The Sun.
London, England, 1801-08-10 00:00:00

EDINBURGH, AUG. 7.

THE weather for• these few days has proved ie-
markably favourable, and Harvest' is upon the eve
of commencing in this quarter of, the Kingdom.
The crops are very' heavy, and of `uncommon 4p.
pearance.
The Militia Regirrient commanded by the Earl of
DALKEITH, is about to quit the Castle Duty, and
to march to Dalkeith. This Regiment makes a
very fine appearance. The West York , Militia
takes the Garrison Duty in their place.,
The Hotels here arc crouch:Kt with strangers on
tours to the North.

The Petersburgh Court Gazette of the 3oth of
June, contains the.following article under the head
of Bamberg :
" The Ecclesiastical Princes are, in the Constitu-
tion of the German Empire, a part full as legiti-
mate as the Secular Princes. .The one and the other
have for their support the,
.Peace of We3tphalia,
which has placed the shaken Empire upon a ba-
sis on which repose the rights *Of the Ecclesiastical
Princes. This Peace has • strong guarantees, none
of whom has yet • made known his opinion. The
wise CATHARINE. 11. always took care to support'
with a firm hand the bond Of the' Germanic Consti.
turion. Her Successor upon the Throne wishes' to
follow her system, and the Ecclesiastical Princes
may confide in his powerfULmediation. The delay
in deciding 'the bUsiness.of the Indemnities, affords
ground to believe that the peace of the Empire wilt-
be yet subjeeted to a great many. changes. Prussia
herself, notwithstanding the Friendship that unites
her to France, does not treat this important -affair -
with precipitation," &c:
As the supposed likeness between Carthage and
Great Britain has induced the.wags of Paris to fore-
see our speedy destrudion, 'in the capture of our
Hannibal, we would recommend it to. them to con-
sider, if the flight and narratire of LINdIS bears no
resemblance to ,these same'tarthaginians, of whom:,
the real. Hannibal, 'in the Woi-,N 'of Horace, has ob-
served, 1; •. y:

Q p :7114 5
Fallere et eager.e e's't tri urn. pliis•

The Frekh may perhaps; 'even in the degraded
state of. their Marine, be able to remedy the mischief
dune them by .Lord NELs'oN, but we do not con-
ceive they Will so soon recocoer the fright. bolendi ,
m3dus, timendi non item. They can estimate` the
extent of the injury they have' sustained, hut have
no means to measure the danger, which probably
awaits them.

The two persons who were advertised in an
hand-bill of the Yst instant, as being suspeded of
having robbed the Mail near. East Grinstead, in
July last, have been apprehended at Liverpool, and'
are now in pustody.

GLEANING.—On Wednesday four women were
• bound over to stand their trial at the next Ipswich
Quarter-Sessions, charged with. gleaning at unsea-
sonable hours, and before the Corn had been carried
from the field: The offence, we are given to un-
derstand, amounts to felony, and as great• depreda-
tions haVe been praised under the pretence of
gleaning, Magistrates , are determined to, inflil a
heavy punishment.
A shark, eight feet long, was last week caught
in a salmon net, at Ross-bay, North Britain.
Last Thursday morning, about nine o'clock,: a
fellow cut the shop window of Mr. Salter, jeweller,
in the Strand. He was oliserved by a tradesman's
wife opposite, who was loOking out of her bed-rpom
window, and gave the alarm, but too late, as the
villain had made off with two valuable gold watches,
and a silver one. •

On Friday morning a cxendeman, observed three
men of a suspicious appearance lurking in Bedford-
court, Covent garden, and watched them into a
Woollen-draper's shop, and immediately one of
them came Out with a whole piece of kerseymere,
upon which the Gentleman pursued, and secured
him, and one of the other two that were in the
shop was likewise secured. It appeared they had
taken the advantage of seeing only a boy in the
shop, and had contrived to send him into the back
of the shop while they stole the cloth.

PA: IS; Atia.-;

.Tkt?. ;amicable connection which subsisted be-
tween the;Frentiv-Republic and 'the United States
of Amerid.had beetiinterrupted '['he Convention
'.re;:•e,stablithing- thern •.has beer ratified by the. First
Ctitistil, and the exchange, of the 12,ttifications, of the
two CovernMents..his been made at Peiris. The
Merchants of both Nations had already resumed
their operations with confidence ; the American Flag
waved in the Ports of France, and that of tl:e Re-
public-vvas-well received in •the, Ports of the United
'States, while. the Union of the. two People, led to
the supposition that the Governments would soon
agree. It was a family quarrel, which a mere ex-
planation was wanting to put, an end to.

