The Sun.
London, England, 1813-07-16 00:00:00

LORD CRAIG.

We last Monday announced the death of Lord
Craig, long a diitinguished Judge' in the Courts
of Session and Justiciary. His Lordship \VHS the
son of the.late Dr. Craig, one of the Ministers of
Glasgoktr, an eminent divine of his day, and the
anthoi -of some volumes of excellent Sermons,
and of an Essay on the life and character of our
Savionr. Lord Craig was born in the year 1745,
and called to the bar in 1762. At the beginning
of Mr. Pitt's administration in 1784, lie was named
one of his Majesty's A.dvocates-depute, along
with the late celebrated characters President Blair
and Lord Abercromby, at the time Sir Ilay Camp-
bell wlts appointed Lord Advocate, And the pre-
sent Chief Baron Mantas Solicitor-General, and
be continued iii this.office till 1757, when he was
nominated the Sheriff of Ayr. In 1792 he was
promoted' to the Bench of. the Court of Session, on
d(qkt•li of Lord Haines, and succeeded, in 1795,
t Lord Henderland, as a Judge of the Justiciary
c,ourt. '!Tits last situation Lord Craig lately re-
shoed, from bad health, but retained his seat in
the Ci% ii Court till his death. _

When at the bar, Mr. Craig was: considered as
,11.1 e a:11 sensible ('our el, thOugh..his practice
• never very extetmive. He Was rather re-
, mArked as a mtM of literary pursuit, and partien-
larly,attached to the belles leaves. 'lle wrote. a
Variety o 1 to pets in the illirror and Lounger,
• .0)(.A..- the eleg:trtce of his tast(4, ; and, We
believe, Ilk ptip!rs itr thoSe well-known works'
are wore, `nu! ouvons than any of the authors en,
mged in thein,except thosai rain the celebrated pen
of his littimate friend Mr. M'Keinie. It was princi-
pally in his department of a Judge that Laid
C:aig distinguished hitnielf as a public Character.
To a mind highly upright
,and honottrAle—
excedent business t.Alents, and knowledge of his.
profess,,on, he
,jollied dm most persevering exer-
tion ; and, lye believe, there w refete who (Hs.
patched more busincis, or with greater precision,
than Lord Craiv Ills judgments., tanned after
t'iri,:ful and anxious consideration, were generally
erspicuons, sensible, and decided. -
In priVAte life Lord • Craig retriarked
foi
lit,loy of the, most amiable qualities of mind ;-
4,:e goatle, affable, and unassuming, and, 111
ate einipeut degree, hospitable and benevolent.—
Iti lioe.,t4twd the warns esteem of a select circle
of ft cc iiel to wifotn. he was extreinely attitched ;
b• the public was highly:
nand respect t.‘tl '-
✓ered, His Lordship has,been t-‘47elity..oraley.tia rtrs
upon the Bench.
kVe under,;tand that, Lord
I,laY, at pre {tilt
Que of the .ludges in the ‘Jutey-louse
, • hy.
the new regulations!,: llceecu his Lordship as one
Of. the Judges at the firSt division of the tourt
of be,:sion in, the Inner House,

liAttßAb6tS PAPERS.

The following Address was carried 7zem. can.
in the Qeneral Assembly of l3arbadoes, March 23 :
TO HIS EXCELLE,NaY GEORGE BECK\VITH,
SLC:te. $Le.
g May it please y4tkr'Excellency,

" The war with America, with a reference to
which your Excellency has bee►► graciously pleas-
ed to preface the speech you made us at the com-
mencement of this session, did' not unexpectedly
meet us. After a sanguinary conflict, the first
that the world, in modern times has seen, be-
twee►► the Parent State and its Colonies, Ame-
rica 'succee►led in effecting her• independence.—
But the ancient ties of blood, ,of similarity of
manners, of religion, could not be elfaod—and
the Mutual wants and confidence which existed
between both 'the contending nations, again
united them at the very first dawn of peace. The
great' Father of his Country Still mo►fie closely ce-•
mented their union. The Counsels of Washing-
ton, however, have long since been forgotten—
and- America, who boasts of a frecdoM as great
as the mother country from whom she sprung,
may now be numbered with those states of Eu-
rope whose upstiiit kings are vassals at the (Cet
of the Usurper of France. In the prosecution of
doubtful rights, she has chosen to throw away the
scabbard, and to bring on herself the cotain•mi-
series of war: We have such reliance in the vi •
gour of British Councils, that we trust it will not
be long before 'she will be made to repent the
evils .alteltdant on' her choice.

