The Sun.
London, England, 1809-09-22 00:00:00

BRJGHTOPv, Serr. 20.

The weather to-day has been damp, stormy, and
disagreeable but few laShionables, therefore, have
been seen in public. Yesterday the scene was dif-
ferent—the sun sluine brightly, the walks exhibited

an enlivening display of Promenaders, and splendid
equipages gave bustle and brilliance to the rides. On
Monday we had a storm from the south, which
threatened destruction to tie fishing-boats afloat,
but happily, although with great labour and perse:.
verance, they reached the shore the same evening in
satety. The numbers of people collected tat the
beach and on the'clitts, to rench-tr assistance, and to
behold the boats run in, were incalculable. The
Duchess of LEEDS has lett Stanniore Park for Lon-
don. Lord and Lady AUCKLAND, who are now on
a visit to the Earl and Countess •of CHICHESTER
there, paid their 'respeas to the Duke at Duchess
of at Grove-house, yesterday, where
they took refreshments, but returned to Stanmore
Park to dine. Lord and Lady F. SPENCER, for Lon-
don, lett qi yesterday morning.
A duel,.it seems, would have taken place here
this morning; between Debt. S. of the Royal Artil-
lery, and a Gentleman, the Mate of an Indiaman, •
but for the interposition of the police officers, who
arrested the parties yesterday, held them in custody
all night, and (his morning took them both before
the. Earl of CHICHESTER at Stanmore, where they
were bound down in suitable penalties to keep the
peace. The sailor has since set off for London.
The'quarrel, it is said, is of a delicate and domestic
mute ; therefore, lest the particulars, as they are
here related, should not be correct, we shall refrain
from mentioning them.
Madame BIANCA will have a concert to-morrow
evening at the . Castle, under the patronage of the
Duchess of •MARLBOROUGH„ and which promises to
be very elegantly and numerously attended. Mr.
l3u,Nca, Mr. Pittuars, and Mr. 'BELLAMY, will be
there included in the list of vocal performers. There
was but little company at the • Bill on Monday.
''lie Theatre last uight, for the benefit of Mr.
swINDALL, was very fashionably • visited. The
pieces represented were--A Bold Stroke for a aye,
and. ?'he Children in the Omi, under the auspices
of the Puke of MARLBoaouou. Tile part of
colonel &leaven, in the:first piece, and that of
Water in the last, was -sustained by Mr. BANNISTER.

BANK OF EIVOL_I;Vii.

Yesterday Olere was a General Court of Peopri,
tors, for the purpose of declaring the dividend Ibr the
'last half year.

'The dividend' proposed by the Codi-t of WiftFtdr4
was 5 per Cent: and a motion was made accordingly
An amendment was moved and seconded, that the
dividend should be increased to 6 per cent. being at
the rate of 12 per cent, per annum.
, .
Sir A. PLGOTT (Counsel to the Batik) re`st:tel tin;
motion as an improper interference with the discre-
tion of the Directors. Although the strict uords of
the law were, that there should he every half year a
division of the profits, yet the law -had so far tallest
into disuse, that it had always hitherto been left to
the judgment and discretion of the Direttors, to con •
sider what amount of dividend it was sate and pru-
dent to recommend ; and there- was no instance of
the Court of Proprietors altering it.
Mr. RANDLE JACKSON, the seconder of tire
amendment, relied upon the well known prosperity
of the affairs of theßank, and saw no reason why
the same dividtthd of 12 per cent, which wai made
in
,the yrearslBo4, 1805, and 1206, should not be
made in the present year. He was convinced that
the cirumstances of the Bank would alt'ord it ; and,
therefore, he considered that. according to the words
of the Act, there'should be a fair division of the pro.:-
fits among the Proprietors every halt year.
Mr. WI NTHOIi PE said, that when the 12 per cent.
was given, it was by no means inteni!ed or consi.•.,r-
ed as a permanent dividend, but as a temporary bw 115
of 5 per cent, added to the regular dividend. of 7 per
cent.. He considered that a regular dividend of 10
per cent. would be more for the advantage of the
Proprietors, than 1(2 per cent. given occasionally by
way ut bonus.

