The Sun. — London, England, 1804-02-17 00:00:00

The person who committed the forgery to the amount of seven hundred and thirty pounds on the house of ROBALTS and Co. Lombard-street, has been taken in Berkshire. It may be'be•reCollefleti, that he received from the Bankers two 3001. Bank notes, one fool. and a 301. and that he immediately afterwards exchanged the two 3001. notes for fifteen 201. notes at the Bank of England. The forgery being soon deteled and made known,- it was dis covered that he had engaged for d r ool. worth of plate, at a respeClable house on Ludgate-;sill, paying for the same with the 201. notes, and ordering the plate to be sent to a certain house. From this cir cumstance, suspicion fell on a late Clerk to a te. spedable Jew Merchant in the City, who was traced into Berkshire, apprehended, and brought to town on Thursday morning. A most resplendent Meteor was seen at Perth on se'nnight, for a few seconds at mid-day.— j,t is represented to have had the appearance of a bright ball of silver, about two feet in diameter, with a tail 30 or 4.0 feet in length. It vanished in it.North-Wtstedy direction. Caution—Several washed dollars have alre'ady been put into circulation. The edge is whiter than that of real ones, and the impression better. The counterfeits are of no intrinsic value whatever. It is a faCt, though perhaps not generally known, that last year many meetings and consultations were held, in difareot parts of the Country, about raising Volunteers, before it was koown whether it was the intention of Government CO accept of their ser vices or riot : and when their pleasure was known, many offers were made, and many were ready to he made, perfectly convinced that the terms of set. vice would he the same as last War : but when the regulations came our, they were indeed nearly the same, but not quite. ,The Field Officers were to have the pay of Captains only ; and the Corps to be exercised. only 8 days in the year instead of tog- This was a disappointment, and certainly no encou ragement to the Volunteers. It is true, it was a saving of nineteen days pay to Government,. or 6661. r Bs. for evety battalion of 544 men, besides the reduaion of Field OEcers' pay. It may also he called a saving to the men, 'as they could have gained more, every day, than one shilling, at their usual occupations : but-whether the real loss to the national strength, by defeCtive and imperfeft died- Pline, may not overbalance the saving in pence, may admit of doubt : one thing I know, that the men would have been much better satisfied had their days of exercise remained the same, although to their own pecuniary loss, especially the old Volun. leers, who had begun to feel as soldiers, that their ' sakty as well as credit and success in the field de pended on their discipline. Notwithstanding this discouragement, offers it of service flowed in from every quarter ; whether was to put a stop to these altogether, which might have happened, or only to make a good bargain, or from what cause is not easy to divine, but another circular letter came out, so far recalling the former. terms of service, that none but those Volunteers who had -been accepted before the zad June could have that advantage. Surely all those who had made offers, before this notice, were equally entitled_ to the indulgence ; and although this plea 'was urged, and many strong reasons given by many of the King's Lieutenants, why all those who had of fered their services should be on the same footing, the representations had no effeCt with the present Ministers. They were direCted to say so to the officers in so many worda: Unless you accept of ads. for crothing, and he satisfied with 20 days drill, for which-you will receive 209. pay in the year, and your Offieers.serve without pay, we do not want yoUr services.—Another very important discouragement. However, the spirit 'of the Country rose superior to every discouragement. The men were ready to take arms. Counties, Towns, Public Bodies, and many Individuals, all equally sensible of the very critical situation of the Country, and the necessity of a powerful armament for our defence, as they saw no other remedy, determined to subscribe and to give such encouragement as 'he spirit of the People deserved, and to bring forward a force Which Ministers seemed very indifferent about. - Large sums were subscribed. The terms which Ministers offered were accepted, rather than the spirit of the People should be checked. The Volunteers are completely cloathed, and have got every necessary; but at a very great expence to the best friends of their Country, and the most loyal of its inhabitants. With regard to .a Volunteer's right to resign when he pleases, there seems to he a difference of opinion. No doubt the very word implies Volun tary Service, but were Volunteers permitted to ' serve to-d4y and resign to-Morrow, we had better have no such Military Establishment. It would be a rope of sand, and a broken reed; upon which there could be no dependence. The Volunteer, in joining the Corps, voluntarily agrees to submit to certain military restrictions for the good of his Country. Obedience :to his Commanding Officer, and not to quit the Corps without his leave, was a principal article of agreement last War, in all the Volunteer Corps with which I was acqtiainted, and which every man signed, and in many Corps swore: to, when they took the Oath of Allegiance. Hots' far this would be binding itiLaw, I know not : LONDON: Pr'nted by I3UCHANAN ‘ofilovv.:Street, Covent-Garden) ; and Pubinalcd by Wat;,l A m AR micr.R ScR i(Of C lONVCIIOf-square); At the Soli.Oitucs, No. t i 2, 4tratid ; where didwertiremorti, Grim far the raper, Letters for tiic Edzior, ',)057-paid), must be addressed. one pound notes ; but the Prosecutor's pocket book wa! , , not lottrAl ttpon him. In his defence the Prisoner said—" lam entirely innocent of the charge laid against me. lam a na tive of the City - of, Oxford, and have nobody in town to appear to my character. I know nothing of the htisiness—and am perfealy innocent of the charge." The RECORD ER charged the Jury ❑pon the case ; after which they immedisltely found the - Prisoner— Gully,. lane Phillips was charged with a capital offence in feloninusly stealing a gold inside case of a watch, the property of Messrs. Tobias, watch-case finishers, in a dwelling_house. The principal Witness against the Prisoner was an apprentice of the Prosecutors', named Isaacs ; he had been sent with the gold case in question to a place where it was to he delivered, but in his way he called at a relation's of his, with whom the Prisoner lived as servant : lte'had the watch-case in his great coat pocket ; while he staid he took off his great coat, and hung it up. He did not miss the article until he returned to his master's, and for some time no account whatever was got of the watch-case. By a circuitous chain of evidence, it appeared that the Prisoner had given ilk watch-case in question to a erson to whom she said she had found it, and by when, it was afterwards disposed of to a Jew in Chancery-lane. On evidence against the Prisoner to this general effea, the Jury, after considering some time, found her Guilty of stealing, hut not in the dwelling-house, 'which obviated the capital part of the charge. Mary Sampson was capitally indifled for steal ing in the dwelling.house of John Martin, linen to the value of 51. and' also for burglariously breok_ ing cut,of the said housi7. It appeared in evidence, that the Prisoner was seen by the watchman at a door in Milbank-street, on the 17th of January, early in the morning, with a bundle under her arm. On being questioned, she said she was going to the washerwoman's, and was tired, and requested he would leave it in his box till seven o'clock, when she would call for it. About eight o'clock she came to fetch the bundle, when the watchman h av in g some suspicion, took.- her into custody ; and upon an investigation before the Magistrate, the Prose cutor came forward, and owned the property.-3he was found Guilty of stealing only. .3"ohn Jones was capitally cnnviaur for stealing forty-ttvo ounces of flatted silver, the property of Samuel A , kinson, value i zl. Mr. Atkinson, who is a watch:case-maker, re siding in Bridgewater-square, stated, that his boy had been rubbed of the articles specified in the in diCrnenr, on the evening of the igth of January. John Griffiths, a boy twelve years of age, stated, that he had fetched the silver from the flatting mills, and on his return honie, about seven o'clock in the evening, the Prisoner - came up to him in Jewry_ street, wilcn he snatched the property off his shoul der and ran away._ The boy called out " Murder ! stop thief !" when he observed that a Gentleman had ; , ursued, as he did also as fAst as he could, and be was taken. .4Pn cross-examination, the boy did not see his face, hut he had -on a Belcher handker chief, and be had no doubt in identifying him to be the -robber. Mr. Mumford, who is a pceket-book maker, and lives in Jewry-street, heard the cry of stop thief, and murder, %Olen he went into the street, and.saw the Prisoner running, and calling out stop thief also. He passed Witness, who observed that he held in his\ hand a bag, when he pursued him., and on seizing him by the flap of the coat, he threw away the bag. Witness pursued hi►n until he fell down in the Crment.. He then secured him, and with as sistance conduled him to the Bull's Head house, where an Officer was sent for who lodged him in safe custody. Eliz. Webber, who was passing up Jewry -street, saw the Prisoner running, and ,lbserved him to throw away a bag, and which she picked up and gave to the man who secured him. This bag proved to con tain the silver in question. • Cartwright the Officer produced the property, which was sworn to by the Prosecutor as being his proper ty .