The Sun.
London, England, 1811-10-25 00:00:00

fRENC ECU 1.,47 JUN.

A etwoolift!, of the Council of :State, consisting,
of Messrs. B,oulay, Pelet, and Jaubert, have made
:to Boonaparte. a report with la gard to the dilapida.
o,eas that have beencommitted for the last ten years
in the colle&ion of the oarui (municipal dues) of
the cay at-Antwerp.
The following are isomer)f the principal feels:—
" Thaeoaroi.of Antwerp, established in Ther.
midor„; year eight, was at first placed under the di.
ree.tien of one individuate. :' This aJministration,
which subsisted for three years, was confided to a
,Sisor Lacoste, who arrived in that. city, where he
Was previously unknown, provided with a 'commis-
sion -from the Minister ot. the, Interior_ This la
the period, during _which peculation was carried
to its utmost extent. Lacoste, by his sole au..
thority, established an entrepotz in which were
deposited all commodities destined either for
borne consumption or export; and .as this en.
trepot was completely in his pewer, as he was sub-
eB tome iospection, nor kept any public registers,
itiked where were his registers, he said he
knew .nothing olithem), it may easily-be conceived,
that either by false permits, or valuations of which
he had the sole directian, he disposed, at his plea-
Sure, Of the prodece of the
,t aroi ; giving to the
city whatever he pleased, and teeing the rest to
biniseif.. He acknowledges that out of the profits
ef this eutrepot, he gave 30,600 francs to the wife
Of the Mayor, who was privy to these gifts : he
adds, that out of the same profits he hactexpended
5,09 francs on the, improvements of a housebe-,
longing to the Mayor,. of which lie was the tenant.
Whence it may b interred, that there' was conni-
Once between them.
At.last the .Municipal Body complained so
roaatair, of the small produce of, the octroi, that in the
year to another. system was established, by which
Oter were to be, a direeler and a commissary of the
oc11;9i! This was . very, hostile to the views of La
CeSte, who had been hitherto sole r master in the
levying of the dues ; but lie formed ate plan of
unititte, both offices in his own person : "he got him-
self appointed 'cotninissary ;‘ and then, under the
&tine of another man, was, . in faa, established as
direi!.)Or. thp °aro/ office there was a clerk, who
like himself, had aerie to settle at Antwerp, and
who seemed a very fit man for hia purpose ; this
kaass the. Sieur Mareseal, whom he :got appointed
to the Direction.
this. way thesetwo men condoled matters,
regulatechall the expences of the city' administration,
and Intik every measure to secure to, themselves
emisiderablegains. Marescal Confesses.,' that their
unlawful gains were. divided among Lacoste, the
Mayor, and himself. 'LaCoste made the same ac-
knowledgment in his examination.of the 12 Ii of
May last. lie his examiriation befere the Chanel
Jedgc,.he asserted that the. Mayor had no share in
the produce of the oaroi daring this latter system of
direetion;. acknowledging only, that be .had,an.
truailly made presents to. the Mayor's wife, to the
amount ref 1160Ut 12,000 francs, without know-
ing whether 'her hubhAnd was in armed of it .or

tIC4. '

" Flowevei, the same. Complaints were made
egainst this eystem, 'as against the former; and
ti oogh it •produced a little more to the city, yet a
general perfillattiOn prevailed, that the amount of the
pieeoce..vas by no means what it ought to be. The
Prefeet ordered that the Gtlroi • shoulti be'put out to
farm: This' Wai a new crisis' for those who had en-
tiched themselves at the expense of the city ; and
hence new artifices, new intriggeti on their part, to
preserve "•for eheruselvee the, source of emolument,
even though it should be dearly purchased. The means
of effeeting this were concerted between the Mayor,
lettuste, and M:i reseal ; but they were obliged to come
town understanding with two other atisecietes,.who,
likeehent, eery well acquainted with the secret
the one waelthe Siete. Biard, chief of the ^otHee of
prweeture, e••tio had been employed in checking
'The accounts of the ottroi, and reporting thereon to
,the Prefeei; the other was 1110 Sieur Petit, the
- Mayor's coadjutor or • adjunct. These five men
entered into a coalition ; and having put forward a
DMA of straw to figure away at the biddinge,•and to
;ley the part which t hey assigned' to hinieehey•Sete-
ceedeel in getting the farming of the oarai knocked
elewre to the :iieur Demarteau, Biard's brother-tie.
law, as had' been concerted among them:
" Some daye :fitter, these five associates having
hard, in the name of Demarteau, presented
to the four•othera, a deed `of agreement of their
dee, • porporting that each should teceive a fifth of
Atte The existence pf this club is. acknowe
deedeby Merescal, Petit, and Biard. The Mayor,
;while he confesses that there was at first a deed
handed to him for the benefit of his wife, pretends
that he tore it as soon as he was made acquainted
with ite contents ;. but hiS associates swear, that Ite
%Vii Ilvsent at cite meeting when the Shave that
eseh should'hme`M the pruiits of the farm was de-
. citicit en, and aseertaieed by reeierocal deeds'. It is
besides, certified by Bind, who kept the; tends, that
he constantly. rend to etich assbeiate his quota up to
the tst of January last.' • •
.
Tee farm, atter thus existing some years,. *at
"ftei4ed etit for four years more, -uncles the same cone
eieoes ; hut it is necessary to remark, that the
month of March fre, there having beep •no increase
'of the 1361•01 dues, thelariner, upon-proofs laid be.
`tufo hint that he was making considerable gains,
consented to add •to• his • rent the seas
°of =MO,
- _

"Such is the series of fads telative' to the dif-
!treat oush.3 of, aclinittiAcrity, the oaroi of: Ant-
wet p. It is quite clear that Oilapidatiodtis have been
corninitted ; but at what may their atnount' be esti-
`elated
rfeth Ott .COmmittee bum up the
.confessions
e by the peculators ; confessions,-Aoubtless,
ate'very incomplete, as it Was their interest to
kkriowiedge as little of-their gains as possible, that
they may have the less to refund ; but the Commit-
itv.lay flown some reasonable calculations, from
-which 4; appears, that the frauds could not have
been .lesi than to the amount of 1,867,351 *francs,
Toc oclu y cnde then Report by skibmitting to his
„, .
4‘ Ist. Tlot the Mayor of Antwerp be deprived of
hi fuolioos.

" 24. That 3 SentleStreloll plgted (4 it bet,
not •been inyeatly) on the property ,of t'e Slew:
Biurtt anJ

" 3d. 'First the Grand Judge Minister of Justice
cause the laws, of -the Empire- to be executed un
the authors of ard,. accomplices in the dtlapida-,
riot's committed in the .collection of the otirai of
Antwerp."
Be, ti.is Report transmitted to the Grand judge,
that he may
.bring the above-named pet twos before
a Curt of Justice, and cause the laws of the Em-
pire to be executed.
(Signed). NAPOLEON.
Flushing, Sept. 28, Osit.

IF ESTMINSTER SEShONS:,

Tlieqe Sessions commenced yesterday, before
Wm. MAINWAIIING, Eq. and a Bench of Mitis:
traies.

Ohm-les Bennett was indi&ed for committing a
fraud on his employers, Alessi's.. Broadwoud and
C0..0n the sth of. December
The defendant, it appearad, was a porer in the
service of Messrs. itioadwood,' piano-forte-Mann-
faaurers ; and was dispatched by them, on the
sth. of December, to Miller's Wharf, Wapping,
with.'a case containing a piano-forte, which was to
14 hipped- on b .ard. the Elizabeth; one' of the
Union Company's finiaLlis, for Messrs. Gow., of
,Edittbnrgh. A charge of 3s. was made for wharf.
age, which the defendant paid, and received a
ticket,. specifying the amount. •He had, however,
altered the nuila to.a figure of six, tuakins the
sum 3s. tiJ. and thereby dcfraudecl 11Yessrs. Barad-
wood of the trAttional

The .fait being clearly proved by the clerk of
Mesbrs. Broadwood and the agent for the Union
Company, the Defendant was found guilty, and
sentenced to three monthi imprisonment. .

