The Sun.
London, England, 1804-03-26 00:00:00

CORN EXCHANGE, MARCH Z 6.,

Invhave to-day but a short supply of
.Grair„in.,
general ; Wheat • of- good quality readily, obtains
last prices, bur other sorts go off heavily; Bar.•
ley is rather dearer ; Malt also; Beans have better
sale ; owing to but few fresh arrivals of •Oats,
and without any Cargoes of Foreign, this article.
fetches an advance of is. per quarter; :lour, comes
in good supply, but supports its prices.
1
Wheat 305 a 4os a 54$ od Tick Beans -2,5 s a 32s od
Flue ditto - sis a 575 od Oats - 'Ss a 205 a z 3. od
Rye - - - aBs a3is od Pelar,d ditto 245 a 25$ 6,1
Barley - - 195 a 245 6d Rape Seed - - 351 a 381
Malt - - - grs,a 565 04 Fine Fiour -49 s a 455 opt
White Pease 33s a 40.5 04 Seconds 355, a 3os od
Beaus - - 3os a 363 od

Twenty tons of dollars were sent by The t anal,
the beginning, of last week, under an escort of the
Guards, to Messrs. BouLToN and Co. Birmingham,
for the purpose of being re.staniped in the mariner
we have already described.
At Cambridge Assizes, an aflion was brought by
BENJAMIN l'iTionot...t.s against DANIEL WHITBY,
and MARIA, his wife. It appeared that the wife
had, before her marriage, charged Mr. NICHOLLS
with having committed a rape upon her, and cauied
him to be indicted for the same, at the Assizes of
Ely, in 1805, when the Bill was thrown out by the
Grand jury. A verdict was entered for the Plaintiff
for 10001. subjea to the award of a Gentleman.
Several shocks of an earthquake have been felt at
Comtie, in Perthshire, during the present month.
On Sunday, the ai,h, there was a slight shock, with
several subterraneous 'noises. On Sunday, the I ithi
there was another more violent, attended with a
crackling interrupted sound: and on Wednesday,
the 14th, at two in the morning, there %vas:another
smart shock, the horror of which was increased by
the darkness of the night, and violent showers of
rain, On the evening of the preceding Tuesdry,
huge clouds, apparently charged with eletiric.fluid,
hung over the place.
A fire broke :out on Saturday evening, at the
house of Mr. AisAm, on the west side of Clitiotte.
street, Bloomsbury. It began at the upper part of
the house, and very fortunately so early io the,
evening, that the family were. able to procure in...
mediate assistance. Great part of the property was
removed, but .the house was almost reduced to
.a
shell. "the adjoining houses received little injury,
and the fire was soon subdued by the engines of the
British and Phoenix Offices. The neighh. wring
Corps of Volunteers were useful in preserving tfe pro.
perty from the depredations of inhuman free-hoote.rs.
Friday, Ann Hays was charged before. the 'Ma.
gisirates at..!he'Poblic.Office, Queen square, with
a cruel assanit.npon her own son, only eleVen years
of au,,,for refusing to part with his shoes which he
:bakon,
,and..vvhich she wished to pledge; to proctire
.gin with it appeared in evidence, o,v
handfuls of hair otf his head, and neat him with a
barnmer, which was vroduced in Court clotted with
blood, and some of -rte hair adhering to it.. She
was committed to 'Cochin-adds Bridewell, and the
boy fat under the care of a surgeon.

