The Sun.
London, England, 1804-07-19 00:00:00

COLCIJEPT,A., jtity t 7.

TH is day the Com Martial finally eloked on
Lieut. Col. GILL,RNPI a, and then proceeded on the
trial ofCapt. CH INNERY, of the 7th Regiment of
the Army of Reserye, on a charge of insoleot and
contemptuous hefiti‘ii,lor to Colonel, now Brigadier-
General EL w as,• his Cammanding.Officer, on parade.
Mr. LINGFIRLD attended as Counsel for Capt:fin.
CHIN:46V/. The following resped.ible Members.
form the Court :
The Hon..Majnr-General fe • N Hear, President. • •
Major. General Lurd Paget, Major Cameron,
Brigadier-Gen. Robinson, - Gordon,
Brig:idler-Gen. Slade, - Newton. •
Lieut.-Col. Wallis, - Morrison,
----- Stuart, Farquhirson,
caffinnell, Norcot. •
-- CC: J at :
When• this trial is over, there are two or three
mote to occupy the attention of the Court.
To the great regret of the Garrison and the
neighbourhood, Major-General LUDLOW is re.
moved to the Home Distria. He is replaced here
by that meritorious Officer, Major. Gen. BAIRD.
Lieutenint.Gen. Sir JAMES CRAIG had the whole
garrison under arms for a considerable time this
day, to shew them to. Gen. BAIRD, who could not
but highly approve of them.

Yesterday, at the conclusion. of their field elm.
cite, the 3d regiment of Royal East-India Volun.
Seers were drawn up in headquarters, New-strcet,
and the following Resolution of the Cotmnittee for
the Pau iotic Fond, was read by the Atljut,tor, Capt.
BARNARD. Lieutenant-Colonel PARRY then ad-
dressed the objeft of the Committee's bounty, who
in the most grateful terms expressed his gratitude
for the Colonel's interference:
Patriotic Rind, Livid's, 3d yab., tBO4.

At a General Meeting of the Committee for managing the
Patriotic Fund, held this day,.Josarst MARAVAT, E.,(1. in the
Chair Read a letter from Lieut.-Colonel PA a AY, or the 3d
Regiment of Royal East-India Volunteers, recommending
Thomas Coxamack, a Gunner in that Regiment, who, while
on Military duty, hid the misfortune to lose two fingers of his
right-hand : Resolved, " That the sum of Thirty Pounds be
given ;o Thomas Coxamack ; and. that Lieutenant-Colonel
PA vbe requested to draw for the same on the Chairman
of the Coniinittee."

