The Sun.
London, England, 1816-09-07 00:00:00

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AO account was yetVi“:(l 'yeStCrd.ly from the
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ari.iyed oft Dore'e
ftwo. Smyrna stilt trig, 04t passage two of
the •.critts. tooled „ him up in his cabin, is bile they
murdered CaO, t'orew him over....
bard, ivrapp....d uP, in •the stlmirE sail.' That afte:
a considerable ettufmemeitt he got to,speaki tot bit
boy, ;,1,0 'cino/tl that the two men, of thenantmea
of Tian& and Smith, had possessitin the .
and were about tto Murder him (the Mater) whou'l
.they 11.01 dettratitted to !mug, but thebuy, tolti
him ttt.it hints-elf, and a man of the tlattte ttf Alltsr
son, were de' termined -to stand by Litt', it' he (titi:
Mate) would and could attempt CO recover the:
ship. That, soon afterwards the . Mau waslaketi
upon deck, and had his hittids dud, and %%as mad's,
fast to a stantion ; that the two mutineers had
then posse'ssit'nt netrint 600 doubloons, which
they had taken from the t aptain's dratiVers: Iri
the ,evening they began to quarrel litni9t tyhat
should be dune with the ship; lint! Ole Mate eon-
Criving to get, loose, suddenly Seized it musket,
which* knew to be loadedotipl put it to Smith's
ear, while Masson attacked the other, and thus
regained possession of tl)e ship, which has passed
Dover, her way. to Stangate Creek, whene6,
the murderers will he brought in custody to Lou-
don., The Mate •appears to he deserving of much
praise for his cool intrepidity, and for his eoittage
in boldly taking the fit st favourable mothatt tor
recovering the property. The money is all te-
'pos;essed for the Owners.

The new temporarV Midi!) Alti.
ienin for the Elgin Marbles, we nriderstaail, will
be finished this day: The Marbles are io lie ar-
ranged imniediately, and opened tb publie View
on the 2d of 'loci month.
Th'e Rev. 3. 11. BtiowNE, M. A. late Fellow of
John`;. College, has been appointed to flier"
Archdeaconry of Ely, vacant by the death of Dr,
IVATsoii, Bishop of Landatf.'

The Rev. GERVAS WHITE/111AD, M. A. senior
Fellow of Jesus. College, bas ,been presented to
the Vicarage of .*Kernsing cum Seal, in Kent, on
the patronage of the Duchess of DORSET.
About 600 workmen haie been long employed,
sanctioned by Parliament, in repairing the Shrews-
bury line of the Great Road to Holyhead : having
nearly perfected a very laborious portion of new
road near °Oven Lake, .last %ieek a number dr
men commenced the making a new tine', to be ,cut
from Bangor City.to the Ferry.
,
The greatest quantity of herrings ever ierriem-
beretl to have been taken were; caught tiff•t!'e
harbour of Donaghadee on Wednesday
Sonic of the boaih were neatly tilled within 500
yards train the pier bred. It wits fortnnite titer
they had'a safe barbotn at hand, as they we're ttql
deep to proceed to a market at tiny gstanee.:They
bit a ready sale at 10S.
.per nt. ze.

