The Sun. — London, England, 1816-12-28 00:00:00

N. SlLvatt .Ctittasscy.—An consegnence of the Very vexatious and prtfatlietal practice of many p6Sons %vim have of d ate Defoe(' t . 914 9t l in pay mgnt plain Sliiliiugs anti Sixpeiteett, the No4le Se cretary of State for the. Home Deorttnent, with Ms wonted tittentioti to the Public interest and conveuierice, .critised, the following Proclamation to he publishe►l yeftettitty t " SILVER CURRENCY. • I ‘•Dece4ther 27,141 a. " Whereas actions inconvenience has been frlt by the Pithlie, anti, yartictilarly by poor persona, by rensttit of tratilmen and 'others refusing to in payment Plain Shillings and Sixernees, of the current. Coin of the Realm, under the errusteims idea, that such Shilling* and Sixpences - will not be taken in exchange . for the New .Coina,ge, on ac count of their being ditoinished in weight, and the :impression worn off. . . ` l4 This it to give . Notice, that all 'itch Shillings - and Six• petters, although quite - plain, and reduced weight, as cat► be recognized to be Standard Silver, will• he - , re'colted in Exchange for the New Silver Coinage, and a great proportion or such Standard hillinrs and Sixpences are in circulation: " All persons are therefUre cuutlonetl against refusing to tale in payntent Shillings and Sixpences ~f t he abut•` deserli.; tiun, as they will answer the value at their peril. By 41uraouttY. SHIP NEWS. I)RAL, tIC. 27.—A1rived, and sidled for the the - Ontnium, FaP.NCH, 6'olll St. John's, Newfoundland. Came down from the River the Marquis of Camden ant. IL C ast l e, 1 Lowther f or _n dia ; John and Hobert, SwINToN, for the West Indies; and Planters, LAMB, for Bethieo, and lemain in the Downs, with the whole of the out. , ward-hound East and West Inttiamen as before, • • all will. eve o'Clock.-- 7 -The Nfargois, of Cant!len East loiliaineo has lost an anchor and about 40 fathoms of cHble in br;nging the ship up —Wind W. PCY MOUTH DEC'. 2G.—Arrived the Dwarf cut ter from a cruise', with the Two Brothers lugger, laden wick, ISO casks of smuggled spirits from France. .Al9O arriv.r.d the Lord Vermin,. LA NG DON, from; Cork ; Friendship, WALDEN, from Waterford ; and • the Sir John Doyle, front Guernsey—tue ,latter boom! to St. Domingo.— 'Wind %I.' RAMSGATR, DEC. 27.—Pnt back the Palladium, PATrisoti. Caine in fur riheltrr On! British -Qttee,t, Perseverance, Hope,. Nancy, Young 'Leonard, and several others froiu' London- for the IVet•tward. Dovint, • Dgc..27.—Came in tLe Johanna, FM:DI:1116K, with enen s -r, iron, &c, from o ! tend for. Rouen, with 10$s of top.mast, and sprung her ) o wer wait ; I nn 1i1;;t• dayi. DEC. 27 - :—Arrivvii his Nimjesty'S Ship TVliiin from a cruise. I'►,t hack the Vit toric—:The, ht , x , irmtsport, that trite ot, shore, bag been got off and brought into chit harbour,..... &filet! the &Thy BANFIELD. (cm the Dawns. FALMOUTH, 25.—'--Arrived the Russian ship Oscar, from Finlaud for Lisbon, a'ild the j4)ho Rickard, D‘vtosos, from Newcastle fur JamAica.—Wiii4l IV. THEATRES. DRURY•LASM—Last night, - after Douglas, the New Patumnime was repeated with the improve• ments generally consequent upow The continued ose of the machinery of such entertainments. COVIINT-GARDEN.—Mr. H. .loussTog played Sir Perham; Macsycophant, but without a fair op portuoity of developing his abilities for the elm ,racter. Holiday times are unfavourable to ardtmos , ilratuatic attempts, in which order the performance of this part, after Comte, most be ranked. During 'the three first acts, In which he • ivas partially •Leard, his conception and execution of tl.e selfish Seotclun to appeared to be entitled to great com mendation. After this " Hoge Uproar lorded ii 'wide." till the Pantomime arrived, and thus de sitroyed the Ino3t effect ive scenes of the Comedy. There was, even iii the favourite amusement of the Gods, a grand row respecting MoniieurJacqui the monkey. Th e con t o ,i,,, was so uninteiligi. 