The Sun.
London, England, 1802-10-01 00:00:00

EXCHANGE;

641 E.
This day we have a middling supply of English,
with plenty of Foreign Wheat ; being rather short
of Buyers, fine Essex, and most sorts, had a heavy
sale at a trifle less price ; new Rye and Barley sell
dear, and Malt remains neailytrnaltered we have
very few Pease of both sorts 'at Market, which
.causes that article to sell full 3s. and 4s. per Quar-
ter dearir ; Oats and Beans are tolerable plenty,
and continue at little flufluation ; Flour terrains
nearly as before.
whcaz 45$ a 55 a 6ts od
Fine do. -62 s a 6.33 od
Halt 443 3 46s a 48s od
Fine ditto -49 s a jos od
Barley - , 28s a 3is 5d
Rye - - 323 a 353 04
New ditto -38 s a 44$ od
.Vnae I'el3e 4os a,46s ocl

Beans -33 s a 36s od
Tick ditto - 28s.I'3zs 6d
Oats - iss. a 18s a 235 od
Poland do. 24s a 25s cd
Rape Seed 331 a 361 per last
Fine Flour sos a 53s per. sack
Second do. 45s a sos per do.

EXTRACT OF A LET'T'ER FROM PARIS,' sEtt.

ANNIVERSARY Or Trit FOUNPATION OF ilia
FRENCH REPUBLIC. • •
" The celebration of this memorable event may
be said to have 'commenced with the evening of
the lastof the five Complementary Days, on which, as,
being the eve of the New Tear, conformably to the
modern French Kalendar, the Theatres were opened
gratis for all ranks and descriptions of people. You
Would be surprised at the eagerness with which,
not only the poorer classes, but even persor3 in easy
circumstances, avail themselves of• this indulgence.
Every one of the , Public Theatres was literally
crowded to overflow in every part—not one.half of
the multitude could obtain seats ; 'and it was not • a
little diverting to see the motley groupe which
filled the different houses on this occasion, The
Side and Stage Boxes presented.a most'singular and
incongruous appearance (perfectly analogous with
that unhallowed, system, which levels and lays
prostrate all those distindions and gradations. it?
Social Life—all those necessary links of subordina-
tion, on which the harmony and. due concordance
of the whole depend), being filled with the very
refuse of the Capital, with fish women, oyster_
wenches, grooms, porters, barbers—in short, with
the very lowest orders of the Community. Some
had not even a coat to their back ; others were
without stockings, -and not a few of the women
made the house ring, as they paced the lobbies,
with their ponderous wooden shoes. I assure you,
I am not drawing an exaggerated pielure ; but,
,)n the contrary, keep considerably below the
mark.