Yesterday se'nnight Timothy: ficulgiOn, aged
74, cyt:rmai.of High Heaton Collicri North.
timberland, was unfortunately cruslled to &alit
by a stone falling «pun iiint from the ,roof of thu
mine. The stone wass so massive that the coiner*.
were under the necessity of blasting it with gun.
powder before they cottl4 obtain the body.
NEw SPECIES of FhAUD.---A Man of
middle size, dark hair, and tiallqW coMpiesi.oll,
practised the following hoax on Thursday i-4103
went to a school a short distance from' Loudon,
inquired the terms, and asked it reference to'soma
person whose child was there. The master gave
him a card, writing the reference on the back.
He went to the place, asked for the pareittS,
saying lie cattle from Mr. When the ino.
ther of the child came, he told her she was de.
ired, tp go iniwiediatelv, her son being taken dan.
geronSly iII. This, as it appeared afterwards, was
to create alarm: Tbectnelty of harrowing tip this
feelings of parents in this. manner cannot be de.
,scribul. Ott the mother's
.arrival at the school,
to her agreeable surprise, she (*nand lier sun itt
perfect health. Mr. ---- recollected having
given a card-with a retereoce on Monday last
now for the first time •it wits snwected it must
have been to rob the house. On reaching her •
borne it appeared, that. all. be bad been
take was a huge 'circular mother .o•-pearl snuff-
box from the chimney piece. • • ,
Ftas.;;--Between one-andtWo O'elnek on Thurs.
day afternoon ~11 fire broke ow in t founder's shop
in Red [Jilin-street, Clerkenwell, (hiring the*tlints
the men were. gone to dinner.- .'fit art ival •of the'
engines and a good supply of water prevented the
prOgre4s of the flaint's; hut the shop, with all its.
cont-ents-',iverc clestroyed.
RietWattos'oNr, Gooowcx, • and Co. the Con.
tractoni,. beg leave to rentinit their Friends and
the Pi!blie, that the present tiotlery begins Draw
let -
• •
thc l ith of Siirenthet, The Scheine con-
gritty Two !'sires '4o,onoi, TWO of 30,0001.
Two:nf 10,0001, &c. &c. in Consnis and Monty;.
,s nil the wishes t,f tlse Public ha,c broil eonstilted
in regard to Om Drawing, as an (Arial Number of.
"Pickets will be .drawn cult' day, and the First-
drown Prize. the first Day, still r;ceive, in Azidi-
lion , 40,0001. may make it 0.,000i. :Thus
there is every inducement to an early part:base;
whicli RICHARDSON, 60,0111,1;CM, told Co. resinct-
r
lis :ee
(17 their
ti:
n(1 tq
tiener,id Cusl
tr
Charing-crosS. , _

I)l'S.'COOPtitt, NltiSP(ll!, and DIPSCANI,
ClittiS,4o the lit;ard at, Churiotte.hot;se,
Illa4ithrs-r9a4l, Live ttsceriaint,d Ittitt ttp'vvuttis
Ott poijettts toe t;4l annually of,prevailing
disoders, that ItundieskNvere in u tiirttvtising, titut c,
owing•to quatelting tiletnietvcs, uti.l enutilting
men ignt,want of rlte prinCS3ioll. v. ho deceive the
public by their speciouf proiniseta and iinutorat
atlvertisiquents. .6rtytion3 n the hew!, taco,
ttlid •body, nicer4tetl.-11trootts, the.-
neck, the.4.hin tuntes,,p.litts ift the head
inketi,t ritentnatittli,
slvelled uncles, Hu,' tit.rvous y, chsdo*co
witielt appear yettro oftcr, ottoi cous,tlitvners...
of imp-11111:i trtuttotent.--,Mti4r:: t;. lOPER,
ROE. and 11;1NCAN Art: etilWilte4i'd•iiiY o'o'll 4111
8, 411' 1“/J+414rr, 4:Glitaillittg: a to'; upti the tuna'
have ad e I'no.ditys„:l' Itucsdays, t+lttl;3ttn+lr %1
lilt t o'cloi,k,--.Ttkere' is, tt sate tiyhtr tsU' PiV4te
(003115 tOt: (401301%1.

POLICE OF THE METROPOLIS.

