The Sun. — London, England, 1802-10-23 00:00:00

NA via NEWS. PLY MOUTI4. OCT. ici. :::..... Last night there wa , . violent storm at §. accompanied by the heaviest hail storm ever remem bered, with a heavy rolling sea in the Sound ; the Wien of War struck yards and topmasts in the Sound and Hamoaze by signal, bur rode out the gale very well ; and this morning the weather moderated at N. w. Early this morning bispatches from the Admi_ ralty, of importance, arrived here, which were put on hoard La Penturier, of 18 guns, Lieut. Jumr. She has al,o sealed orders, not to he opened till she . geti '2O leagues to the West of Scilly. She sails to night or to-morrow morning. Came in from Shithead into Cawsand Bay, there to wait for further orders, La Concorde, of 3 guns, Capt. WOOD. Sailed with Dispatches to the Westward, the Ch;lders, of 14 guns, Capt. De WONT: she has sealed orders, not to be opened till she gets to a certain latitude. Sailed La Tipaze, or 36 guns, Capt. HONEY ttAN, for the River, to be paid off and laid up in Ordinary. Three P. M.—Orders have been just issued for the Aimble Cutter, Lieut. J . COGRLAN, in Ha inoaze, tc , virtual and water f'r four months, and get ready to take on board Dispatches hourly ex. pc.acci, when she is to have sealed orders, and pro_ teed to her destination at an hour's notice. This day Iv:lmbed into Mill Bay Barracks, eight Companies of Royal Mirines, under the command lA' Lieut. Col. ELLIOTT. The Grenadiers and Light Company march in on Friday next, and next tveek their Field days commence. ' , • t r •-• , • C • . I VHITEHAYEN, OCT. 19. 'nit Newport, GRIFFITH, from Dundalk to Liverpool, put into Douglas, Isle of Man, on Wed_ /lesday se'nnight. She was laden chiefly with cattle and pigs, bound for Liverpool, and, in a gale of. wind, the preceding day, twenty-six of the latter ^were Avashed overboard, and four of the cows suf focifed. Antrim, 017,23er 10, iSoz. DISTRICT ORDERS. previous to the disbandment of the 23d Light Dragoons, . 10 The exemplary good condua and orderly behaviour of 'Which Regiment, even when dispersed throughout the great extent of Country it has lately occupied, Brigadier-General nxr, on departing from that Corps at Belfast, is happy to bear testimony, and thus to express *is most entire appro. bation thereof.. The many proofs he has so invariably had, of the attention . to good appearance, and of the most stria sobriety in every individual composing so many small detachments, was a ;subject of astonishment to him, until lately that he has seen them assembled with those Offrcers who have instilled such discipline, so conspicuous in the oondu6l of this highly tetnipped and completely appointed Corps, that to the very crisis ofdisbanctment under the Command of Colonel SPEN tilt, has adhered to that order, and has exhibited, dis- Mounted, a steadiness under Arms hardly to he surpassed, refteeting upon him and on the Regiment the highest credit. To the Serjeants and Non.commissioned Officers who eommanded small detachments in remote situations, the . Thanks of the Inhabitants, as well as of Brigadier-General .11 0 fur, on thus taking leave of the Regiment, are likewise partici/1321Y due. - By Orcitt vt Brigadier-Gcueral J. COUTSON, Brigade-Major. Mr. MOORE did not reach the Hague until last Saturday. The Prince of Orange Packet, on board t)f whi c h he had embarked, suffered so much damage in a storm as to prevent her making Helvoetsluys An time. Count RtrspoLr, the lately elected Grand Mas_ ter of Malta, left Glasgow on Monday for Edin. °llrgh. He intended going by Carron, to view the extensive iron works at that place. Though much alarm has been created in the pub -lio mind by the reports of the late robberies in the . Metropolis, we are happy to be able to state, that There is reason to believe that they have been much exaggerated, as we know from authority, that it does llot appear from the returns made by the Police Offices, that they have at all increased, but on the contrary, that they have considerably decreased, in consequence of the vigorous measures pursued by the Police Magistrates. In regard, however, to the stablished nightly Watchmen, it is -a matter of ''egret that some measures are not taken to render t hem more equal to their duties ; but it must be re. °lleacd that no blame can attach to the Magis. Mites - on that head, as the Watch is appointed al-' together by the respeaive parishes, and is not under the management or regulation of the Police Offices. The EMPEROR of GERMANY has pardoned all State Criminals within his Dominions, on condi tion of their being transported beyond the Frontiers. LEl,7is is rapidly improving in health, and will .