The Sun. — London, England, 1812-02-26 00:00:00

Wrecks to. have been nurnetouo. One of the enemy's ships however, laden with copper and other articles, was fortunate enough to find an asy ium on our coasts ; and an Anglo-Sicilian privateer, Which was going from Palermo to Melazzo, was driven on shore near Pralicello, in Calabria Ulteriore. These two vessels, of which we have taken posses sion, have owed their preservation to the provincial guards and presidents of the customq, whose efforts saved - them from inevitable desiruelion. Their crews are now performing quarantine in a place of security. &B. B,—The wrecks of the vessels English-built, uhich the sea every day throws on our coasts, t hew that the enemy has suffered considerable loss in these various storms. Pieces nf an English brig, 'probably ►ost in the late storm, have been thrown ashore near ''wire della Chianca, in the district of - Otranto. There is every reason to believe that the crews of these vessels have all been lost. • The Moniteur gives the following article from the Courier :—The seizure of Swedish Pomerania by NAPOLEON appears to make part of a plan to appro.; Klatt.: to himstlf the whole Southern coast of the Baltic as far as Dantzic, Konigsberg, and Memel." It then adda this note—" To appropriate to himself ? No! but to drive away your commerce, and that Till you shalLhave recalled your Orders in Council, and have returned to the stipulations of the Treaty of 'Utrecht, relative to the principle of maritime Jaw." THE I HEATS .—After the representation of The rirgi n of the Sun last night at Covent-Garden Theatre, a new musical farce was brought forward, entitled Frost and Thaw. The scene is supposed to lie chiefly in Sweden. The plot turns upon the de term nation of Baron Carlstadt (EmEity) to marry 1 .'4 ward and relation, Christina, (Mrs. BISHOP), to Count Siockoli (LISToN), whom neither his ward nor himself had e%er seen, because the Count's t , tates were cont4uous to his own. 'The Lady, iluwever, is attached to Adolphus, a young Swedish Nobleman, who is obliged to conceal himself on su , , , iei ou of treason. The lovers contrive to have a clandestine intercourse ;n the Baron's castle, and by the ingenuity of Svhia (Miss FarroN), the set-. "tit of Christina, Count Stockoli and his man, e on Pressen (FARLEY), are entrapped into an apart. trii-nt usually allotted to State-prisoners, and that lo.ers way be undisturbed, she also draws the Baron i'uo the same room. The Baron conceive; that Stockoli and his man are State-prisoners, and ll't 13:r on appears to them to be an old maniac.— liene e the Baron is disgusted at the behaviour 01 his intended son-in-law, and as it after- Ward s appea r s that Adolphus is not guilty of the i , riputed treasol, the Baron readily assents f te a marriage between him and his wart*, wi;ich concludes the piece. The public have so long beer, accustomed in modern Farces, to wild charac ters and the most improbable incidents, as well as to parts intended to draw forth the peculiar quali ties or mimetic powers ,of particular Performers, that any productions in this province of the drama, if not formed on the same principles, are likely to ap- Pear tame and insipid. If this had not been the case, the Farte of last night would have appeared to greater advantage, as it was by no means wanting in such humour and diversity of chatther, eguivoque of dialogue, and ludicrous situation, as Would have been found entertaining enough, if it } sad been brought forward at a period when the S taeeabounded with Farces of a more regular order t han those introduced by most of the dramatic Writers of the day. There were neatness, spirit, and Point, with some sallies of humour, in the piece of last night, that entitled it to protest Lion. It was very well supp or t e d by th e P er f ormers i n genera l . The piece is attributed to Mr. HOLMAN, and though I t is not to be ranked with his other dramatic Works, it' is by no means unworthy . of his pea.— The music was composed by Mr. COOKE, of Dublin, a Musician of considerable repute in that city. It was 'altogether pleasing and appropriate. The au (hence seemed to be gratified in seeing Mrs. BISHOP brought forward again, as she was thrown into the shade when she displayed increasing merit as an a 6 lt'ess. She sung very sweetly last night. The Piece was roughly handled towards the conclusion ; btu we consider the hostility only as a temporary gust, which will give way before the sunshine of Public favour. There are no less than 390 Causes set down for ttl'4l, at the Sittings after Te.rm, at Gtiildhall,.Lon tion ; the greater part of which are Special Jury Causes. Friday, O'Kain was executed at Stirling; pursuant to his sentence, for the robbery of Mr. STEWART, ca ttle-dealar. GUILDHALL.