The Sun.
London, England, 1801-09-16 00:00:00

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id the Edinburgh MilitiaLinlnierliately attended, and
were 9f great setvic,e in ikeeping off the crowd.
I,lle folloW`ing most thelandioly event took place
on HOly On:SAiurdaY lastpoStillion 'in the service of Mr.ll/laddocks, vintner,
of Wooler Haughhead, were .61i' the afternoon of
that daY, employed with four k,rses iti conve,',lng
a Geri:lei-nail's carriage, in which'were
family, to Holy Island. About cline. in the:oven-
ing, the postillions_ Set out on their returnhome-
wards, with their horses ; and jhortiy after a thick
fog cane on. Strong apprehensions were in con-
sequence entertained by the Islanders for their safe-
ty, which next morning were found.toofatally ve-
rified ; for soon. after day light,_ t ie bodies of the
two unhappy men, anti one of the horses, were dis-
coKered.lifeless on the sandy waste. Anothe-r horse,
which by some means survived,• stood motionless
by its dead companion. The remaining two were
missing ; .rior have we yet heard whether they have
been found, or whether we Must conclude that they
were buried in a quicksand.
The two men were lying at a small distance from
each other
.; the face. of one of theM was much cut,
owing, probably to the struggles of the drowning
•
horses.

COUNTRY NEWS.

LEWES, sErt. 14.

Government has given orders for the immediate
ereetion of temporary stables, sufficient to contain
twelve hundred horses, , i►i the Barrack yard, at
Brighton.
he. Encampment of Cavalry at Brighton, we
hear, is shortly to be augmented by a considerable
number of Infantry.
Last week the Third Battalion of The 4th Regi-
ment of Foot, completed its march from 'Winchester
to our Barracks. .

A few days since, .a Bird-catcher, probably from
Whitechapel, exhibited here for sale, a new class of
birds,"whicir he denominated. Mules; and asserted
were generated between the Graeenfinch and Canary-
bird. Their -heads -were ornamented with a curious
tuft or crest, -and their tails were ofa peculiar form,
fashion; and-colour,
.to. which die recommendation
of being • fine .sonptert, was, added., They soon
caught the eyes and pOckets of some of our profess- ,
ed- Bird-fanciers, each Of ,whom Fondly enjoyed the
gratification 'of exhibiting his pretty warbler„as.a
Rara Aq,is, to the achniriug spectator for a few days,
and until the birds had discovered the cheat-, by
moulting off their false- croWtts and ;ails,
had been dexterously stuck on by the 'ingenious
Fancymonger, who &pped the twig just in time to.
est-ay-4 strapped,- froin the enraged Mule-amateurs,
who. had prepared the drill bow, the stirrup, and
thethwig for, that purpose, and would, it can hardly
6p doubted, hare.. manife.sted more skill in the use •
of them, thin they had betrayed knOwledse in the
breed of birds. .
Last Tuesday a.Gentleman of 'this town shot at -
and wounded a hare, which he killed.with: the butt-
end of his gun and put into his. bag.'. As . he was
pursuing hip sport some considerable time after, he
felt a kicking motion against hiS side, which led
him' to suspect the, hare he had killed was, with
young,- and near her time of littering; , he accord-
ingly cut-,her open, and took from her three ypung
ones, which he preserved alive, and reared till yes.
terday, when one of.them leaped from a box where
it.. was kept, and killed itself. , The other two are
strong and lively, and twill, no doubt, be reared to,
an age 'proper for the spit, should they, meet with:
no similar accident.

A few days since a young man, belonging to a
grang of trampers, was deteeted in the aCt,of steal-
ing eabbag-es, by three of Lord Pelham's labourers,
in a field belonging to, his Lordship,
from the
the.
turnpike road, a little distance fromthe new cot-
tages which are ereding there, and secured ; but on
more of the gang corning up, the men thought it
advisable: to let him go_; he wits, however, pu6ued:
on horseback by Mr. Imms,'who on Overtakialg the
thief, seized him, when. he drew a knife and made
a. thrust at his pursuer,. but fortunately without
doing him any injury. On his being again secured,
some of the gang advised AR,. Incms to
.give. him
'a sound, horse-whipping ; but 'he very. prudently
_declined taking the Law into his own hands, and
sent, his Prisoner to this Jowl), Where *he NV as
amined before .a Magistrate, and commkted to the
Houst. of Correction; ' -
Yesterday se'nnight a•snake, a a prodigious length,
sprang from a hedge on the Brighton road near 111-
mu; on the clothes of a wornan,.as she was passing
on foot, and alarmed her so much, that she would
have fainted, had not a Gentleman on horse-back,
who witnessed the citcunistance, speedily relieved
her, by killing the -reptile with his whip.
At a review of the Royal Horse Artillery; on
Thursday,- at-Brighton, a Gdnner Was thrown from
the 'carriage of a twelve-pounder, whilst in full
speed-; and one of the wheels passing over his body,
bruised him so 'terribly that very, little. hopes are
entertained of his recovery.

OnThutsday afternoon, as a Gentleman and Lady,
and so:1, were returning from Greenwich to
Woolwich, they were stopped on the Charlton-road
by two footpads, when the Gentleman knocked one
down, and fired at the other ; but with what effec'i
he could trot tell, as he then made the best of his
way borne with his party. '

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'. Arriyed —the 1,,,,yr; Williams; and Aa *W ire, illiams, from
Portsmouth ; Ahn and Catlidrine, Robarts, front Sandwich ;
Übiquest, Willg).VtifiOliire,Brtnach, Thompson, from Ly- •
mingtOn ; amt.:Orval-ethers, Studley, from SonthaMpton.
Sailed—the I.apWicigi Cartridge for Portsmouth ; Fklcon,
Hancock • A/ Air, , Flout!, and Rose-.in June, Stroud, for
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GRAVESEND, SEPT. 14.

Passed by the Beatrix, Lawson, from Bremen; Mar-
ione,' Bennett ;.Princess,, ;Lightly;Argo, Self, and Fanny,
----,, from 1-lanibro'.
• S'aileil---xlte -Oxicifeter, • for Stockholm ; Martha,
Martin,. Or. Baltimore ; Alexander, , , tbr Virginia ;
lunge Willem,
ler, . and fynge Cornelius, Sepaass, foßotterdam,: