The Sun.
London, England, 1801-10-31 00:00:00

PORTSMOUTH, OCT. 30.

ARVOVED the Boston Sloop, Captain. LE ROMP,
from Guernsey, with wine.

SHEERNESS, OCT. 30.

Mrs day arrived His Majesty's Ship Eirscher-
mer, from the King's Channel ; Redoubt, from
East Swale, and Haughty and Bruiser Gun-brigs
from the Downs.

The Narcissus has gone out of Harbour.

DEAL, OCT. 30.

AR Itt vto His Majesty's Ship Savage, and Chap-
man Armed Ship, from the Westward ; the latter of
which has since proceeded to the River.

The inspeaor Sloop of War, and great part of
her Convoy, had not passed the Sound on the 28th
inst. but those which had got up had proceeded to
the Baltic. '

The Trinity, Forster, from Honduras, is con-
demned at Charleston.

The Vulture, Brus, from New Providence to
Florida and back, is taken by three Spanish armed
ships:
The Aimable Adell, Cleasby, front London to
New-York, foundered zoth Sept. in long. 1 2.-The
Crew were taken on board the Sarah, Gray, of
Boston.

The Hermes and Prince William, with the home-
ward bound Convoy,, sailed from Elsineur on the
gth inst. _

The Maria Fredetiea, Wendt; irom Gibraltar, is
arrived at Guernsey with damage.
The Sloop Harmony, , captured by the
French Brig Fame, for Porto Rico, is arrived at
New York.

This morning a Jamaica Mail reached the Ge-
neral Post Office.--$y it we are truly sorry to
learn the Death of Vice-Admiral Lord HUGH
SEYMOUR, Commander in Chief of His Majesty's
Ships and Vessels on the Jamaica station. His
Lordship died at sea, on board His Majesty's Ship
Tisipbtme, sn;ne time in the beginning of September.

MILITARY ETIOI/ETTE.—Just before the Guards
left Chelmsford Barracks, a misunderstanding arose
about their not receiving Lieutenant-GeneraIEGER-
TOV, as the Officer commanding the Distrid, with
presented arms. The Officer of the Day 'command-
ing the Guards, on being called upon to explain
this supposed negle& of etiquette, replied, that he
should deviate from an established rule of service in
aling otherwise. An appeal was, therefore, made
to the War Office, from whence the folloWing De-
cree was issued, viz. « That the Guards, as the
Household Troops of the King) when brigaded, had
always a General Officer of their own Corps attached
to such Brigade, and; in that case, no other military
honours than those due to their own Brigade Gene-
ral, were to be paid by them, except to a branch of
the Royal Family, or to the Commander in Chief."

As the House of Commons was breaking up on
Thursday, Sir W. PULTENE r reminded the House
of a notice which he gave last Session, of a moti►ion
relative to India Affairs: To prevent any surprize,
he now repeated, that he should take an opportunity
to bring it forward this Session:
Orders were on Wednesday issued for an
diate reduElion of the Guaids, whiCh will include
all men above forty years of age, and ail whose ser-
vice exceeds twenty years.

The STAnniOL DEP. though no* about to depart
~to the Continent, cannot leave, without regret, the
island• where he has been so hospitably received,
and where, notwithstanding the -troubled, state of
the Continent, he has enjoyed so much overt:

Governint having found the necessity of a
strong and Vigorous Police, have resolved to in-
crease the number of ConstaWes at every one of the.
Police Offices in the Metropolis, Other measures,
all tending to produce the same effect, are in con-
templation:
The house and premises 6f Mr: Peacock, of
Tottridge, Hertfordshire, have litenf(ir some time
robbed of property to a very considerable amount,
and every exertion has been made to dereft the
robbers, but in vain ; it has been within these few
days discovered that five of the servants and la-
'bourerss Were the robbers, and by the confession of
the Coachman and a servant girl, that gallons of
wine used to he carried off at a time, and that a
tinder-box used to be left, and every preparation
made for the labourers to carry off their plunder.

