The Sun.
London, England, 1811-02-12 00:00:00

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The favourable reports which, .we. have from
time to time given of the, impottatiOtt of this
lotion in the improvement of the Acts,
..was abun-
dantly justified. by theneral display :of:talents
evinced on- liVednesdly. last'ge, when the Oalf..ry in
was opened tor .the private inflict-lion of
the
,nobleDtredors and their friends.. The Artists
who have before distinguished,themselves under the
liberal encoutagement of this Ilwitution, manifest a
considerable degree of improv,etment, ;and others
have come forwatcl who ate %tie!l entitled to its pro-
tedi,n and favour.
Among the assemblage of PiEtures which are now
exhibittd, are !hit teert, ,which are candidates for the
pretutoms. We have already intortnedour Readers
what the, remittals are, and to, what..SubjeNs they
'refer, but we shall briefly re-state them, because
the In.titution desetves.every mark of pub4c respe&
and gratitude, As ii tends to refine ,the national taste,
and do honour to the. national charOter.
For the first Pidure in gistorical or Poetical Conn
position, 300 guitzta.—For the next, in the same
t.rovinces,,26o guineas ;--And,for the ,last iu order
of mitrit; still bt the same kinds,_ 1,00 guineas.--
The, tiecisroirt we .understand,- hail been made by
the Selo& Committee Of Governors, but has nut
been cotnspoototed to the general body. The
several Pictures, however', hire been examined with
such deliberation and care; and by.judges of such
approved taste, knowledge, and experience, that.
the award will iindoubteaty be determined in such wanner a$ to givo the ialle t SatistatliOn to all
sound critics.

We have not room arprecenr to ewer into a de-
x4thinati:7li Of the rCspecliVe cnrrirs of the
vaeiotpi eoutpo-eitiotts ‘tinich enrich the Gallery this
)eor,,bitt feel it robe an aCt l,t comuion histlce to
. mention some of Prominent anct.cunspicootis merit.
Among these... ought 10 be, nutited "
,Barr!,"
irom GRAY, by Mr. WisT,.a piNure indeed that
has already been adinired by the public at the Royal
Academy. " The Entombing of ChriSli" by HIL-
TON. pi;lose we understatid has been -pur,
chased by the Marquis of ,STAvroab. ," Boys
Lathing," " The young Filer," and c"liie temim-
*trig ,11,1urnetit," but particularly the latter two; t,y
CoI.LINI. ""
The Letter 0," by SitAttPa." We
l'at'e before mentiontd this picture with well-merit-
ed approbation, .‘ The Rrfusal .61 Mart ,a.ge," anu
" Reading tile Will," bl Cc§sc. The Tribute
Moue by by AdAtt, A Negro overpowering, a
Butttlo," Tnii picture ..is:.4itated to be
lowided ~n positivb tact; wh:ch ,iccurred in Ame-
rica in 1800, and eke it ciJrtit i 4 welt repiesente I.
Nlauirt!A a's drat meeting !tie three Witches,"
by " 'Tie Knighting of, De Wilton"
(from M.irMion), uy Triusitit/ILL, " A View ot.
Eller Water, &c. V;eStinorelatiti," by GLOVBR. This
is dic !J'St Clothlit.dr, in. oil that we have seen by this
artist, Whose hi'ei it in ii'oter Chloura is wall known.
A VieW ofLon‘loit truui Orectiwich Park," by
Ait Tie Lanc,fscapei by B. BAttitatt Those
also t,y it. R. lieti4Aol4, and indeed ail the works
by the BEtNAoLts,, tinnily, particularly ". Terri
figlititi," by Mi. i,fiutNsOLa. RislNG's `(Girt
nd Owl," in, the style of Sir "JO. ttun RRYNoLos,
brytNies ietkrti of " Lock Catutiti." There
are also Many works from Beton,' WasTALL,,
Wootwitabe, ConsY, HOWARD, &c. of great me-
rit, which we Shall notice hereafter,

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'_ROYAL AC AIIEMY.-At a General Assembly of
,ye.terday morning, I he tallow-,
ing 41,40ciaca irere eletteil Royal Academicians,

David tvjlkie, fames Ward, Richard Westrnacott, Robert
Sinithe, and Henry, itooe, in the morn of John Hoppner,
()iids Julian Zutf:any, join► Erani,;6 Rigaud, and
loin Ric:ll4l-os, Ebtoires, deceimd.
Mr. HOWARD was eked Secretary in the room
of Mr. 11/c.-LiAluit.

