The Sun.
London, England, 1812-10-31 00:00:00

LONDON FASHION:

FROM ACE:baMANN.bI.RETOSITORY OF ARTS;
FASIIIONSAiIUFACTURRS, &C.

FASHIONS FOR LADIES.

toENiNG ThRESS.--A white crape or mall mu'slin petticoat;
worn over white satin, finished rouncithe bottom with a ball
fringe of gold ; a trims in velvet or satin bodice, fortned so as
partial:y to expose the bosom and shonlders ; a short bishop's
sleeve, edged with ball-fringe, and ornamented with the
same round the bos)ni and ~lioulders. A short sash of shaded
riband, to correspond with the colour of the bodice, tied in
sho:t bows and ends in front of the figure. A shepherdess's
hat, compoSed of blended crimson velvet and white satin; a
cnrkd ostrich feather, placed entirely on one side, and
waving towards the back of the neck. The hair divided on
the foreheud,.and curled on each side, rather -lower than of
late. Treble neck-chain, and amulet of wrought gold; short
drop ear-rings, and him:clefs en .stiite: Crimson velvet or sa-
tin slippers, trimmed with gold rosettes or fringe. White
kid gloves, just avoiding the elbow'. Fan of white and silver
emimssed crape, or carved ivory. Occasional scarf of white
French silk, with embroidered aid and border.
PatustAN OPERA DREIS:—An evening or dinner robe of
white muslin, with short fancy sleeve, appliqued with lace,
and trimmed with a fall of the same article round the bosom.
A loose robe pelisse, of celestial blue satin or velvet,-trinimed
down each side and round the neck with a full swansdown
fur, and negligently conned the -centre of the bosom,
And' imperial helmet cap,. composed of blue veire!, onia-
mented `with a-silver bandeau and beads ; a full white ostrich,
feather waving tuWaiige-oni:tZ side. Necklace and fancy ear-
rings of pearl, or the blue-satin bead. SlippeFs Of blue velyA
or kid, with silver clasps or smail buckle. Gloves of primrose
kid.

AGRILCULTURAL RE-FORT fur OCTOEER.

The wet weather iri the early part of last
month has been somewhat unfavourable to the
latter harvest : a f6r.fields of lath sown barley
and oats have been exposed to the rains and
considerable breadths of beans, in consequence of
the large leaf and great quantity of sap produced
by the late- fruitful season, required much field-
room before they were fit for_the cart. These are
impressive lessons to farmerS, and inculcate the
benefit of an early seed-time.
The late rains have beenpropitious to the wheat
sowing, which•is extending to greater breadth 4
than can be recollected for many years. The new
wkeats yield well to the flail and of the finest
quality : in many districts it is already ascertain-
ed', that the average produde Will be double than
last year. Barley rises of a strong malting
quality, and they 'yield abundant: Oats are a full
corn, and very productive. Turnips, and all the
brassica tribe, promise to, be very productive, and
of prime quality.

CARDIGAN' BOROUGH ELECTION.--State of the
twelfth day's Poll
For Hon: Colonel Vaughan • 500
For Mr. 14. Erans 43f;

Majority for Hon. Colonel Vaughan.... 44
PEMBROKESHIRE ELECrioN.—State of the Poll
on the eighth day :
For John Oien, Esq 1316
For John Campbell, Esq 1335

