The Sun.
London, England, 1812-11-05 00:00:00

POLICE.

GUTI.D HALL .-Mary Davis was yesterday charged
with having fraudulently obtained 2111. of tobace-o,
from Mr. 'Lloyd, a tobacconist, on HOlborn-hill.
The Prisoner, it appeared, had formerly lived ser-

vast with a woman of the name of Knight, in
-Hosier-lane, who was in the habit of sending her
for tobacco to Mr. Lloyd's, on credit.
,This per-
son's name she used in the prAent,,instance, and
i;IB enablettlo accomplish 'her prirPose Mr.
flying eXpressed a wish not to prosecute
her, she was'sentenced;to fourteen days' confine-
ment in Bridewell.
Fidthard• Burt was next charged with stealing
twenty-four yards of printed calico; in the ware-
house of Mr. Walter Stirling, Bow Churck-yard
Cheapside. Mr. , Stirling stated, that a series of
depredations had been committed in his house for
a considerable time, and property to a very large
amount had been stolen ; suspicion having at
length attached, to the prisoner, who bad been a
porter in -his service for upward; of ten years, he
gave directions to his assistants in the ware,
house to watch him—and yesterday morning,
iii pursuance of these instructions, one of- the
young men, Mr. Gr,,hatn, concealed himself behind
some gnOds in the back Warehouse., from whence
he could fully observe what was going forward.
He had not been long there when he saw the pri-
soner eater, take the piece of calico in question
from a heap of similar articles, place it in a large

rush basket., and convey it to an-other part of the
warehouse. .In the place to which he retired
there was a heap of wood collected in the course
of the repairs of the repairs of Mr. Stirling's
house, then going on this wood the prisoner
bad the privilege of taking away, k:ud a large part
of it he ;-put into the basket already.mcntioned,
on the top of the calico, which was thus com-
plet.ely concealed In the course of a few minutes
- afterwards he the home, for the purpose- of
going to breakfast, carrying with him the basket.
An oiliZer, who had I)een summoned on the occa.:
sion, immediately purt,Ated ,hiM, and he was
taken into custody, with the property in his pos-
sessi6n.

Tile prisoner, in his defence, did not deny the
,propriety of the-present charge; but said it was
the "first instance in .which he had ever attempted
to co:,nmit such an offence. lie was fully com-
mitted for trial.
driihn Hobbey, , a decent looking young man, was
1.11,r:-.1 brought up, on a charge of, having.obtained
veral lamps from Messrs..fohnstoue and Brooks,
R:np-mantifacturers, in New-square, Shoe-lane,,
of forged letter 4. BrookS stated,
the prisoner had frequently brought to his
buase letters, purporting to be written be a per-
son of the name of Cuff,- residing in Pump-court,
in the Borough, directing that lamps of various
sizes and ounlities might be delivered to him.—.
Upon the-credit of these letters (Mr. Brooks being,
acquainted with Mr. Cuff), the'articles were de-
livered, ,and the prisoner carried them off. It
subsequently appeared, however, that these let=
ters were forgeries, and that the'prisOner had re-
ceived no authority whatever from Mr. Cuff to
obtain them:
.. 'The daughter. of Mr. Cuff, and the mother of
the prisoner, attended and said, that 'she had-paid
for the lamps procured by.-leer son,• and produced
the receipt. She din not deny that he bad acted
improperly, bait begged for. the extension of.
mercy towards hini, as he had a youlig wife and
two children dependant on him for supp'ort, the
latter two being at present confined totheir beds
by illness. •

Sir CnAilLhs FLOwEr said, it was duty to punish
the delinqUent, who bad been guilty of a very
gross offence.. It was with the complainant', how-
. ever,, to' take what steps bemight think' expedient.
Mr. Brooks said lie bad no desire to prosecute,
and should be satisfied it the prisoner went to. sea
in his Majesty's service.
Sir CHARLES FLOWER thought this a very hu-
inane proposition, and said, the prisoner must
Other enter on board the tender or be committed,
The prisoner pleaded his family, and seemed.
wuch affected With his situation. His mother
too, in the utmost anguish, beized, for Heaven's
sake, that be might be spared, as she knew not
/what would become of his pOor wife mind infants.
Sir C. Fio..i-ER thought he was. :.iery well off;
and the young mmn having signified his wish to
go to sea, rather than be exposed to an ignomi-
nious trial, he was ordered to be conveyed forth-
with on board the tender. /
A scene of distress, on the part of the mother
and son, followed, which we will not attempt to
describe. It was such, however, us to excite a
- teeling of sympathy in the breasts of all who were
, eye witnesses to it.

