The Sun.
London, England, 1802-05-27 00:00:00

b`0141?, MAI. 16.

B r an English and a French Vessel Whicri aniVcd
this morning, news was brought) that a Duel had
been fought between the Generals MEAT-A Ea and
LECOURB E, in which the former was killed on the
sprat ; and as this account comes both from Calais and
Boulogne, it is believed. Reports by these Vessels
sa4, farther, that an attempt has, within these few
days, been made on the life of the Chief Consul.

THE THEATRE.--A new Comedy was repre-
sented last night at Covent Garden Theatre, under
the title of The Word .of Honour. It is the pro-
duaion of Mr. StiErFlNorox, a Gentleman well
known in the extreme regions of fashion, who
kindly presented it to Mrs. MATTOCKS- for her
Benefit. The fable is founded upon Spanish man-
ners, and is, of course, lull of intrigue and intricacy.
The dialogue is not recommended by much point
or vigour, but we may say of the whole that " the
argument has no offence in it," and that it is not
altogether devoid of interest or amusement.—
Indeed considering it as a Coup d'Essay of dra_
matic talents, it is rather intitled to critical en-
couragement than hostility. It was very well
supported by the Performers, and very well receiv-
ed by the Audience, whose applause was abund-
antly testified on its conclusion. The Boxes, no
doubt, were well lined with the Author's friends,
but the approbation was not the effed of a Pack'd
Jury, but the honest verditl of general opinion.—
The Prologue and Epilogue were both delivered by
Mrs. MATTOCKS. The Prologue referred to the
long period of her theatrical life, with feeling.—
The Epilogue, spoken in the Character of a Country
Girl, adverted, with some humour, to the PEACE,
and consequent Illuminations, and, concluding with
expressions of loyalty, could not hut be very accept.
able to a British audience. The Theatre was so well
attended as to afford a liberal recompense to a de-
serving Favqurite of the Public.
KING, who has retired from the Stage with such
flattering marks of Public favor, and, what cannot
be less gratifying to a feeling mind, with such evi-
dent tokens of the esteem and regard of the Thea-
trical Community, was fifty-four years a Performer
in the Theatre, from which he has at length made
his final exit. •He originally figured as a Trage-
dian, but that good sense which strikingly appeared
in all his professional exertions, soon direaed his
talents into their proper province, and he, during
the whole of his career on the London Stage, de-
servedly occupied the place of a first-rate Comedian.
Mrs. 1311,LINGTON is going very shortly to Li-
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verpool, and from thence to Ireland and Scotian,
KELLY and Mrs. CRoUCII accompany her.
DWYER, whose successful debut at Drury-lane
Theatre has procured him an engagement at that
place, does not commence his regular career till
next season.

A daughter of NYAnny,the Aflor, is to make

her appearance on Covent-Garden boards this sea.
son. According to report, she is an elegant young
Lady, with very promising talents.
The Masquerade last night at Foley-House, was
in the grandest. stile of magnificence. Upwards of
a thousand persons were present. The Gardens
were splendidly illuminated.
' The Masquerade Ball that is to take place on
Monday next, at the Union Club House, Pall Mall,
will, it is supposed, be the most splendid that was
ever given in this or any other Country : from, the
largeness of the Subscription by the 'Members of
this truly respatable Club, and from the taste and
eleg:znee. of the person that conduels it, every thing
splendid and elegant may be expeded : people only
of the first distindion and fashion are invited ; and
so great is the anxiety and wish of some to be pre-
sent at this Ft!te, that soh we hear, have been re-
peatedly offered for a eingle Ticker, but without
effea. This entertainment, it is said, will cost
40001.

We made a mistake in Sir JOHN W. ANDERSON'S
• Speech on Tuesday on the Kent Insurance Bill. He
observed, " That it would be an a& of injustice to
pass the present Bill for granting a Charter without
any equivalent, as
,the Royal Exchange Assurance
Company and the London Exchange Assurance
Company paid for their Charters fourscore years
ago i 50,0001. each. If the promoters of this Bill
would agree to pay in the proportion of the present
value of money, I shall withdraw my opposition:"
Mr. DENT is determined to take the Bull by the
Baru: again next, Session of Parliament. We can-
not but wish him success. We are certain, that
Builbaiting, wherever it is praelised, is the cause
of every thing that is bad among the lower Classes
of the People.
The Fishmongers have been anxious to have Mr.
EitsKlN E amongst them ever since his admirable de-
finition of a loose-fist•.

