The Sun.
London, England, 1814-12-03 00:00:00

NEW PRINTING MACHINE.

We noticed the other-day, a Machine employed
for the firs; time in Printing a Morning News-
paper, and described the process by which this
marvellous improvement in Mechanicks perform-
ed its operations. The Times, which thus availed
itself of the discovery, affirmed at the same time,
that the.honour of the invention was due to *a.
Saxon, of the name. of KCENIO, who sold his in-
terest to Patentees• (also-Foreigners) from whom
the Times purchased its right.
The Norwich Mercury, which has' just reached
us, .denies the truth of this statement,- and asserts
that the palm of ingenuity and the profit to be
derived from so excellent a construction, are due
to countrymen of our own—Mr. DON KIN of Ber-
mondsey, and Mr. R. M. BACON, the Printer of
that excellent Provincial Journal.

To support this allegation, it.is shewn that
these parties obtained a patent for their• invention
in December last, and a prospectus descriptive of
the nature thereof is subjoined. This paper is
too long for• its to copy, but the following extract
will prove that .it very closely resembles the in-
strument now working in London :
Tile objects proposed by this machine aci
" First, Mechanical precision of operation.
" Second, A great increase of the speed of printing.
" Third, The saving .of skill, labour, and expe.nce. - '
" To these intents,• an entirely.' new principle has been
adopted. Continuous has been substituted for, interrupted
motion; and all the single parts of laying the sheet, taking
and diitributing the ink, beating the form, and performing
the pressure, are carried on at one and the sane: iustant,
without the intervention of a moment's delay in any of
them."

Of course We cannot decide to whom the ho-
nour of priority in these improvements.belong,
or whether exactly the same principles regulate
both ;
,but we cordially concur in the closing re-
marks of Mr. BACON, that " it will be for time
to decide upon their respective merits, but there
can .be no doubt that a change in the art of
printing, very impo►tant to society, will be effect-
ed by the joint or separate itiiluence of these ma-
chines."

IVINDSOR, DEC. 1.

Tuesday her Majesty, the Princesses Elizabeth
and MHry, took an airing through Slough:and the
neighbouring country, and rettirned-to the Castle
to dinner.

Wednesday the Queen and Princesses rode to
Maidenhead and back( to dinner. Lady Caro-
line Darner arrived at-the Castle the sane day, on
a visit to the Queen.

Yesterday Lady Isabella Thynne went out of
Waiting, and left the'Caitle fur Loug Leat, Wilt-
shire, the seat of the Marquis of Bath.
The Morning Service at St. George's Chapel
has been discontinued for a few days, for the ar-
rangement of the Banners, Sce. of the Knights of
the Garter, and to• make appropriate places for
the achievements, &c. of the Emperors of Russia
and Austria, the,Kings of Prussia and Spain, the
Prince of thane, the Earl-4f Liverpool, and Vis-
count Castlereagh. The Chapel will. be opened
On Sunday next. _ _

Yesterday morning her Majesty and the Princess
Elizabeth took an airing in a coach and four by
Eghtwn. The Duke of Kent,arrived at the Castle
to-day. .
Dee. 2.—This morning the Queen and Prin-
cesses took an airing in two coaches and four, to
the. Prince Regent's Cottage, where they alighted
from their carriages; and inspected the building,
which is nearly completed. They.rcturned to the
Castle to dinner.

The Duke of Kent left the Castle this 'morning
for Kensington Palace.

The reason of the Princess-Charlotte of Wales
not arriving at Cranbourn Lodge on Wednesday,
as was expected, froth Weymouth, is, that her
Royal Highness honowrs the Bishop of Salisbury,
her Tutor, with a visit on her way back, and is
not expected at Cranbourn Lodge till next..
'hiesday.
ROYAL 11UNT.This morning the royal hounds
hunted;
_A fine deer was turned out for the day's
diversion, near the Black Cave,•Virginia Waters;
there was a numerous field
,of Gentleman Sports-
men assembled, among whom were a number of
distinguished characters : the deer sheaved great
sport in and through the inclosures by Englefield
Green and IFighani, where he crossed-the Thames
•
near Staines.

