The Sun.
London, England, 1802-05-21 00:00:00

..N.IL'AL PROMOTIONS.

TH E following Lieutenants'have been made Com-
manders :

Anthony Abdy Philip Lamb
lames Agassiz John Lamborn
George Andrews Frederick Langford
John Baker (zo) ,Thomas Lyne .
C. P. B. Bateman Philip Lyne
Thomas F. Baugh Donald 14. Mackay
Matr. Bar. Bradbv K. M‘K,enzie (2d)
Edward Pelham Brenton Daniel NPLeod
W. Crosbie Brownrigg Tolin Manley
John Bushby John W. Marshall
Wi i i d irn4 ashman Francis Mason
• John Chdcott James Master
Edward Church Edw. I Mitchell
Edward Cleather W. MOurniey
George Cocks R. J. Neve
Samuel Colquitt Martin Nevill
Charles Coote J. Arthur Norway.
Robert Corbet H. M. Ommaney
George Digby Thomas Orde
Michael Dod Robert Paul
John Douglas (zd) Hugh Pigot
Archibald Duff' • Philip Pipon
John Edgcumbe William B. Proctor
Robert Evans . Robert Raynsfhrd
C. Montague Fabian William Richan
Arthur Farquhar - J. Richardson (Ist)
W.. Humph. Faulkndr: Fashamn Roby
Isaac Ferricrs P. 1.. J. Rosenhager)
Robert Forbes (ad) George Sanders
Henry Gordon R. H. Savage
Ed. Lloyd Graham . C. M. Schoniberg
Edward Grey Robert Scott
Arthur G rumley F. I. Snell
George N. Hardinge James Stewart {ad)
Gilbart Heathcote Christopher Strachey
M. facob Henniker , Gustavus Stu'part • -
Edmund Heywood 11. E. P. Sturx.•
Caleb Hill ,
Spelman Swaitie
S. Pryce Humphries J. 11. Tait : .
George Clark Hurclis Thomas Thrush
Joseph James fames Tippett
Hood I nglefield john Tower
Alex. 'lines - William Venom,
John Joyce (Ist). R. B. Vincent ' . •
Robert ilayley Judd John Waller (ad)
Alexander Robert Kerr Henry' Waling
Hon. Edward King fameg-Welsh. . .

Mrs. Brr..LINGToN's husband loft London-on
k Thursday, on his return to Paris.' .

MR. ph

never thought our Countrymen decient
either in Justice or Gratitude; but we should 14e
doubted the corredness of our judgment on these
points, if the People could have suffered Mr. PITT
to retire, after his long and arduous services, without
testifying those public marks of approbation, which
do no less honour to those Who confer, than to him
who is the object of them. The moment which has
been chosen for evincing this feeling is as st, as
the thing itself is just and becoming.
TO have epressed thanks to Mr. PITT at the
moment of his resignation; might ha‘ e savoured
too much of Party Spirit, might have looked even
like an Opposition to the-exercise of the undoubted
prerogative of the KING in the choice of his Mi-
nisters—but to have waited till all such feelings
trust have subsided—to have seen the effects which
his measures have produced in the attainmeni of
Peace—to have witnessed his great and disinterested
condud on that question itself; is to have sought
the period when every praise which can be bestow_
ed, when every testimony of applause which can be
given, is offered With additional weight and recom-
mendation.

With a great majority of our Countrymen, we
believe that it is to this identical WILLIAM PITT
that we owe, at this moment, the- existence of our
Constitution—We believe that it is to the energy
of his mind that we are indebted for having been
able to struggle with the complicated difficulties'
which the French Revolution presented to. us. Is
it then because he was thwarted in a measure, upon
the adoption of which the ablest and best.inten
tioned men may conscientiously differ in opinion,=
a measure approved by some of tile greatest men of
both Parties—a measure which he thought essen-
tial to the safety of the Empire—and which,
if the War had continued, some people .think
we might have found to.. have involved in its
consequences a question of no less importance' than
whether Ireland should have been preserved or lost
to us—is it, we ask, because at a moment 'when he
thought this measure so important, and was prevent..
ed from carrying he Thought fit to retire, that
we are therefor :;rget all the services he had
rendered his for seventeen years before ?
Ts there a ,vho doubts, that if he had employed
-that period in the avocations of that profession in
which lie first set out, his great and transcendent
abilities Would have led to the highest honours and
emoluments ? And will the-People of • this-Country
suffer such a man, the man ‘'vlio has Saved us, to re:
tire unnoticed, because, in saving us, be has adopted
measures .which some persons do not Approve, but
'which they do not approve only because therchuse
to consider them abstraaedly, and independent of
the necessity in which they originated ?
The measures which have drawn down won Mr.
PITT the severest animadversion Enemies;
• .
are those which have been adopted. Jor the pre-
servation of our. Independence,. and the Trotec-
tion of our Cohstitution:'—The great difference,
however, upon these points, is not so much as to
the propriety of the `measures themselves, as to
the existence of the necessity from whence they
arose. Those who think. that the Meetings
of Chalk-Farm, of St. George's;Fields, and of Co-
penbagm-Hcuse, were harmless Assemblies, will
not think that we required Ads of Parliament-to
prevent such Meetings ; and those who think that
Mr. JACKSON, Mr. O'CONNOR, Mr. O'CoioLEY,
Mr. TONE, Lord EDWARD' FITZGERALD, &c.
were.good and loyal Subjefts, will not think that
any Bill against Traitors could be framed With any
other view, than for the purpose of -wantonly in:
fringing the Constitution—But the sober part of
the Community may perhaps feel, that it was not
a culpable aft in Mr. Port's Administration, to
guard against such Men ; and that after the Oppo-
sition had been in a body to Maidstone, on a cer-
tain memorable Trial, they would have wiped away
some suspicious stains,. and would have raised their
own Charmers, if, on their return, they had re-
nounced their opinions, and had acknowledged the
necessity of such measures.

The Income Tax, however, is said to have been
a most odioUs measure—but if it had not ,been im-
posed,; could we have carried on the War ? And
would not the terms which the Enemy would have
imposed upon us, have been ten thousand times
more odious But this is a way, in which those
Who condemn- it, never chuse to consider the sub-
jeCt—they tell us it wasill-collededi evaded, un-
equal, and oppressi ; but they never tell us, that
any other Tax to the. same amount would have
'possessed less 'of these objtelions ; nor do they
venture to assert, that at the time it was imposed,
we could' have made Peace,- without throwing out_
selves on the mercy of our Enemies.

Most artful attempts have been made to induce
Mr. ADDINGTON to think, that every. compliment
which is.paid to Mr, Px TT, is a censure upon hiinw

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sell. Those men know little Of ,Mr;
who suppose, that they can thu:i Wink tpon
passions; and set them at varianti.!
and his judgment.—This attempt did not sitet:•.zL;!
in the House of Commons, nor sucCeed else-
where—Mr. ADDINGTOV: knows that the.
is no inconsistency/in a per Son approving of every
ael of Mr. Prrr's Administh;tion, in thinkiugth:ii
flis Measures have aCitiaily saved the Country; and
at the same timed not ntaciiing so much import.'
ante to the giving or retei,ing the remaining pri,i
leges to the Catholics, even during a War with
France, as Mr. Pi TT does".—Mr. Ann NGT6N
riot more united with Mr. the ties of per-
sonal friendship; than he is by similarity of sen-
timent upon all the great political questions, srhithi
have been produced by the extraottinary events of
the last ten years. But it was hcit enough for the
Enemies of Mr: PITT, to endeavour to excite Mr.
ADDINGToIYs opposition to any mark of approba.
tion of his conduct, ; it liras !;_ore than insintiated,
that such approbation WaS no! agreeable in a guar.:
ter, where it •is the grossest calenimy to suppose]
that Mr. PITT'S services are• either fOrgotten of
under-valued,: We have redson to know, that
there Is no man WM) appreciatei more correctly, or
values more highly, the service's of which we have
spOlceni than the Illustrious Personage to whom we
He Will not readily forget what passed or:
Mi. Fox's India-Bill, or what was dOne on 11-:c
question of the Regency but above all, he %Ili,
never fcirget the efforts of the Man who haS guard-
ed Him zed the Nation from the dangers of the
Revolution, and Who, in so* doing, has
performed greater services than any other Man had
ever before an opportunity of rendering to hi..)
Sovereign.

LAU' REPORT.

COURT OF KlNG's BENCH, THURSDAY, MAY 2:.

THE KING Z'. BALDOCK.

THis Def:ndant was tried and conviaed before
Mr. Baron HoTH Am, at the last Assizes at Maid-
stone. The Indictment stated, that he had contraCted
to serve the Marine Barracks at Chatham with cer-
tain loads of Bread, made of good merchantable
British or Foreign Flour, whereas he had mixed it
up with divers noxious and unwholesome materials.
Mr. Serjeant BEST, -in arrest of judgment, sub-
mitzcd that this charge was alledged in terms too
geilerid 'in an indiament. The charge, in all cases,
cu,Blit to be made with such a degree of precision
that the Court stray know what judgment to pass,
a7•d 'liar the Defendant may be informed what he
has to answer.

