The Sun.
London, England, 1802-08-20 00:00:00

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LAST night THEIR MAiy.sTtEs'came Ori shore at
six o'clock, and owing to the wind rising in the
Roads, the Boats did not moor.
This morning PRINCESS AUGUSTA, PRINCESS
SOPHIA Of GLOUCESTER, and PRINCESS CHAR-
LOTTE of WALES, bathed.

At eleven o'clock THEIR. MAJESTIES and the
PRINCESSES went on the Esplanade, to see the Boat
Race. The Prizes were a jolly-Boat and a Galley.
The jolly-Boat was won by Wm. BOLT, jun. and
the Galley by four of the Bargemen.
HER MAJESTY and PRINCESS SOPHIA Of GLOU-
CESTER, took an airing in two Landaus and Soci-
ables ; also PRINCESS CHARLOTTE of WALES, at-
tended by Lady ELGIN.
The DUKE of YORK, Earl RosLrN, arid Mr.
ERSKINE, leave us to day.

A grand Felte was given at Oatlands on Monday,
by the DUTCHESS of YORK, in honour of the
Duke's Birth-day ; and it was one of the most
cheerful of the season, equally gladdening the hearts
of the Prince and the Peasant, The Dinner, of
twenty-four covers, was one of the best and most
elegant that ever came up to table. Among the
Company were, the PRINCE of WALES, DUKE of
CLARENCE, Lady ANN SMITH, Sir JOHN SHEL-
LY, Mr. FAwEENEtt, Mr. GREENWOOD, a Ger-
man Baron, the Gentlemen of the Household, and
some of the neighbouring Gentlemen ; amongst
wham were Mr. PIPPIN, the High Sheriff for the
County, Mr. RossoN, and Mr. PAGE. In the
evening the ,Pleasure-ground was illuminated, and
the Skittle_ground was prepared for the Domestics
and Neighbours to dance, which they did till six
o'clock in the morning. The DUTCHESS, Lady
ANN, and the PRINCE, all.dariced ; Prince, Prin-
cess, and Stable.boys and House-maids altogether,
in the true style of jubilee domestic merry-making.
For the Dinner Company an elegant Supper was
prepared at the Grotto : the grounds around it were
lighted up. The Duke's Bond played the .whole
time: The PRINCE and DUTCHESS, &c. &c. sang
Catches And Glees, and kept up the spirit of the
Entertainitent till near seven in the morning. There
was a Slipper in a large house of a Tenant for the
friends of the Upper Servants. The whole even-
ing's Entertainment never was surpassed for convi-
viality and hospitality-.

The Earl of. SititEWSBURY, Sir GEORGE Po-
cocz, and Mr. STEWART, M. P. are amongst the
last arrivals at Brighton.
Mr. GOLDsMID came up from Brighton with his
Family on Tuesday last.'
The report is contradifted, in the Paper in
which it originated, of the intended marriage of
Lord RANELACH to Miss MANNERs.

Lord and Lady DERBY, it is said, mean to give
a Masquerade next month, at their Scat in Lanca-
shire, to the neighbouring Nobility and Gentry.
We can hardly approve of carrying mask: into the
quiet abodes of rural simplicity.
There are One Hundred and Forty-Five Mem-
bers in the present who were not in the last Parlia-
ment. This is not .so great a change of faces as
was generally expected.
The Worcestershire and Bristol Troops of Yeo-
manry Cavalry have enrolled themselves to continue
their services during Peace, agrleeably to the terms
of the late Ad.

Dr. RIDLEY, Reetor of Hambledon, Bucks, is
presented by his brother-in-law, the LORD CHAN-
CELLOR, to the Living of Whippingham, in the
Isle of Wight, worth tsool. per ann. vacant by the
death of Dr. LEWES.

The late Sir ROBERT SLOPE". was a son of Mr.
SLOPER, so well known for his connection witb
Mrs. CIBISER, the celebrated Adress, which gave
occasion for a Prosecution on the part of her hus-
band, THEOPHILIIS CIBBER, by which he gained
nothing but in.
Mr. BAR R ETT brought his Cradle in hopes of be-
ing rocked by the ,winds ; but, after all, it only turn.
ed out to be a pad}'.
Under the Antient Regime of France, the crime
of Seduttion was punishable with death, and the
Faux Pas of Married Women generally afforded
little more than matter of ludicrous observation.—
How different in this Country ?` It is in fact, nearly
vice versa—Thousands are paid, in the event of
Bete Lion with a married woman, a circumstance,
which, in nine cases out of ten, the Husband con-
nives at, and profits by it, while the innocent and
unfortunate girl is deprived of her virtue and lost
for ever, by the insidious sedudion of some unfeel-
ing ruffian ; and no redress for her, or punishment
for him, but in a fiction of Law, rarely resorted to,
and generally inefficacious when tried.—This part
of our Criminal Jurisprudence, we think, deserves
emendation.

