The Sun.
London, England, 1807-11-27 00:00:00

NAU7ICAL ANECDOTE.

When the Count 'DE Lua.s was landed at Yar-
mouth, from the Freya. Swedish Frigate, he was
towed on shore by Britigh sailors.; and the Comit,
grateful for the particular Intention shewn him, left
behind a purse of fifteen guineas lbr the tars to drink
his health. On the tnatter being explained tb them,
!not 9tie of them would touch a farthing, but im.
tileqactely transmitted a letter•to Admiral Ruisin.,
esc'reisive of their 'sentiments on the occasion,
which is truly charatieristic of British seamen. The
fOfr6wing is a literal copy, and has been read by the
count with peculiar delight :.^7.
" Majestic, 6 Day Nov. 1807.
Pt.sAss YOUlt Hotioug; •

" We holded a Talk about that theta 151. that was sentt
us, and hope no offence your honour. We dont like to take
it, because as how we knows fast enuff that it was the true ,
King of France that went with your honour in the boat, and
that he and our own Noble King, God bless .em both, and
give every one his right, is good Friends now ; and besides
that your honour gived a Order long-ago, not to take no
'Money from nobody, and we never did take none, and Mr.
Leneve, that steered your honour and that there King, says tie
wont have no hand in it, and so does Andrew Young, lb*
pigiper Coxen, and we hives no olferice, so we all one and
all begs not to Like it at ail. So no more at present from your
hoopura dutiful servants.
, 'Ol And. Young, Coxen, Thos. Simmers,
James Maun,, • l'ho. Thesane, 1
Lewis Bryan,Simon DU if

ames Lord., W. Faircleugh, .
lames Hood,' ' john Churchill,
V. Edwards, The. Lawrence,
las. Holshan, Jacob Carriel,
Tho.. Laurie,. Wm. Muzzey.

A hot press took place last night upon the River.
It will be enforced this night at all the Out-ports.
Extract of a Letter from a Serjeant of the '27th
Foot, to his friend in Aberdeen, dated Mamma,
Nand of Sicily, September 28.—" The following
regiments are now here, viz. the 20th, 52d, 58th,
Otto,' 8 1 'St, Ist battalion 27th, 20th light Dragoons,
.3000 of the Guards, and some battalions of In-
fantry. The troops are all very healthy, except a ,
tew who are afilided with mire eyes. On the :24th
pt July last the'whole.of the' soldiers here received
from 't heir gallant Officers, 'one dollar each to drink
r the memory of the plains of Calabria. We hear
*at . the French are coming down from Naples, to
4iiiiefrom us our little bland —they am surely dream-
Me We buy the wine here so low as one penny
oberbottle. It is very warm with us at present i we ;
are close by the foot of Mount iEtna !" .
Mr. Launcelot, a Veterinary Surgeon, who fought
a duel. with a Lientenint, on *Twickenham Com-
mon, three weeks since, and who was stated to' have
been wounded in' the Shoulder, died on Friday last,
at Bushby, near Gaildfotd. A mortification was the
cauSe'of his death. His antagonist left this country,
' for Ireland, a day or, two after the duel had taken
'place. '
' Major BARCLAY, who died latelyat Southampton,
, had been Captain and paymaiter of the late 76th, or
‘ll!DorrAtaa's.Regiment of Highlanders, and, being
Afiade prigener, •at the surrender Of,York-Toveit, in
*Nirginia, in 06tober, 1781; he was one of the dill*.
*en 'British Captains who remained prisoners with
the men, and who, in May, 1762 i. had '(in violation
orate capitulation) lots east for one of them to suffer'
death, in retaliation for an American Captain who
was executed by some of the Loyalists; when the
lot tell On Capt. Sir CHARLES A.SGILL, of the Guards,
•and involved him in the unfertnnate situation be so
long laboured under; with so much honour and credit
to himself. -. Capt. BARCLAY had, some time before
this period, the permission of General WASHINGVN
to go on parole to New-York, On.the businessrof his
regiment, and for thegeneral benefit of the prisoners ;
but,. feeling himself bound in • honour to take his
chance with the test of his brother Captaini, tehised
to -avail himself of his previously-obtained: leave
(though strongly pressed so to do by them, hnd
.par-•
ticniarly by the American Brigadier-,General ii A Z BIAr,T
who had then the charge 'ot the prisoners), but re-
mained and stood the risk date lot accordingly. '

