The Sun.
London, England, 1808-07-07 00:00:00

PCLICE

. Bow-.STlthri%-;--4Vesterclay a man Was brOtight
beture Mr.-GRAHAM' charged its suspicion o: !rov-
ing CM a, young womaii"s throat in the neighbour=
hood of Hampstead, on
,Tuesday ~evening, The
ground of suspicion is extremely slight ; it is as fol-
loWs :—The man had been at work on Tuesday as
a haymaker, for the. Earkof It"faFiSfield; between
eight and nine o'clock iris the'e%:duipg he was observ-
ed by three men sitting °pa bank in a lane, by.the
side of a young woman ; on. their approach he
;
called to' them for assistance when they came
up they found the young woman's throat was cut;
and blood was flowing very fresh froth the wound;
they went in pursuit of a Surgeon ; while they
were gone two men,: who had been at work TIX 1.1 11
the prisoner in the course of the day\ for the Earl of
Mansfield, passed by, and assisted him in conveying
the young woman to the nearest public-house, where
Mr, .Snow, a surgeon„ soon arrived, who examined
the wound, dressed it, and pronounced it not dan-
gerous, the wind-pipe nut being cut through,:and
had but little doubt of her surviving, Tile young
woman remained insensible, and not able to tell how
she came by the wound, and the prisoner having
been seen with her under 'suspicious circumstancesi
he was taken into custody. She is a servant in a fa-
mily at Hampstead.
Mary Haynes was charged with stealing Martha
Phillips, the infant chid of Jesse Phillips, a glass-
idler, of Drury-lane.—The infant is about four, years
of age. About half-past six o'clock, on `Tuesday
evening, she was playing near her' father's door,
when the prisoner was observed
_to take her up in
her arms, and had taken her aboUt five doors off,
when she was stopped.—The prisoner was com-
mitted for further examination.

itYl A KLBOhOUdEI-STIEET.---Yesterday John Hunt,
and another post•boy in the seri)ice•of Mr. Wilson,
of Port; .an-street,, POrtman-square,hackneyman,
were charged with irritating
,the horses drawing a
sociable, and being insolent to the passengers. The
facts were these : two Gentlemen. and• two Ladies
had hired the carriage, &c. to take them down to
Ascot Heath ItaceS. At one time they drove so
slowly, that every :carriage: on the road distanced
them. When spoke to, Hunt was particularly aliu-
sive,"and the other manjoined him in the insolent
language. They then drove for some time with
such fury, that the company were afraid of the coach
being overturned. In the same manner they drove
alternately extremely slow,or violently fast„all the way
almost, frequently abusing the Gendeinen when Iliey
attempted toremonstrate w iththern as to theirconduel.
The master said, that he brought- these.men before
a Magistrate only that!' the example might be'ilie
means of deterring other coachmen from'aeriiiig' in' A
.similar manner. The man Hunt sald,-that ho kneW
how to manage horses better than the Gen-ftenien,
and besides that 'they were not his masters. Ihe
Magistrate, however, informed him that every per-
son who hired. a carriage of any sort, was for the
time the rhaster of the servant that drove it, as nnich
as if he had engaged him to serve by the year. The
fads were fully and clearly proved, and he never felt
more satisfaCtion in the. performance oL. any a& of
public justice than he did in ordering therm to be
commuted to prison for a month.

WORSHIP-STREET.-Yesterday Stephen diked. a
young man about nineteen years of age, was charged
with a street robbery. The prosecutor, Joseph Ro-
bertson, stated, that on hiS way home he wasae-
costed in Old-street Road, by the prisoner, together
with a woman, whom he could not secure, and that
they forcibly took from him a., silver watch, with
chain and seals. Whilst the prisoner was +ander exa-
mination,' a woman came into the Office, who
offered to coutradiCi the substance of the prosecutor's
evidence; but he immediately recognized her- to be
the woman who was in company with the prisoner
when the robbery took place,' and it afterwards
turned out that she passed as the prisoner's wife.--4
They. were both committed for trial.
MANSION HOUSE.—Yesterday the Gentleman
who was fOitnerly examined before the LORD
MAYOR, charged on suspicion pf robbing a parish
church in Bishopsgate-street, of all the church plate
to the amount of 4601, again underwent a long ex-
amination, but the LORD MAJOR thought it still a
doubtful case, and wanting farther proof. The ser-
vants of the Parish Charity attended,'and swore to
their giving the Prisoner the church keys, and re-
ceiving them back on Fridayat half-past three o'clock;
and a Gentleman from Pimlico said he spoke JO the
Prisoner at the turnpike about four o'clock; he was a
foreigner of exceeding good charaater, and very in-
genious in his business, and didnot think him capable
of such an a6t.. The name of the Prisoner; or further
partiCulars we, decline giving, as the LORD MAYOR
remanded hiM for another hearing. He persists in
'saying he gave back the keys about:ten minutes past
two.

