The Sun.
London, England, 1801-08-29 00:00:00

Yet. We've of English Pris'ners two,

• Who rush'd w'itt4 our bounds ;
They're rtOw at Boulngne, and, 'l4,thpuzlit,
Will not survive their wounds.

Th' Engagement lasted 'till 'twas day,
And then'the nglish fleet,
Finding that we were toil senre,
Amidst gral)e-shot,rtreat.
Srn.3ll our l:.ss, as we with truth
ca.,i-11%;
But thirty wounded, seven voya,, „
Amidst this noble fray.

L Of-valour prodigies were slittrt,
• • Upon our Country'isidey:
• in which, indeed, if all-,were told, • -
• ' • • The world wotect not confide.

With his own hand a Serjeant slew
Six who did t him drive—
An Officer of the Marines
With i. 11; own hand slew Five.
Then of the Empire, of-the Main
• 'hough-13R I TON S Still may. brag,
Vv'e, wiser; on our shores maintain
The qomour of our flag.

MORAL.

Hence. Mations who for GLORY yearn,
And 14. her -C o v'.A ix G get',
From FR AN CE Voulogne Road. may' learn
, 7 That COIPA 11%19 is A'NET.

, .
The question about the propriety of
.harnassing
Dogt,-yhich has- agitated the „Philosophical world,
not likely soon decided;!! 4.t will, how-
ever, be probably ,deterrnined in
.the negative, as
there has been. among the opponents of the measure,
great'eleid.of inizrling and grow/ink. „ .
KIDNAPPING.-7--The 'following story, is related
in a Philadelphia Paper,upon:the. authority, of one.
whom the Editor considers as it-person of veracity..
The. date. of- the event early
Four villains, two.:white... and two mulattoes,
overtook a couple of young white lads, about four-
teen years. of age, on ..the road, whoip they seized,
carried into the., woods, gagged in- a most shocking
manner, shaved their heads,, and.bouudthem. with,
cords, after..w,hich the viilainswent about a mile,
further to a tavern, foil: the purpose of taking break_
fist; During their absence, the eldest boy (son of
Mi.- John Read, a. *reSpedable..fartner),. was so for-.
tUnate.as. to get hiMself loose, and proceeded ho,me,.
with his mouth shockingly lacerated with the gag.
The tleighbourhood were direly alarmed, and the
other boy recovered ; but the. villains escaped, ex.._
cept one,' who was seized and committed... This
event, so extraordinary; excited the greatest alarm
in the Counly, and. the people of thatjteighbour-
hood had turned, out with :arms, to endeavour to
overtake:l.lle fugitiVe villains."

A person, who at last said he, had lately been a
waiter at 'the Mount Coffee-house, was examined
at Union Hall on Thprsday,.On a.chorge of attempt-
ing, to pick a centleman's pocket) of which it ap-
peared he liad'heen guilry. He was dressed, in high
stile. Trunk breeches and sleeves, high collar,
and neckcloth up to his nose. He was.a complete
Boil—street.ounger in appearance, and talked mon-
strously big of his conne&ions with men cf fa-
shion ;. of the Nobility he could bring to iris cha_
rafter, &c.; but finding all his 41.4;e11. . would not
prevent the Magistrate from committing him, he
lowered his note, and, rather thin frouble his
friends, C4ll§Crited to `).2 4$ a ;0416r

AfTE YT AS SIZE 4

MAIDSTONE, juti, 28.

tEroßr. AND A SPECIAL JUki:

THE" ICING v. HOOK.

SMUGGLING.

• Mr.Serjeant SitEi,FiEl6 Stated that this was an
Inforniation against a persOn of the name of Richard
Hook, for assaulting a Revende arid rescu:.
ing goods he had seized. • The Officer-and com
panion had completed the seizure of thirteen-mks,.
arid the spitits,• when a little girl Who'had
observed them,
.ran to a.public housei--wlre there
wcie IV& SninggierS, one of whom Was the De:
fendant. lip Orr her giving- the alarm they came •
out, -,and 'insisted o.le- goods should not be carried,
One of the Officers drew a pistol, and said
they w'ould both stanch .on their defence. The
Sinurrglers-said they would have' the spiritt ; that
as there were bitt two Olcers,- they Could hill btii
two, and then the rest', would certainly- murder
them. The—Defendant offered to let the. Ofileirs
have five the caskg, hut they insisted upon the
whole. He purposed they should _arm" themselves
witlilarge stones. The QiiicerS, not being-able to
get any assistance,. were obliged to 'leave the goods
in ..possession of the'.Smugglers. This was the
case ;and though there had been no personal assault,
yet it=_was an 'offence which deserved severe punish:
meet ;:for whether the goods were rescued by force
or by threats; the
,c-onsequence to the Public was
precisely the same, _by the injury done to the
Revenue.

_Thomas Woodhouse said, that on the 2lst of
March last he' was supervisor of. the Ekcise in this
County : on the morning of that day he seized
thirteen casks. of spirits, on the premises' of. one
Richard Spitleis, ; he, tasted, and found it was
foreign Geneva. There
,was a young, woman,-who.
ran off to a public house, and as he was going with
a cart to take away the goods, he saw the Smug,
&ergs coming down, armed with sticks and stones ;
they were-five in number, .and the.. Defendant' was
one ; they used imprecations, and swore the goods
should , not. be taken away. Hook -attempted. ,to.
comproinise the matter, and offered: first three, and
.then five tubs; but finding the offer, was not accept-
ed, he sent to the public house, for the horses; 'and;
,the Smugglers were proceeding to load them... The
Witness said he would certainly shoot the first man
who attempted to load the gotids '; however, he
forbote,firing.. The Smugglers 'armed. themselves
with large, flint Stones, and. succeeded in forcibly
carrying .off the gonds.

Mr: Setjeant BEST said, he did not feel himself
cal able of resisting this evidence but there were
circumstances of mitigation which he should lay
before ihe Court when the Defendant was brought.
up for judoznt.--- The Defendant was found
Guilty. • ,