The Sun.
London, England, 1820-01-28 00:00:00

SHOCKING ACCIDENI.

CORONER'S 1 NsaU EST. —OO 'flit'Slay last, the
251 h inst,, an inquisition was taken by Mr. PRATT,
at Chatreris, Isle of Ely, on view of the body of
Sarah Triplow, an infant aged I year and 6 weeks.
who was,shot in her mother's arms as she (the
mother) Was opening the back door of her house,
,under the following most extraordinary circum-
stances :—Two servants of Mr. Dunn, a et-mi-
nim, brewer, on their return from dinner,
Monday, the lith instant, observed souse rooks
upon a tree nor far from the brewery ; John
Triplow (father of the deceased) loaded en ohl
gnu which was upon the premises, with a small
tobacco-pipe-head of gunpowder, and the same
quantity of dust shot, mixed with a few shot
of No. I. By• his desire, Thomas Utfendale
went to fire at the rooks, but they took Hight.—
' The two men were upon their return, when.
they iaw a - blackbird pitched upon a. tree,.
in the midst of a very thick orchard ; by Triplow's
desire Utieudale shot at the blackbird, but one of
the shot ;ltered the head of Tsiclow's infant, at
the extraordinary distance o' near an hundred.
yards horn the place. where the gun was fired,
This computed distance appeared so great, that the
Coroner ordera the ground to be measured, when
it proved to want only four inches of an hundred
yards, in a direct line from the spot where the Mali
stood who discharged the gun ; the space bet %Teo
was so inters ected with the boughs ol trees, that the
Cot otter and Jury could Pot see the door where the
toother stood at the time the gun was fired ; yet
this solitary and ill-fated shot found its way.enal
entered the left side of the infant's heart, passed
through the scull, and lodged in the heath, es the
wound, whet, probed by Mr. Girding, a surgeon,
was more than two inches deep yet the little in-
nocent languished until the 23,1, when it expired.
Verdict, rha»cemeciley.—Surely the above me-
lancholy occur recce should dtt,r persons from fir-
ing oil- guns near to places where there is a
chance of the recurrence of the same misfortune.
During the late frost it was scarcely possible for
people to pass about their !amid business, in the
ocignbourhood of towns and villagek, withoitt
being frequently and seriously alarmed, if not
iojortd, by the wanton aud the disorderly dis-
charge of gnus from the hands of boys and idle,
persons, who were little, if at all aware of the
diegolul consequences that might arise from
their illegal folly.—.ll would be well if Magis-
trates and Parish officers were to instruct
the Constables lay information against all
such pets ins so offending; there is scarcely an
who has been much abroad lately, who
with not feel the-necessity of some check being;
p‘!t to such practices. (Cambridge Chronicle,
Jcot, j )

COMMERCE.

TREASURY ORDFR RELATING T. DRAWBACK ox WINE

EXPORTED IN BOTTLES.

Chambers, Bth Jan. 1820.
GENTLEMEN,—The Lords Commissioners ot his
Majesty's 'fietssairy haviu,,l had under their con-
sideration your teport of 15,h November last, On
a Memorial of Exporters ot reqiivving that
they may be permitted to rective Drawback on
their shipments, as heretofore,. without restric-
thin as to the size of the bottles, provided only
that each package shall contaio a quantity equal
to that ri,,reeted hV Lit‘y, my Lords are it opinion
that the spirit, P not the letter, of the 44th Sec-
tion ot the A;;t of last Ses‘don, cup. 52, directint:
that no Drawback ot the D•ities, either of Cus-
toms or Excise, shall be allowed on any Wine
tvhateyer, shipped for ENportation tt!ter the sth
July last, other thin Witte in Bottlts, which shall
be shipped in pat kages, each containing s'x dozen
reputed. [plait bottles at the least, would be com-
plicd with, provided the Wine be exported in
packagcs, containing a y equal at least to
six dozen of repired trait buttlts, awl in-ovided
the bottles in each p;ckage shall be of the same
size, and my Lords desire the necessary directions
may be give') to your; offitets
• (Sianed) (4:0. lIA!UtISON.
To Commissioners of ellSifirllS.

AN ACT To AserfiTMN TMF, TONN.:\,GE OF VEsSELS ruo

rEiA,ur) AY SI`E.INI.-2311 NiAuctl, 1819.

