The Sun.
London, England, 1810-09-24 00:00:00

PREYCH "lAD DUTCH PAPERS.

PARIi, SEPT. iO.-Ott the 4th inst. his Majelty
issued aDeciee,.hy which the expOrtaiion of ifrenci,
silks continues to be prohibited. The law ut the
30th April, perinit!iog' the exports►tiou of cer ail,
kind; .of silk, suspended. unlit the Ist
Isll. _

'An Imperial Decree of the 28th ult. contains the
fallowing provision,. :

" t.' Vessels sailing with licenses are expressly prohib,ted
from takiugon board passengers for England, or-bringing back
with them passengers truin England to France,. untrss pro-
vided 'with passports signed' with our hand.
" z. Every passernker wood on board any licensed vessel,,
going to or cooling from England, without a passport signed
by us, shall be taken into custody.
" 3. Every vessel contravening the present Order shall be
put under sequestration on-her arrival, and reported to us.
(Signed) " N.kPOLEON.!t •
PARIS, SRE't. T. ibunal of Verdun
have just condemned four individuals to „t wo,, three,
and six months imprisonment., and 987 franc's pe-
,.alty, for having favoured- the escape of Engh.stipri-
soners. • . . .
FiVe marriages between Englishmeits and 'Ffenelt
ladies have been. celebrated'at'Verdun during the last
three weeks. • •

Their Majesties took an airing in a phaeton'at St.
Cloud yesterday. Tfiere were all sorts of sports.
The phaetOn went slowly, and thew was net the
least dcsorder at the fete.

•
• VIENNA, AUG. 27.—We have at:lengrh received
advices from Turkey that may be telieLl on.—The,
left wing-Of the Russian army, under the corritoand
of Lieut. General Von Sass, is still entrusted with
the blockade and bombardment of Ruch:chuck ;. tor
the Russians have not yet thought .propet to.besiege
the
.phce in form. The General in chief, ic..amens-
koy, wishing to get possinsion ot- the tOrtress to se-
cure his positions on the banks of the D
forced -the blockading corps wish from 8 to 10,000
men from his -main army, and proceeded in person
to storm, the place which the Turkish commandant
refused to surrender. In repeated assaul,s, all of
which proved 'unsuccessful, the Russians lime log
from 5 to 6000 men ;, 'the loss of. the Turks was less
considerable.. The-Russians, nevertheless, have nut
sustained such a defeat 'as to compel t hem- to r4ise
the blockade.; •on the contrary, they -have invested
Rudschnck,rnore claSely than before. • Tire General
in Chief was sil' in- front of. the place, la filch had
not surrendered on the 13th, but Has in great .want
of provisions and•military
COPENHAGEN; AUG. 23.—The Court Gazette of
this day contains, the following article :77-•
A Decree of the '9th inst. contains the following
dispositions

" The line which, beginning at our town of Neustadt, in
our I)-uchy of Holstein, passes through Ahrensbak and Sege-
berg, thence to 0 Idesloe, U lzDurg, and Ratinster, eziti thence
passing through the fortress and city Of Gluckstadt, foilows
the curse of the Elbe to Brunsbuttel,' and thence extends
to :El usual, shall be co-nsidered, until furt;ier orders, as a spe-
cial line of t Liston's, beyond which no prolluttions other than
those of Europe, can be exported by land or water." .
ale only . exception to this• general' enaelment
with regard to ine.ohandize, relates to refined sugars,
'molasses, and other fort:ign articles absolutely neces-
sary tor the retail tride, domestic consuMption, or
the use of manufactories in the Danish territory
sitcaie beyond the line above described. .The,regu-
'Am's renthred.necessary by this exception -are un-
der the superintendence. of a speCial commission.
Ot the probibqed articles, no retail dealer •is allowed
more than a six month's stock ; but private families
are allowed tiduble that quantity. The excess is or-
dered to be conveyed within the line in •the space of
three weeks, under the,penziliy of copfiscation. The
town of Altotia remains a privileged place as to the
'goods in depot, but.the exportation from it is. sub-
.ieLted to the same restrittinns. ,For all Danish v-
sels• navigating the Elbe, bond's are required to the
amount of one-fourth of the value of sbliand cargo.

OLD BIJILEY, SEPT. 21.

FOURTH DAY.-.SATURDAY, SEPT. 22.

