The Sun.
London, England, 1805-12-03 00:00:00

DO THE EDITOR. OF,THE SUN.

'S~A~

Having seen a printed Publication' relative to the-
death of my Brother, the late Capt. HARRISON, 32c1
Regiment of Foot, and having been informed that
said Publication, has been industriou,ly circulated
for the obvious purpose of influencing the opinion
on that -melancholy and extraordinary occurrence,
previous, to its discussion before a proper Tribunal,
while I lament that the transadion alluded to should
be of a nature to require the aid of such-an expedient,
I shall not so fir imitate the publisher as to state a
single faa or circumstance at present. The business
is- in the course of legal investigation, and I y,ish to
leave it ; but as a duty I owe to my departed Brother,
and to the Justice of the Country, I must entreat of
the Public to suspend its opinion as to the strialy
Itaiourable and fair condud alluded to in the Pub-
lication, until the circum§tances of. Capt. HARR'.
fON'S death shall be regularly disclosed, not by letters
and opinions, but by legal evidence at the next
Assizes ter the County of York, •
- CHARLES HARRISON,
Lieut. 2d ,Battalion 53d Regiment.

bUBLIIN, N0v..27.

ON Saturday a Record of some importance to
Merchants
,and Mariners was tried in, the Court .of
Exchequer,
,before 'the ,Right Hon. Chief, Baron'
CYGRAPY, wherein a Mr. Quin was Plaintiff, and
a Mr. Jones, Master of the Brig Dynes, was De,
fendatit. It appeared that there were five casks of
sugar, the property of the Plaintiff,. shipped onboard
the Sloop Chatlotte, and that the 6th day of March.
last both Veisels, had encountered on their paaage
froM the Pigeon-house up the River Liffey. Flaying
struck against each other, as alledged in the decla-
ration, a plank Qf the, Charlotte; ..being of the bur-
den of 45- tons, yielded to the Brig of the burden of
250 tons, Whether or not'the breach in the Sloop,
and consequent damage to the sugar through a leak,
for which the Plaintiff brought his action, was occa-
sioned.hy the.Dynas, was only . to be: conjeaured
from a variety of perplexing circumstances and con-
tradiclory opinions between Seafaring Captains, who
were employed to view the breach made in the Sloop,
in a conenssion, which no Sailor-Of the Brig would
On their testimonies acknowledge to have felt.
Mr. SOLICITOR GENERAL, for. the Dcfondint,
laid it down as law, that though damages might have
been sustained' by the alledged ad:of contact ,between
both Vessels, Yet to lay 'a' just ground'of action,
. , .
some palpable design or-obvious neglect, On the part
Of his Client, must previously appear to have caused
the damage complained` ,He also objeaed on the
ground of a legal &lea in the notice given, amount-
• tng to no more than a printed hand-bill, advertising
an *lien of the sugar question, without' any
specific notice, implied, or otherwise to the Plaintiff;
or any allusion to thematic, time; or place, alledged.
The Learned judge, in charging the Jtiry, rescued
this case,, which occupied' the whole of the day,
from much doubt and obscurity. His Lordship did
riot eloaly coincide. in. the opinions' urged' by, Mr.
SOLICITOR: He conceived it more reasonable,,whe-
ther el' not neglea or. design could be imputed to'
the Defendant, if the Jury believed that the alledged
dantae,e3 residted from an accidentatencounter be-
' tween both Vessels, that the party with whom the
loss-originated sliould make compensation, than the
..injurerr party should abide by his own, sufferings.—
With -respett to notice, his Lordship decided, that
the species that appeared in proof, that of sending a
Sailor on board the Defendant's Brig; apprisingliim .
of the circumstance of damage created by him, was
sufficient in point of law. la appreciating the value:
of the sugar,. with a view to compensatioe, he .also
observed, that it.was incumbent on the Jury to -throw
out of their minds the produce Of the sale by auCtion.
Sales of that kind, however fair in thin abstrata, or
however conformable toAmir, being in, general held
unfavourable circumstances—it :was merely their'
duty to strike a medium between the current price
of the commodity when in a sound, state, and what
it aughtimmediately to bring, depreciated, as it in-
evitablrmust have been, in proportion to the da-
mage sustained. .

tic Jury. returned a verdia for the
.PlaintiVof
951: Is. 7d. with

On Thursday last about .eso French prisoners:were
marched into Reading, under a military escort, from
Basingstoke ; they came from Porchester Castle, and
are on their march for Norman Cross.

About four o'clock on 'Tuesday laSt a
fire broke out in a dyer's stove,house,• Gorbals,
Glasgow, which, ...with a quantity of yarn, was to•
tally consumed before the arrival of the engines from
the City. . .

E7ctraa of a 'Letter from a Prisoner in. France,' late
Master and Owner of a • small :Vessel, to his.
Sister, in Iklonkweatmouth, Dated Sarlibre,sur-
Menre, July 3p; 100.5 i received on
Sunday se,'n night. • .
Your still unfortumite brother isliew in a mOst
distressed condition ; when I was taken and .carried
into Calais, all the clothes of tnyself and two soils
were taken from us, 4xeept what we hail onl
that' distreSsed condition we were marched hereon
coarse rye bread and was!,?r, .shut up in a damp dun-
geon every night, sometimes lousy straw and some-,
tiMen none to lay on',, a distance of near ,500
Before lakrived here I and John took
,the fever and
ague; by hunger, fatigue, and bad lodginga ;. but I
thank God we are both better. In this gael.we are
400 : tv,telve locked -up every night in one Mita,
with leave to Walk in the yard in the day. There
is another gaol in this town with 800 more distress
ed men. our living is wretched---e oz. rye bread,
and 4 oz. such beef as I ,never Sa w for baclue!si, is
our allowance for 4 hours. I W:11 leave; you to
judge how we, exist. If the prisoners bad not sup-
,lies from borne they wouid die, for want; some
hundreds have died throiLT,h 'want and fatigue ;
there are men here that were travelled above 1000
miles, 40 was"their diviiion, and 'only,eight lived to
see this prison, the rest lit::.1 in dungoonSand bo:spi-
tals. I have been in France these
four months, and
never received a scribe of a. pent which makess•Me.
unhappy and distres.sed, Tilerc are 15t7 tneneatf,z.,-
ed in the French Service frern the prisons in'.i th
town—hunger cottlilels them to de.it----thy ar4 (A;
their march to the "