The Sun.
London, England, 1802-12-02 00:00:00

EDINBURGH, Nov. 27.

YESTERDAY morning a Balloon, with fire attach-
ed to it, fell upon a hay stack at the hezkci of south
back of Canongate, which was extinguiilied with
great difficulty, and in the afternoon, another Fire..
balloon was seen passing over the City. The conse-
quences which may follow these experiments are of
such a dangerous nature, that the Magistrates have,
with very great propriety, issued a Proclamation
prohibiting them in future.

On Saturday last, the KING'S Scholars, and the
Town-boys of 'Westminster-School, presented Dr.
VINCENT, their late Chief Master, with two pieces
of Plate, each of the value of 120 Guineas, with in-
scriptions, expressive of their esteem and affection,
and the high credit with which he resigned the
Chair,

70''r'': Entrof? OF !FIE st.'hi

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4.'ave7-11ret1, Nov. 30, tBc2,

HAV t rc: observed, in your Paper, an errofleous
statement of the manner in which a cause, between
Lord ST.. NrINci,NT and Lord NELSON was disposed
of, in the Court of Common Pleas, on Thursday
last, we hope to be excused if we take the liberty
of correaing the mistake your Law Reporter has
been led' into,

The Judges were equally divided in opinion : in
consequence of which no judgment could be givens
unless at the request of one party or the other. But
it is the common prattice in such cases, in order to
save the expence of a new trial, for the Plaintiff to
pray the judgment of the Court against himself, to
the end that an appeal to a superior Court may be
prosecuted. This was what took place on the above
occasion. Judgment was pronounced against Lord
Nelson pro forma only ; and the point of Law will
be brought before the Court/of King's Bench, by
writ of error, and decided on the same facts, with-
our any variation, which were found by the Jury in
the Court of Common Pleas.

As we arc satisfied it will be your wish to te.
move a mistaken notion, respeaing an affair of
great interest to the higher ranks of our Naval
Officers, which may have spread as far as the exten-
sive circulation of your Paper, we shall not farther
apologize for troubling you with this letter,
And remain,
SIR,
Your most obedient Servants,

BOOTH AND HASLEWOOD.

The celebrated HATFIELD, on his apprehension,
was so incautious as to wear a cravat marked with
his initials, " J. H." which he attempted to account
for by calling himself " John Henry." When
brought before the Magistrate he declared himself
to be " Tudor Henry ;" and in order to prepossess
the honest Cambrians in his favour, boasted that
he was descended from an antient family in Wales,
for the inhabitants of which country he had ever
entertained a most sincere regard. He stands com-
mitted for trial at the next Assizes. at Carlisle,
though the extremity of his sentence can only be
Transportation, if indkted either for bigamy, or
the single felony of fotging a frank ; the capital
part of the charge against him, viz. not appearing
to his commission as a bankrupt, will not, we unt
derstand, be brought forward., fur his creditors be-
ing in the annual receipt of an estate, in which he
has the lik interest, it is therefore to their advan-
tage to prolong his existence, instead of submitting
him to the leeverity of the law.
Though the Solicitor to Hatfield's Commission
of Bankruptcy.does not mean to proceed against
him capitally, for not appearing to his Commission,
we understand it is determined in another quarter,
that he shall be indided for this offence.

Yesterday morning as a porter was passing through
Parliament street with some game in his hand, a
fellow in a sailor's jacket came up, and finding a
pretext for quarrelling, knocked him down; another
&an' who was susvosed ro be an accomplice, then
attempted.to carry off the game, but was prevented
by the interference of several persons whn were
passing by. The first aggressor continued beating the
poor fellow whom he had knocked down, and would
in all probability have done him a material injury,
but for the assistance of several persons present,
who endeavoured to secure the offender, but the
astonishing strength he possessed defied the utmost
efforts of above a dozen stout men, till a thick rope
was brought, with which they tied his hands and
legs ; two Constables being sent for, he was with
much difficulty dragged as far as the end of Great
George-stseet, (in the way to the Police Office,
Queen-square) when becoming quite desperate, he
very near broke loose upon his attendants ; a soldier
interfered, with what intent we could not learn, but
for his officiousness he received a violent blow on
the head from one of the Constables, which rendered
his attendance at the Surgeon's shop necessary.
On Saturday morning, whilst a waggoner was
unloading provisions in Newgate-street, near New-
gate-market, some thieves took an opportunity of
stealing from it a box, containing a quantity of
lace to the value of 351. with which they got clear
off.

