The Sun. — London, England, 1812-10-31 00:00:00

FOR THE SUN. VACCINATION. Ariz. Erwron, . . . _ As you seem to be sufficiently aware of the im portance attached to the important subject of Vaccination, and disposed to give full scope to - a discussion of its Merits, by admittinvTarticles on birth sales of the question, I trust to your candour f'Or the insertion of the following letter, not doubting, indeed, that you will deem it your duty to promote the benefit of so inestimab a disco . Wry. : - , • Hu M A NITA S . . . TO THE EDITORS OF THE YORK CHRONICLE. SIRS, Travelling lately throngh your ancient city, ad miring . with enthusiasm your august cathedral, •Imrivalled perhaps in sublimity and beauty ; con . templating with pleasure the 'character of the in habitants, as exemplified in _numerous charities, iudiciOusly planned and ably executed ; delighted * with the accounts which I have received of the •alaerityand zeal with which many have come for ward to institute and support an Auxiliary Bible SoCiety, an institution from ;vhich the noblest re sults may be fairly anticipated ; .what was my as tonishment, and mortification, on healing of the - recent death of many childi4n in the Small-pox, :nd in witnessing the dire effects of that danger ous and loathsome diSease in others, whom I ac cidentally saw in the streets,- labouring. under its pressure, or beginning to recover from it., _ How is this ?—(I involuntarily exclaimed) — Whence this criminal neglect of Vaccine Inocula tion?, How does this agree with the character I' have heard of the benevolent attention of these people to the welfare and happinesSof of others ? An awful resposibility 'must rest, somewhere, :Is it with the physicians and surgeons of this north ern metropolis? Are they alone insensible to the wants and miseries, and inattentive to the lives and sufferings of their poortr brethren was led as a stranger, involuntarily to inquire into their character for skill, for disinteredness, and for hu than ity But it. will be alleged, perhaps, that the fault is felt theirs; that the calamity has arisen froze the ignorance, the fears, and the prejudices of the lower orders themselves.—Still the question will recur, why 'have not the more intelligent and bet ter informed, endeavoured to enlighten this igno rance, to dispel these fears, and to overcome this prejudice ?- Let not the inquiry, .Mr. Editors, frOin a mere traveller, though it. should-be thought to assume the tone of expostulation, be deemed unimportant, for where there is as spark of genu ine philanthropy in the' huMan bosom, can the mere adventitious 'circumstance of being in a land, of strangers, restrain its effort, or destroy its energy ? Allow me to extract the few follekring particu . tars on the subject of Vaccination. "- Vaccine Inoculation was_ introduced into the Eimndling hospital in the year 1801, and every infant, soon after its a.dnrision, has since that pe rind been - vaccinated. From th.., commencement of this practifie to the present time, no death has occurred from the Small-pox ; and in no instance has the preventive power of Vaccination been diS credited, although many children, as a test of 'its .effieacy, have been repeatedly inoculated with the matter of Small-pox, and exposed to the influence of its contagion." ----- • -In the Lying-in Charity of Manchester, more than nine thousand persons have been vaccinated, and ,secui ed from the in:fluence of Small-pox, in the short space of 'nine years. " the number vaccinated in the. island of Cey lon, 'from the year.lBo2 to January 1810, amounts to so less than 128,73 1 2 persons, and' he Small= pox has been. literally exterminated from the island. Frpm the month of February 1803, to the last mentioned date, the disease had not existed in any part of the iSfand, exce,pt in October 1809, when it, was carried thither in a boat-froni the Malabar cost ; but in this instance the contagion spread only to six individuals who had been vaccinated, altd was immediately arrested in its progress, and. disappeared: The medical Superintendant Gene !al observes, 'that they have no apprehension that the Small-pox will' ever spread epidemically in Cyylon, while Vaccination continues to be gene rally practised; at the same time that - its oceasi . onal appearance there has the good cued of prov ing the preservative power of the Vaccine Pock, and of rousing the natives from their apathy on the subject ; even the l3ramins are now surmountL ing the prejudices of their education, and submit ting to be vaccinated." These well attested .facts, Mr. Editors, and many Others. equally striking, have long been well known in the kingdom .at large, and if they should hitherto have escaped the knowledge or observa tion of this northern' district, I hope the publi city they