AUGUST

At .the accustomed audience of Ambassadors
which took place yesterday, there were among
others presented to the Chief Consul, the Baron
D'Exx E NSW AR.D,- Envoy Extraordinary and , Mi-
nister Plenipotentiary of the King. of Sweden, who
delivered his Credentials, with many, othei- Swedish
Noblemen and Gentlemen.

.M. KALITSCHEFF was at the Audience, as Mi.:
nister Plenipotentiary of His Majesty. the Emperor
of Russia, for the rtestablishment of Peace, and he
presehted M., DE BAcHiti-of r, Colonel and Aide-
de-Camp of His Imperial Majesty, who took leave
of the Chief. Consul. , .
tMUkR AY, the Plenipotentiary Minister of
the United States, presented Mr. STORY, a Citizen
of those. States'. , .? • -
We Ilearn from Brest, that the Corvette •La Che-
vrette has been cut out' of Catnaret by the English
in the middle of. the night, but that the resistance'
which those on board her made, is not the less
honourable ;- surprised, without arms, surrounded-
and attacked at the same. moMent, they defended
themselveS 'with. a valour truly French ; three times
were the/English reptilsed, and it is proved, by, the
'accounts of the wotmded, that they were every time
dreadfully mauled, although there was but an'hand-
ful of men to engage them. The small b6dy of
Marines on 'board .performed wonders. Captain
CHAISSEREAU did not yield ,until after having kill..
ed or wounded several trigliSh. The Captain at
Ai-ms was riot less distinguished s• he is now in the
Hospital much wounded, but noti.it is ' thought, dan-
gerously. The' Officer who commanded the Marines
is killed. The English have sent in 'a Flag of
Truce,: ,with the French who 'were wounded,
amounting to 40 in number. It. is melancholy to
,see the situation of them, which, is however, !a""1
sufficient proof that the English .did. not owe their
prize to the cowardice. of the French, but to the
artifice which they • employed. Taking advantage
of the darkhess of the night, they approached her
in silence, and when at only a short distance, sud-
denly rushed on and boarded her, which was not
difficult to be done, as three-fourths of the Crew
i.Vereasleep, and those on deck unarmed. The oars
of the English' Boats weremuffied. The English were
in their shirts, and had a black string on their arms to
distinguish one another, but notwithstanding these
precautions, they must have 'killed a 'great number
of their own men, as their loss is greater than ours:
The letters from Of the 'l4th Julyi give
the following details of the terrible disaster which
befell the two Spanish Ships' in the engageMent
which took place in their passage froth' Algesiras :
. ~ •
" The combined'Squadron left . A'lgesiras on the
evening Of. the 1 ztli of July, consisting of Five
Spanish Ships of the' Line, Four French lihe of bat-
tle Ships,,and three French and one Spanish Frigate.
,The Engligh, consisting of five Ships of the Line and
'a'Frigate,,hict sailed before them and taken a station
at a'great distance, in 'order not to alarm tbe com-
bined squadron ; but conflision and disolder had in
the very beginning of are' night arisen among then.
The HermenegildO fired upon the. Formidable French
Ship, and killed several, besides wounding 40.
,The French, Captain saw the' error of the,Spaniard,
•
and sheered offi'inStead of returning the fire. An
English Ship then placed 'herself between the 'Real
Carlos and the Hirmenegildo, fired, a,broad-side yn
.each side, . and
,sailed .away. ~ These two unhappy
ships could not disyerft the manccuvre of the ag.:
gressor, and taking Organother for EngliSh; began
to board, caughtfire,randlilew up ; the Real. Carlos'
first, and the Hirnienegildo twenty, minutes after-
wards.- These explosions produced terrible shoCks,
‘yhich were felt at cadiz, at d quarter past one in
the morning, •and were mistaken
...at first for an
earthquake. Of the Real Carlos but, one man was
saved—of the Herminegihio about 40.
" These beautiful three-deckers were almost new,.
and carried rii guns,' They each ofthem above
.1 zpo men on board.. We .elo not yet know what
is the fate of the St. Antoine,' but it is feared that
she has been attacked by the three English ship 3 ,
taken, and carried into Gibraltar ; but these. are
,at present but vague fears. There remains at
gesiras but .the English ship the Hannibal, on. shore,
and taken, but it was impossible, to makeit follow,
so bid Was its condition."

It is stated, under the head of Copenhagen,
July 21,, that an -English Frigate, the /Ea/us, has
been cast upon a saad bank in the Road of Einbrit_
sham, in Scenia. Every thing on board the frigate
has been carried on shore.

