The Sun. — London, England, 1812-09-24 00:00:00

AMERICAN MANUFACTURES. Dr..Mitcheil has compiled from the returns 'made to the Treasury Departments - by the Mar shals, Deputy-Marshals, and other persons, pur suant to the third census law, the following-inte resting view of certain, valuable manufactures in the United States : " .5,51 me most valuable infoonation is derived from. these returns, incomplete as they are. Un der the head of sheep,we learn, that - Vermont con tains . e stock of 450,000 sheep . ; Massachusetts, 399;F2 ; Connecticut, 400,x;00; and Pennsylva nia, 6,466,918. These Papers corftain a more distinct and interesting: exhibition than we fiver had before of the saltpetre manufactured in the United States. Thuk . Virginia , prepares 59,175 pounds ; Kentucky,. 201,937 ; Massachusetts, , 23,600 ; and Tennessee, 162,426; making nearly half a million pounds of borne made nitre as good as that usually brought . from foreign ports. It-is allege,i the quantity may be increased to any de sirable amount. " The connexion of this with nu- • merous manufactories of L. , ,u.npowder puts us quite at our ease as. to the nitre or potash, and as to the means we possess of compounding it. " The mannfacture of straw is eminently worthy of notice. In Massachusetts, where . the forming of bonnets frntn that material seems to have first begun, the yearly eanount:of the sale is not less than 551,913 -tlidars. The.manufa.cture of straw bonnets has been since undertaken in Connecticut, and, produces the yearly value . of 27,100 collars ; and it is worthy of remark, that the labours of two Ivomeh in New jersey,in-'the same way, yielded theM 141) dollars, amounting to the stun of '50,228 dollars for the single article of straw bonnets.. Nor is the preparation of sugar from the juice of the maple tree, unimportant. Of this domestic sweet, Ohio• produces, in one twelve-month, '3,033,8d61b5.; Kentucky, 2,471,6471b5.; Vermont,'l,2oo,ooolbs.; and East Tennessee, 162,3401b5. • Making a Quantity of nearly seven millions of pounds in these States only, wherein tEe returns may conceived to be greatly. Within the truth. • . . " Works in horn, ivory, and shell,,-have-made a progress that is worthy,of notice. The combs, for instance, which Connecticut prepares annually for, market, are estimated at. 80,000 dollars ; Mas sachusetts, 10,624; and Pennsylvania, 6,240 equalling a sum 0f.156,861 dollars. " I may mention too the abundance of copperas which West Tennessee and Vermont afford`. The quantity .per annum from the former, is stated at 56,0001. and from the latter at 80001. The quality of these sophates, of iron, is declared" to be very fine, and that druggists and dyers may be supplied to any demand they may "make. "The quantity of ardent spirits annually dis tilled appears, by the returns, to equal the prodi gious emount of 23;720,000 gallons ! The ex traction of brandy from peaches, of an alkoholic liquid from elder, and of whiskey from rye, aad even maize, is carried to this alarming excess. The products of the distilleries are chiefly consumed among -themselves, though a portion of the latter is converted to gin before it reaches the human sto= mph. White, therefore, we observe the increase of these home-made fluids, We must reflect on their inebriating effects. It cannot be disguised, that their intoxicating quality recommends them to such general employment. Nor ought it be concealed, that in a country where a gallon of this maddening stimulus may be bought for half a dollar, a gill may be obtained at - retail for three cents, am.; the seller at the same time double his money. The fondness of this bewitching be verage,.and the repugnancy to an excise upon it, raise in thp mind a curious association between the free use of it and of political freedom .;and it deserves the consideration of all the thinking part of society, how far disease, idleness, immorality, and other miseries incidental to'strong potations; may not degrade freedom to rudeness, and 'some thing worse. " Time number of water and horse mills em ployed in spinning cotton on this :exhibition, amounted - to 330, in the month of August, 1810, and working 100,000 spindles. These on an average will spin .annually between 4 and 500,000 lbs. of yarn ; and that the yarn would be suffi cient to weave 18,000,000 yards of cotton cloth, three-quarters of a yard wide ; and thiS.is wholly_ independent of what may be spun in private fa milies, although it •vtakes part of what is wove there. • ' • The fulling mills returned amount 0.1630 ; and the wool carding machines, going by water, to 1835. " The number of looms returned exceeds. 