Madame Du BOCCAGE died lately in France,
aged ninety.rwo. She preserved to the last that
gaiety and equality of temper for which she was
distinguished. The principal. Works which have
merited her the rank she enjoyed in the republic of
Letters, are her Paradis Perdu, in imitation of
Milton, a Poem entitled the Colombiade, and her
Tragedy of Amazones, which were played with suc-
cess in 1749. _ _

LARNE, the celebrated Aaor, who lives in re-
tirement some leagues from Paris, unites at the pre-
sent moment three honourable titles, those of asso-
ciate Member of the Institute, Mayor of the Dis_
trift, and Farmer of his own land.

INCLEDON has been singing about the Country
to same tune. The Songs of the Entertainment
which he gives, are excellent, most of them being
the composition of the admirable SH t E

In the Museum of Antiquities at Paris, is a frag-
ment of marble in bas-relief, , from the Temple of
Minerva at Athens. It is known that the construc-
tion of that Temple was confided by PERICLES to
PHIDIAS, who superintended the buiLling, and ex-
ecuted, or saw executed the designs of all the sculp-
tors which decorate it. This work is therefore
attributed, with some probability, to that Artist.
There are accounts in the French Papers from
various parts of France, of considerable damage
having been done by lightning.

HIGH
COURT OP C.:HAM:tiff,
LINCOLN'S-INN-HALL, AUGUST

LATHROP's BANKRUPTCY.

THE SOLICITOR GENERAL was preparing to state
the terms of a Petition on the part of Lathrop Mur-
ray, the late Partner of Mr. John King, in 111 Q
Portland-place Bank, praying the Commission
might be superseded, on the ground that the B
rupt was not a Trader within the Bmkrupt Laws,
and that there was no legal foundation for the Peti-
tioning Creditor's Debt. The Petitioning cr,
ditor's name was Gill, and it appeared he had not
been personally served • with notice of the present
application.
The Solicitor for the Petitioner stated, that he
had served a notice on Mr. Paterson, the Solicitor
who had taken out the Commission, alai who had
informed him that Mr. Gill lived in Oxendon-street.
After making every possible inquiry, he could find
no such person, nor could he learn that he had ever
lived there.

The LORD CHANCELLOR.—" This is a very
serious business. If a Solicitor presumes to take
out a Commission of Bankruptcy without knowing
who the Petitioning Creditor is, or where he re-
sides, it is an offence for which he will be treated
as an Officer of the Court abusing his trust ought to
be treated. He will do well to recoiled, that there
are such things in this Court as making a Solicitor
pay the expence of superseding a Commission, and
also striking him off the Roll. How did you direl
your letters to Mr. Gill ?" said his Lordship to
Mr. Paterson.

g, He direfted them to Oxendon-street, where
Mr. Gill always received them ; he always thought
he lived there."

LORD CHANCELLOR.—" Do you mean to say,
Sir, that you have dared to take out a Commission
of Bankruptcy, and yet do not perfealy know the
residence of the Petitioning Creditor ?"
" He always (replied the Solicitor) attended me
when I sent to him in Oxendon-street."

LORD CHANCELLOR—" It appears 'to me you
have taken out a Commission of Bankruptcy, and
do not know your Client. Has he a local habita.
tion as well as a name ?

The Solicitor said, he never entertained any
doubt of his being a substantial man.
LORD CHANCELLOR—" Substantial! Why, he
is described as a Merchant. What does he deal
in ?"

Mr. Paterson—" He deals in Irish linens."
LORD CHANCELLOR to the Petitioner's Solicitor
—•" If you will make an affidavit that you do not
know Mr. Gill's place of residence, I will make an
order. that service on Mr. Paterson shall be service
on him, and the Petition may stand over till Satur.
day."

Mr. Paterson was retiring from Court, when his
Lordship ordered him back, and made him deliver
up all the proceedings under the Bankruptcy, which
were impounded and placed in the hands of the Of.
ficer of the Court.
The Petitioner's Solicitor said he had made an
appointment with Mr. Paterson to inspel the pro-
cee4ingc, but that the latter had afterwards refused
to let him see them.

His Lordship observed, that his expe&ation of
Mr. Paterson's sliming him the proceeding, was
rather a romantic one.

CORN EXCHANGE,

August 20.

THIS day vVe have a tolerable supply of Grain
in general ; mWdling and inferior sorts of Wheat
are 2S. and 3s. per Quarter lowet, but prime
Samples maintain their prices ; in Barley and
Malt We see little alteration ; Grey-pease are some-
what cheaper ; Beans nearly as before ; we have
plenty of Oats, and than article in general is about
is. lower ; Flour, from the great stocks, with dif-
ficulty teach the current prices.

Wheat 46s a 56s a 65s od
Fine do. -66 s a 67s od

Beans -33 s a 36s- 6d
Tick ditto - 3as a 33s od
Oats -14 s a tgs a 22S oCt
Poland do. 23S a 24s oil
Rape Seed 331 a 381 per last
Fine Flour sos a 535 per sack
Second do. 45s a cos per do,

Malt -47 s a sos a 525 od
Fineditto -53 s a 54s 6:1
Barley . 3os a 33s od
Rye -32 s a 35s ocl
White Peaft 36s a 39s od

Thursday se'nnight was held at Knavesmire, near
York, the first shew of the York Agricultural So-
ciety. It was attended by a number of Gentlemen
farmers and breeders of cattle,from various parts of
the country. The cattle, sheep and boars, exhibited
for the different premiums advertised by the Society,
were most capital in their different kinds. The shew
finished about halfpast two ; after which the Meet-
ing adjourned. The York Agricultural Society (an
Institution lately entered into), is likely to prove of
the utmost benefit' to the surrounding country, by,
the judicious and impartial exertions of its numer-
ous Members.

About twelve o'clock on Sunday, a party, con_;
sisting of eight persons, took a boat at Blackwall,
intending to land at Greenwich Stairs. They had
not proceed far, when the boat unfortunately
ran athwatt the hawser of a ship at anchor in the
River. The motion of the ship elevated the cable
with a sudden jerk, and overact the boat. All
the boats within sight of this accident instantly
put off, and every effort was made to rescue these
unfortunate persons from the death with which
they were threatened. Seven were instantly picked
up, but one, a very amiable young woman, perished.
She had been only one month married to a Mr.
COULTMAN, one of the Principal Clerks in Mr.
PERRY'S Dock-y.ard, who accompanied her on this
aquatic excursion. When this Gentleman was
taken out of the water, he' looked round for his
wife, and finding that she had not been taken up,
plunged into the river, as he said, to search for her.
—He was rescued a second time, but with much
difficulty. The scene was extremely affthing "to
those who witnessed it. Care was taken to prevent
him from repeating the attempt but he has been
ever since in a state of delirium. The body of the
young woman was found, and the Coroner's Inquest,
who sat on it on Wednesday night, returned a ver.
did of.—dkridental Death.

