The Sun.
London, England, 1828-09-03 00:00:00

SURREY THEATRE.

Anew opera, with the pastoral title of Sylvana, was
rduced last night, for the first time, at this amusing little
titotre. In the bills of the day it was announced as the
tlt, musical production of the late celebrated CARL
,411 A VON Weaan. First it might be iu point of time,
"4 most assuredly it is /Us/ in point of merit, of all this
tte4 t master's compositions. Nevertheless, there are one or
Zrt! redeemingairs about the piece; one in particular sung by
kFITZWILLIA3I,which produced as zealous and unanimous
aoktAZolieoie 5.9 we ever remember to have heard. Miss
kph),
personated the hero of the Opera (Count Ric:.
24), and, considering how little of the heroic her ap-
rranee presents, went through it with surprising effect.
'ro• Frrzvvituam made an interesting Sylvana (a sup.
Peled.dumb girl, beloved by Rudolph), and a Miss HILME
iNuitted herself creditably under the name of Matilda.
scenery of the opera was unusually good, and the
tfte itself announced for repetition amid great applause.

CHELTENHAM, SEPT. I.—The Duke of
WELLINGTON left this place yesterday, immediately after
D
tne Service, for Windsor. Previous to his departure,
hit Grace
-wag again pleased to express to Mr. PRENDER,
"ST, M.P., his being as highly delighted as ever ; he is
evell
"Ported to have said that his MAJESTY'S commands
41'e an interview on business alone hurried him from a
v Which had afforded him so much delight. We have
ts 4,
antedates which the Duke has left behind him here,
;inh at once_ 'hew the liberality. of his heart, and the
traagth of his rnenory. He was struck a few mornings
;14" br the face of an old soldier, in the Well Walk, and
II: 4 few moments gazed at him. The man observing that
vita noticed, instantly pulled off his hat, and was asked
Y the Duke whether he had ever seen him (the Duke) be-
f"sh?" Ye% your honour; I saw you at Salamanca."
4` "At, to try the accuracy of the tale, asked bins how
r, recollected ..the fact? "If your honour remembers,"
;41:0ea the veteran, "you drew our regiment out
linP yourself, alsd the French -would not give -us
!ttle that day—but 'we got at them next morning,
Luut honour, by six, and here is a wound which I
ived when we turned their left flank," 'hewing
rblillasket-shot wound in the arm, the sleeve of which he
4d. The soldier mentioned his regiment, the precise
De of which we do not immediately recollect, but the
,"" instantly presented his old companion in arms with
B°!ereign. Next morning the Duke was attacked by an
'"lent
fellow, who claimed acquaintance with his
on the score of having given bim a glow of water
the battle of Waterloo. "Be off, you scoundrel!"
~,_—`g•the Duke, " I never took a glass of water during an
,8-gement in my life." As the impostor skulked off, the
Dolts, Watching iris paces, exclaimed to the party who
(iwrnPornied him, " I am sure that fellow was never a sol-
C.'el in his life."
Sir PHILIP
CARTERET SILVESTER, Bart.,
04'3., a Post Captain in the Royal Navy, who died here
ti Sunday last last, after an illness of a few hours, had on
W. Previous day attended the philosophical lectures of Mr.
aulLteu, at the Royal Assembly Room, in Bath-street,
q Whilst in conversation with Mr. WALKER, after the
esmelturion of the lecture, he was suddenly attacked with
w~ytic symptoms, affecting the left side. Mr. CcrrrLE
in IMmediately seat for, who pronsptly bled the Baronet
w_the Assembly Room, and the most active measures
we afterwards adopted, but without success : the la-
meats,' g„ e eman died of apoplexy in the evening of day.Sun-
On opening the head, after death, nearly an ounce
tel venous blood was found extravasated in the structure of
he cerebellum, or back part of the brain. The deceased,
who was in the 52d year of his age, was son of the late
Admiral CARTERET, the celebrated circumnavigator, and
nephew to the late Sir Jour; Smvzsrea, Bart., Recorder
Of London, to whose title anskeretates he succeeded in 1822.
Hie remains will be interred in avault in our parish church
this day.--Leconington Spa Courier of Saturday.
BrtEctitx.—On Thursday last week, as Mrs.
Qt oact Ross, of this place, along with her child and
another young lady, were descending the dangerous hill
toad to Olenburnie, on their way to Aboyne, in a gig,
the horse being checked, ran suddenly backward and
(iVerturned the gig at the edge of the. road, which at that
Place overhangs a precipice of more than a hundred
fit. • Had the horse gone three yards farther, the vehicle
nlast have been precipitated over this height.. By the
breathless exertions of Mr. Ross, who accompanied the
Party on horseback, they were as rapidly as possible ex-
tricated from their dangerous situation ; and it is re-
blarkable, that though the gig was literally dashed to
Pieces, none of the party were hurt.—Caledonian Mer.
At Flodden Brick Works, a few weeks ago,
!large dog, of the Newfoundland breed, was stung to death
by bees. He had been placed at the outside of a garden,
,10 which were several hives of the industrious tribe ; by
,qh bark, and the manner in which he acted towards those
Yrr that came within his reach, be soon gave offence to
tie winged insects, who, to revenge the insult, fastened
alpen him in whole swarms, and stung 'him exceedingly.
'lit principal weapon of defence was his mouth, and in
using it he received his greatest injury, for his tongue was
48terely stung, and was soon swollen to 'an astonishing
size. He lived in great pain until next morning.— Cale-
donian Mercury.
MECHANICS' MAGAZINE.—We are glad
la find this very useful and intelligent volume continues a
lugeessful career. To most classes of the community it is
14"Iestable, but more especially to the more ambitions
among the lower order., who will thus have an opportu-
blty of familiarising themselves with the discoveries of the
'0 and keeping pace with its ever varying mechanical
ra4scientific improvement.

