The Sun.
London, England, 1802-08-18 00:00:00

BERDEE;;SHIRE-

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tiv itCe. SUN -bf igtli of Pay; o'n hccc:u.rt
the TKOCCCtiI;:g& of the Aber'ecn.hire I,;letjOn pp.
peare3; ario4s iespeds'
which caries an ;ibrearirnee hi ices; as i
intended td refie# upon the c'oncloktt f dne df
aihdidates; and those whiff espbLised his interests.'
Iti the.SiiN it was stated, that the ridr6ber.i'wh(;
voted for die t=.:_spekftit;e. Candidates
,l' CPC 61 to :1..4
siihile the is, that five,th!fet Gentienien
r .
lOC the iuppwed.tninority. tinder protest, the i.trn-
diate ki ajvrity having decliféd to receive their:
voteh.

In the Stit4 lik6Ase there Vrd an ()Mission to,
state, tittt the majority -was partly c.7'.m:,nsed of
Gentlemen labouriii tinder obje6tiorh which
hithertobetth dniforchlY sustained the q9urt; of
Law, a,nd Which are petemptorily erif)!-ce.l
-ferent ,At!ts•of Parliament. The objeCii'tn Sri being.
a Roman ttilililic—The übjedion of bciiy;
hinted of the estate upon whiCh the patty 4:,d ber, .
eurolled,-the objeaion of having projued no ev
deuce of 'valuat lotont he" objei!tiOn of claiming its an
heir apporent, sAile the fact Stood otherwise, were
all disregar4d by the majtirity- in questinn ; and
although. these -nal Other obl'aionS were off,2rcd,'
and proved, and enforced by prote,ts; yet tH ,
count in the SUN sitialOUsly witiihotds all notice of
these important fits. .
farther; in the Su§ nd notice is takeri a stilt
more material circumstance relati9e td thiS E e 5 ion,
namely,- that the whole prdeeedings were; film the
starting, protested against a4sriulN the SAO:iflitiv-
ing executed the Writs witliA: the grattifory
realities: A's this matter made ri Striking and un-'
usual feature of this Eleaion; and its procedure, *it.
°tight not to have been omitted in a faii• detail of..
that procedure:

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Again, in the SUN it is states.; that motions :were
made by certain Gentlemen; whose names are given
to the' Ptthiic. The.riarries of these are; ho ever;
inaccurately published, arid as this could not leave
happened frOm thistaie, the Author Of. the para.-
graph has committed a wilftdrnlsreOesentation.
It is also stated, • that the Oath
put to a Gentleman of the alledged ir4,rity-"-the
allegation is untrue; and as this parriCular - oath
(from circumstances of delicaCy to religions, per-
luasibn) is seldom proposed, the mkrepreSentation
on this head is evidently iilintions. In addit'ion:
to all this,, an observation is made, that a mob sur-
rounded the court-BOuse during the whole day., as
if in the service of Major-General HAY ; and
manner in which the fact is commonicated,,
to the rest of the paragraph, leaves no reason 16
doubt that an insinuation is cOnceired dikreditable
to that Gentleman: The insinuation is not less
unhandsome than untrue; and were it not abtindant---
ly contemptible, 'would merit, as a Malicious libel,
the utmost exertions, towards 6,1: discovery of
Author, in iheimmecliate view of. ehlitisemeo-.

LeithLfia ai Aug. 5.

BUXTON, AuG. 15.

