The Sun.
London, England, 1804-04-28 00:00:00

DUBLIN, APRIL 23.

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YESTERDAY the Merchants' Infantry Yeomanry,
to the number of
.360, together with several Genr4
ral and Field Officer's; partook or a sumptuous
Dejuni, at their Captain.Comniandant's (STANLEY);
in Dawson-street; after which Mrs: STANLEY pre—
sented. them with a pair of Colours; wrought with
peculiar taste and elegance, which she delivered
with the following energetic Address
•

GENTLEMEN,

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" I reel the greatest satisfadion that you haVe permitt:d.
me to have the lionbur of requesting your a.cceptance of the
Colours; the tribute uliny most sincere attachMent and re-
gard for the MerOants Corps, a Corps dignified by the
it holds as the First Regiment of Yeomanry in this Metropo,
lis, and by the individual respe6tability of its Members ;• in
therefore delivering these Colours to your care, to say much
would be unnecessary.
" COnneded as 1 am with you by the Sacred of con-
jugal affection and parental love, as wk-. 11 as general .regard;
I cannot but with the most Jrcinbling solicitude, refiectupon
the dangers to which you must be exposed, if called out to
give an evidence oft hat spirit and'disciplitie, Tor Whiah you are
so eminently conSpicuous, in2defence of your Laws, .vo,ir
berry and your Kr N , and all that is sweet or desirable in do-
mestic happiness; yet relying on thejiuStice cif. your Cati:;e, ii
shall fervently invoke the Lord of Hosts and God of Battles;
that he may cover your heads• in the.day . of danger,,aod re!
store you, crowned with.vidory, , to theembraces of your exult-
jog Friends, and the.applauses of your grateful Country,"

Capt. STANLEY made the following reply :

'' MADAM,

" I n offering to you the grateful thanks of this Corps, aecotri•
pitied with my own acknowhidgments, for this Mark of youi
esteem and regard; permit me to assure you that in the hands
you have placed these Colours, they,,never can be tarnished,
but will be supported by the Merchants CorPs, while they
have a -Friend to protea, or an Enemy to repel." •

IMPROMPTU

On A RECENT OPEkATIC FRACAS•

, .
WHAT though great D'EGVILLE laid his pondrous Land
On a meek Minstrel of the Opera Band;
The latter might a useful lesson take;
As Music is embellish'd by a shake.

THE THEATRE.--The Tragedy of Othello
represented last night with greai success; at Covent.:
Garden Theatre. KEMBLE threw more than corn.
mon emotion into the amiable but eiedulotis Moor;
and perfainied the part in a very iinpressive manner.
Mrs. Stnnoits was, as usual, interesting, playful
and pathetic in Desicienti: The House. was very
well attended, and Mr. Fox was throughotit a very
attentive auditor; in the Duke of BEE4oao's Buk:

• • .
The Masquerade. at the opera House on Thurs..
. .
day last was uncomnionly dull: There were very
few charatiers, and most of them were but indiffej,
rently sapPOrtee.. Hercules was a conspicuous figure;
and wielded his club with, terrific dexterity: There
was also an Orson, tolerably Weil stistained. The
Dotninoi were more than usually torpid, and
.die
whole entertaintrient gave little eticoUragement for
public curiosity on future occasions.
Mr. TIERNEY'S .nerriieg Might Surely. have de.:
vised a more probable story against him, than, the
repot that he had solicited a pension of fifteen bun:
dred pounds, a..year for his Lady, as, a recompense
for his silence of a few months, and his speechei of
feud deg s .

The new Opera, 11 RattO di Pros. eroi7ta, is men.
tioned in high terms by the Connoisseurs, It wasi
coMposed by WINTER in three weeks; and „is a
proof of the great talents; as well as quick imagina.•
non, of the ingenious Musitian.
The Balltt which is soon to be brought forward
at the Opera Ilithic Upon- the Nbket of Y7.)i. Judg.:
mint of Paris; has been performed with great suc-
ceiS id France. • Mr. GoAD, the Manager, brought
it froin Paris; 'The Music is' iy ST EI B E Li., who is
not in this totintry; and will probably superintend
the 'perforniake. •
Afratai has,• it seems, taken place at the Opera
House, between 4 Computer of Dalires anti th?..Poet
'of that,Theatie; It is 'strange, 'drat, as there is so
near an affinity between a Ballet.mar-ter- and a Bal-
lad-maker; they shdtild not .ba?-mo7tiz:e.
• Mrs. Pow ELL, we' is: going to play Yoz:ni
Norval. Though there are doub'tlee:s' many juve:.
Wile heroes the neighbourhood- of the Grampian.
• Hills; it is not likeiy. that their mode•of living will
render theill quite so pi/1;7/p as .the intended. icpie.-
setitative of the gallant Douglas.

Sir FRANC Ls R DE I'T has lead a Lettet 'addressed
to him on the folly; :indec:nry, and dailgerous ten.;
dency hid' public condott. So fat as the ( rimons
of Mankind. are tonceihed on this'sobjea; lye should
have-considered sued a 'pabli-cacion as wholly it.vne..

cessa7:Y.

