The Sun.
London, England, 1829-09-19 00:00:00

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WARD OF VINTRY.

We understand that the contest for Alderman of this
Ward is "at length finally settled. Last night the Arbi-
trator, to whom the business was referred by the Court of
King's Bench, gave his award, declaring HENRY WIN-
CHESTER, Esq. duly elected Alderman for the Wald of
Vintry, by the same majority as on the first Election.

The contest was unusually protracted, having lasfe4 up-
wards of two years and a half.

The Duke of CUMBERLAND left town yes-
terday morning on a visit to his MAJESTY, at the Royal
Lodge, in Windsor Park.
The Princess LIEVEN and the Baroness Bu-
LOW visited the Duchess of CUMBERLAND yesterday, at her
residence in the King's Palace, St. James's. The Duchess,
accompanied by Prince GEORGE, took an airing yesterday
in Hampstead and the adjacent environs.
The Duke of WELLINGTON arrived in town
yesterday from Biggleswade, where his Grace stopped on
Thursday night in returning from Doncaster. Soon after
his arrival, the Earl of ABERDEEN had a conference with
his Grace at the Treasury. Lord HILL also visited the
Noble Duke.

The LORD MAYOR, accompanied by two
Gentlemen from the city, attended yesterday at the Foreign
Office, and had a conference with the Earl of ABERDERN
relative (it was understood) to the arrival of a number of
Sp.mish Refugees.

Mr. Rum, formerly Minister Plenipotentiary
from the United States to this Court, had an interview
yesterday with the Earl of ABERDEEN at the Foreign
Office.

Mr. APLEAN, the newly appointed Minister
from the United States has arrived in town.

Mr. VESEY FITZGERALD arrived in town
yesterday from Ireland : the Right Hon. Gentleman trans-
acted bu'iness yesterday afternoon, at the Foreign Office.
Despatches from Sir JAMES KENIPT, the
Governor-General of the Canadas, were received yester-
day at the Colonial Office.
We hear that Admiral Sir HERBERT SAW-
YER, K. C. B , will succeed Admiral the Earl of NORTHESK
in the Plymouth command next spring, and that Captain
fropE will be appointed Flag Captain.—Ply;n. Journal.
A day or two ago the telegraph station here
communicated to Holyhead, a distance of 156 miles, and
received an answer in 35 seconds, being the shortest time
it has ever done it in.—Liverpool Courier.
THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON AND THE
STANDARD.-At the late London Sessions a bill was pre-
sented, and returned by the Grand Jury a true one, charg-
ing the proprietors of the Standard with having inserted
an article containing a false and scandalous libel upon the
Duke of WELLINGTON. The public are not likely to he
speedily acquainted with the precise nature of the alleged
libel, as the Clerk of the Arraigns for the City, with whom
the indictment is lodged, acting upon the advice of the
Recorder, declines chewing it to any besides the parties
interested, and even then only upon the production of an
affidavit.

„,
MR. MADDEN'S TRAVELS.—This work,
from the personal visits of the author to the birth-place of
our Saviour, and to many other spots renowned in Scrip-
ture, serves to throw much light on many of the most in-
teresting portions of the sacred writings. Among various
other places in the Holy r
—an., Mr. 4,..aDDEN's volumes
treat of Jerusalem—Nazareth—Cana of Galilee—Mount
of Olives—Mount Tabor—Bethlehem—Mount Calvary—
Mount Sinai—Sodom and Gomorrah—Zoan and Goshen.
They also contain notices of the Sepulchre of Christ—
The River Jordan—The Lake of Tiberias—The Sea of
Lot, &c. : some very interesting particulars relative to the
Passage of the Israelites across the Red Sea, are likewise
introduced._

The Nottingham Review say, " It gives us
great pain to inform our readers, that the iron hand of op-
pression has again been exercised in Newark. During the
week, discharges have been sent to many of those who are
tenants of the Duke of NEWCASTLE, who, in the exercise
of their right, voted for Mr. Serjeant WILDE, at the late
election; we have seen one, the following is a copy :—' I
hereby give you notice to quit, yield, and deliver up to
his Grace the Duke of NEWCASTLE, or his assigns, at I.ady-
day next, old stile, in case your year's tenantry thereof shall
then expire, or otherwise, at the end of your year's tenantry
thereof which shall expire next after the end of one half
Year from the service of this notice, the peaceable and quiet
year
of all and every the messuages, houses, tene-
ments, closes, lands, tythes, and hereditaments whatsoever,
situate, being, or arising in the parish of Neark-
uPtinatret,i wn the county of Nottingham, and which you
rent of lying
or hold as tenant to the said Duke of NEWCASTLE.
Dated this 14th of September, 1829.—(Signed)
64 Wsr. Eow TALLENTS, agent to the said Duke.
4, 4 To Joini TAYLOR, Kirk-gate, Newark.' "

COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE.
(THIS DAY.)

