The Sun.
London, England, 1806-07-24 00:00:00

BURY ST. EDMUND'S, JULY 22.

On Friday se'nnight a barn at Framlingham, be-
longing to S.. KILDERBEE, Esq. of Ipswich, was
burnt down by the lightning.
Scarcely a day has passed since the above-men-
tioned, without some severe tempest, in one part or
other of this Couuty. On Thursday evening last
the lightning and thunder were very sharp, when
12 lambs, grazing in a field belonging to Mr. THO-
MAs PAasoNs, of Great Barton, were struck dead.
And on Monday the storm seems to bare been one
of the most extraordinary ever remembered in this
part of the ISlaricL From a quarter past one, for
three hours, the sky was uniformly and deeply cloud
e& and the rain and hail, with tew. and short inter-
vals,,canie down in torrents. Soon after the storm
began, it was thought adviseable by the Magistrates
'attending .to the business of the Quarter Sessions in
this town, to take down the great chandelier in the
Shire-ball, it being deemed ? powerful condulor.;
in doing this, however, mischief had very nearly
happened, as the Clerk ofThe Peace narrowly escap-
ed Afatal blow from the fall of part of it. In a very
few minutes after cline one of the strongest flashes,
and a violent explosion, at thedistance of 2 seconds,
equal to 2200 feet nearly; or little more. thane the
3d of a. mile. .:There were.three other explosions,
the most distant of which from the flash did not ex-
ceed 8 seconds. The lightning was exceedingly red
and dense.

The only accidents that have yet come to _our
knowledge-On the last mentioned day are that of
Mare, in the pasture belonging to Mr. BCETON,
of Ffirdwicke, being 'struck• dead under a tree,
Which' was also shivered to pieces;; a poplar tree.
in . the meadows, near Stamford. Bridge, which
stands between two stacks of hay and stover, was
stripped of its bark, and nearly split in halves,.but
not thrown down, and most probably, by its .at,
traaion,, preserved the. stacks from fire. 4. great
quantity 'of coleworts, whiCh are now generally
cut in „ this:neighbourhood, and lying on the
ground,. were very materially. injured by the heavy
fall of hail, and much of the growing corn
.has
been greatly. laid, though it is hoped not materi-
ally damaged.

On Friday last a most melancholy accident oc-
curred at Sunderland Brewery. A Soldier of the
LaneaAlire Militia. who Was at worlt ,on the roof,
owing to something -into the
boiler ; and what is most extraordinary, he got out
and. was endeavouring to pall off cloaths-becore
any person discovered him., Medical aid ‘s,;s
Inediately. procured, but the unfortunate man died
tl.at night;

kR. PITT.

As- •
,it mill klways our anxious aim, as well as
our obvious iritcrest„tb'maintain the Rritish Cottsti-
,
tutiott.with our.ntyo4t zeal] it he 4:6ll:,p!easure
and onrptide:. to thke„every,pr,ripck-opr,:ki,witypf
paying hiniiage to the memory of otv,e,of its best and
Most enlightened advocates ,And, supporters.--:We,
therefore, feel,a high -gratification in sdbrditting to
our Readers the follOwina Charger ,of this great
).
ornarrient of his Country friend. to mankind,
drawn by Mr. ROSE, *hosedong,connexion and inti-
mate khowledg,t gave him pectiliaradvainages in form-
ing; a clue -estimate,of him whorn he ju4ly describes
as " onePf The most, able; firm,• virtuous,
,terested Men that ever lived in any Nation or in any
time." After a comprehensive, 0d as far as we are
able to judge,...an accurate
,statement of our Re-
sodices, which 'itiord strong ground fornational con=
fitlence; in defiance 9f all that our Enemy can me,
nacre or attempt 4y, a War, against our Vlnances, or
any other.species of. hostility, and a dde tribute of
praise to the exertions„of Mr. PITT in drawing forth'
014 applying those Resources, the Author,thus sums
up the,merits.of;that illustrious Btatesmari and truly ,
disinterested Patriot :

