The Sun.
London, England, 1804-08-30 00:00:00

GUILDHALL.

Nr:.iterday 103 Insolvent Debtors were brought
up from the Fleet Prison, to be delivered from con.:
finement, under the late Aa. 44. Gen.
1.08. entitling all perlons to -their discharge who
ore advertised,
,and produce Schedules according
to the Statute, and whose' debts do not exceed
15001. and were imprisoned:prior to Jan. 1, 1804.
Very few were opposed. In' the case of jasiab.
Smith, the debt, previous to July 30, was below
15601. ;' items kaccruing since had made it exceed
that sum. • .

IVIr. ALLEY, for the Prisoner, observed, that he
war a proper person to avail, himself of the bent fit
of the An, as the Legislature, which intende►l this

relief to Debtors, could not have in their canteen.

plation on the 3oth July, any subsequent augmen-
tation of such claim,—,Reseried by: the RECORDER
for the opposed cases.
A nice question arose on the construBion of the
Al, A man was arrested for isoOl.; for a debt of
thiS amount he was• entitled to relief. Since the
arrest, interest on the debt has accrued, and the
doubt was, if, under .the terms of the Aet, this
should-deprive him r f the benefit. In the former
AEls the words applicable to the sums limited are,
" if the Prisoner be nor charged in a sum exceed.
tiec." in the present the word;,charged is omit.
ted. On this ground. Mr, ALLEY contended, the
interest ought to be included, although he was only
charged in adept of rsool.—ln the sequel, the ob.
jeaion was withdrawn.

