The Sun.
London, England, 1803-09-21 00:00:00

pocket.bbak and a purse in the room at the same
time.
Nlr. Baron I:joviAm summed:.up the evidence"
and oi.iserv.d upon it :—tie said that Capt. Pric
had very haturioOiely. seta low Value upon the
watch, and Cie juiy were to ask their eonsciencei
whether they-wined reiluct! it from two guineai to a
sum beloW 4.05. the which if they did, wou;d save
the Prison tile. That was 'a subjen entirely for
tlit'ir consideration.

Guilty of wain: to the value of thirty..ni?te Still.
•
john Sim ions, job,: Kueper, Ilarme Tillman,
;Ina Jan Kuhlman, were charged with a capital of.
fence, in feloniously stealing a quantity of nutmegs-
and indigo ft, in on hoard the iloope, a'ship lying 'in
the navigable river 'Thames, the property of Swit-
tett Jansln.
The case against the prisoners, it appeared, rested
chiefly on the testimony of an accomplice, Henry
J. Kueper, the brother of theprisoner of that names'
They were all foreigoris, natives of Prussia or the
North of Germany, and the evidence was conveyed
through the medium of interpfeters. The prisoner
Simmons ailed as mare, .Tillman as eciok, the other
two as foremast-men. The aCcoMpliCe entered into
a long detail cif alletiged fads, respeding the taking.
of the property by the prisoner,, which he stated
was done originally 't
m the suggestion of Simmons ;
and the manner in which the cask or chest, in which
the nutmegs were contained. When a qnantity of
nutmegs was taken out and distributed am.mg the
prisoners, some gin Was sent for, and the witness
heard Simmons,. who assumed a degree of authority.
as mate, Order Kuhlm•M to break open a 'chest of
indigo. It appeared that, the prisoners Simmons,
Kueper, and the.acCoMplice, were apprehended On
suspicion of.mal-praniees, as they were proceeding
from the ship in a boat, by one of the Marine Po.
Ike Officers, appearing to have something concealed
about them ; he proceeded to search, and found in
their breeches, and between their shirts anti skins,
a considerable quantity of nutmegs—several pounds
weight : in consequence of what had transpired af-:
terwards, the .other prisoners were apprehended.,
The vessel having since sailed, •the captain, Smit-
tett Jansen, could not appear as evidence. The
property was laid as the captain's, but a great deal.•
of the evidence was necessarily respeeting the trac.
ing the goods from the' merchant (a foreign
house) to the .vesseti The indigo was principally
delivered from the India Company's stores. •
The prisoner's defence wits aclivered by them re-
spedively, through the mediuM of a Jew Interpre.
ter,, at great length, and in a very circumstantial
manner ; but they had no evidence to substantiate
their allegations. Simmons anathematised the ac-
complice Kueper, as arrived at the very acme of
profligacy.,
,Mr. Justice C4AMBRA summed up the evidence.
The jtiryi after conferring shortly; prro
the prisoners, Siam ms amt Kueper, Guilty ).:
The other two they 'anvil tied.

Satairtth Doartfire way charged with a capital or_
fence, to ici.O•msly stealing, on the t3th instant,
One Sheet, three linen shit Is, a. silver watch, two
.and a in thogany h.tx, containing knit. 5/.
Bank of England 1101 Cs seventeen 2/. notes, anti
one il. note, the 'property of Rich,ird Champ.m,
the dwelling home .of Robert Harris and llarriti
and
,7otepb Rlbivrm anti Sitsmna jtis Wife,' for felo-
,
niouhly receiving the same, knowing at to be stolen.
After a trial of some length, ant an able charge
froin. Mr. jils'(iCe Lk BLANC, the Jury pronounced
the I Ilowing :

. Guilty (Death) ; Hannah Rt),
binstm, Guilty, fourteen years transpumition ; alO
Joseph Robinsun, Not 'Guilty.

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In the Carta of the Sapho, (t Capture to L' Mile)
which was s,,hl last week, at Gosport, was a case
of Petrified
te r. Wood, with the following curious Let.
~
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I.‘ CITIZEN FIRST CONSUL,

Permit' me the honor of presenting three Pieees'of Petri-
fied AVood, which came frvrn he Saint' Stock, the largest
weighs 761b3. I also Fmg you to accept it Case of Copal
Varnish, !Or one. of) our Carriages btit the brilliancy which
this Rosin may acquire in the hands anti Artist, will be but
an linpereptible atom when placed near iiiin whose glory•is
spread throughout the two Hemispheres, he who is great
as a Warrior, and great also by the report of IliStorians.; • by
whom lie is ranked among the first or those Heroes. who
have cast a lustre on Humanity, That God may h. pleaml,
CIT,IZEN F Con suit., to grant t hat you may
.long cnjoy
your high 'destination, is one of the ardent' Prayers, which
an Old Colonist pot, up Air'you,ttain ambagst the Sugar-
canes of the New World. .
Sr. Luck."'

.•Giles"-s-dlill Pair, near Winehester, Was very nu.
mermisly. attended on Monday sennight : a great
vantity, of cheese•was-pitched, the whole of which
met with a rapid sale, It fetched cs..per cwt.
more than the ,Cheese at Magdalen-Hill Fair.
At. Wilton Fair, near Salishury, on. Monday
seinnight., about 38,000 sheep and lattibs- Were
penned for. 'sale.; about' 4000 less .than last
4.year..
The prices of lambs were from'
s. to 75;
those of ewes.froM Es. to to. cheaperjhan last:
year, though, on the uhole, (he ewes were car.
sidered-about' Is. a-head dearer than at the lateilrit.;
ford Fair, and their sale was much brisker 'in. the
afternoon than in the morning. One Gentleman
declared the ecves. he sold this year for zBs. were in
better condition than those -of last year for 4zs.
Mr. H was'thegreatest purchaser ; he bought
about 3500. Mr. Mts.r, of Muyle's-court-farm,
lett his Leicesterrams.aslow as ten guineas each.
On Tuesday se'nnight a human skeleton was dis,
covered within.a foot of the surface or the earthiby
the,side of the turnpike road, leading to Tetbury,
'about a mile; from Malmshury, supposed to he the
rema •of some persOn!, murdered there, as the lower
jaw appears to have been fratinred on the left 'side;
and it is now-reenlleded, thst all ut seven. cr eight
years ago, as a,R44,1b..,r urls chaise' was reternlng
home, between nine and ten in the evening, during
the month of June, the driver saw two men, hahited
like sailors, &lagging a corp ~e near the ahoveinen
foiled spot. The itnittritina V ithin Jppears•to have
been grown person, buy young, dm teeth
!mull, regular,- und rentark,illy '''g.