The Sun. — London, England, 1815-03-25 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR. OF THE SUN. St n,—At a time when appearances strongly tend to coufirm the idea that Buonaparte's Expedition will end in a temporary exercise of the Sovereign Power over France, it behoves every man in Europe to assist, to the utmost extent of his abi lity, in a general endeavour to prevent the per- Atanent continuance of an usurpation frattett with such dangerous consequences. Even if a mijority of the French nation should unite, in calling Napoleon to the Throne, the inhabitants of every other country would not be doing justice either' to themselves or to their fellow-creatures, if I hcy, were to remain calm spectators. oat ought bot to be suffered upon any. account whatever. Earnpe is a large community : it is like a Repub lic subdivided'into departments, or, perhaps, assi lullates itself more to a feudal system upon a large scale, wherein the Government of each subdivi sion i 3 absolute in its control - it over those who are comprised In its limits. France, one of these de partments, has shewn, that with a pence.tble I.oler at her bead, she can live at peace amid in ilarmony with the nations around her ; but if she should become subject, whether willingly or un willingly, to the direction of one who uses his authority only to promote discord among the other nations in the society ; her compeerilmce a right to .demand a change of the man, as pre- viously necessary to a change of measures. Every nation hag a right to choose its own Gwvernor ; but when this liberty is abused, it mitst be given up for the good of _the whole. Facts relative to the past, 'are a fair specimen of what the future will be, Under similar circumstances. • We have had safficient experience to convince us of the dispo sition of B:ionaparte, without further trial ; and Past events are sufficient to justify every effort to rid ourselves of One, who, not only as' a ruler, but as a human being, has, by his conduct, stamped himself with eternal disgrace. I there fore hope, and trust, that every European Mo narch will cordially unite in an attempt to crush the wretch. If the circumstance, relative to the rtiscovery of Souk's- treasonable practises, be true. I cannot but lament the leniency of his pu- nishmeut ; he ought to have been shot nothing bqt vigorous measures will do, under extraordi nary circumstances. I trust, Mr. Editor, that you will. do your endrovours to rouse the attention of the world . ; let every other Periodical Publica tion follow your example ; it will have a won derful effect upon Men's minds. I should truly rejoice to see the day when " the %volt ,hall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid," and when men shall. be at peace with each other; hut . Gud works by means, and unless we use them it is absurd to look for their natural. effects. Our contests with our enemies„ ought always to be what Lord Chatham says, they should be " short, sharp, and decisive." I am, Sir, Your obedit nt Servant, Manchester, March 18, 1315. PORTUGUESE SLAVE TRADE. The .fullowing extract is from the Rio Janeiro Gazette of the Ist of Jailliary last : " RIO JANEIRO, Dec. 31, ?slit. • "We publish the following by official order : Pedro Jose Vianna, Master of the brig Boa liniao,, with a cargo of slaves front Cabinda to this port, having arrived at this capital, has made naida.vit of the following fact 7—(n 3 (kg. 40 min. of south latitude, and 35 deg.. 12 min. of cast longitude from Rio Janeiro, he met with two English tri gatcs, the Niger and Lanrcl, which hoisted Aine xican colours, and fired a shot, always retaining American colours the commander of the Niger, Peter Itainkr, then ordered the said brig to be and captured it, putting on boaid her a Lieutenant, 2 marines, and 10 seamen, ordering them to prosecute their voyage to Sierra Leone. —Two eays after, the Portuguese master took the resolution of attacking those put on board the prize, in order to save