The Sun.
London, England, 1803-04-12 00:00:00

ST. DOMINGO.

TH E American Papers received on sattirilay, con-
tain the following articles, which establiish the fill.
lacy of the accounts recently publishedin the French
Journals, &C. stating the perfect restoration of
tranquillity in this Island

CAPE FRANCOIS, F,E8.,8, tBos,.
At four o'clock-in the morning of the sth iost.
an out.post, at the\ back of the Car, leading•to
halide du Nord, in which were nine men of the Isht..
tional Gnarl!, and one cannon, was surprised and,
taken'by the Negroes, ,who fired-the cannon at the
Cape, and then retreated to the mountains, burning
some plantations on their way thither. , ,\

EXTRACT OF A LETTER PitOM CAPTAIN ROBERT

joHNSTOU, OP TUE BRIG PAISLEY, TO A OEN.
TLEMAN IN THIb (NEW...YORK), DATED
CAPE FRANCOIs, PI:B. 9, 1803.

it I arrived here in 14 days horn .sindy Hook,
after experiencing a very, heavy gale fur. five days,
on the coast ; and in latitude. 36.
,had the heaviest
thunder.storm I ever kriwovhieh shock and killed
alMost all my live:stock on deck; hilt did little other
damage. I expedted to find all tranquil here.; but
to 'My great surprise, 1 found the I:lrigmids firing
close to the'toWn, and some shot reached the ship.
ping. General FAU having occAsion
visit another part of the Island,
.the .Negroes took
advantage of hiti absence, and are likely to be very
troublesome. Several battlei haVe‘,l4teo fought
within a mile or two of the town. Provisions .ire
falling very fast, but lumber is on the rise. 44, or
no
,Troops have arrived since my last voyagei -and.
few 'Ainericang are here at tite:4ent, Many Freneli
men are now :embarking for New. Orleans with dry
4rods'."

CAPE FRANCOIS, Pi;E. 9.

" I am sorry to inform you, that we' are again
besieged by th-: liriginds, and ail of us Obliseo to
fly to 4itllS to. defend the Oaee. • 4-for. trey part,
have been out for these three days past, in the moun-
tans, pursuing and seat eking to dispatch tbem.----
Eyery trade is again stagnated ; rtuthrug ticrioB hat
defending ourbetveb' again,. the
,Biaekb, but' the-,
town is considered safe' provided the Ports ire
guarded, which, 'ac this, ti,me, are well sity4ted.—
There lately arrived a few Troops, atui Many more
are hourly expeded."

Mrs. Moult-mit; has returned -to Town from
Manchester,' where ahe his beta singing at the Mu.
p steal Meeting with great an ces„ Her Husband led
the Band,

PRO.F.AINATION OF THE'S4I3B4TII.

