The Sun. — London, England, 1812-01-17 00:00:00

OLD BAILEY, JAN% 11:51 James Dixon stood indicted for maliciously shoot ing at Ann Earl, in December last ; but it appear ing that the prisoner was attempting only to frighten away some cats which , annoyed him, when the Wadding of his pistol struck the prosecutrix, and that he had no intention of doing injury to her, he Was acquitted. John Clayton and William Jenkins were next tried on a capital indictment, charging them with burglariously breaking' and entering the house of Jane Furn, in the parish of St. Jamea's, on the night Of the Ist. instant, with intent to steal. The facts of the case have been so recently before tier readers, in a report from . -Bow-street office, 'an tler the name of Mrs. Martin's house in Bury-street, that we do not think it necessary again to enter into t! minute detail of the, circumstances attending th e Priso ners ' guilt and apprehension. It may be re collected (tsar Clayton, by intriguing with the ser vant maid of the prosecutrix, who is a single woman.;. found means to gain' admission into her mistress's Louse, during her absence at the theatre, and after- Wards admitted his -associate Jenkins ; when, after threatening to blow out the brains of the servant if she made a noise, they proceeded to break open doors and drawers, for the purpose of stealing such Property as they could find. Fortunately, however, for the sake of public justice, 'the officers of Bow street bad information of the intended depredation, and secured the prisoners when they bad nearly completed their work. The lacts,having been most Clearly 3obstantiated, the prisoners were found guilty—Death. They are both your); men, the one by trade a goldbeater, the other a chair-inaker. Geor g e Smith was tried for feloniously assaulting, on the King's highway', Elizabeth Sharpe, and tak iog from her person, against her will, ten shillings vinttlt of halfpence, the property of her father. The prosecutrix, a little girl not more than twelve Years of age , stated, that on the evenin g o f t h e 11t h December last, about seven o'clock, she was pass log through Clement's Inn, with the halfpence in g loestion on her arm, when two men overtook her, and one of them placed his hand on her mouth, to prevent her giving alarm, while the other, the pri !our, took from „her tie two papers containing the 1:411-pence, and ran of. Site immediately pursued tito, cryi ng " S top t hi e f !" and he was stopt by the .r airole in Clement's-lane ;, near to him, where be ns secured, were found nine shillings and eleven Pence of the halfpence he had taken from the child. 'Hese faas were corroborated by other witnesses. _Three persons spoke to the general good charader ut the prisoner, who it appears was engaged in a Prin t - Ing-office in Water-lane ; and on the sugges men , the LORD CHIEF BARON, the prisoner was bind guilty of the larceny only, but not of the ghway robbery. POLICE. kMURDERS A T RATCLIFF-HIGAWAY.--. Mr. GRA !4k pursued his private investigation of these hor )le ala s in a room adjoining the Public Office, Verrnilloe; the landlady of the Pear Tree ktht ic - h(iuse attended, and , gave her evidence at %usiderable length, respecting a man of the name e 1 who was apprehended on Wednesday 'ening, and brought to the Office. This man has e in custody before, when he denied knowing. illiams; it has since been proved that he was his v° lnpanion. A boy has proved that he saw three I . l t)n, looking in at Mr. Marrs shop a short time be- P ° re it was shut up, on the night of the mur.!ers.— lblas is kept in close confinement, . w ith a man tt , clok after him. - UNIoN-HALL.—G e o rge H a tt on an d M oses Cl ar k G l.e yesterday app re h en d e d b y C o lli ng h ourn an d Z t ennen, on suspicion of being concerned in tt!e -thlltrage at M r . P ryo r' s, on S un d ay evening last ; W Y underwent a kag private, examination bt?foie EVANCE and Mr. Hicx s ; b u t S a r a h Wilki ns continuing in too weak a State to be confronted Z!th them, tliey were committed for le-examination. e Pa r i s h o f S t. S av i our ' s has o ff ere d 501. reward for the arehension of any of th e p e r s o ns concern thispp atrocious outrage, Itslle French General &mom, for whom a reward 1 001. was offered, on the char ge o f carry i ng on a a sonable correspondence with the enemy, was, v.e understand, last evening taken into custody'at 4talltden Town, and brought to Bow-street Office ti nine o'clock, where he underwent an examina- Vpi and was r e ma n d e d f or f urt h er i nvest i gat i on.