The Sun. — London, England, 1812-12-25 00:00:00

POLICE. GUlLDHALL.—Yesterday - the guardsman of the Leeds maiicoath was brouglit before Mr. Alder man woos, , the presiding Magistrcte, accused by Mr. Jones, a respectable jeweller, residing in Tri nity-court, with haying clamorously required ad mitt,nre at e his mother's - house, at two o'clock in the mcrning, demanding in a menacing tone that a young w , ,lraan who lodged there shouldhe-sur rendered to him for the purpose of conveying her to her i parents at Leeds. Mr. Jones expostulat ed With the guardsman nn the impropriety of .per - witting a young defenceless woman to wander abroad at that early hour with a stranger ; upon which the guardsman - amused himself in applying a profusion of epithets, not xemarliable• for the chastity of their meaning, toMr. Jones and his mother, to the annoy ance of them and the whole neighbourhood. In his detente, the guardsman admitted that he was a little elevated with liquor, but he had got a peremptory order from the father and mother of tv young woman who lodged in Mr.'Jones's house, to call upon her and convey her to their house near Leeds. It was in the execution of this tom mission that he had occasioned all the present cause of eoznplaint. He bad brought the young woman to London Sbine-weeks ago; and she had not got a place. - Her parents were, in good cir _ cpri st n ces. Mr., Alderman Woon having satisfied hiiitself that the young woman was lodged in a house of respectability, inquired if she was desirous of re turning to her parents ? The damsel came forward, and displayed con siderable personal comeliness and modestysof de meanour; She declared that her .father warned her . how much she would regret her journey to London ; but she hearkened to the .solicitations alady, of the mune of Gibson, wbo desired her, when she wanted a place, ,to apply to her in Len don, and she Would place a respectable situation. She had appl!ed to this lady,, and had got a place in Pall-1 1 11.1, to which she would go on Wednesday next. She would, rather remairrin. Lilndon than go home, unless that, .her mother happened to be taken ill. The prosecutor very generously forgave the guardsman, on his promise that be would cease to, alarm his house any more with- such unseasOnahle visitations ; and the worthy Alderman - declared that he would call himself on Mrs. Gibson con cerning- the young woman, and likewise satisfy himself that she had procured her an admission into a respectable family. . Michael Cunningham, was fully 'committed for trial at the Old fia.ilcy Sessions, for having stolen the hearing" brasses of Mr. llaiumorid's sawing- Machine, at Bankside. - Bo Vir-STRMET .--Yesterdav Edward Connelly was brought to the office, charged with bcing con cerned in working a private still, hißolton Mews, St. George's, Hanover-square. `William Butterworth, one Of,the conductors of the patrole belonging to the office, said, he went on ‘Vednesday with some excise officers, and Hooker,. one of the pap.ole, to Bolton Mews, in scarchof a private distillery. They gained admit ttince into a stable whiCh goes under,Bolton-yard ; and a few yards from the stable-door, on the out- side, where they prOceeded . so far, without mak ing any noise., when Hooker had she misfortune to fail down, which caused the prisoner to run out of a smail cave, dug in the earth, Where there was a fire and a bed, which convinced them he lived there. —He had a lighted candle in his hand, and I:.ppeared vecy much alarmed.' They : asked him xtho the place belonged . to. lie refused to On their telling him they would make him, he called out murder, and appeared very much -frightened John Allen, an excise officer, said, that in con sequence of private, information, and by virtue of the warrant, he went to the above.premiSes, and found the•prisoner .as' described by Butterworth, with a lighted candle in his -hand. in a. stable under Bolton-yard they fovnet a horse and a dog; and in au, inner stable, both of them being under ground, they found a private still, which was not at work, nor was it charged ; but there was a quantity of coke and wood in the fire-place, . laid ready for