.F;, Mr. CHANBURLAIN) the late English. Agent at
4he k'ost Office at Lisbon, is arrived in the 11V-
Osinghant. Packet it is said, that he took With.
4tim from Lisbon a bag of Letters, which' have
`been brought in that Vessel ; but the Walsing,
hum was not alloWed to enter the' Tagus', and
she has brought back the Mails of the 27ch and
519th ult. which she took out. Besides Mr.
CHANBEILLAIN) .thefe are several oilier passen-
gers-,
.who are. arrived at Italmouth- in the Wal.
'YOUNG, ASTON) lIARIT,
SCHELVERDINE) BMA-MORE, DOWNING.) M 11.4..)
TEARY, Mrs, l'Eskr, and two children.

In a desoriptinn of, the Brazils, recently publish-
ed, it is stated, that a Ship of ti-k guns ..%‘ as on the
stocks at St: Salvadoi. It: was bulk of the country
wood, which. 13 very heavy, bin is,considercd inuch
itronpr than any European

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, Nov. s 6.

THE. KII4G V. WILLIAM WILLIAMS.

The Defendant wai brbitght .up to receive the
judgment of the Court, he having been coOleed at
the last York Assizes, before Mr. JuStic titAmatia,
of an,assault upon EdWard Abbey; on the -24th of
September, 1806; Mr. Justice La BLANC read the
Report of the trial, which stated, that both the
parties were Attending Doncaster Races, When. the
Prosecutor ofi-l!red the Defendant to bet upon the
horse called Bester; it was accepted, and the re-
sult was in favour of the Prosecutor. The follow-,
ing,day they. met in the street, when Mr. Abbey
demanded the,payment of twenty guineas, as the
sum won by him. The Defendant refused to pay,
alledging that the bet was only'six to four, and that
fotir guineas was all that could bp demanded. This
sum theProsecutor.refimed to accept ; and when the
parties,met upon the race-ground the demand was
repeated by Mr. Abbey on -the principal Stand, in
the presence of the Prince of Wales. The. Defend- -4
ant,' irritated at this supposed imposition, .told the
Prosecutor he was a liar and a scoundrel;. and these
opprobrious expressions were- repeated by the latter,
The Defendant immediately raised his fist, aroma
struck the Prosecutor so violent a blow under the
ear, as to deprive him of his senses, and force the.
blood to gush out of his mouth.
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The affidavit of the Defendant extenuated his
by stating,.that the assault was committed
'during a moment of irritation, raised .by-the suspi-
cion that the Prosecutor waS endeavouring to im-
postnipp*himi'tv insisting that the bet was 30 to
20 guineas, when in fa& it was'only 6 to 4 gnineas.
Mr. SCARLETT, for the Defendant;' urged, that
Mr. Williams, in his atlidavit, did not wish to cast
any imputation upon, the character of the. Prose,
tutor : his only desire was to set himself. right in
the eyes Of the world, that it Might not be inp_
posed that he refused to pay any bets 'he had, made.
He suspetled that Mr, Abbey was taking advantage
of the public situation of the racecout,e,
_and was
,efideavouring to obtain the money froth him, by in-
sisting that the bet was much higher than the De-
fendant bad ever engaged in during the whole course
of his life. The truth was, that Mr. Williains,had
no intention of visiting the •ground, but passing
through Doncaster on a Northern font., he was,
from motives of curiosity, induced to attend. ‘.
.Mr. PARKE, for the prosecution, trusted, that
COndifa like that Of the Defendant's would not, go
unpunished .with the greatest severity. It rn.',;ht not
be the wish of the Defendaato vilify the eharaCter
of 1111- Abbey', but whether such' was his desire or
not, it"was -certain . that the charkter of the Prose-
cutor had been most grossly attacked. The ex.
planation of the transaction was this : at the time
when the bet was made, the Prosecutor bad in his
hand some 51. notes, and holding them up to the
Defendant, offered hiin 6 to 4, or 301. to 20h This
circumstance was mistaken by the Defendant, who
conceived, that what the Prosecutor meant was.
only 61, to 41. The assault was most violent and
unprovoked, and the Defendant might thank' the
mercy Of the Prosecutor, that he bad not proceeded
in another form, by which his goods and.chattles
might have been forfeited, and his person imprison-
ed for two years.
The Court sentenced the Defendant to pay a fine
of 251. which was. immediately discharged.

