The Sun.
London, England, 1806-06-14 00:00:00

FIRE A 7 THE KEY.

, It has beetpat length ascertained that the Gentle-.
man -who was unfortunately burnt to death in the
late fire.at the Key,Bagnio; in Chandos-,streets,
a .371T..GAt)N who kept an Academy in Brow's-
ton-row, ,on the high\ road leading to Fulham.

Mr. GARNER was a widower, and a few months
since paid his addresses to a young lady of consider-
able pecuniary expedations ; but meetiug with a re,
pulse; it is supposed that the disappointment affeeted
intellects, as his subsequent condad evinced
strong .symptorns of derang-encent.
- Ott the evening of Wednesday, the 4th of June,
(the night on which the accident 'happened) Mr.
VARNER quitted Branpton-row at, pine o'clock, and
was not .heard of until the description of the peeson
I,turnt,convince4 his friends that he must be the
wretched 'sufferer: Accordingly, his French Assist-
ant waited upon Miss DEVAYN Es,- the female whO
IA as in company with the' deceased, and identified
him by a brooch of a peculiar construction Which
she:remembered to have seen in his shirt. With re-
spea to the Bank- notes stated to have been in his
possession, the girl is not certain whether they were
.really fif exchange, or only a bundle of
Papers.'
Mr. TiromAs GARNER, brother of the deceased,
Who is krespeCiable farmer near Rugby, has arrived
iii town, and, paid the last attention to the mutilated
remains of his unhappy relative.
. The Academy in unhappy
consisted of 50
young Gentlemen, most of whom have beentemoved
since this melancholy, event.

LeifF REPORT.

COURT OF EXCIALQPER, MAY 3,1/4

DIKE XING ON ME INFORMATION OF THE ATTORNEY
GENERAL AGAINST JOIN SIMMONS.

This was aninformation filed against the Defend,
aUt.far • using' a gun and dogs for the destruction of
gene, and for refusing to chew his certificate, or to
give his name and place of abode when required by
the,lnforiner so to do,' by which the Defendant be-
Carrie liable to pay three penalties, two of 201. and
one-of 501. It appeared that the Defendant, and
- two others, all 'three servants, of -- Price, Esq..
were beating aboait ,in a\ bottom, 'or. valley, called
Conegy Bottom, in the County .of Cornwall, with
dogs and guns, when they ;wereMet by the
former George-John, who denianded- whether they
had certificates ? and being answered -in the nega-
tive, he asked them their names and places of abode,
which they 'to give. The Informer, there-
fore, laid an information against them, charging
theft) with being in pursuit of game, &c. The wit-
besles for the prosecution; one of them a sporting
Clergyman, stated, that-the place in which this De-
fendant and his companions were Met was better
calculated for game than woodciocks, and that wood-
cocks did-not cope in any numbers into Cornwall
• so early in the- season as November; which was the
time at which the offence wis.alledged to have been.
committed.
7 On the part of the Defendant, however, it was
proved, that the dogs which they had with theni
were spaniels, and other dogs not commonly used:
for the .purpose of killing game, but such as are
generally used in woodcock and snipe shooting.--
That the place in which they were hunting, was in
, many parts marshy, and the common resort of wood-
cocks and snipes, and not so probable a place for
meeting with partridge 4 and ether game;
,that it
was the season at which woodcocks are usually
found in Cornwall in considerable numbers ; ,and,
lastly, that --while hunting, the Defendant and his
.companions had starred both a hare and partridges
whiCh they neither fired at nor pursued, though they
had• the opportunity of doing so if they had chaSen.
* The Defence setup was, therefore, that they were
- not in pursuit of game, but were merely out for the
" purpose of training and exercising, the dogs, most
of which were young and unaccustomed to himt.
Mr: DALLAS, Counsel for 'the • Defendant, -said,
this is an information filed by His I.l4aiesty:s At-
TORNFX-GENERAL against the-Defendant; for using
'a gun and dogs for the destru&iOn of game without
a certificate, and for refusing to state his name and
residence. The real -Prosecutor; however,' in this
caseoums out to be Mr. George John, 'and he- has,
told you that he is an Attorney, that he lives in the
same County with Mr. Price, whom my Learned
Friend, the ATTORNEY-GERAL, has truly described
as a respeCtable, Gentleman ; and it 'appears; from
thaytestimony of the last witness, that there had
-been frequent quarrels about game -between Mr.
'Price and Mr. John ; and, theretbre, we find that a
professional man, ri•Alttorney, lving'in the County
of Cornwall, thinks fit toter two itilbraiations filed
against the servants'of 'a respeCiable Gentleman in
iris neighbourhood, for being in his sight a few mi-
nutes with guns in their hands and dogs_with them.
I hope I may be allowed to say, that this cause does
. _
not originate in a love to the revenue or a regard-for
its preservation, but this is an information against
_ the servants of Mr. Price, not with a view to punish
• them, ifut to gratify his malice and resentment against
Their master. I subMit that if the'caserested 'on'the
evidence given on the part of the prosecution, speak-
ipu with great deference to the directions of the
-0
Learned Judge, that it would be impossible to con-
viet any man upon it. The charge against the De-
lendant is, that of having made use of a gun and dogs -
-for the destruaion of game; and in order to convict
him of this offence you ,must be satisfied that he had
'the gun and the dogs with him for the destruCtion of
game : it there is no proof of this, hels entitled to
an acquittal, not only upon the
.soundest principles
_ .

of justice, but upon the plainest principles of com-
mon sense. You need not be told that _woodcocks
and- snipes .are not game ; and he was not bound to
show a eer4iticate, or- to tell his n9me and residence,
because-a person who has quarrelled with his master
chose, to demand it of him. It is competent to

•every pthon to shoot snipes,and woodcocks without,
a certificate'; and I Would ask you, whether if an
aa is done which is .of an equiVocal nature, such as
using a tun and dogs for the deStrudion of game, or
which may not be for the destruaion of game% would
you refer it to the guilty rather than the
sinnccent
purpose ? The consequence would be most•extrava-
gant: But, Gentlemen, I will not leave the case
here : you have heard that Mr. Price is-a respeelahle