Majority forMr.'owen.:..Bl

ThE THEATRE.—The Castle of Andohula, last
night, introduced Mr. BELLAMY to the boards Of
Drury-Lane- Theatre. The merits of this Pen,
former, in the vocal department, are too Well
known to require any statement of his pretensions
to public favour. "He well acquainted With the
science of music, and'he has too correct a taste;
and too sound a judgment, to fall into the flou-
rishing style
.whichis.Ao much in fdshion at pre-
sent. He sung the- Irqf Song with- such energy
and expression.that he was encored. His acting
was, as usual, marlied, by-plain manly sense.-:-,
The audience were for a considerable time dis-
turbed by the clamours of many persons, who obh
jected to the custom, Which has been prevalent
among the Ladies, of placing their cloaks, shawls,
&c. over the front of the boxes: Most of the
Ladies, on learning the cause of the tumult, with
becoming modesty withdrew their offending gar
ments ; but two, who displayed more spirit than
prudence or delicacy, held out, in spite of all
the violence which assailed them. • One of them
at last gave way, but the other maintained the
most obstinate perseverance, thougli the clamour
of the audience, who at last were in general. in-
censed-by her reprehensible perseverance, was se-
conded Liy the intreaties of those who immediately
surrounded her. At length, however, having rea-
son to apprehend that more forcible measures
would be adopted, she removed the cause of dis-
sensinn, and soon after left the' Theatre. The
n!.6e of the intrepid Amazonian. had been cow-
riuniCated to the audience, and ,resounded in all
parts of the Theatre, 'hilt we shall not insert it
here, because we do not Wish to wound thv feel-
ings of her family, and because the foolish vanity
which prompted her to resist the audience might
be gratified in having it known to the public at
large,
It had been determined by the Covent-Garden
Managers, that YotT-No and C, KEMBLE- should
alternately play all the great characters left vacant
by the recession of KEMBLE.—C, KEMBLE, upon
this principle, began with Macbeth, and You ,
with gantlet, and the alternate performances
which were to folio's', would doubtless have ex-
cited a spirit of emulation conducive to their mu-
tual improvement.. The eXpected return of KEM-^
BLE, however, will -of course put'an end to the

arrangement.

A supply of satidle blankets has been directed to
be immediately furnished to the regiments of ca-
valry ordered on foreign service.

FOR THE SUN.

VACCINATION.

Ariz. Erwron,

. . . _
As you seem to be sufficiently aware of the im-
portance attached to the important subject of
Vaccination, and disposed to give full scope to- a
discussion of its Merits, by admittinvTarticles on
birth sales of the question, I trust to your candour
f'Or the insertion of the following letter, not
doubting, indeed, that you will deem it your duty
to promote the benefit of so inestimab a disco-
.
Wry. :
- , • Hu M A NITA S .
. .

TO THE EDITORS OF THE YORK CHRONICLE.

SIRS,
Travelling lately throngh your ancient city, ad-
miring . with enthusiasm your august cathedral,
•Imrivalled perhaps in sublimity and beauty ; con-
. templating with pleasure the 'character of the in-
habitants, as exemplified in _numerous charities,
iudiciOusly planned and ably executed ; delighted
*with the accounts which I have received of the
•alaerityand zeal with which many have come for-
ward to institute and support an Auxiliary Bible
SoCiety, an institution from ;vhich the noblest re
sults may be fairly anticipated ; .what was my as-
tonishment, and mortification, on healing of the
- recent death of many childi4n in the Small-pox,
:nd in witnessing the dire effects of that danger-
ous and loathsome diSease in others, whom I ac-
cidentally saw in the streets,- labouring. under its
pressure, or beginning to recover from it., _
How is this ?—(I involuntarily exclaimed)—
Whence this criminal neglect of Vaccine Inocula-
tion?, How does this agree with the character I'
have heard of the benevolent attention of these
people to the welfare and happinesSof of others ?
An awful resposibility 'must rest, somewhere, :Is
