The Sun.
London, England, 1802-11-23 00:00:00

(FROM THE MONITEUR.)

A report having been falsely spread at Leghorn,
that there had been a Naval Action in the Mediter-
ranean, between the Batavian Squadron, commanded
by Admiral WINTER, and a certain. number of Bar-
bary Corsairs, the following Note has been officially
published :
" The Squadron under Admiral WINTER has
peaceably traversed the Coasts of Barbary, and has
found those Regencies in the most amicable dispo-
sition towards the Batavian Nation."

(PROM THE MONIT11,:lt.)
BERNE, Nov. 3.
PROCLAMATION TO THE HELVETIC PEOPLE.

" CITIZENS OP HELVETIA,

" In announcing to you, four months ago, that the
French Troops were about to quit our Soil, the Council of
Execution at the same time declared to you, that a constant
obedience to the Laws, a spirit of confidence and peace, the
union of all wishes for the maintenance of the established
order of things, could alone proted your Independence;
while the contrary dispositions, disobedience, tumult, and
dissentions, would infallibly bring back a Foreign Army.
" You have not attended to our words, Citizens of Helye-
tia ! Ambitious men have induced you to embrace the cause
of their interests and their passions ; and while. one Party
amongst you roused itself at their calling to overturn the
Constitutional and National Government, the other Party
became, by its silence, an accomplice in the Civil War.
" What is the result ? A few weeks have scarcely passed,
when the Frcnch Troops, ten times more numerous than they
were last Spring before their departure, penetrate into your
Cantons ; they take from you the Arms which you have
turned against your Government, and thus declare to all
Europe that you are at once incapable of remaining at peace,
and unworthy t,o proted yourselves.
" Tell us then, Citizens of Helvetia, to whom you owe

the return of these Troops ? Is it to the Senate and to the

Council of Execution, whose fault was, on the contrary, to
consent too soon to their departure, and whose whole study
latterly tended to prevent, by a frank and loyal acceptance of

the mediation of the Ctil ev CoNsuL, the evils which we had
o tear from his indignation? Ur is it to the Insurrectional
Authorities, to the Assembly which dignified itself with the
name of the Confederate Diet of Schwitz ? to that Assembly
which, rejeaing the conditions of the proposed Mediation,
promising to dissolve itself; and notwithstanding continuing
its intrigues, announcing Peace, and keeping the Soldiers
under arms, wishing that a Foreign Force might enter the
Country, that they might have it in their power to say, " /Y?
yielded only to farce 'i?" Miserable vanity, which gratifies itself
at the expense of a whole Nation ! Wretched ebullition of
pride, calculated to precipitate the Country into complete
ruin, and which it would have done, if the Generosity of
the CHIEF CONSUL had not equalled his Power, and if,
notwithstanding all the efforts of his .Enemies, and of yours,
he had not still persisted to wish your welfare.
" However, Citizens of Helvetia ! the Council of Execu-
tion is informed of it; the Members of that Seditious As-
sembly, and the Committees which it had established in the
Cantons, not content with having consecrated, in formal:pro-
testations, their foolish pretensions, still seek to mislead the
People respeCting their real situation, to spread false hopes
of Foreign Succour, to frighten them by menaces, and to
belye the intentions in which the Helvetic Government ad-
dressed itself to the Cxiar CQNSUL, to invite him to make
himself the Supreme Arbiter of our didererrces.
" But we will answer these men, that they likewise have
invoked that mediation. The Letters of the Chiefs of the
Little Cantons to the Cute? Corts 4nd-ta the. Ministers
of France; the Plans of Constitution on which they openly
called for their good offices ; the sending-Deputies to Paris,
are so many proofs of the desire which they hut of interest,
ing. the French Government in their cause.. It was only
when the F lase Cow tu I. had previously demanded and ex-
aeled the cessation of a War which armed, Citizens against
Citizens, and Brothers against Brothers, that they rejeCted
the mediation solicited by themselves, and which they then
artfully turned for the purpose of increasing the• number of
their partizans.

