The Sun.
London, England, 1804-12-08 00:00:00

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, • Till regular system of Condua adopted il;y : to
MAJISTY extends to all his concerns. Whenever
business or pleasure brings the KING• to town, ,the
.same regularity is preserved, even in, his niove.
ments. His MA jesT y's- determination never more
to sleep at the Queen's
.House, is well know.o,; but
if he is detained in t,,wri atter dark, from either of
the above causes, be takes some light repast, which
•is dispatched in 'a few moments,. :and then,throws
over his shoulders a large scarlet cloak, which.tx.
tends nearly to the ground, and proceeds without
further delay to, Kew, preceded by several•of the
servants or. horseback, each carrying a flambeaux,
attended by a party of Light peagoons. On tits
.MAJESTY'S arrival at. Kew he takes his usual sup.
per, made of sago, which is previously prepared,
and then goes immediately to bed. It is only on
extraordinary occasions, such as. going . to the
Theatres, that the KING, when he sleeps at Kew,
goes to bed at a later hour than nine o'clock.; but
even if the hour is twelve, Hts MAJEsTY never
deviates from his customary hour of rising, namely,
six in the morning. On.Wcdnesday night last he
Was not in bed before one o'clock, but he was, not.
-Withstanding, up and dressed precisely at the hour
of six, breakfasted at seven, and befOre eight prO.
eeeded in his travelling chaise for Windsor, where
HIS MAJESTY arrived at eleven. 'o'clock, 'The
QUEEN and the PRINCESSES got thereabout two,
. For the • last ten days the KING'S attention likt
been principally occupied in getting ready the bathe
formerly occupied by Dr. 1-Issettosit, which he has
i recently purchased for the Pair:cast CHAELOTTE
of WmAts. This mansion, which is spatious and
well built, is undergoing a thorough repair, and the
improvements it it said will he' costly and elegant.
HIS MAJESTY has Ordered his Arehited to.use dis.
parch, and pay more than common' attention to the
Ir internal decorations. which are to be elegant and
1 perfeCtly modern. From :ill these circumstances it
it cOnjeCtured that the PR INciss• of WaLrs will
iTs much of the ensuing year at Windsor ; that
is MiIEsTY has invited her I-loyal Highness little
donht is entertained.
For the last two days the RoyAL FAI.IILy have
I Conversed much of the YOUNG Rosc 'us; The Duxa
of Ce.sitittindE is:loud•in his -praise, and His Royal
Pighneas supports the claims of that wonderful
outh to pre-eminence over the whole mimic
world. The hole! of KENT is not so warm in his
.1 stanegyric, but admits the boy to befpnssessed of an
Infinity of merit.. The DUKE of Suiss x is as enthu.
elastic in his praise as his Highness of CAMBRIDGE..
THEIR MAJEStIEs and the PRINCESSES are not
it little amused with this new kind of conversation ;•
and although they' hive not seen the YOUNG Ros.
ettrs on the Stage, they have seen and conversed
with him.
.00 Wednesday evening soon after the
ROYAL FAMILY arrived at Druty..lane Theatre, the
F.turs desired to see 'Mr. SI.IIIIIGAN. On the ar.
rival of that Gentleman,. HIS MAJESTY expressed
a With to ate " The Yowl Rehr." Mr. S. bowed
and retired. After the performance the interesting
youth was introduced by MN SHBRIDAN in the
oy4l presence. On his entrance His NW issiy
I
cok. him by the hand and presentd him'. to the
Quaau and the Pm Ne yes es, by whom be was
t•ouch noticed and caressed. He remained itv the
Royal presence only a few minutes ; his demeanor
during the time was such as might .have been ex.
peCted from SO charming and interesting a youth;
and the gracefulness of his obeisance excited the
astonishment and admiration of the surrounding
Courtiers,

