The Sun.
London, England, 1802-05-07 00:00:00

At 3i per Cent. is purchased - 8iz,35,r;00
Consolidated Debt, 7th April 1802 48,967,656
• .

Surplus I

323,4:6,344

At 4 per Cent. is purcllawd 930,c96,00 . 975,43,-4,000
Cciasoliciatcct Debt, 7th April t‘B,:.z 08,987,656 48,957,..f;,;‘6

Surplus

441,102,3441 06;4421344

LAW REPORT.

COURT OF kING's BENCH, MAY&

BER.NARD 006SLINCL

MR. GARRow Moved fur a rule, to slew cause
why judgment shuuid not be arrested in this c:4o'.
It wa's an anion for penaltici Upon the statute of
'the 37th ilk' present .Majesty, c. go, sec. 30;
commonly called the ,Attornie:,' Licence Att. It
was-tried at the Sittings after the last Tel m, before
Mr. justice LE BLAac and a S)..reci:ll Jury, in
Gdildhall, London. The two Defendants, Messrs;
Gomlings, ~were PrOtiors, and this was an .attiori
for penalties against them for having titled withoi":it
a certificate in procuring probates of wills : by
mere inadvertency they ;md omitted to take out
their certificate in time, 'and therefore a verditt was.
given for, the Plaintiff upou the third, the twelfth,
and the fifteenth counts of the declaration. The '
third count stated, that the Defendants had, as
Protiors, extracted probate of a certain will and
codicil of John• Kinder, deceased, with6ut hiving
obtained and entered any such certificate, -as re-
Ziuired by the said statute. The' twelfth and the
fifteenth counts were. like the th.r..l, only relating--
to 'other probates of ads done by the Defendants a 4
Prot.lors

' To
.this there were several objections •ipcfn 'which
he was to contend that j4,:gincti ought to be
tested., LI the first place, the Court would observe,
that in each of these counts there was included two
distind causes of aCti„n, for it stated< the 'ae.'ts to
been done by the Pefendants without having
" obtained and entered " any, such certificate: Now
it was a distinct offence to do this act, without hav-
ing obtained the certificate. It was another
tint offence ,to extract such a pri.•bate, without hal,.
ing lentered such' certificate ; this declaration, he
;contended,„ was therefore bad, and no judginent
could be,given on it.
The second 'objeCtion was, That this was an ac-
tiOn against two I.,ersons jointly, against Nathaniek
and George Gosslings for one act, and that ad of 'a
criminal nature, which every thing to which a
penalty is attached, must be taken to be ; this was
contrary to the:. rule of law,- which provided,. that
one person •shill' not be criminally responsible for
the •aa. of another ; each should have been charged
for his• Own aft only.. The declaration on this ac.
count also was.bad, and therefore no' judgment
could be pronounced ()nit.
These objections, he said, were sbfficienr to dis.
'pose of this case, but there was another, which he
would state... That this, PtitiOff could not,recover
in this action, because this statute did, not give this
right of action to a• common inforaierule to
-shew. cause granted ; at the same time, the Court
direded that copies should be (kik erctl to the
Judges,.of the mate,"tral parrs ctf the declaration, as
tky hall a bearing upon the :points to be' iw,isted
uplan,' but not the whole of the Meclaration, -be-
cause that would be putting the parties to an uonc- •
sessary :e> pence. -

COURT OF_COMMON P LEAS, MAY 6.

WrNDDINGTON against FRANCIS

THIS adion was tried at the Sittings after last.
Term. , It was brought to re_ cover d ►mages for
non:performance of a contra 6 for the delivery of
hops. A question ,arose, whethe'r the contrast
one of those for making which the Piaint4 wal-
conviited on a criminal-information, a:0.? received
the sentence of the Court of King's Bench ?
• Lbrttl ALVA'NLEY quitted the Court whilst the
Jury were considering their verditt, leaving the
Associate to record it.

The Jury, instead of returning a general yerdia,
found that thecontiati in question was made with
a view to enhance the'price of hops, but left it to,
Aim Court to decide whether it
,t% as legal.
Mr. Serjeant BxsT now moved to.en,er a verdia.
for the Defendant, bitt the Court were of opinion,
that the finding of the Jury must be (onsidered as
-
a special verdict.. .; •

OLD BAILEY.