— , 11 , e understand he i s c h arge d w i t h g i v i ng " not i c e to T( ' ) e Fr enc h G overnment of a person who was sent I , t a particular purpose to France from this coun t,J and wa s s h o t on hi s arr i va l . H e i s a prisoner ' War. SMITHFIELD MARKET, litx. 17. Li , This day's :narket was n o t we ll suppliedwith t he 4 1t erent kinds of Cattle ; Mutt on i s d earer ; Veal 4 41 Pork were cheaper ; Beef supports last prices ; 4 7_ the trade i n genera { was so:Le-what fiat. Th e 3 / 4 ZB in the Hay Market were not lively ; Straw 14 . 1 Clover obtained better p r i ces ; H ay so ld at last i ce:--The under-mentioned prices and numbers e an accurate stat ement : . To sink the Offal per stone of 81b. ss • e ell 4S• 4d. to SS. 4d. Mutton, 4s. 4d. to 6s. c d. V ea l, c‘a. to 75. sd. Pork, 45. Bd. to 6s. 4d. b easts,Q 69.. Sheep, 4,700. Calves, Ito. Pigs, 3.:0. SMITHFIELD HAYMARKET. izllays 41. os. od. to 51. ss. od. Straw, 21. o s. od. to 21. 1;N Clover, sl. os. od. to 71. os. od. • keo/IN EXCHANGE, JAN. 17.—The Market this ~,7 4Y has few further arrivals of Wheat, but middling Illantities on hand, in part foreign, waiting sup -IPes, the trade heavy in sale, at little vaiation 3 4 ar ley lower, and appears a falling article; Malt trld White Peas still continue to fluctuate but little; I4 ekins of each sort likewise ; we have also but few ar rivals of Oats, and sales thereof nearly at last cur rency; Flour in lull stocks, and again hardly sup- Kris the prices quoted. heat 6os a 78s a loss Tick Beans (new) 4zs a 49s tilne ditto - - 1 izs a 1 iSs Ditto (fine old) - sos a Sts R , Ye - - - sos a 56; Oats - -• 26s a 3os a 32s halt 33 ., - - -36 s a, 45.: Poland ditto, -33 . s a 37s w a l.t , - - -74 s a 84s l'otatoe ditto -38 s •a' 395 , hiteeeas boilers 7, , s ~ 84 5 Rape Seed - - 6:A. a 651. ‘ l p reY ditto ' . - sss a 6is Floe Flour - - 92$ a . zoos "'taus - . - SOS a 69$ Seconds - ~. . sss a gos IMPERIAL PARL iIEN2. HOUSE OP PEERS, THURSDAY, JAS. 16. The proceedings, of yesterday, respeeting the ar rangements for hearing Appeals, consideration of Petitions tor farther . time to lay the necessary Pa pers before the House, were resumed. Several Agents attended, and some discussion relative to the subject took place. Orders were made in some of the cases, and on a few of the Petitions the decision was postponed. In the course of the above, it was notified by the LORD CHANCELLOR that• there were thirty - six causes, respecting which there were no Petitions for farther time, nor any Papers laid upon the table; this, of course, was deserving of particular and se rious consideration ; and on his Lordship's, sog geit ion the House fixed Monday for the considera tion of the subject. The Roxburgh case was again called on, and se veral:of the Agents appearing at the Bar, a short disCussion took place, with respect to the further proceedings therein ; in which the Lord Chancellor again took occasion to reprehend the praCtice of de laying the hearing of causes on account of the con venience of Counsel, as one which should be no longer tolerated. The proceedings in this im portant cause were them adjourned till Tuesday. The printed copies of the Report of the Lords Committees, respecting ihe'state of , his Majesty's health; not being ready for delivery, were not laid upon the table; and the House adjourned till Mon day. HOUSE OF COMMONS, THURSDAY, JAN. i6' Mr. YORKE renewed his notice resneeting the vote of Seamen, and sta.ed it to be his intention to move it to-morrow (Friday) in the Committee of Supply. Mr. WHARTON brought up the accounts ordered by the House of the annual charges of the Civil List, and of the expences of the King's Establish ment at Windsor, with several other Papers. Or dered to be referred to the Committee of the whole . House, on that part of the Lords Commissioners' Speech which related to his Majesty's Hous-hold. Mr. WHARTON brought up Accounts of the out standing Exchequer Bills. Ordered .to lie on the table. On the motion of Mr. ROSE, returns of the quantity of corn, grain, flour, &c. imported in the twelve years from 1775 to 1 . 