The Sun.
London, England, 1807-10-09 00:00:00

i'OMCE.

.Bow-srar.P.T.--Yesterday a
:question . caine on to
.be determined before JkSIES Esq. of consi-
. derable inil ort time._" to the coal trade in general, but.
particularly to those engaged as pedlars and hawters:
of coals, a description of retail venders, who have
started up within the last "few years, using' carts in,
all parts OfLondon, with bushels'of coals and other
Small quantities in small sacks, with,. bells to the:
horses'-,heads. This praaice polies to be very inju-.
-rious to the regular traders, as well as a.great evilota
'the labouring poor, who are the purchasers Of 'coals.
in general, the coals are of the worst
et. " purc. tasc to liar one possible cheek upon
1 t` i ere..
he question .carne yesterday before the 'Magi-
'strate, hi 't.116 fdln of an .information,., brought by
Mr. Baker and i Ir. Tullock, two of the principal
..Ccvd-rneterli,belenging to the Westminster: Meter's
Office, for" regulating' the • measurement of -Crag,.
`against William Collie, of. Cleeelandstreet,
Yos,-!;q9art, a licensed hawker of coals. •
The information was filed at the instance, with a
-view to check an attempted evasion of the Coal
which suites, ail' coals sold, or loaded to be\ sold, front
'any wharf, in quantities exceeding eight bushels,
'shall be Measured in the presence of a meter, or be
subje3 to a penalty of 101. • • .
k appeared front.the evidenee, that on the morn-
'ingot' the sth instant, Mr. Baker, one of,the prin-
cipal Meters, and Robert Hall and William Taylor,
two sworn, labouring Meters, that they attended at
their stations in Scotland-yard Coal Went', when
they observ,ed three gangs of men at work in three
different rooms, iii orte•lighter, ,pitt . the coals into
-bushels, and then into 'different sized :sacks, and
'were lOading three waggons with them, which bad
'the Defendant's name piton them.
The men were asked by Mr. Baker who they were
at,work for they replied, fiq- the Defendant,. yho
-was I.Weerit• Mr,43aker toll him lie'
wrong by' measuring the coals wit nowt a I\letr be-
Untested 'he re'plied, that Meters he'd nothing to
do with it,. as the coals' were not sold, and he in-
dended to sell ihetn. in small quantities, .not exceed-
ei4ht :f.nishelS,e,nd persisted' to measure the coals
withoneziMeter superintending the tilling the bUshel
The Magistra`te;- after hearing Mr. CoNsT in sup-
.pert :of the information, and Mr. MANNING, the
!Wortley, ter ch. Defendant, conviEted the Defend-
ant in the ftill penalty at 101.
• The Attorney for the Defendant gave. notice. Of ;
his intention to appeal against the conviiiion, 'at Abe
enSaing'Quarter Sessions.

It has transpired, thin•the hawkers of coals have
had a meeting, and raised 'a fund for the express
"purpose of resisting the4xecution of the clause in the
undir winch the'cOnviaion was made.

• GU/LDUALL.--7A boy named Richard Lee
Was' charged before Mr. Alderinan-DomvtLLE.; the
Alderman,•With stealing. two Pairs of stock-
ings from the shop-door •of Mr.'Keates, hosier, in
Smithfield ; and a r person. -of the name.ofllletertlf,
who keeps a paltry shop-in Whitecross-street, with
receiving woof the pairs of stockings from the boy,
knw.ving them to be stolen. .
Some days ago the Prosecute!. .missed a pair of
stockings trom his door ; and on Wednesday night
the Prisoner Lee succeeded in carrying
,etY:another
pair ; but the loss being immediately discovered, he
was pursued, -and the' goods found on him. When
'interrogated as to his having formerly been-gdilty of
a similarM offence, he oonfesscd that he, in company
with another boy; bad` stolen another pair of stock,
ings from the Prosecutor's door a few evenings since,
and had sold them to the Prisoner Metcalf.

