The Sun.
London, England, 1804-12-21 00:00:00

ExTRAer O A LETTER. rum OttrftN3FT.

1 Last Thursday a Deputation from Alderney
waited upon the Honourable the Lieutenant.Go•
vernor, and in the name ,:sf the Governor, Lieu,
tenant. Governor, and Principal Inhabitants of the
Hand of Akktney, presented him with a superb
Gold Box, ornamented with Diamonds and Rubieti
wi:h a suitable complimentary Address.
The Deputation on presenting the Box, deliver.
ed the following Address;
To the Non. Major-Ceneral Onti,a, Colo9el of the g7tft
Regiment, Lieutenant-Governor. at Guernsey, and Com.
manding in Chief Ills Majesty's. Forces. in the Islands of
Guernsey and Alderney.
" SIR,
,6 We feel highly gratified in being appointed by Lieut..
Governor FAKY to have the Honour of presenting to you
this Box., with the inscribed Address, in -the name of the.
Governor, Lieutenant-Governor,.and Principal Inhabitants
of the Island of Alderney ;—a token of reaped, Which
though small, yet being unprecedented, they trust you will
be pleased to receive, as expressive of their grateful sense of
the unexampled exertions and efficacious measures you have
adopted for their benefit and defence.
44 We have to regret that our powers are inadequate to ex-
press
in terms as energetic as we could wish, our unbounded
gratitude to the best of kings, for having been graciously
pleased to appoint to the Chief Conatuand of these Islands a -
General whose conciliatory conilud has won, the esteem of
our Island, while his abilities, eminent, in the Senate as in
the Field, have contributed with such honour to himself awl
advantage to his Country, to establish, on a permanent basis,,
the great and exalted charader of the gnash Nation.
" In the name of the Governor Lieutenant-Governer; an"
Principal Inhabitants of the Island of Alderney,
6 We hate the Honour to subscribe ourselves, _
" Your obedient and faithful bramble, errant.,
• "F. N.-R.01311..61/WD; ' . i„.
" Guernsey, Nov. is, t
''' Reply;
Ea,dseHtAheNllfLulL:wo3wn:...majot,
To which the Gen'es'rafBAlol:oll.

. . . .
" GINTL&LIEN, . . ,
.
" I accept with pride and g rat i taiilo: tisiit
,fienatiii.able Mark
it of approbation from the Governor;..-141eirgenatt 'ticA,erlitar, and
Principal I n habitants of the i slanda lOW -
" I had long admired the manly patt *ab,- 'O, the brave
Defenders of that important Out.p.toc:liacrblN,proud de.
fiance to the very teeth of the insolent Foe, ith this feel.'
Lig, it naturally became the first °Ojai ief 'lnt attention, an
tieing honoured with the Command, to give encouragement'.
and etre& to the zeal of its loyal Inhabitants.
" If, in fulfilling this duty to the hest of Kings, ever alive:
to the happiness of his people, I shall have been so form,.
nate as to have conciliated the good opinion of yolvt loyal
Countrymen, I shall have obtained the objea of my angst*
tion, and gratified the best feelings or my heart.
" ACcepit, Gentlemen, my warmest acknowledgments/in',
the polite and obliging 'manner in which you have Item.
pleased to convey to me this flattering token of eStCelrt • front •
your loyal Island." • .
Inscription on the inside of the lid of the Box:
To the Honourable Major‘General Dota,r, Colonel
the 87fit•Regiineui, Lieutenant-Governor of Guernsey, an
Ceminanding in Chiet His Majesty's forces in AlderneY lnd

Guernsey; -
From the Governor, Lieutenant-Governor, and Princ,,iiS
Inhatiitants of Alderney, as
.a small mark of their resPicz
his distinguished services, and of their gratitude for Me Ku- .
teetienrgneanetidsc ruecu eriarLreaffs h 13rtte'ehd as adoptedttlelli for tic
sisia
Island
by 4 r dlhefeoc ejucti
ande.cl"6
Aiditna, Nov. 14, 1804. -

UCTRACT OF A LETTER. ?ROM CORsr, 11iC4 10.
We are very sorry to learn that the heayy good
of Saturday night has done considerable damage tO
several mill., in the neighbourhood of this city.
Amongst other injuries which have bun the comer
quence of the fail of rein, we have been informed
that the immense conduit which conveyed the water
from the irom.vaills of Mr. Bartholomew Sullivan to
his paper.Mllls, across the slyer at Haly's Briars
has been entirely swept sway by the rapidity and
violence of the current, in ConsequenCe of which the
manurafture of paper, at these works, which gave
employment to a considerable number of people,
must be suspended until the damage can be repaired.

