The Sun.
London, England, 1804-02-21 00:00:00

NAPAL NEWS.

TOR B AY, FE B. x9.—His Majesty's Gun-brig
the Cerbere got under weigh this afternoon about
two o'clock, with the wind at N. E. and stretched
out to the Southward, when she missed stays, and
went on shore near Baryhead, and it is feared she
will go to pieces to.night. The Crew, with the
assistance of some people on shore, are saved.

PORTSMOUTH, FEB. zo.—Arrived the Charlotte
Schooner, Lieut. ALT, from off Brighton, and
sailed again to cruize off the Owers; the CarJsfert
Frigate, from the Downs, with a Fleet of Ships.

Sailed the whole of the East India Fleet.

Yesterday the launch belonging to the Letiiiithairt
with fourteen men, went out of the Harbour in bidet
to get on board, but could not make the ship, and
was afterwards drove on shore on the Besneroge
Ledge, and every soul perished.

SHEERNESS, FEB. 20.—Arrived His Majesty':
Sloop Autumn, Capt. jAcrrioN, from the Blockading
Squadron off Boulogne.
Arrived and came into Harbour to refit, the Ca`
for Gun-brig, Lieut. PETERS.

The Court. Martial assembled to try carom
BROUGHTON resumed its sitting to-day. The fur-
ther evidence on the part of the Prosecution was
gone into, and they have adjourned till to.rnorrow•

DEAL, FE B. 20.—Fi Majesty's Ship CarysPri
sailed with the Convoy to the Westwatd„Avith th°
Dispatch and Plymouth Transports.
Sailed the tattler, on a-ertiiz& ofFßoulotne.
The Marchioness of Exeter, East India ship; cato
down the River, and sailed fir Portsmouth.
In the Downs—Monarch, Utrecht, Illustrious, g_,3150,11;
able, huryalus, Fury, Perseus, Vincego, and .50".
Lighter.

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ROLL AND.
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. Min nI, 78.
—The following ti-cry
. ~e'r u.,47 in'7-:!tct: in t!;; '24 t;-:Jz'z"l'
of to. printed in Dutch and French t
THE PRESIDENT AND MElNannits of THE DEpA
MENiAL GoVitilvmENT cIF ZEALAND, To G E NE-
ItAL 1410 NT
EX.ERC IsING THE COMMAND OF
FLUSHING AND THE ISLAI3D OF NvALCHEREN.
" sIR,
" Before WC received Your Letter of the 17 Pluviose, we
byhad already informationof the measures which you had taken,
order of your GoVernment, to seize upon the English Mer-
chanclize found in the carnmercial houses and shopi within
this city ; now we have intelligence that the same has also
been done at Flushing and Veere.
" It is inipossible tb withhold our 'srprize afthe step
.
against the Inhabitants of this Country, which you find
Your. authorized to take. We have no mom fo surmise
that the to
Coverntnent had the srnallest intirnat:ion-of
Znleasure, which is as extraordinary as singular, Or that it
as been adOpted arid carded intotxecution with its previous
.kn,owlecige, or that it should have co-peiated in it,.
' All the lamentahl '
Nvhichstrike •
ession our
C _ . C circumstances
~111 sue.-
1,1,11(1,
whose°.(ntrY, dear to us, and the Inhabitants on this
Interests are entrusted to us,
,atiliA. us in the
riost sensible mariner. " However it' may
. , --,' as to
_what has passed, -as' hatig
as tiledr ignorant of the Motives And the cause which
has to it, we tiro onrselves compelled, from duty
and love for our/fellow-citizens, to cOnsider every thing
Which has been done, Or that rnav be undertaken, against
their property and possessions, as an aet of atbit;•aly trurbetity,
*which we solemnlydisavow.
, -
" We beseech you, Sir by the Liberty of .Batavia, ac-,
knowledged for more than two centuries, and acquiieel in-
battle by our ancestors, at the expense of their
,valonr and.
their bload, that you will not convert that liberty to a sha. i
duly, by perseverieg not
the e;estttit,!}44. aAnlaSl4!..c.,j
Which fias been -carried to great-lengths 41redy, and against
Which we protest with all our might.
,
" If, in jhe mean time, against all.expedtation, you refuse
to give ear to this just and Weli.founded Protest, we.sotetnii7
ly and energetically implore you,' that the goods and prmerty
of our fillow.citiiens, already seized :mei placed in security,:
May not be transported elsewhere ; at least, that,the sacred
right of Property be so long respeeted till both the oVerti-,
alents shall have treated and determined as to theVestiny et
so many inhabitants, whose welfare and existenecalone tie_ taid on the preservation of their property and possessions.
." We have the in
to be,* with respect,
' 4 PitESIZENT and Met•tp?ltS
of the Departmental government of Zealand,
J. W. Scucer.sz, 'President."

