The Sun.
London, England, 1802-03-12 00:00:00

WEDNESDAY) MARCH 10.

The Castle, RAW sort, master.---This Was .a case
of aalvage, in which a joint recapture was set up.
It appeared that this ship, of 343 tons burthen,
laden with a cargo of coffee, sugar, 'and various
other articles, bound on a voyage from Surinam
to the port of London, was captured by a French
privateer, who took the master and all the crew
out of her,, except two mariners,
.and put a prize,
master on board, in order to conduit her to the
first port in France, but on the appearance of an
English privateer, they endeavoured to run her on
shore, and then abandoned her, leaving these two
persons on board, who immediately took to the
helM, and got her head about, which the French-
men observing, they attempted to get possession
of her again, but were prevented by the inter-
ferenee of these two men, and His Majesty's ship
coming up.'
Ii was submitted, on the part of these two ma-
riners, (who set up a claim of joint salvage) that
by their exertion, and making use of the arms which
the Frenchmen had left on -board,
.they prevented
the enemy 'obtaining possession of this ship again,
and therefore they were intitled to a joint share in
the salVage. •
On the part of the King's ship, it was submitted;
that these two persons were amply rewarded by
being rescued from captivity,' and thereby placed.
in a situation which would etiabl them -to recover
their wages for the whole of the voyage.
The Court said it was not a common service
that would intitle them to salvage, and it was of
opinion that they did nothing more than what
every seaman was'bound to do, and if they had not
done so, it would have been a breach of their du:v,
and therefore considered them amply rewarded by
being rescued from a French prison, and thereby
were entitled to recover their wages.
Maria, PEACE, master.—This was an American
ship, laden with a cargo of coffee, sugar and other
articles, which was captured and carried into Cape
Nichola Mole, where proceedings were instituted,
and the ship restored with freight, but the cargo
was condemred.

The Court restored the property in this case, and
condemned the captors in costs. \ -
Palmboriz, GARDELS, master. This was a Da-
nish ship, laden with a cargo of wine, bound on a
voyage to Bourdeaux, ostensibly to F.mbden.

Tic Court condemned this property on the
ground of there beini.a fraudulent intention of sup-
plying the 'port of Brest with this commodity.

,
FUNERAL OF THE I, UT Br jk

Evnrythingorhperly arran,67.zd, Cm:
sion. left Woburn Abbey about ten o'cloqicon V.7;-
nesdav *night. The hearse was•drawn by shs horses
it was followed by three-Mourning coaches : in the
first were Mr. GO-ma ED, the A.nditor and Solicitor ;
Mr. PAR v, the Resident Agent for the Woburn
Estate ; and Mr. P,RowN, a Solicitor : in the second
were the Reverend Mr. Pplaß v, the Ciergymansof
Mr. SALMON, th,,, Resident •Surveyor ;
and Mr. SHAW, of Woburn ;' and; in'the third were
tht prineip4 servants of the 'household ;—they
were follea ..by His Graces carriage, empty,
dtawn six bay- horses, and six footmen behind
it. The procession passed through 1-locldifFe, Dun_
stable, Market-street; and Redburn, in the most
solemn manner. The inhabitants in thei placq.
through which the procession passed, were in the
road with light.S; and the greatest order 'p.c.
vailed. At Rickmansworth they were joined by :t
great number of persons who had come from Woburn
and other parts di- Bedfordshire. A procession way
then formed from thence to Cheynies ; twenty-eight
horsemen, Colonel Moot; and a number of g,..Ti-
tleriten farnierS on foot, two and two. They were
follOswed.: by the hea-rse and carriages; and the
whole was closed by about thirty, of the principal
tenants and servants, and abotit sixty farmers,
tenants who live on the estate at Cheynies.—
The Procession arrived at the Church 'about one
o'clock, and at. that time at ;east five thousand
persons were assembled in the. village. After the
coffin was taken nut of the hearse and placed in the
vault, the Evening Service was read by the Curate
of the Parish, and a most excellertt Sermon was
preached by the Rev. Mr. MORR is, Tutor to His
Grace, from the Second Epistle to the Corinthians,
the ;th chapter and Ist verse.
" For we know that if our earthly house'of this tabernacle
were dissolved, we have a building of Cod,
,an house not
made with hands; eternal in the heavens."

A Funeral Anthem was sung, and was performed
by a very respectable band of vocal and instrumen-
tal performers. The Funeral Service was likewise
read by Mr. MOWS in the family vault over the
corpse. The following inscription is on the coffin :
" The Z“ Noble' Francis- Duke of Bedford,
horn the Purenty-third day r?fjuly, 1765, and-di:ed
the Second day of March, tSo a."
This.makes fifty-one of the family whoSc remains
have been deposited there. Two of them are em-
bahned, and stand upright .in leaden coffins. This
vault has been the burying-place to the family for
upwards of 300 years ; and an old mansion-house
(one of the oldest in the family) adjlins the church-
yard : part of it has been pulled down, and what
remains now is a farm-house.

