The Sun.
London, England, 1813-07-24 00:00:00

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UNITED sTATES.

A Bristol Paper states, that the late Captain
,A IrReWC of the Chesoprak2 ~yeti a' native of t hat
city, and' that he and his brother served some time
in tie Eritish Navy. If this he true, we aresorry
that he was (in total ignonince of this filet with,.
' out doubt) interred with ,military honours at Ha-
' lifax, A brave enemy merits respect, and if he
fall in battle, let the bottoms Of the brave place,
his curse, hot the rewards of loyalty are not to be.
given to a traitor, If LAAVRENCE was an English-
man, there is lit:le. doubt that others Of the Clu'sa-
peake's crew •are• Englishmen also, and we there-
fore trust thr.t a. strict scrutiny will be instituted
among the prisoners taken in every American
vessel of war which may•fall into our hand's. As
every 'earl taken in armsugainst his country deserves
capital punrshinent, and publi'.! law adjudges
_him tolt, he 'ought tosidfcr. it. We proc ceded to
this extremity lately in the case of the men tak;:n
at Bourbon,. in tin service of France, and` intim-
nity rev 13ritish subjects in the American service'
• would be,injustice t) them. Mr. MAntsot,i has
endeavoured to tacit ect them by threatening.retalia-
titH) : but who is Mr. Alintsoll, and what is'
Anterict4 that the public law of Barone %bill(' be
Changed at their tint, and'for thew convettionce
By the chicanery of American baturalization, the
'United States have endeavoured to destroy at once
that principle of natural law which has been re-
cognized and acted upon in every other Stite, and
more especially have they laboured ,to effect this
since the commencement of the war, in the hope
of weakening the British navy by encouraging de,
sertiou, anti 'then protecting the 'deserters front
the just-vengeance of the laws of their country.—
, By the legerdemain of nottiralization, matty,,weak
• persons have' been" perskatled, that on becoming
American citizens they were no longer subjects
of Great Britain ; but it is time to dissipate this
delusion from their minds, and to teach the Attn:...
*rican legidators that their laws cannot repeal
ours. "Itis a principle of tntiversal law," says
Blackstone; " that the natural' born -subject of
one Prince cannot by any act of his' own, no, not
by swearing allegiance to another; put oft or dis-
charge his natural allegiance. to the former ; for
..this mutual allegiance Was intrinsic, and priati-

and antecedent to the other; and.cautiot be
diretted without the concurrent act of that Prince
to whom it was first due. "An Englkshman
who ventures to France, or to China, owes,
the Amite allegiance to the King of Enr,land
•there as at home,' and in twenty. years hence
e 5 well, at nottr;'! litioN.‘mtern -Ws proclaim-
ed thesanto principle of, universal law, in, France,
though- an usurper, by executing a person born
in France, butt brought np in Spain, found in
aims against hint in one of the Spanish Guerillas.
The principle is right, though it may be doubted
tr b ether APAKTE 1111,d at right to consider him-
self as the naturd prince nt aperson thus exe-
cuted ; but in the., ease of British subjects there
can 'be no dotrbt, and we trust, therefore, that
'Ministers will not shrink front their duty.' If Mr:
MAmsow dares to, retaliate by taking away the
life of one pinglish prisoner, in revenge for a
British subject, fully proven to he. such,. 'being
taken in the act of voltintarily bearing aims against
his country, America puts herself out of the pro-
tection' of the law of nations, and must be treat-
ed as al: !intim, An army and navy acting against
her, will then be absolved from all obligation to
respect the usages and laws of war. Hostilities
may be carried on against her in any Mode; until,
she is brought to at proper sense of tier conduct,
anal by rewriting to the, observance of. the laws of
stations, puts herself again within their protection.
`lbis is no time for half meastires, and ,the tines-
tion is not whether, we shall revenge the excesses
:uudden passion upon our eneny—it is,whether
ire stud) support public kw, against a systematic
attempt to :Jed away our countrymen) and to arm
them again
0

