The Sun.
London, England, 1803-09-20 00:00:00

E AST I NI) iA' . KO C.., EE.

• THE East India C.Jr-pany'., Site of S -4ar waT; to
have gone .On yesttrThy inorning, by .1 j Jurnmlut
from Ifllu:sclat I .st ; but on. the Trade
.a,seerstin2,,
Mr. B NJ AMR TRAVERS askcd the Di reaors, w he-
ther the customary allowances of Draf.t w,tlc to Oc
*rude or nor Hdn answered in tn.t negative,
Mr. TRAV RS, in • a Speech of gre
which he was secontkd by Mr.
,Fgtn., objected to
the proposed alteration, htating.the excessive hard..
Ole on the town Retailer, who by having no ad.
vantage, and being obligud to give the turn of Scale
to every small quanzity he sold to the Poor, would
be: mareri4l-loser., After near .an hour. of alterca.
tisn,' Mr, TR Av took the sense of. the Room on
thefoPoing.Reoolutions: .

Ist. That such refusal is aiviohn tio of tho.invrtriithle itsake
of Trd ?...in,gzner.4l, from time inintemorial,
principles ct. I uStice, snit aKsolin:.l ilecessa'ry to socui•Z: the
I)ealers.iti ;tint Article from the Loss they• must ckthertviic
sustain on the Re-sale thotml.. .

That it is the.opiiiiun of this Meeting. that as-the East
Corn rin, enjoys:the.-extlatsivi.v Su p'ply )t the Market',
it is more virtictilaely'ineitinbetit on, thein,.‘ to takaespeciat
care, that their Salos:.,be contltreled upon. the priticivles of
liberality atuljusticei' '.- • .
• 3d. That this Meeting cl'inat forbear in express theirfirm
tonyiaion, that the Trade will not sanetion.a ilractice,
must untail Ives on theinselv.•:.s, by purchasing. East
:India Sugars, upon any other-Condititns, tii4ll thoseto which
therhave been hitherto arc uttoined.

The first and third of these Resolutions (Mr.
DEVAYNES deeljkling to ,aa) were. read by Mr.
TRAVERi, once„more, and each Resolution bring
submitted by It ut as a separate question, was passed
unanimously.

, .
My. KENC3 L E urged the propriety of an adjourn.
aqd deirfecaged the, evil which must result
-to the Company and the trade at Large from partial '
bidding,. As a Proprietor of India Stock; he
,pleaded the cause of the orphan, and the widow, . and
earnestly im*plored Mr. DIYAYNIIS flOt.to gUilyllll*/
well.earned popularity by pertinaciously
to the ri'gid order of the Court.
Mr. D E AYNES, after ti few conciliatoty reina,tks,
;which had the desired eVi of creating 4aori—
humour, observed, that, it had been the unifotit.
wish of the Coat to att up to, and keep pao: With
the existing 'Lays of the Revenue ; havi6g been
given to understand that the I>i-tiers at large
were to have an interview with the CHAN'C t C.IOIZ.
of the Etc!" E4i: ex that day at one o'clock, he
thought it -but fair to adjourn the Meeting till
Thursday next, by which time circuanstances may
have so far changed as to restore to the Sale-tenni its
wonted harmony. •

- ,
This day the Tea Sale, which watt to have cont.
mencett this day fortnight, lualluts , been adjnurned
from time to time, was to have come on, provided
the usual allowances, so just and necessary to be'
made by the East India Company to the Trade,
were complied with, The Tea Dealers met at the
Company's Sale. Room at ten, o'clOck, when the
Diredor Mr. J%ctc.soN, in a veri handsome man-.
ner, spoke to the Trade as, fulows

That understanding an application on theinh:
jea h d been tnade to the. Minister, :he thought it
his duty, to adjourn the sale tin to.morrow.°'
The Buyers immediately thanked Mr• JACKSON
for his condutt, and went away satisfied.