WESTMINSTER-SCHOOL.-The comedy of Phor-
mio Was performed by .the Young Gentlemen of
this admirable nursery of genius and learning, on
Wednesday last, in their Dormitory, in a manner
that did honour to theMselves„and this celebrated
prodnction of TERENCR. As erroneous list of
the juvenile Performers. has been published, we
subjoin a correct copy of their names, and the
characters which theypersooated on this occa-
sipn.:—
DRAMATIS PERSONA:.
Phottni9 jtANDOLPx.
Detnipin D%Ntr.u...•
•
Antipho Tprt ON.
Geta. . liu LL.
Do'rio
Chromes KN'i V Err.
l'tmdria
D.trus , DusDas.
Sophrona • Buoy cti. •
N 3 usiitrata .
... . LiTetliNsoN.
...GLYN. •
GATE R.

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L:l'ltv.. .

KENBLE has given ;o much novelty as well
as excellence to. his Richard, it is to'be hOped that
before his depirture. for Ireland he will treat the
critics ‘vith his Macbeth also, in which the.same
display of superior skill may reasonable be expect-
ed. The energy which Miss O'NED4. has shewn
in the inure violent passages of Juliet, Belcidera,
and Isabella, proves that she is well qualified to
perform Lady Macbeth, and the union of-such
powers ‘veuld be an exquisite repast for the public.
Upon a strict investigation into the alfnirs of
Tfil
the house of IV-FitiEAu and Co. it is said there
will be sufficient to answer every demand upon •
the firm, though considerable time may elapse
before the Whole of the outstanding asseti c.pin be
collected.--(Muth Herald.)

MR. LOVEGROVE.

The Lovers of the Drama, and especially those
Who ,delight in the chaste and easy yet. striking
and characteristic performance of Comedy, will be
rejoiced to learn that is no truth in an account
of the death and funeral
some- tiii§allietOtls person
olfi•
asia)iill'iEpGoßse(E4cibtlfeitie
respectable Editor of t.14-_. Bath Herald. Mr.
LOVEGROVE is recovering from .1111 it€vCre indis-
position, and, , well merits the following7ei:-.
comiunis, which have been pressed into a prema-
ture obituary :
" Never was there a performer more emulous in his endea-
vours to please his audience. Mr. Lovcgroe first appeared
on the Bath bads, about I or 19 years ago, in Laza:4llo,
in the farce of " Strings 10 Your nod tion
came a great favourite. Those who remember his Old ToppiA.
in " The Paragraph," Sir ANdrew Alla ly ar, and Spade, will •
acknowledge his eminent talents; these we considered ante'.;;
other parts he displayed true
his best efforts, and in ninny
comic genius. In London he had surmounted the ever pre-
vailing prejudices which the remembrate of old favourites
excites against their successors; he had just begun to spew
his audience that he had original conceptions to study, and
genuine' feeling to embody a character; new, prOntineut
parts had this season raised him to that eminence he had so •
long, and so assiduously sought. llr. Lovegrove's private
sharacter would have been held nwstimable in any station Of
life, &c. &g." •

iVe -trust he will long. continue to merit the
praise thus justly bestowed, and be rewarded by
the patronage of a partial public.

CATHOLIC MEETING IN DUBLIN.

(From one of the Irish Demagogue Papers.)

It. is with sincere regret we give insertion to
the following Report, of the proceedings of the
-Catholic Meeting held in Dublin on the clay before
yesterday. It will he observed, -that Lord Fingall
has expressed himself. anxious to postpone any
proceedings, in 'expectation of some " Arrange--
ments," which may be made the ground-work of
an application to Parliament ; and, notwithstand-
ing this avowal of Vetoistical principles, the'Noble
Lord is, however, solicited to attend, or rather to
preside over, the Catholic Meetings. This is most
reprehensible conduct, sod will not .be sanctioned
by.• public approval. They should rather have so-
licited his Lordship not to attend their Meetings,
until he should reform his principles, -than thus
seek most unWarrantably to place the. Catholic
Population of Ireland at the feet. of the Vdoisti-
- cal Peer.

