The Sun.
London, England, 1801-05-28 00:00:00

STOCKHOLM,' MAY 12.

PREPARATIONS of defence still go on here,
where intelligence has been received that the dis.
putes between England and. Russia have been ad:•
justed in a preliminary manner..
Some English Men of War are still cruizing
the neighbourhood of Ca,/scrona.

PETERSBURGH, MAY 4.

ACCORDING to our Court Gazette. of this day,
Count WORONZOW iS 'restoretj to his rank of Gene-
ral of Russian Infantry. ,

COPENHAGEN, MAY 9.

SINCE the arrival of Lord ST. HELEN'S, and the
conferences he had with the Secretary of State,
Count BritNsToaFF, the hope of a speedy restora-
tion of a good understanding between Denmark and
Eng/agd is become very general. The preparations
for defence, in case of a renewal of hostilities, arc
however, carried on with the greatest adivity.
On the 17th inst. Lord S'r. HE proceeded
on his voyage to St. Peter:burgh.

HAGUE, MAY 19.

TH g Committee appointed for a revision of -the
Constitution, has this day given in its Report to
the First Chamber. It is assured, that according
to. the new 'Constitution, the Direetory of Fi.vi
Members will' continue ; the two Chambers which
compose the Legislative Body will likewise remain,
but will consist of a much smaller number of mem
bers than before. A Council of Elders will like-.
wise be introduced to dust the.members of the Le.
gislative Body: The members of the Departmental
Administration will be endowed With considerable
authority, and have a great resemblance to the late
States of tha.Provinces. It is alio said that these
States will be restored to the same footing as at the
commencement Of the Revolution, instead of the
eight Departmentawhich now form the territorial
division:

LULECK, 1 Ii v 2t.

ON the r9th the English Fleet was still off
Bo 7 Ithatlt.

According to the accounts received herei the
Russian Fleet sailed from Revel on the 3d,. for
Cronstadt.

Lately, was committed to the House of Correc-
tion, at Worcester, a woman who calls herself Le.
cretia Monk, for obtaining money under false pre.
tencel, This person is a fortune-teller, and was
brought before the Magistrate by a young tartni%
man, who had gone to her (as had several others in
his neighbourhood) to know his destiny. She.told
him he must, in the first place, go and buy her a
pound of lead, and bring it to her; which accord-
ingly he did—melting part of this lead, she poured
it into a bowl of water, and
_pretending minutely
and most sagaciously to examine the metal in the
state in which it then was, she informed him t:ut a
most beautiful and rich young lady was dying fat
love of him; that she would disclose her passion in
about four dayi ; that they were sure to .be :mar-
ried, and that she saw in the water no less than
eleven fine children. All ethis the silly clowri
believed, ,paid her her tee, as. 6d.. and departed
in the highest spirits ; the four days, however,
had no sooner elapsed, than they begun, to be
depressed, and Measter Ntimps was so enraged at
the, fraud that had been praised upon. him, that
he was determined to be revenged by informing
against her. This woman appeared with the ut..
most composure before the Magistrate, and when
he asked how The dared to defraud in the manner
she had done the poor and ignorant, persisted that
she was no impostor, that she had,a foreknowledge
of every event' in every person% life, and knew
what would happen to them Why then,"'said
the Magistrate, " how come you not to be aware
that my warrant was out against you, f)r it has
been issued this week ?" She coolly replied, "that
of kite her head had been so much engaged with
other people's fate and affairs, that she had not time
to give a thought about her own." The numb,e of
people that had been duped by this woman asto.
nishing.

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11W' REPORT.

- COURT OF KING's BENCH, M. z 7.
toRD KENvorr AND A STLCIAL

Iv WESTMINS HALE.

THE KING CARTWRIGHT AND ANOTHER.
THIS was an Indidment against the Defendants
who are Constables of the City of London, for hay-
ingobstruded one Joseph Middleton, and another,
who are Revenue Officers, in the due execution of
their duty, in taking sonic Coffee, about 15lb: of
it, which was not protected by a Permit. Th.: De.
fendants had apprehended these Revenue Officers for
thus seizing these goods in the. City, and they were
actually committed to the Compter, where they re.
mined for some hours, under an idea that no Reve.
nue Officer could seize any goods, contraband or
Otherwise' in the City, of London, unlessccompa.
vied by a City Officer.
The ATTORNEY GrNERAI, said, that the main
olljed of this prosecution was to put an end to the
erroneous conception of Law that had been support-
a-hitherto, namely, « That a Revenue
,Officer
could not seize smuggled goods in the City, unless
accompanied by a City' Constable :" that was the
view with which this prosecution had been institut-
ed, and if that purpose was answered, he did not
know that he should be called upon, in the exercise
of his discretion, to bring the parties up for Judg-
mj.nt in case of a convition, of which there could
be no• doubt, because the evidence was p.,cedly
clear. •

