The Sun. — 1802-01-19 (London, England)

SAND BY. The dinner was excellent, and the musical Part of the entertainment was highly gratifying. We never heard Non Nobis Dornine go off with more accuracy, and dignified effeet. S. LE produced a glee for four voices, composed for the occasion by himself, and which was creditable to his musical skill as well as to his loyalty. The usual loyal toasts were given, and one in honour of the Peace, by the President, was received with reiterated applause. Such Meetings as these, in which social enjoyments result from the success of Genius and the Arts, deserve to be recorded as proofs of the improving taste and liberal patronage of the age.  ' On Monday the i ith inst. a most elegant masqued Ball and Supper were given by join 4 CLFvi.AND, Esq. at his much admixed Seat called Tapley, near  Bideford.  The Company wqs numerous and respectable, consisting 'tit' the principal Nobility and' Gentry of both S;.;;-.es in the North of bevon, who began to assemble about eight o'clock in the evening ; a number of excellent Masks were present in rich and appropriate dresses, and many of the charaders were supported with niirrtirahre 1-nurnur arsA 'inaq14iiiiV—arpong*,6thcrs-of a "superior kind, we noticed a .:Fiyuch Alaquis of the ci,devant Noblesse, a Dr. Perkins with his Tradors, two No-bodies changing into All-bodies,. a Cook and Hoyse-maid, Punch, Apollo, Pan,Tovn-crier, !larlequin, Quack DoHor, with a motley crew of Lapland Pritehes, yews, Sailors, ,Gypseys, Pedlars, Waggoners', Fortune-tellers, Flower Girls, Shepherdesses, Old tuomen, &c. The rooms were superbly ornamented, and brilliantly illuminated with variegated lamps, of different colours, wax lights and transparencies, disposed in the most tasteful manner. Before supper the company were entertained with a whimsical kind of a lottery, in which every female had the pleasure of drawing a prize. The-supper abounded with all the good things and delicacies the season could afford ; the wines were excellent, and after supper some beautiful duets. and trios weie sung in a style of the sweetest harmony. , -About two o'clock the ball-room was thrown Open, where the dancers continued to trip it on the light fantastic toe, until day-light appeared, when they ielataritly departed from a scene of mirth and elegant festivity seldoin witnessed in this part of the world, and hardly to be exceeded any where. The Hon. Mr. SPENCER deserves much credit for his Epilogue to Alfonso, as he has introduced many new ideas with spirit and humour, in one of the most hackneyed species of Poetical Composition. MUNDEN the Aftor, it seems, has already begun to think about his Benefit ; and means to revive the Play or The Widocu'd Wife, with the Farce of Dead. Alive. The Athenian who advertises for a Wife; .who speaks six tongues, :May, probably, by the time the honeymoOn is Over, 'find one tongue too much for him: The French Prrisfies appear to be quite as absurd and extravagant in their dress, as those beings which disgrace this town. The fashion now in Parisis, to strut about in great-coats with six and thirty soot-coloured capes. A curious circumstance occurred in the Pumproom at, Bath; on Saturday morning :—The Spirit moving a Female Quaker as she traversed the Pumproom, she got upon a bench and spoke for•about a quarter of an hour, more to the entertainment than the edification of a numerous audience. A young woman was lately conviaed at Caen of murdering her husband by strangling him 'in his lied. She was 18, and her husband 68. He had formed this unfortunatennion with her when she was only t z years old. This miserable woman despairing of being able to acquit herself of the accusation against her, accused a young man of, the commune of St. Martin de is Besau, as the author, of the. murder. This declaration sufficed for his conkmnation;.sentence of 'death being pronounced against him upon the declaration of a Jury, which was confirmed by the Tribunal of Cassation, being found regular in its forms. At the moment however of his being led out to execution, this woman, stung by remorse, proclaimed his innocence, in csnsequence of which the Commissary of Government ordered the execution to be suspended, and the matter is referred, io the Minister.