The Sun.
London, England, 1808-08-09 00:00:00

DUBLIN, Aug. 4,

Sbme experiments have lately been made roi
hastenide the maturation 'of grapes, by preventing
the downward circulation of the sap. It is recom-
mended, with' plants in the open. air, towards the
end of Joy, or early.in.A.uguSt; to cut through the
bark (the cortex and 'Hier, without wounding the
aiburnuin) in a circle round the loWer branches of
the vine, about a quarter of an inch wide.; by this
meads the sap, which has, undergone preparation in'
the leaves, is obstructed and confined in the branches
i situated above the incision, and the fruit is not vnly
much larger; but ripens a fortnight or three weeks
sooner than on those trees which have not been so
treated. Vines in forcing houses are equally im.
proved In size and flavour, and-made to ripen ear-
lier by taking away circles of the bark,, which should
be done as soon as
,the fruit is set. In each case,
the exposed alburntim be. covered with new bark
befoit Winter, and thelninre health of the tree will
not be in the least impaired.
At what is called WrOxam Water Frolic, near
Norwich, a few days agO, there were some eXcel-
lent sailing matches and Other festivities; but to-
wards the conclusion of the day's sport, the spirits
of the'company were daniped by the upsetting of a
bciat, by which Mr. Serringall, a respeatable farmer
in that neighbourhood, and his nephew, lost their
lives. What added to, the melancholy effect of this
shocking catastrophe was, that :Mrs. S. the wife of
the farmer, and her sister, were standing on the.
bank at the lime, and were witnesses of the unhappy
fate of their dearest frienils.
BOVV-STREET.—l;esterday zit),-old woman, near
sixty years of.age, . was finally examined before Mr:
'READ, the Chief Magistrate, on a charge of being
concerned in robbing Mr. Hall, of Richmond, of
his.waLch and money, to a considerable amount.
The'Prosecittor stated; that on the 12th of last
month, about ten o'clock in the.evening, as be was
going along Piccadilly,, he was knocked down by
three or four men, and was stunned; that he reCol4.
leated being taken to.a house, but where he'di&nt)t.
knoW, and when he recovered himself, he found he
bad been robbed of his watch, with a chain and seal,:
and his purse containing-abont 201.
The ProseCutor identified his watch, which was
produced by-a servant of Mr. Debree's, of Charing-
. . •
The. Pawnbroker said he received the watch in.,
pledge of the Prisoner, on the morning after the
robbery ; in about a week, after, she came again to,'
get Jos. more on it„which, he lent her, and in three'.
or four .days afterwards, she applied for more
moray, and ic!e having in the meantime received in-
formation that the watch had been stolen, detained
her.

•
The Prisoner said she found the watch at Knights-.
bridge, the same night the Proiecutor stated. he had
been robbed of it, and totally denied ever 5-tieing the
Prosecutor, or receiving the watch from any person.
The Magistrate told her, she did not give an account •
that he gave the leaSt credit to, and therefore, fully,
_committed her to Nevvgate, to take her trial at the,
Old Bailey, at the next Session,
,which commences
on the 14th of Sept. next.
MARLBOROUGH-STREKT.--A very serious .chaige
' of a rape was yesterday heard at this Office, attended
with aggravated -circumstances, against a surgeon of
the Navy. The Prosecutrix, a little girl, twelve
years of age, of the name of Anquire, the daughter
of Madame Anquire, of Warwick-street, Golden-
square„ gave her testimony in a very artless manner.
She' had been sent by her mother with a message-to
the. Prisoner, at his apartments in Swallow.street,
and after having.delivered her message the Prisoner
behaved in a manner which .cannot be here describ-
ed, and, succeeded in satisfying his brutal 'appetite.—
He was fully committed to Newgate for.trial..
• GUlLDHALL.—Ye.sterday. Henry Lock, for whose
apprehension
.a reward of 1001. had been,offered; he
having, in the month of May last, been accused of
having forged notes on the Bank of Messrs.. Pres-
cott and Co. to a considerable amount, was brought
forward. He had eluded the vigilance of. the Po-
lice; until yesterday morning, when he was appre-
hended in Abe neighbourhood of Hounslow, and
brodght up for examination. The Prisoner was re-
inanded, on account of Sir James Middleton being
absent in the country, who. is said to be in posses-
sion of the plate that made the impression.

