The Sun.
London, England, 1802-02-13 00:00:00

THE ..:.!-`i-)L ';ITR'E.,7)*.

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the Fair Penittht, can or (int- Old popular Trage-
dies, was represented at this Theatre last 'night.—
The Calista of Mrs. St IIDnNS, if n'Ot to be ranked
with her best efforts, is only inferior in not afford-
ing equal scope to her talents. Her chief excel-
lence last night was in the scene with Horatio, when
he taxes her with dishonour. The emotions of
sentment, alarm, indignation, **agony, were all
given with admirable force; sensibility and ex-
pression. We notice th;.s scene a§, 'expressive of
peculiar merit, but the whole of the charaaer was
supported in a manner worthy of this great At-tress.
One passage, however, we must particularize,
because, though we have attended numberless Ca-
lista's, we river heard. it given before with such
emphatic expression of indignant agony :

" Scorn'd by the women—piried by the. men—
" Oh insupportable 1"

It is impossible to describe the keen sense of
bitter self-reproach, and tortured pride, with which
Mrs. SIDDONS delivered these words.

KEMBLE, though oppressed with a very severe
cold, rendered Horatio conspicuous and impressive.
His remonstrances with Lothario were conveyed
with a moral energy, that produced a strong effea
upon the audience. He was also very successful in
the scene with Ca/ifta, and sustained the part
throughout with,marly dignity and feeling.
The person of CHARLES KEMBLE very well cor-
responds with the charaeter of Lothario, and he ex-
hibited its proud levity and impetuous insolence
with tolerable success.

'WROUGHTON was highly respeetable in Scidto,
though his aspen`} was rather too jovial for the so-
lemnities of the weeping Muse.
Lavinia is seldom allotted to so good an aEress
as Mrs. POWELL, and she ought to be commended
for taking a part so much below her rank in the
Theatre.

There was a numerous, but by no means, a
crowded auditory.

L. mew... Garden.

Lave in a Village, with the powerful support of
Mrs. BILLINGION'S great. voca-Ltalents, drew a
very numerous audience to this Theatre. Her
health an ,
d spirits seemed b'e'p- erfealy recovered,
and she sung in her best stile. We have before had
'occasion to notice the improved manner in which
shee-giVes the Dialogue, and she was last night so
happy in her exclamation to the audience, " Oh !
Men, men—you are all alike," after Hedge's bruta.
lity to Afadge, that she raised almost as much ap,
plause as by her musical excellence..

Mrs. Powers. left one of her Iho.:is last night on
the stage while performing .Lavinia at Drury-Line
Theatre, but the loss did not occasion any false
step.,

Several theatrical repreSentations in Paris are, it
seems, exhibited in caves, or cellars. Considering
the high pretensions of the boasted Republic, it
could har4ty. be thouBlic 41aat its public amusements
would be so low.

We present the Public with the following passage
from a French Paper, as a proof of the corrcaneLs
of the Gallic Press in British Literature. It is
said to be taken from an English Poet, but we can-
not recognize the simple original in the French ha-
prcvetneat.

Whett you came into this world
All acound you smild whilst you wept.
Now so aet, that when you depart
You may whiht all acound yon weep.

It is stated in a Paper of yesterday, that " Operas
are vehicles for Music—by this rule a Solo is a
Sulk}•, a Duet is a itis-a-17;s, a Ouartetto' a Coach'
that holds four, and a Chorus a Lang Coach."--The
Writer might have added, that a:Giee is a Gig, a
Long Song is a Tandem,. attd a DriWing Song a
Whiskey.

KoTzEaut paped two months at Berlin, which
place he has jut left, and is gone to Weymar.

The Society'of Arts and Sciences at Utrecht tvill
adjudge, 00. t, 18oz, a ILuble Prize to the best
Memoir on the following subjea : By what meaas
" may Duels be prevented in a country where opi-
" nion declares it disgraceful in a man nor to elm!-
" lenge one who has insulted him ?—How ought he
" to att in such a case ?" Memoirs sent to the
Society may be written in Dutch, English, French
or Latin. They must be addressed, franked, to the
Secretary of the Society, M. LIICHTMANN, •at
Utrecht, taking care to give the name only, in a,
sealed note, along with a motto to distinguish it,
which shall also be placed at the top of the Me-
moir.

