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The Sun. — 1840-01-21 (London, England)

LANE THEATRE.  Last night the glorious tragedy of Macbeth was produced at this theatre in far better style than has characterised any of the former displa3s of the presznt Management ; and we believe we are intlebted for the improvement to thu superintendence of Mr. Macready, who made his appearance as Macbeth (the first time these three years at Drury .lake), and was supported by Phelps as %e-clat, and Mrs. Warner as Lady Matbeth. The house was crowded to the slims, to 'much so as to become oppressive from heat. The first reception of Mr. Phe Phelps way s 71 r°esadt wencouraging,arm, g us,enearioidthat of Mrs Warnerand enthusiastic. After the fine overture by Spohr, the tragedy commenced, and, as it proceeded, developed some very good scenery, the utmost 'richness and elegance of costume, and a perfection its the musical illustration such as we have seldom before found in conjunction with the impressive grandeur of the more absorbing passages of the tragedy. The wild, superstitious, and imaginary were never more powerfully and beautifully blended with the tragic and the grand. The first chorus of the singing witches, which included. among many others, the voce of Leffler, Morley, Peuset, and Frazer, Mrs. A. Croft, Miss Betts, &c. was admirably got up, and elicited an almost unanimous encore. The scene with the spirits was also well managed both as to dramatic effect, scenery, and song, H. Phillips taking the part of Hei.ate. We can, indeed, cor dially praise all the musical illustration of Shakspear's romantic imaginings in this wonderful play. Macready sustained the character of Macbeth to the evident gratification of the majority of the audience, who called for him loudly at its conclusion, and cheered him to the echo. For ourselves we do not think him great in the part; but criticism is unnecessary, as his performance is familiar to the public. Towards the climax of his fate he displayed the utmost energy, and was in some of his readings finely effective. The passages in the earlier part of the tragedy which he gave best was— " One cried God bless us,' and Amen' the other," and Macbeth found himself alike mentally paralysed by the prayer and the response. Much of the fine moralising of the tragedy was tamely given; but the death-scene of the murder-haunted soldier—with its contrast of innate bravery with the fear of superstition was acted with animated vigour, and trod upon the heels of genius. Mrs. Warner as Lady Macbeth, deserves high praise far much of her performance. A portion of the scene in which she confirms her husband into crime was magnificently given. Her voice is against her, but in passages of scorn she is finely expressive, and often bursts grandly into passion. Phelps, as Macduff, rather over-ranted the scenes in which he rouses the guards of the murdered Duncan. He was, however, very good in demeanour and delivery at the following point  31Acn. He has no children.--.All.m3:pretty ones !  Did you say all ?—Oh, hell-kite !—All'? What, all my pretty chickens, and their dam, At one fell swoop?
The Sun. — 1840-12-16 (London, England)

TWELVE INDIANS CAPTURED.—The following is the Istea intelligence we have received from the theatre of war in Florida. The capture of twelve real live Indians is a great triumph in these times, even though they consist of women and children whom the Government a ill have to feed and cloti?e, until they run into the woods again. ST. AUGUSTINE, Nov. B.—lnformation has la,-,en received in this city from Fort Reid, on the St. John's, that Colonel W. S. Harney, 2d Dragoons, had captured twelve Indians, consisting of women and children, last week, in that neighbourhood. He took from them fifty blankets, some perfectly new, and a number of pieces of calico, homespun, This plunder is no doubt some that was taken when Indian Key was destroyed by the wretches. Wild Cat and his party are still in the neighbourhood, and committing depredations daily. CAPTIVES RESCUED, —Mr. Richard Blanton, in a letter dated Conway, Lafayette county, Arkansas, says he had just returned from among the Chickasaw Indians, having ransomed his sister, Mrs. Tidwell, and her two children, who were taken captives by a party of eighteen Kichie Indians, on the 2d of July last, from the Shroud Smtlement, on the Brasses River in Texas. Her husband, Mr. Milton Tidwell, was murdered and scalped in her presence, and alter robbing the house of all its contents, they took her and her three small children, one an infant five weeks old, and compelled them to travel day and night, until they were out of the reach of the Texans ; after seven days of hard travelling, they arrived at the Kichie town, somewhere, she thinks, on the Trinity river. She was then separated from her elder children and not allowed to be with them  any more. While in this awful state of distress, her infant sickened and perished in her arms. She was then taken out to be put to death, when a Delaware trader saw her and hen& and brought her to the Chickasaw Nation, where she found an opportunity of writing to him, and he was with her in a few days after, and, by furnishing the same Delaware trader with goods suitable for that trade he was enabled to get her two surviving children out safe, but at a heavy oxpense. While she was among the Kichics she saw a white boy, about Sor 10 years old. He could nut speak a word of English, and she could not find out where they had taken him from. He is a good looking boy with blue eyes and light hair, There is also a buy by the name of Thomas Pierce, about seven or eight years old, in the nei hbourhood of the Chickasaw Nation. He was bought from the Caldoes by a Chickasaw, by the name of Is-ti-uCattuby, who will give him up to his relations by refunding what he cost him. He is evidentiy a so❑ of the unfortunat•e Picroe, who, with the balance of his family, was murdered or, the Trammel trace, two or three years ago, as lie gives a pretty corree: account where his parents were murdered and where they were from. Ha is a smart boy, and if he has any relatives they would do well to get him away immediately. There are also a great many runaway slaves on the frontier of the Chickasaw Nation.
The Sun. — 1840-01-02 (London, England)

