The Sun.
London, England, 1802-10-08 00:00:00

POLICE,OFICE, .

.nSTERtiAiri a Coah.merchant of the name fof
ATe-anoz was summoned before the Magistrates, for
removing Coals from Peacoek's Wharf to Croy_
dote, without their having been measured by, a
Sworn Meter, contrary to AEA of Parliament, which
inflicts a penalty of 101. for every such offence cont_
milted between Rotherhithe and Croydon.
The necessary proofs were given of the removal
and delivery of the coals. Much pains were taken
by the Solicitor of the Defendant, to throw
the imputation of Reformer Upon the Principal
Meter, who swore to following the cart from the
Wharf to Croydon, where they xi/ere delivered;
but he on -.his oath' declared, that lie did not ex-
pe6-. one farthing of the penalty, And that from
the great loss the Sworn Meters .sustained by the
frequency of this offence (they .being entitled to 4d.
fee out of every chaldron of coals they , measured), ,
and the injury the Public also stistained by not get-
ting full measure, he and the Society ofCoal- Meters
in general, conceived it a duty to the Public and to
themselves, to enforce the A6t, Which they were,
determined to do whenever they could. The De-
fendant was cone iced.

UNPARALLELED AVi"ECTION IN A HUSBAND.--
On Thursday last died, Thomas Morton, journey-
man brass-founder, in Nova-Scotia-street, Birming-
ham end on the same day his wife died in child-
birth, leaving a family of five small children, friend_
less and destitute of the necessaries of life. He had
been employed several years as a caster in the mane.
faaory of Messrs. Messenger and Phipson, at Sr.
Mary's, and always supported the charader of a
sober, honest, and industrious man. His wife was
remarkably frugal and cleanly, and their assiduity
and good management enabled them to support their
children (notwithstanding the frequent illness of the
father) without the too common resources of the
laborious class, living upon credit, or applying to
the parish. The husband had been drooping seve-
ral weeks; the wife's death Was sudden and unex-
peeled. Parental tenderness has been fabled in the
description of the Pelican feeding her young with
her vitals ; but this, description has been lite-
rally realized by this poor man; for, upon an. ex-
amination of the body; two eminent Surgeons were
cf opinion, that he had (lied from want of a sufficient
portion of necessary food, though he had made am_
ple provision for his wife's expeded confinement.—
(73;rminghart Gazette.)
The celebrated Statue of the Venus de Afedicis,
was embarked at Palermo on the 12th ult. for
France.

Their .S.P.ANISH MAJESTIPS were expeled at
Barcelona on the t 2da ult. They have suffered
mu h, it,is said, during the journey, from the ex-
cessive heat.
A-splendid Fite was given.at Hamburgh by the
French Legation on the 23d ult. in celebration of
the Foundation of the French Republic.
The Batavian Republic is to receive the Distrias
of Lymers and Elten, by virtue of a private Con-
vention concluded with the Court of Berlin.

According to intelligence from Ratisbon, Hrs
BRITANNIC MAJESTY has declared, as Elea-tor of
Fiancever, through the medium of his,Snb.Delegate,
iliat he accedes to all the dispositions of the pro_
posed Plan of Indemnities, so far as it respeds the.
House of Brunswick.

The opening of the Canal of Charleroi-, Conn-
ing a junetion between the Sambre and the Scheldt,
is to be commenced next .Spring. At the same time
the execution of the projea will be begun for ef-
feding a junElion between the Meuse and the Rhine,
It is stated in
,the German Journals, that the
GRAND SEIGNIOR has not only confirmed PASW AN
OGLou in the Government of Widdin, but has also
giveri him that of Nicopolis.

A great number of Foreigners, particularly Eng.
lish, continue to arrive at Brussels. Many pre-
cipitately quitted Amsterdam, the Hague, and Rot-
terdam, for Brussels, expeffing the immediate ar-
rival of the CONSUL. in the latter City.—
Several English Families have made arrangements
to pass the Winter thei4."
M. de CALONnE is said to have returned to Paris.
The KING of-PRUSSIA has obtained permission
from the EMPEROR. of Russ' A, to import from -the -
Ukraine a number of chosen horses to mount the
body guards and cuirassiers in garrison at Berlin.
According to intelligence from Brussels," new
orders'have been received from Paris, in consequence '
of which a redoubled watchfulness is kept Lip on the
Left Bank of the Rhine, particularly towards the
frontiers of Westphalia, and on the whole frontier
of the Batavian Republic, to prevent the -introduc-
tion of English Merchandize on the French ter-•
ritory.