it with the physicians and surgeons of this north-
ern metropolis? Are they alone insensible to the
wants and miseries, and inattentive to the lives
and sufferings of their poortr brethren was led
as a stranger, involuntarily to inquire into their
character for skill, for disinteredness, and for hu-
than ity
But it. will be alleged, perhaps, that the fault is
felt theirs; that the calamity has arisen froze the
ignorance, the fears, and the prejudices of the
lower orders themselves.—Still the question will
recur, why 'have not the more intelligent and bet-
ter informed, endeavoured to enlighten this igno-
rance, to dispel these fears, and to overcome this
prejudice ?- Let not the inquiry, .Mr. Editors,
frOin a mere traveller, though it. should-be thought
to assume the tone of expostulation, be deemed
unimportant, for where there is as spark of genu-
ine philanthropy in the' huMan bosom, can the
mere adventitious 'circumstance of being in a land,
of strangers, restrain its effort, or destroy its
energy ?
Allow me to extract the few follekring particu-
. tars on the subject of Vaccination.
"- Vaccine Inoculation was_ introduced into the
Eimndling hospital in the year 1801, and every
infant, soon after its a.dnrision, has since that pe-
rind been-vaccinated. From th.., commencement
of this practifie to the present time, no death has
occurred from the Small-pox ; and in no instance
has the preventive power of Vaccination been diS-
credited, although many children, as a test of 'its
.effieacy, have been repeatedly inoculated with the
matter of Small-pox, and exposed to the influence
of its contagion."----- •
-In the Lying-in Charity of Manchester, more
than nine thousand persons have been vaccinated,
and
,secui ed from the in:fluence of Small-pox, in
the short space of 'nine years.
" the number vaccinated in the. island of Cey-
lon, 'from the year.lBo2 to January 1810, amounts
to so less than 128,7312 persons, and' he Small=
pox has been. literally exterminated from the island.
Frpm the month of February 1803, to the last-
mentioned date, the disease had not existed in any
part of the iSfand, exce,pt in October 1809, when
it, was carried thither in a boat-froni the Malabar
cost ; but in this instance the contagion spread
only to six individuals who had been vaccinated,
altd was immediately arrested in its progress, and.
disappeared: The medical Superintendant Gene-
!al observes, 'that they have no apprehension that
the Small-pox will' ever spread epidemically in
Cyylon, while Vaccination continues to be gene-
rally practised; at the same time that -its oceasi-
. onal appearance there has the good cued of prov-
ing the preservative power of the Vaccine Pock,
and of rousing the natives from their apathy on
the subject ; even the l3ramins are now surmountL
ing the prejudices of their education, and submit-
ting to be vaccinated."
These well attested .facts, Mr. Editors, and
many Others. equally striking, have long been well
known in the kingdom .at large, and if they should
hitherto have escaped the knowledge or observa-
tion of this northern' district, I hope the publi-
city they will receive through he medium of your
useful paper, may remove the film upon the mental
eye, and that it,will. henceforth cease to be sus-
pected by strangers, that the prejudice of some
and the supineness of others, are more. obdurate
and unconquerable .than the untutored ignorance
of the iiramiu of Ceylon. A TnAvEntesr.
P. S. At NorWich the most prudent and npi-
riled met!lods have been adopted to prevent ~.he
spread of Small-pox, principally by the benevo-
lent exertions of Mr. Riglev, an eminent surgeon
there ; and 'on the 13th of last August, a resolu-
tion was entered. into, by the guardians of tin
poor, that a reward of half-acrown should be
given to. every person resident within the city, Who
.should be vaccinated by the city .snrgeons, at the
Norwich Dispensary, or in any other way, pro-
vided they produce to the Committee a satisfac-
tory proof-of the fact..-7-(See the Resolutions cir-
culated there, appended to the. Report of the
National Vaccine establishment, dated Match 9,
1812.)

