The Sun. — London, England, 1802-03-20 00:00:00

F ..VAVAL NEIVS PLYMOUTH, IVlAtcli rS. AltltlVtD the Urania Frigate, from a Cruize. Sailed the Glory, of 98 gtms, for Torbay ; Dia mond and Sirius Frigates, and S.ylph Sloop of War, on a Cruize. Sailed the Experiment, Capt. PA Ltt ER ) laden wit rice, from Bengal, for London. PORTSMOUTH, ...MARCH 19. Alum ED at the Motherbank, and put under Quarantine, His Majesty's Ship Penelope, Captain 13LACKWOOD, from Gibraltar, in days. She left t h ere His Majesty's Ships Caesar, - . Sir JAuzs SAtmAßtz. Dreadnought, - C aptain VA, O N , Triumph, Captain Sir R. BA Rt.ow. Superb, . . c aptaill K z Ts. Phcenix, - - Leda, Capta in HA , E,sr D. Captai n Hop s. SHEERNESS, MARCH X. THIS day arrived Ili, Maje Sty's Frigates Cam_ Brian, La Seine, and Renoramee, from Spithead, with the Ferreter Gun.brig, from a Cruize is the Chan; Sailed the Monkey Gun.l : ig, Lieut. WE IR, for the Downs. - ____„,........ te xt at Rift MAJESTY Will hold 4 Levee oll,.WednesdaY St. James's Palace. .v‘ Yesterday a Court of Direettirs was held at the tact India House, when Mr. Astir; BALD AND ra ter/ was swo rn in as Master of the extra Ship Cu! _ 444 ' $ Gr outs destined to Bengal and Bencoolen. The Court adjourned at a late hour till Tuesday next. Mr. Alderman Cirktis :died with great abd becoming spirit when accused by a reptile of Fac tion, of caludiniating his tile having spit its venom, shrunk back into its hole, At the manly Constituents. The rep. ripe of the Alderman. elder COMIIE, it seems, iVith vch an unbecoming heat at Guildhall on egpressed himself thursday 1 last ; on the subjeft of the liscoore.Tax.il even a Public Print devoted to his pGlitics, 1 thatma speak of the politics of such a person wi th l ttaity, has ,thought proper to suppress the offe r_ Sive epithet, by which lie presumed to stigma d ti tine of the most effeaive imposts ever devis by 4n llial wisd oms C has It i s r i m c hat t he FIRST _ONST.IL ,4 elnarKil...o to . opted the Royal style of writing, in his Letter Top s LotrVearußE. Ile says ci W e have 4ertteiri L R^ our Brother-in-law," " IVe Ito Zell ECLE .., :A tt,caileelired an esteem fdr you, Szc. ,i,wl,„,arqUis-WEI LESLEY, immediately on his arrival sp, er should °e V!, diced ' ed that no' New 'IP be Published Without being previous!) inspected and tidied,bY the Chief Secretary to the Govern- Mr. Biattow, the .present Vice-president 4n t;alcutta, was the first appointed to execute so Pleasant a duty. • One of the Judge s of the Supreme Court in Cal- Cttta, on his arrival there, refused W attend the le ifees df the 'Governor General, contrary to the .s.,astern custom, General ; as a reason, that the r uisne Judge s in England never event to Court. He Was however, very soon convinced, that he had formed too hasty an opinion, and that there was accno analogy whatever between the two cases. He ordingly becatite a very regular attendant at the Corvernment House. It is reported that there is to be a perpetual Pre. tident in the Corps Legislative and the Tribunate. It is :given out that LvcrE27 BONAtARTE is to be appointed President of the latter ; with a pension of 80,000 livres per annum. asta The EIAPEROR f - 'l° ' 43 ' GERMAN Y is introducing the . anish She ' ' heel into his dominions ; 2000 have been already purchased, and several Princes of the tinpire are following his example. young man of the name of Cm,r, 11°Ti' who was in the Division of the Beaux Arts, in the Mi tnis:tet of the of Office, at Paris, has been ..),,'hied to as leagues from Paris, for licensing (in le absence of his Chief) 4 ;elite Opera, called 'the 416- Chainbtr. tit;h°R4T°Rlo.-'-The sublime composition en. G ar ''''eation, was performed last night at 'Covent_ th e 'hen Theatre. It is a work in every resped worthy etr,,,lßheharafter of HAYDN, and for .grandeur of th' l `) play even be put in competition with some of zid e !tost celebrated labours of HANDEL. There is to n'ilrable contrivance in this Piece. The instru sve•ilt4 are all employed separately, and conjointly, _ wi t h p L surprizing taste, skill, judgment, and teeling. t r r ", a l's, with respea to detached Airs, the talents t , toe wi t h Performers might have been direa- Vncle7 with !note advantage to themselves, but the full Or of the „general result strongly interests t le affeaidns, and possesses the whole mind, Mrs. e 144110 -rots and BRAHAxt were, of course, the isteat vocal wonders of the night, and they alone elionstituted a sufficient repast fur the at'xiience. The 414_,rl beautiful d ente re d i nto the spirit of t hi s b old, animated, 21 , 1° 1 compositio n , and nothing could be o , c)r tl impres s i ve and correa than the performance " r ough out.—The Theatre was crowded. s 311 Monday next the Assizes for the County of ki Lr reY will he held at Kingston-upon-Thames, be. a..te Baron HoTH Am and Mr. Justice HEATH ; and t Horsham on the 27th inst. for Sussex. , .), LI consequence of Henry Cocky committed to t?othill.fields Bridesvelll for forging three letters of ..ttorney, in the name of Capt. WM. STOREY, cf lallaillso, and therebysdefrauding the Bank of Eng. ZYeland (14. 