The Sun.
London, England, 1812-12-18 00:00:00

PIRACY

Thomas Younzhasband was capitally indicted for
being found on board a -French privateer, .aiding
and abetting the King's enemies, he being a natu-
ral born subject of the realm.
Lieutenant Radford, of the. Desiree frigate,
Stated that he was, cruizing off the 'l'exel on the
11th of March last, when he captured a French
cutter privatercalled the Velocite, and found the
prisoner'on board, acting in the capacity of Sur-
-ereon which. he afterwards acknowledged to the
Witness:

Pringle Stokes, a midshipman of the same fri-
gate, deposed, that in a conversation with the pri-
soner after the captnre, be told hint he was a na—
tiVe of Holland, ,but had been educated at Edin-
burgh, and Captain Youngbusband, of the British
Navy, with some other ofhcers in the service, Were
his relations.

William Pellison„ a resident -at Berwick-upon-
Tweed, deposed, that he h:ld known the psisoner's
father very well, both previous to and after his
marriage ; he had been a resident in Berwick, but
in consequence of embarrassed circumstances went
abroad. Witness remembered the prisoner at-
tending in the, shop of a Mt. Wood, a surgeon and
apothecary of that place, but he afterwards went.
abroad with his mother to join his father.
Some other.witnesses also spoke to their knew- ,
.ledge of the prisoner, as a native of Berwick, pre-
vious to his going abroad.
The prisoner being then called upon for his de-,
fence, stated, from a paper which he read, that
about 20 years- ago he accompanied his mother to
join his father, who then resided at Ostend—that
he had there married a French woman, by whoM
he had three children, but driven by Misfortnnes and
distress, he was compelled to leave Ostend, and 'at
the time of the French Revolution was threatened
and forced to bear Arms, as other men were then.
obliged also to do. That he afterwards was also
compelled to serve, on board the French priva-
teer, as -an assistant surgeon and civil officer ; but
that he never bore arms against his l!lajesty.
then offered several French documents in proof of
this statement,-and the compulsory means which
were exercised to force per'sons' of his description
into the French serViee; but these papers' the
Coart 'thought inadmissible, being unauthenti-
cated.
• The Learned Judge, Baron THOMPSON, having
sinumed lip the evidence, and explained the nature
of the offence, the Jury, after a short deliberation,
found the prisoner guilty, but recommendtd him
•
• to mercy.
Sir WILLIAM SCOTT, in passing sentence, expa-
tiated updn the nature of the erithe,' observing,
howeve-r, that the recommendation of the Jury
would be properly repre.sented to that quarter
whiCh alone had the:power of dispensing mercp,
but it was his duty to pass the awful sentence of
the law, which.was, that he be taken to the place
. from whence he was brought, and afterwards to
the place of execution, there to be banged by the
neck until dead.

The prisoner was.about forty years of age, of
a respectable appearnce, and conducted himself
dtiring the trial with becoming modesty and de-

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tine Cotivicied (it
...having used
Lim vk eights in place of Dutch, was -fined .five
guineas;

SCOTLAND.

HIGH COURT OF JUSTICIARY, EDINBURGH.

. .
On the 20 current, a fine boy, between•. font
and five years of age, by approaching too near
grate, in a neighbour's hnus.e in the Welt
Bow, where he
_was amusing:himself with liis
companions, had his clot't►es set on fire, and was
so'dreadfully -burnt
:that he died next ntoruing7ln.
the Royal infirmary..
Wednesday night, a fire broke out in a house in
the Cowgate-, Opposite to TOddrick's Wynd. On
the first -alarm the 'magistrates•and'police, with
the
.different fire engines attended,, and :the fire
was soon got t►nder, without doing n►uch damage.

