The Sun.
London, England, 1805-10-26 00:00:00

ROBBERY AT BIaICKHE44TII.

The neighbourhood of Blackheath has for seine
time past been infested by a band of unprincipled
ruffians,
,who have committed 'various arts of tiO^
'eke and outrage ; but in none have they sbewri
snore brutality, or greater want of feeling, than in
that wilich they executed on Sunday evening last.
The clock had struck ten, when the inhabitants
of Morden College..were roused by a violent knack-
ins; at the outer gate, which, after a short time, \vizi
forced open, and several villains, armed with
bludgeons, rushed in with considerable force. All
was bustle, uproar, and alarm. In a little time,
however, the. whole of the inmates of this charitable
asylum were aware of the danger, and appeared in
'spa numbers, that the villains thought proper to
et e& an escape from the Quadrangle of the College
This they with difficulty, and after a violent struggle;
effected, and the doors were once more closed: The.
poOr old men, however, little used to have, their
quiet thus. cruelly, disturbed, passed a watchful fled
restless night. Several shots were discharged at the
villains before they escaped from the precin&s of the
College ; but, we regret to say, to'no purpose.
It is supposed that they intended to have united
the crime of sacrilege to that of robbery, by thieviug
the plate and furniture of: the College Chapel, as it
has since been discovered that some of ‘the bars by
which the :Window 'at its back is secured, were
bent,. in endeavouring to force a passage through it.
The late unhappy fate of the two criminals ori-
Shooter's Dill, would be sufficient to awe any but whose Minds are hardened by a continued
course of vice. But. the violent ad, .which we have
just mentioned, and the manvdepredations COM-
mitted on the houses in the neighbourhood, terikl tri
prove the necessity of some immediate steps being
taken for the apprehension of the offenders.'

Yesterday morning a wild cow rail froni a drove
going out of Smithfield, and took its way up the Old
`Bailey, down Fleet-street, and to Holborn, where
it was 'secured, ifter having done some Mischief, by
throwing down several women's fruit stalls, S e but
fortunately did no material damage.
Sulomr..--Atesterday morning a female serVant of
Mr. Leigh's, of Harley-street, was found hatiging to
a bechtend, in the stable-loft. She had risen at her
usual hour of seven &clack. When the hotisekeepor
rose, finding the fires riot lighted, a search was made,
and she found her in the above state. She was 90
tall, that her knees rested 6n the bedstead. 'the fa-
mily are in the country, except a young Lady,whose
waiting-maid the deceased slept with, and who ob-
served her standing before the glass, settling some-
thing on her head or neck before she left. the room.
She was a very genteel, weal-colith4ed young wo-
man, and married:

On Tuesday morning last whilst in the rem% 041
of delivering the letters, the poinnan belonging tO
the town of Ipswich stiddenly
fell down inn tit, ad n
expired.
John Sitiziari, corn ieted on Thursd.iy at the Weqt.4.
niinster Sessions, of Wring maliciasly tohrovi;ii
bottle front the two shilling gallery or Drory-Linz
Theatio, into the pit, was sentenced to one ye,les
Otainement in the House of Corre&ion. We trivt
that this prosecution; so laudably tastittahtd, arid
the convit.tioza bsr which it has beim followed, win
have the etred of repressing In future the instancv
of w,ln 1.011 and dangerous outrage which oeeafrionidi7
Mali' in the Theatres,

SIXTiI DAY.,--The Ticker, No. 3944.4 dallied to
ian,rnml, iy First.drawn,, was soki in tWO Quarters,
trwo Lighths, and four Sixteenth Sh=s, by HopGgs
And Co. 44, St. iarnes's-street, and 149, Oxford-
street 3,vhere Tiekats and Shares, warranted un.
drawn, continue on First-drawnt Ticket'
next Tuesday will b entitled 10 50001.

BRITISH RET7ETP.

W VII IN DlSCiunt ; OR, TIM FRAUDS OP Ti(Z

TEAL FLAW.

There is s;) much important matter in this Work, that
we deetn it our duty to submit further Extraas from it
to our Readers. The Author has clearly proved that
iii all the late complaints which have been made on
the subje& at Violations of the Neutral Flags, Great
Britain has been "more sinn'd against that sinning ;"
and that uncles the et-lba of other Maritime States
is .Igilantly ohserved.by our Rulers, and particularly
of•th.it Sr ite which has presumed to represent itself
as- chiefly aiigrieved, our Commerce and Naval Con-
st queue willincalculable suffer injury.
" Let us next regard this spurious Neutral
Com-
maree in another view, as a great discouragement to
our Naval Service. •
The wise, liberal, and' efficriclonS palicy of this.
Country has been, to v.est the property of maritime
priz.!s wholly in the Captors ; and hence much of the
activity, and enterprize that have so long,
charaterized the British Navy. •
las give full credit to our gallant Oft-leers
fa. thc. diiinteresteil patriotism, and that love of
glory, \' hiCh 0101 t. to be the main-springs of ini-
litfr.:y charaEler, and Which they certainly possess•in
a inas.t minent degree.- Rut, it would he romantic
and ab•itird, toy suppose that, they do not feel the
value of that additional encouragement whieh His
Ma m
esty and the L egislature hold• out to them, in
giving them the benefit of the captures they mal e.
What else is to enable the veteran Naval Officer to
enjoy, in the evening of his life, 'the comforts of an
e‘uy itwoine; the fatherto provide for his children;
or the husband for an affettionate Wile,' Who, from
the fisques he TUBS in the service of his Country, is
pecoliArly likely. to survive him By what other
means can a s iaoricavAdmiral, when raised, as a
reward' of his illustrious uCtions, to civil and here.
ditary'llonours, hope to support his well-earned
rank,- and proyide thr an enabled 'posterity.? The
pensic,n he may' obtain be temporary., and
scarcely adequate even to his own support in
bit new and elevated station. It is froarthe Ene-
mies of his Couinry, therefore, that he .hopes to
rest the means of comfortably stistaining- those-ho-
nour3, Which he his gained at theirexpenee.
z s to. the .cornmort seamen and marines., the,

