The Sun.
London, England, 1804-12-03 00:00:00

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THE NOTEO-B NaKgitiA N.

As every particular concerning this enterprizing euerny.ean.
mot fail to be highly interesting to our Readers, we are happy
so-have it in our power to presetit them an accurate Account
of Erin and his Vessel, with some particulars of his Capture.

Jean Blancketran is a native of Dunkirk, is 32
years of age, and' has been constantly at sea, with
very little -respite, for near twenty years his coy.
Teti korfwledge of our coasts, with the tide's,_, and
every particular of our coasting trade,,was (2lstained,
cipt from ever having..bren a smuggler, but having
in• the early part of bts life been employed in fishing
vessels that came over to the coast of England and
Scotland; and his knowledge woe improved to a
perietftion scarcely credible, by his being in the be.
gir,ning of the late end present wars, in a small
Privateer that kept constantly close in , with our

Mist
The t rade from London to Berwick, in the SMacks,
weft- hi. favourite ohjeBs, not only from the value
tit their cargoes, but because they .required only a
few hands to manage them, and were besides almost
' sure, hop their good sailing, to escape our
cruizers, and get in safety to the ports of France or
Holland. He was equ,Aly well acquainted with the
Baltic and coal trade : light collie's he was averse
to take possession of, unless the wind was fair'for
France, on account of being encumbered with pri.
'loners, and besides parting. with his own m-n. He
h even, on some occasions, been averse to therti
when loaded, 'when he had route valuable game in
view.—The Baltic fleet was the immediate obi,a
of his present maize, and his station was to keep in
the latitude of Flanthorough Ile id, out of sight of
hold, and lie had ascertained the time of their arri.
val on his cruizing.grounil to a day ; this led him
to quit Dunkirk sooner than he would otherwise
have done, as it was his intention to brilt, ZOO.
men to sea in his vessel : the difficulty'he found,
unties the present system of France, to procure men,
led him to send a confidential Meer of the priva:
Leer to Holland for that purpose, as,d- he is yet
there ; but Blanckernan was so fearful of losing his
prey, that he put to sea without him, having,c,l.
leC-ted about 8o men, of all countries,' from the dine.
rent neutral ships, and cleared the jails its Dunkirk.
He was returning from his crume-sisoner than he
intended, on. account of the strong easterly wind,
Which was unfavourable to his getting prtz-s in ;-
anti also in hopes-to find his Piro Lieutenant arrived
from Holland with the men, when' he intended pht.
Ling to sea again without 1.84 of time,
,When we consider the influence and meani the
fiches of this man wire him in fitting our his ves.
eel, and getting her manned,' With her 'force and
superior sailing, added to his. kuoWledge of our
trade anti coasts, we cannot but hail his capture a,
a most fortunate event to the commercial interests
of this comtry, which must have 'suffered materially
during the winter, from depred-ations.
Trio circurnstance, also, in which we have much .
to rejoice, that heft.ll in with the Cruizer,,w hick is,
perhaps, the only vessel in those seas that could •
have c Una up with him. It is worthy retnaik, that
during the long and anxious chace, the masters-of
,the English captured vessels, who, with to English
seamen, were in the privateer's h•ld in doie confine.
meta, expressing their fears that the English veil.
sel in chase would not come up with Blarinkeman, as
they had before rim from every thing they saw with
great rase, when one of them replied, " I have little
h=o unless it should fortunately be the
Cruizer,•for, she sails like a devil."
We canoot convey to our Readers an adequate
idea of theleelings of those our unf riunatecOuntry.
men—the horror of a French prison beftire their
eyes !
,of being separated from all that was dear to
them, with the alternate hopes and fears excited
4 what they heatri going on upon deck, forms' a
most interesting pielure of their anxious sufferings.
Ar one time they heard them cutting ' away their
boat, and trimming ship, sawing down the gunnels,
&c. to make her sail faster ; this was considered
good symptom, but the next mAtent destroyed this
hope, by hearing the people on deck say, 41 now
we leave her." When the topmasts broke it was
* j yful sound to these poor fellows; but this was
sUceeeded by a report that crushed all their hopes ;
some 'one on deck called out, she has passed us ;
now cut away our cable, clear the wreck, and all
handa,coioe up to make sai; :" a few minutes after,
however, they saw' the French Men begin to lash
up
their bags ; this they knew to be a sure fore.
runner of their liberty, and immediately heard the
Crwister hail, and order him to strike; they could
contain their joy no longer, ands hearty and heart.
felt Intuit burst forth spontaneoulsy frail) all, as this
crowned their hopes, and confirmed their liberty.
The chace continued near nine houre, in which
boils vessels ran more than ninety mites. The *kit
freshened considerably during the latter part of the
chase, and the cruizo lost most of her studding-
sell booms, her main. top.gallant.mait, and foretop:
sail yards, and., had at one mire four feet water to
the hlld, frokti the
_quantity of water she shipped, •
Le Cow, Mason was built by Blaneke.,
man's brother, who is a shipwright at ainkirk,
about two months ago; and nothing can prove
stronger the want of seasoned oak in France, than •
the declaration made. Blanckettian, himself, that.
he was obliged to send zoo miles, to • coiled as
much seasoned' wood :As would build this Vessel,
being dwratioca, she: shoal not be 1)1;1;1 pf fir
green wood, bot of the hest onaterials:that coo d he
procured in France,' She, is admirably 'well _pot to,
seater, well found in stores,lprovislons, &c.—One.
third of her belonged to Blanckeman, one.third. to
a Mr. Deities, and the other third was divided
amongst a number of 'adventurers of Diankirk, all
of whom were eager to have a .share of a vessel con.
manded by so fortunate and able a Commander.

