The Sun.
London, England, 1805-01-29 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF TUE SUN.

Ha, . .
As your raper appears to have a very. extensive
simulation among the Commerci;il part of the corn.
ntunity, I beg yon will give an tally insertion tor.
the following suggestions ; which are of a praCtiea.;
Ma natures and therefore cannot be too widely dif.
fused
One of the strangest motives 'of the Enemy fitting'
outTrivateers in the Narrow Seas is the, tacitityl
with which their captitres reach a port, in causer
quince of the vicinity of their coast. it is too
notorious to be c.;.ntroverteci, that installeei have
'occurred of thee inuaudera leaving a harbour in the
evening and returning by day,hreak with a valuable
Shin. which in that interval they had captured on
' our shore, Now, Mr,,Editor, it .is equally noto.
slow to every one conversant with nautical aft its,
that a vessel, however defenceless, cannot he attack.
ed and carried in the twinkling of an eye t the
Commander and crew (unless asleep) skive always
more than sutliciell time to cut away' her masts,
which may he arc mpli,hed in three minutes it
therefore follows, that if they are on the Aleut and
do their duty , 'such an excursion Can seldom succeed,
for, instead of tutting the helm up,. and setting
steering sail% immediately for the coast of France,
the Enemy has to equip an Magovernable hulk, and
before that can possibly be effected, it is exceed.
ingly improbeilde that some of our numerous Cruizrs
do not nuke their appearance.
Other observations, Mr. Editor, naturally arise
from such a,subjra, bur this cninnannieation, I fear,
is already too riotraded.-1. am, Sir, &c.

J. F.

On the stoftny night of Saturday seinnight the
horses belonging to the Mail-coach took fright bt.
tween Macclesfield and Manchester, an►i overturned
the coach, in which there was fortunately no passen.
gets; but the driver was so much bruised that his life
is despaired of,
On Wednesday night, at a late hour, Mr. Wm.
Hyde, of .shutititilll Manchester, tallow.chandler,
who had been spending the evening with some
friends at Danitath, was unfortunately killed by a
fall from, his horse, 41 few minutes after leaving that
ogee on his return home. When found, his neck
was dislocate& and the body other wise much bruised,

On Saturd evening .%C'Ortight a coach, loaded
with six pa.,:mgers, returning from. Newcastle to
North Shields, was overturned near the Half-way
house, when one had both his lee broken, and
his wife, who was sitting next him, was much brui.
ed, Fortunately the other 1,36801W:1$ escaped unhurt.
On Wednesday', as two men were coming from
Denthead to Gearstories (a distance of only two
miles and an half), Lancashire, ,the snow fell so
heavy,• and the Weatkier WAS so boisterous, that they
lost their way, anti wandered about for 22 hours,
.when oild of thorn, Of the name of. John Middleton,
unfortunately perished with the cold, his companion
(named Lindsay) staying with him till he was dead,
.md afterwards with great difficulty reached a neigh.
booting cottage.
On Thursday sennight as a man was driving a
waggon drawn by four horses, over the stream at
liarrowden Mill, Northamptonshire, one of the
wheels got into a hole, and overact the waggon ; by
Which accident the driver and thrca of the horses
were drowned.

Last, week a poor man, named (Lbntne, of the
hamlet of Wanort, Warwickshire, fell into a ditch,
and being unable to extricate himself, lay fur seve.
rat hours with
.great part of his body in the water,
where he must inevitably have perished, had not a
person who was accidentally passing that way heard
his cries. With proper assistance he was 6:conveyed
to his cottage but it was not without great me
and attention that the use of his limbs was restored
to

1" A gang of robbers, 'AO have lately committed
gresit deprcd,rrions in the r ighbourhood of Bristol
and the Hot Wells, were some days ti nce tait,en in
a rock called Giant's-Hole ,—four of them were at
the time frying eggs and bacon, having sent
two women, uelonging to the gang, for beer. They
bad furnished the cavern in a every comfortable roan.
tier, with tables, chairs, beds, &c.
A few days ago the house of Mr. Geo. Lambert,
of Felton, in the county of Northumberland, in the
Absence of the family, was Woken into, and a web
of unbleathed cloth, about forty.three yards long,
cut in two, and a brown silk gown, with sundry
other articles of women's wearing, apparel, taken
away.