A meeting of the Shareholders of Covent-garden
Theatre was held this day in the Saloon of the Theatre,
pursuant to public advertisement. At two o'clock, Mr.
WALLOP in the Chair,

The CHAIRMAN said, that the present meeting had been
called by himself, without any sort of connection with the
Lessees of the Theatre, with whom he had no acquaint-
ance whatever, though he must consider himself bound
to say, that lie felt highly pleased with the conduct
of Mr. Kemble since the decision of the Chan-
cellor, and also with the conduct of his partners, in their
efforts to effect a.reconciliation. He had at the last Meet-
ing listened to the hints thrown out by Mr. Robins, as to
the kindness and forbearance exercised by the renters of
Drury-lane, when it was in difficulties similar to that
which Covent-garden had now to contend with, and he
was glad that the expectations raised by Mr.Rehins'ssp ech
were not likely to be disappointed. He regretted that the
efforts at reconciliation made between Mr. Harris and the
Lessees had failed ; but still Mr. Kemble was by no means
discouraged, and it was pleasant to observe the cordiality
that existed between the Proprietor and the Performers.
Indeed the offers made by Mr. Bartley, as representative of
the performers, deserved the estimation of the shareholders.
As to the creditors, they, with Mr. White at their head, had
acted with great kindness, and it remained for the meeting,
as shareholders, to pursue a similar course, which was indeed
the one best adapted to their own interests. If any share-
holder had a resolution to propose, he should be happy to
hear it.

Mr. ROBINS, after a short pause, said that he had
wailed in expectation that some other• Gentleman would
have offered himself to the Meeting, because he was not
actually a Shareholder, though he had thehonour of repre-
senting several. Mr. Robins then re-stated the facts which
he had stated at a former Meeting, t elati ve to the way in which
Drury-lane had been brought through its embarrassments.
He then proceeded to say that he did not ask them to
make sacrifices to such an extent as those that had then
been made. There was still pending an important
decision relative to the theatre, and whether that
decisioo would be in favour of Mr. Kemple
or Mr. Harris mattered not to his present deci-
sion, which was this, that they should hold the arrears
now due in abeyance for one, two, or three years. He
would not ask them to give them up as in the case of
Drury lane, but he would ask them to give up
for the next season their dividends in toto. He
would not ask them to give up their free admission ;
that they might still enjoy ; but he asked them to give up
the income, and they would be rewarded by the gratifica-
tion of knowing that they had contributed to the happi-
ness of upwards of 600 families. Mr. Robins then pro-
posed the following resolutions :
" At a meeting of the Shareholders of Covent-garden
Theatre, held in the Saloon of the Theatre on Saturday,
the 19th of September, it was resolved, that the share•
holders present do agree among themselves, and earnestly
recommend to every other shareholder, to adopt the
following resolution :—To relinquish all right to the
payment of any dividend for the ensuing season, as an
encouragement to the performers to open the Theatre,
with a view to improve prospectively the best interests of
the Shareholders.

Secondly, That all arrears of annuities now due to the
Shareholders of the Theatre-Royal, Covent-garden, shall
be allowed to remain as a debt on the Theatre, and that
the payment of them shall be postponed for three years
from the present time, and without having recourse to
legal proceedings.

"'Mi. ROBINSON should like to know the proportion of
Shareholders present, for they appeared to be few in num-
ber, and small in value. If those present agreed to the
resolution, and those absent refused, he should like to
know what would be the effect as regarded the interests of
those present.
Mr. ROBINS could not account for the thinness of the
meeting ; the same thing occurred at Drury-lane. Covent-
garden had 150 Shareholders, and of them 50 were now
represented. A circular should be sent round requiring the
others to come in, and should any Rot do so, they could do
Rothing, for the property of the theatre would be mode
over by a bill of sale, so that there would be nothing tangible.
Mr. ROBINSON expressed himself satisfied, he had now
no doubt the two theatres would open simultaneously.

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EX TRAORDINARY CHARGE OF FRAUD.