Several shameful frauds have been lately prac-
tised on seamen paid off at Plymouth. A man of
the name of BAXTER has set cff, it is supposed for
America, with 611, in Bank-notes, belonging to
one of those poor fellows. He was formerly Cap_
twin's Clerk of the Galatea, of 36 guns, Captain
BYNG, but lately kept a tavern, and acted as an
auctioneer.

Friday ~7ohn Camfikell, of the Castle Garth,
Newcastle, was committed for trial, for having
in, his possession teo forged Notes purporting to.
be Guinea Notes of the Greenock Bank. These
Notes are all dated January zo, tsoo,
,Nos.
4.58.-x t 4, and seq. signed James Patten,. Casiicr..
They may be known from the real Notes hy;the,
want of the water mark, and the faintness of ithe
impression in the left 'corner " Ent. p." The
engraving is not so good as the real. Notes. The
letters in the Government stamp are also larger
than they ought to be, and badly executed.
Campbell is supposed to be one of Town's gang,
and these Notes were discovered in a hole in the
wall, while searching his house on mother ac-.
count. Many Notes from this plate are •in cir-
culatiOn.

Tuesday last Mr. Earnshaw, of Holborn, was
defrauded of a timepiece, by a sharper, who, calling
himself Captain Foot, of, the Royal Navy, prevailed
ou Mr. E. to take in payment two bills for 65 gui.
neas, purporting to be accepted by Mr. Sykes, of
Arundel street, but which, on' being presented to
that Gentleman, turned out to be forged.

CORN EX CII AA'Gr:i Ocr. 8.

WE have to-dlv hoz. c;l'
~t•ell as cf most kir:d Of Grait); hest (fif;filcv
readily at nearly our idst ;
are plentii-ul, but seli rather heavily ; our supply
Pease is short, and they are dearer ; as also are
Beane, somewhat ; Rye i.; lit little
Oats a. tolerable supfrilv,..and th,:y continua: to ni
twin their prices ; Flour reinains n:,:arly as last
week.

Wheat 465. a 54s a liis od I Beans - 343 a 37s od
Fine do. -63 s .1 :,.4s •.(i Tick ditty,' -28 s a 32s ::r.t
Nialt - 425 a 44 a 45s A I Oats - 14$ a Is• a 2.3,., ..-;1
Fine ditto. • -45 s a 46s bi I Poland dc. 24i a 2;s ~,
Barley -24 s a 27i 6d Rape Seed 34l a ;71 per lat.t
Rye - -33 s a 36s od ) Fine Flour So, a 54s per svir
New ditto •:• 05 a 4f, 'Di 1 S(;°"(.1 (1°• 41-5 s a Sos per ('‘'-
White Pease 43s a.}7.; oi 1 .

SPORTIAG INTELLIGENCE.

NEWMARKET FIRST OCTOBER MEETING, Scr.

EriN slilt OCT. 6.

One-third of a Subscription of asp. each, to which wis
added the ToWn-Plate of Sol. for 3,yr old colts, c.trryirr;
Bst. 61b. ; and fillies; Est. alb. I.—(Fifteen Subscr—
bers).
.
Mr. Ladbroke's h. f. Julia - - ,
Sir F. Standish's h. c. by Sir Peter -
Mr. Whaley's b. c. Gulliver - -
Duke of Grafton's b. c. Tyrant - 4
Mr. fleathcote's br, c. by Potgos -• 5
Ten to i agst Julia ; 7 to 4 igst Sir Peter ; and 6 to 5 on
PotEols.
Fifty CuiticaS, free for ahy hdi•se eze. 4. vt. olds, carrying 7st.
4.1b.-s,yr. olds, Est. 51b.--:6-yr. olds, Sat. Ilh.-2;1.1
aged, gst. •B.
C.
Lord Sackville's b. h. Dick AndreWs, 5 yrs old -
Duke cif Grafton's b. in. liornby Lass, 6 vrs old -
Mr. R.Williarns's b. h. Peacemaker, ran ()tit of the course.
Mr. Watdell's ch. c. Malta, 4'yrS old - - dr
Sir C. Bunbury's 5. t. Eleanor, 4 yrs old - - dr
M. He.athcotc's b. m. A.ntiiseed, q yrs old - - dr
Light to one on Dick Andrews.
Mr. "Wardell's Malta beat Sir C. Bun bury's Whirligig, Sari
each. Across the Flat, 2,585. Even betting.

