sitions of Sacchin; are among the phenomena of the
present day, and that they have one excellence which
others have not ; that they prove the possibility of
energetic Musical Composition, compatible with a
pure system of melody—melody which spares both
the lungs of the Adresse:, and the ears of the Audi-
ence. This is no bad hint to the mass of our female
Opera Singers, .though it does not apply to the
greatest female Singer of the present day.

Theatrical pulAng seems totbe carried taa greater
height in Ireland than in this Country, in which
however it is sufficiently confident.. A Mr. WALKER
is performing Macheath. on the Rublin.Stage, who
is said to have r‘ obtained such estimation in the
part in London, that by particulardesire'the played
it nine successive nights at the Hay-Market Theatre,
with the greatest applause." We believe this same
Mr. WALKER, so far from performing Macheath in
London by particular desire, has.never- been seen or
heard of in Lordon, and it is rather surprizing that
our Irish brethren should be insulted by so gross a
falsehood.

REYNOLDS has given great offence to the Empi.
rical World by his eharader of Dr. Infallible, in
the Comedy of Folly as it Flies. -Indeed all these
medical marauders are so well portrayed in that
chara&ter, we may say with the Song in• the Beg-
gar's Opera,

" Each cries that was levell'd at mc."

A Mrs. NUNN, it appears, has an annuity upon
Drury-lane Theatre. It was hardly to be sup-
posed that in the female connexions of that Theatre
there was much " Nun's flesh."

Abdallah MF.NOu has addressed a letter to his
brother,. the Mayor of Bonsai, announcing his
speedy return to France. ' As thig French General
embraced the Mahotnetan Faith, it is surprizing
that he' should retain any sense of consanguinity
with Christians, and should not rather be disposed
to exclaim with Richard,
" have no Brother, lam like no BrotherL

A Barn door, at Latchingdin, Essex, was blown
open on Wednesday night, when six horses got in,
and ate, a quantity of wheat that lay upon the floor,
and, five of them died .the next morning.

REPORT.

cqukT OI KING's BENCH, DE c..

SITTINGS BEFORE MR. JUSTICE LE BLANC AND

SPECIAL JURY IN WESTMINSTER-4IA,LL

,KERSLA.KE ,J. SAGE AT4D OTHERS.

' This was an Aftion' to recover the sum of 36(31.
being the sum insured in March r7O, .on the'llf of a
person of the name of Robson, whoselife was insured
at the. Westminster Insurance Office for Lives. Mr;
Robson's life was warranted
.free from any disease
having a tendency to,Shorten life, and that he was
of the age of.z3 years, &c.
The defence'Was tWo-fold, fieSt, That Mr. Rob;,
son, at the time of effeoing the Policy in question,'
was not •an insurable life, aecQtding to. the war-
ranty, for that he:had upon him a tiiscase tending to
Shorten the duration of life—a pultrionary COM:
plaint ; zdly, That—the Policy 'Was elffdtcd with
the Defendants,, MI6 :are the Trustees and Maya-
gets of this Office,' by frabd and covin on the part
of the Agent of -the Plaintiff, by stating- that'. Mt.
Robson, at the time of offe&ing the Policy in ques-
tion, had'never been atteqed by any Medical perl,
son, whereas, in faCt; 'he had two firs. of -spitting
of blood, &c. and was attended :by seVeral Gentle,
men of the Faculty. • .

This' Cause toot( up near seven hours, in the
course of Which several -Physicians and other Gen-
tlemen gave their opinion as to the' state of the
health of Mr. Robson at the time of 'effect-ling this
Policy.
Mr. Justice LE BLANC summed up the evidence
to the Jury, who, after consulting for -about twenty
minutes, found a vetdia for the Plaintiff.--Dainages
3601.

Mr. Justice Ls BLANC asked the Jury if he was
to understand them that they found Mr. Robson
had, at the time of effeEting the Policy no disease
tending to shorten life ? They said, they did.
And that- they found that no fraud was praftised
on the Office on effeaing that Policy ? They an..
swered that also, by saying, they found no fraud.

Verdia for Plaintiff—confirmatory of a former.
verdiet in the same Cause, before the same Learned
Judge -and another Special jury.

