The Sun.
London, England, 1805-04-18 00:00:00

PROM TIM PREtyll* PAPSIti.

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AFfAL I.—The Aeronaut
is going ro Milan to assist at the fete of the Coro.
nation of 1-113 Majesty the Eniperor ; he is now at
Grenoble, where he is preparing a balloon of 606
yands of taffeta. .
Every title.of journals and Alnianacks being al.most exhausted, Germany has just heat) enriched by
a new Paper; the name of which; for the purpose of
exciting curiosity; is, The German Ladiers
written by Ladies, and edited by, i'lesclarnes
SCHILLBS; RdeFint, and Sett. vitt.
M. HAG ER, famous for many works of vast erti-
ditinn; and for the great undertaking which His
Majesty has entrusted to him, of publishing at Paris
a Dittionsiry of the , Chinese Language, with Chi.
nese characters, engraved by FoupAtoNT, has been
occupied, for some time, in putting,in alttler the
i t 7,660 charaEleii now in the Itilperial Printing.
house. This immense work finished, and nothing
delays the impression of die Dittionarfit; Thus France
will More and more justify the praise, which even
the English grant her, of having made known the
Chinese literature to the learned of Europe.
On the 2gth of last month six gun.boats froth
Calais came into Boulogne harbour, in the sight of
the English squadron.
The Court of Criminal Justice; sitting at Tours;
a few days since condemned a conscript, who had de.
livered to a tegister a dispensation troth service
whitiv he had forged, ro eight years imprisonment,
and to stand Six hours in the pillory.
The Tribunal of NiVelles, in the Department of
the Dyle on the Sth of March, pronounced a De-
cree which eendeintied a person vf the name of Fran.
cot to to. a fine of goo francs, and a year's imprison..
ment, he having been convicted of knowingly con.
ceding a conscript..
Artivect at Bourdeaux, during the last month,
157 vessels, manned by solo men, and carrying
r 6,077 tons. Sailed 175, manned by, to3+ men, and
carrying 16,219 trots.
The Department of La Vendie continues to be
infested with ravenous wolves, and, unfortunately.,
the woods with which the country is covered, have
rendered olniost ineffecluat every measure taken to
destroy them.

In the last sitting of the National Institute, M.
BioT read a letiute on the formation of water by
compression alone. It is known that water is com.
posed of two kinds of gas, oxygen And hydrogen,
which arc combined together by means of the elan.
tic spark. M., Biol has succeeded in making this
combination, independent of cledtricity, and in ra.
pidly compressing a mixture of the two kinds of
gas inclosed in an air pump. The compression, in
approaching the particles of gas, makes them throw
our a quantity of heat buil-lc:lent to set them on fire.
Some precautions must be taken in repeating this
experiment, as it cannot be tried without danger.
Out of three experiMents which M. BIOT made,
there were two of them where the tube of brass,
which forms the pump, and the pump itself, which
was of iron, have been burst by the force of the
explosion.
The family of D'Auatustt have become extinct
.by the death of Madame Da ToULONGRottr, Who died
at Fontainbleau on the agth slit.. Two persons
principally have made this family illustrious ;
AGRIPPA D'AUaZONS, famous for his courage,
for his attachment 14) Calvinism, and, above ail, by
the friendship of fluxx Y the FoUßTlij and Madame
IVIMNTEtION.

VIENNA, MARCH 21.-It is said that a new
rule is to be made, which will forbid, on pain of
Imperial censure, the printing or publishing, for
the future, of,any kind of it3mances in the Au. rian
States. Those that ltatre been already published by
permission will not be allowed to be advertised in
the Public journals.

FRANKFURT, 1111:14tu 3o.—Letters from Vienna
state, that Father M....uttice. Houßw remains at
Vienna, at the Hsuse of Lord I'AG at, the English
Ambassador, who has interested himself with the
Empetor'S Niinisters to grant him a Passport with
which hr return ; .hut we are assured, that
the answee made to Lord PAGET is in substance,
that FaCi2r MAUI rcE fiqURNE, in quality of Ec.
clesiastic, being under the authority of his Bishop
and the Pore, ought to submit himself to their or.
ders,, and that, at any rate, the Court of Vienna
could not, nor would nor, intermeddle in-this bit.
siness. it is thought, that the intriguing Bene-
dittine will go to England.
COt Ulltni APit IL r,—The Diet of Wirtem-
berg has addressed the ELtcroa on the subjed of
the arrests which hay:: lately taken place in that
country, a representation of which the following
is the substance