A. HAY

Mr. town talk IS here upon a Very siligular,af-
fair, of which the following are the particular's; i
A person, in appearance a Gentleman, arrived anout
a month ago, and took lodging at the pilhoipal inn;
Where he assumed all the consequence attached to
fortune and great expeaations. .He called himself
the Hon. Hen?), Howard, and introduced himself tb
the acquaintance of the most respectable people in .
the town,' frequented the Baths' arid Other. public
places, and being a man of good address, was well
received.in all companies. Having thuS established:
himself in their good opinion, he borrowed several
small sums of money, and got on credit a variety of
goods, consisting of. linen,, wearing appearel,' &c.
Some suspicious circumstances
,however appearing,
an inquiry was set on foot, the result of which was,
that the Hon. Henr), klowal'd proved to be a com-
mon swindler, and to be the same person w;lo de-
frauded the mistress of the inn at WeymOuth of
301. and decamped on theevening of the day TI: E I R
MA J E S'il ES arrived there, leaving a small trunk
filled with stones. The inquiry was set on fooi
by Mr. JAmEs Curvimitwo, a. Gentleman- who had:
lent him sol. on the supposition that he vi%s the, .
heir to the NorfOlk Dukedom. M.r. (i.rme.tiNa.
gave itnmediate information, to. the Magistrate of
the County, who ordered the nominal Mr. Howard
to be apprehended. On his second examination the
following particulars transpired :--It appeared his
name is 3. B. crossier, and that he formerly was a
shopkeeper in London, where. he failed in but-,iness.
Soon after his, failure he went to Ireland, where he
assumed the name of Howatd. IA Doblin he kept
the best compiny, and was thought to be ,a man of -
,good fortune. After passing some months in, the
most independent manner, 'he found means to in.
.gratiate himself sO much into favour of one family
in Dublin, that he borrowed s°ol. the principal of
which he promised to return as soon as a remittance
from his steward should arrive, which he expthed in .
three days at farthest. It is hardly necessary to ‘
add, that he decamped before the day of payment
arrived. On the second he took French leaye, and .
was nor heard,of till the news of his exploit at Wey._
mouth was made Public. On his quittini_; •Wey,,,-i
mouth he went to Liverpool, where he praCtoed the.c.-", .
same systenrof deception, and among other },ersontoliji,
he defrauded Mr. 1. BATES out (if 37 After put..;
sifiog the same coin se at' almost every town.through'i !.:.'.
which he passed, he at last arrived at Bitxton,..yheri e:..',.
a period is likely. to he put to his radices. Thl3
impoStor is now confined in Derby gaol. --,--

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The number of accidents that are (Lily happening
in the town of Kensington, trotn the furious manner
the 3tage-,corielifs drive through the town, calf
I tildly for redress. La,t Friday one of the,
Mad-coaches drove sr.?' lari9usly fhrough the rcp,vn.
that r.vo o!! horseback kV:J:11 great difii:lll,:y
saved themsives ; but a one-horse ..nair, the driver
of which had nut time to get out of their wav,
overtutfted, and a. Gentleman, a Lady, and
who. were in it were severely bruised ihe La'iy
particiiiar had some -of tcctli biir-out, and a ctit
upon the drill. •

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KENT ASSIZES.

ItFORL. SIR. .ARCILISALD MACDONALD, SiNr. AND A
3"-ciAl• JURY.

PERJURY.

THE ICING V. GOODWIN.

Txr3 was an Indianient against the Defendant
for wilful-and corrupt Perjury, committed
.in the
course of -a trial at the last. Summer` Assizes, be-
fore the late Lord Kenyon. It was an' indidment
against,two persons„ of the names of Hart and Ro-
binson, for assaulting and ob-itruEling Revenue
Officers'._ -It became a material question- upon
that trial, whether Hart, who was- a Publican,
was at home- the whole of -the night on which the
assault was alledqed to have been committed. Se-
veral Witnesses were called, who agreed in a story,
evidently arranged 1)r the occasion, that he was at
his own house the whole of the evening ; that they
-particularly remetnbered it, from the circumstance
of there loving been.a =my-making at his house,
at which .the Witnesses
,and their wives, and a
number of their neighbours and their.- wives were
present ; they swore that Hart was wholly em,-