The National Intelligence,• has given a Statistical
Table of the United,States, from-1774. to 1803,
- which marks the progress of the States in their po.
pulatinn, commerce, arts,, and political and domes.
tic affairs.- It gives to the United States 1250 miles
in length, and 1040 miles in breadth, being more
than 1,000,000 'of fquare miles, or 640 millions of
acres. We can notice the great numbers only.. In
tilt above term of years, the population has arisen
from 2 to S millions; the improved land from 20 to
38 millions of acres ; the Militia has increased from
400,000 to 900,000; the Seamen from rs,ocao to
63,000 ; the domestic produce, from 6,000,006.0 f
dollars, to 0,000,000 ; the-exports from 6,000,000
to 55,000,000 ; the tonnage from I 98,000, to above
a million of tons; aflive sinking fund in 1792,
2,c00,000 ; in 1802, 11,000,000 ; bonds :and cash
in the Treasure, in 1793, '6,000,090; in 1803,
3,000,000. Louisiana is not irtcluded.
On Thursday se'tmight John Stockton, alias Stock.
tiale,-0 ringleader of the desperate gang of villains,
who for many years past have plundered warehouses
of property; to an immense amount, almost with im.
ptinity, at Leeds, Sheffield, Birmingham; and Man-
' el ester, was 1)1)101 JoSheffield from Birmingham,
where he had been apprehended, an a charge of has,.
iiig broken into and robbed the warehouse of Meisrs.
• Rhodes and Chimpion, in the Wicker, in 1802.' On
Itiday, after a long examination, he was committed
to York Castle, by the Ittv..J.WILKINsolv, to take •,
It's trial for the said off:nee. Stockton lately.resitled.'
at Wakefield, where he, cohabited with a notorious
woman, named Martha Lancaster, who was trans.
'ported at the Spring Assizes, for robbing a jeweller's •
shop, in York.
Last week eight personrwere convieled before the
Magistrates at Leeds, and paid the fine for travel.
ling with their horses and apes carrying milk bar-
r after ten o'clock in the forenoon Sunday, iii
the .Townshin of Ecclesall Bierinvv. Also a publican
for suffering tippling in his house; and nine persons
for drinking and behaving in a disorderly manner on
the Lord's Day.
On Sunday afternoon, in Oldham.street, Man.
chester, a loaded musket haying been- incautiously
left in a house. with titio.biiys, one of them took it
in his hand, and presenting the same at his comrade, •
j ;kingly said, he would shoot him, when, unfor.-.
tOnaiely, the piece went intrantly off, and carried
away part of the unfortunate youth's feet, so as to
render him a dreadful Spit-table. He was taken to
titelnfirthary with little hopes of recovery.
An Inquest was on, Wednesday held on the,body
of William Smart, aged tifty.eights.,a pauper' in
Alkiriturt NVork.house, near Newport,' who hanged
himself to a spad.bearn in his lodging.room.—Ver.
diet,
A melaileholy accident happened last wetk on the
road between Barnstaple and Ilfracombe whilst a
mayket.waggon, with four female passengers
sitting in front, was going down a steep hill, the
'horses took fright, and precipitated both goods and
passengers into the road i two of the women wets ,
killed on the spot, a third had' both her thighs
broken; and is since dead, but thefourth escaptd
with some slight bruises.
A discovery of a shocking nature, was made on
IVlondav se'itnight, at the I Breconshire :—A
newborn infant was found burled in-the-garden of a
respeCtable prit ate Gentleman, with its throat Cut,
apparently with a scissars. Suspicion immediately
fell up. .n a fii..aale servant in the family, who was
taken into eastraly, and, alter examination, cum.
milted to Brecon Gaol, On the Cnruner's Inquest,
for Wi/j.,,,/ Murder.
List week a child of Mr..SHUTTLEWORTIVS, of
W 071001), was burned to death,. in the night. The
cries of the child drew the man and Maid servant to•
the room where it usually slept, which on opening
they found, as well as the poor child, in a blaze.
By the prudence and presence of mind of the man, •
the flames of the bed Inrniture, were got under,,
without. further injury to, the- house. The child,
howeVer, had been.so mortally, burned, that it rx-
pired in great torment.
On Thursday evening, about six o'clock, nearly
the who;t• of the roof of die Rev. Mr. Cow D'S
et, Queen.streer,!,allOrcl, fell suddenly instith
a I tctricno,,tts crash, al:hough the ‘ia.,1,1
4 lave sus.
faint& hut little :injury. The hand, of Providence
licytm to hive interpo%ed, in this instance, in an
trntnent dqiee; scarcely a day having elapsed for
a consitirralle eXt:e.pt on I:llUfAily, but a
funeral- has l-ten re:firmed at that very hour. Had
the accidrot raker pl.ce on a Sunday', the etti!Se.
quence7 tai,4l,t have been,dreadful, as the congrega.
)ton inn tlot day, is generally very nurnerms,, •• •

SUMMARY

OF THE
LIFE OF TILE DUC D'ENGHIEN.

