The Sun. — London, England, 1804-01-13 00:00:00

ITIER re: • WEW-YORK, DEC. TO. ON the 3oth ult. Mr. MERRY presented 'to the president of the United States, his Letters of Ceee dence as His Britannic Majesty's Envoy Extraordi. nary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the said States. We pre informed that the snow in Meadsville (Penn.) ‘ - as 16 inches deep on the loth inst. and it is thought will probably lay on the ground until spring. On Thursday night, the rith ult. snow fell in Walpole (N. H.) between three and four inches in depth, on which it had been tolerably running with sleigh s till the zsth. Capt. STirarsoN, arrived at. Salem from Surinam, : left there Oa. 14, and informs; that foreigners on board of American vessele; and Americans without PrOteCtions, were pressed . by the Dutch Commodore. He adds, that the English were daily expeded, and measures of defence were diligently making, but there were few men to oppose them. A Letter from France of a recent date, treating of the meditated Invasion of England speaks of its success with - the greatest confidence.—England is Mentioned as the inevitable Colony of France; A system of Provincial Government is said to be in preparation, and a Prefed appointed. It is added, that one of the regulations for this new Govern ' tient is, that all Englishmen who may be dissatisfied . With the Colonial Administration, or disaffected to the Mother Country, are to be transported ; to the United States. • Ey the Sloop Sally, from St. Domingo, we learn Catlike prosped of the French in that quarter had briglitentd. The Troops from Jacquemel, which was evacuated, had arrived in the City of St. Do- Mingo, and they expeded to maintain theinselves there. Several Vessels had arrived with provi- Sions ; flour was selling at 8 and 9 dollars ; beef, • pork, and provisions in general, proportionably cheap, l'he French Schooner Telegraph, which has been trtliZing about Charleston -for some time, lately raptured a Bermudian Sloop, Capt. BOYD, off Sa 'lannah Bar, and sent her under a Prize-master and Crew to the West Indies. • , By the latest information from Guadaloup e , brought -by the John Vining yesterday, it appears that theiltekvateers from that Island are very nume t °us, ielti . etseii,,#tday sending 'in prizes. Two days before she sailed, a French Privateer of 16 guns and 460 men, broesbt in an English Guineaman, with 18 guns and` 4j men, which she had captured after t smart action, in which the Captain of the Guinea toart and several of his men were kille4i the Priva. teen Was 'considerably damaged. wAsairroTotr, DEC, arrived at t hi s place. on Friday Captain Roor t as i last, He has brought the irttp3rtar:t intelligence of the reitoration of Peace between the United States and the Emperor of Morocco. During the nego ciatioo our -Friga tes were moored in battle array within 300 yards Of Tangiers, for the purpose of bartering it down in case Peace had not been made viva the terms which he had dietated. 'CHARLESTON, NOV. 19. fThe 'British Schooner Union, late Capt. WEDGE, rom Honduras, b ound to London, whose capture by the French byt e an Schoone r *T e l egraph was some ,time nounced, arrived at Nassau {N: P.) on the 4th instan t ; the Prize- master having been mur dered and thrown overboard by the French Sailors, and the vessel given up to the British Prisoners. The British Frigate 'Boston was seen yesterday to eie Northward DI the Bar. ---..::. LEXINGTON, DEC. t. A. Oentletnan who passed through town on Tues. tray evening-, from Tennessee, states that the two thousand Militia, who were ordered by Government to equip and hold theMselves in readiness to march by the zoth of this month, were attending to orders, and that five hundred had already gone tip head.. quarters. ,NATeHEZ, NOV. 17. !"The Treaty arrived here this day from Washing . It is expetted that the Troops will march "ra,Port Adams to New -Orleans in ten days. ............. -..-.-.... Ir cill IIY entlelllllll WllO recently Swit zerland arrived in town l , arn, that the French Agents in that Coun ty r - we le had industrio us ly propagate d amongst otes fwere mongst the Swiss, t h at i n E ngland one pound Bank N selli ng pound.' for as, and bread at sod per ©f©fOParliame f the su m of goo,oool. voted in the last Session tion nt, t o t h e Direetors of Inl an d Naviga in Ireland, 2 2,641. 54. 6d. have been issued to the Royal Canal Company, for the completion of a Canal from Dublin to Coolnahay, in We9Meath, for the execution Of certain works at Dublin, and adjoining to the Liffey, and for the reduClion of the tolls.on that whole nivigarinn ; z 2,8901. 123, lod• have been issued, upon contraft for improvements and the recluc'tion of tolls, to the Barrow Naviga tion Company. Other stnaller sums have been ex peind-ed upon•surveys : and, in general, the progress 7 1 : w anal i ce m p ro vement is, b y th e effed of the gt . ant, exedingly aftive in I re l an d . • Dtrar., Rv. RAORDI\TARY NARY..