330,000, "and the total number of yards of cloth made of wo;1, cotton, and flax, as returned, ex ceeds 76,000,000. . "'Gunpowder mills are enumerated to thy: num ber of 207, and though some .-of them are saran, they pre - Pare yearly 1,460,000 ics. of gunpowder; furnaces, forgeries and bloomeries,areentime rated. The paper mills amount to 890.. "Connected with this analysis ofvalitablc manu factures in the United States," We may with pro-, priety add the immense progress made in printing of books, which in many instances, such •as bibles, testaments, some of the classics,' arid other elementary hooks of instruction, has nearly su perseded the necessity of importation.' We wish it wett in our power to estimate the capital in tis department of essential 'industry would far exceed, if ascertained, the most extravagant calculation.—Subservient to-boot: printing is the trade of book binding,which has rapidly increased within the last ten years, ana which, With the Consumption of leather employed , in'this branch must save great sums to the nation. Independ ent of the more common binding of school books, the United States can produce speciniens of ele— gant binding, which might vie with London or Tethers received prom the Island of Antigua, dated August Ist, it appears that the inhabitants and military were unusually healthy, and that the General Officer commanding states, that he had Dot lost more than one man per month, by tropi cal diseases. Thomas .Casgrove was convicted of ' stealing wearing apparel and bed clothes of the value of 50s. in the dwelling-house of Michael Clarke. Wet. ill'Donald and James Bull were capitally convicted for burglariously breaking - and entering the dwelling-Louse of Daniel Munro, and stealing therein several pairs of boots and shoes. Wm.. White anci*-Wm. Best were tried. ort.an in dictment eharging them with stealing 100 pieces of nankeen, on board'the 1. 7 4 ai1 of Balcarras diaman, at Blackwall, on the l'lth of July last.— The prisoners were ogboard .the ship, the one as A Custom-house officer, and the other . as an Ek cise officer, at the time in "citiestiow. Upon all in vestigation. of the case, however, it appcareit there. was no ground for the charge brought mains( them, and they were acquitted. Samuel Pearmund was convicted of feloniougy marrying Elizabeth !!aviug been before married to Mary capo,n„who was still living' The prisoner positively denied that he was the man wh43hail tarried Mary Capon, but the.. fact was positively sworn to by the parish officers of Isleworth. On being convicted, lie offered to go into the navy. The RECORDER, however, said he should not_go to sea, but if he cbose'to go as a soldier he might. .The prisoner agreed to this, and was takerffroui the bar. James Hinchin was capitally indicted for feloni ously assaulting Miss E.. Sims, MI the 14th of the present month; and taking from her person a two : pound note, and other propeity. The prosecutrix Stated, that as she was cross inc, the fields from Kenton, where she lived, to Edgeware, .on the day in question, between one and two o'clock, ou reaching a style, the prisoner, came up to her, and ere she had got many steps from that spot, he caught. hold of her arm. and dragged her to the ground ; she, beged. he would not hurt; her, and said she had,money, and wonld give it to him. He told her to. hold her tongue; and on her screaming -out, )ie knelt -upon her stomach, and 'with one,hand held 11.,iL throat. By the violence'with which he se:ice - A[l,ller, a con siderable effusion of blood took: i?iace. He then tare open her gown, and tiok from her pOeket a purse, containing a 2/. Bank of England note, a dollar, and other monies. She did not see him