ARBROATH MECHANICS' INSTITUTION.-
:34 Friday last a Mechanics' Institution was formed at Ar-
uiNath. Mr. WyLLIE, lecturer in the Forfar Scientific
iletitution, had been previously engaged to deliver a course
u,,flecturea, the course in that place ending on Friday.—
HU3IE, Esq. M.P. was proposed as patron of the
`nititution. W. F. LINDSAY CAR.IiEGIE, Esq. was una-
-11.1440%1,1y elected president, and a committee was chosen
from the principal gentlemen of Arbroath, to draw up
Niel and tekulations for the management of the Institution.
----Catedonian Mercury. s-

During these few days past, the shores have
"et'li swarming with shoals of young herrings, and such are
jonabeis in which they,appear, that, large quantities
been caught simply with tubs and hand-baskets.
in this way have been taken along the sands to
',.ieetward of Leith..- Caledonian Mercury.
Throughout the whole of last week the
*tither was favourable for harvest' operation,. In East
Mid Lothian, the greater part of' the crops are cut,
14 a considerable portion is already in the barn-yard.
pr of course, except the high grounds and other did-
' •"kta where harvest is usually late. In West Lothian
typing is net so far forward, though not a little has been
vut and even stacked ; but we learn that the ensuing week
Fill be the most busy in that quarter.—Edinburgh Even-
: "9 Courant.

