The Sun.
London, England, 1805-05-16 00:00:00

TILE KING

The Defendant wss coovi.tted at the last Assizes
for Leicester, of having written a libellous letter
to Messrs. Churchill and Co. and was now brought
up for judgMent. By the report and afilavits, it
appeared that the ProiCCUtOr was a wholeside
stet at Leicester, and the Defendant a Warehouse.
man in.toven, who dealt with him. Upon settling
their Accounts there appeared 'the son of i.t.+). due
to dui Prosecutor; for which he •drew on the .De.
fzldatir, who accepted the bill. When it became
s to it was presented on beh,rif of the 'finiorsec, and
the Defendaoi Aferrti hi drift on Ids b:initetio pay-
meta. The holder of the bill refused to part with
it until he knew whether the draft would be paid,
whiqh very much iticensed the Defendant, and was
the 4atiie of his writing the libellous letter. Being
&et-wok's:chatted imer,:siol costs of noting on
the bill, he brouBhr.an anion against the Prosecutor.
for usury ; but fkrtillmg There. was no pretence for it
he had paid the coats.---The Court sentenced him to
a tine of tcit.

AN INtrotTARD FACT.—Ai no Prize of moment
except that which, was allotted to the first-drawn
number, came up on Monday, above a Hundred and
Fifty Thousand Pound, devoted to capital Prizts ac
Nally remain in the Wheel, a circumstance unparal.
idled, fur nine days drawing only, in the whole
history of Lotteries. If such an objed of high in,
tetClit be nut sufficient to rouse dilatory Adventurers
to a spirit of enterprize, it is difficult to say what
other impulse can induce an ambition to possess
chances of suddenly rising to wealth and intlepend.
once. -

The amateurs of 'vocal melody allow Miss FR a-
Roil, who, at the Rlyal eireos. diNplays suds
astonishing vowtra in The Soldier tied of Wat,i,
Alarms." to bc really a musical prodigy. The
strength of execuriun which site displays, joined to
correctness and the height of taste, are su.;lt as fill
the. most remote quarters of .that—Theistre with sur.:
prize and performance, together with
tint splendid produllion, The Knights at the G. 1..
tar
anti th: verymue interestingh.a.iinirel
i.rseiuntl.i'tn's'itutini: of
Ai eilitia,
of
cottps,tetcly ii;t Ow.

LONI)ONr GAZFTTE, 11.-ray 14, 0,05 •

Or ,1 Ir!ce- Wier, r .ItTry tr, , 145.

CO P. 5 01 R-4,g1,g,gi.,,,trr.
42rnn,1 tietiten 140)bert.$ to h Fir t
Lleutcnant,
vice`prom )ted, Ditz,f Vl3l'ol 2, ISQs.
I?,:y.r! drtillery,
Second •Lieutenala Cb.tries IVilsott to be Fifit Lieutmant.
A.lety 2, I gas:

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Consm;riivr br 'the Tovirer armlets Militia; signed by tie De..
inzay olenant
Ist Rnval Regiment, G. W. Elliot, Gent. to la,: Lieutenant
;Dated May 7, tgatc.'
C4rn,ii:ilioar in the Argyll and Burr,- Regiment of 'Militia, signed
t, Je Laid Lieutenant.
lieutenant Archibald M'l'llim to he Captain, vice Archibald
-,caniphcil, resigned. Dated April iSos. Ensign lohn
ta ha Lieutenant, Dated I 25, iSoS .
sign Allan Ross to be Lieutenant. Dated as above. lames
Taylor, Gent. to be Ensign. Dated as above. Kenneth
M'Dngalrl, Gent. to ha Ensign. Dated as above. ',oho
Campbeil, Gent. to be Ensign. Dated May 3, 1805.
Conunissions in thr 11mm:3s-shire Ite;;it-nalt of Militia, signed
• by the Lord Lieutenant.
Captain William Grant, of the Supplementary Quota, 'to be
Captain on the original Establishinent, vice 14.11 Alister, re-
signed. Dated Apia z 3, 13,5 t,
,Lieutenant Donald 'Mac-
intosh to be Captain, vice G rant. Dated as above. La-
sign Kenneth Bethune t.,) be Lieutenant, vice Stuarti re-
signed. Dated March 2,5, igos. Evan M'lierson; Gent,
to Lieutenant, PIl
vice'
atrick appointed in the'
Royals. Dated April 24, 18,05. William Shaw, Gent.
to be Ensign, vice Bethune, promoted. Dated March as,
1883.
Commissi,,,nr signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of
- , Kent., .

