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LONDON.

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 27.
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Yefterday. after our Paper was at Prefs, we re-
ceived tome additional Paris Journals. One lays
the FIR rr Consul. fet out on Thurfday laft to visit
the ports of Havre and Cherburght another Rates
the information to be premature ; and a third
Rates that his departure was fixed for Teilordar-
We are forty to obferve that, however unfound-
ed may be the aflertions in the article refpeEhng
the difpofitions of the Swifs, which we yefterday
copied from the iforiteir, it Teems no longer
doubtful that the Cantons of Switzerland have
fOund it moll prudent to fubmit to the CHIRP
Cosine. By Letters from Park of the 23d, which
are confirmed by Advices from Laufanne of the
15th, it appears that the Diet of &harks has ac-
ceded to the Articles contained in General Bona-
: awe's Proclamation ; and on the 13th inft. the
bodies of Coofederate Troops were ordered to be
difbanded, and the newly conftituted Authorities
diftblved. The Helvetic Diet was to return to
Berne on the 18th inftant. Deputies are to be
feat to Paris from Switzerland, to fettle the dit
&rent points at atm.
The ifoniterr avows that in the nest war the
Swifs mit fight on the fide of the Mach. That
they can remain neutral while their country is a
military poll of such importance is next to impof-
fible. The Swift, then, mull be forced to efpoufe
the caufe of France.—Switzerland thus is render.
cd as much a part of France as if it were incor-
porated !
Mizaz-Laws.---There is no alteration in prices
of any fort of grain, this day, fume Monday,.
Wheat has a heavy talc at that day's Currency.
Baean.----Yefterday the LORD Marmi ordered
the Price of Bread to, be continued the fame as
laft week.

.dnmadLrr SESSIONS.

•
• OLD BAILEY. OCT j. •
Our Readers will readily recollect the various ex.
aminetions which have taken place at the Manfion
Houfe refpeaing a charge, involving a number of
perfous charged with beingconcerned in finking that,
brig Adventure off Brighton on the Bth of Mpg
Lift, for the purpofe of ddrauding the under's*:
en... This cafe came on for full trial et dtefe felfioni,
and the whole cireum (lances of a bufinefs which has
for fome time occupied a coafiderabk there of the
public attention were circumftandally difclofed.
Four perfons were included in the ildiament :
Thefe were Eafterby and Macfarlane, the Owners;
Codlin, the Mailer of the vdel ; and Read, the
Supercargo. Codling and Read were indiaed as
principals, and the two owners asecceforiee to the
crime.--. The following Jury were then fir=:
Thetas Lovely. flo:sdcuais,
aleph rdo"
. "age=ge, Go
Condon,
ktPath Dawns imbue Seat*
s=s • Itishani Hataholoasew, ,
Fran Clades J. Hayes.
The proftcution was opened by Mr. MA It RN TT.
Mr. Gaaaow, leading Council for the profecu.
tion, began by Obferving, that the charge againft
the prifOners, on whole fate the Jury wee to de-
termine, was that the two prifoners, Codlin and
Read, had deft Toyed the vefel in queftion, with
intent to prejudice the Underwriters, who had fah.
feribed the Policy of Inforance upon her, and
' that the two other prifoners, who were the owners,
• bad procured them to commit the offence. This
it was hardly neceffary to Elate, was by thewifdom
• of the law made a capital offence in each of the
perfons who had been guilty of it. The cafe was
• of the WI Fable importance, and called for thel
moil deliberate, anzions, and patient attention mil
. the part of the Jury. It was important, as
*rinse imputed to the prifoneeaffeand the vital
,1
tele& of the country. It was the policy of °owl
17Itein of commerce, by means of bkrittmelnfit.
