The Sun.
London, England, 1817-09-25 00:00:00

EAST INDIA HOUSE.

A Quarterly'General Court of Pro;:riettrs of
East India Stock was yesterday held at l►e Com-
pany's House, in Leadenhall-street.
In cotal►liance with the resolutions of the Ge-
neral Courts on the 7th of Aptil, and 16th of
July, 1809, an account of the number of students
in tire Company's College, for tile las half-year,
with a statement of the expence of their hornd and
education, were laid before th‘e Court.

Sundry Papers relatiVe to the Company's Esta-
blishments at Halleybury and Addiscombe %vete
laid before the Proprietors, pursuant to the, reso-
lutions of the General Courts of the 7th of April,
acrd IGth'of June, ISM
The CHAIRMAN then 'stated, that this was one
of the Quarterly General Courts hell in conkr-
mity with the charter, and as no further business
offered, he moved an adjournment.
Mr, S. DixoN (alluding to the thin attendance
of Proprietors) wished to know whether any act
of a General Court could be consitkred vali,l,
'Without a certain number of Proprietors were
present ?

The CriAIRMAN sai►i, there was no quorum.
Mr. S. DIxoN ask:•d the question merely for
information, nut intending to avail hin►self in any
degree of the ans►rer he had received. lie wished
to learn as much as lie could.

The CHAIRMAN.—Neither the Charter, nor .the
Act of Parliament, specifies any number of Pro-
prietors as necessary to be assembled before the
Court proceeds to the transaction of business.

'l'i►c-Court then. adjourned, sine e:ie,

SUICIDE.

I

CORONER'S INCURST.—Monday evening an In-
quisition was taken 'before J. W. UNkvIN,
Coroner for Middlesex, on the body of Mrs. Mary
Britain-, of Lower-street, Islington, who com-
mitted suicide on Sunday morning. The deceased
was the wife of a sea Captain, but had been parted .
froth him about 30 years, in consequence of some
family disagreement. Since that period she had
lived in one house at Islington ; she kept but
one female servant, and occupied the whole of the
house, except only for a short time a friend lodged
with her. The servant had been with her for
many years ; she kept no company, and at one
time she was in the practice of taking a walk oc-
casionally, but this of late she left off, and her
walks extended only a few yards from her own
door.' Her intercourse with the world consistent'
merely in paying her tradesmen's bills. She was
5S years of age; her husband was stated to hare
died tour years ago; frin.ce then she wanted to let
her house, and she was observed to become more
and more dejected. About eight o'clock on Sunday
morning the servant went into the bed-cham-
ber, and was shocked at the sight which
presented itself. She at first thought her mis-
tress had been murdered ; she flew to the street
door, alarmed Lack, a constable, who came in
accompanied by Mr. Burges, oilman, ojiposite,
and they found the deceased lying in bed with only
her night dress on, a razor covered with blood
laid on.the chair, and the place covered with blood.
They immediately called in Mr. Shirty, the sur-
geon, who on examination discovered a wound
six inches long inflicted underneath the navel ;
•and the deceased had apparently been dead for
some hours. All the window shutters were se-
cured on the inside, and 'the Coroner and Jury.
were satisfied the deceased committed the act
herself. Verdict---'-" Insanity." .

The first [loyal Dragoons arrived at Berwick
on Friday last, on their route to Flamilton'Bar•

racks:

A most daring and outrageous attempt to oppose
the due execution of A civil process of law last
week occurred in the neighbourhood of Preston,
which is likely to be attended by very serious con-
sequences to the persons engaged in it. A writ
offer/ facias being issued against the goods of
John Parkinson, of Osbaldeston-hall, near Rib-
chestet, the, officers proceeded to serve it upon
them, on Monday, the 15th instant ; but Park-
inson, having previously made a pretended sale,
determined on a forcible resistance, and to this end
collected a lawless rabble, who, when the officers
approached, threw upon them boiling water, and
being armed with clubs and other instruments of
vengeaneeolrove Ahem from the premises. The
resistance thus offered to the administration of
the laws being of the most formidable description,
W. 0. Pilkington, Esq. the Under Sheriff, pro.
ceeded in person to execute the writ on Wednesday,
accompanied by a small body of the Gth Dragoon
Guards, now stationed in Preston. On their ar-
rival they found a vest concourse of persons as-
sembled, who seemed bent on defending the pre-
mises, and it was not until the swords and
bayonets df the soldiery had inflicted some slight
wounds, that the civil officers gained possession.
John Parkinson, who, we understand, aimed a
blow at the Under Sheriff which was warded by
one of the solders, is taken into custody, with
two other persons. Warrants are also issued
against seven others engaged in this daring out-
rage, but who have hitherto eluded the vigi-
lance of the officers.

