The Sun.
London, England, 1805-09-13 00:00:00

MURDER.

nOW•STREtT...".•Nt2UI.:,,.I4 night, at half pl.:,
eleiren o'clock, as Croaker, U. Jones., and 11: .J4i!n:-
berick, were paSsit,,T through Hog-lane, St. Giles's,
they met a man at the col-tior of Sutton-street;,Solios
square, who they sUspeited to be an utterer of bad
money, and guilty of other mal-practices. The night
being ,dark, they werenet positive as to his person
Creaker, to ascertain it, went up to him, and en;
quired the way to Solio-squate. •His voiee, in giv.'
lug an answer, convinced him The .was the man
he took him to. be, and he seized -him by :the
dollar, when the man gate hhn such: a violent
blow in his stomach, that it knocked bun back,
WardS. The man,, an off, and the Officers pm-,
sued him with the cry of . stop Mid." Ile
was stopped in Charles-street, by Mr. Burke, an
'inhabitant of'that neighbourhood. The felloW was
giVing Mr. Burke several violent blows, and 'mien-,
vouring to mike his escape ; the Officers properly
secured him, and took him to St. Giles's watch,
house, where they searched and found upon him
number of counterfeit seveu2shilliner pieces, half
crowns, and shillings. The Officers left the watch-
house, and the Prisoner Went to bed. „ •

In, a few, minutes after the Officers hal left
the Watcb-house; the Watch-houSe-keeper
ed :them, and begged' :them to return, as
was a Charge, 'of murder breught. in. On their
return, they were informed, -a woman 'preseiit,
the Elizateilt Rimes, was charged
being concerned Wi;ka man in murdering c40:11,1e-
. 'man. 1711044..,•ei.4,,. looking at her, :said, they
had no • doubt biatjhe, man:`they hacl just gk'cu
`charge of was the trip, :as she coliabitedwith
They, in consequence made the foliow arise out
of bed and dress himself, and brought him among
'the persons Who had come to exhibit the charge
against the 'woman, when Thomas Owen, a bjy
about i b years of age, said, he knew his person
and that his name is IPm. less. About o'clock
he was passing through, Feathers-court, Westo.i'.;-
park, Lincoln's-Inti-tieids, and saw him hi the cc, .art,
looking into Elizabeth. Rimes's ;. and in.
about eight or ten minutes after, be saw them beat- ,
ing a man violently in Feathers,cenrt, :near the door
of Elizabeth Rims. The man was upon the ground,
and the blows must have been extremely violent, as
be heard them at a considerable distance. On the
Prisoner's seeing him, he ran off. The deceased bled
very Much from the wounds,he_had received on his
head and face. was conveyed , to, St. Raitholo-
mew's Rospital by some watchmen' and the neigh,
beurs, but when.they got there he was found to be
quite dead; and it is supposed bodied soon after he
was (*tied out of the court.

Yesterday the Prisoners were brought before Mr.
GRAHAM., the Sitting Magistrate, when, hi auditidn
to the above, a Gentleman from the liospitA
tended, and stated, thatthe deceased died in conse-
quence of the wounds and bruises he had recolvea
on his bead.

It is sttspeiried? that M
the Prisoner 0i5,:qupp03,9,1
the deceased` 4d becn ViSitmt; the Prisoilt.r
and that jeldbi4 was the canse (Jr the ho-rid deed.
The Prisonzrs it.rere committed for Ort her ex;imina-
tknt. In the course of the evening the holy was
identified,' and the-deceased proved to'ho a utkor
I.'innian, formerly resident itt B:thhvip-court,
hlui-
born.