DEATH OF LORD EUGH SEYMOUR;

kINGiTO.II, JAMAICA, tr.f."l:

It is with extreme concern we announce the
death 'of the:Right- Honourable Lord 'HUGH. SEir-
MOU it, Vice-Admiral of the slue, and Commander
in Chief Of His Majesty's Ships on this station,
which happened on beard His Majesty's Ship Tisi-
phone, at sea; on Priday last. The information was
received by His Majesty's Schooner Sting, on Sa-
turday boon, and in the evening the Tisiphone ap-
peared; with her Colours lowered half-mast, and
fired minute-guns till she entered the harbour of
Port Royal.

The body of his Lordship is to remain in state
on board His Majesty's Ship Sans Pareil till Wed-
nesday, when it will be removed to His Majesty's
Schooner Sting, to be conveyed to Great Britain by
that vessel, which sails the next morning.

ildjatant General's OPT, Dublin,
°Sober 26, 1801.
GENERAL ORDERS.

THE Surrender of Alexandria on the zã of September to
His Majesty's Arms, has been announced to the Commander
of the Forces, who orders a feu-de-i've to be fired upon the
occasion by the Army under his Command.
General Sir WILLIAM Menol.vs is proud to • notice the
impression made upon, the Troops under his Command, by
the first and signal successes of the Army in Egypt. The
enthusiastic Spirit which pervaded the whole Ariny, and
the olkts so generally made of E:;:tended or Unlimited Ser-
vice, w4i be remernbered as HonoUrable to the Troops, . and
as worthy of the British Character.

The career of Vittory which has terminated in the entire
Conquest of 'Egypr, and the complete 'averthroW of every
remaining part of a numerous.and veteran French Army, can
alone be attributed t. a continuance of the same heroic Spirit
and strict observance of Discipline, which has already been
pointed out as an Example to all who desire Military Fame,
or feel for the Honour and 'Welfare of their Country. As
such, the Commander of the Forces is confident the Lesson
will not be lost ; and he loOks forward to ekticry Officer and
Soldier being animated by the view of such events, to a per-,
severing Exertion towardS the maintenance of good Order and
Discipline—That when the occasion shall again occur, their
Condua may emulate past ACtions, and uphold the well-
earned pie-eminence of the British Arms.

hlsmo ANDA—Shewing the Numbers of, the French Army
in Egypt, at the time of the 'Landing of Sir RALra ABER.
CROMEY, as taken from Documents obtained in the course
of the Campaign. '
Mos.

rst.—Prisoners dispatched by Lord Kayrn previous
to the Surrender of Cairn - - sOOO
zd.—Lmbarkation of the Garrison of Cairo . 13,000
3d.---MgNou's Return of the Garrison of Alexandria 11,712
4th. —Dead in the Field, or in consequence of Wounds rOOO
sth.--Dead in Hospitals since the Ist of March, wrwn
the Plague broke out at Cairo, and was snore vio-
lent than for many years - , - boo

Total 29,712
Dodo& Non-Combatants.
• Cairo - 3000
Alexandria - 1761 4761

Gives an Army of s 24,951
Cophts, Greeks, 6tc. do not appear ever to have
exceeded zcoo

Total—French .. 22,451
AbDITtONAL PROOF.

The.Mcniteur of the 16th Germinal, gives a comparative
State of the British Force in Marmarissa Bay, and the French
in Egypt.

The Corps of each, named, and the Numbers given sepa-
rately :
Total French - - 20,435 Men, besides Auxiliaries.
Total British - 16,056

Remains a Surplus of 4,355 French, exclusive of Auxilia.

ries.

N. B. The British Vorce froin India and the Cape, landed
in Upper Egypt betwixt 6 and 7000 Men, were not brought
into Adion.

