The Sun.
London, England, 1808-09-12 00:00:00

LANCASTER ASSIZES,' SEPT.

John Atkinson was indi(cled for killing and slaying
John RowlinSon, in the town of Warrington, on
the Oth day of July.
It appeared that the Prisoner was..driver'of a stage:
coach whicti runs from Liverpool to London. -On
the evening of-the above day,' the War.liiigton Vo-
luntrers were paraded, ami- the. Colo nel pt -them
had trt-ated them with some liquor, and they-Avere.
itr consequence ouras late at ten o'clock, with their
hand ilssemb!ed, An a. narrow-street, and, a large
•concourse of speclators round them, so that the
street was completely•blocked up. At which time
the Pct -:per was driving coach through the
town, and when the horses were about to Pass
through the crowd,-he.fiogged them; this was sup-
posed. to be. a wanton, careless act, which, occasioned
the •doceased to be knocked do v bt the horses,
both the otf wheels went over his body, and he died
in a few minutes niter.

A Captain bf the -Volunteers, who., was on the
spot, corrobczafed the above ; but on his cross-ex 7
amination, he said the horses were frightened at the
nfiise',of the drums and 'fifes, appeared ristive, and
wanted to turn, witicho. if they had been permitted
to do, the coach would have overturned, On the
accident being discovered, a number of persons pur-
sued the coach, and: stopped it on the bridge, and
on telling t;oe coachman what was the matter, he
I. wanted to vo on with•the coach, and.said they must
apply to the Noprietor in that to .vn. •
' On- the
,Part of the Priidn,...r, it was proved that
the Prisoner was driving steadily through the tow: n,
holding his reins with'a tight hand; he changed
horses in Wairington, and they Understood one of the
fore- horSes was it young one, and only the second
time of being in harness. ' Before they drove off,
one at the passenger's. held the horses' heads, while
the Prisouer walked on a few yards to desire the
Voinnteci '&6. to clear away, as he was coming
on with the, coach.,..The Prisoner- dwye thron(ilt
ti,,c crowd, and they, did.not know that any -accident
had happened
,till the coach w,as Stpppecl, on the
idge.
liliq,Prisoner's master gtive him a .gdoi chara6ter
for-being a regular, steady driver, &c.
The Prisoner has shewn much contrition since for
the.faral accident, ha given the widow /..)1 the de-
ceased i 01. and has settled- 7s, a-week
,u pp her.
The Jury, under all the circumstances, found the
Prisoner Not Guilty.
Hear, Simpkin, a young man,of very genteel ap-
pearance, was indieled for having embezzled andse-
creted the sum o(481. 16s. the property of his em-
.ployers,.Messrs. C) rus, Morrail, and fiver Morrill,
merchants, of Liverpool.
It appeared that the Prisoner had-served-his clerk-
ship- to the Pyosecotors, and conclui.:ted himselt so
exi.rernely well, that on the expiration of. his atti-
,cles they retained him in their employ upon a libe-
ral salary, and he had the• management. of • the Ct. Os.
torn-houSe and-Excise business. A short thnesince
'he obtained leave from the Cashier. to enter some
cotton and worsted tockings: In a short time after
. they were entered and shipped, all the packages were
seized
,by the Custoin-house Officers, and on the
Prosecutors „making inquiry as to the cause. of the
seizure, they were informed that they all had been
entered as cotton stockings, The Prisoner hat ing
entered them as such, .and. duly paid • 11. Bs. cotton
stockings being exported free of duty, and the
IPri-
soner had charged the Prosecutors with having paid
the regularduty, amounting to upwards of 491. ,
'The Prosecutors gave the Prisoner a must excellent
aro-atter-till I his offence.

The Jury foLind him Guilty, and the Le2rned
Judge, in pa.,sing sentence, obse:ved, that his cllnie
was pat-tic:daily aggrayated by his committing de-
predations upon the property of his friends as well as
his employers, and had been the cause of their pro-
perty being and he should have been induced
to send him out. of the country, bad•it not been,for
the good, charaaer had su,tained till he com-
mit Led this ofri:oce, and .he was in hopes that this
first ofieupe ; however, ,his nue called
tur a severe punisla-nent the.refore sentenced
to pay a fine of Is. and to be imprisoned, and
ktpt to heard labour, iu the House of .Correaion, tor
t u o years.
--

Heard wa; indicted under :Lord Ellen-
borOngW,. Act,. c•ni4rged with having Cut, maimed,
.and wounded, with a knife, Alice Barl4,- atlas
Alice herd, 01 Great Bolton.

