The Sun.
London, England, 1807-05-30 00:00:00

PORTSMOUTH, MAr

Tats day being the anniversary of the RestOr-
tion of King CH ARLES LI. to the British Throne, it
was observed here with the usual ceremony of firing
of guns, ringing of. bells, 84c;
The friends of Messrs. CI-ILITFI alAd MILDMAY
havingappointed this day to give a grand:Dinner-:at
'the Crown Inn, at this Port, to celebrate the return
.4 those Members to Parliament, a large body of
Freeholders, both on hot-so and on foot, went out
to meet them at Plilsea, when the Members took
their seats in an elegant car, made expressly for the
purpose, handsomely decorated with appropriate:de-
vices, mottos,'&c, &C. The cavalcade having.form-
ed, themselves, moved' n the following order of pro-
.
cession:;

Trumpets and Bugle, Horns,
Three Hags. • '
Horsemen, three atsreasi, with two Flags, &c.
North Hants Band.
Twelve Horsemen, three abreast, with tWollags.
Dock Band. • '
Shipwrights, on foot, six abreast, with their Flags, &c..
The Members,
in a Carriage, with large Flags on the dickey, drawn by
nearly sixty People.
Carriages of their t riends.
• • , Three Horsemen, with one large Standard.
Twelve Horsemen, three abreast, with two Hags. _
: Marine Band.
Freeholdcrs;ron foot, six abreast.
Flags.", &c.• •

..The Procession moved.froln at 2 o'clock,
passed through Newtown, Lion Gate, Portsea,
Queen-street, round the Common-hard, up St.
Thomas-street, Portsmouth, and. then down the
High-street, to the Crown Inn,. where the Metm-
ber3, each having made a short hut . appropriate
speech on the occasion, alighted; and at 5 o'clock
sat down,
.with nearly 300 Freehol4ers, to 'dinner.
-,.=:rhe day being. fine, drew an immense number
of people to view the Procession,
,which was ex-
tremely gratifying to all,, particularly, as not
,the
slightest accident happened, notwithstanding the
pressure at the Crown Inn was 'very great.

Lathy HEATIICOTE gave. a Grand Rout on Thurs-
day eveninx, at her house in Grosvenor-square,
which \Vas attended by upwards of Goo distinguished
filshionahles. • .

The PRINCESS of WALES will appear at Court on
'the ensuing Birth-day: - A very superb dress is now
preparing for her Royal Highness. • •
The Countess of DERRY had a Grand Concert on
Thursday night, at her elegant house in Grosvenor-
square, which was ttendedby the principal Nobility
11l town.

The Countess :of CHOLMONDELEy!s grand rout on
Thursday evening, .was attended by upwards of 700
persons of the first distinction acid fashion.

We have authority, to Contradiet a paragraph of
yesterday, for the Countess of E. is now at her
father's house, with her children, where she has re-
sided for a long time. • •
Ladies 'of' fashion, well known
for their. musical • patronage, have introduced the
`‘iptaaice of permitting favourite performers to have
concerts t their own houses; by which means those
concerts are more likely to have a liberal support
nit' hold at the public rounih. Lady SALISBURY,-
`upon this , principle, opened. her house on Thursday
night for the benefit of RovEnizio, Nth() has beet
many years in this country, and whose conduEt has
been always unexceptionable. CATALANI Sling on
the Occasion, and was of course a powerful aurae-
. don. NALDI'S admirable talents were also exerted.
A ,Terzetto by him, Madame BrANcin, and •RovE-
DINO:, was 'among the most admired efforts, of the
evening. • SPAGNOIETTI high and merited
.applause by his performance on the violin. The
company were numerous and elegant.
, Lord SELKIRK has lately addressed a letter to the
Scotch Peers, in which,be proposes, that their six-
teen Representatives should be chosen for life, their
,places to be filled up, in cases of death, by the eke,
tion of the Peers. He also proposes, that the Scotch
Peers should have it in thekpower to become Mem-
: tiers of the House of COMmons, if they chuse ; and,
in short, that they should be placed entirely on 'the
footing of Irish Peers: We doubt, however, whe-
ther such an arrangement could be adopted without
Violating the A. 61 of. Union.
KING CHARLES'S REstortarioN.—Near the south-
east,corner of St. Giles in the Fields Church, are de-
posited the remains of the famous RICHARD PEN-.
'DRILL, preserver and conductor of King Charles 11.
after the battle of Worcester. His memory was ho-
noured by a handsome. marble tomb-stone, with a
suitable epitaph, written by Mr. HUGHES, author of
the Siege of Damascus. A sum of money was
granted, by order of his grateful Sovereign, to li,eep
the tomb in constant repair. It was alsotthe will of
that Monarch, that annually the Parish Officers
should decorate the tomb with oak boughs. Some
years since the ceremony- was striEtly observed, but
it idoes not appear that the tribute has latterly been
paid. Why so laudable an offering to loyalty- has
been discontinued, we cannot explain.
The cutting of the Glasgow, Paisley, and Ardros-
,san Canal, is now going on vigorously within two
miles of Glasgow. This is a Barge Canal, the first
in Scotland, on the plan of those-inland navigations,
which, in the manutadturing counties :in -England,
have been praducitive of immense advantages to_ the
country and to canal proprietors. • t-

