The Sun.
London, England, 1801-01-22 00:00:00

St,VI,?•TITII PAY-WEDII 3DAY) JAN. 2t.

iiindreav Mrimpso'n Was tried upon fun Irtdiel;
pent for forging, on the sch of Deeember last,
a certain Receipt for the sum of IL t ts, 6,1.. with;
intent to derrautil3artholomew Puckyidge.
Mr. CONsT opened the 'Case for the Prcisecu;
tiOn ;' the chirge-, he said, for which the Prisoner
11.1 td:,lnsvccr, vin, that *of Forgery, which; what.
o,er he the result of this trial, .was under
'circumstaricts that Made —the Prisoner's crime
most heinous. The last Expedirion nd to'flolla •
bad given ooc,,tsion 'for ninny persons in this
Connrry to shesv their munificence and genera.
_sity, quilities for which this Country had lons
most deservedly eminent nod pee hat'ly
distinguished. Notwithstanding this ss i the
charaCleristic of the Nation, it dia so happen
that rnat9r of those who fought our b;ittles, and
who fell ire these strnggles, for their CoUntry's
7"gl.ory, left behind them many relation;i'fOr whom
tio pulilie- permanent prOvis,itiri was •tultcfe.
sentiment 'of gritittide aria'admiration towatds
these braVe dett.ni,ltr3 of its cause, was felt and

diffused all over this Country, A'sneietri eon.
sisting .of Noble in and Gt.'ndo9etz. of 'the high-
est Charader station; vas formed under-the
title of the National. Endeay or Society," the..
object of which Was to pro :vide fov the Relief of
_the Relativeof thOse whd fell, itl the' field. of
battle. Of this .society the Irisoner at the Bar,
being a young man of previously a good ehat
rafter, became the ~V gent, Treas,ufer; ,or Secre,
tary.---•-:-TO detail the regulations of the Societ,
would be unnecessary ; it was under the care and
controtitola Conimittec•coMpOsed of persons of
high Rank and pure Honour, and Was supported
by a munifice:ice that was almost 'unexampled.
In this situation -the tenderest Way of taking
of the Prisoner was to say, that possibly he was-,
in der 'great temptadon froth die great tensr- tit it
Was reposed in him, bat :.although in' One view a
palliation, it/ in none a ,tiet:mee for what he
'did. I-le hhd dissipated a great part of the
_money' which had been subs'eribed for the laud-
able pUtpoSe which bad been already stated, and
this he did the More easily as he'Was. not suspeCt-
ed ; but,. as he was a man of no private fortune,
nor of considerlblefamily connexion, •and as he
figtired away in considerable'splendoUr, he,was •
watched with some jealousy' at last:—lt was in-
deed timetS do so, for beset up his curride and
went to Weycrio9th. In.short hiS behaViour and
condu6l' were such as convinced the. Committee
that every' thing was not regular with him. In
August last a very large subscription .of toool.
was sent to the SOciety' by Lord St. Vincent, by
• a draft on his. Agents; Messrs. Marsh -and Creed.
The Prisoner, drew for this money4or the use of
the Society, alledging that he hatt'oecasicin for it
to carry into effea the charitable put poses of the
Institution. It was 'discovered that: the Prisoner's
accounts were full of errors, which induced the
Committee, to call fora settlement, for which
he always Committee,
a readiness, bat sbewed'by
his condua, that he wished to shun it. A Gen
tleman of the name of Pucit.eridgewaS employed
to examine these accounts, when it appeared they
were in,a inn* confusion meetings took
place alter Meetings, and the P.riSaner was re-
quired to produce his, vouchers. - 1-k produced
several vouchers, purporting to be receipts frOin

tradesmen for, sums paid to-thein ; doubts were
entertained whether these were genuine or not,
but the only question for the Jury was, Whether
the one now before the Court was genuine or
not I The Indidment charged it to be 4 forged
one. It was tor goods bought of a Mr. Mill-
wood ; under this receipt was written the word
" settled," and the initials J. M. On inquiry
of Mr. Millwood, he said he hadgiven no such
receipt, nor received any such money, as he pro-
tested. When the Prisoner was told of this, he
affected to be highly offended ; but on examina-
tion it appeared, that the suspicions were %yell
tbunded, upon which the Prisoner was taken
before a Magistrate, who &rated that he should
be charged with a capital offence, which was.
indeed not what the Commit tee Wished,, they
thinking it would be suflicient to try him for a
misdemeanour, but they acquiesced in the deter-
mination of the
_Magistrate, and he was ac
cordingly inditted for a Forgory.—That was thc
charge which the Jury had now to dispose °E—
lle only queltion was, Whetter this could be
deemed a receip,t or not ? Now, upon that, he
apprehended that the, word " settled," ;.rral the
initials " J. M." being put t 6 the bottom of this
paper, amnieoel to a receipt, according to the
s:,,taitite of the 35th of Geo. HI. c. 55. It would
not indeed-be a receipt to be given in evidence, as
available in a Civil action, as evidence of the
pdyment of the Money, but in a criminal cases it
was- to be tal,en collaterally, as proof.
Mr. illotort THoteeloy. was clearly of opi-
nion, that this was not a receipt, as stated in this
indiament, and that, therefore, the. Prisoner
must, at all events, he acquitted„—it was need-
less to proceed upon a Case which must have that
conclusion,
The Prisoner was therefore pronounced-:-/Vet
Geary; but he was detained to answer upon a
charge of Fraud, the, amount of which was al-
ledged to be many thousand pounds.

