The Sun.
London, England, 1824-12-08 00:00:00

SPARRING.

George Cooper's Benefit took place at the Fives' Court yes-
terday. The promise of the appearance of Josh Hudson and
Cannon, and the exhibition between Cooper and Jem Ward,
produced a btrper.
After some minor sets-to, Acton and Bitton mounted the
stage, and did their beat very satisfactorily.
bhelton and Oliver followed next, and made excellent sport.
Aarontilea theatrical expression.
Randal and Holt made some tine movements, but they
.were
too methodically arranged, and intended rather to excite a
clanna'rnineythegained unbounded applause:—
their measurement was precise, their science of first-rate order,
and give and take was the order of the bout. We have seldom
seen a better plucked exhibition.
Harry Harmer and Cy. Davis gave some fine pugilistic traits,
and were right to please.
The Commander of the milling forces appointed.the grand
set-to hetween.Ward and Cooperlast ; the patricians upon the
tip-toe of expectation to witness it. It afforded the greatest
trial, and both their exertions were crowned with general ap.
plause. Each had best alternately ; but Ward hits out farthest
but he was generally avoided by the oscillation of Cooper's head
and in the. antes Belcher style. No bout ever gave more ge-
tga' satisfaction.
A. subscription was worked for Sexoggins, who had his leg
torn by a buffer in a fight with Lenny, and by which the sturdy
veteran will be laid up for some time. It was well supported.
Josh Hudson slimed, but Cannon was not there. Josh looks
well, and has entered upon his provender crib in Leadenhall
:Market.
Robert Baldwin challenged any man in England of twelve
stone and a half for 100 sovereigns, and the company left
highly sweet upon themselves.

A THEATRICAL. ABUSE.—On a benefit night,
at a Provincial Theatre, many of the actor's
friends were admitted by a private entrance be-
fore the doors were opened. An Irishman, who,
on getting in at the usual hour, found all the
best seats taken, exclaimed, in great wrath, " It
is a shame that they should fill the house in this
manner, before any bo4y get: in."

NEW COURT, OLD BAILEY.

SENTENCES.

This morning the RECORDER took his seat on
the Bench, at ten o'clock, and soon after pro.
ceeded to pass the awful sentence of Death, On
the following capitally convicted individuals, viz.
hot Carthledge, Diary Ann Ryeroft, Charles Metzen, Wil-
liam Harrison, William Lilly, Hannah Harriot Burton, Eli.
zabeth Bosley, and Caroline Mullins (the two latter were in-
fants), for stealing goods in the dwelling-house. Levi Abrahams
for a burglary, and Robert Ball for willfully setting fire to a
dwelling.house. Six were ordered to be transported for
viz. G. Barton, H. Smith, W. Carroll, N. Clark, Mary Alul-
lins, and Jeffrey Olderfield. Three for 14 years, and 24 for 7
years.

A .great 'number were also sentenced to various periods of
impnsonment in the House of Correction, and kept to hard
Nbour, and 30 were discharged by proclamation.
Judgments were respited on Bridger Ledbitter, and live
others.

The Sessions then adjourned to the 14th Ju•
unary next.

MERCANTILE SHIPPING.

DEAL, DEC. 7.—Wind W.—Arrived fl.om the River and
remain the Palmyra, Lamb, for Bengal. Arrived the Burdon,
, from the westward.

POUTSMOUTII, DEC. 7.—Wind W. blowing fresh.—Ar-
rived from the Downs and remain the following outward-bound,
viz.:--Renewal, Cromartie •' John, Shand; Rees, Alexander;
Albino, Shadforth ; Orwell, Bryant ; Emerald, —; Comet,
M'Pherson ; and Irene, Gray. The Shipley transport was got
off the beach this morning. Several of the outward-bound
have put back, among which are the following, viz. :—Ewretta,
Volusia, Delaford, Asia Marlborough, Alfred, Elizabeth, St.
Anna, Cecrops, Merlin, Prince Regent, Simon Taylor, West.
brooke, Louisa, Whim, and Adamant.—No foreign arrivals.
PuirstouTit, DEC. 6.—Wind N.B. and W.—During the
whole of yesterday it blew strong from the can, till towards
noon to-day it got round again to the west, and is now
blowing very hard froth that quarter. All the outward-
bound vessels put to sea yesterday except the Cumpe.
titor, the crew of which vessel refused to proceed on
the voyage. The Colonist is expected to be got off
to-morrow or Wednesday. Attempts have been made to
float off the Raith, but without effect. The Percival must re.
main till next springs, exertions arc made to lighten her ; her
principal injury appears to be in her keel and quarter streaks ;
her copper is but little injured, and her upper works appear
firm ; with proper means she may he got oft next spring tides.
Much valuable goods arevrishing here for want of immediate
attention. The Louisa, llatyer, for Porto Rico, has put back.
The George the Third, Popplewell, for Jamaica, and the Bris.
tol, Clynus, have put in, from the Downs.
Fai.stotrrit, DEC. 6. -Wind S.W.—Two P.M.--Several
vessels outside are bearing up for the harbour, supposed to be
the outward-bound from Portsmouth and Plymouth. No
arrivals.