On Monday last, 'a countryman came into the
Bank of Sir CHARLES PRICE and Company, Man-
sion-house-street, for the payment of, a country
bank-note for 101. made payable there ; during
the time the countryman was there, a man pre-
sented a check for 4501. which in the hurry of
busineis was laid down On the counter, which.
the countryman picked up for his own and walked
off; the mistake was not discovered for a tew
seconds nntirthe person who presented the check
for the 450/, demanded payment, but then too
late to make out the man who went off.
A Gentleman was observing that he never knew
London,so (kilt as at the present moment, " there
was no business stirring of any kind:, That
is riot altogether correct," replied his friend ; " I
was in the city the other day, anti observed art
unusual bustle at all the Lottery Offices, occa-
sioned no doubt by the advantages of the present
Scheme, which.only contains 7,looNuMbers, and
yet possesses Six Prizes of 20,0001.! whilst at the
same time there are nearly Two Frites to One
Blank,"

NA T 1 GNTA L :scijooLs.

C;LOUCEsTER ASSIZES.

Mr. Ilaron tl.Aßnow's Cliitrgt! tit the Grand Jury, on AlondaY.
August I s, 1817.

It LAS been represented to us, that it nright
.iiromote the' :,'"ntrrests of 'National SetloolS
gelierok and litore.especially of tht (_entra! I)io-
cesan bschoutlof this County, if the ()bin vatiotts
tnad.. at our late .41.,ites by Mi.. Kiroo-Gaittlow
could be more g..neraily known. \l'e'legret that,
" J-wt2e (" "1 creak from notes, and as no
and writcr•was present., we ate not enabled
to gitie tl em with the accuracy which might be
desirAble'; ha-. we 1,,v heiore our Iteaders what,
trc trust, ,he found to be a account
aitti relv'on the indideence tit the learned -per-
sub whOse sentiments wr iaide,vour to convey,
to excuse apy inaccuracy -or
,ilPpetf,:ctiott which

c i; U,.

may bel6und in it.
After some preliminary observations upon the
etnineut qualifications of•.the Gentlemen he had
the honour to address, !roll's station, education,
and experience, to discharge the important duties
to which they were. then 'called, and a statement
of the law of nutter, with a view to the case of
the three unfort aware men, who have since suffer-
ed the pUnislithent consequent npon their convie-
tion,and which was stated more at large its the
Summing-op to the Jury, the Judge proceeded.
nearly as folows
.
ft, is impossible, Gentlemen, for any onelo
view the melancholy picture which.this long list
piesenttt, of more than an hundred persons charg-
ed with the Commission of offences against the
laws of our country, very many of a capital nateire,
and some of great imputed atrocity, without the
most painful reflections. I wish trot to dwell
upon them; but to contemplate ti3e prospect of
better times and a tbetter order of things. 1 hope,
it l should have again the honotir to address you,
may congratolate- you on a retorts of thaS
vet sal prosperity wircli may be expected to follow
the restortvion of peace, afterso lung a period of
exrended warfare, awl of exertions unparMleled
in the history of the world. This flattering pro-
spect, I have the roost sanguine expectations, will
be realised, from the improved and daily iniprov-
ing• condition of our external and internal situa-
tion; and,, above all, from the ittstruction, and
consequent improvement, moral and religious,
of the labouring classes of the community, the
foundations of %villas will be laid upon the solid
basis, of the education of the infant part of your
population. Where can sentiments, connected
with these objects of vital and transcendant
portance, find a wore ready'acceptanee than in
this place ?