Whet ea., by an Act pissed in the thirteenth
year of the reign of his present Majesty, entitled
g, Ac: for the better ascertaining the tonnage
and bitrthere of ships aod•vessels importing anti
exporting goods into and from this kingdom, or
hovering upon the coasts thLteot ; fur ameuding
so much of an Act, mate in the lust SrAsion of
Parliament, for lowering the duty payable t'llion
toe importation of Oak Bark, as Etlates to the
siring for the penalties and lot feitores thk tehy in-
flicted in the Court of Exchequer in Scotland ; for
appropriating the Linty on Oak Bark, granted by
the said Act; and for obviating doubts which
have arisen with respect to the allowing the
Dra;vhack upon certain Callicoes ; and the boaoty
upon British made Cordage exported toihe Islands
of Madeira, the Canary Islands, and the Azores
or Western Island= ;" and by another Act, passed
in the twenty-sixth year of the reign of his present
Majesty entitled "An Act for the further increase
and encouragement or shipping and navigation,"
certain ruins are settled and established tot ascer-
taining the tonnage of ships or vesseb for the pot-
post s therein mentioned : and, whereas, ships or
vcssels have been built and constructed to be pro-
pelled by steam, and the rules prescribed by the
before recited Act are not suitable to ascertain the
true tonnage of sock ships or vt ssels ; he it there-
tore enacted by the King'• most excellent Ma-
jesty, by and with the advice and consent of the
Lords spiritual and Temporal, and Commons in
this present Parliament assembled, and by the
authority et the same, that the role for admeasor-
ing ships or vessels to be propelled by steam shall
be as follows : that is to say, the length shall be
taken on a straight line along the rabbet of the
keel of the ship, front the back of the main steiu
post to a petpeodicular hire from the forepart
of the main stem itudur the bowsprit, from which
deducting the !coach of the engine-town and
subtracting' three-fifths of tine breadth,- the re-
mainder shall be esteemed the just length of the
keel to find the tonnage; and the Inead,h shall be
taken from the outside of the outside plank in
the broadest place of the ship or vessel, be it
either above or below the main -wales, exchisive
of all manner of doubling planks that may be
wronght upon the sides of the ship or vessel ; then
multiplying the length of the keel by the breadth
so taken, and that product by half the br,adth,
and dividing the whole by ninety four, the quo-
tient shall be deemed the true contents of the
'tonnage, according to which rule the tonnage of
all such ships -and vessels shall be measured and
ascertained ; any thing in any act or acts to the
contrary not withstanding; iprovided always, that
it shall not be lawful to stow or place any goods
(fuel for the voyage excepted) in the said engine-
room ; and it any goods shall be stowed or
placed, such ship or vessel shall from thenceforth
be deemed and taken to he a ship or vessel which
has not been admeasured according to the rules
of this Act, and liable to all the consequences
thereof.

Au ACT to enable his MAJESTY to make Regulations with
respect to the Taking and Curing FISH on certain parts of
the Coast of 'Newfoundland, Labrador, and his Majesty's
other Possessions in North America, according to a Con-
tention made between his Majesty and the United States
of America.-14th June, 1819.

Whereas a Convention between his Majesty
end the United States of America, was made and
signed at London, on the 20th day of October,
one thousand eight hundred and eighteen; and
by the fl st article of the said Convention, recit-
ing that differences had arisen respecting the li-
berty claimed by the United States, for the inha-
bitants thereof to take, dry, and cure Fish, in
certain coasts, b,lys, harbours, and creeks, of his
Britannic Majesty's dominions in America, it is
agreed, that the inhabitants of the said United
States, shall have for ever, in common with the
subjects of his Britannic Majesty, the liberty to
take Fish of every kind, on that pat t of the south-
ern coast of Newfoundland, which extends from
Cape Ray to the Rameao Islands, on the western
and northern coasts of Newfoundland, from the
said Cape Ray to the Quirpon Islands, on the
shores of the Magdalen Islands, and 'also on the
coasts, bays, harbours, and creeks, from Mount
Joly, on the southern coasts of• Labrador, to and
through the Straights of 13elleisle, and thence
northwardly indefinitely along the coast, without
prejudice however to any of the exclusive rights
of the tindion's Bay Company ; and it was also
by' the said article of the saitiConveririon agreed,
that the American Fishermen, should have liberty
for ever to dry and cure Fish in any of the unset-
tled bays, harbours, and creeks, of the southern
part of the, coast of Newfoundland above describ-
ed, and of tlie coast of Labrador, but that so soon
as the same, or any portion thereof, should be
settled, it should not be lawful for the said Fisher-
men to dry or cure Fish at see!' portion so settled,
without previous agreement for suet, purpose with
the inhabitants, prop rietots, or possessors of the

