The Sun.
London, England, 1802-07-06 00:00:00

THE GENERAL ELECTIWv`.

It becomes the duty of the Elefiors throughout
the Empire to consider well the nature of the trust
they are about to repose in the hands of their Re-
' prescotatives. The example of past conduft is a
surer pledge than the' fairest promises. If there,
ever was a House of Commons which spoke the
sense of the People at large, it was the last. -gay ,
the Opposition confess that not only a great ma-
jority of Parliament was against them, but full as
great a majority of the Nation—But they accom.,
patsy this confession with the modest declaration
that the great majority both of Parliament and the
Nation were in the wrong, and that they, a very
insignificant body indeed, in point of numbers,
were in the right. We wish the Ele6tors through-
out the Empire to put this question to themselves-,-
Which have most preserved their rights, those
who encouraged the Meetings at Chalk Faint, at
Copenhagen House, and St. George's Fields, 'or
those who supported measures tending to suppress
such meetings ? Which were the firmest friends
to the Constitution—those who opposed, or
those who supported the Acts for the suppres-
sion of Treason and Sedition?. Which are the
Men who have most claim to our Confidence,
those who sought out and punished the Traitors, or
• those who every day told us that such did not
exist ? The Aas of Parliament. to which we have
alluded are now repealed. Has the Constitution in
any degree suffered from such ACts having been
passed ? If they had not been adopted, is there an
Impartial man in the Nation who does not think
that we shOuld have run the risk of losing that
very Constitution itself?
These are the considerations which we submit to
the Constituents throughout the Empire upon the
great question of our .11omestic Politics. If they
like plausible Theories, if they like Spec:LA:l6ons in
matters of Government, they cannot look to a better
model than France, or better instrumentsfor their pur-
pose, than the Friends of what is called Parliamenta
Reform, which is, in fa& Innovation,' tinder the
mask •snd garb,of improvement, and a change of
the v :le Constitution under the pretence (If ame-
Nora:. ,g a part of it. But if they like the Constitntioa
of these realms as it is—if they are satisfied that the
Subjefts of George the Third, enjoy under our happy
Establishment, as much Freedom as is compatible with
order and good Government, they will adhere to
those who, during the most arduous struggle which
this Nation ever was engaged in, not only for the
maintenance of its situation among the Nations of
rEttrope, but for its Laws, its Liberties, and its In-
dependence, have, by the most able and persevering
exertions, preserved to us those blessings which no
other Nation has yet ever had the happiness to enjoy
in so eminent a degree as ourselves.

LAW' REPORT.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, juLy S.

BERNARD 'V. GOSLINGS.

Mr. justice LAWRENCE said, this case had been
fully argued, and nothing now remained but for the
Court to deliver its opinion. The Lord Chief
Justice took no share in it, on account of his having
been Counsel in the Cause. It was an aftion for a
Penalty against the Defendants for having acted as
Proftors, without having taken out and duly enter-
ed a Certificate, as required by Aft -of Parliament,
when a verdift was found for the Plaintiff, for ore
penalty of Sol. A Motion was made in Arrest of
Judgment; and there were three objetuions urged
in support of that Motion. First—that the Decla-
ration charged two distind offences, that of
not having, and not having duly taken our,
and not having entered a Certificate empowering
them to aft, &c. Secondly, That, the Defend-
ants, Messrs. G-Jslings, ought to have been
sued singly, because this was in the nature of a
Criminal Case, in which each individual should be
answerable for himself. Thirdly, That the Atti of
the 37th of the King, by which this penalty attached,
did not give the right of Aftion to a common In.
former, but provided for it in another way.
On the two first objeftions, it was unnecessary for
the Court to say any thing, because it was of opi-
nion that the last was fatal to the adion, that was
to say, that the Ad of Parliament, on which this
aftion was founded, did not give the right of ac-
tion to a common Infbrmer, the consequence of
which was', that the rule for arresting the judg-
ment should be made absolute.—Rule absolute.

The case of EDMONTON against PLAISTED, which
was an action for a like penalty, and depending
on the same pointexaetly, for having afted as an
Attorney withot.it having taken out and duly en-
tered his certificate, was disposed of in like man-
ner.—Rule for the' arrest of judgment made ab-
solute. .

SD= other cases were argued, but not deter-
mined.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, ruLy r.

The prize case between Lord St. Vincent and
Lord Nelson was argued on the special verdict of
a Jury, subjeet to the opinion of the Court. The
property litigated is the Admiral's share of the
vessels taken by the Alcmene, Captain Digby,
now in the hands of the prize, agents., to abide the
decision of the Law. On the part of the Plaintiff;
Lord St. Vincent, it was contended, that having
left his station animo tevertendi, an 4 no other per-
son being commander in his place, and Captain.
Digby having gone in search of the captured vessels,
by his express orders, -he was entitled, though at
the time of the capture he was at Bath, by permis-
sion of the Admiralty.
On the other side it was contended, that Lord St.
Vincent, having left an Admiral on the station,
had abdicated his-command. The King's procla-
mation, relative to prize money, issued at the coma
mencement of the war, was cited on both sides.

The Court reserved its opinion on the arguments.

An over-drove ox unfortunately got into the
New Road, yesterday, and tossed some persons,
among whom was a fine youth of about foUrteea
years of age, who had both his arms broke,

THE FRANTIC LOFER,

AN ELEGY.