• -Wednesday se'nnight the Court having met,
heard pleadings in the case of Gzivin,Hotson, ser-
vant to John-.and-ft.obert, Pienderle:ith, farmers in
Boreland, against William Burton, tenant in,
Ladyard. The circumstances were as follow• 4
Gavin Hotson; vith his fellow-servant, were driv=
ing their carts, 3d July last, upon'a private road
, the farm, of Boreland, when they were met by
Burton on horseback, who, coming in contact
with the wheel of Hotson's cart, his horse:was
startled, anll sprung off the road, into an adjoin-
ing field.; he immediately returned, took • the
name of otson's cart, and in consequence of the
accident, presented a petition to the Justices,
'stating that there Was room enough to pass if
Hotson had had the civility to remove his carts
to One side of the road, •arid take the one half, as
required by Act of Parliament, and that he and
his horse were both turned over a precipice, and
that he narrowly escaped being killed on the spot.
On this representation two of the Justices of •the
Peace for Peeblesshire granted a:warrant to,appre-
- hend Hotson, who was brought before them, and
fined in the sum of 20s. damages, and cominitted
to the jail of Peebles for two months, and there-
'after-till the fine should be paid. Against this rlc-
cision,
.Hotson appealed by petiti9u to tha Court,
stating, that he is innocent of the offence charged,.
inasmuch as the:load being extremely narrow-, it
was impossible to give-Burton the half of it, or
haVe gonefarther aside, without overturi: ag his
cart, and that besides Mr. Burton had no right to
go along-.the road, which is private, and that he
did so merely to avoid the toll of Fab.; also, that
that the Justices greatly exceeded their poWers.—
• It was pleaded that the-action Ought to have been
at the instance of the Procuracor fiscal, and not on
the petition of a private individual: •
The 'Court, after hearing Counsel for-both par-
ties, suspended the letters. simpliciter, and found
Burton liable in the.eXpences before that Court :
. thus, deciding, that the JuStices'hazi exceeded-their
powers; and were not warranted in the proceed-
_ ings Which had taken place. •
Counsel for Hotsdn, —.More, ESq.; Agent,
J. Ellis, W. S.—Counsel for Burton, J. Wolfe
- Murray, Esq.;• Agent, J. Mnrray-Es'q.• • .

It was decided in the Elinh:trgh, Forum, on
Thursday -evening, by a great majority, that there
.are no reasonable grounds for the .Frevailing be-
lief in the-existence of apparitions. • -

[FROM THE TYNE MERCURY.]

LOCAL NEWS—A stibscripticon has.beenentered
into at. South .Shields,, for, selling provisions at Li
reduced rate to the industrious poor of that place,
more particuhirly to those who are out of employ-
ment. It already amounts to,a Considerable sum.

On Sunday se'nnight, at. Monkwearmouth
church, after an apprqpriate sermon by the Rev.
.R. Wasney, 101. 3s. 6d. was collected for tlie Sun-
derland Dispensary.. The Magistrates of Sunder-
land have given 1 l 1. 14s. 6d. to the same charity.
_A fine of 10s." 6d: remitted by a. tradesman in
this town, for a breach- of the peace by one of
his workmen, has been paid to-,t2he Newcastle In-
firmary. •
• Jthn Bulmer, of Darlirbprton publican, •was
fined on-the 9th inst. in the mitigated penalty of
20s: for bating his cart by the side.of the turn-
pike road, for a longer time than allowed by the
Act.

Mary Hutton, :.of .RodclArn, servant to
Trowey, i)f Wooler-bridge-end, w'as, on Tuesday.
leiSt, convicted iri the penalty of 2s.
_3d. for
disobedience. of orders, ;awl leaving . her place
without the consent-of her Master ; vvhiehvpenal7
ty was, distribitted among the poor of,Wooler,
On:Thursday se*nnight the bet if.
lunteer:Yeomanry Cavalry; commanded b."! Colo-
nel BnchUn, entered upon permanent duty i.n Ber::
• •

On Sunday. se'nnight, *t noon, a hare came
down ta flogs in Northumberland-greet, in. this
.town. gentleman's'. servant com'mg,out of the
Orphan-house, set . two greyhounds upon her :
she took into Saville-row; but the dogs turned
her 'back, and, killed her in. Northumbetlancl-
'street-. -

