The Sun. — 1802-08-12 (London, England)

COUNTY SCRUTINY.  The following is the result up to Monday's ad journment :  Bad Votes struck off Mr. Coke's Poll of - - 4317 Total from August 4 to August 9 Present state of Mr. Coke's Poll - - - - 4275  Bad Votes struck off Sir J. Astley's Poll of - 36tz Total from August sto August 9 -- - - 38 Present state of Sir J. Astley's 101 l - - - - 3574 Bad Votes struck off Colonel Wodehouse's Poll of 3517 Total from August sto August 9 - 75 Present state of Colonel Wodehouse's Poll - - 3442  Present majority of A stley over \Vodehouse - 132  Lieutenant General Ross, Surveyor General of the Ordnance, left Dublin on Friday morning, accompanied by Captain DEBUTTS of the Royal Engineers, to visit and inspect the several military depots and coasts of that Country. Lieutenant_ Colonel Twiss, of the corps of Royal. Engineers, arrived in Dublin on Saturday morning from England, upon the same duty.  The ToxornoLlTE Society met at their ground behind Go‘ver.street, Bedford_square, on Monday last, according to annual custom, it being what is technically termed the Prince of Wales's Target Day. The heat of the weather prevented any con.iiderable exertion before dinner ; but after the genial repast, the contest was strenuously disputed. The shooting being concluded about eight o'clock, the " merry men" retired to their Pavillion, and the luxury of cool wine, when Mr. CAZALET, as Captain of the preceding year, being in the Chair, announced that the honours of the day had fallen on  Mr. S HEPII AR D, as Captain of the Target ; Mr. MASON, as Lieutenant of ditto; Mr. CR UN D EN, as Captain of Numbers ; Mr. SIIEP II A RD, as Lieutenant of ditto.  The Hawkers of Paris, it seems, went about the streets crying the New Constitution under this title, "The Neu French Constitution, in 87 Articles, de_ creed last night."—As the People had little expeaation of such a thing, public Curiosity was much excited, and the Hawkers made a good harvest. All Europe seems to be looking for Indemnities. —Even the Batavian Republic wishes to obtain its Contingent—it hopes to have a part of the Country Of Munster, and Prussia will cede to it besides, a certain Distrit on its Frontiers.  The Members of the Municipality of Amsterdam now take the title of Messieurs, while the Members of the Government at the Hague retain that of Citizens.  It was stated in the Proclamation of the Consuls of the French Republic to the French People, on the 14th of July, " that at the Epoch of Peace, Institutions, suitable to the French Cliara&er, ought to environ the Laws with an impregnable entrenchment." This phrase afforded much food for reflection. Many imagined they saw in it the approaching re_ establishment of the Clergy, the Noblesse, and the Tiers Etat, and even the Convocation of the States,  free and unfettered. The Abbe StE YES, observing, in the commencement of the Proclamation, that there were no longer any heads which did not bow down beneath the Empire of Equality, and thinking, at the same time, of the Legion of Honour, could not help saying, like another CAT°, " Truly, we have a very pleasant Consul." At the late Assizes at Gloucester, a Bill of Indktment was preferred by the Commissioners of the Navy against a person who had long enjoyed a place of considerable trust under them, for feloniously converting to his own use, timber belonging to His Majesty, in-Dean Forest. The Grand Jury returned the ,Bill a true one ; and the Judge immediately granted a warrant for his apprehension.--He will be tried at the next Assizes.  At the above Assizes, a very decent-looking young woman, of about twenty, was tried for the murder of her bastard infant child ; but from the extreme good charaaer she had given her, and the remarkable affetion and attention she had always shewn to the children of others, and from the• prob Ability that she might have destroyed the child unintentionally when she delivered herself (it being her first child), in her own room, without any assistance.whatever, she was acquitted, to the universal satisfaClion of the Cckirr. She was tried by that acute and learned Judge Sir