The receiver, when' first taxed with the offence,
denied —all knowledge of the boy ; but a pair of
Atockings• exaaly similar to those taken from the
,Prosecutor's door were tbund on his legs. The pri-
Aiate mark being. gone, however, the Prosecutor
.could' not swear to the property ; and. Hattie after
'Confessions made by Metcalf, it appeared had been
.extratled from him, in consequence of expeaations
:of favour held out, to him by the Officer, who told
him it would be better for himself to expose the buys
from Whotti.he was in the use of receiving atolen
property.

• 10. this situation the worthy Alderman, after se-
verely reprimanding the Officer .for an. interference
on his part so contrary to his duty, and so prejudi-
icial to the ends of justice,' found himself under the
necessity of discharging Metcalf, who was known
;to several 'of the. Officers M t common receiver.
The boy was ordered to be sent to the Marine So-
ciety. •

HATTON-GAODalC—Yesterday ~/indrew 114' Gill
,was exatuineti„ upon several charges;made by -pro-
-prietors of inns. :awl • hotels. It was stated that
had•cothe to their' •respeetive houses tinder the
•cluiratier of a Gentleman, 'with a portmanteau, and
'that' when he slept at" any of those places, a genteel
room' as assigned to him. After,• however, his
fellow lodgers got up in the morning, he used to
ramble into their rooms, and seize upon any porta-
ble thing that came in his way,: putting it into his
.poilnianteau, which he emptied, and which 'Con-
tained nothing. but a goantity of. bricks; curiously
packed up., He Piaaised this species of theft at the
White Horse, fetter-lane, where .he stole the
waiter's watch,. and some small clothes, which
he had upon Mr." 'Hatchett, of the White
Horse, Piccadilly, stated, that the Prisoner prac-
tised the same kind:of depredations at. his house.--
It was farther added, that he rubbed the Black
in Bishopsgate•;street ;. the White Horse in Friday-
street ; and a number ofother • hOuses about town.
Bang called upon for his defence,; he stilted, th4t be
had been a master tailor; iria,Albeniarle:•street
.3 was
very:unfortunatei had teen in Ireland (of which he
-*as nitive), and returneil to this country ; but
that rnisfortunehac) tbll4wed him. Upwards of2oo
pawn-broker's duplicat6i were found,upon
He was committed.for,re...es.amination. .

A.ferpale,i.about the age 0f..28 or 30, was picked
up alTarently dead, off tho. causewaTat Hunger-
ford-,marhey, on ?Wednesday. morning last,' about
four 'o'ciock, by Theruas-Knighi, a lOterrnao) she
Was taken to ,iyIK at. the :Watermau's
.Arms,
*here she was' recovered ; , great distress appeared to
have been the c:iUse of an attempt to commit sui.!
cide. Otters of. Sr. Martin's P4riSh"have
inanely taken her under their care:

Th.E. EXPEDITION.