Sir A. PIGOTT moved the previous question on
the Ainer_utnent, which, after a long discussion, ‘.,‘ ea
finally carried.

The Dividend was then declard at 6 per cent. for
.the half year.
Mr. JACKSON then moved, that there sho.:ld be
an addition of one per cent. to this dividend, in the
way of bonus-.

This motion was resisted by Sir ARTHUR PIGOTT
and other Gentlemen, on the ground that ►he same
Court could not alter the dividend whicti.had
declared.'

Mr. JACKSON complained of the sort of manage:
meat by which his motion was gut rid of with tbe
previous question, by which the Court of Proprie!ois
had been prevented trona declaring their opinion in
the usual way by ballot, whether the di% idend t
.not to be increased.

After a very short conversation; the question of
adjournment was put and eairied:

PORTUGUESE PAPERS.

LISBON, SEPT. 7.—(Diary.)—We learn that the
American Government has conceded both to Ilia
English and French the free admission of their shids
of war into her ports. The peoplq.ot that R. public
are extremely anxious for the success of the cause of
Great Britain. Two ships of the United States h
entered our pares, and many are loading for Spain
and this coutrry,•which are expected soon., Ako
several ships from the Brazils.

T . ,
. - he English and. Sicilian troops have gained great
advantages in Calabria. They have taken possest4on
of Reggio, and are proceeding towards the Neapo.
litan capital.
One of the novelties which has excited n good deal
of agitation in Holland, is the
.change.Buon :Rate
proposes, to make withrespedt to his brother Le
He means to remove him, under pretence of his
ignorance and timidity, and to convert Hol aut rto
a department of France. No doubt another king-
dom will be created for Lewis, where these qu •s
will not interfere with the purposes of his brother,
and where he may perform a new .pact
medy of the Confederation,. &c.
,SEPT.I6.--b(Gazette.)—The celebrated
-Marquis de la Rt)I1 na has been ordered by the
Junta to repair to Seville,. that liemay become an
Honourable Member of that 13,,dv. We are much
concerned that we cannot inclose the decree respect-
ing his appointment, or his proclamation in conse-
quence, to his, companions in ,arms.—jeor these
documents she oor paper of yesterday.)—Gen. Mc.n-
iliz:A)al has been nominated to the command of
army, and the Conde de Noronha to the Gelera.
ment of Gallicia.

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Yesterday theLohp MAYott, according to annual
custom, wenititi stsue to Christ's Hospital, attended
by the Sheriffs and other. City Officers, when, after
hearing an excellent sermon, preac:,ed in Christ
Church, they were atCncled to the GrAnd FI
the Hospital by the Governors, where they heard the
orations deli t ered by the t s o oldest. schulai s, the ore
in Latin by Mr. J: AnAms, and the other in English
by Mr. T. DEAL; alter which they received the t ns-
tomary donations from the LORD MAYOR, Sheriffs,
and most of the Company, which appealed flume.
roes and respectable.

From the measures taken to fortify 'Dresden, and
from the reported intention of the Conti at Snit
place to visit Warsaw, it has been .in!erted, with
much apparent probability,• that the Berewt•iry
States of Saxony are about to undergo a ni-w arpro-
piiation. It is likely that JEltu:VJE,of Westpliana,
will get some of
.therm; and we think it
that more Will be ,given to Ausiiia under the title of
an indemnity (Or the cessions which the Ent !or
FRANCIS will be compelled to wake, as the piirchase
of peace.. The Saxon dominions are siid, : at
appearance of truth, to have Le n a marked„otjea
of spoliation with BUONAPARTE, since tile reiLlw:ii of
the heiress of Saxony to give i.er hand and rico in-
heritance in marriage to Jittoma. The inheritatice
falling to a fernaie; would, besides, be in itself a
pound 01 partition ; and it is a favourite p bey' of
BLIONAPARTE to eradicate, by those incessa,t trans-
fers called cessions and indemnities, the attachtnetits
of subjects to ancient dynasties andliereditary Sore-.
reigns. Au2tria. will, besides, be r,:clucea to the ne-
cessity of i;anttioning
.the'prin, ipte of spoliation, by
which she,retti,eh to profit in ti-e Peacebot Presburg ;
and BuosArAtcrc will have gaitrd in this -the fur-
ther pbint.of [baking the last triiright Sovereign of
. the Continent a party in his einneS.