Arde
mrth
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fState's
Orders are gone do wn to Bath from the Ss•cretary
o Office, for the immediate removal of the
Vrench Brigadier-GeneraL Boy ER
},is, and also that of
4:affurdshire, is friend, the Colonel
of Cavalry, to Leake, in
A Morning Paper states, that the Editor of the
4,gus, in Parts, ilas been sent, with the rest of} the
i., gilshmen, to Verdun—another striking proof of
e.'"ch hot-wilt ; but 4 tolerably 'good lesson to all
raLtorgy

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THI English Vessel the Sophie,'
of z6o tons,
from Demerary, with a cargo of sugar, coffee. and
cotton, has been taken by the Privateer La Bellone,
of Bourdeaux, and entered that Port on the 27thult.
The 'Vote of the Italian Republic,, for .building
in the Ports of France two Frigates and twelve
Gun vessels, has been tarried into e-freft. b the
Completion of the Frigate Le President, of i 4 guns ;
the other is named La rifle de Milan,. of the same
force, and is ready for sea.
. .
,and
The twelve Gun-vessels will also be armed,
present models of,the most solid as well
,as the most
elegant construdion. They are named Pilgoglla,
le L'aries le Peinaro, le Cremonais, l'Olona, le Serig,
le Melat le Ferrarais, le Bolonais, le kubicone, le -
lidolcig, and le 11eg..T;(7.
The Privateer L' zidolp;.7e, of Boulogne, has taken
in the Passage of Cape Beveziers, and brought into Calais, the English Vessel the Nyiug Fish., oftf,dn. T4.6n-
dc'n, of zzo Tons, hoard It-men of. the
having on
crew and two English Custom-House Officers, This
V;essel was from the Coast of Guinea, andladen with
gum and other m‘trchandize fro Coast; had been
eap!,,red by a Privateer m t_.
of Bourdeaux, ••aird re=taken
bs Sipe sailed for yan English Vessel
which carried it to Eng4nd.
London, her first distill • '
ation when
ptu
she was cared by L' Aclolphe.
SABLES, Faß. I.
this Port. An English 'Pike has'entered
coming from the Indieh
' h ' '
esritr ,
.with at more than
1,500,000 a cargo
francs.
CORFU, DEC.
wh 31.,TheSulliots, a Greek tribe
o inhabited some Mountains in the neighbours I
ioch
of the Paella' k f
.1 • have been •
es o anina, obliged to sub_rnit to the reiterated attacks of ALI PASHA. The last
position of which they retained possession was Santa- ,
eneranda ; it was '
Greek C I e ,
I occupied by thec 7 dy r .
or Pr'es, (=
. , .AMUEL, Vi/110 had commanded the Tribe
for tlter years. He had
•
with Kitt about 300 men,
wvsh which he resisted I 'of Turks for
Ys, the attactzs the
three-days, and kilted or vvz. iunded above boo of their.
Men. He was, how '
ever, obliged to Capiailate ; but
when the . Turks went to .his house to take posses-
stun of the ammunition which was d '' il
epostte there,
he set fire to the gunpowder, by ‘Vhich -Means
hmsef three of his coinpanions,'arid two Turkish
Officers were blown to atoms. H
e had
i t
is said -
declared his intention some'
before of in a manner that. Would e • days , dying
xute 1,
t .e admitation of the
French Nation.

1:4111ULIC:
QUtSIIUPI.

A LETTER FROM THE ROMAN CATHOLIC BI-
SHOP OF CLOYNE 'AND ROSS, TO THE RIGH•
HON. LORD REDI/ESDALE,LORD HIGH (3HAN-
CEL4OR OF IRELAND.

