The Sun.
London, England, 1802-02-26 00:00:00

THURSDAY, FRB: 25.

SEFPRE MR. JUSTICE CROSE AND A ::ECIAT.

JURY, IN W. ESTMINSTiR-14ALL.

THE KING ,/.1. STEVEN FRYMAN.

THE ATTdRNEY GENERAL Said, that this was
an Indilment for Perjury against the Defendant,
in resped of the testimony given by him, and, -
charged to have been false : it was about two L.
years ago, on a trial which took place before the
Chief Baron of the Exchequer, on an information
exhibited by Sir JoHN MlTFotteethen His Majese
ty's Attorney General, against two persons, Ken.-
net and another, •for the purpose d condemning a
Packet of Salt that was found at the door of these
persons. Upon the trial of that Cause, the De-•
fendant in this was examined as a Witness on behalf
of the then Defendants. A waggon had been brought
to the house of these persons, and it was standing
at the door ; a person coming by knew. it to be
salt—it attratled his attention, upon which he went
for, and got an Excise Officer, to attend with him,
who came, and they made a search in the premises
of these persons ; upon which the information he had
already stated, was .exhibited against these persons
for these contraband goods, and the Defendant in
this Cause was examined, on their behalf as a Wit:.
ness. Upon that occasion this Defendant swore to
several circumstances which were material to the
issue between the Crown and these Defendants. It .
was essential in the Case now before the Jury, to
the conviction of this Defendant, that what he
swore was material to the issue, which the Jury
had to try between the Crown and the then De-
fendants, and also that what the Defendant in this
Prosecution swore, was false. :there were ten
sacks of salt,
.but they wanted, on the other side,
to say the Officer made a mistake, that these sacks
contained oats and not salt. A search was made
of the house and premises of these persons, and is
was contended on the part of the Defendants, that
they had shewn to the Officers, when this search
was made, the warehouse, the loft above the ware-
house, and the cellar below it—whereas, it was
assigned in this Indidtnent, they did not do so,,
and that this Defendant knew they did not, and
swore they did, whereupon perjury was assigned
against him.—This was false, and therecouiti be
•no doubt that it was material to .the issue which
Was then tried=the- question being, Wl,eiher there. •
were contraband goods in these premises or not ?
He swore also,e that the Officers were not in the
iron-mongery room belonging to these persons,
whereas he knew they had been there also, upki
which there .was another assignment of perjury.

'These were" all faas material to the issue then to
be tried, and they were sworn to by this Defendant
He knew that what he swore upon that occasion,
was false; and that shoUld be proved. So that the
Jury would be (ailed upOn to pronounce him guilty
A 'Witness produced the Copy of the jougment
as entered up in the Exchequer-Office, upon the trial
in which the present Defendant was examined as a
Witness.

• Mr. GuRNEY, Short-hand Writer, who took
down the trial for the Crown, read his Notes off
this Defendant's evidence, and clearly proved that
the Defendant had de,livered the evidente stated in
this Indictment.

Two Officers of the Revenue were eiarnined,•'foi
the purpose of proving, that what the Defendant
swore upon the trial, was false ; but the ATTORNEY
GENERAL being informed that there were six per_
sons present. when this search was made, and that
only two of them attended now, said, he had no
secrets to keeps anti had but one feeling of duty;
which was to pursue those who were charged with
crimes, and, by such prosecutions as this, to sup--•
port the interest of the Country ; but that interest
supported according to the rules. of law
rules waspne, that where a number of
;%ivinaos
ntgo
tbielesse.
Officers of the Revenue were present at a search of
this sort, and any prosecution took place, and a
Witness swore any thing on behalf of the Defend-
ant, and was then indified for Perjury,. for any
thing he swore, all the ,OfficerS of the Revenue
should be called by the Crown, in order that they
might all be examined.
Mr. Justice GROSE said, that this was the role,
that all the Officers should be produced by the
Crown ; ntit that the Counsel for the Crown
should examine 'them all, but that they might be .
produced in order that the Defendant might have
an opportunity of examining, if there were any.
hopes entertained, on the part- of the Defence ;
thOse who were not examined for the Crown, would
contradia those who were examinecii; they were,
therefore, all produced by way of favour to the De..
fondant.