r Examination or . RAYNSIIOIeD, Esq. toittinued.]
Do you think the mode of payment arising out
of the Act of Parliament, giving the 401. to be
divided amongst the witnesses and those that con-
vict an offeoder, the best mode of bringing crimi-
Mds to conviction ?—I think, without iome.sti-
.
mins to the officers, very f.
ew notorious offender
woeld he brought to conviction. If the magis-
'trines were empowered to reward the officers ac-
cording to their merits, when any of them were
found particularly active, I think it would be mulch
.'suore likely to produce the desired effect, than the
.precarious chance the officer has of receiving the
share of 401. reward; fur although the officer may
have been, extremely diligent, and probably run
the risk of his life in the apprehension of the of-
fender, still he can receive no reward in.the latter
case unless the offender is convicted; and we all
know how often they escape punishment.
Do you not think that the reward being given
solely on the conviction of persons committing
certain offences specified by Act of Parliament,
has. a tendency to render the officers remiss in
seizing offenders, till they have committed that
offence for which they are to gain some profit by
Their conviction acted as a magistrate for some.
years before I was in the police, and always en-
tertained the idea that the officers suffered a man
to go on,cononittiitg trivial Offences, waiting for
the opportunity of his doing somethimg that would
entitle theM to receive what is technically called
blood money ;". but since I have been in the
police, I am inclined to believe (from the number
of persons tylio are daily brought to the Office
elittrged with petty larceny, and from my obser-
vations on the general conduct of.the officers) that
I ottertaineif an erroneonsopiniton on that subject.
• When persons are either remanded for further
exittninatiott, or committed to Prison, to what
prison ate they committed from llattort-garden ?
general, to the New Prison, Clerkenwell ;
but certainly in some instances, where it may hap-
pen,to he a female, and she has a Child in arms,
so that it cannot be disposed of, we commit them
tyo the House of Correction in Colahlith-fields,
where they have an opportunity of treating them
with more humanity, and they have more com-
forts than tEey can possibly ha re in the New
Pt ison ; for that, certainly, of all prisons, is the
worst 1 have seen.
YOll consider, then, the. New Prison, Clerken-
well, as one of the worst you have ever seen ?—/
do twist conecientlously ; aj the saute time I beg
to state, that the magistrates for the county of
Middlesex have latelycome to the resolution of
. Lying out sevetal thousand, poIIMIS in intrUedhttely
puttihg th.ut prison Into a proper state of repair;
and I believe direetimis have been given for that
purpose.
• Are there not persons there confined undersell-
fence ?—I ratite' think not; I speak from memory.
You du not know whether at this moment' there
4re not %sown confined there under sentence for
perjury do not happen to know it.
I'vrion3 are committed there for assaults
They are committed there for want of finding se-
curt, o autiti,ii• to the indictment the prosecutor
may bring against them.
There is no allowance, .no straw, no
Vor no bedding ?—Certainly not.
. They are all huddled together. in ,one or two
large rooms, where they, sleep upon. the boards,
and are often many days without being able to
change their clothes, or to obtain any other ne-
Oothrnodation, toilets they pay for it ?••-•-"flint is
perfectly cunt:et, with this observation, that the
Nvollielt are in a separate room front the men ;
pever commit any respectable female or person Of
decent appearance there, t hut I can possibly
avoid ; butt there are some shocking vagabonds
Oat hardly lokow the comfort of a bed, an there-
fore cannot be supposed to endure the same misery
for the want of.it. . •
Are not boys, or .more properly children, corn- •
milted to that prison, and mixed there indiscri-
minately with other prisoners ?---Not generally ;
.-the magistrates tomunit boys to the other prison ;
we arc not in the habit of sinling felons to the
I'lonse Of 'Correction, except under particular dr-
munstances ; the house is frequently so full that
lye cannot commit there : I am sorry to say that
. three-fourths of the offences now committed in
'this lown, as' far as my observations goes, are by

boys.
What. is the !owl') Of district the mamwement
Of which belongs to your police consists of
the cast side of Gower-street, Bedford-sqmire,
Charlotte•strect, Drury-lane, the parish of St.
frew, the parish of St. Sepulchre, St. James's,
lienwell, the liberty of the Rolls in Chancery.
Jane, the liberty of Saffron-hill, Islington, St.
:Luke's to the west side of Goideu-lane, and Ilun-
bill-row; including the'western sides of those
/greets ; that is what is considered the Hatton-
Kril act) district.
That district Is principally occupied by the mid.'
Ailing and lower classes of society :—Certainly.
Vhat is the present state of public morals
within that district ?—I think it is not worse than
has been ; the district has been remarkably
timiet all this winter, when we certainly did ex-
pect, in consequence of the 'number of persons
discharged from the army and navy, we should
have had a great number of serious offences emu-
spitted ; but I can most distinctly state to the
committee,
.that this winter has been us quiet as
iecolleet sineel have been in the police.
Do you think that, though the serious offences
hive diminished. rather than increased, the
smaller and petty offences have not considerably
Inereased of late years think that for the last
totes matths the Way offences 'have. increased
but we Trays no iu district of any case
of atrocity within thht period.
.Fus pat the munkber of juvenile depredators
very nitwit increasottlatterly
Can vou give to, the Committee any reason for
that increkincrease:thopressure the trines,
afivi„the indiwnce of Rarelys in the losverclasies
of life, oecastota
.Ikgitilliber of their children to get