MY Loan, Middle/or, 3can. 26,-TBO4.
If the heavy weight of insinuation whereby I am
aspersed in your Lordship's recent Correspondence
with the Earl of FiNGAna, were not as unfounded
in fat} as it is extreme in rigour, I should not feel
warranted to expostulate in this manner with your
Lordship upon the injustice you have done me. Of
your great,povvee, my Lord,' of your pre-emir!en,t
dignity, I am thoroughly sensible : these are the
very circumstances which in my mind aggravate the
injury I complain ot; and therefbre far from deter-
ring, they encourage 'me rather to present myself
With confidence before you. To redress wrongs it the
peculiar province of your Lordahip!s exalted station.
We all know, my Lord, that if the Subjeil were ag-'
grieved even by the KING, who can do no wrong,,
your _Lordship is empowered. to cancel his Letters
Patent, if founded upon untrue suggestions : I must
then persuade myself, that being at least as mtlen
clined as you are warranted to do' such a 6 of justice,
you Will be equally ready to Caticeltyour Own severe'
sentence upon me, when your Lordship shall have
considered the extent of the injury, and shall have.
deteaect the misinformation that gi,,nds it. In your
letter' to the •Earl of Ft Notana, yOur Lordship wouid.
convince that Roman Catholic Nobleman how little.
faith is due lo Roman Catholics it, their praafessions
of loyalty, by representing to hint that I, a Roman
Catholic - Bishop, have been treating .with pointed
distesped those of.my Clergy, who in the year 1798.
had saved the lives of loyal men ; and in honouring
As a martyr, with insult to the offended justice of the
laws, a Priest supposed to be deeply implicated in
rebellion, and permitted to return Worn transporta-
tion through the mere indulgence of Government.
This sentence, my Lord, will, by easy implication,
be thought to insinuate, that beside being a trai-
terous, a perjured hypocrite, I am also an abettor of,
murder—a sanguinary monster, under the sheep's
-clothing of Episcoral Consecration, w,lta, while I
preach the loyalty 1 have sworo, atn san•Ctioniog by
my conduti the murder of loyal men ; and prnnot.
ing, as far as in me iies, a rebellious spirit among my
Clergy, by reserving my chief atteniions tor such of
them as were said to be 'guilty of reba:iion. A dread- •
ful insinuation intieed,deaiving multi; tiad effeCt from
your Lordship's charade!' and stati:oi ! It woul,l bear
heavily upon, me, my-Lord, had it beet no more than;
a sudden explosion bursting from an ordinary No4le_
man in the heat of altercation : hut how much snore
oppiessiie,aa a aentimen ',commit ted to writing by the
cool. tit-trollied, discriminating impartiality of a Lord
High Chancellor, in at letter to a Roman Cat'iolic
Peer ; for the obvious purpose of wounding the Ro.
man Catholic Religion, through the agradatioo of a
Roman Catholic Bishop ; and if Unteiuted by me,
or rather if not explained by your Lordship as an un-
intentional mistatement, it must go down to posterity
with irreparable injury to myself; and by associa-
tion, perhaps to-the community 1 belong to. It.
becomes:therefore imperatiye upon me, my. Lord, to
convince you, that you have most grievously mis-
represented me, through the unfounded auogesticata
ef others.: •:rtf‘r :Chl :3.nnot laa s Hoc act.
„Lordship will tie fora and to acknowledge the error,
and equally disposed to regret it. •
I now beg leave, however humiliating theas,eve-
ration, to declare before that,awful Tkibunal'i where
Your Lordship, as well as I,
shall one day he arraign.
ed, that were it possible an Angel front Heaven
could propose to me, not .the Mace of
,your Lord.
ship, not the Sceptre of my Sovereign, hut the un-
controuled dominion of this Globe, as a reward for
assenting to the murder of' tltemeanest wretch that
ever moved upon it, I should consider myself bound
to say to that Angel, with St. Paul, " Be thou ac-
cursed;" nor for so saying should I raise myself in my
own estimation above the lowest line on the scale of
negative merit. Neither do I claim a higher place'
for declaring, as.. I nova do in the presence of God,'
that being a liege subjed of His Majesty King.
GEORGE the. Third, I hold mySelf bound by the die.'
tates of my religion, iudependently of the oaths
have taken,..to bear him true allegiance, and to in.
culcate the same obligation upon all those who are
subjed to my- jurisilidion. Nayi further, I declare.
-myselfmore -firmly bound. to him by the (Iktares of
my religion, than by every tie: being as little able in
adversci-citcumstances 'to answer for my loyalty to the
King,. without the aid of my religion, as to answer
far my fidelity to God, without the aid of his Grace.
Conf6rniablY to this impression, my Lord, I have en-
,forced \with particular energy the duty'of
both in my public and private instruEtions, (Wring'.
the troubles of 1798, striCilyenjoining my Clergy 'to:
withhold the sacred rites from all persons implicated
•in the treason' of that time, until the oath and the
treason it cemented should have been first abjured.
By which means, many hundreds, if not many thotia
sands were detached from that treasonable compad,
who to this very day might haaae adhered to it. In answer to the allegation of pointed disrespea
to those Clergymeo who were represented to your
Lordship as having saved the lives .of loyal menial
can boldly assert in the face of this Diocese, that-rhe
only Priest I knew of, as coming precisely within.
that description, by having given a timely notice, to
a Gentleman whose life was threatened, is. the very-
man I soon after seleeled for my Vicar General; and
with him.at this day, in that confidential capacity,
I continue on terms of sincere regard and afFedion.
The other Clergymen distinguished for loyal 'exer-
tions at that trying period, will ackno'iledge, if
Called upon, that instead of areirtingathep.,l,,a. sresped.
ever,
fully, I esteem them all and venerate them.
every Priest of mine, how is
perfectly satislfi'ledat,
is What I. ant not presuMptuous enough to affirm it seldom/falls to be the lot of any one in my place,
Inot a tnoc;ohnfiavde confidently
s 4 individuals
y, that
displeased
of
edwith him ; but
haiisknt,v I only one Cier.
gyman in this entire Diocese, who considers hitnaelf
aggrieved by my administration 'and to that very
Clergyman Has confidently appeal.,
f.croomzlhaiisnseffot,fn
risr:innik wziethe.r what •he
fudlottoiwo}a,ralsnilteitmi: Ilak more
minute inquiries, suggested by your Lordslii ils.preg-
nant charge, have since discovered to me la
-Priest
prostituting the Sacted,Laver Qf Reenetation in
)