Monday John Nqckolds, .in St. Steplieni,
Norwich, fell down stairsin a 4i ut intoxic„ition•
• and broke hie•nuck immediately after.
One of the Norwieltonohen WAS pvcrturned.by
the breaking of the axeltsea,,in St. Steplren's-btreet,
Norwielt, by %%thick many of the pa,ser.gers were
touch hurt :-• one wag carried to the hospital dread.
fully bruised. ••

LAW.REpoRr.

4tOURT OF KING's BENCH, Doc. t.

PARKER Rl. ItIABDPN.

This was an AWon.ro recover zoo', the amount
of a, bill. of exchange drawn by the Defendant
upon, and accepted .by the Hon. Mr. Coventry.
The defence set up was, that Parker, who was a
silversmith,. haileommitted usury in discounting the
note, by'iosisting that.the Ddendant should take'a
quantity of goods in partpayMent ; but this point
wholly failed, it appearing the goods were fairly
sold, It was then provel by the evidence of Mr.
Coventry, that he, had given Entbden to!. discount
for two months, as an inducement to him to, cash
the bill With the. Plaintiff..
.•
Lord'ELLENBOROUGH was of opinion, that the
usury committed in the formation of the bill, vi.
tinted it, and that it could not be recovered.; but
`he recommended to the Jury to. give their verdi4t.
for,the Plaintiff to the amount of the goods which,
at the rime of discounting the bill, . he had sold to
the Defenda.nt,

The Jury accordingly gave a vegdia 'for the.
PlAintiff—aimages 4.31.

On Montt's, in the -afternoon, at four o'clock,
98 French Nisoners arrived at the horse barracks,
-Norm ich, escorted by a party of the Dragoon
Guards And Shropshire Militia ; and on Tuesday
morning marched off on their way to Stilton.
Smurday a Coroner's Inquest was held 'on the
body of a man found dead in the Kilburne road, on
Friday morning. He had been seen much intoxi.
cared the preceding evening, and the Jury found a
verdiet of—ilccidental death. •

