The Sun.
London, England, 1812-05-13 00:00:00

BE LLINGHAILI'S MEMORL IL.

TO, THE HONOURABLt THE HOUSE. OF COM-
MONS,O F THE UNITED K1NG.00,7,1 OF GREAT
BRITAIN AND IRELAND IN VARLIANIEN AS-
' SLAIBLE p,

TH HUMBLE PETITION'OF JOHN BELLINGHAM,

OP, LIVERPOOL, MERCHANT,

SHEWETH,

Z hat in the year 1804, you' Petitioner went from .
this country to Archangel, in Russia, for mercantile
purposes and haVing dispatched his- vessels and all
his oilier affairs there, your Petitioner took out his
Penosnick from the Governor General- on the 15th -
of November in the ame year, for the purpose of
returning home by the way of St. Petersburg!).
That as your Pet,tioner was on the verge of de-
parture, he was seized, dragged out of his Kabitky,
and thrown into prison, in consequence of an affi-
davit of a person named Solomon Van
.Brienen, de-
claring your Petitioner to be indebted to himself and
others a sum of money, when no such circumstance
did, or ever had existed.
Your Petitioner declares, that this Mr. Solomon ,
Brienen was one of the owners .of a Russian ship,
called the Sojus, that was- wrecked the preceding -
autumn in the White Sea ; and that ,he committed
this perjury with a view to obtain an irregular insu-
rance our of Lloyd's.Cotfee,House on the said vessel,
on the supposition that your,Petitioner had commu-
nicated the circumstances attending her loss to
Lloyd's, which he never had done.; the truth where-
of, all parties were-afterwards convinced by the re-
sult of inquiries from London. . .
Had the supposition regarding your Petitioner
proved true, this masked detention was intended to
,be dropped, and he was to have been Prosecuted for
the amount of the insurance oo the Sojus, which the
Underwfiteys at Lloyd's refused to pay. It so hap-
pened that ,Mr. Popoff, another of the owmrs of
the Sojus, was Mayor at the time, and, by virtue of
his office, President of the Magistracy : in this way
the Magistrates took cognizance of so extraordinary
a proceeding..
So unhappily circumstanced, your Petitioner
wrpte the particulars to Sir Stephen Shairpe,.as also
to bord Granville Levison Gower, His Majesty's
Consul and Ambassador at St. Petersburgh, praying
their interference to obtain an order for him to pro-
ceed on his• journey without further molestation.
To which application Sir Stephen Shaiype replied—
He bad by that post w:itten to the General Gover-
nor of Archangel daring your Petitioner might be
imMediately liberated, it not legally detained. Some
weeks passed on without any thing being. done :
your Petitioner applied again to both' Consul ?ud
-Ambassador; to which application Sir ,Stephen
Shairpe- answered—" That the General Governor
had replied to this letter, stating your 'Petitioner to
have behaved very indecorously, and that' he was
legally detained."—=Vhen the fact is, he was pa-
tronized by Mr. Van Brienen in the proceedines be-
fore stated. Lotd Gower also replied to your Peti-
tioner's application, saying, “ That, in conie,
quence of what the General Governor had written
to Sir Stephen Shairpe, he- was precluded from
making application in his behalf ; but-, if .your
titioner could bring fOrWard any proofs of irregu-
larity in the business, he would then as as the, case
might require."
I'he proeeedings,Avere of snimpure a nature, and
of such , public notoriety, that the. Procurer of
Archangel immediately after this correspondence,
reported to the Minister of Justice. at St. Peters-
burgh, " That your Petitioner was extremely ill
used, and that he was illegally detained."
It appeared after wards that Sir Stephen Shairpe
read the said Report at Prince Lapuchin's„the Mi-
nister of Justice, on its arrival at St. PetersbUrgh, but
of which Report no notice was ever taken ;- and;
although your yetitioner rnatie subsequent and fre-
quent applications to the Consill
,and Ambassador,
yet'not the smallest answer was- ever returned' to his
entreaties. The Procurer also forwarded a copy of
his Report to Prince Lapuchin, but with no be;ter
success.

After a durance of silt months, your Petitioner
was l'berated, when he proceeded to St. Peters-