The Sun. — London, England, 1802-11-19 00:00:00

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COViP °' e pi wing 5-te d fo r ' O , D c f to Gel iii oft. l o c I the 0 6 1 deta ii :m at Co f e 0 0° 1 , 1 ' 3 4 dine s. o <vi4 t he ,1 of rC , ona l Lot E qpt ~e c o b s eo a ! ir r e/11 :si r t hel I to c! 1 ed fiof ,rober; • ove to y two out t o coo' or" a g f an i i ( . nlO l/ • es ;or com e ° Pla y. cos'. of 13°" ; ea by ,C at ge i s erig o ing ° eo o l ; vr oir 0 4 ct r o live` AZ PORTED CONSPIRACY. Fort some days past there have been floating ru. ...flours of Pl ots an d Consp i rac i es i n this Metropolis, but of so vague and indefinite a shape, and resting upon such questionable authority, we did not think ourselves justified to agitate the Public Mind by their disclosure. Even so far back as the period of the Middlesex Eledion, a plan was said to be "In c ontemplation for pulling down the Prison C old -bath-fields, and the Magistrates, with ?lice Offi cers, were placed to guard it. Some weeks go we heard the' Corresponding Society was again lipid "lng its meetings. Event.; have now occurred which these meetings gave reason to expert. Of th ese we have obtained intelligence from quarters 'asst likely to be well informed, and upon whose veracity we rely. W e Yesterday stated the apprehension of Col. b "Parc/ and thitty-two others, on Tuesday night, at the Oakley Arms, Oakley-street, Lambeth, and their examination before the Magistrates at Union Mall on Wednesday. The Warrant of Commitment expressly charged Despard with conspiring to compass the death (* the King, and was grounded upon the oath of the Soldier who gave the information, and the circum "antes arisi ng out of his' examination. ei The Party, .when surprized, said they were a wu ub Tar met there for innocent recreation. This the Only account they gave of themselves. There is strong evidence, we understand, that this account is false, and that they were engaged in treasonable pratlices. A m ong other proofs, a print .. form o f an Oath was found in the room where the natur e o f the United Irishmen ' s Oath, and that 2,7 were in the aft of administering it to each other, In performi ng this ceremony they were ;_worti obat there y one a t a time privately, in order, h might be no witness ; from which, and er c ircumstances of precaution, the Principals ratappear to be w e ll verse d in the business, alth oug h n t toajority are poor ignorant people of the low 411"dition. All this transpired at Union Hall. day e Pri vy Council -sat upon the business yester _, 7. • tare , commenced at eleven, and broke up at et. Colonel Despard was brought before it for dro p . . ti e natio n very heavily ironed and handcuffed. tads conveyed in a hackney coach, accom tr ant tads by Mr. I ves , t h e Governor of th e C ount y of r eY Gaol, and three of the Union Hall Police. greater security, fifteen more Officers escorted t ut carriag e as f ar as th e Ob e li s k i n S r. George's -Iciss where seeing no crowd, or d anger o f a re at?e, they returned. During Col. D es p ar d' s examin tiro,*hich lasted the w h o l e t i me t h e P r i vy Coun 4ar, Mrs. D e sp ar d a p p li e d f or a d m i ss i on to see i t ,' 41 which was refused, and she withdrew, after I:log waited above an hoer in the Anti-chamber. i e 4 AB RAHAM G oLDS Mi D, isf the C ity, was pre,. rit a t t h e examination. After it closed, Col. Des- L ' " c d Was brought our, strongly guarded. He was sz Te i Vr i at)es CrOalin 12 1 "Yecl in a hackney-coach to Negate, to which itted for farther . examination this morn tn o'clock. pre a Privy Council, which was to sit at We understand that it was the -objea of the Con_ razor s to make an attempt upon the life of His w 4I " T Y , on his way to the Parliament-House ere Tuesday. In this horrid undertaking, they tai_ to be joined by zOOO of the poor of Spi rzfields; and about the same number from Sr. i'"rge's-fields, &c. amounting in the whole to ‘ , # ° ' ° ° o men. The attempt on His MA J ESTY Y intended as the first scene in the o t i e g ee h e i d u e l d t i r n at :; and, it is said, that having it was their farther plan to seize hletalowe to r, wh ere , h av i ng arme d t hemselves, t h ey pr_iiE return and take possession of the Bank. um w hence they w ere t o proceed to Buc ki ng ham_ : Us e* and sei ze t h e rest o f t h e R o y a l F ami ly resi nt there. These latter circumstances have been 4t %'Voned by the Soldier who gave the informatio n ItsY n ion Hall. Thi s b us i ness is likely to engro ss at Z Whole attention of Government for some days, vo„ "ill be prosecuted with all the zeal and energy, 'men a case of such great magnitude ought t o excite. It i expelled that a Special Commission will be is rdlately issued for the trial of the offenders. It e a take place in Middlesex, and not in Surrey.