lightning. On searching the premises, they found seven casks, with about seventy gal lons of wash in a completi, state of . •fermentation. Three empty caskS, and about half a Inindred weight of raw sugar, which they believed. to be for the purpose of distilling. Also a still in a complete state ready-for working, which appeared as if it had lately been worked. The prisoner was convicted in the penalty of 301. which he refusing to pay, 'he was committed to the House of Correction for six months. • Rob. Juhnson was charged with a similar offence by Samuel Meadows and Thomas putney, Excise Officers. Putney said, that by virtue of a warrant, he went to the house No. 5, in Popham-street, Islington_ not being able to gain admittance by fair means,. he got over a wall into - a yard, and went down to. the kitchen, and in a temporary shed adjoining it, he found a' copper still, a copper head, with a complete worm, and the whole at work distilling of low wines. In the kitchen he found kil:Mt seventy gallons of wash, and about thirty gallons ref low wines, and-the same quantity of raw spirits: several casks, a number of tin vessels in the :ihape of sugar limns, and three square wash backs. Samuel Meadows said, he gained admittance by getting- permission to go through the adjoining house, and got over a wall, and in at a back door, and on his entrance he met the prisoner, and asked him what he was cluing there ? lie replied, no thing ; he had not been there long ; the premises were not his, and refused to tell whose they were, or to give any, further account:--He searched the premises, and found a still. The prisoner being 'convicted in the penalty of thirty pounds, hich he refused to pay, he was" committed to tlie House of Correction fur six months. . UNION-HALL .—Wm. !Jewels was brought up yesterday by - poff, charged with having in his posseision .a large quantity of King's naval stet-es. LONDON: Printed by THOMAS WOOD of No. 22, Russell-court, Brydges-street, Covent-garden; and Publi•sheAl by WILLIAM ARMIGtit SCRIPP S, S out h M olton-street, Grosrenor-s q uaie 4 A a .1... Q..— NT— , 11 0 Afinorriionnifulie_ OrdPeS fur the l'ai)er. Letters tor the Editor, &c. (post pai , l), must be addressed. The Officer stated, that in oonsequence of infOr mation which he had received, he • procured'_ a search warrant, and went to the. prisoner's house, who is a dealer in marine stores., On searching the house, he discoVered near a cwt. of copper ship bolts, 'amongst . which .was one marked, with the broad arrow, . concealed in a back room. The Officer also found the 'prisoner in the coal cellar, employed in coveriuglupotlier copper and marine stores with the coals. On examining the 'copper bolts, it appeared, that : they, had all been de faced by tiling, just on that part where Iris Ma. jesty , s mark, the broad, arrow, is usually im pressed. - The prisoner's Solicitor attendel, and wished to plead guilty. as to, the single .bolt which had the,. King's mark remaining - on it, and to pay the penalty, which (the 'article being under the value of'2os.) was 101. • . The'Somc oit to: the. Amtut' ALT Y, who also at tended on the ..part. of the prosecutiOn,. observed, be could not, consent to that 'propOsition. ;No. - doubt could remain on,the mind' of anyperson that the bolts which were defaced, had also borne the King's mark ;.this .circtimstance 4,4- - ra'vatcd the prisoner's• guilt ; the depredations of this. descrip tion . which were daily committed on the public were immense, and. the Admiralty had deterwin ed to.prosecate offenders in future with severity.. The present case, he submitted to the Magistrate, WB3 .one of.the aggravated nature which ought to be taken to another Court; hut as it Would he ne cessary to prove that the - defaced bolts were King's, stores, he submitted,that'thc prisoner should be remanded for further cxAiatiation. when a per son from the dock-yard would attend to prove that fact. The . Magistrate. (Mr. 1 . 1:-.-..iNcr.) being of that . , opiniOn, the prisoner Was remanded. Ann Salter, the keeper of an old iron-shop, in Prospect-place, was fined 5/. for having in her posses ion some spike nails with the King's mark up - on them. MARLE6ROUGH-STREET.