The Sun.
London, England, 1805-04-13 00:00:00

iitiGUL, AP:tit, I.

it TH it State Direnory of the- P...'".taVian Rquhlic
mAes known Stale :Directory has
learned that different noti;:ns are existity, and that
some Scruples are entertained, relative to the true
sense of the 2d, and of the latter part of the 3d ar_
tie!: s of the PublicatiOn-of the 25 th respeding
the-proposed Plan of the ()mut ution the apt cant.
ment of RUTZER jio; SCHINIMELPENNINCK, as
First Pensionary of the Goosed, ac.d the qll4lifica.
tion of the same for intr,thicing the Cotatitunun ;
as if it could be inferred from the second point of the
3:1 article, that the inhabitants must give their
voles separately on the three points aforesaid ; 1.011,4
others seem to infer from the latter part of the
third point of the 3d Article, that those voters,
who have not given in their votes shall be ccin.
sidered to have accepted only the Plan of the Con-
stitution, and nix the Nomination of R. J. ScHIM-
MELPENNINCK, nor the qualification to be conferred
upon him:

" And taking into consideration, how contrary
such an explanation would be, not only to the pur.
port of the said Publication, but also to .the sense
and the context of the proposal of the Dire Cory,
and the subsequent approbation of the Legislative
Body; and that i: is essential to employ, in an affair
of so great importance, every means which may
serve to,prevent any possible misundertanding.
" The Directory, therefore, has resolved to de.
elate, that the sense and meaning of the.aforesaid,
Proposal, consequently also, of the publication ema..
nated therefrom, requires, that the three subjeCts an:-
carting in the ad SeElion of the 3d Article of the
Publication of the :nth of Murch last, viz.

' 1. The Plan of the Constitution :
4 2. The nomination of Rutz ge !AN SCIIIMMELPEN-
N INCK, as First Pensionary of the Council :
''3. The c2ualitication to be conferred upon him, for in-
troducing that Constitution ;'

Must not be separated from one another ; but
that the inhabitants must give in their vote on these
three subjels together, lima and stmel, by yes or
no ; and that by consequence thereof, as likewise
from the tenor of the 20 Article of the said Pubji.
cation, the latter part of the third Sedion of the
third Article of she aforesaid Publication, must be
understood so, that all those lawful voters who shall
not have delivered their votes, will be considerea,
to have accepted, not only the Plan of the Consti. ,
tution, but Aso the Nomination of RUTZ ER Jr
SCII IMME LP ENNI NUE, as First Pensionary, and the.
qualification to be conferred upon him for introda.
cing the Constitution, as a consequence of the pro.

" The State Direelory orders, the the present
Public4tion shall he publicly read, and affixed where.
titer it is requisite.
" At the Hague, March, 1205.
Sigrittl) " 1. it. BICKER.
" By Order of the State Dire,:tury,
(Cuuutersigned) " C. G. HULTMAN."

A letter from Madrid of the iith ult. says, It,
dispatch from the Intendant of the Troops at the
Havannah, dated the t6th of February, to the Mili-
tary Command-tot of the Province of Coragne, an-
nounces that the Negroes at St. amiingo have no
less than fifty Gun-boats, a Schooner, and a Brig of
,guns, which craize from fifteen to twenty
leagues from the Island, and have committed the
must shucking outrages on the crews of the Spanish
Ships. +. The. Brig La Boalle.Foi, from St. Andero,
was taken by the Brigands, and every soul of the
crew massacred. The Intendant advises the Spanish
masters of vssels to keep as distant from Sr. D;t-
iningo as possible,. and to make use of the hingli'sh
flag, which is very much respeCted by the Negroes
of DESSALINES."

We learn with, regret that His Niajesty's Gan.
brig Rtivlcer has been lost near Dieppe. She struck
Upon a sand b,ink, and beat out her bottom. The
officers and men were all saved, and are now prison.
ers in the interior of France.

The Durch Journals contain the following lin.
portent 'article;

" The Decree of His Majesty the Emperor, direaing that
Colonial Produce imported into French Ports in vessels from
Embden, should be seized and confiscated, has been just r,t.
pealed. Consequently, Colonial Produce from Ports in
which there are no French Commissaries, are admissible into
our Ports, upon condition that French Matiufactures to the'
same amount shall be exported f: )4. them, lii other respeas,
this permission of liis Majesty is only provisipnal,and to cam.
time in Aire;
.till further orders."

