The Sun. — London, England, 1812-11-05 00:00:00

The case .was; clearly made out, and she was ca; pitally convicted. A fellow of the name of John Ske, an Irish la bourer, vhs indicted for a highway robbery, in . forcibly taking the hat of Mr. Townshend, a pork butcher. It appeared, howe ;rer; that be hadtaken the hat in a scuffle, when apprehended for some sausages he had stolen, and he was acquitted of that charge. He was then tried *for staling eight Bologna sattges, and three pieces of black pud ding, the property Of the said Mt2TOwnshend.— 'Eh e goods Were not produced in Court, “Seeause," as the prosecutor observed, the oficers of the night were so hungry, that they ate them ;" but the case' was proved, and he was found Guilty He'is an old offender, and haS been pu nished several times. The following ffisoners were Capitally convict ed, viz, : Thomas Deacon, for stealing.4sl. in Bank notes, the property of Samuel Beaseley, in his thvelling 7 house ; Martha Bailey, arid Bridget Bays, for assaulting John Macklin, on the King's highway, and taking from his person and against bis silver Watch his.property Mary Price, for steal ing 5►6 .yards of sheeting, the goods of John. ThwaiteF, in his dwelling-house. Mr. Watson, the tuqr,eon ani apothecary o Newcastle-stl-eet . , - was examined as to the nato: - c: ,of the assault. The prisoner is •bctween 18 and 19 years of age, andis apprentice to Mr. Lee. He was ordered, to be committed. . POLICE. GUTI.D HALL .-Mary Davis was yesterday charged with having fraudulently obtained 2111. of tobace - o, from Mr. 'Lloyd, a tobacconist, on HOlborn-hill. The Prisoner, it appeared, had formerly lived ser- vast with a woman of the name of Knight, in -Hosier-lane, who was in the habit of sending her for tobacco to Mr. Lloyd's, on credit. ,This per son's name she used in the prAent,,instance, and i;IB enablettlo accomplish 'her prirPose Mr. flying eXpressed a wish not to prosecute her, she was'sentenced;to fourteen days' confine ment in Bridewell. F i dthard• Burt was next charged with stealing twenty-four yards of printed calico; in the ware house of Mr. Walter Stirling, Bow Churck-yard Cheapside. Mr. , Stirling stated, that a series of depredations had been committed in his house for a considerable time, and property to a very large amount had been stolen ; suspicion having at length attached, to the prisoner, who bad been a porter in - his service for upward; of ten years, he gave directions to his assistants in the ware, house to watch him—and yesterday morning, iii pursuance of these instructions, one of- the young men, Mr. Gr,,hatn, concealed himself behind some gnOds in the back Warehouse., from whence he could fully observe what was going forward. He had not been long there when he saw the pri soner eater, take the piece of calico in question from a heap of similar articles, place it in a large rush basket., and convey it to an - other part of the warehouse. .In the place to which he retired there was a heap of wood collected in the course of the repairs of the repairs of Mr. Stirling's house, then going on this wood the prisoner bad the privilege of taking away, k:ud a large part of it he ; - put into the basket already.mcntioned, on the top of the calico, which was thus com plet.ely concealed In the course of a few minutes - afterwards he the home, for the purpose - of going to breakfast, carrying with him the basket. An oiliZer, who had I)een summoned on the occa.: sion, immediately purt,Ated ,hiM, and he was taken into custody, with the property in his pos sessi6n. Tile prisoner, in his defence, did not deny the ,propriety of the-present charge; but said it was the "first instance in .which he had ever attempted to co:,nmit such an offence. lie was fully com mitted for trial. driihn Hobbey, , a decent looking young man, was 1.11 , r:-.1 brought up, on a charge of, having.obtained veral lamps from Messrs..fohnstoue and Brooks, R:np-mantifacturers, in New-square, Shoe-lane,, of forged letter 4. BrookS stated, the prisoner had frequently brought to his buase letters, purporting to be written be a per son of the name of Cuff, - residing in Pump -court, in the Borough, directing that lamps of various sizes and ounlities might be delivered to him.