,7o.reph Kemp and Thomas &vett,' two private
Soldiers, were capitally ctinvitted of stealing a
live sheep, the property of Robert-Moline, ill the
vicinity of Edmonton. The Cast., in a.great ,ie-
gree, depended upon the testimony of a very
young boy, who, however, wa, so satisfadorily
corroborated, that the jury had no hesitatioi, iu
finding-a verdid to the above effect.

jarefih.ta.yrant was charged with stealing, on
the 14th of January, a wooden cask, containing,
3QO Cod's-sounds, the goods of Joseph and Na-
thaniO Saunders.

The Prisoner, who is a private in the Guards,
it appeared, was seen running oif, together with
his comrade, with the cask in question, which
was instantly missed from the Shop of the hose-
'cutors, oilmen, in the City. A pursuit was im.
mediately set on foot ; and the Foreman first
coming up with the fugitives, was beat off; as..
sistance was, 'however, soon colleted, and the
pUrsuit continued, when the Prisoner dropped
the cask. He was soon alter overtaken, and
with difficulty secured his comrade got off in
the scuffe.

Nothing being urge 4 by the Prisoner in his
defence, and no doubt obtaining as to the testi-
mony of the Prosecutors' Witnesses, the Jury
brought in a verdiel

Nirahin 'Lev was charged With a Misde.
meanoiir, in• having, cm the 28th of last month,
knowingly, wilfully, and unlawfully put off,.and
uttered to Mr. Jacob George 'Wrench, a certain
piti!C of `talse and counterfeit gold coin, milde to
the siMilitude'and likeness of that legal gold coin
called half.alguinca, and for:having, at the same
time, 'lb his possessiOrt, a 'false and counterfeit
guinea.

ft, a:111616i, that the Trtsctier was a hackney.
tiey coachtnao. On the tBth OfDecember, be was

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DR. LIGNUM's ANTISCORBUTIC DROPS.

HE following Remarkable and Well.auther.r-
ticatcd Cure has been recently communicated by
Mr. Richardson Ferrand, Chyrnist and l)ruggist, in Sfock.-
ton-upon-Tee*, to Mr. Lignurn,,Surgeon, in.Matichester,
who takes the earlic:a opportunity tit laying it bet Ore the
Public, in order that rir;se lal..,6itring milder similar (Nun-
plaints•m4 where to bud relief, and be comrbrted
under such heavy afilietionl.

THE (ASE.
A Boy about twelve' years of a4c, Son of Mr. George
Seotson,' a Gentleman of Respetbbility at hishoptou, near
Btockton-upon-Tecs, in the. County of Durham, was
brought to Mr. Ferranti, Druggist, in Stockton, about
three years ago,rind was 'then a dreadful spetiacle,itis
nok and chaps vtre full of holeS, having every ,appear-
ance of a confirmed scrophula or evil ; and from the'
hostious , smell of the innumerable ulcers, and want of rest.
occasioned by the continual. pain, his life was rendered a
burthen to him. Mr; Ferranti strongly recommended
Mr; Lignum's Royal Antiscorbutic Drops. The buy, in
consequence, entered upon'a:paurs:: of them, and before he
had finished six bottl,.:b his health was restored, sleep be-
came natural, • and ,all the tiLers :healed and-diappeirc.d.
Ferrand advised him to, battle in Eprinv:
tf.) prevent any return,. an that in the wip.,k
taken nil:. bottles., and is Terfettly cured. His
Virote to Mr, Ferraiid a ..,hort time after this astonit:hinA
cure was'efleeted, and ctbhuded his Letter as follows :

My Son, who has taketi nine bottles of Lignurres Drops.
1)113 rattier liftle koltsornetinusi .but nothing of con;e.
qucnee, we hope will w r onii time. 1 ant
G,IWRGE SCOTSON,
Bishopton, near Stockton-upon-Tees

lanitary Ts.
Ccrtitied under the hand of kioharilser retrand, Dfug-
gist, in Stockrton, one of the Agents appointed to vend Lig-
nuin'sltoyal 4itiscorbutic Drops. ,
Mr. Lignum's Pills fora' certain Disehse, without the
least.tonfincraent in env season, restraint of diet, or hin
drance of business, Wlien all other methods have failed.
Priee.2s. 9d. the Box, with Dircaons..
Also Ligaurn's Lotion,.. which is found a sovereign re-
medy for surfeits, and.all scorbutic eruptions of the face
slid skin hoWever•violent or disfiguring • ajso for pimples
or blotches, redness of the nose, chin, and for every
impurity or. unnatural appearance with which the skin
may hesairce.ted. Sold, with Direalons, at zrs. 9d. the
Bottle.

Thess Drops arc sold in rnottided'skuare Bottles at
las, anti 4s. 641. One xis. Bottle is equal in quantity to
three 4t, 6d. ones. They may he had, whole;:ate and re-
tail; at Mr. Lignurn's, No. s 7, Bridge-strept_i and, be ay-
rintrrient, of Messrs, Howard and Evans, No. 42 Long-
aite, We .t Smithfield, st)le Wholesale' Agents in Condon
and sold retail by the' following Persons ;
IT. Cuticlell, No.47,Minories; W. Clarke, No•26g, Bo-
rough; Jordan, No. 33, Whitechapel ; jebault -and Co.
No. tso, Oxford-strect r Knight, Norton Falgate ; Kirk,
Np. It% Coekhill,./katclille; Mr, .Pidding, No. 76, Ox-
ford-street ;, Sutton, NO. tat, Long-Aye ; Tint and Bat-
ton, Royal' Exchange; Turtle, No. t 27, Strand, oppoite
Exeter Change ; Ward, No. 324, Holbmt ; Wade, OW
Bond-street, and No. t 63, I,ltet-sreet..