The Sun.
London, England, 1809-10-25 00:00:00

COVENT-GAIIDEN ,THEthE.

Though the same_ turbulent disposition:ln-915e out
at this Theatre la,t night, it was ,much less violent
than heretofore. The Play, was The: ligiA chest;
two aas of which were heard as usual with atten

Lion, but at the third the malcontents resumed their
attacks, and nothing further of the play could be
heard. A ruffian in the gallery threw in _apple
at Mrs. Lis.rox, but the audience,
,in general,
displayed a proper "sense of inaignation at thii
untnanly conduct. Several placards were-helkup,
but.they were merely such as we have befdre given.
A wretched caricature of KIVAIBLE„ with an inscrip'-

Lion "May I beg leave to ask what you want ?" was
exhibited, but excited no great applause. Several
persons had 0. P. (old prices) marked on their bats,
one. of whom was taken out of the pit, and when he.
was at Bow-street, his public spirit dissolved into
flood of leap.. Old Prices was the chief inscription
of the night. The fulluwing, we believe-, was the
only new. label that-appeared : . .
" john Bull be courageous, .let this be your guide
By /mfr./v6W prices you'll sink Kemble's pride:"
" The statinient they made, and the mode of inspedion, •
Is justly repaid by your strongest rejedion.
Maintain the true cause, in spite of their terrors, - .
And nut their account's, with EXCEPTION OF gaßoits."

Alter the play a temporary Calm prevailed, but
the clamour began with the Ballot -of- Oscar and
Malvina, and continued through the whole, but
evidently in a very moderate way, compared with

forrner.occassions. About eleven the audience had
wholly dispersed. Upon the
.whole there was an
obvious abatement of the violenee; and we infer thAt
the new Advertisement from toheTheatre, which is
respectful ,and reasonable, has made a. tavour,able
impression upon the public in general,

Mr.. CUMBERLAND liberally presented a new
.Play
or the benefit of a, Charity, last week, at Tun-

bridge; which was represented with - 'great success;
and which, according. to teport, was Marked by a
vigour of imagination that charaeterizes, the early
produetions of this respect able veteran of the drama.
'There seems to be now a great probability of the
re-building of Drury-lane Theatre, as three or fOur
carts have been eMployed in removing rubbish
within the same number of 'weeks. It is not to be
doubted that the subscription for re-building the
Theatre proceeds with equalrapidiiy.
Mrs. MOUNTAIN is gone to perform a few weeks
in Dublin, and then returns to her station at the
Lyceum.
I It has been stated; in one of the Morning. Pa-
pers, that a misunderstanding had taken place at
Vera Cruz, between Mr. COCHRANE JOHNSTONE.
and the Captain of a frigate, respeeting the transit of
a large sum in specie to this country. The
cumstance has been known in England some•tnonths
past. Capt. MALticd, of the- Undonted
,firigate, is
the brave officer alluded to ;
,he is not accused of de-
manding More than his instructions justified. The
affair is likely, we understand, to he produaive of
much serious discussion. . .

Lord DA II Ncrt.)N'l estates in the neighbourhood
of Muswell Hiii, devised to him by the late Countess
of BATH, were yeseerday brought bathe hammer.-;
About 144 acres of iand, with some houses, sold as
tigh as 30,3001. The land, in general, sold at 2001.
per acre, and 12 acres of tneadoW land at upwards
of 4001. per acre. "
A Roman Catholic Curate, to free himself from
the labour of Confessiotts in Lent, gave notice to
his parishioners, that on Monday
.he should con-
fess the Liars ; on Tuesday, the Misers ; on Wed-
nesday) the Slanderers ; on ThurSday, the Thieves;
on Friday,•the Libertines ; and on Saturday, the
Bud - scheme succeeded--,-uone at-