Elham
.Yromanry Cavalry.
Fagg, Cent. to be Surgeon. Dated April 30, tSel.
Farninkhant Yeomanry Cavalry.
Cornet Homewood to, be Lieutenant, vice. (lode, resigned.
Dated May 3, 8o5: Charles Fleet, Cent. to be Cornet,
vice Homewood. Dated as above.
Crankrook Volunteer:.
john Osmer, Gent. to be Surgeon, vice Wilinshurst, resigned.
Dated May 3,4805.
,Iraldershaq Volunteers.
Thomas Olness, Gent. to be Ensign, vice Sony.. Dated
April 16, 1805.
Commissions signed 4y the Lord Lieutenant of the Courty
Essex.
3arnes Urmston, Eacif to be 'Deputy Lieutenant. Dated
March 23,- 0105: George Smith, Esq. to be ditto. Dated
as above. Luke William Walford, Esq. to be dine). , Dated
ag ;Wove. Robert (.3c:ere 1-lasettbot, Esq; to be (kit..
Dated as above. .Charles Gretton, Esq. .to be ditto.
Dated April zo, 1805. ,

, Essex Militia.
Major Czange Duckett to be Lieutenant-Colon:1, vice Tv-
ref:gmi. • Dated April 180 S« Cap 11.tain C11;1,:$
Combo to be Major, vice Duckett, promoted. Ditch as
' above.' -rhomas. Frederick. Voaker, Gent..to bc Ensign.
I)ated as above.
- East Etre): 117ilitia,
Major. Samuel Charles Came, from the,South Essex Militia,
.to be'Major. Dated May i, 18(55;
Fresbweil Hundred Polsorteer Cavjk y..
Thomas Follett, Gent: to be Quarter-Master. Dated Feb.
ts, iSoS.
Ungar Huth!, fa' roltinteres. •
James- Ntennett, Gent. to be bieuteilant. Dated March 7,
aos..

immcRUPTCIkS ENLARGED. •
Thomas Ftogatt, of Matlock Bath, Derby, innk
Der eeper,
from May at 29, at ten, at tile Devon Inn, by.
William Dann. of Gillingham, Kent, banker, lune iS, at
tan, at
Bryan Bentham, of Sheerness, dealer, June 18, at ten, at
lames Baikie, of Chatham, Kent, banker, tune iS, at ten,
at Guildhall.
BANXECIPDCY SUPERSEDED.
George Ludlow, of Angel-court, Throgulorton•street,
Merchant.

BANKRUPTS.
Angus Macplile, late of Ilford, Essex, merchant, May tB,
2s, and June as, at ten, at Guildhall. Attorney, Mr. Da.
vtd.Russen, CroWn-court, Aldersgate-street. •
Thomas Clarke, late of I,ambourn, Essex, cow-keeper,
,May. 18. and lune r and as, at twelve, at Guildhall. Attor-
ney, Mr. Edward Baddeley, No. 6,, Lernan-street, Good.
man's-fields,
John Ingle, ot.Ashby.de-la-ioncli, Leicester, Tuna 17,
and 2s, at eleven. at the Queen's Head Inn, Asliby-tle-la.
Zonal. Attornies, Messrs eestell and Webster, Ashby.de-
la-Zouch ; or Messrsr, Kind,:rley, Long and ince, Symond's
hut.
William Lewis, of Dnwlais, Glamorgan, shopkeeper, May
d, and lime t and is, at eleven, at the Bush Tavern, Corn.
street, Bristol. Attornics, Mr. Thomas Morgan, Bristol ;
Mr. lames No. it, Gray's lint-sqttare.
Andrew (arms,
of Liverpool, broker, Tune 7,9, and as,
at eleven, at the Globe 'rtivern, Liverpool. A.ttoride4, Mr.
Edward Ascruft, No. 3, Fenwick-street, Liverpool; Mr. G.
'Joust-kid, Bouverie-street, Fleet-street.
William Stewart, of Liverpool, liquor merchant, June
7,8, and as, at two, at the Globe Tavern, Tolin-strfflet, Li-
verpool. fittornies, Mr. Edvvind Ascrofi, No. 3, l'enwick-
street, Liverpool ; Mr. Henry. Blakelook, Temple.
John George Nicholls, or Moulsey, Shrill, merchant,
May 25. and lune 8 artri as, at elevenott Guildhall. Attar.
ries, Messrs. l)ennetts and Greaves, King's Arms yard,
Coleman-Street.