ATTEMPT TO BREAK OUT OF DURHAM GAOL.--A desperate attempt was made to break out of* our gaol yesterday evening, contrived and headed by the notorious " Duke" Elliott, who, with his comrade Parker, alias " The Potter," is now under sentence of transportation for escaping from prison a few months ago. They were confined in a room together, and had contrived to get rid of their iroas by means of a file, which, it is believed, .they had got pOssession of on Christmas day, when some friends were permitted to see them. Elliott sent a message by Williamson, a turnkey, to Todd, the other turnkey on duty, that he wanted to see him. On Todd entering the room Elliott complained that some dirt had been put into a vessel which contained some of his food. On Todd stooping to inspect the vessel,Elliott struck him from behind several blows on his face and head, with part of his. irons, which knocked him down, 'oaf door,lso ks jogyrchil:ert m. insensible._Fo encountered r t Fortunately al WI ti ott kta then rushed rendered nr uswhheodmtohhinieth, the Governei '‘Ves'' in. the. iwnring the 'outcries of Todd;' be ca/led' to 'a .prisoiici- Of the' naine of Monro, a powerful .man, who is : employed' as a sweeper of the prison, and on whom he could rely,.who, .with another prisoner of the name of Sharp, ran to the large passage just as. Elliott ;had opened the door of the hall where the .untried, prisoners (to the number of thirteen), are kept. Monro and Sharp succeeded in throwing Elliott down, while Wilkinson closed the door, at the moment three of the men were coming aut, followed by all the others. The Governor had in the meantime secured the check gate, and then sent for a reinforcement of officers from other parts of the priion, who again placed Elliott and Parker in irons. From circumstances that hive since transpired there can be no doubt that the plan of escape had been previously concerted with the untried prisoners ; and, had the latter succeeded in getting into the passage, the officers and their assistants would have been overnovvered, if not murdered. Indeed, their escape would have been al. most inevitable had not the Governor, unknown to Elliott and Parker, been in an adjoining apartment. Although Parker did not quit his room, or join in the assault on Todd, he had clearly been a party to the scheme, as his irons had been filed away ; and Elliott, after knocking Wilkinson down, called upon him to " come on, now's the time—both the -- are down." It is supposed, however, that he was deterred from taking part in the scuffle in the passage by hearing the Governor's voice, and finding Monro had come to the assistance of the officers. We regret to state that Todd has been very severely wounded. We understand that some efforts aro making to obtain a remission of Elliott's and Parker's sentence, but this additional proof of their dangerous character must prevent the extension of the Royal clemency to such daring and desperate offenders. —Durham Chronicle.
The Sun. — 1833-07-22 (London, England)

