The Sun.
London, England, 1804-06-04 00:00:00

THE POOR's RATE.

A printed Abstraa of the Returns made under
the Aft for procuring Returns relative to the Ex-
'pence and Maintenance of the Poor in England and
Wales, up to the 9th-of May, ISo4, so far as the
Returns hive bcen transmitted, has been laid on the
Table of the House of Commons, by which it appears
that the

Total Money raised by the Poor's Rate, and C. 4. d.
other Rate or hates, within the Year, end-
ing 1803, was
Y)f Which sum was expended
in Houses of industry and
Workhouses, in England,
for Maintenance of the Z. s. d.
. l'oJr - - - 992,04 3 ei
titso out of Workhouses 2,819,539 IS 8
In Suits of Law, Removal
of Paupels, Expellees of
Overseers, and other Offi-
cers -
xpended for other purposes,
as Church Rate, County
Rate; Highways,
Ace.

419i2,42-1 14 lii

187,904 To 3

9:0,652 4 5i
....-------- 4,93 I ,206 16 5i

Total Rates raised in Vales, in 1803, - - 176,424 18 B.}
t which was exile. ded in
Workhouses, - - 6,ai2 15 2
Out of Workhouses, - - 130,669 2 91
In Law and Removal of
Paupers,

5,9ir 2 101

-------------- 142,841 o To

Tito total Ex?enditure in' Eng-
land and Wales, as made up
from 13,889 Returns receiv-
ed, - - - - 5,128,846 ,3 71
Estimated Deficiency from 707
Returns, not received or im-
crfeet, - -
Grand expelled total,

- 117,660 o 0

------i,246,506 13 71

Ti: number of Persons relieved permanently, (in-
cluding Children), in Workhouses in England and
Wales, from Returns received, and estimated De-
ficiency from those nth received - - - 50,492
Ditto ditto out of Workhouses - 329,729
Ditto, ditto, relieved occasionally - 299,823
Number of Friendly Societies, containing 832,0c0
Members - - 9,397
Number of Children in Schools of Industry - 20,703
The average sum levied for the Poor's Rate in
England, is 4.5. 6d. in the pound. In Wales, 7s. 3d.
in the pound.
It appears by the average of each County, that
Sussex and Monmouth pay the highest rate ; the
first paying Bs. Bd. in the pound, the latter St. 6d.
The two lowest Counties are Northumberland,
which pays Is. Sid.; and Durham, which averages
ts. sfd. in the pound.

CURIOUS TRIAL.

(PROM 191YRNAL DES TR IBTINATTX.)

IostACQUFS NOTTI ER, an invalid, aged zs, having
his right leg in the service of the Republic, ap.
geared on the 16th Ventose, before the Criminal
Tribunal of the Department of the Seine, accused
of having married within these last eight months,
three different women, Maria Dabaud, Maria Ber.
:rand, arid Louisa Perrani, who were all present,
iledi-PRged their 3its of marriage, before the td,
4th, an 4isCiet of -Paris. During .the
trial it came uti that th Prisoner had made It for
years a regular piatlice to blrryenew. wife wherever
he went with his regiment ; and to the knowledge
of his own brother he had atraody .eourteen French
wives alive, be:rides oae ItAtn, one Swiss, and two
Dutch women, who hash been married 'to him in
those Countries where
.in, Garrison, .or encamped
there. Before he was -eighteen, he had been di-
vorced, according to the laws of the. Republic, from
five wives, not included In the above number, by
whom he had six children ; and the three wives
now before the Tribunal all declared themselves to
be in a state of pregnancy by him. Being asked
by the Public Accuser if he many children with
the other women not present, though known; to ,be
married to him he-answered very coolly, " J had
at least one with each cabman, and I believe that
have as many children alive as I can count years."
He offered to give the names and places of resi-
dence of as many wives as he could remember to
have married ; and gave in the names of eleven in
eleven different Departments. To gain time to in-
quire after these women, the Commissary of Go.
vernment proposed, and the Tribunal consented, to
put off this trial until the 6th of Germinal, on
which day, eight of those women, each with a chill,
came before the Tribunal, and identified their faith-
less husband;- who had the impudence to• declare,
that if he had been a Grand Sultan, he should have
kept them all in his Seraglio, as he loved them all
with the same affe6tion. After a trial of three
hours, he was found guilty of Bigamy, and con-
demned to be punished with a fortnight's imprison.
ment, and to regard Anna Varnis, whom he had
married nine years ago, as his only wife, - To this
he refused to assent, saying, that instead of punish-
ment, he deserved a reward ; and that many persons
had been made Members of the Legion of Honour
for less patriotic deeds than his, and that he intend-
cd to petition to the First Consul for ohtaiaing per-
inission to chuse his own wife among his own
wives.

The galleries were unusually crowded by fatilifin,
able Ladies ; among whom were counted, Mack-
moiselles Contat and Tvlezairais, wiApinirot4t,
ft; st.rate Aaresses.

Yesterday afternoon a young lad, about 14 years
age, bathing near the Albion Mills, got out of
iris depth, and went down. Another lad, something
Aler than him, went to his assistance.' He was
olile to swim well, but the clinging of the first boy
to him, brought them both under the water. In a
,hors time atter that the first lad appeared above the.
burface of the water, on the back of him who had
bone to his assistance, and called out for help.—
Übe lad that had the other on his back then felt
his own life in danger, and disentangled himself.
The other then fell, and was drowned. The body
vi as searched for for some time in vain,

Yesterday morning, about seven o'clock, a man
bAthing in the Serpentine River was suddenly taken
with the cram;, and was unfortunately drowned be-
fore any assistance could be given him. A num-
b L-r of men were employed in two boats dragging
.1 ,r the body during the day, but without success.

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