The Sun.
London, England, 1804-05-09 00:00:00

JOHN SMITH.

Mr. GARRow applied for a Certiorari to remove
a Conviction in the County of Leicester. This per-
son had been discovered in a wood, with a gun, imd
a dog ; his dog had been shot, he had heen himself
beaten, and under the filth of Geo. 11. hews con-
victed as a rogue and vagabond. So far the Learned
Counsel made no complaint; but the Magistrates
had done more, they had treated him as an incor-
rigible rogue, and under the 39th and 4oth Geo. 111.
c. so, they had sent him to the Bridewell atfLei-
cester for six months, had ordered him to be whip-
ped in that interval, and afterwards to he slog into
the service of Maje!ty. In this re:,peCt thry had
exceeded their authority, and under these cit:cum-
stances redress was sought from the superior twurt.
Rule to shew cause granted.

WILSON AND OTHERS V. CRENYILLR.

This case, so interesting to all who are in the ha-
bit of buying and selling Siock, was this day argued
by Mr. GAR ROW and Mr. 'WALKER on one side,
and by M. ERMINE and Mr. Gls as on the other.
The AClion had been brought by the Plaintiffs to
recover the damages they sustained by the Defen-
dant's not accepting a transfer of Stock sold to him
on the sth of May, 1803. On the trial of the cause
before Lora ELLENBoRoUGH, at Guildhall, it ap-
peared by the evidence of the Broker, that he sold
Stock to the amount of 10,0001. on the said sth
of May, for Mr. Wilson—soool. worth to a Mr.
'Webster—and 50001. to the Defendant. it also
appeared that Mr. Wilson had on that day Stock to
the amount of only 76501. in his own name ; and
the Statute of the 7th of Geo. H. against Stock-
jobbing, enaas, that all Sales of Stock, whereof the
seller is not possessed at the time, shall be void, and
the seller liable to a penalty of 5001. For this ap-
parent deficiency the Plaintiffs had been.non-suited
at Guildhall. But it appearing Since, that there was
ground for supposing (though sufficient proof was
not adduced on the trial to make the matter suffici-
ently clear) that Mr. Wilson was Trustee for
Messrs. Agasis and Humbert, the other Plaintiff's,
and that the three had at the time of the sale been
possessed of Stock to the amount of 17,0001. the
Court will grant a new trial, as soon as au Affidavit
should be putin as to.the fat of Mr. Wilson's
log been a Trustee on the occasion.

ST. DOMINGO.

(Concluded iron our Payer of Yesterday.)

NoVEMBFR 10.

The ship by which I have sent my letter (the
duplicate whereof is- the foregoing), has remained
for five days with the English before our harbour,
and since has disappeared. It is not known where
she went to. COLLETTE, who sailed the day before
with the whole of his Suite, composed of eighteen
servants, his housekeeper, and two children, after
having been detained for two days by the English,
received orders to return to the Cape, the English
not allowing any one to get out,.or enter the Cape.
The vessel in which COLLETTE was, immediately
on her arrival, received orders to proceed again to
sea, and went through the passage of Caracole.
The Eflglish are extremely irritated against our
General, for not allowing the Brig that carried the
sick to land them, and for not complying with their
proposal of exchanging twelve sailors made pri-
soners on the keys of Caracole, where an English
Barge had been wrecked.
There exists an animosity between the Chiefs of
the two Nations, and the poor inhabitants a:e the
victims of it.

For several days past the Treasury has given
receipts or bills, to make good the forced Loan of
800,000 livres, and alt at once the delivery of
these papers has ceased ; so that those who have
not been forward in taking out their receipts or bills,
have nothing else to stew than the receipt of the
Treasurer.

I have had bills for 3000 dollars, to which sum
the tax of our house had been reduced, and have
passed them to those of whom we had funds in
hand, and who were waiting for a favourable op-
portunity to draw them back. I must suppose that
those papers will be paid in preference to any others,
they being in fad marked with the blood of the
Inhabitants of the Cape.
A Schooner has arrived from St. Jago de Cuba,
and has escaped the vigilance of the English. She
brings dispatches from General IA VALETTE, who
has evacuated POrt au Prince, and is at present at
Cuba, with 2000 men, troops who, it is said, will
.not return to St. Domingo. lam thinking that, if
I was once out of it, one would be very.cunning to
get me to come back, especially as long as the de.
plorable situation it is at present in shall last.

I do not know indeed what will become of us,
under a Chief who does not know any other law
-than the one dictated by his own impetuosity and
fanaticism ; surrounded by a string of adulators,
none of whom have the spirit of making the least
observation with resped to his condud. We hoped
at one time that the Colonial Prefea, a reasonable
man, would have had some influence upon him ; hut
he wag forced to leave the place: he is the bearer
of this packet. We must expel the worst.

The English told some of the Crew on board
COLLETTE'S Vessel, that they understood twelve
Ships had been at Toulon, and concluded thereby
that a Spanish War was at hand; that in that case
they could.not remain constantly off the Cape, a,V
they had done since the month of July ; that they
would be assisted by the five ships that are at Ja-
maica, and would force the entrance of the Cape,
to make zn end of it. Indeed we arc so tired of
the situation we are in at present, that we should
be inclined to meet the end, let the catastrophe be
what it would.