The Sun.
London, England, 1803-01-08 00:00:00

pared *WI tilt tliing said to be-a Pri.
toner was discharged. ,
Daniel Carty, a watchman in the neighbourhood
of Tothilfields, was indiaed for having: falfiely irn.
prisoned Wm: King,. and for having afterwards ac.l
cepted 'a seven shillings piece to liberate him. The
Prosecutor stated, that he was going down Pye.
street, Westminster:, with a Friend, between
twelve and one o'clock on the morning of the.l4rh
of November, and that. without any cause, the Pri. -
saner end said he must go-to the watch.
house:.• The Prosecutor desired to know the cause
for which be was detained ; but the watchman re-
fused him any 'satisfaftion, sayinght would tell him
when 'they arrived at the watch:.house. Tito,
Prosecutor then offered a 'seven-shillings piece for

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his liberty, which "the' Prisoner .accepted. The
Prisoner was afterwards given in custody to nano.
Cher watchman, and the seven shillings piece drop-
ped from him as he was searched. The Prisoner
was found'prilty, but.the Court did not decide on
his punishment, ds M:. MAlN.wAturto thought it
was an offence which required serious considera-.
tion.

Wednesday the Annoyance Jury for the City and
Liberty of Westminster' made their' presentment, at
the Guildhall, of all persons in trade whose scales,
'Weights, or measures, had been found deficient, and
the customary fines were levied. Abort:)er, whose
scales had been brol;en and taken from him, in con-
sequence of his having fastened a piece of lead un-
derneath the one he weighed his treat in, which '
'made it greatly overbalanct. th, Other, appealed
against the fine, oa the ground of his having a
large family to support,. and that the deception had
been projected by his father, without his knbwle4e.
The Chairman asked him' how he could, with hope
of success, solicit the humanity of others in behalf
of his family-, when he had 'hewn so little retard to
the families, of others The price of butchers' meat
was already sq high, that 'few working furl could
purchase it for their families , and the tradesman
Who could curtail them oC their weight when. they
should scrape together' enour.gh 10 buy a joint far
their family, was guilty of an offence of.the most
aggravated naTie, and deserved no favour from'
that society he daily strove to injure. He Teh it
his duty to insist upon the fine in preference to any
other almost that could be infliEted.

LADIES' BOARDING-SCHOOL, near Finsbury.
square.-.-Mrs. Citoss respeCtfully inform's the Gen.
try, Merchant's, and her Friends, hi gendral, that her
School will re-commence on Monday
.the 't
January, and that. she has accommodation for Five.
More Young Ladies as Boarders.' She hopes that' the
flattering success she has met with for these nineteen
years, in educating the Daughters of some of the
first Families in the City, to whom references May
be had, will be no small recommendation to those
Ladies and Gntlemen who may honour her with
their patronage. The house stands in a very airy
and healthy situation, three doors from the Sqlare,
of which Mrs. CROSS has 'a key, and in which the
Young Ladies walk as often as convenience and tlic:
weather permit. Terms—The ;Young Laties
boarded,. and taught the Finglii4rilid
guages with grammatical purity and corzedlness,,
History, and the Needle-works, for' Twenty-eight
Guineas per annum, washing included. Parlour
Boarders, Forty Guineas a.year ; Day Boarders,
Three Guineas .per quarter ; and Day Scholars a
Guinea and a Half. No EntranCe-money expected
either from Boarders or Day Scholars.—Writing,
Arithmetic, Music, Dancing, Drawing, Italian,
Geography, the Use of the Globes, and Astronomy,
taught by Professors of eminence and eatablished
.• merit. Mrs. CROSS may be spoken with, or di.
react,' to, at her Seminary, N 0.4, ChristOplier.
street, Finsbury.square. This Establishment con.
rises but of a small and select number of Ladies.

SUIP NEIV,S

CRAVtIEND, JAN. 5.

P:iswl by—the Chatty, Seager, from Sloe ; Fame, Har-
vey, from Zant ; Atlas, tones, from Pat ; Thomas,
wick, from Lisbon.; Amazon, frorn ; Lucy,
Watkins, from Cork ; Alert, Heath, froM St. Michael's ;
Queen, .Young, from Valentta ; Lively, —, and Gener-
ous Friends, Elms, from StoCkblin; Simon Cock, Wat-
son ; Charlotte, Pearson, and Kitty, Walsh, from lino-
..
bro'.
Sailed--the Alfred, Waller, for Antwerp, ; and Vrow Ca-
tharina, —, for Rotterdam.
I AN. 6. Passed by—the. Eleanor, Mallatt, from Cirita
Vecchia ; Comet, Larkins, from Bengal ; true Briton, —,
from Cbina ; Magdalena, from • Erhliden ;
Vrow karnsay,!— ~—,frorn. Lear; Frederick,
6tentori Hero aloe Nile, Ventur,,,Blyth, and Chris-
topper and Elizabeth, I ohnson, from *Lisbon. •
Sailed—the Rio Nova, for Africa ; Farmer, Ca-
nelua, for Lisbon ; and Martha.Lewington, for Dublin.

MARRIED.` • -
On the bth inst, at. Upper-Deal, Thomas Backhouse, Esq
to Miss CharlottzWen—