THE TnEATRE.—The new Comedy of Folly as
it Flies was repeated last night at Covent-Carden
Theatre. A few curtailments have been made in
those parts which seemed on the first performance
to excite disapprobation. The Piece is proportion_
ably improved by The compression, which makes it
pass off with more smoothnes and spirit. The
Actors in general, but particulatly Miss MUR-
RAY rendered full justice to their parts.—
The Piece attracted so large an audience, and was
throughout so well received, that it is likely to be
of 'considerable advantage to the Theatre, and not
to impair the reputation of the Art:lor.
The Epilogue to." Folly as it Flies'," is not, as
we conceived, .the prods ion of IVltt.Es PEt Elt
AXISRE ws's Muse, but the work of a Gentleman in
the Country, who does not; however, seem to be
ignorant of thefoifirs of the Town- -it is a produc-
tion of his pen which does him infinite credit.
The Farmers who are not disposed to make theit
teturns of their crops in the' manner requested by
Government, are stigmatized by the title of tenants
of Knave's'_ Acre. _ _ _

An alarming fist broke out at thCirncford on Sa.
turby evening- list, about seven o'clock, in the
Premises of Mr. Wilks in Duke-street, occasioned
by the 'witlessness of a groom who had left his can-
dle burning upon a post, a praftice so common, and
attended with so much danger, that every pro_
prietor of a stable is bound to use his utmost en-
deavour to prevent it. It was at first apptehended,
that the fire, which raged with uncommon fury,
would not b arrested until it had Consumed the
premises where it broke out; as well as the Wheat-
Sheaf public-horse and. the George; but although
it coMmunicatz'A to them all; and in which there
was a great deal of hay and straw, as well as coals
and corn, yet providentially the wind blowing the
flames from the buildings, 'and the assistance of the
Town's-people and the Military; who were sti-
mulated by the examples of their Officers, the en-.
gines belonging to the three Fire-offices, and that
belonging -to the Parish; the fire was go: under
about twelve o'clock, after having consumed the
stables where it first began, a-brewing- office, con-
taining, besides the utensils, about 401. worth of
malt, and a part of the corn chambers of the George
Inn: We are happy to find that no individual has
received any material injury, otherwise than by
slight bruises. A horse and two dogs were sail).
sated, and lost in the fire, and another horse was so
much burnt, as to induce the owner to put it out
of its misery, by causing_ it to be shot, The pre.
mises are all insured.

Bill.

TFIIRD DAY--TRI DAY' OCT. 36;
MURDER.

