The Sun.
London, England, 1809-12-01 00:00:00

POLICE:

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Huuse of Lords, n Protest, in which lie declared
that the measure was called for by circum-
stances of immediate and uncontroulable neces-
sity."
Documents such at these can neither be explained
away, mistaken, nor misrepresented, and, I trust,
and, indeed, firmly believe, that they will not be
forgotten. '
Front this short review of what has passed on
IRA ;sides, a few simple questions arise :—Does
Lord Grenville still adhere to the same persuasion ?':
does dic mean to renew leis efforts, so objectionable
to the University ? is he. less bent on his object
now than he has been ? Surely any one who enter-
tains a doubt on these questions, must have ill ob-•
served the turn of his Lordship's character, as well
as the acts of his public life. Did Lord Grenville
' gratify the King who wished to be spared the paite
cif surrendering in his old age that conviction of his
minks% hich he had firmly maintained throughout
his whole reign, who wanted only that the remain- ....—. ,
der of his years-might not be embittered .by what he.
Pig's, Mile; the watchman of St- Mary. le Strand,
thought a dereliction of his Royal duty, who asked who is charged with being concerned with 'another
merely to be allowed tolcarry with him a whole cone man in seducing 'Carolina Wilcox, when going by
science to his grave ? Is guy" one absurd enough, to .the Liverpool coach, from the Golden Cross Inn,
imagine that Lord Grenville will relax from his pure into Si. Giles's, and robbing her of a bundle, con-
pose, and drop it altogether at the • instance of . the. taining 'upwards Of 2001. and her clothes, was yes-
University, though he would not even suspend it to terdayeterought to rais.officee fur further examine-
save the feelings of the King? And
„here zlet me
beg the attention of the Members of Convocation to" • Carolina Wilcok said'; she Was, between 'flee and
whet has recently taken place at- Dnblin. The Ca- tion. • - . •
six years Since, at Roscrea, in Irelands married to her
tholic Body have prepared a Petition for the_approach- husband .4dlan Wilcox .; he them belontred -to the
iug Sessions of Parliament, and on the 26th of No- •doitiiyibes West judiaman, and was captaie teteee,
vember, resolved-se" That it should be presented to Itici.;
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the House of Lords by Lord Grenville,;" they .furl lie was afterwards', as she had been informed,
impressed from that ship at Liverpool. About two:
t her resolved-t" That a Commit tee 'of elev4n should years aftei she was married, she went 'to her huV-
prepare a Digest of. the grievances of_ the Catholic band,"-on board the Ulysses, at Portsmouth ; she re--
' Body."' mained on 'beard that slirp shunt five months', and
New I hitter I May assume that Lord Gren- tile. n went with her husband on board the Rota, it
ville will comply with this request ;he is bound so Plymouth-Dock,• and supposed they were on board
to do by "the tenor of his own Protest, and I will not the Rota eight or nine uionths, when her hus-
think so ill of his Lordship as tocencense_him cape- baud, on corniug with the Rota to Sheerness;
blc of swerving so soon from himself, andabating is ‘4.'35 sent with bthera on 'board the guard ship,
those energetic tones in which lie 'delivered himself and was drafted tram her CO the BeagleBlo'op at the
in the Sessions of 1808. Have the Members-Of Nore, about two years since-, and She had been With
Con
Codcation, I ask, considered the singular predica- her husband; on board the Beagle; from that time
client in which they will „vine themselves, if they till last Friday se'rmight ; when the left that vessel
should raise this champidn lA/ the Catholic Body to i in the Downs, and the following 'clay arrived , m
the honor of which he is so ambitions ? Have they London. The Beagle was paid at the Nore lest
reflected how soon after that event they will become Tuesday fortnight; _ Her husband give her, On board
disgraced in their oWn eyes before the Legislature, the Beagle, 2001. in new bank nines; except 61. in
and indeed the who
kingdom What ! ahan- cash. She only changed a guinea and a one-pound
cellor of the University of Oxford preeenting hand note on the, road, the remainder was in her bunole
advocating a Petition, against the principle of which , when it was stolen. While she was on board the
the University has th7,-te times remonstrated ?
_lf this board the Beagle, she nursed a little, boy, .who i 3
be eot a disgrace to es, I wish to know what is. now about four years old, add she understood he
But suppose the University should think fit to re- was the Captain's son. She was on board the Beagle'
ruonstrate a fourth time, what is then to happen ? at the attack on .the French 'fleet in the Basque
Who is to lay our Petition on the Table of the House roads, and was also on board her at the capture of
of Lords ? Can our Chancellor do it, the Conserve-. i Flushing, when she received a woued in het ankle
for of our Rights,' the Representative of our Body ?" trout. a grape-shot.
Oh, no, his hands have been long pre-occupied; they Abraham James, the ostler at the Golden-Cross;
have already more than they can hold; they are quite Charing-Cross, said, that he remembered calling the
"weighed down with the bulky Digest of Grievances Prosec'itrix Carolina Wilcox, on Sunday. morning
brought over from rreland by Lord Fingal and Messrs. - week, about six o'clock, from the door of the Coach
O'Gorman and O'Connel, andeDreDroffigoole .the ,l and HOrses public4iouse, St. Martin's-lane, in cone
Delegates of the Irish Catholics. Are we really pre- sequence of the Liverpool coach being nearly ready
pared for the broad farce to be played before the to start, and knowing she was going by it ; she fol,
Parliament and people of this country, in which
lowed bin) from the Coach and Horses, and he sup-