In .pronouncing sentence on Joseph Gibson,
the Lord Justice Cr.itri., • in ,a tone of unusual so,
lemitysand feeling, addressed the prisoner—
lie had no wish, he said, to increase the misery
of the unhappy man at, the bar,
,by rcmaroing on
the peculiar aggravation Of his 'crimes.; he had
deserted from an honourable. pro le7.si on, in-wkrich,,
from hiS appearance and.time of life (the prisoner:
is ,a good looking man, only twenty-one'years .of
age),- .he had.; every, prospect
_of distinguishing,
himself, and; tbe arms, coMmitted to-his charge fOr
the defence of his Country, he had used against the
safety -Of the lieges whom it was his duty
.6 pro-
tect. These things he, could not help 'noticing ;
not to increase the remorse with which the pri-
soner; in his present awful situation must be tor-
Mented; but to warn all those who heard him, to
bewar: of leaving the paths of honest industry for
thOse of idleness and dissipation-, as' that course
must inevitably- lead to acts of outrage upon •a
neighbour's property, and
,britig 6 a -premature
and disgraceful end: Hw e as particularly anxious
to impress this upon thelower ranks,who evinced,
at the present moment (he was sorry to' say),
symptoms
,of diSsatisfaction at regular 'employ-
ment, :and a prOpensity to idleness which could
only lead to the lutist awful results to themselves;
and, at the same time, the present trial showed,
• in the strongest light, the excellence of that Con-
stitution under- which we had the happiness -to
live, where the only real substantial equalitythe
equality of the laws, was enjoyed in, a degree
greater than had ever been enjoyed by any otlsr
nation. The law protected equally the rich and
the ppor ; and the honest industrious man wasno
more to be depriVed of his scanty earnings, than
the greatest personae in the land, of his property;
both were protected, neither were to be despoiled
with-impunity. The sum taken 'did not constitute
the crime; forcibly. taking_ from any person, en,
der theinhuenee of terror, his property, howeVer
small the amount might be, was,. in the,eye of- the
law, equally criminal with fOrObly, seizing- pro- •
pertyro the greatest extent. .
ills
sLtirdOrip then„ putting on Nis bat,. (a-eir-
-cmnstance not common in, our criminal (;Aorta,-
= though it certainly adds to the dignity of the Judge
and the solemnity of the occasion), after an
ioi-
pressive admonition-6 the prisoner, pronouncing
tha.t, avrful sentence of the law, "Ordaining him .to
be executed on'the 13th January next, at the corm:
'on :place of execution in this city.
• • .

'Mr Wm. Jaalson, of Bywell, is appointed..Se-
, etetary of .the Tyneside Agricultural Society. 7:
-; .0n the evening of the 4th inst. Robert Purves,
sritith, in:SufailhOlin, on his way home from Kelso,
was attacked by two Mess near Muirdean, and
,robbed of some silver aticl-irpocket,-book contain-
ing seviralbank The.. Th robbers had ;a pis-
tol, which went of in the.scuffie ; and one of the
.villains is sn'pPosed to bear the mark of a severe
blow, which ]Purges gave him on the fae.e. •
Last week, a servant toMr. Morton, of Ka-
ham, who had lett its cart and:horses standing at
the
,corner Of- Bridge-street, Berwick,' when ano-
ther cart came in contact, and iNfr. Adam Dick-
' son, tailor in. TWeedniouth, eadeavouring
,to pass
between them, was bruised severely. The ser-
vent was taken before a Magistrate, and 'fined in
• the mitigated penalty of ss.
Yesterday, Samuel Brown, who keeps the Cock
'pablic-kouse, in this town, was convicted before
the Mayor, of refusing to receive two soldiers
who were billeted upon him on Saturday night
last, and paid the mitigated penalty of three
pounds.
On Fridaya,e'nriight, Henry, son of Mr. Wel-
t. 'don, mariner, of "orth Shields, was lost front on'
board the ship Anne; in the river Thames. Inc
'wits a.promising youth of about ,15 years.
On Thursday lust a blacksmith, belonging to
Colling Wood Main. Colliery, while sharpening a
pick, it fell from his .hand and penetrated his
:thigh, and being red hot, occasioned his death al-
most instantly.. .
Mr. -Yi`m.. Mould,. of Ayton Banks, last year
grew in .his, garden, a potatoc which 'weighed 111).
9oz. He set it whole this year, and it has limo-
- duced 72 potatoes, weighing together Ist. 41bs.
On Tuesday; as Sanwa Sewell, tiOstler at the
Fox and. Lamb, PilgriniLstreet, in this town, was
loading a cart with hay at the WeSt-Qate, he
slipped off,- and a truss' falling on his left arm,
crushed it7so dreadfully, as to render amputation
necessary..' Ile was taken to the Infirmary,where
he is doing well.. . •
"'l:robe night of the 27th tilt. as •Mr. John Gib-
son, one of the Tees pilots (who had broutght a
'vessel up to,Stockton, and gone on share)- Was re:-
tUrning.to 'his boat, he tell into the river and was
drowned. His 1064 was found on the following
Sunday, aurt interred the nexttlay. He has left a
widow and one son.

.. ;

EDINBUIGH:DEC. 14.—CaptaiR S. ilioppoTp?
sort-in-landing the Muros,'ftt:Newfoutulland.,,:is pro.
anoted to the rank of Yost Captain. .
Cornet JOHNSTON, 6th .I.Yragoons, has. been ap-
pointed Aidt-de-Camp -to Lieutetvant. General
iN WYAnD.