The armed running Ship Benson, Capt. POSTLE.
THWAUTEi arrived at Purr Glasgow on the 3d inst.
from Trinidad, after a passage of 39 days ; on the
afternoon of the 39th ult, in lat. 3g, go leagues west
of Turry, a dogger.rigged vessel, supposed to be a
Privateer, was observed, 'who gave chafe to the
Benson, and appeared to gain upon her; but, during
the night, Capt. Porn ETHW AIT s altered his course,
and in the morningtw nothing wore of her.
It is a blessed proof of the independence which is
likely to characterize the last new Constitution fur
Holland, that all Letters sent from that Country to
England, on board Neutral rends, have been recently
seized by order of the French Ggoverriristnt

The SHAIBP EA/ t FAB RICATOit has given an 3C_
Count of the ropticirrl. of the 'PRINCE of WALts,
when the pretended Manuscripts were first sub.
(flitted to the inspation of His Ropil Highness.
Though there can be no doubt that the Plottct
judged of them with the caution and reflexion naid.
rat to the excellent understanding which his Royal
Highness is known to prt”es, yet the account of
his RI/al Highness's Black Letter know)rtige most
probably is to be considered 43 a new Shatrateartax
ilisemery.

There can be nothing surprising in the dismission
of Mr. HOUGH from the august hoist of Eityrr,
since Mr. Fox has kindly consented to because the
Tutor of tho little Histrionic Hero.

1-Itit.ctorr has had a new Comedy Accepted at
Dt!iii.Lane Theatre. We hope that 4 e will not.
upon. Mr. liajei's plan, attempt !I to insitmate"
some of his political motions " into,the boxes.
It has been thought strange that the London
Managers should, be more pious during Passion
Week than those In the Country. The truth is,
however, that all Theatres Royal throughout.. the
kingdom are shut during that period, and that
dramatic pt!rtortnances in oases places are then to.
Jerated by esrdal-favuur of the Magistrates.

(11-

TO THE AIAGISTR-ATES OF 1201V.STREffh";,

GENTLEMEN,

" I yesterday assisted at an examinatioti of a wo.
man who 'bad been .I,preltended as a Vagrant, who,
from real of aff:!cted insanity, aided, perh.ops, by in.
remperatee, gave pkonts, indeed, of extreme ptufli.
gacy and consummate itnrtidencc, - ltut defeated all
the endeavours of the M4gistrates z.,) obtain any pro.
Liar account of het. She said, "'her name. was
Aim Bardolvan ; at another I join abe said ,he was re.
lilted to an Earl, whose name (I. presume) is Breed.
albane. That she was horn in North. Am!rica ; eight
years since, was confined in 13:di,tra, IVloorfields,
and has not been in. London since." This is all that
I could,reirderstand relative to herself, after hearing
an in laity Of incoherent stuff, both blasphem,,us
and Frolant. But that Part of her cnnilua which is
alone important, and occasions this address to you,
relates to a youth by whom she is accompanted,and
who, she says, is her son, now eight years old. The
child positively affirtfis, that he was stolen by this
woman two years since, whilst at play with three
other boys in Whitechapel, where his parents lived;
that his father was a Gentleman, whose name is r'i!-
h am
lluXbard (or Hcbert), and his mother's name
:Mau; that his father lived in a large house, in
Whitediapel, but did.not keep a shop ; that there ;vas
a brass plate upon the door. That lie (this boy) had
no brother or sitter ; that the number of4the house.
was, he thinks, t 7 ; and that he went to school at
one or two doors from hit father's hoUie, and be.
lieves that the number of,the schoolhouse was, he
thinks, 16; that, it was summer time, and he wan
dressed in nankeen jacket and trowsers, and was
playing in the street at twelve o'clock in the day,
with three of his school.fellOws, viz. Jackson,
Baxter, and IVa/4er, when this woman addressed
herself to hint, and told him, if he would go with
her, she mould give him fine things.; that site laid
:hold of hint, and dragged hint away, crying and
:screaming very loud ; that there were many people
in the street, but nobody meddled with her, or in.
quired wlutt site was about. That she took him
`into the fields, there stripped him, and sold his
clothes in a village about three miles ftrsm town,
and cloat4ed him in rags ; that he has been obliged
to follow her, and be obedient to her ; and that
they have been wandering about ever since—have
been at Portsmouth, and then they came across the
country to Lynn, in Norfolk, but evvoided Lewdest,
where he has never teen since he was stolen.' This
is the p`rincipal and most interesting part of the
boy's tale. The person of the woman is squalid,
mean, arid•ugly in the extreme ; her eheek-tm-nes
high, her eyes small grey, her nose low
and thick ; she is ktch marked with the small.
pox, Seamed between "her left nostril and lip; her
looks wild hut confident ; her speech- quick, and
her language course and brutish ; and 1 am tare is
Irish