Saturday an Inquest was held on the body of A
German, named Egshom, who.ort Friday fell down
iu a fit. in -Porrer.streer, .and expired. • Verdid--.
Died by the rititation of God.
Oct the 18th ult. an Inquisition was taken at
,Eriswell,Suffolk, by JAmas WARn, Gent. Coroner
for the Liberty of Bury, on the body of Keel.
a private in.the alit Regiment.of Light Dra.
goons, who, about a fortnight before, was wounded
In the he d, in attempting to break into a barn be.
longing to Mr. Shape, of that parish, by his own
pistOl suddenly going. , If, the butt end cf which he
ho put int. his jacket pocket to facilitate his get.
ting over the barn d.or, when the ball entered Ma
lel t cheek, and lodged ag.,inst the skull bone.. The
ab,•ve unfortunate man was one who, in company
with two others, deserted from the. Regiment then
lying- at
.Woodbridge, taking with them. their
horses and•acc,n,rements, except their side arms.
Their lutrses they left at Staunton, and then era.
yelled 'about. the cc 49try wider pretence that they
were in search Ut some deserters. The .two others
immediately lan off, on finding their companion
woundid, and that an alarm was given ; when, al.
ter breaking into a house in the neighbourhood,
stripping off
,their regimentals, and taking other
clothes out oldie house, they made their escape, and
have not since been heard of. The deceased. was
taken up speechless, and continued so till the time
of his death, which happened the day before taking
the Inquisition.
A young man, who had been spending the even.
ing j at Little Dashing, near Melton. Mow.
bray, with some fellow.servants, was lately found,
near Sca why, in the morning, robbed, and dread.
fully mangled, having his head beat to pieces, He
had called at a public house, and drank till he,was
rather intoxicated, and quitted the house to call'on
some friends in the neighbourhood ; hut it is sup.
posed he had fallen asleep in the, field where he WAS •
found murdered. From Ate circumstance of the
ground about the place being,pierced and matked
with a crutch, it was supposed that a lame Mendi-
cant, who had for some time loitered in the neigh.
bourhuod, hail been the.-perpetrator. -He was: ac.
cordingly 'cpprehended; and from what •bas.trans.
pined, Attie doubt remains of the justice of the site.
picion. He has been committed to Leicester Gaol
tut trial.--The
.(leceased, when at the public.house,
had a fol. note and some silver. . . .

A few days ago, as a party of Ladies and Gen.
tleraen were walking near Higilarn-Frrfers, they
welt/ stopped by soma highwaymen, who presented
pistols, awl Ribbed them of cash and bills to a Consi.
dermble asnaun►.'

• Two respecltbie farmers, from curiosity, walking
near the wreck of the Veneroille on Thursday,
were twice chitileogcd by the guard, but, from ig.
norance ur inattention, not answering, they wre
fired upon, when ntie of them Was wounded severely,
the hal! having fractured his artn, and lodged in his
bretsr. His ;lust has been amputated.. .

'Saturday night a young man, servant to the Rev.
Mr. Waller, of Birch, Essex, was drowned, by
falling into . pond, on his return frosts passing the
evening.
,a few milrs from home. It is very le.
markahle that his father, ,who lives in the neigh.
hour hood,' dreamcd last week that his eon was
drowned, Which, had such an
.rffeet upon him, that
he set riff 16.inguire after him, and found him per.
feftly well. -'i't►is Circumstance: the young man
treated with levity ; and on leaving his, companions
m. the.evening he met his fate; he desired them to
observe that he Was not drosined' yet
Is the begint.ing of last week D (yid Dalrymple,
a hotelier's buy, son of one 'Ddrytnple 'a huntsman
and dog.bici•ker, 'WAS tried befate the Magistrates
ot..Gia,gow, for wantonly wounding, With a knife,
servant eina 1r€431 the Gteett with
water.' '11)e two young women swore that he came
up to tie foremast and.struck,fier on the face with
a bl.wn blad,ler, and, upon her calling him a-black.
.drew a knife from his 'pock'et, and slightly
wounded her in the side through. her boddiCe the
other coming to her assistancei-he gave beta pretty
deep cut or; the breast, and then ran off,' Next
day they pnitited Hiatt, out in rite marker, and no
doulit existing as to his identity, notwithstanding
a very defe.ctive attempt to.prove an. alibi, he was
conviOed; and sent tar Bridewell for twelve Months.

o:fthomily morning the h(lily Of Mr. Matthams,
breeches-maker, of Chelin iurcl, was found fl erring
On the caul. It apl ear,. th.rt he left the above town
in liquor the preceding ry arid hat in at ferny'.
ing to cross over the lock, he hail fallen in. tie has
left a wife and nine children.