The Sun.
London, England, 1802-10-23 00:00:00

IVHITEHAYEN, OCT. 19.

'nit Newport, GRIFFITH, from Dundalk to
Liverpool, put into Douglas, Isle of Man, on Wed_
/lesday se'nnight. She was laden chiefly with cattle
and pigs, bound for Liverpool, and, in a gale of.
wind, the preceding day, twenty-six of the latter
^were Avashed overboard, and four of the cows suf-
focifed.

Antrim, 017,23er 10, iSoz.
DISTRICT ORDERS.

previous to the disbandment of the 23d Light Dragoons,
.10 The exemplary good condua and orderly behaviour of
'Which Regiment, even when dispersed throughout the great
extent of Country it has lately occupied, Brigadier-General
nxr,
on departing from that Corps at Belfast, is happy to
bear testimony, and thus to express *is most entire appro.
bation thereof..
The many proofs he has so invariably had, of the attention.
to good appearance, and of the most stria sobriety in every
individual composing so many small detachments, was a
;subject of astonishment to him, until lately that he has seen
them assembled with those Offrcers who have instilled such
discipline, so conspicuous in the oondu6l of this highly
tetnipped and completely appointed Corps, that to the very
crisis ofdisbanctment under the Command of Colonel SPEN-
tilt, has adhered to that order, and has exhibited, dis-
Mounted, a steadiness under Arms hardly to he surpassed,
refteeting upon him and on the Regiment the highest credit.
To the Serjeants and Non.commissioned Officers who
eommanded small detachments in remote situations, the
.Thanks of the Inhabitants, as well as of Brigadier-General
.110 fur, on thus taking leave of the Regiment, are likewise
partici/1321Y due.
- By Orcitt vt Brigadier-Gcueral
J. COUTSON,
Brigade-Major.

Mr. MOORE did not reach the Hague until last
Saturday. The Prince of Orange Packet, on board
t)f which he had embarked, suffered so much damage
in a storm as to prevent her making Helvoetsluys
An time.
Count RtrspoLr, the lately elected Grand Mas_
ter of Malta, left Glasgow on Monday for Edin.
°llrgh. He intended going by Carron, to view the
extensive iron works at that place.

Though much alarm has been created in the pub-
-lio mind by the reports of the late robberies in the .
Metropolis, we are happy to be able to state, that
There is reason to believe that they have been much
exaggerated, as we know from authority, that it does
llot appear from the returns made by the Police
Offices, that they have at all increased, but on the
contrary, that they have considerably decreased,
in consequence of the vigorous measures pursued by
the Police Magistrates. In regard, however, to the
stablished nightly Watchmen, it is -a matter of
''egret that some measures are not taken to render
them more equal to their duties ; but it must be re.
°lleacd that no blame can attach to the Magis.
Mites- on that head, as the Watch is appointed al-'
together by the respeaive parishes, and is not under
the management or regulation of the Police Offices.
The EMPEROR of GERMANY has pardoned all
State Criminals within his Dominions, on condi-
tion of their being transported beyond the Frontiers.
LEl,7is is rapidly improving in health, and will
.„..°e soon able to enjoy the congratulations of the
-uown on his recovery. The loss of such a man,
urtnu, indeed, have cc' impoverish the public
stock of harmless pleasures."
Mr. KEms LE, having accomplished his objea in
; isiting the French Theatre, set off a few days ago
°r Madrid, where he will be joined by Mr. HEATH.
•;()Tt, who is, at present, unavoidably detained at
Paris.
The Cabinet, aided by BRAHAM'S musical at.
traftions, was very well attended last night. INCLE.
?ON acquitted himself particularly well. The piece
is certainly very indifferent in point of dramatic
rerit, but uniting the chief comic and musical
atl
trength of the company, it is not Wond&ful that
Its a
ttraftion should continue.
adluzzixt, with a solicitude equal to his great
1.111 e) is busily employed in arranging the plan of
a'3
s Concerts, which we hear are to be uncommonly
:14!ndid this winter, and are to consist of the mast
,4'lnent vocal and instrumental Performers this
k•ountry can boast of; to which he has added the
Who
known talents of his old scholar, Mrs. SECOND,
7, he has engaged for a few nights, and who is
snottly expeeted in Bath.
L" Pied, on Saturday the gth instant, at Liverpool,
Zult.L, Esq. many years an eminent Mer-
t,ant in.. Liverpool ; in whom were united the
"raders of an honest and benevolent man, a tender
. husband an affeCtionate parent, and a warm friend :
1u sa3
death is much regretted by all who knew him,
" Ifis tirtues live beyoud the-strre."

dUILDHAIt, W:f§7llblS7tß.