" We w►ll tell them again, that if we have called for the
Mediation of the FIRST CONSUL, it is because, of all, the
Powers called by their position, to take an interest in the des-
tinies of Helvetia, France is the only one which has recog-
nized our Independence, consecrated, by its means, in a so-
lemn Treaty : 'the only one which can exercise over us an
influence of proteelion and support. The History of Switzer-
land for five centuries, our Revolution, and the years which
have succeeded it, sufficiently prove how much it is our.
interest to follow the political system of France. It is
this truth which, engraved on the hearts of our Ancestors,
protecled the cradle of the Confederation; and we, Citizens
of the Helvetic Republic, have a thousand times more
reason still to be convinced of it.

" Lastly, we will say no longer to these met, for they mill
nut understand, us, but to the Nation itself, that the Equality
of Rights amongst the Cantons, the abolition of Hereditary
Privileges, the Liberty of the Citizens, being a depo sit placed
in I:Au hands to be preservectit azsy price, it was nQt-pctt•

ted to us to w;tveT respecting calling for the mediation of the
only Government which can preserve to us these PriiiciPl`"
" Thus, our conduCt in this respeci has been 001) the
necessary consequence of the National Will, expre=:sed in
favour of these same Principles at the time of the acceptance
of the Constitution.

" Such is the answer which the Council of Execution
owes to that part of the accusations of its Enemies.

66 With regard to the other accusations by which it is at'
tempted to raise against them a factious hate, they ctesP`;
them, well knowing that they cannot cite a single family °
which it has caused the ruin, or a single person in whom the
tights of a Citizen have been violated. It is, on the
trary, for having been too indulgent, too confident in the
justice of its Fellow-Citizens, too little severe, in short,
that it has experienced misfortunes. The Insurrectional
Authorities ordered in four weeks ten times more arrests►
odious inquests, and measures of rigour of every kind, than
it had ordered during the whole course of its existence.
" Citizens of Helvetia ! you will be required to furnish
extraordinary Contributions for the support of the Troops
which your Insurredions have caused to enter your Country.
Submit yourselVes to a necessity which you cannot tat Witt/
injustice; open your hearts to dispositions of Fraternity Oaf
Social Order ; it is the only means of abridging the peri°4°
your misfortunes. Shew yourselves, in short,
worthy to
called a Nation, and you will become one. l%

" BONAPAR Ts. only desires to have still the power of
tcresting himself in your destinies.

" For us, Citizens, thanks to the care of this gaieroug
Mediator, our task will soon be finished. Returned into th°
class of private individuals with those who have so cruelly
calumniated our conduct, we shall be always ready to answetf
their, imputations. Henceforth there is no sacrifice cu wig 6
we are not resigned, if it can only be profitable to out C 61114

try.
‘, Done at Berne, Nor. 3, 14.32."

LUC ERXE, Nov. B.—M. M. ALOYS 11E014
and AVIDER-MALIR arrived here, escorted by Of
French Hussars, and one hunched Infantry. While
they were here, no one was allowed to converse
with them. They are gone to the Fortress of
burg. They likewise speak of the arrest of g'
M. ZELLW ECEN, of Troguen ; PFISTER, of Schaff:"
housen ; Ms tx tA N, of Basle ; and REDING of Ba4e°'
ix-Senators. These are to be conducted to the
Castle of Chillon, in Geneva.
BASLE, Nov. t3.—The French Commandant
of
this City has received orders to arrest M. Nisio
Rzart, Deputy of the Canton to the last Diet 0.
Schwitz ; but the order has not been executed, /
consequence of his flight. A detachment of third
men has been lodged in his house, and will 110°
there till he re.appearc.

E]cTRACT OF A LETTIR FROM HAVAC DE CR2sCs'

DATED NOV. 18.

" I am sorry to acquaint you, that an Englisivi.
man was found dead on the Ramparts the day be
yesterday, who had shot himself. The stock
pistol was lashed to his hand, the barrel of whit
was blown to pieces; the ball passed into his frqe,az
and through bis brain. He is a fine young man, co
tween zo and $o years of age, of genteel appear'," •
and had been staying at Havre some time past..