The remains of Mrs. CRAWFORD, the Aaress,
were yesterday morning deposited in. the North
Cloister. of Westminster Abbey. Her
.coffin was
placed _upon that which Con iains the ashes of BARRY.
Three Gentlemen attended her to the (4rave, but
none of the Theattical.,..Cominanity. 1. hus ended
the career of a woman who was pre-eminent in her
day, and who,,if prudence had accompanied her ta-
lents, might have closed that life in affluence and
distindionovhich terminated in neeea and ob-
scurity. , .

Private Letters from France -state, that Paris is
so full, there are only three Hotels in the- whole
City unoccupied and that English Horses arc not
permitted to-appear in the streets. •

Wine, we understand,. is so dear at Paris; that
its high Price almost amounts to a prohibition of its
use.

On Wednesday last a marriage took place in
York, between two persons upwards.of 6o years of
age. - During the festival, the bride had made too
free with her glass, which caused her tongue to take
liberties not consistent with prudence on this happy
event. The bridegroom, at length. irritated with
disgust at this specimen of her condua, placed her
upon the fire, to the no small terror of the 'com-
pany present ; who, seeing .her situation, rescued'
her from danger, and she was carried to bed by two
of the bridemaids, being unable to contend any
longer with her help-mate, and he, for the first
'time, reigned,triumpliant ; although, it is 'said, she
understands the pugilistic art as well as him.
A Tradesman in Bond-street, last ,week made a
deposit of 300 guineas, in part ofa wager of zoool.
that he would walk ninety miles in twenty hour.; '
and a half, being one hour and twenty minutes short
of the time which Mr. BAitc LAY took for a. similar
performance. The same Tradesman last year, for
a wager of zo• guineas, undertook to walk from ,
London to Hampton Court,, carrying 3olb. weight,
in a certain space of time,. which he performed in
one 'hour and thirty-one-minutes. • .

ScarCely were the successful Purchasers of Shares
at POPE'S Office, congratulated 'with a Five Thou-
sand Pound Prize on No. 18,542, and had received
payment, but they are greeted with another Prize
of Five Thousand Pounds on No. 17,629, drawn the
17th day, and shared irr one Fourth, one Eighth,
and ten Sixteenths. The fortunate Holders may.
receive the amount of their respective Shares on de-
mand.• The Irish Lottery finzdly closes To-moirow;
and English Lottery Tickets and Shares are now on
sale in an extensive variety of numbers at Pope's
" Fortunate Office," Corner of the Royal Exchange,
facing the Bank of England.:
The Rev. W. Nicol., of .Hans place, Knights:.
bridge, London, co-Pastor with the • Rev. Dr.
TROTTER, has favoured B. D. PERKINS, ofLeices-
ter-square, with a statement of the' result of his
trials of the Patent Metallic Tractors. Besides
cures. of Rheumatism, Tooth-ach, and a Sprain, he
communicates the -following:of a Gout :

" On the 7th of January last, I applied the' TraElors' to a
man who had for several days bee,: severely affliaed with the
Gout in his foot. In the space of twenty' minutes, he told
me that the burning heat which he had experienced was gone,
and'that he felt 'a most aFreeal;le warmth. In a short time
after this, the pain also, he affirmed, was perfeCtly relieved.
I have this day ree6ved x Note from' him, in which he in-
forms me that the Cure was complete, and that he has ev.-
perienced no return." 'Mr. NiCol conclUdes, " in itcom-
mending the Tractors, I shall discharge a duty to my fellow
creatures."

The Tractors, so necessary in every Family, and among
Horses, may be had genuine, with new'and improved Dime,
[ions for usingi them, for _Five Guineas the Set, of 13-. D.
Perkins, A. the Patet..ce; in the house of the late
john Hunter; Surgeon, Leicester—square ; and of Frederic);
Smith, Chemist and Druggist, in the Hay-market, Lon-
don. The portable nature of fhe Tradors renders , their
conveyance by coach, or even-by' post, perredly convenient.
Letters ineloslng their amount (oOst-paid) duly attended t 0...
N. B. The purchasers Of the Tractors receive gratis, two
ditierent Be%)ks, which contain, as cernmunkated by the
first litcrary.charaders, about three thousand Cures of Gout,
Rheumatism, Scalds, Head-ach, 'rev h- • :h,Sprains,
&c. Sce. and all analopus Diseases or Horses.
CA UT roN.--:The genuine Traclors arc stamped with the
words " PLaxiNs's PATENT TR.ACTOR.I," and' at the bot-
tom of the printed dirrdions is a Receipt ler the five guineas,
situed in trie hand writing of the Patentee. By observing
this impositions will often be deteded.