—,PASSIO OV Tits: PYfir.4t6,.4.—lt is universally
known, says an intelligent Frenchman, that there
are three roads leading front France into Spain ;
one from St. Jean de Litz, to lrain ; another front
St, Jean-de-Port to, Roncevalles; the third from
Boulogne to Jonquiere. But it is'far from being
so generally known (and is, indeed, what I was
m
yself mtt:quail-Act! with till 1795, when was.
informed, by an -ingenious geographer, who had
xamined with minuteness, and actunllydelineated
dillerent passes or defiles of the Pyrenees),
th,,t from the pass of Bagnouls, which k the
reai-est to the illediterraneati, to the valley a
Aran, near the sources of the Garonne, there are
tto less thfla 7:i Fis%.,es over the Pyrenees, 28 of
which are practicable for cavalry, and 7 for car*-
riages ard artillery. One of these last, on the
existence of shish it is inip'hssible to entertain a
thmht, is the Col des Orts, in a parallel line with
of l'erihus, on the 'other side of .Bellegarde,
as by this ir_ttite, the sptmiarkls, in 1792, entered
t,autent de and thence invaded two
French_lltH. flutes.
AcT.--7lts prinlpat enpettyients are--
ti; it silt cur.aes.t,hall lac licensed by the Bishop ;
the saiary the C9Vitte.,,of the Incumbent,
who neithyr is.ities nor does duty.' shell lit no.
wise be JeS3 1301. per auttuni ; where the pc,...
iodation .iimounts to 501) person's- the salary not
to be less than 10itt. s-Vhere 1,000 perlons not less
thpe 'WI value (in all efiSei lithe benefices pro-,
duce st) much, if not its ithnual value) ; where an
Incumbent or Curate serves morethit... one church
(and hew; not be licensed to two that are more
than five miles asimder), the Bishop may appoint
8 Fahfry le 4 I,y :301, per annum, than the salaries
before respee; ively required ; where the popula-
tion is. 501) persons, and the net value of the be-.
tiefiee exceeds,-4001. the Bishop may IMign to a
Citrate resilient within the sate, a larger stipend,
that ex.o:.euing by more "Ilt,ol 50/. per annum the
salaries I.ielore
1,-Voctive V !TIME j no person
thity serve more than two clinrrli;ls on one day,
end hit u tin. diltance of
nhd the tea"W. °lithe Wallop mei*. st,ited
in
. the lieense.-Act not to es.tend exisiingH In
eumbents.

On Friday last, Elizabeili Sharp,wire of. a In.
bolirilpg matt itt Wi!lton, wlti Drought to bed c)f
nt;d+° children it is a :..i.t7gtil;ti• ruct, tiiva ttt
pri,s,•itiat hrith the saillepci.:,,m cw,, boys.
A *,,l),;cr,l)tion has been ()petted ill helt4lf rtf tio.„
vuor

t-W It'Pli,toin;CiE.

coula KING' s BENcti, Juts 23.

WOOL-RICH V. YEAKE,

!ie.plaintiff in this case was. the landlord of a
h oust:, let to tt persori of the tiarne of Walher,
and the rent 'hying- is arrear, plaintiff authorisied
the defendant, ivlió was an auctioneer, to dist.
data ; and this action was brought Ca recover.the
antraust of the rent, the eefend slit .having sold
goods of Walker to that amount.
The deitmce e. -as,' that *a bill of sale had been
mad'e by Walker,' of the go6As,- and that they
were rciuo ed before the'authority to distrait' was
Wa,s given, and sold by Pealce, on account of the
'pers‘ni to tvhorn they vi ere sold.
tValker swore, that fearita an execution worild
be put into hiS house, he executed' whill of sale to
one creditor, apparently for the biniefit dt the cre-
ditor;, but that the stuns inserted as the debts due'
to the creditors were not correct; and that he did
not intend the bill of sale to be acted under, but
executed it merely to :prevent his goods being
twice ii antler the execution,

The- clerk to the defendant proyed; that the
goods were reuioved from the-preni6es two clay.,
Before the defend:alit had received the authority to
di,troin; that-they were sold under the direction
of the persons to whom the hill of sale had been
givvn ; and that the Simi for which they were sold
by the defendant, exf•ceded the rent in arrear.
On the part of the dclendanti an Attorney of
the name of Jessop was proceeding to state to the
tainsideration ot the bill ot sale ; but havii:g stated
that it was given in order to defeat an execution
,
of allUtiV.T creditor,
• Lord NLLENno,r,oucin held, that the bill of sale
..k
having been e.i•cated.w,ith such an intention was
vOid within the principle of 'rwine's case.—Vir,
diet fcii• the plaintiff. • •

Atqp ANoTHER V. stAxrov.