To morrow being St. Mathew's day, accord:ng
to anneal' custom, the Lord Mayor, Aldernvo,
Sherifilitend Governors of the several Royal Hers..
pitals, will attend,D;yie Service.ar Christ Church.,
After a Senn a preacticd • isy the Rev. NV' Li. I ANr
Gat.y, 'A. Nl'. they will proceed to the Gre..t
Hall in Christ's Hospital, where two Orations will
be delivered, in Lam by THOMAI BARNItS, and in
English.bv HENRY Ncrte; the two senior
Scholars of the Grarnmai &Iwo!. ,

Yesterday there was an Inquest held before Gyn.
HoDGWI4, Esq. Coroner for the County of Middle.;
sex, at the Green Dragon in Chelsea, on the body
of Miss Mary Anne Staker, who was drowned in
the Canal facing Chelsea Co!lege, about two o'clock
on Saturday afternoon. The dettased was a very
amiable young Lady, in she etst year of her age,
rather delicate, u sickly habit. Her mother
took lodgings at No. i 9, Upper Etton-Street,
lico, Where she resided a fe‘.v months for the he,,
rick of lter daughter's health, of whom she was
remarkably fond, and every fine day generally
took a walk in the Garden of Chelsea College,
commonly called the Water Garden, 'Owing to.a.
Canal, which went through it. On the fatal day
the mother, and daughter walked there as usual-,
and, after walking for some time, they sat,down on
one of the benches. Theinot her comphrined, that the
place they sat In waS lather cold, on 'which the de-
ceased telieL4 ‘.l I shall run and find a warmer situ,
atinn." She then stood up, and ran down the green,
which went aslope towards the water. Her ano_
titer thinking that she staid longer than fleets,
sary, went in search of her; but not finding her,
she Was alarmed, particularly as there was no other
way (int but theone they Came in at. She therefore
'ran tit wee if the deceased went hack $ but meeting
two gentlemen, who were going into the garden,
they assured her that she did not go out that way.
The alarrn being given, Mr. Garthshore came with
a boathook, and, in a little time he hooked her
clothe., and she was taken our of the water lifeleis.
She was brought into the Infirmary, where every
means pttscribed by the liernane Society were ta,,!ki
without OW, `!'hits perished: an amiable young
Lady in the bloom of youth, and under the imme_
diate care of an afrctlionate mother.-- Verdia
" deridekozi Death."
A Quaker has been •committed to Gloucester
gaol fue- the space of three months, ley T. B. Du LA
Ilk E 'and JAME s AGO 4, ESqq• for refusing to be
sworn in, or to provide a proper substitute for the
Militia of the said Comity.
At the Curragh Races on Monday se'nnight,
Mr. WttAt.rOs horst Rea' won. the 'gold cup
With great easst. I1•!t to the amount of net. le•;s
titan so:dool. wtt'e pending on the :result Of this
•

er.lay morning Car*ey, convicicd on
.v tlic 'murder of his w.„re, was exceor,il in
(51:1 Tht unhailpy twit w.is t
out about comer before eight o'clocl4, attet,h.l
by two Catholic Prievts, :Ina in tWO or three
tittle the platform dropped. 1 was it very p0w(..,!c,..
athletic man, of shabby api.e:natrca, arid apr,Lica
~bout 4.5 ieitrii of age,

OLD 1141LLY.

rIFIH DAY.-MONDAY, SEPT. 49.

ohn Rime: was indided for uttering as true,
knowing it to be false, a forged Bank,Note,for 51.
with intent to defraud the Governnr and Company
of'llle Bank of England; another count seited it to
be with intent to defraud Reuben Dear.-

