The Sun.
London, England, 1806-01-27 00:00:00

,ing that silort,period. The S-uty were ot.opinion,
that this could not- have injured them maw:l:illy,.
and found a verdia for- the . .. • .
Serjeant Co CKELL this day Moireafor:a:conctitional
rule to set asicte the verclia, and hay a neW-tfrai,
on
the grounds, that it was obtaped contraff to evi-
denc, and 'against the. opinion -of. the. La: ' Chief
JUstice, whotried it., .. T
The Lord Chief, Justice being.. absent; Mr. Jus-
tice HEATH, and the Other' .tudges, concurred in
granting the Learned
.Serjeant a rule 'nisi, .expres-
sing a that the Chief Justice whd,presided at
the trial, would be present at the showing cause,

A most. beautiful bird, resembling an Egyptian
goose,- was shot during .the late, frost, by 'a Gentle-
Alan's game-keeper, near Stamford. A. variety of
conjectures Jiaye been started, relatiVe to the
,part
whence it may have., come from,- particularly as it is
iih the highest condition, and most beautiful plumage._
A man of;the napp of Lambert, at Leicester, is
supposed to be the heaviest person living; he weighs':
_upwards of 40 tkcitie, and is crily'4s years old.
SUch have'bcen the exertions of Captain Cant, •
the:Regulating Captain at Hull, and the"officer*.and',
men- under his,commarid, that upwards of 1400 men
have been procured at that Port. for His "Majesty's
Navy since the cotlimepcemcrAt of the present war:
-A Merchant cif the. City. returning to town '.early
on Friday morning, was stopped, near Enfield by two
footpads, who, in a very I)4W m,auner, robbed him .
of his watch and great coat, and wished him a good
morning.
On Saturday' SikljePtrord and Greenwich Stage-
coachmen were fined' in ;3-litigated penalties, for ob-
strudingthe pas Sage at Charing-cross, •by placing
"their coaches at the edge of .the pavement, longer
than nems;arvi.to take up- or set dorm paisengers.
A Hackney-coachman was also committed for abus-
ing Sir R. CLAYT4N,:t,VIIO refUse.d to pay him -a, fare
which he conceived, to .
On Saturday morning the warehouse of Mr. Cle-
mentson, in Wortn'Wood-street," was , broke :open,
and chests of tea and other property stolen from it,
together with :Bank-notes, to the lionount of 1601.
On Saturday two young.,women 'were committed
for trial, froth Cluildhall, for robbing a shop in
-11"ew-gitte-street vicious articles of linen-draperyi,
,which wvre found on their persons.
•

A daking '77ortugliest Sailor, named Antonio, has
for some tithe ,kept --ther-Jit'ighbOurhood of Wapping
in alarm bk.hiS, riotous behaviour. On -Friday night
lie ,was soontrageons that nibe old Watchmen 'sur-
rounded and attacked bird, whom he put to the
rout, and v they were spiinging• their rattles for
assistance, •he jiinipecL info a bolt and'
escaped to the 'opposite side a the river.,
J. Wrenn, 4 -prisoner in the House of Correction
at Biirking, a feW days since effected his escape 7by .
means Of a ropt,•=ladder, thrown over the wall "to him
.by someof his gang on the outside. He has • not
since been licard•of. :•• • ,
youn,'; woman, named Martin, arrived on Fri-
day afternoon froM 'Hereford,. tenterc-the service of
a family in Gerrard street,, and engaged a marl; hav-
big-the anpearance Of a -pOrter, to
;carry her box
iforn Bishopsgate,strea. He.led her through various
`obsd.ire pasSageS, when on a sudden she 'missed him,
and soon found he bad made, off with all her little
* .
' Some laboureis who were last.WeTl digging-in a
quarry near Ebbescaric in the North Riding of York-
' shire, fouud in the cavity of a rock, about four feet
_from the surface, an , immense number of human
bones. - • •
As a Plumber was lately putting clOwn a pump in
a well at Forfar, he fell from the top to the bottom,
a depth of 45_feet, b3lt escaped tibhuri.
A Coroner's inquest was held last week" et Not'
tingham, of view of the body of a young man, a
recruit, belonging to the 2d Bat. 36th Regiment, sta-
tioned there, whoSe death was occasioned by a stab he',
received in the side, with a knife, during an affray in
the street. The'deceafed, while, walking in corn; •
parry. with' a young woman on the Long-row, made
use of some irritating language to another person,
which produced a quarrel,
_and the parties began to
40-it, when the 'recruit received the wound which
produced_ his death. The perpetrator ofithe deed
•immediately ran- off, and made- his escape. The
Jury, how-ever, have- returned a Verdi& of wilful
-murder .against him, and measures have, in conte-
, quence,, been taken for his apprehension. .•
The first-drawn 5000 Tickets are sure to: be
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;consequence* of the
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