The Dublin Papers of the I sth state, that ft In
consequence of private information having been
received from some.part of the province of Ulster's...
a Magistrate has gone thither in quest of the villain
who was the cause of poisoning she tiVCI blind men
in Sitnpson't it,spital. This morning the remains
0f1.44 OATH. STOr FORD Wilt interred in St. Am.
drew'seChurch.yard., "I' he funeral was attended by
-a great number of Gentlemen's carriages.
``. Was. WOyierli IN GTO No —On Tuesday the.
Board of Aldermen sat in close conclave for more
than two hours, The result of their deliberations
was, that a Letter should be written by the Low"
Mavoa. to Alderman Sir W. Worrn iNQTowt
questing he' would rebign . his gown.> This Resole*
tion passed with a single dissentient voices"
WATUFoLD, Dec. e4,—We: have been Orem,*
fully annoyed in this -Tarter lately by a ?fen°
Logger Privateer. No Vessel dare stir Uat Of Fort
for fear of being taken. Ors the to,h inns, one
of
our Coast Sueveyers gave notice of her to the
Cuil
tom.honse ; the appears to be well manned, anacaf:
ries about 14 gum, and is so daring, that a few dire
ago she ventured into• a harbour's mouth, two
leagues orßedhestl. Some _think she has been sera
by the French Go4ernmeor to reconnoitre the c"tt'
It this is not her nbjed, it is feared she Will take'
some Vessels bound. here.

Mr. HAVIVAFISLD, of. Hampton Court,
tied on Sunday last at the Chapel on Kew tigrecni'
with Military Honours, as a Member of the qe,:
thorne Legion. The Dvzit of Ci.-ARRNoIs
sa
""
is the Colonel of this Corps, attended in person)
well as snany.Members of the Corps, in 01:der.i° •
*hew their reaped for the memory of the deceased,
who was a very estimable charaeter. Mr. HAv,),7l"
YIELD had been many years His Majesty's czar'
dener at Hampton Court.
On Friday last a division of the Rutland Maids
marched into Bristol; the remainder on Tuesday.
Yesterday. Major CRUTCHIAT, with about too
men untier,his command, composing the principal
part of thelight wing of the St. Andrew's and Sr. '
,George's Volunteers, runs
marched to Highbury Bs
to fire at a target fur a Sivord, preoroed by Ihe
Adjutant to the Non.commissioned Officers and

Privates.
SXMlTlNC.—Yegterday the Serpentine River in
Hyde Park being completely frozen over, several
of the nicht distinguished Skaiters adventured upon
various parts of it, to try the temper of the i$
With that of their polished instruments. Amongst'
the appeared two German Gentlemen, who formed
m
several fanciful evolutions on the out-edge with su•
perior adroitness and grace. The severity of
the
North Fait wind prevented the
appearance of ma
promenading lie/its; hut if the,frost continues, this
iiippety 'cent will no doubt ray; as fashionably at-
nY
trattive 13 usaalt

MIDDLZSEX ELICTION.

TRIALS FOR PERJURY.
Wedneßday a Meeting of the Friends of Mr.
MAlNwAniNGWashefd at the Crown and Anchor;

