The Sun.
London, England, 1809-09-12 00:00:00

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P • The Architeo has founded his Model on iiiP4
finest specimen of the DoriC, from
,the rog
Athens', the grapa temple:dt
the Acropolis, Castle of Athens.. The dirteit
Sioris df the inferior exceed in size: that eche for Mer
house. Tito)l-m differs from those hitherto built;
in being nearer to the circle. The boxes have nit
anticharnber. • There are three • circles of boke:;.;
'with a row of side-boxes on each side aboVe them;
on a level with the first gallery. The upper side
boxes are without roof or canopy. lintnediattly:
behind them are the
.slips, then- fronts forming a
perpendicular line with the back of the upper. side
boxes; The tipper gallery, in the centre; ranges Whit
the fronts of the slips, the whole assuming the cir;
cular form, and upholding- a range of moderately
sized arches, which support the circular cieling.==4,
The, upper 'gallery is divided into separate compact= •
ments of seats adapted to the arches; through Which
this elevated portion of the' audi .ence roust see t tie.
play. The cieliug is painted to resemble a cupola,
in square compartments, in a light 'relief: the.orna4
mewed pannels are of a greyish ground, with
wreaths, honey-suckles, &c. in gold. The bok
fronts are lierpendicular. The ornaments are painted
on'canvas, and fixed on the fronts. Each cncle is
supported by slender reeded pillars, in burnished
gold. The seats are covered with light blue.- The
stage, in heighlt, breadth, and especially in depth, is
of admirable dimensions. No boxes, except those
over the side doors, are.suffered to intrude Upon the
proscenium. On each side of the proscenium are twc;
lofty pillars, in Scatiogia, with light gilt capitals, be-
tween which are the
,stage doors, Managers' boxes,
&c. Theses support an arch, the segment of a circle;
the soffit painted in light relief,' from which -de-
scends the crimson drapery over the curtain. 41.bove,
is a bold and simple entablature, with the Itoyal
Arms, (the, Supporters couchant,) restihg, on its
centre. In each spandrel of the arch is an emble-
matical,antique celestial figure, holding the wreath,
torch, &c. :excellently executed in relief. The en-
tablature deVices, and the whole frontispiece, are in
the same light relievoaS the cupola,
The whole will be lighted by lustres (not lamps)
of the most elegant descuiptioti!.."
The chief entrance to the boxes is under the portico
in Boir%street. On the left of the vestibule is the
grand stair-case, which, with its landing, forms the
central third part. of a hall, divided lengthways by
two rows of insulated lonic columns, in porphyry,
-leading to the anti-room; with porphyrypilasters, in
which is to by placed a figure of SHAZSPEARE: The
doors on the right open into a grand saloon, or box=
lobby, which is ornamented in a similar style; and
appears like-air antique temple. 'Mete is an inferior,
but handsome entrance for Covent,-Garden, by a
stair-case with .a &ruble
.flight. The third circle of
boxes (that under the first gallery) 'twenty-eight in
number, is enclusively assigned to private subscribers,
Who have a private entrance and stair-case. These
boxes are separated by close partitions, and the en,
trance to each is from the corridor through a close
square atal-chamber, 'one belonging to each private
box„, somewhat less than the box itself in depth.--=
The doors of these anti-chambers, and of all the
boxes throughout, are of mahogany. The saloon
attached to this circle is in the same Style as the pub-
lic sateen, lint finished with a beautiful. kind of nerd
antique, insiead of porphyry. The royal entrance is
by the open court troto Hart•street, which will ad-
mit the royal carriages to the door of the private
stair-case to the apartments from his Majesty.

THE THEATRE.--The Opera of Artaxerxes., com-
pressed into two ads, was last night periormed •at
the Lyceum, for the Benefit of Mrs. MOUNTAIN.
The Performers sat in the manner usual at the Ora-
torios. .Mrs. BILLINGTON on this occasion came
forward to sustain the part of Illandane. She was
received by- a crowded audience with the warmest
applause at her entrance, and this applause was re.
peated with equal zeal on every air she sung. Some
of the audience vehemently exclaimed, " well done
Old England!" Most of her airs were encot ed, and
were given in- the most impressive, scientific, and
beautiful style. Mrs. MOUNTAIN, PHILIPS, and
Hoax, supported the rest of the charaders with
great ability. The Princess of WALES, and a con.
siderable numb3r of the fashionables, were present.
The Patentee of the Theatre-Royal, Dublin, has
obtained a patent also for a summer Theatre there,
to be erected near Sackville-street, and to be called
the Theatre-Royal, Sackville-street. It is to be on a
small but elegant scale.