-NEW CATHOLIC CHURCH, CARLOW.—
44 edifice continues to rise, and exhibit' already appear-
'n„?ea of great solidity and beauty. On Friday last one of
'ut most extraordinary processions ever witnessed here was
too of fai mere than'soo cars laden with blocks of iron-
-11,,Ione; drawn by very goad horses, and led by nearly as
• ellay fine athletic young men, coming from that single
ikktiah with unpurchased aid to the chapel—on every hun-
Irtaith NU a isusician. The train covered more than an
gLish mile. The men were regaled on the lawn, before
sight Rev. Dr. DovLE's residence, with abundance of
, cheese, and beer ; and, hot as the day was, many of
p
I/14 afterwards indulged in the merriest Irish jig dances
11°41136.green WE—Carlow Morning Post.
XMARKABLY LOP., TirtE.—On Tuesday
9,M i
lash some
there was the lowest tide in the Frith, in the
i of some by six, and according
a' that has been for fifty At dead low water,
the years. to others by ten
b PP of a rock was visible at Newhaven, which had never
oebr teen by the oldest fishermen ; and the tacksman was
the Itd to employ small boats' to land the passengers from
steam-boats at the Chain Pier. —Edinburgh, Paper.
ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.—On Friday man-
-3 1 last, about five o'clock, on a sudden the second floor
window
o of No. 9, Newman-street, Oxford-street, was
Pened, and in an instant a man jumped into the street.
lo a moment afterward,' some persons name from the house
and lifted .up the unfortunate gentleman, who to all ap_
P!aranie Was dead. Ile was immediately attended by Dr.
I itoxl.proiv, who bled him. We have made diligent en-
quiries as to the reason that caused the young man to coin-
- tttlt so rash an act, and have been informed that for some
tinw past his behaviour was so altered that his friends
b thought it advisable to hare same person to attend him,
at the
young man that was first sent was so terriAed,
- -that he.dared'not move from the chair while the other
Walked biekwards and forwards in the room with a pistol
lgee hand and a dagger in the other. The young man
n' 1417 respectable connexion" and is by profetsion a sur-
"tPar, lie is as welt 31 can be expected

MR. AUSTIN, of GREENWICH HOSPITAL.

This gentleman w.l. „ppooited to the - office of
Deputy Treasurer of (.4re.-nwich Ilospital about 25
years back, by th,.• ti en treasurer Admiral Sir .John
Colpoys ; and Fill tli .t period down to a % ery re-
cent one he has hail the sole coutroul of the im-
mense funds of the Hospital, the office of treasurer
being, with the exception of its heavy responsibility,
a complete sinecure. His salary was 500/. a-year,
with a handsome. suite of apartments in Greenwich
.Hospital, and coals and candles, &c. The duties of
his office were extremely simple, and consisted
merely in paying by cheques upon the Bank of Eng.
land such accounts as might be transmitted to him
from time to time by the Hospital Board of Gover-
nors. These cheques were drawn upon funds placed
at the Bank of England to the credit of the Tree:-
surer of Greenwich Hospital. No cash ever passed
through his hands on account of the Hospital. The
funds of the Hospital arise partly from large landed
estates, and partly from the sixpences exacted monthly
from the wages of each seaman sailing from the port of
London. Collectors are appointed to receive these and
the various other branches of the Hospital income,and
to pay the same into the Bank of England, to the
credit of the Hospital treasurer. In this manner a
large floating fund was constantly kept up at the
Bank of England, where it was at the sole disposal
of Mr. Austin, who might at any time ha.ie with-
drawn the whole, and disappeared, bad he seen fit.
Mr. Austin had not long held his appointment be-
fore a mode of increasing his income was presented
to his notice, which, although clandestine, appealed
to be attended by no risk. In adopting this mode,
it is probable he was much influenced by the impor-
tunities of those who were to gain by it as well as
himself. The contractors and others supplying