, CHARGE OF, MURDER. . .
Richard Grijfiit wWs indicted fur the murder of
Ann his wife. 'Tile murder was committed on the
sth instant, at his lodgings, Onslow-street, Safrron=,
Hill.

The first witnesses'called were Griffin's brother
and his Wife, who.were both in' the room at the
time ; but, though called on their recognizances,
from some unaccountable cause they did not ap-
pear.—The cause then proceeded : " • •
Mr. Watkins, a Lir-dresser, heard the cry of
". murder" at about half past twelve.; he got up and
ran down' to the watchman, with whom he pro-
ceeded to. the house ; • tltey Went into the prisOner's
room, where • they. saw 'Thomas Griffin (the pri-
soner's brother) and his wife., and on the bed the
deceased, coveled with blood. Griffin went for
medical aid ; Dr. Skinner came, he, found the poor
woman mortally wounded, her throat being.cut, arid.
the A,ind-pipd divided. He ordered her immedi-
ately to be conveyed to St. Bartholomew's Hospital,
but she 'died on the road. The prisoner was ap-
prehended, and conveyed, first to the watch=house,
and thence to New. Prison, Cierkenwell. He heard
the prisoner say, he hoped site would be dead by
the morning."

Winterboitom, a watchman, corroborated
the preceding. - He apprehended' Giliiin, and on
asking him how he could commit so rash an adt,
he replied, " What, r hive done I am not soak
for ; if she is a dead woman, I shall be a happy

Win. Fa!liner, a carpenter, went to the assistance
of the deceased ; he found her on the bed, supported
by two persons ; the Doctor ordered her-to be laid
down, as nothing could be done for her. She was
sensible ; he asked her. if her husband had thus
used tier. She nodded her head twice, as well as
she .was able : on repeating the question, she
did the same again. He then asked her what it
was done'witli? She pointed towards the foot tit the
bed, where he, found the bloody raz,l-, which he
produced in Court, the handle. of which had the
word " ,Griffin" marked on it. He asked her, was
it with this ? she nodded as before. He then ques-
tinned her as to having lain violent hands on her
sell; but she shorok her head twice. She retained
her senses no longer, and in ten 'minutes after she
expired on her way to the h6spital. .

Dr. Skinner i?escrilie.ii the situation in which he
f and the deceased : . she was sinking fait from the
;O'S of blood, awl I,e `ordered tehiqval to the
h Ivlhunglit she lizid better die there
hat] in a filthy rutin). The tause of her 'death was
manifest.

Charles Cook, a constable, gave the same desc-ip-
tion of the deceased • as, the preceding w itness.—
When in I he, watch:llo6o, lw said to the'ptisorier,
" You have clone a pretty thing." Griffin'; reply;
was, " Don't talk to me here ; I shad be talked to
in another peace." His hands were not blobdy,
neither was there any blood, about pitzt. He took
him to New Prison, mid on the way the prisoner,
,speaking of his wife, said, she had been out a:I
night, and that himself, his brother, and his bro-
ther's wife, had been in search of her. The}' found
her in a liquor-shop, where tkey had some gin to-
gether, and four or live -pots of beer; lc was late
when they reached home. Griffin,, addressing the
witness still further, said, " Damn it, ou know me
very well ; let us drink
'together." - Witness de-
clined,.said it was a bad job ; prisoner answered,
I hope she is dead, and. then I should not mind
being hanged to-morrow morning, as I should die a
happy man. How shOuld you•like your wife to go
with another man ?" Witness replied, ," .Not at
all." Prisoner said his Wife had told him she had
been with Jim, who will come and gi'e him a gOolii
wapping. The witness wag
.crOss-exmnined by Mr.
ALLEY, but nothing came,out' to affect the evidence
against the prisoner.

•
. hotnas Bradoer, watch-house-keeper of St. An-
drews, put the same quc..mions t., the priSonei, and
received exadiythe &line kind of answers.
Ta the next witne%s, Thonna4 Southgate, officer
of the night, the prisoner said, the only, fear h had
was that he had not doL.e it etiec3ually ; if he hal#
he should die with pleasute.
To Henry Coats, another constabk, the prisonet
said, " I aw very happy, upon My soul ; Would
arir of you like to hate another nun I,ronOt uAtr
yOur nOse ?"