—Guilty- 7 Death. While the jury were deliberating on the evidence, the Prisoner behaved in a most riotous and disorderly manner, swearing that " he would be hanged—he would die direaly—that the Witnesses had sworn his life away—he not having had a Belcher hand_ kerchief on his neck for the last three years. He was with difficulty kept in order to hear the verdid of Guilty from the Jury. ORIGIN OF LOYAL ASSOCL4TIO:Vi. IT was in 1793, Or 1794, that Loyal Assoch. lions were fit st thought of. The idea (IA not oti. ginate with Government. But at that c ritic-Al pe riod when men's minds were set afloat by the French Revolution, many loyal Subjeds, in different parts of the Country, agreed to associate and to take arms, to resist the threatened violence to A ' order from'seditious principles, which then too much prevailed. They were encouraged by Government. King's Commissions were -given to Officers of their own chusing. They were armed, formed into Corn. panics, Battalions, and Regiments. Regulations were given them for their conduft and exercise—to be drilled two days every week, or 104 days in the year, and. both Officers and Privates to receive pay every day they attended drill. The Ot'. fleet* the pay of their rank ; Non-commission-- ed Officers and Privates,' at the rate of one shilling the day, and every assistance and encouragement was given to forward their discipline, and to con.. vince them that their CoUntry was hot unconscious of their merit, nor ungrateful for their services. In 1798, when we were threatened with Invasion, • Government thought proper to encrease the mother of Volunteers ; circular letters were forwarded to ff the different Counties : the spirit of the Coon_ try_ arose, and offers of service followed imme, diately. The terms were the same with the other Volunteers, only one day's drill instead of two,• or 5 a days. exercise in .the year instead of 104. The of this new regulation was very soon seen and felt by the men themselves. If to do equal duty, and to be liable to the same dangers, why not equally well trained to meet them ? Representations were made : the then Ministers were convinced, and the whole body of the Volunteers were put upon the same footing. To this the very respedable and soldier_like appearance of the Volunteers at the end of last War wa,s owing : and to this and to the good intelligence which prevailed between the officers and the men, it was owing that so many Corps, when reduced at the Peace, declared their readiness to resume their artm, whenever their Country should call for their services. itt Honour it i 5. Anti as honour to a Soldier is dearer than his Interest, or even his Life, so ought a Volunteer's. Were a Volunteer permitted to re sign at pleasure, the most trifling dissatisfanion or disgust might make Mil quit. tie might throw down his arms, when most wanted ; nay, some bad nizrn might enrol themselve, at first to learn the use of arms, for the worst purposes, and that accom plished, quit the Corps. To meet all these dill uf ties will require much consideration. To bind a Volunteer for a term of years, is .with many im possible. A servant in any capacity can he bound no longer than his continuance in •the same place. If he changes his master, he may change his ' parish, county, or country. Att house holder may change his residence, and gl to an_ other Distrid, too far off to attend drill-- a man in trade. may be obliged to go from home ; in all these cases, surely a Volunteer ought to he permitted to resign. To compel him to remain would be oppression. But if a Volunteer be taught that it is his duty to subMit to mart . al I.IIV at all times when under arms, on any military duty, or even when summoned to it by his Officer, and especially from the very instant when an actual Invasion takes place, or when an Enemy is upon the Coast, and that at that period no resignation can be accepted, nor can he then leave the Corps, without being guilty of desertion, and liable to punishment as such, perhaps such regulation might answer the purpose. There is really no hardship in this,. and probably nothing more, than ,what every Volunteer thinks his duty : but the mode wants consideration, and too great care can not be taken in explaining these obligations, and in pointing out the necessity of complying With them, for their own sakes, as well as for the advantage of the Country, and the cause in which . they are en gaged. No doubt this will be done, as the irnpo bey of compulsory measures anti sumptuary laws under the present circumstances (to say no worse.of them), must be evident to every thinking man. At first Volunteers chose their own Officers, and it