Two men, one a Soldier' and the other a CO—('!err
were yesterday brought up from Windsor, by
EDWARDS, the Officer, charged with beingconee'
ed in Treasonable Pranices.
'f°
Yesterday a journeyman Printer was taken idle
custody, who it appears was the Paymaster at ;be
meetings of the Conspirators. 'Whatever 0%10
amount of• the reckoning, it was discharged by
man without any objeCtion being made, or quo,
tions asked by any of the rest of the 0203Poas
Upon searching this man's lodgings, nothiog nip
foend in them of any consequence, and the itt'
ture was of the poorest description.
°r
Kr
Papers have been received in town from iiew7,,e
up to the sth of OCtober, which contain noth'iclll
moment. In an Address to the Voters of Freaerb of
County, they are reminded of the fast approco
the Election of Delegates to the next General A 0
sembly," in which Mr. JEFFERSON is accused 01
the " most tyrannical conduCl, in tutning °tract
office the best tried servants of the country, in °lit,
to give high offices to §tieh men as GALOsoir
TENCH, and Cox." It also 'accuses Mr. JEFF° bf
of having repeatedly ",:;iolatld the Constittitittiled,
having had the Judicial Law of the buttes rell3ther
in order to turn out the Federal judges." It fur op!
positively asserts, that JEFFERSON gave
DER, the Editor of the Recorder, printed at K cot
moral, an hundred dollars out of his own pose:s4,
writing of a book, in which the great WAitiaicor
TON is attempted to be proved an enemy and tr
to his country.
svastei
The 3d Articke says, Mr. Jrettetc;os 110 f ch.
upwards of thirty-two thousand dollars out ° fitr'
Public Treasury, in repairing a ship called theft, 50
ceau, to be sent bacic to the French, frorrvvf"hose)
had been taken, when (to use their own i Slagot bi
robbing, their trade on the High Seas ; an' thi
sending an 'Ambassador and a Treaty.carrier,__
French Nation, Mr. JEFRERSON has run L-"_!. ex'
tion to a very extraordinary and unnecessaU
pence. e bi,
:
The Board. of Health of the City of Philad Poine
reports, on the Ist of Otiober, the death and
adults andAwo children, in twenty-four houristioore
_ a
for the forty-eight preceding hours. 0.00;
reports the death of nine adults and. tw° stilt
in this ratio it goes on in the report uto p
the
with an increase of Malignant Fever. his
on Stiri3he
confinement The Duke
inD;raCniiceo.lSlitlL is liberated from
It is stated in a Morning Paper, that elds, t
arrived at BRUNET'S Hotel,
first detachment of the French Agenrs). ,a at ill
orlon- coo'
be scattered around the Coast, and at. 0 •
title °
Sea Ports of this country, under the _foie
,b
mercial Agents," or Consuls, for all the chouije,
towns of England, Scotland, and Ire 4ken fis
et ta 'cler
no Treaty of Commerce has Y and
They are tin in number, Interpreters
included, Leicester-mho oe re

THEDUTCH Ti: ,11

HAGUE, Nov. i 9.

• .
SINCE the Legislative Body haS rejeaed the re-
gulation presented by the Government relative to
the elections of Members for the Legislature, and
for departmental diredions—there has been open
"Par between the two Corps. From an I hear it is
conjeaured that we shall have in a short time fresh
quarrels between the Legislature and the Executive
eower, which • will bring on, perhaps, a
,new re_
f',rm, equally beneficial with those which have pre-
ceded it ; vet the majority of the Nation appears
be with the Legislative Body.

FRANKFORT, Nov. 14.