It appeared that about ten years since the Pro-
s,,,-cutris, was married to a man of the name of Bar-
low, ho, enlir ed for a soldier he was sent abroad,
siteatict did‘ngt• hear trout him for eight years, and
she ,thought him dead ; she therefore married. the
prisoner.. In the beginning of last ilelarch John
Barlow; her first
,husband, came to the prosecturin,
in. consequence of a lurlOugh which he -obtanieu;'
the prosecuifix, therefore, refused to cohabit with
the priioner any longer, and took to her first bus-
. band. After he had returned to hisregjment., the
prisoner applied to the prosecupix to live with him
again, as he could not be happy, wi,t bout her: she,
however, refused. On the 23d of April
,the pri-
soner follos.ved tile prosecuttix• on -the road leading
from Bolton, and gave her a violent blow ou hyr
hczd,' which knocked her into a diul : he then got
upon .her, with a in his hand, and she thinking
he was going to cut. her throat,- struggled with him,
and. prevented him_.; but he succeeded in cutting
her left cheek open, from her mouth to her.ear.—,
She screamed ''murder !" and a. man catne to her
as~i sauce. The prisoner, made-off, but.he waszur-
sued and talon.
Sarah Hopsthid wits indicter' wider Lord Ellen-
barotigh's Aa--, for having wilfully and maliciously
stabbed Charles Simpson, of Little Bolton, with an
intent to murder bin), or do him some bodily harm.
GUilty7--Death.

The trial of, all, the prisoners being gone through,-
his Lordship proceeded 'to pass sentence of death
upon Joshua Herd, for maiming and wounding Alice
Barlow ; Sarah fiopstead, kir stabbing Charles
Simpson, with an intent to murder him ; Rose Gaf-
frey, for stealing five bundles and a half of 11-nen
yarn in the bleaching grounds of Peter ShaworoSs,
of Droylesden ;. and Sainuel.Daine, for horse-steal-
ing.

From the LPDON GAZETTE, Sept. io, isos.

E M it ,V DU NI.
Horse Guards, .Se/ 4. 3.

His .Majesty has been pleased to grant to the 24th
R.egiment of Light Dragoons, ;its most gracious per-
n)..ssion to assuale, in addition to any other Badges'
or-Devices to which it'may. be entitled, and to War;
in its Colours and on its Appointments the Elephant,'
t=~iih the void ",Hindoustae inseribe4- around it,
in 'commemoration of the distinguished valour dis—
played by this 'Corps in the Battles-fought at Alli=
Glair on the 4th September, 1803, and at Delhi on
the gth of the smelt :smith, and as a lasting test.i
Tony of the exemplary conduCt 'of this Corps dur-
ing the period it has served in India.
By Order of His Royal Highness the Com-,
. mander in Chief,
HARRY CALVERT, Adj: Gen.

War-qffi're, Sept. To, 1808.
Royal-Regiment of Eloise Guards, Robert Ofde Fenwick,
Gent. to he" Cornet; uy purchase, vice Buck, promoted in
the Royal African Corps. •
.6th Regiment of Dragoons, John _Linton, Gent. to be Cornet,
hy- purchase, vice Harris, promoted.
13th Regiment of Light Dragoons, Cornet John 11. Drought
to he Lieutenant, by ptirchase, vice Rant, who retires.
istil Ditto, Lieutenant... Colonel Colquhou:. Grant, from the
Foot, to be Lieutenant-Colonel,-vice Seymour, who
exchauges.
25th Ditto, Win. Phipps, Gent. to be Veterinary Surgeon,