MURDER.—On Tuesday afternoon, between
two and three o'clock, the body of a man of a very
respedable appearance, was discovered floating irg
the West India Dock. On the body being got
out, it was discovered his hands were tied behind
him with a cord, he had a number of violent bruises
in different parts of his body, and a great confu-
sion in his head. His pockets were turned inside
out, and every thing that was valuable taken.—
From some papers that were found upon him, there
is reason to believe his name was " Alder."
There is no doubt but that he has been inhumanly
murdered and robbed by some villains who beset
him in the neighbourhood of the Docks, and then
threw him in to prevent deteaion.
AGEOGRAPH ICAL MrsTAKE.Two young women
of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, being invited by an uncle
residing at Peterborough, to go to live with him,
ignorant of the situation of the place, went to
Shields to enquire about the passage by sea. A
wharfinger, as ignorant as themselves, to whom they
shewed their uncle's letter, recommended them to a
master of a ship just going to sail. This ship was
bound to Petershurgh! they were received as pas-
sengers, and arrived safe. The ship was soon af-
terwards chartered for Code.. The circumstances of
their situation were now become ludicrous and dis-
tressing. At last the Captain of a Hull ship gene.
rously admitted them as passengers for that port,
where they arrived on Sunday se'nnight, and through
the further benevolent attention of this gentleman,
were forwarded by the coach to Peterborough.
This may inform the Nobility, Gentry, and
others, that they may be saved the trouble of pay..
ing the Chamber-maid, at the York Hotel, Dover,
as the Mistress having been Servant herself, has not
yet relinquished her demands as such, taking care
to be paid herself, as soon as the families leave
the place.

LAW REPORT.

COURT OF KTW:'s BFNCH, Dtc. T.

A:TTINGS BEFORF. LORD RLLENROROUGIi G. ILDHALL,

LONIION.

AN applica!;,,n henig made to his Lordship-,:to
off the Trial of a Cause which is not in the Pa_
per at present, his Lordship observed, that he could.
rrot ,ear any applitaTion in any Case which was not
17...'.ftr:e him, and desired thlt such motions might
rldt he repeated; for this was the second instance
in which he was under the necessity of making this.
vb.i;ervation, and he was unwilling to treat any
Cie,,,t,e-man at the Bar, otherwise than with perk&

BROWN Z. HART.

