The Sun.
London, England, 1804-04-06 00:00:00

CORN EXCHANGE, AeR I L 6.

THERE are not many fresh samples of Wheat
here co.day, but a good supply on hand and few
buyers, who decline present prices ; the few
sales effected are a trine lower,; Barley comes its
good quantity, and is rather cheaper; Malt, also
Pease, sell cheaper ; Pearls at 425. ; we have some
foreign cargoes of Oats come in, but the prices
nearly as last ; Flour is not lower, and in other
articles the alteration is without notice.
I
Wheat 28s a 4os a 53s ,A Tick Beans -25 s a 32s od
Fine ditto -. 54s a 55s 6d Oats - 17$ a 2os a 235. od
Rye - - - 275 a 3os od Poland ditto 24s a 25$ 0,1
Barley - - iBs a 23s 6d
.Rape Seed - - 351 a 381
Malt - . . 49s a 55s od Fine Flour - 4os a 45s od
White Pease 3as a 39$ od Seconds 355 a 405 od
Beans - - 3os a .36s od

At Lancaster Assizes on Monday last, the Grand
Jury, found a Bill of " Murder" against. Mr.
SPARLING, Mr. CoLQUTTT, and Dr. MACART
NEY, as principals in killing. Mr. GREARsON, of
-Uverpool, in a duel. Dr. !J. was Second to the
unfortunate deceased.- The trial was expeaed
come on the fzillowing day.
The French General PEKKow—who surrendered
to General LAKE, is said to have had eighteen lacks
of rupeeS in the Company'!; treasury, at Calcutta,
five years ago.

.Yesterday was fixed fora grand Review by Lieut.,
General Fox, on Wimbledon-Common, of the fol..
lowing Regiments : The Kensington, Fulham,
Chiswick, Ealing, Brentford, Isle w orth, and Twick.
enham Volunteers. Colonel DRINKWATER was
to have commanded the Brigade ; but, in conse-
quence, as we are informed; of General Fox's
being indisposed, at a late hour on Wednesday
night notice was sent to the different Commanding
Officers, that the review was postponed to a future
opportunity. Owing to the lateness of the message,
it was not possible. for the contents thereof to he
communicated to the Troops until yesterday morn.
ing when, the Regiments• were dismissed at their
respeetive parades, the Kensington Volunteers ex-
cepted, who marched by themselves to Wimbledon,
and after being regaled with bread, cheese, and por-
ter, repaired to the Common ; hut, owing to the
unfavourable state of the weather, returned, after
firing four round.; each, and performing a small part
of the usual manoeuvres practised on a field-day.
Mr. CUMB t RLANv's Comedy i-as been rehearsed
every day this week, and is now thoroughly fit for
performance. .The Friends of the Author who
have been present at the Rehearsal are captivated
with the Sailor's Daughter.

Mr. CAU I,F 1 ELI), late of 'the Guards, is engaged
to succeed Mr. FA.LisToN at the Bath Tbeatre, on
the same terms that the . latter Gentleman goes to
Drury-lane Theatre next season.
The declining health of Sir MICHAEL SM/TH has
'induced him to retire from the Rolls in Ireland.
Mr. KING, Commander of the Lawyers' Corps,
said to be his, successor.

Married, Titozans W. PAYLER, Esq. of Ileden,
near Canterbury, to Miss WINN, sister to ED. M.
WINN, Fl. of Ackton, Yorkshire.
A letter in the American Papers from Washing-
ton, dated the 7th of February, says, " JERoME B
NAPARTE and Lady are again at this city : they ar-
rived four days since. The doors of TuNN/cLIFF'S
Hotel, at. which. they put. up, arc generally besieged
with carriages. They make their morning visits
before the persons visited are out of bed, and receive
Visitors in the same way. This forms an additional
inducement f)r many of our Gentlemen, who are
much gratified by an opportunity of paying their
r'espets to the lovely bride before she has lett her
Couch. Her charms, I. am told, appear in this Fi-
t nation to particular. advantage. But that Monsieur
shduld be,in bed also, to receive his visitants, ap-
pears a circumstance as ludicrous as •it is uticorn-
mon."

A DUTCH, PRAY stepfather which it
in Paris, cursed he tl:y name. Thy kingd_m Le
far from us. Thy wili be done neither in heaven
nor in earth. Do not take from us our daily breed.
Forgive us for not loving thee, as we forgie thee
fur not loving us. Lead us not into despair and
misery, .but deliver us from thy ragged hu,sats,
fuzileers, and starving ragamuffians. For thine is
the kingdom, wcel distress, mockery, derision, and
plunder without encl.—Amen.
The above, printed and handed about in Holland,
evidenly' skews the disposition of the Hullais.lers.

