The Sun.
London, England, 1812-03-14 00:00:00

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES', FEE. 4.

MILT[ IA
BILL.—" The passage of this Bi.l wns
again opposed as unconstitutional atid- ex: ens re;
but on the quesiion, Shall this Bill 'pass- ? The votes
were—Ayes 62—Noes 50. So the Bill passed the
House.

" A Bill for raising a corps of Flying Artillery

was read twice."

Every day, nay almost every hour, afford addi

tional proof of tie unconstitutional principles of the
Party, who are trying to force themselves upon the
PRINCE and the Country, as Ministers. They sly

that the Prince of ORANGE, and the Dukes of Rick-
MOND, MONTROSE, and NEWCASTLE, Are to have
the vacant Blue Ribands ; and they add, that "this
highly-coveted boon has not obtained for Govern-
ment the addition of a single vote." This is a very
frank, but not a very wise confession, thai if the Party
were in_ power, they would dispose of the highest
honours of the State, not in rewarding merit, but
in procuring voles ! Yet these are the men that
are daily disgusting the public with their clamorous
professions of regard for the Constitution !

Yesterday the Duke of CLARF.NCR, the LORD
CHANCELLOR, Mr. PERCEVAL, Mr. •YORKE, and
Lord CASTLEREAGH, had audiences of the PRINCE
REGENT, at Callloll House.

The Margois and Marchioness of DOUGLAS Open-
ed their house in Grosvenor-place- to the fashionable
world, on Wednesday evening, for the first time this
season.

Yesterday a Court of Dire.-.lors was held at the
East India House, when Capt. NEWELL was sworn
into the command of the ship Alexander, consigned
W Madeira, Bengal, and Bencoolen.

The PRINCE REGENT'S LEvEE.--We omitted, in
our account yesterday of the splendid Levee at Carl-
ton-House, -to notice Lord BERRY being presented
to the PRINCE by the Earl of ALBERMARLE, Capt.
DUKE, Equerry to his Royal Highness the Doke of
CAMBRIDGE, was presented, on his promotion.
All the speculations upon the union, or-no union,
of Miss TILNEY LONG, have, we hear, been termi-
nated by the private solemnization of the nuptials
between that Lady and Mr. WELLESLEY POLE, by
special license, this morning, at the house of Lady
CATHARINE LONG.

The success of Mr. BETTv, at Cheltenham and
Gloucester, has been altogether unprecedented. At
Cheltenhatn he drew. 2001. i❑ three nights, a thing
scarcely ever done at the height of the season ; and
now it is more than astonishing, as this is not the re-
gular time of playing there, and the Theatre was
only opened a few nights on his account.
The French General Simon, arrived at Glasgow
on Tuesday, under charge of Vickery and Lavender,
two Bow-street Officers, on his way to Dumbarton
Castle, where he is in future to becontined, he having,
some time ago, broken his parole in England. He
is attended by one servant.

Mr. Sadler, the aeronaut, is preparing for another
voyage at Birmingham this Spring. In consequence
of the accident which betel him on his last ascen-
sion, be has been confined for upwards of three
months. The new balloon is perfectly globular,
and 'about .22 feet in circumference, and the im-
provement consists in a reticulated texture woven in
with the silk to prevent, bursting. It is calculated
only for the. asceosion of one person.

•
On Thuisday last, at the Assizes at Chelmsford,
J. W. Rutter, the Master and Commander of the
Post Office packet, the Lady Frances, carrying the
mails from Harwich to Anliolt, was indicted for the
murder of John Farr, a seaman on board the packet,
on theBth of Oct. last,at Harwich. It appeared' that
the deceased with some of the sailors, who had smug-
gled, were running off with the boat of the packet,
and.t hat a =don.' -shot hit the deceased. A- number
of• highly respectable Gentlemen gave the prisoner
an excellent characree for humanit3, &c. and the
Jury returned a .verdict of Manslaughter. He was
accordingly fined Is. and discharged.

