The Sun.
London, England, 1803-06-09 00:00:00

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Volt ENT, JUNE the 28th ultimo, the
jemappe, commanded by M. PETIT, arrived at this
Port. Rear-Admiral VILLENEvvE, General Mss.
WARD, and his wife, were on board. This vessel
sailed from Martinico, and touched at Guadaloupe ;
both ttio,e Isli.nds are in a state of perfect tranquil.
lity. At eight leagues distance from Urban she
fell in with an English Squadron, consisting of eight
Ships of War ; the weather was extremely foggy,
and she assed within pistol shot of an English ship
which Was sailing upon an opposite tack.

On the 22d ult. the Corvette Le Surveillast:
arrived from Louisiana.

One of the objets to which the attention of Go.
vernment was particularly directed, in arranging the
plan for the Consolidation of the Customs, was to
check, as much, as possible, the extensive smuggling
by which both the Revenue and the Fair Trader are
so much injured. None of the measures adapted to
this purpose are more important in themselves, or
more likely to erred this desirable end, than the
repeal of the prohibition to import East India silk
handkerchiefs.

The trade of the smuggler, like every other, de-
pends principally upon a due ~assortment of his car.
goes ; anti therefore, if he he effeauaily counteraned
in any considerable article, he is exposed to lose the
whole benefit of his adventure. We understand
that the alarm produced among the smugglers by
the apprehension of this measure, and particularly at
Guernsey, is already very great. But we have
been sorry to observe, that an alarm has likewise
been excited among the manufaauters employed in
the sick trade, as to its consequences. We had,
however, little doubt but that Government had
fully :natured their plan, and were perfealy aware
of all. ts effcCts ; and, therefore, that when a fair
and complete communication do the subjen . had
taken place with the parties concerned, they would
see.that, as the interest of Government, and that of
the Manufaatirers, must always be united, so, in
Tad, effedual care had been taken to provide a re_.
medy against any injurious consequences to the trade.
We are informed, that in consequence of private
communications which have taken place, some mo-
difications have been made in the plan, by which the
apprehensions of the best informed persons in the
trade have been dispelletl; and that, with very lir-
tic change in the Consolidation Bill now under the
c uisideration of Parliament, the following regula.
tiuns will be adopted, by which all danger to the
manufacture of siik havdkerchiels will be removed,
anti at the same time very important encouragement
given both to that and all the other branches of the
silk trade, by a larger and cheaper supply of the
raw materials. _ _ _

The importation of Silk Handkerchiefs will be
confined to the East India Company, and the most
effettual measures adopted to prevent any clandestine
importation.
The quantity to he annually sold by the Company
in the counie of three years, will be so limited as not
to exceed the average sale! of the last seven years.
The Duty on Bengal Silk is to be reduced to 35.
per lb. and an additional Duty of is per cent. ad
valorem, will be laid on East India Silk Handker.
chiefs during the War.
We are persuaded also, that if,' in spite of all,
probability, any inconvenience should arise to the
Trade, early and effectual measur•s will`be taken
to counteract them.

SOUTHWARK EL RCTION.r.SCCOnd Day's Poll.
The Right Hon. Gxn, TS ZR NaY, 779
Sir Titomna Tukrut4, 726

The following is a statement of the days of poll.
ing at Nottingham, the last of which terminated
the contest, Mr. BIRCH having declined and quitted
the town, leaving Mr. COKE a majority 0t,194,
besides 400 unpoiled votes :

COKE. BIRCH.
ISt day, Monday, 109 -- ' too
ad Tuesday, 41 -- Roo
3d Wednesday, • tifo 9
4th Thursday, 21$
ith Friday, 153 269
6th Saturday —. 297 --: ti;
7th Alunday, 360 18 t
4. —.
• 23i9 rt 6;

Mr. Wrcicttmit's Motion for the introdunion of
a Bill tending to appropriate a surplus fund in Ire-
land in loans to Clergymen of that Country for the
purpose of rebuilding Parsonage Flouscs, is descry.,
ing the utmost patronage of Government, as it will
contribute highly to facilitate the dilfasion of mu-
rality and religion in that branch of the Empire.
The Clergy being better accommodated, will be
mote zealous in the discharge of their duty, Marti.
eularly if the legislative provision in question
should be extended to the rebuilding of the
Churclia.