—Last week a duel was fought at IVlanri ' • L "' e ster, between a copper coloured Trumpeter o, ID a ''‘ifie Corps, -and a Private in the Manchester Volunteers. The dispute arose over their. cups, and the parties,met in an adjacent field the n ext morning, without seconds, each having a case of large horse pistol s , an d bein g provided, ac cording to agreement, with S rounds of ball par tridgest The ground, nine paces, being measured, they tossed up for the first fire, which was won by the Private, who, discharging his pistol, grazed the Trumpeter's left hip, and' made him jump a few paces out of his, place ; he instantly fired and hit his antagonist in the hat. The parties then closed to see that each other loaded fairly. Te Private now fired a s econ d time and missed ; e t t hen exclaimed, " Stop Jack, there's two to one agairfst you; don't fire and I'll give nu a bellyful Of ale." This pro position was immediately acceded to, and the par ties retired in perfed amity ftom the field to the next adjoining tap. OLD BAILEY. %EC Otirs D AT--THURSD AY, JAN. ±•• Ceorge Smith was put to the Bar to be tried on a charge of Forgery of a Bill of Exchange for tot. gs. 6d. drawn by Coxe and Greenwood on James Ker, and with the forged acceptance of the said James Ker,. with intent to defraud the said James Ker. Another Count in the Indidiment charged the Pri soner with uttering the" said Bill of Exchange, knowing it to be forged, with the like intent.— Another for forging and uttering, &c. with intent to defraud a person of the name of Riekerby. Mr. Ker, the Prosecutor of this Inditiment, ap peared when called, and stated, that he had been attending here' yesterday,' exiled - ling 'this trial to come on : that he went over the way:to a public. house, with some friends ; to get some'refreshment : that he - then had in his pocket a book, containing, among other papers,• the' Bill of Excha'nge'tidlich was the foundation of this Indidiment : that he soon afterwards missed his pocket-book, and on his go ing home in the evening, he found his pOcket,book hacl been returned to his wife, containing every thing that was in 'it before he lost - it, except the Bill of Exchange in question. He said he knew the young man who had returned the pocket-bodk,. thaving been acquainted with him in Ireland. The CHIEF BARON asked the Prosecutor, how it happened that he had been so remiss as not to look after this young man, and endeavour to find him? The Prosecutor said he did not know his lodg The Ca rEF BARON said, that 23 the Bill of Ex change on which the perjury was assigned, was not produced, the Prisoner must, in point of La',, be acquitted; but, his Lordship added to the Prose cutor, that he had done a great injury to the Pub.. lie, by defeating the ends of public justice,. lie said; that this transaaion had very, much. the ap. pe.•rance of a collusion. The Prisoner was then acquitted. . . . Thomas Sm;tb was brought to ,the Bar and ar raigned on a charge of Bigamy, but no Witness ap peared again,st,hirn but his first wife ); There were, indeed, two Certificates of two different Marriages by ihe Prisoner, but there was nobody ,4o,,prove that these Certiffcates had been coMpared.with the original Registers of the . se Mariia'ie, and iherefore the Prisoner was acquitted; arid, dts4harged. • • Margaret Carall was charged With the capital of fence of feloniously stealing a pockmbook,sontain ing one rol. note, two SJ. notes, ,three 21. and five ri. notes, all of the'Bank of England, the property, of William Davis, in the dwelling house of Robeft. Horford. The circumstances of this case were briefly, as follow :—The Prosecutor it appeared is one of the shopmen of Nrr.-Hortoril,. jeweller,, No. 71, Qx ford-street. Tilt Prisoner had lived,somerhpe as servant in the family ; die pocket-boOk, containing the notes laid in the Indidtnent, was kept in a box of the Prosecutor's, which -was deposited' in a part of the house to which the Prisoner had access. He missed it on the evening of the t7th of December, which was three or four days after the Prisoner had quitted the service of Mr. Horford. He imagined he might hai c loct the. key-through a halt: iii doe of his , pockets ; however, suspicion attaching upon, the Prisoner, she was sought after and apprehended at the Hole in the Wall public-house, or in that neigh. ! bourhood. The pocket-book with the notes there in was found in her, possession, on which she fell on her knees and begged fur forgiveness, The property being produced, the Prosecutor identified the pocket-book without hesitation. - The Prisoner offered no defence, and the Learned Judge who tried the case (LAwitesc c) observed to the Jury, that if they were of opinion the girl took the pocket hook out of the box, there could be no doubt upon the case, as thenotes'amounted td" 'a far greater sum than was necessarily required to bring it