gromol ,n;i whereas it is expedient that his Ma-
jesty should be eti abled to carry into execution SI,
touch of the said Convention as is above recited,
and to make regnlations for that purpose. Be it
therefore enacted, by the King's most excel-
lent Majesty, by, and with the advice and con-
sent of the Lords Spit itual and Temporal, and Coio-
mons, in thia present Parliamen' assembled, and by
the authority of the same, that from and after the
passing of this Act, it shall and may he lawful for
his Majesty, by and with the advice of his Ma-
jesty's Privy Council, by any order or orders in
Council, to be from time to time made for that
purpose, to make such regulations, and to give
such directions, orders, and instructions to the
Governor of Newfoundland, or to any officer or
officers on that station, or to any other person or
persons whomsoever, as shall or may be front
time to time deemed ;raper and necessary for the
carrying into effect the purposes of the said Con-
ventino, with relation to the taking, drying, and
curio:.; of Fish, by the inhabitants of the United
Stares of America, in common with British
jects, within the limits set forth in the said arti-
cle of the said Convention, and bereinbefore re-
cited ; any Act or Acts of Parliament, or any law,
CUStolll, Or usage, to the contrary in anywise not-
withstanding.
2. Aud be it further enacted, that from and
after the passing of this Act, it shall not he law-
ful for any person or persons, not bring; a natural
bon) subject of his Majesty, in any foreign ship,
vessel, or boat, nor for ally person, in any ship,
vessel, or boat, other than such as shall be navi-
gated arcoldina to the lass of the United King-
dom of Great 13ri'ain and behind, to fish for, or
to take, dry, or cure any Fish of any kind what-
ever, Within three matine miles of any coasts,
creeks, or hathours whatever, in any part
of his Majesty's dominions in America, not in-
cluded within the limits specified and described
in the first article of the said Convention, and
hereiohefore recited ; and that if any such foreign
ship, vessel, or boat, or any persons Ott board
thereof, shah be found fishing, or to have been
fishing, or preparing to fish within such dis-
tance of such coast,, hays, creeks, or harbours,
within such parts of his Majesty's dominions in
America, out of the said limits as aforesaid, all
such ships, vessels and boats, together with their
cargoes, and all guns, annnimition, tackle, ap-
lintel, furniture, and stores, shall bc forfeited, and
shall and may be seized, taken, sued for, prose-
cuted, recovered, and condemned by such and the
like ways, means, and methods, and in the sante
Courts, as ships, vessels, or boats, may be for-
feited, seized, prosecuted, and ca•oleamed, for
any offence against any laws relating to the re-
venue of customs, or the la i s of trade and navi-
gation, under any Act or Acts of the Parliament
of Great Britaiit, or of the Milted Kingdom of
Great and Ireland ; provided that nothing
in this Act coutaioed shall apply, or be construed
to apply, to the ships or subjects of any Prince,
Power, or State in amity with his Majesty, who
are entitled by treaty with his Majesty, to any
privilege of taking, drying, or curing Fish on the
coasts, bays, creeks, or harbours, or within the
limits in this Act described.

