The Sun.
London, England, 1821-11-07 00:00:00

RULE FOIL ADMISSION TO BAIL.

Mr. S.:yr.,:eant Clloss moved for a rule to spew cause why Jo-
.seph Bowden, a prisoner in Laneester Gaol, upon a charge of
man-slaughtet, should not be t,dautted to bail. •
The Loup CHIEF JusTlcE asked whether the regular
mode of proceeding would not be by Habeas Corpus ?
Mr. Sc: gtant CRoss said, that by the ease of Jonas (Jones) a
too poor-to py the txpenee of Habeas Corpus miLlit'

be bailed (by order of the Court) ibetbre a Magistrate in the
Mr. Justice HOLROYEL—And you have an affidavit to the
poverty of your 'client ?
Nir..Sergeant•Cnoss had an affidavit to the men's poverty,
and also to the circumstances under which he was charged. Tin:
faets'were; that Bowden had been attacked in a public-house
by a' man •to whom he was a stranger ; a scuffle had ensued,
and the scull of the deceased had been fractured -by a
Rule granted.
Mr. DENMAN had an application under peculiar circum-
stances to address to the Bench: The facts (whizil ::.`1)1)2-nr,d
upon affidavit) were these :—An action of ejectment; wai.tried
two years since in the county of Devon; and a verdict
was found for the defendant, subject to a special case. The
plaintiff, who was a poor labouring Iran, applied some time
after to his attorney on the, subject of the -special cese, when the
attorney told him that the point had been argued in the Court
of King's Bench, and decided in favour of the deifendant. It
was now discoVered that no such case had ever been argued, or
even set down for hearing; and the plaintiff's applieation was,
that proceedings might be stayed on the part of the defendant,
and that costs might be paid by his (the plaintiff") attorney.
It appeared upon investigation that there had been no special
case directed, but that a verdict had been found the defend-
ant, with leave to the plaintiff to move to set aside.
TheeComitT doubty., hew far the defendant leas- in no
fault) would, afar such a lapse of time, let thePlaintirin to
Malec his motion.
The mater eventually stood over for Mr. Deanian's further
consideiation.

HIGH COURT OF ADMIRALTY, Nov. 6.
THE KING V. CRICHTON, ALIAS CREIGIITON.

This was an application on the part of the. Admiralty proc-
tor for his Lordship's warrant to arrest Crichton,. alias
Creighton, master of a Leith smack, for hoisting illegal colours.
• The depositions set forth that about daylight on the 21st of
August, 1821, the officer on watch on hoard his:Alajasty's ship
Porcupine observed a suspicious-looking cutter-rigged vessel
some miles a-head, and having communicated this intelligence
to the officer commanding the Porcupine, the latter imme-
diately gave chase to her. During the chase, the Porcupine
fired eight shcts at the strange sail, and haring neared her,
directed her to lay to. She proved to be the Sir I%ralter Scott,
on her voyage from London to Leith; and Crichton, • the
master, refused to lay her to. The Captain of the, Porcupine
then threatened to send a party oT marines to board the Sir
Walter Scott, and enforce his orders; hut in the meantime the
smack bore away, bearing a blue ensign, contrary to law.
No defence was offered,- and the warrant was granted.

HEAD MONEY FOR GUN-110ATS.
On the 18th of July, 1813, the Partridge, one of his Majesty's
ships stationed in the Gulf of Venice, discovered a convoy of
merchantmen under the protection of some gun-boats, close in
with the north-west coast of Manfredonia. The boats of the
Partridge, assisted by those of his Majesty's ship Savannah,
succeeded in driving two of the gun.4ioats on shore, and de-
stroying them: and a third was captured; but neither the
crew nor any papers were found on board. The affidavit
of the Lieutenant of the Partridge went to these facts; and
stated that he, having been within pistol shot of the gun
boats, and from other circumstances, conjectured that the
average complement of each boat might be about 31 men.
His MAJESTY'S ADVOCATE observed, that these were all
vessels of war in the service of his Neapolitan Majesty, and
consequently, at that time, the property of enemies of Great
Britain. He, therefore, prayed that head money might be de-
creed upon the gun boats, Nos. 1,2, and 3, as containing each
34 men.

Lord STOWELL decreed accordingly.
THE SHIP OCEAN.

This was the case of an American vessel which liad come from
Russia to this country in the year 1810, and had, in the mean-
time, become the subject of a bottomry bond, which had been
transmittet., in due coarse, to a Mr. Wilson, the London cor-
respondent of the lender.
His*llLutsTrS*Anvo'cATTrithttrit,"Thit nit-IFlOtitt in ques-
tion had subsequently been litigated ; and the parties had al-
ready appeared under protest in this Court, whrn an injunction
came down from the High Court of Chancery, directing all
proceedings here to be forthwith stayed. But in the month of
July last, the Lord Chancellor declared that NI:. Wilson was
at liberty to proceed, in this Court, with his former action.—
He should move, therefore, that the assignation in this case
might now stand, as it stood immediately before the staying of
proceedings; namely, that the owners be assigned to extend
their protests.
The Proctor for the owners intimated to the Court, that no
assignation had been made in this matter for seven years past.
lie was not yet instructed as to the nature of the proceedings
which had been had in the Court of Chancery; and he hoped
that his Lordship would allow the present application to stand
over till the next Court day.
Lord ST 0 WEL'. directed that it should.