Livvitroot,, DEC. W:S.W., blowing hard.—
Arrived the (Bide, Pearce, from Wilmington ; Transit, Per.
guson, from Pugwash ; and the Eliza, —, from Cadiz,
with damage, bound to Dublin.
DOVER, DEC. 7.—A cutter from Jersey, loaded with apples,
reports having seen a great number of pipes of wine floating
about to the Westward of Beachy Head ; four of port wine she
took on board, but being so much loaded she could not receive
any more. Sailed the Monarch, Hayward, with passengers for
Calais.

The East India Company's ship General Harris was on
Tappanooly Bay the 22d of July.

CORN EXCHANGE, DEC. 8.

The quantities of Grain for sale today are good, except of
Oats, which still are only in limited supply. Prime Wheat
sells slowly at Monday's prices, but other qualities are very
dull, and rather lower. Barley is also heavy in disposal, nr;cl
looks downward. In Beans and Pease no alteration. Oats sell
slowly at Monday's prices.

Annivat.s.—English Wheat, B,soo—Barley, 4,000.—.
Oats, 3,Bo9—lrish Wheat, I,7oo—Oats, 2,550 quarters—Eng.
WI Flour, 10,000 sacks.

THE LATE FLooos.—Amongst the numerous,
melancholy accidents occasioned by the late floods, we are sorry
to record the following fatal catastrophe :—About five o'clock in
the evening of Tuesday last, Mr. Joseph Hooper, aged 28, and
his brother Robert, aged Ili, sons of Mr. Younger Ilooper, a very
old and respectable farmer, residing at Dymock, in this county,
accompanied by a boy, were on their return with a team and a
load of coal from the Forest of Dean. On reaching a part of the
road at Leddington, called Windcross, they found the water
very much out, and Joseph mounted the fore-horse; his brother
standing on the shafts, and the boy being on the top of the load,
and endeavoured in this way to pass through the current. They
had not proceeded far when one of the wheels of the waggon
got in contact with a post on the road-side, and it became ne.
cessary to dismount in order to extricate it. While about to
do this, the leading horse lost his footing owing to the depth of
the water and the strength of the current, and Joseph Hooper,
seeing their perilous situation, exclaimed, " Good God ! we
are all lost !" and at the same time called to his brother
to unhook the other horses from the thiller. Almost at
the same moment he fell from the back of the horse on
which he was riding, and was seen no more. The younger
brother, Robert, succeedvd in disengaging the horses : but
whilst so occupied, melancholy to relate, he was likewise carried
away by the velocity of the current, and, together with the four
valuable animals he had been trying to save, was swept
through a culvert', or tunnel, which at that part of the road
passes under the bed of the canal. Roth the brothers were
drowned without the possibility of assistance I The horses,
after being forced through the tunnel, regained their feetOod
passed over a meadow, but again getting into the brook they
also perished. The body of Robert was picked up the thilnwing
morning, about a quarter of a mile from the spot, and that of
the other unfortunate sufferer the same evening. Both were con.
veyed to the house of their brother, Mr. Younger Hooper, jun.,
of Pounds Farm, where an inquest was held, on Friday, be.
fore John Cooke, Esq., Coroner, and a verdict ot " A eciden-11
death" returned. It is needless to say, that do family are in a
state of the most distressing affliction. One, horse was saved
by a Mr. Elliott., who ventured his life in its 'rescue, by wading
in the water up to his chin. We hear, that on the same even
ing the above melancholy occurrence tosk place, three other
persons, two women and one maa, logs};, their lives by being
drowned in the overflowing waters heofeen Ledbury and Elos.
bury, but the particulars 9f the accident have not reached us.—
(Glacester Journal. )