A Publican in Wapping,' named pernpicy, was a
few days since fined 201. by the Magistrates -if the
Theme* ?dice Office, tinder the Mutiny At, for
ilecin6ttg John Watson, a man of colour, in the Band ;
orthe. Buckinghamshire Militia, from his duty in
shatAtegimult,, itnti entering him on board a vessel
bound:to New York, for which -he received tour
guinea* as :crimpage money,--Watscm wa► scot in,
custody to his Corps,
About to 3 *earl ago 'it Mr. Clittkilltil.ktN, who
hsri been a benefattor to the pariah of Si, Luke,.
Chelsea, died, and was buried in tt bricked Vitt/it in
the Churehlard. Among the meta in the Vestry,
was 'left art Order, that in So years after Mr, CHAN!.
II It Etiatrtes death his coffin Illualti be opined, and
therein would be finind something beneficial to the
Parish. 'About 23 years ago the parish did open the
vault, but finding the air foul, re.bricked it up. A
few days ago One end of the vault gait way, end
illienvered three leaden coffins (there had been some
wooden ones also in the vault, but they were intally
decayed). These coffins were opened in the pie,
sense of many.; in the first. was tome Wit, but the
bones were abflOir totally decayed, In the set.oinl,
sander the skull, yea Gond a leaden box, which ever.
pihluting time had CAW into holes; in this b.)x was
found a substance 'like wax, which had evidently
enwrapped some folded paper or patchmenr, lout
lime had totally destroyed this also, and not a
;„cadge of writing remained, by which circumstance
the patio!' have lost the property (4;il;itilVtr It tii lit
be) that the Testator intended them to enjoy..

•?AIt,,TICULARS OF' THE 1,1411. IN utrut
ADAM-STREIT, .EDOWARE.ROAD.
Yesterday morning, at nine o'clock, a great nom.
her of people assembled at the ruins, in cxpedation ,
of seeing the firemen searching for the unfortunate
sufferers; but, on finding that, a. 4 the houses were
not insured, the firemen were not obliged to under.
take the melancholy binines, four labourers, who
were present, volunteered their services in digging,
and ahout half past two, discovesed the body of Mrs.
the elderly woman, and, shortly after, her
youngest son, a fine young man,, of eighteen years,
a postillion, and. another son, a grolim, twenty-three
years of age. ,ThP- bodies,. when found, were en.
tirely naked,the hair burned off; but, from the
Suddenness of the house falling in, they were not
'defaced; but appeared pdrboiled fith the lit At. At
thii moment, a servant in livery appeared, with his
wife, and claimed the .wretched sufferers as, his in
Cher and brothers ; but this was not the measure of
their'grief, 14 the next body,found was their infant
child, eleven months old, who,, with its infant bro..
dui, three years old, fell vidims to, the flames.,
The latter, at a late_hQur last evening, was not
found. - The ; bodies of, Mr. sand Mrs. Adams,
rhe coachman and Ids wile, who slept in the
back garret, h lye not been fnind. It is sup_.
p sed they have fallen into the adjacent mews with
the ruins. The bodici were taken to Mary..l-e..
bone Workhouse, whzte an Inquest will be held up.
on them. ,
An Icquest was held at one o'ekck yestcr.
day, before Givoi,o P. Ho uosom, Eq. Corrine: f,r
Middlesex, on the 'body. of Mrs. Pierce, who leap-
ed fr.nn the windOw at the abutf,".. mentioned fire, on
Supday morning last,, and was on the spot.
' erdittL• Ace ident4