It has been said by the Party Weiters, that they
who are so eager to fix a statue of Mr. PITT would
he better employed in fixing his opinions. We con-
ceive that the Party Writers think that Mr. PITT'S
opinions are already too firmly fixed in maintaining
the Constitutional Prerogative of his Kt No, and in
supporting the Honour and Interests of his Country,
at the must alarming era it ever knew. It would be
much better for the Party Writers to fix their own
opinions, anti not at one time acknowledge the sin.
eerily of Mr. PITT, in his aim to restore their idol
to power, and afterwards arraign him in the most
bitter terms, for obeying the commands of his So.
vereign, and returning to office, because he did not
treat that Sovereign with disresped, and insist upon
the return also of a man whose improper declarations
occasioned his removal from the list of Privy Court.
cillors, and who still holds language, and retains
connexions, which shew that he is incorrigible.
What must the'former friends of Mr. PITT think,
now that they find themselves involved in political
connexions with such a man as the Candidate for
Middlesex ? They must exert their influence in
supporting his canvass, or they will he thought
Imit-warm in their newborn zeal for the interests
of a Party they have so long held in disdain and
abhorrence. Ilozsa TOOKE, with all his catuisei.
cal skill, will not be able to help them in this auk.
ward perplexity.
It never should he forgotten by the Elellors of
Middlesex, that there is a Man who is ambitious 'of
a Seat in Parliament, and who was seen in deep con.
versation with the Traitor DesrAtto a day or two
before lie was taken into custody for those crimes
which, after a solemn investigation by an' English
Jury, rendered iris life a proper forfeit to the offend.
ed justice of his Country.
The late Sheriffs have reason to complain of the
Middlesex Mi/hrs, since they are brought into had
read.
It is very probable that the immediate tools of
BONAPARTZ, military and civil, may rejoice in his
elevation, because they rise in the same proportion ;
but it would be absurd to suppose that the Army in
general, or the People at large, can bear to see all
their struggles for Freedom end in the sovereignty
of a Foreign
_pstart and indeed every recent ac.
Count from France Show' s that the Army as well as
the People, manifest great discontent that such an
should be the end of all their suf.
feti'i'nugsu
s Gasnu:eilOaarge i ltliore the achietementa.
Fort is at present full of Volunteers
_on permanent duty. The last Battalion which
marched in was the Morayshire. The two Fucha.
bet Companies, and the two of Elgin, joined those
of Fortes, without leaving a man behind them ; and
the battalion matched into the Fort in the highest
spirits.
An inhuman wretch, driving a cow from Rom.
ford Market to London, the distance of twelve
miles, on Monday, the animal being overdriven,
laid herself down, when the savage brute set a dog
upon her, who tore her lips to pieces ; he goaded
her behind, to make her rise,
_but she was unable ;
being ingenious in cruelty, he put lighted strati to
her, and literally•burned her eyes out ; she was at
length obliged to be killed on the spot. Some pas.
sengers, shocked at his barbarity, took him into
custody, and gave him in charge of a civil officer.
On Saturday last, about two o'clock in the morn.
ing, the Mail-coach was overturned near Littlebury,
by which accident, it is said, all the passengers (ex.
cept two) received some violent injury, several hay.
ing broken limbs; among them was Lord Furor.
RICK. TOWNSHEND, son of the noble Marquis. The
coach was nearly shattered to pieces, as she horses
ran away with the same a considerable distance.
At Abingdon Assizes, the trial of Mary Greener,
for the murder of her fethale bastard child, was put
off, on account of the absence of a material witness.
John Hazel, charged with stealing from the person,
of -Richard White, a corporal of M trines, on the
King's highway, a leather pocket.book, containing
various bank notes and some silver, stas acquitted of
Lefty, and scnicuccti to be transported for seven
the highway rubbery, but found guilty of grand lar.
iciass

CCURT P. C 4.4 ,V S ju•i.

Ex parte NO 1. A N ;Ft st► i;

. .
H singular tr Insastions . thii Bit,* turcy
mutt be in the mem try of tour Rea.ler.; tvi
been often befire the -Plahlic. Ile aS tfits (1, iy
brought up by virtue of an thibtas Cop/A', direded
by aid ',tan CH ANC F L 1,!4R to the K..erer of New.
gat, to* which- ptisoia he Ili i !wen committed by
the who were disSAtiSfirti With hit
answer's to particular vesti ins on his third...x:lmila.,
An applicatiou had been made, in the year
1797 to the King's Bench to discharge him; but that
Court agreed with the Corninisshners that the Ac.
.count Was unsatkladory, and ordered him ro be re.
minded. Li r 303 he drsired to be re-examined,
which W. 49 - aCcurdinglt complied with ; when the
Commissioners being still dissatisfied, again ordered
him to he remanded. He now applied to the LORD
CH ANC ELLOR CO he ills-4114%6i. In his.p,i' 1* ex.
sanitation he stated, that on going in from
London to Chester, ft%_ini whence he nraot to escape
to •Ireland,,the coach was overturned, hi' whi,l ac.
eidetic he lost his pocket-book, containing Blok
Notts to the amount of 4.,001, which he never
afterwards found,
.0n his rr.examination before the
Commissioners, hr stated, that he hid since been
informed by his wife that he Was.mistaktn,.in sup.
posing he had his pocket-book. in ; that
she, being averse to his leaving Lund in at all, the
night before he set off, while he was in a state of in.
tuxication, took the pocket.book cant/lining the notes
out of his pucker, unknown to 'him ; .2
I Alit she con.
cealed this circumstance from him at the time of his
former examination, and until the year 796. That
his wife was now really to be examined and to eon.
firm this statement.