„ .. °e soon abl e to en j o y th e con gr at ul at ion s of the -uown on his recovery. The loss of such a man, urtnu, indeed , have cc' impoverish the public stock of harmless pleasures." Mr. KEms LE, having accomplished his objea in ; isitin g t h e F renc h Th eatre, set o ff a f ew d ays ago ° r Madrid, where he will be joined by Mr. HEATH. •; ( )Tt, who i s , at p resent , unavo id a bly d eta i ne d a t Pa r i s. The Cabinet, aided by BRAHAM'S musical at. traftions, was very well attended last night. INCLE. ?ON acquitted himself particularly well. The piece is certainly very indifferent in point of dramatic re rit, but uniti ng t h e c hi e f com ic an d mus i c al a tl trength of the company, it is not Wond&ful that Its a ttraftion should continue. a dluzzixt, with a solicitude equal to his great 1 . 111 e) is busily e m pl o y e d i n arrang i ng t h e pl an o f a' 3 s Concerts, w hi c h we h ear are to b e uncommon l y :1 4 !ndid thi s w i nter, and are to cons i st of the mast ,4'lnent vocal a n d i nstrumenta l P er f ormers t hi s k•ountry can boast of ; to w hi c h h e h as a dd e d t h e Who known ta l ents o f hi s o ld sc h olar, M rs. S ECOND, 7, he h as engage d for a few nights, and who is snottly expeeted in Bath. L" Pied, on S atur d ay t h e gt h i ns t ant, at L iverpoo l , Zult.L, Esq. many years an em i nent Mer t,ant in.. L iverpo ol ; i n whom were united the "raders o f an honest and benevolent man, a tender . h usband an affeCtionate parent, and a warm friend : 1u sa3 death is much regretted by all who knew him, " Ifis tirtues live beyoud the-strre." dUILDHAIt, W:f§7llblS7tß. FRi6AY, OCT. 22. Nary perry, an handsome woman about the ate of thirty, and a native of Scotland, was tried for stealing a shawl in the yard of a person who lives in the Broadway, Westminster, about nine at night. The Prisoner was clearly proved to be guilty, and pronounced so by the Jury. The Chairman asked' her, " How many times she had been tried before ?" and she answered, " I was never here before."--4 , Aye, but how often at the Old Bailey ?" said the Chairman ; to which she made no answer, but held down her head with much apparent humility. The Chairman said, it was a shocking thing to see such a strong and healthy young woman pur suing this way of life, after so many repeated trials at the Old Bailey ; and after having been so often treated with lenity, (for she was well known to be an old offender) ; she had proved herself to he ab solutely incorrigible, and unfit for the society in which we have the happiness to live. She then, with seeming contrition, confessed she had often been guilty of crimes ; but said, that if the Court would have the kindness to look over her fault but this once, she would never offend again, and that if she was now discharged, she would return to her native place, and never be seen • again in this Metropolis. The Court ordered her to be transported for seven years. Just as the Officer was con:ldling her from the Bar, she burst out into 'p fit of fury and exclgma. tion, in which she execrated the Bench of Justices, and made use of the most odious and detestable epithets, such as, indeed, never should be repeated, but by which she confirmed the propriety of the sentence she had just received. Two Fishermen were tried for stealing coals out of a barge which lay under water opposite to After the greater part of the evidence was gone through, it appeared that the property was impro perly described in the indiament, and therefore, the Chairman said, that the Court could not proceed any futther in it ; but he took cccasiorealso to ob serve, that from the turn which the cioss examina tion of the Witnesses took, it appeared - its if it was . thought that the Prisoners were guilty of no crime, provided they dredged, as they affeaed to say they did, for these coals by the side of the barge.; but he said the law .was otherwise ; and that if there was no objeCtion to this indictment, in point of form, most unquestionably these men would have been as guilty of stealing these coals, although they took them only from the side of the barge, as they would have been if they took them out of the barge itself. He knew thete was a barbarous custom among some of the barbarous inhabitants of our coasts, to run away with every thing they could find that came on shore from the wreckof a vessel, but they would - do well to remember, that in that condud they committed felony : so again, the in habitants of some villages thoeght that when a stage coach, or waggon, was overturned, they might take away, and appropriate to themselves, what.. ever they found on the road, that had fallen from such coach or Waggon: nut, if they knew It to have, so fallen, and they kept it, it would be a felony. - In one word, no accident could di vest a man of his property in this way, nor could any other person be entitled to hold it, until the person to whom it belonged abandoned it.. How ever, he said, he was not sorry that these Prisoners were acquitted, because they might have thought they were right in what they did, from the pre valence of the ptietice. It was wrong; and it was fit they should know it. He hoped. they would understand this matter in its true light, and, in stead of triumphing in their acquittal in this case, they would tell their comrades, that the praCtice of taking coals which fell by accident from lighters, in the manner