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TA; .13 14. II TS:-Mr. wane has been some sime ern-
pluyiNi On a. .ery. large picture, the subject of which
is Christ belling the Sick. It uni..ersally acknow.
ledged to be the best work that ever tame (him the
peticil of this venerable arti,t, and to pottiest as ex-
traurdinary degree. of merit. Toe titite of our
'Saviour is 'admirably composed. it is dignified and
•Merk, and marked by a kind of hallowed grace
whit"' powertully 'impresses the intagination and
affections of the spectator. The Apostles, who vvit-
ness this exertion of oivinis power, express a kind
of sacred confidence, supposed to be derived from
their previous experience of the effecta of that
, power, The general mass of spettators exhibit
varied ,cmoliUtl4 of delight, admiration, and asto.
nizinictit; and the whole scene is designed with
great judgmerit,•and executed in the roust masterly
st; le of compaction in arrangement, and due effect .
ot light and shadow. 'the artist has been offered
three thousand guineas for this picture, a copy of
which, from his own , hand, is to he presented to
the College at Philadelphia.
We hear that the depot for training 20,000. Spa-
nish troops; atter the British systcto,' under'ColOnel'
WHITTINGHAM, is at Majorca, not at Minorca.
We are glad to hear that it is determined to clothe,
arm, and discipline (and we hope appoint with Bri.
! tish Officers) 20,000 ' more Spanish troops in ano•
ther insulargituation, from whence, when petlect
in discipliae and appointments as an army, they can
be sent. to as wherever they can be most usetni In
the common cause. • ~ ,
Leiters from Madeira of the 27th tilt. state, that
!a.vessel had arrived there from Teneritle, which left
that isiaiid 'on the 7th, at which time the yelloW-,
• fever was Taglog violently at Santa Cruz.- The mor.;
tality was excessive; the itthabitants were carried
cif in great nuMbers daily. :The vessel which brought
this. melancholy -intelligence was immediately put
under strict quarantine.
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in c; ,;.' -eitiencd'of the Council held Yesterday at
enTlet ti, tiduse; a iii.trty of the Ist ilAinient of
t'oot Guards, ' w!th the regimental colour., acid the
lull bar.4;tharched into the Cods-yard of Carlton-
House, abuot eirtveo o'clock. About the sante. time
a party or the Lir:: Guards took their Station in Pall
:dell, under the command of Captain Htt:t.. Six
Yt:0,1;31) of-the Goatos, with an-Usher, and his
lioy II iiig-iietoeti serbannt,• attendv(l.. to their
tivr,:ties, ift the Grand Hall, upon this occasion State. '.