MAttr.pottotJosOrattP..r.-A Singular charge of
robbery was yesterday made at tintt mieo by a Pith.
lican in Bloomsbury, against a (~;entleinan of respec-
tability and fortune, in the vicinity of Bedtiird-square.
A kind of Military Institution had been established
at the public-houic for' many years, Which was Still
continued on the complainant becOming landlord a
few months since. A festival-was held a few even-
ings since, when some misunderstanding arose with
the landlord and the leading Members of the instt.
tution, ,whose: devices decorated the rom. • The
Gentleman charged in this instance 4 intimated to the
landlord his intentiorvol removing the institution
from the house, and that he should then take with
him the devices of, two of his friends: He did so,
when he :was charged with the robbery complained
of. The Majstrate discharged the complaint with
a severe reprimand to the landlord.

EARLY DEI)RAVITY.--An 'instance of thk,kind.
was disclotied yesterday, before the Sitting ,Magi-
strate'at UniOn .Hall; Three infant boys, the eldest
not nine years of age, were examined on the ehar,te
of stealing a silver spoon, thimble; and some small
coins. The articles were deposited in the cupboard
of a house where the parents of one of the children
lived, and from Whence they took theth With grPat
cunning. : afte"r they had committed the that, they
broke the spoon :in piece., and took the bowl part
of it to a pawnbroker s in the neighbourhood, wnere
they sold it to the shopinan for threP-penee
the course of the day sold the rein tinder to the same
man, The Magistrates recommended the parents
to give the phiiih'eii correetion ; and admonished the
shopman respetaing his fUture sontiti4, at the same
time reprotstinehitu for the'pait iv, had' arAed sit
this aftltir. 4.

4MITIIVIT.I49.MANKET; f,RIDAY,4I.I.T.

,This day's Market was well supplied with dif•
ferent kinds Of*Cattlej the prices*ary very trifling
since our liist4teportv and the trade in general was-
rather flat. We subjoin dirt undermentioned p, ices
and numbers ni4eing an §ccurott statear,nt;

To ,titli..the peitstoottot 81b.
'Beer4s. oil. to ss. ott.-741utton to ss, istl.—V,3l c 5.
ft) tis. od.--LL.oltos,s. to c.t. 6ct. 4,. 61. to 65.61,
Beasts:67o —V.tivett a7o— Socep ;Ina Liit ,430.
SlNtrt lIFIELD IIAYNAFiKE r.
•

liitY2l. 15S. to --Str,INV 41. 1;.;. to 31. l7Sg (4.)l(Cr
. 41. to sl.

• .
Coat-EitctiArtou Seri. f.; —We lywe but fp.v
, ~. . . , . .. ~
lirtiv:ili of <<'l 4t ta-4;ly, tilc . tr,ide is r;it her 1,,it.N11.),,',
and for good .satople oka s att fait prieei are maintain-
ed ; th6re 114.0,ttie i',intliitts of new tor set.'d of supt -
ri4rquitlity; Wiskit fomit aii,navamo en 0%-cr currency.;
, .. . . .
Hp), tiartey, And Isiah, it,tiQ tl-tViki V.artation, but tew
~. . . ,
lielAs mad clearer; thei-o• are ;t tiny ttireign arrivals
of oats i; 'sales of ;Atli at ticlear4.: very.brisk, and far.
ther'advance:i in pricx ; terms, of Hour at . oar cur-
rency. -• .
.vq,!..it 44. i,.. 6,316; 4.74 s 04' 110015 • 4—it, a 33i'04
i, 1., oitto . 765 ;1,01 0.; rick iie411,4 -• , 431 4 4-83 Qd
0.,,tti,ie..,4) ... 37, b .13$ sit t Lai, . 253 a 3os a 34i cid
1141-tcy - -.- 35., a ..t,';',Qd Voiait3 dn. 36s A 375 od
N4Jit . . :.724 .., 78,, cd Rapc• Seed,- -37 i . 4'll
Whitt! Peasc ~ its 4_ 575 nit I itte.t- lour ~ 4;s a 7.3, ‘.• i
t;tiq,ditto - "..-5 a •••.'6 ott secomla - 60$ a 6i, :d.

LOATDOII, DERRY ASSIZES.

