The Sun.
London, England, 1809-09-29 00:00:00

THURSDAY, SEPT. 28.

James Retret, an old man, nearly sixty years of
age, was inditted for a misdemeanor, in having, in
the month of Ataioist,lass, contrary loan Alt passed
in the reign of George 11. seduced an artificer of this
country to leave the kingdoM.
From the testimony •ot the witnesses examined, it
appeared that the Prisoner, although recently from.
America, is an Englishman, and had lately fre-
quented a public-house called the York Minster,
immediately in the vicinity of the cotton-manufac-
tory of Messrs. Hughes and Lewis, Bunlull row ;
to which , the men employed in the service of
Messrs. Hugh ' and Lewis usually resorted ; and
amongst others a man named Hutchinson, who had
been formerly apprenticed from the parish of St.
Martin's, to a cotton manufaaon , near Manches—
ter, where be remained till he arrived at the age of
twenty-one. He then came to London, +tias
employed in the service of Messrs. Hughes and Co.
in the wool-dying business, and was in fad return-
ed a fair workman. This man the Prisoner fre-
quently met, and by glowing representations of the
advantages and g.eat wages he was likely to obtain,
by going. to America, induced him to agree to emi-
grate, for the purpose Of being employed in a cotton
manufactory at a piaee called Cooper', Town, within
two miles of New-York, and a seori distance from the
residence of the Prisoner. Messrs. Hughes and Le„ is
having heard of this negociation sent for the prisoners,
and remonstrated with him on the illegality of the steps
he was pursuing,- forewarning hiin at the same time,
that it he persisted in his delinquency, they would
punish turn with the rigour of the law. The prisoner
then declared his ignorance of any criminality, at-
taching- to his conduct, and promised most faithfully
that he would relinquish his inventions In a few
daysehowever, Mr. • Hughes discovered that Hutch-
inson. was making preparations tor' his departure,
and that his passage bad actually been taken op board
an American ship. The prisoner was t hen appre-
hended, and out -being brought before aMagistiate,
produced a receipt for 121 dollars, paid by him to
the Mate of an eVnerican ship for Hutchinson's
passage, and also a promissory note of Hutchinson
for that sum,- and for other monies which had been
advanced to him • by the prisoner, to be paid out of
the Produce of his labours iii America. The prisoner's
defence then was, that Hutchinson came a second
time to him, and said he had had his [pastel's per-
mission to leave the country, and that troin his suli-
citations, he was induced to pay his passage out.
• Tie.: CostmoN SERJEANT, who tried the case, in
summing tie evidence, dwelt with peculiar force on
the mischievous tendency of the crime with which
the prisoner stood charged, which, he said, was most
materially connected with the manufacturing inte-
rests of the country ; and wat deservedly punished by
hi wen a most examplary manner; the Legislature
having deoreed, that persons, conviaed of such an
offence, should be subject to twelve months
prisonnient, and to a penalty of eooi.
• The July, without_ a Juoineut's hesitation, re-
turned a verdi(t of Guilty. •
Hutchinson, the artificer seduced, was then tried
under an Aet, passed in the 01 George the First,
which enacts, Ti.. 4 any artificer, particularly in the
mauwactures of cotton, silk, mohair, 6c. who
s;iotild be convicted of, or detected in, preparing to
leave the kingdom, for the purilose of devoting iris
keowledge for the benefit and edtantage of foreign
countries, nut within the British dominions, should
be bound to enter into recegnizances himself, and-1
two sureties, fur remaining in the country.

The evidence in the former case was again gone
through, and the Prisoner was toned Guilty.

Sarah Plom,er was convi&ed of stealing sundry
arrcles,ot wearing apparel, the property of Mary
Shepher,l, in whose house she was a lodger.

Sarah Martin, a decrepid old woman, 65 years of
age, was likewise convicted of stealing 29 yards of
printed callico, from the shop of a linen-draper in
Tottenham-court-road.

The trials having been concluded, the RECORDER •
psssed the awful sentence of death upon the follow-.
ing conviels :
Robert. Wilson and Thomas- Simpson, for house-
breaking--John Devine, for horse-stealing—John
Sexton fur feloniously stealing in a dwelling-house
—Wm. Sheppard," for forgery—John Brian!, for
cutting and maiming—Richard Oakklen, for an unna-
tural crime—Susannah Beeson, for house-breaking—
Mary Tyler, aged thirteen, for horse-stealing—Anne
Campbell, • for stealing. in a dwelling.house—Anne
Kennington and Matilda Dyer, for high-way rob-
bery—Robert Arnott, for house-breaking in the day
tune—Thomas Mayne, for horse-stealing--Thomas
Rhodes, a servant at the Post Office, for secreting a
letter and embezzling Bank notesßobert Jeffersojr,
for stemling in a dwelling-house—Cornelius Sullivan
at4:Dennis Fitzgerald, tbr a rape—and Jane Browne
and Mary Smith, for stealing privately in a shop.

The Court, at ten o'clock, adjourned till tO-rnor-
row, when sentence will pe patibied upon the convicts
for minor offences.

THE FINE ARTS.—Air. DENON, • the well-known
writer of Tr udels through Egyyt, has lately been en-
trusted by BUONAPARTE µittl a considerable sum of
money, to be equally divided among the authors of
twelve. paintings of large dimensions, on the follow-
ing given subJeas Buonaparte, addressing
the Bavarians before the battle of Abensberg ;
The attack of the Bridge at Ratisbon ; 3d, The cep-
ture of Ratisbon ; 4th, The attack of the bridge at.
Landshut ; sth,The bombardment of Vienna; Gth,
The attack of the bridge at Ebersberg ; 7th, Battle
of Wagram; Bth,The French Eniperor's bivouac 9n
the field of Wagram, during the night of the sth
and 6th July ; 9th, A view of the Island Napoleon
tinder Lobau), at the time when his Imperial Ma-
jesty ~e-eniered it after the battle of &sling ; Loth,
A second view of the same island, when Napoleon
embraces Marshal Urines, mortally wounded in
that battle; 11th, A view of Ebersdorf, and the
bridges over the Danube ;
,12th, A view of the gar-
dens of the palace of Schoenbrunn. -A small num-
ber of marble busts, and among others, one of Mar-
shal Lannes, will also be executed by skilful French
sculptors.

-PICTUii-E OF -0141IERICA.. ,

• (at AN INTELLIGENT CORRESPONDENT);
•
PITTSBURGH, •.VULY 1800.—Sevehil agents
front Spain, Holland,,,and England, have arrived
here, charged to purchase property for eersona in-
tending to emigrate to the United States. That
those whoM the_ yoke of Bilonaparte degrades in jap-
pressiag, should bid -adleiftb- the land' of their fore-
fathers is less surerising than that such a rash deter-
mination shoUld be resolver on by the free and
happy subje&s of a virtuous Brit' sh Monarch. Were,
however, the true and real.sitUatiott of the country.
they adopt welt known, and properly_appreciated by'
Europeans, I doubt much, whether even 'SPa;.iards
and Dutchmen would not prefer temporary suffer-
ing (too violent to be durable) -to all the certain evils
awaiting them -in a republic torn by fac'dons where
the laws neither punish guilt, nor protect innocence;
where no morality is found among the better classes,
and but little religion among the people ; and where
disbelievers in Christianity, and anarchists ill ph-
litics, seem to emulate who shall be foremost to
hasten neW revolutionS, and the dissolution of a so-
ciety held together (as justly has been 'said by the Se-
nator Pickering) Merely by a rope of sand. I am told
that theae'agenis have, in Philadelphia, and other
cities, bought grounds for. building at the rate of
three hundred dollars' the square foot, and that ten
dollars the ofre have been. paid by them for lands
in the remotest part of Pennsylvania and Kentucky,
which rately were otteied for twenty cents (sixteen-
pence sterling) the acre. Those. who are imposed
upon are certainly Bess to be blamed titan the impos-
tors taking advantage of ignoratice, prejudice, and
folly ; but it cannot be too often repeated and pub-
lished in Europe, that of all the knaves in the world,
the American land jobbers are the most w rid and in-
famous. It is a long established truth, that of the
many thousand millions of land to be disposed of in
the United Sixes of America, nut ten millions can
le safely purchased, for want of legal titles, even ac-
cording to the anarchical code of this country. Many
Eu:opeani now. moot fling here in ini,ery are living
victims of this truth. Some, ruined by constructing
houses upon spots dearlY sold them, hive afterwaros
been turned'out by pretended or real former buy ers;
others, after spending their weAth and health in cul-
tivating wildernesses, imprudently purchased, have
'been dispossessed by claimants presenting more an-
cient, real or forged titles. Before the death bloWs
were given to the fortunes and expectations of these
European emigrants (who came here in search of
tranquility), they had been worried with years of
law-suits, during which, the low, uunteeling chica-
nery of brutish pettefogging-anornils, the flourish-
ing scourge of republican. America, jail-haled altuoat
hourly torments. a
Bu suppose an European ,should- prefer hiring.a
house (such a one as he may rent in any part of
London •and its vicinity from tiny to seventy guineas
year;)'), it cannot be got here under 800 or 1200
dollars a year. The taxes are indeed not great here;
but the increase of house rent cettooly sui aas'ses
much what is charged in taxes in Great Britain ; the"
many conveniericies. of English houses are also want-
ing tir -those of America, generally infested ,aith rep-
tiles, vermin, and poisonous insects, and untaiintorf-
able by want of water, by smoking chitnnie,,, and
by aukward or ,slight consirutAloo». It Eurtl;;eatis
intend subsisting by the interest of capital tuou4ht
here, the ri,k. is at least equal tviih becoming pro-
prietors of lands. To lend their money on mort-
gage must be hazardous, where sou few legal titles
of property ate
,found. TO lay it out on contour=
cial speculations is not, more discreet. In both cases
it ought to be remembered, that the StateLegidatora
often use their power of suspending by law all.pay-
ments of debts, and of absolving,. by standing insul-
vency ads, all debtors from the obligation of
fying the demands of their creditors. The laciiity
of thus- defrauding and eluding payaients has proha-
bly made bankruptCies-sO frequent; and honesty so
scarce in America:
The wages of servants of both sexes in the United
States_are from five 'to ten dollars a mouth. Teey
work, however, no more than they like, and also-
lent by ideas of oquality, they think theniselyes
only helping equals, and not labouring for a superior.
Even the, living here *(without Mining either' the
comfort of good breeding,. or the pleasure of a well-
inforMed or even civilized society), is not cheaper
than in Europe. Bread is from sod to six et:ix s
.a
pound, hatchets' meat from .10 to 20 cents, fqmsls
from three-quarters of a dollar to a dollar a pair, eggs.
a quarter dollar the dozen, butter from halt 'a7crm4n
to three shitlings a pound, good fish, such as sainmon
and sheepshead, are very scarce, and (Atelier sold a
dollar than a half dollar a pound; turbots, soles, and
whitings are never caught in the American Sea; and
lobsters, mackerel, and cod-fish brought to the
markets di American cities, sell for more than double
the price usually paid at Billinsgate early in tile
season.
Of the climate of this country I will only say,
that a very severe winter began in the first week of
List November, and from a continuance of cpld,aaw
and unsettled weather ever since, it cannot fairly be
said yet over. It. will, however, as usual (consider-
leg the advanced per?od of the season); soon be fol-
lowed by,the suffocating heat of a West India clime.
Hence the ague, the spotted and outer fevers, the
influenzas, the cOnsuMptive diseases, and time de-
structive plague, called the yellow fever-with which
Providence so often afflicts the American' Cbrritnon-
wealth.' -
Every thing considered, the united Stales of Ame-
rica ought to be the last refuge of all British subjects,
whom choice or mistertuneesPatriate, and who nave
DO crimes ;o reproach themselves. If they possess
any patriotic sentiments, or merely the natural affec-
tion for their countrymen and the land in winch they
Were born, they must here be wretched.' 'They
livepere,. in tad, in an enemy's country; where
every body and every timing British is detested, and
where dany toasts and wishes for time desartielion-of
the British empire and the British nation assail their
eats and wound their feeling. To complain of:these
and other itlibralities is as dangerous as to resent
them. Here your house is lies,tr your castle. It you,
are known amid marked as a friend of Great Biitain,
you cannot walk in time streets without being insulted
by rinhaus,whoie audacity the certainty of
increases. You may think yourself twain:nett they
do not force their way into your dwellemg, pitlage and

demoliih your furniture, abuse; -wornd, and even
• murder yourself and the members of your tamily.—
Should a Jury; forsuch,an outrage, find a verdNais
your favour, what atonement Lan you expett froin
criminals, 'i;vl.l9 haVe no indreH roptlty—tO iose
than honour to preserve, and who know. that the
Gut enter of the State (always an inveterate en any of
England) ha the power and inclination both to re-
knit pecuniary fines and corporai punishments ?
. In a few wolds, enkrarrs, an iving in this land of
supposed liberty and equality, will, find, to tlitir,to-t, -
that it is more difficult 'to escape` the hurniliating'
blows inflided by the bludgeons of an Amenean.
Sovereign People, than injustice and oppression fion
thesovere!gn sceptre of the ino.t despotic: Europcan'
tyrant. The latter may, and must,' sometimes re-
lent ; but, under, the anarchy. of 'a- liceotkus
tyranny. is a permanent, as well as an unrelemini..„
calamity.