The Sun.
London, England, 1802-11-11 00:00:00

From the LONDON GAZETTE, Nov. 9,.180

War-Office, November 9.
i tth Regiment of Light Dragoons, Assistant-Surgeon Robert
Anderson, from pay of the 35th _Foot, yo be Assistant-
. Surgeon, vice Stewart, promoted in the 9th Foot.
Goth Ditto, Captain-Lieutenant Thomas Parker Roder, from
toe 25th Light Dragoons,- to. he Captain of a Troop, vice
Broome, who exchanges. Captain the Honourable Henry
Murray, from Half-pay of the.s4th Foot, to be Captain.
Lie itenant, vice .Fellowes, who exchanges, receiving the
di herence.
21st Ditto, Assistant-Surgeon William Buchanan, from Half-
pay of the late 2Sth Light Dragoons, to hi Assistant-Sur-
geon.
23 1 Ditto, Cornet Robert Thompson to be Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice' Robinson, who retires.
astn Ditto, Captain Henry Broom, from the 20th Light
Dragoons, to be Captain-Lieutenant, vice Butler, who ex-
.6l:inges.

sth Rci.intent of Foot, Captain John Drigue Morgan, from
the 9th West India Regiment, to he Major, by purchase,
vice Digby, who retires.
6th Ditto, Lieutenant the Honourable Charles Trench, from
the Halt-pay of the 6.l Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Mel-
lor, who exchanges. Thomas Baines, Gent. to be Ensign,
by purchase, vice Kennan, who retires.
litil Ditto, The Honourable Sanders Gore to be Ensign,
vice Macgregor, deceased.
14th Ditto, Walter Rice, Gent, to be Ensign, by purchase,
vice Brinsden, who retires.
17th Ditto, Captain Joseph Morrison to be Major, by pur-
chase, vice Cockburne, who retires. Captain-Lieutenant
William Sanders to be Captain, by purchase, vice Brook-
ing, who retires.
D,itto, Lieutenant Jeffery. Biercy to be Captain, by pur-
chase, vice flames, who retires.
ztst Ditto; Lieutenant Nathaniel Butterfield Tucker, from
the 33d Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Bruce, who ex-
changes.
—2.2c1 Ditto, Joseph Bishop, Gent. to be Ensign, by purchase,
vice Dagnal, promoted.
31st Ditto, Lieutenant Charles Bloater, from Half-pay of
the 31st Foot, to he Lieutenant, vice Johnstone, who re-
signs. Alexander Campbell, 'Gent. to be Ensign, by pur-
chase, vice Hawkshaw, promoted.•
sztl Ditto, Edward Mayne, Gent, to be Ensign, by purchase,
vice Strode, promoted,
33d Ditto, Lieutenant Alexander Bruce, from the zest Foot,
to be Lieutenant, vice Tucker, who exchanges.
34th Ditto, -Hugh-Casement; Gent, to be Ensign, by put-
chase, vice Hogarth, 'promoted.
,38th Regiment of Foot, Lieutenant Chichester William
Crookshanks, from the 68th Foot, to be Captain, by pur-
chase, vice Croker, who retires. Ensign John Rae, from
. the Half-pay of the 32d Foot, to be Ensign, vice Hamil-
ton, who exchanges.
44th Ditto,, Ensign David Power to be Lieutenant, by pur-
chase, vice Armstrong, who retires.
45th Ditto, Captain William Yacht.ll to be Major, by pur.
chase, vice Hawley, who retires. Lieutenant fames
Douglas to be Captain, vice Vachell. Ensign Leonard
Greenwell to be Lieutenant, vice Douglas. Charlet; Huson,
Cent. to be Ensign, vice Greenwell.
49th Ditto, Captain A, Gordon Johnson, from Half-pay of
the 4th Foot, to be Captain, vice Robins, who exchanges,
receiving the difference.
soth Ditto, Lieutenant Baron Alexander Moncrieff, from the
Queen's German Regiment, to be Lieutenant, vice Burdett,
who exchanges.
3tl Ditto, Henry Parker, Gent. to be Ensign by purchase, '
vice Al' Casket!, promoted.
57th Ditto, Matthew Crawford, Gent, to be Ensign, by
puiehase, vice Cadd, promoted.
58th Ditto, Hospital-Mate James D. Tully to be Assistant-
Surgeon. , •
ssttli Ditto, Sherard Todington, Gent. to be Ensign, by pur-
chase, vice M'Kee, promoted.
64/11 Ditto, Lieutenant John Macdonald to be Captain-Lieu.
tenant, by purchase, vice Turner, whose appointment does
not take place.
72c1 Ditto, Ensign TameS CamObeli, from Half-pay of the-
-72d soot, to be Ensign, vice'Wiglitinan, who exchanges,
. .
receiving the difference.