4, His Eleaoral Highness had nominated, to di.
rest the process in the case of the conspiracy, a pri.
vase Commission, composed of Members of the
.Privy Council and of the Regency, who appointed
far their Secretary the Secretary of the Privy Coun.
cil. This Commission has continued its functions
until the present time, without tile Regency of the
country having approved the establishment of the
extraordinary Commission, and without this last
having issued ulterior. instruaions and direttions of
procedure to the regular and only competent au.
thority. The Members of the Diet are certainly
very far from wishing to retard, in any manner,
the measures tending to discover the crime and she
critnithtls which rug exist, according to what His
Elettoral Highness has published; but, they be.
lieve they should violate the most sacred of
their duties, if they lost sight of the principles
sanctioned by the common jurisprudence in
Germany, as well as by the fundamental laws
Wirtemberg, Your Elettoral Highness cannot
be ignorant that the observance of these legal forms
was never in contradiction, as to such informations,
with the application of the legal means to discover
the truth; and if these are cases, in which the safety
of the State, or of the supreme, person of the So.
veteign, justify the prompt arrest of persons sus.
petted on light grotrnds ; the Constitution of Wir.
temherg expressly requires, that the proceedings
shall take place conformable with the stria observ.
ance of forms which it has precribed. The Mera.
tiers of the Diet are convinced that the Eleaor will
ur et misinterpret the principles, or swerve from the
said forms. They therefore pray hit Highness to
twill; this a'

ffilit ti 2 the R IXT

.44 1. ternbcrg, and tr.' suhp.l the Cot-66,19;0t) tamq:.
nary to the said authority."
,Tifeic has been nu iih3Vi et returned to this Rem
etrimee,
.;
The Diet have conf(rmed KLUPPiEi Lia
post of Deputy Extraordinary, or he i'vivisimial
States to Vienna.; The .Powers, with which ivi;
BATZ had been invested are suspended till the issue
of his prosecution.
The Commission
,Extraordinary is held ire the
Chateau de la Solitude, where arc also the accu3ed
parsons, who are very well crested; each have two,
apartments, a very good table, and en.j..)y the liberty
of walking an hour every day, escorted by armed
chasscurs.

ST. SEBASTIAN, MARCH CJ.-- lie day bef)re
yesterday came into the Port of Guardia the Cot.
sair La Quitnacoana, belonging to a Privateer dour
Town, and commanded by D. MANUEL DE COI..
LADo. /C brought in an English Brig called the
Nell, richly laden with fine cloths and vaivabld
stuffs., destined for Turkey. This prize is estimated
at more than So,ooo piastres.

15 AYONNS, 11/bac!' 17.--Letters from Spain in.
form us; that Co)onel.Generdi JuNor, the new Am.
bassador of the Emperor to the Portuguese Govern-
ment, is arrived at Madrid, fwra whence he contV
nues his route to Lisbon.

According to the same accounts, there has issued
horn St. Stbastian;.sl. Andre; Vigo, and other Ports
of Biscay and Gallicia, a great number of Privateers,
to pickup the English Merchantmen.
Nice, MARCIr 32.—Messrs. LECLERC and
Company received yesterday news from s
that the Corsair L' I ntrepidt, newly fitted out,
had taken from the English, and carried into a
Spanish Port, a second prize, laden with tobacco
manufaitured at Braid.

Ti, HAGUE, MARCH 30.—Every thing is
ready for the formation of the Camp at Ziest. it
is thought that the Troops will go into it on the
tat day of May.
E,ery thing possible has been done lately to auk»
ment the number of Troops fur the Colonies, and,
above all, the number-of Officers. Some days since
a detachment went from this for the Cape of Good.
Hope, and, with it, some Superior Officers, anal
many Artillery Officers. Their arrival in that Co.
bony will be by so much the more necessary, as WS
have been informed that some months ago Colonel
LECAT, and many Superiol Officers, went from
thence with a certain quantity of Troops to Bata.
via, and the other Dutch Possessions in Asia. The
last news which we have received of Vice. Ad.
miral HisturstNeit and his Squadron are extremely sa.
tisfaelory.

The last news from the Cape of Good Hope tea
moves all the fears which had been entert.tincd of a
project of the enemy against this Colony ; they had
no other origin but the imagination of one of the
Colonists.

