The Sun.
London, England, 1816-12-28 00:00:00

THEATRES.

DRURY•LASM—Last night, -after Douglas, the
New Patumnime was repeated with the improve•
ments generally consequent upow The continued
ose of the machinery of such entertainments.
COVIINT-GARDEN.—Mr. H. .loussTog played
Sir Perham; Macsycophant, but without a fair op-
portuoity of developing his abilities for the elm-
,racter. Holiday times are unfavourable to ardtmos
,ilratuatic attempts, in which order the performance
of this part, after Comte, most be ranked. During
'the three first acts, In which he • ivas partially
•Leard, his conception and execution of tl.e selfish
Seotclun to appeared to be entitled to great com-
mendation. After this " Hoge Uproar lorded ii
'wide." till the Pantomime arrived, and thus de-
sitroyed the Ino3t effective scenes of the Comedy.
There was, even iii the favourite amusement of
the Gods, a grand row respecting MoniieurJacqui
the monkey. The conto,i,,, was so uninteiligi.
411 e, and the ()pinions of the audience ass numerous
and loudly expressed, that it was impossible to
vay veintt gave offence, what pleased, or whit was
Wanted. .

Tlie gnawer, givto yesterday to enquiries, tele-
; .tive•to tt Dor:heal nt LA.)HBRALAND, wall that her
Pipiteig bail Bill a good night, anti +via
better.

General TUHREAU, who *as for some years
Prench Ambassador to the United Slotted, died
litely at his estate of Conches, in Normandy.
our reader, will hear with pleasure that we.
cantos received yesterday from Spahr gave reason
to lidieve. that, induced by the representallons
of Ilse Bride' -0 >verontent, the King of Stmt./
nes at length thinned to fix a period for the to-
tal Abolition of the Slave Trade.
()n the right of the 2htt. ult. the barracks at
‘ydney, Cape 'lreton, Caught are, and were en-
tfoly consumed. The rapidity of the names was
so g,-cat, that the Officers had scarcely time to
save t, single or idle of she furnitine.

' The L-trocli Gold,:rionent, it is said, haste re-
quested eig,St years to liquidat e the sums sr ipula te..!
trig tiro rlltit's, instead of tire five years originally
it greet{ an. Gtr...:l4t, Britain luta Itussia, it is Star"'
readily ;Acceded to., the proposals Prussia dirt so
reluctantly s but A otria withheld her consent, on
the,plea of necessity alone. 'She is said to have.
represented to the Confederate Powers; that her
arrangetments for paying off the paper-money in
circulation were made to 'depend on receiving the
Vrench contributions•at the periods provided tot
by the Treaties. 'ifiliether the Court at Vienna
irostely acceded to die new arrangements Dr not,
tvr have. nor been informed.
The! Rev. J. S. Ci•Asite, Ch pain to the Prince
itegNot's Household, has been presented to the
valuable living of Petworth; by the Earl of EGlte-
ttoNT,

Thursday, in consequence of bills 'Unearned
nhout the streets of Bristol and the noighbottr-
flood,. for a Meeting to be held 011 that day oh
Brandon Hill, and notwithstanding. the incessant
heavy rain, it was computed about 2000 asseni•
.
bleii on the Hill. Mr. W. PlNltti was called to
'the Chair, and Mr. HENRY El VNT ndfirosol the
'Meeting in his usual strain, and on the same to-
pies, as have rendered him so popular a character
itroong the friends a a radical Reform. The Re,.
solutioni were sixteen in ntirlibt'r ; at)ti a Petition
to the of Cotninons
agreed if,: to h in-e*enttni hy Lord Codirone. p; It
is to lir tar iignattir6s in Buktol, as the Petition
or she Frceholders, • Freemen. Householders; and
other inhabitants of that City and neighbour-
hood.

The whole business, According to our best in-
formation, went oft' without any symptoms of
riot---indeed the precautions that kid been taken
to subdue any such indications
,were so ample
as at once to awe the ill-disposed, gild give com-
plete Confidence to the peaceable inhabitants. For
several days previous crowds of respectable house-
holders (looked to the Magistrates to be sworn in

as extra constables on the/occasion, and the mili-
tary of every description within many miles 'of the
City were collected in readiness to act if occasion
'required. Our cavalry and rifle -corps are, just
returned.