Vinci! who I is this with looks sowild?
'Tis! ail !,'tis 'Phreozy's madden'd
That vents tile horror of his a,nguish'd mind.
See there he sits upon the rock !
•:
• Beneath tie dash'd his wretched flock--
On! why' wAs:111 A R Y.''so unkind?

His eyes are fix'd. his- bosom bare;
And now he tears his knotted bait:
Haste! then' - oh. haste!, the' trembling Maniac bind;
See the hot tears he, just Jet !
Bat hark! and von may hear him call . • .
" Oh :why was MARY. SO unkind?

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•
No longernow shall he complain
• Uf,slighted vows, and cold disdain.
While the..tlehd liwelters to the parching wind,"
. Too late Ile Fair One shall deplore. •
Now nought can agOiiize him more
• But why was MARY so unkind? '

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• •
Ye softer waves, his body bear;
Do not, ye.rocks, his bosom tear:—
.For good, before, and gentle was his Mind;
His, corpse, on rolling- billows tost,•• •
Floats near 'the bare and rugged coast:
' Oh why
,was MARY so unkind?

• He starts—and wildly stares abput--t
Asilist'ning to some rabble rout.
Exhausted, languid, now he lies iteclin'd:
'Again he lends-the ySclding air,
With screams,of terrible despair;
Oh ! why, was MARY so unkind ?

VI,. .

Ile ruthe§ down'upon the plain,
Then climbs the ragged rock again,
While the waves foam, and roar, and dash behind.
Again hescales the steepest brow,
And plungs to the, gulph below.
Oh! why was MAR? so unkind ?

PREROGATIVE COURT, Dociott's Comm°Ns.

XATENCAMP, V. NICHOLLS.

Before the Right Hon. Sir WILLIAM
This was a question respeding the validity of
the- Will of Mrs. Ann Nicholls, deceased.

• • It appear'ed that the deceased had been for a con_
siderable time in a deep decline, and was therefore
advised by her Physician to take a voyage to the
,- Island of Madeira, as the only prospea left of her
recovery, which she accordingly did, attended by
lier husband and mother ; that during the voyage

the Will in question was made, the deceased having
a'power reserved under the marriage settlement, in
case she had ,no children, to dispose of the fortune
she received from her father on the day of her mar-
riage, notwithstanding her husband was living ; and
the contents of
.the Will were, :hat it gave to her
husband the interest of this property (which was
'in the Bank of America) for his life, but that,
after his death, it was to revert back to her fa.
ther.

I't farther appeared that the testatrix died within
seven- or 'eight days after .her arrival at the Island
of Madeira, and that this Paper was now opposed by
the huiband, who by. his Counsel contended, in the
first place, that the Court had no knisdiClion in thii
Case, inasmuch as the property, was in the Bank of
a Foreign Country ; ;in the next place, that the. Will
was not proved-by- two credible Witnesses, as there
were many material contradiaionE to be found in the
testimony of the two subscribing Witnesses, and,
lastly, .that it was a Will obtained froth the deceased
by_the undue influence of the mother, at a time
when the husband was not present.

The Court was clearly of opinion, that none of
those objections - were well founded, and, therefore,
pronounced for the Will.

Saturday a young man, of very genteel:appear.
ante, was charged before the LORD MAYOR, at
the Mansion-house, by a Getman Nobleman of great
distinaion, lately arrived in this Country, with
having 'stolen from him a banker's check for 2001.
It appeared from the narrative of this foreigner;
which he d6ivered in broken English, that on the
23d ult. he bad met the Prisoner at a 'sale of horses,
where he agreed to purchase a horse from hith for
451. and met him by appointment the next day it
the London Coffee-house, where he gave him in pay..
ment a check for sol. but the Prisoner took an
partunity (as the Prosecutor supposed) of stealing
:mother check for zool. Two Clerks belong-
ing to the \Banker attended,, one of whom swore
that the two checks in question, were on the z4th,
presented by the Prisoner in person. The Prisoner
was attended by Mr. Knapp, as his Counsel, toge-
ther with, a Solicitor and a 'friend, who told the
Lord Mayor that be was a young man of respetable
conpe&ions, and had an annuity of cool. He was
remanded for a further examination.

No expencc- has. been spared to render Pidcock's
Royal Menagerie, Exeter Change,' the Most corn-
modiou's, as well •as the best filled, receptacle
for 'Living -Beasts and Birds in the' world : we
need only mention a few, viz._ Elephants, Lion,
:Bengal Tigers, Hyenas, :Wolverine, Leopards,
Beavers, Kangaroos, the. female at present having
a . young one in a kind of pouch, and frequently
shewing itself to numerous companies ; the grand
Cassowary, Condor, Minor,-.&c. &. to convince
the Public that it is not without reason that
cock's Royal Menagerie is constantly crowded by
'the most genteel parties in thiq kingdom.—Foreign
Birds And Beasts bought, sold, or exchanged.

SHIP NEW,. ,

GRAVESEND, JULY 4•

•
• Passed by—the Guardian, 'Hannab,.• from Martinique ;
Haddock, —, from St. Lucia ; Amelia, Watson, from To-
bago ; Cotton Planter, Young, and Prince, Miller, from
Grenada ;;Commerce, -Walker, from Dublin • Experiment,
Geary, from, Bermuda ; Dutchess of Cumberland, Todd,
from Oporto ; Dedalus, Bowles, from Altigua ; Jupiter,
Laves, :from -New-York ; Alexander, Robertson; Neil
Malcolm, —,; Reliance, Allen; Peirson, Campbell ;
and Covcrdale, Maul, from Jamaica. • • .