—. Upon the - credit of these letters (Mr. Brooks being, acquainted with Mr. Cuff), the'articles were de livered, ,and the prisoner carried them off. It subsequently appeared, however, that these let= ters were forgeries, and that the'prisOner had re ceived no authority whatever from Mr. Cuff to obtain them: .. 'The daughter. of Mr. Cuff, and the mother of the prisoner, attended and said, that 'she had-paid for the lamps procured by.-leer son,• and produced the receipt. She din not deny that he bad acted improperly, bait begged for. the extension of. mercy towards hini, as he had a youlig wife and two children dependant on him for supp'ort, the latter two being at present confined totheir beds by illness. • Sir CnAilLhs FLOwEr said, it was duty to punish the delinqUent, who bad been guilty of a very gross offence.. It was with the complainant', how . ever,, to' take what steps bemight think' expedient. Mr. Brooks said lie bad no desire to prosecute, and should be satisfied it the prisoner went to. sea in his Majesty's service. Sir CHARLES FLOWER thought this a very hu inane proposition, and said, the prisoner must Other enter on board the tender or be committed, The prisoner pleaded his family, and seemed. wuch affected With his situation. His mother too, in the utmost ang uish, beized, for Heaven's sake, that be might be spared, as she knew not / what would become of his pOor wife mind infants. Sir C. Fio..i-ER thought he was. :.iery well off; and the young mmn having signified his wish to go to sea, rather than be exposed to an ignomi nious trial, he was ordered to be conveyed forth- with on board the tender. / A scene of distress, on the part of the mother and son, followed, which we will not attempt to describe. It was such, however, us to excite a - teeling of sympathy in the breasts of all who were , eye witnesses to it. Bow-STREET.---Yesterday Joshua Palmer was brought to the Office, charged on suspicion of an assault, with an attempt to commit a rape on Susannah Lee, an infant only six 7,.'ears of age, the daughter of -ckorgn Lee, of. Little Drury-lane. -~\!~ LONDON: Printed by THOMAS WOOD, of N 0.35, Maiden-lane; Coventgardeiq., -.Published by WILLIAM ARMIGER SCRIPPS, _S9ltti• Moto'.At the SUN Oltll2, E ) No. strap where - Advertiieinci i . ts, OrdevS for the Parer, Letters for the P,:ditor, (host p6O-, the estilnation the_plithe has deservet-y -(tico their character as Lqatesmen•to,te Lweq pitfall of Contempt. An ,article in the ve - ry nninher of tle-Nat!Onal intelligencer, confirms this reasoning. ." The repeal 'cannot, - says the writer; " Focht6e peace wftli England, unless she would disavcw the present system of bo-ckH:., of search . ' and impreSsinent, and Without this, peace with Etiginid' would plunge tts into a war with - France," Who then can doubt of America. haYidg accßied, to the Continentalt;vstem franee to he: - " I will h:rve no neutrals . ; you must make War Upon -Englan:l, or I wake ly,lr upon you F" And America h 4 submitted to ti.t yokel Away, then, with all the nauseous farFago of the wAi• on our part. being, an 'unnatural iVar, (If the ..i...inerieans - .speaking the s. line language, ,IL,k every other base and factious sugge,tiou haS no other meaning or end than-, to .n..uce A submission destructke equally of our hoao.:r and -commercial 'interests. America is no kin;, , ,er, America to us. She has waged war at the instiga tion of France and for French views; and Atilt- , rica LI, therefore, France to us, and every Aine rican a Frenclunan: The too extended forbear ance of Om - eminent has already been mischievous, because sufficient preparations were not made for a war they ought to have known was unavoidable But they hare given way to the American faction at house, and where is the return ? That party-. promised to support the country against America in case she din not rest content. with the repeal oe'r the Orders in Couircil ; but have. they redeemed their pledge ? For ourselves We never belieVed they would; and they have not. Instead of fly-, ing to the standard of the country, they remain in their Old place, the heads of a - groaning, shrink- , ing, and unmanly faction, active only fel mischief, and formidable only in the' nal-v.66e influence of their anti-patriotic politics. We shall nthr, how ever, expect it from Mini s t ers t o put forih the strength of the country and bring this contest to. a speedy issue. .We rdjoice that - the Admiral (in..