The Sun.
London, England, 1802-05-29 00:00:00

ARMY OIL ST. DOMINGO.

" Heail,,Qairfrr.r,,lPGrt Republi4ain; 3i, ISO 2.
" The General. in.qiii4forders,
ART.' r. Tiaat Ali FAileli Vessels arriving direaly from
France, -and;loaded :witir:French merchandize, shall only
pay the half Of-the Ditties on importation and exportation
paid by Foreign Vessels.
2. " All Vessels loaded with merchandize, being the ma-
nutadure of otber Countries, shall pay as a Duty on im-
portation, twenty per cent.
" The General in Chief;
" LECLERC."

General MURAT is arrived here from Naples.
The cold at the Hague was more intense on the
izth inst. than wax ever remembered ae the same
season. The ground was covered with snow four
inches deep.
They write from Nap/es, that all the Eastern
part of Italy is menaced with a frightful dearth, in
consequence of the excessive dryness of the seafoti.
The QUEEN. of NAPLES is in a state of con-
valescence. Her Majesty has made a present to
her Physician of a superb Snuff-box enriched with
diamonds..
BERLIN, MAY 12.—1 t is generally -believed
here, that the Negotiations which have been for
some time carried on between Prussia and Austria,
by M. de HATIGWITz and the Count de ST'IAHREM-
BERG, the Austrian Minister Plenipotentiary at
our Court, have not had the success which the
Court of Vienna promised itself. M. d! STADION
was charged to make some advantageon; proposi-
tions to our Cabinet, on condition that it would
.consent that Allet.4b.olt-fre of Munster, an.l that part
of the Eleci4rate of -Cologne situated on the Right
Bank of theußhine,- should be confirmed to the
ARCHDUKE VICTOR ANTHONY, who should also
have the nomination to the Eledorate and the
Bishopric, or at least, should be all Owed to take
the reins of Government in these two. Countries un-
til- their lot should be finally decided upon. But
the Prussian Minister persisted in his refusal to
consent to any arrangement of this kind, and things
remain therefore in stairs quo.
SIRASLOURG, MAY 16.-I—The German • News_
papers speak at present of a Heket:c C'ousu/ta, to
be assembled at Strasbourg, formed on the model of
the Cisalpine Cnsulta at lgovs, and having for its
objed the settling a definitive form of Govern-
ment for Scw;tzerland. It is not known how far
. this intelligence is well founded ; but it is certain
that VERNINAC, the French Minister at Berne,
has lately received very important dispatcheS from
his Government, relative to the definitive organi-
zation of the Helvetic Republic.

On Wednesday last, five fishermen eonduaing a
patty of Ladies and Gentlemen horn Wandsworth
to Chiswick in a sailing boat, after having landed
the party, the young men went out in the stream ;
the wind blowing very hard, the ballast being in
sacks, rolled in such a manner that she immediately
run under water, when three out offive young men
were drowned.

At the Public Office, Shadwel!, upwards of 20
persons were, on Thursday, brought up before the
Magistrates, charged by the Officers of BlackwaH
and Limehouse, as being vagrants, who were found
lodged in the open air, in and near the West India
Docks—many of them appeared to have been lately
discharged from the ships of war, and had lavished
away all their monies ; the' Magistrates gave them
a strong, admonition, and informed them if they
were found so offending again, they would be dealt
with as incorrigible rogues and vagabonds.

• • - • •I, AFF REP RT.

OF BEN'CIT, MAY IS'.

Mr. Grans moved for -leave to file a.criminitl
'Wort-nation against a Gentleman of the name of
Halls upon Affidavits charging hint with taking
very undtlie steps to prevent a person who had :suc-
ceeded against him in a suit, from using the means
%%Nell the Law allow's for the recovery of it.
The Court, undet a hOpe that an accommodation
will take place between the Parties, granted a Rule
to .shew Cause, but desired that Mr. GzaAs would
not move to make it •absolute without. reminding
the Court of the circumstances of the Case,--Rule
to • hew Cause granted.

OLD B AIL EY

ADMIRALTY SESSIONS, M 1' 2,8'.

TIE Session was opened this day, in the csnAl
form, before Sit W. SCOTT, Knight, Judge of the
High Court of Admiralty, &c. Lord ALvAN.t.tY,
and Mr. justice GROSE, attended as Judges on the
occasion.

John Shuttleaor:h was tried upon a charge of the
wilful murder of W. Archer, an infant, in Novem.
ber last, on board the Ship Hercules, then lying at
Georgia, in South Carolina.

it appeared that the PriSoner was Master *of the
Ship above4nentioned, and that the deceased, a boy
of between fourteen and fifteen years old, had been
one of the Crew.