" At 4 intention is :entertained of a histhry of Mr.
PITT'S whole life being given to the public; in the
mean time I trust I shall be excused in making some ,
irery short oliservations respeaing.hiM, as few\ had
better, .perhaps none so frequent, opportunities of
kilning a jtidgMent on the stiblea in the last two-
and-twenty years of his lite, during which period I.
had the ;happiness to possess his atleEtionate friend-
ship and perfeei confidence, without the slightest or
shortest interi-tiptiou:
" To those Whoenyiyed his intimacy" might safely
ro!fer for the proof of his pdssessing those Private
vihues and endowments; whi 21, though they may
sometimes he accounted foreign to the public charac.-
ter of a statesman, the congenial feelings of English-
Men always, disposes them to regard as the-best
• pledges of tu•Minister's upright administration.,--;:
Around these \in the, present .case ..an additional
lustre; as well as sacredness, has been'thrown by the
circumstances of his death; by the manner in which
he met it ; and by the coMpOstze, the fortitude,
. the resignation; and the religion, which marked
his last moments.- With-a manner somewhat re-
served and distant in what might be termed his
public deportMent; no man was ever better qualified
-to gain, or• mere successful in fixing, the attach-
ment of his friends than Mr. Pier. : They saw all
the powbrfur energies Of his charatter softened into
the rnoSt•perfeet coniplacency and sweetness of dis-
position in the circle: of private life, the pleasures
of 'which no one more cheerfUlly enjoyed' or more
agreeably promoted, when the paramount duties he
conceived hirnself.to owe to the public admitted of .
his mixing in them. The indignity and.seVerity with
•which he Met and subdued -what he considered
titr-
founded opposition ;' that keenness of sarcasm "With
which:he repelled and withered (as it might be said)
the powers of most of his assailants in debate, were
exchanged in the society of his intimate friends
for a kindness of heart a gentleness of demeanour,
and' a playfulness of .goOd humour, which no one
ever witnessed without interest, of participated
without delight: His mind which, in the grasp and
e*.tent of its capacity, seized with a quickness almost
intuitive all the most important relations of political
power and political ecotiutny, was not less uncOni-
rminly susceptible of all the light and elegant im-
pressions which forni the great charm of conversa-
tion to cultiated minds.•• - .

This sensibility to the enjoyments .of-private
friendship •gratly enhanced the.sacrifice,he made of
every persOnal indulgence and comfort. to a rigid
performance of- duty to the public ; that duty, for_
the last year Of his life, was•indeed of the most labo-
rious and unremitting kind. The strength of his at-
tachment to his Sovereign, and the ardour of his
zeal for the welfare of his country, led him to forego
not only every pleasure and amusement, but almost
every pause and relaxation of business necessary to
the preservation of •• health, till it was too late, in a
frame like his, alas! for the preservation of life ! !
That life he sacrificed to his Country, nJt certainly
like another most valuable and illustrious servant of
the public (whose death has been deeply and Uni-
versally lamented), amidst those animating circum-
stances in which the inComparable hero often ven-
tured it ki battle, and at last resigned it for the most
splendid of all his unexampled vii orieS ; but with
that patriotic,self,deyotedness which looks for a re-
ward only in its own consciousness of right, and in
its own secret sense of virtue.

" The praise of virtue, of honour, and of disin-
terested purity, whether in public or private.charaCter,
need scarcely be claimed for his memory; for those
his enemies (if he now has any, which I ant- unwilling
to believe, although some are frequently-endeavour-
ing to depreciate his merits) will not venture to,
deny; and his country, in . whose cause they were
exercised to the last,. will know how •to value and
record them. That
.they should be so valued and
recorded is important on every principle of justice
to the individual, and of benefit_ to the community,
To an upright Minister in Great Britain, zealous/for
the interest, and honour of his country, there is no
reward of profit; ernolUment, Or patronage, which
can be esteemed a compensation tbr the labours, the
privations, the anxieties; or the dangers of his situa-
tion : it is in the approbation of his Sovereign, and',
in the suffrage of his countrymen, added to his own
conviction of having done every thing to deserve it,
that he must look for that reward which is to con-
sole him for all the cares and troubles of his, station ;
the oppOsition of rivals ; the mis,•reprkentation Of
enemies; the desertion or peevishness of friends; and
sometimes the mistaken censures of the peoPle.---.
'Tis the honourable ambition that looks beyOnd the
present, time that must create, encourage, and sup-
port a 'virtuous, and enlightened Statesman ; tha't
must confer on his mind the uprightness arid purity
that rise abyve all self-advantage;' the cahrage that
guards the Siites
_from; foreign hostility or internal
laotion ; the firmness that must .often resist the
wishes, to ensure the safety of the.,people.
. " This' is the legitimate ambition of a States •
man ; and that Alr. PITT
.possessed; it his friends
are.-convinced; but he has been 2 sometimes* -ac-
cused (by- those who, although their opposition
was ae-ti;ve and Syst-hatic, yet knew how to honour
the man) of a less lau:lable am-
bition, that wished '' to reign alone," to exciude
from the participation of office and of power other
men, 'whose counsels. might have assisted him to

