The Sun.
London, England, 1803-03-23 00:00:00

GIBRALTAR, FFIJ, 24.

YESTERDAY the Reviews commenced with the
Queen's Regiment, commanded by the Hon. Lien.
tenant-Colonel RAMSAY. The day was remarkably
favourable. It was universally allowed that no-
thing could exceed the discipline and appearance of
the Regiment, which went through the whole
eighteen manoeuvres in two hours and a half, with
the utmost precision, and without making a single
bad fire during the Review.
His Royal Highness, at the conclusion, ex.
pressed the highest satisfaaion to Lieut—Colonel
RAMSAY, at the very superior style with which the
Regiment had gone through the different ma.
nceuvres.

After the Review all the Officers of the Regi,
ment had the Honour of dining with His Ruya
Highness.

No Staff'Officers in the Militia Set Vice, can in
future, by the last An of Parliament; hold another
Commission in any Militia Regiment 'with pay.
This regulation in some cases will be a great hard:
ship, particularly to those Quarter Masters, and
Assistant Surgeons, who may now join their Regi-
ments again. The SECRETARY at WAR has is-
, sued orders, that in future the Adjutant's pay shall
be altered, and he receive eight shillings per day—
and the Ad brirefits the Surgeon, by allowing him
ten shillings a day. There still remains something
to be done by the wisdom and bounty of those
concerned, to place the situation of the other Staff
Officers in a better pecuniary sense. The Quar-
ter Masters of most of the. Militia Regiments were
the oldest subaltern Officers in the Corps, and to
whom the double pay proceeding from two ap.
',ointments was given as a reward for long service.
In short, a Staff apptaintrrient was all that a Suhal.
tern Militia Officet could look up to—he could be
promoted in no other way. It is much to be hoped,
that the SECA STARA* At WAR will make some fur.
titer arrangement with respiet to those useful and
deserving Officers who served in the late war, and
not permit them to join their Regiments again with
only half the slender pittance they befetre enjoyed.
An Aetion is to he tried at the ensuing WexfOrd
Assizes, in Which the Rev. JOHN MONTOoMER Y is
Plaintit, and Miss PARKER, of Wexford, is De-
fendant, for breach of promise of marriage. The
Lady is niece to Sir,PaTait PARKER, and the pre.
sumed defence is, that the Plaintiff represented him-
self as a relative to the Earl of EG L I NTOW N, where-
as be is the son of ANN MC/NV:3OMM Yl, Armourer
to he Wexford Militia.
Yesterday afternoon the body of an unfortunate
Gentleman was taken Gold the Grand Jdndion Canal,
near the first bridge, at Paddington : diligent search
had been made for him since Saturday last, on which
morning about three o'clock he had precipitated
hiniself front the window or his bed-room, in Bell.
street, Paddington, having nothing on but his shirt,
and in that state he proceeded to the New Cut,
unperceived or interrupted, a distance of near a mile.
He was a fine looking man, six feet high, and ap.
peated to be upwards of fifty years of age. Ile is
said to have been In it delirious state from the efrceis
of a feVer.

About a fortnight ago a young woman applied
for lodgings at a private house, at Kingston.upon.
Hull, and described herself as daughter of Lady
DOUOLA.I: of Edinburgh, who was recently mar.
tied to Sir jAMMtts ?RINGLH, of that place. She said
she had eloped, and married a Captain KING, who
on their arrival at Yarmouth, had left her, taking
with him all her money, clothes, &c. She had since
been informed he was married some years ago, and
has a wife living in Ireland, to whom he was then
gone. By this artful story of distress, this female
swindler moved the compassion of the people of Hull,
who furnished her with clothes, money, &c. to a
considerable amount, with which she decamped,
having taken in various persons to the amount of
fifty pounds,

here.

TItE TIPE47I?E;
".