-11 7 .11, Godridge was yesterdaycharged with feloniouSlySteaiing a look in. -glass, the property of William Harvey.' The prisoner was also cbarged with, obtaining other articles of different trades-people• by fraudulent pretences. The prisoner inhabited an elegant house, No, 180,. Cleveland-row, where the arti, Iles were furnished. He was rerna.uda for an other examination OTl,Sittirday. Vessels 'hhve arrived in the Downs, and at Do ver, from iOstend and Havre-de-Grace. ' The ac-: counts by these conveyances state, that the people of France - were fully aware of the dreadful disas ters that have befallen the army of BLY9NAPARTE, and that the utmost misery ftnd discontent pre vailed,.throughout the country. In return for the tubs of Bulletins which the French were accustomed to send to us in the Austrian war, reports of the Russian victories, and of the retreat of the French army, have been printed in large characters, and sent over to the French coast, and posted along the shore, by men employed for the purpose, who watch opportu nities to land at night, and having completed their object, retire immediately to their boats. By this means the French people have been made fully ac quainted . with the disasters of their army in Rus sia, not Withstanding all the pains taken by their Government to conceal them. The following article, giving an account of a mutiny, successful in the first instance, but at tended, ultimately, with the lOss of the lives of all thOse concerned, is extracted from a respect able Irish Journal, dated Belfast, Dec. 19 " On Thursday morning, about three o'clock, the new-raised men on board the Neptune tender, lying in the Lough, broke through the press room, and took possession of the Vessel. After confining the crew of the tender below, and se curing the hatches, they lowered down the boats, and twenty-six, chiefly impressed men, effected their escape, and proceeded towards the shore. Owing,. however, to the tempestuous weather, Or their ignorance of the Channel, it is supposed the boats struck on the banks, and the men at tempted to wade to the land, it is. feared, haVe all ,perished, as at day-light one of the boats was found near Mr. R. Getty's, and two demi bo dies lying near it. One of the dead bodies only could be got-at,- the other was too far in the mud. Six hats and several bundles Of clothes were also . picked up. The body of the man vas brought up to town, but \has not yet been owned; he is re cognised, however,- as one who entered regularly as a seaman."--(.Belfast Coin: Chron.) SITriPLIFTIN6 TO, A:GRET AMOUNT —Saturday 'afternoon, about four o'clock, ,two respectably dressed females went into the shop of Mr. Mills, silk-shawl warehouse, corner of Great Turnstile, Holborn, and asked the shopinan to sheer them some fashionable pattern silk shawls, which they - said they wished to purchase, when' the s'hopman readily complied with their request, ha,v ing looked over 'a great number, of patterns, they left the, shop, without making' any. p urchase, say- ing they did not snit them, and immediately after they were gone, the shopinan, in folding up the shalds they had been looking at, di covered that two of them, of the value of 40 guineas, were missing from among the parcel. They were im mediately pursued, but without effect: On the same night, the patrble, while going ais rounds, in Chick-lane, Saffron-hill, hearing two women quarrelling, iminectiaitely ran towards them, when they threw down the shawls they had in their, hands, and made their escape towards Silithlield. The property was immediately taken by the patrole to the watch-house, where, on hearing in the morning that Mr. Mills had. been robbed the preceding day, the property was taken to him, and identified as his - own. At the mill at Elrick, near M inhurgh, on Tues day se'nnight; the miller, of the name . of Wal ker; his wife, ands child, were all found dead in their sleeping apartment. The preceding evening, in small bed-room in which they slept, a quantity of wet shellings of oars had been put on the. fire. for the purpose of preserving it daring the night ; and the smoke - thereby