The Sun.
London, England, 1806-03-13 00:00:00

NA PA L Nt Wg,

PLYNtOtrilly MARdI-i i I:—Arrived the Sri; icrit
Sloop of War, from a cruize ln the Channel; Where
she detained, and has brought id here; the Danish
Brig St. Peter, Capt: BOTSENi ldden with iron, &e.
from Gotteriburgh, bound to Bourdeadx:
Sailed the _Mae, of 4o guns, Capt. SCOTT, on a
Cruize to the Westward.

Sailed the Dorset Yacht, Capt. BRABAZON, to re,
ceive the new Lord and Lady Lieutenant of Ireland;
the Duke and Dutchess of BEDFORD. Her state.,
room and cabins are fitted up in a style of superiot
elegance, With Crimson satin and gold fringe cur;-
tains, with sofas and chairs to match.
Letters have been received from a Petty Officer of
the 4iziona, of 44 guns, Capt. GOSSELIN, dated some
days since, which state her being then in safety. The
Plantagenet, 74, which came in yesterday, heard at
sea the same account of analicer and several British
Seamen's bodies being found on the shore near the
Isle of Aix, supposed to have been wrecked in the
launch of some Cruizer on that station ; but no
further accounts of this extraordinary circumstance
(which has been reported by the same American
Captain to our different Cruizers) has reached this
Port.

This day the D;antond, 36, was paid nine months
wages ; and the Indefatigable, 44, six mouths
wages, and 121. each man, prize money, by her.
Agent.—The above little squadron, viz. Plantagenet,
74, and the two Frigates, were detached after a
French 74 gun Ship and two Frigates, escaped from
Rochefort, which they cruised i❑ pursuit of as far as
the Western Islands, but they eluded their vigilance.

PORTSMOUTH, MARCH 1 2 .--,Arrived the Leopard
Frigate, with Convoy, 4-orn the Downs ; also the
Friendship, HENDRICK,, from Einhclen ; Betsey,

CLARK, from Carmarthen ; S ?sawn-tit, RoßsoN,
and Union, LLOYD, from Dublin ; Vine, DUNY,
and Judith, WOOD, from Sunderland.

Sailed this morning the Hibernia, of to guns,
bearing the Flag of Earl ST.VINCEST ; the tide de
Paris, of 1 to guns, Capt. WHITBY, and the "liars,
of 74 guns, OLIVER.

The West India Fleet would have sailed to day
had not t,he weathia prll,-;:d so very hazy by the
ir,tavy fall of snow.

GREENOCK, MARCH 10.—It blew a strong plc
last night from the N. N. E. the Mary Aim, IN_
GALLS, at the outside of the East Quay, and the
Bedford, HUMPHRIES, run foul of each triter, and
received some damage ; all the Vessels in the Roads
have driven a good way, hut we have not heard of
any injury being sustained ; the Mary (Tender) is
on shore in the Bay ; the gale still continues.

DISTRIBUTION Or PRIZE-NIONEY.

To the 0 Ificers and Crew of His Majesty's. Sloop of War
Helena, for the Capture of the Santa Leocadia Spanish •ri-
vateer, on board, at Plymouth, on Monday, 17th inst. anti
every Wednesday after at Slade's Counting. house, Plymouth.
To the Officers and Company of His NI ajesty's Gun-brig
Blazer, who were actually on board dt the Re-capture of the
Vigilantia, their respective portions of salvage, on the zth
inst. if in Port ; and after at No. t 4, Clement's- Inn.
To the Officers and Company of His Majesty's Ship Doris,
who were adually on board at the Capture of the following
Prizes : Le Paulin French Brig, L'Affronteur French Lug_
ger, and Twee Gesugters Dutch Galliot, on Friday next, at
No. 18, Clement's Inn; on the zad at Boger's Office, Ply-
mouth ; and every Monday and Saturday for three years to
come.