THti popular CorriedyOfobii Bull *as folicivved
last night by a tragic .Interlude, entitled Me C
live, which seethed to be a second edition of Mai
Best. The heroine of the piece was supTozed
be confined in a mad-ho Use; by her hiband, as she.
told the audience irc rhyme. The bUrthen, of her
song is, et I not mad, I arn not mad." the
Gaoler, or keeper, brings her bread and water, and
treats her supplications with scorn. At length a
maniac appears, who terrifies her into insanity.—
Her latherand brothers come to her relief; htit her
understanding is gone. At last her child is hi-Ought
forward, and, the sight of hitti restores her reason.
We never witnessed so contemptible .a produc.-,
tion, and cannot conceive why it shoUld be obtruded
upon the Public, to destroy the interest- and the
merriment excited by an'exeellent Corriedy.
The Audience, disgusted by the effeel of this
miserable Mono-Drama, as it is called, testified
great disapprobation. The Piece, however, was
suffered to proceed, and was announced for thisi'
evening, amidst a general hiss ; but the good sense
of the Manager induced him, on refledion, to send
KLAlrtitt upon the Stage again to signify that, on
account of the terrific effect of the Piece, the Au.;
thor desired to withdraw it. This intimation was
received with hearty applause.
. This very offensive composition is ascribed to the
borrer-breediits Muse of Mr. LEWIS, the Author
of The Monk. The mad flights of the heroine were;

Ev'ry dreary ouse between,"
enli,i,enid with sortie heavy harMoniei that were by
no means analogous to the sentiments of the compo.:
sition;

We can by no means Coniplitent Mrs. Li rCH_
I ELIS an her recitation of this Piece, and hope she
was not tempted
.by confidence in her own power
to entertain the Public, individzia/ty, to incite the
geniiti of the aUthot to such a violation Of iaste and
common sense.

EXTRACT or A LETTER FROM PARIS, MARX"! 19.
" It is agreed on here by all Parties, that the me-
derate and dignified cOndua of .the British Ambas.
satins, 'on a late occasion, has only been surpassed
by the vigilance and aaivity of the King's Mini-
sters at hotne; while On the contrary the behaViont
of a certain Great Man. provei that he has not, yet '
learnt to a& up to the great station in which Fost
tune has placed him. Instead of persuading the .
World of his pacific intentions, he has convinced
all impartial men of his real designs, and that hii
anger was riot the effeet of feeling hurt by
• ungrounded suspicion, but, aroused by the premature
and Uneipeded discovery of his hostile interitiOns.
6' Like master, like man: TALLEYRAND, as well
as his Solrereign,,can be insolent to the Ministers of
those States degraded by their French Conneftion,.
dr weakened by French. Intrigues ; but he was far
from approving of the' violence offered 'toWards the
Representative of the King of the first Nation upon
earth, he, therefore, with all humility, entreated
his Master to make it up. His maxim is, that un-
til France has a Navy equal to that of Britain, the
Chief Consul mint sink his pretensinns to be tha
modern Alexander, and content hiMself, with tespel
to England, to 'act edit-Phi/inc. His advice,
however, was so ill received, that he ga in hi's
resignation; and for twenty-tour hours Rumour ap...
pointed him different. Successors, such as SEOURi'
OTTO,'CALLI!ARD, &c. ; but while the Public were
thus bast'-, BONAPARTE invited TAL LUYRAND to
dine ‘tith Mtn in private, and, after some explana-
tion, returned him his Ministerial Part-ifoid?‘., and •
he is, as present, again the fittt favourite of the
first Consul.
" The self.convitled Traitor, O'Cortsroa, has.
lately been every day seen at TastsvaaasTo's Office;
and he boasts to thcsse persons who, like an English
Orator, dishonour themselves by his society, that
the late SsuirsConsulta shall snort he followed fry
• Irish one. This Irish gasconade, however, mecca
with little confidence even from his ragged and
starving rebellious accomplices.
" Two Printers; and three Booksellers have been
lately sent to the Temple Bastille, for printing anti
selling the late Trial of PELTlsa,with Mr. MActst:l.
TOSIVa Speech at full length. Another Elition from
the Consular Press is now presented to
,sale, In
which, of course, every thing striking.; or offensive;
is left out :—in short, it is now a Trial li.la.Fran.
cerise, fit for free Frenchmen to read. • .
" A widow•and her two daughters Were attested,
a few days ago, and on the following day: tool: their
departure in the Cayenne Diligence, Their crime
was selling a Caricature, in their stall von the
Boulevards, representing General LECL site in
Purgatory, surrounded by a hundred thousand
Blacks, and fifty thousand White SlaVes, who ate
reproathing him with their deaths, and telling hitn,
if he had, like his ancestors, meddled orsly with hair
nsteatl of vorprahler, they should not have met

" All respenable EngliShtnen are preparing to
leave France—but the Police secret orders, and
several days attendance at the Prefenure of the Po-
lice, is necessary to get a Passport, that formerly
was obtained in half an hour. Thiir is so much the
more provoking, as the former French politeness at
this office is changed into the most brutal insolence,.
which can only be softened into a little civility by
the sight and feeling of a.few British Guineas."