' A discharge of artillery, at six o'clock in the
'morning, announced the return of the day on which
the ancient French Monarchy,- which had stood the
test of ages, was ;wbverted, and the Nation decreed a
Republic One and Indivisible. The Thuilleries and
Lis Champs Elyse'e's were filled till dinner time, with a
motley- assemblage, who diverted. theMselves with
dancing. In addition to this amusement, a troop
of. Horsemen performed various feats of horseman-
ship, much in the style of AsTLEY'S Company, or
the heroes of the Circus, Sadler's Wells, &c. In
the course of the morning, the Ft asT CoNsuL gave
audience to the Legislative Bodies, the great Of.
fleets of State, &c. ; the Consular Guard, in the
mean time; going 'through their exercise in the
front of the LoUvre. In passing through a passage
which leads from the Palace to the Thuilleries, I
had an opportunity of perceiving, that the genteel
profession of Pia-tockettillgi is not confined to our
Country, but that it thrives equally in France,
notwithstanding the vigilance and rigour of the Po-
lice. Several persons were hustled and plundered
by a gang, who posted themselves at the top of a
stair-case, which you have to descend, after the
_plan of the passage to the Pit in the Haymarket
Theatre, in your way to the Thuilleries. One of
these fellows made a daring attempt at my watch ;
but, luckily, it was too ,strongly entrenched in the
fob (thanks to the present fashion of having the
waistband of the small-cloatha tb reach -almost to
the very armpits) to yield to his grasp. -An Eng-
lish Gentleman who accompanied me, and 'who
witnessed the transadion, wanted me to have. the
fellow taken up; but I was unwilling, as a fo-
reigner, to render myself conspicuous, and there-
fore contented myself' With thrysting the end of a
.piece of good old English Oak, which I brought
with me, " in manner not the softest," against .his
ribs. This was a topical application, which did
not seem to hit his liking, and' my spat*, accord.
ingly sheered off.
" Towards five in the afternoon, the concourse of
people rushing from all quarters to. the. Thai/le-ries,
Was so prodigious, that you would have supposed a
general4migration to be taking place. By the
time I reached the Gardens, which was a 'quarter
before six; they were so excessively crowded, that
I could scarcely move along. At six, another
discharge of artillery announced the commencement '
of the evening's. festivities. In an instant, the whole
extensive range of Space from
,the Louivre to the ut=
most bound -of the horizon, comprising a greater
compass of ground than the combined dimensions of
St. James's, Hyde Park; and Kensington Gardens,
presented one continued blaze of light. For this
-purpose, they do. not make use of lamps, after the
English fashion, but employ a kind of earthen ves-
sel, not unlike in shape, but rather smaller, than
.the parr of a common' garden pot: This is filled,
with tallow, and yields a very strong and steady
light. Booths were ere led, at stated distances, in
Les. Champs Elyse'es, for the - accommodation of the
Dancers. In those where- refreshments were pro.
vided, .you paid 8 sots, or 4 pence English for ad-
mission. Independent of these booth's, seats and
tables were placed out, in suitable situations, for
parties to regale themselves.

"Atnonithe principal diversions of tl,e evening,
I noticed a couple. of Round-a-bouts, a species of
amusement well known to the good Holiday Folks
of London, but more especially to the frequenters
of Bqrshclomeal Fair. The only difference 'be-
tween our English Round-a-bouts and those of Paris,
consists in , this ; that with us they form the diver-
sion of Children—bere, on the contrary, persons of
adult years amuse themselves in this trimmer, An.
other distithion, which I ought not to:pass over,
is,. that the Ladies, as well as the Gentlemen, hold
a short stick in their hands, with whiCh they make
a pass, as they circumvolve, at a ring suspended
from a board, on which the Proprietor (dale Round. .

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a-bciit keeps an aclottnt of the suee,etl, as :well
sitive as negative, of, each adventurer. • This, I
suppose, is a relic from the an-::ient 'days of Chi-
valty, .and-'has a ieference to the custom then in
vogiie, of running With the ldnce, at a ring. Be
this, however, as i,t may, I cannot but feel the
more surprized, that the French Journalists should
,take the opportunity, as they have done, within
thit last week or ten days, of inveighing Yso bit-
terly against Our English diversiOns,.and partial_
larry ridiculing as puerile,- and unworthy a Civili-
zed Nation,:.the amusements of .Bartholomew Fair,
at the very time
,that they tolerate and encourage
such pastimes among themseLves. Methinks, in,
this respea,- they would do well to reserve their.
pity for their own wants,• or at least, let it, like
Charity—begi,r at haNze