70001.' being so. seriously idisposed, the e tal_Witnesses.,necessary to prove the offence, • .4%ve, e't on, Wedne:sd a y to theabove prison, where the ral charges were fully ,substantiated, and the ''e'etlt parties bound over to pkosuct4:e. racni ZHL akergA6A, DISCOVERY OF AN INTENDED INSURRECTION. TOBAGO, JAN. I.—We have authority td L'tate what follows :—For same weeks past rumour pre_ vailed, that disturbances would take place during the. holidays, and particular estates wete mentioned, the Negroes of which were suppokd to be concern ed in the plans that were forming. Several Gentle men endeavoured to find out whether there was any truth in the rumours ; but their investigation dis covered nothing ; yet, the rumour, instead of sub. siding, increased. On Tuesday evening, Mr. Houston overheard a conversation among some of his Negroes, which he considered of a dangerous tendency. He gave information of it to his Honour the President, who desired they might be confined in the Fort, which was done, and they were inter rogated by a Magistrate, but wouki confess no .. thing. On Wednesday morning, three Magistrates went to the estate where it was said information could be got, and discoveries made. They took several depositions, and, in consequence, ordered several Negroes to he taken up. The preceding evening, Mr. Houston had heard a Negro, in pass ing his house, say, what signified Mr. Houston':; sending two or three Negroes to the Fort, it would only make the others keener to do mischief. Mr. Houston knew the Negro by his voice, and early next morning made affidavit of what he had heard before a Magistrate, who immediately had the Ne gro brought before' him, who, after some difficulty, made the following declaration on oath, he having been christened : " That a plan had been formed by the Negroes of Belvi dere- and Bacolet estates, lot setting fire to the cane.; ; and that when the White People went to put it out, the Negroes were to kill them, and take their aims, &c. that a Negro named Roger, (the Drivcr on Belvinere) was made Governor; Thomas (a Cooper), Colonel ; and Sandy, .Major: he also narded the ptincipals ou Bacolet, and their ranks, and said they Were to be joined by Mr. Robley's Negroes, who ‘N ere to rise at the same time, and in the same manner in Sandy Point : and that Sandy, the Major, whose mother belonged to :‘ir. Robley, can-led on the correspondence." In the course of his examination it appeared, that the Leaders had not communicated their plans to many, but that when they began to raise their Troops, and appoint Officers, they pretended it was for the purpose of helping one another to work their gtounds. In consequence, information was sent to the President, and as no time was to be lost, the Ma gistrates applied to Brigadier Gen. CAttmicHAEL ; and Major CAMPB ELL, with a party from the Gar rison, soon secured the Negroes accused, and they were lodged in the. Fort. The President got to town in the evening, and ordered the Privy Ccun_ cal to be summoned to meet early next morning.— During this day and night considerable alarm and anxiety prevailed, although measures had been taken to put the inhabitants on their guard. On Thursday morning the Council met, and, af ter hearing the depositions read, and examining the Negro who had made the discovery, it wa s de_ termined that Martial-law should be immedii!tely put in force ; and that the holidays that were to commence the following day, should be deferred. Conlormable to the advice of Council, his Honour . _ issued such orders as appeared necessary tOr the public security ; and a pert - ea understanding sub sisting between His Majesty's Troops and the Mi litia ; and all the Negroes,' supposed to be princi pals in the plot, having been secured in the course of the day, and Brigadier General CARNticuAEL having shewn the greatest zeal and alacrity, from the first iiormation he had of the d a n ger , towar d s eveninic lfidence and satisfaElion succeeded those fears drat had agitated, with so much reason, the public Mind. We are happy in having it in our power to state that this insu . rreaion was not planned by Africans, nor on the smallest pretence of ill-treatment, but by some cunning and designing Cteole Negroes, natives of a neighbouring island, two of the prin cipal of the leaders high in the favour of their masters. On Friday morning the Council resumed the examination of several Negroes taken up on in formation, or suspicion, of being concerned in the intended insurrettion, when several were considered as implicated therein, and they were, in conse quence, ordered into confinement, and it being found that the duty in the garrison would be excessive, if they were obliged to guard all the Prisoners, they were in consequence sent on board the ships in the harbour ; in the course of the day the alarm in creased considerably ; the Ladies in the vicinity of the town all retired into it ; the night, however, passed without disturbance, and next day a Court was instituted for the trial of the prisoners. Examination of Donglas.