The efreas of the Rtcr India'CoMpany in Eng-
land and afloat, consisting of Annuities, Cash in the
Treasury, Goods sold and not paid for, Goods un-
sold, Cargoes afloat, and other articles in. their
commerce,/ amounted in the';yettr 'Soo to Sixteen
Million, One illundred..,and Eighty-five Thou:sand,
Nine Hundred and Fiftysix Pounds.
The Sales'of the Cdinpi,my't Goods, which in the
year 1793 were, estimated, On'an average, to.ahrount
to 4,988,3001. amountellast year t 01,367,7271.
The importatfon of linen, during the last week,
comprised 1,233,300 yards from Ireland, 1,654,660/
yards from Germany, and 3,183,000 from Russia.
Saturday a fine boy, ten years of age, the son of
.a tradesman in the Borough, looking alter some pi-
geons he had on the top of the hOuse, fell from the
parapet, three stories high, into the street, broke
both his arms; and fraftured his skull in so•dreadful
a manner that his life i's despaired of.

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NA3I{ i;RO.';27, ;.';DA SPEC[.‘L

13UANET 172 i tam
f,RAUDS IN THE C.:()At, TRADE.

. , .
This was a yiiitahz, . againSi Bucklaod,
a Coal Merchant; to recover a penalti:, of eto6l. fer
selling Coals as Pool measure.; wh:cli were not of
that description.
Mr. oAaltow, in opening this cause; said; he
'felt himself entitled. to that, Which he v. as sure of ob-
taining, the-attention of his Laird Ship and the jury,
while he disclosed thettreurnstances of a case so im-
portant to the Public in `every point of ie~tq ,fit
the last Assize, he had got the whole -length .of
proving this case ; he had 'subjeded his WitnesSes
to the whole artillery of his Learned Friend's cross.,
examination, and, was ors the point of recovering a
verdin, when it was discovered that the ;plea of
the' Defendant had; by nie re accident, been omitted.
to have been entered on-the Rectird. The Plainti!f.
was, therefore, under the necessity of coining down
to the Assizes again ; but no length' of time could
be deenied too long, no expenctor trouble too much;
in bringing forward a, case in.
,which the Public
were interested, and where the object was to pro-
tett that Public against the most scandalous 'fraud
and imposition. When he first opened this Cause he,
did it with some degree of reserve, because he could
hardly persuade hiniself there -must not haVe been
some mistake in the -instruetions lie,had received ;
but he new should open it without the least degree
of reserve, far it had been proved, and would again
be'confrrineci, to contain a 'charge of one of the most
gross, infainOus,and 'impudent frauds ever prac-
tised. He pronounced it so,' not loosely adopting
his own lanVage, but that of Mr. Justice LIP,Ani,
'who presided'at the last Assizes ; and, to use another•
phrase of the sane Learned' Judge, kt was a stiilki.4
fraud, double hatched.: ,We ,lived in times of the
most scandalous imposture—We lived in tittles when
one-half of mankind appeared -to exist for no other
purpose but to he -the dillies of the other half. We
daily saw, in the Public Papers Advertisements from
men who disititerestedly eared ito advance e'o, too,
or ioool. to any body who would merely be at- the.
trouble of asking for it"; and Ole ' result of attend.,
ing to such invitations generally was, that the.cre-
dulous party found himself defrauded Of that security
which 'he was induced to give in expenation of. a
Supply he never received. In like manner, we saw
persons concerned in the Coal Trade advertising to
sell, their customers thirteen sacks to the chaldron,
Pocil measure, or, in other 'words, the 'fUll measure
the merehant received from the Newcastle trader.—
He advised mankind to be cautious how they dealt ,
with those Wholvolessed-to sell 'more for the same
money than their neighbours, for it always turned* •
out that the buyer received less;,-=The lair trader
had his rent and taxes to pay, and his family to
,keep ; and he could not do this but by the 'reason,
able Profits attached to his- trade : those,profits, how,
ever, must prove inadequate ; in thn, he 'could 'not,
carry on his trade at all, if his next door neighbour
was enabled, by false preteoces, to undersell him.—
The way the coal merchants, who meant to de-
fraud, the Public; went to work was this: There -
was a wholesome Aaof Parliament upon the subject,
for it was the business of the Legislattlie'to de ten and
prevent frauds, which provided, that there should ,
be a penalty on every person who professed to sell
coals as Pool. Measore and did not do. so. When
a cargo was'unloadedfrom the ship into a lighter, it
was diVided into rooms or chambers, 'each contain-
ing five Clizildron, with what was Called the ingraio. •
These were filled not b.), the bushel but by the vat,
into which-the coals were put by-tile persons in 'the
shill, andohrown over the side into the rooms, of
the lighter.' Therefore, if a nersop tontradcd to
buy five chaldron, he was entitled to receive the
five chaldron contained, in such room, with the in-
grain, a4d the measure by the bushel had nothing to
do with it; The charge against the Defendant was,
that he sold, to a person,of the name Of Chadender,
a five • Of Coals, that is, a room of five, chaldron,
with the iOgrain, and did nor deliver that quantity.
mueb would the Jury think the deficiency
in five chaldron was in the quantity. delivered. by
the Difendant, , who professed to sell more than the
'full measure ? Perhaps they would imagine there
was such a' deficiency as .Might be imputed to the
negligence of. the carman in loading them. Even
that, he should contend, , would be ho apology, 'be,
cause the merchant who sold by retail was answer-
able for the negligence or pillage of his carman ;
but the deficiency in this cake would place out of
the question all idea'of plunder upon the part of the
carman. 'V.That would they think, when he informed
them, that,•oat.of five chaldron the quantity. out of •
which theDelendant had robbed his customer was no •
less than eleven sacks, and al half, or 34. bushels !
The Defendant,had already heard this,provedd He
had rode'Off in triumph, only because, by' die :amis,
sion of a clerk, the plea was not entered on the re-
'cord : 'and he had now come dOWn again to adver-
tise himself to the country as-a cheap coal-merchant.
He was persuaded there-could be no defence. He
knew his witnesses would be attacked, and thatit
would be said this was the anion of the Coal-me.
ters. Ije had no hesitation in avowing it was the
anion of the Coal-meters, and their endeavoursy
by such a prosecution, to proted the Public from
imposition and fraud, were highly laudable and me- •
ritotious.

