The Sun.
London, England, 1812-02-08 00:00:00

NAVAL NEWS.

PLYMOUTH, FEB. G.—Arrived this morning the
Tip Patent, belonging and bound to London, Gtr.-
LtsPIE, late master, from New PrOvidence, with a
cargo, consisting of logwood, &c. was captured a
few clays since by a French privateer, and shortly
alter was fallen in with by his Majesty's ship
Diana, of 36 guns, Captain FERRIS, by which•ship
she was chased three days, when- the Pateni was
run ashore on the coast of Franc,-, where she was
taken possession of by the beats of the Diana, and
a r ped .off; Captain GILLBPIE with- ten of his
crew were taken out by the privateer.

His M ,jesty's ship Mermaid is appointed to take
convoy for the Downs, instead of the Lutona,
which ship was ordered to sea that day, and the
former will sail on Saturday next, provided the
wind proves favourable.

Arrived the Diana from a cruize off the coast of
France; and the Loire frigate from a cruize off
Brest ; also arrived the Lark, belonging to.this port,
HAttats, master, from London, with a cargo tot'-
this port ; the Belle Pottle frigate, Captain Bills-
BANE, and the Dryad frigate, Ciptill) GALWAY,
have de!airied and sent in here this
.day, ate Atm
riCan .schooner Prudentia, TucK, master, from
Gloucester, in America,with a Largo of fish, t2010,.1
to Boutdeaux..

FALMOUTH, FEB. s.—Arrived this morning the
Sandwich packet, Captain SCHUYLER, with mails
from the Mediterranean, nine days passage from
Gibraltar ;. she lefts Messina on the 25 t h of Decem-
ber. The Quec'n of SICILY had been deposed. Se..
veral Sicilians, with a Monk and Ftench Colonel,

(deteBe3 as a spy), bad been executed. All was
tranquil when the. packet :left. The Ncraon and
Adolphus packets arrived at Cagliari ort Jhe 9th of
January, ten days from Gibraltar ; the latter sailed
on the sam6 dhy for Malta. His Majesty's ship
Leyden, with fleet for England, was spoke with on

the 6th of January, in lat. 18. 26. 611.
Majesty's ship Matatar, with fleet for England,
arrived at Maki' on the 28th of December; and

his Majesty's ship Ganymede, and Weymouth
store-ship arrived at Gibraltar,' on the 24th ultimo.
The Duke of Montrose packet was lying there at that
time. This packet confirms,the account of the cap-
ture of a French frigate and store-ship, by his Ma•
jesty's ships ilaive and Alceste ; the former frigate
is said to have los 20 .killed and 40 wounded,
among the latter is- Capt. GORDON, vvho has lost a
leg. The ficTiive artived at Malta on the 7th Jan.
the day the packet left. The enemy is said to have
had t5O killed and wounded. They were from Toua
lon, bound to Corfu.

Arrived this day the schooner Duke of Clarence,
JOHNS, Master, from Bristol to load for Lisbon.

POETRY.

OLD TO THE LAWS, AND STAND FAST BY
THE THRONE.

WRITTEN BY M.A. SEISE, ESQ. R. A.

COMPOSED EY MR. MAJOR.

From the mr.wasted scene where Oppression bears sway,
And of Freedom no more foili'd.Philosophy raves,
Where life in the palsrofltar pines away,
And the Tyrant still triurbphs, surrounded by slaves;
The Briton his eye turns exulting to own
The blest region where Man bears an aspet sublime,
Where a King wields the sceptre of Law from a throne,
Which, by Liberty built, stands the wonder of Time.

Look back to those ages so vaunted of yore,
Where has Liberty shone with a lustre so pure .
Where has Man been so tree, or so happy, before,
Or hapless felt those'ills which all mortals endure;
While the wrecks of proud empires lie scatter&d around,
And the tempest, still raging, drives dark o'er the
Unshaken the bulwarks of Britain are found,
And undaunted her sons on the land and the main.