ADViCks from Berne, Bade, and Zurich, of the
loth, have brought the following news : on the Stii
arrived, at-Zurich, guarded by an escort of chas-
seurs, the celebrated A LOYS REDING, and General
AUF DER MAUR; M. HIRZEL, a Member of the
I)jet of Schuit--, has also been taken up; he was
found at his own house, in the bosom of his family.
They were all conveyed before General SERRAS,
and afterwards carried to the Hotel de Ville.
The brother of REDING, who•exercised the office of
I;4ndaloman of Baden, during the insurreetion, has
al3° been taken up. Some other of the leading per-
r'e ns have
experienced the same fate, They are'to
la,n" to the Castle of Challon, on the Banks of the
(31-1-e uf
'Geneva, as prisoners of State, until further
` • -
fet-ti ordered Gene.: rat I\TE
tow has produced a great sensation. The
fn of z;‘,.;,/, is, by direttion of the National Pre_
Ir, disarming, as well as all the other 'Towns and
ar/t,"s•
the Tranquillity is far from being restored
e Canton of Zurich. The presence of the
Tr,tnell troops alone keeps cic;wn the Insurgents.
town of Glarus was occupied by the French on
Ine 3d, Two demi.brigades and a regimen.t of light
cavair, ), have entered the Grisons by Mount Splagen.
The letters from Berne inform us, that the Senate
fillssent a circular to all the Prefeds, of which the
Sent
is .
the substance .
ta,t,ou will receive herewith the Proclamation to the r
Oare,,9'is, issued by the Fitcs-r.
.CoNs.tn,
.in Which
.he de-
Ca.?, that he will, in the critical situation in which our
trY is, give it a Constitution which shall ensure tran-
li4ll''tY, and fix its tate for ever. The Senate have grate-
-I,th Y accepted the interference of this powerful Mediator,
o4rout.to us the best founded hope of telininating
c intestine dissentions. The Senate and the Council of
Vllcution make it their duty to execute strupulously and
its parts, the Tenor of the Proclamation of the I' icsr
be "Si/t. In consequence, the Government repaired to
''rne as soon as circumstances permitted them, and dis-
tia '
n4W all the Militia. They will follow in their labours
the
Constitutional Line, and they will that you,
Citi-
;2Pr,.!feCt, resume the post confided to you. They
1.1 also, that by your etlorts to fulfil exactly the
'itSire of the PIRST CONSUL, all the Authorities which
iiPsF been dissolved or changed, be-immediately led.and continue their funetions ; that all
-',xounttn:ri ties, or Assemblie.s,
re-esta- ,
FunElionaries, convoked or established in
.
jra-vrention to the Law and 'the Constitution, be on t.ll-
- 1-Zv,_ y entirely dissolved ; in -a word, that by your wise
i„.iatioLlY,, the letter and spirit of the Fißsr Co Ns e L's Procla-
7!tigd adhered to, avoiding always every thing that
v awaken the animosity of the parties.
ernagloatettn all the means in your
bpncord
treed° °ray.
tiOnal Ant power to l'hailltain
Iranquality, and re-establish the Cons u-
Nothing can better ensure peace, safety,
; fregcribed'r6l, than the strict observance of the dispositions
Yt'sult •,Y the tilts? CONSUL, awaiting tranquilly the

The
Gdvetnment of State of the Batavian Re-
Fitell,4
appointed a Commission of seven Mem-
rn order to furnish them with the necessary
'gttilation, as to the trade about to -he re-com-
veened to the East Indies, and the form of Go-
rnfnent fdr die East India colonies.
rcirn Petersbargb we hear, that the Eniperor of
t,,sslA has dispatched a Courier to Paris to the
CoxstrL, with a lettet written in his own
hid' wraith relation to the proposal of acceding to
"Pita made at Paris on the Sat of September.

. , ~ . ................
ethieSterdaty C:
I vtr FRANCIS BIIR6ETT, with several
arfier Members, attended in the House ofCoin mons,
q.' took the Oaths, of which, for the:information
.rhe Public, we gibe an E-.;trati :
to ,1
apte, I do swear, that I will have faith and true•..illegi-
t4i . His Nlajestv King George, and Him will defend, to
;4114utFoost Of my power, against all Traitordns' Conspiracies
I...,..viktteillpts, which shall be inade against His Person,
~" r:,,anci Dignity.
24 ti‘ i'.l.V, I will do my utmost to disclose and make known
toro,, "aiesty, and his Successors, all Treasons, and r.ai_
th. arty Consiraetes, which I shall know to be against Him,
‘7. the ni &c. acc. &c."
• x est
xci erday Mr. Coluzy, the Chancellor of the
b , I.quer for Ireland, arrived in town, from
uulin.