sauces, to divide the silk of lea voyages among
many rfons, by which' .swains, when lofes
bappeod, they were bat. lightly felt, compara-
tive yto what they would be if borne by indi-
viduals. If akin: fads a* dick with, which the
prifoners were charged 'could be committed with
impunity, oar commerce mug confequently be
at en end.—He should not •Imploy any time. in
Laing the sw upon the fubjeith for that wai more
•. peculiarly the province of the Judge. As far as
depended upon the faits, the cafe againll all the
prifolters would be midi clearly made out. In or-
der that 'the Jury might the better underhand
them, he should give a ikon hiftory or narrative of
die vetel itfelf, in the courfe of which he should
Diew that Codlin and Read had Ileftroyed it, and
that Eallerby aud *Farkas had inftigated than
to do Co. Tbs. brig Adventure had been per
chafed by Eafierbe 'an& McFarlane in May lag;
Ale kW hi* mouth' of July, when Policies
were e(eaed *pop her, and Codlin was appoint.
ed -so iten command. She failed from London
ter Yantiooth certainly without having taken in
say thing like her cargo. At Yarmouth Ilse took
in goods to a very incon6derable amount, and
about ten tons of ballaft. At this time a Mi.
*arrow was fopercargo, bat iv would appear he
Clever intended to purfue the voyage. The lbip
proceeded to the Downs, where Storrow left it.
sad *as fucceecled by the prifoner Read.- While
lie lay at the Downs, a perfon Of the name
Douglas, who was Mate, was taken. ill and left
IPd Gans lbasadesplartigmbepafen
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and who avowed his incapability. ,The Prifoner,
-Codlin eonfciOus net the obje& of the*Oyage, WO*
not Gibraltar or Leghorn, but that die Advtotere
&could find her grave before the left the &kith
coat, told him his duty would not be very 40-
duous. ThereVsere frequent opportunities for die
(hip failing, but,Codlin pretended that the wind
did cot fug, and that he waited for letters. He.
(poke of her as a (hip that was unfit to croft the
Bay of Bifeay, and that the thould loon be de-
&toyed. Wheathe got to Brighton, Codlin went
on deck, and obferved to Cooper, that he was a
dimity fellow, and could not get into the locker
of the cabin to bore the holes to deftroy her; and ,
he ordered Cooper to-go, telling higi he would irk
the inftrumags in the cabin ; and In order to avoid
creating an alarm, be took care to employ all
bands in taking in the fails, and onfuch duties es
precluded the polfibility of their hearing what was
going forward. Cooper followed the &reams of
the Captain, rnd bored three holes with an auger;
the Captain aficed him if the *Tater was ruching in.
He -replied be had left the angels in the holes.lle
Captain Paid it was very well, and Tome further
ccnverfation took place rerpedfing a Brow-bar.
The Learned Counfel be did not inimne
to Read that he lent an hapd, or gave any aft
tance in boring the boles, but that he was lying
in bed elofeito the locker, and that there be rob
mained a witnefs of what was going forward...
Things continued in this fituation till day light;
when, in confequence of the water not flowing in
fat enough, the Captain thought it neceffarytodo
fomething more; he therefore ordered COoper, the
mate, to • make the holes larger :—accordingly
Cooper went down, and with a crow bar made al
aperture fufficient to have deflroyed a veal 'with
ten pumps at work. The lilies bmorsis got out,
width. Captain and crew lay by in the boat, which
tad been ordered to be ready, with nothing in her
but her four oars, and a fufficient quantity. of
tholes (pieces of wood- for the oars to Tea againft
in the a& of rowing.) It might be alked, bow
was all this tube proved, becaufe people engaged
in guilty alas did not nfugly divulge their fecrets ?
He thould prove, the fats by Cooper, the mate ;
he &mid preterit hint to the Jury as the accom-
plice, nay, as the perpetrator of the deed. If the
proof depended on Cooper alone, it would be too
much, on his evidence, to put men in the hazard of
their lives ; but if be was confirmed in the Remy he
told, the jury would a& upon his teftimony. the
fame as if it came from a perfon of entire credit.
