The Sun.
London, England, 1804-01-28 00:00:00

PROPERTY ACT.

AYLESBURY, JAN. 14.

AT our Ouarter-Sessions, which ended yesterstaYt
Wm. Windsor, George Be!grave, William Fester,
and john Webb, three of them farmers, the other
a higgier, of the Parish of Stec kley, in this C unto,
were indiaed for a riot and assault upon Mr. John
R dieils, Clerk to Messrs. James and Rose, of this
place, whilst endeavouring to affix the proper no.
lice of an intended application to Parliament for the
Inclosure of that Parish, upon the Church-door, on
Sunday the 21st of August last.—lt appears that
these mistaken men, with a great many others, of
whom, however, they seem to have been the chief,
had conceived a notion, that if they prevented the
sticking up the notice, they should efteaually pre-
vent the Inclosure, to which they were adver,e
and, with this view, they had colleded a great c n-
course of people in the church-yard, who behaved
themselves in a most outrageous manner towards
the Prosecut r, jostling and pelting him with stones,
and using the most horrid imprecations and threats.
The prosecution was conducted by Mr.PECKW ELT.,
with that moderation which best charatitrizes the
humanity of the Laws which he asserted ; and the
defence by Mr. Best, with great ingenuity, hut
with the prudence becoming a Counsel who was sa-
tisfied of his Clients' guilt. In the course of the
evidence f r the prosecution, several persons ap-
pearesl in Court who were accomplices in the riot,
and who, as was supposed, had come to give testi-
m.,ny in behalf of their unfortunate confederates ;
such of them as could he identified by the Prosecutor,
were immediately taken into custody by order of
the Court, and wid he inducted as parties in the
riot at the next Srssions ; the rest took the alarm,
and left the town a• quickly as possible. When the
evidence for the prosectr i•tri was closed, Mr. BEST
addressed th, Jury on behalf of the Prisoners, but
caked no Witt eases. The Noble Chairman (the
Marquis ot.BucK tNcHAm) 'hen summed up the evi-
deuce with his accost toed perspicuity and ability,
and pointed out to the delinquents, and to his coun-
try , that, if they had grievances in this or any other
measures, there were legal and peaceable means to
obtain redress. T'•e jury, without hesitation, pro-
nounced a verdia of Guilty against all the four.

In giving jutigment, the Court declared, tivt they
were ready to pronounce a vety heavy sentence on
the pf isr.mers, bur, in cOO% aeration of the contrition
explessed by them, thr,logh their Counsel, in his
address in mitigation of vunishment, they had les-
sened it to three morvhs imprisonment to each. It
is understood, that many other 4, who were concern—
ed in this di;gißceful outrage of the Laws of their
Country, will be brought to justice as soon as their
persons can be identified.

TII It dreadfol hurricane vsieli took place on
Thursday night last, and. which is unparalleled in
the memory of man, we regret to say, has done
considerable damage in this county, faOth to the
orchards and forest-trees ; to enumerate the devasta-
tions it has occasioned, in every direEtion, would
take up whole columns of our Paper ; on every
side its effitetas are evident ; whole orchards, the
,
pride of thi• . ounty, are levelled with the ground ;
and in Scok `:ark alone i 8-0 timber trees. have been
torn. up by. ig 7100 ts, besides a great numb.:r of
others : in *tom 'eark, the seat of the Doke of
NORFOLK, iimoogst other trees, a hawthorn of
Very large;:siF,. Was broken in the stem, a yard
from the ground, and carried to. the distance of 17.
yards. The st Im has equally extended to the
pride of the forest, and the humble tenant of the
plantation. In this city and neighbourhood, the
buildings have materially suffered ; stacks of chim-
ties have been blown down, and many of the lamps
forced from their irons. Belmont, the beautiful
seat of J. MATTH Ews, Esq. M. P. has had the part
of its lead roof most exposed to the gale, com-
pletely rolled up. The violence of this hurricane
can only be compared to the tornados of the West
Indies.
Out: Correspondent at Brecon • states —" The
storm on Thursday night affliaed this town and
vicinity in so alarming a manner, that many of the
inhabitants rose from their beds, which; seemed to
be moved with the tremor of a gentle •earthquake ;
tips, and tops of chimnies fell in all diredious ;
several thatched houses were blown down, and
others uncovered i large timber trees were torn
from the roots in the Priory Groves and elsewhere ;
ricks were overturned, and many massive sheets of
lead of the weight of several tons io all, were blown
from their ble,ik situations : the mail coachman
was blown off the box over a -bridge into the river
Tarrellt, and a meteor also appeared, extremely
bright, over ' the out-skirts of the town. The
whole scene was so striking, that an. universal
terror was.sread through all orders, for the con-
sequences impending ; while every thinking mind,
on the following day, expressed foreboding fears for
our naval bulwark, as well as our mercantile
voyagers, who traversed the mighty waters in so
tremendous a storm."

MANS; oN-Houss.,--Yesterday Ann Leak, the'
little girl of eleven years of age, who has been
twice taken up on a charge of horse-stealing, as
mentioned in different Papers some time since, was
again brought before the LORD MAYOR. Her'pa-
rents, as before-mentioned, have provided a brass -
collar, which is fastened round her neck with a pad_
lock, inscribed, " flog me home." She was now
charged with having followed and driven cattle in
the streets, on Wednesday evening. His Lo?d-
ship sent for the parents, when the mother and bro-
ther arrived, and informed, his Lordship, that it
was out of their power to keep her from running
away. She had on that day gone out with a young
woman, from whom she made her escape, and that
they wished to get her into the Philanthropic So-
ciety. She stated, that they were unable to tell
what to do with her, and related several instances
of her improper conduct. The child' was restored
to her parents, and promised never to be guilty of
the like again. Her parents are very respectable
people.
We publish the following Extrad, for the infor-
mation 01 Merchants concerned in the Wine Trade.
Abstrad of an Ad 44 Leo. 111. chap. 14, passed
the t srh Dec. 1803,- respeding the bonding of
Wines ; " By the above At, such Portugal Wine
as shall have been bonded noder the 41 Geo. 111.
shall be allowed to remain in warehouse
chap.
for twelie rn-n:hs after the time specified in said
Ad. And the time limited by'43
Geo. 111, chap.
103, for the adu.d landing 0; wine imported under
that Ad, is extended to the 5.h July, 1805, instead
of 5•!1 January, 1804. provided that no such wine,
which sh,ll nut arrive at the putt of importation ill
Great Britain and Ireland respectively, before Ist
June, 1804, shall be allowed to be warehoused under
the above Aft, 'unless it shall appear that the same
was„aaually shipped fur importation ,before the Ist
of Miy, •i ?04-.
before-mentioned Ads, shall extend to all wine that.
that the provisions of the
"It further enaeled,
shall have been since ist Oetober, iBo3, or within
the periods before.tnentioned,
,hereafter imported
directly from Spain, or from the Islands of Guernsey
or Jersey. And every Importer of not less than, ten
butts of Spanish wine, shall be allowed the benefits
thereof."