THE murder of the Due ,D'ENGIIIEN by the
Corsican Usurper,having.excited such a strong pen_
cation thrOughout Europe, it is hoped that the fol..
lowing short Particulars of his Lite. will opt prove
unacceptable to the Public.
The Due D'ENGHt E N Was, the only son of Louis
HE I,: it Jos Epri, Duke of BOU'R BON,find grandson
.of the present Prince of CoNDE. His Mother was
the sister of the late Duke D'Ott LEAKS, and he was
born at Chantilly, the 21 of August, 1772.
The generous disposition of this' Prince began 'to
appear when he was a boy. In the summer of 178 r,
while reading an account of the battle of Jernac,
. Where a Prince of Conde was murdered in 'a coward.
Irmanner -by Montusquieirk, a fanatic of the Ca,tho.
lic Army, he suddenly started and interrupted his
instrodor, crying,' " Abbe, if tine of the Montus.
quieux be yet alive, give me his address, and I will'
immediately send him a challege to tight me !"
The Abbe reproached him for harbouring revenge,
and said, " Supposing the. Monrusquieux yet 're.
had a family,- and was' much in poverty and
wretchedness, what would you do then P! Why;
replied the Duke, after a pause, 4,1 should tell
him that I did not like his name, but that 1 would
endeavour to prevail with my grandfather to relieve
his necessities and provide for his family."
Little worthy of remark occurred in the.Dake's
life previous to the Revolution in'France. He then
left that Country along with other Nobility who
accompanied the Prince of Conde, under whom, in
the battles with the Republicans, his valour was par.
titularly distinguished. When the King of Prussia
had resolved to withdraw from the league, the emi.
grant Princes sent a deputation to him, to suppli.
care that he would abandon so fatal a resolution.
The King sent back by .way of answer, " that it
• was no longer prudent to persevere." The Due
D'Enghien instantly seized his sword, and in his
first emotions proposed to force. the Prussians to
their duty "'as allies, or to chastise them as tra.
tors ;" and it was with difficulty that his father
could moderate his resentment. The misfortunes
which the Emigrants endured after this, are well
known. The Due D'Enghien bore his own- with
firmness, and contributed to the relief of others in
no small degree. He fought under his grandfather,
the Prince of Conde, in the campaign of 1793. In
the engagement of the 2d of December, he part feu.
larly distinguished himself, and performed several
ails of heroism that gained him the applause of the
Army ind of the General. In the evening of that
day, walking over the field of battle, he saw two
French Noblemen, the Chevalier De Sr. Luc and
Baron De Chavernois, who had been left as killed,
but life was not entirely gone. The latter, as he
awoke from a fiinting fit, complained loudly of his
pains, The former, who had rerbained silent, then
said, " My friend, whoever you are, remember
that our King died on the seafi-bld, and if you look
at him who addresses you, you will see that he has
had both hii legs shot away'!" With these words
he breathed his last..„

His Highness served under his grandfather in all
the campaigns till the Army of Conde was disbanded
at the Peace of Lune v die, and always exhibited pro.
digies' of valour and skill. After this his attention.
was turned to the alleviations of the miseries of his
fellow Emigrants; and in order to inerease,his power
of doing so, he praaised the must rigid frugality,
scarcely allowing himself rlo necessaries of lite. He
lived quite retired at Ettenh,im, and in this retreat
hunting, and, the eultiv atiun of a small garden, were
his chief studies.

Such were his occdpations, when on the ts"th of
Maid), 1894., the armettbariditti of Bonaparte
lama the ivdeptodente of the German Empire, and
hurried the unfortunate objed of their master's
jealousy and persecution from his retreat. On the

samelf3y he Was carried to Stiasburgli, 'where •he
remairied shut up till the tith; when orders arrived
by the telegraph that he should be initantly carried
to PaCis, a distance of 4.00 miles. He travelled
night and . (14, panted by relays of 'the_ .Gens.

d'iirme,. and wtts chained hand and foot,duringithe
whole journey. Ott the in nning of the ;oat, he
arrived-at Paris, and Was carried to the Tetniie,
which, 'according to the account of Ic.ol mime,' 80.
naparte finds too narrow for his prisoners, and there.'
tore
,often laments the destrktion of the Bastilc.

From the Temple he was the same morning carried
to the Castle of Vincennes, where, by the orders of
Btinaparie, the mock Tribunal, called a Military
Commission, WAS assembled. Before this Tribunal

he was forced, at nine o'clock, fainting, and almost
asleep, l'or want of food and rest. The charges
against him were the fotlotving
Ist, That he had carried arms against the French
Republic.

al, That he had offered his services to the Eng.
fish Government.

3d, lilac lc had received and kept about him
Agents of the said English Government, anti pro.
cured them the means of keeping up an understand.
ing in .France,' and that he conspired with them
against the safely of the State. •
4th, That he had put himself at the head of a body
of French Emigrants and others in the pay of Eng.
land, formed upon the frontiers of France, •in the

countiies of Fribourg and Baden..
sth, That he had kept up a correspondence in
Strabhurgh, tending to produce a rising of the neigh.
liming departments, and create a diversion in favour
of England,
_ _

That he had been one of the favourers and
accomplices of the conspiracy farmed by the English
►+gainst the life Of the First Consul, and intended,
in cabe,of the success of that COmpiracy, to enter
France.