- ' the American station has credentials to conclude a peace ; and we hope he will be furnished with efficient means of making war on such a scale as may render those credentials of use to him. are averse to a dreaming and supine war. Aiae rica has made war, and we must compel her to make peace: • THE HON. COLONEL COCKB.—Tbis. gallant: . Officer, Who fell hi the lines of Burgos, on the . sth ult. when in the .act of rallying the froon who had been driven in by the enemy in a-sortie. from the castle, was eldest son of Lord Somers, and had, from his earliest years, evinced the tnoit heroic ardour for the service of his count: y, no difficulties could repress, .and which was insensible wale dissuasions of friends, the dangers, of,war, and the aliurements' of dissipation.' Els career, though brilliant, , was s h or t. At the . ofe of twenty-six, he had rapidly passed throe:!: alt the gradations of military rank to the conuinuld, of the 79th regiment of toot ; a. d althast i:11 the steps of his,promotion had_ been marked with signal and public approhltion of his iiiustri :.s Commander; whose confidence rtud:crienc:Aiip enjoyed in an eincOt. deglec. 31,v anci the pill - ilk he *ill he re2,Tertcti and orr!iccent of his - his military comrades lancont the loss of so :np: - .11. spirit, intelligence, and. generosity. By the_de mise of his maternal grandfather, he became-Fos-. sensed of a large landed estate ; the sale fish.cnjoyment ,of which he utterly disdained. On the above melancholy tidings iieing conimunicatA to the War Office, Lord Bathurst .dispatched an express to Lord Somers, hearing also a letter written to_his Lordship by the Marquis Welling ton, which reached Castleditch, his _Lordship's seat, in the county of Gloucester, pri-Monday morning, the 26th ult.; and the intelligence, it may well be imagined, plunged the family into the' most inconsolable distress. By this' sad cAtas trophe, the heirship to the title of the family es tates-devolves on the Hon. John Somers Cocks, who has been lately elected one of the Members for Reigate. An alarming fired broke out at eight o'clock On Tuesday night, in the packthread manufactory, belonging to Mr. Nicholls, in the GroVe, Guild, ford-Street, Southwark, which raged with the ut- Most fury and the flames soon afterwards tom,: municated to the two adjoining house, which in* a shoat time were entirely burnt to the ground. The Accident was occasioned by a: quantity off hemp taking fire in the warehouse., PIRACY AND MURDER. UNION-HALL. - Mutiny and Murder.— Our readers will reccillect the deposition which Was recently made before the Magistrates" at Shadwell Office, by a boY named Mattis, who formerly le longed to the Adventurer, South Sea Whaler, Capt. Keith, Commander, which it had hitherto been supposed was lost in the South' Seas, hitt Which, it now appears from l'iladis's deposition, was taken possession of by the crew,- who mur dered the Captain and chief-mate, and afterwards scuttled the vessel. In consequence of that depo sition, which vas • ori , r,inally taken before Mr. EVANCE at.this office, * Glennon, Goff, and Wert- Jey, were dispatched to, Liverpool, in search of Samuel Telling, who was cooper on board, the Adventurer, and Charles Prederick Palm, the Second mate; who, according to .Madis's Statement, were principally concerned in -the the, murder of Captain Keith and William Smith, the thief -mate. The Officer's arri\•ed in town on Tuesday evening, having, by th , ..‘ir activity, se 7 cured Yalta and Tellin, notwithstanding the, precautions they bad taken to conceal t h en: — selves, ; in consequence of. the intelligence convey ed to them by the public prints, of the depoSition made by Madis before the Magistrates of Shad well. Both the prisoners were examined before- Mr. BIRNIE, on Tuesday evening, when Telling stated the following particulars of this diabolical transaction, which` fully corroborate the ;-t.ate ment previously made by the 'boy Madis, before Mr. Evance The Adventnyer, a South Sea,whaler, of 'which the deceased, Captain Keith, was _commander, and Win. Smith chief mate, sailed from London, in the month of Sept. 1811 ; the deponent was cooper on. bhard ; they bad been out between six and seven months when the 'captain and chief mate were murdered ; the date when this took place he could not remember, bat 'it was about 4 , o'clock in the morning ; a boy named George was_at the helm, the deponent and the rest of the 'crew werefor.ward on deck; I:altr, the second Mate, was amongst them, trying to strike a light; the depo . - pent saw Capt. K. dome on deck, he was in his shirt . ; the Captain said to the second -mate, ," Charles, What are you abOnt ?" Palm made no answer, but struck him with the cooper's hammer, which he had ready in hiS hand. The Captain said, " Oh, Charles, you have done me !" in the mean time another man, since dead, attacked the chief-mate, who had come on deck immediately after the Captain, and -.struck him repeatedly on the head, or any part. he' could, with the cook's axe, mid Palm, and two. other Swedes (both since dead) took the. active part in thrOwitig the Captain and chief-mate onboard ; the chief-mate called - out " boat, boat !" after he was in the water, but they beard no more either from him or the Captain. 'After this, all hands ‘vent below, except the boy at the helm. Palm produc ed a bible, and 'they all took an oath upon it, wishing they might never see the light of Heaven if they divulged what had passed.---The boy. left at the helm was afterwards sworn ; previous to this time, the Captain, while at St: ThoraaS's, had engaged : two black men, :and after the bodies of the Captain and chief-mate had been thrown o'verboard, •the two Swedes provided themselves each with a pistol and a glass of rum ; the rum they ofired ,to the blacks, and whilst - in 'the act of drinking it, each shot his man ; one of the -unfortnnate blacks was shot dead, the other was only wounded, but both were im mediately thrown overboard by Palma and - the 'two Swedes ; the wounded than s‘vaia and caught hOld of the rudder, but Palm took a spade, and threatened to cut his hands off, upon which he letgb, and they saw no more of him. After this they plundered the Captain's property, and Palm' had a five pound note out Of it. Palm then. took charge of the ,vessel, but it was afterwards deter:` mined ,to scuttle the ship, and take to the boats, and steer for the coast of Guinea. Two boats were prepared, and ; provisions put into' them ; the crew, aniouhting to eleven in number, got six into one boat, and . five into the otifer ; Palen ..and the deponent. 'were in separate boats they were three ..days and three:nights be fore they made laud, and 'then one of. the boats was swamped, andu boy was drowned ; they then walked along the heach till night, when they lay crowil on the sand to sleep, and next day' went into the country, till they saw some sinOke rising amongft the trees ; they •Neint up to it, and the black people rusted out and attacked them, and .drove them up the conntry a where they were kept for some. weeks, and thoii taken tO•Port 'Lopez,. frOm whence 'Maths; Palm, ; and the deponent, made, their . way in different vessels to . Liverpool. •- Aa, few days after the Atli - un-' tnrer left England, the crew were pia on-short allowance, which was continued through the voyage • the crew frequently said they might as well be kille& as starved-and a few days before the Captain and Mate were' murdered, deponent heard Palm say he would kill the Cap tain ; at the time Palm was striking a light,-he said he would kill the Captain:; the Swedes'agreed to do so, and `said any one who did not agree should be served the Sallie ; the deponent assisted in throwing the blacks over-board, but did not touch the Captain or Mate, The account of Palm was as follows :—He was shipped-as Second-:mite on board the Adventurer; he . had no qUarrel witl.the Captain; till he came to the coast, athkthen they disagreed abouawages ; he remembered the Captain fringing two black men on hoard from St. Thomas, and that he was afterWarcls pulled overboard by the accident of his leg beiug 'caught in the bite of a whale line, after lie had struck a /fish.. The Chief-mate, William Smith, who was an old man, died by sickness whilst on board; ',one -of the black men, went overboard after the Captain, and he did not see him after ; lte did not know what becaine pf the , other black man, but. was told he went overboard also.