James Leg *as indiefed for the Murder of i7i'•
lion Lamb.on the zd Of Odober inst. by shoOtint
him throtigh the body at Chelsea Hospital:
Mr. Atßot opened .the pleadings on the part of
the Prosecution.
The ATTORNEY GENERAL attended for the
Crown; and opened this prosectitiOn: The fri-sork.-
er at the tar; he said, stood Charged with thO
crime of Murder. Under what circumstances and
from what inducement; or towards. the de:.
ceased this crime was effeaed,• he was not able to
say : Certainly-there bad been between these parties
some difference prior to the melancholy event
which took place on the id of 061ober inst: bUt 116
was afraid the jury would find nothing in these cir-
cumstanees; that would at all palliate the crime With
which the Prisoner stood charged; so as to make it
bear a lesser denoMination of Criminality; and be- .
come ManslaUghter.—L;The Prisoner; he said, was
a Pensioner at Chelsea Hospital:He was Upon the
Establishment there, and Was what they Called a
Captain; being one, of the Sergeants that were ad..
mitted into the Hospital Upon the usual terms a
conditions of that admirable. institution ; as was
alio the deceased: Each Of -then had a separate
apartment, and a large room, which they frequent-
ed in cornnionwith others of the same station in the
day time, retiring from thence to their bed-cham-
bers; which communicated with thin common room
of accornmodation.On,Friday, the id of Olober
inst. between six and seven in the morning, the
Prisoner Was noticed walking up and down the
common:room, which Was., as he ha d stated, ad.
joining the bed-room of himself and also of the de..
ceased, on the side'opposite to the chamber of the
deceased ; he was heard muttering some ext,)ressions
of anger and ill-will; as it seemed, tol,i'aros the de-
ceased, whO was then in his
,shirt coming out of
bed.--=The door, of the deCeased's -bed-room was
open to the Prisoner to see through.:—'..The Prisoner
came up to the 'deceased and tendered him one of
two pistols he ;hen held in his hand, dernanditt
"honourable satisfadipn;" or soMething of- that
kind the deceased, nor 'apprised of- any citCurn_
stance that led to this, took the pistol On the snd..
den from the Prisbner and threw it into the common
room, and said, " what do you mean by this ?
what is the matter now ?--z-what is this. for
This was all the deceased uttered, and indeed all
that passed between him and the Prisoner. The
wife:of the deceased 'shia the door and shut the
Ptisoner out-. The.Prisorier came with' the other
pistol,, took his Station at the door of the deceased,
which was paylly glass and seeing. the person of
the 'deceased clearly through it, he tired his pistol
at the decease& and the bUllti penetrated the bhdy
of the deceased and passed through him, upon which
he fell and instantly expired. The report -of the
firing
,brought several person's into the room, and
there they foUnd the Priioner with his pistol in his
hand, having gone into his:own room in the inter:.
val, 'and On inquiry hoW this aet was done, he
said; -" 1--httre. dente ioa on being asked, why
he had done it ?. he answered, " that he had done
his duty, and that he was well pleased with
Tlll3 expression' the ATTORNEY GENERAL said)
precluded all possibility of doubt that the Prisoner
did the ad; that *this ad was the cause 'of time death
of the unfortunate object Of it; would he equally be-
Yond doubt upon the evidence of the Surgeon who
examined the bocbr, as well indeed as b the fail;
.the instant death'.

Under these cirthnistanees, the AriortNE-r-Gr.
NEItAL said, it would beincumbent on the Prisoner
today before the Jury, if be could, such proof at
should make this homicide a crime of a lower denO-
mination.than Was charged upon the record here,
which was that of Murder. It was impossible, Vom
what was staterto him, for him to anticipate any
thing that Would make this ad a 'crime of an infe-
rior denomination to Murder. There' had been no
provocation, if indeed any provocation was sufil- •
dent to induce a man to the perpetration of sech
a 61.. There had been no material ldifferenee be-
tween the deceased and the Prisoner for a year and
an half. It might be possibly attempted 'tO show
that the Prisoner laboured under a mental derange.
went'. Of that species of defence, he took the
berty of reminding the Jury, it behoved them to be
extremely jealous ; for it had got too much into use
of late to hold out that species of defence, either as
an excuse; or a palliation of the most enormous
'crimes that could be dielated by the malignity of
the human heart. It might. perhaps be said with
propriety, that there. Was a degree of derangeMent
in the Mind of every man Who Could commit a hei-
nous crime. Philosophers, especially ancient ones,
had Said, that every wicked man was.; to the extent
of his wickedness; insane ; but if this we're to he
'received as an answer to the offence; then. the enor..
mity of a crime would amount to a total defence, and
an exemption from punishment. He had made inquiry
into this subjeEt, as it affected the Prisoner at the
Bar, and he could. not find there was any foundation
for it ; for in order to make mental derangement a
defence against the commission of a crime, it should
appear not to he a Slight derangeMent, but an entire
absence of reason at the time of the commission of
the ad, so as to render the person who did it not
accountable as a moral agent. He believed no
proof of that kind would be laid before the Jury,
and if not, he apprehended, under the direetion of
the Learned Judge, they would be of opinion that
the Prisoner at the Bar, who had deliberately and
Maliciously taken away the life of another, was, by
the Law of England, to suffer for it by the loss of
his own.