The resolutions which follow Are briefly to the
fallowing
,purport :----That the same " tools Or
corruption "which ,caused our ruinous war with
France, now lieldout the menaces to prevent/the
present meeting i and that such attcumis were
as illegal us they were futile. To relieve the ur-
gent distiesses of times by giving pentry,worths of
" sinecure soups," Was to offer the poor a, gross
insult. No real remedy could he produced but by
a Reform in the House of Commons,--q a PAr-
litiment annually Chosen by ballot, and that by all
men who have attained the age of 21. Thanks
were then voted to Major Cartwright, Cob-,
bet,'lTelq; H. Hunt, Esq. to ,the Editors of the'
'Statesman, and all other Papers that have advo-
cated the cause of Reform, and to their present
Chairmiu.- (Built Herald.)

GRAND ENTERTAJNMENTTo PRESTON

The friends' of Preston, being aware that he
would be released from confinement on Thursday,
bent a Deputation to wait upon him, and lead hint
Where his conduct would receive one Most
distinguished rewarils. 'The invitationwas ac-
cepted. Preston, after his liberation, paid his'
first visit to Greystoke-place, where he, remained
for sonic time, it' is said, in deep contemplation.
•He then prepared, after a period dedicated to pri-
vate congratulations and endearments, to appeal
ambngst his Spa- fields adherents it a house in the
neighbourhood of Spitalfields, tvisete a supper was
laid out at nine o'clock. His Solicitor not think-
ing it advisable • to let him go even amongst his
admirers without a rotector, and boding that the
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avitatifin had irresistible .charMs for him, ticll;
ivith an anthority over him to Which Preston bat
previously promised implicit obedience,: a person
soy well calculated to exercise it. Into the hOuse
in which the entettaininent was given it wonld
have been madness in any one connected with the
press to,enter. We thirefore give the folloa ink
account from the cnnsersations which our Police
Reporter heard upon the subject amongst some
politicians ot.Spitalfieltls
The man who was responsible to Preston's an,
licitor for the inoffensiveness of his conduct, was,
it is whispered, formerly employed in, a private
madhouse, this powettol protector he was
led into a set of rooms laid out for 3 or 400. When
they entered, the shoemaker was hailed with ap.,
plause which it would be vain to describe. He
bowed, and smiled upon the whole room, ofiserVi.'
ing.'" Here we are all friends." The supper wits
now and then interrupted by shoots of approha,
Lion at the comments of the eminent goesit
and the impatience to bear a bill and true account
of his mortilicationi in confinement began to Ilia•
Wiest itself in a very painful degree. At last the
111011,CIIL arrived when the company were to be
gratified,

The Leader of the Deputation from the` Spital-
fields Manufacturers who waited Preston in
Gilispur-street Compter, rose and gave the health
of Mr. Preston, the prop of the pour. The only
way to put an end to the acclamations which burst
forth upon the mention of the name was to raise
Preston above the multitude, -and pot bins in an
;oratorical artitmle. This was done, and every
word that fell trout his lips was loml and emphatic.
He spoke of persectition, butt said he hid given
native ft:4oWe an additional strength by ‘10),
witting to it without a murmur. lie vehemently
recommended pacific peoCec dings, do ailed Whitt
ilovarred at the several examinations with consi-
iidirable faithfulness-, described the tratuoil state
:In which be Ittul reclined On his prison bed, and
praiscit the unanimity which seemed to prevAil
amongst the friends of the people. He then he,
grin to allink to the tiois and their colisequences,
but was stopped short by a glance from his pro-
tector, which gave hint to understand that he was
going beyond the limits prescribed in him. Pres•
ton sat down ; and having intimated to the com-
pany that he intended to smoke a pipe, was sup-
plied immediately with tobacco, and beer, and
gin, of the latter of which, being his fai•ounite, be
took as much as made him think well of all tnan-
kind. He retired at a late hour, tint leaviogniany
friends behind

AFFRAY ANT) DUBL.--In consequence of some,
offensive expressions having beet' made ose nt Jiy
Captain ihccuts, respecting the conduct of Pouf-
Deutcx. 4\I4I‘LAIID, Litt., the latter gentleman
meting Captain liccots on Saturday. repeettettly
struck him with s Boric-nbip; a challenge eft-.
tutu!, the 'notice met on the following morn-
ing at Newron.-St. [lee, whets, sfsir exchanging
three shots colt, the seconds intcrfered, suit pre-
-twitted the gentlemen trim, prticemling— Mr.
MA11441413 {VMS at tended by Qmpt. HOLTON?, IL H.,
01,4 oipt. Ecccgs was accompanied by (..:ttptoitt,
ANDittA'as,—(.sltelliarne Pup ,) •