Mrt Pt a ns,on the part of the- Defendants, .ac-
quiesced .in what the ATTORNEY GENERAL said,
and therefore 'should give those who had the con-
duet of- the prosecution, no further trouble than
barely to examine one Witness, to establish the
faas, to Warrant the finding
.of the Jury. Cer.
'vainly the idea that a ReVenue:Oflicer was nor ern.
powered by'Law to seize contraband goods in the
City without a City Officer, was a misconception of
Law, and the founded upon that error,,,inust
be followed., up no longer. Nothing was more
• hariktsome than the manner in which His Majesty's
ATTORNEY GENERAL had COMitlfted this prosecu-
tion ; the Defendants were obliged to him.
The Case was prOved by one Witness, and the
Defendatits werefound Guilty.

THE KING v. THOMAS SPENCE.
This was an Information filed by His Majesty's

ATTORNEY GENERAL against the Defendant, for
the publication of a Libel, which was objeaed to
in two ways : First, That it was written and pub.
fished with a view of causing it to be believed,
" That all Landed Property in this Country was an
usurpation and a great evil, and recommending that
all the Land of the Kingdom should be equally di.
aided by the different Parishes of the Kingdom,
among the High and Low, Rich and Poor, Legitimate
and Illegitimate, equally." Secondly, " That it
advised every person who did not at present possess
considerable Landed Property, to abandon the De.
fence of the Country, in case of an Invasion of it
by the Enemy."
The ATTORNEY GENV.KAL opened the Case in a
short, clear, and energetic Speech, on the mischief
of such Publications as these, and the necessity of
repelling them.
It was proved that the Defendant sold the
Pamphlet in question, which is called " The Re-
storer of Satiety, &t." he had it locked up with
other Copies, in a box under a bulk, which he kept
under a window of a Public house in Oxford-street,
which was obtained from him by the Witness tel.
ling him it was fur a friend of Liberty.
The Defendant read a long Address to the Jury,
consisting of Extras from and Commentaries on
the book in question, which he defended from the
beginning to the end, saying, he had aded from
principle, and had composed part of this work at
Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and read it to a Philoso.
phical Society there five-and-twenty years ago, &c.
'is Address took him near three hours to deliver.
The ATTORNEY GENERAL replied.—The Jury
found the Defendant, Guilty. He was then com-
mitted to Newgate on the Motion of the ATTOR-
NEY GENERAL.

CRIM. CON.

C.'STI.YR,T, ESQ. V. THE MARQIItS OP BI.ANDFORD.

This was an Aaion for Crithinal Conversation
between the Noble Marquis and Lady Mary Ann
Stun, the Plaintiff's wife. •
The Pleadings were opened by Mr. JErcret, and
the Case by Mr.. ERSKINE, who said, that the evi-
dence by which he called upon the jury for a ver-
diet for the Plaintiff in this Cause was uncommon,
but not new in principle ; it consisted entirely of
Letters written by the Defendant to Lady Mary
Ann Stun ; fot: proof of the adultery in any other
respect, certainly they had none ; for so cautiously
had the Noble Marquis conduacd himself, that
none even of the domestics of the family suspeaed
what was going on between him and Lady Mary
Ann Sturt, and the way, in which it was found out
was,- that of Mr. Sturt himself having come into
possession of some Letters which the Noble Mar.
(pais, 'who is note' in Parliament, had written, and
whiCh came in an envelope to' Mr. Stun, who
is Member' for Oridport. By theie Letters it
Feared that the Noble Marquis had long been, 'in-
deed for years, in thelutbit of corresponding with
Lady Mary Ann Stun,: and it appeared most mani-
festly that they. had corresponded, criminally toge-
ther ; for in one of ;the Letters he .called himself
Lady Mary Ann Sturt's dear beloved-husband, and
said, that the child of .which she had been recently
delivered, was the..pledge of their mutual love, as
well as the effeet of it. These Letters, by accident,
came into the hands of Mr. Stun, -who intercepted
part of the correspondence, and on the receipt-of
the last of Illicit, Mr. Stun became convinced, that
his bed had been dishonoured, and therefore he de-
termined on breaking off conflation with his wife ;
but as she was then within Six weeks of being deli-
vered, he thought it might be fatal to her and her
innocent infant, to state his discovery at that time 4
He therefore staid until she was delivered of the