The two marketable Damsels who lately made a
distinguished figure, and attracted so many wonder-
ing followers in Kensiagton.Gardens, were on Sa-
turday last at the Opera. House, and were again
equally noticed for their natural disdain of thevul.
gar restraint of dress. In fad, the beauties of chair

forms were almost manifest to the eye in purls na-
turtzlibus.

The City are still desirous of keeping all the
horned &dile east of Temple Bar. We hope, how_
ever, the obvious benefit which the community will
derive from •a competition, will induce the inde-
pendent Members to support the establishment of a
market at Paddington.
In Somerset.street, the Lady of JOHN WHIT_
TAKER, Esq. was safely delivered of a Son and Heir.
An attempt was last week made in Paris to cx.
cite a ferment, on account of the scarcity and con-
sequent high 'price of Bread. On Friday last
JONoT, who commands in Paris, issued a procla-
mation upon this subjea, imputing the attempt at
disturbance to the intrigues of the ill-atreaed.
The carriage belonging to Lord HoBART broke
down yesterday evening in Whitehall, opposite
Lord GWYDIR's Louse ; but we are happy to find,
that his Lordship rcceivvd no injury tivm the acci-
dent,

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COURT O kING'S 13ENCi1, 1.1...:; 26.

TILE KING T. rnE F.:;;ETER:

Tuts was an appiication,fi)r a Mandamus corn
manding the. Bishop of Exeter to appoint a Le
turer,

• Mr. GAttßow said, that -,;there had not 'yet been
time to prepare an answer to this applicatiOtr, and
therefore he moved titat the Rule should be enlarg-
ed, to which Nit.. Gia9s consettedi and the Rule
was accordingly enlarged.•

THE KING V. THOMAS WALTEP,S.

The Defendant came into Court to receive
Judgment, which was delivered by
. Mr. Justice GRosE, who said, that the De-
fendant stood convie.hd, and 'was now to receive
the Judgment of the Court for endeavouring to per-
suade a Serjeant in the .Light Dragoons to em-
bezzle a large quantity of oats belonging to our
Sovereign Lord the King, which the Serjeant was
to take away secretly, and to deliver to the Pri-
soner for a sum of money to be paid by the Pri-
soner to the Serjeant. That the Prisoner had
done this was beyond all doubt upon the evidence
before the Jury by whom he was conviaed.
By Affidavits which had been laid before the
Court, it appeared that the Defendant had been for
many years a vigilant Officer of Excise, and made
many seizures of property to a large amount.—
How far he was aluated in this course by a sense
of his own interest, the Court would not inquire,
but were aware that he must now lose that office.
Taking all the circumstances of this Case into con-
sideration, the Court did order that for this offence
the Defendant be imprisoned in Horsham Gaol for
six calendar months.

THE KING V. ALLAN IrIcLEOD.

The Defendant was brought up from Newgate
to receive the Judgment of the Court for publish-
ing two libels—one on the late Earl of 'CLAR E,
Chancellor of Ireland—the other reiieding' on the
system of Martial Law. •

The Defendant was proceeding to address the
Court, when •

Mr. Justice GROSE said, " If you chuse to be
committed again until the next Term, and wait
until that time for the Sentence of the Court, you
may say what you think.fit ; but it is right you
should know the situation in which you stand, for
if you address the Court now, you must he re-
manded without Sentence until the nest Term."
The Defendant then proceeded. to take notice of
what was urged by the Attorney-General, in reply
to his address to the Court on a former occasion,
when

