The Sun.
London, England, 1801-06-24 00:00:00

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LAST Tuisday..i W ttinesday; thutstiay; find r 1
the Sttssek Militia; einnmanciettliy 1115 Chet
tilt: Duke of RicitMoico, matched, in itior divisions;
through this town, on tlieit kOOO roe flattle
racks; tliete to be stationed until the arrival fur-
then orders

The above lteginient si,onid have succeeded the
, . .
th in our liarracksf in consequence of an *pima-
tion Made to Lieut,-Generat I tuLSE, Commander of
the Southern Distriet, for that purpose, had it not
been deemed expedient to keep them, for the pre.;
sent, unoccupied.

The Brighton fishermen last week complained
the mackarel run so large, tl►ut they could not con-
trive to mesh them; and that on taking up their
nets, they in consequence could nut save more than
One in four which they encompassed.

The above fishermen have not hitherto derived
much profit from the season, in some degree owing
to the, annoyance they have experienced from the
unusual number of tiog.fiql, which have not only
made great havock among the mackarel, but also
proved farther injurious by having, from their aeli-
vity and strength, done considerable damage to
their nets,

Tut OPERA.,-.The Comic Opera of La Prinet.
pelsa`Filo.rofar notwithstanding the advanced state
•of the Season, is so well supported by Vister, 'that
it was numerously attended last night. The Second
Ballet was to have been Belida.; ou La ?ilk Sol.
a'ut—but PA RISOT was too much indisposed to ap.
pear, and a printed paper was circulated over the
Theatre, apologizing for her absences and an,
flouncing the substitute of Kell;; and Then •
THEATR E.—The Londou Iltren;t was re.
pr rented at the Hay-Market Theatre last night.
FAWC arr, why, we knoW not, has resigned the
part of Young Pranks to F A xt.gr, a circumstance
that by no means heightens the effeft of the Piece.
Why not assign it to H. JoimstoN P &JETT and
JOHNSTONE as usual, ,were highly diverting in
Inimmy and Tully, and Mrs. We as was simple
and interesting in Kitty Barleyrorrt. The Farce
was the Reiv;ecv, or the Wage of 'Windsor.
JOHNSTONE happening to wear hill,- silt-kings last
night in The Loudou Hermit, a Wag observed, that
he kept the blue porta in the ligy-Ilfarift. •

The following Perflnlets, it is said, quitted
Drury-Lane Theatre at the conclusion of last
season, ViZ. MN. POWELL, Miss limos, Miss
MaLtort, Mi s HEARD; CoRV, WEWITZFIt, and
CAULFIELD. Mrs. PoWFLL, we hear, is engaged
at Covent-Garden.

The Hop. Gardens, bath in. Sussex and Kent, af.
ford the prospect of an abundant crop.

On the Coast of /Cent, the nmekarel.boats have
been successful. At Dover the catches have of fate
been so plentiful, that in the neighbourhood of that
place, mackarel weighing a pound and a half each,
and such as at Brighton and Lewes retail at 6d.
I% ash, have been sold at the rate of 14 and Is for a
shilling, to the great relief of the poor.
Mr. Stamper, of Wigton, has at this time a fine
field of new potatoes, raised from the hearts and
peclinis (only) of potatoes planted without eyes.—
It haS been doubted whether the hearts and peelings
of that useful toot would vegetate after the eyes are
cut oft

:On Tuesd.ay last an explosion tot.k place in one of
the drying stoves at the, Powder Mills, W4ltharn
Abbey, when thirteen pCrsons were 'very much
scorched ; hut no lives were lost.

