The Sun.
London, England, 1812-02-27 00:00:00

OLD BAILEY.

Two interesting females of respeEtability, of the
names of Weston, were indicted on Tuesday even-
ing, for a conspifaCy with a third person, to charge
Mr. Tkompson, a Birmingham trader, with bigamy,
in marrying one of the defendants,. Eleanor his
wife being aliVe. The indiamtnt charged the de-
fendants, with procuiing the said third person, un-
known, to represent the prosecutor. It appeared,
that the prosecutor was a married man ; but he
had cohabited with the defendant, Eleanor, in
London, and she had bore a child. It also appeared,
by the register book of St. Bride's parish, that a
rnatriage had been solemnized betwixt the 'defen-
dant, Eleanor, and a man named Thompson. The
prosecutor swore positively, that he was not in
London at the time of the marriage,- as he went to
Birmingham on the Bth of August, 1810, and the,
marriage took place on the 9th, and he .remained
at home ten days. He also swore, that the signa-
ture of Thompson in the register book, was altoge-
ther a forgery.—ln support of this alibi, a banker's
clerk swore;to the best of his belief; the signa-
ture in the regiSter-book was not Thompson's.—
The prosectvor's maid-servant, swore that Thomp-
son arrived at Birmingham on the Bth of August,
and remained there ten days. In defence, two
most respeaahle witnesses swore positively to the
hand-writing of the prosecutor in the Register
Book of St. Bride's, and three witnesses as respeEt-
able, negatived the assertion of the prosecutor and
his servant, by proving hint to have been in Lon-
d.m on the 9,1 r of August, the day the-marriage
took place, and one of these was the woman who
cooked the wedding dinner, and who attended on
the day. These witnesses fixed the date by events
which occurred. _ _ _

Mr. GURNEY-replied to the defence, and Mr.
COMMON SERJEANT commented on Ihe evideUEOr
and observed, that foul perjury had been. commit-
ted.

The Jury ccquitted the defendants.

The following is a more ,corre6l account of the
recent changes in the Police Establishment of the
Metropolis than has yet appeared--Mr. REYNOLDS
and Mr. BIRNIE are_ appointed Police Magistrates,
the former at Shadwell, vice CAPPER, the latter at
Union-hall, vice HICKS ; Mr. 'BAKER is removed
from Hatton-garden to Marlborough-street, vice
BRODIE, deceased ; Mr. PLESTOLV from White-
chapel to Queen-square,• vice PYE, resigned ; Mr.
CAPPER, from Shadwell to Hatton-garden, vice BA-.
KER ; Mr. Htcas, from Union-hall to Whitecha-
pel, 'Vice PLESTOW:
Lord-HArtowicKE has written a very sensible
Circular Letter to the Land Owners, Occupiers, and
other inhabitants of the County of Cambridge, re
s;-e,iting the interded junction of the Cam and Stort
rivers, which .his Lordship states, upon apparently
strong grounds, would be a measure attended with
very beneficial advantages to that county, and high-
ly deserving of publicsupport.
The following Extras it from a respeaable Pro-
vincial Journal, entitled The Cornwall Gazette, is
marked by so apt an allusion, and so much go )d
sr-use, that we are sure it will .be acceptable to our
Readers.—" Those who have been fond of tracing
nui. a iwall,l bet•,,en th. PitiNCE REGENT and our
HARRY V. will not fail to be struck with the close
resemblance this first at of urirestri6ed Royalty
hears to that Prince's conduit towards the 'Chief
Justice who had committed hiM; and"think they
hear him saying,

you did restrict me :
For which I do commit into your hand
• 'the unstained power that you have used to bear ;
• With this remembrance, that you use the same
With the like bold, just, and impartial spirit,
• As you have done 'gaiust me.'

