The Sun.
London, England, 1809-12-13 00:00:00

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,witigess, Jane, mentienl:d trttrber.—:'Sh6" .vva§- coal
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AIUE7ICAI\+ PAPERS.

11,ilt, • •!i • IW, eX
I tanr.l->ai fie was ch:irgW.on ,suspicion of lia..--
ringotolerra ~-.:-old'repeating watch,• the. property a
some persotr-br •persons unktio.wo.
Is George- :Wegtielin, .of Chan+tos-street, a pawn-
! broker, said, th4t.on Monday tuorning;the prisonet..
1.. came to his.sbop,.aud offered a gold repeating. watch •
1, to pledge fur He asked the prisoner lie knew
of ,what description the watch was The prisoner
replied-,yes; it :was- a gold one, and that a Gentleman
ha,igiven. it to him to pledge,for his, rent. He asks-cl
the. prisoner where theGentleMan lived, but lieler
fused to tell, observing, he thought it.a very imper-
tinent epiestion to ask, and desirsedtohay.e the watch
again, .whicn*.tiot being complied with, he
said
" Will you-gi'.e. me the watch or not i" Mr. W.
desired hi:it to wait a few. minutes. Mt. W. having
desired one .of his young ineo to. go for an officer,
and the. prisoner perceiving him go out, ,-et off,arld
ran away with .all possible speed. He was over-
taken:and, secured.
The prisoner in his defence said, he had been a
in,St.James'.6 parish Rei'ell sears, and had
picke.. up the watch in Duke-street, St. James's, at
the end of Ryder-stre- t, anout nine days sii;ce, at
half past three o'clock in the morning, and had since
rooked daily at the newspapers to see if ,it. was ail-
ertiseu, and not seeing it, he. took it to pledge to
pay his rent. He was cpunnitted for fiirther exa-
mination.

PARtIALITIF

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Washington, in his estiniable ,ad(lres3ed
not to-anypart:cular paity, but to his countrymen,
solemnly warned us against unduFt partialities in fa- .
your of foreign nations„ as the./ would lead,us to in-
consistent condual towards them, and prObably
*vent-our teeling ,or resenting real., imuties,: when
offered by t he. favourit e.
-.•-That one class of politicians in the I.7.ited States'
.have long entertained. an undue partiality to Fiance,
we presume.everytederalist believes. . But have we
candidly examined ourselves ? Does not that same
bias, in a less degree, petyade the whole mass of the
people ? Do w feel injuries with equal sensibility,
witliput regard to the quarter whence they proceed ?
if not,:arewe true to the adVice of Washington 5
Hare we faithtnl to the interesis, the honor, anti the
independepee of our country ) We do:not %visit to
ciiminate*otir own party, hut we'rnust- confess, we
cam:ot observe the course-of public opinion, even
among the most unpreju ,:cod, Without astonish-
ment. Think a moment of these

An Arrival zu. Solern freou GOitenburgh announces
a nuiriberOf American_ vesseli with cargoes carried .
into Norway ; a large number into C penhageo,
alt
wi.hout pretence or cause ! Stet v • vessels, says re-
port, taken in ! All this in
,compliance
with the poliCy which. France.- has di tared to t cr
allies. aut Fra.Lce pro:esscS tube the cliatt!pi.:n of
neutral rights. Not a bnz is heard on 'C.,ange—
scareely a symptom of iodignation is am wh to
be heard. ..Trie'sutnieis.may tell theirsto4, bUt
uo
cheek reddens—no curs. s escape. It proce-f-cis 'from
Bnonaritte-,-prkiltle io insult, ‘.ppre.ss, and pion-
.der Perry n, and all-the people shall sly. Ausen!
and th. re ic -I it. -, • _

UNION.;HALL.—AIeekIe. y, landlord of the Plough
aryl . Harrow publkAlbu,e, - 'rooky-street, w,;-
e :;aged-by William Friend; Night Constable of st:
()lave's, with :assadliii% i,irii in 111,- exercise of his
duty. It appeared, that on Friday morning lam;
about two o'clock, Friend WaS IniOrnl7,, '',.r.-. ;L iis a
riot; and cries of murder at the honse.of the (1;.:1-n,;-
ant.' -He aCcOrdn,4ly xx-tiit there; and : ,•-•-‘; n(te'i
mission ; which iteing reitted, .he force,, ,- 4._;::or
open, when he die ;itred a.rnan and woi.: chz! !-
ing ; a 'wager of rarer a sioLuar nature I'. ~ 1),:e it .
(I,,,4cided at the house ;:urnig, the et ering. fr, 0 risen
7,aCi ..been t.L;o.:ing .for a 'guinea; aid the exerc.-_,'
making then: !IY.r,.;y, they 'had app,ie:.l the coc:11.1.:,
teat nd rate .; too Fre,,ltienity to. thei; !yi , in cunse-
titt:.oce of -0.-.l.Cri narktiony was' bahin',,t,l, - and ,lie
de.hion . of discord u:o.trp...-..d
.Lt- tit', lc:, and • ,c:t
Friend:Li-jade his torAbl~ entry, the tidier, ti-1,-: pr;ze
dancer, and a fair lidy, one of the comp,;--z, skere
engaged in dreadful evil-mat.. The landlo!..: not 'tie-.
ing pleased- with the constahlt 's inttusl,:h, proceed-
ed to eject him; with .he pk,',..er, and W,lls assisted in.
• his rntteavours by the tiu.er A‘',' ;he darner, both
at whom, however, were Linn : ,y dhlic,f,ed to toot
it to the Watch-house, and, 1 : t,er with the hind-
lord, bound otit'r io answer 'Li; , oilbtable's complaint
at-tide Sesions._ . .

