The Sun.
London, England, 1804-12-03 00:00:00

EDINB U II; Nov.' 2§.

YIIITIADAY the High Court of Justictary'me4.
when the Right Hon. CllAßLeslioi.e; late HIS-
Majesty's Advocate, presented his. Commission,
appointing him Lord Justice Clerk in room of the
late Sir DAV 1 D BAs, Btrt.--The Commission be.
ing read, his Lordship took the oaths and his seat
as,President of the Court. On taking the Chair,
.his Lordship addrtsted the Judges, in a short, but
elegant speech, in which he said, he trusted, that,
with their Lordships''able assistance, the business of
that High Court should be carried on in such
manner as to give satisfaCtion anci proteEtion to the
Public; and, as fir as lay in his power, it- shAdd:
he cundufted with punetuality -and diiparch, 111,i
Court was much crowded with rite pcntkaicn of the
BAS',

Yesterd4y, at. the Ordinary !Vbeting of the
town Council, a` Letter was read from the ht
Hon.'Clintt.t.es Fiore, stating; 'Thai His MA;
having appointed. him Lurk! justice Clerk, his .),},4;-..
as Member fur the City became vacant, His Lordship.
thanked the Council rot. their partiality t 4 him, and,
begged leave to tecom.Mend f,sr his nocCessor, '
lion. G. AIi.t.RCROMUY,. Another Letter was read
also front Mr. AusiegiStvlits ofrcring his StrViCes
to succeed the Lord justice'Clerk:

As Mr. S. Dearling, of Artindel; was lately
kg over sonic hank.notes to the aiwntnt of 350%
he was suddenly called out of the room, and leavi,,g
his door open,' a' bo' of 3.years 'of Age went into'
the tom,. ond.:thinking- them pretty gs playthio,
threw to the amount of 51. into the nw, raid 111. i
not his father come in at the title, would undool,ted.
ly have tiestrvid the whole amount. What increases
this tnisfot tune is, that Mr. Dearling does not know,
above one or.two nualbol of the whole that Wye
been 'burnt.

On Tuesdaysennight a fine young girl fell into
the river near the B arack slip, Cork, and though
she it sated fur some time, and dlCcl4i.sietl aim pito-
ously for help, no assistance could he given her, in
consequence of the difficulty of access to that parr
of the river, and she hook.

• , Two men, oue of them the 'Matter of a .Vessel, ;
late on Thumlay, 'owing to the extreme darltries
of the night,WAlked into the Thames, at Mill Stairs,
Bermond4ey; wheo one of them wa, drowned-, Afid
the other recovered with great 'difficulty.
On Thursday,- about six o'ciAle. iv) tl,e morningi.-
as c. MAT.,OK. Eiti, of Havant, in his gig, hccinu-
panied by Lieut. TecttEy, of the CatrB4ota, inert:
possing. over 110m:h.au powo, welt
by an higliwayrhan, who seemed determined to rob
them of their money, of tilt the trunk from beliibtV
the Chaise; but' on Mr. T. drawing his cutlass, tl.e
brightness of the hilt probably weaving the appear..
once of a pistol's Muzzle, 'deterred the villain from
completing his objea. He rode away towards,
Outfield. ,

A set of thicies are very aetiVely employed in
passing Counterfeit 75. pieces in .11irmingliam. 'rife
base pieces:ate easily 'distinguished. They are tC
little larger than the good ones, the impressions
not %droll, partieularly -on the heati.iide, and much.
paler in colour, feel light,' ring badly, appear new,
and are dated tBo3.
A Police, Officer, of Worcester, has lately appre.
healed, irt the County of, Leicester, a notorious
horse.stealer, who has for a series of 'years infeste4l
the neighbouring counties. He is at present in cus.
tally for stealing .a horse the property .of Mr.
'Griffiths, of Gloucester.
A man of .'the name of Ty +s, of Bentley, near
Doncaster, has within the last eight otoptlis married
three wives, and buried two.

An Engineer a( Bristol has made some- imprave.
menu in the construCtion of steam itit-
naec9.• He bas adopted the method of generating
steam by projaliog water. upon a heated tnetalic of
other surface. lie propofies, to render the machine
sufficielitly 'sicking, an increased: condetisation,,of
strain ; Viz. limn 15 to I 5011 L on the inch, anti thus
rendering a-fuer—WO eyiii..ier.equl in power to Clt)C
of twelve inches, to,tht obvious savirg Nei,
Saturday night's Gazette contains an accourie
that three barns, in the occupation of Mr. Jannis
Bingham, seri. near , the, Marshes, in F„,,sex,

been COtls 11113 C d by fire, together. with most of the
corn they contained, on. the" ; and offers a
reward of te?9'guin4as fur the dt,covery of any of
the incendiaries, except the. principal. It also (!0n...'
tains His Majesty's promise ~.,I,pirtion to any of ae,
offenders, except such principal, who shall give
such information that the other parties may be pro„
secuted to eon vidion,-' Some 'accounts' say ' that the
,produce of ninety.six acres of corn was .t.'onstitriM
by these nef.itious ruffians.
On 'Friday' se'nniglit,` a boat belonging to the
Experiment, lying as Guirdship off Lyruington,
about four o'clnF.le in the afternoon, gointrun
botitd ioilll Captain MiKlattts and Crew, was
swamped, "and 'tine mon drowsed, The C4,iitain
and others were saved by swimming till taken up by
a Merchantmati's boars, matint,hfor their as,;ttanee..
Last Saturday, at Ilatton Q.otiert Ofice; d ntnn.of
the name of Lorr.,Was charged withswindling, urn%
pretince ih:st he was in On Itirreantile fine, ithd
wanted a consitterible export of goods for the Con.
anent'. Several persons were induced to give him
credit to the amount
.of several hundred pow ls,
Some of the goods had been shipped', but vt ere stop-
ped at.Graveiend.—"—lfe was corrifnittedfor 1641.1
On Tuesday last Thomas Turner, upwards of, 80
yeartrof age, late innkeeper in New,iblaty, wa3 if,.
fortunately killed by geiting himstif fn.artg ed wt h
.the in,„;l,!,,ery vi the flax null in the neighbouthti. d
Olthat