The Sun.
London, England, 1801-11-21 00:00:00

PUBLIC-OFFICE, BOW-STREET.

TH E Public, especially Shop.keepers, should be on
their guard against a numerous gang of little boys,
who constantly infest the streets for the purpose of
plunder, and who are abetted in their depredations
by men and other boys of a superior age. Several
have lately been brought to this Office, and com-
mitted for trial ;'and on Thursday evening another,
only ten years of ay, was examined before R.
FORD, Esq. on a charge of stealing two remnants
of linen in the shop of Mr. Smith, a haberdasher,
in Holborn.

Edward Crocker, one of the Patrole, stated, that
the same .evening; as he was coming up Holborn,
he observed the Prisoner and three•other boys, and,
suspecting their intention, he watched ,them for
some time : at length they stopped, opposite Mr.
Smith's shop, where one of the other boys took the
Prisoner's shoes off., and bid him. gO in,• which he
did ; he soon after came out with the two remnants
of linen, on which Witness secured him, and the
other boys ran away.
• The Prisoner acknowledged the 'faa, and .that.
he had been instigated to commit this and other
robberies by beggar-boys. He was committed to
the House of Correftion, Coldbath-fields.

Yesterday, before N. BoND, Esq. Mary Chu)ch,
brought in custody from S►►nderland, on a charge of
'stealing valuables to the amount of several hundred-
pounds, the property of Isaac gensamon, la►e Bri-
tish Consul at Algiers, to whom she was, servant, .
was examined, and fully committed for trial at the
next Old Bailey Sessions, the property having been
stolen from Mr. Bensamon's house, inSuffblk-street,
Charing cross, though. with which she afterwards
absconded to Cumberland. •

The Prisoner, just before she quitted the Office,
crave the Prosecutor a violent blow in the face.

THE THEATI.E.—KEMELE'S Hamlet, which is
one of his best efforts, attraded a numerous Audience
to Drury-Lane Theatfe last night. He was- in
good spirits, and.performed the part admirably
Miss Bicos's Ophelia was marked by more
good sense and feeling than usually appears in the
representations of that interesting part.
If DOWTON would blend a 'little courtly dignity
with the brimoun of Polanius, he would render it
somewhat more suitable to the intention of the
Author.

Miss Port, whose merits in Tke Manna we had
not room to notice yesterday, performed the elm-
raker of Old Margairt iti.a much better manner
than'has been seen since, the time of Mrs: GRE.OI,
'who was the original representative. Indeed it
may be doubted whether she did not excel even that
excellent, Adress, for Mrs. GREEN- was admirable
in expressing the violent 'passions of lower life, but
wanted variety. Miss POP E, blended with all its
termagant qualities; considertble humour, and, a very
diverting .afreEtation of languishing tenderness, and
elegant affe'etation.
• •.•
QUICK
is engaged at Drury-Lane Theatre only
during the run of the D11(1,14. This we regret, b„_
cause we think so good an Aaor should be stationary
in the Metropolis. He would be equally- an -orna-
ment to either Theatre.

Our favourite little Isaac is engaged at Liver.
pool and some other' places in the course of the Win.
ter.. These engagements fulfilled, we lisipe he will:
return to the Metropolis as a fixture.
A few evenings since, Mr. Biggs,, of .Vested,
Kent, was stopped by two footpads, near Birch.
wood, on the Maidstone road', who robbed him of
his cash.

Th,tnorrorw. Two Charity Sermons will lie
preached in the Parish ChUrch of St. Martin in the
Fields, for the benefit of the Charity Children he-
longing to';he said'Parish ; that in the 'inclining by.
the Rev. J. L. -MARTYN, Morning Preacher at St.
George the Martyr, • Oueen's-square ; and that in
the afternoon by the Rev.•RICHARD H.kRRISON,
A. M. Joint Leaurer of the said Parish, Minister
of 13rompton Chapel, and Chaplain to the Duke of
HAMILTON anti BRANDON.—Prayers will begin in •
the morning at eleven, and in the afternoon at half
past three o'clock.