itsonsisted of between one hundred and fifty and

•
two hundred Freeholders.
Mr. H. THORNTON being called to the Chair,
he began his address by alluding to what had passed
at the antecedent Meeting, in which he had en.
deavoured, as plainly and fairly as pdssible, to re.
late the history of the two Middlesex Ele&ions up
to that period. He then stated the grounds which
bad, at that time, appeared for supposing the same
system of perjury, which a Committee of the House
of Commons had- declared to .prevail at the first
Eldlion, to have prevailed also at the second,
though reitrained, in some degree, by the late
Sheriffs of Middlesex, and by the aftive exertions
of the friends of Mr., MAINW AR INC, to prevent
false votes train being admitted on the poll, exertions,
indeed, of which Sir FRANCIS Ili/ R pErr's party
had, vehemently complained. It would, probably,
be agreeable to the Meeting now to carry forward
the history of the contest up to the present moment.
Since the last Meeting at the Freemason's Tavern,
two indittments for perjury had been tried, in put.
suance 'or the general intention then expressed, anti
in each case a conviaion hatl taken place. Mr.
'.THORNTON then proceeded briefly to explain the
general nature, of each: the first was, the King so.
Thomas Price. . ' • . • ,
' It appeared that Thomas Price voted on the se.
coed day of .the eletlion, In the name of john
Wright ; that he swore that he lived at No. 8,
Bell. court, Gray's.lno.larte, where it was proved
that he did not live ; and swore also, that he had a
freelield in Nu. 8,
.Belt.court, Gray's•lon.lane,
which freehold he did not possess. It came out on
this. trial; that Price. acknowledged, at' the Red
Lioni in Brentford, before ten or twelve persons,
all of whom, no doubt, Price considered to be en.
gaged in Similar transadintis, that be had (as he
termed it) 44 doer Ybe trick" for Sir Francis •Bur.
dett. It further appeaccil in evidence, that he
Itceived of Stephen Taylor, at, a public.heese in
rine-street; eighteen shillings, in cow.lcleraticin of
his having given his vote. At • this house a Cont.
mittee of Sir Fttincis Burdett' appeared ro be sitting ;
1 Stephen Taylor, who paid him, commonly went
by the name of the Recruiting Scrjeant. Price was
ione of those forty persons whose names were posted
op at the time of Ott Election, by the friends of
Mr.
.Mainwering (an - sta which had been much
I complained of), and for . the detedion of whoin a
reward had been offered: in, consequence , of his
1 being thus posted up and advertised, he again went
(as appeared in evidence on this trial) to Stephen
Taylor, his eniployer, from whom he obtained the
' • further sum of two pounds, in order to bear his
• expences in going out of the way ; end after this
the further sum of one pound. The Jury without
any hesitation had found hitn Gray.
The CHAIRMAN observed, that one of the Wit.
Messer, Britt, in one part of his cross.eximination
I.'-(ray A raft, tsenteeet,- which wile irrelevant . to the
i main question), either was perplexed, or was guilty
or some degree of mia.statement, by affirming the.
whole of a paper to be in his own hand.writiog, .of
which some part was in; better kitnd than he seem.
ed very wall able to write, and an endeavour hod
been used to discredit the whole cause of Mr. MAIN-
WAR y No on this ground, The Chairman stated,
that he was informed by Mr. HostgiNts the re-
spedable Solicitor of Mr. MA INWAR I sto's Commit.
tee, then in the room, that Britt voluntarily came
;forward and offered to give evidence about two
, . triontlis ago: that the substance of what he said
he should depose, was taken down in wrjting :
that he held in his hand the' paper containing the
Intended deposition, which corresponded with the
general evidence given on 'the trial ; that the
Cleik of Mr. Hoskins, 113 well as Britt, had sign.
114 this paper ; and that he, moreover, found on
the foot of the paper the following words : it Sign.
ed in the presence of H. Britt and John Ellis
, . ((led( to Mr. II), havingbeen first cautioned to
declare nothing but the troth, and no circumstance
that he had the least doubt concerning." Indepen.
dently, indeed, of this observation, it must be oh.
itious, that any error or incoherence in Britt's evi.
dence could discredit only. himself. Lord EL Lew.
siottouott had declared, that Britt's testimony,
in the other parts of it, was not broken in upon ;
and, indeed, the chief fans which he asserted
were substantiated by other proof. In the second
indian'ent.' that of " the Kiva .o. Caress," the
witnesses, with one exception, that of Britt,
were different, but the general nature of the evi.
dente was nearly similar.
In this trial "Thomas
l
ItltYt swore that he was himself employed, by one
Je.nicina, to write out papers for the use of the
fitiitious voters who
.polled for Sir Faro :eta
Butz') ITT. anti that he wrote out a paper for Creese.
Ile (Jenkins) told me (says Hunt) at our first meet.
ing, that he was a very indifferent scholar, and
begged that I would write out papers 'to give to the
Inert, with different names and descriptions, which
t did, I suppose, as many. as thirty or forty.
, Q. Was one of those you v.
',so wrote a pr for Crease?--
Ft • Yes ; the name upon it was George lame*.
Q. Is that the paper you afterv..Arfl,: :saw in Crcese's pos.
session ?--A. I saw Creese with it before he polled.
:l. After he polled, he told you Ice had • of ••polled by the name
arge lames ?—A. yes.
Q. Did you hear whttluir they were to have any thing for
those Notes ?—A. Yea; I. heard: lei kips say they were to
have a, guinea and a hail apiece.
his lowing
to nearly the same point, anti in particular to
•I" Favlng heart Creese say, " Mat he h 441 dole idtricA."
It appears that
to secd Cease, when under confinement, desired
Clerk
the Solicitor of Mr. MantwarinA, and intimated to his
.!-.IC, k, who called upon him, that lie knew much on the sub-
?_t of the. l' rosecutions ; and asked, " ././ bar he war to e;%per.:t,
• 47 gave the information that he was able to do ?" 1 At 41111
41,!_ea,
~:4 tu. him (said the Clerk) that he must not ask rite for
intsintitcaitititninttohme sta4se.hoLlial ids rzttitiese ; thati
.i
itliteo had,ri
,noting.
intr4.co rill
He
.i,
rase,
he would d:s.O. It had
alsrOTrs'iliT4lly proved in this
ttse_sisthat the.person voting had not the property for
.which '
ti‘lvvere tessed to vote, and did not Rye in the plane which be
ii. Cre to be lug place of residence.
'_
hesitate:l4u was pronounced Gaily by' the jury, without
ri.,.
Mc. THORNTON, proceeded to observe, that on
the trial of both these criminals it was most fully
ddmittetl/ even by their Counsel, Mr. ER,ItINP,, ,
thimself, that perjury .dad been committed ; Mr.
Itsicitse merely attempting to slim, that a f uth
tien
L proof was not given that Price and Cterse