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

YORK SPRIN(; MEETING.

WEDNESDAY, MAY 27.

A StYeePstakes of 25gs. 12st. eachi rode by Centlertien.—
FlOrses having started, but never won, allowed Sib. T %NT,.
mile hats
Mr. Watt's br. h. Marshal Carouser, by Weazic •;." t
Mr. Thompson's Seapetire, brother to Streteh 3
Mr. Richmond's Cockspur, by Oberon - 3

. .
Five and 6 to 4 on Scapefire.
Mr. Mellish's Trafalgar, Bst. 71b. beat Sir W. Gerartrs
lulius Cxsar, Bst. tart mile and a half, tooga. Won very.
easy. Three to ron Trafalgar.
Lord Darlington's brother to Bumper. 7st. alb heat Mr.
Lonsciale's Comrade, Sst. slb. h. ft. Last mile, Won by a
head, five to 4 agst Lord Dariington's.

EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM. AN OFFICER RUA E-

TER ED AT THE CAPE, DATED MARCH 26.
I embrace the opportunity of the xvhich
is Ordered home, to,give you the news of this place.
Till lately we have been rather dull. The 21st Light
Dragoons, Naha 72d, and 93d Regiments,. are guar.
atered in Cape, ,Towtr, together with the 4th batta-
lion of. the 60th. The 83d are at Simon's Town.
The arrivatof General CRAUFURD'S force here has
*Made a good deal of bustle. Many of the Officers
Of this Expedition, who had been at this place be-
fore, 'were, astonished._ at the ,great improvements
which the I;teteli had been making, and which ate
now carrying on I,l7ith great spirit. .The appearant.e
of the town ", is now really grand;
„every thing is
beauty anlregularity. We 'hate abundance; of. all
provisions and liquors, and there is, a most
,excellent
and well-governed .Police; i'l' Dutch seem happy
under our. government„, and copy all our rnamiers
and dress. Not hi pg can .spew the greater partiality
which the' Dutch .feel for the English, in comparison
with the French, than the
,following. fast :—Before
the arrival, of General BAIAD:s force, an otter of as-
.. sistance was made to ,TANSENS, tbeljotch Governor,
by...M. DE CAEN, the Governer of the Mauritius,
Who proposed sending three thousand Freneh sol-
diers to the Cape, to assist in repelling :the English.
The-offer was rejected, no doubt from the appre-.
hension that this Colony would.aoon have been in
thedeplorable..state of Holland at this moment.—
. We have a Paper published weekly in English. and
Dutch. We have-not yet established any regular pub-
lie amusements,; but we intend soon establishing a
Theatre. Weaare to have races in a few weeks,
and balls of course. We were mUchaffe6led at the
change. of Government which lately took place.—
General BAIRD possessed the esteem of every offi-
cer and Man in the Army, and his removal has ex-
,cited a great deal of observation,. Much to the cre-
,dit„however,.of his successor, the Horn. Major-Ge-
. neral GREY. a brother oft Lord Howick, all. the
appointments made. during the Government of Sir
DAVID hate been permanently confirmed. General
GREY is well liked ; he is by no means so rigid a
disciplinarian as Sir DAVID, who carried his system
to a greatlength in this Settlement. But Sir DA yip
was adOred,becau:se he could Condescend to be polite.
"Noluan could be more generous and hospitable at
his table. We have goo our iirst die ision of prize-
money for the capture of this place: Sir Diorfp, it
is thought, will have altogether about 49,0001.
Field Officers have already received 5401. Captains
751. and Subalterns 451. each. This distribution,. I
believe, was entirely made by the General himself;
and the next division, I believe, is to be made ac-
cording to the same proportions.. It i thotight that
Field Officers will have in all nearly asouol. cap-
tains 4aol. and Stibalterns'2sol. each, when the un-
sold storeS, &c. have been disposed Of.
" The Fly Sloop, of War arrived here a few days
ago, ftom England, with dispatches far Admiral
MURRAY. No communication has been yet allowed
between her and the-shore, and .we are afraid ..he
has brought sane unpleasant intelligence trona
home, particularly as her dispatches are now in agi-
tation.' An Order has been issued ',here, prohibiting.
Officers frilniinterniarrying with the Dutch. , We
are'afraid tha.Hhe. consequence of this prohibition
will be a moye,,restrained society with the Dutch
fair .offea, . who arc very partial to English Officers.-
\Vo.litive not, hOwever, yet felt the bad crie&s of
it,. as their-houses are still open to us., A fatal duel
took.. place here a few weeks ago, between two
Officers of the 93d, in which a young man of the
name of 111‘KENzia. was unfortunately killed."
ANOTHER LETTER, SAME DATE.
" We sailed from Port Praya Bay; January lt,
under convoy of the Spencers The;cell q/ l'azdina, and
Haughty,cnlsser the line.on the 29th, and arrived
at Simon's Bay on the 20th 'inst. At St. Jago it
Was generally belleve'd that we Were going to Mexico,
and Wheo thelaignSl was made to steer due South,
nothing, could, equal our astonishment. We then
supposed' Cane Hein was the next land we should
see : in a few days afterwards, however, we learned
that bur rende'zi•ous was to be at the Cape. We
had, On the -whole, a very pleasant passage : we lost
one transport, the Campion, a very bad sailer ; and,
to our surprise, found that she had arrived here al-
Most a week before us. We came round to this
Bay on. .the 24th, for the convenience 'of getting
water and provisions for the troops.. We found
Admiral MURRAY . bere,. with the
,Poloheraus,
"'friar, and Came/ store-ship. The GOvernor wish-
ed to lay an embargo on all vessels here, in order to
keep this Expedition as'secret as possible ; but the
Admiral told him there was no occasion, as he was
Certain no one knew any thing of our destination but
himself and one other individual.
The Nereide Frigate, which left our fleet at St.
Jago, to convoy the 9th Dragoons to Buenos Ayres,
arrived here the day before us, and brought the ac-
Count of the taking of Monte Video.
" Th4kFij,Sloop of War came inhere a few days
ago; Ntith ctispatches for the Admiral and General
CRAW:Ian, and they say that the General appeared
much concerned on reading them."