The Lazzroni of Naples will soon be extirpated,
as all begging is forbidden there under the severest
penalties, and above 7000 beggars and vagabonds
have been taken up "and confined.
To procure' still greater advantages to .the trade.
of Trieste, His IMPER.IAL MAJESTY has resolved '
to enlargeand,iniprove the harbotu of that city,
and given the diretlion of this undettaking to the
celebrated Engineer, Counsellor E !IRK INC.
The rigor of the late %Vincer in the neighbourhood
of Genoa, has deStcoyed all the oranges and citrons
growing there, and greatly injured the trees.
At the Hereford Assizes, wh;ch commenced on
Tuesday
,t,e)nriight,
_Tana Fletchir, aged as, was
.found guilty of the murder of her new-born male
bastard child, and ordt.r4d fur execution on. Monday

Tits case was stated to the Jury by Mr. Setjtant
Cocxett, in the most impressive manner. He
stated the unfortunate Prisoner to be a man of eon-
siderable property ; that the question for the Jury
to decide was, whether the Prisoner was in a state
of insanity it the time he committed the fatal deed ?
If he was in a state of insanity, they could not find
the Prisoner guilty ; because, though they might
have no doubt of his having been the cause of the
death of his unfortunate,children (his son is .also
dead since his Commitment. for the murder of his
daughter), ye; if there was evidence of his insanity,
theit.verdid.must be—not guilty. •
The servants of the Prisoner were called as wit-
nesses ;. they proved, that upon hearing the report
of pistols, 'they slippoied that their master had shot
himself; ,they accordingly went to his room door
and found it locked; they then *sve.nt and climbed
up to the window,
,and saw that the Prisoner had
shot his children. Upon Smith, his man-servant,
‘4 Oh ! Sir, what have you done!" the
Prismier exclaimed, " Done ! .Don't you see what
I have done!" The proper measures were then
taken, and the door broke-open. •
Mr. PAILICE, on behalf of the Prisoner, addressed
the Jury in a strain of language and visible agita.
tion, which, we observed, made,n considerable im.
pression, upon every person who heard him. 'He
said he should produce before them two witnesses,
whose charaders 'and eminence in, their.profession
were so well known, that he need only- mention
their names, and the Jury would pay that deference
to their testimony which'it so deservelly.merited.
Smith, butler to the Prisoner, proved
his having lived with the Prisoner upwards of thir-
teen years; that he was abroad withhitn, and had
no doubt of his insanity, of which he gave .several
instances t that he was a 'tender and afreeionate fa.
•
they and .husband.
,The Prisoner's housekeeper corroborated the
.above evidence, from the time he had kept house,
as did likewise the coachman. •
Dr. Will,is was then examined, who said he re.'
membered visiting the patient, and thought him la.
bouring under a mental derangement constantly oc
cupied by one train of thinking,- which could not be
driven from his' mind, or at least that he- was not
able to divert him from it ; and therefore he thought
him partially insane, liable to sudden fits of phrenzy,
in Which fits he might commit any at of violence
_on hiMself or others.
Dr. Hunter was then interrogated. The .Pri.
soner had been five or six weeks at York under his
care-rhe saw nothing remarkable in his case at the'
time-76n he appeared not so cheerful as he had
formerly been, but to be evidently depressed in his
spirits—that cheerful society, . he then thought,
might perhaps- restore him ; such a...staie of mind
certainly often terminated 'in suicide, but he. had
never known any one in 'a siinilar Situation commit,
. violence on' others.
The Learned judge then addi'essed the Jury; and
after expatiatit4k upon the enormity, nf,tbe.Crime for
which the prisoner stood charged, hU,pointed.out to
them, how the law had prOvided'iljoch,c4sss as the
present ; that where a persOO'to9.ka‘,ttak, the life of
another person; but at the tinie'of doing lin was in a
state of insanity, he. was-not guilty of Murder ;he
( h Learned Judge) was satisfied, that from the
evidence given, the Jury would, be folly convinced

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