The ATTORNE4t GENERAL ssid, that) for this
reason, he would give his Lordship and, the. Jury nog
further trouble in this case.

Mr, jOstice GitosE said, that -this was very
handsome proceeding on the part of the ATTORNEY
GENERAL, and Mr, ERSK I,Nt acknowledged it to be
so for his Client, the Defendant, who was, there.,
upon, pronounced—Not

Yesterday a man passing the top of Turnagain-
lane, Snow-hill, the front of one of the }louses sud 4
denly fell down and buried hinfin the ruins. Every:
exertion was made to ezrieate him from his dread.,-:
ful situation, which was accomplished if a vent
'short time. I-k was carried to St. Bartholomew's
Hospital, but so much bruised, that little hopes are
entertained of his recovery.
Last week a chimney-sweeper's boy, in attempt-
ing to get up a funnel,' in the house of T. Barker,
Esq. of Summer-hill, near Birmingham, became so
completely wedged in, that the whole chimney was
obliged to be taken down before he could be extri.
cated from his unfortunate situation. Notwith-
s6nding he remained in it severas I hours, he did not
receive anp injury,

TO THE. EDITOR OF THE SUN.

February 17, iSoz

SIR,

As the Learned have not yet agreed upon the
true Etymology of the four following Names, viz.
Britain, Albion, Ireland, and Scotland ; and as no
four words, either in History or Geography, have
occasioned so much controversy and conjecture as
they have done : so, it is hoPed; the following
definition of them, will end the dispute, to the
satisfaction of many of your curious Readers, pro-
vided you can but. conveniently find room to insert
it in your very useful Paper ; which will not only
transmit and preserve them to posterity,•but greatly
oblige,

SIR,
Your very humble Servant,

ALB INACH.

The name Britain, as it is now spelt, is a cor-
rupted Gaelic compound of Breac't, variegated,
coloured or painted, Inn, Island, and Neach, a
People or Nation ; consequently, Breac't-inn-neach,
signifies either the People of the variegated Island,
or' the Island of Painted People, or the Island whose
Inhabitants wear 'party-coloured clothes : the Ro-
mans, or first Invaders, . changed this primitive
harsh, though very significant name,, into one ex-
tremely like it in sound, which they could more
easily pronounce in their own language, viz.
Brit-in-nea, or Bri-tan-nea, or simply Britannia;
which we in' English call Britain. The Romans
took the same liberty with the three words Gael-
dun-neach, which in Gaelic signify the Gauls of the
Hill Country, or the Highlanders ; and as easily
changed them into Cael-du-nea, or simply Caledo-
-71;a111; and so they also did with the Gaelic word
licch, which signifies a labourer or husbandman, or
such as inhabited the East and South part of North
Britain, the soil being arable here, but only fit for
hunting and pasture in the Highlands ; for they
changed it into Pic7, a name similar in sound, and
significant enough in Latin, when applied to the
Inhabitants of North Britain, as they either painted
their bodies, ok wore party-coloured clothes ; a
singular custom, no doubt, and peculiar to the High-
landers even now a days, for no people in the world
ever wore the highland dress but themselves.
The Fame Albion, as it is now spelt, is also a
corrupted Gaelic compound, of Alb, high ; Ban,
white ; and Inn, island ; so that Alb-ban-inn sig-
nifies the High White Island, from its remark-
ably high white cliff's along all its coast nearest to
Ancient Gaul, from whence it was first peopled :
the Romans changed the name to one very like
it in sound, as well as in signification, viz.
Alba-lnsula ; and other invaders, either be..
fore or after them, no matter which, changed the
Gaelic name into Al-ba,in, Al-bi-on, or simply
Albion. And certainly the first Inhabitants could
not have chosen two more significant namesr
in their,
native tongue for. their Island, than Breac'ttnneach,
or "Breac'tinn, and 44/banin. . But to come still
nearer, the present pronunciation, Breac't-zion, in
Gaelic, signifies a painted one, 'a painted person, or
a person with variegated clothes ; and it may be
eaSily changed or sounded Breaton, Breton, or Bri-
ton, for shortness : and Alb- Aon, in Gaelic, signi-
fies a mountain, one, or person, a Mountaineer, or
a Highlander ; and by the changing or omitting
one letter only, is easily sounded Alb-ion, Albion,
or Albin for shortness. Is it not ,therefore as-
tonishing, that we should ransack foreign languages,
such as Greek or Latin, for the primitive names of
our island, when we have them in our own ancient
native languge, as is well known to every High-
lander who can translate his mother tongue into
English ?