-Yesterday Peter Davis and John James, wkio had been charged on Monday, under the 23d of. the King, with aiding and assisting in rnanufaauring illegal spires, in a cellar under the Paul's-Head tavern, Cateaton street, were brought 11 P for further examination. The Solicaor for the Excise Office attended, and stated, that in considera tion of the peculiar circumstances of the defendants' Case, in having nairowly escaped death while in the cellar, he wis instructed, from motives of forbear ance, to withdraw the information. The defendants Were then discharged, with an admonition to be cautious iii their condal for the future. Oa Saturday evening last, about six o'clock, during a tremendous storm of wind, attended Leith flashes of ligjitning, a stack of chimneys, belonging to the lirv. J. K. PARKER, of, Barking, in Essex, was blown down wi:h a tremendous crash, carrying with it great part of tne ro9f, tiling, ratters, and the inain beam and ceiling ; destroying a four-post bed, stead, erv. and twelve feet of strong brick I.v:li at the pinion end of 'he house. Providentially no one received any injury. Mr. P. had but a iew minutes Passed by, walking in his garden. L4IP 118 PORT. COURT OF KING'S 13ENCH ) Fz*. iS. LAWSON V. CHRISTIE. ThiS was an thion of slander. The parties are biscuit-bakers, and were talking about the price of flour, at the Coopers' Arms. The defendant was giving his opinion, when the plaintiff observed, " What should such a boy as you know about the price of flour. It was well for you that you had a father born before you. You were born with a silver spoon in your mouth." The defendant re plied, " If you ever had a silver spoon, you must have stolen it. You steal all your silver spoons. You have been a bankrupt once, and you will be a bankrupt again before three months." Lord ELLENBOROUGH reprobated the bringing such trumpery aet if , ns, and the Jury found a verdict for the plaintiff--•Datnages Is.. FEB. 21.—This day the long-pending causes, of the Police Magistrates of the city of Dub lin versus_ Mr. John Magee, propriotor of The Dublin Evening Post, came on to be tried. Mr. Boaßowcs condtatied the prosecution, on a criminal information for a libel, in the beforenamed newspaper, intitled " Inefficiency of the Police."-- 'I he libel stated a number of outrages to have been committed in Dublin, through the want of proper attention on the part of the Pace—that the Ma gistrates received salaries of near 10,0001. a-year of the public money, to which he might have added, the sum of 40,0001: accruing from fines--Land that the watchmen would do their duty effie6tually, if the Magistrates bettered their condition, and at tended to their own business. It likewise styled them the coregidors of Dublin, who loved money as much as the watchmen in his rags, and were un willing to give a fair price for honesty. Mr. Mageg had been remonstrated with on the rffects of this statement. He acknowledged he was the Editor, but denied any specific knowledge of the contents of the article. He said he knew the au thor, but would not give him up. He further stated, that his ears had b een stunne d with complaints against the Police. The Learned Counsel contend ed for the maxim, " qui jiwit per (ilium, Tacit per se;" and asserted that such publications did great mischief to the liberty of the press. Mr. GOOLD' spoke for the defendant, and was replied to by Mr. BURTON. The CHIEF JUSTICE slimmed up at considerable length ; when :he Jury reC 1 . , and after an hour and an. half's consultatic, ought in a verdiet— Guilty of publishing, but without a malicious inten, lion. . They were info►med by- the Court that such a verdict could not be 'received ; when they retired second time, and after remaining out ten minutes, returned with a verdict of---Guilty. OLD BAILEY. Yesterday James Land was tried on an indiament charging hint with .stealing a copper, the property of William AI ton, and John Lloyd and Eleanor Lloyd, father and daughter, 5t0 ,, :l also indicted for receiving t!e same, knowing it to be stolen. The prosecutor, it appeared, was a brazier, resid ing in the Harrow Road, and on the gth of January last he placed the copper in question outside of his door, from whence it was stolen in the course of an hour. Some days subsequently the copper was found on the premises of Lloyd, who keeps an old iron shop in the Edgware Road, and from the evi dence of a woman named Sarah Balton, it turned out that on the day when the copper was stolen she was washing at Lloyd's house, and saw Land come in. with a copper o n hi s h ea d, and having whispered to Eleanor Lloyd, who was the only person at home at the time, her father and mother being out, she desired him to take it into the she,l in the yard, where it was left. Sarah Balton observed to the girl that she was sure the copper had been' stolen, from the manner in which it had been brought, and