The Sun.
London, England, 1806-02-15 00:00:00

OLD BAILEY,

Yesterday an Admiralty Session was held .before
Sir WILLIAM SCOTT and Sir. GILES ROOKE, &c. &c.
for the trial of offences committed on the High Seas,
within the jurisdiraion:of the Admiralty of England;
There was only the following Prisoner for trial
Captain Henderson was capitally indited for as-
saulting and wounding Gibson Mason, on the Ist
of October, 18,040 with intent to do him grievous
bodily harm ; and for a similar-assault on Wm.-Nel-
sOn. The Prisoner was Captain of the Walker de-
fence ship, lying off Deal, apd Mason was the boat-
swain. .It appeared by the statement of the prose-
cutor Mason, that a misunderstanding had originated
in the vessel, ,in . consequence, of part of the crew
having gone on shore, with Mason and Nelson, who
was the ship's carpenter. On their arrival-o U-board
in the evening, Mason went to his birth, when the
Chief Mate put out the candles, and a- scuffle en-
sued. -Witness went on the quarter-deck, when the
Prisoner stabbed him under the ,right arm, which
had deprived him of-. the,use of his side, and the
violence was repeated by a blow, on the nose with
the sword. The violence offered to Nelson occurred
at the same time, in consequence, as was stated, of
his expressing his. disapprobation at the condu& of
,the Captain. ' -
On the witness .being cross-examined. by
,Mr.
GLEAD, he prevaricated in away that deprived his
original statement of credit. He also stated, that a
Bill of Indi6tment had been presented at thelate
Maidstone Assizes,, which the Grand Jury had
thrown out. The hurt the Prosecutor had received,
appeared to have originated in a scuffle, through his
own, imprudence ; and the Judge directed the Jury
to acquit. the Prisoner, without hearing further evi-
dence. The Prisoner, who had been confined since
August last, was stated by the Judge, to have been
very ill treated: He was afterwards arraigned on an
indiament, for assaulting and wounding Wm. NO.!
son, and. also- acquitted.

MARLI3O4OI7OH-STREET:—It has been stated that
a man was in custody, and had undergone an exami-
nation on the charge .of defrauding different trades-
people, by ordering goods, meeting the bearers, and
obtaining .possession of them by giving a piece of
paper resembling -a bank-note. The persbn of the
man in custody could not be identified, and he was
remanded until the business should undergo -a farther
investigation. A suspicious chara&er was seen lurk-
ing about the Opera House during the Masquerade
oil Thursday night, and the Officers on duty took
him- into custody. He was . found_ to answer the
description given of one of the men who had been
engaged in the fraudulent praEtices above-mentioned.
His, person was, identified by several- who . had been
defrauded, atitong whomri were a Mr. Jones, an.urn,
.brella-maker in Oxford-street, and:Mr. Gascoigne,
a publican in Broad-street, Bloomsbury. :The
Pri-
soner, on whom a fielitions note was found', was re-
'manded for another examination'. .

A few days since as Mr. OLIVER, one of the Sur-
veyors belonging to' the East India Company, was
stepping over a tier of Ships at Deptford, he fell be-
tween two Ships, ands was drowned.

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