again until the Saturday following, .when she at once recognised his person. He was the prisoner at the bar. _ _ _ Francis Chapman deposed, that he P. - ppre4nded the prisoner on the Friday followi,,g the robbery,' at the Crown public-house, at. Stanmore. Qu the ensuing day he took hi.ai to Miss SimS, who instantly said " that is the Man." The prisoner in his defence said, he could pro duce witnesses to prove that he was not near the spot described by the prosecutrix at the time she had stated the. assault to have.been compitted. John Hitchener, a shop -keeper at Mill-hill, stated, that the prisoner was in his shop at ten in the morning on the 14th instant ; he was then sober : at half-past one he saw him again, when Ale was a little intoxicated. It was further . proved by. two creditable wii nesses,- that about the time the rubbery was com mitted, 'a than with a short smock . -frock similar to that worn by the, prisoner, was Seen running across a field within-half a Mile of the place where the robbery took place. The RECORDE'a having snrurried up the evidence, the Jury acquitted the prisoner. POLICE. Oun.DnALL.---Mr. Day, a broker, in Mincing lane, charged a_ young man named Lloyd, Who had formerly been his eterk, with a violent' assault, alleged to have been cbmmitted on the 'preceding clay in his counting-house. Mr. Day stated that the prisoner had, in the course of the morning preceding his outrageous conduct, called upon his, Mr. Day's wife, and told her that he, Mr.. Day, had made some attacks upon the virtue of Mrs. Lloyd. Mrs. Day, in consequence of this charge, called at the counting-house, on her husband, and stated the fact. Shortly after the prisoner; made made his appearance, and on being asked by Mr. Day what could have induced him to fabricate so gross a falsehood, he seized him by the collar, dragged him off his stool, and beat him violently. Mr. D, an recovering !Smsell, seized a round ruler, and in his defence, dealt the defendant a blow on the head, which was in consequence a little cut. lie then sent for aconstable, and had him taken into custody. The prisoner, Who was an interesting looking young man, did not deny that he had made the statement alluded to, to Mrs. Day. He, however, positively denied thathe had struck the first blow bn the contrary, he stated, that Mr. Day had used very opprobrious epithets to him, and was endea vouring to turn him out of the counting-house, when they fell together. Mr. D. then seized a lignum vita ruler, and while he was on the ground struck him on the head, and caused. a very con siderable effusion of blood ; he afterwards catched his head between his trees, and holding it 4.4 if in a vice, kept beating him with the ruler about his side, until Mrs. Da,y interfered, and prevented him from using 'further violence. lie "then went for a constable, and had him taken into custody., This statement being in a great measure sup ported by the testimony of a young man who was witness to the tranSaction, Mr. MAGNAY discharg ed the complaint, observing, that Mr. Day might indict the offender at the Quarter SessiOns f he chose. • Brena7z and Hackett, detained on suspicion of having been concerned in the robbery on the Thames some tinie since, when a large quantity of Valentia silk and ostrich' feathers was stolen from the Sisters, Hog, were discharged, as the evidence against them was not sufficiently strong tc warrant their committal. , • J. Williams, taken some time since with a large quantity of brass in his possession, for which he could not account, was committed for trial, as a Mr. Lee, an iroquonger, is Grey-fox-lane, Long lane, came forward and claimed the' rroperty, which he said the prisoner, who was his servant, had stolen from his warehouse. LONDON: Printed by THOMAS WOOD, of No. 35,- Maiden-lane, Coventf, - ardenw and 1 - At the SUN WINE, U. 112 a Strad, wiacre .dthartisemots, Order-41a WHELAN AND HAt;WAY V: THE' GLOBE IN:;rIIA.N CE CO)IVANY This was an action on a Policy of Insurance again , A loss , by fire, effected by the plaintiffs at the < . of the defendants in the city of Dublin, on the tsth of December, 1811, and under which they sought to recover a