The Sun.
London, England, 1803-05-30 00:00:00

CORN £XCII4I4E, Sop

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Vie have a tolerable supply a whent today
the. Buyers declining the late prices; it is sold k
general, at a redualon of lull is. per quarter
there i 3 but little. Barley, and that Is at ratlieg
bettei prices, with Malt, as arc also Beans. ,ra
Peaw, which go off briskly ; we hove not tywny
Oats; which appear taken oft at a trifle higher ;
Flour in good quan►ity, at something

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Wheat Soi a 6os a &is od Tick- Beans - .
~304 L:1 44 00
Fine ditto .. 67; a 68,3. od Oats . . 2o> :a li% a 261
Rye . . . 31s a 35s od Poland ilittfo . a7s aat 6',.1
MMaley -
- . ass a las otl Raps; Seed -.
.-, 341 a 3814
alty 44s a sos al Fine 1. lottr - sui a 544, 4
Witite Peasl a
44$ sis od Sec:mut do . - . 4Ss 4 5%4,
brans - 33. a 374 6:t

OLD EAILEr.

THIRD 134Y---4•FR !DAT, hIAY 27.

John Dmvies was charged with the capital offeret
of stealing privately from the person of titer.
bing, Esq. rpoelict.book, containing diveri•Noresi
Bills, &c. to the amountof +OOl. his propeify.
By what appeared in eVidence, .the Prnsecutot
had lost the Pocket-book aml Notes hi quest -on
the night of the 28th of April, in the Pit Passage
of Covent Garden Theatre. One or mere of the
Bills had been traced to the Prisoner, endorsed with
the name of Jollett, and some with the addition of
his own. However, Rs there was no evidence, that
the Prisoner had been in the Pit Passage af.Covent
Garden Theatre that evening, or even seen near it, ie
was presumed by the Court, that flit property lalti
been previously in the possession 'of jollert, who
had absconded. The Prisoner had immediately •
come forward and said, he had got the. notes in
question from jollett.—i±: was thereforti-„,onder
the presumption in his favour above stated, not
put upon his defence, and of course a verdict of
acquittal was pronounced.

No other case worthy of notice took place save
that which respected Wm, Will: otherwise Harvey,
a butcher, who was e2pitally convicted of ste»ling
five sheep from Saiithfield Market on the 6th inst.

FOURTH. DAY, 9ATUR,I4 AY' MAY 28,

.1"Zo&Tt ijems was charged with stealing on the
6th of May, three shillings and thirteen halfpence,
the nwnies of Mary Jones. •
The Jury took some time to consider their ver.
diet, and at length pronounced the Plisoner
Thomas
,lanes was charged with stealing on the
9th of May, a copper, the property of Rich. Hub•

After hearing the evidence, the Jury had little
hesitation in finding the Prisoner Guilty,
No capital conviaioU took place in the terse of
the day.

The account transmitted a few days ago from
Plymouth of so many of our Artificers and &amen
being.employed at Brest, if true, iv of the most me..
ianchuly anti alarming nature. It would certainly
lit beComing in Parliament to investigate the ori.
ginal cause of this National misfortune.
A new Literary Establishment is about to be
farmed at Aberdeen, on the plan of the Atheneurlk
at Liverpool. •
JOHNsToNa, according to Green-room report,
is engaged for next season at Drury-lane Theatre,
and Mr. Sit RkiliAN 'NA promised' to write some
new Irish Chareugers in order to afford suitable
employment to. his talents.
There is more diversity in theTtowers•tif Mar.
Tli uws of the Hay-market Theatre, as a low
comic Ado', than. any Other, upon the London
Boards. He is able io acquit himself very respen.
ably in the 'Parts Usually allotted to FAWCETT.
MUNDEN, KNIGHT, and &JETT ; not quite so well,
perhaps, as 'those Perforiners in their immediate
department, but certainly much better than any of
them would be able to support Charafters •out of
their own province. Besides, he possesses a quaint..
ness peculiarly his own, and very entertaining..
The distresses of the Coi-In/ent Hero of the Piete
in the whimsical nitre of Mrt. Wiggins, are of An
ludicrous a kind, anti MAT.TITEWS exhibits the
Fugitive in so entertaining a manner, that we have
no daubt, if the Farce is tweeded of r:onte:01.
edarsetten, it w.kll be one of the most pclualsr friths
of the Theatrical •hoe-Led in the Hay.market.
S me time ago a boat with four persons in it, waii
driven on shore 'fear Thorpe, on the coast of Nor.
folk. One of the four died of fatigu and luvigif
soon after he landed ; the othcts surf ed. .Tiscae
persons belonged to the Nall brlg, which was stink
on her way from Shields to Cupetih Igen. The crew,
14. in number, got into thty in the side of
which a hole had been made as. they heaved her
overboatd; this hole they Stopped up with their
jackets. On the third day, ten of the men died of
ftmine and fatigue. The survivors were so raven-
pus, that they are large pieces of flesh whiCh they
got from their dead commodes, and then threw their
bodies overboard. The survivuts were five daytt
in this dreadful situation,