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COPENHAGEN, MARCH 20.---Af new regula,ion
has just been made, which forbids, under the must
severe penalty, recruiting for Foreign Powers.
BERLIN, , MARCH 23.--. Her Majesty the
Qytart is entirely recovered from her indisposi.
tion, and, to.morrow, will receive the oomph:.
ments of condolence of the whole_ Court, on ar•
count of the death of Her Majesty the QUEEN
Dow A'GIER.

Dodor GALL, of Vienna, has commenced his
Lettures in the Hall of the Academy with the great-
est success. The nu:nber of spelators increases at
every meeting; we have remarked there many
Princes, and his system has already made a great
sensatiJn.

LAW REPORT.

SHERIFF'S COURT, WEDW&IDAY, 17.

LYNE Z. irAMILTONr.

THE Plaintiff, who is a Hosier in. Oxford.streeto
had paid his addresses to a Miss Wade, the &ugh.
ter of a respeaable tradesman at Lambeth,' and af.
terwards married her. The Defendant had also
been a suitor with the same Lady, and entertained
hopes of succeeding, when he was supplanted by
the Plaintiff, which circumstance became the ground
of animosity between the parties. On several oc.
visions the Defendant had openly insulted the Plain.
tiff, but by the interference of friends they appear.
ed to be reconcile.; ; until meeting accidentally
during the last autumn, at the Horse and Groom
Public-house, near Kingston ; the old topic was re..
newed, and as they had been sacrificing to the
Jolly God, the most impassioned language occurred,.
The Defendant, who is described as a muscular
man, exercised his horsewhip on the Plaintiff, in a
most unmerciful manner ; struck him a violets'
blow in the face with his fist, and was only testrAn.
ed from proceeding to further violence by the set.
vants of the house. Alter these fatls had been
proved, the Jury returned a Verditt of--zo/. ,D 4.

Yesterday the Westminster Sessions commenced
he\lore W. MAINWALING, Esq. and a full Bench of
Magistrates.
Wooston was found guilty of stealing brass
knobs from the door of Mr. Robertson, 13, St. Mar.
tin's.lane., It appeared that every night a quantity
of knockers, plates, &c. were stolen in the neigh-
bourhood, and'a watch was set on foot to smite the
offenders. The Prisoner was seen lurking About the
Prosecutor's door on the r3th of February, and he
was ultimately deteded after having cot. off the pm..
petty in question.• He stated himself to be a lack,
erer, and that the Prosecutor had 'etnployed him to
fresh- varnish the nobs..—:-Judgmeat resjsitei4
Thomas Tomlin and Saatuel Prarna were found
guilty of stealing it quantity of cloth, the property
of Mr. Pearce, a, tailor, in Long.sere. The Pri.
soners were Journeymen employed by the Prosecutor
at 275. per week, and the property was entrusted to
them to make up. They were sentenced to be im.
prisuned six months in the House of CorreClion.
On Monday evening last, at about eleven o'clock,
clown olvnklui
its
Cli I Il tr
the
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near Temple
wanl:Bar,iklno:ko; i
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pockets
villains, who picked his
and vot