r
" The .boy has a regular and beautiful' set of
features, dark intelligent eyes, brown complexion,
wood face, fine teeth. dark brown hair ; is ancgm.'
manly quick and sensible ; well made, strait, and
parfeCt in his limbs,and has an archnrsS and quickness
of apprehension verty unusual in children of his age.
The tone and modirlatitiri Ofhis Voice-hair-in Itvery'
thing that is Erllitb, and is SO altogether free front
the brogue of the Irish, that I can most positively,
determine, that he kever 'MU taught to speak or
articulate, or IC.111) Words or pronouneiation front:
that woman.

" I make no apology, Gentlemen, for troubling
you with this detail ; it there he any truth in the
boy's tale, any endeavours to restore him to his pa..
rents would not only justify the means I now use,
but entitle me to your approbation of my conduel
and I request, that you would have the goodness ro
inform me, if the circumstances I have stated can be
referred to any case wherein application' may haVe.
been made to your, or Other Police Offices in the Me..
tropolk. Another Magistrate has written to the
Ministers. and Churchwardens of Whitechapel ;
the mean time the woman is confined in Beccles'
Bridewell, for an an of vagrancy; from whence she
must he discharged at the approaching ,Sessioni.
1 I request the favour a your communication on
this extraordinary case, addressed to me as below.
" I have the honour to b.r, Gentlemen,
" Your most obedicot Servant,
" B. W. SALMON."

Ormesby, near Yarmouth.
Nurtulk:, April 4), ans."

EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM KILLIUANDRAs

IRELAND, APRIL 6.
Yesterday, about the hour of twoo'clock,after....
noon, a tireadfid fire broke out at the rr3alt.honme.„
and stores of Mr, 8.. Dowell, of this town.
,Front.
the dryness of the houses and the force of the wind,
(tor it blew a high gaickfrom the N.W. ()tithe lake
on the premises) the fury. of the fire was inconceiv.
able. It sOVI communicated with dreadful violence
to the wine anti spirit stores, and some of the vcs-
4els bursting, added horror to the devouring ibme.
In a few minutes the whole was consumed. Bet
the exertions of the inhabitants of the to,vn, the
dwelling.house has, in p:trt, been providentially
saved, and the greAtest part of the ,town escaped.
from ruin."

On Wednesday William Haines, a pauper ht
the House of Industry, at LVlelton, was fully cum-
rns:,ted to Ipswich Gaol,, by the Reverend SAM.
KILDEaszA, charged with feloniously ravishing
Matilda Kent 55...1.1 Sophia Woolnough, two
dren in the 'aid House) one under t t piste, aod
the other under 12 years
A shocking affair happened at Margate on Wald'
nesday last: as it female servant beiong;l4 to Lord
Keith was returning Irina the Fair at the villige of
St. Lawrence, in vornpany with her brother and
another younganc), they were stopped by sixteen
soldiers on the, road to Broadstairs, when the unfor..
tunate young wool was taken by force from her
friends by these mains, nod treated in a manner too
shocking to relate. She is said, to have since died.
ot the villitin3 have been since apprehended.
A considerable rarge of Buildings .at Stnden,
near Stafford, the property of Lord timutowit Y,
were lately consumed, in consequence t'i a boy in a
stable snuffing a c4ntlit wi'h his fingers, sh4.l leis
th e snuff unextingutaha. The vtopciry wa, tult
insured.