The Sun.
London, England, 1809-07-15 00:00:00

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2-0 THE EDITOI4' OF THE 8171i2.,

Though you have ab:stained (I think prope!iy
enough), from any dire notice, of Mr. CO2l,'ET±'.;
Weekly Publication, you will, not, perhaps, objeift
to a tew queries being addressed to. that
,indecatiga,,
ble writer, through the mediuM of rciit
They are these : whether, in urging ,IVIr,WARr:i.u.
(as he has done in his Register of the Bth of. ill
month), to " publish all he possesses proof of, zt.'oot
the money which Mrs. CLARKE received ,for
suppression of her Book, and about the contents of
that Book," he means that Mr. NITARDtu should
so doing, exculpate himselffrom the charges agains;
him, or by menacing them with it, that he Shenk,t
divert the public attention from them, or erideavcia
thereby to deter hid opponents from any fell bet
proceedings against hint; or finally, that be sholll4
do it merely to gratify the laudable inolinatiens of
Mr. COBBETT himself, and furnish matter for more
observations and effusions in his Register, to answev
and promote the various pi-poses for which it is
published
Leaving the insertion of the above to yonr discre.
tion, I ant Sir, your -constant reader, and

Hurrible Servant,

INDAGATOR.

An extraordinary cause was tried on thurSday last
at the Norfolk Assizes. i'Jr. TURNER, late Major.
WHICHCOTE TURNIC, at Buckinton„ near Attie.;
borough, in that county, exhibited articles against
a Mrs. SUTHERLAND, for a breach of the peace. Mr;
TURNER'S affidavit stated, that Mrs. SUTHERLAND
had once declared in Kent that she would be revenc,ved
against him ; the partieS, it seems, having .lived to..
gether, and Mr. TURNER having relinquish,d the
connexion ; it stated also that she had in March
taken possession of his house in Norfolk-, and that
he withdrew to Suffolk till she quitted it ; that in
June she again took possession of his house, before
be was up ; that in consequence he went away, but
returned in a few days, when she locked- the. door
against him ; that she then held a large iron fork
against him in a menacing way, and behaved vio-
lently towards bins, on
.w which he applied to the
Hon. GEORGE HERBERT to exhibit articles of the
peace against her.—Mr. TURNER therefore stating
that he was in bodily fear, begged the Court to re-
strain the said LUCY ANNE SINCLAIR SUTHERLAND
from maiming him, by finding sureties for her to.
keep the peace. Mrs. SUTHERLAND addressed the
Court, and told a long story, in which .much cxtra-,
neous matter was introduced. 'There was some de-
bate among the Magistrates whether she should be
obliged to find any recognizancesi at length it was
determined that she should enter into recognirances
in the sum -of 1001. to keep the peace for a twelve-
month.. This Mrs. SUTHERLAND is well known in
certain circles. She published a pamphlet lately, in
consequence of the introduction of her name in Mr.
WARDLE'S Inquiry in the House of 'Commons., She
is said to be a Jewess. She was married, it is said,
to a Military Officer named SINCLAIR, but on part-
ing with him, has assumed her original name of SU-
THERLAND.

The LORD CHANCELLOR yesterday stated in Court
that reports had reached him that some lists of Com-
missioners of Bankrupts were closed for four months
together, and emphatically declared, that this must
not be. He particularly adverted to one instance, in
which the list had been closed from the 13th of June
till November. This he again repeated, must hot le;
and if any of the Gentlemen present ::Vere Commis-
sioners, he desired they would take notice of his de-
termination. He would give orders to his Secretary
to make' inquiries from time to time into this sub-
jet, and report to the Great Seal. His Lordship
also adverted to another improper praalice, viz. that
of Creditors signing the authority to the Com Mi-
ssioners to allow the Certificate before the final ex
amination ; and intimated his intention to require
that the dates of the signatures should be distinctly
certified.

In a case which occurred in the Court of Corn-
mon Pleas a few days ago, Sir JAMES MAl4spiELri
decided, that no legal tender of money could bo
made, unless the money was fairly laid before the
party for acceptance.

