The Sun.
London, England, 1804-10-04 00:00:00

WEYMOUTH, OCT. a:

The ROYAL FAMILY were so lote before they
came on shore last night, that the Pickets were'
dismined by the Officers.
• Their MAJESTIEs attended the Theatre last night
to see the Comedy of The West Indian, the ne plots
nitro of Mr. Curds a RLAND's genius, and The 'eau
and the Dodge. ; Belton', Mr. ELL trrort. The
house overflowed at an early hour. Indeed it is the
case every night their MAJESTIES command.

This morning His MAIRsTr was on horseback
between six and seven o'clock, and returned soon
after eight to the Lodge. Soon after ten o'clock
the ROYAL FAMILY, attended by Lady ILCHESTER
and daughter!, Mrs. DRAX, Mrs. DRAX Gaosys.
NOR, Lady G. BULICEL BY, the Hon. Mrs. &wits,
Earls RossLYN, PAULET, and UXBRIDGE, L,,rds
WALSINCHAM and RiVER.,G,_meraIsGARTH,MAN.
NERs, MANNINO/IAM, and Aid-de-Camp, went on
board the Yacht.

On Saturday Mr. PENN gives a grand Fcte at his
house at Portland, and it is exiu fled the Rova
FAMILY will honour it with their presence.
There are three new Privateers ready to sail
from this Port.

The Dux R
a visit to the PRoi fN
CS trE
CC; ZWAert. from
fr'atyßesritger:l,raoyn.
noon, about three o'cl. ck, from C lar etnn.ln,use, on O.
Her Royal Higlineis
the P. NC P. 41 CHARLOIIIII
of Wm. vs paid a visit yesterday at r
-arleton.Houser
where she remained for a few hours, andthe
%us, in
evening returned to Shooter's Hill.
We are happy to contratti& some
of the partteu•
lan of the statement of the accident reported 10
have happened to Her Royal Highness the Patna
cm of %YAM. Her Royal Highness's Gvoln►
not perceiving het hand, shut the catriage.door.b);
which her little finger was 'jammed. She ivferf
.l
excessive pain, but escaped with only the inierf 71"
the loss of her nail. Net Royal Highness exhinite"t
infinite fortitude, and a degree of humanity whic'
must for ever endear het so her family... Before her
finger was dressed, she had the Oroom, whose dis'
tress was not to he expressed, called up, and 11,'
sured him, that sha. was not in the least ofroded
with him, the fastlt being entirely her' own. Her
Royal Highness is attended by Mr. IClstalle. and
Mr. EDNIBAD, of Greenwich.
Lord &trot arrived-yesterday at his house la
Grosvenor.street;from the-tarl of ATl.lsSurell
seat in Wilts.
The Dike of Gleiteestet's Votunteets, command:
ed by Lord CH FT‘V YrID, had yesterday a grants
field.dnr in Hyde Park..
Mrs. essot t;rar:,-This Lady, so well known. Cos
the Fashionable W .rid as the trierd and (labial/IWe'
rival of Mrs.-Ohtft flemrs it and Mrs. Bk *lt
HtAD, has had a most fortunate escape Nom
treachery of her slaves, in the IslandolDomin,r
About four years since, after an absence:Nil 711
•
CHOU. IT Of fifteen years, she exellre"
' she
the fascinating elegancies of London, in.whieh
was designed by nature to take so vow.,cunt/.
al IiEI Is
part, for the more solid joys of conj'
her husband, residfil the ioa.,a of n
minl
ca, where she enjoyed all 11. e colonialgrand•ur e.
wraith and large pos.e, 10,4 bestow. An attempt
had heel, made some time since to
,poison rt.
CHOLCIT, in chocolates, but without success.. 4
CROL IT having lately gone from borne, some
het Slaves took the dish kat resolution of strangling
e
their TVlisiress, and entering h,r room in the night
whilst she was asleep, listened her to the, heti„....an.d_
fixed a noose round her neck for that purpose.
Person wbise part it was to poll the cord, caught
h. Id of the wrong end, and a wtke Mr.. Crtot,Ltrs
whose screams raised the I.mily, who instaniiy canto
to her assistance, and ex, reared her from bet sirtia;
ti'-'n• The wretches effetted their escape. Therts
was a 1418 e quantity of dollars in the hi use, whic.,
probably was one of the temptations to this hurtio
attempt.
A I.4,tter from Poole, dated 061. 3, says Wfaa:
Jot PAV I fie, of the Barrack Department, has been
here inspetling the storehouses, to are how mart):
Troops they would contain, if circumstances 0004
render it necessary for their being on this Colvit.
In
the last War we have had 4500 men in thePar-
racks at one time : a like number may be ac.orellgim'
dated, should Government think it proper.
y
The following is the present stateof the EileznY
Force in the -Texel, viz. five Ships of the Liner and
one Ship of 24 guns. Coning from Amsfenial/r
and down as far as the Pampus, one large Fri Vin
I itely launched. The number of Transports
ha
diminished lately ; no more than 25 are now
Some of our Ships of War have been for a lung
on the North Coast watching the operations dt. tthe
Enemy in the Ports of Holland. Owing to
great perseverance of Capt. HoPe, of the Derit:
that Ship has been able to. keep in the stormy ell,
Sea tir more that, eight months, without kin,
ooce in port during all that peril &
The low grounds South of Kennington Greg?'
into which place the Thames water spontanenus'l
flows every tide, certainly an admirable '
for the South London trater.woris about to he ereetbee
there. Between five and six acres of land *ill
nj
appropriated to different reservoirs for retaining am
filtering the water, previous to its being, ilia,
through pipes for the supply tit the isomer, Lit in of
bifants, which is a preferable method to !hag h
Vitt"
forcing it iminettiately from the River Thames, lan,
all filih and sediment. The Engir.eer and It'ion
nCr of these works has so contrived the conaT arth
of the different reset voir', that the excavate' ewill
from the lo.ver ieservoirs (into. which the tide 0
be permitted fl w) will be applied to raisio
,er
considerable embankment or mound for the
1°
Will PerC°.
ta
reservoir, from, which the water 'd o Ftr
through the different pipes without the ravel
Round the top of the upper reservoir will be Il_eg fro
terrace of about 700 feet in circuinterens;d;videj
which a lawn will gradually descend, io be 00 dr.
into gardens for the different dwellings ,Inakvateil
gant polyvn proposed to he e retied 00 this
.d opt
Clbs
situation. This, with ar fine a sheet °f pla
lo . P
in the fr.,nr, will certainly be one of the
sant places Suuth of the Metropolis.

