The Sun.
London, England, 1802-01-27 00:00:00

'ARM, JAN, 23.

IT is asserted in Letters from Narembrtrg, that
the ICING of PRUSSIA intends to add that City, with
its territory, to his other possessions in Franconia.
The lot of the Circle of Franconia is decided. Some
of its distriets fall to the share of the ELEcroa. of
BAVARIA : amongst others, the Bishopric of Eich-
stett, and several Bailiwicks of the Margraviate of
Bajrilah, ceded to the Eledor by the KING of
PitussiA ; A -:part of the Bishoprics of Bamberg
and Wurtzhotorg, pass under the Prussian Dominion :
the remainder tinder that of the PR INC E of OR.ANGE.
It is' added, that the Court of Berlin is agreed upon
the subjea with the French Government and the
Court of Petersburgh, and that this agreement is
understood to be founded upon the sth Article of
the Convention signed at Berlin on the sth of Au-
gust_l796, between France and the Court of Prus-
sia, which is to the following effea :
" If, by the event• of the Pacification, the re-
establishment of the NOUSE of ORANGE in Holland
.cannot take place, the two Contraaing Parties en-
gage to interpose their mediation, to procure a suit-
able arrangemen tbetween the Batavian Republic and
the PRINCE of ORANGE, the conditions of which
shall be, on the one part, the Renunciation of all
the rights of. the Stadtholderate, as also all the
Estates which the Prince shall , possess in Bel-
gium, and on the Left Bank of the Rhine ; and, on
the other part, the Batavian Republic shall en--
gage to pay to the PRINCE of ORANGE, an In-
demnity equivalent to the value of his possessions,
unless the Republic shall chuse to leave him in the
possession of his Estates, to be disposed at a more
convenient season. •

" The French Republic engage to employ all
its powers to obtain in favour of the PRINCE of
ORA6E.and hii Heirs Male, .the Secularization of

the, Bishoprics of Wurtzbaurg and B,thlhere" , to
which shall be:joined the Eleaoral Dignity ; so

that the reversion shall be assured to the HOUSE of
BRANDENBURGH, in the event of the failUre of
Mail Issue in the HOUSE of ORANGE."

LYONS, JAN. IS.—Deputations from several De-
partments have been presented to the FIRST CON.

sur„ who appeared highly sensible of the eagerness
with which the Citizens came from all parts, to see
him, notwithstanding the great distance and the

rigour of the season.
The Counsellor of State, Prefea of the De-

partment, eager to fulfil the benevolent intentions of
the First Consul_ towards those inhabitants of the

City, who stand in need of assistance, has ordered
a sum of 6,000,000 francs to he placed at the dis-
posal of the three Mayors of Lyons, for the pur-
pose of being distributed amongst the indigent, in
propo:,tion to their respeaive wants.
The It;'rst Consul is expeaed here to-morrow, or
the next day,.

General MA CDONALD is arrived here.

The Division which left Cherbourg on the isth
instant, took onboord all kinds of provisions. The
Troops who were emZiarked, were entirely ignorant
of their destination.

They write from Aciens, that nothing has
transpired withceitainty- reqative to the Negocia-
tions ; it is hoped however, that the result will
not fail to be soon known to the .Public.

D'OBEN (HUNGARY), JAN. 3.—Letters from
Sentlin, announce that the greatest trhnquillity pre-
vails at Belgrade, and that the ancient orderof things
is entirely re-established, The same Letter also
mentions‘ a bloody Battle which had taken,place in
Wallachia, between a body of. Ottoman Troops and
those of PAswAN OGLOU, the latter of which were
compelled to retreat with the loss of 100 men.

The Court of Berlin has not yet acknowledged
Lady CRAVEN, wife to the Margrave of ASSrAC,II,
as a Princess of the German Empire.
It is generally believed in Germany, thit M. de
FL4cKSIANDEN will be,eleEted by a great majority
to the dignity of °rand Master of Malta.
RATIsmoN, JAN. t 9 are a number of
reports in circulation here ; among others, it is
said that the best understanding subsists between
the Courts of Peter4urgh and roma, in cOnSe-
quence of which the former has intimated' to the
Court of Munich, that it would not interfere with
the views of the EMPEROR of GERMANY.