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guide the. Country arhicist.its
ecititributed v.? its. %:;;'..ctv
the.holir ofit,sltlanc'ety It (NO
known to Aarne • :01 the; highest .cliarnelera,i..n- the
kingdom,. that .after the resigtlatienibf
Mr.,,AnytNnToN., itr the sumnier.of &o,t, wat
anxjously desircitis that Lord GagNvrt.lit and Mr.
Fot.ahould form a part of the new. Adminitration,
and pressed their admission into office in that qt.Hr-
ter where only such earnestness could „be etfeanal ;
conceiving the forming-a.strong -Government as ini-
2rtant to the, public Welfare, and as calculated to
call,forth the United talents, as wellas,tlrzintnest re-
stitil-CbS of the empire ; hi.. which enaavour he per-
siited till ,within a fewlnonths of .his death. lam
aware of
.the delicacy .o`: such a staternentl but I ant
bold, in the certainty .of its truth. ..MY profound rc-
spe& foi.tho,se by,.whommuch averment, if false;
might be' cootradi&edi would ncit suffer me to mal:o
it; were, it not called for tici:do ,Justice to that gre4.
and virtuous Statesmani *hose. unrivalled- qualities,
both in-private anclip- public life, will ever be in my
recolleetion."..

" Dum mentor ipse mei, Burn Spiritus hos LAU artus."

&I:EDUCTION.

tbURT OF EXCHEQUER, 13M3LIN.

• ••• ,
Sittings ajler Trinity Term, ';c:fqre tn, Right. Ho
the LORD CHIEF 13:IRON.
_ROBERT RAFFERTY V. MICHAEL ROBINSON.

Mr. Goistss stated the. Declaration, which
charged that the Defendant, on-the- t-sth day of
nuary.last, and on other days between that day and
the 98th of the same month, committed anassault
upon Bridget Baffertv, spinster, the daughter and
servant of the Plaintiff; and debauched her, where.:
by the Plaintiff lost the comfort and services of hif
daughter. The damages for this injury were laid
at t000l; and the Defendant pleaded not guilty.
Bridget Rafferty) the Plaintiff's daughter, eras
then called, and. examined by Mr. GUINESS.--She
deposed, that the Defendant and her father were
intimate acquaintwxs—that the Defendant bad
frequently dined at her father's house, and she con=
sidered them as friends—that about half a year ago,
she could not recolle6t the month, she was mum'-
Mg to her tiither's house, after paying some iirolv
for him, when she met the. Defendant at the coriwr
of Church-street—this was in the morning 1l9;?14.
eleven o'clock—the Defendant told her be I,o*
going to the house of one Mohr', a tailor, who
used ,to work for her father, and desired her to
come with him, which she at first declined; how-
.e'er, be prevailed on her to a:cornpany him, as si,w
imagined, to Moran's house—the Defendant brYi
her to a house on the Blind Quay 5 it was not Mo-
rm's--7the Witness declined going up stairsthe
Defendant. got her up stairs by force, and pushed
her info a garret-room;, the doer of which he 10 k-
,ed—he then swore he would have his will of ber---,
she shrieked •out-,--the, Defendant put his hand on
her mouth, and having forced- her on a bed, per;
petrated his purpose—she was detained in the room
until, night. Being asked how she obtained her li-
berty ? she stated \ that. a woman came up to the
door and she made a noise—it was near 14 Alock
at night—she was 'afraid to return
.to her father's
house; she went to her mistress—she kept
transa&iun secretfromall her family but beryounger
sister.