was very natural for men, under their circum. stances, to name-the persons under whom, they chose to serve. Some Corps still chose their own Offs. cers to succeed to vacancies, but I believe very few. The Commandant in general tecomMends, as is the praCtice of the whole Army. But as Volunteers are but partially governed by military laws, and as the good understanding between Officers arid Men is a great bond of lotion conneding them as co-as. sociarts in the same hcnourable cause, it is most certainly of the (ton tsteconsequence to a Command ing Officer of Volunteers, to his Corps, and even to his Country, to recommend none to be Officers, but such as he knows will be agreeable to the Corps ; and if he .has prudence, forbearance, and temper, and pay some attention to the feelings, or even to the prejudices of his Corps, he will very soon find that he may do what he pleases : 'without these, no man should at tempt to be an Officer of Volunteers; let him lead-,--but not attempt to drive. PEYROUSE.—From The Mercantile Advert. er, of New-York, Dec- a9.—The certainty of tlse fate of the two ships, under the diredion of M. PEYROUSE, will girve relief to the public mind, though see must ever deplore the melancholy event which deprived the world of the services of that truly eminent com mander. .By several gentlemen, lately from the • Isle of France, it is reported, that a Danish ship, in her passage to China in the eastern route, took f ro m an uninhabited island an officer and four or five m en belonging . to the ships commanded by M. err . aotisE, who were so emaciated and worn.dowu for want of food, that they survived only.a few days ; and that papers, containing the history of their ship wreck, and particulars of getting on shore among the natives, &c. were in . posiession of the Govern ment of the Isle of France. The tale related by the unfortunate officer and men to the Danes on board the ship before they feed, is, as nearly as we can learn,. as follows :—the ships left Port Jackson, and, after sailing some tirw., were unfortunately. driven among the rocks, and ship wrecked ; the principal part of the ciffcers and crews landed in safety, and preserved great part of the stores, &c. They found the natives numerous, and • apparently hospitable ; after remaining - some time on the most peaceable terms with thern, it was deter mined to build a small vessel from parts of the wreck, and the stately trees abounding in their neighbour hood, and to seek out some European settlement, whence they could procure a passage to their own country. In the prosecution of this hopeful scheme, they cut down several trees to commence the busi. iess; not thinking it of any consequence to the na ives, they did not fOrmally ask leave of them to ase their timber ; the savages, however, most un luckily conceiving their rights invaded, became in. stantly alarmed, and all their former friendly inter course immediately ceased. It was not long before they became pert - 011y hostile, and, watching an op portunity when the French were off their guard (which was unhappily sometimes - the case from ne cessity, but too frequently from want of discipline) they fell upon them from all quarters in a very nu merous body, when a most horrible massacre ensued. The voyage of M. PEYIOUSE had been brought up within a few days to This fatal period, and had been deposited in a safe place known to all the officers ; the officer who had escaped thus . far in the cruel bu. siness, flew to the spot, snatched the papers, fled to one of the boats, where he was joined by four or five men, and instantly put to sea, leaving his unhappy countrymen in the merciless hands of the savages, whom they supposed were very soon overpowered and butchered by their_ treacherous friends. Happy . to find themselves out of the reach of one danger, they continued braving others until they fell in with an island, where they landed (and here probably lost their boat.) On 'this island they remained some months, perhaps many suffering extremely from the want of food and raiment, until Providence broughi the Danish 'Olio to their relief, which took. them off in a wretCli e d situation, worn down by hunger and thirst t o s k e l etons . Notwithstanding every at ten. them which humanity could dictate or ti tenderness was spad suggest, they survived only time enough to relate their woeful tale. CORONER'i INQUEST. ON Ttraiy night, Lord WALSINCHAWS to4n was litind dead on his Coach-box, in the 14,1y market, whilst waiting to take Lady WALSING6I/124 from the Opera. A Coroner's Inqutest was taken on the body Yes terday afternoon, at the King's Arms, in Sr. Al ban's-street. Thomas Myers, Lord WA LS IN GUAM'S footman, deposed, that Thomas Simmons, the deceased, and himself, were ordered to attend the Opera with the carriage at half past i t o'clock, to take their La