— A ft : n el Derpard, on his arrest, made no resistance. his exami nat i on b e f ore t h e P r i vy C ounc il he appea red very much dejected. It • t oi is almo s t unnecessary to a dd, t h at h e i s the h ati : n el Despard who was so long confined in Cold_ fields Prison. 4 4 % ILDRALL .—On 'Wednesday last a Coal Met aPpeared, b y v i rtue o f a summons on anin 41.4;14400 char g i ng hi m w i t h h av i ng sol d two c h at_ live r : a nd an half of coals; on being delivered they k i d i re- measured, when there appeared to be ten 1)1, - e e l& and an half deficient. Counsel were em- ed by the Informer and Defendant. The Coal . to-reliant was convided in the penalty of sol. wi th pa r ;C°ne half to the Informer and the other to t he -.3 " Of St. Holy Trinity, Queenbithe. The coa ls Were forfeited. NIIPon Tuesday and Wednesday se'nnight, the juslowing cases were heard and determined by the ' l ees of t h e P eace for the distrid of Dundee : kr E As si , • LAM, Agent and Cashier for the Dundee _ two Company, preferred a complaint aga in 1 14 ,• . ° ll ng men, for raising into the air a kite, d rat in .g a lighted peat or firebrand a ffi xed to it, and pwahnivoring it over the corn-yard of Wallace Craigie, is insured with the Dundee Assurance Com the Y ' 'rile Justices fined the offenders, and dismissed the.:rl.4. a fter poi nt i ng out the incalculable loss wh i c h va.• ~, r n d Pradent an d i llegal conduit might have oc -40. Tw o Peo p l e Y°tlng men were convieted of disturbing the b unci en ßaged in public worship at the Tabernacle. dy' eC, by making a noise in the galleries doing to e but h 7rvlce. This was not merely accidental, as hro uGh ad grown into pradice, and the aftion w as ntren; to cheek any farther offence. As bu tll is s o 13 check only punishable by special statute, muc h ; fi ne d the tr,,,, ters ontra tolros mores, the Just ic estheir 4 1tu rc 3 and put them under caution for g(lod behaviour. MR. sisiiiii iii.,l6k-iiito . • Tu following Letter has been circulated on this melancholy occasion, by the Mayor of Henley-upon Thames : Henley' -upon-Thames, Nov. iS, SIR, A Man and Woman, eiaaly answering the description of the Persons advertised by Sir Richard Ford in the London Newspapers, as being suspected of the Murder of Mr. Steel, on Hounslow Heath, were seen on Wednesday last, on the Road between Reading arid Henley ; and on the same afternoon, about half past four o'clock, near Gangsden Hill, about two miles beyond Nettlebed, on the Oxford Road. It is supposed they went that road to elude the search made for them at Salisbury and the West of England.—Should any such Persons be seen in or .about your Town, you will, of course, think an ExaMinatiOri of them highly proper. I am, Sir, your most obedient Servant, 10i-IN. ALLEN, Mayor of Henky-upon-Thames. CORN EXCHANGE, Nov. t 9. THERE are very few samples of Grain at Market this day, and but few buyers ; Wheat was sold at nearly our lagt prices ; Barley keeps up, as does Rye ; there is Oenty of Malt, which is rather more moderate ; Pease sells lower ; no al teration in Beans of either sort; we have not many Oats, which article also remains nearly as before ; Flour is without variation. Wheat 43s a sos a 57s od Fine ditto -58 s a 59s 6d Barley 275 a 335 0.1 Malt -44 s a 48s od Rie - - 345 a 385 o d White Pease 445 a 454 od Beans - 345 a 375 od Tick Beans - 3os a 345 6d Oats - r4s a as a 2.2 s od Poland ditto 23s a 24s 6d Rape Seed 321 a 341 per last Fine Flour - 455 a 495 od Second do. - 4os a 45$ od A very ill-looking fellow, dressed in a ragged soldier's jacket, wearing a long black bushy beard, was on Wednesday night committed to gaol at Deal, on suspicion of being the Mur derer of Mr. STEEL. The man had about him a leg bone of an ox pointed at one end, which, with his suspicious appearance, induced the Mayor of Deal to communicate the matter to Sir Ricci. FORD, and the man is in custody till an answer is received from Bow-street. He underwent a public examination at the Guildhall yesterday morning, when it appeared that he was in theneigh bourhood of Hounslow about a month since, and he calls himself an Irishman.