Large posting-bills are posted up in vafidus parts
of the Town, stating, that murders and robberi
are committed by persons who pretend that- th
belong to mad-houses, seize tipon persons wh(,:n
they pretend had escaped from their keepers, put
them into coaches, drive them away, and are no
more heard of. 1r such things exist, surely it
would belicive every man of humanity to use his
exertion to interfere in the cause of the oppressed.'
But, on the other hand, if the statements are false,
as they seem to be, the author'shouht be traced and
punished for giving false alarm to the public;
The prist-boy conveying the. mail from Cashel
to Tipperary, on WedneSday,- the igth of Septem-
ber, was stopped about two o'clock in the morninz,
near the mote of Kilfeiklc, by three armed men
on horseback,,who robbed him of the L of let_
ters dispatched from the General Post..oilice .on
Monday, the 27111 of September, for Tipperary,
and the bye and cross-road letters for Limerick, tic.
The post-boy conveying the mail from Derry
to Drogheda, was stopped on the 29th ult.
_between
eight and nine o'clock, near Tullyailen, within
two miles of Drogheda, by a single man on foot,
armed with a knife, and rubbed of the entire mail,
containing the bags of le tern from: the folloWing
post towns to Dublin, viz. Derry, Strabane, Mo-
naghan, Omaghi Aughnacloy, Newtown.Stewart,
Banyhay, Coothil, Ardee, Carrickmacross, New-
town-Limavady, and Callon.
On Wednesday the 6th'of this Month, 'Dr. MAR.
CET, Physician to the City Dispensary, was unani-
mously appointed Assistant Physician zo Guy 's
Hospital, in the room of Dr. CURRY, who has
tely been eleted one of the Physicians in Ordi-
nary to that InstitUtion.

On Tuesday, a young girl, a servant, called at
a‘public.thouse on Clapham Common, and took half
a pint of porter; she then went with the waiter
across the Common. After he returned, 5h e was
found with her head severed from her body, laying
a few.yards distant from her. Twoinen in sailor's
Clothes, were apprehended at the same.public-house,
half an hour after Wards, with her bundles.
A Gentleman returning from Bath to Marsh-
field, between the boors of ten and eleven, on Fri-
day night last, teas attacked by two arined foot_
pads, who rushed suddenly before his horse from
Tadwick Wood, beyond Swineswick, on them :w
Gloucester Road, desiring him at the same tiro:: zo
deliver ; the horse raking fright, and pitinz,,,i:g
the left, threw one of the villains into the
the other immediately fired, but, fortunately far
the Gentleman, the hillier took a cross diree,Con,
under his chin, taking a part of his neck:Cloth, an I
through the cape of his coat, over the left shoulder :
finding himself 'flirts extricated„ he with difficulty
kept his saddle, and before the other could recover
his fall; got clear off,
PUBLIC-OFFICE, HATTON-GARDEN.-Yester-
day Samuel Briscoe, a watch-movement-maker, his
wile and his sister,in-la‘v, of the name of Bolt, were
examined op suspicion of being principals in stab-
bing Thomas Patnpiin, servant to Messts. Gordon
and Knight, Distilleri, in Goswell-street, on Mon-
day night last, between nine and ten o'clock, in
Compton-street, Cietkenwell, of which wounds he
died on Wednesday evening- last, in Middlesex'Hos.'.
pital. . ,

