The Sun.
London, England, 1802-07-15 00:00:00

CLERKENWELL SESSIONS.

'Yesterday- Charles P.c7ce, Charles Wagstaj, and
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701,/ Harwood, were tried on an indidment fot
riotowly and tumultuously assembling with di.-
vcrs other persons, on the night or
.the 29th
of April last, before the house of Mr. Cobbett, in
Pall-m:4l, and breaking the windows. .
Mr, isiARES, Dr. WINGFIELD, Mr. 13,4LOVer of
the Post-office, and many other persons of the
highest respeEtabllity, gave a most exemplary cha-
rader of. Mr.,BELOE, who is bOt 'just sixteen, and
to Mr.WAGSTAFF; Mr. HARWOOD'S charader is
equally estimable,
The Court stated to the Jury the fads as they
were proved, and obse;ved, that however wantonly
a man may expose himself, he was still entitled to
the protedion of the Law. Verdid Crag.
The Court, in consideration of the premature
imprisonment which these Gentkinen had stAttd,
under the aggravating apprehension of a capital
prosecution, awarded no imprisonment now. Mr.
lielOe and Mr. Wagstaff were sentenced to pay a
fine of 301. each, and Harwood, who had not
been so active, rol. the frierfis of all to give se.
curity for their good behaviour for two years.
The kity. recommended the yotnrg Gentlemen
very strongly to the mercy of Ole Court, Mr.
SILVESTER asked whether Mr. Cobbet joine:t in the
recormpendation ? Mr. Co'bdet answered, "
tainly not, Sit; I come here for
,justice, not for
Mercy." `,

On Monday the r;t11 inst. in Eiward-street,
portmitn_squ'itre, die .of THOMAS ORIM,.TON
Estcouß.T, Esq. w-tr, -..Ctit-ly delivered of a Son.

. Tuesday the Coroner's, Jut* met at the Bull and
Butcher public-house, in S;i;ithtield, to inquire into
the death of Thomas Tate, a sr-writ ab,)ut twelve
years of age, who was found dead in the apart..
merits of .the father and mother Oil Sunday morning
last.

The first witness was mr.At'rnis, a cheese_.
monger in Smithfield, who kept t\ le house there
the father aOd.mother of the deceased lodge, and
who were in custody till the determination of the
Jury was known.' He heard the father quarrelling
very -mdri.i last Saturday night, on that day saw
the deceased in good health ; Oat the•mother men-
tioned next day the boy's deattk,- without having
called in any medical assistance, or let any body
know. Confessed? althorigh 64 father was a step-
father, he never saw him treat him cruelly. The
Surgeon who ,opened'and examit)ed the body, said
there was no appearance of violence, and he thought
he died by the visitation of God. As such the Jury
gave their verdia.

Saturday morning as the cutter belonging to the
Chichister man Of war was going off to Spithead,
the wind blowing hard and the sea mining high,
she filled and Overset. captain STEPHEN, her corn.
minder, was on the platform and saw the acci-
dent ;' 'which must 'have been peculiarly distressing
to him, as his son was in the boat at the time.—
However, by the great aftivity of the Constance's
boa t's'cre w, the people were all saved. Mt. LUCK EY,
•the Matter's Mate, was sinking when he was book=
ed by the boWinan of the assisting boat. He was
taken to the Blue Posts, without the least signs of
animation ; but was recovered by the means pre-
scribed by the-Humane Society.
The Mother y Ramsay, —, from Milford •to.
Madeira, is put into Scilly with damage, and the
cargo landed.