sum of 609 f, 2S. 11d: as the value of certain Articles of houScthold furni ture, plate, linen, wines, malt and spirituous Ilr quors, alleged to have been 14st by an accidental lire in their.house in Lower Abbey-street; oti , the 31st of Dec. :1811, (being 16 days after the insu ranee) The trial was coiled on.before the Lord Chief Baton . and a special Jury, at a ',Ate hOur on Fri day, the - 3d of July last; when Mr. Gould, the plaintiffs' leading Counsel, proposed to leave it to three Of . the, Jury : this was objected to by the Counsel for the defendants, who stated that it was not merely from the' amount of the sum claimed by the pia:miffs, or the items of which it was coihposed, that the Company disputed their claim, but that from the information they had received, and documents laid before them, as well as from motives of public policy, they con sidered theinlelves bound - to resist the plaintiffs' claims altogether : the reference hi..Wever being pressed, and the Court approving of it, the Company'S Counsel acquiesced, and it was ac cordingly referred to three of the special'Jury, nairiely, Edmund Nugent, Thomas Prentice, and William Sherwin, Esor;:.who were hurnediately sworn, as 'w / ere :sev..escal Witnesses 'on both sides, and the reference proceeded on . . Mr. Gooi.n, withohis usual. ability, ~stated the 01'..,;e, which he said the referecs.were to take tinf',f- 1 . their'cOnsidera.tion, divested of all points of 11:1,7, ;ind narrowed simply :to the tines-. tion, " Whetlice the fire Was acczdenital or not !" °hey oflnsuranee was then produced and ad - 4ttted, as was also the account, furnished by ,*,,te plaintiffs, and verified by their affidavit. John O'Leary Was then e:ainined on the part of: the plaintiffs, who stated, that he knew the hottse ; that it was burnt in December last-; that be dined there almost every day ; that the plaintiffs were about .a year' and a half in pos-. Session, and believed that they' might have ex.; needed about 2001. in improvements; that plain.= tiffs' tavern was a genteel one, and growing bet ter; was there the day previous to the fire, and bad seen Wine in the barT and in binns above stairs ; also ruin, brandy, indgeneva ; . that plain tiffs often sent out gallonts,, dozens; ,and half 'dozens of wine' to purchasers ; .. believed there might be about 20 dnzen of wine. in an apartment up stairs ;, plaintiffs had the other : liquors in kegs ; had sometimes . seen smuggled wine brotight to plaintiffs' house by porters about ,a fortnight before the fire; pla;ntiffs' binns were always full, and believed they had other wine stores in the cellar of the house, also spirits and porter ; did not know what quantity of spirits there might be,. nor of what value, or what num ber of casks, but believed they might. have lmve had. fifteen ,gallons of rum, and the same of brandy and geneva, and about tea gallons of whiskey--, • they might have had about,2o dozen of wine, worth about 50s. a dozen.- 'Hai drank .claret in the housewitness then described-the premises, and . that plaintiff, his' wife and children lived in the house, but being in a bad state .of health, and incommoding the business, of the, house, it being small, they removed to Marl borough-street. That there was only one or two of the seats spoiled by the fire in the box-room. -=-- That when the soldiers were going away, witness and others took an inventory of the - articles saved r from the fire, Which was the same as inplaintiff's account—did not believe the furniture was worth 1001. deducting the articles saved—did not know that there were five pair of window curtains in the house ; knew there were small window cur- 7 tains in the two pair . sitting-room, oak chairs, painted tables, a bed, and a small bed, kitchen furniture, plates, dishes, and a hot plate, (which he calculated at 18 or 201.) ,and Were worth up wards of 561. not including table-linen, china, and glass—there were six tables. in the box-room, and three in the two pair-rodm ; has seen plate Spoons in the house ; believed the articles in the house 'the night of the fire, Worth more than 801. with what was saved, but could not positively swear as to value. , This witness on his cross examination stated, that he dined and drank tea in the house the day before the fire; that there .was no chanffelin it, but by the removal of Whelan's family; that there was wine in the house not permitted, WhiCh he advised plaintiffs to send to Hatiway's stores—ti lieved nothing -else went out—believed the fire communicated from the.top of the house, by fall 7 ing on a sky-light or shed in the yard, which was pitched, and from that to the lower stairs---the stairs were burnt both above and breloW—the rid (lit stairs not so mneh.