We are sorry to hear that attempts have been
trade to separate Master 'BETry from his father:
It should he observed, that whatever the natural
Powers of this extraordinary. boy. may he, they
Must have been cultivated. by the lather with
great assiduity, anxiety, and .expence. 'fo the
honour of the .boy •it should he stated, that
he declared.' he 'was perfally happy under his
paternal roof, and that. it ,was in the power
of the Lkw to divide him from , his father, and
such an event should take place,. nothing should
induce him to set his foot on the Stage again. To
the honour of Mr. Sue Itt DAN also it ...611041d be
stated, that he was decidedly against this, revolting
measure, though the professed objea. of' it to
be the exclusive advantage of his Theatre. -
Mr. Fox has-manifested a' liberal concern for
the welfare and credit :of. little Barr though he
has not seen him, having► taken the trouble to write
a Letter upon the subject, pointing out such eha-
rafters as he- ought to perform, with reference to
his age, and 'the nature of .hisi talents, as well as
such charafters as he ought to decline.
.ICo'motAt de-servea great 'commendation for the
attentive diligence and liberal -zeal with which, ill
as he is, he has himself superintended all the. re.
hearsals of the Plays in. which little Berry . has
terformed, that the talents .of this: -extraordinary
"').Y might appear to the fullest adventage Jar the
gratilleation of the Public. ,
HOtasAN has received such • offers from the
buGlin Managet as it would have* been folly in him
41 ?cite, though he had many proposals frorn,Ma.
ntiors on this side the water. He has,therefore
bkit his amiable. Lady with he; family at C. halten-
ani, and will probably winter in Dublin.'
Most c.—The new Amateur Con Cert commenced
for the season on Thursday evening, at Hypes
nOom,: Tottenham-street. The Band was led by
MOUNTAIN. 1-lOLMEs played the bassoon, I4e-
ItlNtaTott the violoncello, and the, orchestra was al.
together well supplied.. The entertainment was
thiefly of the instrumental kind and the music was
Well seleded.
Mr, JR tININGIIAI4, COCK-o,llas written a pane yrie
On the Dignity of Human Nature. 'None of his Illus.
trattoria, however, can be taken from the History'of
modee* Feeiee
Mr. P. Posielt returned to Town.yesterday from
a 'visit to his uncle, the Earl' of BRISTOL, to Al-
beny. place,
Lord, lineaciwar is much better, and was re.
inenoVed yesterday to his Lordship's houses in Gros-
vor-place.-
.::rho Arehbishop.uf CA IvT,E RBO LT, we are hap.),
to , be informed, is comPletely.recovered from his late.
health indisprisition, and. is at retell' in :as V"
46 he has been for many years} past.

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4.otAt OF KING'S 13ENC1i, DiCsmeEte
strric:cs BEFORE LORD ELLENBORODGII AND SPACIAL

JURY, fti WLSTMINSTER. 11ALL.

THE KING Z. NUN HERRIOT, JOHN TAYLOR,
ESQUIREi, AND oTHEICS.