—Both the Prisoners were committed for re examination. LINI'fBD sr..vrEB.. 17 , :c foll Owing observations 'so entirely , cor revond with our own sentiments upon the sub and are „so Well written, tlult We re:tdily avail ohn;elves of .them. -They are tikes! frt.,l:l respectlble.Proviticial Journal, entitled The Sluf field M 6 cur.] Every arrival, from that miagoverned and ill-di rected :Country' disnlays in -stronger termil than thelpveceding the divided .state of public opinion, and the strong opposition to the measures of. the- Government which ia, oeganizing in different places. ,If the oppositionists of Ainerica, like the Oppositions of, this country', opposed their rulers in. carrying on a war justified by necessity, a good cause, and waged for legitimate ends) if, like our patriots at home, they discovered only a morbid sensibility to the evils of War,,and rated Without a discriminating application 'over the: common places of afiected_hunianity afibrded by the novels and sickly sentimental writings of the 'day, we should despise them, though their voices were. lifted ,up in favour of England. If for 'a mere commercial consideration, or to gratify the ings of party . zeal, they were insensible to the . honour and just and permanent interests of their country, we should class them with the faction which has in-this country so frequently disgraced itself by its selfishness, egotism, and want ofpa •triotisin. But the federalists of America are men of a very different character. That party -em braces by far the greater proportion of the talent, virtue,' and public spirit of the ,country. They oppose the war because it wants every reason whi - ch can justify nit to Men of reflection ; and they se} ;themselves: against the Government, be canse that-Govetinnant has evidently betrayed the country into a corrupt connexion with France, and under the influence of that power laa.sanot :stay assunied 'to protect its supposed rights, but 'to lend its aid to force from England the rights guaranteed to her by the. law of nations, and to assist in'. turning the fortunes of the important contest in which she is engaged against her. In America the scum is at the, top; democracy, which in that country exists in all its fero cious, and _immoral forms and principles, fills both the seats of _office and the wiscw - ams of the mob; andthe governors themselves are but the leaders of a faction, which can both furnish bullies and murderers at honie, and an -unprincipled engine for the use of the detestable Government of France abroad. The 'men at the helm of affairs there, are those -Who gave joy to Buonaparte on his invasion of Spain and Portugal ; who tamely surrendered to his rapacity many Millions of the prOperty of t . 4,e Citizens which they ought to have protected ; -the robbers who seized Florida, and for their own advantage have fomented the revO lutinn in. the Spanish' dominions in the hope of sharing the plunder. Firmest and virtuous men have, therefore, no choice, They must in justice to their very fame S c her- to the world, that- with a 'Government so young in years, but so old in wickedness,- they cannot act. To every man, exoept to him who was too ig norant to: discern, or too factious to suffer himself to see, the connexion between the - American Go vernnient and Fiaarice was evident long before the declaration of war. A- wish for war was indulged, , and opportunities were long sought for, and when the moderation of the: British Government pre - - N 4 n tea the war faction there front fastening upon a single act of her's which could have any ten dency to unite the Americans in a - common - cause, they made war without acause, in equal opposition =to justice and to the sentiments of the most re spectable part of the American population. The patience of those whoivishedfor war, and of him, .W.ho commanded the Americans to make war, on pain of- his displeasure, were both exhausted by the forbearance of England ; and war was de clared according to a previous ; but long frustrated -intention: This intention- on the part of the' American EXecntive we have all alongused as the key to - the conduct they, have pursued; and he that reads - that conduct by the help of this short . comment - will be able. to explain satisfactorily the failure of our succeSsive negotiations, the unhand - some treatment ofour Ambassadors, and the