ON Friday the 30th ult. a cause of some novelty,
and of considerable importance, came on to, be tried
before the Hon. Baron Guottca, and a Special Jury
of the County of Derry,
"It was an issue dire6ted by the Court of Chancery,
to try whether " Henry PaterSO, of Millbrook,
against whom a Commission of Bankrupt had issued
in the year 1803, had at any time before, and when,
and down to what particular period, been a Trader
within the meanitir- of the Bankrupt Laws or not?"
This question had's teeti tried. at the last Derry
Assizes; and the ,verdit't then found had been since
set aside by the Court of Chancery, and it, was or-
dered to be tried de noun. In this a&ion Joseph
Courtney, who had been appointed Assignee of the
alledged Bankrupt, was, pursuant to the, Order of the
Court of Chancery, the nominal Plaintiff,,and Alex-
ander Stewart, Esq. was the nominal Defendant.—
It appeared that Mr, Paterson had, in January, 1803,
executed a deed of Mortgage to Mr; Stewart for
the security of a considerable sutit of money which
Paterson. had received out olMr. Stewart's estate
. at Kilrea, in the Comity of 'Derry, in which Pater- ,
aon was the acting anditeceiver.
Scion, however, after the execution of thii4deed,
a commission of bankrupt had been-sued out against
Idm with his own privity and concurrence; and it
was then aliedged by him and his creditors,. that he
ought not to pay any money to .Alr. Stewart, and
that the d?ed given as Mr. Stewart's ieeurity was,,
as to him, henry' Paterson, absolutely void. Mr.
Stewart had, in Noveniber 1803, filed a Bill in
Chancery to fbreclose the mortgage.; Henry Pater
son and Courtney, the' Assignee, were
.both Defend-
ants in the cause in Chancery ; and, in their answer,
they insisted that Henry Paterson, having been a
trader, was a proper object of the Bankrupt Laws,
and that the deed was theretiitt void. This, there-
fore, Was the question sent to be determined by the

Jury. •
. .
The trial occupied the entire day. Eighteen wit-
nesses were examined on behalf of Courtney-.—eight
on behalf of Mr. Stewart. r' It appeared in evidence
that Mr. Paterson, the (Mica of the inquiry, had
been aCtually in business in, the year 1771, and for
two or three years afterwards, he having been then
a distiller in the County of Donegal!, but that re-
mote period of time was ef no consequence in the
present trial. It appeared, however, that since his
taming to Magherafelt, which was itnrnediately
•at`ter his leaving ionegall, he sometimes boUght
and sold Meal and flaxseed; but it appeared that
these articles were generally bought and sold in the
.names of Lord 'Londonderry and Tho Mas Bateson,
Esal the proprietors ofthe Magherafelt estate, which
Pater Son also received; and‘that they were sold to
the tenantry on the estate, and at other times to
Paterson's own labourers in payment of their work';
and that it would not be given to any others' unless
by special favour. On behalf of 'Courtney it was
contended, that Paterson had also been a dealer in
bills of exchange, and proof was given of his buy-
ing bills, and sometimes selling billsa bait did not
• appear that
:this.was dori in the way of trade, or to
seek a profit thereby., And, on behalf of Mr. Ste W..;
art, it was shown That Paterson bad remitted much
rat time rents received by him in bills.
After examination of twenty-six witnesses (of
whom theie were some on both sides not examined
on the former triply Counsel spoke to evidence, and
the Learned Judge, with his usual. perspituity and
elegance, laid down the law. He observed the va-
tious ways. of lite which Paterson, n:#>: admitted on
nil sides, appeared to have exercised, namely, his
situation in the agency,. his extensive farming, his
Seneschalship, &c. He observed, that to make a
mama Trader, within the meaning oldie Bankrupt
Laws, it was necessary to shew some general deal-
ing, and not a Ileitling for any particular purposes,
or to any particular class' of persons. lie said, he
did not conceive that a Country Gentleman, buying
and selling any articles for the mere service of his
tenantry, or his labourers, would constitute such a
trading; and that the relative situation between the
agent of an estate and the tenantry ,of it, made the,
same observations
,apply to such, an agent buying
and selling for the saute special purposes and there:
fore he said, that if the .fury should conceive that
the landlords wcrc.not concerned in this buying and
selling, the eeNt question for their consideration
would be, whetter or .not Mr. Paterson's dealing
in these articles had arisen from such his relative
situation with the tenantry, and was for their accom7'
niodation, and not fir the general purposes of
trile As to thealledged de;ding, in exchange; he
said, the Matter, for the consideration of the Jury
on that head \v t 5 w 11& Nil' slit deZtling iii bills
Lid been merely in discharge of the tlutiea of his
ageney, or a distin(t trading for the purposes of
toakb,T; paiatit thereby.
Jary, after leaving the box for a short titne,
returned their verdia in ilivtjur of Mr. Stewart, in
the following Wofd,;
We'ftial fOr the Def.-1411u, withtid, costs; and
tiro :the said ILuc/Tater:4on wal not a
sF traticr ate:ineitning of the Bankrupt t ,aws
4, tiitiee the ilnfe 'of. his ceasing to .L 6 a distiller,
which was in or about the year 1774."