the property com mitted to his charge, .and be in fact sucecechid in subduing them. The crim]nal proceeding of the above Commandant has indueeil his Excel lency tl,e English Minister, and his Excellency Admirid Dixon,.to declare to his• Royal Highness their sentiments of this scandalous act ; and the said Admiral declares, that the only circe.aistanee which mitigates his regret, is, that the above Coin mapdant does not belong to the squadron under his orders. His Royal Highness, with his usual ntniwity, has ordered the crew made prisoners in he immediately delivered up, whi c h ins Bri tannic Majesty's Envoy has acknowledged in a letter expressive of thanks fur the generoty of the act, and of the attention which it deserves from the Prince llegeut of the 'United Kingdom ; at the same time declariu . g the humane and atten-, L i r e trcrument which the above seamen received ft nun the master of the brig; after they were tab ciued." On Thursday a man, genteelly dressed, in pass ing through Roseniary-lane, dropped down and iwitantly expired. tie was previously observed walking up and down both sides of the Way very deliberately, a:::1 apparently without any emotion. The body was removed to the King of Prussia tul - lic-Lease, and from thence conveyed to the WPC-4 , .11.45(:r wh',:re it glow lt.s w be oit.ilvd. PAV.Of THE A , IZINC.IN CONGAESS. A curious debate took pl ace i n th e C,, n g r ess of the United States on . the Ist of February. Mr. Slripherd - , One of the Members for . New York, moved the 'appointment of a Cononi! tee to comi • der of increasing the allowance of the Member , i of Congress for travelling to and frota that Assembly, and for attendance thereon. Mr.- .SnirnEED, in support of the motion s , in sisted that the Alainhers of Congress had a right to increase their own ,pay, as well as to give an increase to the officers of the Government. He thought that they ought to take care of themselves. He need not, he said, tell the House that the pay now received by the ,:embers, was not half what its value was when that pay was fixed; more particularly when it was coasidered that the paper with which the Members were paid, was fell ,25 per cent. below par or the value of specie. His object was so to augment the pay of the Meat hers as to make it equal to the dollars of that „me- Clium in which Members formerly received their pay.. My. of Tem!, said be did not conceive this ih.• proper time to •enter into the cothidera... tion of this suhject. He thought Gentlemen should let the nation get through the war, before they increased their pay. Mr. FARROW was opposed to the motion: throughout, on principle, and denied the alleges{ depreciation of Money, which he said was very - gladly rectived in - payment, in dealings of any sort in the i!istriet. 111. ,SHIPIIID, in support of his first observa tion, said, that it was as obvious that A our pa per was depreciated, as that the continental money was depreciated. !le had no fastidious dehca.'y about him, ivhich would prevent h:rn iroin doing j;.istice to himself. If ,payment could be obtained in specie, it would be a good argument against ,the proposed motion; but it w as notorio us , t h at for specie thq wrist pay a disi.ount of 2 per cent. on the paper which they received to . .their pay. Mr. BuLA said, that every :leniber knew, when he was chosen, %chat compensation he Was to ex pect, and ii;id no!iglit to et:7111)14"m of lie re quired the yeas and nays, th :t he might at least record his vote against the :notion. Mr. HALL, of Geo, observed, 'if the object 'of the Gentleman was, as he had avowed, to gi y ve to the Members a. compensation adequate to their services, he would recommend to ttim to depre ciate their pay insread of increasing it, for be ±was confident the acts of Congress had depreciated as much as the paper of which the Gentleman had Spoken. The question on the adoption of the motion wa s decided in the ne4 . ative as follows For the motion B—Against it 99 CANADA. 