ployed in waiting on the company, and never
was 4,bserit for the space of half an hour, at any
time (fining the. night. ,The Defendant,- Good-
'win,,
was the most forward and positive in swearing
to this faCt,, though repeatedly cautioned by the
, Noble Lord Who presided. The Counsel for the
Crown had had the precaution of having the Wit-
nesses kept our of Court, in order that one might
not know what- another" should swear. , He then
examined them as to what they had ~for,suppere,on
this gala night;; he supposed they must have :fricl
• "an excellent. treat. He asked one how he liked
the shoulder of lamb and Fiteneh beani- at °the
head of the table ? 0! it was excellent; nothing
eduld be better. *And then he hoWLof /punch al.-
terwards, no doUbt it was' made rich and strong ?
d I :yes, quite so. The next Witness he asked
how the Landlord carne not to provide any thing:
better than a buttock of beef and greens.? 0!
Sir, we weressatisfied with it; it' was very good.
Another he'asked.'how it happened they had not a
regular supper ? Why, Sir, I don't know how'it
-was, but we had no regular supper ; every '.ofie
went down to the bar and took'a bit of bread and
cheese, or any thing he could
,get. By this in-
genious cross-examination, the falsity of the pre-
. 'tended alibi was deteaed, and theperiary of the
Witnesses manifested. The Defendant, Goodwin,'
was /seleeted as the objeCi of prosecution, and
committed to take his trial.
The evidence in the former Cause was gone
through,' and the testimony given by Goodwin was
proved by a person *llO took notes of it.
The Defend:int called a number of respeCtable
Witnesses, who gave him a good charaCter.
• The Lotto CfritF BARON, in his Address to the
Jury, observed; that he -had scarcely ever tried
an itiditfiinent ,against a Smuggler for obstrOling
Revenue OtEcers, in which the Witnesses. for the
Defendant had not grossly perjured themselves.i—
HI: lamented that there should he persons, ;Tits-
rently-in
,respeaable situations of life, who consi-
dered the charaCter of a Satuggle-r leiS heinous than
it really was ; but there were, he knew, many
who thought themselves holiest men, and yet deem.
ed it no sin if they could defraud. the King of his
duties—this was a very mistaken notion—it was not
defrauding the King, but the Public, for the effed of
such depredations on the Revenue was, that they
- produced a consideratle deficiency in the receipts
of the Exchequer, to supply which it was neces-
sary. to impose additional burthens on the Public
at large. He would venture- to say, that there
was no course of- life so nearly allied to robbery,
or. which more certainly4ed to an ignominious end,
as that of a Smuggler or a Poacher,-and the rea-
son was palpable ;—those who pursued such infa_
moos professions were men of low conditions,
whose main ,dependence for the support of them-
selves_ and their familks, could honestly have no
other source than that of labour and industry.—
By smuggling and poaching they perhaps• obtained
in one night- what produced a-considerable sum, and
they apportioned their stile- ana manner of living
to the magnitude , of this temporary supply ; when
it was exhausted, they must resort to the same
means of renewing it ; but success was doubtful,
and frequently their hopes were disappointed... -
What were they to do ? They had fd-tined habits-of
extravagance beyond their sphere, which most- be
gratified ; their wants then- urged them- to• commit
deeper offences against society, and from Poachers
and Smugglers they became House-breakers and
Highway Robbers, till the hand of Justice stopped
their iniquituus career. But Sniuggling, indepen-
dent-of its leading-tOthose crimes, Was uniformly
the parent of Perjury ; for whenever a Smuggler
was detened, there were al.ways persons as bad 'as
himself-, and connected with him, who were ready
to come f;rward, and swear falsely, in order' to
rescue him from the punishment he had merited.
When such offenders were deteeted, it was- of
.the
highest importance that Juries should-give died to
the Liw, by delivering them over to its coercion.
Thejury found
.the Defendant Guilty, bur re_
commended him to mercy, on account of the good
charaCter he had received.

YORK ASSIZES.

THE KING against stITCLIFFt.

This was an Tndidment for a Libel, published by
he Defendant against Mr. Beaumont, an 1 ailing
fiNlagistrate of the West Riding.
Serjeant COCKELL stated, that although the Libel
which was the subjeA of the present Prosecution,
was as malignant and foul as the heart of man had
ever invented, yet, as the Jury I'vere only called up-
on to say whether the Defendant was guilty or not
of publiping it; he shiudd not dwell on -the false-
hood and mal;gnity of it, as those circumstances
-which -aggravated in the highest manner the guilt
of the Defendant, were .to be submitted to 'the
Court when they should be called upon to pronounce
the Sentence. 'The Libel Was cimvc.:. Pd iii a very
long and very abusive Letfer to joLeph Rldcliffe,