BP.USSELS, JAN. IS. - The Dutch Squadron
which is ready to sail from the Tex'el arid the Meu;e
for Batavia, is composed of one Ship of the Line,
two Frigates, and,,a Cutter. The Troops, and the
Persons_ who are.-ho fill Civil Offices, are already
on board, and the Fleet only waits for a fair wind
to sail. Another and a much larger Fleet, is pre_
paring in the Ports of. Holland, -which will-sail as
soon as the Definitive Treaty is signed, to take
possession of •the Cape of Good Hope- and the.
Moluccas. •

We. learn 'froth Luxemburgh, that the famous
_SCHINDERHA-NNES, who is at the head of some
Brigands in the Ilunsdr44, .has sent ErnissAries

into all the beighbotringbepartmenfs to raise wel''
Every exertion is making to discover his agents.
STOCKHOLM, DEC. 29.—Several accounts which
have been received, state that a great number of
Vessels have been totally lost near the Is!and
Gothlamd. Our Herring Fishery has not been s°
favourable qs formerly, Which is attributed to the
violence of the winds. The price of grain continue'
to fall ; but this is more owing to the Peace than £0
the abundance of the harvest.

One of the Proprietors of our Mine 3 has failed
for 400,000 rix-dollars.

FRANKFORT, JAN. 'a 4..—The. [post certain inter
ligence known at this moment about the forgeries d
Bank Notes, is as follows :—LAZA.RUS WOLF W
denounced by a Jew of Frankfort, who had received
Forged Notes, and the Police Guard of Hanau kept
him, in consequence, in confinement. WOLF by
dexterity of his agents, escaped, and took refuge ijti
INflayence. Citizen HERSINGER, French Resident at
Frankfort, informed Citizen JoLMET of what h 0
passed ; in consequence of which, at the request of the
Burgomaster of liethau, Citizen Jor,tv str, who 1133
provisorily ordered the Jew to be guarded by four men,
consented to set him at large, and some days after"
wards the Hussars of fleSse Cassel went to search for
the aforesaid WOLF at Cassel, opposite to Mentz,
and carried him by the way of Frankfort to Hanauy
where he remained under arrest in his own house;
he was afterwards concluded to the principal guard.
He has since been set free by the orders of the French,
without any difficulty. Austria has nowise inter-
fered in the affair. No House in .Frankfort 110
discontinued its payments on account of these for-
geries. The brothers HoLzMANs alone have of'
mentarily, for prudential reasons, stopped payment,
even of those sums which they have in their handf.,
as they had been accustomed to make payments foe
WOLF, and had formerly accepted" several of his
bills, which they could,not now hope to recover.

THE THEATRE.--The revival of Venice Pt'
serv'd is likely to be one of the most produetive re' •
presentations of Drury-Lane Theatre this Seasoo•
It was last night attended again by a very numerous
Audience,.and was throughout very well perform'
ed. KEMBLE has evidently bestowed particular'
attention on j.,7‘ffie,.- The force and the feeling
the part are given with appropriate merit, and 32'
together it is one of his besr efforts. As to the -
Belvidera of Mrs. SIDDONS, it is one of the most
perfea specimens of theatrical skill ever seen, at'
malice would in vain hunt for a defea in bet per`
forrnance. PAcx.v.g's Renault is also an excelleo.
piece of k e
ling. The applause was abundant. :SBr,,
are glad to see this well
.Written drama restoredr;tk
the- Stage, since the politicatpassages• are corrole..
ed with a manly spirit of freedom, apparently de`
void of all fatious malignity.
Mrs. BILLINGTON, the Public will learn
great satisfattion, is recovering apace from her 151
very serious indisposition,
Lord JOHN TOWNSHEND has shevrn so much P°.;
etical ability in his Prologue to Urania, that it 18
to be regretted he should have abandoned theory-
ery tracks of the Muses for the thorny ways of .0"
litioi.