natural motive sof dislike' to the Naval Service are
in their breasts far more Fffeetually combated by the
hope of prize-motiee, Wan' by all the• other in :Nee.;
mentethat are, or Gen 'propoSed to them. The
nautical charaaer is .peculiarly of a kind to bein-
.
futenced by such dazzling, bat precarious prospeas.
They reason, however, and calculate on the chances
and the value of success ; witness the proverbial
remark, that a Spanish War is the best means of
Inanning our Navy.
" Never, surely, was the encouragement of our
Ntwat Service mare important than at the present
period; and never were the rewards of that service,
more meritoriously or gloriously earned. Yet *hat
are now the rational hopes of our seamen, in regard
to the benefit of prizes ? On whatever station they
may he placed, and whatever see they may be cross-
' ing they look out in vain for any subjeet of safe
and uncontested capture.
Are they 'sent to the East or West ?
thoueli sickly, used to be 'lucrative stations;
especially in a War with 'Spain : but now the rich
exports of the hostile colonies presett to there only
the cup of Tantalus. They 'see the same valuable
cargoes passing continually under their sterhs, whieh
wed formerly-to make the foettmes of the captors ;
Nellie ermigns of neutrality noel/ wave over them
ell, 'and prohibit a seizure. 7 .
" they,' in concert with the lend forces e
tack and conquer an hestile island, the reward of
their aueeeesthl valour is still wrested cram them in
the same vexatious way. They find none but Neu-
tral Flags in the harbour, and none but property ale
'edged to be neutral afloat*.
In short, except a small Privateer or two, of
little more value than,may suffice to pay the charges
of condemnation and sale, thee richest seas of the
globe, though bordered and thickly studded with
the most flourishing Colonies of our Enemies, have
no safe booty to yield to thoSitrilen of the.l3ritiJt
Navy. It is painful to refleat, that these brave men
lose the ancient fruits oidistaut service, while en-
during more- that its ordinary hardships. In the
\Vest Indies, particularly, theyeeffte- far* more by
the raveges vhf dieeaat, than When the Spanish Gal-
leotie, and the Convoys from elui -French Antilles,
consoled • them 'and rallied their spirits. Then too,
viaory, either in possession or prospea„aften ene
• livened that languid service, and re-ennnated the
sickly crews ; but now they meet no Enemy worthy
or their valour.: Their oat) bat most' -dishearteu-
lug, foes are thi! Vever and the Neutral Flag.
. " If we took nearer home, the reverse, in the
situation of our itearrieti, Is not Ittis singular in' elk-.
'cutiraginge The Mediterranean,• the Boy of Biscay,
*the Channel, • the German Ocean, are 'covered with
the eeporte of Spaiu, l lcrlfatPrance, and their
COlomes, tch shipping- bound' their ports ;
but \tobert are the rriMtS tit.NVir ? etu,!kl'S
4, mearch for theal cam, even 'on the hostile Coast,' 5
for o:cre, Nrcisels, impudently called neutr:it,
condii't, tor the-m.si part, that domestie intereeee,e
between different perte of the same hoetile
clilled the Coasting Trade,'
The examinatien Of Ourtlis6ised Enemies at
Sri is become everyeethere, in gilieniL a frUitless
wk.; since they are grown far too expert to be de:
toited by ::etch a scrutiny as eitn be maLle by a -vi Site
log Officer oil shipbeard. 'Yet, if they are serlt into
pc;rt, it is atethe captors' peril. ShOvild, however, a
Officer, relying .ott the notoriety of
tome fritidutent.prae,ticc, or on private informatiori„
venline to talc.e that course, he and his shipmates
'wen hnov the difficulties they will base to encout)-
tfi in obtaining a condemnation
,; ,end that
after. a
teeli:oes eentest in the origiuel and appellate Jul.:Rho,
they at, likely at last to sit down with the loss
of heir expern.!s i.ind costs.
The consequence naturally, is„ that but 3 Very
few of these pscudo-neutrals,which are tilet with
0-'Olll4lOl 4t BCa, are brought in for -jedieial

. _
* elhe Nivrclialometi taken. by Lord St. Vineenf ari.l Sir
C notes Gmy, MartiniqUe auti..Gu'idaloupe, were
tiers with theireAfgivii yvere

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