The Sun.
London, England, 1846-03-21 00:00:00

THE QUEEN V. THE ESTATE OF JONES.

This was an inquiry on a writ diem clauset extremen,
directed to the Sheriffs of Lon,lon, to ascertain whether the
said Henry Thomas Jones, of Sudbury, Suffolk, was alive
or dead, and if dead, when and where he died, and of what
property he was possessed at the time of his death,
within the Bail wick of the Sheriffs of London.

The Solicitor to the Excise said that this proceeding was
similar to a writ of extant, at the suit of the Crown ; but
Jones, the debtor, who was dead., being in arrear for malt-
duties to the amount of -1,033/. 10s. lid. _ _

A witness was called, who proved that the deceased, H.
T. Jones, committed suicide in one of his own malthouses,
at Sudbury, on the 4th inst.
Mr. J. E. Whittle, one of the officers of the Sheriffs of
London, proved the seizure of 125 quarters of malt, at the
premises of Messrs: Randall and Co., corn-factors at Queen-
hithe, on the 7th inst.

Mr. Charles Randall, on being desired to value the malt
at a low price, valued it at 48s. per qr. for 121 qrs. of good ;
and 455. fur 4 qrs. damages; he had a claim of 14/. I Is. Bd. for
freight and warehouse-room.

The jury gave a verdict for 3001.

ASSIZE IN TEL LIGENCE.
HOME CIRCUIT, Lewes, Marsh 19.

William Freelove, 29, and John Ptrfitt, alias Perfect,
26, were indicted for •feloniously removing 801bs. of
indigo, value 201., the property of Vander Vandermulen.

Id other counts of the indictment it was stated that
the property in question had been cast ashore from a
wrecked vessel, and that the prisoners unlawfully kept
possession of it, and neglected to deliver it up to the ser-
geant of the Admiralty, who was duly empowered to
take it on behalf of the owners of the vessel, and which
neglect is make felony by special statute.
In some other counts, the property was said to belong
to her Majesty and to the Duke of Wellington, as
Warden of the Cinque Ports.
Mr. Horne conducted the prosecution, and Mr. Cob-
bett appeared for the prisoners.
It appeared from the evidence that on the 28th of
December last, a Dutch Indiaman, called the Twee
Corndlissen, was wrecked on the Sussex coast, near
Hastings, and the vessel, which was laden with 550
chests of indigo, and other valuable articles, eventually
went to pieces, and the cargo was washed ashore for
several days afterwards, and considerable portions of it
strewed the beach. Nearly four hundred of the boxes
of indigo thus came ashore, and it would appear that
the prisoner Freelove had engaged a fly, and that he
and Purfitt placed one of the boxes of indigo in it, and
conveyed it to Hastings, at which place one of the men
belonging to the preventive service interfered, and, sus-
pecting something was wrong, he took possession of the
property, which turned out to have formed part of the
cargo of the wrecked vessel.
Mr. COBBETT took some technical objections to the
indictment, but they were overruled, and the jury found
Freelove guilty, and acquitted the other prisoner.
Lord DENMAN sentenced him to be imprisoned and
kept to hard labour for four months.
William Binstead, the Post-office clerk, who was con-
victed on Tuesday of stealing a gold watch from a letter,
was brought up for judgment, and sentenced to be
transported for seven years.