411 e, and the ()pinions of the audience ass numerous and loudly expressed, that it was impossible to vay vein t t gave offence, what pleased, or whit was Wanted. . Tlie gnawer , givto yesterday to enquiries, tele ; .tive•to tt Dor:heal nt LA.)HBRALAND, wall that her Pipiteig bail Bill a good night, anti +via better. General TUHREAU, who *as for some years Prench Ambassador to the United Slotted, died litely at his estate of Conches, in Normandy. our reader, will hear with pleasure that we. cantos received yesterday from Spahr gave reason to lidieve. that, induced by the representallons of Ilse Bride' -0 >verontent, the King of Stmt./ nes at length thinned to fix a period for the to tal Abolition of the Slave Trade. ()n the right of the 2htt. ult. the barracks at ‘ydney, Cape 'lreton, Caught are, and were en tfoly consumed. The rapidity of the names was so g ,-cat, that the Officers had scarcely time to save t , single or idle of she furnitine. ' Th e L-trocli Gold , :rionent, it is said, haste re quested eig,St years to liquidat e the sums sr ipula te..! trig tiro rlltit's, instead of tire five years originally i t greet { an. Gtr...:l4t, Britain luta Itussia, it is Star"' readily ;Acceded to. , the proposals Prussia dirt so reluctantly s but A otria withheld her consent, on the,plea of necessity alone. 'She is said to have. represented to the Confederate Powers ; that her arrangetments for paying off the paper-money in circulation were made to 'depend on receiving the Vrench contributions•at the periods provided tot by the Treaties. 'ifiliether the Court at Vienna irostely acceded to die new arrangements Dr not, tvr have. nor been informed. The! Rev. J. S. Ci•Asite, Ch pain to the Prince itegNot's Household, has been presented to the valuable living of Petworth; by the Earl of EGlte ttoNT, Thursday, in consequence of bills 'Unearned nhout the streets of Bristol and the noighbottr flood,. for a Meeting to be held 011 that day oh Brandon Hill, and notwithstanding . the incessant heavy rain, it was computed about 2000 asseni• . bleii on the Hill. Mr. W. PlNltti was called to 'the Chair, and Mr. HENRY El VNT ndfirosol the 'Meeting in his usual strain, and on the same to pies, as have rendered him so popular a character itroong the friends a a radical Reform. The Re , . solutioni were sixteen in ntirlibt'r ; at)ti a Petition to the of Cotninons agreed if,: to h in - e*enttni hy Lord Codirone. p; It is to lir tar iignattir6s in Buktol, as th e P e ti t i on or she Frceholders, • Freemen. Householders; and other inhabitants of that City and neighbour hood. The whole business, According to our best in formation, went oft' wi t h ou t any symptoms of riot---indeed the precautions that kid been taken to subdue any such indications ,were so ample as at once to awe the ill-disposed, gild give com plete Confidence to the peaceable inhabitants. For several days previous crowds of respectable house holders (looked to the Magistrates to be sworn in as extra constables on the/occasion, and the mili tary of every description within many miles 'of the City were collected in readiness to act if occasion 'required. Our cavalry and rifle - corps are, just returned. The resolutions which follow Are briefly to the fallowing ,purport :----That the same " tools Or corruption "which ,caused our ruinous war with France, now lieldout the menaces to prevent / the present meeting i and that such attcumis were as illegal us they w e r e futile. To relieve the ur gent distiesses of times by giving pentry,worths of " sinecure soups," Was to offer the poor a, gross insult. No real remedy could he produced but by a Reform in th e Ho use o f Commons,--q a PAr litiment annually Chosen by ballot, and that by all men who have attained the age of 21. Thanks were then voted to Major Cartwright, Cob-, bet,'lTelq; H. Hunt, Esq. to ,the Edit ors o f the' 'Statesman, and all other Papers that have advo cated the cause of Reform, and to th e i r p resen t Chairmiu.- (Built Herald.) GRAND ENTERTAJNMENTTo PRESTON The friends' of Preston, being aware that he would be released from confinement on Thursday, bent a Deputation to wait upon him, and lead hint Where his conduct would receive one Most distinguished rewarils. 