The Sun.
London, England, 1803-04-16 00:00:00

TORBAY, Aran, 13.

just this instant (3 Jr. m.) arrived here from
Cawsand-Bay, His Majesty's shiP, Neptune, Capt.
))tufty, (Admiral CAUPB/LL).', It is confi-
dently asserted, that several more are • hourly
cupeCied, and that 14. sail of the line will imme-
dta,ely be made up hete : every thing at present
news to bear the appearance of a war again. The

The 144olationaire, at Plymouth, is re-commis.
sioned by Capt. LOCK
The Chiione, Captain STUART, was to be paid off
to.day at. Woolwich, and tickets to prevent the Crew
from being hnpres,ed will be Inue(' for fourteen
days, to enable them to ace their friends.
Capt. BEAUCHAMP, son of Sir TuotaAs BEAU.
CHAMP PROCTOR, Bart. is appointed to the Com.
mind Of the Zebra.
While the six East Indiamen were lying to off
tht. Eddrsteme, for the easterly wind on Monday
Lott, the Cruixere boats in the. Channel, manned
and arms d, boarded, them 'all, and made a fair
sweep of nearly 300 prime Seamen for the service
°f the Fleets ; the Crews of the Indiamen, till
boarded, had not the most distant idea of any mis-
understanding with France. If the Indiamen should
Want Seamen to navigate them to the River
"Thames, the men of the ships in ordinary in the
Tatnar and HAIDUate, will, as usual, be drafted
for that purposc.
The ships now in Dock at Plymouth under re.
pair are as follow ;—ln the double Dock, the War.
riot and Terrible, of 74 guns each ; in the south
Dock, the. Firgard, of +8 guns ; and in the middle
single Dock, the Ippetueux, of 84. guns. They
are all to have a thorough repair. The whole duke
repairing Docks are quite full in that Dock-yard.
L'Aigh Frigate was a fortnight at Weymouth,
whither she was sent • for the purpose of receiving
Volunteers and impressing Seamen, without getting
a single man either way. Upon the unfortunate'
and melancholy catastrophe which wok place in
consequence of an attempt to press, we forbear to
comment, as it may probably he the subjea of le.
gal investigation. The second Lieutenant and a
Midshipman, who were dispatched by the Captain,
to bring the account to the Admiralty, were ar-
rested and committed to Dorchester Gaol. The
Captain and Officer of Marines who commanded the
Party, both. returned.on board L'Aigle, which ship
is,now at Spithead. •

Mr. Astavrr was again examined on Thursday
last,
respetting the late discovery at the Bank.
Nothing further transpired than what has already
been stated to the public. The reason why
•wir. Aslett is not fully committed is, that he is
wanted occasionally to anwer necessary questions
:with regard to the deficit. Mr. Aslett had four
different Bankers, one of whom paid a cheque
of his for 30,0001. on the very morning of the
discovery. He had some concern in a lead mine,
but the speculation was not beyond what his income
might warrant. It has been stated that the unfor.
tunate defaulter now appears to be dtraNpd in his
mind ; this is 'certainly not the case. The emolu.
meats of Mr. Aslett's situation have been consi.
'derably exaggerated when estimated A 50001. per
ann. The holders of several Exchequer Bills
parted with by Mr. Aslett, we have good audio.
rity to believe, have been paid by the Direitors of
the Bank of England ; at the same titne,they make,
a distillition, and pay such persons only as are con.
aidered innocent holders : not those who advanced
money upon' them at first hand.
MAlVSlow.Houst.—Yesterday four respedable
Master-tradesmen of the City applied to the Lomb
NlAvoit to assist them in recovering their Apprentices
.
from on board /Us Majesty's Frigate the Constiat at
Deptford,' on board which they were carried, after
being impressed on Easter-Monday at Greenwich.
;1;11 Lordship immediately ordered Mr. MIA" the
Water Bailiff's Assistant, ro take the indentures,
and demand the Apprentices from Laptain MAx-
wilLtt the Commanding Orlicer ; when they were
inmediatclY given up. The Masters returned his
Lordship thanks for the recovery of their Appren.
tiers. His Lordship said he was•happy in support-
ing the Privileges of the City, .and cOmmentled the
the Masters for their application to him.
A shucking accident happened yesterday evening
Icil
h,-,ut seven tecluck- in St. Ailartin's.lane.—A gen.
y dressed woman, about forty years of age, tell
•4" ir) a st' olposite Mr. Ainittuo
d tractor
Ct. her skull in so rJ‘ t's Stables,
an
d if 1 a iianner, that
'per lite is in imminent danger. A surgeon was sent
`°l') who advised her being immediately taken to
4,11 hospital, which was humanely done in one of
Mr. Az.zateic..l's carriages, rarendedi4-tro D.
tevirt•

