The Sun.
London, England, 1803-02-01 00:00:00

THE BRITISH ARMY.

btiltgAl. DISTR iBUTIoN op THEBRITISH
ARMY, FEB. 1, 1803.
Regular:. Forcible:. Tot.lnv.
Gem Inf. Inf. Bat. Comp.
England and *Vales . 2o 27 . 47
North Britain - - 2 7 _ 9 6
r
34
land - - - 7 22 .
ersey, CuernSet, &c. g 3
' ibraltar - .:- .....
Egypt and Malta ..: i 7 ..... l': Canada, Nova Scotia; &c. 6 r 7
'
West Indies - - --21 .... 11 --
Cape of G. H. Goree, &c. 5 5'
East I ndies, & on Pass. tr

On Pass. to Eng. or Ire.
ce 2o 2j
from sundry plas 5 6 6

Total, Ex. Artillery,&c. 35 132 4 171 6

On the 22d December, the Governor and Coun-
cil of Essequiba and Demerara, and the Distrias
thereunto belonging; published a Proclamation, no-
tifying to the Inhabitants, that ANTHONY MEER.
TENS, the newly appointed Governor-General of
those Colonies, had arrived with the Batavian
Troops, and after the Colonies had been duly stir.
rendered to the Batavian Republic, had appeared in
the Council assembled, and delivered his Commis.
sion from the Batavian Direetory, as Governor..
General, which Commission is as follows

46 The Dire Cory of the Batavian Republic, to all
to whom these presents may come, Health. Be it
known, that, having judged it necessary for the
advantage and service of the Country to appoint a
Governor-General for the Colonies of Essequibo and
Demerara, we hereby name and appoint such a Go-
vernor in the person of ANTHONY MEERTENS, on
whose abilities, fidelity, and vigilance, we can
perfeCtly rely, charging him td conduCt himself in
his post faithfully, according to the oath he has
taken to his Countiy, and agreeably to the duty of
a good and faithful Governor-General, according
to the instruCtions he has received, or shall hereaf-
ter receive, hereby commanding all, and every one
to acknowledge, respect, and obey the above.
named ANTHONY Mitatitarts, in the before-men-
tioned capacity, and to render him every aid and
assistance in whatever he may judge for the advan-
tage of the Colony.
" Done at the Hague the z rth May, 1802.
ef SAMUEL VAN HOOOSTRAATEN, V. P.
48 By order of the Directory,
" J. DASSEVALL."

The Governor and Council then dire& and order,
that the said ANTHONY MkERTENI shall he ac-
knowledged and obeyed as Governor. General of the
Colonies of Demerara and Essequibo, by all the
Colleges within thesaid Colonies. They add, that
all the Inhabitants within the same are ipso
,facto released, by the restoration of the colonies to
the Baravian Republic, from the oath of fidelity
which they took to his BRITANNIC MAJESTY at
the time of their surrender, and they require them
in consequence to take an oath of fidelity to the
Governor. General of the following tenor

" I promise and swear, that I will be faithful to the Di-
re Cory of the Batavian Republic, as the supreme authority
to which I am subjeci ; to the Council of the American Co-
lonics and Possessions, and to the Governor General of these
Colonies, that I will render them all due obedience, that 1
will taka no part in any conspiracies, cabals, or ladions ; but,
on the contrary, support the general tranquillity, safety, and
welfare, with all my power, and resist every thing that may
tend to isturbance or injury, anti on all occasions, conduct
myself as becomes a good and peaceabl6 Citizen and inha-
bitant, without suilernig either favour or airettion, hope or
reward, fear of the loss of property or life, or any other
motive to induce me to swerve from my,duty."
All the inhabitants of Demerara who shall not
have taken this Oath and signed their names to it
in a Register, before the last day of January, and
those of Essequibo who shall not have taken it,
and signed in the same manner, before the la, t day
of February, will be compelled to leave the
Country.

LAW REPORTr

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COURT OF KISG's BENCH, IVIoRRAv, TAR. jr..
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Ta to being an Holiday, the Court did pot sit,
Only one Judge attended for the purpose of taking
Bail, end to hear the Cases Of Insolvent Debtors;
Scc.

The Gi'ancl Jury for the Cotinty of Middlesex
were sworn in—and

Mr.-justice CROSE delivered to, them a Charge,
in the Course of which he observed, thit in this
great City, which, for its ,Tracte; Commerce, and
Wealth, was become unquestionably the Metro.,
polls, of the Globe; there, necessarily. arose froth
avarice and dissipation, a number of Vices, which
it imported the cause of Religion- and Morality to
check, for the genetal benefit of the Society in
which we lived.
.The points to which the most
immediate attention was wanting,. Were licentious
and obscene Publications of Books and Piints, of
various sorts, the tendency of which Was. to inflame
the paisions of Yodth of both Sexes, and to lead
them to debaucheries which Might end in ruin be-
fore their judgments were so matured as to be able
to guide their actions i—Houses of ill-fame also re-
quired to be chiclied for the same reason ; and
among them, aming-housei.were of the worst
description; for they were nightly the resort of the
idle, the profligate, and desperate; and the scenes
therein exhibited, were of the most destructive
kind to Morals, and which often led to ignomi.
nious death, The Learned Judge took particular
notice of the Carts, Carriages; and Machines
which stopped in the streets, instead Of being
taken into yards and other places, for the purposes
of shews and exhibitions of wild beasts, &c. These
were nuisances which, he had no doubt, had been
observed by the Jury, as they had frequently been
observed by him, not indeed this morning, but fre-
quently within this Term; and besides the impedi-
ments they created to passengers, they ColleCled
together a number of the most worthless Persons of
both sexes, and; among them, many thieves. It
was true that the Constables had power to abate
this nuisance; for as the owners of these machines
had their names on them (or if they had not, they
were subjeft to a known penalty) they might be
taken l'iefore a Magistrate and properly disposed of,
unless they should be too refradory to be taken,
which he hardly.' bellei,ed they would, then they
might be presented to the Jury in an indiament,
of which they were fit subjeds, for certainly this
was a species of nuisance which ought not to be
suffered any longer to exist. The Learned Judge
said he was not aware of any thing else material
for him to notice to the Jury, composed as they
were, of Gentlemen whose countenances he had the
pleasure to have seen often on occasional similar to
the present, but with whom he had not the honour
of a personal acquaintance. They would now pro.
ceed upon the business about to be laid before them,
and of which they would, no doubt, dispose in a
manner honourable to themselves and advantageous
to the Public.

Two persons, apparently Foreigners, were then
charged with an indiftment, previously found against
them (and to which they pleaded not guilty), for
publishing a scandalously obscene book, the con-
tents of which were too indecent to be repeated,
called " The Frolics of a Boarding. School ; or,
Miss in her Shift, Stc." They were remanded to
prison anti) .they can procute bail, and told their
trials will come on at the Sittings after the present
Term.

Two other persons, Sailors, were charged upon
another indilment, for a conspiracy to charge and
accuse falsely one William Boswell with the murder
of William Darlington. They pleaded—not guilty.
They were also remanded to prison, fur want of
bail ; and were told, their trial would stand for the
Sittings after the present Term ; and they were also
kindly informed by the Officer of the Crown, that
any person on their behalf might have the India-
ment read over to him at the Cr 3wn Office gratis,
to enable him to prepare their defence, or, upon
paying for, might have a copy of it.