The Sun.
London, England, 1808-08-17 00:00:00

PO LICE.

BOW-tTREET.,--Yesterday morning, the trades-
man who stood suspeaed (if the murder of his wife,.
was again examined beaire Mr. READ, when, in
addition to the evidence adduced on Monday, to sub,
stantiate innocence, and which was corroborated
by the verdia of the Coroner's Inquest, the coach-
Man who drove the Newcastle coach from London
appeared, and identified his p?rson, as having taken
him upon his coach; on Tnorsdav evening, a, six
o'clock, at the Bull and Mow h Inn, and carried him
as far as he went with 'the coach, Which was to a
place called Brick Wall, about f2s`miles, troin town,
on the North Road, and where he !eft him to pro-
ceed on with the coach. The coaChman also proved
bringing him and a young woman to town, cwt ,Sun-
day morning, from Brick Wail, by the same mach,
[lnd putting them down at Highgate, as stated by
the Prisoner. Added .to these circumstances, the
deceased was seen:and spolien to by a neighbour, in
Cottpton-street, about ten o'C;ock on .Thutsday
night, when she appeared in a -very dejeaed.state of
mind, and, from, her conversariOn, gave reas,in to
believe she intended. to destroy herself. . The Ma-,
gistrate, • therefore, discharged the 2r.sofier,
ex-
pressing. himself perfectly satisfied of his inno-
cence.

I'i,RI,I3OIIOUGH,-STREF.:T.-Ysterday, a woman
of the town;tiamed Frances Williams.,.wa,: charged
by the Constable of the Night,' with having, on
Monday night laSt, robbed a Colonel Siticlaire of
three' one-pound Bank of Enejatid notes..
The Constable stated; that Colonel Sin Claire de-
clined appearing as a iko,ecutor, from humane Mo-
tives, notwithstanding that the robbery yeas a:tended
with very aggravating cirOiinstaiims., Co!ohel Sin-
claire passing,.at a late hour on Monday night,
through Charles-stre,et, Mary-le-bone, was address-
ed by the Prisoner, whof.counterfeiting feelings of
the most pognant alarm and distress, told him the
house in the Court where she lived was on fire! and
entreated him to come mnd give his assistance to save
the lives of the women and children, its inhabitants.
'The gallant Colonel, ever alive to those frelingsof
hummity and adive benevolence which always sway'
the brave, instantly desired to be conduaed to the
place where his efforts would be serviceable; and
was led by his conchii;trass to quite a different scene
from that he expected to find ; namely, the centre
of a gang of loose Vointn, :and tin* bullies, who
hustled tried -i-inverted his PoeketS, and emptied
them of their content 4 fin-innately for hiingelt, he
had only three one-pound Bank notes. The gallant
Colonel thus ambuseuded by a ruse de
do no more 012111 alarm the watch ; but, before their
arrival, ihe main body had etteCted a retreat, and
_ left none but toe Prisoner to be taken. She, of
course, denied
.the charge; and Colonel Sinclaire
not tipTie.aring,:she was, necessarily dis.charged.

ILLEGAL. 'FlG..—lnformition having. beets given
at !his Claice2 by some peaceable inhabitiniti in 'Lisle-
street, Leicester-square, that a nuisance, which di
turbed the - neighbourhood at unseasonable hours,,
existed at a house its the above street, 'where there
was a public dancing-rOotu, Foy, Burton, -Jackson.,
and Craig, Officers,' were sent with warrants on
Monday night, tb take'such persOns into custody a§,
they should find assembled there :---On•going up
stairs, the Company, consistiug of twenty-one per-
sons, chiefly gentienien'S servants, were tripping
On the light Cintastic toe the room belonged to
.
Georg-e lirisset, and Alin,. • who were
merely lodgers, - and „had often been, remonstrated
with on th"e impropriety of.their colidirl by the
landlord of the home, who had endeavbtired to rid
.himself of the nuisance. The Defendants wee Se-
'eiallv held to bail till the SessionS. The proprietor
' of the rooms is liable to a fine of 1001. or imprison-
ment. •