No Deal List received this day, the Dover and
Brighton Mail-coaches not having arrived at the
Post-Othee at half-past eleven o'clock.
The Boxing-match between Daniel Mendoza and
Harry Lee is to take place in less than a fortnight.
It is expeaed that there will be two other fights the
same day, but the matches are not yet made up.
A few nights since a daring robbery was committed
in the house of Mr. Preston, a fanner, in the parish
of Warbleton, in the County of Sussex. A knock
was given at the door, winch was answered by the,
servant girl. Mr. ;'rester,, hearing her letting son
people. in, went into the pas,-;;I:;e to see who they
were, when he was instantly by two men;
with their faces blacked, V.'ho him down,
anr.l beat him in a most ui manner with.bitai-
g,eons ; and presenting a pistol to him, ;\;•or,.; tiwy
would blow his brains oat made the least re-
sistance. Th,:nr then tied his hands togetlP.T, and
got him upon h:s legs, and insisted th3t he
,sho,A,
shew them where his property was, which lie was
obliged, very reluaantiy, to agree to. One of the
villains accompanied him to his Led-room, and the
other remained down stairs. Cn Mr. P. getting-to
ii.bed-rootn, :he deiredi.h• -rchber who zecompanied
hi'n to take a key out of his pocket, and dire6ted
him which drawer to open, where he found upwards
e-:'3ol.in Bonk of England and Hastings Notes. The
robber told him, he knew that was not till the
money he had got in the house : Mr. P. then was
obliged to tell him where he. would find sixteen
vuineas. Mr. P. bleeding very rynch, from the
wounds be had received on his head with the blud-
geons, got a bottle of brandy to wash them with, and
after he had taken a little, the rillians took the rest 5
and after refreshing themselves with some ale, and
bread and cheese, they madethe'r escape.

Yesterday, at the Pub Bow.street, Lady
VT.W. 'Wynne's Coachman was brought, in the cus-
tody of Townsend, the Officer, charged by her Lady-
ship with unlawfally cefusing to deliver up his livery,
on his quitting her Ladyship's service. The Prisoner
admitted he refused to give up the livery ; but justi-
fied himself on the ground of an agreement io that
effed with her Ladyship's Butler; who denying the
agreement, and the Prisoner persisting in reliving
to Jive up the livery, Sir R. Fora corniy.itted Eta
to 1-otiiill-fields Bridewell, on a 'thirge of stealing
the clothes. On the event of this trial a great ques-
tion of dispute between masters-and servants will
set at rest ; but it frequently depends upon the nature
of the agrevinent made at the time the servant is
hired.

1

LORD- REDESDALE.