,
vice Newnan, appointeci Cornet.
Coldstream Regiment of Foot Gnards, Ensign George Fierily
.111acartney Grevillc, front the gth Foot, to be Ensign,
without purchase, .vice Lord -William. kitiGerald, woo
resigns._ ,
3d Regiment or Foot, Guards, Ensign,. Charier Lowrance
White to be Lieutenant, vice Bradford, deceased..
Lloyd, Gent. to be Ensign, vice White.
Ath Ditto, john Fraser, Uent.• to be Ensign, by. purchase,

vice Purvis, promoted.
sth Ditto, Rowland Pennington, Gent. to be Ensign, by
purchase, vice ,Mackenzie, promoted..
7th Ditto, Ensjgn john troitt Ine 99th Foot., to be
- Lieutenant, by purchase,. vice Itidgeway, who-retires.
9th Ditto, Lieutenant ISoyd to be Captain of a Com-
pany, without parchase, vice Aylmer, prompted. Ensign
John lcoberts✓i,, front toe itoyais, to be Lientf.,,ailt,

out purc:,ase. - -
into Ditto, -Major form -Earl of Portarlingtob, fr:ro the-T1
Foot, to bt: Lieutenant-Cokmel, by pur,:liase, vi.B Ne‘V.

titan, •who retires.
. ,
zith Ditto, Lieutenant-Colonel Joseph
.-CObbins, from the
Sth Garrison Batiaiiim to ha Lieutenant-Colonel, with-
out putelia6-e:. ,Major 1V il.ham Smelt, troin,the 9tli
_Gar_
thon Battalion, to be. Major, without purchase-. Lietrx-
nant Wipiaut tt. ic itc.in the both Foot, to 'he, Cap-
wili.of a Company, without purchase. ti:a.:ign Ltbn Put-.
- front 'the 40 Gairisolk Battalion, to r,e Ensif,n, vice
Anderson, who excl;.a4;es. QU.iita-i'vlaster-:,-elje-rtnt Va-
lentine Lott, froth the obth ['out, to'be Qaarter- Master:.
ails Ditto, Lieutenant, lames l'anns to be.Laptain Coin-
pany, vice lierkeley,
to be Captain of 'a Company, yicella)iis,'th,ceal.
C; O'Colinor to be•LieutLitatu, without
•1' it.A2 Sinclair, vvivo tesigits. • . • - •

S9th kitty, Major' Henry: Samuel. Eyre, from the 8a.d.1,04,t,„
to a ..eutetiain- Colune!, Nvitnont.i'mrchase, :Vlaj,)r
CenerA flews irlt appo)nted to, the' coninianct of
Light Infantry Volunteers, • - •.. •
21st•iiitto, captain V, Li. 'v4eyrick, from Oe 3 ist Foot, to
be-Captain of a CoMpany, vice Canipoefl,
25tti Ditto, Lieutenant. l'hornas• Al. Crooke 'to be Cap.tain
ora Company, by purchase, vice Hawtrey, wao retires.
aStli Lritto,•Lieurenant to be Cairtain of aeon',
pany, vice t)udingstone,' ii,tieastict:* Ensign 1. Wi;.kin-
son to be Lieuenant,,Vice Hill. •
43d Ditto, Major Edward to be-Lieutenant-Colonel,
without purchase. Captain -ItiCharti Eiers to be Major,
vice !lull. Licutenant•Williani Sherrail "to•be Captain of
. .

a Company, v►ce Eicrs. Ensign Henry Ogicinuei-to be

Licuteaant.• _
52(.1 Regunent of Foot,. Captain I. P. Hunt to be Major,
w ittlout purchase,. v:ce?Nvade, promoted in the•.B.thi Li r-