—lt appeared to high that 'the top, and bottom of . the house, were on fire to gether, without any communication of the fires 'With each other.—Understood Vanway and the Vaiter were to . tricep in the house that night,'hut the'waiter slept ont,—WitnesS is Wlielan's brother in Law. . , _ I Jamvs O'Connor , examined for plaintiffs----1 know the house ; was a.earpenter and engaged in buildings ; saw the house since the lire, and be lieved 1501. would nearly repair it; admitted 'on his cross examination, that he did nut: see y the house till-Feb. or March last. The plaintiff then examined the Rev. Anthony M'Guire, Rector of Thomas's 'Parish, and Mr. Lever, the Churchwarden, to prove ,the certifi cate granted by them to the plaintiffs, and the cir cumstances under which. they first refused, anti . afterwards ;anted it ; and the plaintiff's attorney stated, that he would not call any more wit nesses. Serjeant M'Mahon on the part of the defendants stated I?) the referees, that he thought it better to proceed at - once on the examination of the de fendant's witnesses, and reserve the statement - of their case until the Referees should be in posses sion of the facts. The defendant's witnesses were then .examiu- HIGH 17LITER AT LON] . ) Morning, 5 tiuW3' after 5. Publisbud by WILLIAM ARMIGE,R, SCRIPPS; 'South Molton-street, Grosvenor-squaley ,r the Paper, Lcitca's for the Editor, ac. (post paid), must toil aetdressed•, mr. iteritt James, M. ratterSoll, anti .Viiii Armstrong, who prove—that Whelan had lodg- ed out of the house for four or five days be -lore the -fire happened, and that Ifenwey lived therein—that •the furniture bad been remov- ing therefrom to Whelan's lodgings---that different- alarms of fire has been madeat the plaintiff'shousc- the first about two o'clock, the other between tl4ll and four in the morning of the 31st of De ceniber. ."That on the first alarm Hanoi ay &e'er- 4 ed it was oily a chimney on fire, and on being : . !I offered assistance, said he did not want any, .fwat .. it was-only the chimney. That one of the wit- i nesses, with other persons - then present, extin guished the :lire,. and went away, leaving Hanwai .'. alone in the house, and at that time there was-no fire elsewhere in nbe house.. That on the,second , , alarm being given about four o'clock, -the house was 'discovered to: be on lire and no person therein/ and-on the done being forced open, there was.a strong fire iethe hall, and the upper back,rotniet ' was also on fire at the same time, and.the door thereof fastenedthat Hanway was seen filling - two bottles With oil in • the bar the night before ' the fire, and. on being asked at the time, refused to . give a reason why—that on clearing away the rubbish from one of the upper rooms, two bottles . were found in. the rtcess of the grate which seem ed. ! to have contained oil—that Hanway told one of the witnesses that the fire commenced in the kitchen, but. was suppressed, ,and that it after wards broke out again in the cellar by a hogshead of spiritslaking fire, and on being replied to, that - if so it would have blown - up the house, 'he said, be said, "that fortunately two hogsheads of porter burst at the same time and -put out - th; fire at the ,cellar"—thatlianway - was. requested'to shew the cellar, but-refused—that several of the witnesses had..afterwartis exainined the cellar, but there .was . not the sinalleSt appearance of fire- in it, or the remains of any staves, hoops, or chimes of a hogshead--4that there was a quantity of straw on the floor of the kitchen and some under the table, .. but no appearance of fire on the