•
trAt
, Prandade, for merly Sr. Dennis, a deputation
whstne
Poissardes waited upon Lord Wit ITIVORTII
13„st he•was changing horses, presented him with
the,"uquet, according to their custom, and e:!presse.d
3%-iselves in their style, most demonstrative of their.
itlVt Beting an Ambassador from England arrived
th t4nee• His Lordship and suite employed more
an 111.
h. irty horses at every post:
pre, e violent Party in Coventry are very busy irk
their dig a Petition to Parliament, in favour of
"i44ppointed Candidates, Messrs. BIRD and:
will
re. itB. Every Firend tb his King and Country •
}Dice at their defeat.
The p •
!°r he prince of ()RANG?. intends to make Frank-
.: nis winter residence.
()Itit °I PE'rtrE has purchased the magnificent house
tle l d ate Lord GkoSVES:OIIi in Grosvenor-square..
tBRAYIVROOKE gave two coursing days last
to
tillo Audley-end Park, affording excellent sport_
ks,e4 rleighbouring Gentlemen of that part f
The yi
Ivtletl,k F!; eorr'sfiasnting kiofLundy, situated in the Bristol Chan.
e
of zsoo acres of land, was sold last
t/N,°
-15,a rt. 52701. • The purchaser was- Sir VERE
•
tied .-MtchesS Of Do ITSET is reported to' have Car-
-011ipo"," to France a great quantity
ertaini di.°F the Manufaaure of this Country; She
of Dresses,
ql4h / "as taken with her a considerable quantity
The
sh Sr,!ff.
nlatliet "erstoeked professions may now find.agOud
t..v°tltlts Tit'cne C°lony of Surinam is stated by late
in great want of Bricklayers, Car.
is M-s
1/4'nli'ths,. Ph Ps Sur eons, Atiortries,
clinhlere s cla ' g )14t,Ieast
on:a Clerks: Thus it seems,- that there
Astor,„
Would spot upon the habitable glob., where
41 be a welcome visitor.*

GTRJ
. L .1R; O:. 3;

tHE American Ship Java, Capt. BULLOCK, at.
lived here yesterday from Mocca, after a passage of
i i 5 days, laden with coffee and guni.
Capt. BULLOCK reports, that the Indian Atmy
under the command of General BAIRD, put in there
for refreshments, and had again sailed for India
five days before Captain BULLOCK left Mocca.
Seven of the Transports had been wrecked, on their
passage down the Red Sea, though but feW lives
were lost.

•
General BAIRD and the Army were in good
health.

There has been no intelligence of late from our
Fleet in the Mediterranean. The Thetis sailed for
Malta a few days ago. The only Men of War
now remaining here, are the Medusa and Ac7ive.
Lord CAVAN is shortly, expeeted here on his way
from Egypt, as he was to leave that country when-
ever General STEWART arrived.

The Garrison here is remarkably healthy, and
well supplied with fresh provisions and vegetables ;
every Soldier has fresh meat three times a week,
and the Troops behave with the utmost regularity
and sobriety : there has not been a single complaint
from any Inhabitant, against either any Officer or
Soldier belonging to the Garrison for these some
months past.

OCCAS IO NAL ADDRESS,

INTENDZD FOR. THE INTRODUCTION OF
MR. FOOT

AT DRURY-LANE THEATRE, IN THE CHARACTER OF

HAMLET.

Tit t NK not, ye Sages, who, terrific sight,
Here meet to try the novice of to-night,
Your matchless Bard's accomplisli'd Prince to see
" Ar►n'd at all puints, exactly cap-a-pee."
If in our Candidate you hope to find
That bright creation of a Poet's mind,
Haply you'll soon have reason to declare,
" Oh ! HAMLET what a falling oil' was there."
" Distill'd to jelly by the ad of fear,"
Before this dread tribunal to appear,
He waits, his awful purpose full in view,
" Thaw'd, and almost resolv'd into a dew."