'The invitation was ac cepted. Preston, after his liberation, paid his' first visit to Greystoke-place, where he, remained for sonic time, it' is said, in deep contemplation. •He then prepared, after a period dedicated to pri vate congratulations and endearments, to appeal ambngst his Spa- fields adherents it a house in the neighbourhood of Spitalfields, tvisete a supper was laid out at nine o'clock. His Solicitor not think ing it advisable • to let him go even amongst his admirers without a rotector, and boding that th e - - •• avitatifin had irresistible . charMs for him, ticll; ivith an anthority over him to Which Preston bat previously promised implicit obedience,: a person soy well calculated to exercise it. Into the hOuse in which the entettaininent was given it wonld have been madness in any one connected with the press to,enter. We thirefore give the foll oa i n k account from the cnnsersations which our Police Reporter heard upon the subject amongst some politicians ot.Spitalfieltls The man who was responsible to Preston's an , licitor for the inoffensiveness of his conduct, was, it is whispered, formerly employed in, a private madhouse, this powettol protector he was led into a set of rooms laid out for 3 or 400. When they entered, the shoemaker was hailed with ap., plause which it would be v a in t o describe. He bowed, and smiled upon the whole room, ofiserVi.' ing.'" Here we are all friends." The supper wits now and then interrupted by shoots of approha, Lion at the comments of the eminent goes i t and the impatience to bear a bill and true account of his mortilicationi in confinement began to Ilia• Wiest itself in a very painful degree. At last the 111011,CIIL arrived when the company were to be gratified, The Leader of the Deputation from the` Spital fields Manufacturers who waited Preston in Gilispur-street Compter, rose and gave the health of Mr. Preston, the prop of the pour. The only way to put an end to the acclamations which burst forth upon the mention of the name was to raise Preston above the multitude, - and pot bins in an ;oratorical artitmle. This was done, and every word that fell trout his lips was loml and emphatic. He spoke of persectition, butt said he hid given native ft:4oWe an additional strength by ‘10), witting to it without a murmur. lie vehemently recommended pacific peoCec dings, do ailed Whitt ilovarred at the several examinations with consi iidirable faithfulness - , described the tratuoil state :In which be Ittul reclined On his prison bed, and praiscit the unanimity which seemed to prevAil amongst the friends of the people. He then he, grin to allink to the tiois and their colisequences, but was stopped short by a glance from his pro tector, which gave hint to understand that he was going beyond the limits prescribed in him. Pres• ton sat down ; and having intimated to the com pany that he intended to smoke a pipe, was sup plied immediately with tobacco, and beer, and gin, of the latter of which, being his fai•ounite, be took as much as made him think well of all tnan kind. He retired at a late hour, tint leaviogniany friends behind AFFRAY ANT) DUBL.--In consequence of some, offensive expressions having beet' made ose nt Jiy Captain ihccuts, respecting the conduct of Pouf- Deutcx. 4\I4I‘LAIID, Litt., the latter gentleman meting Captain liccots on Saturday. repeettettly struck him with s Boric-nbip; a challenge eft- . tutu!, the 'notice met on the following morn ing at Newron.-St. [ l ee, whets, sfsir exchanging three shots colt, the seconds intcrfered, s u it pre -twitted the gentlemen trim, prticemling— Mr. MA11441413 {VMS at tended by Qmpt. HOLTON?, IL H., 01 ,4 oipt. Ecccgs was accompanied by (..:ttptoitt , ANDittA'as,—(.sltelliarne Pup ,) • hi n . p'olstpi...;cAt'riio.'c:•T'a Dltt:t6ol37§ . , &c. .jrj6 • Jorist was hehl yesterday rflOrAi0411(ioll the litoly of Joseph Red With; aged one, year, the son o f Mr. Itedwith; baker, of Mitcham,-street, Pad,Ongton, srtr4 died from the accid't:ntal rtditti niitrstiai.n oto.sol j e km of arsenic, which wits sold by unitake for Godfrey's cordial% alr. North, sot ;curb, No. 26, Morystetoc-street, EdgeWart;rottd, who opentql t:te body, in the conrie of Isis ev Aviles", dept cot vd the. sr rongeit sevens the improper ispie of Godfrey's - Cordial, balhy ; a:Carminative - , Syron of PI iplisiVS nr oilier sleeping potions. stated Ihat toe mischievous goastitretiVi ittisi , O l4 Ir'ise's; the ,those of ,such Medi. eioV 4 eras incredible and that medical Melt were daily and handy eat the% ft,iltit3 of !vyi ng the most depho%lhl e croi•etitwketi ensue from inn. titers administering sedatives very er.:quently, nrit for the purpose of alleviating any Com plaint miller which the child Might labour, but to gratify their own idleness; ,by keeping their unfortunate I n f ant a id a statc of pernicioni drowsiness, the consequences of which are infi nitely more prejudicial to their young and tender frames dim) many of the dise a i es incid ental to, childhood. H e (M r . N ort h) said, lino non Saturday awning last, between 10 and 11 o'clock, lie was called to attend the deceased, at the request of Mr. Pralle, chemist ant) druggist, King -street, Paddington. He attended the child immedintely, and found ',II the symptoms upon , it of having taken poison. He administered antidotes, bet they had not the,desired effect, the dose being so strong. Th e c hild was in great agony till two o'clock the 'same afternoon ; it died in convulsions. Ile had since opened the body, and found the bowels gnu. greened, Ile was dearly of Opinion that the death of the deceased was .oceasioued by its hav ing hint a quaotity of solution of arsenic adminis. revert in mistake for Godfrey's cordial. Brian ltedwith, being sworn said, that she was the daughter of Mr. Redwitli, baker, Mitcham street, Paddington. She was aent.by her mother on Saturday morning,, about ten o'clock, to the shop of Mr. Pralle, chemist and druggist, King street, Paddington, with a small phial, for tern pennyworth of Godfrey's cordial : sfe was served by the shopman, he poured it out of a large bottle which was. standing in a row with many others : he tasted it three times before he helped her to she drank some of it as shewas bringing it home : She thought it was very. nice : ahe was very unwell after having taken it, very nick, and vomited very much : site was 'very well before site took it : she was very unwell three days, in consequence of having taken the liquid she took it to her mother, and gave the deceased, Itea brother, a spoonful and a half of It. He had not taken it more than a quarter of on hour when he'was in great pain, and all the colour left , his cheeks ; her mother tasted the contents of the bottle, and sent her back' lc) the chemist's with the remainder, to ask hint it it was, the proper medi cine. She went to the shop, anti saw the person who helped her to'it. When she asked hint if ii was the right stuff, he did. not ethos , ,hut spoke to Mr. Palle, anti poured it nut of the phi al, and filled It 'with some fresh liquid, which the took ,to her-mother. 'f he deceased gray worse, and died about two o'clock the same day. Ann Redwith, the mother of the deceased, being sworn, said. that not Saturday morning, in consequence of the tiece , tsed being troubled with a cough, and with cutting his teeth, She sent the last Witnets, her daugliter, to Mr. Prune's shop for two pennyworth of Godfrey's cordial to .still his cough and to make him sleep. She had not given it to the deceased more than Is quarter of Hu hour when lie was take') violently ill and very sick, She had given him the breast jost after she gave himr the liquid, and site thought she had done wrong to give him the breast so soon alter his medicine., I-4 grew worse, and she thought it, was posailde- the cheini,t might hove sent the wrong 'stud: she sent her daughter hack . with the remainder to inquire, having previously tasted it' herself, arid could not distingaish any dif ference in the taste from that which she had purchased at one shilling per bottle. lien daughter .ctone back with some fresh stuff in the phial, but brought no answer from the chlns4ist, whether the stuff Was tight or wrou n rr: S'e, of coarse, telt so tistiett that the deceased tv.is not ill iu conseqtrence of having, taken improve..medicine. The child grew worse every five minutes, and She was urn the point of sending her daughter again, w n Me. North, sturgeon, Molytieux-street, COme He said that he had been sent by Mr, Henry the chemist, to administer ow antidote,to tha dereaSed, Mr. Pralle's assistant having acci dentally sent a wrong medicine. Al-.., North sent some medicine in a very short,:time, he ad. Ministered them as she was directed. / .He fell into sti'wsg convulsions, and Was in that sitita• tion when Mr. North called again ; he said he would seod 10-se Wore Medicine directly, but the chilli died in a short time after he left, the house, before the medicine came, in convulitioni. She believed that his death Ifus occasloned by taking the solution. 