SEVENTH DAY.-THURSDAY, MAY 6.

Edward ifart,7,vright was charged with a capital
offence, in feloniouslyuttering and pAlishing;•as.
true, a certain false and counterfeit promissory note,
dated at Woodbridge, in the • County of .Sultolk,
January 29, 1802, and numbered 564, purporting
to be drawn by HarriS,' : Riches, Collett, and
Co. of the:same plact!, for the payment of the sum
of $l. to bearer, on demand, at Woodbridge, or at
Messrs. Down', Thornton, Free, and Co.'s Bankers,
with intent to defraud John Rogers, he the said '
Edward Hartwright well knowing :le same to be
forged and Counterfeit, &c. _
The Prisoner, it appeared, bought, some articles
at the shop of Mr: RogerS,* the Prosecutor, itt
High_street, Bloomsbury, which came to about 31.
He then te'ddered the instrument in question
in payment. On' being desired, wrote as his
name, -Sze. on the back of T. Wilson;
Nortoit-Street, near Penton Chapel." On the fol-
lowing day it was discovered to be a forgery. It
also appeared there was Ito such place as, or. ar.y
person of tlie.name gnat-ter ; and on- farther
inquiry it was discovered that the Prisbner resided
at that- time in Aldersgate-street; and that he had
never passed by any orhet aLkme than that described
in the ludidment. On evidence to this general
effetl,' the. Jury had no hesita'tion 'in finding -the
prisoner

Two men were yesterday brnught before' the Sir.
ring Magistrate at Bow-street, apprehended the'pre-
ceding
.night in the King's Road, Chelsea,• on supi-
'cion of being footpads. Mr. WlLLtiviics, Of Queen's
Chelsea,. stared, that on the 224 ult. about
'twelve at night, he, c Mipany 'with his brOther,
were stopped King's Road by three footpads,
dressed in Soidirs' clothes, one of :whom knocked
his bother down for attempting to run away ; that
.he Olen. knocked the man:down with had• struck his
- brother, but they were overpowered and robbed of
.theirsmoney, and of his hat. A Itat found on one
of the prisoners when taken was prOducd, which
was positively identified. ' The prisdoers were CUM-
mit for trial.

From :h LONDON. GAZETTE, May 4..

War—Office, lIT4y 4, IBoz.

sth Regiment of Dragoon Guards, Captain William Jones to
be Major, by purchase, vice Armstrong, -who retires.
Lieutenant Marcus John Alinesley to be Captain, vice
Jones. Cornet J. B. Irwin to be Lieutenant, vice Annes-
ey. .
Ist Regiment Of Dragoons, Cornet William Augustus hey-
nolds to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Creyke, prornoted.
14th Regiment of Light Draeroons, Cornet Edward Collins,
from the ad Dragotin Guards, to be Lieutenant, by pur-
chase, -vice Bell, removed to the 40th Foot.
Coldstreaxn Regiment,of Foot Guards, Th,,mas Wood, Gent.

to be Ensign, by purchase, vice 13rotherton, promoted.
4th Regiment of root, Second Lieutenant Richard Green,
from the Rifle Corps, to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice

Hummont, who retires.
20th Ditto, Hospital Mate J. B. Miller to be Assistant-Sur-

peon.
33d Ditto, John Graves, Gent. to be Second Lieutenant, by
_ purchase, vice Hozgard. promoted.
24th Ditto, Hon. Major Godfrey 11,14 Donald, from the 55th
Foot, to be Lieutenant-Colonel, by purchase, vice Forster,

who•ietires.
24th Ditto, Ensign Bartelet Smith to be Lieutenant, by pur-
chase, vice Tripp, promoted.
37th Ditto, Ensign Joseph Byrne, from the zoth Foot, to be
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Giles, promoted. Hospital-
Nate - Gibbons to be Assistant-Surgeon.
35th-DittO, Hospital-Mate Robert Anderson to be Assistant-