Bow-STREET.---Yesterday Joshua Palmer was
brought to the Office, charged on suspicion of an
assault, with an attempt to commit a rape on
Susannah Lee, an infant only six 7,.'ears of age, the
daughter of -ckorgn Lee, of. Little Drury-lane.

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the estilnation the_plithe has deservet-y-
-(tico their character as Lqatesmen•to,te Lweq
pitfall of Contempt. An ,article in the ve-ry
nninher of tle-Nat!Onal intelligencer, confirms
this reasoning. ." The repeal 'cannot,- says the
writer; " Focht6e peace wftli England, unless she
would disavcw the present system of bo-ckH:.,
of search.' and impreSsinent, and Without this,
peace with Etiginid' would plunge tts into a war
with -France," Who then can doubt of America.
haYidg accßied, to the Continentalt;vstem
franee to he:- " I will h:rve no neutrals.;
you must make War Upon -Englan:l, or I wake
ly,lr upon you F" And America h 4 submitted to
ti.t yokel

Away, then, with all the nauseous farFago of
the wAi• on our part. being, an 'unnatural iVar, (If
the ..i...inerieans -.speaking the s. line language, ,IL,k
every other base and factious sugge,tiou
haS no other meaning or end than-, to
.n..uce
A submission destructke equally of our hoao.:r
and -commercial 'interests. America is no kin;,,,er,
America to us. She has waged war at the instiga-
tion of France and for French views; and Atilt-,
rica LI, therefore, France to us, and every Aine-
rican a Frenclunan: The too extended forbear-
ance of Om-eminent has already been mischievous,
because sufficient preparations were not made for
a war they ought to have known was unavoidable
But they hare given way to the American faction
at house, and where is the return ? That party-.
promised to support the country against America
in case she din not rest content. with the repeal oe'r
the Orders in Couircil ; but have. they redeemed
their pledge ? For ourselves We never belieVed
they would; and they have not. Instead of fly-,
ing to the standard of the country, they remain
in their Old place, the heads of a-groaning, shrink- ,
ing, and unmanly faction, active only fel mischief,
and formidable only in the' nal-v.66e influence of
their anti-patriotic politics. We shall nthr, how-
ever, expect it from Ministers to put forih the
strength of the country and bring this contest to.
a speedy issue. .We rdjoice that- the Admiral (in..- '
the American station has credentials to conclude
a peace ; and we hope he will be furnished with
efficient means of making war on such a scale as-
may render those credentials of use to him.
are averse to a dreaming and supine war. Aiae
rica has made war, and we must compel her to
make peace:
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THE HON. COLONEL COCKB.—Tbis. gallant:.
Officer, Who fell hi the lines of Burgos, on the.
sth ult. when in the .act of rallying the froon
who had been driven in by the enemy in a-sortie.
from the castle, was eldest son of Lord Somers,
and had, from his earliest years, evinced the tnoit
heroic ardour for the service of his count: y,
no difficulties could repress, .and which was-
insensible wale dissuasions of friends, the dangers,
of,war, and the aliurements' of dissipation.' Els
career, though brilliant,
,was short. At the. ofe
of twenty-six, he had rapidly passed throe:!: alt
the gradations of military rank to the conuinuld,
of the 79th regiment of toot ; a. d althast i:11 the
steps of his,promotion had_ been marked with
signal and public approhltion of his iiiustri :.s
Commander; whose confidence rtud:crienc:Aiip
enjoyed in an eincOt. deglec. 31,v anci
the pill-ilk he *ill he re2,Tertcti
and orr!iccent of his - his
military comrades lancont the loss of so :np:-.11.
spirit, intelligence, and. generosity. By the_de-
mise of his maternal grandfather, he became-Fos-.
sensed of a large landed estate ; the sale
fish.cnjoyment ,of which he utterly disdained. On
the above melancholy tidings iieing conimunicatA
to the War Office, Lord Bathurst .dispatched an
express to Lord Somers, hearing also a letter
written to_his Lordship by the Marquis Welling-
ton, which reached Castleditch, his _Lordship's
seat, in the county of Gloucester, pri-Monday
morning, the 26th ult.; and the intelligence, it
may well be imagined, plunged the family into the'
most inconsolable distress. By this' sad cAtas-
trophe, the heirship to the title of the family es-
tates-devolves on the Hon. John Somers Cocks,
who has been lately elected one of the Members
for Reigate.
An alarming fired broke out at eight o'clock On
Tuesday night, in the packthread manufactory,
belonging to Mr. Nicholls, in the GroVe, Guild,
ford-Street, Southwark, which raged with the ut-
Most fury and the flames soon afterwards tom,:
municated to the two adjoining house, which in*
a shoat time were entirely burnt to the ground.
The Accident was occasioned by a: quantity off
hemp taking fire in the warehouse.,