SIIET•LAND ISLES.

REPORT THE COMMITTEE OF THE lintlsE OF

COMM')N4 RELATIVE TO THE TATE OF THE

OF StiRTLAND.

THE Committee, to whom the Petition of the
Owners of ,Lands, in the Islands of Shetland, for
thernelves, and on Behalf of the other Heritors and
Inhabitants of the said Islands, was referred, have,
pursna-nt to the Order of the House, examined the
Matter of the said Petition : To prove the allega-
fiat's whereof, Mr. JOHN SCOTT being examined,
That he is a resident in the bland of Valey,
about twenty miles troM Lerwick—he was there
during the last Season--that the last harvest was
very unfavoUrable, owing to bad weather—that
seed was imported from Berwick, and some from the
Not th Country also, but neither -answered—that
the population of the Shetland Islands is from 20 to
22,600—that the ekpence of the meal and hear im-
p 1-•••6 last season, amounted to more than' 30,0001.
liarve.t of Olot was a very indifferent
one—that the Fishery affords a great supply for the
Island, and the Fishery of 1862, as well as that of
1803, was tinta‘ourabfethat the Inhabitants live
o..•meal, milk, and fish—that great quantities
of cattle- were sold last year to purchase grain,
whereby a great quantity of land was laid waste,. on
account of the cattle being,so disposed of—that he
only knows Of one life being lost- on account of
scarcity ; hut as the season advances the scarcity
will be tnore alarming—that seed will be wanted,
and if not sent soon will be too late to be sown for
the harvest— that the seed is put into the ground in
April and Map—that they have no barley, and
they sow bigg in May—that if no relief is given
many lives will be lost—that the relief afforded by
GoVernment, which arrived in the middle of 'J.inu-
ary last, saved the lives of many persons—that he
contributed last'year four years' income to the ne-
cessities of the Island, and that.the contributions of
the Island in general were not less—that the supply
in 178+ was 'sent in money, and was of great ser-
vice—that the distresses now are much greater than
in 1784—the people were then -in a better condi-
tion, having had several good years ; but by the
great exertions made last year, on ,account of the
failure of the crop.and fishery, the funds for their
relief arc exhausted :—And.the Witness. added, that
the seed potatoes are very scarce, and that if some
were sent it would be of great service.

THE THREE LEEKS of GREENVVICH.--Among
the hoiiday occurrences at Greenwich,. a singular
wager was laid at the sign of the Three Leek% Pub
lic-nouse in that town. A well-informed old Pen-
sioner had gathered a number of apprentices and ho-
liday folks around him, by relating, in an audible
voice, the service he had seen defending his coun-
try, and the many instances he had witnessed of the
honours paid the British Flag. The landlord, think-
ing his volubility mote noisy than necessary, check.
ed him rather abruptly, on which the old veteran,
in his 'turn, made some harsh remarks at the expellee
of the landlord, called him an :untutored cockney,
and offered to lay any wager he did not know the ori-
gin of the sign of his door post. The latter, in.
tensed at ouch insinuations, expressed his readiness
to accept any wager ; that his sign admitted of no
other construdion than the figures painted on it,
namely, Three Green Garden Leeks, provided the
bet was deposited in the hands of a bystander. The
Pensioner acceded to the proposal, and produced a
guise,,, which was staked with the landlord's, and
consented to forfeit it, if he did not produce a do-
cument to prove the origin of the sign ; he then
went out,, and shortly returned with an old ballad,
almost obsolete, which celebrated the valour and
patriotism of three persons formerly residing at
Greenwich, named LEEK, the father and two sons,
who were on board a ship called the Royal Prince,
in the reign of Chutes I. when she was attacked
at sea by three Dutch vessels of superior force, and
in the gallant defence made by the English, every
officer on board the vessel was killed, but Joins
'ECK, the boatswain, who immediately took the
command, called his two sons to assist him in
bravely re'sisting the enemy, and addressifig the
crew, animated them SO much by his courage and
behaviour-, that they returned to theii guns with
such intrepidity, that the three Dutchmen were
obliged to sheer of.. The LEEKS thus having saved
one of the King's ships from the 'enemy, brought
her into port, where they were rewarded for their
bravery. LEEK, the boatswain, was made Gunner
of England, and his sons officers of rank in the navy :
they afterwards lived near the public house, the sign
of which had been changed by ignorance from The
Three Valiant Leeks to the Three Greeh Leeks, of
Green,;tich. • - The arbitrators of the bet haVing ex.
amined the ballad, were of opinion the Pepsioner
hail won; the guinea was therefore given to the old
sailor, who immediately called for a bowl of punch
with the money, inviting his auditory to drink to
the memory of The Three .Leeks of GreenviiCh.
MARLBOROUGH-STECET.—Wednes.day
.7. Her-
`hert and
.lames Ajmer were brought before the
Sitting Magistrate at this Office, charged, by the
Contractor for keeping clean the streets, and re-
ceiving the ashes from the inhabitants of Mary-le-
bonne Parish, with having filled their cart with a
quantity of dust from a house in Titafield-street;
contrary, to the Ael'of Parliament, which ens is
penalty of zos. from every person who shall remove
any ashes from the said Parish, without being di.
rested so to do by the Parish. Officers, The Con-
traAor stated, that he paid no less a sum last year
than 23501. for the privilege of having the dust and,
ashes in the Parish ; that he had beets frequently
robbed of his property by personkwho had no claim
to it, and .yesterday morning stopped the parties
going away with a country.cart full of dust from
Titchfield-street. Nlerser, the owner of the cart,
said, in extenuation of his -trespass, that he lived
at Kensington, and was' going with the ashes 'to
manure a piece of ground at that place, after hay.
ing them given him I.y the owner of the house in
Tirchfiel,i-street. The Magistrates, however, ex-
plain, d to him aral his companion, that they had
both aded contrary to tie statute. He therefore fined
them in the mitigated penalty often shillings each.