lahn Foster swore----" I am a Pensioner in the
Hospit4l it Chelsea. We are what are called Cap.
tains, but we are oily Sergeants. I know the Pri-
soner at the Ear; I have known him many year:,
and I knew the deceased also. On the morning of
the 2ti of aftober, I went into the apartment of
the Prisoner and the deceased ; they' both used the

Common Room. They had different bed-chambers.
There arc four different bed-chambers adjoining tilt:
Common-room. As I was going clown stairs, I
heard a noise. I stopped on the landing ;. I heard a
pistol di icharged at the distance, as I concluded, of io
or is yards. I went into the room, and I saw a dead

ly snatched it from my hand unfairly ; on which
. I cocked the pistol I held in my hand, and fired
at him, and shot him. Had he: done as a Sol-
dier should have done, taken the pistol fairly from
me, and made aeproper agreement to retire to the.
other end of the room, and his proper distance, then
every thing Would have been done in a proper man-
ner, and our dispute would have been honourably
decided e but he was a tyrehmical man, and by his
turbulent temper, and from his repeated insults to
me, he made me hazard my life, in order to silence
or to moderate him."
Mr. GURNEY conduded - the Prisoner's Defence
which. was set up by the Prisoner's friends ; and- it
was as the ATTOR.NEY-GENER AL had stated, that
the Prisoner was deranged... For this purpose, a To-
bacconist of the name of Joseph Ryland, and a
Nurse of the Hospital, of the name of Ann Grant,
and her assistant, Mary Ann Berkley, were cxa_
mined, and they said they thought 'he was out of his
mind i but the instances they gave as reasons 'for
being of that opinion, amounted to nothing. • •
Mr. Justice, HEATH stated the Case to the Jury,
and observed that a clearer Case could not exist than
this,against the Prisoner, uniesii; appeared, that he
Was actually insane at the time; the ad was done,
that is, under such a dertngement of mental facul-
ties as no longer. to be considered as a moral agent;
,accountab;e, or capable 'of being accountable to God
or man for any; thing he did ; whether he was ;or,
was not so, was the only question for the COnsidera-
tion of the Jury upon the evidence,for as to the fata
and the death,, they were beyond donbte 'and they.'
were indeed avowed by the Prisoner himself. Upon
the subject of insaity, the teamed Judge said, the
proof ought to be' qUite clear before 'it, could bele-
ceived. as an excuse, otherwise the most enormous'
.crimes might be committed with impOnity—hqw_
ever, when clearly proved, it was a'complete excuse,,

