The Sun.
London, England, 1825-02-10 00:00:00

POST COACHES.

MANCHESTER New Light Post Coach, The Regulator,
through Dunstable, Woburn, Newport, Northampton, Hal-
borough, Leicester,' Loughborough, Derby, Ashbuurae and
Buxton, at a quarter before 3 o'clock.
HOLYHEAD New Light Post Coaches, through Binning.
ham, Wolverhampton, Shiffnal, Shrewsbury, Oswestry, Cur_
wen, and Bangor, every Morning at half past 5; and Evening
at a quarter before 5 o'clock.
GLASGOW and EDINBURGH Post Coach, The Defiance,
through Manchester, Garstang, Kendal, Carlisle, Annan and
Dumfries, at 5 ..'clock.

SOIITHAMPTON Light Coach, through Staines, Hartford
Bridge, Basingstoke and Winchester, every Nlotning at half
pact 7.
LIVERPOOL Light Post Coach, The Royal Champion,
(in 28 hours, and driven through by Four Coachmen only),
through Stoney Stratford, Coventry, Lichfield, Stone and
Condeton, every Day at 4 o'clock.

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WINDSOR and ETON Coaches daily.
MANCHESTER Royal Defiance, (in 24 hours), throat!'
Dunstable, Northampton, Harborough, Leicester, Cavendish
Bridge, Derby, Ashbourne, Leek, Macclesfield and Stock-
port, every Duty at 5.
EXETER New Light Four-inside Post Coach, The Regn-
-I.ltor, (with a Guard, and out One Night only), through Ba-
singstoke, Overturn, Andover, Salisbui y, Blandford, Dorches-
ter, Bndport, Axminster, and Honiton. every Day at 2
o'cloA. Passengers travelling by this conveyance proceeds
Kithoot delay to Plymouth and Falmoot h.
EDINBURGH and GLASGOW New Post Coach, The
Champion, through Newcastle, Lancaster, Kendal, Carlisle
and Dinufries, at 4 o'clock.

BRISTOL Regent Post Coach, through Reading, Newbury,
Martimrsmgli and Bath, every Afternoon at a quarter before
o'clock.

BIRMINGHAM Light Post Coach, The Ba loon, through
Stoney Stratford, Daventry, Coventry and Stone Bridge,
every Afternoon at half past 4.
FALMOUTH and PLYMOUTH Light Post Coaches, every
Afternoon at 2 o'clock.

WEYNtOUTH and DORCHESTER Magnet Day Coach,
in 13 hours, at 5 every Morning, and from the Gloucester
Coffee house, Piccadilly, at t.

COVENTRY Light Four-inside Post Coach, every After-
noon, at a quarter before 5.
The Prince Cobourg to MANCHESTER through Coven-
try, Atherstone, Tamworth, Lichfield, Stone, Newcastle and
Congleton, every Day at 4 o'clock.

NOTTINGHAM New Light Post Coach, (in 18 hours),
through St. Alban's, Dunstable, Woburn, Newport Pagnel,
Market Harborougl►, Leicester and Loughborough, at 3
o'clock in the Afternoon.

CARLISLE, GLASGOW, and EDINBURGH, Four-inside
Coaches, Daily at 2 and 5 o'clock.
CHESTER and PARK GATE New Coach, every After-
noon at 5, and Mornini, at 6 o'clock.
WORCESTER Coaches, through Oxford, Chipping Nor-
ton, Pershore and Broadway, every Morning at 6.
WARWICK and LEAMINGTON SPA Post Coach, every
Evening at 5 o'clock.
TAM WORTH, ATHERSTONE, and HINCKLEY Coach,
every Day at 4 o'clock.
DERBY New Light Pust Coach, The Regulator, (in 18
hours), through Northampton, Market Harborough and Lei
cer, every Day at .3.
New Light Four-inside Post Coach to DUDLEY and
STOURBRIDGE, every Afternoon at 5 o'clock.
DOVER Union Coaches, through Rochester, Chatham,
Canterbury, Margate and Ramsgate, at half pats 7 anti 11
o'clock every Morning, and half past 6 in the Evening.
PARIS New Light Diligence, by way of Dover, eve!),
Morning at 7. and half past 6 Evening.
TAUNTON, through Cross to Bridgewater, every After-
noon at half past 3 o'clock, at reduced Fares.
BIRMINGHAM Light Post Coach, The Courier, through
Oxford, Shipten, Stratford-on-Avon and Henley Arden,
every Morning at half past 5.
CHELTENHAM and GLOUCESTER Light Post Coach,
carries 4 Inside, through Oxford, every Morning at 6.
ROYSTON and BUNTINGFORD Post Coach, every After-
noon at half past 2 o'clock, to the George, Buntingford, and
Crown Inn, Royston.
New Safety (in 14
hours), drivenDatyhrTouiignhes Post
ysot Coach
Morning. necoactio Nimat?Rin the
irlyl,CaHt ,5
CAMBRIDGE, Tally Ho ! Fast Coach in S hours, at
half past 2 o'clock every Afternoon, and from the Flower-
Put, Biskupsgate-street, at a quarter before 3.
CANTERBURY Fast Coach, The Tally Hu! every After-
noon, at half past 2,
in 7 hours.
Parcels
T*,„* ,
and t
BRIGHTON Coaches, at half past 9, and half past 10
o'clock every Morning.
North and Luggage conveyed daily to all Parts of the
every City and Manufacturing Town in the
Kingdom. W. WATERHOUSE and Co. Proprietors.

1-44 The Proprietors of the above Carriages beg leave to
inform the Public, that they will nut be accountable for any
Parcel or Package whatever, nor for any Passenger's Lug-
gage above the value of 51., unless the same be entered and
paid for accordingly
at the time ut the delivery of any such
Parcel. Package,
or Passenger's Luggage, to them ur their
Agents.—Goods iqsureel at a moderate Kate.

LOTTERIES MM. FINALLY END IN A FEW
MoNnis.
In announcing the present Scheme, J. and .1. SIVE-
WRIGHT, the Contractors, have been anxious to preserve
the popular points of I heir former Schemes, which mere
in-
variablt marked with public approval: and to meet the ge_
neral wish of Adventurers. the whole amount of the Scheme,
heilt4 £200,000, will All be decided in. One Day, the 12th
APRIL.

There are FOUR PRIZES of £20.000, besides other Ca-
pitals. All Money, and Na Blanks, .as every Number will re-
ceive Zi at least.

SCHEME.

2
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4
6
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NO BLANKS!—Each of the alum.. and }
100,000
every other Number, will have Xi, being

10,000 lumbers, £200,000
Two Tie Lets of each Number.
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Tickets and Shares for the alloreTs c1;;;;,.rill to be decided
the 191 h APRIL, are now 11,11 Sale at the Contractor's Offices,
37, Cnrnhill ; 11, Hulhnrt► ; 3S, Haymarket, London ; and lit
all their Agents throuv,hoto the Country.
J. and. J. SIVEWIIIGHT ,Sold in Shares in the very Last
Lottery, 12,478, a Prize of £30,000.

ADMIRALTY SESSIONi, FEB. 9.

(Before LordSTOWEr.T.and Lord Chief BaronA If. E XAND E R.)

ALLEGED MURDER.