- The name Ireland is, a compound of corrupted
Gaelic and English, of Ear, or lar, West, and
Land : the ancient and proper name of it is Ear_
Inn, or Jar-Inn, which signifies the West Island,
and so indeed it is with respell to Britain : the
Irish now generally pronounce it Erin for short-
ness. From these two Gaelic words, Jar-tan,
comes the lerne of the Ancients ; moreover, as the
Southern part of North Britain lies to the West-
ward of the Northern part of South Britain, and is
rendered almost a Peninsula by Solway Firth and
the rivers Tyne and Tweed, it was on that ac-
count sometimes called lar-Gael or lar-Inn ; and
the Ancients, who knew very little of the geography
of Britain and Ireland, called this part of North
Britain lerne too, and in their writings, confounded
the one with the other, so as to make it almost im.
possible to know which lente they meant, when
they had occasion to speak of them : however, the
Natives themselves knew well enough then, as well
es they do now, that lar-Gad was 'the common
name of that distrk of Scotland, and largael, sig-
nifies the West Gauls or West Highlanders, as they
are now called, from which two Gaelic words, the
present name of the county of Argyle is derived.
The name Scotland, as it is now spelt, is altoge-
ther a pure English word, and was certainly im-
posed upon the whole Country of North Britain, by
the Saxons, about, or before, the time of their first
coming over to settle in Britain ; it is compounded
of Scot, a part ; or Scotch, a part cut off, and
Land: " You've scotch'd the snake, but not killed
him," is a comman "English phrase to Oils day :
and certainly the Saxons -had not a more significant
name in their language, for North Britain, than
Scotland ; on account of its being separated, or cut
oft from South Britain, not only by the Roman
Walls, but by the Solway Firth, and the Rivers
Tyne and Tweed, and also by the Rivers Clyde j
and Forth, so as to render it almost a Peninsula, as
•al,Ove observeci.. no such Word. in Gaelic
as Scot, or Scotland ; the Highlanders, even at this
day, call themselves Albi-N4-ack, and their Coun-
try ..1/bin: the South Britons indeed, who, in the
times of the Romans, doubtless spoke the same
Gaelic language with the North Britons, might,
by way of reproach, have called these last Scuta,
a Gaelic word, signifying Restless Wanderers, or
a People wh6 had no towns or settled habitations,
lint who,• in those days of heroism, lived by hunt-
ing and war; and Moreover, the Saxons, when they
first came over, might perhaps hear the South Bri-

tons call their xew Enemies in the Norfh, Soda ;
the which, if they did, it might perhaps be another
inducement to the Saxons to call .them Scots, and
their country Scotland : but there is not the smallest
grounds to suppose, that the ancient natives, from
the most remote antiquity, to the present time,
ever called themselves Scots, or Scuts, or Scnta, or
Scale, as some authors have supposed. However,
it is more than probable, that the :South Britons,
by way of obloquy, have called the Galloway Men,
or West Highlanders, lar-Scuta, or the Western
Wanderers, or Freebooters ; and that this far-Scuta
was afterwards changed by the Saxons into iris&
Scots, a name frequently met with in ancient writers,
in a particular sense : but in a general sense, North
Britain was called Scotland by the Saxons for the
reasons above given.
To conclude, with regard to names of-places ei-
ther in Britain or Ireland, when we find they are
not Gaelic, we may in general take it for granted
that they are purely English, or a mixture of Gaelic
and English ; as there are very ter Roman, Da-
nish, or, French names. remaining : that Gaelic was
the original language of Britain and Ireland 2000
years ago, no one will deny ; nay, even now a days,
we find no more difference between the Gaelic, the
Welsh, and the Irish, than there is between the
English spoken in the town of Haverfordwest, in
Edinburgh, and Dublin ; and if you ask either a
Welshman a Highlander, or an Irishman, what he
calls an ; Englishman, he will immediately answer
Sasnic; and if he cannot answer you in English, he
will immediately say, Dim-sasnic, which signifies
in Gaelic, he cannot speak English : this word
Sasnic is evidently a corruption of the Gaelic Neach,
a people ; or Aon, one, and Sax, for Saxneach, is
easily changed into Sasneach, or Sasnic, and Saxaon
is still more easily changed into Saxon.