He thould furround him with a tower of coufirma-
doe, of which nothing bet the guilt of die parties
could have laid the foundation. Having thus pur-
Cued the narrativetill the period when the crew
left the vette), he &mid (late, that a thert time be-
fore they quitted it, a tignal of diftrefs was made,
which had the die& of Twinging 'boats from the
(bore to render affiftence. Some-of them appear-
ed too loon for the prifoner Codliu, for if they bad
been permitted to have gone on board, the (kill
and intrepidity of the perfon belonging to them
would have Paved the vefel, and brought her in,.
when the- would have exhibited that . damning.
proof, which to-do would exhibit by her,
"wounded fide, the of which would be pro-
duced to the Jury. hen the Brighton boats came
off, it would -be found that Codlin ordered them to
keep off, raying, that he was the Mailer, and they
amid not mita her till he bad left her, He had
before declared that to the bottom the (hould go.
Was it'
poffible that aman meaning to aft fairly
would, when he was within the reach of affiftance,
interdia the proffered relief ? Was fuck calcine
reconcileable with any thing but guilt ? At this_.
moment the Swallow revenue cutter came up,
and acing upon her own authority, put out a rope
to tow her to there, but the was water-logged, and
immediately went to the bottom. He had heard
it had been Rated, that becaufe the Chip had not
been deßroyed, the offence was incomplete. If
fuel' wsa the law, there ;pas an end of the cafe;
but heves pacuaded it would sot be fo Rated by
the Noble judgee.. no. crew got on board the
' Swallow andamved at Brighton, and put up at
the Old Ship Tavern. The news f the ditafter of
courfe loon reached London, and not wkisik
threwd fufpicions of foul play; in confequesoa of
which an experienced aid difereet iperfon, of the
name of Douglas, was difpatched 4y the Under-
writers to enquire into the affair. He found that
Earlerkg end *Fading hid arrived before him,
and that Codlin and the ref Of the crew were Rill
there. He defired that Codlin might, on nn ac-
itunre t,
a leacvirceßurmitanco which ton tillte w
dailas btought
as had been reified. Eafterby undertook be
&odd not, yet it would be found that a place
was taken for him by Read in thellar;—in vio-
lation of that engagement. It was taw in the
name of Idr. Poftgate, and Eafterby took leave of
him at the office. He arrival at London under the
*fumed name of Poftgate r the next thing_ he click,
was to writ* to Eafterby, informing him iglis
rival, and that in purfuancc of his orders be was
going to Colcheller, and fhoukl take the advan-
tage, of a bye-boat, or packet, to get out of the
Hamomas faft es poffible, and , proceed, to
burgh. Very fonunately the ailtiegy of Mr.
Lavie, the Solicitor of the Underveriters,
.eepied this letter, and furnithed a, clue to 1141:-
Douglas to trace the Reps of Codlin to Hatifieh.
He found no perfon of the name of Codlik. bus
be difcovered that a man of the name of Poftwee
was on board of one of the packets then under way
fearched the veal, found hint, and brought
him away. If there faits lipoid be proved, it
•would be impoffibld for the Jury to betitate a fisida
moment as to the guilt of Coffin and Read. Ifit
&mild now take a view tithe circundlances that
counted Eafterby and 114Farlaieels4hat gnik
' In the firft place, it would be fostod diai their ob-
lie& was to procure tech cargo as would enable
them to make large hi& infurancet
felted amounted mooed. aped the further War.
anew attempted to be made *odd hove extended
to is,opol. In order to littiety'tbe Underwriters;
rwhen .a claim Was made up diem, it' wits
**olll4r, tO Otodise Mite boons; Ar thig
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MeFarling bad procired fabricated Invoices,
laia!aitlg 'the goods twenty and thirty!pir toot.
°Melee than whit was paid for`thein. Bills of
Lading were idle procure& from Codlin for goods
which never were_ put On board, and a inanifeit
Made out for goods, Tome of which had never been
on board, cabers were received on hoard and after-
wards taken away. Having eiumerated a variety of
&her faits, which would be Rated by the witneffes,
he concluded by urging the Jury, Wafter they had
heard the whole of the cafe, they entertained any
doubt, to do that which would be recommended
to them by higher authority than his, give the
Prifoners the full benefit of its and- if paible ex-
tenuate their offence.