LOR6:,EC.GIN V. ROBERT toEitoUSON, ESQ.

Mr. TOiPING applied for a rule to show cause
why the trial of this anion, for criminal conversa-
tion, should not be postponed until the sittings.after
the next Term. He moved it upon the affidavit of
the Defendant, who swore that a Gentleman resi-
dent in Paris, of the name of Craufurd, was a ma-
, terial witness on his behalf.
The ATTORNEY GENERAL said, that the noble
Plaintiff in this suit would not resist this application,
were be not fully convinced that it was made only
for the purpose of delay. Neither was it a case
where it could be,expeeted, that a party would volun-
tarily consent to interrogatories, especially where the•
witness was a Gentleman domiciled at Paris in an
•Eninny's country.
Mr. Justice Gitoits said, that on these occasions
the Court usually expeeted some statement in the
affidavit, that The witness who was absent might re-
turn at a particular timej but nothing of that kind
appeared here.
'• Mr. ToPrING replied, that the Defendant. had
had no opportunity of writing to Mr. Craufurd, to
obtain any information upon the subjeet but he
hoped that dick' Lordships :would grant a rule 'to
show cause.,

Mr. IiARROW observed, that if the Court should
cant the application, from any expeetation that the
ompel for the Plaintiff would advise Lord,Elgiti' to
consbnt to it, he, as one of those Counsel, must say
that he should offer no such recommendation.

Lord ELLENBOROUGH remarked, that this point
had been decided in .Lord Wycombe's case. He
would be breaking in upon the establisheditule of
the.court, to grant the obje6t of the motion, merely
upon the expealition that the other party would con-
sent to a commission to examine Witnesses upon in.'
terrogatories.

M. Justice LAWRENCE said, that he apprehend-
ed that this was a.cause in which something beyond
the present maim was looked to by the Plaintiff.
GARROW answered, that there was at present
a suit depending, instituted by- the noble Plaintiff,
in' the Courts of Scotland, to obtain a divoree.—Rule

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MANNING, At•IDERToN, AND CO: V.TIJE coyMissiow-t.,
spa Poll COMPENSATION UNDER THAVVVEST INDIA
POCK ACT.
We before noticed this nFtion, 'When a motion.
was Made by Mr. Serjeant Bssr, on the part of the •
Plaintiffs, for a new. trial, on the ground of a mis-
.;:lire6lion by the Beeorder of the City of, London to
cite Jury. The simple question. was, whether, in
considering what compensation the Plaintiffs should
receive, the Jury were to estimate the average on
'the three years previous tot 7gy, when the Aa passed,
crr previous to 1807, when the compensation was re-
quired ?
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL, for _the Defendants,
_said, that: le.thight delain the Court for days in
arguing the question, 'and yet .not, render it more
platit than it stood upon the face of the statitte it
self, the 39th Geo. "11. c. 69. By the i inst
ot teat .tkat, it was chrecled, that the estimat*shout

tio•itiade
of the tire§ent raltwe,Pan-y dockt; getiyg;
up-town waiehoutes, that is, the value of then, is
the year t79g. The Learned Counsel trusted ther;
fore, that the verdict would not be disturbed.