Reuben Dear said he is a butcher, No.
175, High Holborn. He saw the prisoner. on. the
23d of July, (Saturday night) near i z O'clock ; the
priinner came to his shop, anti askedAhe witness,.
whether any beef was left ? he said he bad a little
but nut much ; he asked sixpence halfpenny a pound,
bat said he would' take 6d. ; it weighed Bkb. 3 oz.
and he agreed to take 4s. for the piece of beef. The •
prisoner asked the, witness whether he could. give
him change for a nnte ; he asked him what note, he
said,it was a 51. note. The witness went on thus :
" Leave him change—three one pound notes, and
five seven-shilling pieces and a shilling : I asked
hins-w'iat his name was ; he said his name was Wil-
liam Biddle, No. z 3, Drury-lane, and that he was
a button-maker; eti which I put his name on the
note, and asked hire if it was a good one : I asked
him to write my name on my notes, as I had writ-
ten his naive on his. He said he would dare say
they were all, good ones t he said that the change
was to be divided betwven three or four others,
and therefore it did not signify that he should .write
my name on the notes. He seemed rather in a
burry, and I. asked him if he would have the bones •
of the meat chopped ; he said, yes., When he went
out, he went a' 'contrary way to the diredion for
Drury4arte, therefore I followed him, and he never
got out of my.sight : he met a lady, an..they went
town together to the Turnstile. 'I heard him say
to the woman, " Poor fellow ! .he will rue this to.
so morrow, anti damn us." . which I desired
watchman to take charge of-hiM, saying, he has
given me a bad 51., nate; they had then passed
Gray's Inn-lane. The watchman refused to take
him, saying he could not go off his heat. After
that they went to Brook-street Holborn; I saw
the watchman on the other side of the way, and dc. •
sired him to take him ; then they crossed, and the
man went into seputilic"house; I went in after him,
butdid not find him, lie went out at the other. door.,
believe." (The note beirig prcdUCed, the prOseen_
tar said, this is the note which the prisoner' passed
to
,me, my hand-writing is upon it.] On the
Monday following, I gave 'the note tt, Mr. Notts, •
who is a banker in Smithfield ; he takes our money
for cat tleat Smithfield. ' The note was returned to
me on the Saturday following., linade inquiry at
Drury-lane, hut no such man lived there as Willibrinr
•Biddle. I afterwards gave information at, the Of'
fide in EoW-street Three or lout days afterwards
T saw the prisoner at
,a public-house in king...street,
Hodson) he was not then•in custody. I was then
sent for by Croker, and when I came into the pub-
lie-hotts' e, I knew the man again diredly he went
out and came in again. I then related the matter to
Croker, and he was secured. When he passed this
sore to in', Thomas Holstork was its the little count-
ing-house in me. stop, and he saw the whole that
t well as I did."
Thomas liolstock corroburated the testimony of
his .master in every particular that passed in the
1120 p. . ,
award Crofter said, lie had had the description
of a man from W.llOlll the note was received ; lie saw
Ninon the evening.olthe folloWing Monday, which
was on the s.th of August, The prisoner knew me
and I knew him : his, real name is Smith, and he
Roe by the name of.Ugley ; he declined telling me
where lie ltvetl. , I asked him where I should see
him, anti aivinned to meet where I lit e : he said
he would come pn the: Thursday, and then we
parted. In the evening I ranen ioncd it to Mr.
Dear. I went to the place at the,time appointrd,
but he did not come then. Be; ween fice.anti six in
the evening he came on
.t.ae Thursday. Methiin
in King-sneer, anti asked him why he had
_tint time,
me at the (line anti place api,ninted; he said he
could; not. I appointed to meet againr.acthe Turk's
Head in Ding-street. , I sent for Dear, 'he c,igne.
The prisoner was going out ; Mr. Dear:,iiilloWed
him. He was •noethen in charge. r told him then
of what Dear diargeti him with, which'he deided;
asked him where he lodged, hut he woold not fell
- I seatched him, but found nothing'on him but
st..dollar.- I never .knew him by the name of
fiddle. ~ , „ „

Mr. Thomas Bliss, Inspenor of the Bank Notes
at the Bank,
,proved the notein question was H
brgery.
I* he pri,.oner said he was never in hid life in the
prosecutor's shop, and that as to Croker he would
swear any thing.
Isaac Baxter, a,. cheesemonger in Drury-lane,
swore he had known theprosecutor4or three ree r
of a year, but never saw. the prisoner' before Wed.
uesday last. He had a conversation' with the pro.
secntor, on the subjea,pf this charge, six ur seven
Weeks ago,at his own hOuse, agreeing With the first
part of the prosecutor's evidence, of his receiving
the note, and .his following the .prisoner until,he
lost him' in -14ownlow.street, That after.wardr,
about six days, be_ had another eanversatiOn with
,the prosecutor,'woen he said Croke! has apptehe. tided
a person: on suspicion of his being the man who had
given him the bad note ; maid.he,my.boy swears. to
hint hard and fast, that he knows him to he the man.
.1 asked the prosecutor, what dO you think'of him ?
an which the prosecutor said, If he is no,pthe man,
he. is very much like him, but he, has altered his
'dress. The, witness then said,..th# on Wednesday
last some friends of thq,prisoner's, one of whom the
iv4ittleSS happened to know, .were. passing by his
shopotnd said theyirvere,going to Rime's trial, he
said he had never heald such ei trial, and he agreed
to go with them to hear it ; these persons took him
to- scu the prisooor, Who .it,ked him, what be bad
•
heard the pros-.7eutor say, which he related, and he
desired to attend. as a witness. :

The prOectitor VIM wiled up again, atul he swore
positiveiy tint he :lever expressed any (loan what-
, k,er that the pristmer was the man who delivered
the note.

iN Ir. Justice 1.414 CLANG summed up she evidence,