The Sun.
London, England, 1804-05-07 00:00:00

CORK, A?ML 29.

A most tremendous fire broke nut yesterday at
.the extensive Distillery of Messrs. WALKER and
"Co. which raged with considerable fury from eleven
in the morning till about three in the afternoon,
when it was happily got under. Not a life was
lost. Our worthy Mayor, THOMAS WACGET, Esq.
and the two Sheriffs, were extremely aelive on the
occasion. 'The Earl of CORk, who commands the
Garrison, attended in person, with Cols. STEwAttT,
STOVIN, BENTON, RACWELL, HOWARTH, the
i7th, 25th, Clare, and Tipperary Regiments,
though the 17th had only arrived here on Fri-
dAy from Dublin, to be embarked for India,
and nothing could exceed the regularity and good
condua of the Garrison on the occasion ; but we
particularly noticed the soldiery of the 25th, of
whose exertions and ready attendance too much can-
rrs,t be said. The daMage, as far as has hitherto conic
to our knowledge, amounts to about 70071. and it
"has given great satisfaction that our worthy fellow-
citizens have not been greater sufferers.

Sir EYE CooiF, K. B. has been far some days
hack at Bantry and Beerhaven, on a tour examining
the Coast, with Sir CHARLES HALLo;VA.ir.
The zd Battalion of the 66th have left this Gar_
rison for New Geneva, near Waterford.
CONYNCHAth has been here for a few days,
on a vi4,it to his brother, Colonel BURTON, of the
Clare Regiment.

CITY BUS IN ESS.---TO.IIIOITOW the Lord Mayor
ill ;told a Cot.rt of Aldermen at Guildhall, when
isis expeded his Lordship will nominate Gentle-
men for the office of Sheriffs for the ensuing year,
and,on other business ; and on Wednesday his Lord-
ship will hold a Court .of Common Council for the
purpose of taking into consideration 'the Bill now
pending in tht, Honourable House of Commons, for
the Relief of certain Incumbents of Livings in. the
City of London, and on other particular business.
Yesterday the ShePpy Volunteer Infantry were
inlpeded in the Hundred Acres, by their Coat_
-clan:3er Maj,;r BENTHAM ; after having gone through
varino evolutions,. with a prf;:ision and steadiness
highly creditable to theniselves, they marched into
the Sheerness Garrison, and relieved the different
guards, having been placed on permanent duty for
three weeks.

Captain km PH VitRNON, who is mentioned with
so much honour for the part he took in one of the
,17t.,./ Adions in India, is a Son of honest JOE VER-
NON, so long a favourite with the Public on the
Stage of Oid Drury.
The Dollars, as altered by Mr. BOLTON, are
quire.the reverse of the clurri•T coinage of Spain,
anti are indeed a very beautiful specimen of art.
Nothing can shew the vanity and folly of BONA-
PARTE more than his apparent belief, that the
Crown of France, after his death, will he suffered to
remain in the family of a Foreign Usurper, who
reigns only by the terror he excites, and whose fa_
mliy are rendered odious by that terror. It is
highly probable, that whatever arrangements may
he made for establishing hereditary right in the fa-
mily of the detested Corsican, .that family will be
completely ovrjihrown, as soon as the happy tidings
of IvAs tivaol utekm-yi; to Illr. people who groan tin-
der his yoke.
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Miss DECAMP, it vems, has lost a pair of satin
small-chez:hes, which have been stolen from the
Wardrobe of Drury-Lane Theatre. Marriage may,
perhaps, atone for the lms, by giving her an oppor-
tunity of q,uearing the breeches.
It is somewhat curious to hear the comments of
the Critics every Opera night in Galloway-row.
There is as much diversity of opinion there a 3 in the
political world. Some of them pronounce GR ASS INI a
woman of extraordinary merit, and others as oarm-
ly deny that she has any merit. In short, upon a due
balance of opposing judgments, it would be difficult
to determine whether she is not the greatest Singer
ever heard, or no Singer at all.
Ow Ett, whose talents appear to so much advan-
tage in the present Exhibition, had sent a fine Por-
trait of WINTER, the celebrated Musical Composer,
but ti:stre was no room for it in any situation suit-
able to its merit.
The newspaper writers have lately been very
aaively employed in making Cabinets, but from
what they have hitherto done, it does not appear
that they are good joiners.
The fashionable routs are quite ecl;pred by the
political rout in a certain Flouse, which has put an
entire close to the Ministerial Parties given by the

