The Sun.
London, England, 1803-04-30 00:00:00

P.JRIS; Ititur. 27:

CHs Corvettes l'Etorthante anti la
hai'e arrivetl%t Bret from Guadaloupei which place
they left on the llth Of March:

MILAk, APRIL from N Write ritiet,
tinder date of the 9th of April, that the arrival' of
.an English 'Vessel had occasioned the holding of a
Council of States at the breaking up of which flu
Frentli'Mittister expedited a Courier to Paris in
all haste: The Courier set out about twelve hours
after the . English Vessel had entered the Port.
This event has not failed to give birth to several
contradictory reports, for instance, of u Convention
'concltided with France for receiving 20,000 men iii
their Ports in case of War, and of another set on
foot with England relative to Sicily: .
BRUSSELS, APRIL
.received herr
from different points of the Coasts of Flanders, agree
in stating. that a Division of English Ships of War
of different rates arecruizing at the -mouth of ;its'`
Scheldt, anii that a Cutter advanced within can:.
non shot of the Road of Flushing. The French
Garr,ison of that place, about 3000 strong, arc
entirely in barracks. •A detachment of Anil.
lery is about to embark at Bresienr, for the Isle of
Walcheren. It is said that Barracks will lie 'con.
strutted on the Downs between astenctond Nien.
port, for the cantonment of a •Corps of Infantry
but this measure will only probably be' carried into
execution in' case of -an aftual rupture.- General
Bat:Li/sub continties his general inspettion of the
Coait of ci.devant Flanders. •

The preparations for the reception of the rirst
Consul have redoubled their activity since the re.
turn of the Prefed to Brussels. The First Consul
is still expcled on the loth or 14. th of May.
VIENNA, APRIL ,13.--,Ttilo Couriers have PT.
rived lately from Paris, with Dispatches for our
Ministry, and for the French Ambassador. The
report is every day snore confirmed, that in case of
a War betvvecn 4ngland and France, our Court
will observe the most stria neutrality.

FLLltill INC, APRIL 17. —Not wic hstandirt, the
great number Troops 'which cr:mpose the Garrisois
of thii place, the 'greatest tranquillity prevails.—
General MONtIT, who commands here, has not yet
rxercised all the powers which are vested in him by
the Laws of Frarxe, as Commandant in a City in a
state of Siege.

Yesterday afternoon a Second liainburgh Mail
arrived. It brought nothing furthor relative to
the Misunderstanding between ibirria anti Sque,leai
which we suppose cvtll. be..'ccommodated.,

. .
• A number• of French Troops were, expeaca at
Nimegue4 on Sunday or Monday last, ft): which
quarters had already been ptovided. Aese Troops
arc, it is said in Letters from the Ilagro, to form
a Camp in 'the neighbourhood of that City, and in
ease of Hostiliiies Hie destined for Hanover.
Mr:. HENRY FA NE reported yesterday in the
House of. Commons, from the Dublin Univetsiiy.
Eledion Conmittee,, that the Hon. G. KNox was,
duly eleded, and that the Petitton pi Mr. PLuNkErr
was not frivolous or, vexations,

The Lotti Lieutenant and the Gentlemen of Cairh.;
nets, have not only publicly refuted the attael: made
on Sir JOHN gl NC LAI u, on a, charge of depopulating
his Estates in the Highlands, but have also aeknow.
!edged the obligations they are under to him, for
introducing a number of valuable improvements into'
that remote, pan of the Kingdom. There cannot be
a mere honourable testimonial, and it is the moz.
flattering to the worthy Baronet, as it is seldom
that any person is a Prophet in his own Country.
On the 13th' inst. GARNERIN, accompanied by
one M. GA!ITNEItt• Merchant of Berlin, . made an
aerial excursion with his Balloon. He ascended at
half an he ur after six, and about half 'after seiten
desceitdcti at Mittinwaidv, in the Saxon Territo.
ries.

Yesterday, at half past eleven o'clock, the Lot:.
tery Wheels arrived at Somerset Howe, the drawing
having finished the day before,, drawn or fu Lit
sledges, and were lodged in the apartinent whure
they are usually kept. •

Tild west end of the Bank is to be pulled down,
and the building extended more towards the 01d
Jewry. The !Rinses in Princes-street and in Lot 11:.
bury, to near the Old. Jewry, are pulling down ,for
this purpose,

'CifAXLES JAMES Alits Esq. Member of the.
House of Representatives of South Carolina, was
murdered on the 6th of March. His body was
found on the Bth, on the road leading from Charles.
town to Georgetown.
On the rst of April, at Dresden, Mrs. CAMP.
BELL) the Lady of ALex. CAMPBELL, ftSq. of
GatCOrlih House, in the Isle of Wight, -and Lite
Lieut. Col. of Majesty's 86th Regiment of
Foot, was safely delivered of a Daughter. •
Died, on Thursday morning, at her house in
Brunswick.square, the Wife of WI Lt. t WALKER,
Ecq. whose liberality of sentiment, propriety of
conduft, and affection of heart, make her loss deeply
felt by all who knew her.
To witness the representation of the new Grand
Serious.liallet, called Lk visa of Lombardy, or Ilia
Secret Nuptials, at the Royal Circus, is a most ex,
ccltent treat;
t it last night drew a very splendid
audience ; Mrs. Parker, as the Heroine, lu:titivated
it in the most fa icinating style. It was raptor
I ;applauded, pplatkci, and wilt be again repeated on Mon.
day, next for the seventh
,time.

LAW REPORT.

COURT OF KING's APRIL 29.

