The Sun. — London, England, 1812-08-11 00:00:00

A.YGE op PRISO.T.,TER6'. ----- I t 3 s n!'HL FS to s. y how atrociously unjtEt is th . pre-f , o , :ed agaillst this col o etry, with re 'fleet fq an i' . 7 , :r . !) . ,tn!'e of prisoner's, to those who have read the iii:6ject on which the English Go vernment wished an 'exchange to be effected,.---: Every one who has perused it, nuist confess that nothing could more strongly evince a sincere de sire to make an exchange, not on afiti:flwinciple, but on a princiPle uqfairly favourahlv to France.— tvery one must feel that t h at Minister ought to lose hit head, who would accede to the 'project submitted to this country by France. Eng land, her own men ransomed, offered to ex change her . , surplus prisoners for ,t‘;paniards and Portuguese. France Give up 3,000 French---and we will give up 1,000 English, 1, 000 Spanish, and 1,000 Portuguese." 'a:ol*nd sa=d No; all the prisoners we have, above the number necessary to release our. own men, shall he given t in_eichange for our ni:ies ; but our own shall tfrst be' liberated." France pretends to doubt„ that Englaid, her own men restored, would have fulfilled. the condition of the project, by ex changing what remained of her French prisoners for Spaniards and Portuguese. klas nut this affec tation of doubt a lie on tire face of it ? Could Prance hope that England would act so unwisely ? We say no thi ng o f h onour ; hut supposing-Eiig land to act on the Most sordid principles of po ' i key, could such a breach of such an engagement I. apprehenkled ? Had France really expected it, age would at once have acceded to our project ; for What could she desire inure than that England, should so abandon the cause of the Peninsula ? avid what but. an abandonment of the cause would such conduct on the part of England have been ? EAST INDIA COMPANY.. In the East India Animal Revenue Accounts, recently printed by order of the House of Cout 7 limns, we tiiid the following statement of the sums-of motley expended in Buildings, Fortifica tious, and other articles of Dead - Stock :—. Naca4.9 of and Fottifi- Plate, house hold Furniture, Plantations, Farms, Sloops, Vessels, Storei, cations. Totals. r 1C • ar • - &t Bengal . ... 5,079,150 1,483,015 6,362,165 Fort Saint George &S u - 1 1,827,813 464,209 2,351,522 bordivates 1 Bombay &' do. I 1,102,586 345,690 1,443,276 Fort Afaribro' 244,810 66,889 311 ) 699 St. Heleaa.... 43,856 98,905 1,2,761' £8,357,71 . 6 . 2,458,708 • 1 o ,e, 1 e,4,23 extract of a Letter, dated Tehran, March 1 : " We have this moment received intelligence of a victory obtained by the .Persians over the Rus- Cans ; The, Persian army was commanded by Liglish Officers, which is no small feather in our caps, you may test assured. The King, - .ind indeed the whole Court, are more than half (rad with joy. Such a victory in Europe would he considered as a mere nothing; but here, Nothing of the sort having ever happened before, it is looked upon nearly as a miracle. Three hun dred and fifty Russians were killed, and five hun dred were taken prisoners. This valorous feat 'Was performed by about nine thousand Persians, one hundred of whom bit the dust. Sir Goan CIUSLEY has been treated, by the Kink, Knight of the. Order of tht/Sun, and the rest of is are to be well crammed with pillaus, sweatineats, Me lons, 8v!. to say nothing of getting our faces well Washed with rose water. You will hear with pleasure that our friend the Mirga is in high fa vour atCourt, and that he bas lately been created, 'through the interference of our Ambassador, a liVestoji, a species of Secretary of State (although. :mine class the Mastofis amongst the Viziers), by Which he will gain wealth as well as frouours . In proportion to his dignities, such has been the in el-ease of his person, which, lam happy to tell you, is daily getting more substantial. llc ,is as amiable as ever, and we all like hill' much. He even speaks of his friends in Lagland, and of the 'nation, in terhis o: the most lively: gratitude sad ‘ttfeetion. — The following is an extract of a Letter from an .Officer of the 59th Regiment-, addressed to his fa ther in Waterford : "'Near Batavia, 21stnec. 1812. " The climate of this country is extremely tin- Lealthv, in as far as respects the European Dtitch end natives, who die of what is-called the Batavian fever in great numbers;' but I have real pleasure to stating, that, up to the date of. my letter, no British Officer had been affected by it, and hut few of the men. Before our arrival in the Island, the inhabitants had no Surgeons who knew how to treat .patients suffering wafer. this complaint.