The Sun.
London, England, 1813-01-05 00:00:00

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.Tkat though hi virtues both agree,
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Not mote fti charni,iul anxious Sire,
Than all eiho!readthe

'FOlt TUB SUN.

, .
THE .S.V.NtY.
3111 ,EDITOR,
As an 'ert!Oneinis notidu is'c'.ntcytained by some-
persons respecting the liability of Half-pay 'Of-
ficers to be called to, account for conduct unbe-
coming the character they bear, it is right, to
state, that there are several instances in which
Officers on half-pay have been struck off the, list
in consequencei)f an application,to the Secretary
at War, and of Officers on full-pay being tried
and cashiered .bysimilar appeal. to the Com-
mander in Chief. A very recent proof of the.
Latter may he seen at the Judge Advocate'S Office,
in which a Mr. M'Alurnua, 'belonging to a line
.regiment, was sentenced to be distnissed,the ser-
vice, for having deluded a tradesman at Lisbon,
by 'giving him an order on the Regimental Pay-
master for his subsistence, after lie himself:bad
receiyed the same. , •
The Prince Regent, and 'hiS Royal Higbnets
tie Commander in Chief, as well as the •Secre-
:.
,tary at War, *re so impressed with a sense of the
high principles of honour which ought to govern
every Officer in the British Army, that the
slightest deviation from truth and honesty, ifpro-.
perly represented, is instantly noticed And so
the thing ought to be ; for what can an irides-'
triotts tradesman or hard-working man think of
the military character, when he finds his creduli-
ty imposeo upon by an appearance of fine feeling
and high sentiment ? An ordinary person, who
obtains money under false pretences, is disgraced
in the eyes of society, and frequently transported
for offences which have been committed.by Of-
ficers .k,earing,his Majesty's Commission on full-
pay; or, enjoying his gratuity on half-pay. In the
latter case ninny are misled by supposing that a'
Half-pay OffiCer is out of the reach of all milt-
; tart' cognizance, and that as he cannot
.alienate
his allowance, he may bid defiance to that appeal
which is often made against Officers in full7pay.
Nothing, however, can be more ittijUst or inure
absurd than such a supposition ; and Vain'per-
suaded, that if once the question were brought to
issue, the situation of a. Half-pay Officer, who
should presume upon this foolish and ungrounded
privilege, would be found (alit ought to be) sub-
ject to the nicest scrutiny. A Half-pay Officer,
in tact, though put out of the power of a
•Court-
martial, by a mistaken poliey;is'nevei' out of the
reach of the Kino's authority;
I knOW that allalf-pay Officer cannot, de jure,
-idienate his gratuity, or give' it as a security for
money advanced, and that the case has already
.been determined in'a Court of Law; but 'I .itL,
know, that if an Officer, under a knOWledge of
this:invalidity should impose upon any of his Ma-
jesty's subjects, and persuade' tradesman to
hazard his property, and to take . his honour for
the appropriation of his half-pay, and theft stand('
receive it himself, or direct it to
.another qu.u.ter,
such conduct, if represented to the 'Secretary at
War, would lie instantly 'noticed, and his. name
would, in all probability, be struck out, of the
army list.
The first step to be taken is to transmit a me-
morial to the Secretary at 'War, who will pro-
bably order a memorandum to be lodged at the
Pay-office, until the matter shall have beeu clear-
ly adjusted. Indeed, there are instances where
tbe,itidividual, having a claim upon a Half-pay
Officer's gratuity, has stated the saute at the ray-
Office,:and hail justice done him. TRUNCHEON.

FOR TUE SUN.

VACCINATION.

MR. EDIT'OII,---The regard which you thew
for the public welfare, in admitting the facts
importing; the want of security in Cow-pox ino-
culation, is.thore praise-worthy, as most of , the
other newapapers refuse to lend their assistance.
In your Paper of Dist Friday was inserted the case
of -Snelling mid her child, which I trust 'will
not be passed octer by the VACCINE BOARD; it is
so singular a proof that, with all their care, they
possess no better lymph than. Dr'. JENNER hitnselt
was accustomed to make use of.

