The Sun.
London, England, 1815-10-03 00:00:00

'COLIC.I.I IN'I‘EhLiGBNCE.

UNION-HALL.
..A_cha.`rgeof assault and false imprisonment was
on SkAtirday 'Prefe' ed agaThst Capt,..DumbletOn,
COminander of the lEast India tornpany's ship,
the Lailin,'hy a titan named Wlionabl, whO had
been a quartermaster 'on board the abo've riatticd
ship. The complainant stated, that whilst the
was on her OittWard bound voyirge, several
`regulafimiS were Made by the Captain, Which
the crew'carisidered as 'grievanceS, and it was de-
termined that a reePresentation on the subject
shoUld be Ynadt: to the 'Captain. The complainalii
was fixed 'on as a proper peribn to wait on tl4'
'Captain ; accordinglV, on the 20th of October
`last, he, attended by several others of the ship's
companv, went aft for that PurpoSe. itere he
addressed the Chief Mate, whO had the Coin-
Maud of the watch, and desired to see:the Cap-
tain. The Mate, however, ordered then% to re-
tire. This the complainant refused to do. The
Chief mate' then went to the Captain; Who came
from his cabin, atid emiiinanded them to go to their
work, saying; lie had the same ruleS and reglila-
tions on.boaid his ship as existed on board shipi
of war, and the complainant not obeying hume-
diately, the Captain ordered him to be put in
irons ; here he remained A that night, and the
next morning all the crew having been called
out, he was-hy the Captain's order tied rip, •and
received tWo dozen lashes : 'previous to this he
said he had been severely beaten by the chief
Mate, and was in consequence subject to a spit-
ting of blood, and was otherwise so ill that lie re-
eeived' tmly.one dozen laiihes when he fainted ;
hut mite Captain paid noc attention to this, nor
would lie suffer the surgeon to interfere.
Captain Dumbleton did not deny the charge,
but said the crew were in a state of mutiny at the
time. The language which M'Donald addressed
to the chief mate was highly mutinous, and there-
fore be (the Captain) bad ordered him, to be
'flogged.
A second charge was brought against the Cap-
tain by a seaman named Campbell, who stated,
that whilst the Larkin was lying at Calcutta he
applied to the mate, the Captain not being on
board, for leave to go on, shore. Some words
arose between them, and the mate ordered the.
complainant to be put in irons : soon after, the
Captain came on board,. and immediately ordered
all hands up; and: that the complainant should
strip. The complainant asked, " what am 1. to
strip for ?" The Captain observed, " I have the
same rules on board any ship as on board a 'ship
of war ;" to this the conndahiant replied, "
you can spew me any law which gives you autho-
rity to flog me, then I will strip, but not else."-
-The Captain
.then ordered the complainant's
clothes to be pulled off, and be was tied up and
received three dozen lashes.

The Captain did not deny charge, but said
be had ordered the complainant to be flogged for
his mutinous conduct.

The Magistrate ordered the Captain to find
bail, to answer both charges,-which he did int.
niediately.
BOW-STREET.

Yesterday a very long investigation took place
before Sir NATIIANIEL CONANT anti Sir WILLIAM
PARSONS, respecting a robbery COMmitt ad to a
large' innount.in the. town. of Leeds. It appeared
that Mr. Thomas Bu premises in Leeds had
been robbed, and. after various enquiries it was
strongly-supposed that sonic of the stolen pro-
perty had
.been sent to London. Mr. Benyon, in
conseqUence, wrote to his friend Mr. Maybury,
a merchant, of Queen-street, Cheapside, who has-
been very -active in endeavouring to. trace it out.
He found at the Angel tun, St. Martin's-le-grand,
a parcel, which came by the Leeds cOach,Adirect-,
ed to Joseph Lee, to be left till called for ; from
certain CirCtiOIStAIICCS it was strongly suspected
that it 'contained part of Mr. Benyon's pro-
perty, and on its being opened, it proved to
he' so. The book-keeper and porter recol-
lected that another parcel from the same place
had arrived -a short time previous, directed to
JoSeph Lee, in Crabtree-walk, Hackney, whither
the porter said he had taken it. Mr, iliaybury in
consequence went
,there, saw Joseph 'Lee, and
made etumiries of him as to the parcel said to -be
delivered to him, but he'denied all knowledge of
it. .10. consequence of this awl other sus-
picious circumstances, 'he -was yesterday brought
to the Office, wheri William Couch, the por-
ter of the Angel Inn, swore positively to
his delivering the parcel above described about
It month or five weeks ago, to the prisoner in per-,
sop. fl is connection with the thief is strongly
suspected front other circumstances. A man of
the name of James, alias Joseph Broiz.n, is in cus-
tody at Hull, on a charge of this and other rob-
beries; and, on his being searched, was found a
51. Bank of England note, on which was written
the plisoner's name and place of abode. The
suspicion is, that it was part of the produce of
the sale of some jewels which hail been stolen
from Mr. Benyon's, and sent .up to London to be
sold.

The Mogistrates, under these circumstances of
suspicion, thought it right to commit Lee for fur-
ther examination.

Ftacs,Thursday se'nnight, a dreadful fire
took piade at Bobb's-green, near Ware, Herts
A girl went to an adjoining cottage, to get some
embers to kindle a fire in that in which she. re-
sided. The wind, unperceived by the girl, blew
part of embers to some loose. straw, which
first communicated to the thatch of the pip-stye,
and then to the cottage in which she dwelt, and
to two others adjoining ; next to a farm house,
and which, with barns, stabling, and nine ricks of
corn and hay, were all consumed within two
hours. The unfortunate proprietor has a wife and
four small. children, and his.property lost, except
a few trifles, was uninsnred. And on Thursday
last,,another dreadful fire took place at Tennis,
near Buntingtord„Herts, at nine in the evening,
which burnt down a barn full of wheat, 2I ricks
of.corn and hay, the dwelling-house, Itiruiture,
stabling, and outhouses. By this fatal calamity
three
.fine horses and 17 fats hogs, together with
the farming implements, were likewise destroyed.
So rapid were, the flames, that the owner and his
family had scarce time to save themselVes. The
premises are suspected to have been. set 'on fire by
some• evil diTosect rvson..-