Mr.
M alailender said, he-had occasion to purchase
Coals in September last"; he, was recommended to

. •
Mr. Buckland. He contraeted for a of Coals
of Pool MeaSure expressly. The Coals were:Adj.._
veered in two waggons ; they• Were afterwardS mea.
sured, and the deficiency stated discovered.,
Mr: BiggS, Peputy Coat Meter; undey the Plain.
tiff's Father,: the principal Meter for the .County of
Surrey, said, he was attending the nvasuring of
some Coals in Dover.street, .11ackfriais toad, with
the Plaintiff in this'adtion ; while they were doing
so, Mr. Burner, the,son of the principal Meter
served, that waggQii of Coils had gone past., which
equally required 'measuring. A Nccond waggon ,
passed, Which he, the Witness, folln;vLed,to Chanel).
der's yard. Both Avug' ons had been. unloaded, and
, put' into bulk: he measured them" by the law tul
bushel i&ttie usual way ; he carefully attendeti to the
2flinpaitrit3pau-nr i-budipt h. h.‘,1..1

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hive been 14 blisliels, or 63 sticks. Ile found only
taut chaldron and three sacks, which was a deft.
ciency of eleven sacks and two bushels, •or thirty-
four. bushels.Und a half. He did not expect to have
any share of the'penalty.
• ,On his cress-examination, he said it was in the
course.of the evening when herneasuredthe, coals,
,and he was assisted by John Foakes, Thomas Brown,
and Bishop Burnet. The Merchant was bound,
if he sold: by Fool measure, to deliver as he received
thein: When coals were soht by land measure they
were measured by the bushel ; when•by Pool tnea-
sure, ti 'mode WaS, this there were a certain Mini-
ber orpt-rsons on board the shil,3 who. by _i tackle
hauled up a certain quantity of Coals in. baslans,
containing each nine bushels; which were pitt-into a
eat, and shot into a Lighter along-side the'Vessel,
torit.nning rooms of fire and 'ten'chahlrOn. Who-
ever -purchased a five was • entitled to the whole
that was "put into the chamber, which was five
chaldron, with the ingrain, amounting to three
sacks. Notice • was ',sent to the Defendant to be
prese it at the measuring. .1-1:e admiteed the De.
fendant sent nine sacki the.next.;moyling.:
Dunn .said,, he was employed by the De-
fendant to load the coals; they were taken out of
two rooms. 'I hey' loaded front. Mr. Peacock's
wharf. •

Several other witnesses, Who attended the :ad-
Measurement
.and kept. the tally, were examined.
.They corroborated the falls above stated.
. Mr. Serjeant SHEPItERIS, foiLthe Defendant, -ob-
served, that his Learned Friend was mistaken in
,
saying he-was on the point of having a verdid-at
the former:Assizes had it not been for the omission
in recording the plea. The fad was, the ease had
proceeded no farther than the examination-of the
PlaititifPs'.witnesses, consequently it was only half
heard, and no Jury cotild have been ,readtr to have
given their yerdid till- they had =heard the wholt%
This Mika was founded upon a very wise At of
Parliament, whickhe was ready to admit ought to
he put in force for the protettiOn 4 individuals";:
-but he trusted, 'that upon the "present occasion the
Ju-ry would ,divest thermelves, of that prejudice...by'
which it was natural for all men to be aduated
agakst a person whom they were told had been
guilty of a fraud in the sale of that: which was
one of the 'necessaries
.of but, God knows, a._
Coal Merchant Would have hard measure 'indeed dealt'
-cut to: him, if those who tried his cause suffered
themselves to be influenced by prejudice. The prin-
cipal Witne,ls in this-case was-Mr. Biggs; and when
his Learned Friend asked him whether` he was to
have a -share of the penalty„ the answer was pre-
cisely what might haVebeen ex,peaed from him ; yef
he could not but-strongly susped he %V.:15 to have a
share;because Otherwise it was hardly possible that
a Man should have come into a Court of Justice with
such an irritation.of nerves
,as he had manifested in
giving his evidence. He mt:de this obK•ri•ation fOr
the purpose of inferring, that the Witness's agitation
arise from the 'apprehension of his portion of the

penalty, shyping out of his pocket. Tlie question for
the Jury would be -this ;.----Whether MT.l3uCkland
ordered his servants to send-the coals/ below_ mea-
- sure, and whether, When he had sent the two wag-
,: gon loads, it was not his intention to have-after-
wards sent the remainder ? The fad was; his inten-
tion Was to have done so, and he-should prove, that
could the Defendant have obtained a cart he would
have sent them that night. The coals ought not to
have been measured till thetransaftion. was finished,
and the ultimate delivery had taken place, He
should prove thot the Defendant had given orders at
Peacock's wharf for the full meas4re to be delivred,
and unless the Jury could believe-he had sent in the
two waggons all the cdalS he meant to send, he was
entitled to their verdielip" his favour.
James Newbury said,, he worked at Peacock'S
Wharf, and 'remembered_ the Defendant ordering-a
five of coals. to be sent to. Challender. • Thty Were
landed and' Sent. -in two waggons, ,and the next
morning nine sacks morn were sent,
‘Which would
have been dOne the preceding evening if A cart,
could have been -procured. fly the answer of the
Witness to a question put by Mr. Garrow, in cross
examination, it' appeared the Defendant. was not
a regular Coal-merchant, but a sort or middle-man,
or, as he was termed,' a jackall to the real dealer.,
Two or three other Wit.nesses were called, who
repeated the story of the Defenaant's intending. to
have sent-the- remainder of
_the Coals if he could
haVe got a cart. Up On their .cross-ex:imination, it
_turned oaf that the Coals were measured from dif-
ferent roomT;, though the purchaser was entitled to
have had them from the identical one into which
they were •shot from the
.ship's side.

.I\4r. justice GiosE said, if the .Jury
.entertained
the least doubt upon_ the ease,. he would allow the
Plaintiff's Counsel to reply.

The Jury were of opinion there Was' np necessity
rnr it., and immediately' recurred a vodla for the
,

, The;next Cause we: shall report-will he the King.
againstßarr, the Whartioger, for -IYlisprision or
Felony.

On, Wednesday, the sth instant, the Coroner's
Inquest sat on the body of,Edwaril B-ibbs, who was
killed in'd Battle, on Monday evening, the 3d inst.
in a field rear Newtown, in -the -parish of Bas-
church. The direurnstances relating to this melan,..
,choly event deserve' to be well recommended to

. the seri:ins attention of the "Public. The 'Battle
consisted of twenty-six; rounds ; towards the latter
• part
.of it, the daughter of the deceased, about 1 2
years of age, the youngest .of four children, brOke
through-the crowd, which was numerous, find had
• prevailed on. her' failier to go horne'witra her; on_
iiittunately her filial . duty was not properly second-
cd : .she was separated from her father for the last
time, and he' was encourascd fatally to go on'; and
in a few'mindtes te'ceived the blow which put an
end to his existence : much unavailing sorrow was
then'shewn by the srettators': and • partkularly'hy
his antagonist, who was petiv-ips the least. blame;
able tm the present occasion, .1.; he had received the
provocation, pflci also the first blow.
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