Atterv.ul.-!,:ssitig !I a torpor, on such an 008-
.5;063 and It., 6.. At inalgo tiutt that spreads.,- the
uspee.ted loin) England,'Who can
..ve• true Attseric..!us.?" Can WP reconcile this
di sensibitttl• to .that generous and un-
-.-- ye. j,. love of cou:ltry,- Ahteh k to wrong, in

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j..--Dollion to 1.3 degree,- wittiont, regard to its au-
:lio!. Let us examine ourselves, and when we ac-
co,e.tht-; democrtsa4 n blushit%ly di:Noted to FrMlee,
1 lolls inquire whetbef we are not infected; deeply
infected by the same partiAity. We do not, per-
;,:,;feel disposrd to justify her; buldo we.not
merely speculate our wrongs

MARLBOROUGIT-STREL r.--A scheming pauper,
GeorgeGeo►ge•l homas, a. wi:11-known beggar. at •the West
end of the t<: i!, was yesterday brought to this office,
charged tic, tt id:posing. on 'the public in the streets. 1
'the cliarge against the deleodant
teraran,, a lie-adle, in the parish of George's,
Hanover-square; 'who found him in Upper Berkeley- !-
stvei!t, wall a crowd of persons round, him. The I
dek,udant 4vtended that be 'had broken'a
blood- j
iesser, mid was in the art of 11/2 violent atfeCted cough.
The Beadle knew him to be a notorious Trupostor
and :otter' ha-Ning met the chTleasureof the'spec.-14tors
for ins harshness,..ht, drew Iron] the impost Or's pocket
botll9'6t blood, part of •which he had strOved.on
die ground. betore inn); to i-xche compasion. • Tte
was proved to • have c,;(nmitted similar'im-
-11 to obtain tioney,- and' he was committed to
the Sessions.

It is a very gratifying' refletclion, that- all the At-
tempts of the Jleobinsin thevountry,. to rouse the
ot the people, on the stibkt:of Mr. Er-
skine's arrangement,- have been .cinecess.
The, public at large have remain--- deteftnined
not-to ont,tun.the adminiAtrau,o in this instance..
In the case of the att?le'r. on theChesapeakB, one
sentiment of atiwl -run throUrh -the conMry„
a;,d without waiting know where che,blame
Juany.a suing of re,olutions was thrown-away
in a cause, which required something imore than
rpe;eMash in the On:: but the
dispo,ition of My. Jefferson, to pick a gurii•Jel
the whore F 4 gland," while 'he, seemed to. be ...Nil-.
ling to "° .go to bed to the whore Franca,. ' and tits
ycike the United States to tie faty:;, rod to the iy-
ranny of the latt-er. Besides, hating a tia;ureedispo-
iition, i:i he mtrit fight at all, to fight' on pap'er,-he,;-
seiiod the laci:y trhArletit to issue his favourite ,iignal
ot hostilities—a Procl,2nw ion, and I hnS di i a:i in his •
pOwer to widen the bre,'ch I,vhi•en seetrA to be
opiening;betWeen tis and, Great. Britain: It (timed
out in the end, that all -ourProckunati,:us and Reso-
lutions,. and &at:ha-wilts Of :one hurtdred thousand
militia, &c. were entirely useless.and might as well
l'haVe been spared, 11 we had Only exerCised our- own
1 common sense, instead of_ taking
.our cue entirely