-Mr. Jsatv Is opened.the pleadings..• This was an
information, he said, filed by His Majesty's ATTO R.-
N KY-GENERAL, against John Herrior and Jcshn Tay.
for, Esquires, Proprietors,. Richard Harris, Printer,
tend Richard Lathbury, Publisher, of a certain Ncws.
paper, lately called 44 THR•TRUE BRITON," for a
Libel on Earl St. Vincent and the late Board of
Admiralty, at the time when that Noble Earl. was
at the, head of that Department of Government---..
charging the, whole Board, and particularly the No.
bit 1!;ail, with .gross negligence, in not sending
proper information. of the,War, and instruttions to
Admiral Rainier, the Commander of His Majesty's
Squadron in the Indian Seas.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL opened the case on
behalf of the•prosecution ; and contended, that the
Paragraph in question, which appeared in the late
Newspaper called:" THE TRUE BRITON," the lat-
ter end of the last year,. wasisa great and serious
Libel on. that part of the 'then Government of this
Country which, composed the Admiralty, and par.
ticularly on the Noble Earl, who was then ,at the
head of that Depat latent, He described all Libels,
ancient and modern, to have one common ingredi-
ent, namely malice; and contended, that the Para.
graph ins question was of this' description, which
imputed to the Admiralty" Board a. criminal
negligence . in not sending, for two months
after the commencement of this War, any in.
formation to Admiral Rainier. . This Libel, he
said„ was giossly, and shamefully falai ;. and the
Defendants had no right whacevet to pUblish it ;
and although a free and temperate discussion of all
the contlutt of Ministry 'ought never to be inters
rupted, because it was beneficial to a free State, yet
no min .was entitled to invent or assume falsehoods
as fatlss. and then to censure others upon them, as
if they were true. This, he contended, to be the
ease here, and for sehieV the Defendants ,were in.
disputably "responsible to the Public, Whissecresiu.
lity, as far es able, they had imposed upon,, and to
whom they ought.'tca'answer, and particularly to the
Noble Earl, whose charattee they had traduced, by
accusing him of the greatest crime of which a
great 'Minister. of State of any Country could be
guilty, that of negleEting to send proper instruc.
tione to those who are to fight its Enemies. Here
the Learned Gentleman pronounced an eloquent pa.
negyric on the brilliant achievements and charaCter
of the Noble Earl ; and enlarged an the public
mischief of lltieiling any person, and especially '
those who deserve so much to be revered' by their
Countrymen ; and concluded
•with' expressing his
conViClion, that the Jury would find the Defendants
Guilty. •
The necessary proof that the -Defendants were
PrOprieturs, Printer, and Publisher, being gone
through ; that the Paper was purchased at " The
True Briton" Office, Strand, of the Clerk, on the
7th of December, 803 ; and the Paragraph being
read-rand Mr. 'Marsden, First Sectatary of the
Admiralty, having proved that Dispatches had been
sent to 'Admiral Rainier in India, &c.
Mr: Serjeant BEST addressed the Jury in a very
able Speech on the part of the Defendants. He.ad;
mitted the Law as laid, down by the ATTORNEY.
GENERki,, who' had truly stated that all Libels
originated in malice,. Undoubtedly malice wai the
principal feature of a Libel, and 'therefore the
Jury must be satisfied that the one in question inn-
ceeded from that motive, which had for its object to
Vilify and degrade the Government and the Noble
Earl` at' the head of the Naval Administration. 7—
Trying it upon this principle,' it was impossible
to say that the Author had, in publishing it, been
aduated by any malicious disposition. He, and
those he represented, were most willing to make
the Noble, Earl ample compensation, by acknow.
tedging, in ,terms as distintl as unequivocal, that
although they had not eritninally'libellW him,
there 'was no truth v‘ hatever in the report,' It was
not, whether' the tiring published turned out to be
irue or false, that a patty was guilty of publishing a
Libel. IsWas the intention that constituted the guilt.
It appeared that the Defendants were not ihe tabti.
caters orthefatt they had published, for it had been
publicly' rumoured that Linois' fleet had been de.
rained. It was well known that' something like
detention aClually had taken Place. Linois went to
Poodicherry,' and Adm. Rainier fallowed him, and
anchored an the outside of his Fleets Tlfe French
Admiral, however, from some circumarances, thought
it prudent to slip his' cables in the night, leaving .
falselights to delude cite English Admiral.- He had.
a right to advert • to what passed in Parliainent, not
.indeed with respect to the speeches of the Members,
but to The votes of danrls' Houses. If the Jury would
'refer 'to the .etttes Of-Parliament,' they would find
that this very subjeCt had been made a matter of
Parliamentaty discussion; and that motions had been
'made for papers, which wereqsranted. It certainly
appeared, when • the papers were produced, that
(bete :was no•foundation for the' charge against the
Admiralty, Board.--But after that time the Defend;
Mats had never repeated their charge. lie would
surrender. their cause any single instance could
be produced ' in which' they had persisted :in the
Attack, after it appeared by authentic documents
that it was unfounded. If this was to be deemed
a Libel, merely because it asserted what' was untrue,
there could "no larger exist that which Was.the best
preservative, of the Country, its Constitution and.
Governineht, the Libeity of the Press. Who would
take upon him the dangeruus task of criticiaing the
measures of Government, if he seas to be .condemned
far reasoning' upon fads, which, thotigh generally
believed and admitted, afterwards turned out id be
false ? It was the vio (puma which ought, in aitcases,
to be,the'obledi (A inquiry by a Jury ; and if whoshe
Difendants had published became the, subjea of dis.
cusaion ,in Parliament, there could have been no vs,
vaie malicious Motive. OtherDepat tmeots.of Govern.
ment had been attackedsbut the perpOns censulett had
not thought it necessary to institute Prosecutions,
becauai they knew the publicationa against them
not proceed from malice; and because they consi-
dered it more tutheir honour to rely on the teditude
of their intention's. Frvut the nature of the case he

