The Sun.
London, England, 1808-11-05 00:00:00

POLI'OI3,

I BOW- E'Tll ZET.---A charge of a -Very novel nature
was exhibited against Miss S- 13-,. a maiden
Lady, of considerable fortune, for robbing her own
servant. It .al peared that , Miss P. suspeaed that
sortie bottles,of brandy had been stolen', and on
Thtirsday, between tine and two o'clock, she was
going over her house in search of the brandy, .parti-
! cularly the servant's roots and boxes; she called to
L.Martlia Kent, one ot.the servants, and asked het
~for, theley of, her bok ? The gill said she had it,
and was very readily giving it to 11,_r distress; but
Miss P. ;observed, that she need not do it, as, whert
she was moving the bok by the lid, it Cattle open in
her hand, and she was satisfied the brandy was not
there.
,Martha Kentreturned to the kitchen,-but it
immediately struck.sher,_ ag her box was open, to
ascertain if all her things were safe,. and on her
examining the box, she found that the lid had been
broken open, that all her cloaths were safe, but that
cash and notes, to the amount Of ir3 guineas, had
been stolen, which she *Saw in the box the night
previous.; and Mary Dixon, the;cook, saw the bok
safe, 'and not broken, a short time before Miss, P. I
was at it.

It was Urged by Miss P. the improbability of her
.taking the money, and that all the servants, as well
as a hair-dresser, who had been at her house that
morning, had access to the room where the bei
was. ~

114 .ti), in reply, observed, that the servant
had lived with her between five and six years, con-
-sequently she had approved of her condocA, and as
such her testimony was unimpeached. it was dear
the box had been broken. open, and she (Miss P.)
was the only person found near it, and she .acknow-
ledged to have been at it : with these latts before
him, it was iniposiible for him to discharge her
however, on the application of her Attorney, she
was not committed,. he engaging for her appearance
on a future day.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.—Yesterday, a man of
the name of Peaiiken, better known as the Scots.
Baker, who was once beat by Dogherty, was Charged
with an outrageous assault on a female, and a man
who took her part, on nurse:ay evening.- The De-
fendant, who, as a righting man, minchen himself
equally, provided the woman had cliallenged'him,'
struck the terna-le a violent blow on. the eye, With.:
otil any other provocation than that he had not room
for a drunken sweep on t-he pavement. The other
persoWwho accused him remonstrated with him for
his unmanly conduct, when he received a blow on
the face also. The Defendant. was committed for
bail.•

'three notorious female shoplifters were commit-
ted tor trial,. tar
.stealing a quantity or lace, &c.
from the sh.)i) of• Mr. Kenycin,...at• the corner of.
Newport-Lunn. .

H
ATTON-GA DEN. --- Yesterday Maria, Kernis,
alias brown, alias Smith, on a charge
brought by -Mrs. gibe: n, of ie Essex-street, in the
Strcod, who swot, thli the prisoner came -to her
house some time ago, and agreed for board and lodg-
ing at a goiHe.: ::;;:r• week, saying she had just come
trom and had a suit in Chancery • • for
nich she would soon recover. In the
t. 0;;„ eta fortnight afterwards she absconded, rob-
bi:,g the house of upwards of seven pounds worth of
property. it appeared by, her own confession that
she was in the continual habit of petitioning the
Nobility, as a distressed Lady in mistortune. ' As
other lodging-houses have been robbed, she was
committed to the House of Correction tOr re-ex- .
arnination.

MANSION HMI E.—A man named Tharizas, foot-
man to Mr. Stretfield, of Basinghall-street, and
Hannah Slack, an elderly,woman, housekeeper to
the sante gentleman, were yesterday examinedlon a
charge of having obtained false keys• to their mas-
ter's drawers, with a fraudulent and felonious intent,
and of having stolen several articles of value, the.
property of their said master. It appeared from the
testimony of a reputable smith and furnishing iron-
monger, of London Wall, and two of his journey-
men, that the prisoner Thomas did, at two several
times, call at his house, and cause his journeymen to
be sent to Mr. Stretfield's (for whom the first wit-
- ness worked), and ordered two several keys to be
made for a drawer in Mr. Stretfield's sideboard, for
which purpose be had the lock picked, andtaken off,
to have the keys fitted thereto; that each time be
gave the, man a shilling for himself; 'and that on
one of those occasions, he told the journeyman,
that in consequence of fitting the first of those keys,"
his master's key would not open the lock, and re-
quested him to alter the lock,. without telling his •
master any thing of what he (the Prisoner) had said
about the business. It also appeared, that at one
time Hannah Slack was present, and used nearly the
same words of instrudion to the witness, as the, Pri-
soner Thomas bad done: The false keys were found
in the possession of Hannah Slack, by Tipper, one
of the Lord. Mayor's Officers, after a diligent search,
and they opened a drawer in the sideboard, wherein
Mr. Stretfield usu.illy deposited the keys of his
counting-house, motley-chest, and warehouses, ex-
posing.of course all his property to the mercy of the
Prisoners. Upon Slack were also- found several
pawnbrokers'• duplicates for plate, spoons, sauce-
boats, and sugar-tongs, table-cloths, counterpanes,
and sheeting, which she said were her own, and
of which no mention was made in the 'Charge
against her.

- Thomas acknowledged he had taken, from time
to time, about a dozen bottles of wine front the side-
board cellaret, *hich he drank in the kitchen with
Slack and their occasional visitors, and he expressed
great sorrow for having wronged sozood a master.
Mr. Strettield aded a very leoient piirt,.and offered'
to .torego his prosecution against Thomas, pit con-
ditiea et his voiumeering for his Majesty's service,
whn.b aliernative he accepted, and
sent on board the telider. Slack Wa s remaUded
aux t hionday, •

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- Ptntrma.C.L,---,Yesterday two females, of respea-
able appearance, the one about 50 .years of age,-
named Curtis, the other 23, rather. handsome, of
genteel and modest defneano9r,. who said, her name
was Lackit; were Charged with being in company,
together, and stealing,. in the shop of Mr. Harvey,,
one of the cheap linen-drapery warehouses on,
LUdgritc, mill,' a silk shaWl; and a piece oPi3rintt..d.

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c'alicd, several yards it; length, the property of Mt.
Harvey. • •
Theshonman of Mr; Harvey stated, that both the
Pristytiers wile in -the habit •Of•eb,r)ing ahnoit daily
to the shop for a considerable time past, to porch:lse
or examine gte,ds. They came in on , Thursday
afternoon ~,between ,three .and .tb.er.;. the Prisoner
Lockit engaged the a'ttentiOn of One shopinan„ while
she was procuring iroca hin; -the. pattern of a gown;
and by the motions 014 he Prisoner Conk, who stood
opposite With her bath toward-s him, he suspected
`she had-stolen sointhing. .0e suffered both to go
out,of the shopi.,aod then followed them up Ludgate
Hill, and- desired them to come back : Curtis asked,
for what'l and added, she had nothing but what
she paid for." •The shopman, however, insisted on
her reterning, and just as she came to the shop door.
she took, from under her -clothes the silk shawl,
whi'cli she attemptedle* throw into the shop ; but
constkle; who, was immediately behind her, seiz,
ed her hand.: When she came into the shop, sht
made some. violent motion to shake her clothes,
and the piece of printed golds fell from her on the
&Or. Lockit .went away uli the:Old Bailey, but
the Witness and Constable followed her and• brought
her bark, and both were sent to the CoMpter. They
refti4ek! to tell either names or residence, which
the NV itne'ss said his employer was an xions- to know,•
as froM their long habit of frequenting his shop, he
stspccted much stolen goods night be concealed in
their lodgings.
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Curt.i;, In 'her defence, denied, with . the most
perk& compo,iei.e, the crime she was chargtxl with, •
but refused to tell her residence, as she would not
expose her family.
LciCkit said she had no knowledge whatever of the,
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trausation ; • appeated eXtremety agitated ; said. she,
had lived four years with a Gentlethan, and declined
to give her address, lest she should expose him.
Both were coratnitte4 for trial.

PLJELICvT.^—QpI Thllll-,
day a Baker; of Hackney„. was broUght beture the
Skiing Magistrate,. charged with selling a iargt
quantity of bread:COnsickrably sh9ri of weight. it
was proved. thot 33 loaves were 139 ounccs 3hort of
Weight. One of the loaves, a halt-peck, was a
pound short.

,The case appearing a very aggravated one, the
ic.efogisttive was about to infijd the fUll.penally, at ss.
an•ounce, amounting to 34). Iss, but ihe'prosecu•;,
tion being-
.carried on by the Wardens ancillakers*
CoMpany,. file Gentlemen who attended represented
the Prisoner' tti be a young beginnerin business, and.
it being his first offence, the penally Was azitig4ted
to half that sum. -

Saturday se'nnight Capt. JOHN ImrEY, of the Royal'
N:ivy,*son of Sir ELIJAH hargy,.of Newick Park;
Kent, ret off frorn Teignmotith, in a post-chaise and
tour, accompanied by Miss' CA2AL. of Exeter, on a
Matrimonial excursion to Gretna Green, where the
ceremony was performed ; and the parties are since
returned to Exeter. The young Lady is a ward in
Chancery, amiable and highly accomplished, and will
posess a handsome f'rtune when of age,
MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR.—On Saturdays last, a corpse
was brought from Charter-house-square, dnd hurl: d
in IslingtOn Church-yard, and a stone: erected at the
plaee with an inscription, which', alter mentioning
her name and age; adds—

'She had no fault,:save what trav'llers give the moon,
The light was bright, but-died, alas ! too soon.
Mr. HobosoN, the Coroner, received a letter, in-
timating very strong sUspitions that the deceased had
not died naturally, in consequence or which he ap-
plied •to the Parish Officers, who ordered the grave to
be opened, which was done yesterday morning, and
the body removed to the vault under the church, for
the inspeatidn of the Jury, which sat 'Upon it in The
course of the days when the following appeared in
evidence Lady died on Friday, was buried on
Saturday, and the Gentleman with whom she lived
(not being married) left town on Sunday, and em-
barked at Portsmouth, on Monday for Spain. Ott
examining the body, a silver pin, about nine inches
long, was found sticking in the heart, through the:
left side of -the body. A Medical Gentleman
had attended the deceaed, declared .that the pin N:Vag
inserted at the request of the Gentlemin, to prevent
the possibility of her being buried alive. The
brought- in a verditt of—Died by the visitation of
God. The corpse still lies unburied in the vault.

•On Thursday evening, the 27th ult. Stephen Sim-
mons, a shepherd's boy, about eight years of age,
took shelter from the rain. in a cart-shed, in Hurst-
per-point, were two large rollers were placed one,
upon the other, the uppermost of which fell upon
him, and unfortunately killed ,him upon the. spot.
A dog which attended the deceased, vias the means
of leading to the discovery of the accident, by re-
peatedly running home, and returning to the hovel,
until he attraaed the attention of the boy's father,
who at length followed the dog to the bcvel, and
there found his ill-lated son lying on the ground,
with the fatal roller upon his head.—Verdict,
Acci-
dental Death.

•
Lately, as some Gentlemen were walking on the
Hoe, Plymouth, curiosity led them to see a re-
markable vein of fine sand, which has been discoVer-
ed in the midst of the immense body of limestone.
rock which • composes that eminence; the sand is
at least 50 feet above high water mark, and sur-
rounded by limestone. One of the company thrut-
Mg, his cane down:. to •ascertairt the depth of the-
stratum, of sand, found it struck against som:.l hard
body, which, on taking up, proved to be one side
of the jaw of some non-descript animal, the teeth,
of which there is a double row, are each nearly two
inches long, and, the jaw about 18 inches, and evi-
dently c4rtivaous On searching farther, a joint of
the back hone 'was discovered ot an amazing size,
• being i❑ diameter nine inches said a quarter by four
and a half deep. There is no perpendicular hole for
the spine, but three holes pass horio.ptally: through
.the centre. Several. other bones were found near
the
.spot, all of which preclude the idea of its being
a .marine genus. The above are in possessionof
medical Gentlemar at Plymbuth.
Extraordinary. fecundity of a sow, belonging to a
Gentleman in Devonshire, from June 1804, to July
1808 :

June 8, 1804
Nov. 8, -
April 16, iSo;
Sept. 23, -
April 3, IS:6

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Sept. 7, -
Feb. 16, 1807
Aug. it, -
Feb. 2, tBO3
jut,

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LAW REPORT.

HOVRti.

COURT OF CHANCERY, LlNcpotN's-IrtN, Nov. ,}.
EiPARTE ZUSSEMAKER. &C. /NT MATTER O ANDER

:dr. ,NIAr,TIN for the Petiioners, all of whom re-
in Holt and, stated that they were creditors to
the bankrupt ..1A;n1 Vatidtsr Heven, m various stains
to,a considerable amount, They tendered tht2ir cianits
before the Commissiotiers, but were 1 etused tobe'al-
lowed to prove, on the ground of their being alien
eeenties. They then applied to Lord Efsskine, while
L. rd Chancellor, producing evieence that the greater
p,trt, tt not the whole of thetn,Were creditors Of the
Bankrupt for goods imported into this Country wi-
der the sanction of licences granted by his Majesty ;
in consequence of which his Lordship ordered the
claims of the Petitioners to be allowed, and a st.in
ot.g.s.'in the pound of their .respective debts, being
to the same amount as had been drawn by the other
tredimrs of Vander liOven, tb be set aside for them,
to abde the issue of their application. These debts
amounted to a sum which produced 3636 i. stock,
width was
.placed in the name of the asegnet s, to
answer the claims of the Petitioners. Feeling them-
selves entitled to recover he debts, which they
had allowed the Bankrept to contract under the faith
of the Royal Licence, but beith.Z, at the saint, time,
given to understand that the consent of, the Ilea-
Sury would be necessary to insure them .recovery
of them, they preseeted a i'dt.morial on the sub-7
jea kJ the Chancellor of the Exchequer, to Which
a favourable return was un,!erstood to have been
made, Time present application was, therefore, now
made to hi; Lordship, for an order on the Assignees
to p..y over to the Petitioners the Sums applicable to
their respeetiie debts, now standing iii the public
lauds in the narns of I be,..kssignees. The Learned
Cote isel was aware, that the chute of the Petitioners
11:.ti not yet shewn, that the debts due to them were
for gOods sold under, his Majesty's licence; bui, he
did not (:psis that the otder should extend tti any
v ho tad not prove this tact, and receive: a Certificate
to 111 A effea troth the Treasury. That the assignees
euesenteci to shuttici province evidence in the hand
of tee' Secretary. The,,anplication had been inti-
eealed to the assighees, and they did not appeal.
Mittard appeared, aid consented On the part
of tl.eTieasury.—Order Granted.