the coals fell in this case, by the side of them, they were guilty of felony ; for nothing could divest a man of his property but his abandon ing it himself; and he added, that if the.Prisonerz were couviEted, the Court would find it 'e o etuty they owed the Public, to pronounce on them ,4 , j . severe a sentence as they had power to pronoulice„,n.ot by way of punishment on them,' but of terror to others. They then were acquitted and discharged. OBSCENE PRINTS. Joseph Harris, a most notorious and detestable charafter, stood this day indiEted for publishing and selling certain Obscene Prints on the 28th of Sep. temper last. To this Indiament the Prisoner)pleaded He then was further charged with vending certain 'other Obscene Prints on the 4th of Oaober. This charge he was considered as having traversed, by his alledging that on that day he did not sell the prints, for they were taken away from him. , Mr. KNApr, on behalf of the prosecution, then addreised the Jury to the following effea " Gentlemen, I come here instruaed by a respect. able set of Gentlemen, who have associated them selves for the laudable purpose of the preservation of the morals of society, and particularly for Ho teaing those of women and children from the bane. ful effects of that variety of indecent and scandalous prints which have been so industriously circulated through the metropolis and its environs, and wherever they could find a sale. To give effea to their intentions, they found it necessary to employ certain persons to detett offenders, and amongst others a person of the name of Gray, whoni you will find called before you, to dated the infamous proceedings of the culprit at the bar. The Prisoner was in the habit of keeping a stand, and cordrantly selling ballads, in front of Privy Gardens, and while only engaged in that occupation would certirinlynot have been an objea of attention to the society. 'But, besides these. ballads, he had also always a number of these Obscene Prints about him, and it was his practice to take women and children behind the wall, whom he first entertained with licentious stories, and afterwards exhibited these shameful re-• ,presentations for sale. Gray, in pursuance of the information he obtained, repaired to the Prisoner's station, and after some little difficulty succeeded in buying the six prints, to the selling of 'which he has now pleaded guilty. He returned again on a future day with an Officer s and .QP searching the Prisotieir, folly i t6re Waits of,the tendeticy were found upon filth. It titiuld lie necdlesr; for me to take up any more of your time, but to prOend with rtiY evidence of the faftst ; to produce the hints in question; hot for the 'general i0 , ,-0.!On of those who may choose to look at them, but in otder to convince the Court and the Jury of the undoubted guilt of the Prisoner." RoLert Gray deposed, that or+ ,the 28th of Sep. telpher last, he went to Privy Gardens, and pur chased of the Prisoner six Obscene Prints for 16s. (These Prints were then handed up for the inspec. Lion of the Bench.). He also stated that on the 4 th of the Od. following, he made a further purchase for seven shillings, and the Prisoner beirn.; searched at the time, there were found upon him 4a other large prints of the same description. Mr. KNAPP here put in the Record of tv-d mer vonvidions of this fellow, the one for an un_ natural crime, the other for an offence of a nature similar to the present ; for which he stood twice in the pillory. After the Magistrates had viewed the .wares of this wretch with disgust and horror, the Chair man asked him what he had to say for himself ? Prisoner—" There is no n'e in my saying any thing here—where is the use in a Prisoner saying any thing ? I know that I am now at your mercy." Chairman—" Mercy ! I only wonder how a man can work up his mind, how he can find courage for the commission of such ads of bareness." Prisoner—" Distress will often make a man do 'things he might not otherwise think of. But I am at your mercy ; there is no use in saying any thing." The Jury immediately pronounced the Prisoner— . The Magistrates then deliberated for a consider_ able time, after which, the Chairman delivered him self to the following purport _ _ " There are cases in which a Court finds itself at a loss how to apportion punishments to the enor mity of some offences. That crime, of which the Prisoner has been conviaed on his own confession, and for which he has pleaded poverty as an excuse, is one, than which I know of none more odious or more mischievous. The human mind cao scarcely frame to irself.any o thing of a worse, or mere per nicious tend...ocy. ...This is the third time that he has been eon viaed of most abominable crimes, and his perseverance in them, shews he is incorrigible. The extent of the mischief he has. done, it would be impossible to calculate. The case is quite dif ferent with offences of another kind. When a robber commits his depredations on the property of people on the highway, there is an end to it ; and the Law being