ANOTHER SPRING GU., ACCIDENT IN SUF-
FOLK I l--On Wednesday last, as William Bray, the game.
keeper of Sir George Wornbelliof Stowlangtoft, in Suffolk,
was going his round, a hawk pissed over him, which he Ant
at and killed ; and, going to:pick it up, he come in contact
with the wire of a spring gun, when part of its contents was
lodged in his leg and ancle.- A surgeon was sent for, who ex.
tracted some of the shot, and hopes are entertained that he will
he able in a few weelut to resume his situation, and his gun
again !—(lsscv Herald.)
ROBBERIES ABOUT BIIISTOL.—So regular And
systematic has houiebreaking now become in this city and its
vicinity, that a week never passes without our being called
upon to record seine instances of the success with which the,
desperate gang of robbers now settled amongst us carry their
diabolical schemes into execution, defy the settiching eye of
the police, and set at nought the usual safeguards of defence. ,
On 'Wednesday night, Iteticliff.house, at Ashton, the rest.
dunce of Dowager Lady Smyth, was hi-Olsen open by similar
means with which Mr. Clayfleld and Mr. Sheppard 's houses
were entered; a strong lever, it. seems, is applied to the bottom
of the window-frame, and there are few of the common
fastenings which have been able to withstand the lifting
pressure which this instrument occasions. In this instance,
it seems, the villains had scaled the large court-gates, and
having forced the window, they set open all the liouseftloors
more securely to effect their retreat; they then quietly. ran-
sacked the whole range of rooms on the ground-floor, and took
away the plate, knives, and forks, &c. in common use ; pelisses,
&c. &c. ; and, no doubt with a view to set fire to the premises,
they stuck a candle against the wainscot, which they left burn-
ing. At Mr. Sheppard's, also, they Stuck a candle on a wooden
dresser, which was discovered burnt out. Thom repeated depre-
dations must surely arouse the situ to some effectual means of
foo
prevention anti defence. General associations, off'ering rewards
for apprehension, and paying the expencea of prosecution, will,
we are convinced, be alone effectual, anti, if properly set on
would,wea
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consultation, found a verdict the plaintilf.4o.
Damages 3001.

'TIE LONDON JOURNALS.

DA I LY
Extracts from Me Morning Papers) Dec. 8.

~TttE TI M ES.]
We have received, by way of Paris, a copy of
The Argos (a Buenos-Ayres paper) of the 17th
of September. It relates an affair of Bolivar's
vanguard, after crossing the Andes, towards the
end of June, but the statement is without date.
It of course has no reference to the battle of
Junin, which hippened ou the sth or 6th of
August. We are told that before the affair of
•'nuin, 500 infantry and 160 cavalry deserted the
Spanish and joined the Patriotic standard. This
battle took place at Acabamba; 4,500 of the
Spanish troops are said to have been engaged, and
General Monet is stated to have been wounded,
and taken prisoner. The same number of the
Argos details a naval victory which was gained
at Callao on the 6th of July by the Independ-
ents over the Spaniards, when Capt. Robertson,
accompanied with 125 men, in nine boats, suc-
ceeded in destroying or cutting out the President,
of 20 guns, and one or two more ships.

[NEW TIMEa.].
Our Renders must bast been disgusted at the
illiberal attack on Mr. Peel in the proceedings
of the Catholic Association ; and we cannot suffer
so despicable a measure of hostility to pass with-
out our indignant reprobation. We allude to a
story told by Mr. Shiel respecting a poor fisher-
man, who, when Mr. Peel was Secretary of State
for Ireland, had at the risk of his own life saved
six other persons from drowning. Nobody
who knows the Right Honourable Gentle-
man can for a moment doubt that an act of so
much heroism and humanity, by whomsoever
performed, would have met with his warmest
applause and ready remuneration. But the nar-
rator goes on to say that Mr. Peel heard it with
the most perfect non-chalance, and, after retiring
a short time into his office, re-appeared, and
asked his informant " whether the man was a
Protestant 1" Here the story breaks off; we are
not told that Mr. Peel did or did not reward the
man ; but the obvious insinuation is that he did
not, and that he withheld the merited approba-
tion of so intrepid an act solely because the man
was a Catholic. We have not the means of
knowing the exact circumstances of an occurrence
which, among the numerous claims on Mr. Peel's
official attention, may probably have escaped
even his own memory. But, from what we have
:seen of the Right Hon. Gentleman in the whole
course of his public life—from the constant
amenity of his disposition ; from the candour
even of his political opposition to the Catholics
themselves; and particularly from the sentiments
and feelings which he evinced in regard to
the gracious conduct of his Majesty during
the last Session of Parliament toward two Catho-
lic Noblemen, the Duke of Norfolk and Lord
Stafford—we do not hesitate to assert that the I
insinuation must be in substance altogether un-
founded. Indeed, upon the face of the story, the
question might be necessary for the very purpose
of benevolence. If the man was a Protestant,
he might be rewarded in one way and through
one channel ; if he was a Catholic, his reward
must necessarily perhaps be given in a different
way and through a different channel. But we
do not rest on this argument ; we rest on the
known character of the Right Hon. Gentle-
man for equity, for humanity, for generosity, for
honour—a character on which the base imputa.
tion thrown out by Mr. Shiel cannot for a moment
rest. Mr. Shiel is a Ploy-writer, an indifferent
one we admit ; but still he ought to know that in
the great drama of life, as well as on the stage,
the critic's rule is observed by every man of irate.
grity in the guidance of his own conduct—