occasioned, spreading through the room, itiis supposed, proved fatal 'to this unfortunate family. AGRICULTURAL REPORTS. UPPER WARD OF LANARRSHIRE. The - Weather, in/ the beginning of the month, was favourable for the season, - and grain left oat in October was got in in good order. We had an uncommon haH frost on the 20th and 21st, xvhich with the foul weather that followed, -has been hurtful to the sheep on.turnip. Ploughing- the intended tallow fields, and the storing of ttn'oips, are now the farmers employ ment, and they get on as the -weather permits,:--- The following simple and efficacious method of preserving this root. has been practised with suc cess for some y:;.ars,, by an intelligent farmer in this district:-1-IC' pitches on some convenient field fit to be ploughed before winter sets in , and as the plough goes roun. the furrow is neatly fill ed with turnips:with Thaws and roots at them ; the plough on returning, covers them entirely, and in this manner the Common sort have been kept in perfection till!May.. In the report for last month. We hazarded a con jecture, that in this • district• the crop - - -oufd notof itself he sufficient to lower the market Materially: Painful experience has justified our report, and-. now that considerable quantities of oats have been mewled, it appears that a large proportion of grain in the Upper Ward is not of so good a quality as last year's crop. Meal at Lanark from :50s. - to 60s a load.—Snit b tide). 235. per stone.—Common cheese Bs. Sweet milk cheese Its. , near Lanark, Dec. 1 MIDDLE WAED OF LANARKSHIRE. The first day of November waswet and stormy, but the next twelve or fourteen:days were_ remark ably favourable to the harvesting of; the crop,;— The greatest part of What,vemained out Was se cured in excellent condition; during the first week, . and the whole during the second week of Novem cer. Perhaps few harvests have been more tedi oils; and the crop kept longer in the fields, than this now ended; but the injury, upon the whole, has been far less than has often been met with in seasons that were earlier, an(( reckoned much bet ter. As there were many green stalks among_the crop, and as the farmers who had - been retarded by the rains proceeded hastily When the weather dried orp, some graiu•has heated i the stack; but by no means to any great extent ; and the wind having general y bloc: it fresh, since the crop' was secured, has prevented heating. In seasons like the present, and indeed in .any season, it would be highly proper to set up four fir trees, nailed Or tied together at the tnp, in•the centre of every stack, and - lay in as much brink-. wood, 'bound together, as the thickness of a corn sheaf, or so, on the opposite sides of the stack, at different heights, so 515 to promote ventilation through the stack. This would-be found one of the greatest improvements -that can be executed at so small expense. The frost that came on about the 7th or Bth, put the farmers in mind of their. duty as to the potatoe crop ; and F o rne. of them left the inning of their corn to get them secured. Such of the potatoes us were not covered with earth Were hurt by the frost ; hut - the loss on that score was not great, probably not more than half a per cent. of the crop. The crop now secured is every is every where one-fourth, generally one-lhird, and on some farms one-half more bulky, than that of last year, and, upon 7 the whole, considerably above a tnecri um crop. In that which was -early the grain is excellent ; but where later, i§' not so goad. There is indeed much grain of good qualify, even - among the very latest ; but it is mixed With such-a large portion of tiolt Which ha§ not ripened, that the corn Will not yield, in many cases, riare than eight, ten, or twelve pecks of meal. per liiikttark shire boll. When the weak corn, however, is se parated, the best will yield a larger' return of , meal; and the weak corn, when preserved for cattle, will render their situation much more com fortable, and make them more productive than last year. The fears entertained o . f -the crop turning put ill, and the clamour that some attempted to raise : on that score, cannot be better