BRISTOL.—A young man, well known in this city and its vicinity, engaged for a sum of money, last week, to ride from hence to Bath and back again, a distance of 24 miles, in an hour and a half ! On his return to Brislington, two miles from this city, having accomplished 22 miles in an hour and a quarter, the generous beast fell beneath the weight of his brutal rider ; and after being taken to the White Hart Inn, in that village, (lied in the space of an hour or two, in the greatest agony. The poor animal, when taken to the stable, was in such distress and pain that it continued rising up and down, like a human being under intolerable suffering, " till nature sunk exhausted and terminated his life'." Surely it is high time for man to throw the shield of protection over dumb creatures, especially the generous horse, against the cruelties of such inhuman riders.—Sherborne Journal.  The Court of Cassation has decided that the proprietors of public carriages are responsible for the full value of the objects intrusted to their charge, and lost, even though such value may not have been declared. In the case in question, an individual bad entered a box as containing " six shawls," without other designation. After the box was lost, he proved that the shawls were cashmere, and worth 5,605 L The Tribunal du Commerce had decided that he could only recover the price of ordinary French shawls, but the Court of Cassation reversed that decision. The Court also decided that the remedy of the proprietors of the diligence against the conductor of the diligence must be confined to 150 francs, because it was the custom to point out to his special charge objects of greater value, and which was not done in this case, and be was therefore only liable on his ordinary guarantee.— Galignaues Messenger. A Polish Lieutenant arrived here from Dantaic on Wednesday evening week. The Governor of that town had informed him that he could only remain there on condition of speaking to no person ; on declaring this condition, he had the choice of proceeding either to France or England. He chose the latter, and wishes to get to London—he is destitute. His father was a Baron, who resided at Wornie, in the government of Wilna. He is dead ; the young man's mother is dead—his family extinct—and all his property gone. It was his horrid fate, on entering his paternal dwelling, to see the authors of his being murdered on the floor—there lay his father, his mother, with deep gashes in her side, and in fact, there lay the whole household. This was the bloody work of the wild Bashkirs, Circassians, and other infernal tools of the man that mocks the world, shakes hands with England's sailors, and prays nightly to God for their King ! " My God ! my God !" says the poor Pole, " Poland is the most unhappy country in the world !"—Hull Rockingham.
The Sun. — 1833-03-04 (London, England)

FRIEND TO JUSTICE AND HUMANITY.  HANTS ASSIZES.-WINCHESTER.  BREACH OF PROMISE OF MARRIAGE.-HOOTER V. ALLIES.  The plaintiff in this case (Mary Hooper), was the dam:titer of a farmer, who, some years ago, rented West Lavinzton Farm, in Wiltshire, and lately Righton Farm, near A!resford, but who is now gone to America. The defendant is an itinerant tea-vender.  Mr. Sergeant COLERIDGE, for the plaintiff, called Sarah Hooper, the mother of the plaintiff, who stated, that she and her (laughter were staying with her sister, at Winchester, in January, 1831, at which time the intimacy between the defendant and her daughter commenced. This continued till January, 1832, and during this period she had questioned the defendant as to his intentions, who had expressed himself the ardent lover of her daughter, and as meaning to make her his wife as soon as he could dispose of his " tea walk," and get into some other line of business. I❑ January, 1832, the plaintiff became pregnant, and shortly after the defendant discontinued his visits, and subsequently declined to fulfil hiss engagements. One of his effusions was produced, written to her during her residence at Southampton, and it was couched in the following terms : " My dear Mary—At the time of my writing this, you will be enjoying a sound sleep. I hope you will enjoy health, hap. piness, and content. There has been great rains. " Yours, ac."  The defendant, who conducted his own case, crossexamined the witness at great length, with a view of proving that she had not been married to her husband, and also that the conduct of the plaintiff had been improper with persons at Southampton, and at a Maying at Winchester ; but he called no witnesses. Verdict for the plaintiff—Damages, 1501.—Hants Advertiser.  We find in the daily police report of Thursday last the following notice :—" CHARLES BARING WALL, with indecently assaulting JOHN PALMER, with intent to incite him to certain filthy and indecent acts and practice•, in Marylebone. Bailed to appear at the next Middlesex cessions."— Observer.  MILTON, when he was asked if he did not intend to have his daughter instructed in foreign languages, replied, " No ; one tongue 1 think is quite sufficient for a woman."  The following event is, we believe, without its parallel in history :—The father of a family in the province of Silesia having determined to put an end to his existence, loaded his gun, and placing the muzzle to his mouth, called one of his children only eight years of age, and desired him to pull the trigger. The poor child, ignorant of the consequences of his obedience, did as he was desired, and became innocently the murderer of his father!— French Paper.  Halifax market last Sunday was rather brisker than usual. The supply of stuff goods in the Hall was aeain limited, and not quite so large even as that of Saturday week.—Huhfax Express.  We understand that a requisition is in circulation, in this town, to call a meeting to petition against the malt, hop, and soap duties, and against the Irish Coercive Bill.—Halifax Express.
The Sun. — 1833-04-11 (London, England)