'Oeorge'Keridge, chemist aad druggist, being swim, said,-that he hod be n clklen'ye,R - rs in his prnressino.\ ,He had been about o week an 'assts. tent to Mr, Prone, of King -street, Poddington ; lie had many times lately occasionally assisted him in serving its the shop, Mr. Prone !toying succeeded hint in that shop. ,On Saturday morning Miss Heil- With come into the chop and asked for twopenny. weird, of Godfrey's cordial. lie reached the brittle whi c h h e se r v e d her out of, front the apot iii which the tiodfrey's cordial originally stood when he max master of the shop, and which hail always itood .41 that place when he had 1410401td Mi; Pralle berttre. He tatted the sod three tittles hO ury t ie save it to her, and lie Was perfectly satisfied that it was the proper medicine. At nor' a quarter of an hour after Aliss edwith ebiu itgaitr, and ask' him if by hail given her the proper Mr.' Pralle was in the shop at that limy, Hitch him which inntle he Itch pouted it fram: itft, Pralle told him it WAS sohttioo of rtitniv which he hid given to her, lle (mind *tusell unwell, having taken some of the. solo moo tnaelf at the time he helprd ke4With to i-. e therefore took an antidote, ;which, reCov e leil lie went to Mr. North, the %metro', and roluested him to attend Ike deceased immediately, µjut nCriti ainleat: Hint of the utifortietate.metidenr, The bottle which he helped Ali” out of • was' half full; and the fitb'el,wAs worn WI it. lie that if he bad 'pot taken medicine fo coon. re'e t ict tile effect's or abe ars.cille, it Might have been final to hini Ite wail Of ' , Thane that the deceased's death was c; . iii`sed- by a solutroit of a r r. Seat being adirritiiiicieti iy i l nistitke for t4oilirs cordial._ • • The CoeOne'r in arldiciiiiig the Ittrit; said, that • • the present Case wag a ;mist unfortunate one the lives cif three liersoos had been in great jeopardy ; one had died by the accidental adininistration of pois ou , He h a d been parsienlar in examining thit last witness, whose eVidence he coniikred the must lintiOrtairt. Bower to puniili persbus who4amitlistt re4inettleihei 4 , lthotit qintlified ; but it appcaatil thattNeAteridge Was qualified,, 11 , ey , intik nffhilig 410 with at civil. antion 'Which Might be brought against the chem ist by the parents trt the - `deceased; it was ft* them. tojadge Atithe criminal part of t he business. There was ito,litinKj)nt was, causei,by accident, and he thoaglit only ,Manse was attached Mr. Prilleforiiiit InfOrthing t he 'kit' witness, That he had plueed , tlielhisttle of arsenic solution in the place where fornkerlyitood the Godfrey's cordial. lie - thought that something ought it's be done to prevent a 'recurrence of such an unfortunate 'Cir. cninstance. A'short.tinie ago a person was poi soned at the east end of th e tow n , , noW at the west end. Jie wished that apothecaries, &C. nould keep their poison; in one particular part of the shop, or in 'particular coloured bottles, and the word " Poison" to be written upon them. He hoped that this event would cause the pridession to use sabli pritatitfon ai would pi event any such Onfortunitteeircumstances again occurring. Verdict—" Died in ctiosentience of having a solution Of assenie administeredto hiM in mistake rot Godltrit's Cordial." LAW INTELLIUMD. COURT Of kiNGS BENCH, Mc. 47. ifiltitas At OUILDUALI, LONDON.