'The Ticket No: ;7,281, in the present Irish
Lottery, a Prize of Two Thousand Pounds, by the
3d day's Express, was sold and registered at the old.
State Lottery Office of SWIFT and Co. No. 11,
Poultry, where-Tickets and Shares continue, on sale,
warranted pndrawn. '

COURT OF KING's BEN'Ci sot'. to:

COLLET LORD LORD KEITII.

Mr. dt LES stared that this was an ACtion of 'Fresh
pass, for raking 4nd detaining a Ship ; which the
Defendant justified •by his Pleas, seven in number.
The substance of v..ltien Pleas were,. that the Cap.!.
of Good Hope was conquered b.y. His Majesty's.
Arms, and that until His Majesty.had signified ,hi 3
will .for altering the-eaisting Laws of the Country,.
they remained governed by the old Law, to wit,
the Dutch Law.. That, the Ship- in question was
in Simon's Bay, within the jurisdiaion of the Laws
of that Colony, and that proceedings had
.been in-
stituted in the Supreme Coutt at Botany Bay, and
that the Defendant, Under the proceedings of
that Court, had authority to detain and seize the
ship in question. To this plea, there had been a
Demurrer, and the cages o Demurrer assigned
were, that it did not- appear what proceedings had
been instituted, nor in what Court, or by reason
of what faa the Court had. power to authorize the
detention of the Ship. The Learned Counsel then-
argued at some length', that this Plea could not be
supported for the reasons assigned, and quoted the
following authorities, Co. Lit. 283. a Doug. 650;
Stra. 509. Willes Rep. 30. to skew that the Pica
ought to set out the Judgment of the Court, and
what proceedings had been before them. fle ad.
mitted that there was a
.distindion between the
Party to the Suit and an Officer of the Court: It
would be sufficient hi a justification by the ratter, to
set out the Process, but the Party must also set out
-the Judgment. From analogy he reasoned that the
same ought to be done in cases of Foreign judg-
ments.. By the Plea before them it did not appear
with certainty what had been done, nor what pro-
ceedings had taken place, but merely that certain
proceedings, were had; nor.did it appear that the
Defendant was hound to obey the Order of that •.
Court, nor for how long, or for
.whirt purpose the,
Ship %V i‘.3 detained.

Mr. JARvts, in. support of the Plea, argued it
was set out with sufficient certainty, and contended
that the Defendant acted as an Officer of the Court
there; and was therefore not bound to the same
rules of pleading as a Party in the Suit would be.
He then cited various authoritie.s, to spew that it
was sufficient in.a Ministerial Officer to state the
Process of the Court. In Foreign Courts the Judg-
ment was. not traversable here, therefore no more
were their proceedings ; and it was enough to state
that such proceedings wettc.hatt: ..to
,this latter point
he quoted the follow.ing authorities-3 Levins 20.
z Levins 281.

Lord KENYON observed, thqt the 'damages in
the Case were laid at roo,oool. He-confessed that
he felt himself oppressed with the magnitude -of
the Case.. Nobody cou!cl say how 'far it might
atFet3 our Naval and Military • Commanders. He
perfectly understood. what Lod Keith meant to'
Nay by his Plea, that •he did what he
.did by the
authority of the Law Court of the plAce. He did
not know bat that he vas bound to. obey the or. •
tiers of that'Court. He wished, therefore, much;
that it should stand fur a second argument.
Mr. Justice GROSE wished the same, but hinted
his doubt whether. Lord KEITH could be.comider_
ed as au Officer of the Court.

THE KING V. WEST.