were the persons Who had been tat), of it. On Oil,
main point. therefore, no one any longer
.ceet!(l
profess to have the smallest-doubr. Mr. ERAci E
,intimated', however, that the perjuries were zinc!)
Only.as were used to happen in almost ell Nett-
far Eledions he seemed to comfort himseli
' that
'• they probably were few in number ; and said, that
they were not traced to any known agents of Sit
FRANCIS. It might be important, with a view to
the obje& of the present Meeting; to point nut,
first, the circumstances seising out of these trials,
which tended to shew that the perjury was not
very limited, and of an ordinary nature, but was
extensive and systematic. First, The degree of
knowledge and talent on the part of some, which
was combined with the perjury of the baser instru-
ments, was remarkable. It appeared on the first
trial, that the property for which Price voted was
a real freehold in the. County ; but a freehold
which happened to be in the hands of a Trustee,
for the use of others ; so that there was no danger
of any proprietor coming forward and voting for it.
Sonic industry and intelligence was necessary, in
order to provide titles so plausible as this. It
carne out, on the same trial, that titles were ready
for as many false voters as were willing to ceme for.
ward and use them. And, on the second trial, it
appeared that one man (t witness) had written
out as many as thirty papers, the agent next to
him not being scholar enough to copy them with
sufficient fairness. Thus here was a division of
labetue which implied- a general system. Could
it then be *supposed, that merely some one rash
and wrong-headed individual, in the excess of his
zeal for liberty and the cOnstitution, or some over.
zealous agent, a little exceeding his instruelions, had
prompted an individual or two to an ad of per.
jury ? It appeared. that much htibery, as, well as
perjury, had been praCtised, Sums of money had
been paid, not only to Price and to Creese, but to a
variety of other individuals, according to the testi-
tunny of the same witnesses by whom Price and
Creese had been, convicted.; By whom, iheh, were
all these sums of money furnished ? By this intent.
perate friend, or this indiscreet' agent, out of his
own pocket Wes it net obviods that there must
I exist some fund which was adequate to the
support of so general a system of perjury ? It ep-
pears, said Lord ELLENROROUGH, in summing
up the evidence on the second trial, that accord:
ing to the testimony of Hunt, papers were written
for these men to go Nown in 'whole strings to vote."
Could there be these strings of bribed and‘ perjured
votes, of which his Lordship spoke, and the per.
jury not be extensive anti Systematic ? But not only,
did the evidence ore lbc3e two trials sheet, that
there existed an extensive plan of perjure, hut he,
had to state to the Meeting, that twenty:eight
other, bills, melting thirty in all, had been already
found by a Grand Jury; and lie kneitv no reason for
supposing that the evidence on any 'one of these
Bills might not equally lead to 'conyitlion ; nor
were these thirty Bias 'ail 'which might be present-
ed. More than twice or three iimes that number
might he .ffered, as the Solicithrs assured hint, with
eqoe expeetetieo of success, it' the expellee could
b.. &frayed, and if it was theught proper tha.e3f.ere
to extend the prosecutions. line he had to add
another ofeservation, which tended to point out
stilt inure strongly the vast extent of the per.
juries. These Bill's of Indictment which had been
found, and which could be found, and of which he
bad just spoken, were only those Bills in the sup-
port of which evidence could be 'furnished of the
identity, of the person who had' voted. Multitudes
of perjured
.men had voted, whom no witness
could be brought forward to identify. The identi.
fication constituted the chief 'difficulty. If a man
obtained his paper of instructions, Hod went up, and
perjured himself, anti then absconded, or concealed
himself, and was in name and person unknown to
any witness who was willing to come forward and
identify him, that man might escape trial and convic-
tion ; and it was obvious, that the great bulk of per.
jured votes would be probably of this description.
It was also worthy of remark, that the men guilty of
perjury were likely not to have each of them prac-
tised it only in a single instance,, and that the false -
titles which were given, were often given over and
over to different persons. The home, for example,
for which Price had voted, had been voted for no
less than four times over in the last Election, but none
of the voters had the least interest in the freehold.
The CHAIRMAN justified the use which had been
made of that kind of testimony which had been
resotted to on the present occasion. He insisted,
that even an adual partieeps ctinsinis may, on many
occasions, be brought forward with propriety as an
evidence. The witnesses-had not been instructed
by agents for the prosecution to commit any crime, ,
or to encourage the commission of them; but crimes
herving been cm:flitted, several persons who were
themselves ao far implicated as to have been
privy to them, had come forward te give their tes..
null:my. Lord El.t. etraottouctr indeed had ex.
pressly asserted the propriety, and even necessity '
of sometimes leaning in a great degree on evidence
of this sort.