'On Wednesday last the colle6.lion at Exeter for
the unhappy,sufferers at Chudleigh amounted to two
hundred pounds. The inhabitants of Ashburton,
Totnes, Neton, Teignmouth, Dawlish, and Ex-
eter, came forward with imniediate supplies of pro-
visions Ofallkinds to relieve their present necessities;
these were placed under the care of their very re-
spe6table Vicar, the Rev. 111r.,ButtRINGTotsr, and by
him (with the assistance of a Comtmttee) appoc-
tioned to the sufferers, according to their wants. A
fUrther subscription is also raising for their relief in
the above town. There are to, be free Benefits for
them at the Exeter and Plymouth, Theatres. Sub-
scription-books are opened at the Plymouth,, Naval,
and General Banks, for the above laudable purpose.

L4IV ...7?LPC)LI .

YrsTnßoAy Trinity Term commenced, and the
Judge%, after partaking of an elegant ikji!une with the
LORD CLIANCEELOR, went in
,processiou to West-
minster Hall, where the respeEtive. ,Courts were
opened' with the aecnstonied formai ties.
GEORGIE WOOD, Esq. who has-praOised so many
years in the COUrt -of Bench, and =been. em-
.-played in all the Crown pleadings, took his seat on
The Bench as doe Barons of the Exchequer, in
the room of Baron 17;0rr0.,5, now Lord MANNES.,
'and the LOrd Chancellor of Ireland.
• In the COurt of kind's"Beneb the 'usual Returns of
,Convicts at Woolwich and Portsmouth were made.
It appeared that a• degree .of sickness had prevailed
'on board the: Prudentia Hulk, at Woolwich,- but that
it had now subsided, and the Convicts Were reparted
-Orderly, and free from sickness.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL moved for leave to
file an information; in the nature of a quo warranto,
to shew cause Why Mr. Gaborien, one of the Al-
dermen of the. borough- of 'SaltaSh, exercised the
- office: of Mayor of
,that Corporation: •By the Char-
ter of this BorOugh, it is necessary that the Niayor
'should be chosen by a majority of the Aldermen,
4incl- that 'the late; or former Mayor, should be pre-
sent at such. EleCtion and swearing, in. In the pre-
'sent case it appeared, that in proceeding to 'the
'Ele,-Jon for a Mayor, there was an equal number of
tleaoys present, who voted equally on each side, in
onsequenee of which the Meeting broke up,' and
Bu:ler, the then Mayor, went.away, deferring
-the Election until another opportunity. Those
who remained, hOwever, proceeded 'to elect Mr.
- Gaborien, and notwithstanding the 'absence of the
Mayor (who was. a constitutional part of the Cor-
poration, and by "the Charter should be present),
they aanally swore him into office.
Coitii•—" Take a rule to sheW catise."
- • 'Henry Kemp was brought up, by, Harem Cdrpus,
from the gaol of Chelmsford, for the purpose of put-
: thig '
This person, along with his brother, John Kemp,
1-ad been. taken up on suspicion of committing a,
' burglary in the house of One Thomas Underwood,-.
in the parish of Great Yalden, in the county of Es-
sex ; and, upon hearing the depositions, the Magi-
strate committed. them fbr trial. -
It appeared, that a person of the name of Firman,
- and whers, had sworn, that on the night of the 25th
