The Sun.
London, England, 1806-11-22 00:00:00

BOMBAY, Mai- 3, 1606.

RECORDEI2's COURT-.

This day came on the trial of Lieutenants CAUTY
and NlAGuaks, on. the incli&ment found against
them for a conspiracy o way,lay, assault, and other-
wise ill-treat, two Du ch
.Gentlemen of the .name
of VANDEIii,LOOT, on tliu Oigbt Of the 21St of F -
bruary last..

A.j-ury having 'been chosen,,the Hon. Company's
Counsel addressed them at some length on the part..
of the Crown. He observed, that it could not fail
to be an extremely painful discharge of his duty to
the Public, to be obliged to call their attention to
the conduct of persons Whose protessiOn placed
them in the rank of Gentle Men, while their, ac-1
tions degraded that character; and were a disgrace to'
,the cloth- which they had the honour,to wear. The
persons mentioned in the indiament as the ob-
leas of brutal attack and violence, were also Gen-
tlemen, the sons of an aged and respectable inha
bitant•-of Cochin, who fOrmerly held the rank of
Surgeon-Major in the Dutch service. Their objeet
in Outing to Bombay was to obtain redress by legal
'means for wrongs which they and' their family
conceived themselves to have sustained when 'the
regiment to which 4ient., CAUTY belongs was quar-
tered at Cochin--,wrongs of a most outrageous na-
ture, and in which they accounted that Gentleman
a .principal actor. They had, accordingly cora.-
meneed a suit against him,, which was still pending :
and it greatly ' aggravated the guilt of the conduLt
charged in the lthliament, that the Defendants
Made no secret of its being inieVenge of these pro-
ceedings that they had formed the resolution "of as-
saulting the NL:Ssrs. :VANDERSLooTS yin the dead of
the night, on the highway, and for. that
pose to watch their return to their own house, which,.
is • situated in the woods, about a mile from the
Fort. Hiving laid this atrocious plan for the gra-
tWeation of their priVate malice, they thought a con-
siderable reinforcement necessary before they ven-
tured on the grand attack. of two unprOtected and
defenceless strangers. To obtain an additional levy,
they repaired to a tent where some brother Officers
were at dinner ; and having dismissed the native at-
tendants; proceeded to unfold their nefoious design,
and to solicit aid in carrying 'it into execution.--
The eloquence of their valoilr'was so captivating, that
they at first obtained an assent to their proposal ;
but, on secbtid thoughts, the Gentlemen \NJ-I°m
they had Waited upon, conceived it-proper to: re-
main at home. :Whether they were informed of
this defection ,froM their number or not, did, not
appear ; certain it was, that they themselves '(ac-
companied by one whose youth, and inexperience
seemed to have placed him under the complete con
:rout of
,persons anxious to reduce, him to the de-
graded level Of their own depravity) proceeded
most pliantly
,to the woods, not only armed with
sticks and bludgeons, but with fire-arms likewise ;
and that the King's and Hon. Company's
'Might not, for the first
,time, be worn by mid-
night assassins, they had
,the grace, or more pro-
perly speaking, the precaution, to sally forth dis--
guised in coloured clothes. To the last hour. of
their lives th 4 probably would have reason to be
thankful to Providence, that by. some means •or
other, 'the Dutchmen passed to' their own home
without being perceived ; ,for: if a reucontre
bad taken gplace nothing -seemed more probable
than that blood would have been spilt, and he
could tell Mr. MAGULim and Mr. CALIT; that if a '
-life had "been lust in the affray, however little, it
might have been their intention to, carry matters to
that extremitY, it would have been murder in the
eye of the law.
The evidence which was now adduced, fully Con=
firmed the opening statement. It particularly ap-
peared that the Defendants carried loaded •fire-Minis
to the woodS along with them ; and an expression of
Mr. Mitouirm's was positively sworn to,,that if
the Dotcnoien proved obstropulous, he had'a pair of
peppers at their service."
In the Defence it was attempted to be shewn,.
that though a purpose .of the kind, mentioned in
the IndiCtment, had been entertained in the early
part of the. evening, it had been abandoned be- '
fore, the party set out for the woods, where their
only attraction was a' punch-house; at which hit
. common good ham could be procured for supper,
while the expekted attacks of pariar dogs, in their,
pyogess thither,,'afforded, an excuse for proceeding
armed. ;

The defence, however, having altogether failed,
the Jury returned a verael of Galli! against both
Defendants.. It was .then moved that they might
stand committed ; which was or,ered accordingly ;
and that they be brought. up t 6 receive sentence on
Wednesday, the 30th. On which day, the Courtbeing moved for judgment on the part of the Crown;
and nothing having been alledged to arrest the same,'
or-in mitigation of punishment, except the sentence
of a Court-Martial, published the day before, by
which it appeared that. both Defendants were'dis-
missed the service for a different afence, the RE-
after a suitable address, sentenced them to
be ititprisoued in the jltil , of Bombay for
,twelve ca-
lendar months. In the course of his: speech, the
gEeORDPI said, he had been informed that the pri-.
soners had formed .the desperate project of destroy-
ing their own lives at the bar where they stood, and
of signalizing their suicide by the previous destruc
tion of at least One of their Judges.

SHIP NI: 11)..), ,

CRAVFSEND, NOV. 20.

Passed by— the Mary and Anne, 'Fay hir, froth Faro ; Tra-
veller, Irish, from Lisbon ; Elizabeth, Manning, front Hon-
duras; Cominerc,.‘Walker, from ,Dublin ; King Georg,
Turner,. and Trince of Wales; Hamvell, from Hudson's Bay.
Sailed---the Favourite, Ellis,- for Waterford; Nordstern,
Tjaarts, for Bremen ; Kleine Fritz, lurgensen, and Twc
Ges,usters, Owen, for Hambro':