..Just after the death of the late Duke of YORK, a
gingerbread baker at Mansfield, happening to" take
too long•' a nap while' his -;batch was in the oven,
foundupon awaking that his sweet cakes were nearly
burnt to a cinder. :Being a shrewd fellow, he began
to censider what-.he must ,do with them ; recollea-
ing the death. of the Duke of YORK, he carried his
giugerbreadinto the market-place; and by cryitig,
nice mentrn,:zng gingerbread,'• quickly sold.his lot
of ?flack eatables.,. • --

The following cause was tried at the late Lincoln
. • ................ , - Assizes, •
and afforded much entertainment to a
On Tuesday-the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, crowdedsCourt
Sheriffs, and Alderdien, with the principal Mem- . SPECIAL JURY..--TIIC KING V. SHUTTLEWORTH.—
bers of the Corporation, waited upon his Grace the This was an indidineet to procure the reiposai ...f a-
Lord Lieutenant with the Address to his Majesty on • nuisance at GainAsor6', alledg•ed to: be committed by,
the Affairs of Spain 5 they were most graciously re- the Defendant, in improperly carrying on the busi-.
ceiVed ; the Lord Lieutenant properly attended, ness of a soap-boiler, in a populous part of that
standing before the throne, and on his right hand j town._ The manufaetory of the Defendant. was•stat-
his.charming DuchesS and two of her lovely daugh- ed to,-be in Cask-gate-lane, Where not only the
ters. The Recorder read the Address in a most im- usual besiness of a . soep-boilet . was carried on, but
pressive manner, which seemed to give great satis- pans had been ereaed for boiling the refuse or lees
faction ; he then handed it to the lord Mayor, I of the manufactory, and . extrading trout them, by
who, presenting it to the - Duke of RICHMOND,. his steam, a sort of salt, by a process which 'produced
Grace said—" he would havegreat pleasure in 'lays t to the• neighbouring inhabitants effeets the mosting before his Majestythis additional proof of the - noisome and tin whelesonie that a tortured iniagitia-i'
zeal, loyalty and spirit of his faithful citizens of., tion could conceive.
Dublin."
Mr.
,Serjeant VAUGHAN, ivith great linm
sour des
DUNDALK ASSIZES.—Friday came on, before this tailed 'Onie cif those'effe&s s- nothing,' he said,, that
Right Hon. Justice MAYNE and a most . respectable depended upon the natural. principle of respiration for
Jury, the trials of Thomas Pepper;-. Joseph Gunnell,
„existence could endure the "abominable superlative
James Welean, --•-_ Porter, and Leslie Marince*: 'sublimate of:stench" with which the manufatiory of
for the murder of Serjeant . Forbes,. of the ,Scotch the Defendant invaded ail around it ; a tallow-.chan•
Greys, who, with a party' under his command, were
.diet's melting-house in dog-days was, in comparigan,
guarding a quantity of Malt seized, in
.Ihe town of - a nosegay to which any man who had breathed in,
Ardee, by •a Mr. Kilpatrick, gxcise Officer, and the air infeaed with the odour of these _
nisteaming
who were fired "
upon by e number 'of men armed
-pans,' Would run. five miles- with distended nos-
entered muskets ; a ball fro oneof theassailants had nostrils to catch the fragrant gale.. " But," said the
entered his right breast, of which wound he instant- 'learned Serjeant, " 1 need not look for evidence be-
ly died. ' The trial lasted from ten in the morning
until seven in the evening and the Learned Judge yond the enema scamp that this is a nuisance of the
e foulest. cast. My Learned Friend-Mr. BAIA.; CTY, jun.
having summed up the eviderfce; the Jury retired lot who has been prudently retained on the other side
a short time, and returned with'a verdiel of 'Guilty,'.
. would himself be a sufficient witness to establish nay
against ThOtnas Pepper, Joseph'Gennell, and James
,client's case. Being lately at GaitishOro', on a day
M'Clean, and acquitted the other two prisoners.-- when this zibotninable opefution was carrying on at
l'heJudge, in a most impressive appeal to the feel- the .soap manufattory, he sat dowry to dinner at an.'
ings.of the unhappy men, to make -peace with their 1 inn a-considerable distance off, but the horrid stench
offended God, during the sliest time they had . to
,pursued him like a 'ghost; and not a morsel of meat
Jive, and which arrested she attention of every per- could he.eat.' -ft was in vain the pbbr tortured hi-
spn in the Court, pronounced 'the dreadftif sentence habitauts OfGainsboro' had new doors and new win-
