The Sun.
London, England, 1823-09-11 00:00:00

SAILING MATCH.

The Sailing Match for a Silver Cup, which remained unde-
cided an Tuesday, was repeated yesterday by the same plea-
sure vessels. They started again from Illarkfriars to mil to
AVandaworth Meadows, and back to Cumberland °anions.
The Waterloo took the lead going up, but the Spitfire was the
first boat back, and consequently she Won the prize. The For-
titude was second. The match on this occasion was fairly de-
cided, and the Cup given to the winner.

ENGLISH OPERA IlousE,The title of the
Musical Farce brought forward last night,
Dun a Day, is so ominous to the Prqiessors of
the Pen that Criticism must deliver its continents
with fear and trembling. The plot consists of
some whimsical and entertaining perplexities, but
we have only room for a brief notice. Young
Rake& (BARER) is deeply In debt, and his only
act of prudence is to fall in love with Caroline
(Miss Cana), a Lady of Fortune. Ile is closely
besieged by creditors, but his servant, Shirk
(W. CHAPMAN), has ingeniously arranged them
in such a manner that each of them confines his
visit to a particular day. The most clamorous,
obstinate, and persevering of the Duns is Plush,
a tailor (13Airrixv), who contrives to get into, the
house, and see Young Bak ely. The only expedient
left is to get Plush to assume the part of Old Rakeiy,
to satisfy Caroline, who will not marry her lover
without the consent of his fattier. The attempts
of the tailor to appear the gentleman, and his con-
stant reference to Isis own business, constitute
some of the most diverting parts of this enter-
taining Farce. At length, after some ludicrous
mistakes and well-managed equivoque, Old
itakely (towsorros) arrives in town, and
agrees to pay all his son's debts, except that of
Plush, who has unluckily written a mock con-
tract, under the assumed character of Old itakely,
upon the back of a eognovit, which the latter,
who had been consulted as a supposed attorney,
tears, and the poor tailor is the only creditor
who retires unpaid. This is the, main-plot, but
there is an under-plot, one relating to this ,
of Shirk and Frill (Mrs. WziPPAKT),
Cant to Caroline. Such is a brief account of
a very diverting piece, which derived great
support from the Performers in general, but par-
ticularly from Mr. BARTLEY, in the tailor, whose
awkward attempts to assume the gentleman, and
his perpetual recurrence to the technical, of his
calling, were irresistibly laughable. The piece
was announced by Mr. BARTLUY for te-litorrow
in the following terms, which were received with
warm and unanimous assent Ladies and
Gentlemen, if you will honour it by youraccept-
ance, I , will present my bill again on Friday
night." We have not heard who is the author,
but from the success of his piece, it is probable
that he will soon be deterre.

OLD BAILEY—(ruts DAY).

RANK FORGERIES.
John Smith was placed at the bar, charged
on five several indictments with having uttered
several 5/. notes, purporting to be of the Go.
vernor and Company of the Bank of England.
On being asked what was his plea to the in-
dictments, the prisoner, with extreme dej ,ection
pleaded " Guilty."
The RECORDEIt—I hope you will not persist
in your present determination, because, if you do,
sentence of Death must be passed upon you, And, in
all probability, the only public apology you can
make will be by that sentence being curried into
execution; therefore let mu advise you to purstie
a different determination.

Prisouer—l am aware of my awful, situation;
and that 1 stand on the brink of an awful eter-
nity
; therefore I fear to utter a falsehood.
mercy cannot be extended here, I hope to receive
it from my Creator.
RECORDER—Let it stand until to-morrow, that
the prisoner may have time to consider.
Prisoner—My Lord, it is of no use, my mind
is made up to plead as 1 have done.—The pri-
saner was then removed to await the arrival of
the Judges.
James Hughes was found guilty of a high-
way robbery in Whiteehapel. A witness in his
behalf was committed for wilful and corrupt
perjury.

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On the Judge coming into Court, Smith was
again placed at the bar, and repeated his plea
of guilty.

Mr. Aaron GRAUMC—Itave you considered
this, young man I You must not imagine that
public justice is in any way palliated by that
plea, which cannot at all remove the weight of
quilt from you; and 1 understand that there are
not any circumstances which will lead tne to sup-
pose the Royal Clemency will be exercised to-
wards you.

Mr. I..tw said he had applied on the subject of
the prisoner's plea to the Governors of the Bank,
and had ascertained they could not, under the cir-
cumstances, recommend the prisoner to mercy.
The Prisoner replied, if Government would
not grant mercy towards him, he could only look
for it hereafter, and let the result be what it
may, he was determined that he should plead no-
thing else but" Guilty."
The verdict was then recorded, and the pri-
soner was removed.
James Clark, aged 26, and John Down, aged
29, were put to the bar on the charge of the rob.
bery of Colonel Meynich, of the Guards, of pro.
perty to the amount of 1,0001.

• MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.
Owing to the Grand . Jury having been engaged in finding
bills of indictment to be tried at the Old Bailey. no business
.was transacted at the Sessions House Yesterday, but they were
adjourned till this funning at 10 o'clock.