The Sun.
London, England, 1802-12-11 00:00:00

THE THEATgES.

Drury-La,:e.

The Comedy of Every Man in his Humour was
revived last night at this Theatre.—WROUGHTON,
for the first time, appeared in the character of Kite_
ley, which he performed' with the plain sense and
natural feeling that generally appear in his ading.—
It must be acknowledged, -however, that he was,'
on•the whole, somewhat too violent and hurried—
Suslicion and jealousy are the essential features of
the part, and they are shewn rather in alarm and
restless agitation, than in passionate turbulence.
But it was a first appearance, and his next repre-
sentation will doubtless be better.

BANNISTER., for the first time, also appeared in
.Bohadil. It is a difficult part to hit of successfully.
In our opinion, he was too boisterous.—There is an
affetted gravity in the part, which BANNISTER did
not sufficiently prbduce, and he gave some squeak-
ing tone; that were,by.no means charaCleristic.• He
had also the common fault of addressing what he said
chiefly to the Audience. His best scene was
that in which he exhibited specimens•of the several
.passes in fencing. We have no doubt that he will
render the character prominent and effective.
PHERRY's Master Stephen .was harsh,-but divert-
ing. COLLINS gave the poetical conceit of Master
Matthew with humorous. effect. The Comedy,
altogether was so well supported as to deserve a
larger Audience.

Covent. Garden.

THEIR MA JESTIF.,IO aCcompanted by the five
PRINCESSES, were last night at 'thli Theatre. The
Opera of The Cnhiiet tnd the•Parce of The Review
Were the dramatic Pieces commanded on this occa-
sion. The ROYAL PARTY were received by a nu. .
merous Audience with every attestation of cordial
affeaion. The usual loyal and patriotic Airs were
called for and encored. Both of the Pieces- went off
very well. The ROYAL FAMILY, in general,
seemed to be in good health, .and Were evidently
much gratified by the Performances.

FAWCETT Was well enough recovered to resume
his station last night ut Coknt-Garden Theatre.
RAIIZZINI is preparing Haydn's celebrated Ora-
torio of the Seasons, for his Bath Concerts: ers,
Secown takes the Principal Part; and if wr may
judge from the fame this distinguished Singer ae_
squired in the Creation, het efforts ate likely to be
crowned with equal success:

There is now in London a French Gentleman,
who is said to be the nest Singer. in Europe.—He
is only to be heard in private parties.
It is a strange complaint, that there should be a
*ant of horns at the Opera-hOuse, considering that
it is the chief resort of fash. ion.
Letters have been recently received in Paris from
the Vessels which sailed under Capt. BAuntm on, a
Voyage of Discovery.. On the 19th of May last
the Naturalistr,, commanded by Capt., HAME I. IN,
arrived at 'PorijAckson, in New Holland, having
been separatedtrom the Geographer, in- tempestuous
weather. It appears, however, that the latter was
soon after fallen in with, at the. Southern extremity
of New Holland, by the invert/go/0i- British Man
of War. She was then proceeding to join her con-
sort at the appointed rendezvous, without having
sustained any
,damage,
Tuesday the Conquerant, of 74. guns, taken in
the Battle of the Nile, having been surveyed by
diwttion of the Lords of the A.-Eniralty.and Navy
Boaid, and found unfit for further service, 'was
hauled alongside the North Jetty Head, Plymouth,
to go into Dock as soon .as the Mars, of 74 guns,
come 3 out, to be broken up for old timber.

ARA -37;

111. A Deere'br the Coiiftilgi a real Eta:Vtle is
established at .cheybotir,t. -
• HAGUE; -DEC., I .—Tlie. Cityf of; Amsterdam, per.;
sists Iti its opposition to the Measures adopted; and
already tarried itifd'execzttiotl, throughout the Re.
public; for the -levy of ektranidintry ttilpositiorise
The CoMmission of GoVeinritent; ch itS arriiial it
thit City; caused to be appointed by the Comnitinal
Adthinist tation; new verificatoryCtinithissioners ;bur
almost Alt of them have refused to al, in the saline
terms as those before appointed. The Comrnunal. Ad-
. .
ministration th 6.6 addressed.RepresentationS to the
Commission, which they inviied theth to transmit
to the Government; for the purpoSe of obtaining A.
Law; substituting an Oath instead of any' other

measure, in order to ensure the sincerity of the
declarations of those called upon to contribUte. On
this demand being made, the. Comnii4iOn repaired
to the ComMunal Aditiinistratidn, and declared that
so far from having power to assent to the demand,
they could only execute the orders'of Government;
-
and' they relied upon the Municipality to do all ilLir
Was necessary to. ensure the eiecution of the Law.
The latter replied by a retailed Memorial, which;
after asserting the zeal of the Municipality to second
the views, of the Commissioners declared that tht
disposition of the Inhabitants, and particularly of
the Merchants, was so hostile to the proposed mea:-
sure, that the execution of it. world be attended
with the most alarming consequences.
; in_ consequence- of the discussion which aiose
upon this point, the Municipality at length deter:.
mined to send a Deputation to the ,Hague, to pre-
sent ;,,,n Address to ' the Legislative Body. The
Address was Presented to that Body at its Sitriug
of the r9th of November, when it was referred to
a Committee, on whose Report the' Legislative
Body passed a Decree, declaring itself incompetent
to Ootionncd upon the demands contained in tb
Address.