— Our mode of living, and other circumstances, re litve us from any apprebansion of danger from it. All the Officers, who were wounded in the Expe dition to Batavia, have effectually recovered." The following Petition has been %adopted in the bounty of Armagh, and is now exposed for signa tmes in that city ; copies 'are also circulating through every parish in that county : To THE KNIGHTS, CITIZENS, AND BURGESSES OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND, IN PARLIAMENT ASSEMBLED. The humble Petition of "the Inhbitants of the County of Armagh, professing the Pro testant Religion, whose names are here unto subscribed : • Sheweth, that your Petitioners have reason: to believe, that it is in the contemplation of 'your . Honourable House, to make further concessions to the Roman Catholics of Ireland in addition to those already granted to them ; that they do not presume to dictate to your Honourable House in -"what manner, or to what extent.those concessions shall be made, but most humbly implore that in. 4onsidering the prayer of the Roman Catholics of Ireland, 'your Honourable House will take care to provide such ample safeguards and securities, for the permanent oontinuance and unimpaired sup :port of our happy Consaution bylaw established,' 'as shall leave your Petitioners no cause to regret your haVing hearkened to the prayer of their . Ca tholic fellow subjects. And your Petitioners will, as in duty bound, ever pray. *, Armagh, August 1, 'lBl2. 'llo', l tlE CTRUMT. KENT ASSlZlN.—ittnlroxs, Atio. 7. , MURDER. 'a private in the Royal Artillery, svgs „indicted for the wilful murder of Isanella M`Gaire, a child of the age of seven years.— The circumstances of . this case were of an exira : ordinary nature. 'The prisoner was servant to a Lieutenant Webber, and bore a most exemplary good. character in the regiment ; some things, however, had been stolen from his master's closet, and he was suspected of the theft. He absented himself all the night of the 4th- of Apri, and on . the morning of the sth, as early as between 5 and 6, I he came back :to the bnriacks, and wakened a per Son of the name of Je&cot, with svboin ,he had lived. After some preliminary .conversa-, tion, he told hint he had committed a crime for which he must he hanged, and desired to be taken to the guard-house. Adam Little, Serjeant Ma jor, there receivi d hint in custody, and desiring to speak to the Serjeant in private, lie then told - Min that the last night he had murdered a little girl. The Serjeant desired him to State farther particulars. He said, that getting over a stile, which led into a lane, he saw the child at play, who cried when she saw him ; that be then took the child in his arias, and, with his finger and thumb, strangled it. As soon as it was dead he carried it under his arm for some distance; and laid it on some stone steps in a place he de scribed. A witness was called, who found the child in the place where the prisoner described •he had left it ; and the Surgeon stated, that by the marks under - the throat, the child had evidently been strangled in the manner described by the prisoner. The prisoner could ascribe no motive for this . acta but told the Serjeant he had no malice against the child, and could not tell how he came to do it: Mr. CURWOOD, as Counsel for the prisoner, examined as to whether the prisoner might not be labouring under a temporary inflammation of the brain, from the improper use of mercurial medicine. The Serjeant said he knew the prisoner had administered mercury and laudanum to himself without medical advice, but he did not know in what quantities. The Loan CHIEF BARON, in summing up the . evidence, stated, that the mere atrocity of "the act itself must not be considered evidence of insanity, otherwise the most guilty criminals would escape, and here was evidence much too slight to infer any, derangement of mind. • The Bury found the prisoner Guilty, and he re ceived sentence to be executed on tue Monday. CIVIL SIDE. HILL• V TILFER. This was an action of Mr. Joseph Hill, an At torney, against the defendant, for slander, in say inglie was struck (atilt Rolls. The witness, to prove the slander was R. Bankes, a Sheriff's officer, who stated, that during the last Assizes, at the - Haunch of Venison public house, in Maidstone, the plaintiff and defendant being both present, Mr. Hill produced a letter, written by the defendant to a third person, .which con tained the slander. The defendant immediately owned he had said so. Mr. Hilton this, the wit ness said, repeated some poetry, which he could not remember, but he kraew it began With,-, " Who , steals my name steals trash." Lord ELLENBOttoUGIi held that. the words were not slanderous, as many persons were struck off the Rolls at their request, and for many reasons not implying misconduct ; therefore, to say that a Man was struck off the Rolls, did not neces sarily imply that he had been guilty of any rtial 7 practices. Plaintiff nonsuited. TIIK KING V. .I. HILL. This was an informition against the defendant for aiding the escape of three French prisoners. T e facts against the defendant were as follow. The boat of the Cybele