3. Provided always, and be it enacted, that it
shall and may he lawful for any fisherman of, the
said United States, to enter into any such bays or
harbours of his Britannic Majesty's dominions in
America, as are last mentioned, for the purpose of
shelter, tied repairing damages therein, and of
purchasing wood, and of obtaining water, and for
no other purpose whatever ; subject nevertheless to
such rest t iet ions as may be necessary topreveut such
fishe:•lllt n of the s itt United States from taking,.
or oiling Fish in the said bays or harbours,
or in any other maoner whatever abusing the said
privileges by the said Treaty and this Act reserved to
them, and as shall for that purpose be imposed by
any order or orders to be from time tolime made by
his Majesty in Council, tinder the authority of this
act, nod by any regulations which shall he issued
by the Governor, or person exercising the office
of Governor in any such parts of his Majesty's
domioions in America, under or in pursuance of
any sneh order in Council as aforesaid.
-4. And be it further enacted, that if any per-
son .or persons, 'you requisition made by the Go-
vernor of Newfoundland, or the person exercising
the office of Governor, or by any Govet nor or per-
son exercising the office of Governor in other
parts of his Majesty's domiuioos in America as
aforesaid, or by any officer or officers acting tin-
der such Governor or person exercising the office
of Governor, in the execution of any orders or
instructions from his Majesty in Council, shall
refuse to depart from such bays or harbours, or
if any person or persona shall refuse or neglect to
conform to any regulations or directions which shall
be made or given for the execution of any of the
purposes of this act, every such person so- re-
fusing or otherwise offending against this act,
shall forfeit the sum of two hundred pounds,
to he recovered in the Superior Court of Judis
emigre of the Island of Newfoundland, or in
the Superior Court of Judicature of the Co-
lony or Settlement within or near to which
such offence shall be committed, or by
bill,
pliant, or informatiou in any of his MA".
jesty's Courts of Record at ‘Vcstminster ;
one moiety of such penalty to belong to his
Majesty, his heirs and successors, and the
other moiety to such person or persons as shall
sue or prosecute for the same : piovitletl always,
that any such snit or prosecution, if the same he
committed in Newfoundlatol, or in any other cos
tatty or settlement, shall be commenced within
three calendar months ; and if commenced in any
of his Majesty's Colitis at ‘Vestminster, withht
twelve calendar months front the time of the Com-
missiou of such offence.

On Saturday afternoon, the wind shifte4 to the
west, and in the evening blew a strong gale,
when a thaw commenced, which has continued
ever since. The snow on the streets is neatly all
melted, and it has also mostly disappeared trom
the hills in the vicinity. Yesterday, about mid-.
day, the covering of the Ni,enagerie on the Mound
was blown off, and one of the car, vans, weighing
about six tons, and containing three finny,
a lioness and two cubs, a hyena, antelope, and
a large bear, was overtinned by the violence of
the wind ; a man and boy narrowly escaped be•
ing crushed to pieces by the accident,---#,E4M"44
Courant, Jan. 24.)

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF CHANCERY, WESTMINSTLIt, JAN. 27.
ELOPEMENT.
DEANfI versus DEANE.

When tbis cause was last heard, the Lord Chan-
cellor had directed it to stand over till this morn-
ing, in order to give the parties an opportunity of
filing additional affidavits, if they should think
proper to do so. It was now stated by the Coun-
sel, that Dr. Moore bad made a second affidavit,
confirming the statements contained in his for-
mer one, and deposing that in the interview be-
tween him and Mr. and Mrs. Stable, the latter,
on being told by the deponent that the marriage
would be valid if the banns we►e duly published,
said, with evident emotions of anxiety," 0, well,
then, let the banns go on," or words to that ef-
fect. On the other beard, Mr. and Mrs. Stable,-in
a counter affidavit, denied that any such expres-
sion was used. They stated, that during the in-
terview Dr. Moore was vety unwell, and evidently
in great pain, and w this cause they ascribed his
misrepresentation of what took place on the occa-
sion. The circumstance of Mrs. Stable having
taken lodgings for Mr. Deane, on his return to
London from the University, which had formerly
been animadverted on by the Court, was now ex-
plained by at► affidavit on the part of Mr. Deane
himself ; who represented that be had left Oxtord
with the consent of his mother and friends, and
that it was also wi!h their knowledge and con-
sent that Mts. St:tide had hired lodgings for him
in London.