Tune Z; S'„ T. Mitchell, of Mittel-court, Threat'needle.
street, merchant. June 14. T. Norcrnst, late; of ltivington,
Lancaster, fustian inanufattura. (tine 14. W. Ogilvie and
I. Ogilvie, of army agents. uno S. IL. Welch,
of Strood, Sant, house 'carpenter.

Two Troops of the 6th Dragoon Guards marched
into Truro Barracks last week.
An encampment, at Joao men in the eastern part
of Sussex,' is in contemplation. General DON is no.
minated tci,the command.
Saturday the 98th Regiment marched into Mr.
racks in Winchester.
The lately deceased Counsellor HAMMBA, of
Norway, has beque,athed to, the Norwegias So.
ciety of Sciences at Drontheim, not only his Li.
braty, Iviimumuripts, Bec. but likewise a stun of about
twenty thuoiand rix 'dollars.. Conformably with
the teitutatior,i ttf this Society, its revenues are cm.
played in promoting the study of lidtural -History,
and in ,defray ing the expences of Tours undertaken'
for that purple-4 wink the exception of otie.third,
which iaapporiated to the increase of the capital.
Yn 1799 the SUM of E Zoo rix dollars wa-s left to it
by anodic( .private irndividiral. Besides this, the
Library, which, in 'l7Bi, consiiited, of 12,000 vo,.
wines, has been augmented by she collations of se.
veral native Literati.

•
Oo Tueiday„lsst the TtierMial..tloughing M star,
under the patronage of. the Bath and West of Eng.
land ScCiety, took plate near ,the village :of Rati--
stock, in Sornerstlshire. Three candidates started,
viz. Mi. Bilisn~;wley, two.futrow plough,
draWn by six oxen, with a driver, to whom the
judges assigned' the first premium ; Mr. Ludlow,
with the Beverstone single
_plough% drawn by two
without 4 driver, zd premium ; and Mr.
Rodberd', with a light one--wheel plough, drawn by
three horses, with a driver, -3.1 premium. The field'
sr.l...!deLl, was an
,oldFreoch,gspss layer, the soil very
and abOundinr with lore stones ; each plough
had half 'wan liiiltnisl4's man ploughed
his half acre In an hour and 3o minutes ; Mr. Lud.
low's in two 'lours eight *nines and a hall ; and
Mr. Rodi?eril's in one lour and 38 minutes.
On Tuesday- se"oniAltt, an ewe, belonging to a
,fartner at 'Yenworilitoo,
.near Preston, lambed four
latrib4; 'three of theft] ewes, the other a top ; they
arc all aod, :from all appearance, the
mother wib 4:able to suckle them.
At Launceston Sessions .a man of the name of
,Jo,pOssess property to the amount of
r fool was futinit guilty of stealing beef,, mutton,
and yolk, out 'of the Exeter inn, in that town; and
,sentenced to beliubliely whipped at the cart's tail;
which sentence haste 6 since executed.
• One of ;LO:CioCliqs from EXttet tO Plymouth
.broke down near Ivy Bridge, on Wednesday : these
,were Six persons inside, and four on the roof ; but,
with the exception of one lady, who received a
slight contusion on the head; they all escaped un-
hurt-.--the. other coach upset a day or two before:
Baturday morning a Soldier in, the Coldstream
uards employed on the .custorn..house Quays in
rolling casks,, of re6ified Irish Whi.ky, contrived,
by means of a vtetf, to suck such a quantity through
a perforation in the bung, that he dropped senseless,
and was till tm to the, Hospital with no hopes °lre-
covery.
On Tuesday night an alarming fire broke out in
- Sun.street, Bishnesgate, which consumed twelve
houses, 3'14 for some time threatened destraiion to
the neightiourtiood ; liowiver, by the adivity of the
tircmen, AO the alacrity with which the engines
arrived, it was extinguished:
On Mi)rulay flight a fire broke out at Caine, which
consumed three 'housesi and greatly damaged two

others..,
Two ancient.rnaids, sisters, named Harrison, are
now living at North Somercoates, in Lincolnshire,
whole joint ages ►Hake 197 'years.