Thomas Cooper, examined by Mr. Glass, de--
poled, that he entered as a private failor before the
malt on board the brig Adventure, Capt. Codlin,
when the veld was lying below Limehoufe. John
Douglas was at that time mate, and the crew con.
fifled-of hinafelf, the Captain, the Mate, and two
boys. Mr. &mow ufed to come backward and
forward, and railed with them to Yarmouth. They
took in 32 hogfheads of tobacco, Tome linen, and
ta or 13 tons °naafi; preeionily to their fiat fail-
ing to Deal, they arrived is fafety. Douglas
quitted the fhip there, in confequence of being af-
Wed, as he fidd,with the rhenmatifm. Storrow
alto left• it, aratieits fucceeded by Mr. Read, as fu-
At deal they took in force cafes. Codlin
offered the witnefs the place of mate, vacant by
the abfence of Douglas. The witnefi hid he was
not qualified for it, as he did not, undertland navi-
gation; but-the Captain replied, that as long as he
.pleafed him that would be enough. • They did not
ha again as loon of they might .have done, and as
form as other vet de did, but remained for Tome
days ; tba Captain at tome times 'hying be did not
like the wind, and at others, that he was obliged
to wait for the arrival of letters. They, however,
' failed in flee or fix days, and had a boat, into
which the Captain give aria ordersthat nothing_
&mild be-admitted but four oars and plenty of
tholes. On the Friday befbre the veffel was funk,
the Captain hid, they !head not be in the hip ,48
hours. On the 'next day, Saturday, he further
raid, that was the laft night they mould be in her;.
that he did not think her.fit to carry through the.
Ally, adding, « I do not think her lifotrully of
myolife or yours, and why th the ould be fo of any.
• other man's I* The witneth was-then on the quar-•
ter-deck, ;writhe Mailer 4 the helm, whom he
relieved, and the latter went below. On his return;
about a quarter of aw !sour, he Paid to the wit-
'Refs, " Go down, you'll find an anger lying on the'
eakin floor; which you will carry with you, and
afar taking up the hatches and !tulle, to get at
• ;it more conveniently, you will bore a hole as Oae
jar poffible to the run." He went accordingly, and
'found a new auger, to which the Captain had put
a handle, which it wanted before. With
he thinks, he bored three holes, and left it behind
him, Ricking in one of them. The Captain in
his opinion, *light balm got into the place himfelf,
but not 1p eimivenienay as be, could. When Act
came on 4* be told what be had done to the'
•Caytainephed, do Very well, let them hulk
div-Ififit." On Sunday morning, by order of:
the Captain, the cabin-boy was not allowed to
come down and breakfaft in the cabin as ufual, and
he pulled the auger out of the hole. in which 'he
left it. The Captain then wanted to find a =saw',
to make the hole' larger, as they (Ed not Teem to
let in the water fag enou h ; when the Witnefs re-
minding him of the , he Paid, " Aye, that
is the very thing." They then went down toge-
ther, and the captain lent a hand to fallen down
the lockers, that the bole might be enlarged. The
Witnefs ftruck the bar through the bottom, and
the water raked in rapidly. Read was in Mel/lid
very near the place where the holes were made and
' 9the Witnefs heardlim ttirnhirpfelf feveral tam' es.
He might not, however, have heard the boring, as
it made little or no noife. The Witnefs caned him,
and he got up, but returned to bed again-before the
hole. was enlarged with the crow-bar, and though
be might not lee the hole, bemight eafily hear the
water running in. The finallel hole was kept
,open, that the fhi.p wiight.feem leaky, and the
pumps be kept Read was on deck at the
precife time the hole was enlarged by means of the
crow-bar, and the bofs were not permitted to go
to bed. The fignal of:diftrefs was made, and*
boat put out behre thetWatee came apto the diet.