786, in the twelve ears from 1786 to 1798, and in the twelve years from 1798 to 18.10, were ordered to be !aid before the House. Mr. ROE presented certain Accounts from the Custom House, which were ordered to lie on the table. MI. HAWARDEN presented the Accounts of the produce of all taxes appl cable to the public ser vice, after paying the charges of the Consolidated Fund. bird FOLKESTONE begged leave again to defer the motion, of which he had given notice, from TuesAay to Thursday next. On .the motion of Sir F. BURDETT, Accounts of the net proceeds of the' Dutch ship and cargoes taken .under the ,diretlion and management of the English East India Couri , any, and of the Danish ships con untried in the Admiralty and Vice-Ad miralty Courts previous to the declaration of war betty een Eliglaod and Denmark, were ordered to be laid before the House. HC then moved for Ac counts of all ,hips condemned to the King and the Lord High Admiral in the Courts of Admiralty since the year 1'593. 4 -Granted. Sir J. NEV,. PORT noted for Returns of the net Produce cif lite Irish Customs, Excise, Stamps, &c. in the ye t s ending in January 1809, 1810, 18 11, and 14312. Mr. }Novel-lAm gave notice of a Motion, for Tuesday, for Accounts of the Funds of Droits of Admiralty, and Returns of the vessels condemned, distinguishing such as had been condemned to the Crown ,from those condemned to the Lord High Admiral. Mr. H. MARTIN withdrew the notice he had given of a Motion. respeLtiug Sinecures Places. THE KING'S HOUSEHOLD. On the motion of the CHANCELLOR of the Ex-. CHEQUER, the Order of the Day fbr the House going into a Committee of the whole House, on so much of the Lords Commissioners' Speech as relates to his Majesty's Household, was read, and the House resolved itself into the Committee. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, in rising to submit to the Committee those measures, which, under existing circumstances, it might be proper for them to adopt, felt it to be impossible to avoid ad verting to what, had been the Louise pursued in the last Session of Parliament. Doing this, it was not his wish to revive those controversies which had then taken place, but to take a proper view of what was the present state of ,the great objet of their de liberations, as compared with what it was at the former period. The House must feel with great re gret the difference between the situation in which they were placed at present and that in which they had formerly stood. When last the subjed:came under their consideration, they could nut but rdco- lea how sanguine were the expettations of his Ma jesty's speedy recovery, and they must necessarily bear in mind what now was the prospect: below them. Then they had reason to hope that before any great length of time had elapsed, the Sovereign would be enabled to resume his Kingly functions ; but bow, unfortunately, the prospect was very much darkened. Instead of having before them state ments from the attendant Physicians, declaring there was a great probability of Ms recovery, they bad it now, on the authority of the same persons, that re covery was very imprubable, but yet not altogether hopeless. It was impossible not to see that differ ent circumstances must call forth different mea sures. The course of human action must necessa rily be guided by events. It was not for men to foresee what would actually occur, and their best plans could only be formed to meet that which could rationally be expected. Formerly, when recovery was probable, it was their duty primarily to look to .0e restoration of his Majesty to health, and to the .e,xercise of the Sovereign Authority, but, at the ,same time, to guard against any inconvenience t ha ur4t arise from the temporary suspension of the Kingly funaions ;' no* when recovery was stated fo be highly improbable, it was for them to look pri marily to the improbability of his Majesty's resum ing the Sovereign power, not leaving,out of sight that it was possible he might yet recover. Formerly they were called upon to 'make an arrangement which it was probable circumstances would only render necessary for a short period, now it was ex; pedient to form one which might be expeCted to be permanent. The state of his Majesty's health, at present, was represented to. be such, that recovery was very improbable, though not altogether hope less. The Physician who was most sanguane, Dr. Simmons, had stated, that in younger cases about half !ha :number affiieted usually recovered ; but in cases of persons who were more