" 11 e are now upon the eve of the return of
that 4lay, nliclu Which, in the first year, the Bishop
Oh !hi, Diocese (-ailed your attention to this most
intere'sting subject ;. persuaded, no doubt, that
the remedy. for all these accumulated evils conld.
hest be at t ettipted by preventing their causes;, and
that t!ic surest, if riot ;he only effectual mode of
diminishittg the number of criminals, was to form
,nods of the grtat mass-of the population, to
habits 01 virtue, and a love of order, by exa,ntling
the' meaus of instruction, and giving the infant
poor a morttl and tel edncat ion. lutrodUced
under such auspices', the plan of a Dioce4An. Na-
ional School could not tail to at;ract the most
di6tiogui,,bed aid illustrious ph7ronage in this-city,
where the infant wngtte has learnt to lisp the
name of Resikes, and to bless him who here first
taught iris countrynven to set apart a portion
the Sabbath, b,fore wasted in idleness, to the in-
struction of those, Who, but for such assistance,
might have arrived at the-period ot tot-11111mA in
titter ignorance ! 'fo this institution of she Na-
tional School, so happily. tounded, yoga have been
protecting fathers ; and, under the daily personal
tiuperintendance of personSdistiognished for virtue
ah,lgOodness in the other sex, it hats, in one short
year, Made such soccessful progress in improsing
the condition of the rising generation, that it in-
Vitesits tri6sds and others to a public examina-
tion of the effects produced in so, shnrt a period....:.*
It has been by some urged as an objection to the
establishment Of 'these schools, that they have a
tendency to remove men from their proper sphere,
and to disorder society ; and that, in giving edu-
cation to your whole porolation, you would make
the louver orders dissatisfied with their condition;
and disposed to aspire to others for which they
are pot qualified. You will thus, the objectors
state, leave none to till the ground,'or to carry on
the useful, necessary, and indispensable occupa-
tions of humble life. I ant persuaded that there
is not any real foundation for such apprehensions :
but am conVinced that men will be better servants,
labourers, and artizans, in proportion as ,they are
instructed in the duties of their respective stations;
and that ntl the vat huts gradatiOns in society will
be better supplied, whet, Moral aud_religious mo-,
rives lend their poutert,l aid to the s ,pg4estions of
interest and the obligatiOn of duty. Let us ap-
peal to the experittice of tine northern part of our
island, and to our on la, ;old ask-----Flas there beets,
in thOst2' distticts, Ft kficiiicy in the-number of
persons to fill the various subordinate stations ot
labonr,, or has tteir character for honesty, fide-
lisv, sobriety, and Ldustry; suffered by the itn-
their minds ? It has been said, too,
piove:isent of
/hi( CO' iIIST ritct the poor to react is to excite a
curiosity. ut hick it may
be datil,,vrous to gratify ;
and Ora volt prepare Ahem for the reception of the
doc:rioks of ;ofidelitY, hhisWttemy, and sedition !
I asn convinced that the direct contrary is the case;
and that those Who woltiti prop 'game these dan-
germ's' and destructive doctrines, would desire no
better !toil in which to sow the seeds of ruin, tem-
ps;ral and eternal, than in the misols of persons at
alt early age totally destitute of instruction, I
am persnaded, that the humble ativnd.nt upon
these t•chools would' baffle theattempt of she
lei- at relt:sion, 11,ho; would present to him Isis im-
pious amhtiabolical parody on onr‘Lord's Prayer,
the Creed, and the most sublime parts of the
tisriv of our Chnrch ; and, with his Bible in his
Wand, wood be able to detect, resist, and expose,
the infamous bait onavailing'endeavoiir to rob him
Of his prospects of happiness here, and his glorious
hopes of an hereafter._ lief I feel that I am in-
vading the prosioee of others, in.whose hands
thrsimportant subjecdr has found, and will conti-

nue to find, doe most powerful advocates, acid in-

cur the Itata:nt, by treßting it ittt.perfectly, of in-
juri,ig, rather than promoting its objects.

" It may appear to some, that these.topics are
not .sttitecl to this place ; but I would observe,
that_ no persons have more Oliport unit y judging
of their inwortance than those who are concet n-
'kid in the adtitinistration of justice. There is no
secnrity to any thing dear to man in society,
property, liberty, honour, life--,-hut in the solemn
obligation uuder which justice, is administtred ;
mud how can the totally ignorant and uninformed
rstand or i'eel the high ltuportance of the so-
lemn sanction