Yesterday morning, about four o'clock, a fire
broke out in the Drug Mills, Whitecross.street,
which entirely consumed the premises. Three
horses, a goat, artd a numb. fowls, fell a prey
to the games.
The Frederick Wilhelm, Tetterow, from Dant,
zig to Dublin, is stranded .on the Coast of Jutland.
A few days si;,ee the' child of a honsekeeper in
C),Thard.strect, \Westminster, having been missing
scone time, was at last found entirely stripped of its
clothes. This and similar incidents which have
Itchy occurred, will, we trust, ael as a caution to
those parents who suffer their children to wander
about the neighbourhood Wore they are at nit age
to, take carp of themselves.
On the 18th inst. a Baker was convided before
the Magistrates of the Police Office, Union-street,
Southwark, for exposing to sale several Quar-
tern Loaves, very deficient in weight, and lined
Five Shillings. per Donee. - The man submitted
in excuse for himself, That he did not, bake the
Bread, but purchased, it of a Alaker, in Great
Ouildford-street, in St. Saviour's Parish, South.
warki who attended with him this day before the.
Magistrates, and behaved, in a very insolent and
turbulent manner, insisting, that the Bread was
full weight, but had been Improperly weighed, Avid
ought to be weighed over again. There being at
`this time a great number of persons attending in
the Office on other business, the Magistrates, to
shew the propriety of their own condati, =ma.
ingly directed the same ; when the first Loaf that
was weighed, was found to want ono less than seven
Ounces. T.hisappeared so gross a deficiency,‘ that
the Baker, did not seem to wish to have a second
weighed, hut quitted the Office in great confusion,
from having been himself the instrument of his own
conviftion and public. disgrace.
John Watt, convicted at the last Perth Assizes of
various adS of housebreaking, was executed at Duo-
dee on the Itth inst. The scene was pec'uliarly
pressive, no execution havin:i taken place in tha-i
town for .a century past.
A woman with a child in her arms going too
near a steam engine at Sheffield last week, one of
the gudgeons caught hold of the child's cloaths,
whirled tt rounds/ broke several of its limbs, and
mangled it in so shocking a manner,. as to occasion 1
its death.

A few days since a poor woman at Startwix, near
Carlisle, went to a well for a pitcher of water, but
on the toad was taken in. travaili anal before she
could regain her house, she was delivpred in the
fields of a boys With great difficulty she got !glint.,
when she brought forth a sound uatle.6o4lpay axe
ali its a' prow 41:1 way,

RPPORI4

toUltt OF Klisl(PSl3l3Nelt

OttEh in nal.;

This Morning the Litter Cuss Jvsiis
Ed the Judgment of the Court in this Case:
Ills Lordship•obserted, that ea.tts
depending some time longer than it Otitht,
difFerent causes It was an Aetion oft a Priliti,y
of insurance on the Ship Synth Ca*piiddi
the cargo On board, from London to Cliarlestdtilis.
The loss was stated to have taken place by c.tprilf6
She. was carried intti one of the Ports of Frante, and
Was condemned. His Lordship, after stating
fats of this Special Verdiet, obserVed, that the
. Plaintiff was resisted by the Underwritvis oh this
ground, that although this policy did not contain
any warranty that the ship belonged to any partitti.:
lar nation, yet as in fat she was an Ameri6n
there was an implied warranty on the part of bird
Owners—the Insured that she should he fUrnished
with all the papers and documents that were her s-
&try for every American Ship- that the South Ca_
rolina had not on board such papers and Ainca:.
ments, and therefore she was condemned jut ore
of the Courts of. Admiralty in Prancei On this
statement, his Lordship said, three questions
arose, • First, Whether there Was any implied
warranty that. this Ship should be furnished with,
all the papers and documents necessary to every.
American ship ? Secondly, Whether In'fait the Carolina had on board all such papers ? And
Thirdly, Whether the condemnation proceeded
on the ground that she had not on board such docu.
•ments as were required by the .Treaty between
France and America, or whether it had proceeded
on the lows of their own Country-.solely on the
Ordinances of Prance t It would be unnecessary to
enter into the first of these three questions; and
therefore they (the Court) desired it to be -under.
stood that they did not then give any opinion, upon
that question. , The Court were of opinion the
sentence of condemnation proceeded on the ground
of French Ordinances, and not on Treaty. It was
stated that she was condemned' for the want of two
papers—a proper Passport and a Certificate. Ey
the Treaty, the Passport was good for a year, unless
she returned into her original port within that period,
This ship sailed on the 30th of January,. r 791, And
was captured in December in the same year, and
therefore the Passport was good, according to the
Treaty. As to the other Paper, the certificate, which ,
corresponded to our manifest, that Wits agreeable to
the 25th Article of the Treaty. It appeared that
'she had all the necessar7 Papers on' board, and that
nothing was wanting. For these reasons, the grounds
of the Underwriters failed; and therefore there must
be judgment fur the Plain t ff.—lthigssrst for Plain.

TVEsDAY) )UNIT 23
THE XING v. FILANCIS CIVEAUX.

