The Sun.
London, England, 1810-07-26 00:00:00

INDIA,

The mt.itlny.ift Madras, and the melaneholy cot.
sequences tit, rend,r It stilt au obj.:•..t of particont
inserts', 'bough iilppny or Ir, dkuipline, ban-
quilit) nave born re-es!anltsh,.th-The I;)dowiti
the d,-e‘iee Coioilei J. BELL, of the Art Ides y; wg ho
Was inirlicated in tne cnargcs which took pia,:e on
this important occasion.

CHARACTERS.
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Mr.
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A T:1 E W S
pimento . . . . Mr. Evax
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Mortimer
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Duplex . , . - • Mr'
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" Yon will observe, that I am,chatged With have
Captain Frazer • . . . Mr. CARR
aabitiirgde
,sh.
ceteudari headed
ntd:
tlvh
al Imostirehperor diooakdnesglretic.:enti with`
sai:eil idci
la: sicp4reolcnvi iLtri
ricgt.dampaeusr : oai Zs
John
Mr. Liscroir
Lady Janette Mrs Geovaa Emily Danveri . . . 'Mrs. Ey!#e
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Miss Duplex • • . Mrs. GIBBS.
ril;lee
gi,riial:,,•telial,:t)tairto; the
charged to have been cominitteds as illnstratise of
The scene of aelion is laid partly in the West end
the mutiny which I /tad headed arid joined ; ie the
°f the town, and -pertly he Candlewick Ward. The
• sirCiizopillg,an' ItlUi)eerelt'uusballicto direelaiseuerlet'ip
fable is compounded of incidents and characters that
propers,antia taeuttiljuere
have long passed in procession over the dramatic re-'
i iliaceirie alg'oaui ii.%.‘; iiitlie,eirici; i ave.
gi°ns. The objeat of this play is, however, laud.;
e a eee mutiny
able and its merit altogether is nearly upon a par
Sion and concureence hi th 11 .. d . -
with most.of the produaions of the day, which the
'be established.
taste of the times dignifies with the name of Come-
" I am charged here lot not h wine taken penitent
43'. The purpose is to expose the folly of those j
measures to quell a seditiera.aarried on by oilltis, Ok'
" Persons who, at the East end of the town, attempt l
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for not g prevented acts iir Which I did•tiot
t° imitate the manners, and succeed in rivalling the
myself having:c but it is of 'the essence of' i lie crime
tltravagance of those who dwell in the opposite •
Inarter. This purpose is chiefly illustrated in the
imputed to me, that my heart and 86.11' were en=
misfortunes that fall on - the mercantile firm of i
which it is manifested.
gaged in the mutiny, and in the mutinous acts by.
Pimento and Mortimer, in consequence of the,
" In proving therefore such a charge, the grand and
fashionable profusion of Lady Janet; the offspring
presiding principle of all criminal jdriserudenee, and
'la noble Scotch family, who has inherited nothing. '
what I aui sure is present toyotar
is ill secure ale
but the blood of her progenitors. Mortimer was i
from the effeat ot evidence wir ch is applicable only to
found in infancy at the door of Pimento, who chae
others. I have studiously aestained. treM j•tterpos-.
'stably takes him into his. house, and finally into i
ing objections where tiria-aort" of. testimony was raga
Partnership. Miss Danvers is the niece of Pimento, !.
doted; for I was -Welt aware, thai weds: the Court
and she and Mortimer are attached to each other.
evinced an honourable and laraiable solicitude:to
Duplex, a pawnbroker, and his daughter make a ' •
omit no inquiry, how remote seeer io its ap-
his' figure in the plot. It appears that. a i •
; plication, that tended to.eluciclase these traessctioris, .
Captain Frdzer went abroad in early lire, and had • .
it would have Idoked as, It' I had been W iliine b • ut;
ificosiliuut)altsl)l: .
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left his' infant son under the care of Duplex, to 1. , .•
aectioes :0 sup•presS and shut out important aod reie-
whom he had occasionally sent considerable remit- 1
vent testimony.