—A .Negro belonging to Calderhall estate, who was apprehended by in formation (on the oath of Mr. Houston) swears there is a general plan of an insurrection throughout the island ; he has been present at several meetings on the subject, but he has been most acquainted with tile plans of the Belvidere and Bacolet Negroes.— That the Commanding Officers at Bacolet estate were, Carter, Houston, Cooper, and Finer. The Commanding Officers at Belvidere estate were, Driver, Roger, Governor; Cooper Thomas, Colonel ; Sandy, Major. The Plan.—Thq whole of the Negroes on all the different estates in the island, are to assemble at gun-fire on the night of Christmas, and set fire to the canes nearest the dwelling houses of each estate; the Negroes expett this to" bring the white men to the spot in haste, and without arms, then the Negroes are to murder the Whites, and plunder the dwelling houses of all the arms and arnmuni. tion. They have at Belvidere and Bacolet one gun and plenty of powder, but the murder of the Whites is to be with cutlasses ; the event of these proceed. ings the Negroes expect will be freedom to them selves, and full possession of the . Country, like Guadaloupe. By an examination taken before E. and J. Pro- Gar, Douglas further said, that after the Negroes have killed all the Whites on the estates, the Ne groes were then to meet in a body, and , take the Town and Fort by surprize. All the French who are resident at Constantinople, have mounteci the French National Cockade since signatore Qt the Preliminaries of Peace. kL vt ASSIZES.--RIAIDSIONie • , HiFORL 3111 ii-EACTMONT HOTHAM, KIT. AN A SPL.. CIAL JURX. Tut KInC; a am t J.OSEPH CATOR 1.113 EL; lii 13 was an Indidatent the Defendant; for having written and published certain letters iif lil4ellous nature, concerning Henry Jackson, Esti tending to injure his credit as a Merchant; and to disturb the domestic peace of himself and Sarah - his wife. Mr. GARROW said he was Counsel for the Pro secutor, Henry Jackson, Esq. a Merchant of the highest respedability and character; who found him self under the painful necessity of indicting the De fendant, Joseph Cator, Esq. a Gentleman ofconsider able fortune, and brother to the Mt. John Cator, so well known throughout the County. Ikons the qua lity of the of-Felice, it would he unnecessary for him to say much, because he was addressiug men of ho nour, whose indignation would be excited more by their own feelings, than any thing he could offer. He might be excused too, from expatiating upon the enormity of the offenee, because, as the charge was preferred in the shape of an Indidtrient, the province of the Jury would only be to decide whe ther he was guilty or not. What was to be the consequence of their verdict, would be the sub ject of future consideration. He should abs rain from stating the contents of' the disgraceted li bels imputed to the Defendant ; it was sufficient to observe, that libels more dangerous, more cal culated to do mischief, to injure and distress a worthy man, and to break down and destroy his domestic peace, never were penned. The objed of some of them was to represent a respectable Mer chant, the Defendant's near neighbour and ac quaintance, as a man insolvent in his circumstances, and compelled to resort from day to day for pecu niary assistance to the father of the lady to whom he had been married above ten years. lie should scarce be believed when he stated the object of others of them—they were addressed to the wife of the prosecutor, with the diabolical intention of instil ling into her mind a jealousy of her-husband, with whom she had long lived upon the most affedionate - terms, and with that view, pointing at a particular person as her rival in his love. The question to be tried was, Whether these Letters, than which man or demon never penned Worse, were the work oi'the Defendant ? That he should in the outset make such a case as would , call for the verdid of the Jury against the I)..foralant, was what he did not State as matter of speculation, but of absolute certainty ; but i t mi g ht be answered. He should give such evidence as would.be sufficient, on an indidtnent for forgery, to cony the offender,- and subjed him to the pe nalty of death. The manner of his proof-should be this : He would first call Mr. Jackson, whose evi dence alone would entitle him to a verdift. It was necessary to observe, that Mr. Jackson, previous to his receiving the letters, was not acquainted with the character of the Defendant's hand-writ ing, and he at first suspeded they. were the work of his brother, John Cator. It happened, that on the outside of one of the letters the words " noisy braggadocio fellow" were