." The feats of Hnrsetrianship which took plate in
the morning; Were repeated in the eirehing': the
ring being lighted up with lamps, and king tound
with colutirS, encircled with garlands: A couple
of Mountebanks, each attended by his Fool, and
striving to outbawl each Other in the Sale of their
Nostrums, afforded me peculiar diversion. To
judge from their professions, you would pronounce
every man guilty of Suidele, that should suffer
Death to get the better of him, when he might ob-
tain a remedy for every possible disease, a salve for
every "sore, and, in fad, render himself immortal
for the trifling expence of three-perice. Another
ingenious Adventurer contrived to pick up a- good
round sum in half_pence, by the exhibition of a
Weighing Chair, in which Ladies in a certain. pre-
dicament, were very eager to place themselves ; the
Prpprietor of the Chair pretending to be able, from
their comparative increase, in weight, conneded
with time, and other local circumstances, to pre_
did the Sex of their future offspring, which he very
mysteriously Whispered in their ear. You would
be surprized at the number of females, and many of
them. Ladies of respettability, who had recourse to
his chair ; and the eagerness with which_ their
husbands, • after the performance of the ceremony,
desired to be informed of the Oracle's predidion.
" At eight o'clock a Concert was performed, a
stage being erefted for that purpose-o.n the Terrace
of the. Palais du Gouvernement. This lasted an
hour, and at nine Fireworks were 'let off from. the
Pont: de la Concorde, -which terminated the Fite.--7
From the preparations which had been made, I
must confess, they did not answer my expeftation,
being much shorter in point of duration than I was
led to anticipate ; they were, however, very bril-
liant and well-conduded.. As soon as the Fire
works ceased, the populace began to disperse, and
the whole Ceremony (notwithstanding the immense
concourse of people assembled on the occasion, PC-
cetding any thing of the kind I ever witnessed),
passed over without the slightest accident; nay,
whae gave me still greater surprize, without a
single dispute taking place. Another thing wor-
thy of remark is, that thrdughout the whole of ;he
day, from the beginning' to the conclusion of the
Nte, I-did not meet with a single person in liquor:
It is, however, proper tht I should observe, that
the preservation of good older, on these occasions,
is, in a principal measure, owing to the present-'
being a Military. Government. Patroles of Horse.
parade4l Les Champs 1..-1,-rtes all the evening but
the French, instead of considering this, as John
Bull, in his' surly moments would clO,' as an en-
croachment upon the Constitution, -only look at the
trappingS of " the horse and his , Rider," and
deem it an-addition to the splendour of the scene.—
The" fad is, the French carry swith them /the main
ingredient towards being pleased, i, e. a sincere
wish and determination to be so—whereas, John
Bull is of a more difficult and less accommodating
temper. . _ _

I Met in my.. walks this evening several .of my
Countrymen, particularly one. Gentleman to whom
I was offered Letters of recommendation, but
which I declined to accept, who went over to
France some time back on political grounds, flat-
tering themselves, that they should become objets
of the marked- attention of the French Govern-
ment, But most woefully have they found, them-
selves mistaken; nobody pays them any regard ;
they pass as mere cyphers ; the only good they
have done by Ex-patriating themselves., is_ to free
their owq Country of a
.nuisance. In fad}, JoNA-
PAit'rE ^possesses too much Political Sagacity not to
be aware, that the same.rage for innovation, which
led them to foment troubles and diiquietude at
home, would, in case they met with any encou;
ragement, proMpt them to repeat the same pradices
in his dominions ; and that a restless spirit is the
same under every form of Government, in every
Age, and in every Clime."

WONDERFUL PRESERVATION. About one,
o'clock on Saturday morning, the watchman going
his round, found opposite the Royal Oak Inn,
Manchester, a Gentleman in a state of nudity (ex-
cepting his shirt), lying on the, ground, moaning
himself very much : he could give no account how he
came there, but that he went to bed with his wile in
a single' bed-room, at the Royal Oak in the evening.
It appears he had got up in his sleep, unobserved
by his wife,' and-jumped through the, window, four
stories high.—He has' an anti -broke, and is other-
wise much bruised,,but is in a fair way of 'recovery.
The Dublin Hue and -Cry of Saturday last evi-
dences that the race of Irish. Giants is not yet ex-
tin& ; it states,. that Patrick Kehoe, charged with
stealing sheep from R. H..KING,' Esq. of the coun-
ty of Wexford, had escaped from a party of the rzth
DragOons, and it describes him to be six feet seven
inches and an half high ! It is # curious fad, and de-
serving examination, that in a part of the county of
Wexford, in the Barony of Forth, the inhabitants
atre. of a stature greatly above the common height.
A few days since, as Lord GAGE, of Firle Place,
near 'Lewes): was going doWn Glynde Reach, a
branch of that river, in ,a boat, with his son, and
several other Young Gentleman, Master GAGE, by
some accident, fill overboard,• and was exposed to
great danger frOm the rapidity of thecurrent,' when'
the Noble Lord instantly plunged into the water,
braved' the tide, and rescued his son from his periL.
ous situation, by bearing him in safety to the shore.
The young. Gentleman and. his Lordship were of
course both greatly alarmed, but. we are happy to
state, that neither olitbein received the least yeramal