compiratee wit le pusillanitttous request of a loya,
Protestant Gentleman, who, to court the rabble
(when like others around him he should have op,
posed them)" entreated this Priest in their presence
to baptize him ; I shall never deem such condescen.
don, Whether elicited by goad nature or by loyalty,
entitled to extraordinary credit ; much, lesS can I
look upon it as a counterpoise against-every subse_.
quent failure or inaptitude.
The ReV.PETER O'tl\TE I If, to whom your Lordship
alludes in this same letter to. Lord Fliroist.L, has been
'urged .by the obloquy which assailed him, to lay. the
particulars of,his situation before the public in an
humble remonstrance forwardad to your Lordship,
through, the Post-01*e,
.at my ciA:rn instance, the,
MOMerlt. it issued from the Press. It has,.l trust, my
Lord, fully vindicated my condua towards that much
_injured man, and rernoyed the painful irnputation of
insult to the offended justice of the hiws. It ,has, in
my apprehension, deinOnstrated that his return was
the concurtentad of two successive Chief Gover-
nors ; the one •Suspentiing his transportation—the
other Ordering him home from it. Nor this, my
Lord, by way of a pardon which was never solicited,
lint by an impartial. decision upon the merits of his
arse. I will accordingly presume to hope, hat your
Lordship ha'ving duly conside'red the fits stated in
his.remonstrarice, is rather inclined to think that the.
juStice, of the laws 'which had sunk under his .con.
drinnation,*hatit re-asserted its power, and triumph:
'_en in his th.-qUittal. YoUr Lordship, will also hope,
has seen by this, remonstrance, that Mr. O'Nit is
reinstatement in his former place,was not so much
an ati of mine, as the provision of a SPiritnal Law,
which in similar circumstances., would restore a
Clergyman of the Established Church.

th

Pirthus sheviiing how strange,ty I was misrepre-
sented to 4 your Lordship, would not be understood
to insinuate that the Personage who had. the honour
of addreSsilig you, intended to miirepresent me ; I
am fully convinced, My. Lord, that you would admit
no man to ydur correspondence who could willingly
devia'te from the truth: but. I am alike convinced
that this Personage, respedabie as he doubtless is, •
must have been in the present instance most grossly
imposed upon. •
Neither the elevated rank of Noblemen, nor their
sacred re&,t;d to veracity, can always secure them
against imposition from a certain class of men who

.artfully contrive to b,eset them—Esquires of very late
creation, who with matchless intrepidity of counte_
nance, can assassinate charalers or whisper them
away, arid swear their. own falsehoods into currency.
When the truly loyal are;every where. intent upon
uniting all hearts and all hands in the common cause,
and for the common good; these men 'are every
where indefatigable, in promoting animosity and
distrust for their own private purposes. I shall say
more of them than barely to remind your Lord.
ship, how much easier it is fur 'such gentry to make
their impression, than fot an honest man to efface
it. •

It remains !or lir: to observe, before I close this
letter; that upon the first intimation I received
from a person, of rank in the l‘Aetropolis, that 'I
had Ir;en traduced as above, I instantly wrote
.a
refutation of the -charges ; and was, then 'assured
it shou4d be laid before your Lordship. But an un.
willingnesS to 'intrude, has since, it seems, prevailed
ag,iinst the promise, made me; 'which circumstance,
tsf i)T Sta-. 4 ;;;.liet
Papers since, as they have compelled me to address
)'our Lordship in this direa manner, they will, I
hope, at the same time, be graciously admitted as
my4apology. I have the honour'to be, with invio.
able resileet,