1 A. it
'could aret. o.evi eget, As ta t ut Qt,saying,
that nointelligence had 'been sent out to.lndia till
f‘er two months, the only answer was, that, he sup.
posrd the fact to have been so. it was a•Matter of
notoriety, *nit those who condueted Newspapers
werei frorn their zeal and anxiety tti gratify the
l`nhltic,:often-txpOseci to be themselves imposed up.
on ; and, therefore, if an erroneous statement was
published by them, it ought rather to be attributed
to mistake than to a malicious motive.
The ATTOR NPY GEN Ella:L. briefly replied, main.
taining his ori.inal proposition, thatthe publication
was evidence of a malicious intention.

Lord ELLEKBOROUCti having recapitulated the
evidence, and commented upon the distinaion be.
tween a tree investigation, ut the condilet Of
Men, and malicious, unfiunded, attacks upon their
conduct, left the case to the Jury who found the
Defendants Guilty.

Among the numerous arbitrary actions of BONA-
PARTE, we have to announce the arrest recently of
two Subject of the KING Of SWEDEN, the Count
DE POSSE, and lLrl. Oou.tatoßTr na LA TOUR,
who have both .Ueen. sent to .the. Temple. The
Count DE Posse had bought a peat. quantity_of
furniture fOr himself and several of his friends. He
went to Dieppe to send them by sea to Sweden ;
and ;wishing to proceed from thence by the shortest-
route to Amsterdam, got a passport from the Mayor
of Dieppe to proceed along the coast to Holland;.
Notwithstanding that passport, lie Was'arrested,by
Agents of the Police, and condudled to P.iris.—
Mr. ODOUSIORTY DE LA TOUR, ltrmerly an Ac-
tor in Sweden, 'and afterwards Reader to GUSTAVUS
111. h.as inhabited France. for. fifteen years. He has
a pension from the KING of Sw or Dr,. and, since,.the
Revolution,. bears the title cif, Literary Agent to
His Swedish Mjcsty.
. The public nine of Lord G. 1.4 GoWs R. into St.
Petersbutglf was one of the most splendid eSthibi.
lions of this kind aver witnessed in that -City. The
moment his;, 4ordship:s• arrival at Cronstadt was
known, his Secretary of Legation at. St. Pe tersbu rgh
dispatched fill his carriage* io meet him, with the
whole of retinue. ‘The carriages were six- in
number, each drain by sizhories, most elegantly
caparisoned, and ornamented With ribbons, &c. and
filled or . attended by his numerous servants, in
stare liveries. The cavalcade entered St: Peters.
burgh at sit o'clock in the evening, and his eittre
was announced hytthe tinging of bells, and a dis.:
charge of artillery, The'tnilitary were drawn up
to receive him,. and. every street thtbilkli which
he passed sliewed dernonstratirms. of joy and saris.
Wimp- , .

