The Sun.
London, England, 1803-08-26 00:00:00

PUBLIC OFFICE, 11/177"0N-C,4,1,DEN4

A case of a singular icid
came ro Ise re-examined at this Oii e, liefote 141:4
BL AM IRE and Mr. KF R .

A. Mr. c: c, 3!:•;(un .44. year,: or age, wi'ul .ipc4k,.l
gno3 ao3 h“s in on the 111.1111i,:rs
or prooonciAtion a Fore.i:oer, cv,,s chiirl,;<!d tvatt
being accessary to the drotvniog of Ann Sn:ith,
the 24. th ult, in the river Thaines, near Clitisc::.

The Prisoner .stated himself to be a native of
Holstein, where he lived upwi rtis c( ten ears. fir
was after that period employed in the situationa of
Mate anal Master on board of ditrerent vessel's.—
About eighteen months ago he bectine aerpainted
and engaged with the husband of the deceasidin
making of pocket-books ; the Psis: to made the
pocket-books, and 'Smith. -carried them for sale
up and down the county. 'lie
in the house of a Mrs. Detawall, w here
also the Prisoner lodged. The deceased.and her hus-
band did not live together, and the Prisoner- was
commissioned by. her litnailnd to take the deceased
into parties, which he accordingly did. He was
in use frequently of carrying her upon I;l,,jhurt•,
parties on the water. On the forenoon of Soo.
day the 2+ll ult. he tuck a boar for this pur-
pose from Mr. GODFItEY's, WestAlirster-blidu,
from whom he had often had boat:, before. in
their return from their excursion tLt!), stopped at
the Swan, Chelsea-bridge, where they :IA tiOtTIC re-
freshment. It was by this time eveniog, aihi the nig!lt
was chilly. The deceased complaining of cold, we
Prisoner took off his. chat, andpitt .it upon her.
In the doing so, the boat veered to one side, and
both the deceased and Prisoner overbOard, The
Prisoner attempted to save the deceased, hut in
vain, and it was with. .difitzulty he- regained • thc
boat.

Mr. GonFREY, from whurn the Prisoner hired
the boat, swore that the Prisoner rcturned with i; in
the evening about eleven 'o'clock, unaccomfanied
the Lady. He at this time wanted his root 'atLA
hat, and was much wet. He told the Witne,.s, that
in putting some catering upbn the Lady, to preserve
her against the cold, the boat ()I/crier, the Lady. vas
lost, and he with difficulty regained the boat. lie
seemed much agitated, and applied to the witnchs
for advice how he should proceed. The witness
advised the employing people to drag the liv.c!r,
and that advertisements ohouM j)c. printed, cffring
a reward for the recovery ,ut the body. Thew
measures , wcrc, accordingly adopted, hut wii out
etTea ; and it was not till the Friday thereafter that
he heard of the body being found.
The Beadle of St. John's,, where the body was
found, proved, that the Coroner's li,quest sat unr.in
it, and Jiad delivered a verdiO, '' Killed by drown.
ing, but the circumstances by t. hich it w;;, occalot li.
ed unknown.''

The Master of the Swan, Chelsea-bridge, ri.col-
,
lefted seeing the ritsoner and 'a Lady at his li use
on the day alluded to. He oliservtA the parties
quairelling. Very high wgfils -ensued. 'Pic Wit-
ness viewed the.condua of the Prisoner as !.eing
highly improper ; and, inirressed with this idea, he
said to " I do not like the al pearanei• of
ihat fellow ; h:s conduit is in ist scandAlous ; and I
should ,not he sttrirised if he threw the women'
overboard."

Being questioned by the Prisoner whether he had
not seen him at his house .in•Ahe forenoon, declared
that he had not, and positively deposed, that at the
time" the parties Called at his the Lady 'was
dressed in a Gentleman's coat, and the Gentleman,
to the best of his recolleelion, wore none,
The mother of the deceased stared, that the cir.
ciunstances attending her dattgliter death were not
comtnunicated to her till the f hatsday after.
Mrs. Delawall, tita person with whom they lodg..
ed, gave an account of het self and 11,4 jotlgjs;
which it seems unnecessary to recapitulate. T!;e,
Prisoner, according to her account, up,in his return
after the unfortunate disaster, did not explain to her
the circumstances ; and it was only from the•deeeas.
ed's husband, whom she had not seen for some time
before, but who appeared the day immediately ltd.
lowing the accident, that she learned the particulAis.
Oh this occasion she represented the feelings, tit the
husband, and of the Prisoner, as haVing been great,
those of herself as being excessive.
The mother of the deceased, upon after exstnina.
Lion, stated, that the last witness had said to her,
chat she might be well pleased with her daughter's
fate; that drowning was an easy death ; and that if
her daughter had not been drowned, her husband
might have shot her.
Mrs. Painter; who was present at the marriage
of the deceased and her husband, swore, that they
together ; that the deceased had an
annuity, n
lituy,hapwhpiiellyr she had mortgaged tar her hrhband
and, in consequence of his neglect, immediately :pre.
Vions to her death insisted opon'hilving it redo:3yd.
The Magistrates committed the Prisoner fur fur..
then examination. '