under the law. After a short conference the Jury pronounced a general verdia of— Guilty--Death. " • The Prisoner is a very well:looking girl ) and stated helr age to be /9. loseph Pocock was capitally Aaligeci l ,...'with the E.Olience of highway robbery, in feloniously snaking an assault upon Edward Gedges, the younger, upon the 7th of January instant, putting him in fear, and forcibly taking fro his person a pair of hoots, value' los. the property of Edward Gedges, the elder. By the evidence, the principal of which was a hoy'of eight years old, son to the Prosecutor, and who appeared duly to ,understand the nature of an oath, it appeared he was. bringing home his fathers boots, after being repaired, in a basket ; it was .of an afternoon ; he was met by the Prisoner and an: other person in irinsbury.square ; they made up to him, and the Prisoner, without saying a word at the time, snatched the basket out of his hand. He immediately cried out, and the Prisoner was caught .after he had ran a very short way, with one of the boots in his hand, which he attempted to throw over the rails of the Square. On the cross-examination of the little Gentleman by the Prisoner's. Counsel, it transpired that tie had observed the Prisoner .and his companion a little before the basket was taken from him ; that they walked along side of him a little way, and that the Prisoner asked him to him carry the basket for him ; but he was certain it was the Prisoner who snatched the basket from him.. One or two Witnesses proved that the Prisoner was taken in Finsbury-squhre with a boot in his po%ession, and which he had attempted; `just as he was laid hold of, to chuck over the tailing of the Square, and that his companion, by running quicker and a different way, had got off. - The Prisoner left his defence to hi:. Counsel.. Several Witnesses appeared to his chuader—he is by trade a shoemaker. Mr. Justice RooKE said, that to constitute the offence laid in the indiEtment, there must be either a taking by force or violence, or a putting in fear ;. none of which appeared in the present case by the evidence ; the offence was therefore reduced to a larceny, and a t erdia to that import WdS accord ingly pronounced. The Prisoner is , vety -low in stature, nearly as diminutive as the child from whom lie took the pro perty) and is greatly deformed. Mary Warmer was indided for feloniously steal ing, •on the 27th .of December, one seven shilling piece, and six shillings, and six-pentt in silver ; from the. person of Juhn Gallie, his property. - It - appeared that the Prosecutor, a journeyman shoemaker, fell in with the Prisoner, ,a Nymph of the Pavement, who happened to be unhoused at that time, between - two and three o'clOck in the Morn. ing of the day above mentioned ; he had been drink_ ing in company nearly ,to that hour, but was not much intoxicated, being, in the language of one of the Witnesses, only about " 'half gooe." He met her near Fleet-market, .and after some convert sation, it was agreed thsey,sliould repair to the White Horse, an open hoUSe which she recoil), mended; near Clare-market. When they Were there, in one of the boxes in the tap-room, the Pro secutor called out and ordered a pint of purl ; while he was thus employed, his companion slipped her hand:into his pocket and took out the money laid in the indiament ; he felt her hand in Ilia pocket : he took no notice of it to her at the moment, but shortly after she was feeling for his watch, on which he said, " You have taken my money, and now you want my watch; I'd charge you with the first watchman I see." - He accordingly did so. On being searched, the money was found upon her. And such supplementary evidence was adduced, as determitied the Jury to find the Prisoner—Guiby. George Smith wls brought to the Bar a second time, and arraigned upon a - charge of forging, &e a certain order for the payment of money, purport ing - to be a bill of exchange accepted bye . Messrs. Greenwood and Co. Army. Agents, for the sum of 81. r gs. with intent to defraud, &c. Mr. J. Pike, a ;shoemaker inli•leet-street, came forward and statrd, ''''tivat the Prisoner came and tendered him the . ofd - er described in the iodiament; it was for 81. t ss. , And drawn on Messrs. Preen. wood anti Co. Fle_prerended to - be a - Lieutenant in • the r3th Regiment, ,and, said it was fur a month's pay. In this part of the case, the - Court deeming it necessary to recur to- the-evidence of a person of the name of Rickerby ; accordingly, William Rick_ erby was called by.the OfEL-err., and afterwards for mally cited'upon his recognizance.' • Mi.lti,coßDEßobserved, that , Rickerby was a most esentiit Wilnegs; as he was the person to prove the instrument a forgery ; his absence was, therefore, fatal to the present prosecution, and the business standing in that manner, the Jury would have, however-greatly the circumstance, was. to be regretted, to acquit the Prisoner