Sarah, Brqmstrin -and John Leighten were iedided
for an, assault cn Elizabeth Cotton, on the 251 it of
Mat last.
the parties, it appearrid, arty inhabitants of An-
gel-court, Windmill-street, and wrro not very
remarkable. for their urbanity towards each other.
A child of the present prosecutrix having been sent,
on the day laid in the indiotment, for a riot of
porter, informed her mother, on returning, that
Mrs. Bramston had designated her tvr " a bastard."
The prosecurix immediately paid her neighbour a
visit, to demand an explanation, when kbattle7royal
took place, in the course of which, Mr. Leighton,
who lived near the parties, made his appearance,
and, as was sworn by the present' prosecutrix, beat
herand her son violently.
'ft - was stated, however, that the defindant,
Emulsion, had prosecuted Mrs. Cotton and her son
at the Middlesex Sessions, - when they were found
guilty, and sentenced to a month's imprisonment
each. Mrs, Cotton had now, in her turn, become
the accuser, and brought for Ward a number of wit-
nesses to prove, that, without having given the
slightest provocation, she 'had been assaulted by
Mrs. Lirmoston, who threw a pail of water over her,
and struck her with a brush; and, on her son
coming to her assistance, Mr. LeiAliton beat them
both. On the other hand, the defendants Called
those witnesses who had been before examined at
Clerkenwell, and who positively ' swore that the
present prosecutrix and her son were the aggres-
sors, and that neither of the defendants had struck
a blow.

The CHAIRMAN left it to the Jury to decide be-
tween these coutradidory accounts--observing,. that
oue.party or, the other must be guilty of wilful and
corrupt perjury.
,The Jury acquitted ihe'defendants.

woes, tot h;s iippearance-at nail on. ‘v canes?
r
day. In
the mean tone, Foetid, the Corista,w,
having reet-i;ed infoirah.ion of these c.it.urn-
stances, imanfdiately tent to the p;aces. where
the wan sa.d he h.dged, and there. found into trod
his wife in a .wretched apaitturnt, c"htaining
scarcely a bed
.to lie uo. Upon searching however,
the ()dicer discovered,several parcels packed in can-
vas, •ltieli-ott,lieing opetii:d, were found to contain,
a ltirge quantity of plate, contis,ing of plates, forks,
spoons, salts, tire. having the same triarki on them
35 were on the spoons offered ,to . Feak.os, 311 d
a""Unting•to least 2001 in value; In the W•11.0,11',6'
p(Xsiti3lOti, he tuund duplicates of articles of sayer,
two watches, &e, pludged at ditrcr,tit shops,
wards of 801. more, On Friend'' aSking her v.,1t0
the plate belonged to, she acknowledged it M. as MIL
bet husband's, but said it belonged to the Ilcv.
H. naming a Cletgyrnan well known,- and tt,at they'
had detained it for. money due float Mr. H. to them,
anti had been obliged to pledge it through (ifstle"-
Friend took away the duplicates -and the Fiat;:, k*nd
the wan and woman renewed their Pronsise to ap-
pear at Union-Hall, on Wednesday. This, how-
ever, they did not do, but have tiliconded, sending
to the office a vague letter, written by the vioitoo,
and dated froth the Minories. A card, containing
the address of the Rev. Mr. H. was discovered pa. k-
ed up with the plate, and he hastweti written t. by
direction of the Magistrstts, It is a sitiguhr
tutnsiance, however, that no answer 1135 'been' re-,
turned to that letter. The plate and cltiplicates.re.
610111 in the Oilict r's possession, and the case is still
involved in.mystery.

ON THE sTitAm6r4w:vr

AS A RE:NIED? FOR ASTIlikiA AND CONSI/MyTION.