Yesterday Robert Roberts and
.701.71: tia,vis were
charged before the LORD MAyoR, with anemia.
ing to circulate a note of Isol. which had been
stolen. This note was drawn upon a Mr. Shrander,
and payable at the Antigallican Cotice-how, and had
been picked from the pocket of a Mt. Matte, in
whose pocket-book were twelve or fourteen pounth
in Rank.notes, with other papers, on the 13. th inst.
Webb, a porter, told his Lordship he was applied
to by Roberts and .Davis to go to the Antigalticau
Coffee-house for the payment of this note ; that
when he went be was taken into custody till he pro.
duced the Ptisoner Roberts, who gave him this
note, but said the Prisoner Davis was.with
Roberts, in his defence, said Davis gave bins this
note to get it discounted, but told him in case it Wjit
not honestly come by, he had better send a POrter
with it, and, if it was stopped, he might leave
Davis confessed giving it to Roberts, hut said he
had it from one Finardey, to get cash for it ; that
he sent a person with it to him to the hous.e of one
Cotteral, a public house, near 1,10114-buildings.
The officers produced Finardey, with aoothet of
the name of T. Rohm, its company with hitt).
Some more proof in this case being expt&ed, and
his Lordship supposing this pocket-book wat -toter,
amongst them, thq were ail xemansied for foither
examination.

TI/f? INVAS1011;
A SON(.

131" STFPIIEN IKPMBLE,
DIIATA N C the pow'rs ot Frame,

Defies the Vattnter's Boast !
I rttligitant bids t lie ....Slsives advanet,
Who dare invAtte our Co lit !

CHORUS.

To arms ! to arms, is:-LtAs all,
Co forth your Country's might
Glad your swords at lonour's call,

AIR( Cou defeuti the Right.
Our desp'iate tUes, a Lawlesi Band,

f Ocean can't restrain,
M ust fi'd the Valiant of the Lana,
Can well the Land maintain.

CHORUS.

To arms to arms, &c.

Poser! fres and Cicassy, drench'd in gore,
Long mourn'd their Nobles slain-; •
The French were thrice as Strong, and More,
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c"o,K v s .

To aims ! to arms, kc.

()lir valiant deeds who has nor read ?
When modern records tall,
How France hei6re IzaN D'Aca.c fied,
How A%tiv.Cl4.o4:lll'

C!IORUS.

To.anns to arms, ire.

• The routed Fleets of France avow
To her eternal•shame,
..That V: metriv,,, DUNCAN, NZLSON, flows,
Have galled Immortal Fame.

CUORM

To arms ! to ions•, scc.

Fight, Britons, tight it, to the last,
And let the wond'ring Sun,
Betiol4l your Father!3, surpass'il
When, Act NCOOKT WAS.Won.

etto

To awns ! to arms, acc.

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tXTRACT OF A LETTPR, DATIZO PORT OP SPAIN,

25ru JUNE, 1803.
:di Col. FUIVARTON landed here on the 17th in,
vane, accompanied to the King's Wharf by the
Boats of the British Ves3els in thePOit, with colours
flying, 'Where he was received by a Guard from the
37th Regiment, under a discharge of Cannon from
the For( and the Shipping, and in King's-street by
all the Militia of the Town drawn up: in a Line,
who saluted him as he passed. He has already Made
some salutary changea,,and we look forward with
pleasure and Saric,fittijon'to more from his able, mild,
yet firm Administration. We want now the esta-
blishment of the glorious British Constitution,- an
event that would ensure the prosperity of this valu.
able Island, by
,iiicieasing its population to a vas(
extent, and raising the valUe of Landed Property
nearly-one-third. God grant we may soon be raised
to this enviable situation, fur we have too long
groaned, under an arbitrary and oppressive syitem,",