out holt tome ; having tio Means rof obtaiiing a
livelihobtl, they go oat into the streets, attl we
all know the young mind is open to be eorruted ;
they get amongst the 'co:union thieves, ioti. they
make .those young children the instruments of
their depredations. '
I)o you . not think 'that there is a regular plan
organized thioughout the metropolis, by which it
being known that the lak‘s are not rigidly exe•
cuted in respect of juvenile depredators, they are
used as instruments to those of a More 111Inire
age, tor the purpose of Committing various kinds
of theft 1-1 do think so; and that they are anyle
the instrumeots of other _persons . who migiht
fearful of comtnitting those offences thentielyes,i
because they would must likely suffer the ptinish
ment of the law; but from the %veil kunWit
inanity exercised is the atitniniitration of justice
towards children,. tney perhaps think that, by
making a child the instrument, a capital punish-
meta would not be inflicted for the offence, and
transportation is not touch regarded.
Do you not think that system has very coosi-
derahly increased within these few years past ?—I,
think most alarmingly so.
At what 11gC do you permit a child to take his
tri.d for f!lony ?—We have some brought to the
office of ten, twelve, and fourteen years of age.
Our duty fugitives tis.to" see ‘vbetiter (hoe is suffi-
cient evi4ence before us that the chilti,has cont-
mitred wn ofleitce that will justify our sending lii ii
for trial; and if tlrat cleat y appears, we 16v e
no !timer to do otherwise than commit :him, linty-
ever we may lament the youthful depravity Of
party.

Are you not of opinion, • the state'of the public
prisons in the metropoli4, ' in which there is lirtle
or no separation of the young from the adults,
contributes rely mod), by rendei ing the children
Worse when they come 'out of prison than they
were when they went in, to increase the numb
of el Imes am most decidedly of that opinion,
and I think it a very alarming,
Do you not think it would belnost advisable to
establish, if it were possible, some general plan of
it penitentiary house foe't he children convicts, brit
in which they email, by habits of industry and
better -morals being inculcated, become good
members of society, instead of beconaing,-as they
do, woise and worse, till they are either trans-
ported or suffer capitally ?—I am most decidedly
of that oPinion ; I have seen instances of children
that I have been under the painful necessity of
committing. to piison, show marks of contrition
at the time he has been tinder examination (as far
as one can loop into the hffinim 'Him° ; but
felt if that child could he _separated when'he kot
into the prisOn, .and kept distinct from the de-
praved characters he mixes with, there would be
irason to hope, that when he came out again lie
Wight be restored to habits tif industry, and be a
useful member Of society; but from the present
system of mieing.thildreo iv ids the 100 St depraved
characters, I consider theni as. lost to.society for
ever,

Are you pot, atta magistrate,' often compelled,
from a mere principle of humanity, anticipating
the fatal consequences arising from .cotmnittiog
one of those intants-to prison, to discharge him
%Viten a child lotS been committed for further.ex-
•loil Mit ion, we du not tell the prosecutor himself,

but %Vr find the tneanti of giving hint a hint, that.
It hit Hoeft out wish to prosecute, lie limy afford Os
an opportunity. of dischArging bins, bring fully
Hivrac thin it nould be the ruin of that child, awl
tbht he would be lust fur (net..

Supposing it -were made a positive mule, _that
lone of the inferior officers shoulil oke fees or

retards froll.l persons for the apprehension u
,
lisrovery of offenders, and no such fund a th:o
poi have hinted at were est.iblished, do you think

ally tvotild follow 1-1

offnk that if those-men were merely to depend
npon their eolinea a week, and the small pittance
they get from serving warrants and summonses,
they would not be able to live: as to Whit; they
receive troll►. persons emploYing thern, it is purely
voluntary ; we do not authorize them in dentabul.
ing any thing, the. parties do it of thutoscives, •