March last, they saw the Prisoner and ,:is brother
with d'dark 'lantern, pick-locks, &c. enter the house
of Underwood, and take away with them a quantity
of pickled pork, some clothes, and other -articles.—
It also appeared,- that upon search made at the Pri-
soner's house, a dark lantern and several implements
of house-breaking were found. The examinations
befbre the Magistrate were taken at different times,
and the Prisoner was not present when the last was
taken.

Several affidavits wete produced in answer to this
charge, which stated the Prisoner to hate been some
miles distant from the place at the time the rubbery
was committed ; some of these witnesses gave the
Prisoner an excellent character.
Mr. 11.lAity ATI', on his behalf, urged, that the
Prisoner was not confronted with the witnesses upon
the last examination, and the taets of the charge be-
ing completely contradided by the Prisoner's wit-
nesses, who tVereseveral, agaiUst two or three in-
dividuals, he trusted, under.these circumstances, the
Court would permit him to bail.
Lord ELLENBOROUGH--" The fad of the bur-
glary is positively sworn to; the dark lantern and
the implements of house-breaking are very suspi-
cious circumstances.. I think it a very fit c4se• to
go before a Jury ; the Prisoner must, therefore, be
remanded:
Ann Willan was brought up to plead to an in-
diohnenr, for. illegally having in her. Possession a
quantity of the King's Stores, belonging to the pock
Yard at Chatham. She pleaded Apt Guilty, and
was ordered to take her trial the next Assizes for
the county of Kent.
Francis Lqra was broughtun.to be committed up-
on an attachment for not paying his Attorney's
costs; -pursuant to the &der of the Court.
This person appealed to the Court for Mercy and
-* indulgence; he said, he•had been ill-treated by his
Plainiti, who had thrown his property into Chan-
. cery, ;rod deprived him of the means of paying his just
debts'. His7caselvad been referred to the arbitration
of Mr. Nolan, who had made a fair and lust award,
and had his Plaintiff abided by that award, he should
hove had forty shillings in the pound to pay his cre-
ditors, instead-of which he was reduced to 'the 'ut-
most necessity and distress.
The COURT Observed, that the only question on
- which. they could decide was the attachment for not
paying- his own Attorney his costs ; as to any other
part ;if his-case, however hard it might be,
,it was
n'ot "then before their Lordships, and they could not
interfere. He was accordingly -committed;

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, GUILDHALL, MAY 29.

The. Judges of this Court, Sir JAYIES MANSFIELD;
Sir GILES ROOKE, JOHN HEATH, Esq. and Sir
ALLAN Cti,‘-mettE, took their seats as usual, on the
tirSt day of tertu.Atter hearing bail justify, the
--Court rose.

.
The Panharmonic6n, a new instrument lately in-
yen-led:at Naples, excites general interest in Italy.
it unites all wind instruments in itself, and performs
the .most difficult
.symphonies
.with an astonishing
precisiion and purity. If .report speaks true, it is
expee,ted drat. it will supersede the attendance of
tnu,icians play in - on wind instruments in theatrical
orchestras.