The Sun.
London, England, 1802-02-09 00:00:00

COURT OP CHANCERY, F.

DRURY-LANE THEATRE

THE LORD CHANCELLOR went through the PI-Q-
-posals of Accommodation handed to him by the Par-
ties, and the Award of Mr. Serjeant PALMER, which
allows to Mr. GRUBB a Seventh of the. Profits of the
.Theatre : and after hearing the remarks, of Counsel
upon them, his Lordship ordered the business to
stand oyer'till Saturday se'nnight, signifying at the
same time, that he would receive no communication
on the subjel after Tuesday next. His Lordship
thought, that if the Parties complied with the terms
of the arrangement which was now made, the Con-
cern would become highly profitable.

LAW REPORT.

COURT OF KING's BENCH, FEB. 8.

THE KING V. IiVITHRINGTON. AND OTHERS,

Tx is was a Rule calling on WilliamWithrington,
Thomas Sharpless, an Attorney, -Thomas Weaver,
a grocer, John Groom, a cheesemonger,,and others,
to shew Cause why a Criminal Information should
not be filed against them for a Conspiracy to impose
upon the Tenants of- Mr. Standish, in the County
of Durham, to attorn to Withrington as the Heir at
Law to the Estate, he being-stated to be altogether
an impostor, &c.
The Court, after hearing Mr. WOOD on behalf
of Weaver/and Grooin) no Cause being shewn for
the rest, made the Rule absolute against all the
Defendants,.

7'llE HAMBLINGII MAIL.

NANAU, JAN.

TH E following cornea statement is circulated of
the loss which the Frankfort Commercial Houses
have sustained by the forgeries on the Vienna Go-
vernment Bank :

Florins. - Florins.
The Holzmanns izo,ooo Heider and Arledler .12,000
The Betlunanns - 85,000 Nicolaus Schmidt - 26,000
The Bohms - 49,000 The Meyers - 14,000
Zenn and Donner -10,00 e Baruch Bar - - 31,000
Gelliard 18,000 Bencdici Anton. May 50,000
The Sechels - 40,000 Samuel Sechel Landau 10,000
I Frieticic, - 17,000
None of these Houses have failed in consequence of
these losses.

BREMEN, FEB.

I)4usstA not having been able to come to an
amicable understanding with Austria, with regard
to the Indemnities to which each of them formed
pretensions, is at present extremely discontented
with the accommodations which -have taken place
on that subje4 between France and the Court of
Vienna, especially as the proje'ts of these two
Courts can be• in no
.respeas advantageous to her
interests. On this account the Court of Berlin en-
deavoms more and more to form a close alliance
with Russia, in order to prevent theTefFelis of this
plan of Indemnities. The rest of the Continent
awaits the result, and submits with patience to its
fate,

A man on horsebaCk lately appeared at Steinbeck,
a village of Holstein, four miles from Hamburgh,
.and proceeded to an inn, the proprietor of which
was reputed rich : he ordered supper ;, his hostess
divided het,'S with him, and he desired her to bring
him some pepper, While she ryas. absent in search
of what he required, a child observed him shake
some powder over the plate its mother was to eat
out of, and immediately went and informed the
mother of the circumstance. She conceiving it ex-
traordinary, procured .the absence of the stranger,
by telling him his horse had got loose: On his
return she presented-him the plate intended for her-
self, and he eat the contents without the least SUS-
piciot;—he soon after fell down lifeless, and upon
searching him a quantity of arsenie.was found in his
pdcketi and a pistol. The- pistol was discharged
out of The window, and three robbers approached,
who were seized and conducted to Pinneberg-.
There is a man in the poor-house. at Tavistock,
who has lately been seized, six different nights,
with apparent deadness, and in every resped exally
the same as a lifeless corpse, perfedly cold and sriff,,
so that if moved, the head, neck, and whole .frame
arc as a firm clod, or wooden. image; he has a con.
stant presentiment, by a dream, when this trance,
or suspended animation, will seize him.
On Saturday, a fellow who pretended to be deaf
and, dumb, and who had in the course of a week re-
alized 501: at Leicester by fortune-telling, was pub-
licly whipped at that place. During his trial, and
previous to his punishment, he concluded himself
with great art and hypocritical consistency; but
when the cat-o-nine-tails came on his back, he
could speak and hear as well as any of the spedaiors.
It appears la e had been a soldier in the 25th regi-
ment, and discharged in consequence of having
been wounded at Grenada ; and that on returning
to his friends in Yorkshire, he was met on the' road
by a woman who pradised the profession of fortune-
telling, and prevailed on him to join her; but -on
his coinmitment, she decamped with their joint
earnings. .

Hatiour landed Proprietory embraced, :under an
early operation of the Land-Tax Redemption Bill,
that most advantageous moment for purchasing,
when the 3 per Cents, were at 47 and a fradion;
they might ihave redeemed their Land-tax at less
than :sixteen years purchase. That golden oppor-
tunity was let slip by the great majority of the
Land Owners ; yet to such is presented at this in-
stant (as the term of redemption is to be extended),
notwithstanding the 3 per Cents. now border on
7,0). -a still more easy and auspicious means for ex-
* Tilting their Estates from the above, as well as
,ever: other incumbrance. The suggestion is, the
adveituring in the all-inviting and approaching
Grand Lottery. One or More Tickets or Shares
Might not only redeem the Land-tax, but become a
sunshine of good fortune to many an estate invisled
in gloom. Suceest, however, may be rendered
more probable, from the purchase of such Tickets
and Shares at Pori's " 'fortunate Office,". Royal
Exchange, close by the Bank of England, distin.
guiAled for prosperous adventure, and for payment
of Prizes on demand.