The Sun.
London, England, 1808-08-12 00:00:00

SWEDISH PAPERS.

By the Stockholm Gazette, of the 25th July, it ap-
pears from a report, signed KLINGSPOR, and dated
New Carleby, the 9th of July, that the Swedes have
taken Wain, and that Field Marshal KLINGSPOR had
dispatched to that town Major General AMENOFF to
take the command, as Field Marshal KLINGSPOR was
expecting an attack on his left wing, where he
thought his presence necessary for the present.
In the Gazette of the 22d July,. is mentioned in a
report to the KING, from Mr. C. J. THORNTON, Com-
mander of the Ship Frederic, dated Kasko, July 8,
that he had taken possession of Kasko, and that
the Russian Major-General COUVI ORLOW DENISOFF,
who had his head-quarters at Christranstad, had
been obliged to retreat after a severe battle, in which
the Swedes gained the advantage : one hundred and
ten of the Emperor's own Life Cossacks were,. he-
sides others, made prisoners. The Russians on their
first taking possession of Kasko, had, by means
of sabres and pistols, forced the inhabitants to take
the oath of allegiance to the Emperor—all of them,
except Mr. BLADH, late Supercargo in the Honour-
able the Swedes East India CoMpany, did so, but
he protested, and said he would rather die than a(:t
iGaiast ins beloved Kin and Country.

HOMPCIRCUI ',

4IAIDSTONE, KENT,
WEDNESDAY, AUG. 10.
CKOWri SIDE.

Thorun„Lawley, Mias Boaz Itikizei; and
Privne, were-inditied for hnrglarioosly
and entering the dwelling-house of Charlestirury,
at Crayford, in tnis.county, and stealing /articles to
the amount of between 5 and 6001.

Charles Drury,
.the prosecUtor, stated,. that he
kept a tailor and draper'S4iop at Crayford, and that
on the
.Bth of February Fait he fastened up his house
as usual, and saw his Stock all Sa?.e in the shop ;
when he
-go: up the next morning, he found thrit a
hole had been broken through the wall of his house,
large enough•to 'admit the body of a man, and- the
whole of his stock had been carried away-during the
night He apprehends it must have. been carried
away by a cart, as it was more than couid:b.! conve-
niently carried away by hand. He knew nothing of
the prisoners, and had never recovered the stoien
goods, but Griffiths, the Police Officer, bad pro-
duced him two waistcoats, one .of which he could
identify, and -the other,- he believed, was tnaie tip
from a piece of the stuff stolen from his shop. The
waistc4. its being she wn him, he identified one, which
was a scarlet one, and the other, he said, was a
piece too small to make a waistcoat in the usual way,
but it had been patched and piecod tozether, and
was evidently made up by a woman: Some pieces
of shawls were also she WOtrim, and t,e said- he Nerily
believed they werecut -off from other pieces, which
he prodUced, of the same quality and textuic-L •
John Griffiths,. the -Police. Officer,- proved his
having found the articles produced the lodgings
of the Prisoners, in Horseshoe-alley, Petticoat7lane,
on the 15th of March last.

The Jury found the man Guilty, a d Brovae,
the woman, Not Guilty.

CIVIL SIDE.

THE KING V. WATSON.

Mr. Serjeant ONSLOW stated, that this was a pro-.
secution against the Defendant for sending a chal-
lenge to Alexander Stuart, Esq. a Gentlenian of high
rank, who had served in the army, was a relative of
Lord Bute, and nearly allied to the gallant General
of that,narite, who had gathered so much honour on
the plains of Maida. After' the Learned Serjeant.
had dwelt with great force on the destruCtive con-
sequences and.the miseries introduced in families by
the praCtice_of duelling, and represented the present
.as a most aggravated case, he called his w.itnesses,
when it turned out to be a parish squabble. Mr.
Watson and his party of friends, at a Vestry Meet=
ing for the garish of Greenwich, proposed, a.poor's
rate of 6s. Bd. in the pound. Mr. Stuart and his
friends proposed one of ss. 4d. Mr. Watson was a
carpenter and builder, and accused Mr. Stuart of
preventing the tradesmen from having their bills
paid. Mr. Stuart replied- that they were &veil paid,
and added, that some of them could build new
houes at the parish expence. Mr. W. considered
this as a reflthion upon him, as he had just built a
new house; upon which he called Mr. S, a Frenchi-
fee/ sou of a •-, shook his fist in his face, and
said he would not strike hitn in the church, but be
would waitfor-him at the door, and then ic he would
cut leis head off."