My Lord,
Your Lordship's Most devoted humble Servant,

W. COPPINGER.

Noir E.—On the second day after I had written and posted
my letter to Lord RE OISESDALE, I obtained a more accurate.
account of the paragraph concerning me, than the public
prints or the prior communication affOrded.. The paragraph
says, that I brought him (meaning Mr. O'N.all.) bad: to whit
in defiance of the Law, I call his parish. I Would gladly shelter
myself, in this case, under the ACI of Parliament of the 2t st
and 22d of His present 'Majesty ; entitled " Ad, for the
further Relief of His 'Majesty's Subjects prorCssing the
popish Religion ;" which- rya, as I conceive it, expressly
requires that Popish Ecclesiatics; to be-exempted fromfOrcher
penalties, do insert upo-ft a separate and distmd Roll in the
Register's Office of each respective Diocese,-their Christian
name and surname,- their age, the orders they have received,
and the personsfrom ‘vi,lom they received them ; as also their
place of abode; and their Parish, if thP have a parish ; a copy
of which Roll-was to be'annually returned by the Register,
to the Clerk of the Privy C 611161, under the penalty of tool. -
But asthe authority of Lord ft EDDEO)4I.Z, gives me now to
fear that I-have totally misconceived the meaning of this a6t,
I can-only Supplitate his indulgence for ati error,- which, if
not quite pardonable, will at least induce a milder qualifica-
tion than defiance .) the law. lam the more earnest in this
petition, as his. Lordship has precluded me 'trout any future
recurrence to hint; and from any.farthei explanation, than
what he has kindly condescended to give, in the following
answer to my letter :

Sr x, Ey-Place,
Dublin, Feb.' t,
My Letters to Lard FINGAL', (as far as they are
the subjea of your complaint) were a confidential
statement to a person of high rank and diameter and
supposed influence amongst the Itqman Catholics; of
representations made to me, the truth of which I did
not asserts but communicated them to his Lordship as
Treceived them, that he might, make:proper inqui.
`ries ; and if he found the representations to have any
foundation, I hoped he might be induced to use his
influence (which, find, I very much over-rated) to
'prevent what might produce considerable irritation
in the minds of the Protestants of Ireland, These
letters, therefine, ought to have remained in the elo.,
set of Lord FINGALL : a different use has been 'made
of them for pitrPoses 'sufficiently obvious ; but I am
not responsible for a publication which-is an abuse of
my confidence, and perhaps also of the confidence. of
Lord Fir/GALL. I have, I think, aright td complain
of any publication of those letsers ; but I have
'right most strongly-to complain of the. great injustice
of that partial publication which has afforded ground
for the grossest and most malicious misrepresentation.
Those who determined to abuse my confidence and
(as I am informed) that of Lord Ft NG A L L-, would have
aged a 'more manly, and so far a leis, blameable pair,
if they had given the whole correspondence as it
has aaually passed, in print, sO as to be accessible
.to every one. Any publication' I should have con
sidered as • a gross injustice,- and must resent it as
such. My letters could not
,have been injurious to
you, if they, had rem:lints:l with Lord FINGALL. If
any injury had arisen to yOu from the publication,
it would no; have proceeded fro:n Bpt the
letters, though rublishedi could not leave been in.

---jitriottg to yoo, had they stood alone, and without
oc6dcdooi,d7NmrailmeetEneikdnte,citd:os;w:_fpoliott:l,rjuimlailtlpticitylidaeloeitdieurndr,fnwnotoaoramtmsia•.maetste)i:rn,:iitiutiFsiiinw:bylcimeio,cAetiL:rn.
l*aa,innianu3dd,an,mmtr.aieealscn,A;_ennileovrortift,
now tell me, atjoitr instance. If that pamphlet makes
an application which I never made' the application
springs from Mr. O'NEIL -and yourself.. You call
that paMphlet " an humble rem6nStrance !". I con-
sider it as one of many extraoidinairptibliCatiOns
' which havelately appeared ; Some itniqated to high
authority ; others countenanced-by high authority I
the, tendency O'f which is to insult the' PrOtestanits of
-Leland, and their Religion,' and to' 'irritate . the,
different. seas against each 'other; - ',have no dis.,
ptisitiOn to attribute theSepublications-to.the Rimaii
Catholics in general. On. the contrary, I believe
there are many, very many, Who sincerely deplore
their m6chieirmi's eff,e,l.' ' Biir the publications de-
monstrate the teMper of those who have composed
and patronized them ; and with 'a person who pro-
fesses to consider Mr. O'NElL's'painphlit as " an
humbre remonstrance," I- think I cannot prudently
hold any correspondence, especially al er the. treat-
ment I have experienced with resped to my letters ,
to Lord Ft ~GALL. I shall therefore decline giving
any further answer to your letter, which would on-
avoidably lead to a long and unileasant discussion.
I have the Honour to be, Sir, .
Yuur most humble servant, .
REDDESDALE.