THE KING V. SaivittEL COLLII;;SI i

E. D. FREE:

Tuts was an Indiament tried at the last Middle-
sex Quarter Sessions against the DeferOiarirs; f t
a fraud and conspiracy. It aapeared ovi-
dance, that the Defenlant, Collins, cone in the
ninth of Septernbar last, in a genteel claitiart
accompanied by two Ladies, one of wham he called-
his wile, the other his niece, to the Hotel, in Vere-
street, Oxford-street, kept by the ProSecutar, Mr
Jahn lir!retsoto they rem lined there .coi or three
days, and then he went away, saying he r;:id tAcan
a house, No; 1, in Mortimer-street. He continued
ho,vever to frequent the Hotel, a, d having by aia
pimauality acquired the good opinion of Mr. Iba
bctson, he offered him, on the r7th of Septea.be,-,
in payment for twelve dozen of wine, a bill lac
651. los. drawn in favour of S. Collins; Iraq.. at,
six weeks, by Wiliam Stucker, at Chester, on and
accapted by B. D. Free, Esq. No. 9, Harley-street,
Cavendish-spare, and payable at the house of Wil-
liams and Co. Bankers, Birchin-latie. The Defend.:
ant Collins, at the same, time toat the Prosecutor,
that he was lately returned from Chester, where he
was going to open a Bank ; that he had a large
fortune, and was to he shortly created a Baronet ;
and that he was intimately acquainted with Lord
KENYoN, whom he should surprize by a treatise
which he had in the press, upon the subjea at
Country Banks. The Prosecutor iairriealiately Sent
to Mr. Waters, a Stationer, in Conduit-street, to
Macon Collins referred him fur a charaaer ; and hav-
ing received a satisfaaory answer, discouoted the
bill, by giving him the balance in cash, after de-
duaing the price of the wine, part of which was
ordered to be sent to the Prosecutor's'house, No. ta
Mortimer-street, on the z4th ; but the porter
who carried it, was met by a Mr, Thompsona
who turned him back, and said Collins was a swind-
ler.—The Prosecutor then made farther inquiry,
and being told at the house of Messrs. Williams,
that the Bill would not be paid there, as it imported,
be obtained a Warrant against Collins for a fraud,
who was shortly after apprehended, when Mr. John
King, the Banker, Portland-place, and Mr, Waters,
became bail for him. The rest of the evidence
went to shew that the description of the Bill, ani
of all the parties to it, was fictitious. The Defend.
ant, Free, the acceptor, was implicated in the•
fraud, by being present at the time of passing the
bill. He had never lived at ,No. 9, Harley-street,
but had lived as an Usher at Mr. Webb's Academy,
in a house opposite that number. He had been
for many years before in a similar situation at
other schools ; and was decoyed, as he says, from
Mr. Webb's, by Collins, with whom he since lived
as Secretary and Agent. He came in the month of
September, to the how of Williams and Co. in an -
elegant chariot, and introduced himself as the anti.;
mate friend of Sir G. P. Tuner ; at which time he
made a deposit of some money, but there were only
nine shillings and six-pence in their hands at the time
the Prosecutor's -and other Bills made payable by
him, at their house, amounted to 10661. The
Defendant, Collins's, name, was ritgill. He was
the son of a weaver at Taunton, and went when
very young to live as footman in a family near
Bath. He was afterwards Clerk in one of the
Banking-houses there, and after living in aradie
for some time, was discharged for improper condua,
and went to France; on his return from France, he
officiated as Usher in several of the minor schools
in and about London. Afterwards he became
Master of a good school at Hammersmith, which
he sold for a large sum of money and within these
last four years, he opened a small day.school in
Portland-street, Oxford-street (under the name and
stile of the Reverend Samuel Virgin, a Clergyman
of the Church of England), which he afterwards
sold to Webb, before spoken of (who removed it
from thence to Harley street). He then went and
officiated as Curate at Hertingfordbury, Herts,
where he soon established a school, and had seve-
ral' young Gentlemen at 6o guineas a year each ;
but was obliged to part with that school, and leave
the place on account of his debts. He wiks after-
wards a Clerk in the Cromie Bank, and on the
failure of that Bank, was employed by Messrs. King
and Co. to go to Chester and Liverpool, toendea-
Your to form a firm at each of those places, tor cor_
respond with the Portland place Bank. Previous,
however, to his going to Chester, he first procured
the King's license to change his name from Virgin
to Collins, under the pretence of having a large for..
tune left him by a relation of his wife, of that name,
and got the necessary documents enrolled at the
Herald's Office, and afterwards juggled his credi-
tors into a belief of his good fortune, and prevai!ed
on them to sign an agreement to accept their debts
by instalments, which have not as yet been paid.

While he lived at No. r, Mortimer-street, he was
called ',Spire Collins; but he spent most of his time
for the last two years at a lodging in Tottenham-
court-road,' at the hOuse of a Mrs. Barnard, where
he was constantly visited by Free, and went by the
mime of Vee, then Vir, and afterwar& by the appel.
lation of Dr. Wilson, under which last name he ad.
vertiscd as a Curer of Cancers. Stocker, the drawer
of the bill, described as a Gentleman at Chester,
was for some time Messenger at Mr. Wright's
Lock-up-house, in Carey-street, till Collins took
him into his service, and made ,him a party in his
business. In June and July preceding, he lived with
Collins, at the Cambridge Coffee-house, as fox'.
man, and used to wait upon him and Fiee at table.
The hand-writing of the parties to the bill was
proved. by -a person who said he believed they were
all in desperate circumstances, and the jury tidying
brought in a verdia of guilty against the two De_
fendants, the Court immodiately sentenced Collins
to he imprisoned two years in Newgare, h;,:e
one year in New Prison, Clerkenwell.

A number of miserable distressed objels were
on Satuiday taken before the LORD MAYOR,
brought up on a charge of being concerned in ilk.
gal insurances in the Lottery. The LORD MAYOR
not thinking the evidence strong enough, dis.
charged them all, except one woman, who was
convicted in the penalty of pool, or six month
imprisonment.