Mr. GURNEY; for the Defendant, treated the
whole with ridicule, arid thought it too coutempti-
ble to be brought into a Court of Justice.

The Jury found the Defendant guilty of an assaul,
and the Court fined him

On ruesdav the ,annual -Boat-race of Deptford
took place ; when six young watermen of that town
exerted themselves With great skill and dexterity, for
aquatic pre-eminence; and after three well-contest-
ed heats, which lasted till a late hour in the even-
ing, the prize, a very handsome wherry, was ad-
judged to a young man of the name of Brown, amid
the noisy acclarnationS of the surrounding multitude.
The vialor was then towed backward and for Ward,
in the front of the town, and was .escorted froni
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thence to a tavern-, where the remainder of the even-
ing was spent in mirth and jollity.
There are now growing within 300 yards of the
old Gothic ruins.Of •Fountains' Abbey, three miles
from Rippon,, in:Yterskshire, seven very large yew
trees, generally called the Seven Sisters, whose ex-
,a6t- ages cannot be accurately learnt, though it has
been handed • down' from father to son t hat •these
seven yews were standing in the year 1088. And it
is said, that when the Great Fountains' Abbey was
building, the masons used ,to • work their stones,
during the hot summers, under the shade of these
trees. This stupendous ancient building is 790 feet
long, and was finished in 1283. The circumfer-
ence of the Seven Sisters, when measured by a cu-
rious traveller, were of the following sizes:---"Tie
smallest tree, • round its body, five yards twelve
inches; four others are from five yards and a half-to
seven yards and a half ; the sixth is nine yards and
a half ; and, the seventh is eleven yards and ninettn
inches in circumference, being two yards and tt.n
inches larger than the great yew-tree now growing
in the Church-yard at Grashird, in North Wales,
which is nine yards nine inches. These trees are
the largest and oldest growing in the British domi-
nions.

A Morning Paper states, that Sir J. PIERS, who
has been so long an exile from Ireland, in conse-
quence of the verdid against him for seducing Lady
CLONCURRY, has committed suicide in the I,le of
Man, which has been some time the place of his
retreat. The cause of this unfortunate man's catas-
trophe is of a most melancholy nature. He had de-
bauched, the daughter of a respetlable clergyman,
who, on discovering his disgrace, instantly shot
himself; and it.Wa;"upon hearing of this that Sir J.
PIERS put an eridlo big existence by shooting him-
self throagh the head. The Unhappy female is in a
state ofdistradion that threatens her life.-

SCOTCH LAW ARRANGEMENTS.—=The LORD PRE..
SIDENT of iti6•o6.lirt of Session in Scotland is to be
. succeeded' fby-, ildinOtt BLAIR, ES+ Dean of the Fa-
calty of Advocates. ~4t is supposed MATTHEW Ross,
ES(I. will succeed BLAtti, as Dean of Faculty.—,
-It is further stated," that .1.01:"4,,,QUN SLN NAN resigns.
both his gowns, and is to be sucCeded as a Lord of
Justiciary by Lord HERATAND, and as a Lord of Ses-
sion by ..A.licit. CAMPBELL, E,q. younger, of Suc-
coth. We have not heard who iti to replace ,`1 r.
C A M as one of the Counii:ssari,..'i of Edinburgh-

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LAU/ REPOAT.

COURT OP CitANCERY, A:•:17

ST 11.

TRortNF,Y OFNEII,4I, V. THE 1R! TEES OF THE
CIiEDITON GFIARI

This case came on, upon ian, application to the
Court to appoint a-receiver forAtx,..estates of thes
ciOrities:

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It appeared, that in the reign of Henry VIII, .the
tythes extending over about 16,000 acres of land
had been purchased from the Crown by the' parish

of Crediton, in Devonshir, and that these,tythes
had been vested in certain trustees, for. the purpose of
paying a competent stipend to the Vicar and Chaplain
rat Crediton, and the Ret'tor of Extninster, and also
for endowing a free school at Crediton, and for be.;
towing the ,remainder on pious and charitable uses

connected with the parish. The
,present value of
Clese tythes, at a moderate calculation, was esti-
mated at 64001. per annum, hut in consequence of
;,)w rates of composition with the different tenants,
he'aaual produce was only 13001: per annum.