TO BE FREE is our birth-right, our pride, and our boast,
'Tis the Charter achiev'd by the blood of our Sires,
And as long as the ocean encircles her coast
Shall Oi•i England be free While their spirit inspires.
Or abroad, or at home, then, what foes Should we fear,
While our hearts are our Country's—our swords are our

own ;

While our rights we maintain, and our Kingwe revere,
WHILE WE HOLD T• THE LAW, AND STAND FAST BY

THE erilltON' El

* It is gratifying to find in these revolutionary times, that
an author, wl.io has written two.such adri.irableyocros ay
this 6entiernan has produced on the art of which he is su
tinguished an ornament, is animated by loyalty as well a)*
genius. -

ANHOLT MAIL.

LEMSEO, JAN. 6.—There were no more than 1 t
men saved of the crew of the St. George, as the
twelfth died before he could be brought into a
house. These seamen state that the ship, previous
to the loss of her masts, had likewise had her rud-
der broken by striking or:, the Red sand, and the
one which was made no Lard to replace it, was
too weak to steer and govern the ship in a gale of
wind in the North Sea, and which might probably
cause the ship's stopping.

The Defence first took ground, and on signal
being given of the accident, the St. George let
go her anchor, but in bringing up with the an-
chor she took the ground abaft, so that her fore-
part, which had• deeper water and was confined
down by the cable, was in a short time under wa-
ter. To save them by boats and craft from the
shore, was impossible. Such as were hoisted out
were immediately driven from the ship, with the
exception of one boat, in which about 20 men at-
tempted to save.themselves, but it upset alongside.
the ship, and they were all drowned. On the af-
ternoon of the 25th of December (Christmas-dC,
when the last eleven men left the ship on a small
piece of plank, Admiral Reynolds and Captain Cyan,
the Commander of the ship, were lying dead aside
each other upon the quarter-deck, as were also
about five hundred and ninety-eight reen of the crew,
who had died through fatigue and cold, and from the
sea breaking over t hem, only about 50 men remaining
still alive, whose cries were only heard until it
became dark, when it is to be hoped that an end
was pot to their misery. 'I wo days afterwards,
when the gale was abated., and the wind being easter-
ly, was off. the shore, a Danish boat, with two of the
English sailors, went on board, to bring away the
Corp es Or the Admiral, Captain, and several other
persons, but the deck was washed away by the sea,
with ail the bodies laying on it. It is supposed
the ship most now be broken right athwart, al-
' t the ends of her are still perceptible, and that
it nit bit the ammunitiou lying in the bottom which
holOs her together.'" Among the ship's crew, which
is sai,l. toehave been no more than 750, about 40
were 'teckoned in the class of Odiders, and of
these, -exclusive of the Admiral and Captain,
ten were .Lieutenants, one Secretary, one Captain,
and three Lieutenants of Marines. The Secretary
was half dead when •he came' on store, and
expired imunedistely. after. A great quantity of
gold coins were found- upon his person, such as
wholti arct .hoif guineas, Dutch ducats, &c. and like-
wise boille English Bank poles, 'is, so far as yet
known, all the money saved, according to the re-
port &vett by the survivors. The Admiral. mutt
have been a most gallahr roan. •fiu would not quit
his ship, but died on b,,azd her. 1-4Ags a widower,
and has left two daughters behind Mira end a son,
who is a Captain.
A great number of dead holies have bt*t driven
on shore between liansby, and Nessucas all of
which' were interred .s ith military honours. Porty-
seven - half-carrels of gunpowder have been saved
out of the Defence.

LA Iv REPORT.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, Vs). 7.

THE RING V. THL, BISHOP OF LONDON AND ARCH-

BiinOP OF CANTERBURY.

