The Sun.
London, England, 1806-01-30 00:00:00

of Nugev:t'shecruit 'mg Corps, Lobe Captain of a Compthy,
vice Weaver, who exchanges.

HOSPITAL STAFF.

Hospital-Mate Hugh Clough to be Apothecary to the
Forces.

MEMORANDUM.

Lieutenant Nathaniel lareweil,'of the 36th Foot, who was
superseded in the Gazette of the 29th of Ot.tober, 1805, is
reinstated in his Rank.
Lieutenant Henry Miller, of the 88th Regiment of Foot, is
superseded, being absent without leave.
• The undermentioned Appointments, as stated in the Ga-
zettes of the 3oth lime 1804, 9th February 1803, and nth
May following, have not taken place,' viz,

zzd Light. Dragoons, Cornet Charles Dudley to? be Lieutenant,

by purchase.
34th Foot, Lieutenant Charles Roberts to be Captain of a

Company.
73d, Di tto, Ensign fames Johnstone to be Lieutenant, by put*,
chase.

PUBLIC OrIICE,VNIOI4 HALL.—WI2O. Jones, alias
Charles Smith, was yesterday charged with return-
ing from transportation before the expiration of his
term. It appeared by the oath of Wm. Hanson, a
turnkey Of Newgate, that the Prisoner, in company
with eight others, was tried at. the Sept. Sessions at
the Old 'Bailey in 1802, and received sentence of,
death; he was afterwards pardoned, on condition of
being transported to Botany Bay for life, and on the
13th of 06tober, 1803, was sent on board the Re-
tribution hulk at Woolwicb and from thence for-
warded to the Coromande/, from Which, on her put-
ting into the Cove of Cork, on her outward-bound
passage, he. effeCted his, escape. His identity was
fully proved, and he was committedlor trial. TwO
lads, named Forster and Rowland, for a burglary,
and an old woman named Jane Weatherall, for rob-
bing her furnished lodgings, were also :committed
for trial.

At the Public Office, Hatton-Garden,' ohn Ellis,
a deformed man without legs, was brought before
the Magistrates on the complaint of three young-
women, each of whom swore a bastard child to him.
This leg-less lover was committed to ,the House of
Correction in Cold-bath Fields.

•
A charge Of a 'singular nature has bee'n heard be-
fore a Magistrate, against a young 'Gentleman of
rank and fortune, charging him with a breadi of
the peace, by a forcible entry into the- 110-use of a
respeaable tradesman in the 'vicinity 'of ' Sloane-
street. The Prosecutor was a Mr. S: the son a
Merchant in the City; wl)o.se addr,..sst;S were:re-
ceived' by the tradesman's daughter.. Difring.theab-
serice of the Lady's father on Friday evening,. W4ile
Mr. S. was drinking tea with his 'intended, the other
Gentleman knocked at the dcior,' and on being ad=
mitted, the Lady, who was aware-of* visit, -met
him on the stairs, and requested his absence; but
he said he would be satisfied with-nothing'-less than.
the life of the man who dared to continue his rival,
in her affeCtions. The Prosecutot- fled to an ad-, :1
joining room, and, notwithstanding., the retho.
strances of the•Lacly, his adversary prettied, fell on
him with a thick stick, Without mercy, and betaine
in complete possession of the prize, having driven
his opponent from the house. It aripeared, 'that
the conqueror was also a suitor to the, young Lady,
but his visits were forbidden by her father ; 'not-
withstanding which he used, in his absence, fre-
quently to gain an interview With her.. The father
and the qualified lover, it is underaood, will short-
ly bring the subject before a Court of Justice, con-
trary to the wishes of the Lady.
The following singular method of robbing. a 'shop
window' was resorted to, on Tuesday evenidg, in
Portland-street. Two men, in company -01 th
.a
third, went to the shop of a jeweller; the tWa first
went out, and, while their companion engaged the
attention of the shopkeeper, at an opposite counter,
one of them was discovered cutting the window by
some persons passing, but the other amused them by
stating, that it was a joke' to Win a Wagei-of the
jeweller. This artifice sneCeedect, for the thieves
got a valuable gold seal, and 'decamped. The person
in the shop got off by pretending to' pursue the
robbers':