will receive through he medium of your useful paper, may remove the film upon the mental eye, and that it,will. henceforth cease to be sus pected by strangers, that the prejudice of some and the supineness of others, are more. obdurate and unconquerable .than the untutored ignorance of the iiramiu of Ceylon. A TnAvEntesr. P. S. At NorWich the most prudent and npi riled met!lods have been adopted to prevent ~ . he spread of Small-pox, principally by the benevo lent exertions of Mr. Riglev, an eminent surgeon there ; and 'on the 13th of last August, a resolu tion was entered. into, by the guardians of tin poor, that a reward of half-acrown should be given to. every person resident within the city, Who .should be vaccinated by the city .snrgeons, at the Norwich Dispensary, or in any other way, pro vided they produce to the Committee a satisfac tory proof - of the fact..-7-(See the Resolutions cir culated there, appended to the. Report of the National Vaccine establishment, dated Match 9, 1812.) The body of a female was discovered in a'pond near Loughton in Essex. She had been observed by persons in the neighbourhood for some time. in a desponding situation. The Coroner's inquest returned a verdict of Lunacy. A misplaced at tachment is said to- have been the cause' of the catastrophe. LAW REPORT. COURT OF kING's BENCH , q -r. 30. MAGNAY AND PICKERING V. WILSON. Thii . was an action brought by the stationer's firm of Mr.' Alderman Ma gnash against a coal merchant ,At recover the sun of 3431. which • the plaintiffs had - lost by a false cha racter, which the defendant was alleged to have given of Mr. Bla nc h ar d, a dealer ia rags and pa per; who had lately become a bankrupt ; but, it appearing that the plaintiffs had trusted not so much to the representations of the defendant as to the circumstances of Blanchard's qiaving paid the hills he gave for the • first order which the plairt tiffs executed for him, not upon the faith of any chai•acter given him bythe defendant, and actually held their hands from supplying him farther till the punctual payment of those bills, the plaintiffs were (with a -reprobation of such actions from Lord Ellenborougli) .Nonsuited. • OLD BAILEY. FRIDAY, OCT. 30. ROBBERY ON THE RIVER THAMES. Joseph Simmons Winter, Benjamin Mien, William Taylor, Robert Cooper, James Knox, Thomas key, and George Harris, were indicted capitally tin robbing the Sisters boy, on the River Thames, on the night between the 6th and 7th of July, 1812, of a quantity of silk and ostrich feathers .to the value of more than two thousand pounds. The leading features and circumstances of this case are already before the public, and we thirefore confine ourselves to a short outline of the evidence taken this day... Mr. Joseph . -Milner, Merchant, and Mr. Solo -111111 Israel, a brisker, both of the City of London, deposed, that they bad received bills of lading of silk and ostrich feathers, purporting to have teen shippedion board the brig Velocity, but-the goods were not regularly delivered thein Charles Saimders, Superintendant of Quaran tine at Stangate Creek, remembered the ship ar riving there, on the 13th of June, and being put under quarantine. Her papers Were forwardedto London immediately on. her arrival, and he re ceiVed an order, directing him to deliVer the silk and feathers to the order of Mr..Hotchim. Wit= ness accordingly wrote an order. to his inferiorS in employment, to deliverthe goods to James Damp; ton, master of the Sisters hoy, whicif was the pro perty of Mr. Ilbtchon. John ,Sal,shy_ and John Reed, tidewaters, at Rochester, said they were put on board the Sisters bOy, on the part of the Customs, on the 3d of July. Bampton /vas the master, as they, under stood, and Knox was his mate. They remained in her till she reached the Custom-house Quay, where they were relieved by two other officers; Whose names they did not know, on,Sunday, the sth of July. On their way asp the River Thames, Knox,,the mate boarded another vessel which was astern of them. He toak an empty bottle along with bins when he went, and he returned with it in the same state. Mr. Robert - Hotchon, owner of the Sisters boy, deposed;that he had an order to:.fetch 10-bales of silk, 881 hides, two cases, and two trunks of fea thers, and other articles, which came by the Ve locity. He and his partner sent the Sisters for them, and Bampton was to be master, and Knox mate. On the sth of July, _Bampton came to him and told him, that the vessel and cargo had arriv ed safe off the Custom-house Quays. On the 6th, witness went to examine the vessel and cargo, and he found both perfectly safe. On the Wednesday Morning, between eight and nine o'clock,. Knox called at his house, and told him that tI4 vessel had been taken from the quay, and robbed, the preceding evening of