The ArroaN EY- GENERAL shewed cause against
the rule obtained in this case, calling on the Arch-
bishop of Canteibury and Bishop of London, or
either of them, to shew cause why they, or eithet
of them, should not admit into their presence the
Rev. Dr. Richard Povah, hear him read the Thirty-
nine Articles, make declaration of his unfeigned as-
sent r hereto, and perform all other things neces:ary
to entitle him to be licensed as Lelurer of St. Bar-
tholomew, near the Exchange; and, having done
all COI:, w spew cause why he should not license
the said Richard Povah as Ledurer of that .Church.
By this notice, the Attorney-General contendud,
the whole line of proceediug in such cases was com-
pletely inverted. It was never yet heard of, that a
Bishop should call before him a person, first to read
over the 39 Articles, and then to examine him, and
grant him a license. This was the second applica-
tion made on this subjed. The first application had
been disposed of, by refusing the rule, and now a
second application bad been made without any new
ground on which the Court was called to grant what
it had formerly refused. Before he stated to the
Court the reasons which had operated with the 131-

shop of London to refuse to Dr. •Povah the license
• •
which it was now sought, by the present application,
to compel him to grant, hie thought it proper to call
ttie attention of the Court to the form at the licenies

since the Act of Uniformity. In these licenses the
Bishop was made to express his entire confidence in
the fidelity, learning, sound morals, and diligence,
of the person to whom be granted the license. if
he did not feel this confidence in his fidelity, learn-
ing, sound morals, and diligence, what Court could
compel him to entertain such an opinion. This
was a duty which the Bishop had to perform ; the
Attorney-General submitted, that the Legislatwe
lett to his judgment.to exercise his opinion upors the
subjeti ; and having exercised it, the Court could
not order him to declare, that a man, in whose fi-
delity, learning, sound morals. and diligence, he
bad already declared that he had no confidence, was
'a man in whom, in each of these several respells,
be had the highest confidence On looking to the
Canons, and also to the Statute of Uniformity, the
same rule would be found to prevail. By the
Canons, no person could be admitted a reader,
preacher, Sze. except he were licensed ny the Arch-
bishop of the province, or Bishop of the diocese, or
by one of the Universities. And by the Statute of
Uniformity it was declared that no person should be
admitted a preacher, leCturer, &c. unless he be first
approved, and then licensed, and shall, in presence
of the Archbishop of Bishop, have read the 39 Ar-
ticles. He asked of the Court, could they grant a

Mandamus, enjoining the Bishop to approve of a
person of whom he disapproved ? He had formed
his judgment, and according to that judgment
the Rev. Dr. Puvah was not a- person 'of—whow
lie could approve. Could the Couit grant a
Mandamus to rectify and amend this judgment >--
Could it be required of him to grant a license in
these te+ms:—" That, though duly satisfied that