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p'olstpi...;cAt'riio.'c:•T'a Dltt:t6ol37§., &c.
.jrj6 •
Jorist was hehl yesterday rflOrAi0411(ioll
the litoly of Joseph Red With; aged one, year, the
son of Mr. Itedwith; baker, of Mitcham,-street,
Pad,Ongton, srtr4 died from the accid't:ntal
rtditti-
niitrstiai.n oto.solje km of arsenic, which wits sold
by unitake for Godfrey's cordial%
alr. North, sot ;curb, No. 26, Morystetoc-street,
EdgeWart;rottd, who opentql t:te body, in the-
conrie of Isis ev Aviles", dept cot vd the. sr rongeit
sevens the improper ispie of Godfrey's -Cordial,
balhy;a:Carminative-, Syron of PI iplisiVS nr oilier
sleeping potions. stated Ihat toe mischievous
goastitretiVi ittisi,Ol4 Ir'ise's; the ,those of ,such Medi.
eioV4 eras incredible and that medical Melt were
daily and handy eat the% ft,iltit3 of !vying the
most depho%lhle croi•etitwketi ensue from inn.
titers administering sedatives very er.:quently,
nrit for the purpose of alleviating any Com-
plaint miller which the child Might labour,
but to gratify their own idleness;
,by keeping
their unfortunate Infanta id a statc of pernicioni
drowsiness, the consequences of which are infi-
nitely more prejudicial to their young and tender
frames dim) many of the diseaies incidental to,
childhood. He (Mr. North) said, lino non Saturday
awning last, between 10 and 11 o'clock, lie was
called to attend the deceased, at the request of
Mr. Pralle, chemist ant) druggist, King-street,
Paddington. He attended the child immedintely,
and found ',II the symptoms upon, it of having taken
poison. He administered antidotes, bet they had
not the,desired effect, the dose being so strong.
The child was in great agony till two o'clock the
'same afternoon ; it died in convulsions. Ile had
since opened the body, and found the bowels gnu.
greened, Ile was dearly of Opinion that the
death of the deceased was .oceasioued by its hav-
ing hint a quaotity of solution of arsenic adminis.
revert in mistake for Godfrey's cordial.
Brian ltedwith, being sworn said, that she was
the daughter of Mr. Redwitli, baker, Mitcham-
street, Paddington. She was aent.by her mother
on Saturday morning,, about ten o'clock, to the
shop of Mr. Pralle, chemist and druggist, King-
street, Paddington, with a small phial, for tern-
pennyworth of Godfrey's cordial : sfe was served
by the shopman, he poured it out of a large bottle
which was. standing in a row with many others :
he tasted it three times before he helped her to
she drank some of it as shewas bringing it
home : She thought it was very. nice : ahe was
very unwell after having taken it, very nick,
and vomited very much : site was 'very well
before site took it : she was very unwell three
days, in consequence of having taken the liquid
she took it to her mother, and gave the deceased,
Itea brother, a spoonful and a half of It. He had
not taken it more than a quarter of on hour when
he'was in great pain, and all the colour left , his
cheeks ; her mother tasted the contents of the
bottle, and sent her back' lc) the chemist's with the
remainder, to ask hint it it was, the proper medi-
cine. She went to the shop, anti saw the person
who helped her to'it. When she asked hint if ii
was the right stuff, he did. not ethos, ,hut spoke to
Mr. Palle, anti poured it nut of the phi al, and
filled It 'with some fresh liquid, which the took ,to
her-mother. 'f he deceased gray worse, and died
about two o'clock the same day.
Ann Redwith, the mother of the deceased,
being sworn, said. that not Saturday morning,
in consequence of the tiece,tsed being troubled
with a cough, and with cutting his teeth, She sent
the last Witnets, her daugliter, to Mr. Prune's shop
for two pennyworth of Godfrey's cordial to .still
his cough and to make him sleep. She had not
given it to the deceased more than Is quarter of Hu
hour when lie was take') violently ill and very
sick, She had given him the breast jost after she
gave himr the liquid, and site thought she had done
wrong to give him the breast so soon alter his
medicine., I-4 grew worse, and she thought it,
was posailde- the cheini,t might hove sent the
wrong 'stud: she sent her daughter hack . with
the remainder to inquire, having previously tasted
it' herself, arid could not distingaish any dif-
ference in the taste from that which she had
purchased at one shilling per bottle. lien daughter
.ctone back with some fresh stuff in the phial, but
brought no answer from the chlns4ist, whether the
stuff Was tight or wrounrr: S'e, of coarse, telt so-
tistiett that the deceased tv.is not ill iu conseqtrence
of having, taken improve..medicine. The child
grew worse every five minutes, and She was urn
the point of sending her daughter again, w
n
Me. North, sturgeon, Molytieux-street, COme
He said that he had been sent by Mr, Henry
the chemist, to administer ow antidote,to
tha dereaSed, Mr. Pralle's assistant having acci-
dentally sent a wrong medicine. Al-.., North sent
some medicine in a very short,:time,
he ad.
Ministered them as she was directed./ .He fell
into sti'wsg convulsions, and Was in that sitita•
tion when Mr. North called again ; he said he
would seod 10-se Wore Medicine directly, but
the chilli died in a short time after he left, the
house, before the medicine came, in convulitioni.
She believed that his death Ifus occasloned by
taking the solution.
'Oeorge'Keridge, chemist aad druggist, being
swim, said,-that he hod be n clklen'ye,R-rs in his
prnressino.\ ,He had been about o week an 'assts.
tent to Mr, Prone, of King-street, Poddington ;
lie had many times lately occasionally assisted him
in serving its the shop, Mr. Prone !toying succeeded
hint in that shop. ,On Saturday morning Miss Heil-
With come into the chop and asked for twopenny.
weird, of Godfrey's cordial. lie reached the
brittle which he served her out of, front the apot
iii which the tiodfrey's cordial originally stood
when he max master of the shop, and which hail
always itood
.41 that place when he had 1410401td
Mi; Pralle berttre. He tatted the sod three tittles
hOury tie save it to her, and lie Was perfectly
satisfied that it was the proper medicine. At nor'
a quarter of an hour after Aliss edwith ebiu
itgaitr, and ask' him if by hail given her the proper
Mr.' Pralle was in the shop at that limy,
Hitch him which inntle he Itch pouted it
fram: itft, Pralle told him it WAS sohttioo of
rtitniv which he hid given to her, lle (mind
*tusell unwell, having taken some of the. solo moo
tnaelf at the time he helprd ke4With to i-.
e therefore took an antidote, ;which, reCoveleil
lie went to Mr. North, the %metro', and
roluested him to attend Ike deceased immediately,