•
A.young man, journeyman to Mr. Payne, tripematt,
in St. john_street, Clerkcpwell,. who is dreadfu:!y
wounded in the Side, by sornesharp instrument, in
company with Parnpli n, pointed' out Briscoe as being,
on the spot when this.barbarous outriige took place.
it appeared- in evidence,, that the Prisoners were
on that night. at the. Harrow, •in the above street,
where there was fiddling and dancing, and where
- Mrs. Bolt danced A hornpipe.; that when Briscoe -and
his Wild went out, two meni;ffered great indecency
to his wife, and used .horrid langu4ge, which was
heard by ,several- housekeepers, but who the two
men were, they could not tell. Briscoe, who is a
young .than, was going to resent such behaviour to
his wife, which the two females said they prevented
and took hint to the Ii irrow, where they spent the
remainder of the eyening. They all denied the
charge imputed to them.

wounded inn said, that Pomplin and
self were the worse for liquor ; being positive that
Briscoe was near his friend when he was wounded,
he was, as weii as the two females', committed for'
re- examination .

duced there, as well as in France ; and how much in 11
particular they would !lay - impaired the Authority,
and thwarted Ole future projea of the Fitst Consul.
" Besides this, the moral responsibility attached
to the' renewal of Hostilities, would have fallen
entirely on France. Europe had been so strongly
impressed by the moderation of the terms, to which
we had consented in the Preliminaries, that all the
World would have infallibly attributed the Rupture
of -the Negotiations to the ambitious obstinacy of
our Adversaries; an opinion which would have
been abundantly confirmed by the don and circum-
stantial statement, which our Ministers, would have
.laid before .Parliament, and the Nation. The Pre-
sidency of the Italian Republic had been here so ill
received, that the Renewal of the War would have
been far from unpopular, and would only have ex-
cited one sentiment, namely, to prosecute it with
greater vigour than ever. 'Thus, on the, supposition
before us, all the danger and all the odium of a new
appear to arms would have fallen on France and her
Allies ; and our Ministers were consequently as well
authorised in policy as in right, to demand a cate-
goric.decision...
" There is reason to believe that the French
Government was still desirous to retard it ; but on
one hand, the 'alternative offered by our Negotia-
tor was peremptory, and on the other, we took no
advantage of our situation to rise in our demands.
The resolution-was then at length taken at Paris' to
'conclude a Definitive Treaty ; and the policy of it
was a few days afterwardi fully demonstrated, by
the account received from St. Domingo; when the
obstinate resistance of the Negroes' to the landing
of the Republicans, the burning of habitations and
of the principal towns, and the deadly influence of
the climate, presented to the French the prosped
of a long, expensive, and unprofitai)le War.
" These accounts which justified in a striking
manner the condua of our -Minister, • and which
entirely dispelled the anxiety which had prevailed,
removed all the obstacles which could impede the
completion of the Definitive 'Treaty; and it was
signed'at Amiens the 17th of March, to the great
Joy of all the Nations concerned, and ratified in the
course of the following month, by the Cabinets of
St. James's, Paris, Madrid,'and the Hague.
" 'llth Treaty made no alteration in the Preli-
minaries, in the principal, point, that of the posses-
sions of the four Contrafting- Powers, which re-
twined such as they had been settled on the fitst of
Oftober preceding, Several matters, which had
been left undecided, or had been only implied, were
regulated, and explained; and some important changes
also took.place insome of the Preliminary Articles. '
" The Independence of the Island of Malta,
instead of being left under the Guarantee of a third
Power only, was placed under that of Great Britain,
France, Austria,.Russia, Spain, and Prussia ; twelve
other stipulations were agreed upon, relative to the
futUreConstitution of the Island, to its Military
Forces, and to, its relations with the Maritime and
Commercial Powers. Of all the Articles of secon-
dary interest, the most important and the most
satisfaa.ory, was that by which the Territories and
Possessions of our Ally, the Queen of Portugal,
were maintained in their integrity as they were
before the War, with the sole exception already.
mentioned of the small Distria ceded to Spain by

REPIE;V OF. PUBLIC AFFAIRS.

(Corainvedfi :rrl our Paitr cf %O M.)