The body of a female was discovered in a'pond
near Loughton in Essex. She had been observed
by persons in the neighbourhood for some time. in
a desponding situation. The Coroner's inquest
returned a verdict of Lunacy. A misplaced at-
tachment is said to- have been the cause' of the
catastrophe.

LAW REPORT.

COURT OF kING's BENCH, q-r. 30.

MAGNAY AND PICKERING V. WILSON.

Thii. was an action brought by the stationer's
firm of Mr.' Alderman Ma gnash against a coal
merchant ,At recover the sun of
3431. which • the plaintiffs had- lost by a false cha-
racter, which the defendant was alleged to have
given of Mr. Blanchard, a dealer ia rags and pa-
per; who had lately become a bankrupt ; but,
it appearing that the plaintiffs had trusted not so
much to the representations of the defendant as to
the circumstances of Blanchard's qiaving paid the
hills he gave for the • first order which the plairt
tiffs executed for him, not upon the faith of any
chai•acter given him bythe defendant, and actually
held their hands from supplying him farther till
the punctual payment of those bills, the plaintiffs
were (with a -reprobation of such actions from
Lord Ellenborougli) .Nonsuited. •

OLD BAILEY.

FRIDAY, OCT. 30.
ROBBERY ON THE RIVER THAMES.

Joseph Simmons Winter, Benjamin Mien, William
Taylor, Robert Cooper, James Knox, Thomas key,
and George Harris, were indicted capitally tin
robbing the Sisters boy, on the River Thames,
on the night between the 6th and 7th of July,
1812, of a quantity of silk and ostrich feathers .to
the value of more than two thousand pounds. The
leading features and circumstances of this case
are already before the public, and we thirefore
confine ourselves to a short outline of the evidence
taken this day...
Mr. Joseph. -Milner, Merchant, and Mr. Solo-
-111111 Israel, a brisker, both of the City of London,
deposed, that they bad received bills of lading of
silk and ostrich feathers, purporting to have teen
shippedion board the brig Velocity, but-the goods
were not regularly delivered thein
Charles Saimders, Superintendant of Quaran-
tine at Stangate Creek, remembered the ship ar-
riving there, on the 13th of June, and being put
under quarantine. Her papers Were forwardedto
London immediately on. her arrival, and he re-
ceiVed an order, directing him to deliVer the silk
and feathers to the order of Mr..Hotchim. Wit=
ness accordingly wrote an order. to his inferiorS in
employment, to deliverthe goods to James Damp;
ton, master of the Sisters hoy, whicif was the pro
perty of Mr. Ilbtchon.
John
,Sal,shy_ and John Reed, tidewaters, at
Rochester, said they were put on board the Sisters
bOy, on the part of the Customs, on the 3d of
July. Bampton /vas the master, as they, under-
stood, and Knox was his mate. They remained
in her till she reached the Custom-house Quay,
where they were relieved by two other officers;
Whose names they did not know, on,Sunday, the
sth of July. On their way asp the River Thames,
Knox,,the mate boarded another vessel which was
astern of them. He toak an empty bottle along
with bins when he went, and he returned with it
in the same state.
Mr. Robert- Hotchon, owner of the Sisters boy,
deposed;that he had an order to:.fetch 10-bales of
silk, 881 hides, two cases, and two trunks of fea-
thers, and other articles, which came by the Ve-
locity. He and his partner sent the Sisters for
them, and Bampton was to be master, and Knox
mate. On the sth of July,
_Bampton came to him
and told him, that the vessel and cargo had arriv-
ed safe off the Custom-house Quays. On the 6th,
witness went to examine the vessel and cargo, and
he found both perfectly safe. On the Wednesday
Morning, between eight and nine o'clock,. Knox
called at his house, and told him that tI4 vessel
had been taken from the quay, and robbed, the
preceding evening of the silk and ,kathers. Wit-
ness then apprized' the Thames Police Officers of
the circumstance, and then went ou board, when
.he discovered one of the hatch locks to have gone,
and two hatches bad - fallen in. In consequence
of information he afterwards received, he went to
a stable, belon,ging to a person of the name of Nor-
man, in Gravel-lane, Blackfriars-road, and with
the assistance of Golf, Friend, and Clark,"Police
Officers, he found some part of the silk tincl fea-
thers, with the wrappers in which they were de-
scribed to have been packed. Witness was pre-
sent on the 9th of July,.when Knox, and Bampton
were taken into custody ;. and on the same' even-
ing he saw Brown and Winter also taken: He
then got information that part of the property
was on the premises of Mr. Percival, a silk
thrower, at-Bruton, in Somersetshire; he.pro-,
ceeded there; along with some Officers, where%
he found 50 or 60 pounds of :the silk. A few
skeins were cut, but he Was able; from particu-
lar markf„ to identify it. On Isis return to town,
heaecoMpanied the. Officers to take George Win-
ter and Brown ; he secured Brown, but Winter
eseeped. It was :cvith great difficulty. Brown was
held, but Smith, the. Officer, at last' Caine pp and
secured him.

William litasable and Charles O'Neale, tide-
waiters at the 1;ort of London, deposed to their
having succeeded ;he tide-waiters from Rochester
when the Sisters came to the Port of London.—
They liad no previouS-acquaintance with theirpre-
decessors, but when they took possession every
article was pet fectly safe. On the Tuesday after,
• noon they began to tinload a quantity of skins,
and part of the feathers, 'during Which, two men
camPL to visit Knox, and drank with him, but
witnesses heard no part ,of their conversation,
nor did they know that any of the prisoners' were
*of the vistors. Knox and,the strangers then went
out in a boat, and rowed towards Tower Stairs.
O'..Neale had the first watch, which continued till
twelve o'clock, ,whcri_Hutstable relieved him,
and about five minutes after one, 'tastable (who
was sitting on the locker bel6w) heard a noise on
deck like that of ropes pulling along. He, arose
to go up directly, but a man met him at :the' top
of the cabin ladder, which made him ask who
he was ? The stranger answered " Tis 1,. jem,"
Which expression induced "tastable to think
it was riampton. (The night was very dark, and
it was imposSible to see a man's face ; but
the Man (whower he -might bp) prodaced a
piece of paper, and told him that he had got an