Yes►erday Colonel WARDLE preferred his . Ung-
threatened Bill for a ongpirAey, against Mrs.
CLARICE and the t-wo Messrs. WRIGHT.

CALCUTTA, MARCH 24.
On Fridayinst, a young man, of the name of
Rohm Bruce Keith Stuart,. a -copvia from New
Sown Wales, was brought on shore, from the
Phaeton frigate, and lodge& in gaol, by an order
* horn Government.
It appears that this youncr Man had been con-
vieted of an offence in England, for which he was
transported' to New South Wales; from whence, in •
concert with several other convicts, he carried off,
in May last, the brig Harlington, and made the
best of his wAy for• Manilla. On the passage thi-
' ther, when off khe coast of Leuconia, the Dedaig-
neuse frigate tell in With the brig Harrington, and
sent a party of seamen on board, to take posses-
sion , and, transhipping the party above named tO
the frigate, brought him to Prince of Wales's
Island, where he was transferred to the Phae:.
ton, 'in which frigate he has been brought to this
port.
Upon being receiyed on bbard the Dedaigneuse,
' -her Commander, CapiPin 'Dawson,• affected by
the 4' entlemari-like appearance of his prisoner, al-
.-• !Lowell, him every reasonable indulgence, and ,fore-
bore 'to place him under personal restraint ; but
having made an attempt to escape, in which he had
nearly succeeded, Captain Dawson, judged, it ne-
cssaly to- place him in close confinement. We
Understood, that this Unfortunate youth was for-
merly a Lieutenant in the Navy; that he had the,
benefit of a liberal education, and is respeetably con-
, neEted. •
The Hkrington, after being boarded' by a party
of British seatreen from the Ifedaigneuse frigate, ran
aground, and was, lost, on the coast of Leuconia,
when ad the convict parties who were on board el-
' - 'to tea their escape.

BULLOCK 2'. BROTHEL—On Wednesday last, at
North Shields, a bullock broke loose from some
butchers, and ran through the street in a furious
manner, but his progress Was at length stopped by
his takiQg down the Hole-in-the• Wall quay, which
was scarcely wide enough to allow* him a free pas-
sage. To the astonishment of the spedators, when
he came to the door of the Hole-in-the-Wallokhich
was opened by a sudden twist of his body, he en-
tered the house, and walked maiestically
.up stairs
into the kitchen, where the scene of uproar and con-
fusion that ensued is indiscribable ; the bullock was
heard bellowing, the women screaming, and the fur-
niture breaking in pieces: in -the midst of which cop-
fusic,n, the floor yielded to the ponderous weight of
the animal, who, however, disengaged himself by
a desperate plunge, and, breaking down a partition,
entered_ the grand chamber of. the Lady Abbess,
where he also laid soma valuable furniture under
his feet, and then thrust his head through the win-
dow, %hence he loudly -bellowed defiance to his
pursuers. He was at fast secured, and is, perhaps,
the, fir't mule visitor that ever got out .of that stew
without having his pockets lightened.

) c.
The extraordinary success attending the State Lot-
tery Oihces of liortcrstyr and Co. in 1897 and 1808,
augurs they will be equally successful in 1 809 ; they
therefore hope to receiiie their usual distinction of
favour on the present occasion. • HORNSBY- and: Cp.
anxiously wish that the present Lottery s'eCtite
their Friends a great proportion of the .209,0001.
Prize Money, which will be deterrnin-ed io One day,
OA. 20th. , No. 20, Corutiill, arc St. Maitaret's-
' hill, Borough. •
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