The Sun.
London, England, 1806-09-12 00:00:00

CURIOUS OCCURRENCE.

A Gentleman travelling from London on Saturday
se!nnight,
.experienced ,an interruption not of a very
pleasant nature :—Having stopped at Ternhill, in
Shropshire, the Landlord_of an Inn, and Master of
the Post-Office at Newport, where the Gentleman
had previously put up on that day, with a stout
fierce-looking fellow at his elbow, came up to him
as he was preparing to set off, and walked round
him several times, eyed him with great attention,
and just as he was stepping into the chaise, accosted
him with a request to speak to him in private, hav
ing something particular to 'communicate ; and on
going into a room, the Landlord told him they were
comae on a most disagreeable business, beino• desired
by the Magistrate of Newport to folio:him, to
know his name. The Gentleman answered, that
" before he complied with that request, he must
know his name, and the name of the person who
was with him; and his authority for so extraordinary
a request." The Landlord mentioned his own name,
and said that the person with him was a Constable ;
and then laid on the table a paper, containing merely
the description of a, person " five feet six. incluo.
high,- stout, and well made, very fair and full face,
remarkable for its roundness, rather an acquiline
nose, his voice soft, accompanied with a lisp, though
net very perceivable." The Gentleman asked what it
meant ? but all the answer he could get,was, that it re-
lated to some bills. The Gentlemaniconcluding that he..
was suspeeled of some forgery, became enraged,
damned ,the Magistrates and them too; and as he did
not answer the description, said, ha would not tell
his name, and insisted on his being at liberty to pro-
ceed; which being,, with apparent reluctance, as-
sented to, he went on to Whitchurch, where he put
up for the night, and whither, it seems, he was fol-
lowed by the Newport Landlord and , his Constable,
and closely watched in every step he took about the
town. Just as he was sitting down' to supper, a
Gentleman sent in his name by the waiter, desiring
permission to wait on him; and being shewn in, said
he was a Magistrate of that place, and that he hoped
no good subject could be offended by asking his
name, when he informed him of the reason—that two
men,had, by the direction of the Magistrate of New'-
port, followed him on an idea that he answered the
description in the Advertisement of J. E. Daniels,
who rod been charged with a considerable robbery.
at the Stock Exchange, and he waited on him in per-
son, that the matter might he as little unpleasant. as
possible. The Gentleman replied, that he could not
be supposed to be highly delighted at suspicions' ot
the nature alluded to falling on him, and repeated
what had passed at Teruhill ; yet to the personal
application of a Magistrate, in the way it was made,
he should not resist any inquiry that could tend in
any way to public justice, or removing of doubts in
respect to lihn. The Gentleman then told his name,
and that he resided in Gray's Inn. " Then," said the
Magistrate, " you are of the profession, I presume ?"
To which the Gentleman answered in the affirmative,
and said he had been a Member of that Society above
_3O. years.. The Magistrate, said be had himself been
a Barrister, and remembered the name ; and after
asking several questions about professional men, &c.
they entered into some legal anecdotes of- their
common acquaintance, and the matter was concluded
by the Magistrate intreating the Gentleman to 'ac-
company him to his house, where be hoped to make
the rest of the evening more pleasant by a party he
had to supper. The Newport Innkeeper, and Con-
stable, with an additional force, who had all ibis
time been planted round,the door of the roorn, and
the house, were dismissed by the Magistrate, and'
bad to.measure back their steps, twenty-one miles,
on a bad road, and dark night, much disappointed at
the loss of the large rewards which were offered 'for
the apprehension of Mr. Daniels, which they had
before looked on as safe as if in their own pockets.

FAUX .Pas.—A circumstance has ()Calmed within
these few days, not far from Brighton, which has
excited atood deal of surprise and vexation. The
wife of a tradesman in the vicinity Of St. James's went
to' pay a visit to her relations, a few miles from
Brighton, about a fOrtnight since ; and, in taking
her pleasure, it was not unfrequent for her to visit
Brighton. The husband of the Lady in question
took an excursion to see her last week, and his in-
tention was to take her back to Londori ; but being
pressed by herself and relations to let her, remain,
be did so, and on Friday last he had the mortifica-
tion to hear -that she was an absentee. The bus-
band,-on hastening to Sussex, found such to-be the
Case ; -and he was informed that she had-gone off
with a dashing beau, who had been some time at
Brighton, but whom no "one knew. Every step
was taken to find the retreat of the fugitives : they
were traced to town, and having alighted and taken
a hackney-coach at Westminster gridge, no farther
information could be had. Conscience, the inflexi-
ble-warner of what is wrong, induced the wife to
seek succour again under the roof of her injured
husband, who, having received a note of informa-
tion from her, expressing contrition, complied with
her reqUest, and she has returned home. As a'preof
of the imbecility of the frail sex, tae woman, in
this instance, was .prevailed on, by the insinuating
manners and address of a man whom she knew no-
thing of at the thoment,-to desert her husband, her
family, and her friends.
The herring-fishery, on the coasts of the Isle of
Man, was more produ6tive last week than it has
been since the commencement of the present season.
One boat, on Thursday se•nnight, caught fitly maize
of fine large fish—twenty five thousand!