BIRMINGHAM, SEPT. 18.-The attention of the Ma-
gistrates at the public office here was yesterday occupied
during a great length of time by an investigation of a very
curious nature. John 'Webster, a respectable shopkeeper
residing in Worcester-street, in this town, was charged by
the parish officers with defrauding George Rooke and
Joseph Holder of the sum of two guineas, and also of
enticing Rooke to leave the town, by which his wife and
children became, or were likely to become, chargeable on
the parish. The hearing of the case occupied nearly three
hours, and as it would be tiresome to give a matter of
rather local interest at length, the following sketch of the
circumstances may suffice :
About the beginning of this month, the walls of this
town were covered with placards in the form of a " Pro-
clamation" (headed by the Royal Arms), stating that
10,000 emigrants were wanted in America by the
" Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company," to act as
labourers. The terms on which these persons were
to be employed were as follows:—Every one inclined
to contract with the " Company," was required to pay
a guinea to the agent (Webster, the prisoner), as a
guarantee of security to the Company, and as a make-
weight towards the expences of his passage. Such
as were able to pay 6/. for a passage across the Atlantic,
were conveyed there on stipulating to give their first three
months' labour (gratis) to the Company for such convey-
ance. A great number of persons who heard of this El
Dorado in the uncleared wilds of America, called at Web-
ster's office, where they saw him and a Mr. Bennett (the
I same gentleman who was unfortunately drowned last week, I
when going in the Liverpool and London mail, on his re-
turn
to Liverpool, where he resided). Among others
who thus paid a guinea each were Rooke and Holder. The
former (a smith) was assured of plenty of work, and at
the probable remuneration of 50a. per week : the latter (a
painter) was told that the " Company" intended building
houses, when his trade would be eminently useful to them,
and profitable to him. On Monday, the 7th inst., these
persons, with a cargo of similar " live stock," were for-
warded to Liverpool by what Webster called a " Canal
Fly-boat,"—without doubt, however,its powers of volitation
were not very great, for the consignment (addressed to Mr.
Bennett, at Liverpool) (lid not reach its destination until
the following Saturday ; for this voyage each man was
charged sq. This fortune of the ten thousand (which
bide fair to be as celebrated in Birmingham as the like
number under Xenophon was in Greece) immediately re-
paired to the residence of Bennett, and on insisting on
seeing 'him, learned that he had been drowned the (lay
before. They then went to a Mr. H. B. Richards, who
informed them that he did require 500 labourers to go to
America, but had no connection with or knowledge of
Webster or Bennett, or with or of any person who took
money from those whom they engaged to go. It must
not be forgotten that Bennett, on giving the agency to
Webster, represented himself as connected with this
very Mr. Richards. The poor men thus cast adrift by
the death of Bennett, were glad enough when Palmer,
a Police Officer, arrived from Birmingham with power to
apprehend such of them as had left their families charge-
able on the parish. The receipt of the money by Web-
ster, and the fact of the placards (issued by him) stating
him to be the agent, were fully proved. The defence was
that the matter was not one of fraud, but a simple breach
of contract, which would have been completed but for the
death of Bennett, who was the agent to the Chesapeake and
Ohio Company in Liverpool, and had appointed Webster
his agent in Birmingham. The prisoner was remanded
until Monday, to give the parish solicitor an opportunity
of procuring the evidence of Mr. Richards. Bail, to a
large amount, was offered for him, pending the re-exami-
nation, but declined, as his appearance, if bailed before
commitment, could not easily be compelled. The matter
thus rests for the present. What the denouement may he,
or what new features the case may assume, it is impossible
and would be unfair to predict. The interest excited in
Birmingham is most intense. The tide of feeling sets
strongly against the prisoner who, it is said, has received
money to the tune of some hundreds of pounds, as agent
to this Canal Company.

DRURY LANE.—This Theatre has issued
placards this day, announcing the reduction of the prices
of admission for the ensuing season to six shillings for the
Boxes, and three shillings for the Pit.

we understand, on the eve of pro-
ne celebrated Author of " The Spy,"
to be called " The Borderers," the
subject of which is said to relate to the history of a
family of English Settlers in the wilds of North America.
The Conzmerczo du Carrara from Leghorn
pro-
ducing &c.eils;
arrived in the St. Katharine Docks a few days ago, with
a cargo of marble, for the use of the King's Palace, St.
James's, amongst which were several blocks of 30 feet
long, some weighing upwards of 25 tons, which were
discharged with the greatest facility.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.-(THIS DAY.)

FROM LLOYD'S.

DEAL, SEPT. 18.—Wind S.W. by W.—Arrived
from London, the Eagle, Pratt, for Swan River.
Arrived the Hope, Matthews, from Trinidad; Blaelc
River packet, Baker, and Sir E. Hamilton, Urqu•
hart, from Jamaica ; and James Sibbald, --, from
India. Arrived from London, the Resolution, Gold-
worth, for St. Helena.