µjut nCriti
ainleat: Hint of the utifortietate.metidenr,
The bottle which he helped Ali” out of
• was' half full; and the fitb'el,wAs worn WI it. lie
that if he bad 'pot taken medicine fo coon.
re'etict tile effect's or abe ars.cille, it Might have
been final to hini Ite wail Of ',Thane that the
deceased's death was c;.iii`sed- by a solutroit of arr.
Seat being adirritiiiicieti iy ilnistitke for t4oilirs
cordial._ • •
The CoeOne'r in arldiciiiiig the Ittrit; said, that
• •
the present Case wag a ;mist unfortunate one the
lives cif three liersoos had been in great jeopardy;
one had died by the accidental adininistration of
poisou, He had been parsienlar in examining thit
last witness, whose eVidence he coniikred the
must lintiOrtairt. Bower to puniili
persbus who4amitlistt re4inettleihei 4,lthotit
qintlified ; but it appcaatil thattNeAteridge Was
qualified,, 11,ey, intik nffhilig 410 with at civil.
antion 'Which Might be brought against the chem-
ist by the parents trt the- `deceased; it was ft*
them. tojadge Atithe criminal part of t he business.
There was ito,litinKj)nt was, causei,by accident,
and he thoaglit only
,Manse was attached
Mr. Prilleforiiiit InfOrthing t he 'kit' witness, That
he had plueed,tlielhisttle of arsenic solution in the
place where fornkerlyitood the Godfrey's cordial.
lie -thought that something ought it's be done to
prevent a 'recurrence of such an unfortunate 'Cir.
cninstance. A'short.tinie ago a person was poi-
soned at the east end of the town,,noW at the
west end. Jie wished that apothecaries, &C.
nould keep their poison; in one particular part of
the shop, or in 'particular coloured bottles, and the
word " Poison" to be written upon them. He
hoped that this event would cause the pridession
to use sabli pritatitfon ai would pi event any such
Onfortunitteeircumstances again occurring.
Verdict—" Died in ctiosentience of having a
solution Of assenie administeredto hiM in mistake
rot Godltrit's Cordial."
LAW INTELLIUMD.