MURDER OF THE BOY PAVIOUR.  EXTRAORDINARY DISCOVERY.—Since the apprehension of Marshal, Taylor, arid Evans, on suspicion of the murder of the above unfortunate boy, the most intense interest has been manifested in the neighbourhood in which his parents reside, and it being generaly reported that the officers were in pursuit of several persons holding high stations in life, who were said to have been concerned in the decoying of theboy away from his home, and also his murder, the most anxious inquiries have been daily Made to ascertain whether they had succeeded in apprehending any of the parties, but the privacy observed as to the proceedings at Hatton-garden, has prevented his own father and mother, or his nearest relations, deilving that satisfaction. Several examinations, we understand, have lately taken place, from which reporters have been excluded, and injunctions laid upon the witnesses not to reveal their examination before the Magistrate; but having heard it whispered about that a " clerical gentleman, of some distinction in the church," had been captured on a charge of having been concerned in decoying the boy, and aat he had actually undergone an exam naiion, we made it our business to proceed to the neighbourhood of John-street, Tottenham-court-road, to pursue inquiries, and found that the above current report originated from the following extraordinary circumstances :—lt appears that a short time prior to the murder of the boy, a gen lemon's carriage was frequently seen to stop at the corner of Goodge-street and John-street, Tottenham-courtroad, and an elderly, reverend looking gentleman, with a clergyman's hat, and attired in black, would alight arid proceed slowly down John-street, until he arrived opposite Mr. Paviour's dour, where he would pace backwards and forwards, and enter into conversition with a low set of fellows, similar to Marshal, Faylor, and Evans; and it was viewed by Mr. Smith, broker, of John-street, Mr. Sims, of Goodge-street, and several other persons, as an extraordinary proceeding, and his visits were so frequent that it was quite common for the women about the neighbourhood to inquire, " Well, has the old parson been here to-night 1" Ott the evening that the boy was taken from his home the carriage was observed at the corner of Goodge-street, and the parson was seen wandering about John-street. in company with a low looking man with whom he was in deep conversation. The boy Paviour came out of his parents' house at about seven o'clock, dressed in his usual style, with the exception of wearing his sister's slippers. He entered the shop of Mrs. Ripley, a chandler's-shop, and asked for a penny rush-light, and continued playing with her son, and he was never seen alive after he quitted the shop. It is conjectured that the old wretch was In conjunction with Marshal, Taylor, and others, ,and that he was then carried away. Mrs. Sims had .vithessed more of his manoeuvres than eny.other of he neighbours, and on hearing of the boy's being .nissing her suspicions were instantly aroused, and she mentioned circumstances which induced the Ma
The Sun. — 1833-09-30 (London, England)

ODD FANCIES.—Henry 111. of (France) could not remain alone in a chamber where there was a cat. , The Duke of Epernon fainted at the sight of a young hare. The Marshal d'Albert found himself indispo,ed at any repast at which was served up a sucking pig or a calf's bead. Ladislaus. King of Poland, was troubled arid obliged ' to fly whenever he saw an apple. The sight of a fish gave Erasmus the fever. Scaliger trembled all over when he beheld cresses. Tycho Braise felt his limbs tremble under him whenever he met a hare or a fox. The Chancellor Bacon fainted every time that be saw an eclipse of the moon. Bayle fell into convulsions on hearing the noise of water falling from a spout. Lamotte le Vayer could not endure the sound of any instrument, but experienced great pleasure at hearing the growl of thunder. In our day a French amateur prefers the sound of the tambourine to the most agreeable musical instrument. Saint Foix reports that an Englishman experienced the most cruel pains whenever he read the fifty-third chapter of Isaiah. A Spaniard fell into syncope whenever he heard the Latin word Lana (wool) uttered. The Arch Chancellor Camba. ceres could not look at a spider. Napoleon himself was annoyed at the slightest prick of a pin, and evinced an invincible repugnance to medicine. On the sth July, Fernando Benancio, an Indian cacique, labouring under a powerful access of fever, was admitted as a patient into the hospital of Buenos Ayres. In his train was a younger Indian, named Fran • else° Yunquel, who, being attached to the chief, was allowed to wait upon and reside with bins during the progress of his cure. Yunquel was an unadulterated son of the Andes, and, in the indulgence of a natural curiosity, strolled without restraint through every part of the establishment. In a fatal hour he reached the door of the dissecting room, just as a lecturer was illustrating, by the knife upon the subject, the lesson he was giving to his class. Human dissection is a sight appalling to nature, and upon the unsophisticated savage of the wilds it produced the most disastrous effects. He thought the operator nod his assistants were engaged in a deed of murder. He immediately raised the warwhoop of his tribe—called out the gualicha with a maniacal voice, and, drawing his knife, rushed upon all who were engaged in the dissection. The first victim was a graduate in the piolession, whom he despatched at once ; the next was an unfortunate patient, who happened to be present; the third was a soldier, who stood sentinel at the door of the devoted chamber. The fi.enetico then rushed into the wards of the hospital, and would have dealt death more extensively, if his master, apprized of the tragical event, bad not thrown himself in ' his way, and, by the threat, conveyed in their own language, of instantly shooting him dead, brought bins to a sense of his sitl:ation.—Buenos Ayres Paper's, July 7.