Yesterday, a quarter before twelve o'clock, Monk,
the pyeman, stood in the pillory facing Shoreditch
Church, where he was pelted with rotten eggs, and
every kind of filth the mob could procure. The
women were particularly exasperated against him.—
After standing one hour, he was put into a hackney
coach, and appeared almost lifeless. He was con.
veiled back to prison to suffer the remainder Of his
imprisonment, which is six Months.

The unfortunate man, of the name of King, who
was so severely hurt in the Hon. Mrs. North's
house, at.the time of the fire in Conduit-street, on
Saturday last, died in the Hospital yesterday morn-
ing at six o'clock. He was forema❑ to the Imperial
Fire Office, and was very much respected. He has
left a wife and four children.

At Queen-square Police Office, yesterday, Wil-
liam Hamerton, alias Hcmington, alias Hernerton,
who stands charged with various ails of fraud, was
again examined and remanded.

The distresses of three families, of the names
of King, Major, and .Howe, are very great, for
their respeetive children, aged three, four, and five,
who left their school on Tuesday, at twelve o'clock,
in Gun-street; near the Obelisk, to go home to their
parents, but were entirely lost. EVery possible search
and inquiry has been made, but to no purpose. Oon-
jealure is afloat that they were decoyed by some '
wretch, who stripped 'them ; or that some Gipsies
had taken them into the country. The feelings of
the parents may be better conceived than described.
THE LATE' PATCH—Our Readers will recolleet, that
at the memorable trial of Patch, for the murder of
Mr. Blight, at his house near Deptford, that it was
proved that Mr. Blight was possessed of a pair of pistols
—one of them could only be found—every possible ex-
ertion was made to find the other, but in vain. The
East Country Dock, which is within a few yards of
the late Mr. Blight's house, has been excavating for
some time past, for the purpose of deepening it, to
admit large vessels, and to increase the stowage;
within these few days a pis Col has been found among
the mud, which, on comparison with the pistol at
Mr. Blight's house, proves to match ; which is a
convincing proof against Patch, as no other person
but himself hacl access to Yir, ',light's pistols.

LAID REPORT.

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COURT 01: KING'S I3ENCII, JULY 14.
THE KING V. POLLMANN AND THULE OTHERS.

The ATTORNEY-GENERAL opened this prosecu-
tion, "which was. that of an indictment against the
'bur DefendantS, for a conspiracy to take a sum of
(none)
.for retending to procure for a gentleman of
the name of Hesse an office under Government, that
of-Coast-Waiter in the Customs, taking tOL of. him
by way of bargain, conditioned for his depositing,
within two days atterwards, the remainder of 20001.
in a banker's hands, to be paid into the hands of the
Defendants, Francis Lewis Pollmaen and John
Keylock, upon the appointment of Mi. Hesse to the
above office; but if he was not. appointed to
that office within two months frone the time
of his making this deposit, he was to have his
money back again. These Defendants, requir-
ing only th t he should' leave with them, in the
first instance, ten poauds, which was to be for-
feited it he did not, within two days, deposit;
with the Defendant's banker, the remainder of
the premium of 20001. for the procuration of
this place through the mediiim of these Defend-
dants, that is, 29901. but the whole of which was
to be restored to him,' if he was not appointed to
that office within that period. The 'two Defend-,_
ants, Francis Lewis Pollmann, and John Key-
lock, had opened an office in Crown-court, Thread-
needle-street, where they issued an advertisement,
expressive of the nature of their business, and
which advertisement appeared in a Morning Pa-
per of the .9th of January last, under the head
of " Civil Appointment. -None but principals
.to apply. The party must also have the mo-
ney ready tor an immediate lodgement in a respec-
table banker's hands; purchase !Wel. income 4t/UL
' per annum e apply/personally, to Messrs Pollmatin
and . Keylock; Crown-court, Threadneedle-street.
All letters.must be post-paid."—Morning Post, 9th
January, 1809,—Allured by this advertisement, Mr
Hesse went to the office of these two defendants,
Messrs. Pohlmann and K-eyleck,where he had several
interviews With them, and to whom be paid the. 101.
and promised the remainder of the 20001. in two
days, to be deposited in the hinds of a banker; there
to remain for two months, upon Mr. Hesse having
for it an accountable receipt, purporting that .it was
to remain there for two months, but to be returned
to Mr. Hesse if he was not, within that period, ap-
pointed to a certain office, pursuant to agreement, &c.
which money was deposited on.belialf of Mr. Hesse by
a friend of his, of thenarne of Harvey; but the appoint-
• meat was never procured by these defendants for Mr.
Hesse the -Whole being a swindling transattion,,
and for which this indiament was preferred. But'
that was only a part of the case, and a small pal t
of it. - The great objet of the prosecution was, to
expose to public view and to. beat down these im-
positioni on the public, and to open the eyes of the
public upon such subjeas. It . had been said in the
House of Commons, that these were most growing
evils. This very office of these Defendants had
been mentioned as a place in which these scanda-
lous abuses were transaaed, and that some of the
Lords of the Treasury were concerned in them ;
that the peke of Portland himself knew of them ;
that he profited to the amount of betWeen,so and
30,0001. a year by these pra&ices. It was to open
the eyes of the public to these fads that this prose-
-lation was instituted. He believed there never was
a period in the history a 'this country, in which
private individuals pretended to have more, and ac-
tually possessed less influence with those who had
the disposal of offices under Government than the
present Moment. He believed there never was a
per od in the history of this country, in which cor-
?option of Government was so much talked of, and
so little of. it praised, as at -.the present moment ;
and this trial would be an instance of the truth
of that observation. The different parties here
were Mr. Pollinann, who appeared to be the
leading pretender in this office ; next Mr. Key-
lock, his. partner, who., managed most of the
epistolary contspondence • then a lady of the name
of Harvey, who pretended_ to have the • dire&
personal -influence with a Gentleman in the Trea-
sury, by; whose immediate agency the matter Was'
to be accomplished ; the last was Mr. Watson, who
was a partner in the house of Messrs.' Sykes, Snaith,
and Co. Mansion-house-street ; the latter Gentle-
man lie did not charge with the same moral guilt as
-the" other Defendants,, only, that as a banker, he,
had lent the sanaion of his name „to this transac-
tion, by thing as the banker of these parties, with-
out which it could not be carried into elle& ; and
from the nature of the transa&ions the Attorney-
General submitted, that this Gentleman bad, in
point of law, incurred the guilt of a conspirator in
this case, although when the parties should hereafter
appear before the Court, a due discrimination should
be made in apportioning•the punishment of each
delinquent.
Mr. O. G. L. Hesse was first examined, and he
gave an history of the whole of this case, minutely
detailing the points of which the Attorney-General
had given only the outline in his opening. He said
he was a barrister by profession ; had praaised in his .
profession at the bar for about live years ; had re-,
tired for the last five ; was attracted by an advertise-.
nient in the Morning Post of the 9th of January
last ; which advertisement was read, and was as the
Attorney-General had opened. • He went to Crown-
court, Threadneedle-street, the place described in
'that acherlisement, where he saw the defendants
Pollmann and Keylock; but first be wrote a letter to
the office, to which he received an answer, which
brought him to the office, and where he had many
conferences with them both. The letter to Mr.
Hesse *a:. dated the' II th January last direaed to
him at North Baker4treet, near Portman-square., in-
formirrg him, that.the situation to which he re-
ferred in his letter, in consequence.
w of the adver-
ti,ement in the Morning Post, as filled, but
Oat they, Messrs. Pollmann and Keylock, took
tae earliest opportunity of informing him of
another situation, in the office of Coast-Waiter
of the Customs of. the Port. of London ; the. sa7
lacy of which was 4001. but with emoluments,
an.ounted to 6001. a-year, the purchase of which
was 20001. to be deposited in -a banker's hands, re-
questing his early attention to the subject, &c. On
the receipt of this letter, Mr. 'Hesse went to this