The Sun.
London, England, 1808-06-14 00:00:00

MANCHESTER RACES.

FRIDAY
.4UNL •10.
A Hunter's Sweepstakes of 7en Guineas each, t3st. exch.
Four Miles. —To be rode by Gentlemen. . •
P. Benson,..Esq.'s br. h.---Walked over.
A Plate of Sol. 3-yrs olds 6sdP 31b. • 4-yr °Ms 7st. illb. ;
, s,yr nhis Bst. 41b. ; 6-yr olds Bst. iClb.; aged 9st.—Mares,
Scceallowesil alb. Four-mile heats. .
Mr. harris's br. g. Viper - . - -3 t 1
Slug'. Stanley, Bart.'s b. f. Cowslip, 3-yrt old 1. a z
F. D. Astley, Esq.'s ch. g. Newton, 5-years old 2 Idr

More business was done at the last market-day,
at Leeds, Huddersfield, and Bradford, than for some
time pact, in consequence of the -number of- artily
and aavy orders, and the increasing expectation that
the intercourse with North America will be ie-
uewed.

Dunse Fair, on Thursday last, there was a

good show of eattles those m good 'condition sold
well,. but of those not itt • good condition, a great
many were left unsold. There was but tumult show
Qf 'horses ; those good sold well.
On Saturday night, about eleven o'clock, a wo-
man of decent appearance, was observed, apparently
in great distress of mind, on Blacktriar's-bridge. She
retried., answering any questions asked her; and
soon after she was observed by a person who lives
at. Bankside, Southwark, to throw herself from near

the centre arch into the Thanes, and was drowned ;
the body has been dragged for, but has nat yet been
found.
MARGATE HoYs.---Yesterday John Ehvbz Was
summoned before the LORD MAYon, charged with
assaulting Mr. Hodges, and unlawfully stopping a
box coming from the Margate Packet, under the
• pretence of not paying wharfage: Mr: Midges teld
big Lordship, that he went ot► board. the Margate
Packet, which laid in the river, for a box, which

he was taking away in a boat to his QWlllmuse it;
Scotland-yard, when the Defendant stopped it upon
pretence of its not having paid wharfage, and forbi-
bly carried it away to the wharf, where it, had never
been before, where Mr. Elwin obligingly gave it up,
but said he bad a right to wharfage for every box or
parcel which came lrom the Margate boats, 'whether
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they were brought aver the, wharf or riot. Mr. H.
iiaid he was determined to resist this demand as un-
lawful, and if they persisted in it, he would appeal
to the London; Sessions, for thegoodnf the public.
Mr. ,Elwin said he was wharfinger at Ralph's Quay,,
in Thames-street, that the Defendant, who %Vat; his
hibtb-er-, acted under his Oder, that it had always
been a custom to charge. wharfage for all parcels
coming from the Margate Hays:' The Loan Mith.Calt
said the box having been taken hi a boat (rim the.
Hoy in the stream, he. did not think they had any
right to charge Wharfage; but it they persisted in
their claim', it r Wtli to come before the Sessions.
The wharfinler gave up his claim, and .I\lr. Hodges
forgave the f)efendant, Upon his asking pardon, and
was discharged.
At the Guildhall, yesterday., a Gentleman' of. the'
name of Martin charged a Smithfield drbver with
exercising excessive cruelty towards sheep
which he had under his care, some day last week,
the market.
.The Gentlethan described the bar-
barous treatment which the prisoner gave to one
sheep in particular, in such tt manner as to induce
the Magistrate, Sir Wm. LstonTobt, to impose upon
him a line of 205. besides 2s. for expences.

