The Sun.
London, England, 1805-08-14 00:00:00

POLICk

ripet.te-Orret, MA LBOSOUGH-STREP.T..--301121
Andev,Groomto Mr. Wall, of Stafford-place, charged
Joseph Stringer, ,a private in the Guards, with pri-
vately stealing, a aol. Bank of England Note out of
his 4,10, in a room over his master's stable, about
six weeks since. The complainant tivore that 4e
was ordered to go out of town with the farnily
RamSgate, and in his Italy he forgot to take die
key of his think with him. A horse was left be=
bind in the stable, and the. Prioaer was employed to
take care of it. On his return the complainant '
.cad the note, and 'Mentioned the circumstance to Ins
master, by whose advice he advertisedit, and had
payment stepped' at the Bank. But he never once
suspeaed the Prisoner of having stolen jt. until a few
(IlB's since, when :John Wilson, his fellow-Servant,..,
informed hiin that No. dog, fOr M. had been
'stopped at the-Bank with the',Prisonefo name, and.,
thrat„of Serjeant. Needhatrii his Papliaster, on ,the,T
back• of it. The, complainant immt aiafeli obtained
'leaVe to return•to totvii,- and upon the' krisoner be-
ing accused by Wilson, in 'the presence of Andey
and another, the Prisoner. -sonfessed upon,
being'called on by the nigiStrates. far lip detcace,°
the Prisoner said that he found theitrUnk .apen,
seeing a note in it, he.took it to a neighbouring, Pub-
lican to change. He wOs.net able to;tell'the value
Of it,. as he .could neither read nor Write.. The
landlOrd wrote his nathe and his Brjeant's on the
bark df the note, and gave him several other notes.
instead, of It, but for the reason already mentioned'
he could not say what were the amount of the notes
he'reCeived. - He put them into his jacket peCket,
~, and a short time afterward, he lost the whole or
what remained, 'after lining got changefer 'one
of theM. was,' after this confe4en, counnitted,
for re-examination on, Tuotlay next; 'in order that
the note may be brought front .thetink,-.an4 its
identity proved by a letter in Andey's possession,
which statesthe number and 'value of the note, and"
also. by the-Publican,. who will he then brought for,
Ward to, swear to his hand:Writing on the hack of •
the note, and to his having received it from the Pri-,
a Ater.

MANS loN-HopsEo—Yesterday John Wright, alias
Clot. Wrfght, alias Francisco, tic. with a man and,
' woman, his accomplices, were charged . betbre the.
Lord Mayor, with _defrAnding different . tradesmen
out of their, property under false pretetioes. ..The
female'Prisoner was lately en•;, oil le 3 nt Marlborough-
• street, on a charge of, giying. tiCtitwas,tharAncrs •,f
the Prisoner Wright, to se,. eral tradesman who li.:a
household goods, ;Ind other. articles.. In
consequence warrants were issued against him, and
he was apprehended in Lombard-street. .Icappear-
", ed he had' assumed the tharafter of a West India_
Merchant. latelv-nrrived in this Country., to settle in
London, and fiat taken mock counting-houses in
various parts of the metropolis, a,,d Mulatto,
more readily imposed on the ..sedulous. The princi-
pal charge established against him was by atailor,
near the Royal Exchage, who supplied him with
clothes to the amount of ten pounds. The Prisoner
afterwards 'applied to have two rich suits of .livery
madefor h. servant, but.this Order the tailor refused
.to execOtt till he mei,* payment of his former.
bill.. The-Prisoner left, one of his hams in the•pos-
session of the tailor, till, he went to a cotree-house to
get the money to diichargo the.demand. It turned
out, however, that the horse, watfk hired from stables
In Moortelds, and tikere was every reason to suspt
that the Prisoner Wes a mere swindler. There were
many' other eharges against him, and from cards
found bet his Person, it appeared Clearly that he had
passed under diiferent names; be, together with the
oiler Pr:soners, was cournittectfor re.examination.

Sunday. evening last a. lad about 14 years of
age, of the name of Brown, son to a school-master
of Lynn, was uniortunately drowned whilst bathing
in the rivet.,

At the Assizes for the County of Devon, Betsey
Hulse, otherwise Betsey Rogers, aged 32 was eon-
viaed of , the ,wilful murder of William itogers, at
Plymouth, and was orkred , fig execution on the
12th TLiton," found guilty of rObbing
on the.highwayl and John Hayes, aged 39, coup
vied of ravishing. Nary Shields, a child of t years
of age, at Stoke DaninQii; received sentence of
death.

On Thursday se'nnight the post from Waterford
for,Liinerick , was robbed by two men armed with
clubs; between Cashel and Golden, and the entire
carried off.
curious fad that the Natives of Owityliee,
wl,ero Captain coax, lost his life, have, since the
era of the well-known voyage of Captain ATANcqu-
VElls made astonishing advances to dexterity and
slull in our most usefulEttropean arts. 1:-r AMA-11/41A,
the King, is another, Prrp,a the Great. , CaptaiO
Vstroeuvea,laid down the keel of the first vessel in
1702. lie• is now toaster of more. than 20 yes-
eels, some even:copper-bottomed, of different sizes,
diem twenty-five to fifty tons. He encourages. Euro-
.peans to settle in the Island,,provided they be in4us-
4tious, and acquainted with the arts which may be
rornse .to him, He has a cotnpatty of body guards,
whom be makes to imitate the, European discipline.
•He has a palace, built in the fashion of Europe, of "
-brick, with glass wituiows. His subjects have
learned to make trading' voyages, as far as the North-
west Coast of America. He has accumulated larger
stores of tire-ertris,,gun-powder, hardware, and cloth,
of different sorts than he ,has occasion to consume.
And it is a truth, however surprising it may appear,
that he and his subjeds already meditate the design
of a trade with Chitut, to be carried on in vessels of
their own cutstrutaion, navigated by theirown peo-
Sle. The population of Owhyhee and the other
andwich Isles has leereased
„considerably since they
Aver* first discovered. On the contrary, that of
Otaheite, has, in between thirty and forty 'Yeirt
been diminished by dissoluteness, idleness, child.
murder, stnall,pox, and the venereal diseases from
200,000 souls to little Mere than 5000

g, Bend, compare, a:adjudge," is a very appropriate
motto for the Scheme of the present Lottery, for no
Schtme was ever better formed to be,retni with plea-
sure, foraparril with advantage, or judgetimith