PUBLIC_OFFICE, • tr'tt.

YESTERDAY
.7471 Da7.ors, alt •.;
t.
Davies', was finally ex.amined hetbre Joo Seca-
Esq. bjno charged by several Ladies or the.Cypri4
Clips with'' robbing them of artieleS to,
,a re it
amount. • The Prisoner is a Creole, and in his dress
and appearance exhibited a pieture of-the B irai;treet
Lounger. It aPpeared that he Was in the pratiee ;if
attending the different places of pu4lic anitse.-
mew, and when the ainueinents were finished,
would generally accompany 'some of the frail sister.
hood.- homei where he would take the •opportunicy'
of pcicketing whatever came in hi"; Way, that was
of the least value. 0,,e Lady stated that he Ind ac-
Corripanied her hothe fro!n the Theatre,, and in
morning made free with a pair orgold ear-rings aril .
a gold pin. Another Lady deposed ; .that the
prisoner was at the Circus abort six weeks since,
and having the manners, and appearance of a Geri. -
steam, 'she took him :liOme
„tro a her. lodgings -in
Goodge-stseet. In the nv:rning-he 171". t& a Irivolotis
pretence for leaving her for a few minutes, sayinT
he had left all his cash at hose-, but would c.ill
again in an hottr. The seri,ant suspecting some-
thing.amiss„ had the precaution to look in his hat;
tshic'h lay in another mod, where she found conce,l_
ed-between the crown and the 'lining, her mistres •
silk cloak, which he had taken out of the drawer.
She communicated this z-a her Mistress, and he
was stopped on the and tITe do ile t ;ken
from him. Another Lady, who -resided in Wells.
street, deposed as to the Prisoner robbing
of seven pair of silk stockings,. which she rnisi,:d
before he went, and upon taxing him' with the
theft, he pulled one pair out of his bosnm, and
threw Clown, and the other six pair Were found
under the sofa on which he sat: Ile wai apprea
!fended by the vigilance and aftivily of Looetti and
Of the Officers belonging to • this Office, who,
on searching his lodgings in Bird-street, Grosve.,
nor-square, found upwards of thirty daplicates.
Most of the Pawnbrokers attended, and produced
the articles, which they deposed were pledged' with
them by the prisoner. AmOng the-se articles were
a considerable number of opera-glasFes, shifts, silVer
spoons, &c. Several other females attended, who •
recognized him under similar circurriStances, brit
declined to-state what thew had lost,

The Magistrate asked him what 'he had to say it
his defence. He declined saying any thing mace
than that he .had not seen any of the Ladies before.
He was then fully committed to take his trial on
the charge of stealing the gold ear-rings and pin.