BOXING MATCH ES.--Twamateiles were made on
Saturday last ; the first between Jetu Belcher (the.
late.champien). and Crib, whose name is also smile:
ciently known in the sporting world. • The battle
wilt be for 200 -,guineas a side, half forfeit. The
combatants will. go immediately into training, and
the contest will take place in two months. It ,will
be `remembered, .tliat: the parties fought a closely
contested battle at Moulsey, in April, 1807, when
Crib, although terribly disfigured, • was the. vielor,
Belcher's strength and •vigour having failed him.—
Crapley is also matched to fight Edward 'Belcher,
the eider of the three brothers, in .six Weeks, for
tut) guineas, who is bnt little -known as a fighting
Man. . . •

Monday morning Mr.Statiuton, 'a leather-mer-
'chirp t, from Loudon, who has travelled to Southamp-
ton itaad iu the Isle of. Wight, for many years, was
found dead in his bed, at the Nag's Headi in 'the
High-street ofSouth2mptou. , .

rl, fiekltCei dreSsed uuan, about thirty. years of acre,
was ye,sterday fonncl•luspended to a 'tree, in a field'
by the road-side leading from Islington to Hackney.
lie was diseoveredby a waggoner, who immediately
c;:it hint down, but he appeared tO-:havel)een "dead
oral hours. , Bank-notes and gold• to the amount
of 301. were found. in his pooliet-boolc,.and a quasi-'
iuy of slips of paper. .The body waii owned .yes•-
ier,lay, and the deceased proved to be the mate 'of a
iiitobant vessel, whu..had, atTived in London oil
'I !it krsday hist from bllssex. • •

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1;11V ,REPOltr.l

COURT 0# Mild-% IitNCH, -MONDAY; lUNI 13.
!WAY V. WEEKS, •

The Plaintiff is adtninistratrix of aMr. Richards,.
respeding whose will.our Readers will perhaps re-
coiled some extraordinary proceedings in Chancery.
The Defendant. was formerly a stage-coachAteeper,
and master of the Bush WI, at Bristol ; he is ho.w
a stage=coach proprietor and wine Merchant. This
was an anion ofTrover, brought-to recover the Pos-
session of certain mortgage deeds, or their value.
• Mr. GAlutow said, that Mr. Richards, to whom
the Plaintiff Was administratrix,'Wll3 a Mall who, at
the age of 82,' was put by Mr. Pember, aed others,
into an hospital, that he might catch the contagion
of the small-pox, a diSorder which through his pro,
Eructed life he had escaped. Mr. Pember was• a Gen-
delimit very well known to Mrp.Jekyl and others of
his learned Friends accustomed to. the Western Cir-
cuit. Although Mr. Richards escaped this terrible
distemper, he continued to live a very short time af-
ter his escape from that scene of danger, and a bill
of indiament was preferred against Mr. Pember and
others for the murder of this old man.- The bill
was, not found, and it was well known that a Mr.
Edwards was vesy.useful to the parties. The title deeds
which were the subject of the present aaiou, as be-
longing to Mr. Richards, devolVed into the hands of
the Defendant, and. were properly deposited .with
him, while; he claimed under the will; but it huh.%
been shevin • that the will was,obtaind by duress,
k and the Learned Counsel beved also by forgery,
the Will was set aside, and the next of kin, who was:
the, present Plaintiff, was allowed to administer. It,
would be proved, that the Defendant had admitted.
that, be had the deeds of Poole 'S mortgage in his
possession.; that these deeds belonged to ,Mr. Rich-
ards ; and further, that they had been regularly de-
manded of 'the Defendant. When this evidence
was given, the Jury,. would find their verdit in such
asum as would make it the interest of the Lletend-.
ant to 'deliver tip the deeds, in larder to exonerate
himself from the verdict

Mr. Ralph Raby having been called to prove the
fads staled in the opening of the Leatned Counsel,
Mr..PAitka, for the Defendant, stated, that he
could addtice 'testimony to establish- thatthe deeds
of Poole's mortgage were elseWhere,' and never had
been in the possession of this Defendant,. who was
so illiterate, that he could not eaten 'read, and whose
blind admission of their being in his hands would
therefore have no weight with the Jury.
In the, sequel, on the recomnistidatiOu of his.
Lordship, it was agreed, that a. verdict should be
entered for the Plaintiff in the sum of 6001. subjea
to. a reference to the Master, who is to inquire if the.
deeds from Poole to Richards' were in the posses-
sion of the Defendant. •