WE have aCreade adverted with concern to the
'growing 'pritetice among some individuals of the
Higher Classes, of assembling card or musical
ties on the Sunday. We feel it tier duty.tie protest
against this prectice, as deeply injurious to the best
interests' ui Society ; and we recomniend to the
individuals who thus ineonsiderately contribute to
•destroy the distindion between the Shnday and
other days, to peruse the following Obsereations,
which are taken from the Letter to Mi. Fox in
consequence of his Eulogy on the chareder of the
late Duke of BEDFORD, which is supposed to come
from that .able a d active advocate for murals and
the true principles of the Biitish Constitution, Mr.
Bow LES. •
fr• • •
" Before I dismiss this part of my Subjed, I
.feel it incumbent upon me to notice, as being con.
neded with the charades of the Nobleman whose
death Ras given Occasion to these observations, that
increasing disregard for the Sabbath which is visi-
ble it; all classes of Society, and more' particularly
in the 'highest and lawest ranks. This circurn_
stance may be justly'considered as one of the most
alarming symptoms, by which the present time's arc
iliitinguiihed, and as most itauspicione omeh
with regard to the future.' The institution of the
Sabbat4 is the corner stone of our holy Religion,
and; consequently, of our Constitution in Church
and State ;. and nothing more is necessary to corn-
plete the overthrow, both of our Religious and Civil
Establishments, .than to bring that institution into
contempt. Would to Heaven that those, whose
Station gives 'ageneral importance to whatever they
do, would seriemisly consider'how much they coin_
tribute to produce so 'mischievous an effect, when
they throw aside all outward respell for the Sab-
bath, by pursuing, .on that day, their accustomed
sound of amusements, For the insatiable Votaries
of pleasure (as it is called), who seem to dread no.
thing so much as solitude and refledion, and who
Cannot, for a single,day, trust themselves out of the
intoxicating round of. dissipation; have, at length,
attained to so complete an indifference for the Sab-
bath, that their Sanday, as well as their. weekly
parties, are now regularly announced io the regise
;ens of Fashion.' The artifice which is sometimes
resorted to, of giving to 'these Assernblies the see.
Cious name of a concert of sacred 'Music, i too
flimsy to deceive, or, indeed, to deserve notice.
The very' pretext bears' testimony to the iinpros
',deter of a meeting which needs such an excuse;
and it is one of those subterfuges by which the
progress from virtue to vice..-from Religion to
mpiety.e-is made' more easy by being rendered less
siisgnsting. It is ;o be hoped, 'nay; it may fairly
be presumed, than those Who display so patniciout
an example, would at very fdifferently if they were
to alloW themselves a little time for refledien.
" It must beeadmitted that very different prac-
dices have obtained in the Clitistian world, respeCi-
jog the 'manner of keeping the Sabbath. All per-
sons, indeed, ,who profess Christianity, agree, that
a portion of this day should be devoted ,to public
worship.' The remainder it is. thought justifiable
its some Countties (ehiefli 'in those Wheie the
Roman Catholic Religion is estabilihed), to spend
in diversNies2 which are then carried to a greater
extent than on any other day. Some Seas, on the
Contrary, have considered it their duty to pass that
iemait4der in a manner the most gloomy anti austere.
The English people, tinder the intluenee'of their
Reformed Church, have by 'general, though, tacit
Consent, agreed to steer a middle course between
' these opposite extremes; and, in, se doing, they
have displayed that moderation and sobriety of
cliaraCeer by which they are so eminently distin.
guished. When' the public devotions of the (ley'
arc ended, they do not think it .at, all improper to
tridulge that cheerfulness of mind, which true Reli-
gion is so well calculated to inspire; but they feel
that to Partake of sports and diversities-Weida be a
violetion of the command,, which enjoins them to
keep 'holy the Sabbath day, and, consequently; a
profanation of that day. !frith/ feeling is insepara-
lerY interwoven with'the' Religious' ate! Moral sire:
, tinients' of the Country.; end it` . cannot be diss
turbed, much less subdued, without endangering
all sense of Religion and Morality i; the public
mind. Indeed a due observance of the SAbathis so
essential a part of Our flely Religion, that a person'
e who is habitually negligent 'in that respect, is justly
considered as destitute of all claim to the character,
although, ol' lii!Cbtrfit of his speculative 'notions,
Le may assume the title of a Christian. Nay, so
mischievous is the profanation of this day, with
regard to individuals—so naturally does it lead 'to
depravity and wretchedness, that numeraes are the
instances in which criminals, whose lives. have been
forfeited to
,the !awl, have declared, at..,the fatal
tree, th 4 Sabbath ;breaking was the first step to
their ,untimely and ignorninious ends The viola.
tion, therefore, of the Sabbaths is fraught with
the trent hurtful consequences, and is, perhaps with
regard to its; general tendency, the .very worst
predice that-,can prevail. depriving religion
of all influence on the mind, it tends
,to produce a
total corruption of manner 4 for nothing bat that
restraining influence. can control the passions, or
afford any effeduel cheek to the vices of mankind.
If the Great display so pernicious an example, what
can they exeeet
,but 'that it should he universally
followed ? They impart the first :impulse, either
of virtue or of vice; they, give the, tone to the
sentiments anJ to the morals Of Society. Although,
one abuse can, never authorise another, yet thei;
irregularities arc pleaded, sophistically indeed, but
• with irresistible,effeet, in excuse for those even of
the lowest, racks; and it is considered as a hard_
ship to impose restraints upon the hitter, to which
the former refuse tiesubmit. fleece the licentiOuS.
flees of their. comitet invalidates the foice,
merely of mural oleigatiens, but also of tleee poeis
tiee'laWs, Which are enadcd for the ereventiun of
imeiety ;eel vier... __May then the votaries of
fssie,%-i consider, before rt be too, late,. the ten-
dency of their conduct, and the iefluence of their
.example. May they look, as they ;11.e.% in duty
borl4;d, to' the, bright pattern which is displayed
from the Throneeese pettern which is a heavy ;,g..

cer-tiousness ; and which, to a certainty, will rise -'
up in judgment against. them, if, instead of coin-
tuunieating and extending, they intercept its salu-
tary inationce... May they, in short, remember. a
troth, to which the experience of all ages has borne
testimony, anti which a neighbouring people,. after
making a public profession. of Atheism,. have been
obliged to confirm-4that Religion is'the only basis
on whick4he social fabric can stand.".

