The Sun.
London, England, 1803-02-16 00:00:00

. COURT. OF COMMON PLEAS; Fr. 3. U.

ISSA,LV W. THONItSON, AND JOHNSTON fv. Dap-
DEStICK.

These arc twti special verdiels,Hinvolving the
merits of the Russian Embargo. The single ques.
tion is, whether the Sailors• are entitled to
• wages during that portion of time they were
out of their Ships, and marched up the coun-
try, which was about six months ? It was
expected that the Lotto Curti.? justicE would
have delivered the judgment at the Cuurt to.
day. His Lordship, however, observed, that the
Court would not deliver their judgment till the
'next Term ; that, they wished to hear another ar-•
gument'on theee'special verdicts, and as the second
day of the next Term was a Paper Day, the Court-
expetted the parties would be ready to argue 'it on
that day.

HOLDEN V. SANDON:

•

A Rul,c, having been obtained on a former day, to
thew cause why the nil
...„:_%coc.anf, Charlotte Frances .
Sandon, formerly the lion. 'IIIN.
should pot be discharged from, the ct:siody of the
Warden of the Fleet Prison, on :in .P.lll,hvit.of her
being a mar:Fit:a woman; Mr. Serj;:ant OlgsLow
read p Affidavit on, the tiara of the PLiintiif,
ltiting, that- the,Delend,int • had bec.'n in the habit
coming, in a asking c4rrj4ge, under the name
of the iionourqbh., Mrs. Sandon, stating, she was
a Peer's daughter, and a perion of 'high rank and
fashion, by which artifice she obtained wearingly-
parch, and,other, articles, to the amotiret of seventy-
seven.pounds,which it, appeared 44e pledged for the
purpose of supporting her husband, Mr. Sandon,'
who.is confined for debt in the Fleet'Prison, under
the:narne; of
.Vitz-flugh. The Learned Serjeant
commented- or the condat' of the Defendant, and
hinted, that this transaetion might halic formed
grounds for a criminal prosecution,—Rule'made
solute.

GUILDHAL SESSIONS.

ON Monthly. the London Sessions, opened at
Guildhall, before the Right Hon. the Lone MAyoR,
Mr. RECORD Elt, and several Of the Aldermen..
Tile first material matter which °coupled thentten...
tion of the COurt was kin Brown, who was in-
clined for twenty.three assaults on Ann Harris, a
child .of eleven years old, who had been bound
Apprentice to her to pinhead =making.
Mr. KNOWLYS opened the indiftment in a very
able manner. He stated, that this Prosecution was,
brought forward by the.. Officers of Bishopsgate Pa.
rich, who had also preferred an Indinthent against
this woman's husband, but who had since died in
prison. In consequence of the Coroner's verdiit,
Ann Brown got rid of the capital part of the of.
fence; but the Parish of Bishop:gate deemed it
their duty to exert the utmost, rigour of the Law
against her.
Mr. GURNEY) who was also for the Prosecution,
first called

Rose Bedford, who said she was a lodger under
the same,roof with the Prisoner, and had often been
a witness of her ill treatment to the deceased. She
has known the Prisoner repeatedly to have given
Ann Harris from nine to fourteen strokes with a
cane at one time ; and she has witnessed the Pri.
toner freluently, in the course of the time, between
the set of July and the t6th of December last, to
knock Ann Harris's head against a leaden weight,
which was a part of a machine used in the business ;
and, on remonstrating with her on such crud con.
duet, she always met, in return, the most abusive
language, and the objet} of her solicitude was sure
to be the more severely Tam!.
Hannah Blewett, a girl about ten years old,
stated, that she, with Ann Grace, and the deceased,
were put out apprentites, by the Parish of St.
Giles's, to the Prisoner and her husband, on Shrove.
Tuesday last; that when they were first put, under
their proteCtion, Ann Harris was in perfett health,
was florid and good.looking ; but shortly after the
Parish had paid the sum agreed upon, they all three
experienced the most cruel treatment, but nme
particularly Ann Harris, who began to he much
impaired an health and strength, and could not
therefore perform the task of work allotted her.
An hour.glass stood continually by her, and it was
expetted by their mistress,..that she was to produce:
(manufaetured) six ounces of pins in the space of an'
hour ; in default thereof, she was treated in the

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YARMOUTH, F LB!

Arfived_james, Cane'', from Rochester; Onslow, A ills,
from I;iverpool iTwo iriendS, Wiseman, from Sea; Tra.
vell'er, tooth, from Suirturland and Shcernes.

GkdkVgSEll/474, FES. 14. •
Past by—the Amity, Sthith, from Venice; and the Lanny,,
,
Beale, from 13ilboa.
'Sailed—the 'Chilton, Walker, for Chirlestim ; Paragon,
Kirtom for liarnbro' ; Susannah, Taillent, tor Calais;
Vrow Alicia, *Davou, for Rouen; and the Twe (ebrociers,
Balina, for Dieppe.