Jr the Boetswain had six .awnings, or two setsion
boat& who hit, remaios were surveyed at- Chat.
ham, it is a proof that they were kept . in an entire
state, and not conveved when worn brit.
As to the charges made by Mr. Louis, I again
repeat that they do not concern me ;- hut I contend
that a ening curtains are as necessary as awnings
themselves : I also contend that the latter ought RI
be fixed at the -height of at least twelve' feet, to
give a more powerful current to the air, and to le.
move the rays of the sun to a greater distance :.
is probably on this account that the curtains; of
the awnings had a greater depth.
Before I dismiss the subject, of die awnings, I
must remade that an attempt is made to establish an
inaccuracy of dates in the Expenee.book of. the
Boatswain, for which I shall account few-word)'.
Fifteen bolts of canvas of. sorts, and 25 pounds of
twine, were borrowed of the Sarah Transport, in the
month of Joao, 8o t, and the canvas was convert:.
ed into the awnings , detailed in the Report of the
Navy Board. This 'canvas' ought not •to have been
expended by the Boatswain until the month of No.
veirther following, when tither canvas was /so:scored
at Calcutta to discharge' the debt incurred with the
Sarah Transport. This irregularity on his part was
not of the least moment to the Service. The Com.
missieners who trained the Report, with the Papers
before than, ought to have been aware of this et.
ror committed by' an ignorant man.
They are quite at a loss to conjecture the use or
applicatinn of the small and large portmanteaus, for
whirl) a hunelred yards of canvas were expentleti..—
These portmanteaus had the positive tendency of
preserving ;the view of the Romney in good health,
adding not,merely to their comforts and cleanliness,
but likewise of keeping the Ship constantly deer,
and gieing a free circulation of ale in a hot cli.
spate. With respeit to this novel invention of can-
vas Portmanteaus, Which I. consider to be highly
ereditablion me, it behoves me 'to observe, that the
small ones ltela a frW articles of clothing belong.
ing to each.of the crew respedively, in so•snukand
compleje a mariner as to make pillows for their ham.
mocoes, anti the large- ones, containing the spare
jackets and heavy articles of clothing, were stow.
ed below total there was a call for -them, either for
use or occasional airing. By a recOurso to this ex..
Vediettt a canvas bag was never hung up in the be-
tween.clecks, which was -always kept as clean and
as clear ,'as a drawing.room, and the men's clothes
were stowed in the form of a portmanteau instead
of a Souse bag.
On the subject of the hammocoes I must say,. in
justice to Mr. Louis, that I do not consider the charge
of 55. 4.d. exorbitant for half-worn hatumocoes,
considering thet 131.4. d. was the price paid for new
pnes. But I have again to observe, what I have
eo,often had occasion to repeat, that I have nothing
so do with his charges. With respect to the old
hammocees returned, there can be no doubt but they
were so 'bad as to be unfit for any .purptle, and in a
?nay different condition from those for Which Mr.
• Louis paid 55.. 4.1. each. .
- I coeceive that nothing can be more erroneous on
the part of a Marine Beard than the charge
,of the
extraordinary expenditures made by the Boatswain
on particularidays. I appeal to such of the Lords
Commissioners as are professional men, whether,
when the Ctew of a Ship ere employed in over.
hauling and setting up the rigging, Sec. circum•
Stances which occurred on each of the days alluded
to, the expenditures. 'must n'ot he very great.
With respeCt to the first Of the days, t sth July,
11300, brought with so muck ingenuity into the ac.
*aunt, I have to observe,that it was before my time,
when I- elo nut imagine it was even in contemple.
tion to give me such an appointment ; consequent.
ly these,sort of irregularities appear to be in usage
of the Service, and are certainly applied in all in.
stances to its advantage. That these expenditures
were net Fell -,of them duly, and regularly noted in
the logs, was an oversight for which I cannot be
made uccountable, when it-is .coneidered that it was
impossible for me to attend to these details at a time
when 1 heti much more important duties to peiform.
Several of the errors detected in the logs occurred.
While'-- I wait attending His IVlejesty's Secretary of
State hyAdmiralty orelers,and %fere antecedent to.my
command in the Red Sea. The ward has cautiously
avoided noticing any merit -in my togs; but if I
could be pertnitteal to chew theist to the three pro.
fe'4sional Lords, I will venture co say they will he
pleated on observing the regular succession of aster).
comical observations, and the particular pains I took
tti israhtigh she practise of asceiteining.die latitude
.by stars, and giving facility and confidence to the
operation in the mind of every Officer with ma; my
• attention having been long turned to the ohject of
introducing that praCtice generellyo in consequence
of an additional telescope which I, had :Aged some
years ago.
That when the cable was cot in Ballasore Road,
the incosertget was carried away snit the, Kitts up.
' set ate facts; and- although Much 'pains have been
taken to prove th"coritreey, by directing an inqui.
ry to be made bythe Captain of the'Unicurn,
and
the late Ceptain 'of ,the Romney, it appears to Inc
that the remark of there nor hattipg bete any wood
expended in'
,the repairs of the bitas is nugatory.—
, , • I
Jr affords ,an 'kid! tlOO3l Pro
of,'
ha te,omibsioners
scrutiny
didt noth Ckin tae the trou7
who ontlertook, this
ble to coniult their precessional celleagues; they
alright otherwise have known that huts may he up.
set wite„ut any inju vr
ry to the tiod work, end
.the
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little itoury done to the iron work. repaliredi
ha
out Any notice bring taken in the log o let rer t
t„rge w w its at ork ornor
.at the time, tholigh the
sularh far the relfArs of them itit.tt
wcthdl corg
ned
tbe fito peigtat .Mr. frikdiou's bill, rhib -
elutethe commiiisicirerl everloslad.
The rapid tide which: ran in I3allasore Road at
the time. die cabicWat cut, together With the heavy