expressed her surprize that she should have re ceived it. Upon which Eleanor Lloyd Said," what is that to you, mind your own businesi." In the evening the father returned, and his daughter having spoken to him, he immediately went out, it was supposed, to meet Land, who was apprehended on the Sunday following, secreted under a bed in his uncle's house, at Brentford. They were all found Guilty, but the Jury recom mended the girl to mercy, ore account of her having aded under the influence of her father. She is only 13 years of age. Same day the Sessions ended, when sentence of Death was passed on Robert Green and Jtdrn Par ton, (or burglary ; Charles Wheeler, alia3 Walker,. James Setree, and Edward Drone', for stealing a heifer; Eliz'almth Buckley, Jane Bridger, David Dickson, and Thomas Tomkins, alias Ekin Britten, for stealing goods in a dwelling-house ; William White, for returning from transportation ; and Ben.' jamin Hitchcock, for secreting and stealing a letter containing Bank notes. Two were ordered to be transported for 14 years, viz. John Cooper and William Stewart, l'wroty sev'en (or seven years, viz. Louisa Atherton, Wm. Wells, John Wilson, Join Brownell, Abm. Nathan, JO,eph Greaves, Jas. Dearing, Jonas Solomon, Thos. Clark, Edward Evans, Wm. Nias, Thomas Happy, Henry Feast, Henry Overton, Antonio Fianeisco, Arthur Organ, Win. H.. Blaney, John Lloyd, Jas. Land, Sarah Bone, Charlotte Jane Th ,, rpe, Thomas Jeffery, W-m. White, John Weller, John Green, John Moreau, and Wrn. Bailey. COrtN-EXCHANGE, FEB. 26.—This day we have not many arrivals of Wheat, nor much of remain ing quantities, and fine samples obtain, somewhat better prices; Barley in middling supply, and fully supports its price ; Malt like ise ; Wohe Peas, and Beans of the two ki,4s, at a very little• va riation ; there are lew fresh arrivals of . Oats, but tolerable supplies on hand, and sales rather brisk at a small increase in price; Flour this week is dearer, s'.s. per sack. Wheat -65 s a gos a zo6s Tick Deans (new) 411 s a 54s Fine ditto - - zzSs a ixos Ditto (tine old) -55 s a 56s Rye - - -52 s a 53s Oats - - sos a 345 a 38s Barley - - sos a 58s Pot,:nd ditto 39s a 405 Malt - - 845 a 9.4 Potltoe ditto - 415 a 425 WhitePeascibbil.) 76s a a zs Rape Seed - 601 a 661 Grey ditto -53 S a 63s tine Flour -95 s a loos Roans . - 2i a 58s Secoills - . gos a gis IMPERLIL PARLL4IIIENI. HOUSE OF PEERS. TUESDAY, rez. f.). STRAFFORD PEERAGE. "their Lordships, during the far greater part of this day's sittings, were engaged in the further in vestigation of the claims to the Birony of Strafford, in a Committee of PriVileges. Some debate arose respecting the admissibility of a certain part of the evidence, which, on the motion of the LORD CHANCELLOR, was adjourned till Thursday. The Committee then closed their proceedi ngs , an d t h e House resumed: The Bills upon the table, the whole of wbich were nearly private or local, were forwarded in their re speet ive stages. A variety of documents touching the operations and etre& of the Orders in Council, were, on the motion of the Earl of LAUDERDALE, ordered to be laid before the House. A part of these papers were forthwith presented at thelegar, by Mr. Len oard, from the Privy Coun cil Office, and ordered to lie on the table. Some Papers relative to certain pending Appeals were presented at the Bar by Mr. Montgomery, from the Courts of Chancery and Exchequer in Ireland. The House of Commons Officers Bill was read a third time, and passed. The second reading of the Nottingham Frame Breaking Prevention Bill was postponed tilt Thurs dgy, in pursuance of the arrangement proposed iast night. . Alter. dispatching some judicial business, tll.2ir Lordships adjourned till to-tuorrol,v. ROUSE OF COMMONS. TUESDAY, FEB. 25. Ona motion for the 2(1 reading of the Cambridge and Bishop Stortford Canal Ili!, Sir J. SEBRIGHT opposed the motion, on the ground that it bed not been attempted to prove that this Canal would be of any public utility. Colonel DUCKETT defended the Bill in a speech of some length. He contended that the Canal would be al great utility that there was scarcely a farmer in the country who would not be benefited by it, and he therefore hoped the House would al low it to go to a Committee. Mr. CAIVERT was averse to the measure, and thought there was no reason for entertaining the Mr. BRAND spoke on the same side. . . Admiral HARVEY supported the Big ; and after a few words from another Hon. - Member, the House when the..numbers were— For the second reading - 8 4 Against it - - Majority A Message from she Lords annonticed.their Lord ships' concurrence in the House of Commons Offi cers Bill, and several private Bills. MR. WALSH. Mr. BANKES rose, pursuant to notice, to more for cettain papers relating to a Member of that House, which were nece,sary for him to ground