MR. GIBBS stated, that this was an Adion
brought by the Plaintiff, the father and administra-
tor of a person of the name of Alexander Brown,
who is dead ; he was a seaman, to whom consider-
able sums of money had become due on account of
a Prize, captured by La Pique, on board of which
he_was .a sailor ; against the Defendant, Mr. Hart,
who had received this ,money by virtue of a Power
of Attorney from Alexander Brown. The -ACtion
was for about 2501. The 'Defendant had paid zBl.
16s. 6d. into Court,. and said it was all that was
due to Alexander Brown ; on the true statement of
accounts between him and the Defeodant, and out
of his own mouth, would he Make out .the Case
against the Defendant, then he should.wait to hear
, what argument was to be urged on his part in an-
swer to it. Alexander Brown, as he had said al-
'ready, was a Seaman, who had served on board
La Pique, and went afterwards on board La Tigre
to Consantinople. The Defendant, Mr. Hart, was
a Member of the Jewish Persuasion, and he was a
Slop:.seller resident at Portsmouth ; he was likewise,
what most Slop-sellers are, an Agent for Seamen to
receive their money by virtue of Powers of Attor-
ney, and upon the 'faith of which they sometimes
_gave Sailors a little credit for Slops.—Such was the
case- here. Alexander Brown, before he went on
board the Tigre; was on board La Pique when she
took a very valuable
.prize, in the. year 1798.' It
was disputed whether the vessel was a prize or not,
and it went before the proper Tribunal to decide it;
and it was not determined that she was lawful prize
until the year 1800 i arid: the question here to be
submitted to the Jury, if a question it could be
called, would be, whether there was any justice in
the demand which the Defendant now set up for 1
money advanced to this Seaman in his life time, '
while this claim for prize-money was in the course
of investigation, and before it could be known
whether any prize-money would ever belong to this
Sailor ?—The sum which the Defendant said he ad.
vanced to this Sailor, was no less than 5701. in the
course of a fortnight; and this was the account
which Mr. Hart had rendered to the Father of this
Sailor, after his death.—When this Seaman went
on board the Tigre, he gave Mr. Hart a power of
attorney to receive prize-money for him, and in-
formed his .Father at Greenock, in Scotland, that
he had done so, and desired his Father to apply to
Hart, from time to time, to learn whether he had
received any prize-money on his account., The
Father did so ; and Hart wrote to the Father at
Greenock; but then he .had not the sagacity to
contemplate the possible event of the death of Brown,
the Sailor, and that he was writing to a person '
with whom he might afterwards have to contend as
an administrator; and therefore he wrote to the
Father a letter, dared the 28th of November, 1798,
direeted to John Brown, at a place near Greenock,
and signed David Hart, Gosport. " Your Son,
Alexander Brown, on board the Tigre, is well
His prize-money is nor paid ; and as soon as it is
paid, I have your Son's instruEtions to transmit it
to you as soon as paid, which I will take care to •
remit as soon as paid, which will be in about six
months.—P. S. There has been a trifle of prize_
money paid, of 305. a man, which has been ad-
vanced to your Son. The moment any prize-
Money is paid, I will send to you."—This letter
Would prove that this was all that was advanced at
this time by the Defendant to the Sailor, and would.
make the Defendant accountable for
.every. thing
that he had received afterwards bn account of this
Seaman, which was upwards of 401. But if any
thing were wanting, there was another letter from
Mr. Hart to the present Plaintiff; dated Gosport,
sth of:March, 1799:---" I have received youts,
lam to inform you, that the Tigre Man of War is •
safe arrived at Constantinople, all well. The

prize-money is not yet paid for La Pique. I have
paid your Son; for five shares, the sum of 61. rgs.
which I have advanced your Son when he went to
sea. As soon as the prize-money •is paid; I will
write to you again. As soon as the prize.-money is
paid I will let you know." Su that it -was clear,
that all the money which the Defendant had a'd-
vanced to this Seaman, on the sth of Mara, r7gB,
was 61. 19s.
In the year I Soo, there carne accounts of the
death. of Alexander Brown ; arid this news operated
wonderfully on Mr. Hart, who was a general ad-
ministrator of all Seamen who die leaving powers
of attorney in his hands. He was afraid it would
two out that nothing was due to this Seaman, or
. that if there was, there would be a great deal of
difficulty in obtaining it ; and here Mi. Hart en.
tered into a great deal of lamentation on the hard-
ships to which Seamen were exposed, the difficulty
of recovering what was due to them when they ap-
plied for it'themselves ; and a great deal of very just
reasoning came from Mr. Hart, on the advantages
which were taken of their 'relatives after their death;
o that he, Mr. Hart, had upheld this dis-
tressed man, Alexander Brown, with money and
goods to the amount of a 701. at d that at a
time when there was no certainty that he would
ever be able to pay him, 14. hitherto it was not de-
termined that he would be entitled to any prize-
money.—lt was wonderful .that Mr. Hart should
tw,ve been so generous.----Mr. Bart, however, gave
in his account of the sums advanced by him, or
rather said to have been advanced by him, to Alex-