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• lances for the support of the child, which 'Duplex ;
"The Court will, however, do me tile justice to
acknowledge that I have given no -in
terrujitiou to
ad employed to his own use, and had intentionally I
left the child. at the door of Pimento, .At length '
, the inquiry, even where the 'Proof has nut eaaetiy-
the Captain returns, discovers his seta, who finally ,
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corresponded with the rules of evidence. I have
slurries Miss Danvers, whose fortune enables her to I /VVe lament to state the following communication,
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.thotight it beneath me to rest My detenceion mere.
reinstate the. firm, and Lady Janet is brought by ad- which we received
.yesterday, by the of Anne-
defect of pactof. I have meither•kitowingly With...,
'versity to, a due sense of her folly in imitating the , mica :'—
- held, or hesitatato admit,. any document tlith was
eXtravagance of fashionable life.- 'There are three EXTRACT OF A' LETTER, DATED CANTON, FEB.
necessary to elucidate the subjedt; lookaig fur my re •
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ludicrous chara&ers whosare very prominent in the i
fuge, not in the weakness of die prosscuter's proof,:
.;ieee--'--one Crastinjts, stint's, who, as his iianita imports, is ' " A Chinese haa again unfortunately been killed, I.
but in e the strength' of my own intioceirce. It is at.
aor deferring every thing till to morrow; another and, as this Government allege, by an Englishman,
at the same tune obvious that I am called on not to
of these ludicrous charatlers is a Yorkshire footman, though no satisfa6tery proofi have yet beeei pro
at
others, but- myself.' I am answeieblebilly;
and the third is a fortune-hunting Irishman. All of duced ; bet, in the mean time, it has, as usual On .
for :7 'own ads, or for those 'of others in wiikat.V.
these charaelers are, however, very familiar to the , such occasioes, been the cause ofthe detention, not : . . -
have participated.
stage, and, are almost entirety indebted for their im- :only of the Company's ships (which were all com- ' Another suicide was committed, in Emmet's,
" But order to•conne& me with this com e
tion, as its head and its (Alain a •great deal ofrrievQis
portance on this occasion to the merits of the re- pletely leaded and readyseveral days ago) but all of row:, Old City-road, on Tuesday night, by a stranger, who had only lodged there two days, and who cut
denee is one into, of whicri rare object was to strew
sPettive Performers, more particularly MATIIEwS # the Country ships also, and eotne Ameicans pn the
his throat from ear •to ear, whilst in'bed. , The de- concurrence and
.privity in what was transaceed,
end LISTON, in the former two. JoN.as,. indeed,. eve of departure; how the thieg e ill final ter-
N4isplayed eensidarahle merit in the Irish earl. minate, sir hOw loag the procrastinating spirit of this ceased was yesterday owned by his brother, and !1e.,. butray the result of- which .11:is been only that ot nu.
'lt is easy to trace the ofitgill of this Thy in The people may spin out the negociatiOns, it is quite im- turned out to be e Lieutenant in the Navy.
plicating others, and, I ain sorry to say, of recoreing
oad to Ruin, the Heiress, The Fashionalle Lover, possible to say."
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' on the proceedings matters, which in some sort' may
tad many other Comedies ot a later date, in which i It will be a long time; we apprehend, before the
MIDDLESEX SESSIONS. . elle& your judgments with re and to others on whom
the chief eliaracier is' always a dashing young man, ' expedition to Macao will be forgottelior of
by -
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charges are depending."
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for ever making appointments, box too heedless and the Chinese -Government.
The Court sat yesterday to take the reniainder
volatile to keep them.s--In this Comedy, Crustier/se .
of the causes, pursuant to the adjournment of last .After this exordium Colonel Bell proceeds to the evidence submitted on the part of the
xx'ho was to have married Miss Duplex, is so wild Guzennern....—Two wome , named 'Elizoleth
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prosecution, and pat ticularly reeels the i *es brio,
"d dilatory, that the Irishman steps in and carries ;Adams arid Sarah Raillie, were charged by James Monde-y. • . .
A man of the narne of Tyndall was tried for a vio- terences, endeavoured to be sebst imiated ; namely,
°IT the prize. 1 s Wright, who described himself as beaig al preset-A lent assault on ayoung woMan of the name of Rey-
. . .