93d Ditto, Captain-Lieutenant Robert Sutherland to be
Captain, without purchase, vice Carruthers, removed to
the 43,1 Foot.--Lieutenant William Fraser to be Captain-
Lieutenant, vice Sutherland.
Queen's German Regiment, Lieutenant Jerome Burdett,
from the soth Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Baron Mon-
crieff, who exchanges.
ad West India Regiment, Captain GeOrge William Barr,
from the Bth West India Regiment, to he Captain, vice
Huxley, who retires upon the Half-pay of the Bth West
India Regiment.
stli Ditto, Captain Richard Kearney, from Half-pay of the
38th Foot, to be Captain, vice Berkeley, who exchanges.
—Robert Burnell, Gent, to be Ensign, vice Luson, de-
ceased.
sth Ditto—To be Lieutenants, without purchase—Liertte-
nant Richard P, Burnett, from Half-pay of the 46th Foot,
Vice Burkett, who exchanges. Ensign Charles Black.

• Ensign
gth Ditto, Lieutenant Ivlordaunt' Monr. Povntz, from the
65th Foot, to be Captain, by purchase, vise Morgan, pro.
muted in the sth Foot.

DUBLIN, IP.siov .6.

CQMMISSION INTELLIGENCE.

't,ll I NAY, NOV: '5.

William Shields, Thomas Kind?, and Thomas'
Watson, stood arraigned for the wilful murder of
Thomas
_Ryan, eft Kevin„street, the 14. th of July
last.

Nine of the "Parma were peremptorily challenged
by the Crown, and eighteen on behalf of the Pri-
soners.

Mr. BETH E L opened the case.
The in.dietment stated, that William Shields had
wilfully, feloniously, and of malice prepense, kill,
ed and murdered Thomas Ryan, by discharging at
him a musket loaded with slugs and shot, wound-
ing him thereby in the forehead ; that the shOt had
penetrated through the back part of the head of the.
deceased ; that the brains issued- out of the aperture
it had made, and that instant death was the im:
mediate consequence. Kinch and Watson were
Elided for being present, aiding, counselling, and
abetting the said Shields in the perpetration of the
alledged murder.
Mr. M‘NALLY stated the case. After an- inte-
resting preface, in which he briefly recapitulated
the law in charges of Murder, respeding- principals
and their abettors, who, he said, were also princi-
pals in the second degree, and, equally culpable as
the immediate perpetrators, if the evidence of their
aid and concurrence should support the fad-of homi,
cide. He said, that this case would however consist
of two species of evidence—,the first respeding the
fa 1, accompanied by what the law calls malice im-
plied—the second would amount to complear evidence
of malice expressed. Thelatter species lie would not
anticipate, by reciting the words which expressed
malice ; it was presumed.they would on the trial be
demonstrated ; neither would he occupy much more
of the .time of the Jury by animadversions on the
enormity of a crime at which every human breast
feels an instindive horror and indignition. The
14. th day of July last was the anniversary of.one of •
the most awful events that history has recorded,
the French Revolution. He would not affeet to
justify an ad highly improper, indecorous,• and
fraught with much public danger, as the celebrating
of that anniversary in this 'country by any species of
-popular rejoicings or acclamation ;• but some per-,
sons, not affedionately attached. to the Constitution,.
did on .that day instigate ceremonies of this very re-
prehensible nature, at Kevin-street, where a bonfire
was lighted near the Fountain, and nearly opposite
the house of a Mr. Seagrave.
The deceased, Thomas Ryan, a peaceable, ho.
nest, loyal, and well-affeded man, had been how-

ever passing that way, without shewing any sensi.
bility to the objeet of the bonfire; it however
burned without any immediate tumult, among a
few women, men and boys who appeared around it
—Ryan left his master's house a little before ten-
o'clock, and about that hour having arrived it the
fatal spot where he lost his life, he stopped to in-
quire into the nature of the solemnity before him;
when a body of armed men were perceived to pro.
ceed from' Catharine's-lane, in a threatening man-
ner, and approaching this bonfire under cover of
the dead wall which surrounds the Prithate's Pa-
.

lace, sheltered themselves under an angle that pro_
jells from the wall ; from this situation orders
were heard to issue to fire, when four shots were

immediately discharged indiscriwinately through the
crowd.--An Evidence would appear at the table
who, received some swan drops in, different parts
of his body, and the fourth shot, it would be.
proved by certain expsessions which fell • from
the Prisoner, had been deliberately - discharged
from the musket he held, and the contents lodged
in the head of the deceased, who instantly fell and
expired.

AidermanStamer proved that the deceased had been

his servant—was a quiet, sober, and orderly man ;
had gone out on the evening of the r 4th of July,
on his business; had left his house at a quarter after
nine o'clock, after retuning from Chapelizod,
where he Went by his orders.
Six witnesses, on the part of the Crown, con_
cured it deposing that Shields fired the last shot,
after a kind of volley from his party, by which the
deceased fell, and instantly expired. He used cer-
tain oaths and imprecations, while encouraging the
others in these words, " Come, boys, we'll make
a lane among these people at the Fountain."
Andrew M‘Manust a Witness, corroborated by
his testimony that part. of Mr. M'NALLy's state-
ment, which adverted to an Evidence-being wounded
by swan..drops. This man deposed that he received
a shot which wounded him on one side, of the head,
on the shoulder, arm, and side, and that four of
these drops were extrafted from his wounds, with
an appearance as if they were chewed.
The other prisoners, Kinch and Watson, were
also identified, as of the party who fired the dif-,
ferent 'shots.