There were several other new affidavits pro-
duced, but they Oiselo,ed no facts of any import-
ance. The Counsel on both sides having at gued
at considerable length on the effect ot these de-
positions,
The Loan Cliaraceeeort said, in the course of
the long and frequent hearings which had been
granted in this cause-, various subjects bad come
betore hint which prevented him, consistently with
his duty to the. Court, from concluding the matter
without carefully reading over. all the affidavits.
In deciding on Ibis question, he had an important
and difficult duty to perform—impot tart, because
he was called upon, under the sanction of his ju-
dicial oath, to protect the Court front contempt
and insult ; and difficult, because he had to deter-
mine, on conflicting testimony, whether in this
case there had been a contempt of Court. Otte
thing was extremely clear, that this marriage,
provided it could be regularly performed, was
agreeable both to Mr. and Mrs. Stable, particu-
larly to the latter. As to what bad taken place
previously to the 11th of December; when Mr.
Deane was made a ward of the Court, lie had
nothipg whatever to do with it ; he admitted,
that it it had • been made out more clearly
than it really was, that Mr. and Mrs. Stable were
anxious to promote the marriage, and had it taken
place before that date, the Court would have bad
no right to interfere ; but when it was alleged
that subsequently to the I lth of Dec. they hatlpro-
moted the marriage, he might look at their prior
conduct in order to ascertain how far their sub-
sequent concurrence was a contempt of Court.
Supposing that in the two letters to Mr. Carr,
Mr. Stable assured him that no clandestine mar-
t iage should take pkee, and that, notwithstand-
ing this promise, it really did take place, he would
not go the length of saying that Mr. Stable had
therefore been guilty ot contempt, because if it
could he made out that deceit had been practise.:',
on him, lie would he exculpated. But he thong r
that since these letters had been written.
Stable was called upon to show how the,. toad
happened which he promised should not 'oappen,
He would also take this opportunity of z,..iying,
that formerly be had stated too strongly the force
of the circumstance, that lodgings had h.;!etataken
for Mr. Deane in Hanover-square. He had re-
presented this us an indecorous proceeding on the
part of Mrs. Stables ; but the circumstance had
now been pared down by the additional affidavit,
and he was therefore anxious to express his re-
gret that any thing should have fallen from him in-
jurious to the character either of Mr. Stable or
Mrs. Stable. He knew; no part of a Lord Chan-
cellor's duty that was more important than that
of sifting to the bottom every charge of entrap-
ping a ward of Court ; and, under this convic-
tion, be , pledged himself to read carefully the
affidavits before that day se'nnight. If the Counsel
were then prepared to tell him what progress the
Master bad made in his report respecting the va-
lidity of the marriage, he should be prepared to
tell them whether the farther attendance of any
of the parties would be necessary.

coula OF KING'S BENCH, JAN. 27.

FORSYTH V. HALL.

Mr. HoNo moved fora new trial in this case,
which it will be recollected was an action against
the defendant for inftin.ing the plaintiff's patent
for an improved method of discharging fire-arms
by means of percussiving fulminating gunpowder.
The plaintiff had a verdict of 3001.; and
The. CourlT, after hearing the Learned Counsel
at very considerable length, refused the rule.

LORD CHURCHILL V. THR

Tlig SANIR. V. THE CHRONICLE.

Mr. PLATT moved the Court for judgment a
in case of nonsuit, the plaintiff not proceeding to
triaL—Granted.

WRIGHT V. CLEMENT, ESC/

Mr. PLATT moved for a rule to spew cause why,
upon payment of costs, the verdict for the plain-
tiff in this case for 5001. should not be set aside,
and a new trial granted. It was an action against
the defendant for priblAshing a number of Cob-
heirs Political Register, in which the plaintiff's
character was maligned, he having been one of
the coadjutors of Mr. C. in the publication of
certain Parliamentary Registers. The defendant's
case at the trial rested upon evidence that he had
positively enjoined his servants not to sell any of
Mr. Cobbett's works, and that the paper which
was the subject of this action was told clandestinely
and unknown to the defendant. One of the wit-
nesses, named Sudbury, a shopman to Mr. Cle-
ment, swore that his master had never at any time
given hint any ()niers upon the subject of Cob-
bett's works, contrary to his own previous volun-
tary statement, upon which the briefs of Connsel
were prepared. Two other witnesses positively
swore• that they had received such orders from Mr.

Clement, The present motion was founded upon -
the affidavits of Mr. Clement himself to that effect,
of his brother, Mr. Cliatles Clement, his princi-
pal shoprnan, the porter, and Sudbury, who now
stated, as a reason why he had not adhered to his
original statement, that he was confused, and had
mistaken the questions put to him by Counsel.
The COURT fefused the Rule for a new trial,
saying, that as there was no new evidence, it '0; NS
quite contrary to the practice to grant new trial.
upon the supposition that the witnesses on the
former trial would swear differently on another
occasion.

Mr. PLATT then moved for a Rule 10 shear
cause, why the judgment should not be myresied,.
on the ground that the counts of the declaration
upon which the verdict for the plain►iff' bad pro'
ceeded were iziformal, in that they professed to sec
out the substance of the alleged libel, instead of
the very words.
The Court, upon ,this gro►►nd, granted a Ruie to
shew cause.