The French General LotScis- had lately a narrow:
escape from assassination while quartered at Pszo
da Regoa :—A Portuguese waited upiin his IjOtiresS,
and apprised her that he had laid a plan to put to
death the infamous Lotst*, who had committed so
many aas.of barbarity coontrymen, and
requested her concurrence and- assistance to escape
when the deed was accomplished.. The woman at
first consented, but having a family of seven Chil-
dren, she became alarmed, lest they, with herself,
Should be sacrificed by the French, as viBiins for the
death of their General. The vlan was fortunately
in consequence abandoned.•
. _ _

The General Order which His MAJEgTY. has is-
sued, by the advice;of the Duke of ••Yoatt, 'respect-
irtg- 4)e di.ipe,nsing with queues,. is supposed to have
been owing. to a -.suggestion from several :medical
Gentlemen ; they being of opiniourthat the cause of
hot peculiarly fatal to the British
Army, was owing to the quantity of heir. Tt.e eyes
are particularly liable to 'be affeeted by too gre-at a
quantity being, woin.
We have received a .Iqtter from a Correspondent
at Bath, informing us that we had incorreCtly stated
the Verdia of the Coroner, upon the body of the
poOr man who was killed by the High Constable,, at
Lansdown Fair. :The articie alluded to we took
from a MOrning Paper, and the Verdi&, we 'are
inform 0,: was not "-justifiable .homicide," but
Manslaughter. ' -

BOXING.—A most determined and sanguinary
battle was fought on Monday morning, adjoining
Rbttenclen Common, in the vale of. Berkshire, be-
tween George Marrn, an ostler, and. Adam Bii ln, a
champion from the West.. ,The match was for 10.0
guineas, and the exhibition took
,ptace in the pre7
sence of a nUrnerons. held. of country.sportsmen.---,
Marsh was two stone header than .Bivin„ who was
something under i i stone; bUt to balance the match,
he-.was, a much :better:tighter than M-rsh,,who,
however, with the saute bottom, ultimately won the
battle by weiht and strength. The conflict was oh-
stittately maintained for full two hours,; and, even
at the trin,.lusion, both were so beat, that it was
belling thin neither would be brought to set-to ogain„,
Marsh ,stii sO, owever, with ti,,assist.,ince u: hi,
coivi an I ho(cle-holrfer, and his adversary was' cat-
' tied off the ground.

CORONER's JAQUES-V.