This was an Indiament against the Defendant,
a tambour worker, for inhuManity towards a poor
Parish girl, of age of Seventeen, who was set-
tled with him as an apprentice from, the Patish of
Greenwich. The Prisoner was tried before Lord
Kgr rozss and a Special jury, at Westminster, the
sittings after the last term. He was brought up
early in this Term, and his Case was heard. He
came now into Court to receive its judgement
and as the Case is in its nature vet,' important to'all
the Poor of this country, to the Overseers and Ma..
gistrates who have, the care of providing for them
until they sire capable of providing for themselves,
and to all those who have humanity enough to in»
terest themselves in their fate (a class which con-
stituteb we hope, the hulk of the community xn
which we live), we have detailed the Address deli.
vered by

Mr, jt/Vilet Goose, who spoke to the. Defend.
ant nearly, ay follows Francis' Civeaux, you,
stand here: to receive the jodgment.of the Court, ort
an indiament on which y,Ai have been tried, and
on which you have been found guilty ;, and which
Charges you with having usratilted, and very cruelly
peat. and ill.treated, SiisatiNdh AK'heri your ap-
prentice, compelling • her to work • btu y and ' her
Strength, and begletting to provide for her Tupper
cloathing and suffiCient food, by which she became
emaciated,: and was' nearly starved. It appeared.
from the report of your 'lrbil, that the taCts amply
watranted the Verdict of the Jury, v..ho found you
guilty,--The circumstances Of your Cale are alartm
Mg ; and theoffence of which 'you 11,1 been i4ttrvi
guilty involves others as well n y cot
idcrriblc guilt t.,..-that of starving helpless children,
who, under the pro Vision of the Legislature, made
for the sustananci. of Moat, who are not able w pro.
tea them Selves, beentrte your apprent ; not by cam.:
pulsion, but by agreement betwem you ittut the ()vet -
seers of the 12.,Ash, limn whom you teceived.4 corn-
pcnsation tat money, tint! by which you lk+ame bound
to find this child, in decent cloathq, suffiCient food,'
and suitable instruftion, to enable her to obtain her
livelihood t— You became her substituted guardian
to.you she owed obedience to all, relonable com-
tnands, From you she had a right toexped pro,
tedion
,and support. Such were her -rights''; such
your duty. But the excuse you Offered to the Court for
your. cantina, is abominable. The account vf
behaviour is hoiridi Instead of proteding, and in
strutting, told cloathing, and reeding this thild,,
which you was bound to do,_ it appears that you
compelled her to work without intermission, and
almost \Yid-1013C Mud. The St3Adi(y was no s:i biin th
tbty to her: Instead of' being' to her a daY of rest,
and religious instration, it was a day in which
she was compelled to work and starve, for the bene..
fit of you, who now pretend that you had not work
enough ttitrOploy' her whole time; but it appears,
tint after the labour of the day was over, she, with,.
sixteen others, as wretched as her Self, Were turned
like beasts burthen, into two miserable, corners..
substituted for beds) svhe re it WAS inipUssible to en.«
joy rest. Such is your ofince, and the aggraVa.
fion of it is, that when the Parish Oft:L.:cis consigned
this•helpless creature to your erne, you knew fret
situation;' and kneed. that you re COliSidered as
her only friend, she having, then none other. A
friend t U, I .mistook the term, for th7..;e wretches,
the Overseers, had abandoned this helpless child` to
another wretch as profligate as thernselyes ; in which

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jvi31,14.c, JUT e•GiC rwimcr•
which the Legislature gave to Arse-Overseers'',
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accompanied: by anrxpedati,az that they woad att
tend to,'to didates. of haminior 4.osuards, 114
creaturi,,- in 'a case ,where it rwto most of all caller
for---It is, indeed, grievous, to observe, that 'hi
sitheaion .of these objeCisshoUld 'never htme awaked
the attention,- or even curiosity, of the Overseers of
the Parishes who bound out.. these Children, or of the
Mogistrates who signed their. Indentures,of .4ppren
siceships, Oae-lamevts that none of those -who !were so
armed she purer, so called upon by duty,
should never to much as inquire, bosAlt hese poor children
were employed ? How the; nnetefed ? llostreloathed;l
or how instrutied ? Whdher their labour .1.041$
to theirycars? Ithetho. their cl.athivg s4.eient?
"Pcther their lush-maim was PP. But, with' an
.apathy which is not uncommon in Overseers," -think
kear one of them
,say We have got rid of
these childleniput of the Parish, let others look tes
them itoqn; sue h.;:4:e dome with them." But I would-.
lvvc them know, that a negligence like this of which
thr:y are guilty, is not more Consonant to r:ke Lasts
of thy Land, than it it to the dictates of Iltimanily ;
1 would have., them know, that; lehotrtter the Luau •
requires to be done at all, requires to be dove -pro.;
feel), arid to be well done; that to bind -seventeen
Children to a Sdretih who rot, or who cannot,'
either employ, or eloathe, tr/red them, is not actor 4
ing to, but a violation of the Las:, and whid,
they .svere now before the Court, would Pi4t tier_'
ipollibed..
.11'4 is what d, expe, the Overseers of
the Poor, to, understhnd to be the Law of 'this Land,'
and this the answer I would give to an Overseer
if he stood upon the floor of this Court, if he asked''
Whether he was answerable for _the cruelty of a
master to whom he had settled out children ai-ap.:
prentices ? As to the Magistrates, I lurdly know
what to say to their- nattention'hitherto upon' this
most interesting and serious subjed ; I am confident"
they have no evil intention, although the negligence
of some of them is highly culpoble ; but for the ho-
nour of many Magistrates in this County, I would ;
say a few words. Indeed, 1 think 1. am hound to
notice sonic things I have learnt in talking with
"some Magistrates on the subjed of flu, Condition
of these children, and the contlud. of .the Officers
who are entruste d with the care of -thrtn. These