jilt following interesting particulars ave given lu
a private letter received by the last cotweyance :
On Saturday.. the loth, Of September,- fourteen
of the Danish Line-of,battle Ships had tuoved out
of the harbour; and were lying in Copenhagen
Roads, having nearly completed their lading so 'as
to be ready to sail ; and it was expe6ted that the
Waldemar would proceed immediately to England.
'This Ship was the first completed, and was equipped
by the PrinCe people. 'Every prize was
allotted to some particular Ship, and fitted under the
'immediate inspeaion of the Captain they were
• also Christened aCcording to the 'British Ship which
had the charge of their outfit—thus the Waldemar
wasp-better known, by the name
.of ". The Young
Prince of Woles,"—Lehristiap the Plith, was only
recognized by the English seamen under the title of
ne Young Pompee,--and the- crown Prince
Frederick, by that of " Young Mars;" though
the title was not quite appropriate) the arrange-
ment, however, produced a Competition„ bet Ween
the parent Ships, as to ,which of their offspring
.should be first brought to maturity; and the conse-
quence was, that in less than a week all the Ships
afloat had their yards across to the astonishment of •
the Daises; 'and those which were not brought out
into the J,loads were only employed in. taking in
stores to a certain depth, which could be more con--
'yen iently accomplished in the harbour.
It is estimated that there. will be brought away,
besideS all the Stores complete for the eighteen Sail
of the Line afloat, with, clothing for them and pro-
viiiens: for six. tenths, :as much timber, cordage,
masts, &c. as will build eight &len more Sail of the
LitsP, including the completion of those on the
stocks, which the carpenters of the Diitish Fleet
had alreadYtaken in hand. Of these Vessels, all
74's, One was pearly planked in, another was pint-
pktely framed, and a third nearly so. The first it
was Eleterwined to Olank up with deal so as to get
her launched without delay—the other two'Were to
:be taken to pieces, and the framing marked. the
timber is of the finest Dantiie oak, and remarkable
for its size and ctirvature.

It was imagined tit:Wile enemy Were iri want of
ammunition, from the slackness of 'their fire while
the mortar batteries were ere6ting; and the lip-
proacheS' going on ; but a magazine Qt. 3000 .bar-
rels. of powder was *Ltd in the arsenal,. This the
Danes pretended was the property of their East In-
dia Company, but not being able to substantiate the ,
claim, it was made a. prize of. A few days after
this decision was known, a Danish Soldier was
!ound lurking near the magazine with a lighted
match, and it was strongly suspected that his des,
Terate design was to haVe.blown up the magatine---
in constnuenee of this, therefore, the British took
possession, of an additional work Which'protected
thia.,magazine, and which was not ceded to them in
the tir:it instance.

Several shells and rockets fell into the Arsenal du-
ring the siege, but fortunate, as the event has turned
out, missed all the buildings; ships, and timber piles„
one shell excepted, which sunk a merchant vessel in
the harbour, and, strange to say, his vessel happen-
ed to be an English one, and hlmost the only English
vessel in the place. •

We have ascertained that in the quarter of the
town surrounding the Great Church, whiela was
burnt, there are many ' streets in which not a Ringl6
house is left standing : in this part the. Danes ac-
.knowledge there were 3t a houses demolished; be-
sides the detached fires which happened in every part
cf the town, in the suburbs, the rope-walk, and an
immense timber yard, more than a quarter of a mile
in length. In fats, few houses are to be seen which
do not exhibit the.marks of shells, splinters, or shot;
'and the Danes themselves have declared, that every
house hit by a rocket, was inevitably. .burnt ; the ac-
count they give of the etfe4t of this Weapon is, that
it pierces the roof, and through one or more of the
flours ; in a few seconds afterwards the suffocating
smoke produced by the burning matter prevents the
possibility of any attempt to extinguish-. it, or to save
the building, .which in a few minutes, is completely •
on fire. •

The 'unfortunate Gen,. }NY MAN is abused by all
parties in the city ; by the better classes for neither
taking nor enforcing any precaution against . the ef•
fleas of the bombardment, and by the mob; for sur-
rendering at all ; and so much. were the sailors en-
raged at the Capitulation, that they beset his head-
quarters, and the guard was, obliged to fire upon
theM ; nor were they,diipersed till manS,, lives were
lost. Our troops were.astonished in the night at this
firing of musketry.

fiicensiOrilvhAer, the ,fire- ...volk-s of rlvoli.w.ta ict Of',
the rockets scarcely seemed to
.rile from the earth
Paris with its 'lamps, appeared a' plain studded
withluminous spots.. Forty mina es afteriny-de,
yarture I !attained an elevation of, e2ou .fathotus.;
the thermometer fell three degrees below 0.. My
balloon dilated considerably as it passed thriitigh a
cloud, hi which the light's' lost their brilliancy,.
seemed ready to be extinguished. It Was as urgent
to give vent to the hydrogen gas, dilated to such a
degree as to threaten-to.burst the balloon, as it was
'interesting to Calle& some of the air of tills region.
Both these operations I performed at once, without
difficulty; and.the emission of the gas bronght me
to a milder region.
At tweNe o'clock, I was only six hundred fathoms
from the earth, anti beard the barking of dogs. A
quartet-of an hour afterwards, I lost sight of all:the
lights on the earth, grew extremely cold, and could
no longer perceive the stais,,"douhtleis 'on account of
the clouds.

