The Sun.
London, England, 1812-02-24 00:00:00

NAVAL NEWS

Y.MOIHII, FEB. 21.--:-Arrived a few transports
from Comma, tame under convoy of his Majeciy't
ship Surzreillarrte, of 38 guns, Capt.. Sir G.,CoL-
LI ER, that arrived here yesterday from
.thence.—
Also arrived the brig Spring, DOBBIN S master, from
Corunna, with a cargo consisting of cotton, and log-
wood, bound to 'London, put in here to wait
Convoy.

But
back last night, by contrary, winds and
Brormy weather, the Tonnant man of war, Capt. Sir
JOHN dOLE, and the 4rmide.frigate, Capt. MINN id
both sailed from hence yesterday morning, tLe
former to blockade Brest, and the latter on a cruize
off the coast of Fran Le.

'FEB. 22.—1 t has blown a gale from the westward
and south-west for roan}, day.; past,,b,,t thu ship-
ping at this port have not received any nuerial
mo'ge. A bc;at belonging to the :ikinetlean brill
Paulina, (FIELDS maser, lately wind here\ fruits
Chalieston; with a cargo); was u;:set th;s' mo i:ing
in the Sout:fi by a heavy sea, and a wan cafue'i SA.
Mum.% ELBY, a Custom-house r, PS
The.boat's crew were saved,- but \A/oil -great
catty-; one of them was rich bruised by being

dashed on the, rocks, and his arm broi-(11. Tiic
unfoi,,:nat- man who pet-Ist:ea Ictt a P.d
five children to

Arrtved ti):. Ocean, SAUNDERS, from Po; tstnouth'
and the Friendship, WHARTON , from Sunderland,
with a cargo of coals for this p( rt.
The transports that arrived here yesterday from.
Corunna, under convoy of the Surveil/ante tripte,
hare on board 300 deserters flona the French armks
in Spain.

By private letters froth .Corunna, dated the 17th
inst., we learn that. Asturias kA as entirely evacuated
by the enemy, and several prisoners, sitagglers and
others, from the corps of BONNET, had been' Wien
and sent into Corunna by General PORLIER. Four
regiments are 'equipping, and clohing at Corunna,
under the immediate inspection of Sir H. DOUGLAS.
The enemy inCastile and Leon were.much in want
of provisions, and fresh contributions had been ex-•
torted by General DoRsENNE previous to his quit-
ting Valladolid. Ciudad Rodrigo is repairing, al d
Will be made sufficiently strong to resist for a time
any attempt from the enemy, should Lord WEL..
LINGTON move to the southward. The British Ar-
my is rapidly recovering in health. The Surveil.
!date, Sytille; and Spitfire, cruized in company in
chase of the French squadron that had chased the
former ship.
The ilde/mhpus and Amazon frigates have been
put out of commission at this port.

At rived the Polage, and Helicon sloops of" war
from a cruize and •the Allion cutter from Eitque
Roads. • -

• Put back by stormy weather, The Favourite shoo?
of wars and the Eliza and Jane and .N(ptune (2)

tenders.

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PORTSI4O6I.II, FEB. 23.—ArriveLi his Majesty's
ship Romulus from Lisbon, with dispatehs, and the
Herald snoop of war from tile INleditrtranean.
Al o arrived the Porcupine, Partridge, Goshawk,
and North Star, from a cruise;

Sailed the Peacock, with a eonvoy, for the Dow is.

DEAL, FRB. 22.—His Majesty's, ship Warrior,
and Lcdy Carrington Indiawan, are ?gain put hack
to the DOwris by the violence of the-gale, which'we
have experienced the whole of this day .tronf tho
; the .Atnericans sloop Jenny, MY ens, for
Opor•:o, has /lost an anchor and cable, which is the,
only ship Oat has suffered during the gale ; several
ships have drove considerably without doing. or re!,
ceiving any clarnagt. .

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-FOR THE SUN::

MR. FDITOR,

Woe,j I t your scene of bustle and confusion
for this abod of e,:se, tranquility, and elegant
annyiement, I flute thoti4bt that I should suffer my
leisure 1.2 be irrerrupt,d by any thing that might
a..o.Arin any o` the 'public prints, but I ,m tempted
to take up the oett in consequence of what I nave
seen in some ,he London newspapers, on tire
subjeti of the theatrical Phceootnerion• who once
trinade so distiognishrd a figure in the metropolis,
and so many oc.er places,• and who has recently
returned to the, Stage in this city.' It is some-
what curious, and to me unaccountable, that the
public prints, kvflos.r co:Annus overflowed %jib
panegyrics on this young rum! when he was a mere
boy, ktrould now t o a ti acks against hirn, though
it is highly probabk that the writers have not had
an opportnnity of lonse:yirig what changr, has taken
'place, and whether he is not Ai present wore en:itlect
to the p.raises which “rere so lavishly heaped upon
Itim at the perico .alluded to _ . .