Mr. GARRow obje6ted to this course, as being
contrary to all rules of praaice.
• Mr. Justice GRoSE said, " There can he no re-
ply on the Attorney-General—you have been heard
in mitigation of the judgment of the Court in your
turn, and the. Attorney-General has exercised the
right of reply, and there then remained only the
Judgment of the Court."
The Defendant again persisted in his endeavours
to address the Court, which, he said, was essential
to him, and necessary for the Court to hear previous
to its pronouncing Judgment in this case.
Mr. Justice LAWRENCE said, " There is a com-
mon course invariably to be observed in conduihng
the business.of this Court in all cases of this nature.
When any person is brought here for Judgment, he
has, on that occasion, an opportunity of saying
what he thinks fit in his own behalf, and then the
Attorney-General is heard in answer, after which
the whole is closed, nothing then is to be done but
the pronouncing the Judgment of the Court."
The Defendant again persisted in saying, that lie
ought to be heard. He said, it was essential, that
he should address the Court, in answer to what had
been said by the ATTORNEY-GENERAL.
Mr. Justice LAWRENCE—" You cannot be heard
now ; why will you not take the information of the
Court ? You have heard that thv Rule is invaria-
hle, and it is this : When a person is brought up
under yocr circumstances, the Court hears what he
has to say on his own behalf—then the Prosecu-
tor's Counsel is heard in answer : After all the
circumstances, both in mitigation of punishment
and in aggravation of the offence, arc closed, and
tir Court taking all the circumstances into consi-
deration, if not able to say what judgment ought
to pass on such an offender, commit him, and order
him to be brought up on a future day—which course
has been regularly followed in your case. If any
thing has happened between the time when you were
in this Court last, and the present time, which, in
your opinion, has made an alteration in your case,
you may bring it forward, but we cannot hear ob-
servations again on what we have heard already."
The Defendant again attempted to proceed, but
the Court said, they could nor, consistently with
Rules, hear him again, for that- would be, to neglect
other business, which had as much claim to its at-
tention, in turn, as this business. If the Defendant
did not chuse to do as other Defendants did, he must
be remanded to prison, and he was accordingly re-
manded to NetVgate.

Tames Mahony, jchn O'Brien, yoky, Connor,
and Blake, were brought into Court to re-
ceive judgment, for endeavouring to persuade a
Witness to absent himself from the trial of a per-
son who. stood charged with uttering bad money ;
but instead of it, the Witness; like a good suhjca,
refused their offers, attended the trial, the Prisoner
was convicted, and he gave the necessary informa-
tion against thee Defendants, which led to their
conviction of this offence.

Mr. Justice GROSE, after a seitable address on
the enormity of the offence of endeavouring, to pre-
vent the administration of.instice, delivered the ju4g-
ment of the Court on the Defendants : that, in ad-
ditiOn to the imprisonment which the Prisoners had
endured already, they be further imprisoned•as fol-
lows--that Elias Blake be imprisoned six months
in the New Prison in.Clerkenwell, that James Ma-
hony.be imprisoned for the like term in Newgare,
and John O'Brien and John Connor in the New
House of Corredion for the County of Middlesex
for the like term,

i'i?A;VCP:

LEGtBtA.TIVE
sITTiNt• of MAI'

TRP.ATY OF AMIEN.S.

tHE Sr EE.CH OF c,ALLo/s.