Yesterda4r, in the Court of King's Bench,
Writ of Mandamus was ordered to the Most Nob
le
the Duke of LEEDS, calling upon him as Lord °
the Honour of Wakefield, in the County of Yo'.1";!
to admit the Right Honourable THOMAS CONOO'
to certain Copyhold Estates within the said Hatlo°l:4.
The Court was engaged near two.hours in coast;
dering the propriety of this step. ,The Estates had
belonged to the Earl of STRAFFoR.D, Mr. Ca'
NOLLY'S grandfather, and the whole pedigree a
Wentworth family was examined.
The following we venture to give as an Extr36
from an original Letter of, that great zu.an, Dr'

OHNSON
" Your debts in the whole are not large ; ark Of
the whole but a small part is troublesome. Srna.,
debts are like small shot; they are rattling on ever/
side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound;
Great debts are like cannon, of loud noise but lilt',
danger ; you must therefore be enabled to discharge
petty demands, that you may have leisure witt
security to struggle with the rest. Neither 11),
great nor little debts disgrace you. lam sure Ya."
have my esteem for the courage with %%4)IA-17i
contraaed them, and the spirit with which ir)c
endure them. I wish my esteem could be of war

use."

LEWIS THE FOURTEENTH, AND VANDERNIgtI;'•
,LEN, THE CELEBRATED PAINTER.-TherC cor
from one of the Provinces to Paris, a man s •
much resembling Lewis XIV. as to be quite a decer;
tion. If he went to church, to the public walks, °J,
the theatres, he drew all eyes on him—they belie°,
they saw the King himself. He was the talk of t'lo
whole City of Paris, and, at last they spoke of hill" Id:
His Majesty, who became desirous of seeing him, 31'45
he was introduced at the levee.—Louis XIV.
himself struck with the resemblance, and aftei hays
ing given a favourable reception to
,the strange"
he humourously said, It is thaniht thfit
.we rest:7ll,P'it t ,
each othe?' cvery much : didlyour mother' `ewer litre ~
Court in the trme .of Louis: OWL " No, Sire",s
answered the other, " but -my father- did." -"tc,
sally pleased the King, and it is not necessary
add, that the stranger was soon after promoted.
On the 23c1 of December the French Triburo
of Commerce grave JudgMent, condemning
RATIGBA to make restitution in cash of 65°13.
13.
sterling to PATRICK' MACPHERSON, an Americad
Merchant, being the amount of fourteen forge
Bank of England Notes which he had given the
latter, with the expences at Paris and London.
The Adventure, Stanton, from Dublin tO
low, foundered at her 'anchors, Crew drowned'

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NAVAL NEWS.

PORTSMOUTH, JAN.
z 6.

HARWICH, JAN. 26.

DEAL, JAN. 26.

FALMOUTH, jAk. 24-

ARRIVED this evening, the Ann Transport,
from Gibraltar • left that place the Ist inst. in corn-
Pany with His Majesty's Ships Diadem and Ulysses.
Arrived the Aurora, M'GEE, from London,
bound to the Coast of Guinea; Vrczci Catharina,
from Guyonne for London, with nuts ; and George,
Boy Lit, from London for Lisbon.

Sailed the Minotaur Man of War and Carysfort
Frigate, on a Cruize.

THE Express Packet, Capt. Dtt.t., and the
.bran Packet, Capt. STUART, arrived from Hel-
voetsluys, each with a Dutch Mail and Passengers.

ARRIVED and sailed for the River, the guno,
MILLER, from Charlestown, and Lady Ando•ver,
1-16.DDEN-, from Jamaica.