Her MAJESTY and the PRINCESSES have signified
their intention to Mr. HARRIS and Mr. KEMBLE of
visiting Covent• Garden Theatre in the course of the
present week. The visit is to be made in the even:-
ing, and the Theatre is to be lighted up On the cc-
chsion.

A grand pedestrian match of 20 miles, for 200
guineas, was performed yesterday morning on the
Bagshot-road, on turf, between a professed amateur
of .the name of Larcher, and a .Mr. Bishop. The bet-
ting was 6to 4 on Mr. Larcher at starting. The
competitors, who backed themselves, jogged on
together seven and a half miles in the first hour,
when the favourite made play, and did eight. mi;eg
in the second hour, and was a quarter of a mile a-
head ; he continued so until the end of the race, and
it was performed in two hours and a half.

Two officeri of, the names of Moore and Kemp
met to fight a duel, at six o'clock yesterday morn-
ing, in the fields between Highgate and Hampstead,
in consequence of a family dispute, but information
having been given of their designs, they.were pre-
vented from accomplishing the object of their meet-
ing, after having measured paces, by two officers,
who apprehended them, and they were held in pro-
per sureties to keep the peace.

A Coroner's Inquest sat on Saturday at Knights•
bridge,• on the body of a genteel young man, whose
name turned out to be Shatter, which was foutid
suspended from a tree in the Park on Friday morn►
111 g. The deceased was owned at the inquest by
,his brother; and it appeared that he had misapplied
some money belonging to his 'employrr, which had
caused such a depression on his mind as occasioned
him to commit suicide.

A drummer, belonging to the East Kent Militia,
quartered'at 13iddenden, sold his wile hist week for
the sum of five shillings to a corporal of the satin
regiment.

POETRY.

TALAVERA,

BY J. (INC,

A 7RIVATE IN THE RENFREW MILITIA.

Britons, anither laurel leaf

Plays on tht wreath of yonder Chief ;
Viaor, darkening in his grief,
Luoks back (4q Talavera,

He saw his Eagles, hapless things.
-Wi' bluidy heAls and di ppet wings;
He SIW the British Lion's springs,
And lied frae talavera.

Though Wisdom form'd his b.tttic-line,
Aid gaed his thiclening coluinhs shine;
Briton—superior ski!{ was thine,
It shone on Talavera.

The hills laugh, at the rashing rain;
The rock defies the roarinz main;
So Victor's hosts advant:'d in vain;
They fell on Talavera.

"invincible is Gallia's host l"
Was once Napoleon's thoughtless boast;
But al, ! the magic spell is lost,
Dissolv'clon Talavera.

Egypt still thunders in his ears ;
The roar o' Maida:s field he hears;
r'Osv fame to British valUur rears

A stone on 'Talavera.

U ye, %%ha fell in days o' yore,
Look up frae 'mong your lionourd gore;
See—Vidor two to one and more,
Retreats frae Talavera,

Joseph beheld the spreading woe ;
Saw the red-streams o' battle flow ;
Ills trembling heart many a throe
Was rent on Talavera.

But Anglia sings her hero's praise;
The pipe-notes swell on Scotia's braes ;
rae Erin's harpiteroic lays
Are heard o' Talavera.

Private letters from Cadiz state, that as.-soon as the
retreat of Lord WELL;Ting,.and the causes which
rendered it indispensably necessary, 'were-known at
Seville, Lord WELLESLEY arplied to the Junta, and
made so forcible a representation to them of the im-
mediate urgency of -resorting to vigorous and ef-
feaual means of furnishing the combined armies
with means of transport, provisions, &c. &c.. that
his Excellency prevailed upon them to put all the
horses,. mules, carriages, &c. in Seville in. requisi•
tion, not excepting those belonging' .to the Junta
themselves; and that his example might strengthen
and confirm his advice, his Excellency began .by or-
dering off his own carriages.and horses, and every
thing of the sort he had, at. his disposal. •

EXTRACTS .OF A LETTER FROM CADIZ, DATED

A GU 2h.