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5tN,..04 FicEi
MARE O'Cl.c CK, P. M.

Wa stop the Press to vac, that authentic Ad.
viees have just been received of Iltemen having
been taken possession of tin the i.l instant by the
Frehth Troops, and that a Strong Detachment was
on full march to Hamturgh.

1111PROMPTU,
ON THE cEtruit A FED SPEEC:I or TilE RIGUT 110 N.

W)4. PITT, MA'S 23, 1.8a3.

Dtikosruzuz s, with Freedom's patriot glow,
Iluri'd his dread thunders on a foleign tine
Tvt.t.t; *ith ptirer grace, and equal zeal,
His piercing eloquence in3de. Traitors feel
PITT their best pow'rs and noblest deeds combines;
And high o'er both in native honour shines.
He bounded Anarchy's tremendous course,
And sav'd mankind from its u'erwhelming force.

At n General Meeting of the Inhabitants of Cork,
held on Tuesday se'nnight, an Address to His MA.
ESTY was moved and unanimously carried, as Was
also a Resoligion for a Subscription to give Bodntics
to Seamen entering at the Pat of Cork,

The Witib Ct.tra hell their List Dinner on
Tuesday at the London Tavern. The Chair was
taken by Mr. Alderman Comae. Mr. Fox, after
his health had been toasted, according to the usual
Stage ..felt plan of the Meeting, made a speech,
in which he poured out his lamentations upon.rEe
renewal of War, and, as NU. Wtsnii Am sditi ni
him, " pandered the passions of the multitude."
Th- whole of his speech consisted of declamation,
and declamation of the most hackneyed kind. It
was of course received with warm applause by such
people as were likely to attend such a meeting ;
but we have some pleasure in saying that it was the
least respectable assembly of the kind that has taken
place. since its institution.
The Nottingham Median, in spite of all the vaunt.
ing of Mr. Bt RCH and his Friends, has terminated
in favour of Mr. COKE, who, on the final close of
the Pull on Tuesday last, had a Majority of 194.
Among other Democratic Artifices employed on this
occasion by Mr. BIRCI-01 friends, they had a
inscribed with copious abuse of Mr. Bowies, a
Gentleman, whose pen has been so zealously and
ably employed in the cause of Lnyalty, as to intitle
him to this honourable opprobrium from a Jacobin
rabble.

In one of the curious Notes in the French Papers
to the Debate in the House of Lords, it is asserted
that Lord Mo tuA aims at marrying his sister to
the French Prince the Doc de MONI rrNS I ER. The
truth of this assertion we do not know.

A few days ago.! the Military Members of the
Senate, Legislative 13,4, and Tribunate, dined to.
Cher in Paris. One of the toasts was—to the brave
in to who shall first land upon English ground.
Mrs. Si DDONS remains at Cheltenham, much re.
cruited in health and spirits. Mr. Si DDoNs is gone
to that place, from which Mr. KEMBLE has just
returned from a visit to his Sister.

JOHNSTONE, it is Said, is to receive the Salary
at Drury-lane Theatre which he has been refused at
Covent Garden.

Qv tox is engaged to perform at Cheltenham and
Gloucester. His engagement for the former place
commences next week.
The huge unseemly pile of building in the High
Street of Edinburgh, known by the name of the
Luckenbo,ths, is at last to be taken down by order
of the Magistrates.
On Monday se'nnight a singular wager of 40 gui-
neas was decided :it Chester-le.Street, by Adjutant
Coor:r, of the Listvorth Cavalry. Ten penny
pieces were • separately to be thrown up, at which.
he was to shoot in whatever direetion they might
be thrown, and put at least ten shut marks in each:
On counting the shot !packs on the ten penny pieces,
they amounted to 341, and the first three pieces
contained no less than. 107. A great deal Of money
was lost in consequence, as the Odds, previous to
shooting, were twenty to one against the hhooter.
A .woman was brought before the Magistrates
of the lyice.Office, Hatton-Garden, on Tuesday,
charged with having stolen a child from Sr. An.
drew's Work-house, in August last. It appeared
that another woman was implicated in the busi-
ness, and that she was in treaty for the putt:11;1:x at
a child of which the Prisoner was pregnant. The
motive assigned was, to impose upon several Gentle-
men who were on particular terms with the Lady.
Five witnessed appeared in support of the charge,
when she was committed for re-examination.