enabled to see the extent to which they can reach, has sometimes applied positive punish_ ments to them, and in other cases, left them to the discretion of Courts of justice. Here, however, is a constant course of life, a regular profession of de bauching the minds and morals of youth of every description. God only knows, how maoy may , grow up to be men and women, having their prin ciples and habits corrupted and tainted by these seeds of vice, so early implanted in them ! Women who have nothing but their virtue to recommend and adorn them, and who would otherwise retain is nmsunted, being thus early debauched, are liable to be led into every species of iniquity. .It is, there_ fore, necessary, that a rigorous punishment should lr inflikled, not with a view to correeling the Pd. soner himself, who is incorrigible, and never can .Le expeled to amend, but as an example to others who may have similar occupations, in order that they may be induced to turn away from courses so vicious and detestable. The sentence that I am direded by the Court to pronounce upon you, Joseph Harris, is, that you be imprisoned in the House of Correaion for two years, and in that time, stand for one hour in the Pillory at Charing_ Cross." The Prisoner is a very ill-looking elderly fellow, and exceedingly well-known to the frequenters of Westminster-Hall, and ail tinit neighbourhood.— His apparel was always very shabby ; he has but one hand, and kept.his,stanii at t h e d ea d wa ll of Privy Gardent, VeySy : oluse to the Duke of RICH MOND'S House. .• • - •CRUELTY TO AN INFANT CHIMNEY 'SWEEPER. William Pang, a Journeyman Chimney Sweeper, was indielzd for wantonly and cruelly beating Peter Cavana, •a child of eight years of age. Mr. SILVESTER. opened the case by observing, that .a more shocking instance of brutal inhumanity than the present, had never come within his know ledge. • The child, on being asked if he had ever been told the consequence of telling an - uotruth, or of the obligation of an oath, answeeed so satisfatio rilY, that the Court allowed him to be sworn. • He said his father was •a blacksmith, and lived near Sloane-street ; and that from his frequently beat ing him, be had run away from lionie,• and sob- • sisted, for a day or two on charity. Being seated 'aia door in Swallow -street, crying, he was taker into the house of a Mrs. Bridges , a chimney::' c)Feeper, where at first he was employed in going or errands, but after being there some time, was ordered by the Prisoner to learn to climb up chimnies ; and on his not doing it with the readi ness expected, he was most severely beaten by the Prisoner, who on these occasions stripped him naked,-and flogged him round the room with birch rods. He did not like to be a Sweep, and his knees and elbows were extremely sore by his „re peated trials to climb chimnies. His Mistress also beat him several times. This evidence was corroborated by another boy, who bought the rods to flog:Peter with, and which he saw frequently done, till the cries of the pocr child called in some of the neighbours. The poor child, when it could not mount quick enough, was goaded by the Prisoner (while in the chimney) in the legs and thighs, by a needle put into the end of a stick, who d—d him for being lazy. The Defendant took him to St. George's Church, Hanover-square, to climb up on the outside of it, and thereby learn his business. The boy was very much afraid, as he certainly would have been killed if his foot had slipped. There were spikes immediately below the place where he was climbing. He was .taken down by the inter ftrence of several people, who gave him money; some a some sip ence,anti etTlers pence ; the Lail of there went to the DA - endAnt;. When he went home he w:ia :,hut up in the cci!ar "ds they ~ `ere preparing to whip him . , he crie,l out that he would kiss them all if they wOtild ;:p;:re him ; hut his cries h.ld nib c.frea, and he Wlis beaten three different tithes with rods, which the dei - cndant ot dered the witness to 'ouv.' A good sort of . a woman, of the name of Wilstm, hating been constantly alarmed by the cries of the bor. and often heatinn. him say, '' Don't beat me, William, and 1 will L. it ; pray don't beat me;" took the boy from the clutches of these monsters, and sent for the 11.4eadie ;I the Parish; who stripped and examined the chill, and found his body, urtri;, and legs wailed tvitli the bearings he had rcceive,l; The Prisoner said he afted entirely under the di; re'ion of his Mistress. He was found C.;- , ,i/ty, and szntencL:d to six months imprisonment in the House: of Correthon. The Duke de MORTIMER, and Mr, WatonT, a Solicitor, of Duke.street, Manchester.square, who, went in quest of a person who had defrauded t he former, took the Irian they were in search of, on Monday, on board the Bonaparte packet, in Shore ham Harbour. It now appears, that he had not altered the figures of a draft, as rumoured, but de.. camped from London with near 001. of the Duke's property. The poor wretch was dreadfully alarm- ed when taken, and