in the present in ., stance. The RECORD-ER gave very particular clireEtions to the SherilT3 to see•that Rickerby's recngnizances . were.estremed, arid Mr. Sheriff LI/ owroN, after' adverting-to the circumstance which occurred in the earl7•partof 111 e day, expressed his opinion that the Prisoner.ought to be detained. Ohe of the Officers ; of the Court took the oppor-. tunity to acquaint the Bench of a conviction of the Prisonr, 4 which he . stated, took ,place, some time since, th consequence of which it was allowed that he-6ould.transliVit himself, and that the Prisoner WilS at large before the expiration of the per t iod for which he was to, be trans ported. He conceived the Pris'oner could be, inditted, The itECORDER simply, observed, the Grand July were still sitting.' The Court gave directions that the Priboner should he detained. • CUR IbtrsCtactTsasTANcE.--A few nights since, a Medical Gentleman returning from the Theatre, and' seeing . a'crowd about Saint Martin's Watch. house, ventured to• see what was passing there in ; •he found . tfiat some Gentlemen, who had been sacrificing to . Bacchus, had got into a 'row ; he recognized . among them the face of an old friend, whom he had not seen for some years -; the latter requested his' card, 'which the Medical Gen tleinan gaVe him from his Pocketbook. This Pocket=book. Contained Bank Noteg'to the amount of fool. which he had been so incautious is to take to the Theatre with him. - left the Watch house, and two iron who were therein followed him.. He h a d scarcely left the steps ,ere he felt something touch his hand, and looking round discovered a large Newfoundland .dog, which immediately leaped on hi m , and kept following him. When they reached Grosvenor-square (th e ' 'Gentleman resides in Park_ lane), the two men attacked him, and seized him by the Collar, demanding his book . The dog in stantly flew at them both, one of whom he severely bit in the leg, and they both Made their escape.— The faithful guardian attended the Gentleman to the door of his 'house, and waited until the servant opened it. The Gentleman endeavoured to coax the animalin, but without avail; he refused all their intreaties to enter, and they were compelled to shut the door. On opening it in a few minutes, they found he,had taker► his departure. On Sunday se'nnight an incident occurred in the river Wear, near Lumley castle, of an extraordi nary instance 9f the sagacity of a Newfoundland dog. The Chester-le-street .volunteers were cross ing the river to exercise at Lumley, when a dog was observed struggling with the current, apparently following them. The dog being near the edge of a dam, from the rapidity of the current and the ex tent of the fall, the little animal would inevitably have been drowned, but for a Newfoundland dog hard by, which immediately plunged in without being ordered, and brought it to'land by the collar. - Another occurrence, full as exttaordinaty, lately took place in that neighbourhood; in a pointer be longing to Captain Coottn, of Chester. Being on a shooting party, a single bird got up while the dog was at a distance, and on being fired at was brought to the ground. The dog immediately per. ceiving the circumstance, came : as usual to bring the prey to his master, but on his road discovered , a covey, at which he pointed, although he had the bird still alive in his mouth. On the covey being sprung, a second was brought down, when he brought both birds safe to his master, ANOTHER GHOST. NoTwrrtisTAßOtivd the sad catastrophe bCta Sion ed by the Hammersmith Ghost, another Appari tion has appeared. This nightly wanderer ha:.' ch , xeo St. James's Park for a plate of rendezvous, where it has been regularly seen by the Soldiers on g'stitti for upwards of a we k past, between the hours of one, and two o'clock in the morning. A few nights ago, it was observed at a lite hour by one of the Cold_. stream Regiment, whist on duty near the Royal Cockpit. The poor fellow is ready to swear w sa pass by him a worum without a head. The moitt he refletied, the more terrified he b ecame , as he knew all the Park gates had been fastened tc., some hours, and therefore could not suppose to be some one who had got into the the purpose of frightening him. The Soldier is sure it was not a pe rson d resse d up i n a white sheet, because he could plainly discern the arms and notwithstanding his great alarm, he observed that the shoulders the Ghost were the hii>.lif!.:t part of it; he titer ire concluded, • whatever it might be, that it hati (7.t no .head, This' man was considered as one of he most resolute men 'in the Regiment. He was, however, taken iii immediately on. his leaving guard, and the•next day sent to the 'hospital, where he still remains. On Tuesday one of his comrades having heard of the affair, •and having to take the same watch that night, was re,- solved to look out-for the GLrt, and to speak to it accordingly, at the