The Sun.
London, England, 1819-10-30 00:00:00

OLD iIA t

This mbitning the Court was extremely crowd-
ed, principally by the auriferous witnesses to give
evidence on the Charges against persons for Post-
Office Robberies. On the Judges taking their
seats, John Trapp, a person of Mean appearance,
was put to the bar, charged With, " for that he
being a person employed in the General TWopenny
Post-Office, did secrete and Steal' a letter, con-
taining a forty and a fitty pound Bank of England
note, seat by a person named Fenton from Hali-
fax, to Mr. Thomas Fuller at Poplar." To this
indict 'bent the prisoner pleaded Not Gnilty:
Livatty shortly after, on the prisoner's be.
half, applied to the Court for permission for the
prisoner to retract his plea of Not Guilty, and to
he allowed to plead Guilty to the minor offence of
stealing a letter only, 'that letter not containing
money—which in law is only a larteny.—Mr.
OURNRY said, that under certain -circumstances
the application would he granted, but it was not
to be supposed that it would be in any other. The
prisoner was then put ou his trial for the Capital
offence, and no evidence being offered, was ac-
quitted.
John Month, a person of respectable appearance,
and of most respectable connexions, w.s then put
to the bar, charged on several indictments with
stealing letters to an enormous extent 5 these let•
tern containing money.. To these charges the
prisoner pleaded Not Guilty. The Iliad was pro-
ceeding whenotrr Reporter left the Court.
Mr. Sheriff PARKINS did not wake his appear.
ance in Court this morniog.

ARSON.—Yesterday 'hue Cooke was put to the
bar, for setting fire to the house of Mr. Campbell,
in Mary-le-bonne parish.
Mr. BOLLARD, in stating the case, remarked,
ihat the sole motive of the Sun Ft:e•ofce, in
instituting this prosecution, was fur the purpose
of putting 811 end to any doubts which might have
existed on the snhject : because, if it should
appear that the unhappy ‘voinall at the bar com-
mitted the offence in a state of insanity, she would
he taken care of in future, in the manner provided
for by law. He then called several witnesses,
whose evidence was exactly the same as that which
has repeatedly appeared in our Police Reports, and
which it is, therefore, unnecessary to repeat.
An objection was taken to the indictment, rela..
live to the manner in which Mr. Campbell was
described, and the Learned Judge said be should
reserve' that fur .the consideration of the Twelve
Judges, if it was necessary.

The Jury twonti the fit isoner Not Guilty, on ac-
count of her being in a state of insanity at the time.
She was tirdereti to be ileitiineel therefore in prison,
till his Majesty's pleasure relative to tier should be
known.

LAW INTELLIGLNLI3I.

couRT OF KING'S BENCIT, OCT. t 9.

Silting* al Sergraves Inn Hall.

BUOCCIIToN V. THE MANCDEsTER AND SALFCRD

WATER-WORKS COMPANY.

This was a declaration in asfumpsit upon a Bill
of Exchange drawn •by.tiill and Company
nod accepted by the defendants, for 2001., ptiy.
able three months atter the 15th of August, 181.1,
and indorsed to the plaintiff. Plea—Tnat the
defendants had no authority, by theit—Statu.e of
Incorporation; to enter into any Stich undertaking
and promise. Demurrer to this idea, and joinder
iu demorter—The qu'estion rai,ed in argument
was, in substance, ‘vhether the defendants, not
being a trading company, had authority to exe•
cute money securities in assumpsit, payable short
of, six months atter date.

Mr. CAMPBELL argued for the plaintiff, and Mr.
ABRAHAM for the defendant. Several cases were
cited, and reference was bad to the Acts for in,
corporpoing the Bank of England and the East
India Company, in support of the defendants'
plea; and •
The Court hdd that the pica was sufficient in
atnt gave jtylginent for the d ekticiant.

MEKD CITY SOClETY.—Yesterday John Lewis,
a seatlitin, Was brought beinre Mr, Evmice, at
Union-Hall, by the officers of this Institution,
charged with begging about Newingt on Causeway.
He stated that he had been 14 years at sea, and
was now receiving a pension of 9d. per day, but
was totally unable to obtain any employ-
ment. At first he persisted in stating that he-was
a native of Halifax, in America; but when the-oath
was adminittered he confessed being a native of
Dublin' • This is a sort of defence which has late-
ly become very prevalent amongst the Scotch
and Irish poor, who, dreading the idea of
being sent home poor and wretched, generally
claim some of the British settlements to which the
poor laws do not extend, in hopes of escaping with
-even days' imprisonment. The prisoner was
committed, and afterwards ordered to be sent home
to his own country.