,• A FEMALE IMPOSTCVL-On the, z'th of, August
last, a young woman, apparently under 20 years
of age, of lather mean -appearance, embarked on
board one of ,the' packets from Dublin .• to' Holy.,
head, and frOtil her being alone, soon excittd- the
attention of a Ocutleman. who, with his funily,
was coming to, England,. and to whom, she stated
that she was the daughter of a deceased sister of a
Noble Lord now in London, to whom she was then
coming, having
,received letters of acknowledg.
ment from him as to the fad, and his readiness
to receive her : she also stated many other cir.
cumstances respelling her history, particularly
that she and _some other 'young ladies -had eloped
from a very respedable boardin,.. e'sChoui in Ire..
landk during the rebellion, about five years -since :
her relationship to many' noble families, one of
which had advertised. her -; her residence with
others., in Ireland,_; until, she • was put .pfl bard
the vessel, with only 18s. 6d. in her pocket, by a
person who pretended, he was then, sending her t,.)
the Noble Lord before alluded to:
man set on fopt a subscription arnong.the Passengers
in the Packet, by which a handsome sum wiL;
col-
leled ; brought her tt town -at his own expence;
resolving to affOrd her'protedion, until the truth
Of her story could be ascertained ; bat, on investiga-
tion, it proved to be entirely false. She was taken
into custody 'as an Impostor, and was yesterday
examined at .130w-street, when she persisted in her
former story being true, notwithstanding Sir RICH.
FORD had then 'some letters before him, in answer
to the inquiries he,had caused to be Made, which
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contradi&ed hr in every point. •
On her •cros‘exarninatioo, she admitted that
many _of the ,circumstances she' had related were
not in, her own remembrance, but had been told.
to her by some persons, whose names she men-
tioned. She says she is' only 15 years of age,-that
she, was born
,in London, lived in St. James's_
street, and wen wben he was very young with her
mother to ,Ireland ; says she has. no recolledion of
her father,land very little of her mother : her ap.
•
pearance arid deportment are vulgar, and her court-
tenance and accent completely Scotch:, She was
ordered .to be detained, in order that this affair
May be developed.' •

UNtOrr HAet..-7-A person of the name Auberry
was brought before the Magistrates by a Mr. Fri*,
father to the wife of Auberry, wliom he accused of
having for a length of,time left his wife and six
children to want, which was only averted by his
(the father) having taken them under his protedrion:
The Magistrates stiongly, reprobated the .conduei of
the husband, and dirthed that he find hail for his
appearance at the Quaiter Sessions, or give itinne_
diate security to inali:e -provision fol. his

Two Tierces belonging tá one of the places .of
PublicAumsement on the Surrey side of Westmin-
ster-Bridge, charged each other with. an. assault.
The afftir occuired duritag the Representation of
one of their Heroic Ballets, in the course of which
the one fired his pistol :so close to the ear Of 'the'
other as to give him serious-alartn, to resent which,
he iminediately'knocked the aggressor' down with
hii brit;
The,Magistrate observed, that as this ,ofra:r hap.
pened :while the parties were in, Charotier, he
thought thc lytter ~yay to settle it ..votdd be, b'e:hi/,.d
theScer:esi A large parry ,of the Amphithea rical
6>rps at(mded upon thii occasion, a.nd the'Circutn.
stance allogetL.tr, atThrded much Isughtet.

On Tuesday last w- is married At Tonbridge, iii
Kent, HENRY STR EATF EILD, El. of Cbiddino._
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stone, in tilat .ouuty, to Miss CLIARLorTE
:.,coortiis, of Tunbridge..

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TRIAL BEFORE THE RECORDER, AT THE SE3IIOXS.
EIbUSE.

Aczottp.ivo, to letters from Mareilles,- that
tort i5,1,0-r free, anti t!:e merchants. there are per-
mitted to deal • in British .manufaaure!.4. of every de-
scription with the same advantages as the meighbOur-
ing poll.; of Genoa arid Leghorn;- we think it ne-
-cessary, therefore, to give publigisy to,the f :How,
ing decree of-the French G wernmenti which may
• nor, perin have been attended to: -
DECREE OF THE CONSULS OF THE FRENCH 'RE-
PUBLIC, DATED JU&E IQ, 1802.

FORESTALLING.