" MEAZIWIITLE, the Negotiations at Amiens,
advanced but slowly, and with difficulty. Far from
participating in our sincere desire to expedite their
termination, and to conclude a Definitive Treaty
on the basis of the Preliminaries, the French Nego-
tiators were aiming- ordy at alterations faVrourable
to themselves, and wished to obtain a sandion to
important changes, which they had themselves ef-
feded since the ist of 061ober, in their own rela-
tive situation with different Powers. Should they
fail in inducing us to accede to these new preten-
sions, they at least expeaed, that the abandonment
of them would be compensated by our condescension
in other. points. Two days before that on which
M. Orr° signed at. London the Preliminary Trap
tv, another had been concluded atMadrid, betvteen
France and Portugal, . which rendered void' the
Article by which we had guaranteed the Integrity
of the Territory of the latter Power, and which
was. likewise in • opposition to the Treaty, agreed
vpon, some tine before, at Badajoz, between their
Catholic 'and Most. Faithful Majesties. By this last
Treaty, the latter Power had ceded to the former,
only the-small insignificant .Distria of Olivenza,
sithateel out of the natural Limits of the Kingdom,
and the Boundaries of French and Portuguese
Guyana had been fixed ,at the River Arawary.—
The Treaty of Madrid had, 'On the contrary, im.
Posed much harder conditions on the Court of Lis_
bon; and amongst others, one of them had removed
the Frontiers of Guyana as far as the River of Ama-
zons. :Thus, all at once, our Treaty of London
was infringed as soon as concluded, our Ally expe-
rienced a considerable • Diminution of 'her Posses-
sions, and our Rival augmented his in the same
proportion. • This was not tbe only srespea in
which.our relative situation bad been altered, since
the Signature of the Preliminaries. Since that
time, an Arrangement between France and Spain
had beenstnade public, by which the latter had ceded
to the former Louisiana, as the price of the King.
dom.of Etruria, bestowed on the Prince 'of Parma.
This new King had,"on ,his. part, been obliged to
make another sacrifice, thait of the Island of Elba,
the importance of which had been manifested during
the latter years of the War. This acquisition gave
the French a new and advantageous Harbour in the•
Mediterranean, Whilst Bonaparte confirmed his in-
fluence in Italy, -by
,causing himself to be named at
Lyons, President of the Cisalpine, which thrn 'as-
sumed the r.ame of the Italian Republic. This ad-
ditional Title appeared, however, rather calculated
to flatter the ambition,. than to increase the real
Power of the First Consul : and it is still matter of
doubt, whether this step, as well as that which is
about to establish him Consul for Lift, may turn
out to his advantage.
" It was impossible these,transa6lions, and par-
ticularly that which regarded Portugal, could be
seen with indifference by our Government, and they
became at Amiens, the subje6l of serious discus-
sions. They produced, at the same time, a very
strong impression on this Country ; and joined to
the uncertainty of the issue of the Expedition to St.
Domingo; furnished Opposition with a - favourable
opportunity of stigmatizing the French Government
with ambition and insincerity, and our own with
weakness and credulity. The first of these Charges
had as great, as the second had a trifling efFeEt on
the Public. The
_real National Charafler was un-
der these circumstances fully displayed. No where
was perceived the least symptom of fear, or even of
alarm ; but all the Speeches in Parliament, and all
the Publications of the day, Manifested 'an energy,
which. most opportunely seconded the vigorous
measures, the necessity of which our Ministers had
already anticipated. At the 'same time, that orders
were sent to Lord Cornwallis, at all events to
bring the Negotiation to some issue ; this injonc.
tion was supported by .measures calculated to give
it the desired effea. A warm Press suddenly took
place •on the Thames. Several Ships of the Line
sailed for the West Indies, and others were, equip-
ped with all possible expedition*. 'troops were
held in readiness to march at the first notice.—
These measures were, every where executed with
alacrity ; and the Nation applauded the determinas
tion of the Cabinet.
" Exclusive of the suspense in which our Com-
merce was kept, our Financial Arrangements, our
• Naval and. Military Establishments, and what was
not less important, .the Srate of the 'Public Spirit
made it absolutely necessary, that the Negotiations
should at length be brought •to a conclusion. The
moment was arrived for us to.draw, in some man-
ner, the Circle of Popilius round the Allied Nego-
tiators. By the slowness of its progreis towards
Peace, the Republican Government had placed it-
self in an aukward predicament ; and those who
suspeaed it to entertain perfidious views, might
say, it had entrapped itself in its own snares.
" fa6l, at the end of February, and-during
the first days of March, zBoz, the period at which
our Ministers brought the Negotiation to-the alter-
native of Peace or War, Bonaparte was yet igno-
rant, whether his Fleet had been received as Friends
or Enemies at St. Domingo, and even whether it
bad arrived there in safety. If, under these circum-
stances, we had abruptly cominenced Hostilities,
this Fleet, as well as the Spanish Squadron which
had kilned it, might have been destroyed or taken
by ours, either in the West Indies, or on its return
to Europe; and the Allied Powers were thus expo-
sed to the danger of losing the Naval Force, which
they had for several years cautiously kept within
their Ports. This would not have been the only
mischief to which they were exposed. On the Faith
of the Preliminaries, the long accumulated riches of
Mexico and Peru had been embarked in Ships,
which were in a few weeks expeded to arrive in
Spaia. Our -Cruizers might intercept them, and
thus strike an important blow at the Finances and
'Military Resources of that Country.' One may
guess the effe&, -which such losses would have pro-