from Mr.. JotferSon and Col..Dnane. We have now
WortsHrt,-.sra'RET.—Yosterday Mary Hickey and i done better, and have waited patiently for the un-
Susannah Horton underwent an examination,belug t folding the mysteries which seemed to involve us in
ei,a:geu ,s ith stealing from the person Of \Wham . perplexity.and'uncertairtLy. ; and in all probability,
Oxley, a seafaring rtian, in a house in the Neigh- i the business, 'before a great length of time, will be
bourhood ot Bridgewater-square, in the_ parish of developed to our sltistattion. What will be toe
Si. Ltike,, 01'j-street, his purse, containing fifteen I, issue of a negociation; Cannot be.foreseen. • It is
shiliingi. The charge being made out against the i well known, that Great Britain Offered to renew with
prisoners, they ,x ere tuliy committed for trial. • .l us Mr. Say's Treaty, but Mr. JeliTlrs-on had made
Two lads, and the mother, named Ifatkins, the i; that the subject of too much Topair clamour and
fernier charged with having stolen a large quantity i intrigue, to accept ihe.offt.r.- And it may be fairly
of skins of leather from A. Shoemaker's shop in the- I ascribed to this unfortunate a6l of bis, that we pane
City road, abd the mother with receiving the same, 1 for several years been experiencing; so much Ilifli-
knowing the property to be stolen, part of which l colly and distress in our foreign'relations.
Waa found in her, possesston, were fully committed j Had that Treaty been renewed, instead of years of
to Newgate for trial. , calamity wider systems of Embargo, and Non- biter-
Geolgelland was charged with cutting a parie of 1
,courSe, we-might have enjoyed a free and prosperous
glass, acid steling one piece of ribbon from the shop I trade, and the country have been enriched by the
of Mr. Cawthorn, in Chistgell-street. He was laid i convulsions of the old world. Fear and favour- of
hold of by-a Gentleman who was-passing at the time, it France have caused us this series of misfortunes, and
when .several fellows instantly surrounded liiM, and i it has become a task of no small difficulty' to extri-
rescuA -the prisoner from him, and cut his coat in I sate the country from its labyrinth of perplexities.—
different paris.• The prisoner was afterwards secured At the same time, it the present Administration will
by Bisholi and Arrnstrong,_ officers belonging to, this rid thetuselves of all the remaining leaVenbfJefferso-
office. . The ctharge being made out, he was folly ' nianism, there is little reason .to doubt that we may
committed for trial. . make a profitable arrangement with Great Britain,
----..0....r.•1D..1...=.... . and be saved from the greatest of national Curses—
. an alliance with France. .

Mrs. Carleton, an elderly lady of great respecta- f .
bility, at Marsh-gate, R4chmond, took an oppor- . - ,
tunity,• late on Friday night, to !eve her house, ,* The Marchioness of, Sligo's elegant honse, at Por-
abd throw herself into a pond, in' her garden. As ter's Lodge, in Hertfordshire, was a few days ago
soon as she • wa4 missed, search was made for her, entered by a gang of thieves; • They got in at the
'and she was found by her servant still.
_alive, and drawing-room windows, and took'out of it a sitver
'struggling iii the water. She died; however, soon ink stand and candlestick, a spencer, a cloak, and
after: , . . . several other articles. of value ; they also cut the
MURDUR.-OrtSunday night last, three men came ;window curtains, which were of muslin, -as high as
to-the house ot•Thomas Tobin, of Kilnegrana, near 'they could. They got into her Ladyship's dressing.
Cloneen, and on demanding' a horse, to which he I room, which they ransacked. On the were two
replied, that' he had not one, they' desired him to j boxes, one of theni containing bank-mites and cash
come ont that they might speak to him-; the ntifor- -to a considerable amount, and in the other, .keys be-,
tunate man, not suspecting the fate that awaited' his 'longing .to the parks and laWnS., which the thieves
corn Hance, opened the door and was.instantly talien i took away ; they went down stairs and took Several
by the band by one of.thevillains;-who, in the very 'oth'er articles, with which they made offi
aft of accosting him; struck him dead with a blow of A
.melanchOly circumstance occurred yesterday
. a hammer, by which be literally knocked out his . morning, to a Gentleman on horseback. The
brains.—Tobin's son instantly rushed' out, armed animal having taken fright near Kennington Cross,
with a shovel (the first weapon to his hand) which -set off at full' speed, and in turning into a'aiar-
he struck, as he thinks with effeet, at one or two of ' row lane adjoinina,dismoufited the Gentleman,whO,
the vii}ains, who all fled immediately on the petite- in falling, broke both his thighs, and was Other Wise
tration.Of the murder. From several circumstance's, so severely bruised, that little hopes are entertained
strong suspicion attach to two men of the neighbour- of his recovery.- .
- hood' named Meagher and Trench, and in copse; A young woman, of the name of Rebecca Havent,
(pence of. information on oath being lodged to that l a servant in Queen Ann-street, was yesterday morn-
effeel, they have been taken up and committed to ing found in her bed with her throat cut from.ear to
• gaol by the Reverend J• G. Fitzgerald,—Dublin, ' ear; a &isappoin t men t in marriage. was Supposed to
Deco g; have been the cause of suicide. .- . ' •
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