• JORN. loeen brought ;,,:svell a lament..
able state by tlie DoHar, that h mhy well say,
""throw fihysic to the dogs:''
As two childrn, rite eldest not six years of age,
were playing in Princess-street, Bristol, a.,tew dAys
ago, they quarrelled and fought, when dye struck
ehe other in the stomach, and killed Hai on the spot.

berty.
gg We have dared to be free—let us be free by
ourselves and for ourselves ; let us imitate the grow.
ing child ; his own weight breaks his leading strings,
which have become useless and troublesome to him
in his walk. What people have fought us ? what
people would reap the fruits of our labours ? and
what dishonourable absurdity to conquer to be
slaves 1
gg Slaw:, leave to the French Nation this quali-
fying epithet, they have conquered to be no longer
free—let us walk on other foot-steps; let us imitate
other people, who, carrying their sclicitude into
futurity, and dreading to leave to posterity an ex.
ample of cowardice, have preferred to be extermi-
nated, rather than to be crazed from the list of free
people. Let us, however, take care, lest our spirit
of proselytism should destroy our work—let our
neighbours breathe in peace—let them live peaceably
under the shield of those laws which they have
framed for themselves ; let us beware of becoming
revolutionary fire-brands—of creating ourselves the
Legislators of the Antilles—of considering as a
glory the disturbing the tranquillity of the neigh-
bouring Islands ; they have not been, like the one
we inhabit, bathed in the innocent blood of their
inhabitants—they have no vengeance to exercise
against the authority that proteas them ; happy
never to have experienced the plague that has de-
stroyed us, they must wish well to our posterity.
" Peace with our neighbours; but accursed be
the French name—eternal hatred to France ; such
are our principles.
gg Natives of Hayti—my happy destiny reserves
me to be one day the Sentinel, who is to guard the
idol we nr)w sacrifice to. I have grown old fight-
ing for you, sometimes almost alone ; and if I have
been happy enough to deliver to you the sacred
charge confided to me, recolleCt it is for you at pre-
sent to preserve it. In fighting for your liberty, I
' have laboured for my own happiness; before it shall
be consolidated by laws which insure individual li-
berty, your Chiefs whom I have assembled here, ani
myself, owe you this last proof of our devotedness.
" Generals and other Chiefs, unite with me for

Soke of Peterborough l'oluniferst. •
William Simpson, Esq. to be Captain, vice Hunt, deceased.
North Pevensy Legion.
John Nash, Gent. to be Lieutenant. Lieutenant Thomas
Palmer to be Quarter-master. Charles Mogg, Gent. to
be Assistant-Surgeon.
Plymouth Volunteer Infantry.
Prince of Wales's Battalion—lolin Hyne, Gent. to be Cap-
tain, vice !titian, resigned. Lieutenant Robert Sane son
to be' Captain, vice Seccombe, resigned. Ensign Sampson
llawe Payne to be Lieutenant,- vice Hyne. Ensign Wm.
Lockyer to be ditto, vice C. D. Symons, resigned. MTh
Luxmore, Gent. to be Ensign. Nathaniel Seccombe,
Gent. to be Surgeon. Samuel Kerswell, Gent. to be As-
sistant-Surgeon.
Plymouth Battalion—Ensign William Kent, to be L
Gent.
ieuten-
ant, vice Cleverton, resigned. Saw- A. Snowden,
to be Ensign, vice Kent.

A most extraordinary proof of the rapid increase
in the value of landed property in the Borough of
Carmarthen, occurred last week at the sale of the 1
Corporation Lands : eight lots, producing only ,
371. 65.-per annum, sold for 26 tol. being 70 years
purchase! One of these lots, consisting of no more
than the sixteenth part of an acre, was knocked
down at .911.
PITSLIC-OFF-TC,E, Bove-STREET.—Yesterday, a
young man was examined before Mr. BOND, on a
charge of stealing a horse and cart, the property of
Mr. Kibblewhite, of Bromley, Kent, coach-master,
and fully committed. •
Thursday evening, a Clergyman, with a young
man, apparently a Black, in his custody, came to
the Public-Office, Bow.street, in a hackney-coach,
where the Clergyman requested to see the Magi_
sirate, and refused to tell his business to the Clerks ;
they were shewn into the Office, to wait the return
of Sir RICHARD FORD from, dinner. Bath of them
kept their hats on ; the Clergyman appearing much
agitated, and the young man endeavouring to hide
his face. The attention of every one in the Office
was attraaed towards them. At length doubts arose
as to whether the young man was a man of colour, •
or not ; and betts were aftually laid upon the ques-
tion. On Sir Riot-IA:1D Foko entering the Office,
the Clergyman requested a private examination,
which Sir RICHARD granted. The following par
ticulars transpired :—The Clergyman resides in the
Country, and has a daughter who lives in London.
to whom he is now on a visit, and discovered that the
Prisoner was paying his addresses to her ; but he dis.-
approving of their union, forbid him his daughter's
house. On Thursday afternoon the Prisoner went
to the house, with his face and neck blacked, and a
wigson, to disguise himself as a black ; he rang the
bell, which being answered by a female servant,. he
entered into conversation with her, respeaing the
objea of his affeaion, when his voice being recog-
nized by her father, he went to the door, seized
him by the collar, and forced him into-the parlour,
where the Piisoner was observed drawing a sword
from a cane which he had in his hand, but the father
succeeded in wresting it from him. We did not
learn whether it was his intention tohave a6teil
lace
Othello, and plunge the dagger into the bosom of.
his Desdem9na, had he succeeded in gaining alinit-
tance to her, she being confined to her bed through
indisposition. The Prisoner justified his condua by
saying the young Lady was of age, and if she choa*
to have him, it was nothing to the father. The
Magistrate was about to commit him for want of
surciies, but the father proposed, if the Prioner
would pledge his honour not to go to the house any
more,
he would be satisfied, which the Prisoner
agreed to, and signed a paper to that efrett. He
likewise entered into a recognizance to keep the
Peace.

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