The prisoner being called.on for.his defence, said
he had-neen drinking ; that he d;cl not know what
he did, and hoped he was not guilty. ,
Three witnesses Were called to the prisoner's cha-
raoer, who st:ltcd Urn Jo be a remlik,,biy good--
natured, indn§trio•os, inoffenske MD. 01 his wile
,
they spoke in other terms..

The Learned Judge now summed up.—Gentle-,-
men (said he) this is .a most distressing and one
which will require your. most, serious att,:nihm and
particularly so from the absence of the two most
material witnesses, the brother and sister of the pri-
soner, who wete both in the room when the of
fence was comaiitted -with -which this man-stands
charged.. It does not appear that their most extra-
or,;inary absence is in any degtee,imputable to the
prisoner. From their absence, therefUre, the
weight of the evidence rests not-.on the best, but ( n
the second proof.. The prisoner, so far from.re-
uying • the charge, has throughout the whole ,ex-
pressed the most earnest wishes for the.comi.:etion
of the crime ; and indeed it is in' a_great degree sub-
stantiated by those dying nods of the deceased whicla
have been described to yob; -Getiileiliel); -the ci:arge
of infidelity is no justification for the con-tri,sion of
murder. Had the de, eased-been detreed in an illi-
cit amour by her husband, and he had killed eni.er
of them inuediately, that would only have amount-
ed to manslaughter;. or if an affray had taken place,
it might have been the same; tint here vod haVe
nothing of the kind. Happy 'should I haVe been,
Gentlemen, had the brother and sister of the un-
fortunate than at been ihi day befbre you ;
your minds would have experienced.great relief had
that,. been 'the case, because they' were eye •wit-,•.
nesses. I shall leave the case in.your -hands, -well
knowing I cannot commit it to better.

We leel much regret that'our 'limits will not per-
mit us to present ourßeaders more than the above
sketch of the •;Learned Baron's ..most excell,ent
charge ; it %%ill long be remembered by those who
heard it—to It;inslf it will prove an additional ho-
n Our. When he had concluded, the Jury 'retired,
and after more than six hours consultation, returned
a verclia--Marislaughter.
The ease of George Curran,l very genteel young.
man, employed at the . Post-Office, charged with
stealing a letter, containing ten 101. Bank of Eng-
land notes,• occupied the time of the Court to a late
hoar. The cause was tried by Mr. Justice BAILEY.
There were two counts in the indittment, and the
prisoner pleading guilty to one of them; the-Case
turned on a point of law, ,by which his life was
saved., The letter and property were recovered.

On Tuesday the Boston Mail-Coach was over-
turned in Northborough,. a village between Peter-
borough and Deeping, owing to the horses taking
fright at an• ass laden with a pair Of panniers :
two passengers, husband and wife, who had paid
inside fare, but preferred riding on the roof 01 :he
coach, were dreadfully hurt by the accident—the
former had a thigh and his collar-bone broken, and
his tongue nearly severed in two ; the female was
'dangerously bruised. The guard had an ands
broken.

The grapes on the celebrated vine_,at Hampton
Cotiri Palace are now ripe ; it contain, this year,
2138 bunches. The annual produce of this Asto-
nishing•vihe is worth about 4001:. " Their IVIA- aes.:
TIES' tAbit will be ,forthwith supplied with theca;
their table is only without grapes•during the months
of January and February.

• SMITHFIELD MARKET, „FP?. 24.
This day's Market was well supvied with prim'.
Beasts, and the shoW of Cattle in other respects
wai plentiful ; Beef, Mutton? Veal, and Pork; sold
at last prices ; Lamb is cheaper ; and the trade in
general was pretty good.—The sales in the Hay
Market were somewhat considerable ; Straw fetch-
ec,l a better price than ffrid,iy's 111:rket 'flay al,d
Clover have fallen in price.—We annex a currect
statement of the priCes and numbers :

•
To sink the otEil per stone of Elb.
Beef 4s. Bd. to Ss. 4d. Mutton 4s. Bd. to ss. Sd. Veal
Ss. od. to 7s. od. Pork Ss. od. to 75. ad. Lamb 45. Bd. to
od.

Beasts 3000. Sheep and LarAs 19,400. Calves 304. Pip
210.

SMITHFIELD HAY-MARKET.
Hay 61. os. od. to 91. os. od. Straw 2i. los. od. to jl.
tzsrod. Clover 61. sos. cd, to 101. os. od.

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