Catholic Meeting at dir. Fitzpatrick's, Capel-street, Sear-
. day, Nov. 26. OWEN O'CoNNott, Esq. Chairman.
" The Chair Was taken at three o'clock. The
bttiness commenced with reading letters. front
Lord Fingal!, Lord Killeen, and Sir Edw. Bellew,
in ansWer to Mr. O'Connell's' Circular. They
were all upon the some key=doubted whether any
Meeting is 'advisable—Minded to Dr: Murray's
mission to • Rome, and important
,arrangements
supposed- to be depending—recommended his re-
turn to be waited for, in expectation that then a
ground-wont may be•luid for any application to the
Legislature.
.The tone WAS dry, and rather,•stitr—and the
'perusal seemed to. atfad little satisfaction:
Mr. Randall Mac Donnell spoke-at sonic length,
in a low conversation tone, and concluded by
moving two Resolutions : •
1. That it is the opinion of this Meetin7 that freshPeti-
tians' preseuted to Parliament for relief'.

2. 11164 i 4 Requisition to Lord Fingall be now signed, pray-
ing his Lordship, to convene a General Meeting at an early
day for the purpose.
Mr. Howfey,' jun. of Limerick, delivered a
very long speech.
A desultory conversation ensued—the Speechers
were Messrs. Nicholas Mahon, Lyons, O'Gorman,
Hnwley, O'Connell, MacDonnell', Thomas Fitz-
gerald, of Waterford, Hay.
• Mr. Mahon thought, that the Petitions present-
ed last Sessions, by Lord bonoughwore and Mr.
Grattan, and not yet moved upon, would be suffi-
cient, without the trouble and delay of a new
Petition.

Mr. O'Connell said, that those Petitions are
disposed of, and a new Petition is neceslavy•
Mr. O'Gorman thought otherwise—however,
the first Resolution (fov fresh Petitions) was ulti-
mately agreed to.
The second Resolution was the-subject of long
discussion—Mr. Mac Donnell urged it as a step
towards conciliation, and' a compliment to Lord
_Mr. O'Gorman opposed this proceeding, and
pointed out its humiliating tendency._ It would put
it in Lord Fingall's power to send a refusal, and
so far to prevent any meeting. This power he
world not consent to give to any man.
Mr. Fitzgerald, of Waterford, was pretty much
of the se►tle opinion.
This subject occupied a long space of. time—
Mr. Mac Donnell rose 'several times to explain—
Many Speechers occupied the audience, and were
received with more or less o 1 favour.

At length a piddle course-was adopted—and it
was finally resolved, that the Chairman be desired
to request. the 'attendance of Lord Fingall, (aud
of the other Noblemen who have now absented
themselves), at .the next Meeting, to be held on
Saturday next, the 3d of December.
Adjourned to Saturday next.
The Meeting was as.
,well attended, in num-
bers, and every way as respectable, as in the
brightest days of the Catholic Doard."

Major-General KEMPT, it is said, is coming to
England, oR leave, -to explain the situation of
military alfairs in the Canadas. He is to return
in the Springs; and Major- Generl Itoßll4,soti/takes
the command in the mean tune at Kingston.
A privrte, letter fi om Captain PERCY states,
that the Officers killed on board the Flermes,. on
the::lsth Se.ptemher last, were Mr. PYM, M4ster;
Mr. h kw LETT, Midshipman ; and Mr. TnomsoN,
Boatswain,.

SINGULAR ELOP.EMENT.—The uncommon en-se
which has been so
.erroneously stated in some of
the London Prints, relative to the daughter of a
Dentist eloping,l: nine days after her marriage,
from a 117 II it Ill'OtheCr , in consequence Ot cruelty
and starvation, is now coming under a legal in-
vestigation, in consequence of the Husbatid of the
Lady having preferred an :indictment against her
for Perjury, before the Gl:and-Jury of Middlesex,
last Thursday, the Ist of December,,. when, after
a long, patient, and -minute investigation—ten
evidences, which took up. above two hours-and a
half, a true bill hag been found.. •

,

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, DEC. S.

STEELE V. CHILTON.