II YES

To

HORATIO LYN;

OCCASIONID* lIIS tPIGRAM ON ?Ht !NIAYT i.OSCIUS,
INSERTILD IN An EVENING FAPYR Or TliL 13TH ULT.

CSKSOR I whose beam of penetrative thought
Discerns no touch of Nature passion-fraught, •
In K LE'S keen and guilt-revblving eye, •
Ot CooK Z's dark sneer of lurking subtlety:
" Grimness of aspen"" all the praise they claim,
Their sole pretence to histrionic fame ;
0 be thy brow whit ivy garland grac'd,
The first in judgment as the first in taste !
Hail nano-m4nla of a restless age,
Whose wide contagion wraps th' Avonian Stage :
A thousand wonder-loving eyes behold •
The !wedeln vast magnificence unfold ;
And to a thousand wonder-loving eyes
A pigmy Hamlet swells his puny size.
The shade of GARLIcx lifts the rev'rend head.
And where Na trod sees buskin'd BOYIIOOO tread :
Sees Genius, whose meridian strength appears
Bright in the vigour of experienc'd years ;
Now in the zenith of its fame display'd,
From childhood's earliest glimmirings feebly fade. -
Shall it be said—but false the presage prove !
Nor such deep shame the scorn of manhood move;
Let not the Nation's curious vice degrade.
Her Bard's dread scenes to apish masquerade:
Nor.the shocyd gaze incredulously strain, -,•
And search the monarch of his Muse in Y.llll.
Say that no stately loftiness of mein
In CARRICK'S fOrm rose tow'ring o'er the scene;
Still o'er the scene the glance deluded ran,
And still bchcld " AsseititNet 07 AIsIANI"
k 3 u t lio'vy Shall Rtaion own eh' illusive charm,
:When 'vengeful Richard rears an Infant's arm;
Or Fancy hail amid the blasted wild
A very Glamis in a very Child ?
f.Ge, sapient Critic ! —with observant stare
ISee.agile Rlcir tit vault sublime is air
/outlet thy grave acumen pleas'd pursue •
Thelimb light-springing on th' astounded view !
Co ! and the Faxtcecilli race admire
That glide elastic on the viewless wire ;
And mark. some puppet Gloster's tiny rage
Up-propp'd in tiptoe grandeur shake the Stage!
Let such the field of thy researcheebe,
.Such novel trickeries are worthy thee.;
Where on the Critic Bench judicial plac'd
Expound the dogmas of thy baubly taste :
And vet'ran Genuis puerile despise
TIM charms the tasteful and informs the wise.
ENNIUS.