Dr2TCII ALVt,

MECHLIN. Apkm

Tits day before yesterday- arrived in this City
a detachment of Artillery, which yesterday morn-
ing proceeded on -its march for butch Brabant.
.Yesterday likewise, two Battalions of the loth
DetnUtigade passed through, taking
~the same
route, it appears that all the French Troops on this
destination will be provisionally stationed in garrison
or cantonment in Breda, Bergen. op-Zoom, Boisde.
Duc, Gertraydenberg, and in the environs
of those frontier places, and that they will not
march into the interior of the Batavian Republic,
except in. the case of an aaual War with England.

Mr. MONROW, the Atnerican Envoy Extraordi.
nary, is arrived at Havre, and was expened at
Paris on the i ith.

The Duke of DORSET on his arrival in Paris,
caught cold, which has in several Papers been term.
ed an inflammatory disorder.
According to private intelligence from Paris, the
differences between the United States and Spain,
on the subject of New Orleans, are on the point of
being adjusted. It is stated, that the FIRST CON.
sat, has lately explained to Mr. LIVINGSTONE, the
Ametican Minister at Paris, that the interruption
of the navigation of the Missisippi, had been the
result of mistake; and that measures should be
adopted with the Cabinet of Madrid to remove all
subjed of complaint upon that head. Should this
intelligence prove correct, it will not be necessary
for Mr. MoNitoe, the American Envoy Extraur.
Binary, who has just arrived at..Havre, to remain
long in France. • He will be enabled to succeed
Mr. KING here much sooner than could have been
expetted.
At a Meeting of Congress at Washington, in
November last, some difficulty was found in pro.
viding for the remittance of the American State
debts that were payable in Amsterdam before Fe.
bruary and July 1803. The Manhattara bank of
New York offered to undertake it at 43 cents, per
guilder. The agent of the bankers VAN MIMI,
VAN YANT, and Co. of Amsterdam, offered to do
it at 424 cents. per guilder ; hut the agent of Messrs.
BARING and Co.
...onLon, offered to do it at 4 per
cent.- provided the United States would give him in
payment 2200 shares, which they held of the stuck
.of the bank of the United States at Philadelphia,
and which cost Congress 400 dollars each share—he
agreed to allow them 575 dollars for every share.
The bargain was accordingly struck, and BARING's
house will clear 40,000 i. sterling by the bargain.
Yesterday • afternoon, at five o'clock, as Mr.
SPENCER TowNaaND a-Gentleman who holds a
high situation in the Navy-Office, Samerset.House,
was returning. from the Office to his house in Cleve-
land-court, St. James's, he was stopped within a few
yards of his own dour, by a Gentleman of the name
of GRANT, lately, we understand, a merchant in
Lawrence Pountney-lane, with a pistol in each
hand, who approached, and thus addressed him :
You, sl—d v--n, you are the cause of destroying
the happiness of my mind ; take one of these pistols,
aid you shall shout me, or I shall shoot you." Mr.
TOWNSEND, perceiving Mr. GRANT assuming an
attitude which indicated a resolution to carry his
desperate purpose into immediate execution, made
an attempt to rush suddenly by and gain his
own door ; when GRANT, who stood in his way,
turning round as it were with intent to follow
him, discharged one of the pistols at him. The
pistol was loaded with swan shot, but the parties
were so close at the time of the fire, the charge i.ro.
bab}y passed him like a single ball, and Mr. Tow w.
SEND fortunately escaped.unhurt by it ; Mr. TowN.
SEND, however, was not thus freed from danger, for
the sudden spring to gain his' own door, his
foot' slipped, and he fell upon the pavement, and
GRANT, seizing the opportunity, followed up his
diabolical intent, by discharging the contents of
the second pistol at him, while he lay prostrate
upon the ground. The contents of the pistol passed
through Mr. Tow tabstriu's coat, and slightly
wounded one of his knees, and the wadding lodged
in the skirt of his coat, and set fire to it. Mr.
TOWNSIND, however, made 2 sudden exertion, and
recovered his feet.
Mr. GRANT was secured, and immediately con.
veyed to Bow.street, where he underwent a long
examination before Mr. Born and Sir WILL tAta
PARSONS ; after which he was committed for further
examination. Mr. GRANT, We understand, ap.
pears to be insane, and the cause of his melancholy
slate, as well as of the crime which he attempt.
ed, is supposed to be this : Some time ago
he paid his addresses to a daughter of the late
Lord DUDLTV and WARD, who was bequeath.
ed by the will of her Father a sum of 40001.
Mr. Tow Ns END was one of the Trustees in the will,
it) whom the above sum was vested for the use of
the youhir, Lady, in ease she should marry with
the consent of her friends. • This consent Mr.
GRANT was unable to obtain ; and Mr. Tow Nsz No,
as a faithful trustee, adhered to the Will. This dis.
appointment is supposed to have preyed upon the
mind of. Mr. GRANT, and to have produced that
alienation of understanding, under the influence of
which he made die above desperate attack.
The celebrated Mademoiselle CLAI RON even in
her last. moments preserved a grateful sense of the
testimonies of public favour which she had received.
The following clause appears in her Will : " It is
to the indulgence of my country alone I owe the
degree of reputation which I. have enjoyed, and I
call upon it now to accept with condescension the
gift of my Bust in marble, by
the elegant and
accomplished chisel of LEMOINE,
and the Gold
Medal which some respc&able patrons and friends
had direded to- be struck for me. The Minister
who presides over the Arts, in setting some' value
on my attainments, may make - them a source Of
emulation for others."