-scrvetur ad imunt
Quails ah incepto processerit et sibi constet.
Mr. Peel would be almost miraculously inconsist-
ent with himself if Mr. Shiers insinuation were
substantially true.

[MORNING POST.]
" Down with the Catholic Association!"

"Down with the Papist Parliament ! "—" Down
with the Irish Insurgents !"—Such is the uni-
versal cry of Great Britain—such the unani-
mous wish of every loyal subject, every honest
man in the United Kingdom !—The proceedings
at the Aggregate Meeting in Dublin on Thursday
last, illustrate remarkably the character we have
uniformly given to the Catholic Association.—
Mr. Shkl compared the Protestants to Turks ;
and Mr. O'Conne it openly defied the Govern-
ment to interfere with the progress of the present
rebellion fn Ireland. Before the Association
was menaced (said he) the rent received weekly
amounted to 500t,since that it has been upwards of
10001. per week. And then, forsooth, if Podia.
meat dare molest the Associatiou, Aggregate
Meetings should be held in despite of King, Lords,
and Commons, every fortnight or every week !
The letter, too, which Mr. Eneas Macdonell,
in the capacity of " Confidential Agent" recently

addressed to us, has been blown upon by the
apel-street Congress as unworthy of their sanc-
tion, for its affected moderation ! Mr. O'Con-
nell, however, was extremely jocular upon
the present occasion. Besides several point-
ed compliments to us, he prophetically as-
sured the Meeting that Emancipation was at
band—and facetiously slandered every in-

dividual in the Empire-who has laboured to pro-
mote the welfare of Ireland-p-to instruct and
civilize the Irish Papists. Now, contrary to the
adage, we must inform this famous- 66 Leader,"
%hat, as a prophet, he hes no respect out of his
own country. He shall find, on the opening of
Parliament, both that the Association will be
put down, and every hope of 66 Emancipation "
tivashed. llave we not seen sufficiently plain)
since the reins were related on the Irish Papists,
how soon they would throw off all show of
allegiance were they free to follow their own im-
pulses, When did they commence, the present
outrages against Church and State—when did the
Romish Priests begin to insolently spirt their
venom at the most sacred feelings. Anti the most
valued rights of the Protestant Community

The very moment that the Legislature in its be-
neficence evinced a disposition to try whether the
Roman Catholics Were sufficiently tamed to have
their fetters partially loosened and lengthened.
—Let not the Association deceive itself or
its Constituents. The people of England
have rather too just a sense of their liberties and
happiness to throw them to be' trampled
on and torn. by a set of ferocious fanatics
let loose upon the country. Fortunately for the
Empire, just .enough freedom has been granted
the Papists to prove their real nature and designs.
What history suggested—what wisdom appre-
hended—a well-devised experiment has confirm-
ed. The Roman Catholics are unfit to partake
of the full enjoyment of the British Constitution;
and therefore they must continue excluded from
the power and honours its confers.

[MORNING CHRONICLE.]
We call the attention of our readers to an ar-
icle under the title " Extensive Robbery," which
shews how completely the respectable part of
the community are at the mercy of depreda.
tors in this country. The only thing that
astonishes us, is that, with such defective in-
stitutions, matters are not worse. That .a sta-
tioner should give 1,1001. to recover between
2,0001. and 3,0001. worth of stamps is extremely
natural, for a sacrifice of 1,1001. is better than
one of more than twice the amount. Ay, but to
compromise with thieves is to be more mindful
of private than the public good 1. So an indi-
vidual, instead of being protected by the public,
the great object of society being mutual protec-
tion, is to sacrifice his property for the pro.
tection of the public ! What drivelling t Those
who build on principles, which suppose in
individuals the preference of the general good
to their own, are hardly fit to be reasoned
with. What ought to be done, is to free
individuals from the trouble and expellee of
recovering property taken from them in violatiUn
of the law. An administrative organization,
adequate to the protection of the people, ought
to be appointed. One obvious appointment will
suggest itself to every one—that of public pro-
secutors, which every other civilized country
possesses.