TO THE EDIIOR OF THE• SUN.

si • •
All view discoveries, particUla'rly in the:prvctice
medicine, hOwever vAloatile and intiii.)t rant, are
donnicl to tweet with the cynic op'poition and re-
proach of interested individuals. To irive,,tigare
truth is both the medical and moat! du 'y ot thi
pra6iitioner,' whose objet 'Moine to the
mitigation of human suffering. No 'disease being
more distressing than asthma, or more destructive
than consumption, it has been my objki to aieer-
lain, in an, extensive prattice; the etE.cts of the Stra-
Monium in the cure and-relief of those.affe6ions of
the lungs ; the result hasbeen, that I, found the
Stramoniurn to afßia the head and disorder the Sto-
mach, I was therefore induced io give the Stramo-
Mimi as direatd by Mr. Pisher, a trial, and it is
with pleasure I pbsei.ve, that In a great variety cif.
cases it has met with, my most sanguine wishes by
giving, not only immediate bat permanent relief;
and it is far ditierent from. the unprepared Stramo-
nium, that instead of producing any affe6tions of the
head, It. actually removed .the headache of tho.e
who had previouslystiffered by it, I therefore con-
sider Mr. Fisher's preparation of the Stramonium
most important discovery, anCtliat it is the duty
of those who have proved:its etlicaey to give it every
passible degree of publicity. It is very necessary to
remark, that-the Siramonium generally sold is not
the right species, it being the Datura Tatula that
Via 4 employed by pr. Anderson, and not the Datura
Straniansurn ; the latter, I end, is even advertised as
the true Stramonium, I rear, itieraore, that the re-
putation of the remedy, .by this mistake, has been
injured, and instead ot relief, the p.itient has received
en aggravation of his agliction ; an error, I trust,
,this caution will rectity, as well for its repute as for
the liutiettup of humanity,
1 am, Sir, -
• • Your obedient Servant,
T. biloTT CATON, NI.D.
No. io, Stanhope.street. Newcastle. •
street, Sttand.... -

P. may be necessary to nbcerve, that I pro-
cured the prti..privi Strainuoitun of Mews. Foster
and Co, 34, Parli.itnrry-iireet.

.
ATROCIotIs AisAUL—
T.On Saturday morning'
last, as the tansery maid of' a family, in 'Gloucester-
New Road, was walking w ith her mister's
children, in St. Mary-lc-bone Park, towards Prim-
rose-hill,' site was accostCd by ttVo sailors, apparently
forcigne4s, who reques;ed her to sirCw thereat the
way to Kilburn, which she did ; they then went a
short distance, and returned, sa;iug, they should:
not be a ble te find their road, and that she Must Mi.'
duet them. This she refused but consenttd to shew
them part of, the lay, which she ar.cordirgiv did
when they got .wtthin about two hundred yards
in the te.tr of the Royal Artillery Barracks, -at
Jehtt'4 Wood, the men having converged together
in a foreign laoguige, fold her to
,stop, and
then made a proposal to .her, too indelicate
'to be, detailed, and threatened her with sio-
knee if, she refused. Finding that she did not agree
to their proposal, one of them threw her down, not-
withstanding .her cries, and behaved, to her in the
Most brutal-Manner. 'The monster, however, was
not able to effect his purpose ; .her .screams were
fortunately heard by two honest Hibernian Artillery-
men, of the nifrines pl. Wean by and O'Connor, who
ran toher assistance,-- which the sailors perceiving,
reluCiantly left their prey, -pouring on her a volley
of ulcerations ; and though they were pursued -for
a considerable distance,' ucceeded in efieding their
escape. • The unfortunate girl
..was com eyed home
almost lifeleSs, and not wittutanti4ng the best sur4iorl
assistni,e has been afforded her, she is still consider-
ed in a dangerous state.
The Correspondent who has transmitted the above
account very • properly observes, that some of the
Police ought. to be atkictried lu Mary-le-bone Park,
as this is not. the ftrat itt,tance ,of females havii%
been there insulted.

The foneveing seizure of 'contraband gnods was
made o Shr day se'intight n=t the be.tch hi the parlso
ollkxhill, Sussex : viz. 31Ai CAS;tiii of brandy stick
genera, 594 pair of kA omen's kid gloves, 25 pi;ir 01
men's silk. ditto, 24 coloured sha wh, t i 3 yaid, black
',lno coloured sifts, 12 p4ir oZ %.voinoo's
pair of woii en's. iulo:Jrc-4
}'amid of white crape, and t bottes,ot
caws ; also t lOggcr, ;n it... wind. vie,,
transpollud„ and her it:aterkili, an Wcfc it ii-
VOI ea into the care of the vi the Cubium-
at liotings,