The Sun.
London, England, 1802-08-10 00:00:00

LiEATHAM AND OfiIERS AILMTTACE.

This ease,. 'which had, beer\ tried :it our eiast As.
Sizes, Was cm-del-ed by the •C Burt of' King's Bench
fog' a new .the eircurnstances of it beit% so pe_
cidiar"as to' require the wrist deltberate cunsidera.
thin.

the Plaintiff; are partnet's of a•bankirig.house at
Pontefract, which had discounted, oh the tiih of
May, !Sot for -a total . stran,..,r.q, a Bill (it 301,
signed by the Defendants, Me!,st-S, Joseph and Jailin
Aintit'zige; as diaWers, direded" to Messrs; Fuller
and Cc:npany, and ordering the money contained
therein to be paid to the order of James Smith,
which name. the strangter indorsed on the-Sill at ti
time of its being-so discounted. . The Plaintiffs sent
the sald''Bill to Messrs. Fuller and'Company for
acceptance, who refused accepting h, having re-
ceived particular- directions from Messrs'. Armitage
to that. effeayon the grmild, that the bill had been
either lost or stolen from them before it had been
tilled dp; and that:altbnogh the Defendants' nlimes
were signed to that bill,, yet that, as the„ body of
the bill and the indorsement on the hack'of it ueie-
forged,-the bill itself, was to be considered a for,-
gery. The Plaintiffs asserted; that they ,had taken
:this Bill -in -the-regular c )urse of their ittsiness,
.without notice of those circumstances, and solely out
the credit of the Defendants' signatures as drawers
and.thetefure they brought this Anion as against
the drawer's of the Bill in question, which had been
refused acceptance.. • •

Lord 'F.,LpENV)ROUGH considtred it incumbent
upon 'thc..Plaintiffi to prove, that the person who
indorsed the name James Smith, was the jatnes Smith
.mentioned, in the bill as the payee; inasmuch as
the'bill was only payable.to the order_of the payee,
and to no other person: As no proof was given of
this,, his Lordship dire4ed the Plaintiff:'' to be non-
suited.

MUTINY OF THE CONVICTS
Satiirday- the' .Coroner's Inquest sat 'on the body
of John Reeves, the, unfortnuate ConviEt, who hap..
pened. to be shbt on Thursday last by one of, the
Keeper's. the• course of. The 'examination, it
appeared, that to the
,number of i3o Convicts came.
ashore to the_ Dock-yard,, 'under 'the care of Mr...
IllOakless, Chief Mate of the Prudenria,"and tot,
whom the Jury gives every credit for his humani.2
ty, "because" at , the time- lie had a blunderbuis
'heavily loaded, and declined to fire,. as he said lie -
knew there was no fear of their getting, awayy and
he did not wish to interrupt them by a forfeiture of
anyof their lives..

Francis Cobb Was the man who came up to tilt
door, and took, the Keeper bY the throat, till the
key was taken' from -him.. Thejury-4rought in
tlieif verdict—'-.-Justifiable Homicide.

liishOixTayl;ft, formerly a.ship's Corp )ral of the
Otifhester, whOs it seems, has the keeping cif the
door they forceds has been only six weeks in tl:e
yaed.
-Calitain• Reads , of the l'udentitT, eays, that he
entertained some ideas that the Mutiny had, been
long "o.67om:cacti, because, the ,day
_before. they
were heard to sa.y on board, " To.morrov tzue 'La
be at Bromley Fair, in Kent," which was • the tair
When one of the Convias was going to be,
flogged; it was discovered that there was a hall
lodged-in his shoulder. Dr. GA-dner says, that, the
other min who happened to receive a slug 'through
the body cannot po,sibly recover ; as 'it is lodg,-ed
in his lung. ;- he,may,.however, linger some time.