From the privations which we have experienced
lin consequence of:the rwar so unjustly waged
against Laigland, we bless Heaven that we are
rectivering, and we think that they he '
tended with this benefit to the Islandt of this.
Archipelago, that they will teach us to rely more
on onr own productions and those of the Skter
Colonies, and enable us to throw off ~the yoke of
the monopoly too long exercised river us by a to-
reign Power. With regard• to the evils .of another
kind, that in the course of the last disastrous year
concurred to blast.the hopes, of all orders in the
Island, and to create disease and death among our
negroes ; consoling ourselves with the pions sen-
timents inculcated by your Excellency, we submit
with resignation to the will IleAven. .
"For the continuance of the impost on neutral
importations beyond the period allowed by our
useful .Colonial Act, We.thank your Excellency.--
The strength of prerogative was given for the be:
nefit of the people ; and, as long as it is thus
used, and its final ratification rests on a vote of
parliamentary indemnity, it mast ever prove a great
public blessing. The 'Act of Indemnity which
your Excellency requires shall be immediately pre-
pared.---.We felicitate Europe and the civilised -
world, on the events of the late, campaign—so
glorious for Russia and so disastrous to the great-
est tyrant of modern times. Of importance these
events have certainly been to the best 'interests of
humanity, and of those social ties which, arising
from the mutual wants of 'men, have long since
united the different natiOns of the world as One
CoMmerce will again be tree ; and the
facility of a free ebmmunication of opinnms which
it tends to create, may again cause the freedom of
Europe. The events of the campaign in Spain
have given an additional testimony of what these
Islands had before experienced—they have roved
to us how much British valour can effect when
tinder the guidance and direction of great talentS
and great virtues."

DREADFUL EXPLOSION.

Cnartmerow, Aram 2.-N-Between the hours of
ten add eleven, yesterday, a most awful explosion
took place in this harbonr on board the Revenue
cutter Gallatin, commanded by Captain John
H. Stillman, which had arrived the day before
from a short eruize on the coast, and anchored
off the town. Captain SiMalan was on shore
at the time ; he gave orders, on leaving the
vessel, that muskets and pistols, which were
suspended in the cabin, should he examineit
and cleaned. There were about 35 persons in all
on hoard ; of this number about 10 were on the
quarter-deck and in the cabin, part of them em-
ployed in cleaning the arms. Thus situated, the
dreadful explosion took place ; and in one instant
the whole quarter-deck of the vessel, with all those
upon it, were hurled into the air. Some of the bodies
were thrown nearly as high as the mast head of the
vessel ; others were driven through the cabin and
lodged upon the main deck. The whole stern of the
vessel was torn down to a level with the water ;
the mainsail, which had been hoisted to dry, was
torn to.rags, and the fragments of broken spurs
were scattered in all directions.' As soon as the
accident had happened boats put off from the wharfs
and from the vessel lying near her to the relief of
the crew. An attempt avas immediately made 'to
slip the cables and run her into one of the docfcs,
to preventler from sinking,.but before this could
be-fully accomplished, the fire in the cabin commu-
nicated to the mainsail and main rigging ; at the same
time the vessel was found to he filling very fast--
in this extremity the wounded men were hastened.
into the boats,alongside, and by the time the per-
sons on hoard could leave bert she went down
stern foremost, a few yards from the bead of
Blacke's Wharf. The bodies of three of the un-
fortunate sufferers were never seen, and happier
would it have been for sonic of those who were
brought on shore if they had shared the snne fate ;
as they cannot, in. all human probability, survive
the dreadful wounds and bruises which they have
received.

Yesterday sennight a cart, in which were a
person of the name of Spooner and his wife, 'ac-
companied by his brother-in-law and his, wife,
gtopping at the door of a public house at Acle,
Spooner proceeded immediately to take off the
bridle previous to auy person alighting, when
the animal, darting forward in a furious manner,
began kicking violently, and turned, the cart
against the bank, by _which three persons were
severely bruised, and Mrs. Spooner killed on the
spot. What rendered the accident, if possible,
still wore distressing was, thal4 4 few minutes •filier
Mrs. Spooner was killed, her son, who had been
absent at sea thirteen years, returned, and coming
to meet his mother, found her a corpse.

LA* INTELtiGWNeCt,

tOURI; OF KING'S BENCH} Jinx Ibc

Tiff; i4ittoi:ESS SALTOUN V. IiA.RRY

Mr. PARK stated, that this Was an action,for
Money had and receiv,ed, to recover back the sum
Of 23001. wbielrivid been , paid to the defendant,
an auctioneer, in Bond7strcet, by the plaintitf;43
lhe purchase Of Lord Kiunaird's house, being 20
per tent on the purchase-money. The terms of
the sale Wore; that the house was only subject to a
;round-'
rent. of 221. a year ; but. an inquiry it was
found that the house; together with others be-
longing. to Lord Grosvenor, waA liable to a charge
of 10004 per annum, .which, in Case of default,
might be levied on any one house.
Lord ILLENBORQUGH asked what was the de-
fence

The ATTO.RNEY-GENEIIAL said, there was not
any more than 221. per annum ground-rent, and
th t the seller did not undertake to suety the ale.
glit' landlord's title.

Lord ELLENBOROUGH said, the affirmative was
directly pregnant of the negative that it W 99 not
subject to any other incumbrance ; and if there
Was not a notification of all incumbrances, it was
a void contract.

• The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said, he could prove
that the plaintiff had taken possession of the house
as the. owner ; but he could not prove that she was
aware of the incumbrances at the time she took
possession. As late as the tinkeof the illumina-
tion she-kept possession by putting on the house
a placard, stating that it was empty.
Lord .ELLENBOROUGII.—If she had taken pos-
session With a knowledge of the ineumbrance, I
should have lett it to the .1 uty to Consider' whe-
ther she had not taken possession,. intending to
wave all objections.—Verdict for the plaintiff.