Some remarkable cases lately occurred in St.
Jaßles'sToor,houso, of which Dr. PEARSON took
a very accurate examination : doubtless he means
to give the public and the. Board souse account of
it : and at No. 58, Newamnfstreet, a servant'
maid, aged nineteen, died of the. Continent Sinai:-
Pox four Years after she had ben vaccinated; so,
th if the security of Cow-pox is given up: the
mitigation seems as little to be depended upon.
I fear iti,votil4 occupy a daily page of yrinr: Pa-
per,lif every practitioner were to transmit to you
the cases 'as they occur, but if they would faith 7.
fully ttansmit them to the' VACCINE BOARD, they
would 'do a public service, and if the President
would sign his name to the Report before it is
printed; the Anti-vacciuists would not have Si)
touch iteason to presume that it was an imposi-
tion on their understandings.
_ _ _

I believe it is the opinkin of some of tl►e most
impartial judges', that the best ►pethod to exter-
minate Small-pox would he to have a general in-
ocul►ltion every second or third year; by this
means very few would be left for the accidental:
occurrence of ,Sinall-poi4, and this indeed was
nearly the state of the c►►se when the experi►uent
of Cow-pox was first recommended ; so with this
advice, which will be thought good for nothing, I
beg leave to subscribe myself,

Your obedient servant,

Nrzz a 4.X•

I

fl-PriosPD MUlA?tit.

Yesterday an exatninatiOAonk place at
611, (Which Will be :found in ta.i.lA(finge) ► op a
charge agaiost two nien, who being appeekefi'led•
'as the parties Who had committed an asiattit art
'two o'eloCk on' SUnday morning, on two Gentle -
men, attlic corner, of 'Seacoal-lane, . with intent
to rob) thent;' were also suspected Of ;the wader
of a watehtaan, named John Bloomfield.
theaeVeaing aninquisitioa teas held in the
Admission-aookna of- St: Bartholomew's Hoapital,
on. inspection Of the hodrofthe deceased, before
Thomas ,Shelton; Esq. Coroner for the City,
Ward, a, watchman, stated,, that about
two o'elotkron -Sunday morning, as .he was .cart
fluty at Cow-lane, he.heard a rattle sprung, com-
ing. as it 'were frottr Fleet-markeY, Mal which he
after,vakds found to proceed fro n Seacoul-lane7.-
- As •he was, running forward, it,! saw •the devitsed
eomiva Cawards hint; he having supposed the soand
of the rattle to have come from Cow-lane, till he
witnei.s informed him it came from Seacoal-lace,
whither hedesired the the eased to follow him. The
witness then:ran ,forwal.tl Selicoal-hole, .where
he found several other watchmen, and two gentle-
men, one Of ;whom had been knocked down by
two men, both of whim had escaped,. Two women
who were in Company with the men were in cus-
tody, but the, gentlemen not desiring them to: be
detained, they were discharged. As the witness was
'returning from, -this:fray:, he heard u rattle. spring
faintly, on which he • made tip to the spot.. whence
the sound proceeded, which, was immediately halide
the bookseller's shop, ‘As he was, ruuniaa a‘
strange,man, who:was farther off, the way of: the
Church, called to the witneat to pull him (meatting
the deceased) up,:for there Was nothing. the matter
with hint to make hint spring-this rattle. The
witness' said to his fellow watelintaa,,hethoUght
there was something the nattier' withabim, fore he
waSaill.overpouring of blood; and as the witness
spoke, and beforehe could get op to the deceaSed,
the deceased fell; and his rattle along sick of him.
The man' who had spoken. to.the ‘vituess by this
time was off.; The witness could not s;ty, if ha
saw the watchman fall ; the witness.never saw the
man who Spoke -tophim, but he knew he NV3S.th6
way. of the church, .as the. SPhild flOlll that
direetion. The deceased was on his legs when
the witness saw him, and this was about live mi-
nutes after the time that he bud seen him first.
The deceased fell backwards, us againstlhe door
of Mr. Godwin's shop.
Mr. John Berry, house-surgeon of St. Bertha-
loatew's Hospital, said he saw the deceased the
moment he was brought to the Hospital, which
was about half past two o'clock .on Sunday Morn-
ing. lie was then dead. He had a, great deal of
blood in his mouth, and about his face. The wit-
negs only, saw that he Ives dead; heaaw no, ap-
pearance of violence about him. There was a
great-quantity of bldod in his mouth, which
had come 1101111 his lungs. It was arterial blood.
The bodywas afterwardaopened. The lungs :,had
no.appearance of rupture, but thge were such ap-
pearances abotit some.of the small N:ar.i.e.lScoime.ctcd
with. them, Thu quantity of, blooi),,hc save.!eonld
not have come from any one of: those small rup-'
tared vesielS, but there Were sieve rld of them from
which it might ,hitve come. 'the lungs xhom-
-,01ve.,,s went not inflamed, but se‘ erul of the. small
v,-els were -much iaflained. Tilealppearanees he
saw; and the blood, produeed, twiSt
.have been 'oc-
casioned by souse .prior injory, and et:told not have
been Caused by it blow given itt the moment, or
live minutes:l)ow' to. his death. No blow on the
neck could have produced theappearaneea he had
described Qll the longs. The discoloured Mink on
the neck which the Jury had observed, had not skeen
occasioned by a blow, but by, the, stagnatedhlood.
.There were rio external marks of violence What-
ever about the body, nor any thing but .the.com
moo eppe.arances produced by otattwal .eanse,
where the blood stagnates. In the opinion oldie
witness the deceased died'a natural death.

