The Sun.
London, England, 1805-03-27 00:00:00

SUSSEX ASSIZES.

HORSH Am, MARCH z 5 polges arrived in
town this morning, read their Comtnission, and
having heard Diviiie Service, proceeded immedi.
ately to busineiv.

there were Causes on the Civil Side, of
which only the last one was likely to- have proved
interesting. .This was a Case Of •Sriduaion, in
which the father-brought the aetiort to recover da.
m iges for the debauching of his daughter. The
Plaintiff was a clock-maker, and the Defendant a
Quaker by religion, ittid basket-maker by trade,
both of Lewes, in this county. •
As soon as Mr. Serjeant Stir .PARD• had eqn..
eluded his statement, the Learned ju,lge. advised
the Parties .10 refer the Cite toa Barrister; and on-
tier his direction it was referred to Mr. BOSANQUIT,

PUBLIC OFFIC BuN.NT ET. —YniterdAy
.iintfird, a piaster watch-maker, was brought be.
fore the sitting Muistrates, charged with unlaW.
fully pawning a number of watches which he was
entrusted to repair. The Prisoner kept a shop
ABU time since in the neighbourhood of White.
chapel, and, it was stated, had pawned all tha
watches entrusted to him to repair ;' and removed
from that place without its being kOnws, where.
Some of the parties, discovering that he had' removed
to the West End of the town, procured warrant ;
and yesterday, after a full examination, he was
convided upssn nine charges, in the penalty of sos.
each, which not being able to pay, he was cum.,
milted for nine months imprisonment.

Monday se'nnight John Walktr,a labourer, lately
reviding in the parish of Cross, Canterbury,
was committed to St. Dunstan's Gaol, charged with
violently Assaulting, beating, bruising, and
treating Margaret Walker, his wife, su much so,
that the Surgeons of the Kent and Canterbury Flo.,
spiral, to which she has been conveyed, depose,
that she is in a very dangerous state, in consequence
of the cuts on the head, and bruises in other paris
of the body, which she has received.
It appears that the
parties have for some time
past lived on batliterms, and have severally sworn
the peace against each other, and been confined .ac.
cordingly. On %aridity afternoon a quarrel arose
between them while walking-on the to-4 from
Canterbury. to Whitehall, when thi husband vtizO
a large stake from the hedge, sod brat berti r o..hr-
cruel manner, till her cries brought soriv, persons
herassistance, and he Was taken into cusinly,—
At a late hour on Morti,ty night the tv,inii
alive; but it was nut possible to say wheilier or
she would recover.,