being cruising-off Boulogne,. saw an open boat within three Italics of the liar . - hour, paddling in for the shore. She was found to contain three prisoners, who, it turned out, had • escaped from prison, and. on, the stern of the boat was legible, though nearly obliterated, " W. Kite, Folkstone." Kite was a fisherman a Folk stone, who had then lately died, and Mrs. Kite being examined, stated that she bad sold the boat a day or two before tothe defendant Hill, for 111. and he paid her for it the morning the boat was missing, but did ,not say any thing that he had lost it. The value of the boat was proved by the Custom-house Surveyor not to be more than five potpds. Mr. BoLtitico, for the defendant, contended that the evidence was much too slight to convict the defendant, inasmuch as his boat -might have bcco stolen from the beach ; and with regard to his giving an extra price, he might wani it for • other - purposes, perhaps not strictly legal But al here was no proof, not the smallest, of any , con nection between the French. prisoners amt the de fendant, except that they had been found at sea in a-boat bought by hint. The Jury retired for some - time, and then re turned a Verdict of—Guilty. SATURDAY, .1U6.8. Wm. Coley, and Frances his wife, were indicted for maliciously shooting at and w=ounding James Godding. Godding deposed, that he lived with a farmer at Beakesbourne, in this county, who having had bad his sheep . frequently stolen, employed the witness, and a man of the nime of White, to watch, on the night bet Ween the 19th and 20th of April. Before day-light they saw a man anal woman come into the field and chase the sheep; endeavouring to 'drive thent up into a corner ; upon :this the witness, who was armed with a double r harrelled gun, came from his place of con‘ , cealment, and told the prisoner to surrender him self; and go with him, or he would shoot him.— The prisoner swore he would neither go nor sur render, and dared him to shoot. The witness then said he would stay by him till the morning, and they remained together for some time, when the prisoner made a sudden jump at the witness, .and pulling a pistol from his breast, tired at the .witnen, and wounded him in the thigh. White, ittie other man, fired his gun and wounded the, pri' 7 , sorer; tf,T'wonuin "it . the same moment snapped a pistol at tile head of White ; she was immediately knocked dow,n, but Goddim, being badly Wound ed, they both, escaped. They were, .hovever, traced and apprehended at Canterbury the next The case of Miss St. Julian, for a conspiracy to ciltort tnoney from the iron. B. Cochrane, was re inoved by Certiorari. " The Assizes and Home.Cireuit finished here; POLICE. Gta.Lo Fr ALL .----Yesterday Mr. Edwards, a house-. keeper in the City, complainedto Alderman Smith, the Sitting Magistrate, of a violent assault com mitted on his. person by several of the Debtors : confined in NeWgate. lie stated, that he was seal for on Saturday - by a man in confinement ; who owed In upwards of twenty pounds, and accordingly went to the Debtor's side ofNew gate. He had not been long in the prison 1?e -fore be was surrouhded by several of the pri soners, and, to use his own words, was seized as by a lion, .pulled down, knocked down, and dragged to the pump, where they pumped wa . - ter on him a considerable time. The other complainant, who had visited a friend in the Prison, and was enjoying himself over a, pot of beer, was served in the same manner. Ailer this summary mode of punishment, which debtors in confinement are often in the habit of inflicting on their creditors, theinjured parties andea,:oured to find redress in the Prison, and as they did not suc ceed, made application to the Sitting Magistrate. It was stated, that the persons who had ill-used the complainants would shortly take thebenefit of the Insolvent Debtor's Act, and-by that means escape. The keeper of the Poultry Compter staged, that an.outrage of the above description had once subjected three men to imprisonment in Newg,ate for two years. The Worthy' Alderman Nras desirous Of seeing Mr. NeWman, the Keeper of . .i'N'Avgate, before - he proceeded in the business, and appointed a proper investigation to take place, this day. Elizabethßzcrils, the Mistress of a PariSh Cha rity School, was summoned to appear before the Magistrate, - on a charge of inflicting improper chastisement on one cf her scholars, a young girl named Margaret. The mother of the girl stated, that Mrs. Burgess was uncommonly cruel to, the girls under her tuition, and that she had ilk only heat her daughter about the arm and shoulders, so as to leave strong marks, but that she had struck her in the eye with a cane; the girl at the same time exhibited a black .eye. The School- Mistress said in her defence, that the blow in the eye had been given by accident, and that she' had been obliged to treat the girl with severity, she