COURT Of kiNGS BENCH, Mc. 47.
ifiltitas At OUILDUALI, LONDON.•
SPECIAL. JURY.
THR ktito C. bousic,
This was an .itidietiOnt against the defendant
tor peditry, in having falsely sworn at a trial be..
furs Lord Ellenbot °ugh, Upon a bill of exchange
. for 10001.,that the bill in question wait drawn in
London, Whereas in truth and in fact, it was
drawn at Constantinople.
The case against the defendant appeared to he
this the year 1814, Jnhi Barnard Jacobs
drew a bill of exchange for 10001. dated et Con.
stantinnple, upon Barnard Jacobs, his father,
•payable to the ostler of Philip Phillips, 'by whinn,
upon being accepted by Barnard Jacobi, it was
indorsed to 'Messrs. Thonipsog and Foreman
Upon the bill hecoming due, it was presented and
dishonoured; and.in an action brought by the in.
dorsves against the acceptor, the defendant, who
had been clerk to, the latter,' swore, that the bill,
though it purported to be drawn at Constantino-
wus,. in tact, drawn in London. Upon (I+l%
evidence the present indicrsniint was founded, and
I:everal witne,ses were called, who proved that iii
ISt3; John Itatnard Jacobs went to re-
side at C4IISI ant iI)4IC. kvbCre,he Lunn turd until
the latter end.of site year 1815.
TOPPING for the defendant, took an ob.
jection to the indictment in point'of The
aetinn in question was brongiit in the tonnes of
Thompson. fool Portman, but Tisonspson..L died
eight days before the trial, and by the *home or
William 111. it is provided that in cases where
two persons fire parties twat, action, and one dies
before trial, a suggestion. shall be entered tin the
record of Nisi Prii4 of the tact, otherwise the de.
fentlant may plead in abatement of tire action..
In this case no snggestion bad been entered, and
thr indictment —having charged, that the defen-
dant had given false evidence at the 11.1444 an
action in doe mine of law, the Learned Counsel
contended that this arlion conlo not have been
tried in due course of law, end consegstently that
the averment in the indictment was not made oat,
Lord EGLEMBOROUOII thought the objection
unanswerable, and therefore directed-aft. acquit-
tal.--Verdict, Not dai‘ty.

Tllit KING V. HOSIRT,HopeR.
This tlefenclant was also indicted for perjury,
allegtil to have been committed by him in an an-
swer in the CUM, of Exchequer to lidl tor n dis-
covery and injunction hied against him, he be-
ing the. assured upon, a ship called the Viv,ilante,'
touching certain facts which had came to the
knowledge,, of, the lilmlerwriters, respecting thi6
loss Of the said ship, (Pon which the defendant
had recovered. Tice assignment of perjury Was,
flint the defendant had sworn, in .his.auswer, that
.it the time lte effected thee insurances hi iinestion,
he did not know, nor hail he any reason to be-
-Ileve that the vessel was not in safety, Mitten*, itt
nab and ill NO, he hell knew her to have frieti
'st, in conseprence of information received by'

him to that effect St the time t)f die insurance.
There i'as a clear ease 01 fraud and pen nry
made out against the derwitlatit, and the Jury,
under Lord ELIANBOROUGII'S directions, tumid
hint Guilty. -

Accounts have been re cei ved of another moire
atrocious Attempt on the part Of the Luddites ,t..
commit murder, On Sunday night is it, As it wea
ver of the Millie of Curry wits sitting with his wife
and it relation, two men knocked at the door anti
desired aiintittance. \Vhen they entered, they
immediately made up to Cut ry, and one of them
discharged a ;pistol iit him. The ball diti not
touch hint. Curry immediately made an effort to
chyle with the villain, when the other mati ittklllit -
(Hotly fired, anti win:tided him under the eye, but
it is hoped not mortally. The men then retired,
411(1 tolitig thvir eseApe. Their liters wefe eon)•
pletely disguised. Girryitoes not know in what
way he could have made hithseltobtioxions to the
Luddites. Ile leis not been working with eta
chines, which OM toe objects of their
:tor has lie heen working,nutler. price. Tb e ma-
gistrates tolik idi possible. steps, as soott int the
event teas in iiiscovel* the vislkiSSillS. 41.
Cumatithlti wus in Curry** tootNe for his
protection, hotit is not tiptorikati the villains will
make a secorni attempt.
The renowned Mr. C4,A113 murdered Romeo
Bath, nu 11,itillay, that the Poor of that Ci y
might lire. The net profit to the Beutvuitut
amounted to abovsB2l.