* Rut he'shews passion"; finest feature,
They but assume an astra grim. EPIGRAM.
+ These ideas Were suggested by the very excellent Letter
of Ca./To, inserted in the SUN (August 30th,) whose reason-
ings Mr. WEsTokt, of llirminglimn, has attempted to invali-
date, by verbal Criticism, flippant irony, and rhaps.rdical
exaggerated verbosity. '

nth Tst lATR It.—The Comedy of The Poor Gen.
th'itsan wat teptetented last night at Covent Gar.
den I.4heatte before a numerous audience. FAW-
CETTN 011apod is a very diverting performance,
and to his credit it may be said that, often as he has
played the charader, he does not render it more
extravagant. MUNI) lIN'S Sir Robert .Bramble' is
also a good piece-of acting. We advise the Perfor.
hers, however, not to be so anxious to divert
each other as to entertain the audience. Mrs.
MATTOCKS was evidently 'very much indisposed,
and therefore could not render her part of Lucretia
Mac Tah as conspicuous in the piece as usual. &ie.
*Vs Stephen Harrowby is a good compound of dry
humour, as well as simple rusticity. Lewis was
‘'ucc'rnmonly spirited, and looked peculiarly well
Fredetick Bramble. This Play is recommended
)7 scents of moral interest, as well as diverting hu.
mor, od may rank with the best efforts of the
ingenious Author.

Mrs. POWELL'3 complaint was a very severe
rhtutnatism. She has been trying the effect of warm
sea-bulling, and is much recovered.
Monday se'nnight, as the young Row tus was
performing the part of Hamlet, at the Sheffield
Theatre, anti' Mr. Hr tv that of Horatio, the
latter 'Gentleman stepped upon a •trap,' near the
hack part of the Stage, which had been incautiously
left unsecured, and he instantly fell through a
sPaee of more than twelve feet. A large hook
caught she sleeve of his dress in his fall, which it,
in sonic measure, broke, but lacerated his arm
shockingly. He was taken up with very little
hYrnptoms of life, Medical assistance being on the
'CM, he was immediately bled, and carried home
to his apartments.
The Money Gatherers who are travelling over
tile kingdom in order to collcEt Subscriptions for Sir
tolt"e".o
BURDETT, have contrived to pick up a
and Ts
are n . livelihood in their pecuniary peregrinations,
4.t WlttlOpt hopes of being able to secure a
st'lll4a
gt
rrl2l.ioir for their lives. We trust, however,
there
/nen• to is too much good sense among English.
fogy, admitof their reaping such a harvest of

I An Anonymous. Writer• declares that Sir FRANC ts
rukti
eerr never spoke to DEsPARD in private in his
, and only met him twice in public. But why
is this statement to depend on die declaration of an
~Illonymous Writer ?—Why does nut Sir FRANCIS
44, URDIITT say so himself ?—The Anonymous Writer
Is verY confident on this subjee.t, because he knows
. that dead :nen tell no tales.
' .
W. The British
cRh s Merchants engaged in Commerce
-Pain, arc compared with Barrolv.rtulmen con-
• ..eprned in the Orange Trade. What must be thought
u.,' a Print 'that can thus contemptuously speak oaf
n! most respeftable body of men on earth, the
aletchants of Great Britain ?
il it ;
.s strange that the appearance of a shark should
._ave excited surptize at Brighton, as that place dur.
Lng the Summer is the constant resort of sharks as
'veil as of grageolti.
The black
•';
"travellers, 1. ' " in Dumbarton
Castle 'as living in a lead cistern
,i r I dted last week, suppo,tAl from a bight,
• 4"tr 'lei" co
ti.
8 nfined there u twards of thirty year
It Wej h I .
1 ,
atm.
~ the ged about two the. and was quite 4"y
a v fuvutli,