" We have aixoutits kie, that an Austrian mes-
senger has arrived at Gibraltar, on his way to Se.viile.
The merchants of this pia( e have •drawn up a Peti-
tion to the Junta, praying that they may he allowed
to export from. Cadiz to the Spanish Settlements,
cotton goods of every description.. Marquis Welles-
ley undertook to present the Petition, and the best
results are calculated upon. The trade. here conti-
nues pretty brisk.
" Since the arrival of-Marquis Wellesley at Se-
ville, he has been unceasing in his endeavours to
cure the evident decrepitude of the Junta, to whom
a proposition has been made to exalt the Archbishop
of Toledo to , the Regency of the Kingdom. It is
also understood that the whole of the Junta (with the
exception of four or five of the Members) are imme-
diately to be removed. The people of .Spain are at-
tached to their country,- but they know they have
been frequently betrayed by their Government, and
are highly rejoiced that their Councils are to be
purged of its suspected members.
AUG. 23.—The battle of Talavera was glorious
to the Briiish•troops and to the few Spanish regi-
men ts• engaged ; but I am sorry to say it has not been
followed with those favourable results which we had
just reason.to expert. Many-causes had prevented this
.blow from being followed up:. Among others, a want
of provisions, limn the gross misconduct in the Com-
missary Department of the Spaniards, had been most
severely felt. A want•of energy prevails in every
branchtof the aE.tual Spanish .Government. This is
almost inseparable from ,an unwieldy executive
power composed 'of thirty-six individuals. A change,
I apprehend, will soon take place, and the Junta,
which has entirely lost the confidence of the nation,.
will probably give place to a Regency. There may be
still time,by a new organization of the Spanish armies,
and other energetic measures, to give a favourable
direa ion to. that' enthusiasm and patriotic spirit
w hich you may be assured still exists unabated
among the people."

At seven o'clock on Friday night the 3d regiment
of Guards was mustered, and about 600 of the ablest
men were dtanghted, who were ordered to be in rea-
diness to march. At the barrack in Portman-street,
another draught was mace at the same time, and bot h
detachments marched on Saturday morning. Another
draught has been mule from the 2d regiment guar.
tered in Westminster. The brigade of Guards, oil
their return from Flushing,.and several other corps,
ha►-e the same destination.

Thirteen French prisoners made their escape from
the Nntlter prison-ship, in Hamoaze,. on Stlmlay
se.-night, by ct...itintr, their way -tnrough two decks
into the' hold, and from the lower port=holes
swimming ashore ;. some parties crf marines, how-
ever, having been sent in pursuit, five of them were
retaken., and the capture of the remaining eight was
confidently expeeied.
. The Marquis of HUNTLEY and several other Offi-
cerS arrived in town yesterday from the Scheldt, and
almost the whole of the military force embarked in
the--.expedition (with the exception of- 15;000 lett
to garrison Flushing and the other towns of Wal-
cheren) are now either returned or on their way
!come.

POL

haNstox-Housz.—Yesterday two porters in the
employ of Mr. Openheime, a merchant, in Aldgate,
were examined on a charge of defratiding their mas-
ter of a quantity of sponge, arid other articles: The
prisoners were remanded for fucrther examination on
Thursday.
Two men were charged with obstruaing Edwards,
one of the City Officers; in the execution of,his duty.
The complainant endeavoured to execute a warrant
on a persori who ran into the Bull Inn, Bishopsgatc-
street, when a mob assembled to ob•trua him, and
behaved- in a riotous manner.' The defendants were
seleEted as the most a6Aive. One or'thern said in his
defence, that he only endeavoured to keep the mob
out of his mastet's yard, where he was packing
goods to go by the coach, and that he did not know
the officer. His master, Mr. Marsh, proprietor of
the Bud fin, also gave him a good chara&er, and he
was discharged. The other defendant stated that he
did not know the officer, and as his conduct was
cot very flagrant, he, was dismissed with suitable ad-
vice.

THAMES POLICE OFFICE. Yesterday Mary•
Trfier, only t3_ years of age, was charged with steal-
ing a horse and cart on Saturday forenoon, !oat of
Spitalfields Market, the pmperty of Elizabeth Tho-
mas, dealer in fruit and green-grocery, with which it
was loaded, when she drove it to Scott's-fields,
Hackney-road, where she unharnessed the horse,.
and led it to some s!reet in Clerkenwell, and there
sold it for a mere trifle, and is supposed to have been
slaughtered, and sold for dog's meat; before this
time, by the testimony of several respectable wit-
nesses. 'The faCt was established against her, add she
was fully committed for trial. •