'We insert the followirig extract respecting the trade of this itivalable colony front the Montreal Herald of Saturday, January 7th, 1815, with - much pleasure. It fully proves the assertions we have often made of the f;reat importance of Bri tish North America to the manufacturing and shipplitg interests of the mother country ; and we trust; in any finther arrangements with the United States, that every security and encourage- , meat will he afforded to our own colonies, and that the fisheries 0.1 then coasts will be wholly confined to British industry and British capital. " We have been favoured by a friend with the amounts ot . the Imports and Exhorts at the .hurt; of Quebec in 1814 ; and with the assistance of 1 that friend, have ascertained their actual value on Custotn-house entry. This is a subject we dwell upon with no ordinary pleasure; because it Was !rates the growing prosperity of the country, 'amidst the din of war mid devastation, which to many appear paradoxical. The import of Wines at prime cost (this is the rule we go by) is .2'.25,0001. currency ; colonial produce, including Brandies, Irish Spirits, and TeaS, nearly 923,000/. ; Dry Goods, all manufactured in the British Isles, come to nothing short of 1,00,000/: The Cus tom7house duty is charged at die manufacturers' price, to which we add 15 per cent—for all charges to Canada ; and we believe we scarcely set down enough ; •so that the total value of the imports will be found to exceed 2,75u,000/. cur- Pettey. to 1800 they were not a quarter of this amount ! The exports cannot be counted beyond 430,0001. currency. Although the value in 1409-10 was of three times tin; extent ;,yet this is no in dication of a declining prosperity. For two ye ars t'w crops have been t;ood in both provinces, and the prices of all necessaries fetch double any for mer average, one article with another. To this may be at - counted the great augmentation of 111.. ternal constimption, owing to the increas of the army and navy, and the various departments at tacned to them." ATIE3IPI to POI3ON a WHOLE FAMILY. A-circumstance of the most, atrocious nature • lias just come to our knowledge, the full' particu- Jars' of which we are not as yet at liberty to dis close. A female servant in the family of a Mr. T--u, in the west end of the town, mixed a large quantity of arsenic in a pie, which was served, up to table, of which the whole consisting of seven persons, partook ; and they were shortly afterwards seized with the most alarming symptoms of the effects of this deadly poison—violent pipings and vmnitings. Sur geons Ogilvy and Marshall, (d . Half-Moon -street, Piccadilly, were immediately sent for, who, on their arrival, administered emetics, and other me dicine, to repel the effects of the poison, and there are hopes that none of the family will fall sacrifices to this diabolical attempt, although they are at present confined to their beds in a most dangerous state. On examining the dish, a quan tity of arsenic was - found in it, and which has been ascertained to be stolen out of a drawer in Mr. T--R's beaureau, which he bad for the purpose of destroying rats, and, to prevent 'ac cident, the word 6 Arsenic' was written in large letters on the back of the paper in which it was 1 1 contained. What motive the wretch who coin mitted the deed must have, we cann ot tell. Sus picion iv attached to a maid-servant in the fami ly, ‘rho also, it seems, took part of the contents of the dish,, the butter to escape Oetection, and who is now confined to her bed ; and, we under stand, a Police Officer has been ordered to watch her, until she la in a fit 'state .tv Ile rewovcd to Fison, SUSSEX ASSIZES TRIALS FOR MURDER. HOR;IJAM, THUrIDAY, 11AacJi 23. Jane Barnett, wife of a public:,a at Liudfield, in this county, was indicted for the wilful mut der of Sarah Lee, a pauper servant, arid the indict mein charged the murder t o h a v e been committed. by a seri e s cruel beating . , and refusal of irroper food