The Sun.
London, England, 1806-04-29 00:00:00

,IVETVCAS7'LE, AntlL

The Loyal Independent Volunteers of this town
were inspeeted by Lieut.-Colonel ItivwDoN on the
Town-4)or on Thursday last, from Whoni the Corps/
received more applause than from.anyo.ther
ing,Oflicer. After being inspeaed, they, werestbrdir
'edintoacirde, by order of their Colonel, titomAs
CLM;zNitt, 'Esq. when he represented to them that
part of Mr. New Plan of Military
,De-
fence which relates to. Volunteer. Corps, and informed
them that several tespeCtable Oentlen.lep and Trades-
Men bad stated to him their opinions, al, being ‘Ol-.
ling to serv-9 under, the said Plan, if the iriajority of
the .CdePs -Vv,jre itareeale. therefore, took this
opportunity of putting the quest iPn to them a_body.,
Whether they were`de,sirocus,of 'Ling dismisSed;
or of
,Continuing thciir ser'y)cesagreeabiy to Mr..
W ilsrpnAm's Plan ? They' immediately; gave ,Signs
of theirapprobation to be continued; and the. Corps
is to be augmented to its former establishment.

POOLE, APRIL 24.—The Bedfordshire Militia
marched very unekOeCtedly front -hence to-Porches-
;ter, ' to do duty
.over the French Prisoners .of War.
• Yesterday and to-day:the second, Battalicn of the
.7th or Royal Fuzileers, marehe4 in here froin-Wey-,
'mouth, on account of the Eleabon of 'a Member to
serve in Parliament in' the room of,----
saoRE, Esq.- dece;ased.--Tlig. Eleetion takes place
next Saturday.

MANaOI4. HousE.---Yesterday, two men , were
charged before the Lolio MA•ioR oil sustilcion of
baving robbed, and
,stabbed Mr. Kirby, in Moor-
fields, on 'Wednesday night last. It 'appeals.- they
;Stabbed hini.lifthe throat, froM which he is not able
`to" 'articulate; but he has given a description of the
whole trinsaelion w •in writing; he is still, in a very
L 0, •
grouS station. `rlie prizioners were remanded.

At the Public-Pfrice, Queen-square, yesterday,
John Do tvly ; serjeant, was .eorntnifted for trial;
tor extorting 14. from the friends of a. recruit, un
der a promise of liberating
Sarah 'Burton was
,fully committed for stealing
articles of plate and Wearing apparel, the propefty'
of several young Gentlemen belonging to Westtnin-i.
ster School, out of a boarding=house
pear,the,Abbey. The Prisoner, had lived servant in
seVera) place's, and "refUSed doing any kind of lalabur
on the S'abbath:day, as professing -great.sanaity..

•%
" Saturday the 19th inst. were executed at Lanes's.;
ter ,liary ,Simpson, and ;.I.4roefs..
r(ircryt.
itlary Jackson had. been ,tried .at the last August
A's Sizes for the Murder' of Ann-Smith, ofi4lanchester,
"arid acquitted. An incriament •3,vas afterwards ?ore-,
ferred against her for. stealing,some of.the property
of which, the, deceased had beeir robbed`` at the time of
the Murder on' which iri(lietmene,sheWaiconViped
-at the last 'A-Ssiies: , The circumstances Which
?eared in. evidence agilipkt. her on the trial -for._tuut
der
,were so strong,, .as to,--).eave little doubt in the
mind of any one then -present,. that- she bad
aEtually' committed, -or'had been privy to the. mur- •
der. .lle'r cleft nee implicated a Man.:of the name
.James Cheetbani,. , who, as she asserted, had
given .her the articles belonging 'to the deceased,
and which were found in her possession very
. recently after -the _murder. , She persisted in this
story till the evening previous to her execution,
when gh4. declared the falSehood of it, and af-
ter having acquitted James Cheetham of any con-
cern "in -that horrid. transkietion, made a full con-
fession of her guilt, which was afterwards roduced
, i into writing, .and signed
,by her about,two hours be-
fore her execution. She was".perfedly resigned to
her fate, acknowledged thejustice of her sentence,
-mid died with great penitence..
INauEsTs.—On Wednesday se'nnight an Inquesti
was_ held by W. TRIGG, 9.ent. at Prestony near Ci
rencester, on view of the body of VVilliam, Raley
who was found dead on the.high road leadrng..tco,
FAirford. . He had travelled the country with--muse-:
cal bells 45 years ; and, it is supposed, being 71,*he
sunk under the pressure of poverty and infirmity
Verdi t, by the ,Visitation of 'God.-;--And, on
MOnday last, an Inquest was held by-the same Co-
ronerat Tetbury, On the body of Mary Peters", found
drowned in a well, into which it is imagined she

_must have precipitated 'herself, the aperture at the
top being, only seventeen, inches
_in its extreme
wiclthr It was some hours before the body was.dis-
covered ; ,and She- having been previously in a de-
jected state .of mind, tbelittry returned a Verdi,& of
'Lunacy.
About ten days since
,Mr. S. Church, dredger-
-man, of Milton, was unfortunately drowned by. the
upsetting of his beau-mar •Whitstahle. He has left.
aWife and five children to lament his.loss.
Last week a labouring man, natned 4.4 F-right, at
Alphington, Exeter, ktiOCked at the door of- Mrs. s'
Rowe, ,an acred widow before her usual hour of rising,
and rushed up stairs, where he found a blunderlyass,
which' Was constantly kept there. This •he seized,
and,
.darting towards the' bedside of Mrs. R...fra6tured
her skull With it, and dreadfully laCerated•lier head'
and arms. The Maid immediately ran down, and..
gavd the alarm, • When the ;man Was secured, who
appeared to be evidently deranged ; for he declared he
was commissioned by.a Superior Power to destroy all':
old wothen in'the town,, as a Peacenever could taske.
place till, that was accomplished. The Coroner's
Inquest, after sitting several hours, returned a verdi&
Murder, committed by the hands of R.
Wright, supposed lunatic.
-A fdw' days since .a boy went to the house of Lord.
• William Russell, in:Albetnarle-street, obtained'
linen to the value of about fifty pounds, under pre-
tence that he belonged to the Streatham carrier, and
was to convey the same to that place, for .the pur,
pose of .being washed. Information being sent to
Bow-street, ;41-ie whole 'of the property, except two
table-cloths, have. been recovered, and the parties, in
whose possession it was,. found were committed to
Bridewell on Friday evening.
Last week James' Sweeny .was tried at the Royal
Marine. BarrackS,, Chatham, by a general Court
for desertion ; it appeared, on thethot
this man had taken bounties no less than vine dif-
ferent times and had deserted as' often. The cir-
.
curnitance being fully proved against him he was
sentenced to the mitigated ptinishinent of transpor
'talon for.l4.years.