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This Maid) has occupied Fo Much of the at-
tention in the sporting world, took place ye,feelay
at the Cambridge Assizes, before Mr-Justice 171 tyre'.
The .Court was so much crowded, that the busts, ss
was greatly impeded. The prisoner was hollered for,
wilfully and maliciously poisbning a colt, by Ea
.)e,
the property of Sir F. Standish, by infusing a qu n-
toy of white arsenic into a water-trough on the
Newmarket Course, in April, 1811.
Mr. Serjeant SELLON, Oil the part of the prosecu-
tion, detailed the case to the Jury.
Cecil Bishop, who had been committed as an ac-
complice with Dawson, was admitted an approver in
the case, and the substance of his evidence was rs
follows :—He has been acquainted with the prisoner
since the year 1807, witness being at that time shop--
man to a chemist and druggist in Wardour-street.
His acquaintance with Dawson originated in conse-
quence of the latter having represented to him that
he had a friend whose horse, had been played tricks
with, and, in order to retaliate, the prisoner asked
witness his advice as to what was best to give a
horse so as to sicken hie) without killing him ; or,
in other words, what would produce similar effects
on the horse prisoner spoke of. Witness and the
prisoner became very intimate, and Bishop's evi-
dence, which was in some part corroborated, opened
a s cue of 'iniquity never excelled. They had ben
together ?t different races, and witness had procured
solutions of arsenic at various times, which had been
infused into a trough at Doncaster, where two brood
mares were destroyed. They had also attempted to
poison Lord Darlington's Rubens, which won the
Pa% ilion Sakes at Brighton, in 180 j) ; and they suc-
ceeded in an attempt at Newman ket in the same. year.
In conjunction with a man, named Trieste, the wit-
ness had been employed to poison into the
troughs at Newrnarl:ei in 'lBll. Piroue!te, the la..
vo...rire for the Craven Stakes at NewFr3arket, was
the object of the poisoning ; and she was under the
care of Mr. Richard Prince, a respectable stable-
keeper at Newmarket ; and also a training-groom ins
high esteem among the members of theiockj Ciub.
Mr. Prince has under his care the principal horses
for the Claret stakes, amongst which were Spaniard
and Pirouette, the property of Lord Foley ; the
Dandy, the property of Lord Kinn .tird ; and the Eagle
colt, the subject of this indictment, all of which were
poisoned, but spine recovered. Bishop said, that he
had infused, the arsenic into the troughs, three its
number, where Mr. Princes's horses watered, by
means of a syringe, in consequence of the troughs
being covered and locked. Dawson was the acting
man in the back ground, and Trieste was to back
the field against toe favourites. After having wa-
tered the horses, on the first of May, the day
after the Claret Siaker were run tor, they were
all taken ill in the stables, refused, their corn,
and the -four which died may be estimated, consi-
dering their value and their engagements, at 12,0001.
Whilst Dawson was in London, Bishop was busy
inprisonerhkeepi b keeping
garsy t pu
arsenic in
of ough ;
and he addressed.
Miss Dawson, and
received in return, of Dawson, enclosures to enable
him to carry on his nefarious practices,
The poisoning of the horses was completely
proved by Mr. Prince, who had been apprized of
the plan, and, owing to his exertions, the perpetra-
tors were brought to justice.
A young man, named Longford, proved, that the
prisoner had met him, at Newmarket, in 1 810, and
consulted him with regard to lending himself as art
agent on the occasion. Dawson had often called on
him, but he refused to participate in his plans.
After Bisho-P's evidence had been gone through the
Judge stopped the proceedings, and after hearing an--
guments oa the part of Mr. Serjeant SELLON, for the
apirloasceqcunittitoai, and M
i),ontb
the grounds
Ko for the pr,
t Nthat the
the prisoner isoner , ated
hadd irebeen,
indicted as a principal, instead of an accessary be-
lone the faa, which in point of law, could not be
.maintained. The prisoner was therefore acT.iitted,
but ‘1.23 detained until next Assizes, on a charge of
poisoning race-horses in 1809.