A dreadful accident lately took place at the pow.
der magazines, not far from Petersburg!) the pow.
dcr having got heated in the buildings when it was
drying, took fire suddenly with such an explosion,
that four powder mills in the neighbourhood blew up.
This second explosion cat sled burning materials over
the whole premises, particularly the laboratory,
which, with its massy iron roof, was blown up with
a hideous explosion. The shock and the partial
explosions continued half an hour. Twenty men
were killed, and six grievously wOunded. The
compression of the air carried several persons to a
considerab!e _distance,: without doing them any
jury. The whole quantity of pots der destroyed •is
said to have been 86crpoods, or thitty.two thousand
. .
weight.
A singular discovery is stated in the Paris Papers
to have been lately made in the neighbourhood of
Nice. It is a vast cavern, the entrance to which is
very narrow., The
, inside of this cavern; the whole
extent of which has not yet been explored, contains
several vast apartments, which resemble temples;
ornamented
,with columns formed by
,erystalised
water. One of the:aparrments•is capable of hOlding
Pout hundred persons. .From the. reflettion of the
crystal, very little light is necessary to illuminate
the inside in the most magnificent manner'.
Yesterday morning the following malelattors were
executed, pursuant to their sentence, in the Oid Bai.
Icy, viz.' 'graham Nicholas, several years in the
employ of the General. Post Office, for secreting a
letter, -and stealing tbereuut 'Bank-notes; -Peter
Grezori, for forging and tittering Bank.notesi and
Robrrt Smith, alias Gordon, for robbing several
Hackney Coachmen. After spending a hors time
in fervent prayer, they were launched into mull!),
abut half past eight.

FINAV_R*I*4;

L ACC REPORT.

COURT or ruxi 4, Isq.
317 rip:Gs nEFoRr Loan ILLINgbROUOI{ AND A srEc

JURY IN wts,rl4lNsrct.HALi.

PYBU3 AND Ca. Z. DUNHILL.

Tut Plaintiffs are Bankers, and this aQion
brought, on a bond for goal. which was. entered
into by the Defendant, as a security for a Mr.
William I'anson, a Banker at PontefraCt. The
Plai‘tiffs could nut move the bond, on account of
the absence of a material witness, whose name was-
Richard Wilson. The Agent said, he had made
inquiry every where, and he could not find any Well
person as Mr. Richard Wilson.
Lord ELLeNnottouou ob,erved, that there cer.
fain!), were some persons of that name, Whoui it
was not diffictilt to find ; one. Mr. Richard Wilson
was well known to the Lord Chancellor, being
one of his honourable officers ; another of the same
name was a Member of the last Parliament, both of
whom were known to his Lordship.

Mr. Gtu as said, that as the bond had been exe.
ailed by the Pefendant, and admitted by him in his
answer to a Bill in Chancery, that would Supersede
the necessity of proving it by the subscribing wit.
ness, upon reading that answer.
But Lord ELLENDOROUGH observed, that as the
subscribing witness to the bond was nut proved to •
be dead, he could not dispense with his testimony,
tor, MOM constat, it he came into Court, his v ider,ce
niight invalidate the bond altogether, by proving •
that the obligor was intoxicated when 'he execu►ed
it ; not that such a thing was insinuated, but such
a thing was possible, and- while the witness was
alive, his evidence could not he dispensed with.—
Plaintas nonsuited.