COUNTRY NEWS.

NEWCASTLE, FEB. 20.

In the night, between the 3d and-4th instant, the
shop of Mr. John BulLain, of this town, ironmon-
ger, was broke open, by picking the lock of one of
the doors, and a great quantity of goods stolen
thereout. On Saturday last a search warrant was
granted against the house of one John Carlton, who
lives at Ouseburn, when part of Mr. Bullman's
goods, as also a parcel of base coin, and sixty-two
pick-lock keys, of different construdion:i (and one
of which opens Mr. Bullman's lock), were found in
the house.

Carlton, who has., long been a notorious charac-
ter, is committed to prison. He also stands charg-
ed, along with William Towns and James Lowry
(who are likewise in custody), as being the persons
who, in Offiber last, broke the warehouse of Mr.
ThomaM Greenwell., in Gateshead. —Carlton yet
bears the marks of Mr. Greenwell's very courage-
ous defence of his property.
A man of very genteel appearance, and whose
name is Robert Young, was, on Wednesday last,
apprehended at Haydon Bridge, and is lodged in
gaol here, as being a deserter from the Coldstream
Regiment of Guards, of which Corps he aaed as
Quarter Master, and decamped from Chatham, with
about zsool. hchJugh,s tt, th, rittzitimut-•

On the night between the t 3th and 14. th instant,
a most daring robbery was committed in the Tri-
nity House, in this town, by some villain or vil-
lains, who forcibly entered the premises by a win.
dow, and after being defeated in a most violent at-
tempt to -.break into an iron closet therein, took
away a small deal box, containing about ten pounds
in silver money, a small mahogany box, with the
contents, being a large oval silver seal, hearing the
impression of a ship, and the following inscription
round the margin :—" This is the Seale of the
Trinitie House in Newcastle upon Tine ;" a black
shagreen case, with mathematical instruments of
brass ; and also two pair of brass compasses, single.

LEWES, FEB. 22.

Last Thursday the Master of our Barracks re.
ceived an official letter, containing an order for him
to stop the Contraftor from delivering any more
coals for the use of the Barracks ; and to make an
accurate return of the stock in hand.
On Wednesday last, a detachment from the 4th
Foot, who remained at Horsham, after the comple-
tion of the establishment, marched from that place

to our Barracks, it is supposed, to be there station.
ed until they are discharged. •
At the Beast-market, at Chichester, on Wed-
nesday lasr, stock sold at prices nearly the same as
on the preceding market-day.
At our market, on Saturday, wheats were dull
of sale, at prices nearly the same as last week.
Last Friday afternoon a private of the 4.th Regi-
ment, stationed here, was by a waggoner, as he
was driving his team on the road, discovered bang-
ing to a shrub, near Spital Barn, with his body
half prostrate on the bank. The driver instantly
cut him down, and to all .appearance dead ; but he
shortly after revived, and being taken proper care
of; now lies in a fair way of recovery. We have
not learnt that he has assigned any reason for the
commission of the rash aa.

On Monday night last, about twelve o'clock, a
fire was discovered in a piggery, belonging to Mr.
Everest, of Handle Farm, in the pariSh of WitlV-
ham. The whole of the styes were entirely con-
sumed, and seventeen hogs burnt to death, and to.
tally spoiled•; one only was saved, and that was so
much scorched as to render its immediate slaughter
necessary. The fire was occasioned by a quantity
of live wood embers having been thrown with some
ashes into an apartment adjoining the piggery.