SPOTTING INTELLIGENCE,

NEWMARKET CRAVI.N MEETING, t 304.

NA7EDNEIDAY. *tail. 4.

The Third Class of the Oatlands Stakes of svgs. each, h. ft

_
- -
Mr. Abdey's Little (ohn, 3 yrs old, 6st 41b.
I.d Sackville's Enthanter, by Foam, 4 yts old,' Bst.- 31b,
Mr. Clover's Blemished Boy, 3 yrs old, 6st. ialb. 3
Mr. Howorth:s Malta, 5 vrs old, 7st. 81b. 4
Mr. O'Hara'. Highland Fling, 5 yrs old, yst. tlb. pd
Mr. Dawson's Macmanus, 3 yrs old, 7st. 51b. - pd
Mr. Durand's MairlstOne, (dead), 4 yrs old, Bst. tolb. pd
I.d Grosvenor's Tiflipson 3 yrs old, ‘st. pd
Five to t agst Little loin; ; 6 to 4 ,agst Excitanter ; 5 to 2
agst Blemished Boy and a tot agst Malta.
Subscription Plate ot 501. for 2, yrs olds, carrying 7st. - ; yrs
oldS, Bst. 51b. ; and 4 yrs olds, Bst 21b. Two-yr Old C.
Mr Delme Radcliffe's gr. f. by Precipitate, 3 yrs did,
Mr. Howorth's b. f. IVlissßailey, 3 yrsold, • -
Mr, LadbrOke's ch. c Volunteer, 2 yrs old, - 3
Mr. Prince's Buss, by john -Cull, 3 yrs old, - 4
Mr. Windharct's b. f. Parneta, 3 yrs. old,
Mr. Watson's b. C. f creaky, by Mr: Teazle, '2 yrs-old,
Mr. Howard's b. f. by Waxy, 3 yrs old,
Lord Grosvenor's b. f, Viola,' by john Bull, put of Olivia,
2 yrs old.
Mr. Williams's b. f. by PotSo's,-darn by Highfl) et, 2 yrs.
old,
Duke of Grafton's b.. f. Duckling, 3 yrs. old, - 'dr
The 1 udge could- pl at; e -only four.
Seven to 4 against Radcliffe's gr. 'f. 3 tot against Miss
Bailey, and 4 to one against folin Bull.
Duke of Grafton's c. Baniboo, by Grouse, out of Vericro,
beat Mr. Wyndham's c. by Waxy, out of a sister to Magic,
Bst. 31b. each. M. D. toogs h..ft. —Six to; on Bamboo.
Mr. Norton's Floe.lon, Bst. 31b. beat Mr. Watson's Dread-
nought, /st.'Blb. IL M. soogs. . Six to 4 against Flodun.
Mr. H. F. Mellish's Eagle, Bst. 61b. beat Mr. F. Neale's
Bobtail, Bst. slb. Two yr. old, C. 2oogs. h. ft. Seven to
4 on Eagle.
Mr. Watson's Jeremy, 7st. 111 b. 'beat Mr. Wyndham's
Carpenter, 7st. 41b. Two yr. old C. zjgs. EleVen to 3
against 'erectly.

