The Sun.
London, England, 1802-05-03 00:00:00

DIJIDENDS

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May t 9. David Lewis and Richard Potter, of Mansion-
house-streer, London, wholesale-linen-drapers, at nine, at
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June S. /Dams Morrison, of Runcorn, Chester, brewer, at
twelve, at Guildhall, Lcnidon.
June S. -.William Smith, of Ozendim-stteet, taylor, at ten,
we Guildhall.
Miry' - John Pate, late of Bury Saint Edmund's, money-
.:_scrivehilr, at ten, at . '
James Hook and William Turner, now.or late of
Bficke- FoOr, Westminster, coal-merchants, .at ten, at
thlehall.
May 29: William.Buddle the younger,. of Chenies-street,
carpenter, atone, at Guildhall.
May 25'. Samuel Ireland; of St. Clement Danes, merchant,
•at one, at Guildhall. '• • • • •
May zz. John Long, now or late of Tortsea, Hants, mariner,
at twelve, at G uildhal I, London. .
'duly r: Richatrt Kirig Thomas, of Evesham, Worcester,
• mercer, at terri at the Crown Inn; Evesham.
.j4lay 4r. . James M.‘Murray. of Liverpool, clraper,.at eleven,
at the Globe Tavern, Liverpool.
pne 7. William Harris, late of. Birmingham, button-maker,
at eleven; at the Stork Tavern, Birmingham. •
June 2. William Scarbrotv, of St. Neots, Huntingdon.
baker, at ten, at the Fountain Inn, Huntingdon.
June z. Robert Stafford the younger, of litintingdon, grocer,
• at tin, at th,- Fountain Inn, Huntingdon:-
June z. Thomas Peete Weruberley, late of Huntingdon,
grocer, at ten, at the Fountain I nn,iluntingdon.
tune a. William Chown,, Northimp-
' ton, ;Mkt, at ten, ar the Fountain Inn, Huntingdon.
June T. Robert.Wakernan, of Birmingliain, plater, at eleven,
at Hart's Hotel and Swan Inn, Birmingham. ••
May z 3. James Horne the younger, Of Woodbridge,'Suffolk,
core-merchant, ateleven, at the Coach and Horses, Ipswich,
May 25.. Mathass Peairce,- of Blackman-street, Southwark,
cliee.,ernonger, at ten, at Guildhall: • •
May in,: Charlotte Court and. Alexander Webster 'Court,
late of Red-Lyon-street, ClerkenWell, merchants, at nine,
at Guildhall.

May zz.. William Richards the. younger, of Walworth, ship
broker at ten, at Guildhall.

C,F,'RTIFICATES,

May 22. roseph Wilson, of the Strand., umbrella:maker:
santi:el Calvert, of Liver pool, innkeeper,
William Williams, of Cowbriclge, Glamoizankhire, shop,
3 keeper.
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- The Bill brought in by Sir
-W. SCOTT eitone.
rates the Clergy from
:penalties incurred for 'non.
residence,
.and enables:them -to take- legal steps to
discontinue aftions that have been
,brought. Such
contracts as they may have centered into previous- to
the passing of this Aft,
,and agreeable to its. spirit,
are declared good. Spiritual persons holding any
iienertee, parsonage, &c. are declared capable of
taking lands, and buying and selling cattle for pro-
fit,
;provided they do not do so in person in public
TrOt'ket. They are likewise capable of farming
lands, Ac. in their parishes, and out of them by
permission .of the Bishop. - The penalties for non-
residence _ are' altered. Persons (having, only one
living) absent witisout leave for three months (to
be reckoned at different times within the year) to
be one-fourth of the value of the living, and at> on-
in proportion for longer periods, to three-fourths
one-third, with costs, to go to the informer, the
rest to Queen Ann's -Bounty. Bishops may grant
licenses for cause shewn, illness, want of a fit re-
sidence, &c. anti if the Bishop • refuses,. an appeal
lies to the Archbishop. Ail licenses to be regis-
tered, and open to inspeaion. Licenses may be
.pleade(l in bar of aftions for penalties. Bishops are
enabled to issue monitions to Clergymen holding
livings, to reside upon them, and perform the duties_
thereof, to which returns are upon oath to be made
within thirty days. In case of non-conspliarice, if
fequii-ed, the profits of the livings to be sequestered '
until the motions ate complied with, or sufficient
'reasons for non-residence stated and proved,. 'Ap-
peals to the Archbishop of the Province are allowed.
It is provided, that if any Clerk shall continue
tinder such sequestratiOn for the space Of three years,
the parsonag', &c. in relation whereto the said
nonresidence shall have been committed, shall, be-
come ipso fill's void, and the Patron shall present
another Clerk thereto.

At is provided, that nothing contained in this MI
shall be construed to extend to alter or afrea His
iyfajesty's Royal Prerogative in the granting of dis-
pensations for non residence upon benefices, as the
same exists by law at present.

Lait week, at Uxbridge, a company of Scots.
pediars were taken up for circulating a number of,
forged 7s. pieces ; on searching their lodgings, these
was found literally a sack full of these counterfeits,
not worth two-pence a. piece, though they rang
well, and. to the eye appeared very good. , The
pedlars had been several days at Uxbridge, and had
exchanged a 7s. piece far every sixprnce they laid
out, which created a suspicion of their being false. ,

LAJV REPORT

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COURT 07, ice, NC's BENCH, SATURDAY, MA:

SITTINGS lIEFCRE JUSiiCE BLANCA .1.14 D A SSE.

CIAL !DT IN GUILDHALL, LONDON.

Four causes were dipcised.Of. Nothing occurred
in the-conrSe of them which merits derail. The
one was a case, against a Wharfingeri for not putting
goods entrustektn
_his care:on board a vessel, in
which the Plaitrtifi": was nonsuitedi because' he did;
not prove that the. goods were not pct on board the
vessel; only that some how or other the goods were
lost. Another; upon.a. Policy of Insurance upon
goods on board a.ship, warranted neutral, lost by
capture by, the French—Coriderinied by the French
Court of Admiralty avnerity's property, by Which
the warrant,' of Neu tra negatived; .and Which
the Learned Judge held Ito be conchisive. He ob-
served ,that the case was too clear to reserve it fOr
the: opinion of the Court, and diretled 'the Plaintiff
tosbe'nonsuited. The two
.others were mot more
interesting.

OLD BAILEY.

THIRD DAY.-SATURDAY, MAY I.

Henry Cock
.was indided for having feloniously
made, forge4and'Counterfeited three several papers,
purporting to' be letters of powers of attorney of
William Storey,. Esq. of Chatham, in the County
of -Kent, deceased, to tran'sfer several sums of
money in the-Stocks or Funds of the Bank' of Eng.:
rand, and for tittering, publishing,' and making- use
Of the same,' knowing them to be so forget", •and
thereby cheating aA defrauding the 'Governor and
Cornpany of the Bank of England -of the sum of
70001. -and upwards, Stc.
This case; from its peculiar nature, the number
of Witnesses- examined, and the length to which
their examinations run, necessarily occupied the
attention of-the Court a considerable time. How_
ever, its leadirg merits may be collected from the
following condensed recital.
It. appears, that the Prisoner, tvho is an Attorney
by profession, was a near rclatiOn of the 'late Mr.
Storey of Chatham, from whom he had a power
to receive the 'dividends payable upon certain
Property.. which he p9sseSsed in the Funds. Mr.
'Storey died
,on the 1.1. th of August,., rBot, leaVing,"
as he imagined, certain sums in the three acid four
per cents, and ain
lso. the sum` of- 70001. 'in the five
Cr, .cents, which,_ appeared from Mentorandunis
to
.that effea being found among his papers. by the
:EX'ect)tors. Mr.' Storey bad beqUeathed-several le-
rg!leies to 'Afferent Persons, who in some time after
'his death applying for" them, it appeared that a Mr;
JefFeries„ the 'ading- ExeCutbr, drew up -a plan far
discharging. the same, in which he appropriated
sums in -the different funds ;Or the payrneht of par-
ticularlegacies, and among them the property, of
7ocioL iri the five per- centS:l6Sincluded.
About the latter end. of November this paper, a
copy Of -which was produced :in Court,. was-shewn
to and copied
.by the i?risonei, who acted for the

Executors in town,; but so far from stating to Mr.
jefferies that Mr. Storey's property in the five per
cents had been. sold, he .wrote him two or three

Iletters, in Order to dissuade him from, selling it
until after Christmas, that the legatees might have
the-benefit of the growing dividends. This was
agreed to by the Executors, and the transfer was
postponed till after that period, when it was. de-
termined ,to carry the provisions of the will into
effect. Or. application being made to the Bank,
however,
--for that purpose, they were :astonished
to fiJ,LI that the whole,of the 70001., five per cents,
, had been,sold out at different periods,,•by the Pri_
sorter, undo: the pretended authority of the forged
letters or powers •of attorney, stated in, the in_
didment, , which he alledged had been executed to
him by Mc..,Storey, and that .the last of it was
transferred in the latter end-cf August z Bor.
,One.olthese Was produced in particular, and Mr.
Jefferies above.m.entined deposed, that to the best
of his belief,, the Rame subscribed was not the hand_
. writing of his friend the late Mr. Storey. The
name 41*. S.'s coachman was subjoined a one of
-the subscribing Witpeses ; brit, on being brought
forward, he denied -ii-to be his writing, or that he
had ever witnessed'any paper for Mr. Storey.—The
name of Bishop, purporting to. be that of another
subscribing Witness, and describes as a Wharfin_
ger at Colchester, also appeared to be fiCtitious, as
several persons from that quarrec, stated that, no per„
son of that name and description had resided there
for the last thirty years.-7 To prove the uttering on
the part of the prisoner; and-his-selling out the pro_
perry in question, the Transfer Books were duly
'produced, and several" of . the Clerks proved the
identity, of the Prisoner's person, &c..•
The Prisoner offered a defence of some length, in
the course of._ which he admitted that he had trans-
ferred the Stock in question, by virtue of the
power of Attorney, which he denied to be ,forged,
and asserted there must necessarily be a striking
difference in the handwriting of a person so ad-
vanced in years, and so afflicted with the gout, as
the late Mr. Storey. One of the witnesses was
dead, but he had no doubt, had an opportunity been
afforded to him, of fring able to find
..the others ;
part-of the stock he acknowledged to have trans-
ferred without the knowledge of Mr. Storey, but
his.motive,for not communicating it in the first in. •
stance to Mr. Jefferies,_was his fixed determination
to replace the slims;-find.he adverted to his intimacy
and connedioo with the late Mr. Storey as the cause
.of that Gentleman 'placing so,great a degree of On-
iidence in

TO the Prisoner's, eliitra'aer, whose conneEtions

it appeared, are very Tespetlable, a number of Wit_
nesses appeared, . among whom were several persons
of consideration.: as Mr. Mainwaring, member for
Middleseic, Mr. Alderman PriCe, Mr. Rice Davis,
Sce. Aftei an excellent and appropriate charge from
the Learned Judge, the jury were induced, on a
review of the.evidence, to find the Prisoner Guilt].
—Dea4.

The unfortunate Mr. Cock appeared to be .little
above 3o—and is a man of respettable and engaging
Appearance.