THE ATTORNEY GEN:ERAL prayed the judgment
of the Court on the Defendant John Clayton West,.
who was tried a good while ago before the Lord
Chief, lilAitox of the Exc uNttE ft, at the Assizes
for the County of Norfolk. The Defendant was
Purser of a Ship of War, called the' Sirius, and is
such entitled to an allowance of one halfpenny 4:
man,per day. That as such Purser, thelndidnient
stated, he made and forged, and counterfeited and'
published as true,. a certiLate, purporting to have .
been signed by certain Officers: of the Ship, by-
which he obtained. wrongfully 571. is: Bd., the
money of our Sovereign Lord the King, as money
due to him the Defendant, whereas in. truth *id in
fad:no such money was dub Sze."
Upon this Indiament the Defendant was found
guilty, there being no defence made at the Trial.
Mr. ERsKix-c now said, that he held in his hand
an affidavit made 'by the Defendant, with a view
of presenting it to the Court as matter for
tion of punishment; but as part Of- that ,affidavit,
was found to clash with the verdia which the Jury
had-pronounced on the Defendant, he knew not
whether it might not be as well for him not to give
it in to be read.

The A-rroNiv GENERAL said, that if any part
of the' affidavit. was
,to be made use' of, the whole
ought to be read. "
•

The affidavit was 'accordingly read; in it the
Defend-ant stated, that he had been seventeen years
in, the service, eight of -which he had been in the
capacity of Purser ; during all which time he had
conduAtd. himself! well, and had never been the
subject of -complaint. That once, at the risk
of his life, he siezed certain letters '.-which were
intended-to convey information' to the Enemy, and
sent them up-. to .the. Puke of Portland, who bf
means ;of his Secretary had acknowledged the re-
ceipt of them,- and was pleased to afyrove of the
uondu6l of the'Defendint in that pa-rticular. That
on'acCount of pressure for the money for the pay-
'merit of stores, he did sign the names of the Offi-
cers mentioned to the certificate, but that in to 'do-
ing,
}he hnd no intention of committing any fraud
whatever. -Thatindeed-he had• leave to do this on
behalf of the Ocers; Who did not Wis%,that their
'absence should lie always taken notice of by their
superiors, -which must have been the case if he had
not siLined this certificate. That this was a'custom
for along time established in-the service, but which
he was unable, from' the pressure of. his circum.
stances, to p'rove at the Trial, and therefore he was
'convided; bat, that since- his conviction he had
suffered ten months imprisonment,' in which his'
wife had fallen a sacrifice to -sorrowt That for
himself he had fallen into unmerited-poverty and
contempt, and was subjected to insult, and to every
evil which human nature was organized to receive.
That he never was accused of any other-offence, &e.
Mr. ERSKINE then, on behalf of the Defendant,
addressed the Court in mitigation ri,l punishment,

The Plaintiff is. an
_eminent Attorney in Chan.
, cery.tarie:.:Some years since !L.!. rurchased an Estate
in Esser, at a public Audion, by Messrs-Skiit-
ner And Dyke., purporting to; be .theEstatei, in fee
simple,. of Thomas Rudiaud,;the elder ;= a Convey'.
ance was made to him of this- Estate:-by Thomas
. Rudland the, elder; and the rnon4 ter which it
was knocked down paid over' to him by. Mr. Col-
let. .IRudiand, the elder, died in the year 1/80,
'Mr. collet's 'Tenant being then in .the peaceable,and
undisturbed possession, without any knowletige of
previous iiicumbtancesi •and in 1791 Ejeftments
were served upon him, first by John Hyams, .as a

After stating-several, other Legacies, he desires
the residue of- his -fortune to be divided between
Simpson's Hospital and the House of Industry ; and
it is remarkable; that he bequeathed tol. each to.
the two.servants living with him, who are the iden-
tical perkins now accused with his murder.
The post-boy conveying the mail from Carrick-
macross to Ardee, was stopped on the 9th instant,
between the Mill ,of Louth and Tallanstovvn, by
two armed men,, who -knockd him off his hurse,
and robbed him of the whole of the Mail,• contain-
ing the post-bags of Aughnachy, Ba4bay, .Car-
rickmacross, Coote-hill, Derry, Monaghan, N.
Limcvady, N. T. Stewart,
.Omagh, and Strabane.
—A reward of tool. has been offered for the ap.
prehension of one or both of the Offenders, by the
Post-masters Genetal. •
On Saturday several persons were taken into Cils
. Cody for the 'wider of ,Mr. Barry.. • • ,

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