Mr. CuLt. N, ills Ceunsel, now arlu.ll. th. 4,
case stood upon very different grounds frorrl triage
when the application to the King's Bench was twitle.
That the Court then decided u, oa the incredibility
of his story, it being founded ur on contratiidiJos
in his answer to other question,; but that there
was now no probable grounds tur disbelieving 11.13
statement, as he was ready to confirm it by the ex..
aminati7J) of his wife ; and if it were probable, it
ought to be taken.as sutli:ient. That the puo'er of
commitment by the Commissioners could only be
for the purpose of compelling a discovery 'which
might benefit the Creditors, a►id n:tt for puoish.
meat. That continuing in prison could only t,:)e.
rate to extort from hi►n a confession which would
make him guilty of a capital felony, and if he
made nu such admission, it ►oust be ar► imprisonment
for life.

Mr. Rom! t.t.y, for the Assignees.—The present
examination 11r04eedS upon the ground, that ha
thought his prior examination true at the time that
it was taken ; and although he states now that his
wife two years afterwards told hitt, that it was false,
yet he permits eight years to elapse before he (Us.
closes this to the Commissioners, and he probably
would not have done it then, bad not all these notes
come in, and the payment been enforced against the
Bank of England.* The only excuse that he makes
fur his wife not being examined in the confirmati,,ri
of his statement, was, that she was then intnxicateth
but it is impossible to believe one ward of this man's
story until it is strongly confirmed by other testi
LORD CWANC6I,I.OI.--."I certainly will not
discharge him upon such an examination as this, un.
supported. by any other testimony than his own.:
but let his Wife and him go before the Cominissioners,
and be farther examined upon this statement.
Pawner remanded.

* Our Readers will recollea the case of Carrels T. the
Bank of England, in which 'a verdiet was obniined against
the Bank on one of these Notes fur

Yesterday miming the Right Honourable the LI n n
IVlnyok end-SH E F:Fi went in sta,e from the
sion.Houo., accompanied by several Aldernier, dig
REcortota, and City Officers, to Sr. Margaret's
Hill, in the Borough, where a Court of Comet vanry
was held for the COunty' of Surrey. They then'pro-
ceeded over Blackfriars Bridge, to Freeniaion's
vern, in Great Queen.etreer,
where a Court of ConserVancy for the County of
Middlesex. wat held. They next went to Wesimin.
titer 'Bridge, where they took. water on board the
City Barge to the Castle Tavern at Richmond.;
the LADY MAYORtSS and several. other Ladies were
present, and an elegant entertainment was proVided
on the occasion.

04.4 Saturday evening last, in Gateshead, Durham,
two women ('paupers) having quarrelled, the' one
charged the other with stealing a fine male child she
then had in her arms, apparently about six or eight
months old, fr;itn York. The populace Immedi.
ately took an intertst in behalf of tine infant, arm
'were desirotts of rescuing it from her, when the
inhuman wretch made towards the bridge, and. at.
tempted to throw it over,, but was fortunately pre-
vented, by a Woman catching it by • the clothes.
The two women were then taken bdore a Justice,
who very properly confined them. The child was
taken care of. On Monday the parties were exa.
mined, when the one who charged the other with
stealing the child swore to the fact ; irr consequence
of which the depredator is to be forwarded to
Durham, to stand,her trial at the ensuing aslis.
At the Durham Quarter Sessions, held in that City
on Monday sennight, G.P/act, found guilty of hay.
ing obtained, by fal4 pretences, the sum at 461. froin
John Archer, of Essington, in the county at .I)urlthin,
was sentenced to be imprisoned in the gaol for
two yearq, and to pay a fine of 61. This man was
hired by the township of Easington as a Substitute
'for the Army of Reserve.; but having been disco.
vercd to be an apprentice, he Was prosectited by that
township, and it is to he hoped that the example
made will put a stop to that nefarious pradice.
A poor old woman, apparently labouring tinder
state of mental derangement, went, about the Inildle
of the day yesterday out of the window of a garret.
in Gteat 'Wild-street, where she lodged, upon the
roof of the house, tiorn whcince she threw an eartl:eo
bosun anti some other articks down into the street,
and seemed to threaten both her own destrucAinn
arid that of others for some time. At length a man
was hardy enough to venture out of a winaow urn
the roof ct an adjoining house, where he had the
good fortune. to setore tier, anti got her into the
house without any ACCitknt taking Pinta