The following melancholy accident happened' in
the Strand yesterday :—As tire carriage of Mr.
arigne, 'of Wimpoleetreet, was passing-along at a
qiiick rate, the axletree broke, and one of the lore-
wheels flew before the carriage: the coachman re-
ceived a violent tall on the pavement, but fortunate-
ly no bones were broken. The horses started off at,
full speed with two Gentlemen in the carriage, and
they were not stopped until they got to Cockspur-
street, when the pole of the carria?e, penetrated a
hackney coach. A gig was overturned' by the carriage
with ,two men in it, but they did not receive any
material injury. Mr. Broome's carriage rested forward,
near to the ground, without over-turning , and one
of the Gentlemen, whose name we under;tand .to be
MosS, received some injury in the allele, in jump-
ing out. .
Sunday evening, about eight o'clock, as Mr. Wi
therspoon, of Hackney, .was returning- home in his
one horse chaise, accompanied by another Gentle-
man, from Epping-forest, the animal beeame res-
tive near Lea .bridge, and ran the carriage on
.4 bank
by the road-side, when it was overturned and near-
ly broken to pieces, by which both gentlemen were
very much bruised.. They were attended by a Gen-
tleeian of the Jaculty, and were ceeveyed to their
respective bodies in a coach; they are both in a fair
Way of deitma.well. .
On Thurallay .se'nnight the Speedwell barge, of
London, T. CLEWER,master, who had been taking
in fir timber at Little Hampton, and sailed from
thence on Thursday from London, had proceeded as
far as Cuckmeres, where he was detained in a calm;
and on Tuesday afternoon,- it came on to blow strong
from the squth, with a heavy, swell which increased
so fast, that about seven o'clock in the evening, the
crew, consisting of the Master, Mate, the Mate's
wife and daughter, and one boy, got into the boat,
and stood for the shore. They had not left the ves-
sel but a short distance when the boat upset, and the
Master, the Mate's wife, and his daughter, were un-
fortunately drowned. The Mate and boy were
saved by two persons, who saw the boat upset. Af-
ter the Mate was taken from the water, a most me-
lancholy spectacle presented—his wife and daughter
were still alive, .and floating on the water, close in
with the shore ; he hastened to their assistance, and
had caught hold of the cloaths of the girl, but from
his exhausted state he let go and she perished. The
Captain was washed ashore in about five minutes
after he sunk, but the vital spark was gone; 'he has
left a wife and eight children to lament his loss.—
' About eight o'clock in the evening the cable broke,
and the vessel drifted ashore, and is supposed to have
sustained but little damage.
We are sorry to state that the fine new rope-
house at Malta, took fire on Sunday, the gth of
Jtily, at about half-past seven in the morning, and in
less than ten minutes it was in flames from one end
to the other. The conflagration threatened destruc-
tion to every part of the dock-yard, but by the
prompt exertions of the navy and army (from whom
there was immediate .assistance,) it was kept under, •
and almost extinguished by one o'clock at noon,
with the loss only of the ropery and pitch store. The
flames were only Orx feet from the hemp stores; had
- they taken fire; every thing in the yard must have
been destroyed.
The. Clover Crops require particular attention at
present, both from their abundance, and from the
precarious state of the weather; and the following pre-
Cautions, we are assured; will be found of great uti-
lity :—Let the clover be mown when the sun shines,.
and, if possible, not after a strong dew in the morn-
ing, or rain during the night. Instead of letting
the swathes lie flat on the ground, in a few hours
after they are cut, or before the evening, if the wea-
ther continue fair, let them with- a fork or rake be
raised gently, so as to seem to stand up, but not to
be turned either then or at a fellowing period, unless
they receive much wet. By this method the colour
of.the clover and its nutritious properties will be of-,
teetually . preserved; without this caution 'great in-
jury will be soon sustained.
The harvest, in the neighbourhood of Durham,
has now become general. The wheat crops appear'
very luxuriant, and, notwithstanding the many
alarming thunder-storms and heavy torrents of rain
and sail which have fallen, if tine weather continues,
the produce will be exceedingly bountiful.
The Prisoners in
.the different Compters of the
.City and in the prisons of Middlesex will be removed
to Newgate on Thursday, to take their trials at the
ensuing Sessions, at the Old Bailey, which will com-
mence on the 20th instant.

The following Address is taken from a Madras
Newspaper, and we -give it a place, under the im-
pression that-it will be gratifying to our Readers to
know the high sense of respect and esteem which
all ranks and classes of men of the Madras Presi-
depcy entertained for Lieutenant-General Macdowall,
their Commander in Chief.

On TueSday last a Deputation of the Subscribers
to a Service of Plate, to be presented to Lieutenant-Ge-
neral waited on his Excellency at the
Commander in Chief's house in the Fort, when Mr.
Roebnck, the Chairman of the Committee delivered
himself in the following terms :

Fort St. George, 20th Jan. 24, 1808,
"
" Wr.e. imve the honour to announce to you, that
we hive tx•en appointed by a considerable -number of
Gentlemen to present to you the following Resolu-
tions, at a numerous Meeting of the Gentlemen un-
der the Presidency of Madras, held in Fort Saint
George, the 2d of Jan. 1809,"