The last Witness for the Crown, examined by
Mr. BETHEL, was

Peter IVPIVIahon, who deposed, that being a re-
lative to the deceased, he went in pursuit of Shields,
the alledged murderer, as far as Cavan ; that while
there he received a note, acquainting him that
Shields had been lodged in the Gaol of Trim ; be
shaped his course for Trim, and when he arrived
there, had a conversation with the prisoner Shields,
at the grate of the Gaol, who-tepfoached a man of
the name of Donnelly in his company, with being
deceived by his brother. Donnelly replied, "It
was not he -deceived you, it was I—you little
thought when,you were killing Ryan, that he was
my dearest friend." On
.which Shields instantly
remarked, " Who can prove that it was I that mur-
dered him, as four or five of us fired together ?"
On the part of the Prisoners it was advanced, that
mobs consisting of +Or Soo men had been in a riot-
ous and 'tumultuous manner parading the vicinity of
Kevin-street, from the It th until the zsth of July,
that the Yeomen were particillarly obnoxious to
them, and many hoes of loyal men attacked, and
their windows broke ; that those mobs were 'armed

with swords, bludgeons, stones, and muskets ; that
shots did proceed from parties of these mobs, on the
night 'of the r 4th of July, before the shot took place
which killed Ryan.

The Rev. Foster Archer was produced.to the cba--
rafter of ShieldS; he ',knew him many years ; he
first knew him in Cork,'an apprentice at a charita-
ble Institution, whekWitnessaaed as a Governor ;
on coming to Dublin, and finding the:Prisoner there,.
lie naturally inquired about his progress in life, and
found that by- his honest industry he advanced him-
self from being a journeyman nailor to a master in
that trade ; that he knew him generally' to have
been honest, laborious;peaceable, and industrious.
Daniel Feron, one of the Panne], objeaed to on
the part of the. Crown, deposed to the loyalty and
general, good
,condua of. Kind) and Shields.

Baron GEORGE recaeituiated the evidence, on
which he commented with his usual perspicuity ;
respetaing the man who gave testimony of his hay-
' ing been wounded on one side cf the head, lie thought
that- the marks should'have been still discernible.
The Jury would, however j9dge, whether they saw
such marks as probably ought still toappear, and de-
cide on the depositions of that Witness accordingly ;
if 'it should appear to them, that the guns with
which the Prisoners Kindi and Watson were armed,
had not been loaded with mortal materials, and
only powder discharged from "them, perhaps with a
view to intimidate and disperse the mob,'it would
form very serious ground for their consideration in
the charge of aiding aod abetting the Murder, with
which Shields more particularly stands indicted.—
To warrant a distiktion in the mode of charging
their muskets, he called their attention to the ex-
clamation which appeared in evidence to have been
Made. "'Shields dO not you fire, or:you will com-
mit murder.",, It was•also for :11cm to relied, that
if all these muskets had been charged with mortal
Materials, that in firiiig amidst a crowd, it is more
than probable that many more would also
become sacrificed. With res-Oed to the last, shot,
that which proved fatal to the
:deceased, it .Would
become. the Jury to examine most partiCularry into
it's causes as well as consequences, and try if any
alleviating circumstances, and-what they were, had
existed. If none could be traced, the persOn
who fired it must certainly he responsible to his
Country, and to that Public Justice, which, in their
capacity as Jurors, it was their duty to administer.

The Jury retired, and after' the Court waiting
some hours, and seeing no likelihood of their agree-
ing in alrerdia,. it adjouined to nine o'clock in the
morning, leaving the Jurors locked up.

LEEDS, Nov. 8.

IT is with no desire of needlessly alarming the
fears of theinhabittants of this town, but with a
real arid anxious wish that they should' adopt 'the
most eligible means,of safety, that we are desired
to state,- that nearly Iscio persons have, in this
town and its immediate vicinity, caught, within
the last•eight-months, the .infection of the present
contagious fever.

On Monday se'nnight, one Jones,. belonging to
a family of notorious depredators, and brother to
the footpad. who was lately committed to Horsham
Gaol, for robbing the Borehain Carrier, on the
Dicker, was apprehended at Wadhurst, in Sussex,
charged with horse, ass, and pig stealing, in the
neighbourhy,od of Canterbury. wan taken be-
fore a Magistrate, who committed him to Maid-
stone gaol, for trial, at the next Assizes for the.
County of Kent. Another brother had the effron-
tery to come forward, and offer to depOsit fifty or
one hundred pounds, as surety for the Prisoner's
appearance at the Assizes, ,if he could be admitted
to bail.