The Sun.
London, England, 1828-06-12 00:00:00

ADMIRALTY SESSIONS.

These Sessions commenced yesterday morning, at
the Sessions House, Old Bailey, before Sir CHRIS-
ToPHER ROBINSON, KIIt. who for the first time sat
there as Judge of the High Court of Admiralty ;
,Mr. Justice Park, Dr. Lee, Dr. Haggard, Dr. Ar-
nold, Dr. Blake, Dr. Nicholls, Iltid Nichol, Esq., his
Majesty's Procurator-General; William Townsend,
Esq., Admiralty Proctor ; James Farquhar, Esq.
M.P., Deputy Registrar; and John Deacon, Esq.
Deputy Marshal.
Sir C. ROBINSON shortly addressed the Grand
Jury before they retired to find the bills preferred,
and it was not until one o'clock that any were re-
turned.

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seas, about three miles from Sincapore, in the East
Indies, one boat called a cutter, of the value of 901. ;
seven pistols, value 10/.; two muskets, value W. ;
two compasses, value 405.; two tarpaulins, value
4/. ; one main-top, gallant studding sail, value 25/.,
and other articles, the property of John Christie
Locker and partners,
And in a second count the said articles were
charged to be the property of William Cruickshank.
Two only of them were in custody, namely, Hop-
kins and Ferguson.
Mr. BARRY, on behalf of the two prisoners, ap-
plied to have their trials postponed, on the ground
that Hopkins was only committed yesterday, and the
other prisoner only taken last night.
Mr. Justice PARK thought there was sufficient
ground for the postponement of their trials; but he
was most aaxious that they should not be punished
by being imprisoned for six months before they could
be tried. He was disposed to liberate them on mo-
derate bail being given.
Eventually it was agreed that in order to avoid su
long an incarceration, the Sessions should be ad-
journed to the 2d July.
These are two of the men for whose apprehension
application was made at the Thames Police-office
for stealing the articles charged in the indictment
from the Farquharson East Indianian, the property
of Messrs. Inglis, Forbes, and Co. The men were
sent home in another ship by order of Government,
and when coming op the River, they all made their
escape except Hopkins, who was too drunk to get
away.
G. Beaumont was called to appear against Capt.
and appeared. It AVM be recollected that
lividual was tried and acquitted upon a charge
thisßr agigne
of having murdered a black man, on a voyage front
the East Indies.
The prosecutor having appeared, a bill was pre-
pared instanter, and found true by the Grand Jury.
The charge is that of an assault, arising, we
under-
stood, out of the aforenamed transaction. The
Court was then adjourned.

GOETHE'S WILHELM MEISTER.—The idea
of a female in officer's clothes always reminds us of one of
the most beloved of our book-heroines—poor little Mari-
anna in Goarna's novel of Wilhelm Meister ;" and this
puts us out of taste with all other fair Captains. What a
picture of her is that at the beginning of the novel How
satisfactory to the senses ! And how deserving she proves
herself of the heart! What a pause is that, at the conclu-
sion of book the first ! And how we pity her afterwards :
and are mad with that impatient weakling her lover ! But
we are talking of what the reader may know nothing
about. If so, we exhort him to procure the book imme-
diately, and sit down and study it; for it is not a novel
of the common sort, or to he read without a commentary
of thoiight and experience. There is en excellent transla •
tion of it, in three volumes, published by WHITAKTRs,--
Companion.