The C,031 in St. James's Park had nearly, proved •
the gravc of an unforronare boy yesterday. The
whOle sheet of water wasfruzen over, but too weak
to hear, except near the edgd., A young lad yen.
toted almost as far as the middle, when the ice
breaking beneath him, he fell in. It was consider.
, ably nut of his depth, bot he kept,NS head above
wafer by Clinging toi the ice, and called piteouSly
for that assistance, which, for a 'time, could not be
01'000 hint.' 'No one dared to venture 'within ten
yards of the place, consequently every One eXpecod
the boy would have sunk. A great number of peo-,
plc ininiediately colletled,. and tying their handker-
chiefs together', made many 'effort* to throw, one
end to the boy, , While they were thus employed,
Lidy So irorac,LUlTialiely sent two of her servants
to his assistance. She bad previously' provided an
apparatus, peculiarly constructed to relieve persons
itt his situatiina.„..No tiotsbt was entertained of their
sucCess,by those who 'saw the machine 'but, hap-
pily before they' reached the place, the boy had
caught the, handkerchief,' and making a ipring,
tricated himself: His light weight preVented the
ice breaking.again, and he was dragged Blanton his
belly till, he 4CaChed the shore,

'Saturcitti se'nnight
,the church at Milton, near
Northapton, was btoken into t and it is supposed
that the person perpetrating this outrage was dig.
tutted byj the watch which is established in that
village, as thirty.prayer-books were found on the
Sunday inorning,tied up in. a woman's check
left behind ; and a bundle. of walking-sticks tied
together with some pieces of new Irish linen, was
lett under one of the North windows,of the church,
through which the thief had made his why in..
Last. week the 'wish •chUkti of Lathinnyt in
Buckinghamshire, was broke open, and a surplice,'
with several prayer:books, stolen thereout,....
The pariah church of St...Sepulchre, in Northamp.
ton, was also broke into on Sunday seinnight, and
a green cloth Whidt!coveled the table in the veitry.
room, and borne prayer-books, ,weraiatolen.thereatiti
, A. very extraordinary outrage wad cammittett,tin
Tuesday se'netight, the .Methodist t;hr dl ter
Redruth,Cottfwall. Sltrie eviLdisposed persOrtt ot
kaolin; 'Chapel, through a window, the, sash :of
whiohad`not been secured,..tokelthe large;' llthle
which lay upon the.pulpit.cashibtr into innumerably
pieces., and.with much deliheratinnplaced the.pieres
all over theioer, with an:exadiness and leg,ulatity
that.must have. occupied much time in the doing—
burnt the preacher's hymnbook in the remains sa
a fire Which was left in the vestry-rotimi titults the
,curtains of the vestry-room, and the hiinds off the
time:piece. On the same night Mr. Bowe's chap,rl
(another of the Methodist's) was entered, and the
Bible torn and elated in a similar manner.

Tuesday night, last a windmill, the property
Mr. T.' Dorman, of Walton, Was entirely burnt
down, together with a large quantity of corn. By
what accident it took fire. is at, present unknown—
the I,,ss ia supposed to amount to 6001, and upwards.
9pe•of the coal mines'belongibg to Mr. Galli.
more, near Burdens, Staffordshire, having takstp fire
about two months ago, the fldres were attempted to
be ottinguished by stopping up the tops of the' pits
to prevent the access, of air, which has been the
usual method on such occasions. WFdocaday two of
the workmen incautiously went down into' the coal.
pit before the fire was put nut, and the impure va.
pour by a current of, air, was suddenly carried upon
them• and suffocated one in a moment ; 'the other,
who happened to be nearest the rope by whirls they
had descen.led, had the good fortune lobe drawn up
alive, and has since recovered. •

Between the hours eaf two and three -o'clock, on
fire morniog of S;iturday setnnight, the Cotton Fae.
tory belonging to Messrs. RowLIY- and. Co. is
OldfiQlO-13no, Salford, wits totally consumed by fire,
together with all the machinery and good# contained
therein. Thit it the tame building, which cooght
tire on the evening of the Bth inst. but being timely
discovered, the iiiniwt were thitri fortunately sup-
pressed. Ileing in a detached situation, the cala.
Initous effects were confined to die spot where the
devouring element commenced its rnvages.
On Saturday senniglit as a young man, a botcher,
belonging to iliaghton.le-Spring, in the county of
Iluthati was goit 2; lime from Sunderland, he was
stopped by two footpads,
,dtessed in short jackets,
who, alter buting I;itu severely, robbed him of
in notes. .

LifiV REPORT.

COURT O f:ING' -ATUStUAY, JAN. 26.
Tilt KING V. T. FRICR, altos J. WRIGHT.