Too conscious of the Merit you possest
To brave comparison's invidious test,
He hopes to shun the rigid Critic's hiss,
When looking "on that picture and on this."
No " glass of fashion" he, no " mould of form,"
Yet while his feelings with the Poet warm,
Should he come mar " the cunning of the sceue,"
He trusts you'll own he wears no borrow'd mien,

Ye fudges, then, who " bear a wary eye,"
If with his faults some merits you descry,
If be spew more in Nature's simple track
Than " customary suit of solemn black ;"
Let but your kind applause command his stay,
Through life " in all his best he will obey."

Lord WHITWORTH, we, believe, met Mr. Fox
on his journey. It is said they had some chat to-
gether, probably respcaing the Court of the CH iE F
CONSUL, on which subject, no doubt, Mr. Fox
was well qualified to give every possible informa-
tion, from his long and assiduous, and dutiful at-
tendance there.

A Morning Paper of Saturday states the following
Pic-Ric Dinner Party to have lately sat down toge-
ther in iaris : Monsieur TAL LE Y RAND, Madame
TALL E YRAND, ci-devant Madame GRAND, Mr.
GRAND, formerly belonging to the East India
Company's Service, and ci-levant Husband to
Madame TALL E Y RAND. Sir ELI lAH IMPEY, for-
merly Chief Justice in Bengal, and Mr. FRANC IS,
once a Member of the Supreme Council, during the
Government of Mr. HASTINGS. The major part
of the Company, however, are said to have before
come together.

ourable Lord
Monday se'nnighr, the Right Hop
CRAIG was re.eleEted Lord Retior of the Univer-
sity of Glasgow.

bn Saturday se'nnight, the gallant z6th, or Ca.
meronian Regiment of Foot, commanded by Lieu-
tenant-General A. GokooN, were landed at Leith
from Egypt, last from Plymouth, on board the
G/e/ritrove and L'Oisea Frigates, and a Sloop.—
They are fine looking men, and muster about four
hundred.

Tuesday*last the Queen's Dragoon Guards, corn.
manded by Lord To wNsitEN6, were reviewed on
Leith Sands, by Lieut. Gen.VysE, and made a very
handsome appearance. The sword exercise, skir-
mishing, and regular quick charges, were performed
ith great precision and alacrity:
HoLMaN continues to play with success at Dub-
lin.
TALBOT, Who was two seasons ago on Dairy.
lane Stage, is engaged for the Dublin Theatre.

A new Performer—, whose name is Nz xoti, appeared
last week on the Dublin Stage, in the character of
aff.er. He is; it seems; not of age; but according
to
_report he displayed a full maturity of talents,
and supported the part with fitst-rate ability, and
without any Stage.trick. Mrs. StDbows was the
Belviderai and her effoits require no additional
eulogimm:
There have been very few Performers' who have
come forward; in' the higher Chataaers' of the
Drama; with so much success as the new Hamlet.
—His understanding and ‘edUeation qualifY him for
a critical conception of the text ; and his person is.
very well calculated to give it (6 form' and pressure."
Hatfield,. the Keswick impostor; was lately seen
at the Chester Theatre. Having met an old friend,
he conversed with him; stated that he had just ar-
rived from Gibraltar, where h'e had been personally
known to his Royal Highness the Duke of KENT,
who was partial to hini; related many anecdotes
of the Officers in the various corps; and appeared'
perfedly familiar with that Establishment; although-
he hAd not for Months Eeen from England:
The father of Hatfield, the KesWick impostor,
and the. pretended Colonel. Hope, lives in the
neighbourhood of Stockport,. 'ice Cheshire; Where
the Police Officers have lately l*en• in'search of him.
He has also two. sisters married in the vicinity of
the above Town.. Hatfield is not an Irishman as
has been' supposed,, but 'was buritko Cheshire; •

L.:11 iLsPkn

COURT Of Et NC P,ENCH, Nov. ii.

THE KING ^✓. PHILIP HAMLIN.