Mr. Serjeant Bun' and Mr. PAItKE
.argued; that
the property of the Plaintiff'S was to he Cotisideled as
if it were sold-to--the Commissioners, and as it they
never derive any more benefit froth .
that were correct;: thei.fory ought to have estimated
the prespeelive 'advantage to be obtained by 1116,
Plaintiffs, from the increase of commerce; and 'of'
the importation of:produce' from ,Our West Intl i;1
Islands: Itto be contemplated as if it were th'e
sale of an estate, where the party. selling not only
considered the present, but the future, value of the
property; and, therefore, that the Jury had assign-
ed too small a compensation to the 'Plaintiffs, and a
new trial should be granted..
The Court seemed to •be of opinion, that the ALI
had' settled the standard, at which the rate was' to be
made. fig,.hoWeVer, large sums of money tvare in
volved in the question, their Lordships would take a
short timetononsider of the point, before they cauta
tots fillA4Ccii96.
•+
SOLO/460'
. Thi4erietilidti\tieen convicted at the Middles'?
QuarttirSessionsoef usury,. and had Oen sentenced
to six itionths,,:impristititnent. its
Mr.. SCAR on.r.r, this day, moved for a,Writ of
Habeas Corpus to bring up the body. into the cit,..10-=
dy of the Marshal of the King's Beech, that he.
might he charged. in an action of debt. The ground
of the application Was,- that this man hal fOrinetiv
been in partnership with a per.on of the: nester
Levy, who had since (witted the country, mid it
was apprehended'. that Davis Wouldlollow his ex.;
ample as soon as he Was released, and thus eyadt.t
the payment of 20001. I'he court rcitt,.,,d the' ap..-
plication, ,because there appeared to I.:Lt no atilhoi
rity onthe boOlcs for depriVing the Keeper ,of
bath-fields 'Priscen of. the eiiiody of. a criminal upoii
any'soch pretence.