Mr. Hodges, a pupil belonging to St. Bartho-
lotue.W's Hospital, said he was present when the
boAy of the deceased was opened. There were no
marks of violence on any of the external parts, hut •
there was a quantity of blood in the- tracht.-,
which appeared to have passed up from the frac-
tured vessels about the lungs,which were dieased.
A considerable quantity of .blood from the lungs
was likely to have produced sullOcation. The wit-
ness saw nothing about the appearance of the de-
ceased to lead him to suppose that the deceased
had died from any thing but the disease of the
lungs which he had deScribed. A plithisical cough
was likely to be produced by such a state of, the
lungs as that which those of the deceased exhi-
_bited.

The wife of the deceased represented her bus.
blnd as a hearty strong man, not subject to a
cough. He had hid a sort phthisical cough for
about a week. The deceased was not given to in-
toxication, and had taken his supper that same
night about eleven o'clock. He would 11,tve been
yeavi of age in May next. In answer to a
question put by' one of the Jurymen, the witness
said, she had heard her husband
,express an ap.
prehension that he would be murdered one day or
other by a person of the name of Skilfy, or sonic
such name, for taking up a coachman for stealing
a note.

The private watt:hum to Messrs. Clarke,Boyd,
and French, Stated, that he heard a spring of
rattles, and shortly afterwards a man ran across
the street. After he had` passed, there came, in
the Sainc direction, five or six watchmen ; and.
then he heard, three different times, a taint at-
tempt to 'spring 'a rattle, also in the same direc-
tion, as from a person constrained front springing
his rattle freely. He immediately directed his at-
tention towards the place whence the suppressed
sound seemed to come, and then he saw a person
stagger and fall, He• had since examined the
place, and Was convinced the deceased must have
scrambled, as there was an appearance of blood
right and left of the door-way where he fell.
Mr. SlinTON then addressed the Jury, observ-
ing, that from the whole of the evidence adduced,
not only was there no proof to satisfy them that
the deceased bad been murdered by any one; but
on-the contrary the whole of the evidence went to
spew that he had not come by his death otherwise
than in the common course of nature.
The Jury immediately returned a verdict--Died