The Sun.
London, England, 1807-05-14 00:00:00

EDINBURGH, MAy e.

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A most melancholy accident happened at Arbroath
on the morning-of the 3d inat.:--Some irregiilar and
dis Solute young men, who had Most -likely been
drinking great part of the night, went out'ahout four
o'CloCk on Sunday.thorning to a house nearly a mile
out of town, made some disturbance abOut the dOor,
and it is said insulted the' proprietor with.opprOb.rious
language, which put him into suCh,a parox,ism of
passiOn, that he arose, came to town, ,borroWed a
musket, and followed the aggressors to the pier-head,
when he levelled the musket at the breast of one of
the.young men, and shot him through the heart.=
A precognition was yesterday taken before the -She-
riff of the County, when the faet was fully established
against the Unhappy man, both by his own confes-
sion, and,the testimony of witnesses. He now lies
committed for further trial.

The following notice wa3 posted at LLOYD'S Cof.
fee-house yesterday :
",It having been stated to the Committee of this house,
that a prosecution has been opened aga:nst certain pei sons
both Underwriters and Brokers, for having signed, anti caused
to be made, certain insurances upir,i sliOs of paper, by which
they have incurred the penalty of Five Hundred Pounds
each :7-

" The Committee takit* the same into their considera-
tion, recominend such ContraCts should be immediAtely le.
galized, and that no slips or books be used in future."

We understand that the penalty has been paid.

The. Eliza, from Bristol, for Btienoi Ayres, Was
lall,.welLou.thd. February, iu 14t 50. 2U. S. long.

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1-IAviNO- given to our Readers ail Eitra6t
Pa.t; Iphict 'against Mr. PALI:4.;
.• .
in which the former diPaiims all intimacy with the
latter, and strongly insinuates that them was
thing in -the.manner Of Mr..P.1:1-1., v.,:iik•h, from hiz-
stind or experience; he never:Could bring hiMselftO
like; it is but- justice, to Mr. Nord.. to insert the
following Letters front Mr. ..tionNt Toottt,
shots that heis dither too apt to forget his evinimisi,
or too much disposed to diSguise them.

a DEAR 'SIR,

,
". You will give me geat pleasure by yoi3t. Cttri-
pany on Sunday.; and at all other(times,l shall ac•L
knowledge it as a favOur.' MT.CURR AN. Slr FRANCIS
BURDETT, -and the Public, have obligations to you
for your ,conduet ; but you Will never be forgotten
by any of the fions who by turns pillage the
Country. Sir FRANCIS BURVETT has an engage-
ment of long standing at Weyhill Fair, for this and
the following week; otherwise I am sure he would
have been happy to ride from Berkshire and to joist
our ',arty. on Sunday; but I trust he will, do ho on
some other opportunity, betbre IVtr. Cu ttitAN quits
England; for, I mild) long.to see you all three tor-
ther. " I am, dear_Sir,

" Your obliged humb!e Servant,
•
"Wimtleclon-, Oa. 9, 1806. "J. tiOlt NE TOORE."

" MT, DEAR SIR,

'" It is great mortification tti me to be under the--
necessity of declining your agreeable party on Friday
next— But I am precluded from .all parties, except
at my own house, from fills - time till :May next,.
when I hope again-to be able to quit my dormouse
state. In the interval, I trust to the compassion of
my friends, whose health permits them, in 'cold
weather, to travel so far as •to Wimbledon : and in.,
that, number, I mean, of friends and-healthy friends,,
hope for your long continuance.' •
• Being, very truly your most obedient servant,
" 061,16, fdOti. • " d. HORNE TOOKE:',i

" MY DEAR SIR;