Thursday night a fire broke out in East Smith.
field. The glasshouse of Mr. Sm frit was entirely
destroyed, together with several pf the adjoining
iNzusts.

ROYAL ACADEMfI sc,).vaßskr_nACL.

Aprd 15, 1803.

Tits Council of the Royal Academy feel them.
• selves compelled to notice a paragraph in The Mosn.
ing Post of yesterday, of an unwarrantable kind,
levelled at the President, and the Royal Academy
at large ; the circumstances which occasioned the
paragraph are as follow :
Mr. WEST sent, for the Exhibition, an Histori.
'Cal PiCture, representing Hagar and Ishmael in the
Wilderness. On the first view of the Pkiure a
Member of the Council expressed his opinion of
its having been previously exhibited, although the
words &' B. WEST, 1803," were on the face there.
of. The next morning, the same Member having
examined former Catalogues, found that a pidure of
the same subject had been exhibited in 1776. This
circumstance led to furiher investigation, and the
words " B. West, 1776," were observed in ano.
tiler part of the pidure, BUT WITHOUT ANY OBLI.
TERATION WHATEVER —the Secretary was di.
reeled to communicate these circumstances imme-
diately to Mr. West in writing, which in the hurry
of preparing for the exhibition, he omitted to do ;:
and it is to be observed that the first intimation Mr.
West had of the paragraph in question, was through
the medium ofan evening paper (the Courier) sent to
him at the Royal Academy yesterday evening, be.
ing the first time.his health had permitted him to
attend since the pittures were sent for the exhibit ion,
The Newspapers referred to stare, " The Mem-
bers of the Connell, indignant at the deception, re-
garded each other. ar some time 'with silent astcnish-
meta." TH Is CIRCUMSTANCE THE CouNcti.
SITIVELY DENY. The illness of the President
naturally suggested itself to the Council as the cause
of the mistake, a mistake which deprives the Exhi.
bition of the Pitture, as the usual praftice of the
Academy expressly forbids the. second exhibition of
any Picture whatever.
It necessary to observe, that Mr. WEST states,
that he is in the habit of altering and repainting
his PiClures, adding the dare of the year in which
the alterations are made : Upon this principle the
Picture of Ungar and Ishmael has been altered, and
in a great degree repainted, and the name and year
1803 added.