Robert Simpson, the Master of the " Harriet" trading ves-
sel, was placed at the bar on an indictment, charging him with
the wilful murder of Daniel Williams, a lad 13 years of age,
by flogging him with a rope, exposing him to the inclemency
of the weather, anti throwing him into-the sea during the time
the vessel lay off the Banks of Newfoundland.
There was no Counsel for the prosecution. Messrs. ALLEY
and PLATT were on the pirt of the prisoner.
Joseph Digging, the first witness, was a seaman on board the
" Harriet," the prisoner was captain, and the deceased was
cabin-boy. On the 15.1 i Nov. last, in the afternoon, while the
vessel lay offVewfoundland, the prisoner desired the deceased
to pick some oakum, and yarn was given to him for that pur-
pose. Shortly afterwards the prisoner accused the boy of hav-
ing thrown some of the yarn overboard. The deceased made
no reply to this accusation, and the prisoner beat him severely
with a boat-hook, and also with a rope from the leach of the
trysail—the blows were given on all parts of the body. In the
evening the deceased went below to take his clothes off, and
while he was stripped, a large black mark was apparent on his
left thigh. After changing his apparel, the boy went to the
deck. The prisoner called him, but he made no answer.
The deceased, at ten o'clock the same night, was standing on
a chest on the weather-quarter, with his face to windward. The
prisoner was on deck during the time, anti having ordered the
second mate to keep him standing there, he went below ; when
the prisoner was gone, the deceased attempted to get or, but he
was forced back by the second mate. The prisoner aftewards
came on deck, and inquired if Taffy, meaning the deceaSed, had
been rebelling? The second mate said that he could not keep him
up, and the prisoner seized a top-gallant stay-sail tack, and beat
the boy with it very severely; and as the latter held up his arms
to ward ofFthe blows, he fell °lithe chest. IVlien he got on the
chest, the prisoner struck him "agliin repeatedly ; he put up his
arm as before, and when he dropped it the prisoner said, " I
was determined to make him drop his arm, or break it." The
prisoner then directed the second mate to tell the chief mate to
keep the boy on the chest during the watch, from twelve to
four. The Second Mate told the prisoner, that the boy had
stolen some of the men's tobacco. The prisoner then went
below. At six o'clock in the morning the boy was standing
against the weather rail ; he trembled, and appeared so weak as
to be unable to stand. The prisoner came on deck at 8 o'clock,
and beat the boy with some of the running rigging, and then
ordered him to go forward. The deceased scrambed on deck,
and took hold of the boom brace. The man at the helm said
to the boy, " Come away, or you will go overboard," but the
boy paid no attention to what he said. The witness, seeing his
danger, with some difficulty pulled him away, and then went
below. The deceased was afterwards sitting by the ,lalleY fire;
the witness went to bed, and the boy was handed down the
scuttle; the helmsman got breakfast, and offered the boy some,
but he either would not or could not swallow; the cook after-
wards made some tea, but the boy could not drink it. In
about half an hour the boy was sent for by the prisoner, and
handed out of the forecastle ; he was unable to walk at that
time without assistance. The witness afterwards saw the boy
in the Captain's gangway; when the Captain came up he
struck him on the right side of the head with his hand, and
ordered him to go instantly to the cabin. About half-past two
o'clock the same day the witness was sent below to look at the
boy, and he found him dead. He saw no more of him till
eleven o'clock the following day, when he was directed to go
down, with others of the crew, to sew up the deceased in a
sheet. On pulling off the boy's trowsers, witness observed a
black mark on his thigh, and two others on the belly ; the body
was then sewn up in a sheet, and carried on deck ; prayers
being read, the corpse was thrown overboard ; the night the
boy was exposed on the chest was very cold and sleety.
Cross-examined by Mr. A LLEY.—Witness had been accused
on the 10th of November last of stealing rum; he did not to
his knowledge beat the boy with a rope's end on the clay he
died ;he slapped him with his open hand to make-him let go ;
he did not throw the boy clown upon the spars, and say " Go
there; I have no pity for you ;" the boy was very filthy with
vermin, he had no hammock, and none of the crew would suf-
fer him to sleep with him, or come near their clothes.
John Davies, a seaman on board the vessel during the voy-
age, corroborated the leading points of the evidence of the above
witness. He also stated that the boy had some burgoo for his
breakfast the morning of the day he died, and ate a pint of it.
About one o'clock on the same day the boy crawled on deck on
his hands and knees, anti appeared to be speechless. When
the boy was dead, the captain said, " the galley fire had suf-
focated him."

In cross-examination, the witness said that he had had no dis-
pute with the Captain ; he never challenged him to tight. The
deceased slept amongst wet timber; he was driven there by
the crew.—Nicholas Foote, another seaman, said, that on the
night of the 15th November, there was neither snow or sleet.
It was a foggy night, and not severely cold. The prisoner was
a humane man.—T. Oliver, the chief mate of the vessel,
said the boy was very indolent, and extremely filthy; he saw
the prisoner,flog him ; the punishment was not severe, or likely
to occasion his death. The prisoner always treated the boy
well; the witness Diggins was accused of stealing rum during
the voyage ; he saw Biggins beat the boy on the morning of the
day on which he expired, with a rope, and he also threw him
amongst some spars.
Mr. lieslop, a passenger on board the vessel, saw the boy on
the chest, as stated by the first witness ; but he slept part of the
time. The boy commonly slept on the deck. The Captain
did not heat him severely, nor was he kept on the chest the
whole of the night. It was not a severely cold night ; there was
no snow or sleet.

The prisoner put in a written defence, in which NI denied the
offence imputed to him.

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Several merchants, and a number of other respectable per-
sons,_ were called on behalf of the prisoner's character. Some
of them had known him for 30 years, and they gave him the
highest character for mildness and humanity.
The LORD CHIEF IlaitoN said, that had the case been left
solely upon the evidence of the two tirst witnesses, he should
have thought the situation of the prisoner was a very critical
one; but the subsequent evidence had completely contradicted
the most material parts of their testimony, and had negatived
the imputation of malice on the part of the prisoner towards the
deceased.
The Jury, without permitting the Learned Judge to sum up
returned a verdict of Guilty.
er was a good-looking man, about 50 years of age.
The
ehvseiedpsestnii:c eno
n,
then terminated.