par tiality With which the laws restrictive of commer cial intercourse have been established. At the moment that Mr: Madison accepted the repeal of the French Decrees along with the appended con . dition, that America Shouldsmake-herarights re speeted by England, he signed atreaty with France, . one provision of which was that he •would de , Clare against England in case her maritime rights were not renounced. From that time it became evident, that the rescinding of the Orders in Council would not effect an acijustment, for the President had pledged himself to France to pursue the same;O:tii - et Ivitit her, " a maritime peace." It is true that, to blink the affair, he affected to say tln France- had' no right to prescribe conditions of this kind,' hat this could not deceiive - any but the most ignorant or infatuated; when the condi tionS Were, neither positively. refused by Mr. Madison-, nor an iota in them given,up by France. This- act would have' opened the eyes of every man - in England, had 'we not had a - party deter- Mined tosea eniiiing but fairness' on the part of America, and injustice and pride- on the part of England . . Never, perhaps, did the blinding power of thiS spirit,exhibit itself go fully as' thiS The Orders in Connell alone, said these miser able politicians,' stood in the Way of - adjustment; though it is to be remarked, that immediately after this union of the American-and French go vernments, the Ministers of the former consigned the Orders in Council: to silence, and made,their stand only on our maritime rights and practice. " The very first communication the President made to the Congress after his treaty with France; for so it was, was to complain not of the Orders in Council, but of the blockading act of Mr. Fox's administration. Thus the ground was shifted; and the question has never since that time rested upon the Orders in Council. The repeal could not, therefore, effect a change - in the attitude of America, and the adoption of that measure under this idea, was both an instance of the deplorable weakness of Government, and of the childish folly of the Opposition: That folly has been fully ex posed by the events which have followed, and in BIRTHS. . _ On the ?Ist ult. at Exeter, the Lady of Paul Measor, EQq.' Postmaster of that City, of a Son. On Friday last, in Spanish-place, Manchester-square e alm Lady of the Rev. ThoniaThurlow, of a Son. On Monday last, Mrs: C. l)..!Cerr, of Jewry-street, of a Son. _On'Tnesdav last, the Lady of E. IL Comyn, Esq. of - Den--- ,rnark-hill, of a Soo. Yesterday, 'the Lady of George Parker, Esq. of Sloane r race, Sloane-street, of a San. MARETED. At Great St. Helen's, Bishorsgate, Alexan,:er thane, of inveran, North Britain, to.niss Fraocina Coroel.e Kelly, of SL Helen's-pl.tee and niece of the lat;?. James • Et 4. of ll„evonshire-sainare. Thursday, Leif, - at Walcot Church, the Rev. (3,•:, Wheeler, of Staple-Asliton, WilN, to Matg:reet, the daughter of the lat e Charl e s_ D6taville., Esq . . „ in the County. of Dub!in, DIED. 00 the 27th ult. Miss .lane. UM in' the 91st of *ie, daughter of the late Mr..huaes Razzz, of 1,1o:11;4 . k:h. ; Es- On the 3lst ult. at trclaieliL aged,Bo, Mrc. Streltiieid, re liet of the Into Henry Stre...:Cielti o Es j. of C;:idd:11..;:lone, in Kent. On Tuesday last, at Prightou, Sir Oharlea Talbot, B‘art. of Chart Park, :Ind of Mitkleilaii, iu the (;onuty of Surrey, Ninviter in the new Pari'ament Cur Blitchingiy. Os the :id inst. at his on'S•hoitse, Jowl/; lc- mar,•of Stained, in his 71st :ear. l time since, at hi; lodgings, in the High-street,. Brighton, I. Solornol , Esq. • , Lately, at C9nitigi y, age I 87, Jane Waite. Yesterday se'nnit..Th• sudd . .,itly, aged 55, ~George , of Leek, near Ki.lchy L ms;Jalc,. Ile was fo7l:td lcir 4 , _ie of the fields, witt; his gu t le a d e d with powder,' tla . 4!-ra.:::.- !'od out, and his two gi• gs at A. short.ili.;tanee from h'fin. On the _7th tilt. at her mother's Purtinau-square,.ficsy,• eldest daughter of the late Sir Georg - e Dunbar, Ba;t. of Moehrutn. At Araujuez, on the dtlr of October, uf a Leer, a o n f d t , c ) ) l e 4L, ) l r o , f , Londua . D I • • • I-HUH WATER AT LON IN Bit KiE . 1 -10-F Morning, 27 ini3utes afier 0. I E.venin4', 52 minute, af., 5 a-street, Grosvenor-sit?are, ►ist be -addressed, f J