„ 'rile charatiers are not always consistent with ; Gentlemen, with picking . his bikersp of two one-
wilds. The prosyecutrix was unable to attend from had disobeyed the orders Of Lieutenaet-Co- •
that he
lernselves: Pimento, who at first appears prudent, ' pound notes, and other monies, his 'property. The the ill usage that she bad received, 'but the assault. lonel Davis, in not attending that officer on toe aoth
of July ;
.that be had ordered or: been privy te place
L'lonourable, and MOPal, sutlers his wife to proceed in pound not
stated, that' yesterday forenoon, coming
July;
ahy restraint op that officer ; that he was the
was fully. proved.by other witnesses, and the prison-
-I,2er extraeagsnce, though he sees . ruin ready to along Long-lane, he was met by the eriioncir
er was found ouitt.a.—lt appearing that this was a ineinher of any Cornmittseexercising the mititary
tall on him,. and, as an expedient to sustain his fall- ' Adams, who presented him with a flower, which
brutal and unprovoked outrage, and that the young
'en.g house, lie proposes that his partner Moe- i induced him to offer her somethieg to drink. They
am hot ity'of the garrison, until' the Gill of August
woman lies dangerously ill, judgment was deterred
Jet 111'2ers should marry Miss Danvers, and employ . accordingly went into an. adjoiiiing publicahouse,
until next SeSsions, as it is not certain that the pro- .en
Tsutiinisg.part of the defence consists of a denial of the
?ler fortune to the support of
-the firm.—Lady .and were Joined by the other prisoner. After have
.secutrix can survive the beatin . The. instrument
"gnat,. who treats her husband with the utmost in- ~, ing sortie liqueir, the prose, utor, tell asleep, and knew
circumstances alleged, and of argument, from
which this brute in human sha egemployed on the, oc-
tleifference, and even COnteMptUpLlS insult,
.afler. i.,. nothing of what afterwards occurred, except that
admitted fads, 'which would'seem to rebut the pro-
, casion, was an iron oker, which pwas found 'con-
.bability of the existence of such a charge, so far as
er Wards appears to be a woman of reflection and the notes strewn to him, on his awaking, were Ins
cealed in the lilting of fits coat when he was appre- ' it.was interred from the supposed premises.. One
4easiblity. 13ysthe way, her addressing her husband property. '
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!tended.
circunistance is mentioned, besides the signing. of
dislikes
in ..t he , Scottish dialect, merely because he Two witnesses swore _to the fact' of the prosecu-
SWINDLING. .
mislikes it and immediately assuming the English • . toe's pockets being rummaged, and turned inside out • , the test by Colonel Bell, as dectsve of his Ina
eiti,i6lion to and
other charaders, produces not only a by the prisoner Baillie, while the other prisoner, Daniel rosy was put to the bar, charged with nocence up to the 3d of August ; that Colonel
various ads of fraud and swindling. Prom the na- Davis on , that date • expressly slated, " that his
t'sagreeable but a disgusting effect- The Irishman Adams, was standing before
.her, as if to conceal
°°, is an odd mixture of trickery and honour, and what she was doing. The two prisoners, on at• cure of the evidence it appeared, that the defendant house and heart were open to hius."—•Now, •he '
the, .
the'
is nothing 'but his vivacity, with some little , tempting .to leave the house, were stopped •in had made use of the names of several respeelable would not have opened his house and heart to a
Nur,
the passage, carried back, and the two one-peeee persons with their different tradesmen, and obtained mutineer! I.
-enur, that entitles him to attention.