• Some Witnesses were called to impeach the cha-
raeter of the girl, but their evidence was we:ik Bud
contradiCtory.

The CHIEF BARON summed up the evidence, and
in charging the Jury observed, that this was a new
species of adion, so far as it related to the seduetion
of a child. A master,- as had been properly stated,
by the Plaintiff's Counsel, could at all tittles brini;
an a&ion for the loss of the service of his'servani,
but not merely for the seduEtion of his daughter ;
however, the seduEtion of the child was a great
aggravation of the offence, if the Jury believed the
girl, for increasing the dainages. The credit of Ow
Witnesses lay with Ole fury--so dki the appreiiatin4
the darnages ;. and if the defence set up was in their
opinion taise, it ought to have weight; When they,
catite to apportion the,sum. At first he thought the
defenee would have been, that tile girl had not been
seduced, but had Suffered a rape. If such a fa& had
come out, he would have stopped the trial, because
the trespass_, would has merged into a capital fe-
lony, and he 'would have sent the Defendant to ano-
ther tribunal, before which; should he be conviaed,
the punishment would be death.

The Jury, in a le‘tt minutes, brought in a Verdict
for the Plaintitf,,_s,9.9l. Damages. ' •

On the'l2th of July last the Anniversary of the
• ,Battle of Aughritn was celebrated in the town of
Aughrim. A vast body of men collected and headed
by a; few individuals of the adjacent neighbour-
hood marched iu a marshalled 'order of procession
in honour of the day, carrying with them opt: hun-
dred and eighty-six standards. The Procession
moved through the town, and round the demesne
of the Primate. In its prosress some Recruits be-
longing to a Militia .Regunent quartered at Ar-
magh, and whO did,not View it with perfeCt
ference,. exchanged some angry and reproachful
terms with some of the persons belonging to it ;
and unfbrtunately the transition from words to b!o'xs
was rapid in the extreme. The Officers of the Re-
kiawirt were so. prpmpt in terminating. the qtnrrrel;
that no serious -milt-Wel ensued, and it wa, hoped
. that the matter' waS-at an 'end. In the.atk•rnuon,
hoWever, some of the-toy n's people that'had
dently partaken of too much conviviality, presente,
themselves before the gates of the Barracks, and ex-
pressed themselves in well-known terms of provo.
cation. 'The Regiment immediately got under arms
by orders froth the Officers acid such was the °be-
' dience and steady deportment of the old Sol-
diers of the -Corps, that no revilement or • abuse
could exasperate them, nor did ttrey betray the
smallest , irritation ; .but the trouolcsome and dis-
orderly 'persons of their ileeruits were kept un-
der *the. necessary .Controul aud d
abroad that were undiscerning in the 011.-cf or their
•-reproaehes, were .diseouraged from proceedin to
any violence.

• The Royal Company of Archers of Scotland lately
shot for the Edinburgn Arr,w, which was
gained by CLINNINGHAAI , An'!, on Satur-
day, the 12th inst.. the -King's Prize was shot for
Bruntsfield Links by the Roya; (2 artily ofArc;,ers,
and gained by J. ltussELL, Esq. Cieik to the Situ. t.