DUBLIN, Aritit 2.

MULLINc.kR ASSIZES.

TuttstsAT sennight a. cause, carne on to be' tried
A
before Lord KILWRDErr, and a Special Jury of the
County of Westmeath, wherein Peyton Gamble,
Esq. was the Plaintiff, and Henry Gamble, Esq.
was the, D.efendint.

This trial was un,.!er an order of the High Court
of Chancery, and cite question to be tried was, whe.
.ther the. Defendant, Henry Gamble, Esq. was the
legitimate son of ,his.:reputed father, 'Henry Gam.
ble, gsq. &ceased, and who died upwards of fifty
years ago.

Thievidence principally consisted of family deeds
and other «ricten documents, found among the pa.
pers, the attested cdpy of a bill and answer filed in
the cause, and parole testimony of general repata.
rion of marriage.

On the part of the tale ev.idenc.t of the
witnesses went to shew that the Defendant, and an
elder brother, were tyre sons of Grate Shean, other-
wise Grania the Beetle, who, at the time" of their
birth, and for sometime after, had living an hus-
band, M'Padeen, and that she- was never married,
at any time, to the Defendant's father, who was
called Henry the slack. Gdneral reputation of D.
legitimacy was also produced.
For the Defendant, general reputation of marriage
was set up, on the testimony of several witnesses,
and also genera' reputation of legitimacy.
The trial commenced at nine o'clock on- Tuesday
morning, and continued without intermission till
near six o'clock on the morning' of. Wednesday,
when the Jury, after retiring for --a short time,
brought in a verdid for the Plainiiff.

LESSEE OF DONNELLAN AND OTHERSvcii. APMLT

AND DEFY.

This was an e.iEltnent on the title to recover a
very Considerable estate in the County of Meath,
and came On/to be tried by Nisi Prius at Trim,
on Thursday,. the 24th ultibefore the Hon. Justice
DowNta, and one of the most respectable Juries of
that County, -
_

J. BALL,' Special Counsel, for the Plaint,
stated the/ease on behalf of his' client, and rested
the issue on the demise -of Nehemiah Nixon Don..
nellan, Eig, the first lessot of the Plaintiff, whose
title was effeaually proved.- r •
The Defendants' case was then opened by Mr.
Serjeant 11110oxe, who finally rested their defence
as Co this demise, on the illegitimacy of Mr. Don..
nelian.

Mr. BALL now stated the second case of his
Client to Tebut ,this defence.
And, after a trial which lasted from ten in the
morning to' five theevening, .of Thursday, and
from ten in the morning to ten at night of the fol.
lowing day-,--the llon. Judge Dowxxs
up the evidence on both sides, with the Utnibst clear,
!less and precision, and left the question at issue,- as
matter of fief, to the decision of the Jury, who,
after retiring for a few moments -only; found for the
Plaintiff on the just demise.
The Judge, to satisfy his own mind, and all the
parties, desired the Jory to dap, whether they
founded that' verdid On the opinion that the mar.'
riage set up to Illegitimate the first lessor was not
had; to .which they all answered, that 'they were
unanimously of iyinion that such alledged marriage
had' not taken ,dace.

L ANC ASTER, APRIL 9.

ON Tuesday last, William-Lecce of this town,
innkeeper, was convicted before the Mayor, in the
penalty of 51. for refusing to receive and furnish
Jame Price, a-sick soldier belonging to the id ltegt.
ment-of Dragoon Guards, he having been
billetutd upon him. The largest peaky was , in-
fliOcd, on account of Lec.ce tu,rning the soldier out
of the house at eleven o'clock at night.
As some children were playing neat the river.,
on the Skerron side of the New Bridge, on -Thurs,
day morning last, they discovered the dead
,body
of a male child, apparently about a month old,
wrappo up, in cloths, and Which the tile had left
a: MO-water mirk. From the suste in which the
body was found, it must have been in the water a
week or two.

A few days ago, a child about :6 months old,
t'o Mi. 'Thomas Robinson, farmer, at
Flare-hill, near Newton,' in Cartmel, was attacked
and very much bruised by a gander; which had
Thrown hint down into a small flash of water, from
whence he.was rescued by his tither, who had been
oqt in the fields, and 'returned—jhst iri time to save
the life of his child..

The Ticket No. 38,433, drawn yesterday a Prize
of Ten Thousand Pounds, was sold at Messrs. HA.
ZAID, Boit Ire, and Co's Office, Royal Exchange,
in twofourtlis, one. Eighth, and six Sixteenth Sharei.

SIIIP NEWS.

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