This inconsistency on the, part of those writers-
lnay be intelligible,to you, who are doubiless well
liequ-iinted- with the system of London Prints, hut
1 must again contess that I am t: o ignorant and,
aitrinie to understand it.—Ent now, Sir, as your
aders, and the London public in general, may
be a hide desirous of know.tw what merit Mr.
BETTS .now pos.esses as an a Yr, anil whether. his
impioVernent has been commensurate with the pros
gress of time, I. to the best of my judgment,
give '3Oll what I pers.iade nikself is an iMpartial
opinion. In the first pl,sce it rmy proper to ob-
&lye, that I 331 tint -acquainted with Mr. ETTiY
himself, but I learn that he will not complete -I) s
twenty-first year till next Sqteruber ; so that more
inclidrnce should be shewn cowards him than any
veteran Performer migl•t );;.eCt, particula~lj•. as
yeits hive elapsed si ,ce he left tie stay, and
consequently fiefs• habits most have grown upon
him, and in a great degree impaired those which at-
tended his theatrical career. As fat as I can judge,'
be is an unaffected sensibl:, young man. The res
ceNion which be experienced in this city and at.
Bristol.has, it seems, dterrnined him to resume the
theatrical profession, and to de,;icace his time and
studies to it. • He may Mill, indeed, be conside.ted
23 the unstudied Child of Nature, with al! the retl-
,ing and, fire which he displayed as a boy. His
figure is good, and his 7,..c•espleasing, powerful, and
eXlensise, though it ;:eita;tily at ti:ces wants modu
lation. In animated passages it appears to great
Vantage, and generally draws forth universal b.,:rsts
of applause. He is a great favourite here, and
When he has by prattice robbed off some of
his imperfections, and acquired that polish which the
Lonchin Critics demand, but which proportionally
take away poor nature, he will doubtless be equally
admired in the •metronolis and fn the mean time,
labia) not: be condemned at your awful. tribunal
beore he iis brought to trial, and if it be not too
ttureasonahle a requisition, !et not,his former parti-
Zans,,
now appear inlne array of hostility.

bath,

CANDIDUS.

' lARD KIRKWALL'S GRAND ORGAN.—At a rno-
tlient when the liberal arts are, from' various cir-
ezonsi bces,,leluived of that general encouragement
Wbich can. only tie
,atForded in times-Of external
rti)ve aid tianquili.y, we take a pleast_re in noticing
tilat a Nobles:Fittof (our coo wiT has Wstirguished
hir»seit be calling into act um a corub,nation of sci-
ened, g rneolhinicA skirl and which have
carried that ~urolime.instrt,me,,i lie Organ twa de;
igree of pet fection oot oui", hitt which
it was hardly, with all. it's t .‘y •s , Ace., c,i suscepti,
ble of. Lord omit K;rkv-311, with !bit mu-
mificence which tiles the wealthy,
has had a magnificent "orpo built for him
at the extraordinary ilice of two thousaiiC
guineas; and to gratify t' am::•eurs•of ,nu,: ,he
has condescended to let it f r some tidie
open to public inspection. this Royal Highness the
Duke of Cambridge, a • few days since; went to
Lear it, ond expressed hichselt highly gratified. This
delightful instrument is n.t only played with the
huger, but it has a-principle of self a&to,n by which
iserforins the telebrated overture to the Zauker.
Ate in so exquisite a st le that had Mozart. been
'living, and heard it, 1;e would have been astonish-
ed at the effect of his own Composition.
Dr. CROTCH, before lie composed his fine Ora-
torio on the Poem of PALESTINE, wrote to the au-
. thor 01 that exquisite Poe.o, -eliciting his pertnis-
sion to select such passages as might be most slit-
; able to the proposed musical work. Mr. HEBER,
With that.tirlyAni.y which always marks a superior
/bind, not only gave a ready asstat, but offered, as
the heroic form is not well suited to music, to re-
-duo': Any parts to the lyric' measure, in order to ac-
commodate: the ingnious Composer. ,The latter,
h weveri was too sensible.of the .merit of the ori-
ginal to suffer it to be alterenn any manner, and it
nlat justly said, that he has perfornied his own part-
'ith admirable skill.
A very heavy fall of snow and rain fell during the
last night and, !his morning early-, ,N Lich has, no
doubt, occasioned considerable d image in various

pal is in the vicinity of die Metropolis, The Brigh-
ton ivad, bet Ween Brixton and Kennington
Com-
- tbon, was, in most parts impassable at five o'clock
this morning. A cai tinge, containing two gentle-
then, was overturned in. the drain by the road side,
from the coachman not being able to keep the road.
The tentlemen, with considerable difficulty, escaped
drowning by the window ; the situation of the
coachman was still More perilous. One of the" ra-.
fell a sacrifice to the rapidity of the
torrent, and the coach was nearly broken to pieces.
A large decked' lugger, laden • with contraband
goods, having, on the 13th instant, d'scovered
in the Downs, and chased by the boats of the Livey
cutter, in the service of the Reveaue of Excise, and
w 'its being boarded by one of the said boats, the
Crew of the lugger attacked the officer and cutter's
.trien,and, atter beating them severely, took a pistol
from one of them, and fired it at him, wounded
biM in the head, and threw him overboard.—A re-
ward of 5001. is offered for the appt thension of the
off riders.

A Dissenting Minister from the High Peak, Derby-
- shire, appeared in a boat upon., the Thames, on the
'2oth ins'. dressed in a vc bite linen robr,with his long
hair flowing.over his 7shot.lklers; and -.nrintmced that
the seven phials, mentioned in the Book of Re-
velation were to be poured out upon the city of
London.

L fIP PEPOLT.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, FEE. 12.

THE KING

This was an indiCtrivent ch3Tging 'tiler defendant,
who had, been .employed by Mr. Taylor, the prose-
cutor, proprietor arid manager of the Opera-hous,,
as cash clerk and house steward, with having com-
mittcd perj,ry io an affidavit sworn ina.Cii,,`e de-
ending in the Court of Chancery, entitled, Witter;
u..laylor, for toe purpose.of obtaining the Chancel,
lor's.order for•the removal of Mr.'Taylor from his
situation of Manager of the Opera. After a long
'investigation, it appearing the charges were found-
ed in error, the Jury, under the diretlion of his.
Lordship, fotind the defendant--;-Not