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ELTABURGR, Fait

COURT OF SESSION.-(

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LADY. HADDINGTON V. STEIN._
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This.case, which is-,of co s derable importar.ce
'to t lir mercantile world, ;and, .rt very general interest,
was finaliy.decided before the rising of the Court for
the Christinas.recess.'
Sir Charles Gascoigoe,,formerly Director of the
Carron War k 1/.1 this country, we,tl Solicited by her
Inqkgial ,MaY“,,,v the Enapres4 Citt,arihe, through
r'aetll'Um3,l tidmirLit Greig, her First Lord of the
Admiralty,. to en er into Ler service; to which he
ac cording agreed, and lett this cot-miry for Russia
in 17a6. In 1790, the late Mr. James Stein, dis-
tiller at Kilbogie (the, father of Mr. James Stein,
formerly merchant •,in Edinburgh, now one of the
partners of Stein, Smith., and Co. Bankers in Lon-
don ; and of Mr. John Stein, distiller, at Cannon
Mills,- was involved in difficulties which conri,elled
hitnao seek iefu;,,,e on the Continent.. Under tkese
circumstances hu :was invited to Russia by Sir
Charles Gascoigne, who offered him not only aft
' asylum in his distress, but pecuniary assistance if he
should be disposed,to embark in any new scheme
for bettering his tontine. Mr. Stein accepted the
offer, and beit an eminent distiller, be felt 4sr
posed to speculate nn•the well-known .passion'of the
Russians.for ardent spiuta.
Accordingly; by the advances and credit chiefly
of SirCliaries.G.sscniene, Mr. Stein Was enabled to
erect large distilierrts Ru•siak and to carry on his
spec• •
ulatinti4,on a very extensive scale during a pe-
riod of. yeirly ten. years. In th 4. course ,ot these
transactions he b came indebted, io Sir Charles to a
largeonloatto ; Sand, in :June 1804 a, a settlement of
accouuts mak place 4etweeli Them ;.,:wheir, in
dation,,of , the halante due by Mr. Stein; two two sets
of billS were granted • by, him, the one f0r•0,025
roubles, on the house of Stein, Smith, and Co: Lou-
don, payable to Sir Charles himself at Petersburgh;
the virb, r to 27,6175 roubles, being three separate
bills for that ainQiiini, drawn by old Mr. Steil) on
his Sun ...r,itnes then in PetersbUrgli) and lie-
eiTtesi t..y hint. These last baia were ;trade pay-
able to ". the order
,of the 'Countess I)awager of
fladdington," the datigiper of Sir Chatlas ..real,
topugh no place 01, payment was mentioned in the
hod of them, trey were addressed to "
Stein', Esq. jun. Editibargh ;" and: at Iris' solicita-
tion it was expressly 861)114th:1i on lire part of 'Lady
illatington and her husband, Mr. lidryinp.e., cuf
North Berwick, both at that Clue tit Russia, that
When dn.r, they should '' not he tiea,ort.liet, but
exeliangeol fur fant.ly bonds as ag:ectl " .AecOrd-
legly, rif.:er the. arrival of L.dy Haddaigton, Mr:
Dalrymple, mid Mr. Stein, iii tats coutitiy, and
when the bills bleattie due, a draft of a bond for
the amount ssas tnaCe out by it. agent for her
tidy:dip; was sent for revisal to the agent of Mr.
Stein.; arid after being finally a(!justed and marked
With the initials of that Gentleman us apprdved or,
• was exteeded on stamped paper, and transmitted to
him for the signature of Messrs. Stein.
, In tie meanwhile; however, intelligence was re.
ceived in this country; tAbtatit the b•linning of
March 1801, of an Ukte Issued by the.limperor
Paul in one of hits fiti 'et phrenzy, by which he se..
questrated the Whoie British proparty of every de-
scriAion in Russia, vesting the funds thence arising
in Russian Commissioners, but subje6ling them in
the first place to the payment at rite debts due to
Russian creditori. tan receipt of this intelligence,'
Mr. S.ein presented a bid of suspension, in which
he stated that the whole Russian funds of his father
having been confiscated by the above Ediet,. in Vio-
lation of the Law ,of Nations, Sir. Charles, a na-
turalized Russian subject, ought to be obliged to
seek payment of the above bills out of those con-
fiscated 1111)4; .that with regard to: Lady Hadding-
ton, sire was the donee of Sir Charles, and at any
rate was not an onerous indorser, and consequently
every objection that was good against Sir Charles
was equally, available against,ber ;: that of course
she ought to seek her payment in RUSSia, where
the whole funds of the true debtor. were locked up
by the arbitrary Edith of the Russian Government.
The bill of suspension was passed by Lord Iler•
mated. .Alitiostlitnniediately afterwards, on the
death of the EMperor Paul, the sequestration of
British property was rettroved,l7th of May, taut,
by his successors and the balances tenni:Mug in the
hands cif the Cortimisaioners were ordered to. he re-
stored to the British owners. In the meanwhile,
no proceedings look place in the suspension down
to I'Boo, when, afer sovcrat :rut:opts at an ain;c.•
ble settlement had trAled, the Cause witainsisred hi
by, fiaddington before Lotti' Arinadale,
ref gilled the reasons of suspension, and deeerned
payment of the b.lls. Mr. Steir‘irlieti presented a
reclaiming petition to the G4Att, Which was ap=
pointed to Lie answered. ,