written, and Mr. Jack_ ion went to the Postmaster, in order to shew it him, and endeavour to discover the Author. The Post master said, he had observed several letters written upon in the same manner, not only directed to him, but to Mr. Rose, the Clergyman. Mr. Jackson then called upon Mr. Rose, who produced a letter he had received, which was scurrilous in the ex treme. Mr. Jackson suggested the probability of Mr. John Cator having written them ; when Mr. Rose replied, he was mistaken, that it was not John, but Joseph. In consequence of this informa tion, the Prosecutor was advised to possess himself of some of the Defendant's hand-writing, by send ing him letters on different subjeds, to which the Defendant returned answers. Before the Prosecutor had received many, lie was perfeetly convinced the libels were the handywork of the Defendant.— When men sat down to ad deeds of villany, it was sufficient for them if no human witness observed them, but it generally happened that in the coin mission of all crimes, there was a fe.tality which brought thedelinquent to the Bar of Justice. The Defendant, whose infamy no ekpressiost could he too strong to describe, should the Jury pronounce him guilty, had, in writing these extraordinary composed libels] spared no pains to disguise the charades of his writing ;.it was therefore not to be wondered at that the Defendant had at times forgot what he was about, and relapsed into his ordinary charader. The proof of his hand-writing would, however, be con firmed by other circumstances, and. particularly by one similar to that which occurred in the case of Ryland, who was some years ago executed for a forgery on the East India Company—the person whose name Ryland had forged, was unable to say whether he had written it or riot s though he knew he had not signed it to two bills on the day it was dated ; but it happened that the Manufadurer who had made the paper was able to say, that the mould in which the identical paper was made; was not sin existence at the time the bill purported to have been drawn by the Company's Agent in India. In the present case, he should prove that the paper on which these libels were written, was its the first place not what was usually employed in corre sponding : he should prove that the Defendant was in the habit of using such paper? that it was manufac tured in the year 1796, and consequently not likely, to be fond in the shop of every stationer ; ; and that the person who happened to have a stock of it, never had sold a single sheet Is any of his customers, ex cept the Defendant and the Bishop of Rochester. He would not insult that Rev, and Learned Prelate, whom he had the honour of seeing on the ECITCIi i by supposing he was the author of the Libels. He should call several persons besides Mr. Jackson, who were well acquainted with the hand-writing of Mr. Joseph Cator, who would prove that the letters • in question, though not like his ordinary stile of writing, were precisely such as he would adopt, in order to conceal some guilty purposes. It might be asked, what motive could induce the Defendant to write Libels of a Gentleman in his neighbourhood, and with whom he was in the habits - of intimacy could not account for every man's falling into a snare ; but the absence of every motive for a bad action was no reason why pregnant proof of it should not be admitted, if he was to be told 1 his Learned Frienti dye' Attorney Grheral ' capable of writing libels tti wound the feelings of A Lady, he should say 3 No, No'; it was iinpossible his Friend was too honoUrable to be guilty of giving a moment's uneasiness to a beautiful woman ; but ii he was to sep the libels written in hiS Learned Friend's remarkable hand-----if he was to observ& those tall characters to which no other man since the flood had ever formed any similal.; hit should - say, the Devil had been at work ‘iTitli his Friend, and had perverted He believed there was no temptation to induce the Defendant to acl as he had done—he could assign no mutt vc, but that the Devil had set him on, arid that he had turned his back upon all grace. It had happened that in Beckenham, where the Defendant and the Prosecutor resided, the parochial rates for some years past had been made with the assistance of John Gator, ,and the Defendant's brother. He might have been admired by the pUrest motives, bur somehow or other, till Mr. Jackson came to resit .e there, his own property neve r use d t o be rated at its full value. Mr. Jackson found that the Parish Off cers were tradesmen subservient to Mr. John Cator, he therefore set himself to work to remedy the abuse ; with this view, he proposed a Committcz to revise the Rates. Mr. John •Cator was the party who resisted this RefOrm, and the result was, prosecutions were instituted against the Churchwardens, who, at his iostance, had refused to make just rates,, and those misguided men were committed to gaol by the Court of King's Bench. Perhaps it was this circumstance which urged the Defendant, from brotherly attachment, to dip his pen in the gall of bitterness. He should call Witnesses who were well skilled on the subjea of hand-writing, and who would prove that the writing in question, was not a natural but a dis. guised hand. He concluded by observing, that the singularity and importance of the case merited the most serious attention. lackson, Esq. said, he. resided at Beeken.: ham, And was perfeetly acquainted with the Defen dant. The letters produced, he received by the post ; they were diretted to him ; he had since core responded with the Defendant, and was able to form an opinion as to his hand-writing. lie bee lieved the libelous letters were his nand-writing. On his cro§s-examinatiOn, he said he had no par ticular difference with the Defendant, except once when he was in his carriage; the Deiendat:a told hen Reformers never did any good. Mrs. jecktoe proved the letter she had received. She said she had never received any incivility from the Defendant. Their families ceased visitieg each other after what had passed in the coach. :la/nes English Keely knew the Defendant in In; dia ; was well acquainted with his hand-wiiiing.— Hefirmly believed the libels to have been wrinen by him. The libellous parts of the Letters Were now rend, The firste addressed to the Prosecutor, and w::* dated January 22, I SOI. It supposes Mr. Jackson to' be talking tu. himself; and is tO this el eft :-- "I myself am the most independent and the wisest man in Beckingham, for I glory in the shame of having law-suits with every body I have to do with ; and especial) , for having endeavoured id starve the Churchwarden:: and their families, by 'getting them sent to gaol. Every body in the pais:: respect me ; but my wife and servants know ine to be one of the greatest rascals in it." The next let ter was nearly in these terms, '' I am the most grateful man in all Kent, for I pride myself on hav ing the most grateful remembrance of past favours I am the most prudent man in the country' ; I am so mild that I am never put in a pasSion ; I inn re.. markable for keeping my servants, for 1 have not changed one these four years I pay every body both in town and country, for I hate to be in debt. I am so careful of doing wrong, that I always keep a Lawyer at my elbow. To be sure; I. was rather hasty in injuring Miss M 's character---I am certainly the most independent um in Beckenham, except my friend, _Lord Gwydit. Mr. Green and Mr. Clarke, and every body in the parish love me ; from the Parson to the Chimney_sweep, because I am so charitable, and such a lover of peace: Sing 0 be joyful, for I have gained my point against did Beckenham Churchwardens. Now I will shew them the difference, for they shall go to Newgate; and will tell every body of it, and they will cwgratulate me for loving law so well, and every body' will dine with me who shall know it." The next Letter is ad dressed to Mrs. Jackson, and is to this effeCt :—" My husband is the wisest and most independent man in • London, and, as such i every body is governed by him; for he is the most benign man in all En3land, and then all the neighbours love and adore him, bee cause lie has made all the parish one family ; and they are never so happy as when he is, among them.— The Parson loves him, notwithstanding he had taken thirteen inches from the church-yard into his own garden. Every body loves him except my fa ther, who hates the sight of him, for going every day to borrow money of him. The Bankers in London, to be sure, ale not very fond of diScount ing his notes ; for if he has a bill of tool. to pay, he gives them a bill for 2Ceol. and makes them pay him the difference. This he boasts of in the cot_ lee-houses, and brags hoax be makes all the parish do just as he pleases. He loves law better than he loves me : and in truth, I must say ; he is a very hypocritical villain." The next Letter was ter this. purport—" What a mean clown my husband is, for he does not pay his debts. For . an inch or two taken from the church-yard, he goes bd., lowing to the Bishop with his information.--= In short, he is despised by every body—all good men hate the sight of him." The next Letter runs, thus-e=" Although my husband pounces and sings 0 be joyful ; and tells me such probable' stories, I begin to suspect he deceives me—and I am per, waded every body despises him for entertaining the company with his foolish nonsense ea-bout himself.— Then that poor girl he turned away; I begin to suspeet there was something wrong going forward while I was at Brighton.-His credit is so badi for he pays nobody—he has borrowed of my father till he won't lend him any more. He neglects his own business to troub:e himself about other people's,---4 What is ire to hint whether the Parson_ has_ got an inch or .two iriore than his neighbours ? lam sure the Bishop despises him for an informer. He is a felltrk t and never can be respetted be 114