The Sun.
London, England, 1803-11-17 00:00:00

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. Ow Wednesday last His Royal Highness Prince
MILL of• thrittc emit honoured this place
:with his presence. He was accompanied. by T,
CHOLMONDELEY, Esq. the Memberfor Cheshire,
and several other Gentle Men 'of the first rank in
the County. His Royal Highness's principal ob.-
Jai in this excursion was to 'see the Rock Salt Mines
at this place-; one of which, the most spacious, was
lighted up on the occasion. His Royal Highness
stepped into the bucket with the greatest comp-
sure, anti, accompanied by Mr. CHOLMONUELF
was lowered by means of the steam engine about too
yards into the bowels of the earth. On their arrival
at the bottom they were saluted with three times
three cheers by a great number of workmen and
other persons who had previously gone doivn in or.
der to receive his Royal Highness with the greater
eclat. That, together with the glare of near three,
thousand candles, the brilliancy of the roof of this tee-
mendous cavern, the immense pillars left at proper
intervals for its support, the noise and clatter of the
workmen; the singular situation so far below the
surface of the earth, all conspired to astonish and
delight his Royal Highness and the party. His
Royal Highness seemed particularly struck with
the beauty of the scene, and could not help expres-
sing his satisfaction at every step. Dining his stay
several blasts were made by gunpowder, the eifett
of which was truly grand. After exploring every
part of ,this stupendous work of industry his Royal
Highness ascendedi and was received at the, top of
the shaft by a vast concourse of loyal subjeds,,.who,
saluted him with three times three cheers: His
Royal Highness then set off with his party to, Vale
Royal, the seat of Mr. Choltnondely, to dine. A
great nUMbei of Cheshire Elegantes were assembled
upOn .this occasion, who were particularly pleased
with the affability arld good nature of the Prince.
No accident whatever occurred during the many
trips that were made but a' parcel of jolly trades:
men who had sent down some liquor, and were de:
termined to stay below and drink the candles out,
and sing " Goth save the King," &c. were unfor.
tunately, from the forgettulneas of the man who
concluded the engine in not providing plenty of coat,
and his water growing short from the great number
of people who had gone down, obliged to stay there
till next day, when they were again landed upon
terra firma, to the no small diveroion of theit ac.
quaintances.

THE TREAT!' first part of King Henry
the Fourth was represented; last night at Covent..
Garden Theatre. Kama Le was as usual very spirited
in ifitspro, and particularly successful in the
animated speech relatiVe to the'Prisoners. CooKst•
gave a good outline of Fatal; and coloured it
With hOmour, hut the sarcastic parts were most
rirominenr. MURRAY in his pathetic address to
the Prince of !Vales manifested strong parental
affedion and concern, in the part of. King Henry;
and CHARLES KE.teLR was gay and impressive in.
The Prince of Wales. The After-piece was LOck
and Key, in which a Mr. BYRNE appeared for the
first time in the part of Cbtedy. He is a good
looking young man, but exhibited nothing conspi-
cuous in point of merit as an actor or a singer.
Unless he was embarrassed by his fears, his vnice
'in. the latter capacity , is indeed 'hardly powerful
enough for the Stage. Some of the tipper notes are -
pleasing but feeble., •
• INc Leocii4,. by permission of the Covent Garden
'Manager, is gone to warble his Wandering Melodist
at Chelmsford.

The Author of the Three per Cents, would make
an unfortunate Broker-..for the moment he brought
his Stoi4 'into ,the Market, all the Bath became
Bears.

Ketout,e . has procured, from Spain, through the
kindness of LOr4 HOLLAND', a, set ,of figures for
theatrical purposes, dressed in the ancient Spanish
Costume, of male and fetuale,attire.

The designation in the Property Bill, of the
•ecedent Attiog Partner" is quite unintelligtide
to Commercial Men,• and is in
,folly and 710111 C Il,fe
without a precedest.
The Dublin Theatre was to be opened on• Mon.
day last with an Occasional Address by Mr. Ham.
GRAVE, but in consequence of the non-arrival of
soma of the Performers, that event was deferred.

We see some very stale jokes and paltry puns
in some- of the Papers about the Volunteers being
mustersol, and BONAP4R is being peppeed.—These
are Writers of uarm imagination—Why theil don't
they tell us, that should the CHIRP. CONSUL come
he will be be.drvit'd at once ?

The Vrench soldiers captured a few days since in'
the Gunboat, witnessed on Sunday night a strong
proof of British prowess and British justice. The
Captain of the Gun.boat, who with theother prison.
era is ,on board the Utrechi, be6me refraftory and
struck the Master of the Utrethi : our pliant Tar
instantlY challenged him to' single combat, which
rook place—" fair play" was the cry, and the re.
suit was, that which we that will ever happen- to
the slaves of Bo NAPARTB contending with the Free.
Men of Old England—ei compltit defiat. •
On Saturday se'nnight a servant of Wm. Shaw,
Esq. of Clonmel, was killed by a fall from a. horse.
Upon this, unfortunate• occurrence, the Iliberwitiii
Journal makes the following observations :—" If
any collateral circumstance can aggravate the loss
of, a faithful domestic, it is that his death was oc-
casioned by, the periverren.ers of a pig, which threw
the horse with such violence as to occasion the
man's instant death. These aniMalif are too ire.
quentlY permitted to endanget the lives.of the pas-
sengers in all the towns of Ireland."

A Coroner's Inquest was taken within these few
days at Westham, Essex, on the body of a man who
was found hanging by the side of a wail. Front rile
testimony of Witnesses examined, it appeared that
this unfortunate man had got over the wall with the
intent of stealing wood, and having tied up a larger
bundle than he could manage, he got it on his back
with the rope round his head, when getting back
again over the wall, the rope slipped over his
head and hanged him, and he was found in this situa.
tion. The jury gave in their verdict,—..Dird 6) the
visitation of God.
DAVID SKENE, of liallynrds in the County of
Flic, El. died at l'Aritt on the 16,h Of,