The CHAIRMAN declared his .extreme regret
that no prosecutions had .taken place on account
of the perjuries' supposed' to have been committed
.at the first Elation, particularly by the Mill Vo.
tern, respefting whom the Committee of the. House
of Cominons had expressed so strong an opinion.
. This omission had arisen partly from, the, cireum.
stance of ita having been thought proper to submit
the sabjett, in the first place, to the Tribunal of
the House of Commons, but partly also from a de.
.ficiency of funds. If due punishment had folldw.'
ed the ctimes. committed. at the -first Elation, he
believed that fewer:crimes would have been
perpetrated- at the. second ; and if little or no pa.
nishment" were now to oviriake the guilty, the •
County might feel the consequences. of it most se.
riously in a;future contebt for Middlesex. It there.
fiare behoved those who either
.valued public mo-
rals, or. 44 regard for liberty and for the Consti.
tetion, to contlibute, by a joint effort-, to suppress
'that system of bribery and perjury. which had gone
so long unpunished. If the Elednrs of the King.
.dom had. not the virtue to defend their political
fightlt'sotnewhat-in theiorne manner in which they
would unite against an attack on their pri.
vate properly, they would not 'deserve to have
ri*hts 1014 g continued to them ;" and If

ptlblie morals were not maintained, it was in Hain
to talk of liberty ; for the degree of freedom which
could he enjoyed in this and every country, was
vry Mod) in proportion to the degree of public and
private virtue prevailing in it."
HELLISH.--" Gentlemen, after what Mr.
THORNTON has so ably said, it would be wasting
your time it I-were to say a great deal ; I shall
only propose the Resolutions I have in my hand,
without making any comment upon them, unless
it shall he necessary in order to explain them. I
would only mention, that is not the intention of
the Gentlemen present to enter into a subscription
now.: their objet is rather to encourage subscrip.
dons being raised by the Gentlemen in their re-
spedive parishes, to carry on these prosecutions, as
well as to meet Sir FRANCIS BURDETT in case he
Should present a Petition.—l beg leave to move the
following Resolutions, which I will read through
before either of them are put."
Mr. MP.I.LIsII then read. the Resolutions,—(See
the _Front of our Paper.).

[The remainder of . the interesting proceedings
at this Meeting shall be given in our Paper of to-
morrow.]

CAPTURE OF THE ALTHEA.

Yesterday a Meeting was held at Lloyd's Coffee.
house, to take into consideration the capture of the
Althea, and the Correspondence which has taken
place on this subject with the Court of Directors of
the East India Company, &c.
Mr. MAYOR opened the business, and, in a
Speech of considerable length, repeated the charges
formerly made against, the East India Company on
account of the loss of the Althea, which, he con-
tended, had been by no means satisfatiorily answer-
ed. He concluded by mowing the following Reso-
lotions; which, were agreed to :

Resolved, That the Proceedings of the Committee, pur-
suant to the Resolutions of the 3ath 061oher last, have fully
confirmed the Resolution of the General Meeting of that.day,
that the histrudians of the'Governor General of the 6th and
27th of Fltbruary lasp precluded British Ships front the pro-
teaion which was at the same tune granted to a l'c..eigner,
and in eorn:quence of which the Althea, of File value of above
-100,0601, fcll into the hands of the Enemy, and as being
equally .eztraordinary and. reprehensible.
Resolved, 'Chat the Thanks of ttiis Meeting be given to
.the Chairman and the Members -of the Committee, for the
zeal and ab!lity with which they supported and carried into,
erred Resolutions of the General 14ceting.
Which, were adopted. •
Resolved. That the Thanks of this Meeting be given to
Mr. Mayor, for his contlud on this occasion..