J. S. Cont v, Deputy Chairman.
JOHN SOANE,
F. BOURGEOIS,
J. M. W. TURNER,
CHARLES Rossi,
OZIAS HUMPHRY.

THlt THEAIRE.—The translated Play of Deaf
awl Dumb was represented last- night at Drury_
Lane Theatre before a numerous audience. Miss
Dt CANti, who has been several ns ,nths abroad for
the recovery of her health, appeared, for the. first
dine this season, in her character of Julio.--\\'e
always thought her representation of this part much
too pantomimic in gesture, and we did not see any
improvement in simplicity of expression.—She does
not seem to have entirely recovered her health,
judging from her delivery of the Epilogue, which
was languid and hardly audible. The audience re-
ceived her with very flattering :narks of applause.
originally performed
by n
TheßcAlittßraitl,
meor
Ro!
e I.l'vraasn-Ltt lastiight 'undertaken by,
BARCLAY, whose manner, was marked rather by
plain sense "than forcible expression. WROUGHTON,
as usual, exhibited the anxieties of pride, fear, and
conscious guilt in Darlemont, with great skill, and
rendered it one of the very best achievements of
the modern Stage.
The departure of KIMBLE from Drury, Lane
Theatre will be a severe blow to that property,
unless the Managers exert themselves more than
they have done for some time. iN(U. Stir tt t OAN
must draw forth his dramatic powers. Mr. RICH-
ARDSON du the same—and they ought both of
them to employ the summer vacation in hunting for
genius in provincial Companies, where,we doubt not,
it lurks in humble obscurity.
It is said, that Mr. BstsitANt is engaged for the
Opera, next Season, to sing with Mrs. LLINGTON.
The original Performers in John Bull begin lobe
indisposed ; We hope she disorder is not infe..9;our.

The late Dr. THOMAS WARTON is mentioned in
a respalable morning print, " as a mere mortal,
fashioned of the same homely clay with multitudes
of his species."' This is surely a very harsh nide
of describing an admirable Scholar and a Poet of no
inferior order. Dr. WArt•roN's learning. and taste
are .:onspicuous in all his works, and his " Triumphs
of hie, alone evince a high degree of poetical ener.
gy, as well as the genuine, ardour of a British Pa-
triot. The name of WARTON will live as long as the
English language, and, therefore, such a man ought
not to be mentioned as " a mere mortal, fashioned
of the same homely clay with multitudes of his spe-
cies." if such a reflation on the poetical character
of honest Toia WARTON, had been Written by any
but an anonymous Critic, we doubt not that all the
Wits of Oxfind would eagerly kindle up in vindica-
tion of his memory.
SCHILLIR, the SHAKESPEARE of the Germans,
has just produced a new Tragedy, in five ads,
called " 7'he Bride of Messina ;" which is said to
be a most capital produttion. It has been per-
formed at Berlin with universal applause ; and 32.
carriages, full of young Students, purposely came
from the University of Jena to see it aced.

The FIRST CONSUL, it is taid in Letters from
Paris, attends High Mass regularly every Sunday,
and that on the last two days at Passion Week, all
those who were domesticated in the Palace of the
Mud/crier, were compelled to keep a most rigor-
ous fasts

The French Ambassador at Constantinople, and
the GRAND SIGNIOR seem, in their late interview,
to have been perfenly well matched in the competi.
tion of high-s4,unding langt.age and unmeaning. cont.
'Violent. •
On Wednesday last Abraham Pike, a journeyman
currier, was brought before Sir Wm. LEIGHTON, the
Sitting Alderman at Guildhall, charged by his ctn.
ployers, .Messrs, Wyatt and Co. of Coleman.street,
with deserting their employ, and leaving his work
in an unfinished state; when the fad being fully
established, be was committed to BrideweU for six
weeks.

',l)tA i.

YESi•ERDAT Sit RlC}!Akti nab attentitd
BLAKE'S Hotel, jermyn-streer, order the .thic
depositions of the different witnesses respeNitl
the Duel, miaht be read and sworn to in the preseno
of Captain MActime.A.x.k, which being done, thg
parties were bound over to give, evidence on the
trial. After the usual forms had.been gone through,'
a Comtnitment to Newgate for the Murder vs,
made out for Capt. MActiAtiAtt A, Mr. E:Litif,i
and three other eminent Surgeonq, who attended
the Captain, were examined and. they declared,
on oath, that he could not at present be remped
with safety, on account' of an inflamination taking
place in the wound, occasioned toy a part of the
clothes. IlaviOg heen. forced into it by the ball,
which had produced a considerable degree of fever,

My. ERSKINE and Mr. KNOW LYN were present,
on the part of Capt. MACNAMARA, but they did
not think it necessary any application should Le
made for his admittance to bail, in the present
stage of the business, as'aie Sessions were bu neat
at band.

Yesterday afternoon, application was made .•
Lord ELLFNOOKOUGH, 10 issue a Writ of Habeas
Corpus, to bring Mr. Ht the surgeons
tram Newgate, in order to he bailed ; but Mr.
Wool), the Counsel, who had attended on the part
of Mr. fieAv SIDE, having been obliged rq go be-
fore his Lordship, after a tong consultation retutneA
honk. The merits of the lubinesti were Consequently
not entered into; it being necessary, Mr. Wooi)
should be further consulted betiire another applica,
Lion is made.