It will he reolleat:d that an loditiment was pre.
leered, for Perjury; at the last Middlesex
In con3equence of the Bill being found'true, the De_
fendant, was ttied' and
,was brought in guilty by the,
verdid of a Special Jury. Having laid before the
Public the particulars of this trial so much at large,
we shall 'only generally state the ground of the ap.
plication of Mr. ERSKINE for a new trial, on the
present occasion.
Mr. EttskiNll said, that if Henry Britt's evidence:
were to be tejeAed, there remained only one witness
to' the 'Perjury of the Defendant,; and to subitantiate •
,a grime of this nature, two witnesses were by law'
required, Henr7 Britt produced a paper, which,.he
said, was his own hand-writing, and that the con.
:tents were minuted by him at the very time when
this Defendant polled at the Hustings at Brentford.
The Learned Counsel said, 'he ventured on the dan.
gerous experienent of admitting the Witness to write
the same words on paper in Court, in the hope of
shewing, that 'he (the Witness) had sworn falsely,
six - several timei, to the interrogatories proposed
regarding that paper. The, imitation was:to unsuc.
cesitul, both with respect to the forma the letters,
and the orthography; that his Lordship, in his ad.
dress to the Jury; recommended to them to exclude
entirely the depositions of this. Witness, rather than.
garble the evidence, or admit that part of it in which
he was confirmed by John Denby.—(The paper al.
laded to, containing the memorandum, and the
tatton of'it, were handed up to the Learned Judges,
and theiCounsel proceeded to comment on the
of their being written by theiame had;
he then continued.)—Putting then this testimony
out of the way,' We- should inquire, what- it is that it
is ,necessary to. prove, and what is the extent of the'
proof supplied.? lam not to contend That the De,.
feridant was not guilty of Perjarr, for in this view a
case mare forlorn and hopeless eould scarcely be
adduced ;, but it is required of meanly to shew; that
he was not guilty of the particular Perjury charged
in the Indidment. Above all things, it is neces3,ry
to prove the identity of the Defendant : but my
Loll, Jusric s, in summing up the evidence
'to the Jury, remarked, " that although, to the aft
of Perjury, two witnesses were indispensible, !yet
to the identity,only one was necessary; I humbly
submit, my Lords, that it is nor only necessary to
have two witnesses to the falsehood.,of the thing
sworn, but to the identity of the person commit.
ring the crime; and, rejeding the testimony of
Britt, there is not, eten one witness to establish the
identity,
Lord ELLENB9Roucn.--." On the evidence of
Denby', it appears the Defendant said, lam afraid
rshall 'be' palled up for my bad vote.' There is nb
question, if the man committed the. Perjury.? the
only doubt is, if committed; the particular aft. of
Perjury at the time, and under the circUmstances,
charged in the lodiament,.-:Take a RUle to shew
cause."

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• NORTON Vi PiilLLltis- .
141113 was also an aeliOn,oo 4-glll.Ol. Exchange, in
Which a verdict had been found as-44m the lle-leod.
•
ant, Henry Phillips,
Mr. GAIL 16W said, he mci3Jed ,for. a new trial
on affidavits, stating.,... that the.tacesplance was not
the hand-writing of the Defendaq, but of Aaron
Phillips, his brother.. The ao!y evidence in sup.
port'of'the Eau watt 16:4 Irenjaniin and another
witness r-.lgairiat buth: of. whom billy of indict.,
'tient had opt, only .been, preferred, but f0und,,,,,, lot
the perjury con'imiitied,in. their depositiorls If the
Court did not intiqese, the Plaintiir Would 'Obi'airi
iht fruitchf rtikt armity. •
Mr, justice:la., YQu da nut, siva. sity
other affi,lav its cor roborativ e 'of that
ferohnt."
Mr. JustiCelhwtttNe I remember npon'the
Crii:klads bribiry cause, theft., 'were appliCatioris
upon t! imout4 of such indictments, and the.Cotitt,
refused complying with the object of them in pore
retwsed.
Applicatidns -for 'new trials, were also made in
the Cas4 NO RT/IW 15 MP, NA R. Y • SZA N W 4r,
and Hfr,..kroi z. Sc RIVEN, and were refused in
the cabse 'M4Cosarti tr'T. Rule' fur a
new-trial t.'a grimed.