Dotter.
A Comedy from Dr unix, jun. is expeEed to
open ;hz.approaching season of the Little Thntre
in the Haymarket.
The French compare the threats of the English
Sailors before Boulogne to those of GOLIATH. We
fear this is a sly allusion to " Giants refreshed."
Tne Eleaoral PRINCE of BAVARIA lately arrived
at atinburgh ineog. His Highness has recently
completed his studies at Gottingen, and is now on
her trtmets, which he purposes to extend to Eng-
land.--He journies under the assumed name of VON
BERG, '4nd is by no means smart or elegant in his
appearance.
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Eighty-six Officers, Soldiers, and Sailors of an
English ship, have arrived at Fort Fitch, near
Me,.z. During their match from Brest, they had
the insolence, every day after dinner and supper, to
drink the health of GEORGE 111. When this can-
duCt caused the gens.d'armes to prevent them from
having wine to their meals, they drank their King's
health in water. Is not this a ridiculous fanati-
cis-m ?—journal des Defenseurs..
The French Paper, entitled Le Journal des De..
fenseurs, states that six English. sailors, having had
a difference with their Captain, deserted, and land.
ed An a boat at Havre; but adds, " as every Eng--
li,sl;ain is a suspicious charader, and deserves pri-
Lii,.4nent, they were sent to prison, and will be tried
:V.tilitary Commission as Spies."
,tiers from Copenhagen, of the ;oth ult. state,
all the Danish Forces in the Durchies of Hol-
stein and Schleswig, are to be encamped early in
A/Li, under the immediate order of the PitlNt:E
ROYAL,

CONS 'STONY COURT,

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DOCTORS' COMM3NS.

BURGESS V. 13URGESS.

This teas a cadse prornoted by J again' .
William Burgess, for an inCesteou; eohabita[ion with
Ann Lyde, his niece.;
It was not .denied that the parties lived in, th 4
same hodse together; and that Mrs. Lyde as-1)111C1
arid bore the name of Burgess but whether they
lived together as uncle and niece, or as linst-:and and
'wife, was the question to be decided ; to wr,icir tt-
yeral witnesses were examined; who proved &c.
&c. the allegation.
Mr.`WiLi,rawi. SCOTT Said-'--" Of the nature of
this cohabitation I think no doubt can be enter.,
tained. The prosecution is commenced for two-fold
purposes 1, the first, for the purptsse of punishing
Mr. Burgess for this offence secondly, fur re- ,
moving a nuisance extremely offe.c.„iva to the laws and
manttfrs of the country. It is of greet importance that
cohabitation should not be. permitted between per--
sons of the 'closest connections ,Jf blood ; if it was
suff!red, it would tend to en•lleis confusion, and the
sanaity of the LawS would be violated aid de-
stroyed. Attending, theref.re, to what I think the
Material point, namely, that of removing the
nuisance; and looking to the time of life of the party,
and the consequences which the infliaing this
milder penance might produce, I shall not think' it
necessary to inflit the public penance, but I shall

condemn the pa:ty in full costL of this.proseczition,;
shall likewise accompany it with the injunc—
tion, that these parties most nut merely have Sepa/C.ZO
beds in the same house, but Mint livc in (mute se.
karate and al•art ; and -if obedience be not given
to this order, ex- mmnunication and its consequences
must follow,"

COURT OF CHANCERY, MAY 4.

LORD VISCOUNT COURTENA.Y V. GODSALL.

The LORD CHANCELLOR this morning deliver-
ed his opinion upon the motion for an injuaaion
anade in this cause, to prevent the Sheriff of Devon-
shire from proceeding to sale under an execution
levied at the suit of the Defendant, upon the furni-
ture, plate, &c. of Lord COURTENAY, in Powder_
ham Castle ; the particulars of which were fully
stated in The Sox of Friday.
His Lordship began by observing, " that a Court
of Equity might interfere by injunaion, if this case
was founded in any imposition upon the weakness
of a thoughtless young Nobleman; ; but if this de-
rnand has arisen from mere compliance with orders, -
however extravagant, I know no principle upon
which this Court has ever aced, by which I am au-
thorized to say, that the Defendant ought to be pre-
vented from immediately having the full benefit of
this execution ; and that his account shall, ten years
after it has been contraaed, be now submitted to a
Jury to investigate the reasonableness or the exor-
bitance of these charges. Some of them are cer-
tainly such as would astonish most men ; but the
Defendant has positively sworn, and for the present
purpose I must take his answer as true, that the
most exquisite materials alone were used, that the
most eminent artists alone were employed, and that
gold and silver were lavished in profusion, all by
the immediate and positive direaions of Lord Cour-
tenay ; and he also swears, that his charges are all
fair and reasonable. In the present stage of this
cause, therefore, Lord Courtenay can have no right
to say, and indeed this Bill does not charge it, that
these charges are exorbitant and unreasonable.
" The first part of the transaaion immediately un-
der consideration., commences by Lord Courtenay's
giving a Bond to the Defendant for 85001. and this
was evidently without any settlement or examina-
tion of Accounts. phis Bond being put into the
hands of Pybus and Co. the Defendant's bankers,
upon the first instalment becoming due, they de-
manded payment of it from Lord Courtenay ; and,
after some delay, 40001. is paid. It has been said
that this Bond was placed with Pybus and Co. for
the very purpose of extorting the money; and it
may have been so, for tradesmen, from apprehen.
sions of losing a customer, very frequently do ne-
gotiate these sort of securities, in order that they
may excuse themselves from any harsh condut, by
saying, that it was out of their hands. A proposal is
then made by Mr. LEE, the Solicitor of Lord
Courtenay, that the Defendant should take the
Bond out of the hands of Pybus and Co. and give
further time for payment of the remainder ; in
which case Lord Courtenay was to execute a new
Bond fur 70001. which would nearly amount to the
balance of the account. To this the Defendant ac.