THE ATTOkNEY GENERAL moved the judgment
of the Court on the Defendant, who had suffered
judgment to pass by default, to an information filed
against him, stating, that one Andrew Hill, late
of the town and burgh of Plymouth; on the 3oth
of Odober, in the 4ist year of the King, held a
certain office of trust and confidence Under our said
Lord the King, that of Landing Surveyor of the
Customs of the Port of Plymouth, and that the said
Andrew Hill died, whereby the said office became
vacant, and was in the disposal of the Lords Com-
missioners of the Treasury : that the Right Hon.
Henry Addington was the first in the letters patent
of our Lotd the King in such commission, and in
a place of high trust and confidence under our Lord
the King, and likewise a Privy Councillor of our
raid Lord the King, an high station also, of high
trust and confidence. That the Defendant, know-
ing the premises, but with intent to seduce the said
Henry Addington from the duties attached to such
high station and office under our said Lprd the
King, to prostitute the duties of such office, to
cause the said Philip Hamlin to be appointed to the
office of Landing Surveyor of the Customs of the
Port of Plymouth, so vacant, for the corrupt lucre
of gain, did write, and cause to he sent to the
said Henry Addington, a certain letter, offering a
pecuniary reward to be paid to the said Henry Ad-
dington, as follows:

" Sir—This day a place became vacant by the death of.
Mr. Andrew Hill, Landing Surveyor of the Customs here :
it you cau procure that place for me, tbr my own use and
benefit, I will give you 20001. and also give a bond to keep
the business a secret. Your answer will oblige, Your's, &c.
" zothOd. aox.

The affidavit of the Defendant stated, that he.
sincerely repented of 'having sent this letter, for
which he was unfeignedly sorry, and threw himself
on the mercy of the Court : that he is 40 years of
age,. aud carries on the trade and business of a Tin-
man, by which alone he supports himself and
family, and. then expressing an apprehension that a
severe judgment may be the ruin of himself and
family ; that had he been appointed to the office, it
was his intention to have performed the duties of
it faithfully, and then the affidavit refers to his
general good charaerer with his neighbours.
The two Reverend Ministers of the two Parishes
in Plymouth, and several Merchants and others of-
the Town of Plymouth, made Affidavits, that, ex.
cepting this instance, they knew of no blot in the
chara&er of the Defendant, but that, on the con-
trary, it was a very respedable and good one.
The ATTORNEY GENERAL,---" Your Lordships
are fully possessed of the nature of this Case from
the Information that has been read, and on which I
have but very few words to say. . The Defendant,
by suffering judgment to pass against him by de-
fault, has
.confessed the guilt of having attempted to
bribe an'Officer of High Council, by the transmis-
sion of a letter to Mr. Addington, offering to him
20001. provided he could procure the Defendant an
Office then vacant in the Customs. That a com.
pliance with this proposal, would have been a scan-
dalous and disgraceful ad in the Individual to
whom it was made, and a serious, and aggravated
breach of trust and official duty, and as such a great
misdemeanour, cannot be doubted ; as little can it
be doubted, that the insult thus offered to a person
of such high station is a very grave and serious
misdemeanour.