DO.Wp',I7'.IIICK iiSSIZES.

CIVIL. BILL COUR I', p

CPA'NELS OF TitIdIYEMP:RAP..t. V. I).VIILL

Cottasellor MAGAriTtsve stated tl —PI * ' •
ca
aumt s se
fOHOWS : , •
That the Ship DtnerJra, beloogi Dc nt.s to Greenock,
on her vqage froth De.tnerLira w that, port, m the,
month , 01 jattnarY. I SO4, loaded With a valuable
cargo of cotton-,-sogar, and coffeo, tan on shore on
the Wicklow 13anks, and the Aid,k:r being knocked
off, and SeVCII feet water in the. 11)td, :she was de-
serted by the Captain and trew, except Pitt: black
wan, .who was left drunk -on boa:.4'; .and it ap'pein-
ed, that the sugar being Washed out, The buoyancy
of the cotton kept the vessel ailoat, and sha drifted
towards " the coast of the county of Down, from
wh&nce six was seen 00 the te,ti of jallP3iy, and
boarde,l by Onnel 131air' and otller, near Ardglass,
on the morning of the wind then S. S. W.
(11111 ne'Arly :calm '; that an anchor was let go, and as
she was afterwitrds 'towed and taken round to Bally.-

!!hornan bay, and run on shore there, whi6 being
within the distria of StrangtOrd, she was taken pm-
session of by
,Wm. Hoey, Esti. the Colic&or of that
Nil, as pointed out by the Salvage. Aa, and Blair
lodged his chum for salvage with the said Colle&or
for 12001. but having consulted his friends of the
Admiralty Court*previous.to the adjustment of the
Magistrates, he obtained an Admiralty warrant for
the sum of 25,0001. and marked for 50,0001. and
therewith seized the said vessel, and prevented the
cargo-from being landed, although the water flowed
over the coffee and sugar that remained on board
every tide. A pr6hibition was applied for to the
Court of King's Bench, on the ground that the ves-
sel was within the jurisdiaion of the Salvage Mt,
• and not within The jurisdiOion of the Admiralty ;
and was opposed by the • Defendant Blair, who
swore, supported by two of his crew, that the vessel
was three miles without all head-lands, within the
jurisditaion .of the Admiralty, and in danger of sink-
ing on the high seas, and not in danger of being
stranded, and in such situation was carried by him
into a port of safety. The evidence being so vari-
ous, the Court of King's Bench granted conditional
prohibition, and left it to a Jury of the County to
try the fact, whether the vessel was stranded, or in
danger of being stranded ; and Witnesses 'being ex-
amined on both sides, and able arguments used by
Counsellors DUNN, SCRIVEN, BLACK, &c. for the
Defendant, and Mess. JOY, BLACKER, and STAPLES,
for the PlaintitN during the trial;: which lasted
.se-
ven I;(girs, -the Jury finind a verdiEt, with costs, for
the PlJintitth.