.(Con'Aided fro*cur Pc per I:nricrelly).
cr By the Fourth Article, the King of Faa-tin
gives up to England the Island of Trinidad, Which
she has occupied ever since the year 1797. -- The
Spanish Government had already laid the foundationi
of that Island's prosperity, by opening its ports tea
all vessels whatever, and inviting thither the capitals
and industry of every' natiom. Situated as this
Island is, between North and South America, it
will afford to England a new theatre of meta-on:He
combinations: But Spain will doubtless find in the
ameliorations which she has already introduced into
her Colonial system, and in those which may here.;
after be introduced, the means of relaxing an adivi-
ty hurtful to. her interests.
The Republic, as the Government has already
expressed it in one of its messages to you, owed to
her engagements and the fidelity of Spain, every
effort in her power to preserve inviolate the terri-
tories of that Power. This duty she has fulfilled in
every Negotiation, as far as circumstances \you] d
permit. The King of Spain observed the fidelity of
his Allies, and his generosity made to Peace a sacri-
fice which they so eagerly wished to sjare him.
He acquired by this action new claims to the grafi,.
tude of Europe. Already the return of Commerce
consoles his States for the calamities of the War, and
a reviving spirit will quickly carry new aaivity
and new industry into his vast dominions.
" The Seventh Article fixes new boundaries be.
tweet] French and Portuguese Guiana. The interior
limits remain the same as they were fixed by the
Treaty of Madrid. The boundaries On the Sea
Coast are fixed at the River Arawari, and also re-
tire about a degree towards the North. Liza the true
oljea ,-..uhich-ought to be proposed is attained; since an
end is put to those drs'fliculties 'which have existed for
a Century had between the tcvo States, by settling
limits (which the Treaty of Utrecht i"ad ill defined,
and since it has removed all unnecessary cause for
uneasiness and apprehension. The demarcation of
the frontiers of Spain and Portugal remains fixed,
comformably to the stipulation of the Treaty of Ba.
dajos, by which the district of Oliaenza is ceded to
Spain.
" The Tenth Article has for its object the new
organization of the Island of Malta. the creation
of a Maltese langue, and-the right granted 'to the in.
habitants of enjoying a moiety of civil employments
will have a great influence on the amelioration of the
internal Government. The abuses imputed to the
ancient Government will be more easily correfted.
The Maltese, finding in a Government now rendered
more national, protection and the exercise of those
rights of which they lamented that they had been
deprived, will no fonger, to be beyond the reach of
the Established Authorities, enlist themselves in the
service of Foreign Powers,• br buy the parents of a
Bishop or an Inquisitor. They will no longer be
forced to have their Children brought forth in some
neighbouring Country, and thus, by a foreign birth,
acquire ,them the right of engaging in the Govern.
mcnt of their Country.
" By the Preliminaries, Malta was to be evacuated
by the English troops, and restored to the Order of
St. John of Jerusalem. It was, besides, stipulated, ,
in order to ensure the independence of that Island,
both with respell to England and France, that it
should be placed under the guarantee and moteCtion -
of a third Power, to be named by the Definitive
Treaty. •
" Much difficulty, no doubt'occurred in the choice
of that Power. It was to be feared lest the inde.
pendenec of a weak State, placed under the protec.
tion of a powerful one, should too much resemble'
real dependence, and thus all the dangers be incur-
red which both parties wished to prevent. It was
perceived that the only way to establish the inde.
pendence of Medea was to call to the protection and
guarantee of that new order of things, all the Powers
whose opposite interests could never be reconciled
but by uniting them in some common interest.
" The independence and neutrality of Medea. is
conducive to the interests of all the Maritime Powers
of Europe. Its situation- in the Mediterranean, -
its proximity to the Coasts of Africa, Italy, France,
and Spain, would have made the possession of ii by
any one Power an object of continual jealousy to the
rest; nor would any Power have found in this new
acquisition, adyantageS sufficient to counterbalance
the expence of the Government, and the means of
defence it would have required. With regard to Eng_
land, which has held that Island for
,the last two
years, it is well known that Malta could afford her no
new means of exercising her industry. The Commerce
of England in the Levant was always extremely li-
mited. Her exportations thither never exceeded
seven millions of our money, while those cf,France
were above 35 millions. During the course of the
War, the exportation of English manufadures to
that quarter, have not exceeded two millions 700,000
livres 4 year.

" The common interest of all the Maritime
Powers is, that the Ports of Malta be open to their
Commerce and Navigation, and that each of them
end, in a general receptacle, equal means of security
and deEnce.; and this advantage is secured to them
by the Treaty.

" One Power alone is excepted from these re.
gniations, namely, the Status of Barbary. They
are prohibited from entering the Ports of 11//4/..a, un-
til, as the Ninth Article expresses it, by the enter-
ference of the Contratting Parties, the system of
hostilities which subsists between the Barbary States
and the Order of St. John of Jerusalem, and the
Powers possessing or supporting the Langues, shall
have ceased.

"It was impossible indeed, in the ~;:fisting system
of hostilities; to ordain that the Order of
which receives from these Powers a part of its Re.
venues, should afford in its harbours a secure asy-
lum to their Enemies, where they might wait for
the Merchant Vessels on their leaving the Ports of
Sicily, the Adriatic, and the Levant.

" But this union of the four great Maritime
Powers for the liberty and security of the Seas;
this solemn stipulation in favour of Humanity and

whose violent counsels have su lung led astray the
Pailers of Nations, terrify Europe with the ;milli-

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per Cent. Red. 72i 724'
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Consols for opening 754tiik

But where this Deficiency has tOr years existed, a proper
perseveranee is indispensably ietplisite to revive the altan.
bering Sparks of Lite, .and to re-animate the Constitution.
MARRIED WOMEN, who have lon„; been disap'pointed
in their expedations of a -Family, may be assured, tilat in
most instances, such defeds are curahls by Medical skill,
The secresy which is so essential to my undertakiiv,
arid she qua lifications Which liihhve presumed to state, form-
tbe basis of tny pretensions, and in coincidence with suck
tills intimation is given, that Mr. 11. may be consulted
personally, 'or by Letters (inclosing a small Note); at his.
house, NA,. 29, Artirliiel. street, Strand, near Temple f3a.r.
There is an additional Entrance in Water-street,.
aiijoilfing, and the Name isiontoth the doors. •
Member of the Royal College of Surge.ns.

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