This ivas au act ton on the case 'brought by
phntitilf, witti was a timber dealer, againSt the de-
fendant, wholesale loOklug"-glasslicaler, to re-
cover a compensation in damages for a loss 6.,tlS-
tallied by plaintiff, in. consequence of .a false re-
presentation made by defendant, of th. solvency
of 1.1 person of the name of Penning.
J. 111allizycite, brother•in-law to the plaintiii,
swore; that he went with his brother-in-law to
defendant's, and lie being a ked by plaintiff, as to
the character of Penning, Who had bought some
mahogany of plaintiff, and' had reit' red plaintif
to defendant for an account of his sof vt.acy,
fondant said, that Penning hail been in great dif-
ficulties, but rt that defe.ndant 'had settled with Pen.
fling's creditors,• and, bad the documents in his
pocket ; that Penning was a new man, about to
start ,afresh'; and that he, the defendant, had
paid 1,2001. for a house, which. he had let him, in
I.3landford ; and that he would make hint the first
man there. Deft:lnfant did not mention that Pen-
ning owed him any thing.
J. Penning swore, that he was a cabinet.-maker
at Blantltor.; ; knew defendant. a lung time, and
was indebted- to him. to the amount of 500/.---
Being in want of mahogany, defendant recom-
menda him to go to plitintill, and desired hint to
refer plaint ill' -to. him. lie purchased Mahogany:
to ON vaine of 841. from plaintiff, for which he
had not paid. Ile gave defendant a warrant of
attorney to confess a judgment, but be did not
knOw, whether before or after the purchase of
the mahogany. Ile was at the time much embar,
rassed, hut through the agency of the defendant,
he ban made an agreement with all his creditors,
to giVe them bills a'. a long d:t:e fur their del,,tts.
Defendant took a bill .is well as the tither credi-
ttirs. Defendant got the bills to distribute Ahem
to the creditors,' and probably had them in his
pocket 'at the time.
fiord Et LE GIT asked Mr. Topping, whe-
ther he thought the action could be supported,r it
being proved, that what the defendant had assert-
ed was strictly true, and wondered that any per-
son should have trustetton such ejtvressiotis,
Mr. TOPPING asked, whether his having settled
,With .his creditors,' _and starting afresh, flid not
me`an that be•had discharged his debts,

Lord-Et,r.samtouou said, had the defendant
said that Peuniog was safe, all thrit he had said
would' have been fatal to him : but he thought
plaintiff ought, to have asked to see the documents.
The taking the warrant of Attorney did riot make
any difference, as the question was, whether he
believed. the statement to have been true at the
turn.: for ifa creditor makes a representation of his
debtor, believing it to be true at the time, but
afterwards has reason to 'distrust him, be might,
undOubtedly, get additional security, if possible,
—Nonsnit.

ligCnlt6Eß'S ItErotrr.—Yestertlay the Recorder
madly his Report to the PitiNcP..Ec;ENT of the
following eitintin CrflaletS under sentence of death
in Newgitte, viz.
winiani smith, for secreting and stealing- a letter contain-
ing 11,:o1:-ootes ; Iladtock, for forg,..rF; Edmund
,Puler Patrick Nash, fol. like of.
I,IICeN for housebreaking ; GeOrge Hanna*,
Ifraroo, fur stealing Fonds in a dwelling. boui,.;; Nora!'
Nliuy I look, for lihe 'offences.; Matthew Co:Lomita,
for tiorgfary ; Tle,toas Etlwarctst aln tir,;oi, for 9110.411 g in
a dwelling-Roust'; George. Kash, Isabella Phillips, and Jane
for like • .11.,,.nce5.

When William Badcock, Peter Patrick Ennis,
alias Patrick Ennis, William, Smith, and Edmund
Birkitt, were ordered for execution on Thursday
next. .

A npinher of depredations 'were committed on
the carriages attending the Argyll Rotims-f on
Thor,day night, at a ball and supper given by
Lord Alvanlcy, i 1 r. Pierrepoint, &c. The gii6tie,S
of the Marchioness of Hertford's carriage were
stolen. The Earl of Westimorland-'s cloak was
stoleo out O 1 hip carriage, and the bandit% qtiiin
off the dooN, on the tilifipositimi that they. %vete

Tire young man of the name' of fieriing, who
was detected in robbing Lord Norintinto6 at
Vauxhall Garden, and Who, as mentioned,- was
• !, ;,0
shopmau at 'ilookbant's, i'unti!-Lre,e,, , stionff.
ly suvected nf.having cote initted the late timer-
°us, robbe'ries in the, pit of the Opera-hot:Se,
.where he attended every night to tike the tickets
which wailet, at 1100 k ham's. Ile Avas:admitted
P wanees as it Inatter nl ewnsv. and
was: in t!u constinit habit of co irdsing with
Townsend the officer, without any reserve', kuidin
eive of any plan being laid for the tit:WO:ten of tht
robber, Lie would have knoWil