the Rev. Dr. Povah was not a fit person to be ap-

proved of and licensed, stilt, in consequence of a
-Mandamus directed to him from the Court of
King's Bench, he did approve of, and license him ?"
He therefore submitted, that the Court could not, in
such circumstances as these, review the opinion of
the Bishop, formed, as it had been, on the terms of
,the Statute, and of the Canons of the Church. If
the Court were desirous, however, of knowing on
, what grounds the opinieze of the Right Reverend
Bishop were formed, he. had filed affidavits on this
bead also; from which it would appear that the
Bishop had been grossly calumniated by Dr. Puvah
in his Letter to the Bishop of Sodor and Mann, in
which the Doctor represented him as being aduated
by motives which were now admitted to be un-
founded ; while the opinion of the Bishop, as to
the unfitness of Mr. Povah, was built on informa-
tion he had received, and on affidavits now filed, to
a similar etreet, charging Dr. Povah with having,
71 his serrnues, enforced the inefficacy of Infant
. Baptism.
Mr: DAMPIER and Mr. ABBOTT followed on. the
b-‘me side.
Mr. GARROW, Mr. WARREN, and Mr. COMYNS,
for Dr. Penal!, contended that there was nothing
but an exporte case : Dr. Povah had not at all been
heard, but had been condemned, and an interdict
been passed on hills, without allowing him the op-
portunity of stating a woid in his defence. The la-
bours ot a long life, for a faMily of six children, and
its lott:re rise. LthleS3 in society, in a line of life to
hictt he was devoted, and in which there was
much coneterent testimony as to the utility of his
lAtolos hitherto, depended on the decision of the
Court on the present application. They were happy
i. obseeve, that of the three charges
tt ou,ll, even at first, one after' another, a;leged
-og,iinst the tie.etodant, t o -had vanished, and one
eeiy was built on to da_y, of which teo, they
t+usted the Court would, by their decision, declare
Dr. Povah acquitted. The first ground allegesl for
the refusal of Or. Povah, was, that he was not in
Priest's Orders. rbk was remedied by his receiving
Priest's Orders from the Bishop of Sodor_ and Mann.
The second -was that he preacitsYl in a Conventicle ;
but as to this it was shewn .that Dr.• Povah -had so
acod under the auspices of a Bishop of London
(Porteous), than whom, be his'successor whom he
insight, a superior could not be found in learning, in
Reli ion, or in any of the most estimable qualities
of an English Prelate. The third charge against
Dr. Povah was one which,- if it could be proved,
marked him as the most rash, foolish, and unthink-
-ing.man that ever existed, in making the present
application :-11 true, he must be unworthy of ever
Ya!tting his foot in a pulpit in art English Church
a; tin ; and, on the same principle, the Right Rev.
'Prelate had nut done his duty, in not long ago si-
lencing him!, On this charge, however, they con-
tended, the Rev. Doctor had never been heard, tin-
less, indeed; it was hearing him, to give private au-
thence-.to his calumniator.—He had repeatedly re-
quested to be heard; he had challenged his calum-
niators• to meet him face to face. He hid impor-
tuned the Bishop to convene him and them before