MR. ERSKINE moved for a Rule to shew Cause
why severslDelentNnts named in an affidavit should
not be permitted to file common Bail, and be liberated
from their present Arrest. A person Of the name of
Richard Coppinger, who stated in his affidavit, that
he was ntiw'a Prisoner in the King's Bench Prison,
upon ;„ Judgment obtained against-him, on an Ac-
tion. for a malicious prosecution agaiest one of the
persons who was a Defendant in this Cause, had
thought proper to make an Affidavit, stating
that Peter Isaac Thellusson, George Woodford
Thellusson, and William - Mitchel, witlthold and
• •
unjustly detain from him, Policies of Insurance
0.11 two Brigs, which he estimated at 70,0001.; and
then the Affidavit stated, in the usual way, that
there was no tender made to him in Bank Notes of
this Sum; opon which two of these Gentlemen were
arres4cd, aed 1 eld to Bail. His application now to
the Court was, that they might he permitted to file
common Bail. He had the Affidavits of these Gen-
tlemen, which stated, that Mr. Woodford 'Delius.
son and Mr. Mitchel gave- bail to the Sheriff, and
the other Defendant was not held to bail, he being
a. Member of Parliament. That the Policies of In,
surance, stated in the Affidavit of Mr. Coppinger,
amount, d only to 80001. and out of which was to
be deduited Premiums paid on Insurance to the
amount of 12601. ros.; anti all which Monies
stated to be thus due by them to Mr. Coppinger,
were scceunted'from his account.current with them,
the leading particulars of which were stated in the
Affidavit. To this was added the Affidavit of
Clerk of the House -of Messrs.' Thellusson, by•
which it was sworn, that there is now a Balance
to the amount of
due to them front Mr. Coppinger,
16331. 17s. 4d. or thereabouts; and yet this man
had thought fit to arrest these Gentlemen for the
sum of 70,0001. so as to require of them two Bail
of the amount of 140,0001. each.
He said he was very well aware it was not open
for him to canvass, at present, the merits of the
'Case; and yet this was so flagrant .a Case, that it
- must strike the Court with .apprehensiOns of a se.
tious nature, if there could be found no means of
relaxing the rigour of the Role by which Plaintiffs
had this latitude of holding to bail ; for a man
mipt be placed in a situation in which he must re.
main in prison from the day of 'his arrest.until the
cause was tried ; for it would be quite impossible,
for any man to find bail to such a large aMount as
this:. Jr would be a dreadful thing forthe Public
if these measures were to be taken, of balding men
to bail 'for these enormous sums, at the whim and
fancy of a man who chose to swear that another was
indebted tohim.in any. sum—there would be .no liv.
ing in safety in.this Country if this praelice was to
be continued. This Gentleman, Mr. Coppinger,
had, in his moderation, only held' these Gentlemen
to hail for 40,0001. for he might by the same,rule
have held them to bail for 140 ; and to say
that the Court had no discretionary power over -such
a Case as this, when they had a discretionary power
over almost every other that came before them,
would be most extraordinary.. •In this respedt the
• Court of King!..:Renott heft! . a tiiirerertit rule From
that of the Common' Pleas, and, upon.the whole,
with deference to the Learned fudgea of the other
Court, he thlught the rule of the Court of King's
Bend the wiser of the two, they had determined
not fo entertain Affidavits on .the merits of a Cause
before it was tried by a Jury, because, they said,
that would be • trying the Cause; but -here, he
maintained, •it was .manifest therewat an abuse of
tin Process of the Law, which
~was the worst of
tyranny, because it was effeted in the name of Jut.
tice. He therefore submitted to the Court,
.that
upon the Defendant's bringing into Court these
Policies of Insurance, by which it would appear,
that the interest in them did not amount to Scoot.
Mr. Coppinger should thew Causewhy these Gen.
tletn•n should,be held in bail for 140,t0001, If Mr.
Coppinger • came forward and answered this, • and
-thewed how ;these Policiet Of Insurance amounted
to the Vdlue of 70,0001, he should_ have nothing
snore to say ; his Clients must submit to the hard.
ship, however great, of being held to bail for this
enormous sum, by a man who, upon the face of
accounts, was their debtor ; .but if, on the other
Italia, to give it the gentlest term, this should ap.
pear to be a misapprehension of Mr, Coppinger as
to the value of these Policies, then, surely, these
Gentlemen should not be held 'to bail to this prodi-
gious sum. This, he submitted, was not trying
the qoestion at issue between the •parties, and
,therelOre did not- come within the Rule which the
Court had' prescribed for itselfrind in which i
differed from the .Court of Common Pleat.

Mr, justice LE BLANC said, he doubted very
much,
,whether the Court of Common Pleas would,
upon Aflid.ivits,
.try the existence of a debt; he
believed there was no determination that went that

Mr. ER6KINV said, they permitted contradielory
Affidavits to be filed unn the subject of arrests and
detention for debt.

Lord 41, NEIOROUCH said he believed the Court
of Common Pleas went into an examination of the
question -of amount; so as to have the dial, in some
cases, of reducing the debt, As to this praaice
of holding to hail, without saying any thing of the
continuance of it, it had certainly much in• it
worthy of consideration, fur it was left to the mo.
Aeration of the person "who chose to swear to a
debt, whether the Defendant should or should not
have it in his power to procure his enlargement by
pail ; for a person might be arrested for a sum for
cilich no -man in thekindom could procure bail.
His Lordship said. he was not 10W saying what
Ought to Are done, but certainly the consequence of
this praelice might be, that a
,man might lie in
gaol from the last day of Trinity Tern) to the first •
of Michaelmas. His Lordship desired to know
whether the ,Writ or the Affidavit stated any trover
or conversion, because if the anion was trover,
and no conversion stated, it would be bad. It
theo.appeared the Adlion was not fur conversion;
but for detaining the policies; so that there was no,
delea in the Plaintiff's statement.