The Municipality of Arnsterda4l being infofmed
of this decision, resolved to address to the Govern-
ment 'itself, a detailed Memorial; containi;.s the
same Reclamations- and ProteStations announced in
.the Address to the Legislative Body, and which
concluded with a demand that the Government
would modify the Law recpeding the Levy of Ex.
traordinary Impositions, in the way proposed by
the Municipality.
The Government rejeeted the demand on the
zsth.of November, and notified its decision to the
Municipality of Amsterdam. Here the dhpute
rests at present.

EXTRACT OF A LETTER FRO7.I,FAEISi DEC. 15:

,g With the view of giving greater ethif to thd
presentation of the Ei'must/ AMBASSADOR, the
monthly .paiade of the Troops• was antedated, and
took place yesterday (Sunday), instead of to-day,
that it might have the advantage of a Aoljdayi
which of course could not,f,iil to attraft a great ad_
ditional concourse of speftators. Several of the
Regiments had new cclours given them, and the
Cuirassiers, for the first tithe since the RevolUtion,
appeared in armpur. They are not, strictly speak,
"frig, a new Corps, having beep in use in the times
of the Monarchy, but they were revived this day.
" The Ft RST. CONSIM was dressed,'after his cus,
tomary Manner on these occasions, vtirpplain. He
wore a cocked hat, without any lace, and rode a
white charger, which formerly belonged to the late
King of France. Several Petiticins were, presented
to him. Haff.-a-dozen sal res of hanorir were dist ri-
huted -to such as had peculiarly distinguished therri.
selves.

" Lorl. WHITWORTH was not present during did
Parade. This, I understand, is a point of etipeette,
as, till the presentation of his Credentials, he can
only be considered as a private Gentleman, and
therefore could not with propriety be introduced rd
the Ambassador's Hall. He arrived about halt past
two, in the carriage of JosEili BONAPARTE, draWn
by six bay horses. Be was dressed in black. Then
followed two carriages, with four horses each ; and
lastly His Excellency's own carriage, drawn by.siX
.grey. It was. empty. The splendour of his reti-
nue aftrafled universal admiration, the Ettg!ish
EmbasSy, in magnificence, eclipsing' the precedent
of all the other Powers of Europe. Equally supe_
riot- was the welcome he received from the. VI RST
CoNstm, and the honours paid him. The dinner
was served up for upwards of two hundred covers.
", For the populace at large, one of the principal
objeas of curiosity was his Loa osH H.'s Coachman,
Who appeared in the true Om English style, with a
rotindhat,' and a neat coachman's wig. He is a
pfump, jolly man, and by his looks, evinces that
he is not STARV ED by his master. The iota ensem-
ble of his appearance preSented a striking contrast
to the French style of equipment : but a still
greater contrast' was furnished by the manners of
the French and English servants. The moment -the
French attendants had put down their illustrious
guests at the. Palace, they whipped a short .pipe out •
of their pockets, a flint and. steel, 'lighted their
pipe -with i.trfeet non thalance, and smoked with
all the dignity and calm repose ofa Dutchman."

KOTZEBUE is abOlit to undertake the Editorship
of a Journal at Berlin, entitled Le Liberal:
The Works of .HELVETIU3 and BAYLE, are for-
bidden in the Public Libraries and Reading Rooms
of Vienna, as well as those-of Voi.:AIRE and Rous.
SEAU.

The late Duke of PARMA left behind him 225,000
ounces of silver, il2 pounds of told and jewels,
of the value.of z,oop,ovz, 'lyres,

LAW REPORT.

COU'.IT OF KING's BENCH, Dec. so.
tiTTINGs tEFORE LOkn FLLENBOYOUGH IN WEST.

11 srr. P. 11 1.

CRIM. CON.

Nllo'll V. DURNYOKD.

• MR. HOLROYD opened the pleadings, by which
it appeared that, this was an aeti,,n at the suit of
John Moore, Esq., against the Defendant, Mr.-
Durnford, for Criminal Conversation with the
Plaintiff's wife.