The relators in this case were Messrs. Radell and
White„- the Clergymen of Crediton and Exminster,
and Sir S. ROMiLLY and Mr; BriLL were heard on
their behalf; and Mr. HART and Mr. THOMPiON
for the Defendant 3; the Trustees. Yesterday the
Lout) CnANcELLott took occasion to deliver his opi-
nion at some length on the motion, observing that
it 'clearly • appeared that the annual value of the
'INA' property in question might be estimated at
sgool. while the whole that it adually produced was
• - 13001. per annum, and this, in consequence of the
• • low composition for the tythes. It also appeared,
• from the, decree of the Court Of Exchequer, solong
ago as the reign of James I. that the annual. value of
these tythes was t tool. so that during re period of
near-200 yeari, the yearly produce had only received
an increase of t?ool. The fad was,/that at an aver-
age the tythes were let for only sixpence- in the
I),iind of rent, while the incorporated Trustees, who
s let these tythes, were most of them the landlords
of ,the different tenants paying such compositions,
and indeed it did not appear that any of the Trustees
were not such landlords. 'Now •it was the direct

and obvious duty of these Triiitees tolet the tythes
for the best price they could obiain, and to apply
the produce, after paying adequate Stipends. to. the
Clergymen, to pious and charitable uses,. As men-
tioned in the deed of incorporatitib: ''l6 the present
case, he would say; that. there must, at 'all events,
be notices given to determityS the present leases ;.
and with regard to the present motion, he should at
least go so far as to call upon the Master to declare
• what composition should be.given tor .the tythes, at
least on the estates of the Trustees themselves,
though he was not prepared to appoint a receiver: for
the whole charity. From all his experience on sub-
jeots of this kind, he vas convinced. that there was
a necessity for some legislative inquiry into .the. state
of these charitable institutions; for the fad' was,
that in nineteen cases out of twenty, the Trustees
seemed to take this for their maxim, that " charity
.begins at hotne."-This day the CHANCELLOR gave
judgment in this cause, ordering, that on or before
the Ist of September, the Trustees should deliver in
to the Master an account of all' the notices to deter-
mine the leases which they had
_given, in order to
etrable_the Master, during the long vacation, to in-
quire what new and adequate composition may be
affixed ; if no such account of notices should then
be given in to the Master, in that case the MasWr
to have the power of appdinting a receiver: ~

FRIENDLY SOCIETIES.

This was a case Of considerable importance to so-
cieties of this nature, and was an application on the
part ofa Friendly Society, held at the sign of-the Mill-
stOne, in the tout n of Stamford, for an order 'to a
persotiof the name of Branston, ihe executor-of one
Hanson, to pay the society 601. out of Han•on's
estate, in preterence to the claimi of Hanson's other

creditors. •
Mr. HiALDE, in support of "the motion, contended,
that this case came under the clause of the Ad of
Parliament passed in favour of Friendly—Societies,
by which, if an officer of any Friendly Society held
their money in his possessiOn, the Society might
Claim payment out of his e4titdin preference to other
creditors.
On the other :iand, Mr: HALL contended for the
Defendant, the Executor, that Hanson Was not such
an officer to the Society as came under the meaning
Of the Aft: The money had been placed in his
hands'out of the strong bbx of the Society, and for
two years he had paid interest upon it to 'the So-
6ety, who therefore .6tild only come in for their
share along with the other creditors of' the deceased.
The Loiu CHANCCLLOR, in giving his decision,
observed, that it undoubtedly was not within the.
meaning of the At t, that in the case of such Socie-

A ties depositing 'their ;noney in the" hands of indivi-
Voals, and taking interest for it, they should have a
claim to be paid the money so deposited to the ex.-'
.clusion of the other creditors ; it was only in the
case of the money being placed in the' hands of 'an
officer of the Society, for distribution from time to
time, that the Society could have any preferable
claim to other creditors. This Hanson, it appears
-• from the statement of the Plaintiff, had been called
the. Father of the. Society, probably from its being
established in his house ; but, Jilee many other pita-
. • ttve fathers of this sort,, he seems not to have had
much regard for 'the interests of- his children, Be
appears to have received out of the Society's strong
, box, probably from. their stewards, at one time 301,.
and at another 201. for,l,Vhich he gave them 11)s note
of hand, and at the rate. f 44. per cent. interest.—.
This money was adtually borrowed and received, and.
for this the Society squid dillycomein like any. other
creditor. He seems, however, to have received 101.
which made up the 601. as a treasurer to the So-
;:iety, and :sir the purpose of distribution as subsist-,
ence money td' some of its.members, and in the
payment
..of this sum of I 01. the Society were 'en-
titled- to a preference, Let them therefore take the
;nl. but come in with the otter creditors for the re-
.. ;minder. The Ats.l in question conferred Very large
privileges on these Friendly Societies, but he sus-
_pe,acd that they were .by, no means well UnderitoOd
,oy them, and it would be of great importance for
t;wrn to be aware of the distinctions he had how
down.