•
RUCAL Thrale Fair, Somerset, on
;Monday, there was- an unusual display of gymnas-
tic talent, to as'numerous a field of amateurs as ever
was winessed 'on any similar occasion.: At six
o'clock in the moromg the pastimes commenced
with a damsel race for chemises ; then several
matches of single-stick_playing took place for various
prizes, the greater part of which were won by
Male and Robson, scientific players. A pitched
battle was fought at noon, betwixt Robinson, a yeo-
man from the west, and Harnold, a- coachman, for
20 'guineas a-side. This' match was diverting to :the
lovers of t Ito sport, as it lasted
.two hours without. in.:
termission. The combatants were fresh young men
of promise, Who had never before been pitted, and
they proved themselveS to possess no inconsiderable
knowledge at giving and taking.
-Each alternately
had the best of contest, and their powers did not
forsake them until the, minbat had lasted one hour
and a half. 'I he contest Was continued half an hour
longer, when Robinson was declared the viar:
A melancholy accident occurred yesterday morn-
ing, in the Strand, at the house ofa SitoeMaker, near
Holywelt-street. A fine child of seventeen months
old, through the carelessness ofa. girl, 'its'sister, fell
down a privy, and was .suffocited before any assist-
ante could be rendered. The. poor infant was ex-
tricated by the humane exertions of a coal-pofter,
in ten minutes after it fell in ; but it was found that
its skull was frOured by the wall against which it
fell on its descent.

.~IiEI.~N~

DLTBLR", SUL Y conimitnicatidil betweon
the ,Royal Canal and the River Litfv was oloeiied
yestvday, by the passage of some 'Luggage *oats,
on hoard of which were a
_noinb,,,.r of
th:2 Direaors, and other Official persons, who cele;
brated' the desirable event by the dis.charge of t;iti-
min, and the decoration Of the barg-::s with various.
national flags, &c. A nurinber of speaators- 2020111--
paiiied the cavalcade on each"bank of the river, and
Joined their colignitutation on this.national occasion;
Last night the Earl 01 SHAEWSBURY arrived in this
City, from England.

ExtraEt •of a private Letter.- Yesterday Sir
ARTEVUIt WELLESLEY sent otT his horses for Cork:
He intends to fellow herself this-day or to-inorrow,
in order to take the command of the Expedition.--
The Inspector-General yesterday afis.;, noon stoppA:
the use of grain in the. distilleries, _by order of (3-J7
tertrtent.

Yestertkiy a criminal information was tranted, on
the prorseCution of Patrick Ludlow, against a Ma-
&trate. It appeared from the affidavits, as stated
by Mr. Serjeatit BALL that Ludlovi had beet
brought before the Defendant,. on suspicion of hay-
ing Stolen some bacon from -a person of the name
of - Branigan, when the Defendant stri&ly examtned •
him, and he persevering in asserting his innocence,
the Defendant caused thin to be stripped naked, and
tied up te a gun-rack., where the Defendant himself
flogged him with a beech-rod until he fainted; that
he was then taken down, and sent to the Biack
Lion, in a little village abont three mica distant
from the Defendant's house, where he was kept a
close prisoner for three or tour days, without any
medical assistance, although his back and loins were
bruised and ulcerated by the punishment he had
suffered,;and that the Defendant had him then
veyed from thence to Dublin, to Major Sir, to be
put on ship board ; but that the Major thought it
prudent to liberate him.