being of a disobedient diSposition, in order to pre serve subordination in the school. The Alderman referred the complaint to the Committee for ma naging the school. N young man, servant to a butcher, in Great 'St. Thomas Apostle's, was examined, on sus picion of robbing his master of various sums. The ground of suspicion appeared to be two receipts for 501. stock, found in the young man's:posses sion ; but his friends came forward and gave an explanation how he had acquired the same, and he was discharged. The Master of a Workhouse exhibited, with vehemence; a complaint against a every aged fe male pauper, for improper language .and insolence to the °dicers of the said "Workhouse. lie was particularly desirous that she should be committed to Bridewell. The worthy Alderthan observed; that it was necessary to temper justice with mercy. — The miserable Woman, with one foot in time grave, would•not, perhaps, trouble the Workhouse long, and he should send her back, with 'a recommenda tion not to offend in future. The Aiderman then dismissed her, with advice to conduct Len& more peaceably. BOW-STREET.----The house of Mr. 3. 1 .1tinr0,.a boot and shoemaker, in St. Martin's Chnrch-yard, had been twice robbed lately ofboots and shoes, and, other property, to a considerable amount:— , Mance and R. Limberick, belonging tb the Office, received private information respecting the rob bery, and in 'consequence apprehended a man of the name Of Jcimed Hull. On him they found a duplicate of . a pawnbroker, in Stanhope street, Clare-market, for a single boot. The pawnbroker denied receiving the boot in pledge from Bull, but said he took it in pledge from a man of the name of Collins, who bad but one leg, which was the cause of their taking a single boot. Collins was in consequence apprehended, and he proved that he bad purchased it of Bull for six shillings. Mance and R. Limberick, learning, that a man of the name of William Mc amald was concerned in this and other robberies; they laid in -wait for him, and while they were in a public house, in Little Catherine-street, WDonald came in, but, 'as he saw Mance, he bolted out, running down Catherine-street with the greatest swiftness, the Officers crying out " Stop thief !" Several persons endeavoured to stop him, but in vain. When he got to the 'entrance of Exeter 'Change, the man, who is dressed up like one of the. Yeo men of the Guards, belonging to Polito's exhibi tion of wild beasts, endeavoured to secure hint, hut he knocked,him down, and passed on intothe,. 'Change, where .the crowd collected was so great in consequence of the alarm, that he was actnally. prevented from movineon, and in the mean tiinel Mance and R. Limberick came up : he made desperate resistance, and if was some time before he could be, secured. -On searching him they found a centre-bit, with two sharp angles . , supposed to :be so highly tempered as to be capable of cutting . any shutter, and making art aperture large for a man's-arm to pass through. On his being.. taken into the strong room in the Brown Bear publichouSe, where James Bdll, above alluied to, who had been previously apprehended; was con fined, he knocked him down, beat and ill4reated him in a violent manner, swearing it was him.who had given information against him . , and he con ducted- himself in such an outrageous ninnner, that he was obliged to be double ironed and hand cuffed. On searching the lodging of a woman, in Jaittle Catherine-street,, with whom he _cohabited, part of the property, stolen from Mr. .AT:nr on the 18th of July last, was found, also a n of implements used in hoarse-breA:ng. day 'McDonald and Bull Underwent an era before Mr. Nares and Mr. Birnie, Nelsen CoLins, the man who has but one leg, vva cYI evidence. Mr. Munro identified the boots. &c. fo'tud at the pawnbroker's and in M.a..) lodgings, to be part of the property stolen. Bull and McDonald were fully committed for trial. — r On the h.ner leaving the difice, be d—d•the gistrates' eyes, and said they could not hurt bias wer MARLBOROUGn-saTREET.-A person, named John Stewart, was charged ,bofore the Sitting Magig trite, by Mr. Face, a master tailor, under the fol.- lowing circumstances : On Saturday week, Mr. Face bad his pocket picked of two 'Bank-notes, one for 401. and the other for 101. and on the Monday following the 0/. note was passed by the prisoner to Mr. Pea cock, a woollen-shaper, in purchase of three yarls Of woollen cloth. The prisoner, at the time' of Passing the note, gave his real name, bUt gave a false addition, representing himself as residing in Norfolk -street, Middlesex . Hospital ; whereas he resided in Clev 3 :and-street. The note waS slop pcd at the Bank, the prosecutor having:adver tised it, and lodged a•caveat there, when the pri soner was traced'to his real place of abode, living at no great distance from Norfolk-street, where he represented himself as residing. Mr. ADOLPHUS, for the prisoner, 'pleaded the extreme indigence of his situation, being a jour neyman weaver ont'of employment, with a large family, as a palliation of the offence he had coin mittedy, in appropriating to his' own use ink-ney which be had picked up on tit:- King's highway.. The Magistrate, however, ordered the prisoner to stand fully committed for trial. The King against Kynnersley.