kitchen story-- that the back door of the_yard lay open, and was partly burnt, but it was evident .that the flame which burnt .it had burnt Outwards and not in wards,—that the stairs from the hall to the first floor were almost entirely Unita out ; that the tap-room and a small room on that same floor had no appearance of tire—the first flight of stair; was burnt. so truth .that it was dangerous to ga 'up; the second flight was not so bad, and the third flight less than *the second ; that the stair- case . which - was on fire, did,not communicate with any fire-plaee; and that the fire at the upper part of the'-hOuse and the lower could not have bees caused by one another. , Several other witnesses on the part of the 0- fendants were examined, every one of whom cot rOborated the evidence' of the former, and the' plaintiffs • again proceeded -to examine witnesses on their part, none of whornehowever, were able 'to shake the evidence given on the part of the' de fendants, and., - , on the contrary ,one of. the wit- - nessesTrodneed by the - plaintifi's to contradict the defendants, admitted that he had been in Nc7. -- :. gate, on a charge of highway robbery', but Wa S 4: - quitted in consequente of his not ,having bOs " identified Upon his trial. - The examination of witnesses being closed on both sides, Serjeant Nl'Mahon addressed the re ferees, and after commenting at haf t , .:e on the evi - deuce produced before . them, he called :Ton the Referees maturely to consider the vast importance of, the case, important to the utmost in its nator-P , thOtth trifling in the anwant. Mr. Charles Ball, on to l- 2 part of the plaintiffs , . replied .at considerable length, and having ccel eluded, the (grand .Jury-room -was cleerei of 'all ‘' persons but the referees, - who, in les's than tes. . minutes, returned a verdict for the defendants: - INIARLBOROUGH-STREET. - A man of mean ar pearance, who stated his name to be Thos. Jones , Was charged with having sent a threatening letter, to a surgeon, in considerable practice, demandill money, and on refusal thereof, intimating that 11 should immediately cause the prosecutor to, b° apprehended, on charges of a particular nature`'' It appeared by the testimony of a boy, that Ile. was employed yesterday morning by theprisonP..o who met him the street, and_tO whom he was complete stranger, to carry the letter, which On", tamed the threat, to the house of the prosectitory who immediately sent for - a constable. The Ki" soner made , no defence, and refused to state NV ° or what he was. He was fully committed for BIRTHS. On Thursday the 17th inst. at the Ps'rs.onage, Ctoiont Verhyshire, the Lady of the Rev. S.-Hc!worthy, of a . Sou. •O.i thd 2otli inst. at Whaddon-Hall, Bucks, the Lack ° • William Lowndes, F4q. of a Son. On the 22d inst. at ,Mapleduchizn, Btrksiiire, Nlrs. Wright, of a Dangliter, MARRIED. • r the On Tuesday, at Overton, Hants, Robert Belt, Esq. 0 ' Inner Temple, - Barrister at Law, to Mary, the "eldest datt,r ter of Biwa!, Tronghton, Esq. of Overton. Yesterday, at St. James's Church, James Loughran , of Percy-street,., to Miss Mary Maxw•eil, of Sackville-street. • DIED. t On the E.:).0111 inst. 'at Lynn, the Hon. Mrs - . 'Vane, rel'' the !ate Hon. :Thiirles Vane; of Mount Ida, in the CoutO Norfork. - • - On T!iesthy,: the.. Lady of James Langdale, Esq. of 1 ,04 " dvr-hlil, Surrey. fl Gn th , .!- 22d inst. at Wiksden-llonse, in Mititilesex, George WObanh, wife of U co ege Esq. of place, a'id eldi-st.tlan;;; - hter of James Trotter, Esq. of Hurto- place, in th.-! County of Surrey. COAL MARKET, SEPT. e 3. Ships at Marxet. 'Ships sold. Price.- 61t Newcastio .. . •454.. . 41s. 3d. to ss• 3 j, 10 Sunderlatld . . . . 7 . . . 42s 9d. to 4 35• • • PRICE . OF. STOCKS YESTERDAY. . ' Bank Stock Ceat. Ann . Of' Navy 5 per SE,I Bml . Excheq. Bill's, Oid. P er 4 pun Cent. shut . . Is. 3s. dis. ss. pr' a per Cent. Red. shut . Ditto, 34d. !er day, es• 3 per Cent. Cons. .59:1- 58H ,I Oninitnn, 6 4 . 1 13r. Bank 1... Ann. shut n o p us er . India Stock, India Bond•;, 3s. die. __.---- ---' . Cons. fur l r a ,tptltroCcte. Cent. i ,3 DX BRIDGE T(:-MOP.13.°\'.5.. 1 Evenin g , 30 Mia,l,tes afta