By the accounts of several of the Witnesses it -ap:.
peared, that about the latter end of Ott. last, or the
beginning of November, the boy had been flogged
by the Mate, pursuant to the Prisoner's order, and
shortly after by the Captain himself; but with resped
to the degree of severity with which the punishment
was inflicted, and the interval between the two flog,
giags alluded to, some of the Witnesses differed very
materially=—some describing the 2d
.flogging to have
taken place on the very next day, while others fixed
the interval at several days, even a fortnight : they
also differed about the time which the second flog.
iag took up, and the number of lashes given ;
`some making the time to be so short as fifteen mi.
nitres, and the number of lashes about two dozen ;
and others, the time to be a full hour and .in ha;f,
and the number to amount to roS. lashes. in addi-
tiori to this, it appeared that the lad was affiieted
with a very loathsome and dangerous complaint,
which it appeared he was .affeded with in a very
extraordinary degree a few days previous to his
death, which took Oace shortlY after the second
flogging.

Upon the whole, the evidence adduced was such
as to induce the Jury to find a verdict of—Not

• John Paiiky was afterwar3 tried upon a similar
charge,' namely, for the wilful murder of John
Jennings at Demerara, in the West Indies, on
board the Antelope,
.on the 24th of November,
t 800.

The circumstances of this case, as they appeared
in evidence, were such as to induce the Jury to
find' a verdiU of Manslaughter. On which the
Judge of the Court (Sir W. Scorn) forthwith sen-
tenced hitn,_ to six months imprisonment in New.
bate, and sol. fine. ,

. A .General Court-Martial assembled on Tuesday
morning last at Chelsea College, for the trial of
two Privates of the Royal Regiment of Horse Guards
(Blue), charged by Captain Motwtrx, of the Bed-
fordshire Militia, with having used disrespedful and
abusive language to him on the evening of the zed
of April last, at Bedford, being the quarters where a
party of the. Blues were, and for refusing to obey
his orders when required by him to go.to their quar-
ters, after being informed that Captain M. was an
Officer and a Captain ; and for resisting and striking
the said Captain M. when in execution of his duty.
mr.stsLits OF TliE COURT.
Lieutenant_Colonel TYNDALE, tat Life Guards, President.
Major Rebou, ad Life Guards.
Major Dashwood, Royal Horse Guards,
Major O'Loghlin, Ist Life Guards,
Capt. Hayes, ist Life Guards,. • •
• Capt. Law, Royal Horse Guards,
Capt. Grant, ad Life Guards,
Capt. Murray, Ditto, • • -
Capt. Hill, Royal Horse Guards, - •.!
• Capt. Athorpe, Ditto,
Capt. Stanton, Ist Life Guards, •
Capt. Herbert, Ditto,
Capt. Blair, ad Life Guards.
The Phantasmagoria, with almost the whole of
the' present Entertainments of the New Theatre
Sadier's Wells, will be Withtirown after this even-
ing ; for on Monday several Novelties are to be.
introduced, some of which are of a curious nature..
Mr. HUGHES aCting Proprietor), displays much
proof of sound judgment, in keeping np this perpe-•
twit variety and novelty, as nothing is more likly
to redound to the prosperity of any place of Public
Athusement.

Redoubled splendour has attended the Boxes at
the Royal Circus, ever since that charming Pro-
duaion, the new Grand Ballet of ARiorr, the Fatal
Predktion, or Midnight Assassin; has been brought
out there, which indeed could not well fail of prov_
ing she case, such is its powerful attraction in each c
requisite for pleasing- throughout its highly impreS_
sive scenes, scpported as they are by excellently
composed music.
The body of Mr. Nath. James, of St. Michael's_
Hill, Bristol (one of the eight unfortunate persons
who went from Bristol in a boat on Easter_ Mon_
day, and were drowned, as mentioned in a former
paper), was yesterday seennight discovered floating
on the water near a place called Cherry Stones, in
the River Severn, in a very putrid state, as might
be supposed.. A considerable property in bills and
cash was found in his pockets.
. A few days since, the following accident hap-
pened at Saitford • girl about four /ears old,
was sent by her mother into the village to purchioe
some trifling article, but she had
,proceeded only a
short distance from the house, when she appeared
enveloped in aflame of fire---the distressed mother
and the neighbours flew to her assistance, but she
was so -terribly burnt, as to occasion her death the
next day, She had been sitting near the fire, and
it is supposed took up a lighted coal in the told of
her pin.a.fore, or frock, which the air kindled into
fiame