ARRivzn the Walsingham Packer, in ten days,
from Lisbon, with Mails and Passengers. Sailed
from hence with Mails on the 28th December, and
arrived at. Lisbon on the 4th of January, where she
Mfound His Majesty's Ship Penelope, of 36 guns,
vDC BLACKWOOD ; Constance, of 24 guns, Capt.
ct and Netley Schooner, remained in the
Tagus until the 13th; during which time His Ma-
iesty's
there Ship Phaeton, of 38 guns, Capt. MORRIS,
with
arHved
;• as did also the King George Packet,
Mails from Falmouth ; she left the above Ships
in the Tagus when she sailed, and arrived here this
day, without speaking any vessel on her passage,
for has she brought any news. The only passengers
were, Mr. GA.RDNER, Mr. BROWN, and Mr. TIP-
LARY.
The Mails of the 13th and zoth inst. for Lisbon,
temain here still.

GREENOCK, JAN: 22.
blur a most tremendous storm all yesterday
and part of last night, from N. N. W.
The Afe)4ury, 13'Ect, from Charlestown, arrived
atly in the morning) n came hin G-
-foci( Bay) where she
stialld remainsto ;anc bur,or as itou is
EOW moderate, she is expeeted to get up to the Roads
this day,

Admiral Lord NELSON attended yesterday at the
Admiralty.
' There are about twenty Vessels at Harwich,
‘‘ind bound, many of them with loss of anchors and
talyit?rand other damages.
dove Nine sail of vessels went to sea the 4th inst. from
Shields: The next day a gale came on, which
of them them all on shore upon Seaton Sands ; three
'enl 'be wrecked, the others are expeded
li)be got off.
The Planter's Reward, Dunn, of Alloa, bound to
Berwick, foundered off Eyemouth on the 16th inst

During ihe performance of La Grande Ville lately
at Paris, a disturbance took place in the Pit. A
Military man, who interfered for. the restoration, of
Order, was struck, on which he drew his sabre ;
and several individuals being Much alarnied, got
t_i!pon the stage: Order was soon restored, and the
fiece was finished in tranquillity. At all .the re-
presentations of La Grande Yale, the approvers of
the Piece,
_and those who are hostile to its repre-
sentation, 'appear nearly equhl in number.
There seems a sympathy between the great
Singers and Dancers at Paris and Landon. The
last French Papers announce, that Mademoiselle
IylzzEriA., a celebrated Dar.cer, was dangerously
ill.. We have our Dancer,
cur PARrsor,
our BILL INGTOti all laid up at once.
l Some time since, a new Sed sprung up in one of
the North American.countrics, who have taken the
appellation of Deists. Their system rejeds every
.
social regulation; which counterads the impulses of
attire, and on these grounds, the marriage Lion
entirely is exploded; leaving that species of connexion
entirely to the didates of Nature. Unfortunately,
however, for this Society, the greater part of it
is composed of adventurers, thieves, and plun_
eters..
n„,-
A r s" who lately resided in a Northern
c ounty, and WaS considered among his rustic neigh,
bouts as
ed
to a man of great learning, was very genetally
employ write epitaphs. His Latin ones were
tie ha
always cu
med oprised hr two words, " Talis eris"—
d this so frequently; that he at last.
got,
among the countrymen, the name of the TaliJ-Inab*
On Sunday last Mr. ld a wager
e)f five guineas that he
would crossthCit they riaiver Thames
in a washingltub at high water. About eleven
o'clock in the morning he made the attempt, at-
tended by four boats, and proceeded with much
dexterity •.vith his paddles until he got into the
rniddle, when, losing his balance, the tub upset,
and Mr. H. was immersed in the surge, to the no
small entertainment of the spedators.
A boy, only Lii, years of age, was yesterdaj,
brought before the Magistrates
,at Boxy-street, by
Ids. master a Gentleman in the Temple, to give an
account
his master's chambers ; in consequence of which,
some of the Bow-street Officers. had kept watch the.
preceding night, in expedition of the robbers.. but
nothing taking place, the truth of his story was
auspeded, and on being interrogated, his whole tale
‘‘',as found to be false, and his persogzas identified
as haying been in July last tried for stealing a sil-
vet vvatch, - the Old Bailey, but acquitted. There
being reason to susped he is conneded with thieves
The 4agistrates ordered him to be detained. ,

LAW REPORT:

COURT OF KING's BENCH, JAN, 26.
CHARACTER OF BAIL.

hi the course of justification of Bail, in tvhici-t.
it .was stated in an affidavit, which was made ki.
oppose them, that one of them had lately been di -
charged by an Insolvent Aa, and that neither of then
was solvent, as the Deponent was informed Iv
some of the neighbours of the Bail, &c. the Bal
themselves denied all this, and swore positively t)
their possessing considerable property in the Fund:,
&c. This was stated on the part of the Plaintif
to he a surprize on him, and therefore' it was re-
quested, that time should be given to inquire fur.
ther into the tharaaer of the Bail ; but

Mr. Justice GROSE said, that those who make
inquiry into the character of Bail, should not take
at random what any body may say to them in the
street, and then come forward and make affidavit
of it, for, by this pradice, it much too frequently
happened, that the chara&ers of men who became
bail for their friends, were grievously slandered.
Those who made these inquiries, should be cautious
of what they swore to, and take care there was
some foundation for that which they stated as in-
formation from others. The Learned Judge said,
he disliked exceedingly the affidavit in this case,
and for that reason would not allow any time for
further inquiry ; upon which the Bail justified.

Upon a motion to change the ,venue upon an Affi-
davit,.stating that the cause of A6tion arose in the
counties of Norfolk and Suffolk, and not in the
county where the venue was laid,

Mr. Justice GROSE said, the Court has always
held the rule in this case strictly ; there is a com-
mon form to be followed in the Affidavit, with
which the Court will not dispense.
Motion refused.

Mr. GAR ROW said, he was to make a Motion
which Lord KENYON had frequently expressed a
wish to hear, and which another of the Learned
Judges had occasion also particularly to observe
was much to be wished for in consequence of the
negligence of those who had the care of several
Causes of late in Surrey. It often happened that
the Judge appeared urn the Bench, the Jury sworn
in a Court of Justice, -,;le titles of Causes called en,
but none of the Parties who had the' condul of

these Causes appeared, so that they were struck
out. This Lord KENYON had often considered as
a grievous matter of complaint for the Parties,
and that a Motion againsl those who were guilty
of such negligence, ought to be favourably received.
Mr. GARROW said, he had an exemplary instance
now to bring before the Court, against an Attor-
ney, whose name we shall forbear to, state until
after he shall have an opportunity of sheaving Cause,
the particulars of which he stated, charging this
Attorney with having undertaken to be ready for
a trial, but when the Cause was called on, the At-
torney was not there, nor had he instructed Counsel.
It charged him also with having made out Ali ac-
count of subpoenas which he had never issued.
The Motion therefore was for a Rule to shew cause
why this Gentleman should not pay all the Par'ties
the costs which they had in these pro-
ceedings, and that the Attorney. may answer the
matters of the Affidavit, and attend the Court in
person at the time of shelving Cause:
Mr. Justice GkosE said, that Mr. GARtiOW
ended where he thought he should haVe biguni=
The Rule should ,be granted to shew Cause. Sup-
posing the case to be as stated in the affidavit, it
was very fit fdt the Court to examine. The Mo-
tion was a very proper one. As to what had been
said upon what took place lately in Surrey, it was
certainly true that great negligence appeared 'before
him, either in the Witnesses or Attornies, or, per-
haps both, the effect of which was most inconve_

ient to the patties, and deserved great reprehen_

sion.

Rule to spew Cause granted:

INSOLVENT DEBTORS ACi".

