The Sun.
London, England, 1802-02-18 00:00:00

STAFF.

Burlier Bruce,.Es9. Advocate, to be Deputy Judge Advocate
and Clerk of tne Courts Martial in North Britain, vice
Trier, appointed to a Seat in the CoUrt of Section.

HOSPITAL STAFF.
Garrison Surgeon = M‘DoWall, of the Island of St. Lu-
cia to be Garrison Surgeon of Anfkgua, vice Muttlebury,
tee ovedio the Home Staff.

ut. Battalion of Dundee Voliorteers.

First Lieutenant Tames Mitchell to be Captain, vice Yeo-
man, deceased. Second Li:;:utenant James .Gray, to be
First Lieutenant, vice Mitchell. lames Watt, Gent., to
be Second Liebtenant, vice Gray.

F.ilvwuth or Tenciennis i tillers rdueteers.

Second Lieutenant John Michell to be First Lieutenant, rice
. Cerfieid, who resigns. Saninei Cottield, Gent. to be Se
cord Lieutenant, vice Michell,. . '
• . fludyl,ers:field Volunteers. . .

Captain-Lieutenant. Joseph Scott to be Captain of an addi-
Company, Lieutenant Walter William Stables to
be Captain-Lieutenant, vice,Scon. John Woolley, Gent.
to be First Lieutenant, vice Stables. Jarvis qbartes Sea-
- ton,- Gent. to be... Second Lieutenant: Thomas Atkinson,
Gent. to be Second, Lieutenant. Joshua CroSlantl, Gent.
to be Ditto. • • _ _ . •

East Sutherland Volunteers,

Csptairi john Sutherland, of the late Sutherli,nd Vencibles,
to bey Second Lieutenant of the Brora Coinpan, vice lohn
Sutherland, who iesigns.
ide of Sky Volunteers.
•

Donald Zd'Leod; Gent. to be, Adjutaiit, vice Macrlonald;
vi?-h6 resigns. D. 11,11,-: (kultrnin,..Gent. to be. Qtarter-
Master, vice Steele, who rcsigns...

Ltsmoti:4•Nou.,4.
john Charlton, of the. zsth Reglinentof foot, is su-
persc4ed, he. having.ds.:sertel. ,
ERRATUn in the,Ga;ette of-the 26th SePtetu'oer last. .
37th Regiment of Foot,---For E-lign Andrew-Tilt to be Lieu.:
• tenant, bypurcha,sLi, vice .De Carteret, !rorlioted•--Read
-Andrew Tilt to be Lieutenant by putcliase, vice- Chiy-
un promoted.

To the COLONEL, LIEUTENANT-COLONEL, and
other OFFICERS of the OXFORDSHIRE MILITIA;

• nEwri.smex, •
Permit me to return you rny most sincere and gratefdl ac-
knowledgments, for the very handsome and Battering mail-
nor in which you have condescended present me with a
Piece of Plate, as a mark Of your approbation of my conclua
during the period in which-your Regiment was stationed in
his City.
is • has ever been my objgEk, and it certainly was duty,.
•
during the period of thirty years' in • aw public, line ofJ)usi-
ness, to deserve the- approbatlois those persozis who 1134. e
favoured me with their couritinance and support. I will not
Patter myself that my aim has always_ been successful, yet
I. have the consolation of reflecting, that it has been sane_
ttonea by the approbation of mxnv distinguished Persons of-
my own City ; and 1 may now add, with becoming pride,
• by that of OW Officers of the Oxford Militia..
-Accept, Gentlemen, from' a plain man, the genuine ex-
pressions of his gratitude, and be persuaded that the Tecol-
ledion of your kipiness will always live in his remembrance,
and prompt him on every occasion to endeavour still. tarther
to deserve your good opinion.
Believe me, Gentlemen, your most oblisr,ed
and sit-were)), grateful humble Servant,
jOHN WEEKS.

LAN, REPORT.

COVRT OF KlNG's BENCH; FEE. 17.

SITTINGS Z.ETOItE Pik. JUSTjGE •GROSr, IN WEST•

IN12!:61-ER-HALL:

RE'rt.:ELL V. CHAPMAN.

Mr. ERMINE said, this was an Aftion to reco-
ver the sum of 261. the amount- of- a Bank Note
which the Plaintiff lost in Holborn, as he was go-
itg from his lathet's house in Piccadilly to Cheap-
s'ide, where he then lived. The Defendant found
this Note. He was a workman at the Manufa6lory
of Messrs. Underwood, in Holborn, called the Sky-
Light ManufaBory. .The Defendant chewed this
tote to the Foreman of.the Manufaaorv, in the
tiresence of two of the workmen, -and said, " he had
tbund it." The workmen 6w the Note, and took
notioe.of the Number of it, and one of them enter-
ed it in chalk, the number was .2377 ; and there wac.
on the back of it, the name of Iddeson, which was
Written by the Plai'ntiff's father, he having received
tiffs note of Mr. Iddeson,_ and had given it to his son.
Plaintiff advertised, the note, and having
three •months :afterwards been told, by one of the
workmen of this Manufa,aory, who heard the De-
fenclant'say, he fOund this note, and who saw it,
that the Defendant had found it ; applied to him
for it, offering him the Reward of'sl. as he-had:id,
ifettised it ; but he thought fit. to deny he ever saw
it ; upon which the Plaintiff and his father, who
:accompanied him, 'gave the Defendant notice; that
they Should commence this athibri ; and "the De-
fendant ,was dishonest and foolish enough to •de-
- fend it.
It then appeared, that the father. received this
note of Mr. lddesOn, and put his natne on the
.back
Of --together :with. .the date on '.which he re-
That the Defendant' had shewn this
notc. to
,the foreman and two of .the workmen at
the mabufaCtory of Messrs. Underwood, they saw
•
it,. and specified the_uumber 2377, the one of them
remembered it, and. the other had chalked it up in
the rnapolory. The note was produced by a Clerk
from the' Sank, who proved it had there been paid
OA cancelled in the USual way.—The Plaintiff's
father proved, from his own hand-writing on the
badt' of it, that this Was the note he gave-to' hiS
lon, in :the month of. April last,, and which.he had
0t.,--VerdiEl'for the Plaintiff, Pamages 201.