From-the Hague we learn, that Govcrnmc►►t
litely granted considerable sums for conszruding the
Harbour of Helvoetsluys, which, after the• works
are finhhed, will be one of the best in Europe.
The Professors of the Academy of Health, and
Physicians of Strasbutgh, are about to form a So-
ciety to correspond with the Societies of Medicine
and Natural History, in France and Germany.
Polish Prussia, formerly an uncultivated tray of
country, is daily enriched by the active measures of
the Government. Towns and villages have been
built, public roads opened, bridges ercth'd, and
schools established. Commerce and Manufattures
receive the greatest encouragement. Hitherto no
convents have been suppressed ; but they are obliged
to pay 3o per cent. out of their Revenues into the
State Treasury.

,LONGEVITY".—There are now living in the
pa,rWi of W 3 e, in Kent, forty-five perst?ls whose
united ages amount to three thousand Aur.hundred
aid fifttr years, viz.

is whose ages amount to 127 s
is - ditto - tt2.5 Total 3450 years!
is - ditto - toso

Yesterday evening, between the hours of seven
and eight, a poor woman in going through Belton_
street, St. Giles's, was run over by a brewer's
dray, by which she had the misfortune to have her
thigh and two ribs fraftured, and was otherwise
Much injured. She was immediately taken tQ the
Middlesex. Hospital.

L.ll REPORT`;

COURT OF KING's BENCH, tEs, kZa

THE KING rv. THE. JUSTICES OF THE QUAP,TEr.

SESSIONS FOR THE COUNTY OF MIDDLESEX.

THE ATTORNZY GENERAL reminded the Court,
of this Co,. standing for its determination;
Mr. Justice Gkosc said, the Court had consider;
cd of this case, and were of opinion, that the Man:.
damns should not go. It was a Motion for a Man;-
damus to be diretted to the Justices, at the Session
for the County of Middlesex, commanding them to.
proceed to inquire into the value ofcertain Lands, &c;
at Bell Dock, to he purchased by the Corporation,
der the ACI of Parliament, for making the London
Docks, &c. This Motion was made on the sup;
posed Provision of the 96th Se&ion of the AEI;
which was for the purpose of enlarging the Dock;
Basin, or Entrance ; but that the limits of this
Dock were ascertained by the 25th Seetion of the
Aft, and by that SeCtion, Bell Dock, the place in
question here, was excluded by name out of..t he
mits prescribed by the .A(a, and, therefore, the Court
was of opinion, that this Mandamus ought not to go:

In a Case wherein an Attorney had been sued for
a debt, to execution, and taken under it, he sent
for the Plaintiff, who came to him in prison, stated
to him the misery of his wife and children from his
confinement, and he entreated that he might be en-
larged, upon an undertaking to pay the whole debt
and costs in three months. He was enlarged ac-
cordingly, but paid not a shilling to the
and at the distance of three years he was taken in
execution—upon which he moved to be discharged;
on .the ground that it was contrary to Law to•take
a person in execution ttvice for the same debt:
This was resisted under the special circumstances -
of the Case, of the Defendant being an Attorney;
and therefore to be supposed to know perfealy well
what he was about, and that of his being let.out for
his own accommodation, and that of the'case being •
extremely hard upon the Plaintiff; for that if the
Defendant was not set at large, the Plaintiff would •
be without a remedy. He had consented, not only
that his goods might be taken in execution, but his
person also.
Mr. Justice GrtosE said, that the condo of '-
Defendant, considering that he was an • Attorney
nd considering the great kindness which had beeii!';',..
shewn to him, and under-all the circumstances .of
the Case, his condul was absolutely shameful and
abominable, and might have a severe effeft on
Defendants confined for debt, by hardening their
creditors against them ; but still, the rule of law
was inflexible in this case. That rule was, that
no man could be taken tWice in execution for the -
same debt. Rules must not be overturned for the
purpose of accommodating the circumstances of a'
particular case, and therefore this rule for the De-.
tendant's discharge must be made absolute, but
without' costs, because the question of costs was
within the discretion of the Court. Rule absolute,
without Costs.

Upon a Case being called on, which was said to
involve a question of L3w, .

Mr. Just-ice LAWRENCE, observed, that on • the • .
last day of Term, there was no Law, as had lr.en.
said by my Lord HOLT, by which was meant, that
s.
no question involving a point of Law, was to be
discussed on the Last day of Term.