and aliment. One of the witnesses, who was a fellow-ser vant .With the deceased, did not appear at the trial, having gone out of the way, and was called on his subpoena. The evidence adduced in sup. , port of the indictment was as follows : J. Everest, the overseer at Lindfield, static, that the deceased was a pauper belonging to that parish. At Ladyday, 1813, else had been put out to service'with a shoemaker in the parish, 4f the name of Shelly. She staid with him the year, and the next' year she was sent to the prisoner's. She staid with them nutil February, when. she ,came hack to the worklutuse in very bad health, and in a few days died. He could •not - say the cause of her death, bat she came back very much put of Once during the year she rail away, and came to the poor-house. Mrs. Bur nett, the prisoner, came after her,, and. she was sent hark. Thomas Shelly, a shoemaker, at Lindfield, de posed, that the deceased lived with his family from Ladytide 1813 to Ladytide 1814, during 'which time the girl was in good health ; she was not a very good-Jooking girl, nor very " laudy in her Willa," but she did things as well as she was able, and they had no fault to find with her. Charles Cox, a •labonring man, lived near the prisoner. lie was at the house one day, and saw the prisoner strike the deceased with a broom one or two hard blows, hut he did nut see any ill effects from the bloWs. William Porter said, be lived within twenty rods of the prisoner's house ; be knew the de ce3sed ; she was -tot a very healthy looking girl, and as the cold weather approached lie observed that sip- lost flesh,very fast, And appeared to be very much . out of health. Charles Watford,,a higler Lindfield, who - was in the constant habit of going to the prisoner's house,. deposed 'to expressions used by the pri soner relative to the deceased. Robert Martin, on the 6tL of August, saw the prisoner beat - the deceased. He afterwards saw her with a black eye; but did not know how she came by it. Sarah ,Stanley had seen the prisoner beat the girl once with a boot. \VV►n. Tupping, surgeon to the parish, stated, that he attended the girl when she was brought to the workhouse; she had a wound on the arm which she said was occasioned by being kicked down stairs; she ha►l also another wound in the foot, which he thought was a neglected chilblain. .Her constitution v% as very debilitated, and she was of an irregular habit. He could not say she died of ill treatment. • On this evidence the Learned Judge directed the Jury to acquit the prisoner, who returned a verdict of Nut Guilty. • Joseph Stevens, an old man of 63, .was indicted .for the wilful murder of Solomon Young, .by stabbing hint with a knif.e in the side on the 15th of March last. The prisoner and the deceased were both paupers in Seaford poor-house. On the 15th of Match the deceased was sitting on the table in the com mon room, making himself a new smock-frock. The prisoner came into the loom intoxicated, having t►vo herrings in his baud, which he "wished to dress at the fire. The deceased's night-cap was hanging on a chair before the fire, which the pri soner threw away. This .produced a slight alter cation between them as to there being. room enoug h or no t, when the prisoner dabbed his herrings in the deceased's face. The deceased upon this gave thy-prisoner a push, who having his knife in his band, with which he had just dressed his herrings, made a blow at the deceased, which unfortunately struck him on the side and penetrated bt-tween the ribs. lie was put to bed, aid died in ti.vo days ; but before he died he ex pressed his conviction that the prisoner had not intended to do him the injury which had hap pened. The Jury found hi m G u il ty o f Man slaughter, and he was sentenced to one year's imprisonment. STEPHENS V. STEPHENS Th's %vas an action by the plaintiff Stephens and another, against the defendant and others. The following is the whole of the case. s The plaintiff keeps a library at