The Sun.
London, England, 1812-06-26 00:00:00

POLICB.

WIT I CHAP =Yes :Mad SatenclerS and
Sainue! Myers Were brought up,. asid underwent
examipation, being charged with stealing from
the person of a Captain of a ship, at the sign of the
Yorkshire Grey, Whitechapel, his pocket-book,
containing Bank-notes to the amount of 58/, The
evidence, adduced by witnesses being corroborated
by, other evidence, the prisoners were fully com-
mitted to Newgate for trial.
HATT° N-GARDEN .—Sarah Spencer And Mary
Tyler Were examined, being charged by the land-
lord of the Magpie and Stump Public-house,. in
Clerkenwell, with -stealing three brass lamps and
other things, his property. The same being
traced to the prisoners, and the fact sworn to,
they were fully committed to Newgatt for trial.
Two young men were charged with having
trespassed in'the grounds of Mr. Pepper, market-
gardener, in the City-road, and with stealing
thercout a small "quantity pf cabbages, with which
they were stopped by the patrole. Mr. Pepper
not identifying the.sanie to be his property, and
the prisoners having good characters from their
employers, the Magistrates • dismissed them with
a strong admonition.

ADMINISTERING UNLAWFUL OATHS.—The Bill,
as amended by the Committee, for preventing the
administering or taking unlawful oaths, enacts,
-that persons administering unlawful oaths shalt be
adjudged guilty of felony, and sufir death as a
felon, without benefit of clergy, and that every
person who shall take such oath, shall be adjudg-
ed-guilty of felony, and transported for life, or for
such term of years as the Court shall adjudge. It
also provides, that persons who may be compelled
to-take such oaths shall not be justified, unless
they declare the same within 14 days. Persons,
hOwever, -who shall, within three months, after
the passing of the. Act, and before they shall be
charged with. under it, confess the same befote
some magistrate, and take the oath of allegiance
•to his Majesty, shall-be indemnified against pro-
secution. Persons aiding, &c. at the taking
such oaths, or causing- them to be administer-
ed, though
,not present, are to be deemed prin-
Cipals'., in indictments, it shall be sufficient to
set foith the purport of such oaths or -engage-
ments, or some material part thereof.
,Engage-
ments in the nature. of an oath purporting or In-
tending •to" bind - the petsOn taking the same to
commit any-treason, or murder,- or felony; -punish
able by laW with death, shall be deemed unlaw-
ful oaths. Offences under this Act to be pr4e-
cuted before any Court of Oyer and Terminer, or
gaol delivery, in England, and before either the
Justiciary Court at Edinburgh, or in any of -the
Circuit Courts-in Scotland. The concluding clause
of the Bill provides, that persbns tried tatter if
shall not be tried again for' the same offence, but
may be tried as for high treason, in such manner
as if this Act had not been made:

POOR DEBTORS.-There is now before Parlia-
ment a Bill for the relief of poor persons_ confined
under mesne process for debt, in such gaols as
are not county gaols, from the distress they suffer
in consequence of their not receiving any allow-
ance whereon to subsist during the time of such
confinement. The Bill enacts, that Justices may
order overseers to relieve such persons 'confined
under mesne process for debt in such gaols, who
shall appear to such justices, to be unable to sup-
port themselves the sum per day to be given
for the relief or such persons, to be limited iathe
Committee on the Bill. The Bill also provides,
that the overseers may cause persons confined, if
they doubt their settlethent, to be examined on
'oath, and obtain orders for their removal to the
places of their last legal settlement : bat another
clause provides, that a copy of the orders of re-
moval shall be served upon the overseers of the
poor of the parish, •&c. in which such poor persons
shall, by such orders of removal, be adjudged to
be lekallY settled. The next clause provides, that
the overseers of the parish in which the poor
debtors shall be adjudged settled, shall repay all
the expenses incurred to the overseers of the pa-
rish :wherein the gaol may be situated, but the
former are to have the right of appeal to the next
General. Quarter Sessions. The last clause of the
Bill enacts, that such poor persons not having any
legal settlement shall be relieved out of •the
county rate.

GREENLAND MissioNs—lp consequence of the
war, the usual intercourse between Denmark and
its colonies in Greenland has been much inter-
cepted.—The Moravians or United Brethren have
three MisSionary settlements, con'taining eighteen
Missionaries, who, as well as the colonists, have
been in great distress for want of provisions for
two or three years past. The last letters. from
the Missionaries, dated, August 8, 1811; mention,
that .in some of the colonies they have been,re-
dueed to the necessity of supporting life by eating
small herrings, muscles, and even sea grass. Our
Government,. in order to relieve them, has per-
mitted a Danish vessel to carry out provisions.
A Court-martial was holden on Wednesday last
on bOard the Gladiator, in POrtsmouth Harbour,
on Richard Daly, caulker's mate of his Majesty's
ship Elizabeth, for running from his leave, and en-
tering on hoard the Cora transport, where he was
found
,concealed in the, b'old. He was sentenced
to receive 100 laShes Kound the fleet. A Court-
martial was also holden the same day on Michael
Taylor, a:private marine, of his *Majesty's ship.
Elizabeth, for writing a threatening letter to the
officers of that ship, and dropping it in the great
cabin. The Court were of opinion., that the
writing the letter was proved, but'that the pri-
soner was insane, and recommepded to the Lords
'Commissioners of the Admiralty to dispose of him
as they might think proper.
• One of the sons of Charles Lawrence, Esq. of
Plumb-hall, near Liverpool, a fine boy about eight
years old, was killed on the 18th instant, by
fall frOm the driver's box of his 'father's carriage.
The child had seated himself on the box in order
.to take a ride, and while the coachman went into
the house to fetch his coat, the boy took hold of
the whip, Which startled the horses, arid they Ma-
mediarely setting off with a great speed, he of
coursit sown lost his seat., and was precipitated on
'the pavement with great violence.