than seventy years of age, the recoveries were but as one in five. He had, however, added, that in the case of the King, from.tlie singular strength of his Majesty's constitu tion, he should rather class him with those who were hut of sixty, than with those who were seventy years of age. It was therefore their duty; under all the melancholy circumstances of the case, to con sider that, as one in five of those who were so afflict ed when more than 70 years of age recover, they were not to consider his Majesty's recovery as mote hope less than. in that proportion, if the extraordinary strength of his constitution furnished no additietral ground for hope. He would now proceed to lay be fore them what he conceived to be the principal eb jeals which they had to keep in view. In the first instance, the exercise of the Royal Authority- Leh% suspended in the person of the King, it had been necessary . for them to consider in what manner it should be supplied ; and in the next place, they were to take into their consideration the nature of the proVision.which it would be necessary to make for the maintenance and comfort of the King during his illness. With respect to the first, a provision had already been made for supplying the executive power, which gave to the Prince the full powers of Royalty at the expiration of six weeks from the com mencement of the present Session ; so that, as the law now stood, by about the 18th ot. February, all the authority, as well as all the duties of the Sove reign, would devolve of i him, and, unless some pro vision was made for his Majesty's Household, the Civil List also; if nothing were done by Parlia ment, the Executive Power would be complete, but there would be no arrangement for the maintenance and comforts of the King. The House had in their view, in the last Session of Parliament, the neces sity of making such an arrangement, and therefore provided that •the restrictions on the Regent should continue till six weeks after the Houses had met, in order to give them an opportunity of coesi dering of what they were now called upon to con sider, namely, of making a provision suitable to maintain the dignity, and supply the comforts which were necessary to. his Majesty's present situation.— On this subject, two considerations naturally sug gested themselves : the first was, from what fund, and from what source, were the' provision and at tendants to be drawn the second %vies, as to.the nature and extent of the provision to be made ? With respect to the first, _he thought he need have no hesitation in saying, that his Maj, s ty's present Civil List, and his present officers and Servants, ought to constitute the fund and the source from which the necessary provi sions and attendants should he taken. It was not in the ordinary course of things, when making a provision for an individual, in his Majesty's present situation, to draw it from any other s ource t h an t h at which might be considered as peculiarly his own: -In making the arrangement which he should have the honour to propose, it was their duty to look not on ly to the probability or improbability of his Majes ty's recovery, but to have in their contemptation another event, which was perhaps more likely and more probable than his ultimate recovery. That event was a partial recovery, whichithough not such as to 'At, : him for resuming the reins of Govern ment, might yet afford him the means of tasting more cotnfort and enjoyment than he could parti cipate in . at present ; a state in which he might be so . far iestored to reason, as to be sensible of what he was and what he is. In the event of his so far awaking to a sense of his situation, it was natural to suppose that -his feelings Would be less hurt, to find net merely:the same individuals about him who had formerly attended him, but the same Officers he had been used to, than to find every thing changed, and himself attended by new Officers, ot whose names and of whose business he had previ ously no knowledge. The House would feel, that, in agreeing to .any arrangement that might be pro posed, it was their duty not'to deny any thing that was necessary or desirable, but at the same time to be anxious, to pay proper attention to . economy, and to make the arrangement as little burthensome to the public as possible. It was not, however, pos aible, for any one who took a view of the subject, to think that the