iris n:ciatiatirin. Captain Win. Cruice, trot. Half-Nay of
"tire 4th Regiment of the late Irish Brigade, to be Captain
of.a Company, vice Lord Arbuthnot, who exchange..:
SSth Ditto, lames Mackenzie., Esq. to be Paymaster, vice
Price, cashiered.
6otlt Ditto, Ric.tiard PaSley,- Gent. to be Ensign, without
purchase, vice Schuit, promoted in the York IZ. ,
63t1 Ditto, A'ssistant-Surgewistulut Wright to. be Surgeon,
,vice Young, appointed to the 9:11 Garrison Battalion.
67th Ditto, Sutit:on AncireWs; -from the igth
toot, to be Surgeop, vice Ceoice, appointed Surgeon to
the Forces.
7zd Ditto, Lieutenant-Colonel Richard Augustus L7:yniour,
trout the 15th Light Dragoons, to be Lieutenant-Colonel,
vice 6rant, who exchanges,-•• .• -
Ditto, Elisio George Iyharrie. to be Lie,utenanr, by
purchase, vice Bruce, iduniAeu in the 37th .1.00 t,,,
76th Ditto, 'c aptain A trasit to be ivi,tiori by purchase,
vice ROnertkiii, win.) retires. Lieutenant R.-B, Coics to
be Captain ot a Company, vice Fraser. Ensign lames
Vaughan to be Lieutenai,t, vice Coles. • .. .
Sul Day,- Captain kletity-Listet to be Major,
,without
purchase, vice Eyre, pr,moted ru the igth Foot. Lieule_
_ Ti101•11aS .M.Neil.tb be Captain ot,a Compdli.,
~
vice
Lister. Ensign yvari j.;rown to De Lieutenant, vice
M'Neii.
84th Ditto, 'Brevet Major •tacob Tonson, from the 341 Car.
rison Battalion, to be Captain of a Company, pur_
Chas , Vice, M ';.;re6ur, whose Appointment has not taken
• place.
To be Lieutenants.—Ensign john'Fraser, by purchase, vice
Medley, who retires. Ellingit Edward Cruller, without
ptirch.tse, vice Vincent, piToinAed. Ensign Riciiard'Cluice,
• twin Iiie„90111' witii,ut purchase.
85th Ditto, -Lieutenant Ricuard. Whitaker, from the 4th
,to be Lieutenant, vice COWell, win) eX-
changes,
87th Ditto, Lieutenant Frederick Vandeleut to' be Cap.
win 01 a Company, .by purctrase,vice Tucker, who ie-
. tires.

56th Ditto, Ensign Richard I-Lrwave, from the Sth Garrison
ilattalion, to b.: IT.n.ign, without purchase, vice Cri.iice,
promoted in the 8.4i1i.r ow. . "•'
sth West Liktia,Regnnent, Captain . Wm. Brown,..from -the
94th Foot, to be Major, witnout purchase, vice Sebriclit,
porno:ea in the Soto Foot. .-, . .
Royal West Inilia Rangers,' Ensign J. A. Carson: to be
_Lieutenant, vice linglies, (1:3-cera,,:d. . .
Cape Rtglinent, Wm. iNistionald Mackay, Gent, to be
tnsign, withoutspurchase, vice Grcville, appointed to tne

9th toot..
Major Bradshaw's 4th Levy; Lieutenant lames Me tree
the 2ISt hoot, to be Captain of a Cunip‘itiy. . .
4th Garrison liat!alion, Lieutenant L. from the
85th Foot, to be. Lieutenant,' vice Whitaker, Ivho ex-.

. . ,
. _ .
Likinges. FAiign Joint Altc.tcr4oti, 210111 11111 11111 I'oW', .to
b; Liiiign, vice i'iiiiceil, %vim, exciiii,vi... , '
Btii Ditto, Aiajur Wliltala Waste, twat the 52(1 FoOt, to be
Lietite.iiiiiit t_olonel, vice GUE:JIIIS, 111,1/7.11111ed to the 11111
loot,.

9th-Ditto, Captain Henry H. Bradford,. from the 4th Foot,
to be Major, vice Smelt, appointed to the title Fu6t. Sur-

. .
geon Conn Young, from- tile 63d Footi.to'be Surgeon,
vice ‘`VttaOtl, appointeu to a Rweruiting District.
4th Royal . Veteran liattaliA, Lieutenant Richard O'Meara,
m fro the lith. :3arrison Battalion, tti be Lieutenant, vice.
Oinisby, appointed to the t2th.Royal Veteran hattali4m. •
• ' • - 'BREVET.
Lieutenant- Colonel Win. Raymond, Deputy Adjutant -Ge.
neral to the /''sn-ces serving in Ireland, to be Colonel
the Army. Captain John Robert Nason. si tite 47th root,
to be Major in tile Army.
• ROYAL MILITARY ASYLUM.
Lieutenant and Adjutant John Lugarcuto have the temporary
rank of eziptain (luring .the, nine he continues 'in the ,aid
situation. '