" I give you joy of rt most excellent cotninence4
meet. Your Advertisetnek is excellent,rau;<
yesterday's Besolutions most excellent. I Wish .yófi
not to cast a thought about me. If I was not de.
crepid, I would canyass, through the streets for yoti.
I understand, from good authority;that-Sheridan" is
sorely alarmed,.
" Concerning the .H.ustings, you need not, and
ought not, to come:under any engagement. You are
not .bound „to pay, a, farthing for them. The firs
time thue I stood for. Westminster I deposited in the Pe.;
puty High Bailiff's hand four hundred..peundS,
viously to the day of Election, because he told me
that Mr. Fox and Lord Hoop had, done: ne: 'Ant
learned afterwards they had not done so: After. the
4'letaion he gave me a bill-of his expenditure. The
greater part .of 'his, charges were for dinnerS, &c. for
himself and. Clerks. This WaS in 1791... The 'se-,
cond time I stood.: for Westminster- was in f 70.
I than deposited in the Depuiy High Bailiff's hand
(without any necessity for it), I believe about a bun..
dyed. and fifty pounds ; and I did so,•becauie that
would be about one-thir of the eicpence of the Hus-
tings, and L had determined in my mind not to payfor the dinners, &c. of the Deputy and his Clerks.—..
When the polling had advanced about a - week, he
demanded of me two hundred and fifty more; Which
I refused.

? There is a special modern A& of Parliament,
compelling Candidates for Counties -to pay'.the
Sheriff's expences ; but it is confined to Counties',
and the Candidates foi Boroughs need not' pay a far.
thin; nor should they, in my. opinion,. and least of all
in Niestminster. .The High-Bailiff's office is a very
lucratiye one.; it is purchased openly of the Dean
and Chapter: they htive-great emoluments,' and the
holding-of the Elea lop is one of their priti ileges, and
the burden goes With the privilege, and rests upon
them. -Their merest. will not be with'you,' and I
would not pay them for. their 'malevolence. My
firstEleaion.cost me between three and four thou-
sand pounds, when I. polled about 1700 real Elec-
tors; tortwent in person after Wards to their houses,
where I found: aII; my voters, except one, to. return
them thanks, though I had not previously solicited
a single vote, nor given them a moment's notice: .I
'merely attended at the Hustings alone, and nominat-
ed myself:• „ .

-AffY second Eleetion-cost me only Gao pounds,
and yet polled double the fortner nurnber,• and ,
more real. Eleaors than 'either of my adversaries.
" Your Letter to Lord FOLKESTONE is, ill my
mind, not only justifiable, but meritorious..
I write in great haste. .

At all events keep your temper very cool, and
do not spend too much money-1 understand young
SHLRIDAN will lose. Stafford, . and if you throw:the
Manager, out of. Westminster, you will deserve to, be
canonized,•for you will.assuredly knock. up this Co-
alition-Administration.• They totter already.
I am, with every good wish for your success,-
' " Most truly your's •
October 31, 1806. r• "J. HORNE TOOKE'."

The Cyrus, PINKHAM ; Charlotte, WEST ; .and
the Perseverance, STAYERS, from London., for the
South Seas ; the Crescent, HOPPER ; and the Wil-
liam Fening,-----.; from the South Seas, for Lon-
don, were all well, off. Cape Horn,:on the 14th of
December last.

The London, Tvonzn, from London, for Que-
bec, was captured on Ihe 29th ult..by the Alert,
French Privateer.

- The 41,d, Capt. FltyrotrtrtsoN, of. Hull, from
London to Plymouth, in the dreadful gale of the
18th. February, was driven out of the Downs,and
atler losing her maSts, anchors, and cables, was
carried upon the French coast, near Dieppe, and..
taken possession of, together with about twenty..
six Sail more, by twenty armed boats. The Crews
were marched ,from Dieppe on the Ist of March,
for Arras, where they
.had arrived all well. AMong
them were a Capt. NESBITT, of Loudon ; Capt.
Laws, of Sunderland; and Capt. MURPHY, of
Greenock. They were very well treated but all
communication with this cootifry, by letter, was
forbidden. They expeacd to be ma rchui to Ver-
dun. Provisions were the, so that they lived.