the silk and , kathers. Wit ness then apprized' the Thames Police Officers of the circumstance, and then went ou board, when .he discovered one of the hatch locks to have gone, and two hatches bad - fallen in. In consequence of information he afterwards received, he went to a stable, belon,ging to a person of the name of Nor man, in Gravel-lane, Blackfriars-road, and with the assistance of Golf, Friend, and Clark,"Police Officers, he found some part of the silk tincl fea thers, with the wrappers in which they were de scribed to have been packed. Witness was pre sent on the 9th of July,.when Knox, and Bampton were taken into custody ;. and on the same' even ing he saw Brown and Winter also taken: He then got information that part of the property was on the premises of Mr. Percival, a silk thrower, at-Bruton, in Somersetshire; he.pro-, ceeded there; along with some Officers, where% he found 50 or 60 pounds of :the silk. A few skeins were cut, but he Was able; from particu lar markf„ to identify it. On Isis return to town, heaecoMpanied the. Officers to take George Win ter and Brown ; he secured Brown, but Winter eseeped. It was :cvith great difficulty . Brown was held, but Smith, the. Officer, at last' Caine pp and secured him. William litasable and Charles O'Neale, tide waiters at the 1;ort of London, deposed to their having succeeded ;he tide-waiters from Rochester when the Sisters came to the Port of London.— They liad no previouS-acquaintance with theirpre decessors, but when they took possession every article was pet fectly safe. On the Tuesday after, • noon they began to tinload a quantity of skins, and part of the feathers, 'during Which, two men camPL to visit Knox, and drank with him, but witnesses heard no part ,of their conversation, nor did they know that any of the prisoners' were *of the vistors. Knox and,the strangers then went out in a boat, and rowed towards Tower Stairs. O'..Neale had the first watch, which continued till twelve o'clock, , whcri_Hutstable relieved him, and about five minutes after one, 'tastable (who was sitting on the locker bel6w) heard a noise on deck like that of ropes pulling along. He, arose to go up directly, but a man met him at :the' top of the cabin ladder, which made him ask who he was ? The stranger answered " Tis 1,. jem," Which expression induced "tastable to think it was riampton. ( The night was very dark, and it was imposSible to see a man's face ; but the Man (whower he -might bp) prodaced a piece of paper, and told him that he had got an he vsi . as so drtink 'oe riot kilo* in sh it 'ni he had lost it. .T:le n: - Isoz:ers were discharged; .T. 0' Brien by.;tratie a carpenter, residing la Rotherhithe, Was cited before the Kagi3tr4ei , on complaint lit his The complainant state, , that on' the evening of W e d ne Sd a y list, the . F-1 1- ties retired to rest, when the wife, thinking roight pease her, husharid, informed him that shc _provided for dinner next day a pig's which she proposed roasting: The - husband thcl. &slledr her how much. it cost. In reply to tili" 3 : he :accused ;Tier of extravagance, and beat her, most severely. To -this charge her pleaded guilty ; 'but the Magistrates Were still at • a loss to decide on a point so delicate, which h Ol , thusadeidentally arisen between m an and w ife; lately united. -'lt was recommendedthat the ^a' tics, it possible, should seek reconcilement. Tili3l after a littieeontroversy, was at lengili agreed to: The complaint was accordingly - dicharged. CNN Stealingbo y about four years old, sc of Mrs. Triess, an artist, was decoyed a•vay frq, the (loth- ot his house on '..Vetrincsda'y ii ht , by (WO women, one of whoin calleakerself WY der pretence of purchasing ri;lTrloine: , .v,linais, 00 4 niter keeping fourhOzirs, ii. , vs, broug.ht into the street almost, naked. ri . ;:e weN'i not worth Chore than 3/. The ' that he was.taken up the 7.;:ew it old and r:•i;) 2 ' 1 in a hut. A Woman s t, t 1.:3 into custody eriloob, 0,1 suspicion of having sold soine of the child's t.lothes. S 'WE E7C. - STOCKHOLM, OCT. Is,—The life-pasards, all the otheratroops- stationed here, have srt 0' for Dalaros and are already arrived CarbsaioJ' and Carlsham ; but, - it - is thought that thh; merely, for a show,. and that no expedition' sail from Sweden ; indeed, the season is now to° far advanced. We have only the mil:tia disci tljer West - Gotha regiment,. that do military duty nci'c'l A great many R uss i an no ble . faatisies abed make daily apalicatio n i f or laasa -!s to a rnited to , come to Sa•-eden ; :tau laq wee l less than five hundred and ~:ixta ,ar!h ar:ports were sent to Petersburg h. There are savaal ports about the Russian army, but what may b e relied on is, that they are :ins great 'want of Ge' nerals. Koatousolf is - acknowledged to he a . lh•lce and courageous man; but what can he do alone Baron D'Armfeldt, a Swede birth, is mac° talked of • but . he is no farther e i n pl o y e d t h an tO. be -the of; Governor of Finla»d, and one of 0!e acting Adjutant-Generals of the Russian arar ,, , :and as such accompanies the - Entneroa Aleaandert and thus has no active part in the war. It very remarkable circumstance, that this very a-. ron d'Armieldt, who- was the first favouril?o Gustavus 111. and Who, after his assassination, at" tempted to throw Sweden into the hands of 111 1 '; sia, and on that account •was onthwed, ao" his name placed on 'the gallows ; and who, dttriti; the reign of the late unfortunate Gustavus /Viol:, phus, was pardoned ; and who, soon after dot' time was invited by the Emperor Alexaador , through his Ambassador at Stockholm, Mr. Ahr pens, to betray his country, but then refu:icat should at last be induced to go over ta) the IZII - ' sian party. The real cause has not, been g ear rally known, but the fact is this :—Baron o'An11 1 "; feldt, who was one of the first to sign the act U -abdicating Gustavus Adolphus, did, neverthalc;''• souse time ailefwards", and during the reip Bernadotte, send a man to a Printer iu.Stcacklioloh with a,kind of advertisement, ca lli ng u p on tilt' Swedes to arm in favour of Gustavus Adolphus. - 1 . The Printer, having read the a d ver ti sement , aP•'• finding, it to contain - a language coi,tra a to tile' established Government, told the- ?craw: sea t ' with the adVertisement that he could not' p:rint ttt ,and that he found himself bound in duty to aleto him ; and he,laid hold of the man., However, he was stronger than the Printer, heaai caned. I -0 )1 ; Printer sheaved the paper to the Governor ('' Stockholm, Baron Skioldebraud, who iannediatall recognised the hand-writing of. Baran D'Arnr feldt, in several where th e st il e o f the 0 ( .. vertisement was corrected and altered, went t" the Crown Prince and imparted the basiness• - Baron D'Armfeldt, having, in the hitt3ri time, he e l informed of th e b a d su c cess o f t h e pciaon lie ha' , sent to the Printer, went to the Russian,-Ainla sador, General Suchielen, and took the oa th or allegiance to the Emp'eior of Russia. The Svil,e. .dish Government, which could not, therefore, o'. nish him as a traitor, ordeted him to- quit Sac'' den, and even sent an escort with li;as to TOrneo i i and Armfeldt thus got to fi n l an d, an d a f terwa rd to Russia, where he was _immediately emploY 2 `! , as aforesaid ; and, to the great surprise of Be'' nadotte, was presented to him as a Russian sub' : ,• ject at the interview Be rna d o tt e Ilan with Ale>", ander at Abo. In LTpper George-strc e t, the Lady'of John Forbes Mitcbe -11, Esq. of Thalnston, of a Son and Hcir. On Saturday last, at his houTe at Ealio , the LadY Charles Bacon, Esq. of a Daugntor. 4 -On Thursday, inGrosvenor-square, the Lady of :Ethyl' Hartopp, Esq. of Dalbv-Holse; Leicestersliire, of a Son. • Last week, at Deal, the Laly W. F. i).6st.en, Eq., Cy 2. tain of His I‘li: , esty's ship Elephant, of a Sun. , 11,1,~RR1l;D. On Th 41 ursday last, Ralph Ni c h o k on , jnn.- Esq. of Tect . t , - ham, to Sarah, eldest d a u g h ter o f t h e R ev. R o b ert Elii s °; of Sloughatn, Sussex. • • DIED. • ~c e p On Saturday se'nni g ht, a t h er . h ous . 2 in Grosvenor-pl,,p. Miss Whitw o rth, sister of the Right Hon. Lord Whitsvo'' iu the 63d year of her age.; . ' COAL MARKET, OcT. 30. Ships at Nancet. Ships sod. Price. L 541 Newcastle . . . 48i . . . 395, 9d. to ,f:i's- C i, 51 Sunderland . . . . 51 . . . 40 ,. ;. 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Another was.„also present, who called himself Joe, and laic. s understood him to be Knox, but could nJt i2e certain. Huts table still remained on the iml;ier, until one,.of the men told him to telt 11:s master in the Morning that they should be .there tin enough to . take .the vessel into. dock, which expression made the witness peifectly easy;. and he indulged 'hithself in sleep alon g with hiS companion. Bette .n three and four, flatstable awoke, and atteuiptc , ,l to get upon deck, but he discovered that the hatches had been fastened -down. Ile then tried the sky light, and found that fitst also ; lie then awoke his ,companion, ; and they both broke through the sky-light, and discovered that the ship had been robbed. James Bampton, was then called and examined, when he gave a circumstantial account of the. manner hi which the robbery was committed, with his privacy, when he contrived to be on shore but as he will be re-examined, and the tri4.l will not conclude (in,all probability) before Monday, we decline at present giving his partial testimony. At.half-past ten o'clock at night, after the Jury had been indulged to withdraw for a short time, Mr. Baron