the case on, whici► it was his intention to bring lorward, and that complaint which he meant to prefer. In the first place, he would move for " A Copy of the Record of the Conviction of Mr. Walsh, at the Old Bailey, of Felony." He would then move in humble Address to the Prince Regent, praying that he would be graciously pleased to cause " A Copy of the Pardon which had been granted to Mr. Walsh, together with a Copy of the Judge's Letter, in consequence of which the Pardon was granted, to be' laid before that Honourable House. Here he thought it became him to say, that the Pardon granted could not have been granted to Mr. Walsh, but as it might have been granted to any other individual. Whether Mr. Walsh had been the highes: or the loixest person in the State, whether he had been a Member of that House, or one of the- meanest individuals out of doors, he could only have been exempted from punishment by a free pardon. The next parer he should call for was, the Letter from Mr. Walsh to his brother dated Dec. 5, 181 1, and produced at the Old Bailey. on his trial, in which he confessed the offence w ith which he had been Charged. He should also move, that Mr. Jenkins, the Solicitor for the trial, (paired to attend the House with the Letter which he -had just mentioned. - fa addition to motions for those papers, &c. the only proposition which he should at present submit to the House was, " That Mr. Walsh, a Member of that House, being now at large, be. ordered to attend. in his place on Thurs 7 day next, to answer to the said complaint." After a few Words from an Hon: Member,which could ❑ot be diitintily heard in the gallery, the mo tions of the Right Hon. Gentleriaan were surerally put 'and - carried ; and Mr. Walsh ordered to attend .in his place on Tbursdiy next. FRAUDS OF BANKERS. Mr. DaummoND, after a few observations on the law, as it now stands, respect to Bat4keri, entrusted with the Money of,others, for special; pur poses, having set fOrth the inconveniences at present felt and.the necessity of inflitaing severer. punish. tent in cases where such money was improperly, applied, moved for leave to bring in a Bill " for more effettually preventing the embezzlement of money, or other effe,•_ts, left or deposited with Blnkers, Merchants, Attornies, Agents, Brokers, and others, fur sale custody, or other special pur poses." Mr. JOHN SMITH quite agreed with his Hon. Fiiend in thinking that greater severity was called fOr to punish that species of fraud against which the Bill proposed to be brought in was direated.— In innumerable inst:inces the public were obliged to deposit their money with Bankers for safe custody to a large amount. As the law at present stood, the sums so deposited were unProtaled, and he therefore thought great benefit might be hoped from_ the measure to be brought forward by his Hun. Friend. Mr. MORRIS. thought there was a singularly dis gusting anomaly in the law on this subjed as it at present stood. The servant of the party entrusted with money could be punished for a breach of oust; while the master escaped with impunity. FM (p i ned this anomaly would not altogether be rem,v. ed by. the Bill to be brought in. He certainly did not mean to oppose the motion, but he thought many of the inconvenietices. at present complained of might be traced to a watt- of caution i the par ties depositing their m ney, and Ire wouL: not give thetn. a penal statute to guard that whi, h w .11 pru dence they might guard themselves. They might be discreet in the choice of their ba• ,ers, watch over their condu&, and see that ,their securities were forthcomin,,, and that would be more likely to prevent the evil complained of, than the making of it a capital offence. He tnou4ht there might be. less objeCtion to making 'such an offenc a misde. meanour ; than to making it felony. The law pro-. posed might have the effeet of, the parties deposit- Mg money becoming more supine than they went at present, more negligent instead of more diseteet, He had always an objenbon to making laws on par- ticular cases. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER SEl'd, with respea to „the Hon. Gentleman's last 'argument, there could be no difficelty in considering whether the crime should be punished as a misdemeanour or by transportation. He did not think the .A6t would have the effe6t.of making individuals less discreet than thevotherwise would be. If what had hap pened in the last year had not. awakened those de positing money to look after their own concerns, he thought nothing would. The evil - would be more repressed by the dread of punishment on the parr of those to whom money was entrusted, than it would be encouraged by the consequent n4i gence of those to whom it belonged. His Hon. Friend ought •not to have been charged with fram ing an Ad on a particular case, The