The Sun.
London, England, 1813-07-06 00:00:00

OLD BAILEY

An Admiralty Sessions, for the trial of Offences
Committed on the high seas, within the jurisdic-
tion of the Admiralty of _England, was Mitt yes-
terday before Sir W. SCOTT, 'Judge"CHAMBItE., and
a Bench of

John friltaire, alias Riley; alias Bowers, and
flurries Connelly, were indiCted , for piracy,. ,in
roininitting open acts of hostility :on boarll, an
American privateer, they being British-burn sub-.

George Brown, the Licutenant (47 the True-
blooded Yankeejirlvateer, stated, that that vessel,
which carried 16 carriage. guns and two swivels,
was fitted out at Brest, but her owners •were Ame-
ricans belonging to the port of -Boston. She sail-
ed from Brest in March last ; the prisoner Wilt-
shire had come on-board -soine:montlis before as
a volunteer, accompanied by .two gears (Vannes,
under the name Of Riley. It was not enstourny
for the gem; d'arnies to bring men on heard, .ex-
repti-ng American stragglers The crew consisted
of 135 Frenchmen anti Americans: The privateer
hail taken Several British traders, the List of which
was the Margaret, of Hull, oil' Vtihittou-lights.
'Witness. and six of• the crew -of the privateer,
amongst whom were the prisoners, accompanied
the prize-master to take possession of the Mar-
garet. In making for the first. port in France,
the Margaret was re-captured by his Majesty's
cutter Nimrod, and carried' into Plymouth.

Other witnesses corroborated the fact of the
prisoners having acted on board the privateer, and
being taken in the Margaret. it also appeared,
that when on board the S.dvador Del Mundt)
prison ship at.Plymnuth, Wsi iNitire confessed him-
,eif an Eno simian
,; and it \v as proved by the
necessary documents that he was born at Ply-
mouth Dock.

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. .
When called upon for hi defence, he said,that
having'•been three years confimul in a Frenoli pri-
son, he loid One On hoard the privateer to make
his e.:cape from captivity. •
'rile Judge obserVed, that "escape from confine-
,
ment was no excuse for his entering on board an
eneniy's vessel ; nothing but irresistible compul:
siOn could justify such an act; otherwise all the
British prisoners now in Fiance might plc id
a similar justification for entering the service of
.anynemy.

The Jury 1)1.0'104 him in guilty, and Sir Wm.
SCOTT prono►uiced sentence of death upon him ;
but Connelly was acquitted front the want of proof
of his being a British-born subject.

At Chipper]liain fair, on-Tocsday; there was an:
unTatally larq;e show of cattle.; awl we at4e happy
in. being able to St4C, from several intelligent
ottrceA, that the reduction in, the price of 'beasts
Was solnaterial, as to give every prospect of the
meat .markets beihg..); soon restored to a reasonable
standard:—Bath Herald.

A very melancholy accident happened ktely at
the lime-kilns, near Garstang, in Lancashhe, oo-
cupii.4 by Mr. Joseph Seed. Thomas Johnson,
aged about 60, and Peter, his,sini, aged about 20,
were attending the kilns, one of which had been.
in part filled the day before with limestone and
(Anders. Abort six o'clock in the morning they
lighted' the fire, and proceeded during the day in
'up the kiln, occasionally going down a bid-
der into it, to
.level the lied of cinders andßuse-
stones. About six in the afternoon, a person
passing the kilns observed two men lying in one
of them, and supposed a ey'Were asleep. Ultimo....
tion wits i4iven to ?di'. Seed of,their situation : he
inunediately ran to the kiln-, in Company with a
,person of the Pattie of Kit-viler) ; and on their
reaching -the kiln, Kitchen went down the ladder,
fiKed a lope to One of the bodies, and called to,
'those above, to draw up the rope.. They drew
the body up, and Kitchen came np the ladder, but
tinfoltunately, when he got as high as the top of
the kiln, be suddenly full down. Seed, shocked.
and alarmed; immediately ran doWn- the ladder,
but On endeavouring to raise Kitchen, fonn<d be
was dead. lie returned, but with difficulty reach-
ed the top, nearly exhonsted:' John Raskell, with
a rope ti,M round him, then went down the lad-
do., and fastened a rope to Kitchen, who was
drawn up, and medical assistance immediately
given, but in vain.---life 'could not be restored.
Haskell was nearly swfocatedi; and if the rope had
not been round his hotly, he could not have reach-
ed the tap. The kiln in which this fatal accident
happened, wits. charged With cinders ; it was ten
feet from the top. In the earlier part of the day,
it was probable the fire had not so fur operated
as to cause any considerable discharge from the
carbonic gas ; but at the fatal time of their going
down hi the evening, the noxious vapour must
have been very_ powerful.