On a question, whether a Party who had been disc
charged under the last Insolvent Debtors Aft, was
discharged Only as to his person, but his effects
were liable for debts whit!, he owed before that.
discharge ? Or, whether, on that discharge his
goods
were free as well as his person ?-A-..an argu.: •
sent of considerable length took place • •

The fans are theSe:—The Defendant was
debted to the Plaintiff in 1798, upon which the
Plaintiff obtained judgment; but did not charge the
Defendant in executiom The Defendant was dis-
charged under the late Insolvent Debtors
After this; the Plaintiff revived his Judgment by
Scire Facial, without any real notice. to the De-
fendant, and afterwards issued Execution; and levied
upon the goods of the Defendantwho now con.
tends, that this Execution was a bad one, for that
both his goods and his person were discharged by
virtue of this Insolvent Ad:

The Phintit contended, that the ExeCution was
a legal ExecUtion in this case,. for that the insolvent
Debtors Al discharged only the person of the De-
fendant from the effeit of his debts at the time of
his diseh-arge, but
.that his goods were liable to the
payment of his debtsi

Gtatis contended; that the execution was a
good one, and he said, that although it was not
always an easy thing to find sense in every clause
of an Insolvent Debtors A6l; yet it would be pretty
extraordinary if the Legislaterehad put those. who
pursued legal diligence for the 'recbrery of their
debts, in a worse situation than those who had ne-
gleeted their tights; and had not pursued them at
all, which would be the case; if this was a bad
execution, since it was dear that this Plaintiff
would have been entitled to issue out an execution
against the gob& of this. Defendant; if he had not
pursued any measure for the recovery of the debt
before the Defendant .was discharged:
Mr. DAMPIER,- on the other side; contended,
that this was a case in which the Plaintiff had no
merit in his diligence, for the judgment was signed
In 1798, and revived by sci facias, first and
second, returned nibit, behind the back of the De-
fendant; but by which the judgment was, revivcd,„

a thing absolutely indispensable Witen the, judgment
becaMe above a year old ; and after the Defendant
was discharged by the ad, his goods were, on a
sudden, taken in execution. it was true he might
be let in to plead, and put this queStion in issue;
but to be let into plead Withotit a restoration of
the goods upon which the 'ei,:ecution was levied,
was a hard Measure, for, by this step the Defendant
had been for a second time, absolutely, as he swore,
reduced to beggary; Ile contended, that the last
Aft for the discharge of Insolvent Debtors, upon
the fair construCtion of it, meant that when any mail
had the benefit of it, he was, not only discharged
in his person, but every aftion, like the present,
pursued against him, before his discharge, was like-
wise at an end ; so that neither his effeas nor his
person could be again taken in execution for any
such aelkns before his discharge.
Mr. Justice GRoSE said, it seemed to him that the
best way to meet the justice of this Case, was to let
the Defendant in to plead if he should be so ad-
vised, not to order the 'Plaintiff to restore the goods,
for that he must do, and a good deal more, if the
issue should be found against him. The Learned
Judge said, he did not pretend to be thoroughly
possessed of the meaning of the Legislature in every
clause of this Aft of Parliament, but he had been
concerned in the discharges of many Prisoners under
them, and he had always understood that the person
alone was discharged by them, hut that the effects
were liable; however, the Defendant should have
an opportunity of pleading in this Case, if he should
be so advised, and that would draw the whole
question into discussion.

In the Case of an Officer in the Navy who had
resisted the Officers of the Sheriff when they came
to arrest one of the Officers on board, and for
which a Motion was made for an Attachment
against him,

Mr. GAZELEY, on the part of the.Plaintiffsaid,
that this Gentleman had paid all costs and charges
in this business, so that the Plaintiff had no objec-
tion to dropping the pursuit of it, if the Court were
satisfied with the apology which he understood his
Learned Friend, Mr. HoLRoYD, was instructed to
make for the Defendant.

Mr. Justice GrsosE.—" Well, Mr. • licii.kOyD,
what have you to :.ay for your Client ?"

Mr. HoLiterro said, that his Client had paid all
casts and charges in this matter. His condud, he
acknowledged to have been quite improper. He
was instruded to make a submission to the Court,
as had been done to the Admiralty, and he trusted
it would be received. •

Mr. Justice GROSE.—" I hope this, and other
Gentlemen, will take warning by this case, and
be convinced that they are not, under any pretence
whatever, to resist the process of the law, to which
all classes of His Majesty's subjeas must yield a
prompt obedience. If this Motion had been per-
sisted in, the consequences •to this Gentleman,
might have been very serious:"
Rule discharged.