7't
ON Tuesday last came on, before the RECORDER,
the" trial of • Richard. .Ry- upon'
chargingthat'he, the said Richard Ryan, intend--
in' to. procure, to himself unlawful gain, and .41)
enhacce the price of Coals upon the 'inhabitants of
the City. of Dublin,, on the Bth day of. September,
instanW bought ,from Captain Fletcher, of the brig
ProsA4Crty; at the. Public Market :for the sale of
Coals upon.the..gatehelor's-walk, a certain large
quantity of Coals, 'at the rate of 1-1:731 per ton—
on the following day, regrated and sold the
said Coals, at the same market, for a'tbn,
against the peace of our Sovereign Lord the King,.
his Crown and dignity. The indiament. contained
three other counts, laying the offenceNip various
way,s; and the lasx .count in particular stated a spe_'
cific purchase of a single ton at 11.8 s. on the '91.11
of September, by the Traverser, and a regrating of
the..said ton on the saiut.day, at die rate* 11. los.
to Williath Edmiston, of the. City of Dublin wool-
lep-draper. There was a second indiament for en-
grossing Coals, which, in the progress of the trial,•
was abandoned. .

ART. All Vessels, either French o 4 foreign, arriving in
th Port of Marseilles, shall be under the immediate inspee-
Lou the Board of Customs :in consequence of wkien4ill
Captains or Masters shall, within twenty-four hours after
their arrival, present to the Board of Custatus a manifest
signed by th,t,u, expressing every iudividual.articie contain-
ed in their cargoes.

" 11. Whenever such.cargoes shall contain prodice, goods,
or staple articles of any kind that are prohibited at this pre-
sent moment, or that siiali hereafter be subject to the entre-
pct, toe unloading of tiiese shall be etl.-':Eted in a peculiar cir-
cuit fixed upon by the Director of the Custcins.
.place or, circuit destined fOr the entrepot shall shut
with itiro keys.-
111, At the time of unloading such•goods, produce, or
staple ebnimodities, pointed out in the preceding article„they
'shall be examined, weighed, and numbered, and subject to a
storage duty. At rue epochs of their re-exportation, they
shall be liable to ategister duty/ dr)it d'enregistrement.)
- IV V. Wines,' brandies., stuffs of all' descriptions, cotton
yarn, iron, st.tel, salt fish of all ciscriptiorez,• indigoes, and
oils coming from foreign-countries, may, acthemoment of
their arrival in the Port of Marseilles, be delivered to tL...
Consignee, al:Ct enjoy a pro. fonna, or fielitious entrepet,
pr,,vidid alvvays'tiv.t in case of those articles not being re-
, „ exported within twelve months after their delivery, such
Consignee shah' be bound to pay the duties to Vich sixth
articles are liable.

William Edmiston was producedon behalf of "the
Crown. He swore—that,• on Wednesday the Bth
of September, he saw th 6 Defendant on the 13x--
ghelor's-walk ; that he appeared as a Dealer in
Coals ; that, on-asking the price of Coals, he was
told 273. a ton;
.that he agreed with the Traverser.
for one -ton, at that rate;
_that- on- the following
day, -the Coals not ha ling, sent in the interitn,
he again saw the Traverser ; that having. intcrro-
gated him as to the reason why he had riot received"
the' Cools, Traverser said the wind h-ad' shifted,
and that they were then 3os. : • that Witness, itere-
upon agreed for one ton at that price ; that on
causing the Coals, which were sent in the course of
that evening, to be measured, he, the Witness, dis-
covered 4 deficiency. 'of nzar three quarters of a
barrel. That the vessel out of which
.he received,
the Coals was called the -Prosper;iy, of. Whitehaven;'
and that :"one Fisher was the Master Measuring-
Porter on hoard the ves.sel, witli whom, he, the
Witness, •had some conversation Upon ~the subjea'
'Of Coa;.-...: He said, that communicated the cir-
cumstance to the Lord Mayer, who interposed with
great anxiety and zeal upon the occasion—caused
the busine,s to be instantly followed up ; iri conse-
quence whereof the present Piosecution against the
• Traverser 'was instituted. , .
On his cross.examination, he admitted, that he
believed the deficiency of the Coals was not; in the
slightest degree, attributable to the Traverser.
'The Capin was then examined. He admitted
rk -he had sold, .altogether, about three or four
tons -to the Traverser ; that on the Bth of the pre- •
sent month, which was Wednesday, he sold him
some:at per per ton,-'and on:Thursday, the 9'h, 'a
ton for 28s. ; but that he did not agree with the
Trayeiserfor any Coals at a higher rate than- 28s.
the ton.' Being asked by a jury-aian, what })rice"
•was affixed-tO t-he mast for that day, the RECORDER
interfered, and saids he was not bound to answer
that question, as -the selling at different price
fro, that-stated upon the mast„ would subjeet -the.
Witness to a penalty he was thereupon silent:
, This Witnesi, on being cross-examined, aekoow-
!edged that the different Captains of Coal-ships op
the lkimer had all raised their teals, at the time
alluded to, to 3os. a ton.:: ,
The. Master Measuring-porter was next examin-
ed. lie swore—he was on hoard Captain Fletcher's
vessel when-the ton of Coals was measured for Mr.
Elruiston, with whom he conversed'; "and that the'
bags, on- the. delivery from the ship, were pettedly
just in point df measure.-- From the testimony of
'this Witness, coupled with- that of the former. Wit-
nesses, it manifestly appeared that the ton of Coals
sold to Mr.:-EdMiston by ,the TrAverser, at 305.,
had been purchased: by him froM 'Captain Fletcher,
at 2.8. at the, utmost. •

