The Sun.
London, England, 1808-12-07 00:00:00

VOLleTi.

Bow-STurr.—Yesterday Charles Ross alia; Thin-
phreys, was brought iri the custody of 'J. Linibrick,
before Mr. 'NARES, charged with feloniously steal-
ing a box,- containing about two hundred weight of
soap. .

It appeared that the Prisoner went into a tallow-
chandler's shop, in- Holles=street, Clare-market, on
Monday -evening, to purchase. a trifling. article, and
lett the shop door open ; while he was dealing, a
man got the box ant of the shop, and the Prisoner
went out, and assisted him in lifting it up; this was
observed by some neighbours opposite, who called
out, and the Prisoner and his companion ran off.—
The cry of" stop thief" was raised, and Limbrick
happening to be passing at the time, stopped and
secured bun. Hid proves, to be a well-known cha-
racter at the Office. He was committed for trial.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.--A. hackney-coachman,
of the name of Tweed, was fined for extortion, in.
demanding and receiving ,three shillings more than
his fare, from a Mr. Scott and two Ladies, whom.
he droVe from the Opera house to Paddington on
Monday night. The coachman, as usual, was ply-.
,ing for fare at the edge of the pavement, and the
prosecutor and his fiiends were handed 'into the
coach by a link-man ;. but the driver refused to pro-
ceed under, six The party did not chuse
to alight, and .Mr. Scott promised to satisfy the
coachman, which he attempted to do, by paying
him two shillings.. ,The,coactiman, however, de-
manded five shillings; and the prosecutor, rather
than subje& himself to insult, paid it, and very
properly brought the extortioner to justice.

UNION-HAUL.--A -meagre silly-looking fellow
was brought up yesterday, by Philips, the High
Constable of Bermondsey, on the charge of sacri,
legiotisly stealing from ~the church-yard human
bones, which, he said, he sold by ,the bushel to a
man in Tottenham-court-road; but would not men-
tion his name. ,He was seat on board the Tender.

An-Inquisition was•taken yesterday, at the Bell,.
Oxford-street, on thebody of a young woman of the
name of Heater, a servant, who was found dead in
her bed on Monday morning. The deceased was
observed during the last week to labour under heavy
klrelancholv, bordering on insanity, but the Causeway
unknown. It. vas discovered that she had poisoned
herself in consequence of her being pregnant.—
Lunacy. ,
Yesterday Morning an Inquest was held before
THOMAS SHELTON, Esq., Coroner for Ore City of
London and Borough of Southwark, at the White
Hind, in the Broad-way, St. Thomas's-street,, in
the Borough,• on the 'body of -Mr: Richard Jones,
lying dead in the house of Mr. Mitchell, painter and
glazier, close adjoining the public-house. The sub- '
stance of the evidence amounted to this—that the
deceased was a young man, about 24 or 25 years of
age; he was, the son of a highly-respeatable shop-
keeper in the Coy, and was the pupil of Mr. Astley
Cooper, Surgeon and Le6turer at Guy's and St. Tho-
mas's Hospitals. The deceased- lodged in Mr.
Mitchell's hot Se. Between twelve and one on‘Siin-
day, Mr. Mitchell's servant girl thought she heard
the. deceased call ; she went up to the front-room
on•the first floor, where he sat, and asked what he
called.for; the deceased started up off his seat, ap-
parently very much confused and agitated, and said
he had not called her., She then Went. hp stairs to
make' his bed, and in the course of a few, minutes
she was alarmed by something which she conceived
to be like the report of a pistol—she ran down stairs,
Mr. Mitchell and his family ran up, and upon 'en-
tering therootn, the deceased was found in his chair,
in a sitting posture, with his head blown almost to
pieces, a great profusion of blood about the room, and
a' pistol:lying on the floor close by the chair on which
the deceased sat. It appeared that the•ball had en-
tered close to the light ear, and gene out at the' top
Of the head, which caused•almost instant death. In
a table-drawer in the room three or font- more bul-
lets and some powder were found. Mr.-B. Travers,
surgeon, who had. also studied-under 'Mr. Astley
Cooper, was sent for, as having been a particular
friend of the deceased, who proved most clearly 'that
th.e_deceased had laboured under a derangement of
his intelleets for several years.—Verdi, Lunacy. ,
A few days since,-a-young man, named Eldridge,
of Emburst, in Stissex, had-his 'brains blown out, by.
the accidentally going off of a gun, with which he
hail beep shooting at tookS..' We understand the lac-
cident was occasioned by a, pradice rather common,
that of dropping the but•end of his fowling-piece on
the ground, with the Muzzle-poiniing towardi his
body, the jar of which shookjdown the cock, and
caused the fatal-explosion: ' '
On Monday,• the 2lst. ult. abbot twelve o'clock
at noon, a fire broke but tit the Parsonage- lionse; at
Upton, the •property of the Bishop of Oxford, but
rented by Mr. Osmond, and under him by some
poor persons, divided' into two lenenknts,
burnt rapidly until both tenements 'were totally de-
stroyed. • At one time Ehe 'fire threatened. devasta-
tion 'to the whole village,
,buthappily the Parish en-
ginqs-arrived in time to save the granary' and barns,
which were full of corn,. the property of Mr. Os-,
mond.

BoxiNG.--,--A sanguinary bocing match, for what
the combatants _termed a glass of gin and a belly full,
took place yesterday, near the Wormwood Scrubs,
between Richard Jones, a professor of mean rate,
and George Toby, a coachman. There was a nu-
merous meeting, and after a subscription had been
entered into to compliment the winner, the Corn-
peers stoutly contended for the vnrsc (three guineas)
Tor one hour and ten minutes, when Jones was de-
clared the conqueror.