Sirj..ll.-WARlksr:,;,our lateAmtiassador to., the
Court of St. Petersburgh, accompanied by I,ldy
WmitxErr and Count.Nlowitxx, the' I laooverian
Minister, With the whole of! his .Suifte, arrived in
town yesterday ; his Secretary, Mr, Picikisit had
proviously arrivettat.an early hour at theitouse
Lady CLAVIMING, the mother of Lady*WAltitP.N,
with the Intelligence of the arpivai of: the',Ete-Ani.
bastador and:Suite at Harwich, on 'Wednesday. •
Government some time ago purchased an extru-
sive plot of ground in' Lincoln, Or) the toaud which
branches towards Gainsbotough, for tile impose of
forming a militasy station, there, and '‘alt.ealty lias' a
depta lacer! crated (funning a handlinne brick.
Wilding), 'calculated 'td contain 13, 000 stand of
arms.—lt is expeeted that extensive barracks will
also be ereeted in the course of 'd r ensuing spring, ,
Barracks have been erected at S;,11ro, (Tv!
&mess side'of the. Humber, and at Whi(chbcrth and.
Stallingborongh, on the Lincoinahire arid de-
tached 'parties from the gd Lincoln Militia have
marched into them from Hull.

On Saturday last 'Whear was sold in fivreford
Market at rbs; per bushel of ten gallons, being al
redunion of 4.1.‘661.' from the current price of that'
day fortnight.
The exceeding inildneii of the present seasOn
strongly exemplified 'in two 'white' viler," now in
full blossom,. in a garden neat' ShreWsbury. Ano..
Cher is ready to blow, if the weather continues fine.
A race, of a Most wl!itrisical nature, will, it is
said, take place in Hyde Park on Monday, between
two young men of fashion, one minted on', a pigs:
the other on a Ncwfounvlland dog,, 131 th t4sse
animals have been in trAning for tome
,citne pot ;
beta run considerably in favour of . They
are to star( precisely ac one o'clock', few the,M4p.
zinc, in Hyde Palk, and terminate their career at,
Orosserior,gale. This
.novelty is the talk of the
whole Town, and will probably .attran ruutneruuat
speelators.
• At a General Meeting of the ?roptietors of the
Gloucester and Berkeley CatiAl, on M olds), lapts it
was determined to apply to Patli,totent for fresh
•
poYers to tante money, in order EQ unite the Na.
vsgatioo with the River Sevari,, at a place calletl
the I-tack Crib, about twenty miles distant from
Gloucester by the course of the river, but not more:
than tc:, tril;eii by the prol'oscd line of the Canal.

The Farce of, invaston has. been , frequently at.
tempted by our Gallic'neighbuurs ; the present
preparations will no cinulit ev.tworate .all. the
former.. Hogarth, in his two••Plinti of C 4 England
and France," now exhibiting with the -rest
nutueroua Wotke, very justly witnate& the means
pr invasion and of defence, when
.he ,describes • the
miserable Invaders forced on board their'frail harks
by thepoints of the halberd, on -one side of the
water ; on the other we see tile,..44,xiovi solicits*
of a British Volunteer to be 11,,,,,a-tioi4itd 0 tight
the battles of his Country. -Vie conscgitiocitscif a
successful Invasion are -finch exemplitlett in the
Caft.itlati of engines of torture, and the bloodthirsty
satisfa4lon of the Priest, wbo is feeling the edge of
an- axe, , • ; . ,

Last week .two
.men in ate .reighhonthood of
Deal, with a light covered .cart, eseitril much sus.
picivu hmorl the Revenue Qtricers, for they ap.
reared very attentive to the 13,,tch..tss4 they wrre
carrying ort a disloyal. c9rreNpontlence ,surd some
velsel. On .Isetng watclseJ, one of The'..men. was
(sset vett to take oat of the cart a picket, and rtlll.
nins to .the sea-attar, put it on b,Jara
stn." ki which itntnediately A cutter its.
scantly brought the smack to; and (As cxaminifig 'the
packet,. found it to consist tit Seitentes`of the Lot-
tery, which 'the Tishirmeo were. employed to. iiis.
tribute on baard the Shirt in the Dawn's.

bit) hii Ili iY.

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•
`o7.larles Edward Pe ?hand 'Noma:
tried f>r stealing a cheese, 'at Islington ; Snmiael
t'or stealing a saddle;' 'Anna Garrnbo acid
Mary Porliverl, for 191 yards of lace►
five guineas in gold, and some, ntlier Ott ti less %tett
aft found guilty of simply