d i r home. When her Ladyship was ready, he went N. tell the coachman to bring the carriage up to rite door. The throng of carriages was so great that it was with difficulty he could find him. At Teogtfi he met with him on the opposite side of the la and delivered to him his Lady's orders. The coach' man observed in reply, that the wily was so con'," pletely blocked up, that it would he a quarter -of ate hour at least before he should be 'able to get close the pavement. The witness conveyed this ha:ore illa ti on to Lady WAL NGri AM, who waited till- 141 time was elapsed in the !Abe, when she sent 0 ! W trtess again to see if the thiechnian was ready" On going out - at the Opera Hothe door, he pereerch• ed a bustle among the carriages, and observed hiS fellow-servant eAeavouring to make hi s hween two carriages. H s attention,bethe tak-cn off at the moment-, he heard a voice, p r ocedi"g , from the carriages in front of the Opera hiati,c, claim, " D—n him, you have served him At this moment he saw the deceased faii back on the coach box, and drop the reins ; nor seaohg brier ' stir, he became alarmed, and ran to inform hi" Lady that some accident had befallen the coach', man, upon which her Ladyship desired him to, in; quire what had happened. On returning the thictl-; sime, he found the carriage was gone ; the hoFO 9- as he learned, having set off when they found theta' selves at liberty. A Gentleman who stopped the horses near SO I:4 folk -street, said, that passing that way at t h e tittl i ,,,e',e anti seeing no, person guiding the animals, he o'r,;-• • • hold of their heads, when he observed the coaelta"h tr l6 laying hack on the coach_box, with his head on roof of the coach,. Supposing at first he was °II' - asleep, he called to him, but on further invesie tion he found he was dead; when, with the 0 ,5 ' 5(2 once of others', they took him to the King's rt in St. Alban's-street. At this Period Lady siNGIIAM'S footman Came on , an d „ emit f or t he. Pd. mily Surgeon, Mr. Taggert, in Mr. Taggert stated, that oncoming to the 3e , i , • Ceased he found him quite warm, hut lifeless afi re _ though he thought nothing could be dt.he to re s tC:j oh him to life, nevertheless he opened a vein io.) vo aim. On examining his head and face, he fOtto4 ° re, contusions, one of them in the middle of his 1 . 14 e head, and the other on the left side of his celq, ; ;,:: neither of which he conceived %v; to of suf ei c . • magnitude to occasion the death of the dece4 o 7A . l. : Mr. Young, a Surgeon, who reSitlea i n St , t o hin's-streer, said, that being sent far, he Q 3lll 0 , 4 the deceased at the time he was under the ' t he' „ tion of Mr. Taggerr, and having ex:ttriii7e Tie t ipe {r wounds on his forehead, agreed with ihc• blows were not of that fat a l natc;'e to. deceased of his lifee . stR A Coachman who was present when Are- bn ioo - 1 , took place, stated, that the deceased Rd:led ing art old acquaintance,, to give way to l et come up- to the Opera House door,'aS he, tirc:o2o tress, had not been called. At thiS morneott while he was endeavouring to make way, cw" at e o f - carriage s were en d ea v o uring to ge t into the ride the deceased, whom, he now saw fall oe box ; hut being busily engaged with his saw no blow struck. ati` • T Ira:' he evidence being closed, the Tory leaG't , their verdiel—Died by an .Vopleccnc I , *;t : • The above circumstance having msde sAII 411° many persons have requested to vtew the body" cOl 'coachman. It appears, that over the left c.ye are three distinct strokes, which appear,to ha v ll 4 given by the thong of a Whip. On the ceurre,‘:t forehead is the mark of .a blow, not arparentilj e - 0 0 dangerous nature, notwithstanding the blood e s c ota to have issued from the wound, and run a ntoug:, it hair. A wound also appears on the left tette',,,'l4 is black, and swelled about the size of 1 .1114t P . is supposed to have been given by the hutt•e. e a to" whip. Round this blow are several 31 , rll , :rotas of a trivial natute ; the left eye is coll' ll black, and the deceased exhibited alto ,ether , pearance of one who had been etgaged in' a I , patch. Some time after the evidence hd hay r 11s 1 person came to the King's Arms, and st'a:ca could find a person who saw a coaelettan 6 ' f ' • . the deceased with a whip. n' - It was said that a coachman who was pl . ° e, the bustle had absconded, w h en cam'' g„ 0 ,3 • drive was Icund damaged, a'nd qte;ritity,o f biL sprinkled over it. k/4'LED. 1 1,051. Lately, at Bath, Sir Edward. tiarington, - V; al: gio l ,l On Monday last, at St. Pancras Chnrch, M. Fishwick, of Hoxton-squarc, to Miss Williams, ot place On . Tuesday, Mr. j. Winterbottom, of Bovv- 6 " ce lV vent-garden, to bliss Clarke, of Deanshanger, tonshire: • f 015; DIED. On Tuesday the gth inst. 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