ofsihe law. Those illfated Men, whose general ldow-frames, made to fit with the utmost, nicety,. in
chara&ers were respeBta6l; 'were to be ekecuted en -the hope o'f keeping out the invasive mist and stench ; Monday last,ancLtheir bodies to be seat to the. without they would 'deprive themselves of the very .
Louth Hospital for disseaion. principle of vitality it. was no way- to be--eluded.. To
be sure- there were some advantages which they-en-
i• in
.toyed, return, of a very peculiar easesrthey. wire
40 possession of a compendious tecipe for transmut-
ing-Metals—thus if a person hung a silver watch at
' sphis bed's head at night, in the morning he was sure
AO find it changed to a gold one ; and so with all
the plate in'the houses of ththe who resided within,
1 -the range of this pestilence. Cask-gate-lane,-since
I, the Defendant had made it an empOriurn of his pro-
•ces-Ses; had, as well as neighbouring streets, been a
ruinous neighbourhood for any one in business. If,
the cabinet-maker.exposed for sale furniture fresh
from the hands of the workman, in a few days it-
assumed such a hue from the fog, of the soapsrnanus
faitorks that every customer accosted the poor shop.
keeper with--s" well, Mr. Cabinet-makers:for second
.hand goods you of course ask a second hand price !"..
The poor barber could no how entice a customer to
him, notwithstanding he shaved at a proper reduc-
tion of price, in consideration that every one that
walked down his street tame with his .chin ready
soaped,; but unless the operator held his customer .
so hardly by the nose that the pain was intolerable,
the latter was sure to fly from the maddening stench
of the manufactory, and run ready lathered, to a shop
in some more felicitous disteiet Of the town.
• The Learned Serjeant mentioped some other in.
stances of the prejudicial- effects of the nuisance s
such 'as a boarding-school being shut up, nteat ren-
dered tainted, &c. Alludieg to the evidence which
Would be adduced by his learned friends on the op-
posite side,-he said 'he understood this cause was in-
tended to be cut up 'by a Russian General and a
Scotch physician. He begged, therefore, to impress
'upon the Jury that a nuisance in _England would be
a nuisance still, notwithstanding the Russian, whose
delight was in a soup of train oil and tallow-graves,
might think the thing delightful. He remembered-
an anecdote which would illustrate the Russian taste
aptly for his purpose :—Sotne years ago, many ac-
cidents occurred in Edinburgh from the lamps of
that elegant city being lighted, as it was supposed,
with a scanty quantity of oil, or with oil of a bad
quality, in consequence of which they went out long-
befOre the return of the day. • For a long While_the-
: remedy-for-. this itieonyenience baffled those whose
duty-it was to attend-to the neatter :at length; after
trying.a succession of lamp-lighters and contrlderss
it was discOvered that the soldiers of a. siotaCismeuts
of Russians, then - quartered' in Edinburgh;' were;
the cause of this nocturnal darkness, and thst they
regularly swarmed the lemp=posts to feast Upon the i
:oil and cotton in the-pans ! Whether they took the,.
trouble to extinguish the burning cotton, orstYal-,
lowed fire' and all, 'he could not tell ! !—ln conchi.„
sion h-e.observed, that there could be no eVCSlende
that the good people of Gainsborbith should-un-
dergo purgation in this 'World •for their sins, an'y'
more than other the liege subjeds' of the King; and'
if they were to be allowed'- to 'breathe a whotesoine '
air, this nuisance must be pot down. [The Court'
was convulsed -with laughter durin-g this 'speech4
A witness named Rashdall was then called, Who
proved -that last-summer the stench was -very much
increased. by the Defendant evaporating ees at' the
maituladory, which had not used to be 'done by the
former owners of it, Messrs. Tayfer and Cowley.
-Alleummer the process-was continued four or five
dayiAn a Week, and sometimes dassaird night for a
week without intermissioe. He lived nears-and
was often awakened- in the night, as well as his
family, by the abominablestench: His health had
much declined in consequence. .
In this stage of the cause the Counsel for the De-
fendant agreedeo submit to a condition which, had
been insisted upon as, a preliminary to a reference,
and the. Defendant undertook to remove the evapo-
rating pails within two months.—The other part of
the alleged nuisance, the soap-manufactory itself,
was,left to be decided upon by the arbitrator.