CiOWN SIDE.—RAPE.
Thomas Thompson was
indicted for ravishing Eliza-
Beth Lincoln, on Thursday the otls of June last.
Mr: POOLF,Y stated to the Jury, 'that this was, tilt
most serious case which had come before them,dura
ing the present Assizes, inasmuch as it was not only
of itself a most heavy offence, but there were also
circumstances of peculiar aggravatipn in the conduit
of the Prisoner. The Prosecutrix, he said, was about
the age of twenty years, and having been left with-
out parents, she was brought up at the 'charge of the
parish, and at the time of the commission of 014
otlence resided in the Poor-house at Bishop Stortford.
'The Prisoner was her -near relation, her first cousin,
and resided ill the 'same parish. It would appear by
the evidence that this act of his was not committed
either in the insensibility of into-xication, or by the,
sadden explosion of the passions,created by unsought
opportunity, as was sometimes the caserbut he coldly
and systematically 'planned the deed, which he after-
wards carried into eXecution. The girl being in the
Poor-heuSe, on the gib ofJune the Prisoner sent for
her to the Cherry -Tree Public-house, in Stortford, and
told her he had got her a good place, as kitchen-maid,
,at 'Squire Heath's, at Stanstead. The girl said she must
go home, and get leave to go there. He aecordingly
accompanied her to the Poor-house, and told the same
story to Mrs. Serjeant, the mistress of the house.
Mrs. Serjeant observed, that she thought the girl
'would. hardly suit the place, as she had not been at
sere ice. • He replied, that she would do very well,
for her aunt worked there, and would instruct . her.
Mrs. Serjeant agreed to let her go on trialeand if she
was not approved of, the-Prisoner undertook tobring
her safe back again. They then set off together to
Stanstesid,. about seven in the evening : their way
lay across some fields, and on the skirts of a wood,
Called -Eight Acre's, Wood. When they approached
the wood, the Prisoner began to take indecent li-
berties, which she resiated: sHe immediately seized
her by the arm, and dragged her into the wood ; he
there threw her down ; she struggled 'and screamed
until her strength was exhausted. ; after which •he
effeated his purpose: He kept hei:in the wood
for.two hours, and compelled her to submit herself
if o his purpose a second time ; which, being done,
he left her alone. She wandered about the wood the
'Wholeasight, until day-light enabled her to find her
way out. Site then saw some men at work in a
-eld, who direEted her to a neighbouring cottage, in
•which a relation Of her's ,lived, to whom she told
what had been done-to her a and the next day the
• -Prisoner was apprehended.
Elizabeth Lincoln, the ProseTutrix, , proved the
faets as Mr,-Pooaese had stated them. She was a
round-faced country girl, and appeared greatly dis-
tressed in giving her evidence. On being cross-
examined by .Mr. CUetwoon, shedid not in the least
vary from her story, but stated the fads rather
stroager against the prisoner.
all-s. Serjeant, the Mistress of the 'Workhouse,
iproVed that the
.Prisoner came and fetched the Pro-
secutrix in the manner as had been stated ; and that,
when she came back the next day she sobbed bitter-
ly, and said Thompson had ruined her.
Elizabeth Player, the woman to whose cottageshe
went the next morning,-said, that when she came
there she told her that Thompson had ruined het ;
she sobbed a great deal, and•had her legs scratched
. and clothes torn by the brambles,
The 'Learned Judge told the Jury, that if they be-
lieVed the Prosecutrix they must find the Prisoner
guilty.—Verdiet Guilty. -
Sutton 'Clarke was indiCied for stealing a bay geld-
ing, valoe 41. the property of David Francis. - • '
Mr; Jassor stated the circumstances of the case as
follows :
The prosecutor, Francis, was, a poor countryman,
• who could neither write nor read. On the i2th of ' WINCHESTER, ASSIZES,
May last, Hertford fair-day, he carried his poney to
WINCIIE. STER; JULY 19.-.--At our ;Assizes (the.
• market, which he agreed to sell to the prisoner for
businessi of which .coseanenced on - Weshiesday last)
41. The Pris Oner gave him a note which he -told
there were only ten Prisoners for trial, none of whom
him was a
,61. Deptford Lank Note. The'Prose- • •
- were capitally convieled.• Robert Andrews, for steal-
tutor gave bins a a. note hs change. This note the
ing goods from- the' waesgon.'ofaMessrs. Brown,
