The Sun.
London, England, 1807-08-13 00:00:00

CARDINA L YORK.

HRNRY tRNEDICT-MARIE-CLEMENT, Cardinal
YORK, was born on the 6th of 'March, 1725, at,
Rome. The Regent, Duke of ORLEANS had (by a
threat to withdraw the pension paid by France), to
please the Cabinet of St. James's, obliged the first
Pretender, his father, to reside in that City. After,
the issue . of the Invasion of Scotland,- in 1745;
French policy again humbled the. fallen STUARTSi
and obliged this Prince, by brilliant persuasions, to
enter the Church. In 1747 he was, by the Pope
BENEDICT xiy. nominated a Cardinal; as such,
be passed his days in quiet and dignified. retirement
at his villa, near Rome, .until 1798, when a French
revolutionary banditti forced him to renounce his
comforts and property, if would save his life.—
He arrived at Venice in the winter, i 798, infirm as
Well as destitute ; • but no sooner was our-beloved
Monarch inlOrmed-of his distressful situation, than,
unreguested, his MAJESTY condescended to order his
Minister. to the Republic, to offer the Cardinal,
with all possible delicacy, a pensioo,of 4;0001. for
his life. This amiable trait in the character of
GKORGIR 111. does equal honour to the King and to
the man.

Cardinal YORK was a studious and well-informed
Prince, and a sincerely pious Prelate. His purse
was always open to suffering humanity, and British
travellers particularly, whether ruined by misfortune
or imprudence, found in him, on all occasions, a
compassionate benefador. He possessed, before 1 7 98,
a very valuable Collesition of Curiosities at his villa,
where very scarce traits and very interesting manu-
scripts concerning the unfortunate House of STU-
ART were among the ornaments of his Library.—
In tits will, made in January 1798, he had left the
latter to his relation Count STUARTqN ; but they
were all, in 1798, either plundered by the French
and Italian Jacobins- at Itome, or confiscated by
French Commissaries, for the Libraries or Mu-
seums at Paris.

'Cardinal Yout returned to Rome in 1801, and
died the Doyen of the Sacred. College, after, being
one of its most virtuous and disinterested Members
upwards of sixty years. '

A Letter from Galsten, dated August 4,_ says,
" On Saturday, the Ist instant, this village was
visited by a dreadful inundatio'n, which, from its
Magnitude and rapidity, must leave a lasting impres-
sion on the minds of those who witnessed its de-
struaive consequences. It was supposed to have
been occasioned by a water spout which fell in the
upper part of the parish near the seat of nem.
Blows% Esq. of Waterhaughs. The property of
this Gentleman suffered much damage, part of the
garden wall being completely destroyed, and many
trees and hedges entirely rooted out. A bridge also
in the neighbourhood was thrown down by the
violence of the current. - The water made its way
into several of the coal pits near Cessnoek ; fortu.
nately, however, all the workmen being apprised of
their danger. escaped unhurt. When the flood
reached Colston, the scene became truly alarming ;
many families were obliged to fly from their houseS',.
:sonic of them at the hazard of their lives.' A few
individuals have suffered severely in their property,
and 'many in,a slighter degree have felt the, destruc-
tive effeas of this overwhelming clement. Had
this calamity taken place during the night, many
lies might have been lost, and property injured to a
much greater extent, so that in the midst of this
providential dispensation, a great mixture of mercy
is to be remarked."

A. few evenings since, the counting-house of Mr.
Weatherbead, in Wapping, was forcibly entered,
and Bank notes. stolen to a large amount.

Yesterday :nominee country-waggoner, who came
to take away stable dung from a MeWs in Bolton-
row, received a kick frum the shaft-horse, which
broke several of his ribs. He was taken in a hack-
ney coach to the Middlesex Hospital ; but he died
before he reached there.

At a meeting of the 'Wing Magistrates for Kes-
teven, held at Bourn, in Lincolnshire, on Saturday
se'nniipt, John Lunn, labourer, was convicted in
the mitigated penalty of 40s. for lopping timber-tres
on the estate of the Marquis of Exeter. This practice,
it is feared, is too general among tenants, who are
not aware of the severe penalty imposed by-the sta.
tote of Gill Geo. I. fur cutting timber Without con-
tent of the owner.