removed or refitt ed by the fall in the price of oatmeal, from 3s. 4d. to Is. 11d. a peck, though we have had no impor tation to affect the market, nor even the prospect of grain front abroad, The price of potatoes, which had fallen tqb far, has .risen to near its proper level ; they sold at 6d. when the oatmeal was 3s. and at 7d. when it gave 2s. 6d.: but they have risen to 10d. and in some places to l Id. while the oatmeal has fallen below 2s. per peck.. The turnips are good, the young wheats look well, and cattle of all sorts have had an uncom mon supply of herbage and mild weather during the autumn, and are in excellent plight. The dairy, has, contrary to expectation, at the beginning of the summer, turned. out weli, and the prices of butter and cheese are higher-than they were last year. The knoWlede of this part of husbandry being confined to the' coenties of Ayr, Renfrew, and Lanark, and 'the dairy being rather despind by the cast country farmers, the' prices of dairy produce haVe advanced, within the last thirty years, five or six tines Much as that of oatmeal, and as it is still advancing in price; it. may be expected that the eyes of •the intelligent farmers In other districts will soon -he opened to that intportant and wonderfully neglected branch of rural economy. • Strathaven, Nor. 30. NAPOLEON'S grand army, with which he enter ed Russia, for the purpose of effecting the, de struction of that Empire, but which cannot now be considered as any longer exiiting as an army, consisted, according to the following statement, and nearly half a million of men,viz.— Poles, :60,000 ; Saxons,- 4 20,000 ; Anstriaris, 30,000; Ba varians,' 30,000 ; Prussians, 29.,000; Westpbalians, 20,000 ; Wirtemlkergiters ' 8,000 ; Badeners , 8 ; 000 ; DarmstadVers, 4,000 ; Gutha and Weimar 2,000; Wurtzburg and Franconia, 5,000 ; Mecklenburgh, Nassau, and small Princes, 5;000 ; - Italians and Neapolitans, 20,000; 'Spain and Portugal, 4,000; Swiss, 10,000 ; French, 250,000. . Total, 498,006; including 60,009 cavalry, besides 40,001 hones for artillery and train, being 1,200 pieces of cannon. SCOTLAND. CO 'l:'' OF SESSION—Fms - r DIVISION, Dcc. cEssro soN'Orarm. JOHNSTON V. HIS CP,E,DITORS', The pursuer of this cessio is well known in the theatrical . world.. As stated by his Counsel, he commenced his career' an early period Of life, in the Royal of Edialiurgh, and he after -terwards prosecuted his employment in the Thea tres of Condoni 'He was unfortunate in his matrinionial engagement, and . was compcl.7 ltd, some Years. vso ;o separate froin his wits,' El from which, as he might be traced OR his subsequent inisfortimes mud caknities tire.' *future care, support, and management of his. la - fant family, consisting of five children, having devolved entirely unon .himseif, and the feeling produced,by hiS doniestic misfortune ha7ing coinpelled him to 'Leave the Loudon stages, and - give oll. ‘ _his lucrative situation there. In the year. 1809 he was advised to purchase the Theatre Royal, i 0 Peter-street, Dub:in, at a great expense . ; and he issued 'forty debentures - , .at 'lOOl. beariag an interest o 4 'live' per, cent. and entitling the kol der to a free admissit'm to :_?1-y part of the house but not more than one 1.; t i of the subscription wa s filled up, and he was compelled, besides sinking the whole of his fortnne, to borrow money frow his friends to T.apply the, deficiency. deficiency. By a train misfortunes and multiplied calamity, his affairs tit into disorder; and in Spring last he came to Scotland to obtain the advice and assistance his friends in this country, when one of his credi tors having applied for a meditatione fugce warrant,.. he was incarcerated in the gaol of D4ndee, and: having been arrested in - gaol upon diligence by caption, lie raised the 'present process of cessio• The pursuer put in a condescendence, stating the. amount of his debts, specifying his property, and alluding to the cause of his bankruptcy; but ap-, pearance having-been made in the latter end of the summer Session for one creditor, Mr. James-'f)e -Ville, of London, he obtained a temporarylibe ration, upon finding caution to return to p f iso3 ,on thel2th of November last, under the penalty' of ;3001. He had accordingly - now; returned to pr:- son, and Mr. Clerk, his Counsel, now moved the Court to - take his case into_ conSiderationaut i find him entitled to the benefit of the cewsio. • Mr. AspeßsoN, Counsel . for the. opposing cre.t ditor, stated,' that his client had no wish to do tarn Mr. Johnston in Prison. lie cbielly insisted On the objection,. that one of . the' mortgages 0 11 the Thqatre in Dubl;tl was for a debt alleged t 4) be due by the pursuer to his father, Mr. Robert Johnston, inn-keeper,' in Shakspeare-square , Edinburgh, to the amount of no less than 20001- an advance that old Mr. Johnston ,was not in g condition to make, and which, therefore, shOttla be held to be.fictitious. Wit hour, hoverer, ing upon the objection as tci the validity of this debt, his client had no objection to Mr. John ston's redeivingt, the benefit of the ccssio, provides his father would renounce his mortgage, nnd raul;• upon his son's funds paii pzia with. Cie odic ( creditors. Mr. CLERK expres::ed bis ,client's readiness td agree to the proposo. The Low ilimstnENT observed; - that position omnium bonorliM., to iy• grivi7 ed• by ,7,1 y Johnston in the present cesi:o . „ would not be &tient to convey the heritable, prope.rt.y. in Duhiig• Mr. YotING stated, that a proper and valid duel in :the English torn would be executed by Mr. - Johnston, and lodged in prgccss. On tbene conditions, the 'Court found Mr. John' stow entitled to the ' ces;io. CASTI.EBAR, (IREL.ND) DEC. •-10.• . —Wc a.re much concerned to hear of renewed ontragl,!s iv the.Barony•of Tyrawly. On Monday night, tiJ, 30th silt. we are ihforined:that the house of WA' a member of the Mina / yeomanry , resident near that. town. was attacked b!,' a won' her of.irnied fellows.—Kelly, however, spiritedif • engaged them and succeeded iu beating their. otf• They afferwarwards proceethul to the 1 , oust of an' other, yeoman, whose name we have not learned , and pfurdered 'him by a shot fired through bi s door. A store-house, belonging to the Gentle man who holds the ground on which. the' above ex', cesses were committed,.was, we are, also informer; , completely demolished,- and several head of cattle were houghed.—Surely these enormiinc • atrocities will promptly stir up the inhabitants of the respectable , neighbourhood in which the have been perpetrated, to a proportionable degrce -of exertion. A true bilk bas been found against Captain II for 'exposing his perso❑ at the Rummer Hotel, Charing-cross, to some persons in an ad" joining house. f • BIRTHS. On Tnesday, at Spencer Lodge,Batterseaßiie, the Lady o'• S. Kingsford, Es'q. of a Daughter. Ou WeAneolay morning, at Winehmore-bill, Middleset Mrs. Harvey of a Daughter. MARRIED. On the 19th lust. at Walthamstow, Sohn. Furbor, Esq. of, Prince's:court, NVestmittstcr, to Lucy, yo-ungeAt daughter the !ate John, Da :ley; E. Surveyor-General of Flis Molest) ); COstorns, On Saturti:-.,y, at I)atcliet Cirtreb, Mr. James soo of Samuel Willniot, EF.4. to Miss Knight, Of Brunss - siclv square,l7ackne- • , On Tliurstlity last, at. St. George's Cnorch, Mr..; ohn it:Cnie; of ITrper,GrOi!rid-street, tv Beaty, only (laughter of the late itiehard.lieaty, Esq. of Tut' tenharn. ' DI El). On Friday last, at Norton Conyer.:, in Yorkshire;-- tl4e scat of her son-in-law, Sir - Bellingham Graham, Bart. Mrs. Claris' widow of the late George park, Esq. . ./ 'Ttiesday morning last, of a deep decline, in the .200 yar.of liis age, ,Ifiurice Roberts,the only son of Mr. Thom-" Roberts, of Clwapside, Silversmith.' 'The smile day, at St. Mary-Axe, after a long and painfA l in the 4th year of hi,. age, 111 r., Joseph Jeffries Eraost :Merchant. - . PRICE OF sToc: ES YESTERDAY. Bank Stock, India Bonds, 9s. los. dis. Navy 3 pt.{ Cent. shut Oh Ann. 5 t)er Cent. 1797, - • Exchequer Bills, 34d. per dal' 4 per Cent. 7C 754 76U, •.4s. dis. par 3 per Cent„Red. F9iii69 Ditto, 3-id. per day, 4s. pr, 15. 3 per Cent; Con. shut - - dis. 2s. pr. Bank L. Ann. la li , Cons. Ica 19th Jan. Gli Cd India Stock, qiti WA'l'Elt AT LONDON BRIDGE To-morotovv Morning, 50 minutes after 7• I Evening, 15 afinuitesafter 4 ~.