—,tt the hst Staf ford Assizes, an indictment was tried ag.iinst the defendants, rn , ',tr the statute of the sth Elisabeth, for carrying on the _trade of a Baker, without having 'Berved - an apprenticeship thereto for the space qt ses , _en The following circum stances 'were', disclosed on the trial :—lii March, 1809, about 3130 of the inhabita its of Burton ,upon-Trent tamed themselves into a Company, for the purpose of supplying thetuselves, •-ind other persons in that town,' with unaEhiiterated flour and bread. .4 subscription was accordingly entered into, and a mill and bakehouse erected, and the trade comaienced in January, 1811, under the di rection of a baker, who bad served an appren tice Ship of seven. years to the trade, and who was one of the partners and subscribers to the con cern. Indictments were preferred, under the above statute, against the defendant and ten other persons, who formed the Committee, by the direcr tion of an association of Millers and Bakers, and on the trial the defendant was.found Not Guilty, on the ground that the conductor and manager of the concern being a ,partner with the defendant, and liaving served an apprenticeship of 'seven years to the trade, he, the defendant, did not come within the meaning,of the above statute. The same fact applying to the other ten defen dants, they were also found - Not Guilty, without entering on their defence —Counsel for the pro secution, Mr. Dauncey. and Mr. Puller ; Attor ney, Mr. Sadler, Sutton Coldfield. For the de fendants, Mr. Jervis and Mr. Abbott;, Attorney, Nit. Whately, Birmingham: LEEDS, AUG. B—A fatal accident occurred on Tuesday night, on Woodhouse-Moor, near this place. About eleven o'clock, the picquet guard, while passing over; the moor, was met - by Mr. Haigh and Mr. Stead, both of Horsforth ; the former pS.Sed without anv accident, _but the lat ter, who- -waS riding . at r a furious rate, came against the.trooper that headed the picquet with so much :violerce; ,as to throw down both the horses; and the concussion was so severe, that Mr. Stead 'Was thrown :over hi horse, and re ceived a contusion on the head, which terminated his life in a few hours. Sunday morning last, ,between twelve and one o'clock, a number. of men \vent to the house of Mr. Wright, of Arailey, near this .place,-and after obtaining' a musket, for which they said General Ludd.ba . d sent them, they told hith tliat' they knew -where to find all the arms in the rillaoe,. and that they were determined to fetch. them. They then took their leave, firing six or seven shots by: way of triumph. This depredation was committed is the immediate neighbourhood of a gig -mill, where A party of military keep a nightly %watch. Two days after the robbery, the gun was returticd, with a note enclosed in the barrel, stating that it would not answer the purpose, the muzzle being too small to receive a ball. this anti' some other circumstances it is concluded that the whole affair was a frolic but it is a kind of farce, that if persisted in, will probable end in a tragedy, and the hilt scene may be performed on a tae usually called the "New Drop."—Leeds.Mercury: On Friday a Court-martial was held at 'Ports mouth on Lieutenant Lemoyne, of the' Circe, for having, on the 28th of. July, treated Captain WoOlcomhe with contempt-before the ship'scom pany, and behaving in a manner tending to sub vert the good order.and discipline of the,scrvice. The charges: were not proved, and Lieutenant Le moyne was acquitted.—John Thompson, private 'marine of the Circe, for drunkenness, for treating Lieutenant Uniacke w'th insolenc and contempt, and - for , using . mutinous, expressions, was sen tenced to receive 150 lashes, .forfeit.all pay due to and to he imprisoned twelve months in the Marshalsca.--,-John. Fearnoth"seaman; of the bum!, foe desertion, wtls sentenced to receive -150 laSheS. n On Wednesday morning, abbut two o'clock, as Vim. Shires, .one of - the patrole belonging to the Public-Office, Bow -street, wo.S . on'tityin Garden row, Islington, he met a man with i very hivg-e bundle on hii; back ; he asked. what he had got ? be told him some cloth, and that - he brought<it from Cambridge. This did not 'satisfy the pa trole. The ma a, then said' he brought it from klornsey, andTiCked it tip, in a ditch. He ap 7 pearling to ,lac getting a knife to stab him, the patrols disabled :him. with his staff. The bundle proved to coi:tain canvass. Yesterday !e was ex amined at Bow-street, and c‘.:,altuittedtill.lioaday.