Mr. Justice GROSE asked the Learned Serjeant if
he had looked into the precedents ? The answer ,aras,
that he had only seen one precedent, in which it
was stated that the Bread was mixed up with noxious
and unwholesome materials, and specified dirt.
Mr. PI -rice GROSE observed, that one precedent
specified a dead mouse.
Lord ELLENEOROUGH observed, that some per-
sons were lately brought into the Exchequer for
some noxious ingredients that had been put into
Beer, but nobody knew with certainty what these.
ingredients were, though -they knew the effects
of
them. It was supposed to be pepper from the
Prince of Wales's Island. They knew the effed of
it was bad ; when put into the mouth it burned it.
But no one could predicate of it with certainty what
it was, and from whence it came. Dirt is not car-
rying it farther. Dirt is the genus generaficsimum
of all impure.
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Mr. Serjeant BEST said, they could have found
out what those noxious materials were
.byanalizing
the Bread. In .an indiarnent for poisoning, Lord
HALE says the kind of poisoning must be stated in
the indictment.

Mr. Justice Gitost observed, that in an inditi.
:mut for murder, you must state the instrument,
because it is forfeited ; and you must also state the
particular mode of the death.
The Court was of opinion, that the charge in
this-case was stated in the indiameut with a reason.
able certainty.

Justice LE &Axe read the Learned Judge's
Report, from which is appeared, that the noxious
materials in this case were pieces of chalk, as large
as i hazle nut.

After Mr. Serjeant BEST and Mr. PITCAIRN had
been heard in mitigation of punishment, and Mr.
GARRow on the part of the Crown, the Defendant
was ordered to be committed to the King'sßench,
and to be brought up on Monday to receive the
judgment of the Court.

YIELDER AND Bt/ItGOINtA. JOHN ICING,
IVIr. GIBBS shewed cause against a Rule obtained
by the Defendant, calling upon the Plaintiffs to chew
cause why the proceedings in the cause should not be
stayed, and a bond given up to be cancelled, and the
Plaintiffs to pay the costs of the application. The
Phlintiffs had been retained as Solicitors for the De-
fendant ; and Mr. Gls us remarked it was a little
singular in this case, that the Rule had been obtained •
upon.the single affidavit of Mr. King. In that affida-
vit he begin by accusing the Plaintiffs of negligence
in their duty as Attornies, and stated as instances,
that on account of their having negletted to desqibe
him with his proper addition, in'an Affidavit -which
was drawn by them, a Rule was in consequence of
such omission discharged,- and he had costs to pay.
This, Mr.GIBBS said, was a very venial trespass. It
Was not a very heinous offence to omit his " POP,
addition," more particularly as Mr. King did not
seem to know very well himself what was his proper
addition ; for he had negleCted to give hiMself any
in the very affidavit upon which the present Rule
was obtained, although it was true he had Esquired
himself in other parts of the proceedings. He had
also accused them, that in an adion brought by
him against one Taylor, for soot. they had negleCt-
ed to fix the Sheriff, or proceed against the bail,
by which he had lost rsool. In ordinary cases,
said the Learned Counsel, the loss could only have
been 5001. namely, the amount of .the debt ; but
Mr. King, calculating his losses perhaps in the ratio
of his gains, converts the cool. into rsool. The
• Aflidav it went on to add,. that in consequence of
such neglect he was obliged to change his Attorney,
and that he retained a Mr. Lamb, but the Plaintiffs
refused to deliver up his papers until he had executed
a bond f)r 1601. cis the balance of their account.—
He had accordingly executed such bond, although
" no Bill of Costs or Disbursement 'was e•ver de-
livered to him by them." Their 'Lordships would
undoubtedly be surprized to hear, after this positive
swearing on the part of Mr. King, that he (Mr.. G.)
aauallv held in his hand an. admitted balance of
1661. due to the Plaintiffs upon liquidation of ac-
counts, acknowledged in the hand-writing of King
himself. In addition to this, he had the affidavits
of Messrs. Fielder and Burgoine, who stated that
they declined the business of Mr. King, because
they cl.d not clime to issue a number of bailable
processes at his instance, when he would not give
them any reasonable account how the debts accrued;
that on the 3d and 6th of October, Bills of Costs
were delivered to Mr. King, and on the I Ith of
November, Fielder was present at a meeting with
King and Lamb, his Attorney, when the account
was adjusted, and then and there allowed by Mr.
King, who gave his bond for 66l.—the balance
admitted to be due to the Plaintiffs ; 'the Hon.
Butter Danvers and Mr. Lamb both joining as col-
lateral Securities.