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moral and just; notes were, found in the hand of Baillie. The pro- both money and goods from them, with which he After canvassing the preliminary matters of charge
i- The sentimenis are,' in general,
hsut they are chiefly com Mon-place, and there is too' ; secutor, on being asked if he had lost any thing, decamped. The charges being fully proved, the and averting the matures acts of the mutiny and
. Court, after observing that he was an sild offender, difficulti6e of his 'situation, Col. Bell proceeds to the
Zitich affectation of that figurative and flowery style immediately described the two notes, one of which
'':'Znich is considered as pretty writing. Yet, with ; was the note de country. banker, and the other a and that it was high time for the country eo get evert efts alleged against him—and first, as to the
the objectionable matter in this piece, grounded note of the Bank ,of England. The' loose cash rid of him, sentenced 'him to be transported for seizure. of the public treasure. This lie shews to
ael'on the familiar nature of the situations, charac- ' taken by Baillie fro the prosecutor's pocket was s.even years to such part beyond the seas, as his Me- have been done white the power of- the Military
testy, with the advice of :,is Privy Council, should Committee continued ; and that when he atter-
'rs, and general scope of the fable, the play is very ; expended by the prisoners in ale, which they hand-
Ivett
ell Calculated to please a mixed audience, and may about among those who were in the town along think fir.
, • wards recovered his authority, he took charge of ,
rerh
ans work some good upon the blind votaries of 1 with them.
MALICIOUSLY SETTING 02474111 E. - the money, and dispersed it according to the end for
,
ashiore
- ' The worthy Alderman (Sir W. Plomer), ordered Our readers will recollera, that, at an early part which it Was originally designed by ine Government,
It is generally said that this Comedy was. written i the prisoners, .both of whom were described'as no- of this Sessions, a Jew of the name of 'Throe Alex- and that not a tarthilig Was misapplied. He theo
:I ivtr. k;stite, the actor, and the very prominent part i torious CharaEteri and old offenders, to stand corn- ander had been tried and found guilty of setting fire ptirsuet
to 'ieh he has allotted to his wife gives mime force i mitted. .
to a 'dwelling-house, No. 41, sLittle Queen-street, " I have shewn, not by my own uncorroborated
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li, the rumour. It was, however', reported to bet The prosecutor wished that the ends of justice Holborn, where he resided; having taken the statements, bat by the evidence actually teoGrded
ale production of Mrs. CAVENDIsH BEADsBAW (late might be attained without forcing him to attend at lower part of it for a shop, and that he had in, against me, that I disobeyed no orders oil thee 3 pee that I carried the orders I did rece;ve into ,speedy
sady \sr
fas, i'Y ESTMEATH), and the- number of persons of the erial, which he was given to understand must stared the same at the County Fire Office for the,
and diligent execution ; that in the real or imaginary
tg "'On who were in the boxes, might be thought take place in the month of Sep:ember, when it sum of 3001. with intent. of defrauding the said
• ‘)eatrengthen that supposition. The piece was re- ! would not be in his power to be present: s Office. He eras this day brought up for Judgment, restraint of Colonel Davis I had no share; that I had • '
aahiv.ed 'with a mixture of censure and applaue, : Sir NV. PLOVER poioted out in strong colours the when
no concern in the proceedings at the Coined! tee";
Tti ICh appeared to be so equally balanced upon Ma- ' impropriety of the condua observed Cy the prose-
that I had no controul over the • • rm. i
Mr. MAINWARING addressed him in nearly the ' . ril* All that •-•/' Ta"
Pws announCilii it for this even.nff that it would : tutor himself. He had 'surely attest inconsistently following words --" Aaron you stand perfea authority could effett towards the rest Oration
' cl" °li is likely d • •' .1
with the 1 which - : : Alexander,
f 'l' .Al • teat Itf '
f 1 URCUIt to say W-Lc- party:was to decide: its !
to
;fearful of the safety ot a small detachment of. his
!namely, that of • a Geptlernan—in associating, and to your dwelling, with intent that the same should
. his Majesty's regiment, I urged their remoyal assa
l'i . Irs. 'e Play was very , well supported. Besides the that too at so early an hour in the day, when lie be destroyed, by which you expected to be enabled
mere matter ot precautioe ; thst I did ail that Go-
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tvynrfortners whom we have tnehtioneds the Author l mist, from the after occurrences, have been in. a to defraud the Direetors of .the County Fire Office,
,vernment required ot me; that I cheerful' gave
4e7,sanuch indebted to Mrs. GLovER; Mrs. GIBBS, state of intoxication, with' women of the depraved and the proprietors 'thereof of a Sum of monq. If
the proffered pledge of obedience ; that when I re-
"g l'ilr. GeeeLeemr. CA Ry , V., ho assumed the part habits of the two prisoners. What did be else than this was the only part of yobr offence', it alone would
turn_ that pledge with. my sigeatute to Colonel
W Pea ee has an air of truth in his manner that ' hold out to them a temptation to rob hini, of which be of'so flagrant a description, that the Court would
bake z s .