yesterday morning, a eenont of genteel apPe:tr-
once Calla at the house where Mr. Cotnix,'of 6),
vetitfiGandentiTheatre, resides, when in' 'London,
and iireAsegvhvilliether Mr. COOKE had arri‘ed'?.
1-y? is answered" in the itegatiVe. ' Bless :me I"
he not -arrived I
.I travelled with him
illtttiblitlast night; and he appointed this Jot:tin;
ing for e,to meet him here ; can you layout' me
with ink and paper ?" " Unfortunately;" said the, at-
tendant, "we have no ink in the hOuse." " I Will
thank you; then,'' said the stranger, " to give me a
tumbler of water." The gentleman was ushered
into an apartment, while the water could be pre.;.
cured ; in the interim; however, he'contrived to
walk off with a quantity of linens, which, netiniti-
nately, was tied up in a bundle in the parlour.
. A firfB-'brOke out,, early yesterday Morning, at, the
hedge( of,lvlTt Sinallet, a caiender, in. Dobby-tow;
Maryele,42nibi;New Road, which, although attended
with serious colliequences, was got under without de-
str4ircg flielvhonse. It was occasioned by a beans
taking tire, which communicated to the chimney
from the ceiling of the first floor; -and which, Voin
its appearance, must' have heen'kinditngsoMe time.
It broke out at three o'clock in the second floor,
where a poor woman, with an infant at 'her breast;
slept, and the bed was on fire before it was dis.
covered. The child was so Much blirnt that its life
is despaired of, and the mother, whose name :is
Kemp, was also a good deal injured. The house
was full of lodgers, and, by their exertions, the da-
mage was chiefly confined to,the second floor.
DREADFUL SIIIVWERCK.—The James, Bien-
AHD :WlL.sobi, Master, Irons Leth for' Newc istle,
with goods and passengers, but who had run for
the Humber through stress of weather, drove .Irons
her anchors on the Holderness coast, off WaX
holm, near the Sister Churches, six or seven nail. s
above Spurn, about 'three o'clock, on Moodily
morning,' in a heavy gale of wind, and seen .iii-
terwark: drove to pieces, an entire wreck. The
!UMW and I)ltssengers were distinctly perceived
people on shore, at -the pampa; but Ito assi4l
could' 'possibly be rendered them.- We :au
sorry toitate, that all on hoard perished. 14',..ur
the bodies, a great quantity -of the,Wreck, Iffitiput
of the cargo, had been washe;', on Wore' when our
accounts left the coast early this morning.' ;Alt r
papers and some letters came on shore in, a ,bag,
by which it appears that she had been at I..erNick,
and hadtaken in goods' and passengers
Amongst several other articles found on 'the teach
was a, pipe of wine entire (but very soda after-
wards staved by the country people), some wo-
• men'amearing apparel, a child's cradle, &c. •11,0
Ypsel was 'riding at an anchorage, in 'apparel' t
safety, and distinctly seen by the light of the 'snoop,
libuot nitieyo'clodk on the preceding (or .SundaV)
evening:t jl'he above names were painted -on the
.hpat„which drove ashore.---Yurk Chronicle.
On Monday 'fortnight, Robert. Simpson, labourer,
of Sproatley, poisoned himself by taking a' quantity
of arsenic and aquff fortis, in consequence of whir .a
he died in a Short tinfe after. He had-atteMpted
accOmplish this purpose on the 'preceding eveniug,
but was prevented by his' wife.
SMITHFIELD MARKET Nov, .17.
This day's market afforded a tolerable good supply
of different kinds. of Beef, Mutton, Veit;,
and Pork are dearer that-e.cite last report,. and di,:
trade fOr the most part was not over 'brisk.—Tiel
salei in the Haymarket were inconsiderable ; Hay,
Straw, and Clover have dropped in price ate Mori-
,day's market.—The under mentioned. prices, a1.c.1
numbers are an accurate statement

'• To sink the Offal per stoneoftlb.
It 'Lacer, 4550. to 4s. 9d, —lkl utic.t 4s. ud. to 4s.
,ss. fid. to 7s. qt.—Lamb as. od. to 0. od.--t oik ss. 6d. to
bs. 6d.

,0
,Beasts, 760.--Sheep 4760.—Calrs, 160.-- Pigs 310.
flay 4tAi. od. to I.
S. od.--Llover 51. QS. to 61. 65.
44n1.—Waw tl, 55. od. to ii. los. od.

CORN EXCHANGE) -Nov. 27.—The .supply,-of
Wheat and Barley to-day is extremely short; sales
are made to those only in forthwith reque,t, and tie
few effected are at a small iiicre.asq in price ; Malt
likewise ; White Pease at last prices; Beans of each
description are rather dearer ; Oats -ate also in Idery
short supply, and this trade .is at a sniall advance iti
price; terms of Flour at our late quotation.
Wheat 45 a 566 A 66$ ad 'Tick ditto (do.; 52s a 5Ss sti
fine ditto - 686 a Its ad Oats -•, *5 309 a 36$ ad.
1401'''' ''''; ' -. ,P 6 3 46$ 04i Potand ditto 37i a 39s eft
Batley . . 425 a 495 ad i Potataa -, . a .0s ad
Malt' .' 7os a
.7os vd I nape Seed . 221 a 251 as
Wllito epic.) 1.4555 155 s ad Fine flout sas a ,Ss OS ati
(;rev (14ttn ' .., IaOS a 71$ att Sot-mitt; . . 451 a 505 gobl
Otatts:(010) , 01 a b4s 9d