•

FOsT E ASTLF.Y. . •
This was an atlion bought by the Plaintiff' for
the sum of 4.41. The Plaintia. is a Stable Keeper,
at Oxford, the Defendant was a man of fortu,w, ;ind •
had been a Student at that University. The Rijn,
tiff had les to the Defendant, while at the Univer-
sity, a pair of horses and a 'phaeton, during .th,
long vacation, and it was for the hire of this phaeton
and these horses, that the anion was brou,;ht. The
Defendant was a Minor at the time ; and the single
question was„ whether, after he came of age, lie had
made a prcimise to pay in this case; for if he had not,
the Plaintiff had no right of aaibn, because 'these
articles could not be called Necessaries. No such
promise was' made, tilt. '
,
Lord ELL ENBoRoUGH observed, that very Jraftl.
ed Jodge, had held, that wine was not necessary lot
a Minor : he did .not know that if such a Cat 51100%1
arise beldre him, that he should go quite so far :is to
say ,that wine was not necessary, such as a dozen or
so urn credit to a Minot, it he was a person of Con
; but he shotdd certainly" hold, that a large
quantity was not necessary. He should also hold,
that a person at the University had no occasion to
hire a post-chaise to 'ride home in, since there• were
plenty of good stage
,coaches. These articles cer-
winly were not nec.!ssaries, and as there was no
promise after the Defenciant came of age, the Plain.
tiff must be nonsuited.

Mr. ERSKINE Sslid, the Defendant was a man of
fortune, but did not chose to pot up ‘t ith the mis.
conduift of the Plaintiff, who to tt rudely eh:minded
this money of him 1),..f0re his Tutor ;. he resisted
this Aaiun to teach the Plaintiif good manners.
Lord EL.LrNrstlßcsuGH said,he. dared to say. the
Delend.int might as well give die Plaintiff what Le
thought was right, since this, article was
to him, but his Lordship said, he could not help ad.
ding that yknoig Gentlemen at the University
would employ their time better by pursuing, their
Studies, than by riding about the country in car.
flaws, and following a course of dissipation.
PlaintiW nunsuited.

WroNrsu AY, 31, N

TAPPESDEti AND ANOTHRit 2V. DAIRCESS,

The Plaintiff, arc Assignees of two Bankrupts,
and this aCtion was brought against the D.f,4ittint,
who was brother-in.law to one of the:Banktupts,
for the purpose of recovering a sum of money which
hr,d been received by the Defendant of unoiher
lemon, in contemplation. of an apt of bankruptcy,
by whiJi a fraudulent pren.rcnc,t WaS obtained by
the aq‘endant over the rest of the Creditorsf,for
the g ds which he had scid to the Bankrupts in
Jamaica. The pretentx.-was, .;liat the gond, were
not sold to the Ilankrupts, but to another p.:::;on,
and some books were stared to have bet'ai altered to
make that person DLbtor instead of the 13,inktupo,,
alter their insolvency was kr,,,wn, 'by which. the
Defendant in cia obtained payment for the %t hole of
Iris demand, instead of coining in multi- the cote.,
tnission.like the rest of the Creditors.

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...
Verdid for the oitintapi for the: snip eoceived
by the Defelidatiti being $4., subjea to the opL.
Dion of the Court, tilor, thy- quebtion of, villeikr
an at:t,i,f bankruptcy vas folly' proved to have ken
committed in this case. •

FOSTER V. s•j'APL ETON.

The Plaintitt was a Seafaoing man, and took
out a cargo to MAI tinirite, ai,ti went from thence
to I),lninicitte. The Deft:lid:mc is a• Merchant re-
sidenr at hurt Rfiyal, in IVl.trtinigne, and, under:
.took to the Plaintiff, if 11,,t- did not disi,ose- 01
his cargo at St.. Plert., in Dominique, he might
bring- it back to Martinicino, and he would 'give
him time invoice price tor t;iii cargo, the amount 01
which was 234.1: The pc,endant h4d, paid the
Plaintiff's witt: 991• _ _

It ntb contenje-a that these good, were not sold
to the Otticntbint, but tk err: lola only on c:ornmis.
hion, &c, but thii del-nee was not tn4de out.
Vertlittt tot the b.ilancel 1351.

COURT OF EXCHEQUER, GUILDHALL, lvvis
RE.H):,.., Slfi AitCl-11BALD MACDONALD, /CWT. Aire
SPECIAL. JVAY.

SEWARD, iirtNiTlß, WILL.II,

mu, It ?AEA, stated, that this was ail anion
brought, not only for the vindication or a young
L.itty's honour, virtue, and charaner, but to recover
riatn,zes fir on attempt, on the part of the Defend«
ant, tQ deprive her of one of those titlev, by ono of