—Nothing farther tran spired. THE, THEATRE.— The excellent ComedY. of Twelfth-Night was represented last night at Drury_ Lane Theatre. Mrs. JORDAN'S merit in Vo/a is too well known to need any panegyric. This was one of the first characters in which she distinguished her abilities before a London audience, and her merit in it has been improved by time and praaice. DOWTON, who is one of the most useful Per formers., at that Theatre, supported the part of Malvolio with much judgment and effeft. Sir Toby and Sir Azdrthu were well represented by PALMER and StJETT. Mrs. PowELL sustained the part of Olivia in an interesting manner upon the whole, but moaned rathet too much, and often excited the idea of sadness when she should only have expressed tenderness and afFeEtion. Miss MELLON was arch and sprightly in Maria.—The new operatic Farce of A House to be Sold, was confirmed in the good opinion of the Public by the applause of a very numerous audience. The Comic Opera of The Cabinet has been re presented no less than forty times, and it is still so attraaive that, as we predi&ed, the Manager has delayed his intention of laying it aside. It would, indeed, have been absurd to stop the performance o f a Piece that continues to be so successful, in order to snake way for a Novelty, of which the event is uncertain. The success of this Opera, however, is by no means surprizing, as i t is re commended by the comic strength of the Comp a ny, besides the vocal exertions of BRAHAM, STORAGE, and INcLEDON. The Rehearsals at the Opera-house hal , T 4 l:Yegtni, and are in such a state of f orwar d ness as to promise a very speedy opening. Signora GIRBINI, an Actress of high musical talent, is, we understand, engaged to sing with Mrs. BILLINGTON, as Soprano. That Mrs. BILLINGTON should have a female to sing with her, is to be in some degree regretted ; but upon the whole, perhaps, any thing in its natu_ ral capacity, is more congenial to English feeling, than any deviations from the good Dame. Signora Gißstri I's voice, if Greenroom Report says true, is very powerful and very mellow ; and her knowledge of Music is proved from the circum. stance of her being an uncommonly fine performer on the Violin. Madame CORALLI, the new Dancer, is highly spoken of for beauty and execution. ' A Pas-de deux with CORALLI and her Husband, has received the united sandion of the Corps de Ballet. PARISOT'S visit to Paris has improved her health considerably ; her dancing would hardly bear im provement. MARA is engaged to perform for some time in the Opera at Paris. Report says, that with all her great earnings in this country, she had nothing to take from it but her Notes. The Pic-Nics open to-morrow, at the Totten harn-street Rooms, with Henry the Fourth. The part of Falstaff is to be performed by Mr. MAD.. DOCKS, a son of the late Barrister. This Gentle. man has long been admired in private for his thea trical abilities. COBB'S House to be Sold is likely to be full every night. It is a dramatic Mansion, certainly well calculated to afford good entertainment to all its Visitors. Indeed, it is no wonder that all peo ple should like Coss's House, who are acquainted with the Host. Patrick Langdox was yesterday co tied . to Bridewell, from Guildhall, as an impostor, 'tieing charged upon the oaths of two Gentlemen, with using different deceptions to obtain money, some times pretending to be deaf and dumb, tying one arm behind his back, and having a false arm to ap pear lame, sometimes a wig, and sometimes his hair, &c. He found it convenient at this time to use his tongue to solicit forgiveness, which the Lord Mayor denied, saying he could not pardon uch