The pleas maintained on the part of Mr. Stein
were, 11t, on the grounds already. mentioned,
paytnei:t of the hills ,ught Ica have been obtained
in Russia from the fonds of his father, which had
been iequestrafed by the Russian Government, anti
winch he staed to atuoinit to 72,1)00 roubkc he
farther alitged, that as Sir Clinks had made a
claim upon these. tunes, the probability mils, that
he 113 d actually recovered_Oayment of the very debt
in question. ant 2dly, he pleaded, That the bills
-had heen granted in liquidation of a balance u. high
`arose:m(44 a transaction of an usurious nature-, end
lie endeavoured to make out a charge of extortion
.and usury aglinst the lee S'.r Charles Gascolgtie;
from the following statement : That he, Mr. Stem,
had been invited to Russia toy Sir elirles; who ai-
vauced him money only with the ‘iew of turning hit,
abilities to his own personal advantage; that in pur-
suance of this plan, Sir Charles-/Lid purchased - a •
'piece of ground, and erectei upon it rite works ne-
cessary tor carrying on a distillery, into the poses.
sion of -which Mr. Stein WAS put upon a contract,
which stipulated !Or a rent to Sir Charles, al-flown,
to 10 'per cent. of the sums advanced ; that the
bids in queNtion had gown out of the,e relits.
which were in fad interest's for a -lean or Money,
t he. whole ,transaction being only a cover .3or du
usurious loan. •

It wait answered for Lady Haddington with regard
to the timpani!, that She WaS to Lie COu,Sidluti in
the tig,ht of a purobaber of a I:ah of exclianv ; and

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belng.the undoub th.3sa bill^ rltkital
7 a clear, right to make them •etl4(:ti:vtl that 4.'0011
where, Ity The tenour of. them*. and 'ether 81r9rcw.,
stances, they were made payable.. But more par.
ticularly it tV.as;ttated, that. the Edict .of the k.;tn-
peror Paul was only a temporary meature,
was dissolved by his death, and ,by, the subsequent
Edid of the Emperor AteXander„ within thre6
tuonl.solits issue; that Mr. Stela, after that second
Ethel, bad only to apply to the .4iquidutron
toir at Petersbnrgh, if he wished to get his funds
released from the ,sequestration ; that %vitt' regard
to these funds, they ippelred, from Mr. Stein's own
htatein6iii, to consist chief)y of protested hills, un-
hooped casks, aid sour rimier, which might trt.
some measure account for his not applying tor the
delivery of them, upon the suppo.itien that hisgate-
ment in that respea was agireable to the 110.4 that
if the late Sir Charles ever did, make any applica- •
tion respeeting these funds, ties must have proceed-
ed upon the bill first mentioned et ntii roubles,,
which had been taken, payable to himself in Petets-
bergb; but could nor relate to those which we'd
'.payable to the. Countess herself individually le this
country, and which bad neverbe.en out of her pos-
session, and scarcely indeed out of the process.
With regard to the charges of extortion, use, v, and
oppression, against the late Sir Chitties (i.tscuigne,
Lady Fladdingten rent:tiled, that ;In acct:sations "
had been made for thelits/ tines when tire cause
c tme to be insisted 'in before Lord Arinsclale
1300 ; and that welling_ of the kind had been even
' insinuated in the very keen and tioluininnus
t+iutt which iook.plac.: in the Bill .r in the
year ItH I, previous to passiog the of Suspzu.
sion,, H-r Ladyship further replied to Mr. Steio's
preent -ave,ramits on Iles bead, by contrasti,l
them, with the sentnneots expressed by him and his
family, in a tariety of !otters written to 3,r ch irks
about the time the transaetion in question was en-
tered into, and some of which, they
,expressed
their gratitude for his generosity in the most hyper-
bolical strain. In one of Was \vrittett
by John Stein, distiller, at Cannot) fol-
lowing elegant and affecting passage ()copied !..."
" Thus situated, I find it itnposs!fe,to CU•i:rl.lulii~
cote the sincere and just sense whi 1 feel for ail
your favours, and which, be!...ive.iv, can never hq
eradicated or lessened but oy my !teal exit to thir
place where weare assured that such inutatiecs
humanity will he fully recompensed. If a I,at of
gratitude can convince you of what t asarit, I hops.
the one I now drop will lave that
Lady's hit) to; Cher Maintlitied, that what Mr. exiil
termed ititerea, was in tart merely rent, and
.rent
which was estimated at a very hit- and liberal matt:-
for the tenant : thit ti ti there wel'e ninny
clauses in the leaso which were highly favour:lb:l:kw
Mr.. Stein, particularly one ‘‘'hicli ally i.vesi him ail tian of etirehasing at any 11010 the whose preinite.s at
print(' cost, yet Sir. Cliarles Gasentgne tetnaihed al-
ways the proprietor; anditithethave‘tiitz,f.
ctoltue.dwi:jrokt
sus'aining &image by i3r or
claim reparation froM IVr. Stein; that in this sites_
Lion, when the subjeat were; of so very petishat,le a
nature, nothing could be farthar from extortien than
a rent at the rate of IQ-per cent. of the purchase mo-
ney; that nothing could more clearly show Mr.
Stein's o .vn sense of the advantageous nature of this
lease himself, titan the following passage m one
of his leVeri,: written in June 1800, after so.ite
Terence between the parties, and when, 310„pir;
rious proposals which tie Made for an atnicatile set-
tlement, he expressly stipulated as a eoneiden sure.
qua non for the Continuance in his awn loviior
of
that lease which had been formerly eiatiteri to his
father, and winch he now attempted to wand as
usurious;--" Trusting that Sir Charles will gists J. S. the option of continuing, to tent the premises,
here atter the 1 Ith of August, on reeeii leg a rent:
equal. to 10 per cent. upon etery thing that has bt Lei
advanced, and on J. S. finding security for the rego-
lar payment of such rent at the proper terms."—
Finally, Lady Haddington attempted to skew; that
the bills in question did not grow, out of these retes,
but related to transactions entirely different in their,
nature.