The Rev. Dr. Coppinger.
* Mr. O'NEIL, whose suprior I am, is the only Roman
Catholic Clergyman in Ireland. who Ans returned From
Botany-134:
. ,

LAW REPORT.

COURT OV KING'S BENCH, F. 20

SITTINGS BEFORE LORD ELLEN3O.ROUCH AND A SPECrAL
JURY, IN, WESTMINSTER HALL.

THE KING V. EDWARD PITT.

THE ATTORNEY GENERAL opened this case on
beha 4. of the Prosecutinn.- He said the Jury
,would,
regret to hear what heregretted to state to them, -
of such depravity in 'early youth as this PrOsecution'
brought before them; for the Defendant who stood
charged upon thii information for wilful and corrupt
Perjury was of tine age of only fourteen, years. T:ie
abhorrence which was excited in such a case as
,this
Must be very great, let the culprit be ever so young,
but it woukl be almost unnatural to suppOse it pos.
sibte that this could fie spontaneous- guilt in so
young a person, and therefore the real indignation
of the Court and Jury would be diteded-against
those who must be behind, promotingarid abetting
the offence before this unhappy. child caine for Wards
to commit it, and towards whoth it was scarcely
possible to feel an.y othei sentiments than those of
Cornpasion—against those who :ought to take care
of him, and who were in a great measure' acedunt-,
able for his morals, very different sensations must
be felt. Yet, While we were so ready to extend:,
cOmpa,,sion to youth, we must not gri too far, or
aCt too much" upon pity, for let the bad motive
which led to this very bad at be 'rather any other
person's than his,-yet the calls.of public justice, and
of indiVidual iecurity,-• required that the offence of
this parry, let it be committed by whom it may, shall
be ittertaed by the punishment which the Law pro.
vides. This .sprcies of offence was more conoeCted•

with fraud upon the Revenue than any other species

of offence, and that stilt more especially whin Per-
jury was committed by youth. His Learned Friend
who sat by him,. Mr.-G;ut.Row, had some time

ago a much more pleasant duty than that which fie
was now called upon to perform. He allided to
the case of a person of the name of Redhead, a wine_
.merchant, in Mark.lane, who last summer was con-
videti before turd Et LiNBOROUGII and 'a Special
jiiry, in Guildhall, of a great and most glaring
fraud upon the Revenue, and for which he is now
suffering the judgment of the Court ; that person,
together with his apprentices, were charged with a
Conspiracy, for the purpose of accomplishing a sveiy
great and complicated Fraud upon the Reventt.
The praClice of the house' of that cu!prit, and thf:
business of his house was, to take children out of
the Charity School, who had nobody to advise them;
and to plunge them at once into'itice, and touring
them to an habit- of doing business by tr Soot-
bodrhad done the same thing to the Defendant In
this case, and he was the true delinquent; but he
was not brought before the Jury becaw the ?rose-
cut,:r had not the means of doing it. .He should be
glad to bring before the Court the suborner of this
young lad : but he could ii,A; he had not the means
of doing it. In the case which he had stated, the
Defendant Redhead, .and all his Co-cmspirators,
were convicted, and the Jury recommended the De.
fendant's apprentices to mercy, from motives of
coal assion : that reOommendatior was attended to,
and they were recoMmentied, and were not brought
up for judgment. He hoped it
,Was not inapro...
perly attended to, but it was not vice deli rite,
this sentiment of compassion .for youth, when air.
mina!, was rot sotretimes indulged at the expense

of our discretion ; fOr if these sentiments were in-
dulged too far, the consequence would be; that
youth would bt 'introduced into an habit of vice,
and there was n knowing where the evil might
end fiirit must be remembered there was little or
no security against the vice of youth except the
terror of corporal punishment ; their moral senti-
ments were not sufficiently alive to make them shun
vice from a conViecion of its own deformity, and of
its ultimate fate, and therefore it was essential!?
necessary they should -know, that When they com-
mit any, a& of vice,' they shalt be subjeft to torpral
punishment—that was the only 'way by which such
persons could he deterred from crimes.: if it should
once-go abroad, that youth might commit any crime.
with impunity, there would be no security what-
ever to the Public, nor would there be, on the ac-
tions of young persons .that restraint which was
rtbsolutely necessary—so that be had some doubts
Whether that sentiment of compassion for the tender
year§ of criMinals should be acted upon in a Court
of Justice, at least he had serious doubts how far it
ought to be meld upon.'
T» this case the perjury imputed to this young
man was in the evidence he gave in the Court of