Do M-STliEhT.—Vesterthly William Lane was
committed to Newgate for trial on a charge
of felony, under the following circumstances :
Tie prisoner. 'about a fortnight ago, applied
to Mr. William Parrott,- a farmer, at Harmonds-
worth, Middlesex, for work ; Mr. Parrott having
employed the privonet last and
btli~ v-
iii his statement, that he was in great dys-
mr,ss, set him to work, and sent him ro lodge al K.
small farm of his, where hes head man, James
Loy and hi; wife, resided. On' Monday
la.( the prisoner absconde:l while Lot kie and his
wife were out at work. and soon alter it was
(!,covered that ail time linen anti
belonging to Lockie sad his wife had been
taken away, also Lockie's watch, raz,.rs, &c.
Mr. l'a,rott traced o,e prisoner 10 town, and
went, in company with John lVri,:lmt, one of the
13ow=street natrae, to Mont-titlds, and there
tound the risoner with Lockie's gaiters on his
legs, and his watch in his lob, as well as ottuct
things shout his person..

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CH ESTER.

LETTER OF EARL GROSVENOR,

TO THE COMMITTEE APPOINTRD TO RECEIVE AND

AI'PLY SUBiCRIPTIONS FUR RAISING AN ADDI-

TIoNAL ARMED FORCE IN THE COUNTY OF

GENTLEMEN—As it is not'mv intention to cox-
i'elßUTEt to the above object, I think it due to
persons so hight‘jr respectable 39 yourselves, to
myself, and to the County at large, to state the
reasons which influenced me hi declining to sub-
scribe to a general fund, or to raise any separate
force. At the present moment, in this neighbour-
hood, every thing is quiet
„and undisturbed ; and
bad the existing force of the County been
-augmented only by private subscriptions and in-
dividual efforts, I should have viewed the pro-
ceedings in silence, giving no opinion as to its
expediency or disadvantage. But called upon,
as I have incidentally been, to assist in for-
warding the object of the late County Meeting,
I cannot, on an 'occasion so public, avoid, in
is manner as public, declAi log my reasons for the
line of conduct 1 mean, after due deliberation, to

adopt. Those Gentlemen of the Committee, with
whom I have the h,,,frour and happiness of being
acquainted, will, I trust, do me the justice to
admit,' that I am not a persOn likely to be un-
willing; when satisfied that the occasion is a proper
one, to assist in any way in my power, in main-
taining the -public peace, and in supporting the
credit and security of the County, which must al-
ways mainly - rest on the faithful execution of the
laws, and the preservation and prosperity of our
happy Constitution. To form an impartial judg,-
mein of the question now before me, I have exa-
mined recent events anti occurrences, with LI the
'accuracy in my power, and I must beg leave to re-
vert to certain local events connected with these

occorrences. The Grand Jury of the County,
-at the late Assizes, seeing tracts circulated, of
,a nature to undermine our religious faith,
and injure our form of Government, naturally
expressed their indignant. feelings on the occa-
sion : it appears, however, from the testill of a
late trial, that,these- attacks on our religion are
not likely to be countenanced by a British Jiny,
any'more, I trust, than by a British People. And
I am also of opinion, that our happy form of GO-
verument is as little in danger iron) the wild, and
frequently •petnicions docitines; maintained and
diiseminated on the Subject of our Constitution.
The Nation is too much entighiened to be mkled
by such dangerous theories. Itrlitther the
voice of the People be sufficiently heard
-in the Commons House of- Parlim-nt, all
persons may be allowed, Nvithont
not- only to doubt but to dispute ; and nosy

endeavour to cot rec; what they consider a
defect in ,Our system, by lawful means ; but that
that object, in itself legitimate when pursued
constitutionally, ought ever to he obtained by
frce, 1 deny as petemptority, as I wf,idd peremp-
torily and steadily resist it. The Parliament, it
seems, is to be called- together at an earlier pe-
riod than usual ; and, as we are told, to devise
means.for putting down disaffection. Ministers,
Cierefore, 1 conclude, mean to propose laws still
stronger thanthose that exist,for that purpose; and
this to he attempted before any inquiry shall take
place into the late distressing transactions at Man-
' cl►estcr. Why the laws are to he so strengthened,
cr tl►e armed force of the country to be geavally
increased, I am at a loss at. present to discover ;

