The Sun.
London, England, 1815-02-09 00:00:00

RA'Z'ES" OF POSTING.

Yesterdar there was a metting of 'Noblemen
and Gentlemen at the St. Alban's Tavern, to con-
sider the I►igh price at which the Post-masters stiJl
keep up their demand. The Neeting was but
.thinly.ttended, i►t consequence of an ambigttit'y
in the_ wording _of the adyertisen►ent, by which it
appeared to b 2 addressed only to those Noblemen
and Gentlemen who had been of the Committee
in 1808.

JODDRELL was called to the Chair, and a
short conversation took place respecting the best
measures to be adopted. The Chairman conceiyed
that an application should be made to.the Legis-
lature to protect the publip from unreasonable de-
❑landls from the Post-master 4.

. Some other Gentlemen appeared to be of opi-
nion, that the Magistrates at the Quarter-sessions
ought to have power to fix the rate of posting.
The Duke of NOR VOLK thotte,ht that the inter-
ference of the Legislature in matters of internal
trade was seldom advisable.

Mr. Hymn was of opinion, that the questiOn
had better he left alone, and that, from the effect
of competition, tip price must fall of itself. He
vvas the more inclined to think that' no :;9ml could
arise from interfering,
,as it had been found in
1803, that the exertions of the Committed bad
beeU Altogether ineffectual. • • ,
It appeared, however, to be the general sense of
the Meeting that some steps ought to he taken 5
but as the Meeting was, too small t,tconte to any
decisive resolutions on. the. Subject, it was pro-
posed and agreed to, that the Chiirmart should
C0114.,1182 the Noblemen Geatiemea vt.tho were
Mentlicrs of the Committee_in 130 S, for the pur-
pose of adoptiiip;
,such. measures as should appear
to theta advisable.

Thanks were then voted to the Chairman, and
the Meeting broke up.

WINDSOR, Fit. S.—This morning her MI-
3EsTy.and PaiNcEssy.s took an airing in a coach
aod four thrd,ogh Slongh,—On Monday her MA.
JEST and PraNcEsS'Es dined With the Princess
CnAILLOTTE Of.WALES', at- Craubourn. Lodge, for
the first tinie since her Royal Highness has resid-
ed there. There'waS a seieet party to meet the
QUEEN, and'her Royal Highness's
morni'ng- the Duke of \rotx. arrived at the Castle,
and is expected to. leave again in the evening for
London, after dining with the QUEEN and PaIN.
C ESSES.

J'he Court has- come to a deCision on the case
of Sir J. :AI uRRAy, and some of the Gene:lib com-
posing it.bare left Winchester, and are arrived in

toI4IL.

Admiral lIALLowELL quitted Winchester on
Tuesday morning fur Portsmouth.
Two houses in fhe City, we regret to state,
stopped payment On Saturday last. One pf them,
a .lewish hotke, Messrs. L. and Co. to which we
formerly alluded, failed fo'r not less than'3oo,oool.`
and upwards. •
Mr. K F:A N has procured a theatrical furlough,
to go rO Edinburgh for three weeks, where he
Will perform for few nights. This excursion is
tocommenee in the course of about tell days.'

D'ESTERRE, who fell in the late &lei Witb
Mr. O'CuNNIML, MIS an Officer on board the fleet
at the Nore dorinp the mutiny, and di,tin:-4nislied
himself by his courage and loyalty upon that oe•
easion.

On Monday laSt the remains of Sir WILLIAM
CHARLES FARRELL SKEFFINGTON, Bart. were re-
moved from hit late residence in Charles-street,
Grosvenor-square, for interment at Paddington.-
Dr. WattAY., Archbishop of Hierapolis, and
Coadjutor of Dublin, left Paris on the 3lst Ja-
nuary, on his return to Ireland. That Prelate,
since his return from Rome, has spent several
months in the French capital, where he solicited
the restitution of the property belonging to the
Irish Catholics. "He bad the satisfaction to ob-
tain the accomplishment of his willies.
WINCHESTEN, 7.—At the rmsning Assizes..
a trial is expected -to come on Qf considerable in-.
terest. The parties are, •a brave and gallant
and a Gentleman formerly resident at Ali-
cant, but now living in the county of Hants. It•
is, we understand, an action by which the Gentle-
man in question seeks (o recover colupensation in
damages for false imprison:nem, litt having been
ordered into en'stodv by the gallant General, to.
whom we haVe alluded, during the stay 9f -the
British army at Alicant. The circumstances or
this ease it would be imprudent to publish, before
they have been stated to a Jury. Among the wit-
nesses to be sill:ilia:ivied for the defendant ale Ge-
nerals Clinton kind M'Kenzie.