the Treaty of Badajoz, and of the space of Terri-
tory which the French had gained by fixing the
limits of French and Portuguese Guyana, at the.
River Arawary. By this last stipulation, the Court
of Lisbon was indebted to us for the preservation of
a considerable territory, and for the. important Fx-
elusive Navigation of the River of Amazons.
" The Eighteenth Article of the Definitive
Treaty contained an addition to the Preliminaries
highly honourable to us, and demonstrative of at-
tachment to our Allies, by stipulating, that.the
House of Nassau should receive an equivalent for
the losses which it had sustained in the United Pro.
vinces, as well in its own particular property, as by
the change of Constitution adopted in that Country.‘
Although the greater. part of the alterations made
by the Definitive Treaty were conducive to our
honor or actlviotage, and though the remainder pre-
sented nothing injurious. to either, the whole has
nevertheless been attacked with still greater
.violence
and acrimony than the Preliminaries; nor is this to
be wondered at, as this final, arrangement overturned
any hove which the opposite Party might have rested
on the Rupture of the Negotiations.
" As the arguments employed by this Party, as
well as the conclusive answers given to them, are
still fresh in every one's memory ; and as besides
the observations offered before on the Preliminary
Articles apply for the most part, equally to the De-
finitive Treaty, it would be useless to recapitulate
here this long Controversy. It would however ap-
pear to be treating too lightly a trarisaaion, which
determines, and perhaps for a longtime, our situa-,
tion, not to pause a little on the principal points
which have been in discusssion.
" The arrangement relative to Malta has been
severely, but unjustly criticised. When this Island
was treacherously delivered up to the French,' its
Government was Aristocratic; 'and it became ne-
cessary to make some alteration, which might pre-
clude the return of a similar misfortune. What
was the alteration best calculated to attain this ob.
jed, and to secure to the Island its .Independence
on-Foreign Powers ? Certainly that which gave to
the Natives themselves a great interest in its pre-
servation, and at the same time provided the
means. By this 'arrangement, the Natives, who
had hitherto been only the•passive Subjetas of the
Order, and rather jealous' of its, prerogatives, than
disposed tb supf)ort them, are beconre• its powerful
Auxiliaries. The courage and animosity which
they constantly shewed against the French, during
the time that they were ',masters of the Island, af-
ford a pledge of the decided opposition, Which they
would make to a second Usurpation ; and the dis.:
positions expressed here by their Deputies, added
to the good treatment which they experienced,
• leave no doubt of their being in future at least as
well inclined towards us, as to. any -other Nation.
" Bat, say the opponents, to introduce the natives
into the order is to democratize it ; and Great Bri-
tain has thus been guilty of that, with which she
has so long and so often reproached France. Those

* Six Sail of the Line sailed from Torbay on the Ist, under
the.command of Captain Stopford. , Previously to that, Ad-
miral Campbell had sailed from Spithead with seven Sail of
the Line.

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