The Sun.
London, England, 1806-09-08 00:00:00

MARSIIALSE/1 COURT, SEPT. r.

HAMMONI) V.. WOUSLEY.

-WS was an action brought by the Plaintiff, a pub-
lican at Poplar, to recover a sum, of -about 31. for
provisions furnished to the Defendant. The circum-
stances laid before- the Jury were singular : It ap-
peared-that the Plaintiff had entertained at his house,
for many weeks, a man of the name of Worsley, who,
had run up a bill with him. His debtor, had ab-
sconded, and the Plaintiff hearing of the present De-
•fendant, who resided in the neighbourhood, con-
cluded, without any further enquiry, that he was the,.
man, who owed him the money. He sent him .first
an Attorney's letter, to which no answer was seturn-
cd ; he then proceeded, regulatly in .his akSt ion, which
was defended. A Witness swore that he had de-
manded the money of the Defendant, who had not
disaVowed the debt, but had said 'he would not pay
it. 'Upon, the cross-examination of the Witness, he-
was asked if he should know the Defendant ? He
said certainty Should,. The , real debtor then
cane: forward, and the Nivritness said' he was not the
marl. The Defendant in the shit then appeared,
and the Witness exclaimed-that he Was
.the person.
The ComiSel for the Defendant observed, the real
debtor was ready to swear that the obligation was
due, from
,hiM, and not from the Defendant ; of this .
the Plaintiff had been apprised, brut he had obstinate;-
ly i*rsisted in purSuing his action. The Defendant
declared he had never seen the, Plaintiff in his life,
and he never ate or drank at his cost. The a&ual
debtor acknowledged he had dome both, and was
willing to pay the demand as soon as it was in his
power. The Plaintiff made a ling hraligue; in
the course of which he laid the blame upon his
Attoiney.--The Plaintiff was non-suited.

BIRMINGHAM.—A girl of the bailie of Stainnard,
of this town, fainted in the Gillery of the Theatre,
and expired in half an hour after:
On Wednesday an old, man,, who said he had been
in the army, and was 101 years old, applied to a
Kilmarnock carrier for leave tozo on his cart to that
town, which he agreed to., lietOre the cart reached
Kingswell the old man, was observed to look ill ; on
his arrival at the Inn he was taken down, carried to
a barn,
.where he. shortly after expired. About
were found in his pockets, with which he was de-
Cently interred in Fenwick church-yard. When he
went upon the cart in the neighbourhood ofEdin-
,burgh, he was apparently in good 'health, and mount-
ed to the-top of it with considerable agility'.'
The following shocking circunigtance took place
last week, in. Love-lane, Sunder4l44--A shoei
Maker, belonging to the artillery; lia-villgispent' the
evening with a frail female, discovered next morning
that he was a_loser of two or' tliree :guineas by the:
adOenture. Returning next day, in broad' day-light,
he.forced open her lodgings, and 'searcely giving her
time to confess` or deny the robbery, knocked her
down, and trampled on her till she was nearly in-
sensible. He then proceeded. to mangle her body
with a large knife, of which he made snch•rtnmer-
ciful.use as nearly to deprive ;her of her chin, and
otherwise
,disfigured her face and head in a most
dreadful manner. The 'Womanya liveS., and the
man is still at large.

.
A number .of Russian • children are christened
every year in the depth of winter.
~,A hole. for. this
purpose is made through the ice on the River Neva;
the child is handed to the priest, and if in the im-
mersion, through the numbness of his hands, it
should slip through, he raises his head as if nothing
happened, and quietly sayS, ‘‘ Give- me another, for
God has taken that to himself!" '

The following occurrence,' incredible as it may
seem, is nevertheless' true,:-=-A rat was-defected in
a kitchen in Edinburgh in, the very ael:. of carrying.'
' off a 'silver table.spo6n, which, upon search, was .
,• found_ concealed in the rat's apartment, • together
I • with two other spoons, formerly. lost,, (the value of
• ttrhich had been paid by the servant who had the.
!*Charge of them) .a purse money, and-other
va-
luable articles. The.,astonished master immediately
sent for the servant, repaid, the money, and rewarded
the person who had recoreted the .property.. • N. B.
• The thief made leis escape.' . . •
MottAviANt TILLAGE.—Fulneek, a little village.
in the West Riding of Yorkshire, isinhabited entire-
ly Moravians.- It stands 'in a most romantic situ-
by
atiou, on a,sloping.bank;facing the sun, at the bot-
toM of which' there runs a pretty stream. The space
'between the bouses. mid the 'brook is 'a continued
gatileri," with cloth totters interspersed. Theie is in.
the village a very elegant building, containing a cha-
pel
and school:house, with lodging' for the scholars.
There_are also 'two very singular institutions,' almost
reseMblihg a monastery and a nunnery,- tailed' The
Young Men's Economy and The 'Young !Town's
Economy. No strangers of the•other sex-are admit-
ed into either house ; but the inhabitants may come
dut to converse with their friends. They follow Any
business they choose, and may change their way of
life when they please. The women are about sixty
in number, mostly employed in embroidery and,
- 'tambouring, and they all sleep in: one largo room.
.Thorrien, who are about fifty, also steep all in one
,toom. There is also a house in which all the widows
live together.
MURDER AND HORRID PUNISIIMENT.-(From a
New-York Paper.)—" On Saturday the sth July
a Negro man belonging to Mr. M'Corkle was eXe-
cuted in Lincoln County for the niurder of his Mk-.
tress. It appeared on the trial that' he bad been -re- .
buked on Tuesday morning by his mistress for beat-
ing his wife ; after which he went to ploughing, and
in about two hours afterwards returned to the house
With a club, went into the kitchen, and knocked his
wife into the fire, and was proceeding to farther
violence, When Mrs.M'Corkle Went into the kitchen
to save the Negro woman, if possible, from farther..
harm, when the fellow immediately knocked her.
down, and beat her till she was dead. He then ran,
Oft, but returned in 'the •evening for the purpose of
procuring a horse; the more effedually to enaure his
-
ekapd, when he was discovered and -apprehended.
He was sentenced-to be burnt at the Stakewhich
sentence was executed on Saturday last, in the pre
sense of numerous spectators, who had assembled
tai behold the' awful and shocking spec-lade. Hd
confessed the murder, and prayed with earnestness
for the Divine Forgiveness, until the violence of the
flames destroyed the powers of utterance." •