" Iwas"-pre,ent,'• many years ago; at the trial
of a,person convicted of a•most atrocious murder :
a young matt was tendered as a witnes-s to a fact
of the highest importance, tviiion the Learned
Judge (since df.iceased), who Oleo presided, found
himself under the' necessity of rejecting, as, in-
CoMpVeilt, fr6tll his totat ignorance of the nature
and obligation of an oath., The punishment of au
offence of great enormity was thus nearly pre-
vented; and I am sorry to say, drat, upon the
present circuit, a similar. instance has occurred
before me. In a case of burglary, the servant of
a farmer of respectability was prodnced7as'a wit-
ness : ort his examination, it appeased that- he
could not read, and that he never went to church
or any place of public worship. He lcaew, in-
deed, that the beasts of the ploogh rested from
their labours on Suuday, and that he was not
obliged to rise at so early an hour as on. the' of her
days of the week ; butt, of the duty of prayer—
obligation to speak the truth—the existence of a
life after death—the joys of heaven, or the punish-
ments of wickedness and vice,.lie had 'never beard,
nor had felt any of the blessings of ti:e Christian
Sitbbath need not say he could not be •ee-
ceived as a witness in a. case in which his testi-
mony, if lie could have /been examined, would
hate been very important. In the course of the
day, 1. had an instance of a gratifying contrast to
this state of disgraceful and disgusting ignorance.
A case occurred, of the prosecution of two men.
for cruel treatment, and an attempt to rob a to-
male on the highway. From the nature of the
subject, the prosecutrix teas the only person who
could any information, upon. upon it ; and,
from her youthful appearance, it was supposed
that she would not be found competent. She
was the daughter of a titan in the. most humble
state of laborious occupation ; and it was the ern-
pkyment of the child to go to a distance of ten
miles to carry the heavy and cumbrous load of
articles which he made, for which she brought
back the small pittance of two shillings and eleven
pence, Bur she had received the benefit of in-
struction afforded .by one of these schools ; and
her answers to every question proposed-evinced a
state of improvement and information which
would not have diieredited the education of a
person Qt a notch higher 'order. She gave her
evidence tipoit the subject of, the charge in the
most iogentinus and satis`au(oly manner.
" Nor are the benefits derived from. theseinsti-
tutions confined to their immediate' objects,
remote in their effects. It has been attested by
htimatie persons, who employ 'notch of their time
in viii ing the poor at their own habitations, that
it is Writ difficult to discover, at Cie first entrance,
whether the children of the family are trained in
these schools, Or destitute of in,troc:ion., The
contrast of comfort and order to be found in the
meanest abode of the one, and the filth and
wretchedness, with the squalid miserable appear-
ance of the objects that inhabit the other, are
sure evidences to, the practised philanthrOpist.—
Cases kite not wanting, in , which parents, who
had never entered the porch of a place of worship,
but 'had habitually wasted the Sabbath in idleness
and intoxication—who had never pronounced the
name of their Redeemer but in horrid blasphe-
Mies and imprecations7ehave :been induced, by
the orderly aod ebeerful appearance of their chil-
dren,, on their return front school ;. and by a sense
of shame,- the effect of the silent reproach which
the superior manners of their offspring conveyed,
Co reform their lives ; have become regular at
tendants at church, and 'presented themselves, at
the appo'ttted seasons, at the, Lord's 'fable, sur-
rounded by a tuoits 'and happy family.
" But 1 feel that I am trespassing too much
upon your time and patience. In, your kind: in-
dulgence I may hope for my excuse ; and I will
no longer detain 'you from the performance of
these solemn' and important duties, which on so

many .occasions you have dilcharged much to your
own honour, and the advantage of the country."

OLD LIAILEY, SEPT. 24.

The business of this day was uninteresting,
being chietly cases of shoplifting and petty thefts—
_fumes Smith was indicted tot 'privately
stealing, in the shop. of Benjamin Lyons a pair of
breeelies, of the value of ss. The facts of the. case
appe,irea to be pretty clearly proved. The pri-
soner went with his younger brother to the shop
of the. prosecutor to boy him some clothes ; a pair
of breeches was missing, and which afterwards
were found-on the prisoner. The young brother
also was produced as evidence, and he stated that
his brother bad told him he had taken the breeches
• from the prosecutor's. The prisoner,when called
upon for his defence, said, thiit lie bad bought
the breeches of a Jew ; and added, " lie hoped
God would slrike hint dumb if he did not." This as-
severation and strong appeal bad its effect, for the
Jury found hint—Not. Guilty.. • •
Saunders William Pack, aged 20, was indicted for
stealing in the dwelling-house of. Ann Noble, in
the day-time, 6 one pound notes. I I -silver tea-
spoons, &c. and William Pack, aged 35, hi.i bro-
ther, was indicted for feloniously harbouring and
maintaining the said Suunderf W►n. Pack, well
Icno►ving lie was guilty of felony. The partien7
Lars of this case have already t.ien published in
the Police 'Reports.. The Jury refired for twenty
minutes, and then found the prisoner, Saunders
William Pack,. Guilty of Burglary and Pelony—
Death.—Williarn Pack, his brother, guilty of ye-
ceiviug and harbouring I►inr, knowing him to be
,felon.

A drumhead Cabbage was
scut last week in the
garden of the White Lion,- at Kendal, which
weighed 23 pounds-, exclusive of the loose leaves
in 'circumference it measured 11 feet G inches, and
its diameter 3 feet 10 hicks.

POLIcr, IN'i nr,r,icr,NcE.

A NEW occußnm'ccE.