ABourtotr or Cowes PERQutsvriso—To con.
sequence of the high price of butcher's meat, Which'
has continui In. some length of time past, a num.
her of philanthropic Gentlemen met last week at the
Bull Inn, York, for the purpose of ascertaining the
cause thereof; By documents there produced, it
was adjudged, that. only about three-fourths of the
fat meat daily purchased of butchers, fOund its way
to table ; the remaining one-fourth, as ti moderate
pretty-little perquisite, is retained 'by cook's and
other domestics io families, who'tiell it to the pub.
lic for inferior, and often disgraceful purposes ; hut
if used as a nutriment, a dual; quite praCticable,
would teed 50,000 people daily. This statement
of fads calls loudly for reform, especially in war
time, when every article-of sustenance may be
fairly expeeted .to advance in price, 'during its con,
tintiance ; and is a sad reflection on the economy of
Johnny Bull, who, glutted with many of the real
good things of this life, negleCts to embrace the
comfort of a viand so much iii perfeCtion in England.
And 'whilst the atiove destructive system of kitchen
economy is so impolitically suffered to remain, the
obje'd of the feeding Societies, which is to procure
fit meat at market instead of lean, thereby even.
may, it is expe6ted, lessen the price of butcher's
treat, will still continue to he defeated,—lt is!suf.
ficient to observe, that resolutions.- were unani.
tnonsly entered into by the company present, to
Cfnereisary, mori swages to Coo4i, deed abolish
terviititet of fat, and other old: qf meat, altogether,
which we hope to see adopted throughout the
kingdom that will, in the first instance, it is ex.
}Nava, be a means of'reducing the.price of'butter ;
*ndy.rerhaps tend t 4) 10t15en'
,the, price-of butcher's
must, is bell;t4.esperimeotal tlighes, .composed of
fat, were tasted apa approved of, .
04 ES PO IC EOF riCt.—On Tuesday and the
day before nearly. forty Wpierrnen'appearect before
the tvlagistrate,' by ;virtue of summonses, for not
wearing the number of their boats:in' the front of their
cops or hats ; some of them had voneealed their
badges between the hat and aeratie, thinking thereby
to evade the penalty of the Att. A. 'Waterman of
the name of Elliot, of RarcliffCross, said he would
not 'pay ;try fine ;he wonld:_soonet go the }lroise
of Correaion, awish in which the Magistrates
retactantly indulged hitm The' Watermen Were all
convided its different :surrt . from ten shillings to
forty shillings, according :to tlse measure of their
rewe ft. t‘t. oftnct
s,'l,-:ifitt:ly a klitinken hackney, thachorm, by
'tnanly whipping his horses_ait he was -driving o'ver
We.strninwr th.i,ige, occasioned one of the animals
to entangle ita lietween one of the rniet..s ;nl,l the
pole, lay Which its ,kg was brOken.. the
I'i roc was shot, and the offender ionriediately taken
ctihrody, tali cOnyeyed bt ,the'Mitgi:itrittis
Queen-.straare,'

CURT OF CHANCERY.

LINCOLN'S-INN HALL; AUG. 19.
IN THE MATTER Or:MICHELL ANA WOOD.

A Petition was .presented, to supersede a Con.
mission of Bankruptcy issued against' Messrs.
chefl and Wood, and that the expence.nisupersel-
ing the same might be defrayed by Mr. Lee, in
attorney. . .

. It appeared, that the affairs ofMitchell and Wo)d
becoming embarrassed, they had consented to tinKe
an assignment of their
.property tOr the beneAt of
their creditors. Accordingly Mr. Lee. was en.
played to prepare such assignment. Lee did so, and
afterwards went round to all the creditors. to induce
them to,sign it. When the Creditilfs had signed the
deed, Lee, who was also a creditor, refused to id- •
low the example he had recommended. The lots. ,
tion therefore was, whetheace, having undertaken
to ad as Solicitor, could afterwards put. an end to
the transanion,' optin the faith of which he !Ltd pre.
vailed on the parti,s to,asseot to the Deed of Trust ?
The.LORD CHANCELLOR was of opinion, that it
wag 'a direct frattd upon Michell and Wodti ; he
doubted Whether any creditor who had Signed the
Deed, could take a dividend tinder such a' Commis..,
sion. 'if Mr. Lee had discloSed to evOy tredir2r,
that he intended to take our a einntnissinti, alter
they had Signed the Deed of Trost, the case would
have stood upon a different footing. He thought it
monstrous for Lee to have taken out at Comniksion,
alter he had atted as .Agent, and Solicited the cre-
ditors to agree to",the ,assignment. Itis Lordship
accordingly O'rderca the Coratuissjoo to he super-
seded,

.1 LAW REPQRT.

COURT OF KIN'G'S BENCH, juLy z.
T:TTIN.S Al GUILDHALL, ZETOREIORD tta-Lnsoltouau
AND A. sj•gcji.i. JU&Y.
GRIEN 'V. SMITH. -

rril s was an atctinn of trespass. The declaration
stated, that the servant's of the 'Defendant; had so
negligently and un,kilfully itayikated a Mit-belong;
inkto him, t!-tat she struck 'against :a Lighter:of the
Plaintiff's, anti damaged to the, amount, of 7001.-2
a cargo of sugars which the lighterliadort Wald.
As is but too. common on such ttecasions, all the
Witnesses for the Plaintiff swore one way, and all the
Witnesses for the Defthitlant another,. The: accident
happened near the entrance of the.Pnol, aboutßell
Whatf,Tier. -'The Defendant's vessel was a Shields
She'vas coining up the River, and about
an hour before high water she had approached the
place where she, was to be .moored. Sht: way: 111,1 d
fast' by two warps. Her anchor, hung a cork bill.
The Plaintiff's lighter was bringing up :sugars from
a West India Man. Whether she took the proper
way to pass, depended entirely upon the credit of
the Witness, who differed even as-to the point,
from which the wind blew. When the two veisels
struck, the lighter .was. pierced by the brig's an.-
ehor, and had it not been fur 4 tarpaulin, and
blankets applied .to her bottom, "she would have
srantly gone to the bottnm, She was with difficulty
drawn to a neighbouring Wharf, and but a small
part of the sugar: had been taken outi when she
sunk.

The Jury found a verdiafor the Plaintiff. The
amount of the &trines to be settled out of. Court.
Two Elder Brethren of ihe trinity.house at.
ten4led as Assessors to the Judge. •