He had packed up hiathings, and put thainiata
a bread bag, on Friday, when the Catitala hid
they fhotzleinot remain on board 48 host:band at
the fame time bid hiaz not to fay ;ay thing•about
the matter. While the hole was making with the
crowbar the crew were kept dole taking in fail,
fo that •they could neither fee nor bear what was
going forward. Read was up at eight o'clock in
the morning,...and leveret boats furrOunded the
Drip eel the appearance of thediftrefs fignal. They
alkedifire wanted any Alliance, hying they ware
to tow us into harbour. The Captain hid
thahip•belonged to him as long as the could twits,
and they bad rio bufurefs with her. He had no'
,sienlselaut,the ieffel went down in confiqUence of,
Ala boles that' were made in her: bottom. Read's
soak was taken on board.at.Deala and taken ayay
the next day, together with' his beil, the With ,
helping to remove them into the boat, .and they
were not broug beht on board anmore. 'While it
was on boar 4 it appeared to full of linen.—
When the crew went on -hove at. Brighton, they
repaired to the Old Ship. Tavern. • •Read then told
a Welch woman that in the- wreck he had led
eve,ry thing belonging to • him. Eafterby; and
bi'lfarlane came down theieb as he thinks, on
Tuefclay, and the former afltecrhim where he had
bored the hole, and what-was the faze of it ? The
Prifoner replied he could not grainy tell. He
then afked again, whether it was as large as the
handle of a carpenter's chifel which lay in the
,nom I And the Prifoner antwering in the nier-
niative, or thereabout, he bid him take out the
Sandie and tharpea it, to plug the hole in cafe the
Aiplhoidd come onharo,aWch it was then likely
todo,-as le was driving herd that wdy.' Eaßerby
'lllo4,litid, r °Atingle a stri-si foul, and has made '
-***o4l6ll:.' of if; be &Add have funk the (hip
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lucaadfal ee rdr *Pbni nbieni iai the
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keep clofe 1 fhould be under fentence of
taßieanadnthdenWi-g
which he received nine (billings wages,
and
buttow thel's °
where to find M'Farlane's houfe in
placestcalo ' becadrfbollaricshkiemwapenhaennde efts.ehteticnHagpe
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coach with one of the boys. Read had
and gu after
by a Gentleman, and the boy fent in his l
The name of the boy, his companion, waspee;
Kennedy. The pump, he faid, had been wenkr-eae
when the water was let in. One of the boys made obfervation, on which the Captain bid him ---;oe
along--that it was only beating againft the ',
he, however, at the fame time told the vi run;
he,
go down and fee what was the m 'the( -
matter, but &It
jogged and whifpered him to fay nothing. rift,"
being tome time in London at a lodging --;
I Dark-houfe lane, he determined to gO-In- i -
I mother's at 'Satinundham, in Suffolk, as itio
be.
I gan to want money, and failed in his endeavours
.
to get a fliip. The next day after his going
1d ours
having heard that he was inquired for about fink.
ing a Ihip, he fent for Mr. Archkettle, the Hit
borough, furrendered to him, and toldea
the whole
truth of the Rory.
Crofs-examined by Mr. Fisunwo—lie laid, h
was 24 years of age, and that he made no doubt
of the veffel having funk in confequence of the
holes made in her bottom. Hewas not aware of
his being himfelf the perpetrator of the whole ; he
only-did as the Captain bid him. He hard in the
country that there was a hundred guineas offered
for his apprehenfion, but he did not know it while
in London, or he would have furrenderedhinifelf;
and fo far from having any notion that the reward
would come to him, he gave himfelf up, fooner than
any one fhould have it ; but he thought at firft that
the fhip was the Captain's own, and he might do
as he pleated With her. He knew that he had done
wrong, and repented of his crime. When he was
brought to London in a poft-chaife, he was exa-
mined before the Lord Mayor, and told the fame
Rory he did now: He has been in the Comptes
ever final, and,favr Mr. Levie there. He profeffed
himfelf very willing to fuller for his. offence, ifthe
Court thought he deferved it; but, at all events,
he, was determined to fpeak nothing but the truth.