-Surgeon.
40th Ditto, Lieuterrant William Cuppaidge, from the 92d
Foof, to be Lieutenant`,- vice Lyddon, who exchanges.
60th Ditto, Major Gabriel Gordon to be Lieutenant-Colonel,
• by purchase, vice 'Ainslie, who retires. Captain James
Maitland. from the 85th Foot, to be Major, by purchase,
vice Forsyth, who-retires.
Szd Ditto, Ensign Henry Vernon to be Lieutehant, by pur-
chase, vice St. Leger, who retires.
Both Ditto; Hospital-Mate Richard Webster to be Assistant._
Surgeon.
gist Ditto, Ensign Alexander Campbell to be Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice Colin Campbell, promoted.
91il Ditto, Lieutenant - Lyddon, from the 4oth Foot,. to
be Lieutenant, vice Cuppaidge, who exchanges.
7th West India Regiment, Lieutenant Robert Charles Lang,
from the 28th Light Dragoons, to be Captain, by purchase,
'vice Mackie, promoted in the 6e.th-FxiO4,_
Queen's German Regiment, hospital-Me J. G. Van Mil-
linger to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Degan, promoted in the
27th Foot.
A Corps of Riflemen, Major Thomas Sidney Beckwith,
from the isth Foot, to be Major, by purchase, vice Callen-
der, promoted. _

MEMORANDUM.

The Appointment of Austin Clarke, Gent. to be Ensign,
without purchase, in the 62d Regiment of Foot, vice Logan,
promoted, as stated in the Gazette of the 6th of Oelober last,
has not taken place.
The Appointment of Ensign James Carmichael to be Lieu-
tenant, by purchase, iv, the 61st Regiment of Foot, vice
Davy. promoted in the 60th Foot, as stated in the Gazette of
the Stn February last, has not taken place. •

A SEAMAA"s ADVICE.

THE following Letter contains so much good
advice, that we are very desirous of impressing it
'upon the attention of all our brave Tars.

TOM BOWLING TO JACK BOBSTAY.

TRILNI) 34CK.,

You are just returned from serving your Country upon the
element that surrounds her Coasts, and where you have
gained to yourself the character of the Brave Defender of her
Rights. Let one, who has lived to see the endof three glo-
rious Wars, and who has bled in the same rightebus cause,
give you a little wholesome • advice.—You are discharged
from the honourable si2rvice in wHich you have been so use-
fully employed ; and having received the wages remaining
due to you atter the deductions made for the sums remitted
to your Wife for the support _of your. Family, al-low me to
advise you in the way you may best employ it.
The sooner you leave your Landlady's house, the more it
will please you, when you come to consider how short a time
your money would last, by what you have spent in one day.
The whole of your Pay for a month, perhaps, gone in one
riotous night !
Think, therefore, my good friend, what situation you
tray be reduced to after a single fortnight, and how ashamed
you will be to return home with nothing to relieve your Wife,
your Children, or your aged Parents. Be wise in time ; and
if you have neither Wife, Child, or Parent, then find out
some good man whom you may have heard recommended as
a friend to the Poor, and place some part of your money in
his hands, to apply to your necessities when youmay be aged
or infirm, and not able to serve either in the King's or Mer-
chant's Service at sea.

All which advice I oar as an Old Scanlan, and am your
afie&ionate friend,

P(pncamtb, allay I, 1802.

THOMAS BOWLING.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

NEWMARKET FIRST SPRING MEETING.

WLD,NESDAY, MAY 5.

Fifty Pounds by Subscription, for 3-yrolds, 7st• 41b• ;
olds, Sst..7lb. ; and 5-yr olds, 9st. D. C.
Mr. Lord's b. c. Lignurn Vitae, (walked over) 4 yrs old
Mr. Dawson's ch. c. Quiz, 3 yrs old - dr
Ld Sackville's b. c. Dick Andrews, 4 yrs °LI dr

Sweepstakes of roogs, each, h. ft. Across the Flat.
Mr. Watson's b. c. Gaoler, by Volunteer, 7st. 715.
Mr. Whaley's br. c. Wilkes, 6st. 615. - z
Mr. Dawson's ch. c. Quiz, by Buzzard, 7st. r - 3
Mr. Hooines's ch. c. Horns., by Precipitate, 7st. 715. 4
Mr. Durand's ch. 1. by Buzzard, out of Tulip, 6st. nib. 5
Mr. Dclme's br. c. Pacificator, 7st. 61b. - pd
Ladbroke's ch. f. ;Marianne, 7st. 6st. pd
D. of G rafton's ch. f. Reitmant, 7st. 71b. pd
Sir H. T. Vane's c. Bagsman, by Traveller, 7st. 31b. pd
2 to z agst Gaoler ; 7 to 4 agst Wilkes ; 9 to i agst Quiz ;
io to t agst Horns; 9 to a agst Mr. Durand's ch. f.