tended. •
Yesterday the Loan MAYOR ordered a Court ,of
Aldermen to be summoned, to meet at Guildhall ; ,
bnt a sufficient number of Aldermen not attending
to constitute a Court, his Lordship ordered the
price of bread to be continued at Is. 4id. the guar-
tern loaf of wheaten, and Is, .21d. household.
THE ARMY.—At a General Court Martial, held
at Taragcejoi on the 18th August, 1809, and at Me-
rida on the 27th and 28th of the same month, Lieut.
Ludlow, of the 2d Battalion of the 48th
Regiment, was arraigned upon the under-mentioned
charges, viz.:-
Ist. " For being 'drunk on ate march of the
regiment from. Castello Branca, on the 9d of July."
2d. " For using highly improper language to-
wards Ensign Pardy during the march from Castello
Branco on the same day."
The Court found the prisoner guilty of the first
charge, but acquitted him of the second. •
The Court accordingly sentenced Lieut.
Ludlow to be cashiered ; and his Majesty has thooght
fit to confirm the 'sentence.
The Commander in Chief direas that the above-
mentioned charges, together with the sentence of
the Court, shall be read at the head of every corps,
and entered in.the Regimental Orderly Books.
By Command of the Right Honourable the Com-
mander in Chief,
(Signed) HARRY CALVISRT,
Dated Horse-Guards, Oa. 23, 1809.

The Adjutants of the Militia are to have Bs. per
day during peace; and the Quarter-Masters, who
used to have 3i. are to have r)s. per day in peace.

The Royal Miners
.Militia struck their tents on
Monday Morning, on the Heights at rover, and are
now.quarrered in that town.
The. Sussex -Militia match into Gosport on the
27th instant, to r4ieve.theLeicester Militia, which
march on that day to Chichester, and the neighbour-
hood. •

The Shropshire Militia .will march into the same
place on the tst, 2d, and ad of November.
. The Renfrew and Worcester Militia, have march-
ed into their old barracks at Portsea, from the camp
at Southsea.
The ,slo9p. William. and Johanna from Liverpool
to Youghal, was lost in Whiting Bay, in the dread-
ful storm of Tuesday, the 10th inst. and we lament
to say, every person onboard perished. The bodies
of sotnd. of the crew . and passengers,' and several
fragments of the vessel have since_ been washed on
shore.

BOXER s.—Three matches will shortly take glace;
the first of which will be betwixt liichman, the
black, and the scientific Young Pelcher, for one
hundred guineas. Another _match is on the tapis
between Dutch Sani anda young waterman. The
thrd will be betwixt Cropley'arid Powell, and. the
whole will take place vn the same day.

PROCEEDINGS of COURT-MARTIAL
lIELD ROCHE/ORT ON. THE CAPT.IIN3 OF THE SHIPS
DESTROYED IN BASQUE ROADS 1Y OUR NAVY.

The trial of the Captains in the French navy, who
'commanded the ships...destroyed by our • fleet in
Basque Roads, fills. a S'applernent of five sheets to
the. Moniteztr of the I Ith instant.,, The.follO‘Ving is
the substance of interesting and iniportan!: do-
cument." The sentence:has not yet been transmitted
to us. ' • _ _

_
It appears by the account of the loss of the 7:on-
nerre,. given by her Captain, M., Clethent de. la
Ronciere, that whilst endeavouring to avoid. our tire-
ships, she was run on board by the French.man of
war the Ocean, and grounded on the rocks. ~Re=
peated exertions were. made to save her, but the
wind proving unfavourable,: the boats being for ,A
long time absent, and the 'water no longer kept
down by the pumps, one of which had burst, al-
though Abe masts had been cut away, and the
greatest part of. her guns and water-casks thrown
overboard, she was at. length deserted by her crew,
after permission to that effeet had been granted by
a signal 'of the. Admiral, answering their signal of
distress. The Captain was the last who left the ship.
This statement was fully corroborated by the written
minutes of the journal kept by the officers.
* The account of the loSs..of the. Calcutta was given
by her.Qtptain, Lafon, and his officers jointly.. It
states, that whilst preparing to engage a British Iri-
gate;.,they were surprized by the explosion of a
catamaran, and soon after, being nearly surrounded
with fire-ships, one of which their cannon sunk,
they cut their 'cables to avoid the others, and about
midnight grounded.; but, after lightening the vessel,
succeeded the next morning to get off with the tide.
They were then attacked by two of our-frigates and
two bomb vessels. NOtWithstauding their-
m disad-
,
vaageous position, and the paucity of their num-
bers, the whole crew, consisting of only e3O men,
they returned: our fire, when, about three o'clock,
two other British ships joined in the attack. At
four, Convinced of the impossibility of . saying the
ship, they
.forsook it, 'having. only __twelve men
wounded and none killed, and set it on fire, When
they repaired on board the. Admiral, who sent them
to Rochefort. •