.At one 'in the morning, the cold still continuirig,
.1 was carried to a higher elevation ; the hydrogen
gas again eXpanded. About two, I.perceived the
stirs,: and saw several Meteors dancing about my
balloon, but at such a distance, :as not to give me
Any alarm.
At half after two, the day began to dawn with
me, apd having again descended, I perceived the
earth, .which I had not before seen since my de-
parture.
At a quarter to three, I heard country people
Speaking, and remarking the
,illumination of my
ballodn.. Having asked them, they .informed nie
that I: was over the department of L'Aisne. •
The sup gradually approaching, afforded tne„ at
halt-past three, the magnificent spe6tatle, of his
rising above an 'ocean ~of clouds. The warmth of
his rays wring on tile balloon; ..the .hydro Sen, gas
again expanded ;, the atmospheric air became more
ratified, while there was nothing to ..dd to the Om:-
tity of the counterbalancing weight. The conse-
quence, was a new aseens;on,. during which I was:
tossed about-bet Ween Rheims, and Chalons, apd
carried at four O'clock to an elevation of more than
bOoo-fathoms,:therd, wider a' Maghificent sky and
a resplendent _sun,. I experienced: a cold of ten de.!
grees. The balloon dilated mach more considetibly
than it had yet.done.' The temperature was instill-
portable; tormented by cold, hunger, and a dispost.
ikm to sleep, ir resOlved In descend, in an obilljue
direetien, which brought II to the ground in the
connutine of Courmelois, near the Banks of the
live 'leagues from Rheitifs, not far from
Loges, and 45 leagues from Patin, after a voyage of
seven houts,and. a. ,
The air colle6ted forty minutes after my depar-
ture, in a cloud, in which the lights lost their bril-
liancy, and -seemed on the point of going out, pre-
sented,
on analysis, no remarkable. difference
.from
the air taken on the surface of the earth. There was
only:a very small additional Onion of carbonic acid,
but not sufficient to produce any change in the
state of my lights; It was nothing but Ate density
of the clouds, ready to be converted into rain, that
diminished their brilliancy. Though -I was carried,
at four o'cloCk, to the height of more than throe
thou Sand fathoms; my head was ndt so swollen. but
that I could put. oh, my hat ; on the contrary, I felt
such a pressure 'upon the temples and jaws, as to
produce pain. The sun, at that elevation, lost none
of his resplendeneej• I never beheld that luminary
so brilliant, and the loadstonp lost none of its. mag-
netic virtues. Thei falls the system invented by
'M. Robertson, a few years since, and already dis-
Credited br teason ; thus the story of swollen heads,
of air without oxygen, eolleaed by a living being;
of the sun without resplendence ; of the loadstone
without virtue ; of matter without gravity ; of the
moon the colour of blood ; and of all the wonderful
things invented by the same Aeronaut, can, in fa-
ture,.find apiece only in the wretched rhaPsodies.of
the celebrated Kotzebue.

(Signed)

GAnNEIIIN.