deceptions. LAW REPORT: COURT OF KING'S BENCH, Nov. TB. IN the casc.of an Insolvent Debtor, who came to take the benefit of the tate Insolvent Debtors' Aa, who. Was already charged by another Plaintiff, who had undertaken to give hirn his 6d. per day, while he remained' in custody at his suit, Mr. Justice LAWRENCE, after looking at the last Atq of Par liament; decided, that the other Creditor, who was about ; to detain him also, was bound to give him only is. per week, upon which the note and money Were given to him accordingly. The ATTORNEY GENERAL appeared in Court, and prayed J,dgment against Robert Bradley, Thomas Bradley, and John Bradley, Smugglers, who were tried and conviaeci before Lord ELLEN_ BOROUGH, upon an Information filed by the AT TORNEY GENERAL, for obstruCting and assaulting some Officers of the Excise, in the due execution of their duty. The Defendants appeared as part of a Gang of six Persons, who had deSperately resisted the Officers, in taking from them some casks of smuggled spirits. After Mr. REIN had spoken in mitigation of punishment, and the ATTORNEY GENERAL, had ad dressed the Court on behalf of the Prosecution, and painted out the points which aggravated the guilt of the Defendants, the Court ordered them to stand committed, and to be brought up at a future day to receive the Judgment of the Court. - The cases of several other Smugglers, convieted of the same offences, were disposed off in the same manner. One person, of the name of Mason, who came from Montgomeryshire, and who was tried at the last Assizes at Shrewsbury, and convided of a com mon assault on an Officer of the Excise, but ac quitted of the charge of rescuing the goods which the Officer seized, and who had been in prison since the month of July, and had a good character, the ATTORYEY GENERAL extended his humanity to, and raid, he would not pray the Judgment of the Court on him, but would consent to his going at large, upon his own recognizance to be of good be haviour in future. The Court took his own recognizance in tool. to appear this day twelve months, to abide the Judg ment of the Court, if called upon, and, in the mean time, to be of good behaviour ; informing him, at the same time, that he owed this favour to the hu manity of the-fArroRNEY GENERAL, that if he misconduaed himself hereafter, he not only would be severely punished for such misconduet, but also for the offence for which he now stood before the Court. Thouris Persall, another Smuggler, conviaed of Ohstruding an Officer of the Revenue in the due exe cution of his duty, received the Judgment of the Court ; previous to which he was addressed to the following effed, by Mr. Justice GROSE.—" You stand here to re ceive the Judgment of this Court, convicted of a crime, stated in an information exhibited against you by His Majesty's ATTORNEY GENERAL, for having assaulted Thomas Davis, an Officer of Ex cise, in the due execution of his duty, for having beaten, and other ways ill-treated him. • There is a paf,t of the -Information, of which you weie ac quitted, and ,which it is ;very material for you, for the Court to take into consideration (meaning a part of the charge which was not proved). " You have been conviaed of very improper be haviour, in cbstruding and resisting those who were authorized and directed by the Law, to do that which they were doing. The Court hear with great regret, the situation of yourself, and of sour family (alluding to the circumstances of mitigation urged on behalf of the Defendant), and that you should not recoiled what you owe to that family, but should 'do that which calls upon the Court to pronounce on you such a Judgment as must reduce that family to great distress. However, there are circumstances of mitigation in your case, which we have take,n into consideration. This Court,therefore, doth order and adjudge, that for this, your offence, in addition to the Imprisonment you have already suf fered, you be further imprisoned for the space of two months, in the Gaol of Salop, and then discharged." THE KING V. SHUTLAND. Mr. Serjeant COCKELL moved the Judgment of the Court on the Defendant, John Shutland. Lord ELLENBOROUGH read the report of the Trial which took place before