Exchequer upon_ a trial. wherein Messrs. Grace.
brooks, glass hiacufaCturers at Stourbridge, in
/ Worcestershire, were Defendants, in an intornaa_
tion filed against them for defrauding the Revenue
of dome duty that was payable on some glass they.
bad mantifaauted. This young man had sworn
that when the officer came to examine the glatsjn
his.-Master's warehouse, in a state of fusion in pots,
that he had r,Gt thrown any of thelihearings- of glAcs
into
,a particular_pot which was specified, but had

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only thrown: spine coals in to increa!e the heat, that

it Might work 114 e taster, &c. whereas it was charged
that this was false, that he had thrown in the shear-
ings of glass, &c. That he had also sworn there
was no meal whatever in this particular pot on
the 7th of March last, because it was a cracked
one, whereas he knew full well there was in it a

considerable quantity of glass in a state of fusion,
&c. , The ATfORNtY GENFRP..f, said, there was
,no crime more-dangerous, nor any that tended so
much to. pervert the course of the Administration "of
Justice as the perjury oryouth,beCause there always
:was abOut it an,apparent Ingenuousness that.disarMs
juries of su,picion. He was sorry that he could
inot,bring forward the original prornoler Or 'suborner
of this perjury, but that was irrpossible. Here

this youth_was, arid it was much to 6e lamented that
he was iirptight here, but if guilty, the exigencies
of justicc demanded his punishment. The evidence
of the Defen.%int given at the trial of Messrs.
Gracebrooks was read by Mr. GURNEY fruila his
short-Lard times.

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ant throw something into one of the pOts, and on
examining, it "was glass, but it melted before they
could get the iron rod hot enough to take it out,
for it will not adhere to cold iron. They were
positive of this fad, and-that the boy knew it well.
The. defence, Was very ablYconduaed by Mr.
JARvIs; Who, after an ingenious speech to the Jury,
called witnesses sertranis of Messrs. Gtacebrooks,
who eontradicied the Material parts of the evidence
of the Exci,e Officers, so
_twat the question was a
mere qbestion of credit, upon all the circumstances,
Sc) erne set of witnesses or the other. The Jury be-
lietied the witnesses for the Crown, and found the
Defendant guilty-, but on account of his extreme
youth, andit not appearing that he had ,any pecu-
niary interest for what he did, they earnestly re.
commended him to mercy, which Lord ELLEN:
BOROUG4- sail he would attend to.
Mr. Gag Row, in the absence of the AiT4pRNE'i
GENERAL:, who had left the COurt, consented that
this boy should not be committed: but should go
back to his friends, on consideration that those who
had been bail for him, before trial shotild continue
their recognizance, for his being forthcoming when
called upon to abide the judgment of the-Court.

THE KING V. ARG43.

This was an indictment for a libel. The De-
fendant, 'who is the son-in-law of Mrs. Montehori,
a.Lady- of great respeetability and fortune at Hack.
ney, the widnw• of an eminent Merchant whose
daughter the affendant married, by' whom he had
children and from whom he is divorced, 'and who
now lives 'with' her mother, and the libel was con.
contained in'an advertisement which had been Pub.
repeatedly by the Defendant (now a prisoner):
;in many of the daily papers,,con'veying to the pub.
lie the reproach on, this LAdy that she took in ilk.'
gitiinate children to he 'educated, and had several of
hceown grandchildren of that description, &c. the
whole being a pure invention of malice. He wrote
to this Lady a number of letters, intimating that
.neither the verdift she had obtained against him for •
3001. in' the Court of Common Pleas, nor any judg.
ment of the Court of King'.s Bench, nor any seve.,
rity of las -should deter him from continuing to
vilify her charaCier, Vic. &c.
The publication of both advertisement and letters
being proved, the Jury found the Defendant !

01D BAILEY.

FIFTH DAY.-MONDAY, FEB. 20.

Tkir business of this day was in general of an
important n,ture, We however notice the following

cases.

Aim Edwards and Aim Hutchins -were charged
with feloniously, stealing, on the r9th of January,
a quantity, of wearing apparel, the property of
Mary Smith.
The Pro'srcurrix, it appeared, is a laundress, and
keeps a mangle ; the. Prisoner Hutchins, came to
her place with some trifling.articles to get mangled.
She had occasion to leave the place for a short time
where the Prisoner Hutchins. waited ; when she
retutned, the Prisoner went away; and shorty after
she mis,ed the articles laid in the indiatnent. She
was hi.;wever traced, and in her -apartment were
found the two Prisoners ; upon Ann Edwards's per-
son a pawnbroker's duplicate was found for some of
the articles. In short; the evidence upon the whole,
was such as induced the Jury to find both the Pri-
soners Guitty.
Lockart and Lawden Gordon, the particulars of
whose Commitment we gave on a forme,r day, were
LH:writ-it to the ,Bar and iiA-orrnd.by .the Court-that
iliey tri,nSt be conveyed froin the
:place of their
then-Confinement to the 'County Gaol'of Oxford.