, The loss of the frigate L' Indienne. is thus accounted
for in the jourtittl of her Captain, signed by all her
officers.. I-laving placed his vissel at a shoit distance
from the boom, which prote6teds the French line,
she was sudde'lliy_ coyerttd with fire by two,explo-,
sions which took place at the boom within the lapse,'
of forty minutes, and discovered, to hie view the ap-
proach of several. brigs And fire-ships, which. burst
through the boom, and advanced kindling against
the fleet. In order to avoid them, he passed through
the French line, and after several astonishing escapes,
grounded, And ~v:iited for the return. of, the ticle.-7
The next day lie was.astonished at finding, that nor.
a single French vessel had suffered by the effeas of
the explosions and 6.re-ships. That day was spent
chiefly in vain efforts to. gel :float, and I.vittiei,ing
the destruaion of the l ifle cle• Varsovie, the Cr:lc/it/a", •
and Turmeric. On the .13th he was at-
tacked, .as,. well as. the Oc;:an and :Regulus., by. six

approached at that-critical moment,
_to_ engage the
Ocean and Toiirt,i'fie. both of which answered Sher
fire effectually. The, riZn4, night• they sucoeucled in
getting afloat, and sailed fur Thernkluth of the rii.er,
but tbrotigh the want of experience of the pilot, wet
grounded on the other side, near Fouras. 011 M..
they were set afloat by the morning tide, and
on the 16th, anchored at" the mouth of the rivei',"off
the point 4 Vergeron.

Here followsTt he examination of the Officers of
the Fleet, which in length far exceeds that which
took place when the investigation into Lord Gam-
bier's conduel -on the very same" occasion took
place.—lt seems in general in favour of the Cap• '
tains whose 'ships were lost; btit its we are not in
possession of the whole, we cannot express a decid-
ed, opinion.

. The, carpenter who was bit by the rattlesnake,
't! ugh reported to. be dead, was better on- Monday
ii iii be has been sincethe'accident happened. •On
1 but-56y had scarcely any pulse, and was render-.
ed t xnentely weak from excessive vomittiog ; it has"
sinj-e ceased, his sn.niach retains h&c], the infiamma-•
non of.the arM considerably abated; and the livid'
spots are disappe ring,
Makried, on the Q?d inst. atAdloo Burnellt. in
Shropshire,. EDWARD,46. SMYTHE, Estj. only son.
of Sir EDWARD SMYTHE, Bart.; to FitAtioEs, only
titin,Lict .01 Sir iIDtyARD sot
tis the et rt :non) vk as performed, the Vridal party. was •
, met hy Sir ,I)ViAtlitn SNYTai's..ntin-?erons and re-
spectable tenantry, whq,, atter otferioz theirheart-
te:t cdngratola,ions on the joyful event; preceded
in grand procession, with bands.ot
to
t Castle, 'W.here they wets most cordiallyjeceiv*cd
hospitaby entertaatcd by theirdeiejeibr, esteetr
gt-nerow, lantboulf , After a te.v+ Arpors
;h Sint tbn‘iviaii y, the it4h,f,ycn,t}pie,.set ac-
!.o••,pellieit by 'oil LD‘k AHD S.M‘rH on
..,'nctr 's pm) y tor Bartnekh, the seat t Sic
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