',Davis, I intiMatt,.d to him, that although des': ous' of
fro s a 'stronger impression than generally results ,it was not- unnatural for them to avail themselves ? consider itself justified in itnposing upon you a heavy-
staying in the garrison, as long as I -could do
. Having brought the case, however, before the Al- punishrneht ; but your crime is of a deeper dye, be_ staying
would obey any orders he would give
"ill the efforts of much superior Performors.
• dertnan, he (Sir W. P.) could not consent •to corn- • Cause; in your. endeavour to accomplish the base and a.ily good'
he ,to e following is the Epilogue, written by Mr, promise a felony of the kind. If the prosecutor, , loul-end Which you had in view, the lives of the tin- give me; and that in truth I received no ortki at all,
' 1:410,7, and spoken by Mrs. GLOVER :
who had represented himself as a Gentleman, and - Suspeciing, unproteeled, and innocent inmates of the ' oreeven a suggestion sufficient to impose upon me a
Th 6 reptile:Vice, essaying to deceiVe, whose time, therefore, must be supposed to be in his . house, and of the-whole neighbourhood; were not clear and definitive rule of conduct.
From Adam slunk, and fawn'd on frailer Eve;
• own hands, did not chose to attend on the trial, he i only disregarded by you, but were in imminent dan. ! " YouroWl) conceptions wil supply much owned) wat
Sfiloothly the gloziPg serpent told his talc, ' must be punished for his negleet to do so ; and ! ger of falling. sacrifices to your horrid designs, Pro- %m‘ ust be left imperfed in this picture. . You a
And sooth'd the softer sex, to damn the male ; , surely his •condu6l altogether was deserving of ‘ vidence alone saved them from impending destruction. 'conceive (soine of you may in part have' expel ie
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Or, when the Devil himself can't conquer Man, punishment. The prisoners were accordingly cum- ! Although that circumstance saves you (tour a dread-. the embarrassments by winch I was - besa ; the
milted for trial.
I fol death, it is no palliation of 'your 'wicked mind ' jeilousy with 'which I was washed; ; tee can of
lie knows 'tis ten t 9 one a Woman can.
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A woman named Macdonnell; was charged by I:and abandoned intentions; as a' warning, therefore, feelings into which I was thrown by the V. ry soiici.
... Lis Vice obtain'd:—and, still, 'cis Vice's art
Mr. Henyon, hosier, Holborn-hill, with endeavour- to otherS, in the hope that they may be deterred • tude 1 felt' to discharge My duty, You may imagine
tor ever to attack the weaker part. .
•
ing to pass with hith a counterfeit nor baek - from the commission of such an deed, and as a a state of things, when the lines that divide (hue from
What now of weakness is the ruling passion—
note, purporting Sc) be the- note of a banking corn- punish nient on yon, the Court sentences you to be disobedience are so taint and shadowing, that from is fashion
the great and following the fashion :
pany at Luton in Bedihrdshire, made payable in Loprisoned One year in the House of .Correction, human candour will be demanded its must b, son,
I\t's fashion vice, then ?—that 'twere rash to say ;
London, on a banking-house, which, as well as and darg the first month of that period, that you nant allowance to human error. It, in myth a season,
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b, se'tis a finger post on Taste's highway, '
said
the country banking .firm, was to have no stand in and upon the pillory in Holborn, opposite the feet falter or break and snap asunder some ot the
hich blunderers mis-read, and go astray, the
Southampton-street, fur one hour.'' The Sessions . nice and minute threads and filionents whieli ell-
,t2bser ve the genuine fashion of our nation,
Toe prisoner was remanded for an allerscesminae were then adjourned to Monday, the 17th of Sep. tangle the rb, who is there that will pronounce a se.
clic',
trace &heals of barbarous hnitetio— tioe on Friday.
ugmber next, -
`ere condemnation ? It is I
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