THE KING V. DUNN.

Mr. Eitsitzt4r said, that this was an indiEtment .
for an assault,. and the record was brought here by
the Defendant. The Prosecutrix had married the
rh husband without waiting for\the death of the
7th—The Bth was said to have broken her leg,
and this was alledged as an ecuse for her not.ap-
pearing in Court ; thei:e was no affidavit of the
truth of this excise.—The Learned Judge who sat
in this Court yesterday had been 'indulgent enough
to allow this, case to stand over until to day, to
:afford the Prosecutax an opportunity to come to
Courti:or a3sign a reason why she did not, but
neither appeared, and, therefore, he should desire
.that the Jury might be sworn, and the Defendant
acquitted, which was done accordingly.—,The. De-
fendant found Not Guilty. •

.OLD BAILEY,.

FIRST DAY-WEDNESD-Ay,

COVNITY NEVS°

MAIDSTOI4E, VEli. 16:

On Sunday evening, the 7th insf between six and
seven o'clock, the Hope barge, belonging to Mr.
A. Mason, of this. toWn,
,laden with
,a valuable
cargo,. principally of wines and- sugars, was run
down in Sea Reach (River Thames), by the Retreat,
outward-bound West Indianian, and instantly sunk.
The crew,- consisting,of the master and two boys,
fortunately escaped—the master saved himself by
jumping aboard a brig,.alongside of which the barge,
was lying, and the boys laid hold of a spar that
had luckily been picked up on the voyage, upon
which they seared theinselyes, and, after drifting
about nearly an hour, they were picked up by, a
sloop and rescued from a, watery grave.; The' brig
had her.bowsprit and foremast carried away, and
was otherwise materially damaged.

Last Thursday morning the following Melancholy
circumstance occured at the Blue Door, public-
house, near this town :—Two men, who had been
up all night watching rabbits; under the . direction
or Earl Romney's game-keeper, were sitting in the
settle, whilst 'the game-keeper, who 'came in, went
backwards to paunch one of ..the rabbits they had
taken ; in the interim, the landlord of the house,
Thomas Munn, who having been for some time in
a deranged state of mind, took up the game-keeper's
loaded gun, from a place where he
.was accustomed
to leave it, and suddenly presenting it at one of
them named Swift,' fired; and . lodged the
contents-in his right breast. ,The poor man died,
stantaneously.. That evening and the following the
Coroner's jury sat on the body ofthe deceaSed,
.and
brought in their verdia—Lunaey. Munn has since
been sent to London, and lodged in a place of se-
curity.

illit CANTERBURY, FEB. 16. '
On Friday last, John Jones and Dania Anchor
Were re-examined beforOhe Mayor of. this City,.
When Mr. Thodias Glover, one of. the Inspthors
of the B:tnk havn, -ci,;l irri' ascertained. that the
, , -, - -
notes Which they :1,.•._1 t,:t:dered and those. which
Were raund'in their, 'possession Were- forged, th:,.ty
were fully committed to take their trials, on the
oaths of the. InspeCtor and the 'several . Ktsons ' they
had ait:empted to defraud ; they are. coma itted On
:ttkO difkrent COunts, the otie for. tittering and plab-
-liShing, the other for having them in their posses-
sion knowing them to be forged. - ,• ,
On Saturday the pith ult. a young man attired as
a butcher's boy, went to .the: looker's house near
Richborovgh castle, on the gra'kitig lands belonging
to Mr. Thomas Denne, of Upstreet, mail said he
for_ the fifteen fat sheep- his master had 'bought,
and pointed oufithe particitlar field where they.lay.
The looker being from Mine, his wife told the boy
•as he knew where the sheep were, to take diem...---.
They were accordingly ,driven off, of which the
woman infouned her buSband- when he came in ; the
'man supposing his master haksold the sheep, took
no farther, notice till Wednesday, when Mr. Denne
calling to inquire after the welfare of his stock,
was told all was right,. except the fifteen he had
sold beingdelivered. Mr. D. said he had sold no
-sheep ; but ikolleaing that a butcher at Sandwich,
with whom he had frequently dealt, had -lately
tioken to him about some fat sheep, concluded his
being in immediate. -want of mutton,_ had induced
htm to send for them, and that he would pay the va-
lue the next market-day, he .therefore oclorted in
that conviEtion : ho-w.:ever, the Saturday foilowiog,
on apiilication to his supposed chapman; h had the
mortification to find he had been cotnplete)y :de-
.frauded;•iby a: new mode of sheep stealing, of • the
-is:sheep, valued on the aiverage at 4J. each ; and 8
days having elapsed between the loss and its disco-
very, every search after the thief 'has hitherto
provedineffedual. • : 1 • , - • . : .