following :
On the 19th July, 1803, Tfro.mas Brown had a
Writ direned to him from the Court of Record in
Poole, against Benjamin Willis, Mate of a Ship,
at the suit of John Sharp, for a debt of 231. I.2ti. 7d.
Brown hearing that: the Defendant Was-in the Ren-
dezvous, proceeded to that place to arrest him, and
passed up a stair.case through an outer door, and
was in the at of going into the press-room, where
he was in sight or Willis, when he was prevented
by :the Defendant Osmer, who put on his side-arms,
and threatened to kill him if he attempted to force
the press-rooin door; which the gang had shut
against him. The Defendant Osmer then placed
men to guard that door, and went down stairs, and
ordered the lower:doors to be fastened, and men to
guard them, who had orders from him not to let
any body up or.down. He: then went into the back
street, and borrowed a ladder, and took Benjamin.
Willis out of the press.room windoW, and carried
him off, so that Brown, who was imprisoned about
half an hour,' was' thereby prevented from arresting
Willis. 'Mr. JEKYLL also stated, that he could
prove that the Defendant Osmer had. previously de..
Glared, that he knew there was a writ out against
Willis, and he swore tha* they, should not have
him.
The fans as opened by Mr. JEKYLL were com.
pletely proved by the evidence of Thomas Brown,
Mr. John Stickland, Mr. John Brooks, Mr. John,
Bristowe, Mr. John Kendall, and others. On
cross-examination of Brown, an endeavour was
made to prove that the Writ was issued not for a real
debt, but for the purpose' of taking an impressed
man out of the Service ; but it appeared clearly that
Brown had no reason to suspect that in was not a
fair and bona fide debt.
Mr. JEKYLL then stated to his Lordship, that hel
conceived he was not bound to go further in his evi-
dence, and to prove the existence of the debt,. but
if it were, he had the Plaintiff in the AC-lion ready
to produce. The Judge leaving it to Mr. JEKYLL:S
own discretion, Mr. Sharp was called, who posi-
tively swore that Benjamin 'Willis, the Defendant
in the Action, was really and bona fide indebted to
him in the sum indorsed on the Writ. Mr. GIBES
cross-examined him, and asked him, whether he was
not related to the Defendant ? he admitted he was
distantly related by marriage., He then asked, him
how long the debt had been owing ? he said it was
a running account, and commenced in 1 Sol,
.and
the last item was in December 18ozuseven months
before the arrest. Mr. GIBBS then asked what
the Defendant's age was when the Writ was taken
out ? he said_ he believed about 19. Mr. :MOORE
then asked . Mr. Sharp ivhe-tl.-..r, upon his solemn
oath, it was- a bona fide debt ? he repeated it was.
And upon being asked what the debt was for,? 11. P
said, for wearing apparel, and that Bctijamin.Wil-
lis had no father living, but only a mother.
The Prosecutor's case here ended. . „
Mr. Gluns then replied, in an ingeniOus and elo.
.quent speech,: on the part of the Defendant. He
made some strong observations on .the evidence given
-by Mr. Sharp, and declared his belief, that tne arrest
was only a collusion to get the Defendant, Benjamin
Willis, out of the hands of the Impress Officer, and
that the Defendant Osmer.aded upon that belief;
and he argued that the evidence was sufficient to
warrant such a belief. He answered Mr; JEKYLL's
observation with respeCt to the Impress Service
being rather tolerated than sanctioned by the Laws
of this Country : he said that he differed with Mr.
JEKY LL on that point,- and he was supported by
the opinion first given on.the subject b,y
(ice' FOSTER, and which.has ever since been acted.
upon, so that it is now considered.a part of the
Common Law of England. The conclusion which
he drew from it was, that Officers in the Impress
Service were &Cling legally w,hen, in the
.execution
of their duty. :He agreed with Mrs Jatist.4.., that.
the. military and civil power shpuld, be kept disc 4)4,
but he urged that the satanity, of the Laws was some
tunes made a stalking horsy for the worst of purposes;
'and the recital in Mr,.,Jutvis:a.Anctately passed,
proved that it was no unconsmors,thing for seamen
to be taken out of .the Navitlay,false and fictitious
arrests. ,
Mr. Gisius:did not call any-Wirrresses..
Sir A. THoMisort then summed-up the evidence,

A Letter from Rerlin, dated the 28th ult. says,
'l' the Xing has ordered all soldiers absent on
fur-
lough to, join therr—respe6tive regiments. The
movements of the Russian Troops in Lithuania,
Courland, Estlartd, and Livonia, together with the
appointed sailing of ,a Fleet from Cronstadr, with an
Army supposed to. be'desiined for Mecklenburgh, or
Denmark, havegiven much umbrage to the Prussian
. court: Accounts fro.m-Petersburgh, however, say,
that the apprehensions cf a rupture with Prussia had
subsided, althOugh the Army continued in motion to-
wards Livonia and Lithuania, as Well as on the Shores
of 'the Black Sea. Couriers had been sent to all
the Russian Consuls on the Coast of the Adriatic,
with i.struaions to provide necessaries for the Rus-
sian Fleet,_ which they .were informed would be in
those Seas early in the Spring.

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