, .
ANstoN-Housi,..—Chartis Levi attended neon
a summons to answet the complaint of Mr. Joseph
Robins, who charged him ba'‘ring unlawfully
detained the sum of 101. paid by mistake on Mon-
day last for a check drawn by Isaac Isaacs upon
Messrs. Hichard ail 'George Fuller and Co.
Mr.' lohins -eittibited the clieclc : it was for
211. but the figures denoting- the amount seemed
to have been touchedlbY An ingenious pen, which
gave the '2 the appeat•alice,oi a cA'reless 3, and the
'word " T‘ventv,". by is sort .01 a dash over the
" w," the exact resemblance of the s'orn for which
the figures seemed to snood.

The complainant declared his readiness to swear
that he had given; tinder the intpression that the
check was for 34/. in return a 151. -11 10/2a 51. and
lout' 1/. Notes. .1-1 e soon after learned that be
had mistaken tbe meaning of the check, but his
application to Mr. Levi produced nothing but a
plump denial, and a world of equivocations.
The LORD MAYOR first addressed the JeW as if
it had been Only meant to alarm the complainant
by bolding the Note to which the Jew had no
claim, " Come, Levi, " said he, " there has been,
enough of this—you may now give up the 10/."
"Levi.—" I Declare to my God 1' know nothing
about, it—can't say',vliether 1 got 241. or 341. from
the Gentleman, I didn't reckon them, for 1 knew
nobody would cheat me there, and paid all away
the' minute 1 got them.

It was some time before Levi conic, be pre-
vai!ed upon to tell in what manocr lie got rid of
the money. He !•eented not to care a peony upon
which side the loss was. lie was as subject to
it as any 'body else.
• _

'flu; LuRD MAY oa.=—Suppose you had got less
than you were entitlyl to, what would you have
dope

Levi.—oh, my Lord; I'd soon find out that.

The LoED MAyon.—TbA is, you'd correct an
error against yourself, but oet look one made in

your hivour ?

Levi.—No, no, I 'am not cautious enough ;
but people I ►teal :rich are more particular, and it
the n►onry was a. few pounds shoq they'd come to
me for the rest.

the LORIS MAYon.—This is a most -liberal way
of .dealing, hut really you must injure yonrsell by
too- great a reliance upon the honesty of men.—
The losses such a character subjects you to, must
be greater than"the profits arising from accidents
like this, which brings you before me to-day.
Levi.-1, have nothing to live upon but my
character and my labour, and every body knows
that-I am' as'bonest as the sett.

. The Lotto MAYOR.—WeII ; but you'll give ori
the 101. If you keep
.it much longer some people
may have an indifferent opinii}ii of you, and the
public may joie in it to-morrow.
Levi.—So help ma God, my- Lord, I knbw
nothing about the moaey at all. I was paid.thit
amount Of my. cheek, that's till. 1 can swear I
receive(' no more.

' The Loup MAYon.—'l:(-; vOlom '(ihi-ynn pay the
M. note which wes amongst those whieliyon got
I:.r the check ?

Le'. i.--1 paid it to a gentlesnan who is gone to

The LoRD INIATon.—I dare say you paid away
tbc 51. in ihe xvay ot your business ?

Levi.—Yes, my Lord, I paid it to a man lowed
it to. NVe must pity our debts to- keep up our
credit. The I. notes went the same way.

The Loan Alivort:—True ; and the 151. note,
I suppose, wetit to answer some other demand ?.
Levi.—My Lord,-t be 151. note-,-Oh! you mean
a note for 151.; 1 don't know any thing about it,
so help me God ; I don't know 'whether it was
for 151. or 51.

1,0 tta MAYort.—lsn't it odd that you can
account to tue fur the 101., the 51 , and the 11.
notes, and that yntsr recollection fails you when
you come to the subject of our difference'? • •
Lei i.--I am sure that it was a 51'. note, and
that 1 got 110 151.

The•LORD MAYott.-Well, we'll stippose it to
be so. flow did you dispose of it ?
Levi.---1 don't know. My business of pencil-
making is so extensive, that I don't know'the man
I gave it to.
Complainant.--The number of the note is
known. We'find at the -Bank that the number
bulongs to a 151. note;and it has accordingly been
ordered to be stopped.
.Levi seemed not at all to
relish this intelligence.
Tire L' no really don't know how to
advise you to proceed t• the case is einite new ;
but you may rely upon catching this Mr. Levi.—
The 151. note must be traced to bib), and then you
cart determine whether to prosecute him for a
fraud or'to arrest him. There is not the'slightest
doubt of the criminal intention or the fact.
The Complainant said he did • not suppose the
firm would ,wait for evidence liable to contingen--,
cies, but prosecute the defendant at once.
The LOUD 'MAvon.—Whatever the- event be,
the public will be greatly indebted to your.house.
Complaint dismissed.