Sweepstakes of cogs. each. Y. C.
Mr. Wilson's b. f. by Buzzard, Bst. • -
Mr. }loworth's Bumpkin, by John Bull, 7st. 1315.
Mr. Ladbrokes f. Rosetta, by Young Woodpecker, Bst.
ilb. - -

2 to i agst Mr. WRson's b. f. ; 6 to 4 on Rosetta,
?Mr. Howard's Creeper. 7st. 121 b. beat Ld Milsintown's
Pic Nic, Bst. 910. Ab. M. sogs.-5 to 4on Creeper.
Mr. Wilson's Comedy agst Mr. 1- . Ne&le's Tipstalt, Bst.
each. Two yr old C. pos. h. ft.—Otlby consent..

CRAYEN MEETING-SECO4D DAY.

AM-grant], and Tuneful, Sat. 71b. cacti. Ab. M. zaccgs. p. p.

Several daring robberies have lately been com-
mitted in Hertfordshire, but through the activity
and vigilance of several Gentlemen, some of the vil-
lains have been apprehended,
On Saturday night, the Poor House of the parish
of Chelsea, was broke open and robbed of a bale of
raw silk:

On Friday night last a Gentleman (s:li4l to a tra-

CLEPKENkVELL SESSIONS, MAY 3.

THE KING V'✓. JOSEPH NAPLES.

THIS was an indiament for stealing dead bodies
from the Spa fields burial-ground, of which ground
the Prisoner was the Grave-digger ; and also for
stealing the caps, pillows, shrouds, nails, screws,-
and coffin-plates belonging thereto, and the coffins
wherein they had been buried.
Mr. CONST, on the. part of the prosecution, open-,
ed the case, by stating, that the Prisoner's offence
was one of the greatest consequence to the public, the
atrocity of which demanded the most exemplary pu-
nishment,. He alluded to the great benefit derived
by the public frdhi the praaice of disseaion, which
he admitted to be the only source from which our
professional men, who praaice surgery, could derive
their skill ; yet,
_however great such advantages
might be, nothing could excuse the Prisoner for car-
rying the offence to the unlimited extent which he
had done. He had ravaged the ground in question,
in a manner scarcely to be believed, and which it
would be painful to him to describe. He had car-
ried onihis shocking traffic merely for the sake of
gain, and without a wish of •rendering the least as-
sistake to his fellow-creatures by the at. In short,
his condua proceeded from a -mind totally void of-
feeling, and from a heart bereft of all humanity,—
He then entered fully into the circumstances of the
case, which were confirmed in-the clearest manner
by the witnesses, and which were in substance as
follow :

W. Bacon, one of the Bow-street patrole,, said,
that late in the evening, on the 16th of November
last, as he was walking along Brayne's row, Spa--
fields, he saw a man with a large load of a suspici-
ous nature on his shoulder; that he stopped him, and
desired him to'ego into a public house near.; that
when the man had got up one step of the public_
house, he threw down the load and ran ofP, and they
pursued, but without success. • Upon opening the
load, which was inclosed in a basket, they found
the bodies of a woman and a child in a sack; that
they were taken to Bow-street, and afterwards sent
to the parish of St. James, Cle.rkenweli, with a let-
ter.. to the churchwarden, desiring they might be
again buried.
George Windsor and Edward King were next,
called-. They swore that, having heard of the last
mentioned circumstances, and that the bodies were
lying in the vault miller ClerkenWell Church, they
went there, when the'formetrecognized the body of
the woman to be that of his wife, and the latter that
of the child to be his son,. both which had been
buried by them a short time before. They were
much agitated during the delivery of their testi-
mony.