Bill proposed to be brought in was not founded on the conduct of Mr. Walsh, nor on any other recent case, Lut on what had been complained of for years, and of which the enormity of the.offence and the justice of severely punishing it could not be denied. Mr. HORNER agreed with the Right Hon. Gen tleman, that the measure . was not founded on a particular case on the spur of the moment. It was a law to meet that which had long called fora re. mecly, if it was in the power of the Legislature to supply an efficient remedy.' He doubted if the Bill proposed to be brought in would supply such a re- - medy„ In order to meet, the obieti of the 13 , 11, its - provisions were. to extend to all sorts of pro perty entrusted • to all sorts of persons for ny specific bust or puti:o'ic. Now w. e i it was considered What large .sums were so deposited in this country, it was important for the House to be aware of the elle& that the Bill might have-on the Courts of Equity„ If, in this respett, the Bitl were not properly guarded, more, injury would be done by its effe& on.Courte of Equity, than it could do good in any other respett. • Mr. A. BARINEI thought some measure of the ea'ure of that proposed, was necessary; but a dif ference ought to be made between what was given as a commercial trust, and what was placed in a Banker's ,handt, ie.; a deposit, for sate custody ; be twten the case of him who left the property en trusted to hint to go with his own, in. a cute-• mercial undertaking, and he who violated a par ticular trust, as had been done in the case of Mr. :'alsh. Mr. MANNING spoke in favour of the Bill, which, he co►itended, was more intended to secure the money deposited :or safe custody, than to operate in any other case. The que,,tion was then put, and leave given to bring in the Btli. Mr. DRUMMOND immediately brotaght it in. It was read a first time, ordered to be printed, and to be read a second time on Tuesday next. PARISH REGISTERS. Mr.RosE reminded the House of the steps he had taken on the subject of Parish Registers in the last Session ; he spoke at some length on the n:, , gligent manner in which they were kept at present in most, -parishes, slated several cases of great hardship aris ing therefrom, and in particular noticed the case of the widow of a sailor, who, in consequence of her inability to procure her husband's register, lost all that was due to him when he died, from its being claimed by his brother. The Right Honourable Gentleman then proceeded to state the plan he wished adopted, and concluded by moving, "for leave to bring in a Bill for the better regulating Pa rish and other Registers." Mr. BATHURST thought the object was a 'good one, and ought to be supported, if it did not make too violently against the feelings of individuals, The Registers were at present a mass of confusion, and required to be regulated. Lord FOLKESTONE; upon the understanding that the Bill was different from that of the last year, said he should not oppose the bringing of it in. He then stated the principal objedions to the former Bill, which he thought accounted for the opposi tion it had met with. As to the evil intended ;o ha remedied, it appeared to him that under the law, even as it stood at present, the Bishops had the means of enforcing regularity in their different dio ceses. If , the law .was not sufficient, it woulJ better to give it additional vigour than resort to any new eicperithent. He feared the present Bill -w;Js intended as A source of revenue, it being, as he under stood, the intention to appoint a new Office with two Clerks. Mr. W. SMITH' regretted 'the ill blond that ap peared on the tormer occasion. No person, he thought, who had had ary conversation With the Right Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Rost) could susp.ct Oleic -was any intention of making it a source -of revenue. He strongly reprobated the idea that the Bill was intended to favour Dissenters, and agreed generally in the propriety of the Bill. After a few words from Mr. D. GIDDY and Mr. Rose, leave Was given. Mr. WILSON gave notice that he would on Thurs day next, the sth of Match, move for 'elite to bring in a Bill to amend the 26th of George 11. le hating to Orphan and Illegitimate Minors. DROITS OF ADMIRALTY. Mr. BROUGHAM said, he rose in consequence of his notice to submit a motion on the subject of the. Droits of Admiralty. When the same subject was discussed on a former occasion, no Gentleman de nied that the House had a right to look into the ap plication of the Fund; on the contrary, the Chan cellor of ttie Exchequer had declared himself ready to meet inquiry, and was desirous even to cowl •iis It was in order to meet this challenge, that be (Mr. B.) had brought the motion before the Housf. He deemed it unnecessary for him in the outset of this motion to ritake ab 7 &an ri