the:University is to be publicly disowned by her osyse
posed she was following him into the Inn-yard, but
Chancttllor ? Only fancy Lord,.Grenville embracing t he missed her, and could not find her when the 'coach
and saluting, and saying a thousend agreeable,things was going off; the coach waited about ten minutes
to the Irish Deputies, who, in return, declare tbJt for her.
he ' shall have the Chair of the Catholic Meeting . Martha, the wife of Edward Brown, of the Black
House at 'Dublin, and the Chancellorship of the Dog public-house, Drury-lane, said, she recollected
College at Maynooth, while Alma Mater, unable the Prisoner, together with several other watchmen,
to catch his Lordship's eye, which is known to be coming to her house on Sunday morning week, lee-
rather near-sighted, tired to death with standing tween six and seven o'clock; they had dime half
unnoticed in the lobby of the house, and broken- pints of gin, but would only pay for two,, and left
hearted, poor soul, at thisflirting and gallantry with the house without paying. She said no woman came
her Catholic rivals, is by chance seen by some stray t into the house with them.
Lord,. who, from good nature, and the ,comity of The Prosecutri?L explained this, by acknowledging
Parliament, undertakes for this once, to present she did not go into the house, but remained on the
her Petition in the absence of her friend, knit, tells her outside of 'the door, and got some milk of a woinan
never to think of taking a journey from Oxford •
who was passing at the time.
again, unlest she can get her friends to
.attend the Benjamin Potter, the servant of Nicholas Berger,-
House. , the landlord of the Cock public-house, in liyot-
-1 411 not believe it possible for the University to streeteSt. Giles; the public-house, where the pro-
choose such a part as this among the dramatis per- i secutrix was taken said, on the morning of Sunday
sonm' of so' ludicrous an exhibition, entertainhag ► se'unight, between six and seven o'clock, he recol-
enough to tbe Grenville party, bUt to us degrading
leded the Prisoner, another man, whom he did not
and shameful' beyond all description.. I shall add
know, and Carolina Wilcox, the prosecutrix coming
but a'few words more ; I have sufficiently pointed
to his master's house ; they bad a pint of porter, anl,
out the relation in which Lord Grenville stands; Let
it be remembered, then, that he approaches us, not
a half a quartern of rum, which he thought Carolina
Wilcox pair' for, with ' half-a-croWn, and he gave
with the kindness of ft friend, to ad with ue, but as
her the change. He did not recoiled seeing Caro-
an inveterate foe, to thwart and oppose us ; as a man
ling Wilcox's bundle, but heard the Prisoner say, the
who bids defiance to our expostulations ; who dis-
other, man had-taken her bundle away.,
"The prose,
piles our judgment, and who charges us with ob-
, cut rix made a great outcry fur the loss of her bundle,.
stinacy, and prejudice ; as a man/who tells es; that
and said, it contained cash and notes, to the amount,
we must think with him, or not presume to think
of 2001. The Prisoner soon after followed the
at all. If we stand our ground, Lord Grenyille can-
not succeed, and our independency/ at least, wilt 'other man. The prosecutrix remained in the•
house about half an hour, when a man in a sailor's
be secure from him ; if we give way, the Grenville-
dress, who was in the house, seeing her distressed.
ites will obtain asignal victory over our own under-
state., took her home with him.
'standing and consistency, our dignity and honour :
11 . '.he Prisoner was committed for further examine-
a day,
...Indeed, of bouhdless triumph for them—
but foe the University of Oxford a day of sackcloth """ . .
.Several Gentlemen subscribed to the prosecutrix.
and ashes.
AN :MASKED BALL
INDEFENDENT MEMBER,OF CONVOCATION. •PRACAS.
IMARLDUR6LIGH-STREET, -Nov. So.—Mi. Samuel
a clerk in the office of Mr. Silk, Proaor, Bell-court,
Doetore-COmmons, Was charged with assaulting
John Patten, a private belonging to the Foot Guards,.
early in the, morning in the Pantheon. It appeared
that the Defendant had been paying his devotion to
Bacchus, and walking in sound of the ' music, at
the Pantheon, he was attraCted there, and being re-
solved to go in character, he gave a soldier 54. to lend
him his jacket and cap ; they exchanged clothes, and
.the Produr being equipped-, walked in without cere-
mony, forgetting to pay hivadmission. He was soon,
perceived not 'to have a military air, having un-
fortunately, got a stoop by leaning over the desk, a.
party of the Guards were sent into the ball-room to
bring the prisoner out'. The Prosecutor was one of
them ; and the prisoner Struck him e he was taken
to the watch-house..
Mr. Samuel, in his defence, said, he had not any
recolleEtion of what had passed, after fie exchanged
clothes with the: soldier, for which he'paid him ss. ;
that be was in a complete state of intoxication, an d
was perfeetly insensible of what had passed until
this morning. .
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Be was ordered to find bail. , .

RIO TS IN COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE.

BOW-STREET,. NOV. 30.—John Mnfris, a dell
belonging to the Warrant-Office, S'omerset-place,
was charged with assaulting Mr. Carpenter, in the
pit of the Theatre.
Thomas Carpenter, New-street, Covent-Garden,
deposed that the prisoner had, several titnes,, during
the performanCe of the Atierpiece at Covent-Garden
Theatre, in the pit, pushed another person against
`him in a violent manner. He asketl what be Meant
by pushing another ptson against him -? He denied
he had done -so ;. on which the witness told hitn
it was alie, for. he saw: him in the ad.; ou which
thitprisoner challenged him to fight.

'lanes Osborne, builder; Aldersgate-street,
tOborated the testimony of Carpenter.
The piisoner was Ordered to find bail, whiche
imtnediately complied with, and was diScharged.