- Mr. BALL, who was Counsel for the Defendant,
in extenuation of the illegal and oppressive condud_
imputed tolls client, endeavoured to inikess-upou
the 'Court the, very doubtful charaaer of Ludlow,
the prosecutor,. who had been before charged with
ing stolen a pair of brogues, and who,. be said,
but. which was denied by the prosecutor,. whilst tied
up and under punishment, had confessed his guilt
he insisted the Defendant-had r*)t flogged hilt him-
4elf,- hut-had employed ofie'of his sere ants tbr thai
purpose, and that Ludlow had not ativally fainted ;,
he. admitted he had sent him to Major Sirr, to ba -
put Ain board ship, which, in his (the Defendant's)
idea was a milder treatment than connoiiting hiin to
g4l, where he might remain for a long time; ,arid, -
irtru.tand guilty, he-would- kCe. transported., Ludlow
is a'o`easatit about Bor 19 years of age. •
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An Encampment is now forthing at Danbury, in,
Essex; the 37th, lately from Ireland, hLve aheady
pitched their terns, and several Other's are expecied.
The Nottingham Militia have quitted -Le.wes Bar-
racks. !Ur Blelchington. They w;re relieved at
Lewes by the Northumberland Militia.

We mentioned a few -dgs ago, that a soldier's
wife, at Chatham, having gone Out to work, left*
ber.child and her room in the care of a woman,
who eloped with every thing valuable in the apart-
Ment, and the child : after much anxiety the Int-Aber
has recovered her infant. --The circumstantes at-
-tending its recovery are etraOrdinary. The woman
who had committed_ the robbery went direcily tor
Lbndon ; when she arrived there, and had walked
for some time through several of streets, she
saw a poor woman standing in a door, whom she
quested to hold the child for a fewriti.itutes, whim
she carried a bundle into the nett sheet:-ithe good
woman readily consented,. but the other never re-
turned. The child thus bebame an additional hut.-
den'to a person who had already a very largeefainiiy.
.and it was kept two days and .pightS: with, no other
expthation than that they should have to bring u?
the child, when the husband of the poor woman aC-
cidentAlly saw au account of the transaction, and,
wrote down to the-father of the child, .a(Cliathahly
who immediately came to town, and returned
with
the infant in safety.

SHIP NEWS.

CRAVISLND, JULY S.
Passed by— the Golden Grove; %Veils, from ;am-lira;
Ann, Attis, for Malta • Mary,. Bennett, and A texandeb
Nt!iier, from St. Salvadore.

BIRTH.
Yesterday, in Wine-Of-Hal-court, Flcet-strtut, Mrs. A•
Flocknart, oki Son. -'

MAR
• • On Tuesday the 28th ult. at Chigwell, Essex, the Ref'
W. F. Sptudens, of Nurth. Walshain, Norfolk, to Miss Giti.
man„ eldest daugtiter of Daniel Gillman, Esq. of.Whiteiialh'
Chigwell-rote, Ess:x.
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On
man-street, to 114.1rg:Ltet, youngest daughter of the
Tilesdatiast, Thomas Chittenden, Esq. of New Mill.'
Knapp' Re for Of Englefi..thl, Berks.
The saute day; at •Kilvarstone, in Norfolk, the Rev. 1,771•
!erid Stuart Macketrzie,:lte•Aor pt Bracon- A;11 and Quiderilianft
Petpettial. Cuzate of Thetford St, Mmy. to Miss IV rights
eldest daugliwr.of the late Rev. lohn Wright, of F..ilverstfAi'""
Hail. • ,

DIED

On Friday last; at his house at Darlington, after a linyer—
ing-illness, Mr. 11;24gins,.aged 5.
The pine clay, oa liorgh•llail, Norfolk: after a short b''-
RaMtui Illness, the y,:lte Or Maur l'
cYn'' the aston, or A pplet 0 n . "
. rith •Ittt. Mrs. Nlargarct F"..illarton, uniingel:
dwghter of the cko.:eased General Fullartoti, of :_- k.eicfun, tvir4
Of ;41r—fames D.Arymple, Merchant, in Llinhurgh.
on the 29th 'alt. suddenly, at Worthing, Ors. Mary 5; '
ve.nson, aged 7;3, relict ot, the late William Stevenson, 1;-(1"
of Unity, in the Island otiamaica. •
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Lately, at: ~..hesTer, Mrs. Egerton Leigh, widow of thel:tfr
1.,-
Rev. Archdeae9n•Letgh.
A-few4lays Sitic:,•the Rev. Samuel Kettilby; D.D. 1:.,:!.... Fellow', f St, ',Ain's College, and leCtor Ut Sutton, tic fordshire.

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