Greenwich hospital, had always to wait a mouth
or six weeks, and sometimes longer, after the deli-
very of their accounts, before an order could be ,
obtained for their payment. As the accounts were'
mostly heavy, this delay was severely felt by several,
and led to repeated applications to Mr. Austin for
au anticipation of the day of payment. Mr. Aus-
tin, unfortunately for himself, yielded, and 'hence
commenced that system of discounting and traffick-
ing with the Hospital funds to which his present
difficulties are said to be attributable. The plan.
adopted by Mr. Austin was to take a bill of exchange
frem the hospital claimant, payable at about two
months, for the full amount of which he gave a
cheque upon the Hospital funds at the Bank of Eng-
land. The discount he required to be paid him sepa-
rately, and which he always calculatedat the rate of five
per cent. per annum. He never deducted it in the
cheque. When the account of the individual was
passed for payment, it was settled by Mr. Austin
paying back to him his own bill of exchange as cash,
and giving him a cheque on the Bank for the dif-
ference ; so that if the Hospital Directors should at
any time
,have called upon Mr. Austin to produce
his Bank pass•book, it would have exhibited no
names but what ought to be there, and the total
paid to each would he correct, only that it would
appear to have been paid in part instead of in one
sum. There is reason to suppose Mr. Austin en-
tered very cautiously into these transactions at first ;
but that after a time, finding they escaped notice,
and were attended with profit to himself, and no
prospect of injury to the Hospital, he became em-
boldened, and plunged more deeply in them. In-
deed, it is said he even went farther, and proceeded
to discount for persons wholly unconnected with the
Hospital, and over whose punctuality therefore he
could not have so good a security. It would be
difficult, however, to understand how he could em-
ploy the Hospital money for this purpose, without
exciting suspicion, and Without at once embarrass-
ing his accounts. Thp integrity of the fund, once
destroyed, 'could never be restored. He might
withdraw, but he could not replace. Whatever
may have been Mr. Austin's general success in dis-
counting for the Hospital claimants, one instance oc-
curred in 1919 by which he sustained a loss of
2,000/. It was after that remarkable year, When
an extraordinary summer drought, which lasted
nearly nine weeks, had nearly trebled the spring
price of meat. The contract for the Hospital bad
been taken the previous April at a IoW price for a
year. The loss was enormous.' The contract was,
however, fulfilled, The .lasit month of the year had
expired, and the account was sent in. It would
not be paid in the regular course for six or eight
weeks. The contractor was pressed for money, and
applied to Mr. Austin, 'who advanced 2,000/. in the
usual way.
,A few weeks subsequent the contractor,
4fter a vain effort to avoid it, found himself com-
pelled to submit to a bankruptcy. One of the as-
signees appointed was a Mr. Laud. He had him-
self formerly contracted with the Hospital, and was
perfectly acquainted witk their system of paying.
He readily perceived that the 2,000/. could not have
been paid by Mr. Austin with the authority of the
Hospital Board of Governs's, and he therefore in-
sisted on treating it as a private loan made by Mr.
Austin to the "bankrupt. Accordingly, as soon as
the bill in the ordinary course had become ripe for
payment, lie presented it to Mr. Austin, and de-
manded and received payment in full. This was a
cruel loss upon Mr. Austin, who was compelled to
prove for the 2,0001. as a debt under the commission.
It was true he received back dividends to the
amount of more than Os. in the pound, and that a
dividend of at least half as much more will be paid
eventually, when a reversion falls in, for which the
assignees have determined to wait rather than dis-
pose of it; but still the loss was ons which Mr.
Austin, having only an income of 500/. per annum,
and which he was generally supposed to live full up
to, could ill afford to hear. No notice was taken of
the transaction by the Board of Governors, and it is
to be supposed, therefore, they heard nothing about
it, notwithstanding the stir made in it by Mr. Laud.
Shortly after, Mr. Austin's patron, Sir John Col-
poys, died. He was succeeded by Admiral Sir T.
Boulden Thompson, who continued Mr. Austin as
his deputy. In the spring of the present year,
Admiral Thompson also died, and was succeeded
by Sir Alexander Hope, who gave notice of his
intention to appoint a friend of his own as his de-
puty. Mr. Austin was, of course, compelled to
resign the kooks and papers of his office, and an
examination of the same was forthwith entered
into, for the purpose of balancing and closing
them, previous to the new deputy entering
upon the duties of his office. It was in the

course of this examination that the defalca.