The fhip, he faid, was fix or (even miles from
Brighton at the time the Cigna' of diftrefs' was
made. He never got any thing by way of reward
f tan Captain Codling, except a new coat; but
received no money, nor any promile of any. No
converfation of the kind ever occurred between
them. He perfitted to fay, that he and the Captain
str:nt at firfl on board of the Government cutter,
Al returned to the veffel again after the hawfer
was lathed 'acrofs, and turned the head of it, to
make believe they wanted to get on 'bore. The
Captain, on that occaflon, teemed to give all the
atflflance he could, and appeared far from being
in a hurry to quit the veffel.
Qn his Tc-ePtiniaation by Mr. Goes, faid, that
when be agreed to the Captain's propofal, of-boring
thilliip, the latter told him that he would get as
good. or even a better birth for him. -
John Morris, examined by Mr. KNOWLYS, (WOUN
" I was an apprentice to Mr. Storrow, who went
as fnpercargo on board the Adventure to Yar-
mouth. I went on board her when the was in
the river. She took in'her lading while The was
in the river. I have teen Mr. Eafterby come to
the fhip, fometimes in the morning before, and
after breakfaft, and fometimes in the evening.—
When he came In the daytime, nothing was taken
away, but there was Tome fugar taken away in
the evening, and got into the boat : when the
Packages came, I faw tome of them opened, for
there welt Rom for the thip's ufe, packed up in
blue and brown paper. Ido not know what each
of the packages weighed, they might be about
14 or tslbs. weight. I faw Mr. Eafterby again,
but- I did not fee him take any thing away after
that time. Then we went to Yarmouth, where
tome bread, flour, and peafe, were taken from our
Kip the Adventure, to the fliip William, which
belongs to Mr. Eafterby and Mr. M4Farlane, but
ihis was while the was in the river ; a fwivel and
a cable, and fome other things were taken to the
William. .I know Mr. Blagden, the Lighterman,
he came to the (hip ; we went to Yarmouth, and
returned to the Downs ; Mr. Storrow went as Su-
percargo in the Adventure, but he went out el her
in the Downs. George Kennedy was another ap-
prentice to Mr. Storrow, as well as me : Mr. Read
came in the place of Mr. Storrow in the Dawns: Mr.
Read brought with him a bag, a trunk, and a (mall
bale of goods, but I cannot tell what they were.—
The trunk was taken afterwards athore by Kennedy
and Lacey while we were in the Downs, and it
never was returned : when we failed from the
Downs, it was three or four days afterwards before
vt.: came to Brighton : I recoiled the night before
the Ship funk, I cabin•boy, and generally pr?-
pared breakfaft: The chief part of my duty was in
the cabin. On the Sunday morning when the Ship
funk, Mr. Codlin, my matter, fent me for his
great coat : it was about ten or eleven o'clock, to
the belt of my knowledge ; the coat was in one
of the Cabin-lockers, which were then all fie
and entire, and no bread at all in them. The
'ceiling was alto, to the heft of my knowledge, en'
tire. I did not obferve any thing broken at all :
'I got the great coat, I took it up the hatches of the
fcuttle, and I heard the water ruching in ; then 1
told my matter, Mr. Codlin, that the water was
ruffling in, and that I thought there was a leak
there : Mr. Codlin faid there was no inch thing,
and fent me forwar4/ to the fore-part of the chip :
we were pumping very often : we had one of the
pumps going then : there were two punips on
board the Slip : we did not then work the other
pump: but about four or five o'clock I went'"
,the other pump, for I knew where the geers o rein
,pumps were. George Kennedy, my felh,v-aPPer
rice, was told by one of the crew to fetch the ace"
of the .pompoinct he was going for it, but.Nul _
Codlin hauled him up as he had got a iirP dc)."'
eaak.