Just as the coffin was 'going into the church, a
most unbecoming scene of confusion took place,
which is too common oil those occasions, by the
populace stealing the .....'utcheons from the hearse. ---
A man was knocked down and trampled on by a
horse, and his kg torn and bruised in a most shock-
ing-manner.
On the mourners endeavouring to follow the
Corpse, some of them were literally carried into the
Chair: li and others could not gain admittance, "the
crowd being so extremely great., The confusion
Was occasioned by a number o.fa notorious gang of
pickpockets from London who went down in post.
chaises. Several persons were robbed of consider-
able sums of money at the time the Corpse w,c,
going into the ,Church. These villains 'make a
crowd of themselves. '

The windows of the Church were.broken by the.
popalace, who endedvoured to force into the. Church
that way.
In town, the mournful px.s;ng knell .was sounded
for several hours at the Parish Churches of St.
George, Blootrisbury,4nd St. Paul, Covent-garden,
Minute bells were tolled at each from eleven in the
morning till two in the afternoon.

CORN EXCHANGE,
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March 12,

This day we had a middling supply in general ;
Sales rather dull : Oats plenty, and but little fluc-
tuation ; Wheat, front the public rumours, maintains
its high prices ; Flour continues dearer than last
week.

Wheat - 6os 7os a 84s od Beans - 3os a 34s od
Fine do. -85 s a 86s od Tick ditto -28 s a 3ls 6/1
Malt -44 s SoS a srs cd Oats - - - rss a 22s o 3
Fine do. - 525 a 535 6d Poland do. 2.3 s a 24s od
Baricy - • ;40s a 445 od Rape Seed 321 a 351 per ;ast
Rye - —38 s 43s 6d Fine Flour 6ss a 68s per sack
'White Pease 40s a 455 od Second do. 6os a 655 per do.

His Grace the Duke of ARGYLL has, as last year
authorized his Chamberlain to give a considerable
sum to be disposed of by the Farmer Society in Kyn_
tyre, in addition to their premiums this year, for
agricultural operations within.the distrid; and the
Society `resolved, that so much thereof shn uld be
given as premiums to the best Ploughmen. Accord-
ing!y thirty2three.ploughs, with two horses in each,
without a. driver were set to work, on the z3d.
and zsth clays of February last, on two different
fields. The first premium for the north division,
was adjudged to John M'llrearie, servant to Lieut.
Col. PORTER, Gt. IC.lloekilay.-The second to
liam M‘Millan, son of Daniel McMillan, farmer in
KilMichael. The third to John Johnston, farmer in
Langa.—For the south division, the first premium`
wits adjudged to Robert Turner in Tonvioch.—The
second CO Ponald.,M'Reary, servant to CH AR L
YI‘VIC CAR, Esq. of Killellan. The third to An.
drew Breakeriridge, farmer in Drumiin. The
ploughing in 'general was so well executed, th,4 the
Judges were for some time difficulted in determin-
ing-to whom of the competitors the preference was
due.

At Hertford, Assizes, John Wood, a carpenter
at Royston, was ordered to, be transported Or 14
years, for having some forged Batik. Notes concealed
in his .workshop ; Mary Hughes, for stealing Swear-
ing apparel from a poor woman who gave -hersa,
night's lodging out of charity, was ordered to be
transported years ; and Rich. Peizrce and Sarah
Hart, for putting off counterfeit money, were or-
dered tc be imprisOnedi Pearce- for one year, and
Hart for six rno:;ths, and to find • sureties for their
good bchaviour,