ATROCIOUS MURDERS.-01 the_6tli of March,
a gentleman was accosted in the Street St. Martin,
at Paris, ''by a beautiful little girl, about six sears
of age. She was covered with rags, and told him
that , her mother-Was dying for want, in the fifth
floor of a house, in the same street, and that far
herself she had not eat a morsel for forty-eight
hours. Touched with compassion, the gentleman
said he would follow het home, and if- he found
her story true, relieve her and her mother., On
entering the room, he saw a woman' lying on a
bed, on some straw, instead of a mattress. Her
looks and voice seemed to confirm the story. of
the child. In taking his purse from his pocket,'
it fell down by accidlf.nt on the floor : stooping
to cske it up, he saw clearly a man under the
bed. Alarmed, but without losing his presence
of mind, he said—r" Good woman, "here are four
crowns, -I have no more upon me, but let your
child accompany me home, I will give her twenty
more." Instead of returning to his lodgings,_ he
took the child to a police Commissary, where, after
Some examination, she acknowledged that the per.
son under the bed was her father, and that within
the last fortnight, during which they had lodged
in the Street St. Martin, six persons had been
stabbed by him, plundered and stripped ; that two
corpses had been carried out by him after dark,
some nights before, and thrown into the river, but
that four corpses yet remained in the closet behind •
the bed. The Police Commissary, with the gen.
tleman, and some Gens d'Armes, went immediately
to the house, but they found nothing but the four
corpses in the closet. The man and woman were
gone, and have not since seer heard of. In con-
sequence of the discovery made by the child, six
former lodgings of this cruel erwple have been
traced, where, according to her report, and several
• other circumstances within the knowle►#ge of the
Police, during the last winter, not less than twenty_
two persons of both sexes are supposed to have
been murdered by them. It was the custom for
the woman, as from gratitude, to take hOld of her
• bentfadors' hands, and draw them to her lips as
she lay in 'bed; when the man stole behind and
stabbed them through their. backs..

DESPERATE SUICIDES AT PAR isq—On the agth
of last Feb'ruary, the day after Pichegru had been
apprehended, between one and two in the afternoon,
a hackney coach stopped upon the Pont Royal, op-
posite the Castle of the Thuilleries, at Paris.
A lady and two gentlemen left it, and in one in-
stant 'Jumped over the low stone parapet of the
bridge, into the Seine : notwithstanding several
boats went off in search of them, they were dead
before they were found, and carried on shore.
Nothing was discovered upon their persons to
identify them, or to ascertain the cause_ of this
rtsh aet, but in the hackney coach, was left a
paper, upon which was written With a pencil,
" Tremble, Tyrant we shall soon be 'revenged !"
It is not said to whom this threat was addressed.
The coachman took them up in the Rite de la•Loi,
and they are supposed to'be either persons
cated in 'the late
.conspiracy, or some of those who
had concealed Pichegru. . . •

The following curious receipt for curing fresh pro•
visions to carry abroad, has been tried by a gentle-
, man who has twice made the experiment on a,voyage
to Atchangel, and once to. the' West Indies. Let the
meat, whether beef or mutton, be fresh killed,' and
when hung to be perfefily cold, let it be cut up in
quarters : lay each on a block, and sprinkle it over
with ingredients prepared in the following manner :
lignum vital fine chips one pound ; common salt four'
minces, coarse sugar four ounces, salt prunella, half
an ounce; when it hasrbeen well sprinkled in, close
the whole in sheet lead; which done, lay it in a chest,
and, as each lot "is laid in, cover it with fresh saw-
' dust; ram-it well down and cover the whole close.
Meat (particularly fine fat bee() has been eat fresh
co' prepared, six weeks or two Months afttr sailing
from England ; the beef must be in fine order, and
when taken out for dressing (it roasts best) it.should
tie wiped and scraped clean, and put down to the
fire as quick as possible.
On Monday se'nnight, as Mr..and Mrs. 13owling,
ofiowerhead. row, in Leeds, were sitting' near th©
fire, a luminous flame issued from 'the chimney, and
atter setting fire to Mrs. B's. gown, and severely
burning- her arm, and burning one side of Mr. B.'s
wig, streamed a considerable way into the room,
and instantly disappeared, being succeeded by a vo-
lume of suffocating smoke.

LON1).)N; l'tnred by BUCHANAN M‘hlll.l. AN, (of Bow-Street, Covent-Garden);
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At the. Su-N.6Frict. No. x 1 Z, Strasd ; where iidvertirements, Order' for 1