On Monday evening an inquisition was empan-
, nelied'belqee THOMAS SHELTON, the Coroner
for the city) of London and, Borough of Southwark,
on-the body of Montague William Hyndes, who
died in St. Thomas's Hospital, on Saturday morning,
last. The eutlitte of this melancholy Al& has' al-
ready been described in our Paper. The only- wit-
ness who was examined fully 'on Monday evening
was the following
Henry Aiglis4, a baker, living in the Maze in the
Bwoughetwo doorS from Pilkington, and opposite,
the sign of the Red, Lion, whilst Standing at his own
door, on Friday night last, about eleven o'clock,
v beard the report of a pistol, which he conceiv-
ed came from the Red Lion—he crossed over,
and on his-entering the house met with Cooper,
the landlord, in the passare, and joined him
in going into the back parlAr. There was not
any person in the room but Hyndes and Pil-
kitig on, who were in the relation 'of Nita and
son-in-law. Hyndes was laying- on the flour
reclining on one side, with a pistol near him, and
Pakington standing before him. 'Cooper on their
entrant said, " for God's sake What have you been
aboue?"—He Was not at first answered, bar on re-
peating the question, Pilkington said, "-I have done,
nothing ; it' he is shot, he has done it hirr4elfj he
is only steamed ; 'give him a little air and he will
be able so get up hiniself.--=.TO this Hyndes re pled,
" You know, you villain,•you have murdered the'
hest of fathers,"—and repeated it twice. In reply
to this, Pilkington said„ " You trove done it your,
self --So help me God."--4-lyndes then made an-
other effort to speak, . and said, " No, you •rogue,
yOu did-it—you know you did it."--.-The conversa-
tion then ceased from the loss of blood of the poor
luau,. A surgeon attended, who found him to be
mortally wounded, and agreed-to his request to be
conveyed to
,St. Tnotniks's Hospital, and, Pilkington
was taken into custody. In his coat pocket was
found another pi,itel loaded with ball, and also Unite
ball cartridges ; he admitted the pistol on, the ground
to be his. Pilkington was a little in fluor, but, not
insensibly drtitik, and from the Witness's know-
ledge of the parties, they had always. lived on good
terms together.
Oivi:'g to an extremely injudicious PraCtice which
sothezienes prevails in this Hospital,and which was
adopted on the present occasion, viz. that of. bring-
ing the dead body from the bone-house into a little
room adjoining to that in which the Jury-sat, the air
beciMe so, exiremely impure, that the Coroner and
some other Gentlemen were nearly incapable of
breathing, and theinquest was adjourned until six
O'clock yesterday evening, froM which time it con-
tinued sitting until eleven o'clock at night. It
would be impossible to attempt giving any thing
like a detail, Of so many hours evidence.
The Landlady of thehouse heard the voice of
the deceased
.and the Prisoner whilst she was in her
bar. The former repeatedly des.riuge the latter to
come home, and the latter as often refusing. -`At
length the old man, said something in a. low tone of
voice which she did not hear. The young man then
rose off his seat, went, towards the ()hint-ran saying.
" What did you say, Sit %" She then heard some in-
terrupted-sounds of the old twan's voice breaking out
irregelarly,also in a tone as if be was struggling or
rest-ting against something, and one time she heard
Something said'by him about being afraid of the pis-
tol. She was so alarmed when she heard the sound
of the pistol, that she stood for a few moments mo-
tionless, as if rivetted to the spot ; and
,when she
mustered sufficient courage to look at the deceased,
she was so much shocked, that she was incapable of
observing what passed afterwards.
Mr. Clarke, of Tooley-street, surgeon, being sent
for, perceived that the man was mortally/wounded,
' and under that impression put several most pertinent
questions to the Prisoner (Pilkington), but he '
re-
peatedly denied his having committed the crime that
was laid to his charge. The first tiring, however,
that he did was to examine the wound—it was con-
siderably larger than-a pistol bullet could have made,.
-unless the pistol was 'very near the body ; and the
shirt was black with the powder. About six inches
of an intestine Protruded through the orifice, which
ire replaced in the cavity of the abdemen. Thd
wounded man repeatedly exclaimed that he ,was
deadman, and. prayed to God to forgive him. The
surgeon therefore conceived that the patient must he
apprehensive of approaching dissoldtion, and for that
reason endeavoured to obtain from him what infor-
mation he could.- 'The tinhappy man, however, was
so extremely agitated between the 'excessive severity
of pain under which he laboured,.that it was impos-
Sible to collet much-evidence from him ;but in sub-
stance be said that the firing of the' pistol was not
aeridental ; that the other had shot him ; when ask'
ed bow, he said," by pulling thetrigger to be sore;
but when asked if he had seen that done, he said
No.': The Prisoner afterwards' said, "Do you
forgive me father ?‘""l'o which the deceased re-
plied, " H God torer,ive yeti, I will." When. the
Prisoner wes asked what business he had with pistols,
or why he carried them about him ? he answered,
ccßecause I like it."
• The deceased repeatedly accused the Prisoner of
having murdered a father that had saved his lite once.
But, according to the testimony of Mr. John Smith
Roper, a Surgeon in the Hospital, the ball had en-
tered at about to inch from the naval, ,•on the left
side of it, and caine out on' the posteriors. There
contd. be no doubt that it was the cause of death.—
When the deceased found his latter end approaching
fast, he two or three times said, " it was 'accidental,"
to others—but was heard atterwards muttering to
himself, " he has murdered the best of fathers,"
- The. Coroner observed, that even if the Prisoner
did not 'fire the pistol at the deceased, still if the Jury
should be of .opinion that he had pulled it out in
con-
templation of an unlawful a6t, and that
.it went
' cefi. accidentally in the struggle to wrest it from bins,
the. Jury were bound to find a verdict of murder.
The Jury
_Withdrew for a few minutes, and then
returned t heir verdict, Murder.
The palish Officers were then applied to, to sup.
port the prosecution, and the Prisoner was ordered to
he sent down to Guiltord this day, when the Assizes

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