Brighton, and the defendant Stephens han furnished the. plaintiff with certain articles 'of toyi and je%% ellery to sell upon com mission ; but shortly afterwards, not liking to give credit to" the plaintiff, he wished to take his goods away again. The plaintiff did • not give them up ; upon which the defendant Stephens, accompanied by the others, went to the shop and took away the glass case which held them by force. The plaintiff made some resistance, and as he alleged, he was assaulted in the scuffle. The witnesses toy the defendant, however, proved that nothing more was done than taking the glass case away. Verdict for the defendant. The Assizes concluded this morning. On Monday morning next, acoording to annual custom, the Lord Mayor and Sheriffs will go in state from the, Mansion gouse to Christ Church, Newgate-street, and hear Divine Service . ; after which the procession will return to the Mansion House. Late On Thursday night. or early yesterday morning, the house of Lady Lours..k MANNERS,'On Wimbledon conitnon, w'as brolte open and robbed of .considerable property. • On Wednesday week, - a boy, about 13 years of age, servant to a lady in York, having been drawn by curiosity to the crown end of the castle, where the felons were 'taking their trials ; on his re turn went into a pantry, in the before mentioned. lady's house.Nvhere he hung himself, it is supposed not with intention of destroying animation, but merely to • try the sensation a momentary suspen sati"ii would produce-I,vhen, shocking to relate, b e was unable to recover himself, and thus fell a. victim to Juvenile folly,- - --.Don=tor, AT. A - c. Adver. ti,ier, March 24, POLL CE. Bow-sTacEar.—ln the month of 0. 0 °11 1 . - ,,i S. l lr. Parsons, fat Salisbury-street, was' rov", t jewellery gookr3 to a considerable amount. Kd rcigaer in his employ, of the name ()t w] Scoler, alase,-aded abo u t the ti m e of the o uo which caused him to suspect his being th e • C b her, and he accordi ng ly a d vert i se d. him '"" A property. A few d a ys- afterwards Mr. ~. ~ art Isaacs, a Jew, called on Ilia], and infurliji4 lth that he had beeii called in to va lue some dir. ll l -„oh which answered th e d escr i pt i on o f-those a ` t - 00 tised to have. be en s t o l en f rom him ; an d l ' e pa Mr. Parsons to-the house of Israel Levi, i" ton-street, a jeweller and salesman, vviiere th moods ' were, Levi havin g sen t forisa.ies v b a el them, in consequence of his eye-sight bei'4; gn i The man was there who wanted to sell theal . de on Latats observing t h at t h e y answ ered t' e scription of those a d vert i se d b y Mr. Parsoll s it ' . ,, having'been st o l en f rofn hi m , t he man- ran ( n br ii, the house and es ca p e d. lie had also offe red id liant s and other . jewels, which the tha n ,iet brought for sale. Mr. - Parsons met Relic ' l, , c il i f a a few days s i nce i n Chandos-street, and w e) .; s es into custody ; arid on his b e i ng e xamincd) 45 'ib e and Levi attended, and identified him as b ein g 0 0 man teho had . offered . the property for sale' 1;1) which he was committed to - Netvgate for tr ;j e gill • John. Triglantan.was charged with teak 1 `; - `0 insurances in the State Lottery,. and alth" ‘ g . witness poSitively Swore to the fact, Ali . c' attended and called a i tnesses , who most sa* - j o f torily. proved an alibi. The pr;sonar yeas.. course discharged. - o r Caroline asniOnil te-as charged wi t h roou'itihe Gentleman of 751. A 201. Balk - note, Par t stole' property, was traced into her posse s " having ch a n ge d it at M r. Ll oy d' s, a li n en -dp i in Oxford -st reet , on t h e 21 st or 22d of Swic,ll-45 , last, in the p urc h ase o f a s ha w l f or t h re e gtur: -- t d and three pair of stockings.