his Lordship at the last Assizes for the county of York. It was an indictment for a libel contained in a letter written by the Defendant to Jos. Rateliff, Esq. one of the Justices of the Peace for the county of Yolk, re, fleaing on the cuaraCter of Rich. H. Beaumont, Esq. of Whitby Hall, and a Justice of the Peace in the said county, imputing to him that he had repeatedly given in fraudulent returns to the Commissioners under the Income Bill, of the state of his income, by which, in one year, the Revenue had been de frauded of upwards of tool. he having stated his income more than roool. per annum less than the reality, which was 'ssoo a-year at least. In another year that he had defrauded the Revenue of upwards of 761. by another false return, for which he made an excuse that he had made up his account in a hurry, at a distance from home, but which was not true. That the Defendant was an Engineer, em ployed, among others, by Mr. Beaumont, and assist ed in making up his account of his income, and became well acquainted with his income ; and being called upon by the Commissioners to state what he knew, he sent this letter to Mr. Ratcliff, one of the Commissioners, and a particular friend of Mr. Beaumont, in consequence of which, inves tigations took place ; Mr. Beaumont was sur charged by the Commissioners, in some of which surcharges Mr. Beaumont acquiesced. The letter in which . thii libel was contained, rwas written witha„gco4:deal of severity against Mr. Beaumont, and was e nfarked by many intemperate expressions. Upon which the Prosecutor, Mr. Beaumont, pre ferred his Bill of Indictment against the Defendant, and removed it out of the Court of Quarter Ses sions to the Court , of King's Bench, and the Case was tried' before my Lord ELLENBOROUCH, at the last Assizes for the county of York, when the proof consisted of the letter being delivered to Mr. Rat cliff, and of its being of the hand-writing of the j Defendant, who was therefore found guilty. Nir. PARKt now protluced Affidavits on hehalf of the 11 - !Fendatir, by which it aPpearedi that Beaumont had adualiy given in false accounts of his .income to the Commissioners, much e) . the effeka which had been stated in the Defendant's leiter to Mr. Ratcliff ; and farther; that once after Mr. Beaumont and the Defendant had been making up an account of Mr. B;'aulnont's income, and laid it before the C:nannissioners, for the trouble in assisting at which, Mr. Beaumont gave the De., fet dant. two guineas, Mr. Beaumont said to the Defendant, it was well the Commissioners did net know of the 30301. he had received for the last three years for timber he had sold, for if they did, they Would play the devil with him." Another Affidavit of a Gentleman of the name of Ingham, stated, that Mr. BeaUmont had expressed a great deal of malice against the Defendant, saying if he could find a hole in his coat, he would take care to tear it, if i(was to cost him zoool. or even to,oocil. That he" was a scoundrel, arc. Mr. PARK then addressed the Court on behalf of the Defendant, and accused the Prosecutor ‘t ith having shewn more malice than that of which he complained i'n the comind of the Defendant. He said this was manifest from the course which the Prosedutor had taken in this prosecution. He had not come forward to the Court for its interfere n ce, by way of criminal inforMation,, which he would have been entitled to, if his complaint was just,. because he was a Magistrate for the County of York—Why did he not ? because he knew that what the Defendant had said of him, in that letter; was true, and he could not deny it ; and he knew also, that the Court would not grant him leave to file a criminal information, unless he denied, upon his oath, the 'truth of that which was imputed to hiM. tie did not bring his anion, which was the best way of vindicating his charaner : Why ? be_ cause; in that case, the Defendant would have been entitled, and he would have been able, to justify What he had said, by proving the truth of it. lie did not appear as a Witness upbn the trial of this indinment, although by law he was conipetent.: Why ? because he knew that upon his cross-extt. urination, it would appear, that the substance