o.,t..Tnesdav se' unight this Nobleman sat for the last
tithe in the Qourtoi Chancery ; the day was occu-
pied in discuSsingi a motion of importance, upon
which.his Lordship delivered , his opinion at some
length ; immediately- after which he addressed a very
numerous assembly of the Gentlemen of the Pro-
fession as follows:
" I must now take my leave.- `'hen I cane to
this Country I thought 'that I should probably have
passed the remainder of my days here ; with that
view I formed an establishment, and I proudly hoped
to [lave lived amongst you and to have died amongst..
you. But that has not been permitted. •-
• " To the Gentlemen of the Bar I have the greatest
obligations. I carne amongst. them a stranger; I
have experienced from them every kindness, and I
Must say, that I-could not have left a Bar with whom
I could have lived in habits of more cordial inter-
course. Perhaps I may (on some occasions lam
aware-that I must)' haVe used expressions which
have appeared harsh- at the 'moment 5 but I trust
they were only such as were suited• to the occasion.
My desi.2ll was not to hurt the . feeling of any, and
if I have done so,. lam truly sorry'for it. I wish to
depart in pace and good will with all.
" To the Officers and Pra&icers of the Court I
must say, that though with respeCt to a very few of
the latter I have had occasion to animadvert with
some severity; their' condua in general has been
highly satisfactory. A to the Officers of the Court,
they have all, in their several stations, endeavoured
to' assist me to the utmost of their power ; they have
materially done so ; and I owe them sincere thanks.
It would have been my wish to have continued
to sit until the Gentleman who has been named to
succeed me should have arrived. I believe it was
wish also, and I have every 'reason to think so ;
and from him I have experienced every degree of
politeness and attention. lam sorry that other per-
sons should have thought me unworthy to ,be in-
trusted with the Seal during the interval. What
Can occasion this (which I cannot but consider as a
personal insult) I am unable. to guess ; but I have
been informed that a peremptory order has -come to
the Lord Lieutenantnot to suffer a moment to elapse
in preventing the Great Seal . from longer remaining
in my hands. I know not whence this jealousy of
me has arisen, or how my continuing to sit in the
• Court of Chancery (for 1 could make no other use
of the Seal but under the warrant of His Excel-.
lency) 'could interfere with any views of His Ma-
jesty's Ministers. lam proudly conscious of having
discharged the duties of my station with honesty and
integrity to the utmost of my'abilities. For the
office I care not, except so far as it afforded me the
opportunity of discharging conscientiously an im-
portant publii duty. It was unsought for by me ; I
came here much against my will; I came from a
high situation in England, where I was living
amongst my old friends, and in the midst of
family. But I was told that I owed it to public
duty and to private friendship to accept the office ;
and I yielded : I yielded to the solicitations of some
of those who have concurred in my removal. This,
1 own, is what I did not expea, and what I was not
prepared to bear.
" But I feel most of all that so little consideration
has been had for the public business and -the inte-
rests of the suitors of this Court. You must all know
the avocations of those who have been named as
Commissioners : the Master of the Rolls has al-
ready as much business as he can conveniently dis-
charge ; the Lord Chief Justice and the Lord Chief
Baron have their several avocations, which must pre-
vent their attendance in the Court of Chancery. I
am extremely sorry that a great deal of business will
in consequence be left undone which ought to have'
been disposed of before the rising of the Court—but
so it has been thought fit. .
" And now I have only to say, that in returning to
the Country from whence I came, I shall be-most
happy if it, should ever be in my power to be of ser-
vice to Ireland.----qreland, will always have a Claim

upon me ; had I continued in the Commons House
of Parliament, I might have been able to do much
service : in the 'other House that power is much
lessened, but, such as it is, this Country may ever
command it.

" To this Country I have the highest sense of ob-
ligation ; I do not know that in- a single instance.
I have experienCed • any thing but kindness—l have
experienced it • from all ranks of people without
exception.
" Under these circumstances 'I retire with a firm
conviction that you will do the the justice to say
that I have discharged my duty with honest and
conscientious zeal to the extent of my abilities, and
that on this head -I have nothing with which to re-.
-preach myself."
- This Address„ pronounced in a manner extremely
feeling and dignified, excited strong and universal
sympathy. -Atter a pause of a few moments, the
Attorney-General arose, and in the name and by
the direEtion of the Bar,- addressed his Lordship in
these words :

" Thus called upon, and having had an oppor-
tunity of communicating with a great majority'of
the Gentlemen of the Bar, who have practised in the
Court of Chancery during the term that your Lord-
sh:p has presided, I feel myself authorised to express
their sentiments on this occasion.

" We have a just sense, my Lord, of "those en-
dowments which have so eminently qUalitied you to
preside in a Court of Equity.
" Whilst your impartial attention has secured to
the honest suitor the full investigation of his claims,
your sagacity and patience have taken away liom
fraud all hope of impunity and all pretext for
complaint.
We return your Lordship our-thanks for the
instruct ion which we have received in attending to
the series of decisions, by which, during a period, of
tour years, you have advaneedlhe„ science which we
profess...
"'.But most peculiarly and from our heafts we
beg leave to make our grateful acknowledgments for
the uniform courtesy and kindness which we have
experienced from you in the discharge of your duty
At your Lolidship's Bar.
" Under these impressions we take leave of your
Lordship ; the consciousness of has in thus well
discharged the duties of an elevated and important

situation must render yoU independont‘ of our praise
Ave trust, however, that this sincere tribute of esteem
and gratitude which is now offered to, your Lord-
ship will not be deemed unacceptable."