My Lords, I think it is due to the age and
' Country in which we live, to state, what indeed is
universally believed, that there never was a period
in the History of this Country, or of any other, in,
which the charatiers of persons in an exalted station
in public life, 'were so free from all suspicion of
this species of offence, as the present moment.—
Whatever may have been the suspicions, or the
facts in this respect, in former tithes upon this sub-
jea, in this Country; or whatever may be the
case in other Countries at present, I am persuaded
there never was a period in which all persons in
high stations in this Country Were so entirely free
from suspicions of this nature, as the present ; and
that there is no Character who stands in the Pub-
lic eye, more free from the chance of even the worst
or the most malignant enemy, insinuating such an
offence against him, or whose known integrity of
character proves him incapable of such a mean-
ness more than that of the Right Hon. Gentleman who
was thus insulted by the Defendant, nor any one
that stanc4 higher in public estimation at the present
moment. I think I may say that the person thus
addressed by tht 12.tfendant, has, in every sense,
too fair a fame, and too exalted a reputation in the
world, to render it necessary for him to t. ke notice
of this matter on fiis own account; and therefore he
might, with perfect security, as far as his own cha-
ratter was interested, haVe treated this letter with
contempt and flung it into the fire. He could have
had no occasion to act on his own feelings upon
the insult which he felt as offered to him as an in-
' dividual ; but a man- of his exalted station, must
shew that it is not priiate feeling, but public Jus
tice roust be the Vide of his conduct; He feels
therefore; my Lords,' that for the sake of public ex-
ample; this Case shoUld come before you for yOur
cOnsideration: It was with that view the present
Prosecution Was instituted; and froth that motive li
it is now brought before, your Lordships: My
Lords; I have had communicated to me the Affidavits
which haVe been read' to the Court in mitigation of
punishment ; and in
.which' the character of the
Defendant,appearS to stand well, among hiS neigh-
bours. The circunistanCeS which he discloses re-
speaing his own sittiation in life and of his family,
are all of them' topics. very well adapted to affecting
the private feelings of indivithials, and a's far as that
consideration goes,' nothing
_further need be said ;'
but there would have been n'to P'roSecution in this
case at all; on the ground' of personal feeling ;.• it
wa set on foot on grounds of a public nature; and
the spirit in wh'i'ch the l'rosectition originated; still
remains ; it is, therefore; subthitted to your Lord-
ships; not on a point of individual feeling; but of
justice; in which, case your Lordships Will
consider how far the Affidavits ought to' operate in
mitigation of punishMent. It is with your Lord.;
ships—it is'submitted to 'your judgment ; I have
no wishes on the part of the Prosecution, to pray
tot a sevcrer -judgment than your Lordships shall/

.„ .
in view of all
think iustiee dematds by Way of pt:blic
Mr. ERSICtNE, on behalf of the riefendant
scribed to every Word that was uttered by the
Totearc OEI\TER:^_t, ir. hls Addres,'; to the
He said, that the Defendant must sect gratitude foi.
that Address. Mr. ER sKtNt said; he did, in life
conscience, belii:Ve; there never was a time in
Public Men were so entirely free from the most Fe:
mote suspicion of Corruption; as at the present too:
meat :--that he verily believed. He subscribed
also to the observation, that the Right Honourahle
Gentleman, to whom this Letter was addre6sed;.
might very well, as far as his own pe6onal reputa-
tion was concerned, have put this Letter into the
fire. It was written by the Defendatwith &eat
ignorance. It was an absurd, insolent, and, he
must add, a Criminal Letter. But the moment that
this most Unfortunate, and very ignorant Orsonf
became aware of the impropriety of what ..he had
done, he wrote to Mr. AddingtOn anothei• Letter;
full of contrition for whk he had done ; but Mr.
Addington could not pass the matter by-.----it,Wat,
necessary, for Public Purposes, to institute this Pro._
secution; and Mr. EKSF.IIE presented his Client to
the Court, as a man acting under a cloud of igno-
rance. He was a tinman, at Plymouth; so long ac:
customed to the noise of his own hammer, that he
thought every thing in this world was to be broughi
to, and knocked down by the harmner; He ob.
served, that the Defendant's character was attested
by the two Reverend Gentlesnen of the Parishes it
Plymouth, as well as by other reputable Men there;
and they came forward, in his behalf; on an iCCUSa_
tion which would naturally have induced (hem t 6
hold back, if they had not been thoroughly con:
vinced of real worth of the Defendant's general
character :—with these observations he left the De.:
fendant to the mercy of the Court.
Lord ELLEBOROUOI4.—" Let him he torn;
mitted, and bronght up on the laSt .day of the
Term."

Mr. ERSkINE. —" My Leeds, to shei, the s!rii.;
plicity and ignorance of this unhappy man, I would
state, that when the Information came down; and
the ProcesS was shewn to him, comthanding him td
appear and answer; he thought-, on seeing the red
Seal of the l'iocess, that he had got his place !"_
defendant Committed:

Judgment was moved on Several Srii►iggleis; tcif.
obstru6ting Revenue Office in the cite execution of
their Duty, but they were all ordered to be brought
up on Saturday.

THE KING v. HENRY
, This Rule; for a Criminal Inforrtiation against
the Defendant for sending a Challenge; kc: to. Capi
rain Freernantle; was niade absolute on an Affidavit
of Sex vice; on the Motion of Mr. JAR v is: