The Sun. — London, England, 1807-03-16 00:00:00

• •, DUBLIN, Matcli 10. THE second battalion of the I.4th regiment has marched into thiS City to embark for England. • On Saturday morning, about the hour Of. three, o'clock, a party ofrobbersattempted to break into the. stables of the Countess of MOIRA, Island-Street. A short time since these stables had been robbed of a con siderable quantity of saddles and harness, and since that period a soldier was constantly stationed at night to guard against a repetition .of such depredations. The soldier, on discovering the robbers by their con versation, waited until he' perceived the place, they meant to force and enter at ; and while one Of the fellows was_ in the aet of breaking a door with an iron crow, the soldier fired through the door, and Mortally wounded the robber, who immediately ex pired: the body lay the whole of Saturday in the street. • The deceased appeared to - be about seventy years of age. The remaining villains escaped for the , present, On Sunday a Dragoon, in a state of intoxication, rode over a woman in North King-street, and irn rnediately after, rode against a GentlernanN servant, in the Green, who ; we are concerned to state, was,. killed on the spot. Died, at her house in Rutland-square, on Satur day, the 7th in3t. in her 70th Year, ALICE, Coun tess of W I CKLOW, .reliti of the' late Lord Viscount WICKLOW. She is succeeded : in her title by her eldest son, the Viscount, now Earl of WicKLow. Her very extensive property devolves upon her se cond son, the Right Hon. Wm. FORWARD. ' Between the hours of seven and eight o'clock on Wonclay evening Wm. Molloy and Andrew Brena n effedecl their escape from the gaol of Wexford, by sawing a thick iron bar in the window of their cell, adjoining the gaol-yard, one corner of which they found means to climb. Two other Prisoners re- . mained in the cell, the aperture being too small to admit ot their escape. The body of Mr. CHARLES HARRISoN, of Lime.. hardware merchant, who perished lately at Conway Ferry, was found the 26th of last month. Cash and notes to the amount of 78 guineas, his watch, Six. were found in his pocket, which are tectared for his friends. Yesterday morning a fire broke out in a large 'warehouse in ; in a few minutes the whole \vas a heap of ashes . it was occupied by a carpenter, ' l nd was nearly full of shavings. THE Oibrii.—:The serious Opera of II Ritorno di Serse, supported by CATALAN, had, as usual, a very crowded audience on Saturday last at the King's Theatre.: Her powers were exerted in full strength, and her efforts were requited with abundant 'ap plause: Her a&ing also was much admired.' The boxes were filled with . Fashion and Beauty. Tll Baliet of La. Dansontanie affords so much scope for the Performers, pAiticularly DESIIAYESi that it is not less . attendcd than it was last season. The new Comedy of num and Country is not, it seems, to he published for some "time, as the Pro prietors of Covetit Garden Theatre have putchased the copy-right - at a very lihaal price in order to avail themselves fully of its popularity. The new Musical Farce of The Young Hus:sar, 'With some curtailments, was represented again on Saturday at Drury-Lane Theatre, and very well re ceived. ELLISTON deserves credit, considering his rank in his profession, for his zeal in support of the Piece ; and Mrs. BLAND appears to more advantage as an Actress in it than she ever did before. Mrs. MoutstrAlN's vocal and theatrical powers are also a great prop to the Piece. The Music is very credit able to the taste and fancy of KELLY. MINDEN, the Aaor, was so ill last week, that bis Medical Friends apprehended the most serious consequences. He is, however, much better, and will soon be able to resume his professional duties. Mr. GIFIPARD, the son of the Manager of Good- Tan's Fields Theatre at the time when GARRICK nrst made his appearance before a London audience, di'ed a few days ago at Cockermouth, in Cumher= land. Since the death .of MACKLIN this Gentleman was the Father of the English Stage, and that ho nour now devolves to the venerable HULL. Mr. GIPFARD, whose death we now notice, was a Per former on the London Stage for about twenty years, but whate . ver his merits might have been, they never raised him into a high degree of thea trical distillation. The frail spouse of a Kentish Squire eloped on Thursday se'imight from her residence, not a hun dred miles from Seven Oaks; and she has been traced to the possession of Capt. well known in the annals of gallantry. The Captain; as usual, was the intimate acquaintance of the injured husband;. and, in autumn last, spent a month in his house. The wife has returned to her husband. Monday evening last about eight o ' c l ock a most alarming fire broke out in the work -shops of Mr. William Salter, Coach-maker, nearly opposite the Free Grammar-School, in the High -street Exeter, hwhich raged with unabated fury for some time...— e hops being w h o lly built of wdod, an d t h e ma therein. of an inflammable nature, such as oil, paint, varnish, and quantities of dry wood, pre pared in various ways for the wheels and bodies of coaches, &c. the blaze, which soon burst forth, ap peared so terrific' as to endanger all the houses in the vicinity, and, indeed, nothing but the wonderful. exertions of the populace, aided by the militaty guar- Zed in this city .and the barrackS, prevented all the range of buildings, from Castle-street to the' Bristol i n the whol e , from being destroyed, and of involving flagrati. of that neighbourhood in one grand con drums beat s soon as the alarm was giver:, the, arm s 3 assistance flew from all quarters six fire engines were speedily drawn to the spot, where, being were supplied with water, and aided by the fearless and undaunted resolution of the po pulace, it was without itsin about three !hours, .got under, Naving extended beyond jr.A Salter's workshops. A countryman coming intoi Lottery Office, ex el aimed"-" Measter, I want to try my fortune."— " In what scheme?' , askvd the clerk.—" Why, in the ready money scheme to be sure."—Tht was not so great a coulury bualkin as soru e ml) icl,agiu6. • 110111 E CII?CUIT. CLIiLDISF ORD, THURSDAY, MARCH 12. CROWN stpu. Thomas 13utler, William Ward, Daniel famek, .and baniel Baraitt, four countrymen; were indite for the wilful murder of Alexander ,IVacdonald, private suldier in the 79th regiment of foot, on the 15th of July last. John Osborne and Henry Daniels; two lads, stated; that they were at Claxton Fair on the 15th of July last, 'and were at the Blacksmiths', Arms, where there *di a company of country-peOple dancing un til very early the next morning. They S 3 w,the B°l 7 diers coite in; Who insisted that they would have the room to themselves and their *omen, and that the cotintrvfOlks should not dance there. The countrythen' then went into another , room, and in sisted that the soldiers should not conic among theni, Some of the 'soldiers intruding, ilie - y were shoved out by the countrymen. The soldiers beitig shut put; 'they drew their baYonets. The .countrymen armed themselves with sticks. A scuffle ensued, and the soldiers being worsted, they ran to their barrack it Wheley, and were followed 'by the countrymen, armed with sticks; but neither of these witiielseS s - kw the deceased until after he was dead, and could not tell who knocked him down. The principal witoeSs vas . .Samuel Bird. He Stated, that the soldiers began the quarrel, and threw a bayonet at the countrymen before they had struck a blow. The countrymen, then armed with sticks, drove the soldiers down stairs, .and pursued them towards Wheley. Bird was among the party, and he threw his fagot stick, which hit the deceased, and made him fall. Baram immediately came up and gave him another blow. Ward immediately jumped upon his body. Mary Bacon, a young girl, stated, that she alto went to Claxton Fair, and that she saw Biitler with the mob who followed the soldiers; she saw the dead soldier and when she came back to the pub lic-house, Butler said, he feared he had killed the Scotch man. Several other witnesses were called who contra dieted the faa'that Butler was among the mob who followed the soldiers, and stated that he was seen standing all the time at the door of the Blacksmith's Arms. A man of the name of Powell also added, that he was sure the last witness, Mary Bacon, was not near the dead body, for she was not out of his com pany, and she was of a very loose charader ; in which he was confirmed by others. The LORD CHIEF BARON summed up the evi dence with great distinctness and particularity, and de sired the Jury particularly to consider who were the aggressors, and cautioned them not to rely on the evidence of the accomplice, when It was not con firmed ; at the same time observing it was uncolp. firmed, except by Mary Bacon, who appeared to be of bad chara&er, in what she had stated of Bailer and &ram. The Jury, after a short hesitation, acquitted all the prisoners. Peter Soderbey was iudiaed for the murder of Ja-' cob Sanstrom, on board the ship Memphis, on the 13;h of February last. By the evidence of the Captain it appeared, that the prisoner and the deceased had been quarr e lli ng the whole of the day o f t h e accident, and when they were both alone in the forecastle, the Captain heard a loud cry as if from one in pain. He went down below, and saw the deceased sitting on a chest, with a wound in his right breast, and the blood running from it. The deceased said, see what the carpenter has done; he has stabbed are. On the 14th of the month he died atTilbury.—Verdia—GuikyV Man slaughter. Jan Mucket was indicted for the murder of his wife, on the 27th of SepteMber last, at Colchester. Thomas king and his wife, the witnesses against the Prisoner, stated, that he was a soldier in the 4th regiment, quartered at Colchester. The Pri soner and his wife, and the witnesses, were lodged in the same room. About five o'clock on the day stated in the indiCment, the Prisoner came home, and said he would have sonic dinner ; his wife said she would put the. kettle on and get him' some tea—he replied that he would not have tea al wayS, he would have some bacon. His wife ac cordingly got him some bacon, and laid it on a stool near the bed where he was lying. He then grumbled because he hOd no potatoes. She immediately set her self about preparing some. He damned her for net making more haste. She replied, she could not handle the dirty kettle , and iron the Officer's linen at the same time. He said he would have no half words,Ondgrumbling at him, and immediately knock ed her off the stool ;. she gave him a blow in return, do the chin, with the nozzle of 'the bellows, upon which he kicked her and threw her across the room. The witness then interfered, and said he should not beat her any more. He said he wduld, " she was his own wife, and he would do as he pleased with her, and he would kill her as soon as ' no t."— , He again gave her several-violent blows on the head poor woman attempted to walk across the . room, but wok very lame, and obliged to lay down on another soldier's bed; Her husband made her come from thence and lay on their own bed. She was very Sick in the evening, and he appeared sorry for his conduct. The deceased was put to bed; and nothing more occurred until the witness heard the prisoner calling in the night " Betty'. Betty !" and said his wife was only ill. ' The other woman got up, and found het quite dead. The prisoner then, in-a state'of remorse, w e n t d ow n on hi s knees,'ek claiming he was a wretched man, for he had mur dered her ! The LORD CHIEF BARON told the JUry, that it was a clear Case of Murder, and the Jury having found him guilty, he 'was .sentenced to be hanged on Saturday morning. Eight other Prisoners were capitmly convicted, and about six o'clock the Assizes fint;aed. Two veterans, W. Thompson, aged 86, and T. Mairs, aged 80, were discharged last week from the 9th Royal Veteran Battalion. Thonipson had been in the army 64 years and t i months. He was 24 years in the 32d Foot, 8 years in the 4th Foot, and 30 years in the Invalids; the remainder of the time he has been an Out-pensioner of Chelsea College, and in the Battalion above.:mentioned. Mairs was in the service 49 years. The former fs entitled to es. 9d. per day,, and the latter to 26. 3d. S UN- 0 I , I , IOE, :CALF FAST TWO O'CLOCK, 'r. m. W 4 bpve just received the tbllowing intei4epce by the Gotten burgh Mail, which arrived this rhorn . - hyg GCTTEN - BURpli, MARCH B.—The French have invested Stralsund. 0.--Letters received from Btt:'.lsund yes terday state,, that the Garrison is not under the least apprehension of aiiy sudden attack from the Fiend), .14. it rather prepared to ,L , l upOUthe offensive. ...Some French dun-boatS, Which were lyini,t at Earth, have been taken by the Boats of the Garri. and 1 . 8 ' Frenchmen and 4 . Officers made soners. Accordihg to intelligence froth Konigibdrgh of the 18th Fehrtiarjr; the Fredch head-quarters have bee'n removed to . . The same accounts represent the loss of the two Armies in the Battle of Eytail at 30,000 , and state ,• • that a French General was made Prisoner.—(Abeille du Noiit 111arrli 3:) LA I; ' AF.PORT. COURT OF CIiAiN:CERY, MARcii i 4. • 4.r-parte IcniNsox, a Bankrupt. 'the .Batikrdpe, in this case, was for many years a person of great..sinuggling notoriety, but in con sequence . Of some important information he had given, and some essential, Service he had rendered to GovernMent; he twice received HiS Majesty's most gracious pardon; and, as it may be• remem blired, was released from prison .in order to pilot the . ships composing the Expedition .to Holland, tvhen his Royal Highnesi the DUke of York corn haanded .in chief. Johnson latterly had the com mand of the Nelson Revenue Cutter., Some tithe since he was arrested for goool. and confined in , the Fleet prison, from whence, by a singular stratagem, he made his escape, and went to sea t He was af terwards made a bankrupt ; and a few day ago at tended, under the ACS, at Guildhall, in'order to sur render before the Commissioners of Bankrupts, and go through his examination. Mr. Nixon, warden 'of the Fleet prisdn, and his assistants, attended at Guildhall upon that occasion, and took Johnson into custody 5 notWitbstanding the remonstrance 'of the Commissioners, who in fat med him of the consequences, but in vain, Mr. Nixon persisted in detaining his prisoner, and car ried him to the Fleet, where he now remains in custody. In consequence of this transaaion, an application was made to the LORD CHANCELLOR, to discharge the Bankrupt out of custody, and that the Warden of the Fleet, and his assistants, should stand commit ted for a contempt of the Court, in arrestin g the Bankrupt, and detaining him in custody, it being argued, that, in proceeding to be examined before the Commissioners, the Bankrupt was under the protection of the Court from the time of leaving his own house untill his return thereto again; therefore, that the present arrest was illegal, and the party en titled to his discharge. The LORD CHANCELLOR delivered his judgment to be, that he could not, under the circumstances, order the Bankrupt to be discharged out of custody ; but observed, that an application might be made for an Hateas Corpus, from the Court tram whence the original process issued. HARRY V. SANDOM. This cause came un upon demurrer to the Plain tiff's Bill, which he tiled for an account, 'and other relief, in the premises. The Plaintiff had purchased an hotel belonging to the Defendant, and it was agreed that the whole should be 'valued by a regular appraiser. The prices of the several articles were accordingly. fixed ; and among the rest a quantity of wine was valued at 9501. and the quantity and quality ascertained in this manner : a bottle was taken from one of (he binns which contained the wine, and tasted by the 1 parties; and the Defendant stated, that the whole of the wine was of the - . saine quality. It turned out, however, • that . much of the wine was very bad, and of a very inferior quality, considerably bC!IoW the value which had been fixed by the appraiser. . • , The Defendant demurred to the bill, on the grounds that this was a case for a Court of Law, but • • not of Equity.i The Laicn CfrAticEr.Loß considered it a very no tvel,case, and one which required sooiLr'considera• Lion; and he accordingly postponed his judgment tor a future day. . . POLICE OFFICE, UNION HALL - Michael /M/10- van was put to the bar, charged, in the first. in stance, on suspicion of having forged, and, in the next, with having uttered, well knowing the same to be false and Counterfeit, acertain Bill olEXcliange for 211. purporting to be drawn by B. Cannon, on • Sir Michael Crombie, Bart. Powell, Hartman and Co. No. 191, Piccadilly, payable to R. Wilson, or bearer, and dSiekl Liverpool, March 13,' 1807, .with intent to defraud,Thorrias.Hornsby. It appeared . that the Prisoner having fell into company with a Flop Porter, as they were walking along the street, near St. Margaret's-hill, the Pri soner, as if by accident, espied a paper on the kirb, which, picking up, proved to be a 2o Guinea Wonoran, with great liberality, said, they must share the produce of their ,luck ; and, as Piccadilly, where the Bill was payable, was a great distance off, it would not be amiss to pursue their goad luck by buying a Sixteenth at the Lottery Office; and divide the remainder between them. The Porter went in, and having looked ,out a Sixteenth, • ten dered the Bill in payment. As the Clerk was about to pass it, he was struck with the date, .March 13, only the day before, and at Liverpool—that, and some other circumstances, raised a. suspicion in his mind, and, under colour of sending for change, sent -to Union Hall for an Officer, who took them both into, custody. The Porter was discharged as having an excellent character, and having in an inadvertent way been led into. it. M. Wonovan was committed fora fur ther examination, it being deemed probable that some other Bills of this kind have been tattered in a simiia( way. r ~ •t t, • ; CONIEtSION be lll tJl~ti~ iii P, Some dip ho, as Trott:and Chapman, two lice o(licers, mere returning fromohe lier-tfqrd si4es to London„ they stopt at,a public,-house sota.: sbort distance kotn.Hertford, where they heard-;;La a man 1141 been confessing :a hn.;rder that he pill another-4d 'committed about tweivo- yprs They ingnired. where he was, and being: informed, iftitpediately secured him, brought. biltx,t9 Lon clot ,ancl lodged him in the House of Cormttion :t; Cierfcenwell., , , Oa Sunday seintiight a Magistrate attended it 0)4 House Of Corrediou to. take .his confession.; vious to which the Magistrate told him, that he Cum! promise hini no pardon, nor even permit him to tont evidence, and, therefore, to tie bautious that what ha did say was truth. - • •_ _ . . . The Prisoner then stated, th a t hi s name was Mark Golf; that he formerly worked at Long Sutton; Lincolnshire, for a Aln Wilbore, a farmer, ,where ;le iaVed some money; that one evening abdut, IS.veri, ago, a man of the nArne of Witherbee, an d w i g. ) worked for the same Master, came to him, and tol.i him that he knew Dr. Bailey (a physician who h? I lived in _that neighbourhood) was to return homi about a certain hour that evening, and asked him' J.:* he wished to earn a -few pounds ? He having n objeEtion, they,anned themselves each with a lied . o'e-, Stake, and went to meet Dr. Bail e y on leisreturn. After loitering about a 4hort tim e they obFervedhi,a coming towards them on.horseback. Gottwent ti-, to him, and laid hold on one side of the bri'dl. , and Witherbee seizedtte other. The doaor, ring his horse, endeavoured .to force them away, when Goff knocked him off with his weapon : down, they both beat him with their sticks in a cruel manner; and having robbed him, left 'him dead. Goa' says that they took a red -morn;i,) 'pocket-book, which contained - a few notes, two bits for,kpi., each, a canvass bag which contained a Ie:: shillings, and a gold watch ; that he s,01(1 the watt; and received his share of the notes.. He describ.'d 'Where his companion resided, nnd that he 11.4 several children, and was doing very well. ..The abovementioned Officers, immediately after this ekamination, went to Long Sutton, and scion' found out the man described L'y him, and arrived with him at the House of CorreaiOn yesterdiy Morn ing. The. circumstances Gulf mentioned all appear to be true. Witherbee is a respeaable looking• country mm , , and protests his innocence in the must solemu ma;t ner. On Goff's being questioued as to what could in duce him to commit so barbaroug an apt, he could not give an answer ; for it appeared that whit whet he had saved, and some money that had been lea him, he possessed, at the time the murder was cot , mitted, between two and three hundred pounds. He said'that he never had a quiet hour since, except when he was " fuddled ;" and though he could ad way; get employ, yet he could never afterwards rest any length of time in one place. .That he has long since expended all his money, and has been wander ? ing about in different parts ofthe country ; and being in London at the time of the execution of Holloway and Haggerty, he was struck with such horror, that he could conceal it no long-r; and after rambling as far as Herttbrd ; he there confessed it to two ine.o, Whom he described as gravel-diggers, or some such labouring men. He has been permitted to t ecp in the Infirmary in the House of Correction, and fre quently starts up in his bed, calls on his God an,' Saviour,'. and appears" to suffer all the torments a guilty conscience can inflia ! A gypsey of the name of 'Wheeler, having grA in to conversation with two other persons, at a pubic_ house near Dorchester, on Wednesday, respeawg robberies and murders said to have been committot in different parts of the country, confessed having been concerned in the murder of Mr. Arnot, a fir mer, in a wood near Pinner, Oxfordshire, fifteen.. years since. The deceased was found dead in a foot path leading through the wood, having been severel7 beat about the head, and robbed, as it was supposed, of property to the amount of 1001. The fello.v was taken before a Justice, when he gave informa tion of another person, who has been also taken into custody._ • The Sussex Agricultural Report for February is highly favourable. The frost)' nights have given the. young wheats a • promising appearance; the turnip and other vegetables, which were running fast to see . d,. have been checked; and there is no want Oh provisions for the sheep.and' cattle, till the aclvan e of Spring. Pease, and Beans have been 'Well got in, and the frost will render the wet grounds favourable for oat.-sowing. , , A few dais ago pa . rt of a powder-mill at Secldleg eolith, near Battle, belonging to Mr. HARVEY, was blown up, by which one man was dangerou,ly wounded, and the building considerably injured. SMITIMELD•MARKET, m •_ARcH 16. • This day's market was well supplied with. prirnt Beasts, and the show of Cattle in general was very good Beef and Mutt on so ld at l ast prices ; ri is rather \Te cheaper; Pork is dearer; and the trad:, for the most-part was pretty brisk.—The sales in tikt Haymarket were somewhat lively; Hay and Clovvr have dropped, in price since Friday's market; Stra . .w obtained a 'better price. —The following is an ac_ .curate statement of the prices and numbers : To sink the Ottal per stone of Sib. Beef ss. od. to 6s. od.—.Mutton Ss. 6d. to 6s. 6s. od. to 7s. od.—Lamb os. od. to os. od.--Polk 6s. ad. to Ss. ad. - • f:.7o.—Sheep and Lambs, ;6740.—Calves, 400. SMITHFIELD HAY•MARI{ET. Hay 21. rss. to 41. 4s.—Clover i4 l . 4s. to sl. ros.--IStraw 21. los. to 31. 6s. CORN-EXCHANGE, MARCH l6.—The Apply a Wheat to-day is rather considerable, and fully equal to the demand, fine samples keep their price, nt t other qualities are heavy of sale and rather lower : but few arrivals of Barley, which is rather dearer ; Malt at small variatio n ; Whi te P ease are love; ; Beans of each kind likewise, and in plenty; tht;re are but few fresh arrivals of Oats, and this article is named nearly at our last quoted prices; Flour as 1 st week. Wheat 47s a 67s 2 gos od Fine ditto -8 4 s a b6s od Rye - - 44 s a 48s od Barley - 4is a Ors od Malt - lias a 763 ad White Pease 76s a B>s od 721 ditto 44s a 59$ od Beans . atis a 4.5.; c I Tick beans 33s a 39, od Oats :Zs a ass a 1253 0,1 Poland ditto los a 32s 61 Rape Seed 261. 301.05. oci Fine Flour 65s a 76; oci Seconds 6os a tf; I