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points and topics have attratted the attentionsof the
Magistrates of this County, , who have nyttle an
Order, which.if pursued, may in future, in some
, respeas, reniedy the Evil complained of, and I trust,
Others will copy their excellent exainple, and that
this Ordtr witl be carried into general execution.
• I utider4and, and, I mention.it that it may he
known to others, that the Mode of employing these
'children in this tambour ,work, is such as, is very
injurions to their health, on account of the writhed
Situation in which they are plated, by which they are
to 41ormitiei, and they, have.no prosper t of
.b6ig, afterwards enabled taearnan honest li velihootb%
1. have been ft vou'redig ith a letter from a Gentleman
who elesi':ribes that which I think myliellbound to re-
gard asihe roust dreakif'al situation in wiliCh these
pOOr deatures are. It iS a le tter.frotila Gentlemanwho
'.l4eS,in the midst of those who areihtts employed in
Bethnal creen,and,who is vve;l qualified, to form an.
opinion upon the subject. He states' the dteadlul
condition of ,these , Poor Parish Apprentices. He
says, lie cannot. describe it:OtherWise than such-
as is. disgraceful to a,civitized State, hut -that he
does, not consider the. Massefs and Mistresses of
these Apprentices, as worse 'than the. Overseers who'
hind them out to this business.' If these. lie the fads,
as I" have no donbt they are;" said the : "earned
Judge, ‘' I hope the Magistrates. wilt 'be. good
enough to prosecute farther their inquiry into 'this
matter. And, should the Manufaiturers
that without these Children they cannot follow their
. trade, and the Overseers should say, that without
this opportunity, they cannot get rid of the Children
chargeable on their Parish,'----4..w0u1d lay to the
ilthat be so, The whole trade must, at 'Once,
for, the sake 'of Society, be .wholly abandoned.)—
To the other, 4 You shall not be allowed to put out
Homan Beings to occupations which lead 'to de.
formity,. disease, consumption, and other ills which
lead to their destruction, instead of their sup Port. in

.The Cnurt has taken into ;onsideration your po.
Iterty, and all the other circumstances gf your, case ;
and for the offence you have committed cloth order
and adjudge, " That you be impriscmed, :t0 kept
to hard labour, in in the House of Correition for the'
county, of Micidlesex, for Twelve calendar nionths.
—=-In the mean time, rdesire that the order lately
made upon' this subjed, by the Magistrates for the
county of Middlesex be now read,—that it may he
made known to those whom it may concern, and
for the benefit of the Poor Children."

The Order being read,
Lord KEzrrox--" I think it may not.be impro-
per for me to say a few words on this occasion. In
the greatest manufaeturing town in the county of
Latu:aster, a great deal of atteniion has been paid
to this subjett ; and it has been communicated. to
me by a Magistrate to whorn the Public is.'much
indebted, Mr. Bailey of Manchester. !le has
shewn a great deal of anxiety upon the suhjea'now
before us. An Order similar to that we have just
beard was entered into. Heim& not only caused it
to he published in the county in which he lives, but
also over the countio of Chester, Flint, Denbigh,
Stafford, and the. West Riding of York. I think.
I should fall short of my duty if ,I did not express my
personal obligation to this Gentleman.''

Mr. Gin applied for
,leave to file an Informa.
tion against the Rev.„Mr. 1.4.t.t5, a Curate in
Gloucestershire, for an Assault Upon an Attorney,
who went to consult the register of hi parish. At
first it appeared the Divine behaved to the Lawyer

with the greatest politeness ; he led him into his
- study, and sat writing by his side while he was malt-
ing the search. Several volumes were turned over,
but the wished for entry could not be found; at last a

leaf appeared, the greater par,t of which was torn
away. The. Attorney expreksed great astonishment
at this, and complaining of the negligence of the
keepers of the Regi,ter, deolnred that in all iirobbi-
lity the leaf which had been-cat out contained the
very thing his Client wJ, AuXifills to find, With.