double establishment necessary to maintain a Regent and a King, could be conducted at as little expense as the establishment Of the King alone. Some additional provision, it would be seen, was necessary, and if a suitable and satisfactory ar rangement could be mad-, which would not occa sion any, additional expense of more than 70,0001. per ante he trusted the appropriation of such a sum to that purpose would not appear by,any means-an extravagant or imprudent arrangement. This en creased' expenditure would he met by an addition to the Civil List of 70,0001. If he was right in think: ing that the present household of his Majesty was that to which they ought to look to Supply his Ma jesty's future servants, ha would propose to take from it the highest officer, namely, the Lord Steward, whese office had several duties b e lo ng i ng to it connected w i t h the person who exercised the Royal authority. 'The same, or nearly the same observation would apply to the offit e of Lord Cham berlain: It was necessary to pass by these. He should therefore, come to the first Gentleman of the bed-chamber, commonly called the Groom of the Stole. This Officer, he thought, might properly be placed at the tread of the new establishment. It was obvious, the Officer so eledted would of neces sity have . new duties to perform, as lie would pro pose that the power of . soperintending the whole es tablishment should be conferred on him. It was not however possible to suppose, that this Officer could always be on the spot ; he therefore thought it would be necessary to appoint a deputy for him. To fill this office he would propose that another in dividual of known name and rank—the Vise-Cham berlain, shoulcfbe seleeted. Some of the Lords and Grooms of thy Bed-chamber, it would. be expeol- id, should still be continued about his Majec. tv, Four of each he thought Would be anffi amply to s pei form all the necessary duties, 'yet not too many for that purpose. 1-1;.• seiould therefore pro- P use that these should b e s e l e ct e d f rom his Majes ty's preset! , household. A Master of the Robes, lA-.. thought, at - el seven Equerries, he thought, shouldalso be c •ntinued, making the total number of persons' attendant on t,is Majesty, twenty eight. The Gro •m of the Stole wouid require a Secretary, and it would also be expedient that a private Secretary should be appointed fur n, r IVlaje,ty. This portion of the Household, there could be no doubt, ought to be entrusted to the .seinagement of the person charged with the care of his Majesty, namely, her Majesty the Queen. The principal officers to be appointed by her Majesty, the subordinate ones by the Groom of the Stole.-.To meet these arrange., ments he thought it better at once to take a sum out of the CIVIF List, subject to the superinten :ante of the Treasury, in order that if the sum taken should be more than necessery,e he surplus might be return.. ed ; and that if there should be any excess of ex pense, Parliament should be applied to to make good the deficency. The sum which he coneeived would be sufficient, for ibis purpose, even were the King ,to remain at Windsor, was 100,0001. This he con. ceived would suffice, 'not only for the bill disbarse tuents, but for the payment of the salaiies of all the Officers he had named. He founded this state ment on what had been the expenses of the King's establishment at Windsor for the last year. Ile would - now offer a few observations _ with re speel to the nature o f t h e provision to be made. Nothing could be more extravagant than to suppose that the same number of equi pages was necessary for his Majesty in, his pre sent state as in his former state. Taking this into consideration, he found that the expenditure of the last year had been from a hundred and fair to a hun dred and eight thousand pounds.; and he appre hended that the sum lie had mentioned would b 3 enough for the support of his Majesty, and for pros viding every thing necessary to his present situation. At the same time it would be obvious to the public , that he did not call for more than sufficient. Ile next came to consider the situation of her Majesty. It could not be expeaed That she could continue (as she had hitherto done in so exemplary a manner) stationary ; and it could -riot be doubted, that if for her health or amusement she should find it neces sary to remove to any other part, a greater