SHIP NEU'S.

PCIOI,Z; MAY 13.

Arrived--the ProVidence, Danish, from Guernsey; Eliza•
bet h..W hitt:way, from Topsham ; William and Mary, Boynes,
from Southampton • Olive-Branch, Gilbert, froin Lontion ;
Brothers,- Lambert, 'from Trilby y and Edinburgh, Lind, Jim
Newhavdri. '
Sailed--the Six Brothers, Kidwelly, Active, Griffiths, and
Lively, Hughes, for. Liverpool ; Good Intent, Thascliell,
for Swanage ; Active, Williams, and Active, King, for
Portsmouth,

CRAVISIIND, MAY tB.
Passed by—the Smallwood, Money, from Baltimore ; Eli.
Zabeth, Davis, from Cork ; Elia,abeth, Parry, from Stock.
holm ; Antrcepe, Beard, front l'onningen; Three Sisters,
Fanson, from Norden ; Vrow Melina, anson, from Charente;
lora 'Scott, from Pillad ; Henrietta, Walker, CollStalitid,
Miller, and: long ['burning, —, from Bourdeaux.
Sailed—the 1 lura, Tuilock, fot Oporto; Maria, De Costa,
for St. Michaels ; Minerva; Laidler, for Angola ; Nymph,
Lawson, for Cork; Speculation, Broberg, for Stockholm;
Frau Wilhelmina, Janson, for Cettenburgh; Dolphin Creaser,
lan Schoon ; Ceutte Holthung, Nagell I , and the Vrow
Margaretta, for Tonuingen.
MAY 13.—Passed by—the Swan, Moore, front Tenerifre ;
Malta, Edmonds ; Minerva, Meeke ; and St. }ones, Tooke,
from Lisbon ; Eliza, Creataker, from Dublin ; Mary, Mack.
ford, and Fame, Meredith, from Waterford ; Resuluticin,
Thompson, from North Bergen ; lustitia, Mason, from Cha.
rante ; Caroline, Loskey,t and Navigation, Evans, from
Dantzic • Dc lager, Dc Frize, from Harting ; Liebe, Ander-
son ; and
Resolution, Ryland, front rillatia
Sailed,-.oe st. Patrick, Campbell; for Belfast"; liitl•Ann
and Rebecca, tar Norway.

MAY 4.—Passed by—the johan Frederick, Swinton, from
South Carolina; Buwningp, and Eleanor, Wright,
from Memel ; Penelope, Lamb, front Gottenburgli ; Quccn,
Lawson, Coward, Beattie, Aurora,
,Robson, and Margaret,
Hazlewood, from Dantzic ; Anna Lucie, Deitzen, from
'fonningen; Scarthlogwell, Gray, Margaret, BroWn, 'and
Providence, Clark, from Pillau ; Defiance, Reynold*, from
Copenhagen; Peter Catharini, Abbott, from liambro' ;
Two Brothers, Russ, Vront Hannan, Cattle, ionge Helena,
I.'we Gebrooers, Janson, and Viow Gesitia, ---, front
Embden:

BIRTHS,
On Siincl.ty morning, at the house of Samuel Turner, Esq.
Upper W impole-street, the Lady. ot lames Lake, Esq. ot
Son.
On Monday, at Mystole, in Kent, the Lady of the Rev.
Sir
_John Fagg, hart, of a Daughter.
O'n Sunday, in Somerset-place, the Lady of Capt. Towry,
of a Son.
On Monday, the Lady of Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Robert
ot a bon.
On Monday last, at Clare Priory, Sueblk, Mrs. Barker,
of it Daughter.
Tuesday morning, in Abingdon-street, Westminster, the
Lady of Mr. Bellamy, jun. of twins.
On Tuesday last, Lady' lane' Long,' of a Daughter.