" Those who view this resolution of the PRINCE
REGENT in- a less serious light, may paint to them-
elves the plight of the Falstaff's, Pistols, and Bar-
dolphs, now discarded, and wish the Shallow:
whom they have deceived into becoming politicians,
a sate journey back to rustic obscurity .—But per-
haps a course of actual business has contributed to-
wards convincing the Prince of a truth, which Op-
position men seldom fail to discover, and convince
their admirers of too, soon after they get into office.
Men who have nothing to do with Government but
to talk about it, will naturally become. speculative
and theoretic. Unrestricted by its rules and unbur-
thened by its difficulties,, their excursive fancies
range through the wilds of eloquence, and, feeling
that popular opinion is their only source of power,
the best of them arc but too apt to adapt their
speeches to minds still less experienced than
their own. But when they get into office, they
find all the difference between theory and pra6tice
Tile Talents' called that prudent abstinence which
was the effed perhaps of speculative idlenesss or in-
expertness, and condemned at Copenhagen, in Op-
position, what, when in place, they issued orders
for doing at Lisbon. Perhaps too, the great States-
man', CHARLES FOX, who had gained fame by talk-
ing only, would have lust it in office, if he had
lived much longer. What are all our noisy Re-
formists but speculative men, totally unexpeiieneed
in the arduous labours, d:fficulties, and dangers of
the business of Government ?--We owe it to the
retriaions, that the PRINCE became acq'?ainted -at
the same time wiih business and Mr. Pkarcavan."
The Gitraltar Chronicle of the .Ist int.tent, which
has been received in town, states, that the new
tower of Peniscola haying been attacked on the sth
Decembar last by from 400 to 500 wen, with three
pieces of heavy ordnance, the garvisbn....was com-
pelled to surrender, after reptdsing the enemy's in-
!awry three times, on observii.g _that the assailants
were preparing to blow the" tower up ; that the
French are keeping up an incessant fire upon the
Islands of the Restoration (Medas), but without ma-
terial injury to the works ;or the Troops which de-
fend them; and that they-continue to commit the
greatest excesses throughout the principality of Ca-
talonia, two of the towns of which (Mataro and St.
Celoni) they had lately given up to plunder, without
any plot ()cation that cduld afford the shadow of a
pretence for so barbarous a deviation from the laws
of war among civilized nations. The same Paper
contains the report of General Ballesteros, relative
to the operations of the army under his command
during the siege of Tariffa— it contains nothing more
than a repetition of that which we were previously
acquainted with.

COMAIISSARY DEPA.RT,IIENT,

The following low prices, annexed to the Articles
required by the Soldier, will prove that the utmost
economy is adopted in that essential branch of the
Service, wikh_falls under the Commissary in Chiefs

LIST OF PRICES

'AID BY THE COMMISSARY IN CHIEF, FOR THE Ut

DERNIENTIONED ARTICLES OF NECESSARIES, FuR

RECRUITS :-

s. d.
Black Cloth Leggings 2 6
Black Balls . o 2i.
Braces per pair . o 94
Canvas Frocks, each 4 61
• Trowsers 4 r
Clothes Brushes each o
Combs, large tooth o 31
-, small ditto o 2
Forage Caps each t 3
Grey Cloth Pantaloons 5 9
short Gaiters' 3
Haversacks each t ,1
Knapsacks and Slings 7
Knives, Forks, and
Spoons, per set . o 101

s. d.
Needles per hundred o 3i
Pipe Clay per piece, 0 Ott
Razors and Cases each o
Shirts each • 5 7i:
Shoes per par - 5 5
Shoe Brushes per pie o S
Stockings per pair o by
Stocks an i Clasps etch o
Sponges each • 0 4
Suap per lb. . o 9
Tin Pans & Corers each
Thread per Ib. . 2
Tin Pots each 0
Tobacco per lb. • 3 31
Turnscre ws . o 2i

Sir FRANCIS MOLINEUX, Gentleman Usher cf
the Rod, has been so long indisposed, that
his Physicians have now but little hopes of his re-
covery.,
The Gazelle of Saturday contains his MAJESreg
pardon to any persons concerned in setting fire to
a hay rick in the parish of Sheepshead, near Not-
tingham, excepting only the person who actually
set fire to the same, on condition of then- giving
evidence.—The above property was insured if) the
County Fire Office, and the fire was discovered and
extinguished before it had
.done much damage ; the
Office, however, with becoming spirit, has offered
a reward of foul. for the discovery of the incen-
diary. It is to be hoped. these vigorous proceedings
will have the effect of at length bringing .some of
the depredators to justice, and of dissolving the
conspiracy, by which so many deluded,* inert are en-
gaged in aggravating their own wretcl.ednesa, and
injuring the general interest of their Country.

At Norwich Corn-market, the sale of Wheat was
duller, but yet not much variation in price, selling
at 555. and some samples 555. Gd.
\Barley remained
pretty steady, fetching 255. ; and 265. Gd. was re-
fused for a small quantity, very superior in quality.
Beans for seed, as well as prime'oats, were higher,
the former selling at 265. and the latter 20s. ;. and
Peas 305. per_coomb.-At the Cattle-tnorliet, there
was a gond- shew of half-fat meat, store homebreds,
cows and calve;, and some Scotch beasts ; the
sheep-pens also were much fuller. Business, hew:-
ever, was dull, at much the same prices as last
quoted. There were a good many store hogs, and
fat pork-.sold at Bs. 6d. per stone. There was the
best shew 'of cart-horses we have seen for some
time, and also a large sale- of mail coach- horses—
some of the latter fetching more than 301. and 501.
and 601. asked for some of the former.

About •half;past one 'o'clock yesterday morning,
an old house in Exeter-street, Strand, tell down
with a loud•crash. • The house had given repeated
warnings. of danger, and two families left it a tow
hours before it tell. An ehieily woman, unwilling
iO quit her frail habitation, and anxious to save het
tea equipage, remained in a situation of great peril
tilt within a few minutes of the falling of the waits.
Fortunatel;y no lives were lost.