Harriet Collins, the sister to the prisoner's wife,
a girl 'about fourteen years old, swore that she lived
with the Prisoner, when he first took the situation
.of grave-digger at the ground in question, and all
the time he Was there, Which was about two years;
that he 'began to steal the bodies . about a month
after; that; he then took the bodies from. two cof-
fins, and brought them into his house (which house,
on the burial ground), and afterwards took them
to the Hospital ; 'one was a- girl, from whose coffin
he offeredher the ribband that was round the shroud,
and the other was a boy ; that the Prisoner, from
this time, continued to take two or three bodies
each day during all the winter season, and until the
time of his apprehension.- He generally took them
up in the (lay-time, and concealed them at the bot-
tom of the grave, covered with mould, till dark,
when he took them out, and carried them away in
a basket, provided for that purpose by the Hospital,
'which basket she sometimes held for him during the
process, and•at other times kept watch in the ground
to prevent deteetion ; that she once saw him cut off
the head of a young woman, which he took to the
Hospital immediately, and many times after saw
him whir the heads of persons who he said had died
of particular disorders, and which he also took to
the Hospital ; that he sometimes opened the 'coffins,
and drew the teeth only, which he did with pincers,
and which he likewiSe took to thellospital, andsot
a guinea, and some:lines more, for each set ; that
he sometimes took the bodies to Bartholomew-Hos-
pital, to' which place she frequently accompanied
him, and at other times to two Hospitals ha the Bo_
rough ; that lie generally got about two guineas for
each body. She remembered the two bodies being
stopped on the loth of November ; that the Prisoner
had the same day got the bodies of a woman and-a
child ready, and at the usual time in the evening,
about six o'clock, he went into ,the ground, and
brought out the bodies in the basket in which they
were stopped, and she held open the gate for him ;
that he then put them on.. the-shoulders of another.
man, named Joseph White (one of his accomplices),
who took them away, and who is the man who was
stopped, arid escaped. The basket in which the bo-
dies stopped were found, was produced, and sworn to
by this witness to be the same the prisoner always
packed the bodies in. She stated some other cir..
cumstances relative to the nails, screws, &c. and
said that he usually, took up the shrouds with the
bodies, some of Which were thrown down the privy,
and others burnt ; she said the prisoner threatened
to murder her if she disclosed any thing,of this mat-
ter ; and that she had nosy been induced to do it'
from his wanton cruelty to her, which had compelled
her to desert him, and seek protedion froin those
concerned in the prosecution.
John /3rown corroborated the last witness's evi-
dence in iitrt, and likewise spoke as to the nails,
screws, &c. he also said, that Naples' once sent
him to one George Atkins, an undertaker, to know
if he would buy some
,sh(ouds, caps,' pillows, &c.
saying they were little worse for wear; but Atkins
would not buy khein.
Mr. Woolcot, the Churchwarden of Clerkenwell,
spoke generally on the subjee.l,, and said, that upon
opening the privy, which is about' five or six feet
wide, and many feet deep, it was found quite full
of shrouds.

OLD WINE, meliorated by keepiiia lame quan-
tities together in Vats, by SP ENCER and P ERKINS,
Wine-Merchants, No. 44, opiaosite St.: Sepulchre's Church,
Snow-hill; who, fin twelve years experience of keeping
such 'quantities as from z !to 4000 Gallons of Wine together,
can assert, that their Nine is rot only more agreeable in fia-
your-to the palate, but more restorative and "Wholcsane to
the stoma‘h of the aged and infirm. They have Port, which,
after lking ripened in a vat, containing twenty pipes, has
been in bottle from Ow' to seven years. White Wines, as
Madeira, Sherry, Bucella, Lisbon, and Mountain, they bottle
from the Vats as,wanted. This mode of keeping gives their
Wine's that decided superiority so well known and acknow-
ledged. Such an immense stock enables them to serve their
friends with superior Wine, of the best vintages, oft their
usual moderate terms, for ready money. They send to any
part of the Town (not less than a dozen) free of expence. As
many of their very iespeaable customers, having confidence
in their attention to sell-superior Liquors,
,wished 'them to
sell Spirits, they have laid in, Cognate Brandy, Pine and Ja-
maica Ruin, East-India and Runs Orange Shrub.