On advising the petition and answers, tho Court
were clear, on she first point, that the trills were
payable, and were properly sued for.in this
tryl and' that Lady kiaeldington could not be 8(114
to Russia to demand paym-Jtit of them from Mr.
Stein's Russian fundi.. With regard to the charges
ua. extortion and usury, the Court thyught
1-lArldington- bad clearly
.proved that the bills in
question did not originate (ruin the trattstialuttS
which Mr. Stein condescended on as usurious. But,
indeliendentlyof trey were unanimous in ex-
piessiug their
.ciearopinion, that a cose. had never
come before them, in which there was less router fur
charges of this hatiire, the whole conduct of Sir
Charles -Gaseoigne appearing aft the face of the
transactions themselves to have been, from fir,t to
last, hint only lair and honourable,- but lik.r,ll,
'l.'heir Lordships therefore unaninteusly adlhled to
interlocutor of the Lord Ordinary, eceining.
iqr payment of the bills, and found Alr. Std
en' liable
in costs. A petition, reclaiming ti,ost thi4 judg.
meat,. was afterwards refused without answers.

AVe often see in the ptiblio,Ortntsof trotting; wa
!germ, in 'Which we are told th.tt the person pet-I°llll-
-
(a! his task with ease. On hearing of such wager,
eve!), humane mind must wish that they were ats
tended `ith as little ease to the rider as I'd ttic un-
fattillate animal who is the vidim of his 'cruel
sport.
Oisenvery of a Murder committed in i 790.!—A
mail, formerly a re.iident at Kenilworth, but wbo'
lhas for about the last 35 or t years been ealidnytel in a ntewery at Coventry, was exarnitted on Toes-
day, .before C. G.: Wade, El: and committed for
• re-examination, charged, upon his own conte4sioo,
on a violeat suspicion cat hating wilfully ruoidered,
at Kenilworth, otte'Richard Whitton, (a young mmi
of 'irreproachable character, and of respectable von-
tiexion.) on the 20t11 of October, 1790. Chitit s
Lee, late a resident of Kenilworth, and who wai
s,titctq:i d to t 4 years transportation' at the last As-,
itiatts for this county, tbr lowing forged Bank of Eng.
land Allis, first made a disclosure of this lamettnity•ttand ,
hitip.rto myhteriwa iratikaction. We Liiitieisi,„,
he 'l,„, been dviained d
convis34 ;tutu Puttsmoutb, uthcr

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