This was an ejeftment on the title brought for.
certain freehold property in the City of LondOn
(of the value of. 10,00°14; by the Plaintiff, who is
the heir, at law, against the Defendant, who' is de-
visee, and residuary legatee of the late Mrs. Mary
Robinson, who died in the year 7786, at Romford,
in Essex, being then 76 years of age, and leaving a
Will (under which the Defendant. cfaims); bearing
date above a twelve-month befOre her decease. The
Defendant's case being merely to prove the will,
and that the Testatrik. was of a sound mind at the
time of making it', was first entered into.
lhe Rev.. Mr. Straw, a Dissenting Minister, in
the town of Romford, and Mr. Haywood, who
was landlord of the house occupied by-Mrs. Robin-
son, in the town of Romford, proved, that slie,was
a very shrewd, keen, sensible woman, and by no
means impaired in her faculties at the time the
Will bears date ; that she had 'Mentioned' several
times to them, that she- did not intend to leave her
property to her relations. Onthis sulojed, she had
made use of a remarkable expression. One.of her
distant relations was talking of her table of 'an old
lady, who was. lately dead; and probably gone to,
" Why to h—ll," cried Mrs. Robinson ?
Because,"' replied her relation, " she has left all
her property away.from her relations, and given it
to strangers." "If she is to be d- -d for that,"
said Mrs. Robinson, " I suppose I shall be d—d
too, for, I assure you, Madam, I do not intend to'
leave you a farthing." As to the Will itself, the
signature was proved to be her hand-writing. The
hand-writing was also proved of.. Mr. Geale and
Mr. Reynolds,, two of the Witnesses to the Will
(since dead). It was proved, that they were men
of very respeftable chara4er in the profession of
Attornies, and above the suspicion of beinz ton-
cerned in a gross fraud. As there was one surviv-
ing Witness to the Will '(Timothy Cooperson), the
Defendant 'was obliged to produce him to prove the.
execution of the Will, although it was well knoWn
it was on his testimony, and on dr.-account he was
to give of that transadion, the Plaintiff supported
his case, while the Defendant's rested principally on
discrediting him with the Jury.
I'. Cooperson (the surviving witness to the will)
said that he lived, in the year 1785, at. the time of
;his transaaion, with Stevenson's father, as a shop-
man. •He was nephew to the wife of Stephenson,
sen. but was forbid to call her atint, arid lived 'in
the house on the footing of a servant ; remembers
that Geale, who was Attorney to the Srevensons,
came into the shop of Stevenson, sen. and, in com-
pany with Mr. Reynolds, at that time his Clerk,
sold the Witness that he must go down into the
Country with them to witness some Paper. Mrs.
Steyenson, sen. also desired him to go ;'-this was
about three o'clock in the afternoon. He accord-
ingly accompanied Mr. Geale and Mr. Reynolds in
a post-chaise to .the town of Romford, where thy
stopped.a considerable time at the inn ; that from
thence, when it was late in the evening, they went
to the house of Mrs. Robinson, and were shewn
into the parlour, whdre they met the Defendant,
who afterwards went up stairs to the room where
Mrs. Robinson was sitting, and after staying a can-
siderable time there, returned, and brought up Mr.
Geale and Mr. Reynolds ; afterwards the Witness
was sent for.- The WirnesS says, that ,on entering

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On the part of the befendant, the Counsel, in
reply, 'attacked the credibility of 'Cooperson,,,,and:
pointed 011,t several differences in his testimony in
this from what he swore on the other two.
He dwelt on the quarrel bet Ween him and the Ste-
vensons, on his concealing this account as.long as.
Geale and Reynolds (the other. Witnesses) were
alive, and on the improhalsility of `his account of
his first meeting 'the P4tintii:F in. the.. year- 1806.
He said this was an attempt' rt) set aside a Papor
authenticated by"three 'Witnesses on'the: testimony
of one ; and thit the cliaraeter of the other Wit_.
nesses to the Will was.proved to be.so respettable,
that the Jury could not presume them parties in so
gross a fraud as this was represented, to be. He also
dwelt much on the ,Plaintiff's father (who was,Heir.
at Law on. the decease of -Mr, Robinson), and 'on
the Plaintiff hiMself; not making any inqUities about

131.J91NXN M'MILLAN, (of Bow-Street, Covent:Ca.rden) ;
No. •1 12, Strwid ; white Adlieitisemeksts, Orders

The remainder of the drawing of. the Lottery,
becomes every day more. and more important, as a!
capital prize, either floating or stationary, may be,
almost daily expelled. The Lottery is more than;
a quarter over, and not one of the eight capital
Prizes have yet been drawn. A wheel. with four
prizes of z0,0001.--fOur Prizes of to,oool.—one
Prize of s,oool.—four, Prizes :of -2.,0001.--,-nine
Prizes of I,6°ol.7—ten. Prizes of soot. &c. &c.
and Tickets under x 81.. is a circumstance we seldom
or ever remember. before, and we have no doubt, as
• the.first-drawn Ticke.t, next `'Wednesday is entitled
to ro,oool. the Contradors advance the price
of TirkerS accordingly: At present undrawn
Tickets are sold in all ihe,LiCensed Offices under
181. per:Ticket. •
Vty,s r f irousArre? POUNDS.---The Ticket 781:20
dritWo yesterday a Prize of 5,0001,. was sold in ones
Half, onc.Quarter, .one Eighth, and two Sixtee;:th
Shares, at the truly fortunate Offices of 43vat,
No. 4.,_.Cornhill,
.and No.. 9, Charing-cross ; being;
the highest capital Prize that has been shared this
Lottery. Undray. Titkets and Shares,arc selling
in variety a-t :the` anove Offices, and the Wheel -is
mmensely rich.

and l'.ll2lished ny.W iLLI Am ARMICFR SCRIP4s, (of liorsc-a•rry-road, Westminster);
for the Paper•, Letters for thc' Editor, &c. (`post-, oid), attar be addressed.,

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