R;chardStark was tried upon an iddidinent charg-
ing him with the Murder of his wife, on the iTh
of this month, 'by giving her divers blows, kicks,
and dashes against the floor, of which she died on
the following day.
This prosecution was instituted by the Parish of
St. Clement Danes, wherein the at was committed,
and the prosecution was concluded 1;y Mr. KNAPP.
Sarah Pasguilz swore.--ti I live at No. 1, the
bottom of Clement's-lane, at a common lodging
house. I have the two pair of stairs room on the
right hand side. The Prisoner and his ,wife lodged
in the three pair of stairs on the left hand side ; on
Saturday the r7th inst. I had been our at work,
and carne home about a quarter before eight .at
night ; just after I came in, the deceased came in
to me ; she was sober, for all that I know ; I do
not know what the state of her health was, but she
appeared to me to be very well. She came in and
out to me several times, and she went up stairs to
her room. I believe the Prisoner Caine home-about
twelve o'clock at night ; it was on Saturday night.
The man was very sober. At half past eleven I had
seen the deceased lying on the bed, with her'thild in
her arms. She was lying on the outside of the bed with
her cloaths on. She was asleep at that time certainly,
and her child too. When the Prisoner came home,
which was about twelve o'clock, he went up stairs,
returned presently, and. came to the \ and asked
me for a bit.of candle to light him, and I gave it
him. He went up stairs towards his own room,
and went into it. In a few minutes I heard the
child AO her cry out. .The child was at her
breast. .1 heard the child cry out, and the deceased
cry out ; but that was nothing new to me, for I had
heard them cry out very often before. I did not
hear what the Words were. I was washing ; and
continued at it for a few minutes, and heard a coati.
nued noise, which induced me to go up .stairs. She
was crying out not to beat her, and for him not to
use her Wt. I went up stairs when I heard the
noise continued. Their room door was just shut
together as usual. I ,asked them to open it, but
I cannot tell the words„ I heard but he was
swearing at her. The Prisoner opened the door di.
redly as I came to it, and then I went in and begged
of him not to beat his wife, for he was beating her
at that time, after I Went-in ;I am sure 'of that ; I
do not recoiled whether she was sitting .on the bed
then or not. He was beating her about, but I can..
not say whether with his open hand or fist. She
was not crying out then, but she begged of him not
to beat_ her, for she would talk to him in the morn-
ing. He said she had pawned his breeches, for I asked
him what she had done. I told him to look over it,
and forgive it; and not to beat her. I desired the
deceased to go down stairs with me, which she did.
she came after me. The Prisoner followed her
&redly. I got into my room, and the deceased
was just entering my room when the Prisoner
knocked her down: he struck her on the head and
the blow brought her down. , I spoke to the Pri-
soner, "For God's sake do not beat your wife in
my place, for I will not have it done." He told me
'to turn her out ; he began kicking her when she
was down ; I desired him not to do so, but he con_'
tinued it, but not a great deal. Then I took her
up by. her two shoulders, and her appearance fright-
ened me, for she trembled very much. I then
begged him. to take her up strairs. She had a great
deal of hair and it curled, and no cap on ; he took
her by her hair and dragged her out, and threw her'.
down again, dashing her head against the floor: he
did that once or twice. He kicked her' very much
on the floor. She got up some how, byt Ido not
know how, for I was then calling for assistance,
but nobody came. She got up the stairs some how
or other. I went up_ immediately after her. The
Prisoner went up stairs at the same time. I helped
her on the bed. She fell rather heavily on the bed.
I covered her over with a blanker. I begged the
Prisoner not to strike her any more : for that I
could not
,come up any more, but I should cry out
for the watch ; I came down and I heard no more
at that time. I came into' my own rcom, shut
my door, and went on with my. washing
,again.
I afterwards went to bed.- I do not know
whether it was two or three, ,for I was obliged
to get up to iron. About a quarter after six, as I
was ironing, I saw the Prisoner again, he past by
my room door he said " good morning to you,"
or something pr other of that sort, and afterwards
my little girl went up into the roorr, and came
down again, and in consequence of what I heard
from her, I went up stairs &redly, which was '
about a quarter past seven. I_ called " Stark,
Stark !" but nobody answered.. I thought then
that she was asleep. I went to Mrs. Terry, iwho
lodged on the same floor with me,immediately tin-
der the Prisoner's room; I communicated what past
to her, and went then to my work out of the house.
I never saw the deceased again until the day after.
This Witness underwent a long cross-examina-
tion by Mr."ALLY, the
,Prisoner's Counsel ; the
()hied of which was. to shew, that the deceased and
the Witness were accustomed to excessive drinking
together; but all that was denied, .and the endea.
your came to nothing.
Awry Terry corroborated all the circumstances
relatecl.by the la,st Witness, she having heard them
all from her room, which was below that of the
Prisoner, and added, that she heard the deceased
say, " Stark, beat me no more to night, for God's
sake, if I have done wrong , let it alone until to-
morrow." She heard the Prisoner go down stairs
about a quarter before seven, for she lenew the sound
of his foot. In consequence of what she, after-
wards heard, she went up stairs at ten o'clock on
the Sunday morning,, into the room of the deceased.'
She found her_ lying on her left side, and the child'
sucking her left breast. She put her band toihecheeck

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