The business was short, as no evidence was ne-
cessary where the accused had been already con-
Oeillned, and nothing but the name of trial was

wanted in order to live a colour to the intendtti

assa,hmition. At eleven o'clock, therefore, the
Due d'Enghien was unanimously. found gui.ty of all
thC charges, and-bem hack to Ks dungeon at
cennes.—it is worth white t 4 remark the manner
in which he was treated from the time ot his arrest

till Ms. executilinv as'lt shews a' 'trait in the charm.
ter of BonaparPe. Bread and water were then his
only nottri-‘;hment,.4nd lie wai never once permitted
-to lie clusvvi- on a bed, to undress, to shave or change
his linen. From the weight of hit fetters, and-froril
fatigue, his legs and feet .were so swollen _that lie
could scarcely stand. For the finirteen hours that
intervened bnween his triarand' execution, he was
shut up with tour Geris d'Aimes d'Elitc, or..6usen
spies,, in a den withopt a bed Or chair, and even the
satellites who attended him had 'orkkeras. to 'prevent
his slumbers. Now, what was the use of all thii
Wanton barbarity, since the ends Bonaparte's
Machiaveliin pplicy would-be equally welt answered
without it ?'His death mightlie procured 'with the"
same seCuriiy and speed, without- those previous
crudties. The- only•coielusion that can be-drawn
from this pitiful spire is; that Bonaparte, notwith-
stataling his.sueCeSs, possesses a low and grovelling
soul, that delights, like a froward child', in mean
and little ads of puerile. revenge.'
On the morning of t lie 2 1 St., 'be% rsdaylight,
General Murat, under an escort of Mitrnelukes, ar.
riVed at Vincennes,' _Each Mainaluke held a film.
beau ; -and Italian Troops surrounded the castle,
and guarded the avenues Of the wood of' Vincennes,
appointed for the e;ecution. The Duke being told
'that his sentence was to be immediately executed;
said
.calmly, "I am ready," When lie beard the
Grenadiers who were to shoot him were 'ltalians,
of Bonaparte's Guards, fie said, " thank God—they
are not Frenchmci:—l am condemned by 'ai.foreigner,
and God tie praised, My executioners are also to.
reigners. It will be a stain less upon mg country.
men." At the place. of execution he lifted his
hands towards heaven, exclaiming,'" May. God pre.
serve 'my King, and .deliVer my 'Country hod- the
yoke of that foreigner."' When two Gens.d'Armes
proposed to" tie an handkerchief over his eyes, lie
said, " a loyal soldier who has so often been ex.
posed to fire and sword, can view the' approach' of'
death with naked eyes, and without fear."' He then
looked at the Grenadiers who had pointed Their
fusils at him, and. cried " lower your amts, other.
wise yilu.will miss, or only wound me." Oi the
nine Grenadiers who fired; seven hit, hitt). Two
bullets had pierced his head, and five his body. A.
small c.-flin fi led with lime was ready to receive
his Corpse immediately after the murder, and a grave
hai been dug in the garden of the castle,, where lie
war buried.

' In his person the Duc d'Enghicn was handsome,
and of a ndble figure. The sound or hi's voice was
harnionintis, and his expressions were correct and -1
natural. In his manners he was condescending, and
in his conversation lively and becoming. He was
generous to excess, and many thousands at unfor-
tunate Etnigrants haVe been almost ruined by his.
death. His valoiir and skill we're equally conspi.
Cactus, and often received merited applause from. the
greatest Generals. The world is sensible of his
merits, and his death has roused a sensation in
Europe winch may prove the. destrudion of his.
murderer.

A shocking accident occurred on Thursday last,
at Bristol—while some girls were playing in a airier,
in St. Philip's Parish, one of them pushed anOtbei
into the gutter, a waggim.load of c,,al passing'hy,.
drove over it, and bruiSed it in such a manner as to.
occasion its death soon after it was taken tit the In.
firtildry.