made all the restifirtion in his power, by restoring the whole of what remained of the sum he had made so free with, viz. . • At Brentwood Fair, on Friday and SaturdaYilast,.. there was a large shei.V of Irish oxen, and Scotch and Welch runts, but the high prices being held up by the drovers, very few of them were disposed of. On Tuesday evening a man of a, very suspitiOns appearance went into the shop of Mr. CeRT“,, Surgeon, of Whitechapel, and requested to speak to him in private ; and seemed particularly anxious, to wait till he was alone.. When questioned as to his business, he Said he wished for employment In_ the medicine way; Mc. C. in order to "get. rid ot. him, desired him to leave his address, and refetted . him to the young Cc . otle.nan in the atinting.. house. He there wrote down a fiditious address,.. shut the door, and begged money of the young Gentleman, who endeavoured to gain the door. The ; man followed him quickly, and pressed forward.to.. wards the surgery. Some one coming in at that moment, he haatily made off. There can be no, doubt but this fellow is one of the many who infestl the Metroplis at present, gaining- admittance upon any pretence to private shops and houses for the..; purpose of robberies. Wednesday night a most daring robbery was committed in the Bishop's Walk, Lambeth, at eight o'clock, by three footpads, armed with large bud geons, who knocked a Gentleman down ; and most cruelly heat him, after having robbed him of every • thing of value. The warchman, alarmed at his cries, came to his assistance, but too late, as the villains had escaped. The Gentleman remains dangerously ill of the blows he received, at a pause just by the spot where Ole robbery was committed, PUBLzc-OrFIcE, SHADwELL.—Thurstfay the Captain of a Ship was convided of carrying away more goods than his papers justified, or that he could properly account for. The Ads of Parliament re. gar&ling such cases were most favourably interpreted by the Magistrates, but they infliCted the penalty of fifty-four pounds upon him. PUBLIC OFFIcE,HATTow-GAttnnt.—OnThurs_ day night a man of the name of Harding, professing Astrology, in Charter-house-lane, was brought to the Ofike by Mr. Hancock, an Officer, with his books of astrology, an otrery, and some other appa ratus, besides several manuscripts in the same sci ence, written Ly the Prisoner since the year 1494, calculating nativities arid fortunate events in the Lottery, particularly noticing one Office, which no doubt he was an :idive agent to.—He was charged, his books being first ordered to be dc, stroyed. Thursday fifteen persons were brought to the Public Office, Hatton..garden, for lying in the open fields' at the back of Bloomsbnry-square, iy the night time ; two of whom were found sleep ing on the top of a brick kiln, while burning, and must "have been burned to death but fat the vigilance - of the - Officers. The account they gave of themselves was various ; they appeared in general to have been sea-faring men, driven to their last shifts. One of the tmost deplorable was asked what ship he had belonged to, end what money had when he was paid off; he said 391. which Listed him near three months. They were mostly passed to their respenive parishes, and others were taken to work on the.buildings. • A very curious circumstance occurred at Bit minghern, a few evenings ago : As a G em.einQn was passing through Sr. Philip's Church-yard, be. tweets si:e and seven o'clock, his attention was ex cited by two women who were a little distance from him, and who were, apparently, very much alarm ed. Upon his approaching them, and inquiring into the cause of their agitation, they told him they had stood there some time, listening to, and much. affrighted by a noise resembling that of a human voice, in a very plaintive tone, issuing from one of the graves. Naturally wishing to ascertain the reality of so singular and so strange a thing, led by the sound, he•drew near the grave from whence the noise seemed to issue ; but which on his nearer av proach, ceased altogether. Suspeaing, from the dis continuance of the sound, some imposition was in tended, he instantly proceeded to remove the earth and turf from what appeared to bins to be a newly raised grave ; but what must be his surprize, on discovering a boy, about sixteen years of age, lying at full length, with his face downwards, under the sods of earth. By this time a number of people came round the grave, and the boy, who seemed greatly intoxicated, was, with much diffi culty raised Up ; but was quite unable to give any account how he came there, or how long he had been lying in that situation. He was led away by some of the bystanders, who seemed to know him; and it is greatly feared' that some thoughtless per_ sons, for a mischievous joke, had placed him in this perilous situation, where he might in a short time, had he not been fortunately discovered, have been suffocated, k Oe ra , ay liis tivs arY hat vu , vu , the LeC' itef SW icet 0 0 t in ?Iy or- clefs ,ireci 1111 ( t ° ar e 3 e;.•