usual "time, her Ghostship paid him a visit. She appeared again without a head, and entered, the Park from the end of Queen.street, near..to the Royal Cockpit. This veteran, who had often braved a cannon.ball, was now panic_struck at a sha-dalat. He describea himself to have rot a lo.ck; j aw , and when he warned to try, " Who comes • there," he could not titter a word. Although he was tongue-tied, it. does not appear, howevca,; tu;: was . leg.tied ; for on the Ghost ,seeming inclined to .he better acquainted with him, he .qoitttat his .post, and ran with all possible speed ttl, the guard-room, where he had scarce, recited the disthal story to the Serjeant, Before he fell into strong fits, and continued so ill afterwards, than he was taken to the hospital. on Wednesday, where he is now confined to his bed. Another night thi headless g,iost held its midnight revels in an empty house behind the Armoury Roem, and amused itself for some time in Opening and shutting the windows ; hut what is most remarkable of all, the Apparition called out as lustily,for a light, as if it had got boatswain's head upon its shoulders. Having,finish ed its pranks in the empty'dwelling, the soldier who was a witness to ' this novel scene observed this dreadful sothre to pass by him at the distance of' co yards, ) andufalied over the park . alin g as easy as he could step over a straw; it then proceeded to wards the Canal, and vadShed from his !.ight. Tilt- le are several othei stories current among:.:t the Cold, stream Regiment• respeffing the nocturnal gambols of this Ghvst, and it is s a id, that several Soldiers,. :Is aittheayTery tray itfad}, y _ I besides those already mentioned, h ave seen, wht on duty, what they suppo se a supernatural p h anrom ; which has so affeeted them, •that they we re . ta k en . ill immediately, and se nt of) the hospital ; b ur , b e tier, astier,tier,•is an.undoub t ed fa, that t'..“) n been sent there from tl•.e effeds of ;tight, w have been the real cau,c of it. CORN IXCPIANGE, JAN. 13. THERE arc scarce any frcsh samp!es of Wheat ' arrived to-dar, and very little of toe AitLility. of late ; best samples of fine Dantzie fetch tsos.pet• quarter ; other sorts sell rather better ; we have but little Barley., and waiting better suprly it is not higher ; Pease with Beans-, at little variation Oats are in good supply, and has rather better sale Flour does not maintain last - quotation. Wheat 36s a 1.4 s A54S' od Tick Deans 3os a 355 ad F i m ditto - 55 s a 575 od Oat's- !Ss a ?.Is a z,;s "o , t Rye - - - ISs a 315 od , Poland ditt o 2:45 z;s 0.1 Barley zos a zss odßape Secd - - 351 a 381 Malt - sos a 57s .);1 Fine F lour - 44$ a 4Ss Dui Wiljte. Pease 375 a 445 c•ci Seconds - 4os a 44s od Beans - 335 a 385 cd I;LT ( .::-OrF ICE, We R 1 , -STRE ET. -, -Wedner. • day evening a girl of eighteen years of age under. . went eXarni nation, being charged on sUspici(4l of .stealing a horse, saddle, and bride, the property of a person at present unknown-. It was stated by a tradesman of Bethnal-Green, that ' , Ting a crowd of people about the girls who was inquiring ber,way to . Holborn, leading the horse, he asked her to whom the hot - se belonged She answered, that it belong: ed to her father, and Ilia, he had . purchased the same at an Inn near London_bridge, and that she had been to fetch him to he r father in Holborn. The Informant, who sa butcher, not believing ,her tale, procured a Constable from the Office, who ' also questioned to whorp she related the same story. Being searched by ciireaion of the - strates, she began to he refraCtory, but they foupd, a brass collar on her neck, padlocked, engraved with her father's name and place of abode, ,a;:d in het pocket a horse halter. She ‘vculd give no ac‘ount: for What purpose she had it. . . She is the s;tme girl who was examined before ;he Lord Mayor some time ago for divers extravagancies. , She confessed before the Magistrates having takers, the horse, which was fastened to a r tiling near the Monument ; and that she had left . her parents the re ceding morning, and, that she had walked the str-!ets the whOle of the time. She was committed .to the House of Corredion to be brought bp again. In the mean while,inquiry is to be made after het fa. • tiler, as likewise the owner of the horse. The exportation of fish from Norway has never been so considerable as last year. It atnourited to 13.295 commerce Lasts, in 4.1 r cargoes, of which 326 belonged to Bergen alone. . Yesterday morning one of toe Dutchess of Devorr: Chairmen, named HAY, died raving road, at Devonshire-house, in which situation he had been three OT four days previous to his death be w as obliged to be kept in a straight 'waistcoat. He has not been very Well since the fire in Beritely-streer . „ at which time he fell into x great reservoir of water which is on the top of Devonshire-bonse, whence %Ile engine played, he being overheated at the time.