Margaret Tedwan was charged with feloniously
stealing a Seven Soilling Piece the ptoperty of
Thomas Carter.

The Prisoner it appeared liVed as servant with
the ProsecUtor.--The seven shilling •piece in
question was taken from • a drawer in which he
kept some cash, and at the time contained to the
amount of ten guineas, in half guineas and seven
shilling pieces.--One afternoon he gave the Pri-
_3oner leave to go to a Christening, .and soon after
she went he missed the seven shilling piece. A
Constable was brought, the Prisoner was sent for
and searched, and the piece of coin found in her
pocket : the Prosecutor had marked his gold a short
time previous, which 'enabled him to :identify the
seven shilling piece—it was farther identified by a
Mr. Weaver, Sort-in-law to the Prosecutor, who
particularly described the marks it bore. •
It appeared the Prosecutor felt 'greatly for the Pri.
soner at the time, and, previous to her departure for
confinement, would make her Peke some refreshment
at a neighbouring eating-house. Poor thing! he knew
not what treatment she might experience where .she
was going; he seemed to think himself compellable.
to at as he had dOne by her, and he had the most
favourable opinion of herprevious to this incident..
The Jury deliberated some time upon the cw:;
at length they pronounced• a Verdia of—Not
Guil y.
johnSinith,. alias Rutt, was indified for stealing
two silver tea..spoons, and a pair of sugar tongs, the
property of Stephen Kinsey.
The Prosecutor keeps a tavern in the neigh.
bourhood of Covent-garden. The Prisoner came
to hiS house and called for breakfast on Wednes.
day last, 3nd he attracted the notice of the waiter
.by his 0.. d gestures. He rang the belt and paid for
his breakfast, ;ld immediately after ilie absence ,of
the waiter; he ran out 'at the dOor. The waiter
followed and secured him. On searching him, 'the
property was fountl. in his pckcts, amongst various
doplicates• of similar articles.—. Guilty.
After the trials were gone through, the RE»
CORDER proceeded_ to pass the judgment of the
Court upon such persons as had been convicted
in the course of the S.e.ssiOn,.viz.
Sentence of Death upon John Smith, Richard An-
derson, John Kemp, George Smith, Mary Antler:
son; George Donohoe, James Heath, 'and Ruben
Astlett.

LONDON MARKETS, &c.

RETURN OF WHEAT IN MARK-LANE.
By Messrs. CI. tLo and MA LP AS: Meal tVeighers,
Inducing; only from the 6th of February to the 1 ith of Fe-
' bruary, agreeably to the new Att.
tit Quarters at bos od iiiis Quarters.at cos od,
15.5 -- at, 59s ad • 223
123 ' at 555 bd • 40 ---:--- at,•4Bs 64
96 7,---.--,- at 555 od 94 --"-- at 485 od
3^ar - at
.455 9d
122
sbo - at 53$ 0,1 32 ---•••• at 42.. od
379 - at 415 od
279
Total 3578 Quarters.—Average ;is. 90.
os. 9:td. lower than last Return.

A RETURN OF FLOUR,
From Feb. 4, to Feb. to, from the Cocket Office.
Sacks. s. d. I Sacks,.. s. d. 1 sacks. s. d.
3 53 • 1 1010 44 0 i 394 41 e
29 49 0 23 •43 6 I 500 49 6
39 48 0 ~ 918 43 o 220 40 0
2 47 • 130 4Z 6 1 49 39 e
8 46 0 I 1036 42 0 I to 33 0
11603 45 0 I I
Total 15;74 Sacks.—Average 445. 4id.
, 25.150. lower than la4t return.

AVERAGE PRICE-OF ENGLAND AND WALES.
Ending Feb. rl.
Wheat 50s MI Maley 23s od Beans 35s
Rye szs 4d Oats 2os ad Pease, 375 3(1

WESTERN COUNTRY MARKF.T.S 'last Week) per Qr.
k •
Wheat. Barley. Oats.
Newbury :9s to 56s od as od to 22S od 163 6d to 2os
Salisbury Os to 52S od 120 s od to 24S od 2osiod to 23s
Devizes 465 to 52. s od 2.2 s od to 34s cd igs od to 235
Warminster sos to 545 ad j 24s od to 255 od 205 od to ZIS

PRICE OF HOPS.
SACS. POCKETS.
Kent, 41. 16s. to 51. ros. I Kent, 51. 10s. to 61. 6s.
Sussex, 41. to 51..0. Sussex, 51. cs. to 51. 12s.
Essex, 41. i6s. to 51. ts. Farnham, 01. os. to 01. os.