him, at the same titre, bet this had been Uniformly
refused him. It was not, the Leetted Counsel con-
tended, consistent with the pradite or principles of
an English Court of Justice td allow a party to be
condemned without being heard. It could not be
consistent with the feelings or with the duty of an
English Bishop, sitting as a Judge, to examine into
the fitness of a C:ergyman appointed to a Ledure,
ship, to receive private information, inferring
charges of a heavy and calumnious nature against
him, and to at on that information, without allow-
ing the person calumniated an opportunity of meet-
ing the charge, or of vindicating himself.--Dr. Po-
vah had done every thing he could to satisfy the
Bishop, as to the falsity of the charge madeageinst
him, relative to infant Baptism. He had furnished
loin with the manuscript notes_ of his sermon on
that subject, and had °tiered to bring witnesses be-
fore him, who would completely disprove the
charge. All of this, however, the Bishop had re-
fused to admit ; and Dr. Povah now applied for a
Writ of Mandamus to the Bishop to hear him, and
to decide. The question was one of fact—Had
Dr. Puvah preached against Infant Baptism, in
which case there would be no question as to his
unfitness, or had he not ? This was a question that
involved the character and happiness of Dr. Povah,
and, being a question of fad, he had a right, in the
event of the opinion of the Bishop being against him
on this point, to have the opinion of a Jury also.
Admitting to-- the Bishops all right to judge as to
scholastic learning and ecclesiastical fitness, the
Learned Counsel submitted that this was not a time
to exclude from the Pulpits of the Established
Church men of extraordinary acquirements, and to
leave cases of this kind to the Bishop untried. All
they wished was to be heard before the Bishop, not
in any way to force his -conscience.
Mr. ILIOUGII.6I, on tee same side, expressed his
satisfadion that, however their Lordships might de-
cide this case, not a man could have that Court-
without being satisfied that Dr. Puvah's charader
was completely vindicated from the aspersions of
heresy and schism, with weich it had been loaded,
the greater part of which had now been abandoned,
acd the remainder disproved by a cloud of wi nesses.
The Learned Counsel remarked on the various turns
which the course of the Bishop's objections to Dr.
Povah had taken--originating in his not being in
Priest's orders—from thence changing tua charge of
heresy in denying infant baptism ; again; to the
Clerk to the Vestry, when the objection, which
could easily have been answered it made public,
placing his objeation on the want of Priest's orders;
and, when that objection was removed, again re-
sorting- to the charge of Dr. Povah's having discoun-
tenanced infant baptism in his discourses. The
Learned Gentleman entered into a view of that sepa-
rate class of the community set apart for holy orders,
and argued, that as their holy profession was entire-
ly unconnected with secular emolument, so to this
extent they were rightly under the costroul of a
Bishop. Wherever temporalities, however, began
to be an object, they-ceased to be considered merely
in a spiritual point of view, and coming to partake
..of secular matters, the right of the Spiritual Judge
. began to cease, and that of the Temporal Judge to
prevail. Of this kind were Ileelories, Vicarages,
&c, which being supplied by the patrons froth
among the class of Clerks, or men in Holy Orders,
the Bishop, almost as a matter of course, fell to
license them. If this was so, he asked what ought
to be the mighty distinction between the induc•
tion into a liedory in the gift of an indi-
vidual patron, and the licensing to a letureship
in the gift of a great many respedable per-
sons ? If the fullest remedies were recognized'
and allowed in the one case, was it consistent,
was it fair, was it becoming, that there should be no
remedy in the other ?—And should it be left to the
Biehoe to say—“ -I so will it—Such is my plea-
sure ?"—lt had been ruled in all the cases on this
subject, that a Bishop, in such a situation, acted as a
Judge. The duty of a Judge was to examine, and
to hear the evidence on both sides—not to shut his
eyes against one side of the question. if he so
acted, Le was unworthy of the character of a Judge,
and demeaned himself in a very different mapner
from what was becoming. This, he contended, was
shewn from the cases on the subject, to all of which
he referred, and, on the whole, contended, that Dr
Puvah being-at the time a person in Holy Orders,
ought: to have been admitted to the Leclureship in
question ; had a right to the protedion of those
principles laid down in the various cases, particu-
larly that of the Archbishop of York ; and that, hav-
ing been refused, by a person acting as a Judge, to be
examined, he came before them, entitled to the fa-
vourable interposition of the Court in his behalf.
The Judges did not wish, at so late a period of the
day (five o'clock), to give judgment in a case of so
much interest. It accordingly stands for to-morrow.

EXETER, FEB b.—A most extraotdinary circum-
stance occurred in this city on Monday night last
which has excited the greatest wonder, admiration,
and interest of the inhabitants. About nine o'cl4ck,
as the carriage of J. Williams, Esq. banker, of this
city, was going to Colleton Crescent to the Theatre,
just as it passed the Friars in the middle of the public
road, the off horse sunk into the earth, and in an in-
stant disappeared ; the alarm the coachman was in
we cannot describe, who trembling (or what was to
follow Leaped from the coach-box, call for assist-
ance, and inatnediately cut the traces, when several
persons assembled,and discovered that the animal had
'fallen into a large and tremendous old well, of about
go feet deep, which some years since had been arch-
ed over in a most careless manner, with only a single
brick, thinly covered with earth, and totally neg-
leded, since it became a public road. The late wet
weather has so penetrated the brick-work as to cause
it, with the shaking of the carriage, to give way in
a moment. Having obtained a light, it was per-
ceived. the horse had stuck about twenty feet down,
and with great difficulty was drawn up alive to the
mouth of the well, when unforrUnately the rope
broke, and the poor creature was with dreadful velo-
city dashed down to the bottom, to rise no more
alive, as it was pulled up dead four hours after. The
instant before Mr. Williams's horse met the acci-
dent, Coloi►el Burn's carriage drove over the same
place, with the postilion on the horse, both which
must have inevitably perished, had the ground then
gave way.