• SPECIAL. JURY. THR ktito C. bousic, This was an .itidietiOnt against the defendant tor peditry, in having falsely sworn at a trial be.. furs Lord Ellenbot °ugh, Upon a bill of exchange . for 10001.,that the bill in question wait drawn in London, Whereas in truth and in fact, it was drawn at Constantinople. The case against the defendant appeared to he this the year 1814, Jnhi Barnard Jacobs drew a bill of exchange for 10001. dated et Con. stantinnple, upon Barnard Jacobs, his father, •payable to the ostler of Philip Phillips, 'by whinn, upon being accepted by Barnard Jacobi, it was indorsed to 'Messrs. Thonipsog and Forem an Upon the bill hecoming due, it was presented and dishonoured ; and.in an action brought by the in. dorsves against the acceptor, the defendant, who had been clerk to, the latter,' swore, that the bill, though it purported to be drawn at Constantino wus,. in tact, drawn in London. Upon (I+l% evidence the present indicrsniint was found e d, and I:everal witne,ses were called, who proved that iii ISt3; John Itatnard Jacobs went to re side at C4IISI ant iI)4IC. kvbCre , he Lunn turd until the latter end.of site year 1815. TOPPING for the defendant, took an ob. jection to the indictment in point'of The aetinn in question was brongiit in the tonnes of Thompson. fool Portman, but Tisonspson. . L died eight days before the trial, and by the *home or William 111. it is provided that in cases where two persons fire parties twat, action, and one dies before trial, a suggestion. shall be entered tin the record of Nisi Prii4 of the tact, otherwise the de. fentlant may plead in abatement of tire action.. In this case no snggestion bad been entered, and thr indictment —having charged, that the defen dant had given false evidence at the 11.1444 an action in doe mine of law, the Learned Counsel contended that this arlion conlo not have been tried in due course of law, end consegstently that the averment in the indictment was not made oat, Lord EGLEMBOROUOII thought the objection unanswerable, and therefore directed-aft. acquit tal.--Verdict, Not dai‘ty. Tllit KING V. HOSIRT , HopeR. This tlefenclant was also indicted for perjury, allegtil to have been committed by him in an an swer in the CUM, of Exchequer to lidl tor n dis covery and injunction hied against him, he be ing the . assured upon, a ship called the Viv,ilante,' touching certain facts which had came to the knowledge,, of , the lilmlerwriters, respecting thi6 loss Of the said ship, (Pon which the defendant had recovered. Tice assignment of perjury Was, flint the defendant had sworn, in .his.auswer, that .it the time lte effected thee insurances hi iinestion, he did not know, nor hail he any reason to be -Ileve that the vessel was not in safety, Mitten*, itt nab and ill NO, he hell knew her to have frieti 'st, in conseprence of information received by' him to that effect St the time t)f die insurance. There i'as a clear ease 01 fraud and pen nry made out against the derwitlatit, and the Jury, under Lord ELIANBOROUGII'S directions, tumid hint Guilty. - Accounts have been r e cei ved of another moire atrocious Attempt on the part Of the Luddites ,t.. commit murder, On Sunday night is it, As it wea ver of the Millie of Curry wits sitting with his wife and it relation, two men knocked at the door anti desired aiintittance. \Vhen they ent e red, th e y immediately made up to Cut ry, and one of them discharged a ; pistol iit him. The ball diti not touch hint. Curry immediately made an effort to chyle with the villain, when the other mati ittklllit - (Hotly fired, anti win:tided him under the eye, but it is hoped not mortally. The men then retired, 411(1 tolitig thvir eseApe. Their liters wefe eon)• pletely disguised. Girryitoes not know in what way he could have made hithseltobtioxions to the Luddites. Ile leis not been working with eta chines, which OM toe objects of their :tor has lie heen working,nutler. price. Tb e ma gistrates tolik idi possible. steps, as soott int the e ve n t te a s in iiiscovel* the vislkiSSillS. 41. Cumatithlti wus in Curry** tootNe for his protection, hotit is not tiptorikati the villains will make a secorni attempt. The renowned Mr. C4 , A113 murdered Romeo Bath, nu 11,itillay, that the Poor of that Ci y might lire. The net profit to the Beutvuitut amounted to abovsB2l.