Thompson, the presiding Judge ad dressed them,, and remarked the number of hours (ten) which that trial had already occupied their attention, and if they proceeded then farther, they must become very inuch.fatigued ; therefore it had been judged proper by the Court to adjourn for a short and reasonable time; and he well knew own inability, were they _to continue the trial throughout, to -do. justice to that. important duty which devolved upon him. They must. all then keep together in a place to which they should . be conducted, and where, as he was informed, every arrangement had been made for their con, Venience. • One of the Jurrbere expressed a wish, on be half of several. Of his brethren as well as himself, to he permitted to return to their families. I:tronTnomrso . N-----" I am afraid that wish Can not he complied Frith, as it haS. never been in dulged when similar cases occn:red•" Mr. justice UNAMeRE The law is nof discre tionary but positive, in cases of that sort, there fore., we must fulfil it." • JURYMAN--" I thh k that, at the trial of Hardy, the Jury.were allowed to separate and n-assemble." Mr. Baron THOMPSON—" That was not the cage at that trial, for 1 remember it well. it seems to me morally ithpossible that we 'can finish the present trial without adjourning, as we are in formed by the Counsel for the prosecution, that they have forty mere Witnesses' to examine, and the priso-ners must also have a number to examine in their behalf." JI:TRYNANI—" I wish to ask your Lordships, whether, in the event of the trial not finishing to-mo:•row, we shall be detained till Monday from' our families." ',Baron THOMPSON.---`‘ I hOpe-this trial will not cont in tn. , . so long. Oar wish is to' let you all home, b►:t the law don't allow it. To make your bur then• as easy as possible, Officers of the Court will give intimation 'to all your families of your presenrsituation." Adjourned till to-morrow morning, at nine o'clock = (this day.) POLICE ILITTON - GARDEN.--Yesterday a most daring robbery, committed 16 the day-time, between the hours of three and four in the afternoon of the preceding_ day, was charged at this Office. before Mr. Leach, the Sitting - Ma gistrate, against two young ladS named North over and Merit, who were seized by a butcher of th 4 neighbOtirhoodovhose back windows over looked the garden at Ossulston-street, Somers town, in which this open and barefaced robbery was perpetrated, in the view of several persons, by taking and carrying away a considerable quan tity of stockings, which were out to be dried in the garden ofthe owner. Th e goo dS w e re found upon them, and they were fully committed to New gate for triaal at the present sessions. WHITEC.V.APEL.—c. Dove, who had been com mitted with .nether of the n's;ne of .iohnson, for a highway robbery, having made his escape. from: the Counter, was apprehended yesterday, and . brought up to this Office for examination. He was returned to his place of confinement. The boy charged with obtaining goods by means t of a.forged order in the name of Mr. Bris,-. coe, was, after the examination of yesterday, dis— charged, SnApwr.t.r..—C. T. Whitechurch, a miserable looking old man, was brought hp, for examination, charged with stealing a piece of boiled beef from on hoard the ship Prosperity, - lying in the London Dock S . -" The carpenter of the ship and a cabin boy proved, that the prisoner came on board, on pretence of sezlting employment. /He went into the cabin when the boy. perceived him to take up a leg of pork. This he requested. him lay down, which he did." _After.this he saw him take up the beef •and pnt it- into : his hat, and with which he ran off. The carpenter then went in pursuit, and over-took him, when he, threw his hat into th e water.. The. - beef, it "Seems, sunk though the hat vas ,picked '.up. -The 'Captain represented the prisoner to belong to a.gang of thieves, by whom his. own, as well as other vessels were constantly 'robbed of various article. They have. infested the shipping for alcoru iderable time past. Therisorier was fully committed. Aim Warner and:Matilda De,- Luce were brought up nfider *the . following circumstances : —On Thurschty night abouteleven o'clock, as the watch, 'man w;ts passing through Denmark -street, St. George's in the East, he heard a violent conver-. satiOu in a house well known, between. two .females ; the one stated her having that night rOb.bed.! a Sailor, and their dispute seemed to be about dividing - the booty. He took them. them into custody, and on searching t h em, f oun d several 3s. tokensand a .pocket-bOok, in which was a' sailor's protection . . By this means the sailor was traced, who identified the property, but could not Charge them with the robbery, as he only remembered being in their company, when-