----She was camoit for further examination. I . llc r Mary Haclson was charged with being a C° of counterfeit silver, at her residence ill P° 3 ( ll , e a id buildiags, Stanhope -street, and she wa s 1 , ; () b'l• employed in the act of colouring countcrfoti b i er Bugs and sixpences, and rubbing them rr itli c ,aa , fingers. She was using quicksilver and e 1 On the -table i n th e b ac k par l our, w h e re s' e :ere at work,.,five parcels of counterfeit a hilling s , found, and also sixpences. There were the -table a bottl e tall of quicksilver, to t ,' full and a box full of unction. She sai" B oa employed her to colour thew.—Slie W as nutted. CORONER'S INQUESTS• I Col- Yesterday an Inquest was held at the L ora lingwood, in Chieksand•street, Bethnkg o ers before JOH N UNIVIN, Esq. one -of the 0 )1.° 10 /11 6 for 'Middlesex, on the body of a woman: unknown, who was found q , lite -naked and the street on Wednesdav morning. to Samuel Hunt, of Bell-place, 8ethna 14 ,,,, , b 6 deposed, th a t a b ou t two o ' c l oc k i n t h e rnor° lf e 'reil was passing in ChiCk san d- st r eet , an d disc ° 0 1 11 the body of the d ecease d lyi ng i n the scr ee _ A t. tii l "`F examinationACwas found b e nt in the loc .-- , t f" neck, and the skin was off in some par ts ' occasioned by moving it awkwardly. bg e , The Parish B ea dl e corro b orat ed the ° bee' statement, adding, that the body must liav e • app buried at least about six weeks from every pearance. The Coroner obs erve d, it was clear 611 T tl) O (4 evidence produced, an d f rom t he inforiOitii:o it a_ medical Gentl eman w h o saw t he body' had been in the hands of some resurrection of 13° c but how it h a pp ene d to b e l e f t , t here ascertained. In this opini*On the Jury c°ll3 and returned th e i r ver di c t—Found Dea.d,' Vest r4 ': 'Thursday an I nque st w a s h e ld at moat, Sr. John's, Horslydown, betore JO' el METT, Coroner for Surrey, on the body Q , e , tv li f f Fulwood, landl or d o f the Ship pubbc-I,";d:.ro was found suspended by a cord front bis • on Monday morning. der' De James T a yl or , a lodger at the SI"P' that about eight o' c l oc k Monday 1 " °I. was coming down stairs, and having I ° l , fr i le ciP e ' ll deceased's bed-r oom d oor , which was a (rye he looked in and saw the deceased longlii:voleo • the bed-post; he pulled out a knife ko iti . e o ately cut h.lll down. A Surg-eon vas o°,4' but he appeared to h ave b een dead for s ° ltsc r( ll o Witness had frequent opportunities of c occ asi; ) ) and on 'lraq the deceased's con d uct , considered him in a stat e of derangein e°t, ./ 1 once attempted to cut his thr o at. Verdi ct ~ b - e Yesterday there was an Inquest held at ivtstreei umphal Chariot puhlic-house, in •o"lPulacktiv - Grosvenor-place, on the body of a h j% 0:0 Coachman, who was blown off high wind, and killed by ou e of the `"/ccier ei. coach going over his bead. Vcrdict --- .Death . t oo M A JULIE b. SN I e r . DP On Tuesday, the olst See. Chane„so Worth Holdet;, at Aston-up s o t i . l- 1 1. 7 re t n i ;, in the Count:to Stl r e Samuel Hall, Esq. of Raiford ntar Nottingliat::a"ley ,f daughter of James Sutton, Esq. ' of Broughtowb 'e shire. On the 270 ult. at Inverness, Lieutenant D• f 93d Regiment, to Miss Eliza Graf, dauglAcr Gray, Merchant, Inverness. fl iv. , . o f On the sth inst. atNice,DSl F.O. irStc dar t. Stephen GlY ri° ' si - i' -119 waal i en w C e : i is a t e l d , a ( y ;h i e li s g t s ,;: t r : at his house,in 1,,c0,d, overt loughhy Aston, Blrt in the (7th ' r ‘`)( ll's- ".:135;:r Y" 4 Matson, Royal,On I n , . : Horse 3 wife lath iefe d t ~, tinst..cl .1 4 1 t e i : : i *a : sl . t i ,lill li Seaford eer: yn , ; 'l ,l : : i lt e i ' t z l: o2 : di ", ~i . i c : 7 l: r. : (lif:s l ll i r e , 35 3 - : ‘ :;i illl;: . On the ‘2 4 2d'itis - t. at his housr, Twicktnnero 4:ic , , p, se t, GcorAelsbackrah, Esq. in his 47th ,""c v-r; , joll". ; tif Alexander so O OlC'l I :lEVP t tlgt . . :l2' s l :L Bl.e) i t i l s :r i l t:;: ' : Y : j'illiet:ai):;it:Mailii:r.igiv:3lßlitia,l)asla:r;,::sii3ct.iiii-,l";::[(tilr:sle:tcr:'e'(ttlie'. :j( t .i-e i ti: tl eti ,, :t' . e e l , :i i . . tt i i i iSi i i: tiri‘ . 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