The Sun.
London, England, 1813-08-20 00:00:00

plications to the- Captain, tube permitted to p
shore to dipose of his investment : to the fit;st lie
received for reply., th-,tt by. his etintlttet
merited both, the loss of his wages-, .tied the.:for--
feiture ()ibis property.
To the second apPlieation be .received the
lowingletter
That althinio his highly rvprebensiMe einuluet salkietett
him to ‘vaat lit had already connounietAted, he had to iniovm
bias that hi., %%lib thrtiugtilife had alvc,ays been,to te;,ClNtt mot
not to ; he was therefore tit liberty to dispose, of 16s
proper! r board; but ats every thing there wo done throngh
an agen.t, there was not any OteaSion for his beiog on ,thore.
Neither will 1, on any itreteneeWitatet•eirs,allOw you to quit
the ship, until an opportnility offers of bringing you to public
justice.
The plaintiff having business on :shore at Port
Louis, which required his personal attendance be-
fore the' Cominissarv. of Police,. the. defendant
would not allow him to leave .the strip until ac-
companied by a pi7filice ptisring the, iirst
few' days after..arri‘iing at the Allow. ants, whilst
the Captain was on shore, NIT,. BrocEe came on
deck and dined in'the Cuddy with the. Other of-
ficers. IMr. Brodie contributed with them tOwitrds
the expences of this table ; on 'learning this, the
defendant wrote to Mr. Mitchell to forbid
dining there, and Mr. Mitchell acted on
.this or-
der. Mr. Brodie had an investment :onboard to,
the value of 2 or 3000/. ; and 'it appeared. by the
deposition of One of the witnesses, that he had
sustained a loss by not being permitted to super'.
intend his own affairs. It was deposed 'bytwo
witnesses, that the par:ies had•beto yn bad terms,
having, liad a disagreement in the early part of the
voyage. Mr. Mitchell, On being cross-examined
by their Lordships, said, that he considered it a
great disgrace to an officer to be compelled :to
walk on the forecastle ; during the nine..years he
had served in the honourable Company's ships
and on board other vessels, be had never hearth of
such an instance of severity. That the other
usages on hoard the Woodbridge wet e such as
are established in. the Compton 's service. It was
expected and understood, that the' officer.stn
board the Witodbridge,shindd dine with the
tuillt(lfr; but if that he had been denied thiS -
vilege in, consequence of any dispute or quarrel,
be Should still have conidnued'to do his duty pro-
perly.
Such were the facts substantiated before tbe
Court during -a long and scruptdotts examination
of the witnesse3 produced.
Mr; Fettousoq, stating the plaintiff's case,
said'it had been justly observed, that in tuany.in-
stances Counsellors were much in the habit of
flourishing on opening a cause. In, the presentin-
stance no flowers of rhetoric were required front
him ; it was necessary only to detail the facts
.which would be Substantiated in evidence ; thi;
case; was so strong, it required not any external
aid He surged, that the daniages prayed for, were
less than the ease". merited ; and had the. defendant,
been criminally indicte,d, 66.'4e:trued Counsel was
certain his punishment, by imprisonment, would
have equalled in duration the period of Mr. Bro-
dies,4 confinement. •

Mr. STRETTEt, the.AdVocate-Gelleral, on the
part of the defendant, acknowledged the general
tenor of, Iris conduct to have been unjustifiable,
indecorous, and cruel He/spoke merely in Mi-
tigation of damages, distinguishing het ween hutch
parts of the plaintiff's treatment as were wholly
imputable to his own conduct, and such as were
justly the ground of action. in the former view,
he conshlerell'the whole of the confinement (the
general severity of which he did not defend) to
have arisen from the plaintiff's Unjustifiable
fusal to continue to-110 duty it not admitted to the
Captain'sfable--,.4.:otulttct deserving of the most
exemplary punishment, as involving tjie lives and
interests of all concerned.

Their Lordship agt eed in opinion with .111 r.
Strettel, that the greater. part of the sufferings of
the plaintiff were to,be imputed to his obstinate
refusal to continue to do duty ; a proceeding in
which be had neither reason'nor precedent to urge
fur excuse.

Sir WiNt.- Byttnouons perfectly coincided with
Mr. Ferguson,' that had'the 'defendant been erimi-
madly indicted before a .lacy, his punishment must
!Hive been most exemplary and severe ; yet as
their Ltirdships sat there not to punish, huCto
adjudge, the fair quantum of damages sustained by
the plaintiff, they must be guided tit their decision
by. the real extent of the injury be had sustained
from the.defendant, carefully separatin it front
that which he had clearly, by his perverse con-
duet, drawn upon
Sir JOILN Rovus, reprehending in the most se-
vere terms. the -conduct of the defendant as, tyran-
nical, unrelenting, and cruel, iii th.e extyelite, pro-

notinectl for the plaintili.--Dainages 2,j00 rtifices,
with lull c();,N of :lit. , ,

• CURIOUS CALCULATION:-L- A meeting of. the
91°in:ester Severn'As4ociatiOn look place tit the
rolsey, in that city, on Tnesclay; when a.gentle7
man exhibited the following .citriOns and' Lite-
resting statement of the benefits likely to accrue
from the eifect'ual preservation of the salmon
fisheries ;in the Severn. lie had carefully aSeer-
tained the'numberof eggs in the, roe orasalMon
weighing 171 b: Which amounted to 11,350. Sup-
posing each egg to yield a fish of 11b. the quan-
tity of food thus produced would equal five tons ;
the 4.atiw number at,lolbs. each wnuld P;iYe ART
tons ; and 100 spav;lsers of. the .Sarne weight,.
would give no less than :%000 tons--a quantity of
human'foott equal to' the produce of 10,000 acres
of wheat, at 20 bushels iseracre, when converted-
into flour, at the rate of 561hs. per budiel.
An artist, in a late ingenious Publication, (Us.
titignibes three kinds of relievos—basso, mezzo,.
stud alto. Basso relievo, when 'the projection is
less than one half of the natural thickness of the
object represented; such as is seen in coins and.
medals, and the freezes and ornatnents usually em-f
ployed in buildings. Mezzo relict/a, when one
Of the figure emerges as it Wert:ll.6m' the snit-.
stratum, Alto relievo, when the figure is so corn-
pletely salient, that it adheres to the plans only
by a narrow strip.
Mr. Webb lately. visited: Shrewsbury, and be-
stow ed'loool. in gifts to aged, distressed, atid.uf7
ilieted individuals 4tild tsitttilics, beSlOl fleineitionS
to public charities; schools, and hospitals. At
Leoutinster, he apprenticed and clothed 30 orphans,
nt a cost of 6001. leaving also a
,sutufor charitable
rrposes.• •