of the Defendant's letter was true. So that the judg ment of the Court, upon the reading of the Notes of the Learned Judge, would have been merely nominal. He therefore contented himself with merely proving the hand-writing of the Defendant ; and he knew very well, that in an indidment, the truth of the alle.; gations made against him could not be offered in evi. dende, He did not even now come forward with any affidavit upon this subjed. Why ? he knew he could not make any affidavit that could be of any use to his case, without denying the truth of the charge made against him by the Defendant ; and because, he knew, that if he had denied it, he would have been indided for perjury. He did not come for ward in this business, because he dared not. The learned Counsel insisted upon it, that the Proscen. for had disgraced himself by this prosecntion. , —As to the Defendant, he was, to be sure, chargeable, with souse little intemperance in the manner in which he had written this letter, but he had suffered more than enough for that, by the harassing course, as well as the expence of this prosecution. Consider. ing this case in a public point of view, the Defer_ dlaut was so far from being culpable, that the Public were much indebted to him for bringing forward a gruss fraud upon the Public revenue; so that when the whole matter was considered,' he had no doubt that their Lordships would consider the justice of this case satisfied, after pronouncing on the De.. fendant, a nominal judgment. Mr. HOLROYD followed on the same side. Mr. Serjeant COCKELL MItWOOD, Mr. Top_ PING, and Mr. SCARLETT, spoke in support of the Prosecution, in which they insisted, that it was the delinquency of Mr. Shutland, and not the de merits of Mr. Beaumont, that called for the judg ment of the Court. • Mr., Justice GROSE then proceedcd to pronounce the Judgment of the Court, and said to the Defend ant, that he had been conviaed of having pub.. lished a Libel, for which he was now to receive the Sentence of this Court ; which Libel was a reflec. tion on the character of Richard Henry Beaumont, Esq. a Magistrate of the County of York. In administering the penal Justice of this Court, they were not only to lo,k to the probabic quences io the Public from the publication of 4 Libel, but likewise to consider the private mo tives of the individual who brought the matter be fore, the Public. The Court could not but feet concern that such scenes had been laid befrre it ai appeafed upon the Affidavits in this Case, in which a(;entleman of fortune called on the Court to in.. flit punishment on an individual whO lie said had injured his charader. When the Court looked at ftiil the circumstances of the Case, and especially to that irritation to .which human nature was unfor. tunately- liable--when the Court rcfl,!Eted on the tenour of - all the Affidavits that were read on the part of the Defendant, uncontradi&ed, it ivas irn. possible for the Court not to see that the motive for instituting this Prosecution, was not a love of Public jigstice, but was founded on cne of those passions which, now and then degraded the human charafter ; in a word, when the Court said that this prosecution originated in private malice, 'it was impossible for the Court to do more or le s s than to pronounce upon the Defendant the follow. ing Sentence.---That he, the said John Shutland, for the offence' he had committed, do pay to the King a tine of six shillings and eight.pence, and that he be committed to the custody of the Marshal of the Court until such firm be paid.—The Learned Judge added, that one observation had escaped him, which was, that this Cause was very unneccssaril; removed by 'certiorari. p 'that Court, which r attended by great expence to,tiie Defenciant-- cumstance which contx,ibuted4to shew the rr a dr.. ,alicc of paid the the ecution.--="lle:ertflant then flue fn r crwithdrew. ; c o Mr. JARVIS n this „Ise ould 'Dyed for a ulir:Jle that, , ospew ca!! se Peer of the owßnaestz:llcemail,iaeiac o n w f o h t i y t b , et the appeared the Precily. wherein he h s u e ‘ p f : D e ' o r r me s it Deded on the b' fendant was a Henry Lord Arundel, ar.d could not be sued in this form.--Rule to shew cause granted.