There are no fewer than forty-seven felons con-
emned to death in the cells of Newgate, and the

L:'3V-- :INTELLIC-iENCE-.

COUICI' OF CIIANCP,RY, FEB. 8.

OYSTER BEDS.

UDLEY il.. CORPORATION OF WHITSTAELF.
The LORD CHANCELLOR gate judgment thus
clay, in this long litigated cause,, which arose on
the right of dredging for oysters, in certain beds
on the coast of Kent, by custom, or prescript,--e
im eniorial, in poor p(!rsons and others near th
sea; similar to corliolti rights in certain lord-
ships or manors.
The inhabitants had extended the trade by im-
portation of marine materials, bleed, &c. from
iant parrs, and some from the coast of France ;
and althoUgh the ori4in of the institution %vas too
remote for human memory, an Act of Parliament
Was obtained under an early reign, to confirm the
tact of Incorporation.
The plaintiff being admitted a Member of the
Corporation, after previous :.:,.2rvices and expendi-
tures for their use, filed his bill for an account of
the funds, and payment of a balance clue to him
for his services.

The great difficulty of this novel case was owing
to the remoteness of the origin of the institution,
and the doubt that it was a Corporation, added
-to the want of any fund or ostensible officer to act
in such matters, the mode of appropriating the
fruits of the dredging for oysters having been prac-
tised by dividing the same continually, as soon as
received, among the proprietors, without any re-
servation for a fund to discharge the debts ,or
other public necessities of the body corporate, and
the distress to poor persons, children, and ap-
prentices, in being ordered to refund.
Some witty remarks were made at the Bar Oft
the ineyality of the division of the fruits, the
one contending that his clients had the shells on-
ly, while the contents went elsewhere; and the
other side contending, his clients had neither the
shells nor 'oysters, which was a worse distribu-
tion of the spoil. •

The LORD CHANCELLOR was clearly of opinion
that this was in tact a corporation, notwithstand-
ing the obscurity of its origin, and that the plain-
tiff was entitled to his debt with all costs to this
period. As to the distress of children andapprentices
that had immunities in the corporation by contri-
buting towards the creation of a filmd to pay debts
and other necessary expenditures for uSe of the
body corporate, that
.was incident to every cor-
poration, and must be complied with in this in-
stance.

iii Lordship ordered a reference to the Master
to settle the establishment, unless due satisfac-
tion be made or offered to the plaintiff, to save
the vast expense, and whiCh, if he refused,
would be 'remembered againit him finally, on
the question of future costs ; adding, that the
terms of compromise and refusal, if any might be
again nlentioned in Court.—Judgment tvas ti;ivc:l
for the

•
COURT OF KING'S BENCH, Y. 8.
EMBEZZLEMENT.
TIII KING V. JOSEPH 30IINSTCN.

The defendant was brought up a few. dayi) ages
when errors were assigned upon a conviction
against hill at last Assizcs for the County of Lan-
caster for having embezzled certain Bank-notes,
the property of the Trustees of the Liverpool
Dock Company, when their Lordships appointed
this day for the discussiOn.
Air.:WILLIAms accordingly, for the defendant,
in a' very ingenious speech, addressed the Court,
during which he subthitted three distinct objec-
tions to the said . conviction, which he' argued
with considerable learning and talent,- maintain-
' in,!, that if these objections, or any of them, were
allowed by their. Lordships, then that •thc •de
fendant was entitled to his discharge.
Mr. CLARK (Deputy Recorder of Liverpool),
in support of the conviction, argued on the other
side most ably and argumentatively, in which he
shoved that the objections urged by Mr. Williams
could not fairly. be sustained, considering the force
of the new statute against the crime of embezzle-
ment by servants, which constituted olfence
a felony, then before their 'Lordships fur their
,
consideration.

Of this opinion was the Court, their Lbrdships
giving their sentiments seriatim, and over-ruling
all the objections, alleging law reasons for this.
their respective adjudication, and all unanimously
saying, that the conviction was good in point of
law, the evidenCe before the Jury authorizing the
verdict of Guilty. 'Whereupon the Court ordered
the defendant to be remanded in execution of his
fo;..!er sentence, viz.,transportation for the term
of 14 years: He Was therefore immediately it-
morctl to his last plate cif confinethmt, viz. to thg
Hulr„s at LangstoneHarhour.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.