The plaintiff is a respectable law stationer, and
the defendant a respectable t:ornev, both resit'.
jug in Chancer.7-lane. In ,the year 1811, the
PL4'.'",":l-ii was collector of King's Taxei‘ for the dis-
trict in which he resided, and in. the course of his
rounds callcl upon the defendant, with whom he
was in habits of intimacy, for payment of his
Property Tax, but which, by some accident, the
defendant omitted to pay, till after the period ar-
rived for reporting defatters, and in consequence
the plaintiff served the defendant with a default
notice, wijch he inclosed and sealed up, writing
the word " private" upon the cover.—Having re-
ceived the notice, the defendant immediately called
at the plaintiff's shop, aml applying some oppro-
brious epithets to him, told hint, -iri:presence of
every person in the shop, that he deserved. to be
horse whipt, and that the defendant should -write
to his masters about him'. altercation was
continued by the defehda4t for the apace of five
minutes and upwards,Tanft for the'trespass, thus
coinaiitted the present aciipti:,W,as.hrought.
Lord ELLENBoROUGH dciitibtett if .this-could'be
said to be a trespass in the eye of 1,34,. The de-
fault notice was.'a summons .to the defendant
call and pay his taxes, it was therefore oh theire-
quisitiub of the plaintiff himself that thellefendent,
enkered his shop. Lordship suggested to. the
parfics, y‘owever, whether it would not be more
',becoming in persons of their respectability to take
this !batter Out of Court;
Mr. PARK, for(the..defendant, had no objec-
tion to consent that a Juror be withdrawn.
The ATToANEY-GENERA, for the plaintiff,
baying acceded to this, a Juror was accordingly
withdrawn.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said, he could tell
bis Lordship the reason why the Court had been
troubled with this case. The parties, wilt) bad
till lately lived in terms of intimacytcieether, had
had the misfortune to lose a good neighbour.
His friend Mr. Marryatt, who forMerly lived in
the intermediate house between these parties, had
removed ; if they bad not lost bins for a neigh-
, bour, the present action would never have been
heard of.

COURT OF SESSION, EDINBURGH, Nov. 48.

HILL V. MERCHANT COMPANY OP EDINBURGH

AND OTHERS.

This is one of the most important questions be
w een superior and vassal that has ever• received
the consideration of the Court. It is now to be
finally determined, if corporations be entitled to
compel superiors to admit them as the succes-
sors of individual vassals, and give them en-
tries on the same footing ; and, of course, if
superiors be obliged to part with .the whole of
their casualties, however valuable, when Corpora-
tions become purchasers, or receive bequests of
land. This question was solemn!y tried an hun-
dred years ago, when the Court of Session de-
cided against the superior, but the Llons2 of Lords
reversed that judgment. This Hot). House found
that the Corporation, whose claim it reviewed,
ought to enter with the Superior by the interpo-
sition of a trustee ; a process which secured the
Corporation the benefit of the fee, and at the
same time protected the casualties of the Superior.
Notwithstanding this decision, the claim which it
repelled is now preferred by a Corporate Body,
which, in support of its pretensions, pleads that
the authority of the former case is done away bY
the Act 20th Geo. 11. cap. 50. The Superior
maintains, that this Act has no such intention or
effect ; but the Lord Ordinary, before whom the
question was diseussed•in the Outer-House, sus-
tained the Corporation's claim. Upon this the.
Superior appealed by petition to the loner-House,
-where the Lords unanimously expressed their dis-
sent from the Lord Ordinary's interlocutor, and
appointed the petition to be answered. On ad-
vising the two pleadings, their Lordships, justly
conceiving the case of the utmost importance,
ordered a hearing in presence, which will take
place in the course of the ensuing Winter Session.
Since the Acts abolishing heritable jurisdic-
tions, and the tenury of wardholding,, a question
of more importance than this in feudal law, or
more deeply involving the interest of all the Su-
periors in Scotland,- has not occurred for discus-
sion. It is almost needless to add, that all the
Superiors in Scotland are deeply interested in its
issue, and may look to it as a contest in which
some of their most valuable privileges are at
stake.

OLD BAILEY.