Prosecutor paid away to another countryman as ig-
, Brice' and Marshall, and Charlotte Boschinsky, for
norant as hiaaself ; but the' next person,to whom it felonyt
in tae shop of Henry Dooghty, at Portsea,
was tendered discovered it was a mere imitation of a, a s . • ,
were sentenced to oe `transported for seven years.
Bank Note, and in faec, it was a note, on the face of .--.—
- Hiomas Gray, for assaulting Major Angus Fraser,was
k, purporting to be, "Debtors Bank. I promise
. fired 6s. ad. ; ,Robert Wiltshire was discharged;-and
to pay bearer five-pence, for Attorney.; Plaintiffrand
Patrick Conolly, ThdMas lk.alts, John Marchamt,
dant.Collins."Defend:lltt. T. Colli Tan he-Countryrn finding
. Thomas MatiheliuJohn Marsden,' ,and Sarah
,
how he had'been doped, went in search of the Pri- -
Brown, - arraigned for :different effences, were seve-
' soner,;and met him in Kingsland-road. He stopped
rally acquitted. 1
• hint, and insisted On having a good note ; but the
At the Nisi Prins, twenty-one. cauaes were. en-
Prisoner swoee he had paid three of the same sort of
- tered for trial, seven of which were tried by Special
notes away on the sanse• day e that he took them for
Juries.
good ones, aud he 'would not change them for any
The. King (on.the • proaeCution of George LoVell,
body. - •
mer at King, Esq )v. Geo.. Wilkins.-The Prosecutor lives
.at
The/Pri airier, in his defence, said, be took the '
Booklev House, in the tsarists of Crawley, and Ts a
notes the same day from a person wh6 said he Came ~A.
oast- .
thse county. 'fhe
from Oxford, w
xford, and he believed be as either afar- laairate of: Defendant is 3 fars
King's Somborne, and an oVeraber 'of the
• cirri, a Lawyer, oxa DoCtor, for he had a hand as - :
aoor of the parish. am the ed September last the
White as any Lady's. He added, he could not read Prosecutor,l• .t. his gun, heard repeated
himself, and if they were bad notes, he had himself being mit wih
cries, and vaa .
• ent blows given.. On riding to • the
been impoaed upon.
• place whence they proceeded, he found th:Defen&
Seyeral witnesses were called, who gave him a . •
goes' diameter as a dealer in horses, in a small waY, ant beating a little boy abosat eleven years old for
haainca suffered some. pigs to get into a field.—
and confirmed his statement that he could neither b
The Prosecutor expostulated with the Defend-
read not writea----f he Jury found harn Guilty.
ant on the severity of the correaition, which was
Richard White was convi6ted of uttering a bad.- :returned by the latter with great abuse, and an at-
-shilling, knotving it to_ be a counterfeit, he -having tempt to ride over the Prosecutor, who, in conse-
been before convicted 'at Middlesex of the same quence, indicted the Defendant at the last Assizes,.
. offence, which renders thd last a capital offence. • The bill being found, ' the indictment was removed
• .Susan Jones, landlady of the Fox and Grapes pub- ' into the Couat of King's-Bench, and dire&ed by the -
tic-houseaat Ware, stated that the Prisoner, 'en the . Court to be tried at the-Assizes, and was now sub-
- 18th, of March 'tendered her the bad shilling in milted to the decision of a Special Jury, who found
question. As be was'suspeaed of uttering counter- i the Defendant guilty of a common assault only,
felt silver, she - sent fot a constable, and he -was 'Morgan V.Turner—was an aaion for the obstruc-
searched r Concealed under his clothes two large tion of light, hy builaing a wall against the Plaintiff's
parcels of bad shilling.% were found, the shillings . windows. On an objection to the form of the nation,
parted with a small piece- of paper between each. • • the Plaintiff Wll3 s\-unsuited.
The Jury found him-Guilty. Rex v. Eldridge. and Another—was an inform tion
• • The above three. Prisoners, together with Thomas by the Attotney-General, for'obstruaing an Officer
-Berry, for sheep-sfealing, and John Smith, for steal-
,of the Excise. '. The Defendant was found Guilty.
ing in a dwelling-house, were put to the Bar andKmore v. Heath—was an action to recover aol•
received sentence of Death. Ot these, the Learned the price of a horse sold to the Defendant, and war-
judge told the sheep-stealer, and Thompson for the ranted sound. and quiet :he proved, however, to be
rape, that they must expea to receive no mere Y.— i unsound and vicious, and the jury gave the Plaintiff
The Assizes concluded: - • • i his whole demand. .
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