The Sun. — 1803-02-01 (London, England)

TAR. jr.. ~ Ta to being an Holiday, the Court did pot sit, Only one Judge attended for the purpose of taking Bail, end to hear the Cases Of Insolvent Debtors; Scc.  The Gi'ancl Jury for the Cotinty of Middlesex were sworn in—and  Mr.-justice CROSE delivered to, them a Charge, in the Course of which he observed, thit in this great City, which, for its ,Tracte; Commerce, and Wealth, was become unquestionably the Metro., polls, of the Globe; there, necessarily. arose froth avarice and dissipation, a number of Vices, which it imported the cause of Religion- and Morality to check, for the genetal benefit of the Society in which we lived. .The points to which the most immediate attention was wanting,. Were licentious and obscene Publications of Books and Piints, of various sorts, the tendency of which Was. to inflame the paisions of Yodth of both Sexes, and to lead them to debaucheries which Might end in ruin before their judgments were so matured as to be able to guide their actions i—Houses of ill-fame also required to be chiclied for the same reason ; and among them, aming-housei.were of the worst description; for they were nightly the resort of the idle, the profligate, and desperate; and the scenes therein exhibited, were of the most destructive kind to Morals, and which often led to ignomi. nious death, The Learned Judge took particular notice of the Carts, Carriages; and Machines which stopped in the streets, instead Of being taken into yards and other places, for the purposes of shews and exhibitions of wild beasts, &c. These were nuisances which, he had no doubt, had been observed by the Jury, as they had frequently been observed by him, not indeed this morning, but frequently within this Term; and besides the impediments they created to passengers, they ColleCled together a number of the most worthless Persons of both sexes, and; among them, many thieves. It was true that the Constables had power to abate this nuisance; for as the owners of these machines had their names on them (or if they had not, they were subjeft to a known penalty) they might be taken l'iefore a Magistrate and properly disposed of, unless they should be too refradory to be taken, which he hardly.' bellei,ed they would, then they might be presented to the Jury in an indiament, of which they were fit subjeds, for certainly this was a species of nuisance which ought not to be suffered any longer to exist. The Learned Judge said he was not aware of any thing else material for him to notice to the Jury, composed as they were, of Gentlemen whose countenances he had the pleasure to have seen often on occasional similar to the present, but with whom he had not the honour of a personal acquaintance. They would now pro. ceed upon the business about to be laid before them, and of which they would, no doubt, dispose in a manner honourable to themselves and advantageous to the Public.  Two persons, apparently Foreigners, were then charged with an indiftment, previously found against them (and to which they pleaded not guilty), for publishing a scandalously obscene book, the contents of which were too indecent to be repeated, called " The Frolics of a Boarding. School ; or, Miss in her Shift, Stc." They were remanded to prison anti) .they can procute bail, and told their trials will come on at the Sittings after the present Term.  Two other persons, Sailors, were charged upon another indilment, for a conspiracy to charge and accuse falsely one William Boswell with the murder of William Darlington. They pleaded—not guilty. They were also remanded to prison, fur want of bail ; and were told, their trial would stand for the Sittings after the present Term ; and they were also kindly informed by the Officer of the Crown, that any person on their behalf might have the Indiament read over to him at the Cr 3wn Office gratis, to enable him to prepare their defence, or, upon paying for, might have a copy of it.