PORTSMOUTH, SEPT. 18.—Wind S. to W.—Ar-
rived the Amity transport, Becket, from Gibraltar,
in 18 days; spoke off Portland a Russian frigate
turning down the Channel, and saw two other
men of war, supposed to be Russian. Arrived from
London, the Eliza, Critchell, for Leghorn; Susan.
Downing, for Trieste; and May Flower, Forster,
for Bilboa. Passed the Tranly, Storey, of Hull, far
Swan River.

PLYMOUTH, SEPT. 17.—Wind S.S.W.—Arrived
the Susan, Nicholson, from Archangel; and his Ma-
jesty's ship Druid, from Portsmouth.
FALMOUTH, SEPT. 17.--Wind W.S.W.to
—Arrived the Codrington, Hill, from Antigua.
MARGATE, SEPT. 18.—Arrived the Llan Rummy,
Rich, and Forager, Sebustin, from Jamaica.
COiYES, SEPT. 18.—Arrived the Precioza,
from Bengal and St. Helena ; Phorion, —, from
New Orleans; turd George and Ellen, Allison, from
Riga.
BRISTOL, SEI'T. 18.—Arrived the Lady Canning,
from Jamaica; and Snipe, Howell, from Honduras.
HOLYHEAD, SEPT. 17.—Arrived the Memnon,
—, from Savanilla.

LIVERPOOL, SEPT. 17.—Arrived the Grace, from
Demerara; and Ontario, —, from Virginia.
LONDONDERRY, SEPT. 16.—Arrived the Leslie,
Galt, from Quebec; Restaurada, —..._—, from St.
Übes; and Lion, M'Donald, from St. Petersburgh.
DOVER, SEPT. 18.—Arrived the Sarah Ward,
Moor, from St. Vincents.
GUERNSEY, SEPT. 16.—Arrived the Mercury,
Pearce, from Rio Janeiro.

The Idvirs, from Riga to London, was carried
into Harwich yesterday with loss of anchor and
cables, at.d must discharge, having been on the
Buller Sand.

The Pleiades, from Trinidad and Port-au-Prince,
is supposed to be arrived off Dover.
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The Jean Stewart, Newlands,from La Guayra, is
supposed to be arrived off the Wight; and the St.
Croix, Bradley, from Trinidad, in the Channel.

NORTH & SOUTH AMERICAN COFFEE-HOUSE,

NEW YORK, AUG. 26.—Arrived the 25th, the
packet ship George Canning, Allyn, from Liver'
pool; ship Sr. George, Paulman, from Liverpool;
ship Plate, Valem, from Hamburg; ship Bayard'
Bulman, from Havre; British ship Cosmo, Gillespie,
from Bristol; ship Fabius, Barslow, from Cadiz--
19th August, lat. 40.50. long. 66., spoke the brig
Edward, fifty days from London, for Hampton
Roads; ship Eugene, Brazier, from Leghorn; Bri-
tish brig Freak, Bouch, from Hull ; and brig En-
terprise, Lewis, from Oporto.
BALTIMORE, AUG. 22.—Arrived the ship Herald,
Graham, from Liverpool.
BOSTON, AUG. 22.—Arrived the brig Elizabeth,
Code, from Rotterdam ; brig Evergreen, Miller,
from Cadiz; and brig Baltic, Mayo, from St. Übe's•
QUEBEC, AUG. 19.—Arrived the 13th the ship
Esther, Williams, from London.
14711.—The Branches, Morrison►, from London;
the ship Hankey, Wilson, from Greenock; the
barque Hayden, Smith, from Plymouth; and his
Majesty's ship Hussar, Ogle, from Halifax.
I.5TH.—His Majesty's ship Columbine, Towns'
fiend, from Halifax; the brig Emma, Rolla,, front
Liverpool; the brig Eleanor, Dankin, from Shields;
the barque Adelaide, Thompson, from Sunderland;
the brig Hotspur, White, from London.
181'1-I.—The brig True Blue, Robinson, from
Liverpool; the brig Promise, Grant, from London;
the brig Carmen, Bradgill, from Maryport; the
brig Lively, Graves, from Exeter.
19T1L—The barque, Diana, Braithwaite, froni
Liverpool ; the brig Martha, Robson, from ditto.
MAURITIUS, MAY 30.—Arrived on the Bth, the
barque Prince George, Harrison, from London.
12TH. —The ship Royal George, Embleton, from
Hobart Town.

28nt.--The barque Elizabeth, Currie, from
Liverpool.
CANTON, NIAY 2.—Arrived the sth of April
the British ship Resolution, from Chili.
BTH.—The Cornwallis, from Bombay.
I ITH.—The Royal Charlotte, from Macao.