Mr. EIOkTNE opened the case on the part of the
Plaintiff: 'Mr. Moore,
,he said, was a man of for-
tune, in Hertfordshire. He married- his 'Lady. so
long ago as the year 1788 ; he then harintreturned
from his travels on the Continent of Europe, and
being about the age of 24. years ; and the Lady was
the daughter of the Earl of Meath, and had re-
turned home from a Boarding-school in this• Coun-
try, where she had been virtuously and elegantly
educated, and was then about- the age of eighteen.
She was a woman, not only. of superior beauty,
but also of superior accomplishments of mind ; and
until the present unfortunate lapse, her conduCt
was in every respell most proper and exemplary.
The-Defendant was a young man, an-Officer-in the
Guards, who, living in the neighbourhood, became
acquainted- with the Plaintiff's family, and occasion-
ally visited them ;- but he was by no meansinti-
mately acquainted with the family.- For some time
before the Plaintiff discavered this unfortunate
cause of Afton, he observed a "coolnes*s•in the con-
duet of his wife towards•him, for which he could.
not account. First, she left the Plaintiff's house
and went to Afton, where the Defendant visited,
her once or tWice,'from the 3d of Jury to the
and took- tea there ; afterwards she eloped,•'and
went to live with the Defendant, and they are still

living togeth€r3 and now the Plaintiff submitted
to the jury the quistion of, how much'they thought
proper rile Defendant should pay-.by way of Dama-
ges, to him for this most serious of all injut;es that
can be sustained by man in a social'state. Having
made several observations on this sPbjeCl, he pro-
ceeded to call the evidence necessary' to support the

Miss, Tisdale proved, that she was present at the
marriage of the Plaintiff and his wife in May 1788.
Two other Witnesses proved, they oCca,ii,mitly
visited the Plaintiff's family, and that the Plaintiff
and his wife lived together on the most aff:Ctionaie
terms : that he was a kind and an attentive husband,
and that she was apparently a loving wife and pru_
dent mother, who paid uncommon attention to the
education of her children, for which her own su-
perior understanding was well suited. They had
three children'; one fourteen, one eleven, and the
other four or five years of„age.
The Maid-servant of the Defendant, proved, that
her Master and Mrs.. Moore lived together at Hawks
Hill, we think she said. . _

Mr. GARROW, on the part 'of the Defendant,
said, he was very glad the 'present cause was to be
tried by the present CH lEF JUSTICE, and a Jury,
who, by their verdieis, had already shewn them-
selves capable of disposing of a case of this
nature, with as much prespriety as possible. On
the part of his Client, he had only to observe, that
he was a very young man, and attracted by • the
beauty and accomplishments of this Lady. There
were none 'of the topics of aggravation to be urged
against this Defendant, which had been properly
. . -
urged in some cases, but there were many cirenm-
Stances of mitigation :—He-was not p"articulariyac-
quainted with the family of the Plaintiff ; he did not
introduce himself into_thisfamily for the purposes of
SeduClion ; he had 'never lived with any branch of
family, on any looting of familiar friendship:
it did not appear, that he had, used anyextraordina--
ry arts in accomplishing that which was the subjeet.
of the Action. " He was merely a young man with-
out prudence, who fell a victim to extraordinary
beauty and accorriplisliments--,a thing which was
neither rare nor wondelful. The question then
was a mere question of Damages, upon which he
had nothing more to urge, than that the Defendant
was not in a condition' to bear large ones/for that
he had nothing but his Commission to support him.
There was no evidence called on behalf of the
Defendant.

Lord ELLENBOROUoH observed, that it was not
for him to say much upon this Aelion. He stated
the nature of it, and then proceeded to observe,
that there was no species of ACtion which took its
charaeter so much from shades and degrees of- &on_
duet, as that before them. The most aggravated
part of the Case always was Seduelion. That was
not here proved, for, the Learned Counsel for the
Defendant had observed, there was no evidence,
that he came into the family under any professions
of friendship, violated the sacred rights of hOspi-
tality, or that he used any uncommon arts to obtain
his purpose. The Case, however, was a serious
one, and the Damages the Jury would consider of.
The only question with the Jury was, the question
of Damages ; as the Defendant and the Plaintiff's
wife, cohabited together in the charaeler of hus-
band and wife—the adultery, although not proved,
must be concluded. • On the question of Damages,
his Lordship submitted the whole matter to the.
Jury, considering them exclusively the Judges in
this Case.

The Jury retired, and in about half an hour re-
turned a Verdi& fur the Plaintiff—Damages ioool.

The Court sat till a late hour, and disposed of all
the Causes standing for trial. To-morrow Lord
ELLENBOROUGH goes to Guildhall, where there is
the longest Cause Paper almost ever remembered.
A Lady that had attended to give evidence in a
Cause for defamation, was arrested for debt as she
was returning hoine. Mr. GARROV immediately
complained to Lord ELLENZOROUGH, and the She-
riff's Officer was ordered to appear, with his pri-
slner. He did not venture to come-in himself, but
the Lady being produced, was told tl.at t.he• was
under the protedion of the Court, and that if she
rOtutined straight, no one would dare to arrest her
it! she had entered
.her own house.