expence must be incurred, to meet which some provision ought to be made. With thii feeling, he thought it would net be unreasonable, to grant her Majesty, for such purposes, out of the Civil List, the stun of 10,0001. a year. The last provision which it was necessary to consider related to 'those pensioners who were the -objects of his Majesty's private bounty. These,--he, thought, might properly be continued on that fund which had hitherto borne them. It apreaied to him that the House would think it necessary to make some provision tbr these, and in so doing to appoint an auditor of the accounts ccufieled with them, in order to provide against, any misspplization of t he fund. He shuu:d propose the appointment of a Secret Cornmiriee, si milar to • that of last Session, to inquire into the nature of these pensions. He would also propose that his Majesty's medical attendants should be paid out of his Majesty's Privy-purse ; this could not ap pear unreasonable, as his Majesty would unquesti•n- ably have defrayed those expences out of his Privy_ - pulse, had it remained at his disposal, He pro posed to take 10,0001. from, his Majesty's Duchy of Lancaster to meet in part the exPences neces sarily incurred. These expences - would altogether amount to 180,00011 a year, viz. 100,0001. for his Majesty's Household, 70,0001. for the Private Pen sions, &c. and 10,0001. for her Majesty. Ten thousand pounds of this sutra would be derived (as he had before stated) from the Duchy of Lancaster, and 70,0001, from the proposed addition to the Civil List. Time remained the deficiency of 100,0001: to be provided for out of the Civil List, so that 'his Royal Highness the Prince Regent would have 100,0001. a-year less than his Royal Father' had en. joyed. For the Management of his Majesty's pri vate property, he . would recommend the appoint.. ment of a Commission (one"of the Commissions be ing a MaSter in Chancery) to be named by her Ma. jesty and the Prince Regent. These Commission. ers should be empoWeted to manage and superin tend the whole of those affairs, and to call before them any persons therein concerned. They would , aa on oath, not i to di vu l ge t h e proceedings which ' came before them, and-being interested in the matt.- ner in which the surplus was to be applied, he thought they would he the most proper persons to audit the accounts. He now arrived at the consi deration of the situation in which his Royal High ness the Prince - Regent having the Civil List return.. ed to him 100;0001. a year l ess . than h a d b een al lowed to hi s M a j es t y . The most easy way to en able him to possess it to the sameextent, would be to vote at once I 00,0001.0ut of the Consolidated Fund, • and extinguish his Exchequer revenue. It vvasents tural, however, to suppose, that the Prince -bad on derstood the income arising to him out of the Ex chequer should be continued to him till he came into the possession of the Monarchy itself. It therefore would not be-,fair to him,- or. to those who might have-claims on this revenue, to disturb that suppty and consequently the sum wanted-should be taken trout some other quarter. The House might think it better to leave that revenue, which they knew amounted to 120,0001. subject at present to a &due , Lion of 12,0001. per annum, for the Income Tax • (which would:now cease), at the disposal of the Prince, and thet,it might be unjust to take from hi m the means of. sesisfying the claims on him. He would however propose, that of his Exchequer in_ come, .50,0061.".1h0n1d be transferred to the Civil List, instead of being paid to him, which would leave of that fundlo,oool. untouched. It was to be presumed that the Household expenses of the Regent, from the • circumstance of his family being s the b before f s o uu r o e t ennnoat stated, fc)s:u on ot and ou so much smaller than that of his Majesty, would not be so great- la- taking therefore 100,0001. from a th d e di C og iv t il o L it is i t roi f n oc ih t e he Exchequer Pu rP i 1. a diminution of 60,0001. would remain-, whin!, it the es Prince'sthougl) thought might aoer bfaemdiil7,eatinsdetel consequently smaller expenditure. , It would be an act of injustice, lie must observe, if they were to transfer the Civil.4st to the Prince, as being solvent, to defray the Ix pences of his .Majesty, when it was teetorious that this was not the fad. In order to fully explain this,