Lions were discovered on which the present charges
against Mr. Austin are grounded. The deficiency
is said to be about 40,00101., but over what length
of period it extends is not publicly known. The
Hospital, it is understood, always takes sureties from
the treasurer to the amount of 20,0004 ; and should,
therefore, ally part of the deficiency have arisen
during the time of Sir John Colpoys, that gentle-
man's trustees, notwithstanding the lapse of time,
would be liable. Mr. Austin only found two sure-
ties in 1,0001. each These were Richard Smith,
Esq., the principal clerk of the cheque of Greenwich
Hospital, and Thomas Watson,
stone-mason. Esq., the Hospital
Since this unhappy affair Richard Smith, Esq.,
has resigned his office. Mr. Smith is in the corn-
mission of the peace for the county of Kent.
No suspicion existed we believe of the state of
sOn accounts
nt‘upto the very moment of the
Contrary, it is, reported that so
high was the opinion entertained of his integrity by
the board, that they had it in contemplation to grant
discover'. sre. ov Austin
him a retiring pension.

Lord DURHAM is expected to visit the North
about the latter end of the present or early in the ensuing
month. After remaining in the country a short time, we
understand it is his Lordship's intention to leave England
for the Continent.— Carlisle Journal.
On.the 13th ult., at Glastry, near Kirkcubbin,
a poor v oman was delivered of twins; one of which Was
a strong healthy child, and is living. The other was a
dwarf, only
iaches long, and 1 lb. 2-i oz. weight ! It
was a very handsome infant, and appeared perfectly formed;
however it died
two days after its birth. —Publim Et ening
Post,

FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE.

CHANGES.

The Marchioness Dowager of Hertford, this morning, from
Manchester House, for Temple Newsham, near Leeds, in York-
shire ; Lord Petre, for Brentwood Park, in Essex ; Lord Sal-
toun, from Dublin, to. Frasenhurgh ; Viscountess Dudley, froM
the Hyde Park Hotel, Hyde Park place, for Tunbridge `Veils;
the Countess of Gprford and the 'Ladies 'Acheson, from ditto ;
the Earl of Buckinghamshire, from ditto, for Buckinghamshire ;
Sir R. and Lady Pocklington, and Miss Blagrave, from ditto, for
Suffolk; Mrs. Burnett, from ditto, for Roche 'House, Bnghton ;
Lord and Lady Henry Cholmondeley, for Dover ' • Lord and
Lady Nugent, for their seat,' Lilleys, Bucks ; Loid Melbourne
and Sir Frederick Lamb, Bait., on, a shooting excursion, at Earl
Cowper's seat, Pansenger, Herts ; Lady Forrester, from Belgrave_
street, for the Duke of Rutland's seat, Belvoir Castle ; Viscount
Valletort, from Warren's Hotel, Regent-street, for Mount Edge-
cumbe, Devonport ; Mr. and Mrs. Dixon, from ditto, for their i
seat, n Northurnberland ; Captain Fuller, ftom ditto, for
Brighton ; Mrs. and Miss Le Roy, for Cheltenham ; Count
Stanislaus, in Piccadilly, from the Netherlands; Mr. and Mrs.
Charlton; from the Isle of Wight, for Hastings ; Mrs. and Miss
Pepys, from Tunbridge Wells, for Ramsgate ; Mrs. and Miss
Percy, from Lichtield, for Scarborough; Colonel Stanhope, for
Yedfordsbire • Captain and Mrs. Dyer, for Chatham ; Mrs. and
Miss Gwynn4 for Eastbourne, from Brighton ,- Mrs. and Miss
Delaware, from Cheltenham, for Clifton Hot Wells ; Sir Charles
Greville, Bart..from town, on a tour; Mr. Surtees, from Mad-
dox-street, for the Continent ; John Duckett, Esq. from the
Bristol Hotel, Jennyn-street, for Ireland; Captain Rickards,
from Regent-street, on a Continental tour ; H. Stone, Esq. from
Montague-square, for Stanmore, Middlesex.