FRi6AY, OCT. 22.

Nary perry, an handsome woman about the ate
of thirty, and a native of Scotland, was tried for
stealing a shawl in the yard of a person who lives
in the Broadway, Westminster, about nine at night.
The Prisoner was clearly proved to be guilty,
and pronounced so by the Jury.
The Chairman asked' her, " How many times
she had been tried before ?" and she answered, " I
was never here before."--4, Aye, but how often at
the Old Bailey ?" said the Chairman ; to which
she made no answer, but held down her head with
much apparent humility.
The Chairman said, it was a shocking thing to
see such a strong and healthy young woman pur-
suing this way of life, after so many repeated trials
at the Old Bailey ; and after having been so often
treated with lenity, (for she was well known to be
an old offender) ; she had proved herself to he ab-
solutely incorrigible, and unfit for the society in
which we have the happiness to live.
She then, with seeming contrition, confessed she
had often been guilty of crimes ; but said, that if
the Court would have the kindness to look over
her fault but this once, she would never offend
again, and that if she was now discharged, she
would return to her native place, and never be seen
• again in this Metropolis.
The Court ordered her to be transported for
seven years.
Just as the Officer was con:ldling her from the
Bar, she burst out into 'p fit of fury and exclgma.
tion, in which she execrated the Bench of Justices,
and made use of the most odious and detestable
epithets, such as, indeed, never should be repeated,
but by which she confirmed the propriety of the
sentence she had just received.

Two Fishermen were tried for stealing coals
out of a barge which lay under water opposite to
After the greater part of the evidence was gone
through, it appeared that the property was impro-
perly described in the indiament, and therefore, the
Chairman said, that the Court could not proceed
any futther in it ; but he took cccasiorealso to ob-
serve, that from the turn which the cioss examina-
tion of the Witnesses took, it appeared-its if it was.
thought that the Prisoners were guilty of no crime,
provided they dredged, as they affeaed to say they
did, for these coals by the side of the barge.; but
he said the law
.was otherwise ; and that if there
was no objeCtion to this indictment, in point of
form, most unquestionably these men would have
been as guilty of stealing these coals, although they
took them only from the side of the barge, as they
would have been if they took them out of the barge
itself. He knew thete was a barbarous custom
among some of the barbarous inhabitants of our
coasts, to run away with every thing they could
find that came on shore from the wreckof a vessel,
but they would -do well to remember, that in that
condud they committed felony : so again, the in-
habitants of some villages thoeght that when a
stage coach, or waggon, was overturned, they might
take away, and appropriate to themselves, what..
ever they found on the road, that had fallen from
such coach or Waggon: nut, if they knew It to
have, so fallen, and they kept it, it would be
a felony. -In one word, no accident could di-
vest a man of his property in this way, nor could
any other person be entitled to hold it, until the
person to whom it belonged abandoned it.. How-
ever, he said, he was not sorry that these Prisoners
were acquitted, because they might have thought
they were right in what they did, from the pre-
valence of the ptietice. It was wrong; and it
was fit they should know it. He hoped. they would
understand this matter in its true light, and, in-
stead of triumphing in their acquittal in this case,
they would tell their comrades, that the praCtice of
taking coals which fell by accident from lighters,
in the manner the coals fell in this case, by the side
of them, they were guilty of felony ; for nothing
could divest a man of his property but his abandon-
ing it himself; and he added, that if the.Prisonerz
were couviEted, the Court would find it 'eoetuty they
owed the Public, to pronounce on them
,4,j. severe a
sentence as they had power to pronoulice„,n.ot by
way of punishment on them,' but of terror to others.
They then were acquitted and discharged.