for whether the late transactions at Manchester

were legal or not, there seemed little difficulty in
:enforcing a summary process, And. protecting, if
endangered, the persons and property of the in-
Imbitantg. Before, then, recourse be had to ex-
traordinary legisidtion, and extraordinary srming,

it may be advisable to intinire, whether the con-
duct of the Magistracy has not been calculated
-rather to produce than restrain unlawful combin-
ations on the part of the people. Some of that
Magistracy I have the pleasure of knowing, mid
more honourable and upright persons cannot
exist. I would at ail times rely on their inte-
grity ; and few things tvOuld grieve me more,
than that they should stiffer in their repination,or in
any other way, front the unfortunate events that
have recently occurred at Manchester. Ilut to
stifle or delay inquiry would only injure them,
while a full and fair investigation would, doubt-
less, he what they would most desit e. Fur my-
self, I have little doubt but that the Meeting at
Manchester, of the 16th of August, would hate
terminated as peaceably as those in other parts
of the country, where meetings of the same de-
scription have beer) held, had it not Brett for in-
judicious interference. What the immediate and
ultimate object of the persons calling such meet-
ings may be, I pretend not to determine ; but
that, at all events, is a subject of separate con-
siderstion. 'lb:: whole affair, then, should be
stibutitted, without reserve, to the investigation of
impartial Committees, in Parliament, which
will alone give satisfaction to the country ; will
alone save l'ailiarnent trout the repro;iclies of
those who think that it re-echoes but imperfectly
the public voice. It is, 1 am aware, ni.iintained
by some, that it would he best to wait the deci-
sion of the Tribunals of Jusiice ; hut, under the
discouragements that have recently occurred, one
should find a difficulty in recommemling peise-
verance in such a coot se, particularly after the re-
snit of the inquest at Oldham—an inquest held
for the purpose of inspiring into a charge of
tril-
tul murder, and which should have been brought
to a termination as speedily as a due examination
of witnesses would allow, It is said, in justifi-
cation_ of the extraordinary and alarming adjonrn-
ment of the inquest to a week alter the to tying of
Parliament,and thecousequent postponement of the
verdict, that it was done at the desire of th'e
This, however, it is also said, they disclaim ; but
evro had .they expressed..such a wish, the cause
of it should have been made. known in a manner
the most distinct and formal ; and if, Irony indis-
ptt.it 101 l of ally of the Jury, on the testrmony Of
medical turn, then as little delay as possible
should have been ,allowed no ititetrtilit the pro-
gress of the iuques• It trances have bcen com-
mitted, let the offenders be ftunisi, d ; and, at all
events, let us five satisfaction to.an on xi outs and
inti4iking Nation. Befote, diett, we stir a step
towards rigorous legislation, or menactog
mem, it behoves its to inquire whether our con-
stitutional laws way nut have suffered sonlethirg

from those who have the guardianship of them in
their own hands, and whether, if that be the case,
such violation of its sacred holwarks may not, in
reality, create, if it has not already created, a dis-
positioo to retaliate, where no intentions of re-
sistance before existed. It, however, contrary to
my expectations, (here should, indeed, appear a
determination, openly and distinctly acted upon,
to overturn the Constitution of the Country, I
shall be ready to exert every means i❑ toy power
to meet and resist such spirit of hostility, a4ainst
what I conceive, in ciammon, doabtless, with the
great body of the nation, to be the most perfect
form at Government with which any country_ was
ever blessed.

Duriog the hite war, I raised A corps of infantry,
and subscribed, in various instil liCeS, 'to other
corps, fur the protection of my country against a
foreign enemy. May God grant that I may never
see the hour when I may be compelled to do so
against a domestic one ! It, however, that unhappy
momentfrhould ever arrive, I shall not, I trust, be
found wanting in calling into action all the re-
sources within my spitete of influence.
I have the honour to be, with sincere respect,
Cientlemen, your obedient and faithful Servant,
GROSVENOR.

Eaton Hall, October 94, 1314.
(Chester Guardian, Thursday, Oct. 28.)

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