•
orir Pater rf s.itur,i4yba.)
hy t;:li application of cherubs
lie morvy ;.y indiVidtiali to private use is strongly
lo the naie ttr Mr. Mart] tiIICCM, for.
1%0/roaster of the'Navy, which was
l:rou,;L, to our notice front the circumstance of
LOC:: Melville having been acquitted in his ac.
copilot Of the r.con of 24,84.61. 6i. 60. as the
atoratint of jllr. jelheoe's deficiency. Having found
that dui ptiblic mOneY had been very getierally
ap-
plied to pf tVate !Pie by Mr. Trotter, the, Paymas-
ter, we were induced to upon Mr. Samuel jel=
licoe, to iiieas/intr to at Certain whether Mr. Trot.
tett- Ar.tl,,ie4 any advantage final r, ifreting 60,1arge.
bilanee to rom.tin in the hands of Mr.' Attain jail.
car, his father. Mr. Samuel Jellicoe stated, be had
no conception that his father paid any CaniitipiratiOn
to M. ',l7:totter, or to any other petrion, on that
account ; but we leatned from, bins, that his father
died possepouul of certain freehold property, which
Mad not beets sold ,end .applied in liquidation of his
debt to the Treasurer, of the Navy ; and that he,
Mi.-S. jellicer, was still indebted to his fathet's
estate in the sum of 59501. part of a debt of 40001.
which it bad been agreed he should 'pay •by instal.
Intros of 2001. a year. -We therefore felt it in.
cumbent .on us to inquire into all the circumstances
rear Ming Mr. Adam Jellicoe's debt, and the grounds
upon which the Treasurer had been acquitted of the
deficiency.
Lord Melville, in his evidence, states, that the
first thing 'which awakened his suspicion was, that
Mr. JelliCoe's balance fluiloated between acs and
30,000 ts and was never reduced below the former
sum, Which inducedhis Lordship to have a partici).
lir convc ;is tioli with Mr. jellicoe, in which he
cenfessed., rt for a considerable number of years
be 'had berm embarrassed 'by • engagements he had
enteiretl. into with Mr. Henry Corr, in an under.
na,lt.iint for rendering cartt.iron malleable. "Upon
lis disccivery,- it is stated by hit 'Lordship that
14r.:jallicoe's. balance was minutely inquired into,
and the amount of the deficiency Ascertained ; but no
record of this inquiry is, to be, found in the Treasu.
net's (Ake, not hive we been able to tract:it.
We cannot but remark the great remissness
shewn no this occasion. '.A discovery is made- by
Tr einqtre r of a large' sum Of money having been
A-pplieil to private use by one of his Cashiers, coo.
fessedly in erobarrassed circomsrances; and yet
neither is that person suspended from his office', nor
the security tendered accepted. Mr. jelliCoe can.
tinned to perform the slit lee of his office till the
15th of August, 17'0 ; but on the 2,Bth of that
month It was thought right to issue extents of the
Crown into the Counties of Middlesex and Hamp-
shire against his person and property.
Lord Melville, in May 'Boo, previously to his
Citiittink On?' Office 'of Trea,urer, presented to the
Lords C.:ommisiionerfi of the Treasury a detailed
statement k• 1 the circumstances respeaing Mr. Jel.
lieee's debt. There being Tui record of this state-
ment its the Navy Pay Office, and Lord Melville
and Mr. Trotter not being able to furnish us with
a copy of it, vieobtained from the Treasury the
original, together with a minute of their Lordships,
tu riir. run die I.9th of May, -1 800, by which it' ap.
fir area
_their Lordships were of .rpiniop, it was ex.
peilient the Treasurer of the Navy should he exo.
aerated front acconnting for the said sues of 24,8461.
6c. 64d. ;' and they diretled a warrant to be pre.
• pared I(oresubmitted to His* Majesty for\ that pur-
pose—"Lor4 Melville was accordingly acquitted of
the !WM,: by writ of• Privy Seal.
Ob.:crying that she sums of 6051. Nod 5331. re.
malted, stated to 'have arisen from official errors,
which imt been notified to the Navy .Boards we
inquired into the circumstapees of this transattion,
that' we 'might ascertain' the nature and cause of
these errors, and consider of measures fur prevent.
ing ORM in futute. in tie course of our inquiry
we •tliacovered, that this transaCtion originated in
fratol,•:and not in error ; several 'remittance bills,
amounting to the stun of i tiBl. having been. twice
charged as paid in the. act:Omits of the Clerk en.
trusted with that ditty.
With respett to the Treasurerships of the Right
Hon. •,Dudley Ryder, ruiw Lord Harrowby, the
Right Bun. Charles Bathurst; and the Right lion.
George Tie?ney, it appears that noneof them dc.
rived, any profit or emolument from the use of mu.
ney issued far Navy Services ; and thatito part of
that m>n was applied by any of them to thcuse
of any ,other public dipartotent.
'r.oßta rust.vit,ot's Evttovrece, SYII zauvst.ratß, ,
1804.
After the description given in the foregoing Re-
port of his Lordship's evidence, the following pas.
sageft Otily are necessary to be given.:
Q, 11 appeatihg, accounts laid boiore us, that the Suns
standing to your name, as Tie3stiter of the Navy; at the Batik,
at lit, ttilrorviog periods, were less than the SUMS with which
anti eltd!'t,tvc of the money advanced to your
.i.tAtt..Accountauts ; and that the cleticienCiei were as toll w,
sfiz.-00.;erotier 3r, i 786, 56,0001. ; 87, 53,0001, ;
'74
; ic 5.1,1i001. ; 17.91, 19,9381. 94. Bd. ; 5792,
•;21,0761. 19s, 15,1, 1793, 27,0251. 175. g.t. t 1794, 28,7311. 7:.
9.1 i 179i..3-,,316 ifih. 10.; 1796, 75,413 584 1797; 58,6401.
JOiLi 170, 54..1401: i ys. ; ;799, 54001. IS3, to what
are,?uch deficiencies n,) be ribatett.- - A Although I
dike it for granted the souse .rte Stated by the question-amt.
rawly, 1 could not, one 'Aleatory, state they are so. I desired
l'rotter, t* tar as I was concerned, to gi yr you every infor-
mation becould and it'was only in conbequenve of a clover.
satins with hint, innuediately alter the receipt of your letter
to me, or date the zOth lune, th.lt 1 learned, triads the Manner
lie kept his private accounts, it 1,1/4* impossible for him to
give the accurate ihrormation 1 required. The same reasons
. render it impossible tar the to give you an answer to the ques.
lion you put. ant aware that I.arn not hoimd to answer it,
under the provision or the Mt establishing this Commission';
but I should not have dwelt on that objection if there had
been nothing but personal considerations to -operate against
doing so ; but for the reasons I hinted to you in my letter
of the 30th Tune last, as t am not bound, so I would not
reel myself warranted to give the explanations which your
question points at. ,
Q. Upon what grounds does your Lordship decline answer-
ing that question ?—A. Upon the ground-that I have already
stated, under the sth Clause of 1 A
tie of 43 ("tarp Il I
cap.
Q . Was any part of such sums 'in
.your hands. t—.A. They
Certainty cairn: Into my hands, but did not remain there.
Q.- Did Mr. Alex. Trotter, while Payinaste! of the Navy,
lay aU t or apply, or cause tube laid out or appl!ed,_atny o_t_t te,
money issued for carrying on,,the CUrrertt service of he. pay)
hitICC theta of lanuary, 1786, for your benefit or advantage ?
A. From the-manner in which M r.Trot ter kept my accounts
it is impossible for me to answer that question and I objeti

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