We are extremely sorry. to learn, that among
the_ easnalties :in the Marquis of Wellington's
arm, suhs'eqUent to the date of the details given
doNiai to "the 29th of October, the gallant Major
Robert Macdonald, 'of the Rdyal Horse Artillery,
who So much distinguished himself at the head or
Ms brigade in the battle of Salamanca, and aftei-
Ikards in-an affair with the:enemy near Madrid, has
been wounded.•

A ftw days -ago Mr. Ling, of Whitley, return-
ing from Pontefract, was-robbed of 40/.

EXTRACT OF A, LETTER DkTE'D GOTTENDURGII,
DEC. 4.

• .
" During the last cruise of :the'Ercbus sloop of-
war hi Wifigo Sound, an alarming circninstance
occurred, which had heady proved fatal to eight
of our brave Sailors. A poor'fellaw being blown
from the., shrouds-in a tremendous gale of wind,
LieuteirantPUßCllASE ordered a boat to be loWer-
ed, .and volunteered at the har.,,ard of his life, an
example whiehi. I-need not add, was immediately
followed by seven of our brave sailors, to rescue.
him frOM a watery grave,, they with groat
tliffi-
calty effected .it, when,: horrible to relate, the.,
boat upset, and they were plunged into the same
melanch,oly Situation from- which they, had' just -
snatched, the unfortunate sufrerer.- lam happy to
add, through
,t4e prompt assistance- which •vas
rendered; and which the destruction threat,
ened those that •made 'the attempt did not,one,
uloment retard, they were all preserved 'for, I.
trust, a better fate. Lieutenant PURCHASE, who
was nearly; exhausted with his exertions and the
cold, which was -extreme, saved himself by 'seiz-
ing in oar, with which he kept himself buoyed
up until. assistance' was„giv.em''.
. ,

The Aberdeenshire Militia has, been replaced at
Dalkeith by the. 2,d Royal Lancashire militia, from
The' Fife and Kinross Bible Society have lately
remitted, by the hands of the Rev. Mr. Martin,
minister of Kirkcaldy, their Secretary, 75/:to the
fund for repairing the damages by fire at the Mis-
sion Buildings in-Seratupore, Bengal. 'rile prompt
and liberal beneficence of the public, at Calcutta,
in England and Scotland-, had previously com-
pleted a' sum adequate .to the pecuniary loss, but
every Oveipitis wiil be exclusively applied to de-
fray the expence of translating and printing the
*riptnr'6.in the living Oriental languages.
The magistrates, Aberdeen have severely fined
different per'so'ns,forptirch:,,sing oatmeal and other
rivers on their way to the public market ; *and

LONDON : Printed by THOMAS, V

tilltr!ia PllT'l,f,t,

INFLUENCE OF PREROGATIVE ?

piing an Attempt to
.remare certain POP,ULAIt MlscoNcgt:.
noNs, respecting, the Present State nfi the Biu risti CON-
STITUTION and Gnvr.a:siviLYr. By 11A.IcL Esq.
B,lrrister at Law. .

(Coiltilitiea from our Paper ofl-esterday.)

.The quarter «heretlhe augmentation of patroh-
age within the.laAt thirty years ,has • been most
considerable is that of the revenue : and I subjoin
a .table,-.shewing.,, the whole addition .of officers,
cite sum of their salaries and potunhage, and the
amount of that increase-in the pnblic revenue,.by.
which .the annexatiou of these new officers ,and
emoluments became decessary •

Itterease of the
NOnabei• of Oth-
cers.

Sitlaries.
Poundage
those Oiiicers

GO
Taxes . , 17.3
C ugto:ns sG7
Stamps 14:1
Post-office . . lB4

237;211.
381,582
177,423
51,5:13
30,663

. • • 14'29 1 L. 578 418 I
}
Deduct the •• "
whole of die phis C' 3 tab ri sh 1
Salt Esta- 95 i Pre,i4:!d, and
blisiment. ( - the I:xeise'

Increase of Revenue, by
which the Annexathui
the new- Ogicer.,,, and Sala-
ries; bet:Unit meo.:ssary.:

1.7,4`.;2,000
115,231,000
5,422,000
5,7.86,900
1)8,000

LA:)..,329,300

lent htis been entirely silp-
its Vusittes4 traitsferreil to

The main het then,a.S.:ii,ll :1)6 seen from the
foregoing table, is shortly this—that
.additionl
sums, to The'amount of very near forty-fo;r
lions steriiug are, collected for 878,418 thy 9.34.
officers, almost all of them by persons in an hum-
ble class of life, 9y.cr njiain„-therefore, a Govern
inent can .have comparatively little interest-in ex-
erting an influence_ Thus, while the revenue has
(nen augmented in a sixfo!d proportion, the nuM-
1n of ottipers-employed the management and
collection of it has been increased by only one--
tenth. •

Nor will it require much more space to exhibit
the progress of inuuence in the other civil•depart-
ments of the publit service. Those_ in which an
increase has taken place, are, the Barrack _',stab,
lishment, the Committee Of the Priq: Council for
Trade, the Board .of Controut, and the Offices for
Naval Business,. In ,these departments_ places have
been .added, with salaries amounting, - in all, to
"77,000/.

To this 'ac6ount•of newly created offices, we.
ought, I believe, to add two in the Alien 'Office,
and the increase, whatever it may -save been, in
the Police" Establishments, possibly'it may amount
to about a dozen places. The Edinburgh Review-
ers.suggest also an allowaneefor three more, on
account of a Carnatic Commission, making, in
.all, eighteen. The salaries 'annexed to these
eighteen places may, perhaps, he- estimated at
about 18,582/. and if we were further to add the
eMolunients of the subordinae clerks, under the,
Auditors, under the West India Commissioners,
under the Board of Controul, and under the Com--
missioners for Barracks, which may, perhaps,
amount to about 27,00/. the inost rigorous sera—
tiniic.r of. public expenditure would scarcely, I
think', be able to detect an' oversight in the ac-
count : for no one al-course, would think-it ne-
cessary that an estimate of royal influence should
include a li-st of situations So vero humble as those`
of porters, liuse-maids, messengers, or common
labourers.

The whole increase then of salaries, within the
last thirty years, will 4p ear as follows :

, .
Oflice4 for the Matmgement of the Reveriue, speci-
fiedin a forc.srOing page - ' ' L. 878,418
Barrack Establishment., Corumiitee of Privy Corm-
cil for Trade BoSrd of Controui, and Offices for

NavatA3usiues3
77,000
-Alien Oflice,_Pcgice If,tabliBltinent, and Carnatic

. .
. 18,58
Clerkships tinder the Auditors, West -IndiaLamis-

sioneri,

27,000

L. 1,001,000

•So much for the additions which, since the year
1782, have been made to the civil influence of the
Crown:

Now let us revert to the other period, which_
intervened from the revolution to the year 1782 :
and here it is difficult to conceive, of what nature
the additions to the royal influence, can have been.
For instance, as to one very numerous class of
. offices—those offices, I mean; which the wisdom
of our ancestors Saw fit-to institute, for the per-
, sonal dignity and pomp of the King, of the royal
family, of the, Parliament, and of .the principal
personages in the State,---as to all those offices, or.
nea:rly.all, we know them to have \existed from
times of very remote antiquity. Was it then in
the revenue, that any great addition of places'
. ;lips made during the reigns of William and his
three immediate successors ? Certainly nut; for
the additional places,in the revenue haTe almost
all been created, as we have arready seen, within
the last thirty years. Or was it -in the Barra& es-.
that our former monarchs contrived to.
gain any material accession tootheir influence
or was it•in the offices under the Privy Council ?
or under the IPkird of Controul or in those fcir
Naval business ? or in the Alien or Police,estrth- •
lishinents : or in the departments of the auditors
or West India Commissioners ? Clearly not ; for.,
these Situations, likewise, have been almost all
created within the last thirty years. What then,,
I repeat, eau have been the adilitiorl made to the
royal patronage during the period in yiestion
In all probability, little more than a few offices,
for the collection of 'the taxes and duties which_
were even then beginning. to increase ; certain bo-
nuses upon the. contracts and expendittirepf Go-
vernment ; and a small number of .clerkships in
the Foreign Office, the Treasury' and the Atitai7
ratty. If for all these' things_we allow a quarter of
a million, shall-we not have 'given a most liberal
credit ?

Let us now- examine the other side of the "ac-
count, that we maysec what may have , been ilie
savings to counterbalance' ail this, newly created
iniluenCe". The whole account then of the reduc-
tions'is' as follows
theAy•ie»t mode of making loans, the' Mi-
nister settled the terms with a, few private friends
in. the city ; and it cannot he doubted that the
terms were highly layourable to the contractors.
Mr.. Pitt originated the practice of negociating

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