• V. All produce, staple commodities, and goods coming
from•tdreign countries, not liable to the real or fictitious en-
trepot, as before stated, may enter the port of Marseilles, and
be exported,again,.free of,al I duties :p nki charges.
- VI. All abovemfentioned produce, staple commckli-
ties, and gotids exported trorn Marseilles, by land or sea, for
the interior the.Reptiblie, shall pay tie duties established
by laws„.4t the first chstotn-house where they shall be en-
tend.
. .

VII. Merchants exporting into foreign countries soaps tin-
nufaethred in France shall be entitled to a bounty.
TitiS•bounty shall befof join- francs per quintal. "rhere-
gblations relative to niquulacaitriiig of soap the mode of ve-
rification to which soap to be 'exported shall be subjea, the
manner in which the bounty of expi;ri:atioitslialt be received,
are• to be- detcrinincil by peculiar statutes of pitbiic'Adrni-

VIII. The Minister of The Interior• and. Finances are
entrusted; every oue in what concerns them, ivith the execu-
tion of the present decree.

. .
CHILD KIDNAPPED. -- Among the many inr
stances of atrocity ,with which the, pnblic feeling
has lately'been shOcked, respecting the stealing and
ill-treatment of children, the- following is not the
least remarkable:

On Wednesday night an interesting examination
took place at Great Marlborough-street, relative to
a male child, about eight years old, charged to.have •
of_Mrs Bridges,, a
Chimney-Sweeper in Swallow-street. It was.stated
by Mrs. Wilson, of No. 5, in the same street, the
next, doOr neighbour to-Mrs. B. that on Saturday
last, she was dvadfully alarmed by -the cty of
murder, and the screams of the child It Mrs. 13's,
Which induced her to run into the house, where
she found the child stripped, and the Prisoner (Mrs.
B.'s Foreman) unmercifully beating him with two '
switches or small sticks. She remonstrated wi:h'
the Prisoner, and demanded by what authority: he ,
so cruelly used the child, as it wai well- known
that it had been inveigled from the street, apd Un-
lawfully detained by them ? The -Prisoner, then
the .atoned to strike the Witness, who _neverthe-
less, persisted, in taking away the child,' and did
aduidly take it"to the workhouse, informing the.
CoMmittee there of the particuiara, who, in con-
sevence, indided the Prisoner.
Mrs. Salnion, another neighbour, who keeps a
chandler's 'ship, next stated, that about a month
ago this chill came intoner shop.for a pennyworth
of bread.,' which lie instpntly, began.-to eat, crying
all the time. Some of Mrs: B.'s boys :then took
the child to their house, where he had been, kept
ever since.' Itnufediately on its becoming an in-
mate of this house, and an- associate with the little
chimney-sweepers, his hair was cut off; the new
shoes he wore takers from him ; -and other means
used completely to disguise. No means were used
by Advertisement, or otherwise, to discover, the
parents of the child; She often heard the 'child
cry, 'as did -most people. in the neighbdurhood, for
lie was frequeotly beaten most unmercifully, to com-
pel him to go up their own chimney, to initiate him,-
as it Were, in the art of chitnney.sweeping.
The evidence of, these two witnesses was con-
firmed by-that of ,others ; and the child itself told
a very artless and moving tale of its own sufferings.
The Prisoner, it appeared, :used to. strip him.naked,
and flog him in the dust cellar; to make him up
the chimney, to which it seems lie had 'an utter