The following Description of the celebrated subterraheous
Temple at:New Grange, near Slane, in Ireland, is given
by Sr IticitAkti HOAR a; Bart. to whom. the Literary
World is much irulebted for several highly valuable Pro-
.duttions. . _

. " Its outward appearance is that of a large earthern
tumutus, similar to those we see so frequently on the
chalky hills of Wiltshire and norsetsbire, but not so
neat and uniform in its outline; it differs, however,
from them, in having beep- surrounded. by huge
unshapen stones, erected in the same state as they
were taken from their native quarry ; some Of which
still rethain in their original-position; • It differs also
froth the generality of them in the West of England,
by,containing under its vet aunt surface, a subter-
Taneons temple, constructed of the rudest materials,
and .certainly of the highest antiquity. Dr. Led-
with infolins Us, that it was discovered in the year
tigg, by a Mr. Campbell, who resided in the village
of New Grange; who observing stones uoder the
green sod,' carried much of them away, and* length
arrived at a broadtarstone that coveted the mouth of
'the gallery.' • . •
" Through this entrance we ventured into the
artificial cavern, having previously sent in a labouring
man, with candles. For a short space the entrance is
so low, that we could only gain admittance by crawl-
ing along on • our bellies; but after passing under
one of the side stones, that has fallen across the pas-
sage, the avenuelaecomes sufficiently high.to admit
a parson at his full Iseiglaf. The area of tbis building
resembles the upper pert taf. a cross, as the avenue
does the stem;,, there are.thrge recesses, one facing,
the avenue or gallery, and one on each side ; in the
ono to the right is a large stone vase, which - anti- ,
qnariea have denominated a Todhason.,:..it is Ent!ti-
noised as haying its sides fiuted, )4'4 I„cotfid' not dis--
linguists any workmanship of the kind I obsciee-d,
however, a singularity in it; which is soevideat, that
I am surprised it did not arrest the attelition 6f Tot-
tiler travellers and Writers, Within the excavated
Tart of this large bason, are two circular cayirici,
along side of each wirer, about the size of a child's
i• head; several.also dale rude stones 'composing this
,• Teoe-:ss, are decorated with.a variety of ciivices, drat-
-tar, zigzag,' and diamond shaped some of the titter
pattern- seem to bear the marks of superior woit-
thanship ..tiqsares
~heing indented, Alany'of
the stones on each side of the alit have similar rode
marks upon .thein,. and me 017 them-has spiral zig-
zags. Some: Otiparies- ,liave, carried their zeal

to fitn,, as to A-i'or.er—lisll44_o7,:::7,7ll/47.t.
vvhicl) .they have e,ttrit..uted to the riKenicia•,.o
ivhilst others bareAelidminatt!d• theni U; ham characf
tetA -: those' incti-ks which I have-observ,:d on many ' •
of the stones, bore vel Ettln re:ternblatrue to letters;
gteat_sitnitarityt to tile ore ments 1 bate found
on the ancient Bridsh urns discoered . under out
taraalf izl Wiltshire. I ankinclined therefore to at!
tribute this•sirigulAc, temple ,to some of the Celtic, or
Belgic tribes; who poured in upon us from the Con.
tinent of Gaul, and peopled ENtand, together with
Wales, Scotland, and Ireland.

•
" In the opposite recess, there aie the fragthento
of another rock basort ; ahl some iutbors
(though, I believe, wirhout much foundation), that
the centre recess . contains. a third vage; The
Cohstruation of the 'dome demands noiire. The
avenue& gallery; leading to the area, is termed
large uptight stones, pitched perpendictilarly in a Ns*
on-each side,. and supporting the flat stones that
forth the rOof ; this covering .riSeit graduaaly till it
reaches the doMe, which is not (like our moderti
ctipolas) farmed by key stones". converging to a
.centre, but after. the manner of our staircac.es, each
long stone projeaing a little beyond the end of that
immediately beneath it ; andqt large flat stone tiutk•i.
ing the cove of the centre. The tallest*. of the stones*
forming the adit to the sacellunt, as represenied is
the plate which serves as a frontispiece to
.my
work, is seven feet six inches in height : its coin.
pinion on the opposite side, is about sevett'fi..et ; the,
outward; surface of the rock bacon is about three
feet . six inches long, and three feet two inches
deep."-