aversion. .When in the chimney, he was urgo to
,proceed by the Prisoner having a stick, at the top
of which was fastened a pin, with which he goaded
the poor infant i,'at other times he would make the
chik-rdescend into vaults, and used. othe,r cruelties
too shocking for recital. •
When brought to the workhouse, the child was
, washed and cleansed ; its little elbows were very
much cut, with its endeavours to get up die chim-
ney; and on. the wire a
ekhibited,such marks of.
cruelty, 'as to con2arn every thing the Witnesses
had-, said. It aipeared that • Mrs. Bridges, who
was confined to her hed by illness, used to have the
child brought to her bed-side, where she beat' him
with a large stick. Such was the treatment a poor
los't child Met with from this female chimney-
iweeper and her, foreman ! 7
On inquiry at the workhouSc., the -child
covered
.that its,father is a smith by trade, a poor
man, with six children; living ner Sloane street,
and through illness had been 14. weeks 'out of em-
ploy. "The child in question' was just come froM
Exeter, where it had been brOught up,by its 'grand-
father. Its,,parents had- used every means in their
power to disc';ver their child, and at length found
him in the Workhouse!
- • The Prisoner was committed to Tothill-fields
Bridewell.

The Traverser produced no Witnesses. .
The RECORDRR then proCceded` to charge the
Jury, and said he considered the offence of Fore-
stalling and Regrating Coals as one of great enor-
mi.ty in its nature, under the effects
.of which all
classes of inhabitants-in this Metropolis have been,
and continue to be, most grievous sufferets.
He explained,' with his usual ability, the para..;
cularoffence charged,upon the Traverser ; namely,
Regrating—or, other words, the purchasing of
Coals at a Public Market, and reselling theta again,
in the same Market, at an advanced price—an of-
fetice-exisring, he said, at the Common Law ;, and
the atrociousness of which it was unnecessary to
dilate upon,..it, was so abundantly 'evidenced .by the
experience of -its mischievous and deplorable
,
conse-
quences... He told the Jury, however, that, strong
as their feelings must necessarily be as to the
he was convinced that they would decide upon
This case, as upon every other, with coolness and
impartiality. The credit of the Witnesses was al.
together for their consideration; but 'the duty of
his situation compelled him to declare, that if they
were believed, the indictment for Reeving was, in
_point of law;; unquestionably proved. With respea-
to an' objeaion, anode by Counsel, as to the india-
ment stating a purchase of twenty, tons, an allega-
tion not borne out by 'the evidence--he must.say,
that if it 'was necessary to decide upon the validity
of that, point, he %14ould not hesitate ,to ever-rule it;
.he had done so before; on a very important trial—
and the legality of the grounds on which he had so
decided, was assented to by very erninent'Counsel.
concerned for the Traverser on that occasion.—
However, thd Learned RECORDER,continued, there
was" a.countin this indidment, stating the purchase
and the resale of.a single ton--=so that the-ohjedion
was altogether out of the case, being grounded
upon a supposition whiCh Was not warranted by the
fact, From Whence it followeA, that 'the single point
for the Jury's deliberation was—Did they heti( ye.
the Wi:nesses For if they
.did,_ the conclusion
(Vas irresistible -: the offence waS legally • proved,

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