The Sun.
London, England, 1806-08-27 00:00:00

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At Ruclford, near this city, two sheep were killed
in a field ;. and, on the Tewkesbury road, a post-
charse.horse, belonging to the Bell 'lnn, was struck
down, but soon -recovered the shoCk. A poor 'man
was killed near Stapleton; he had a scythe on his
Shoulder, whichi no doubt, served to attra& the
eleEtric fluid. Avery fine horse was killed at Tort-
worth, in this county. At Burlield, near Reading,
a stable, belonging to Mr. Chase, was set on fire by
the lightning,' and totally consumed, with other
out-houses; two corn and hay-ricks ; a buil,. seven
Calves, Wand all the poultry in the farm-yard, were
killed, part of the dweging-house was much it
jured, and the whole damage is supposed to
amount to 15001. A waggoner, driving a team of
horses near lo the above place, was struck ,dead ; as
was also one of the. horses. :The lightning also
cormnunicated to 'a rick of wheat, near Baldock,
Herts, and' 132 loads of wheat were consumed.
At a place called Sandford, in the parish of Sunning,
Berks, -the lightning tore cff the reef of a public-
houtel' a ball of eleetric fire entered the house at
the same time, and passed down the;Stair-case into
the kitchen, where several people were sitting; and,
after separating into two parts, it went oat of the
kitchen-window, which is totally demolished, with-
' out hurting the persons who were sitting in the
room. A valuable horse,. the Vroperty of Farmer
Dailey,. was struck dead at Witney ; and two
others were killed near Henley. -.One of the Bath
ceaelws was overturned on Twyford Bridge, by the
horses taking fright at the lightning ; but we are
happy. to say, that none of the passengers were se=.
riously injured, although the coach was thrown into
the stream.—(Gleueester Journal, efug. 25.)

On Thursday seinnight, a barn at Hadley Down,
in the parish of Mayfield, belonging to Mr. Day,
Was set on fire by lightning, at the time two \ men
Were on the roof, rewiring the thatching. The
men, either from the effeets of the lightning, or
from fear, were forced from their situations, and
fell to the. ground, but fortbnately without receiving
any hurt; and, as 'assistance was at hand, the fire
was extinguished before it had arrived at any alarm-
ing height. Two women in an adjoining field
were at the same time very sensibly affeded by the
lightning.

-About eight o'clock, on last Wednesday morning,
we were visited by One of the most awful tempests
ever remembered, and we :lam since learned that
it was felt generally, with more or less severity. At
Godstone, in Surrey, the lightning struck two men
who were hoeing turnips in a field, and killed one
of them upon t:!:: spot. The other, after remain
ing some time senseless on the_ground, recovered as
iron) a swoon., and appeared much surprised and
shocked at finding his companion dead.
At the same place a windmill, under reparation,
attraaed the subtle fluid, by which it Was damaged
to a considerable atnount. The millwrights en-
, gaged in thelepairs were at their work at the time,
but all luckily escaped unhurt.
At Hurst Green the lightning also was very ter.
rifle. At the Inn there, kept by Mr. Anson, the
'landlady and her daughter, a young woman, were
both struck to the ground, but providentially nei-
ther of them was materially- hurt ; in the kitchen,
a number 'of plates and dishes were thrown down
and demolished ; and a chicken, which was peck-
ing before the door was killed, as ilby a gun-shot.
At Nlr.'French's, a house nearly adjoining, an aiarurn,
placed in an 'upper; room, attracted the Aaive fluid,
and was completely spoiled by its power; it also did
some other mischief to -.trees, &c. but none that we
have heard of, of much consequence.
In this town the peals of thunder followed the
lightning in close succession ; hut the storm, which
continued about. an . hour, proved more alarming
than mischievous.
short time before the tempest commenced at
"Mayfield, the attention of the. Inhabitants was at-
tracted by a large flock of starlings, in rapid flight
up and down the town, making an unusual noise,
which was considered, and truly, as an indication
of a sudden change of weather.--(Lewes Journal,
Aug. 25)

On Tuesday the inhabitants of this city and
neighbourhood were alarmed by a very violent storm
of thunder and lightning. The flashes were so vivid
that the streets were illuminated for several seconds
at. a time, and the whole atmosphere seemed wrap-
ped in a blaze , the peals of thunder were loud and
reiterated, and the rain fell in torrents. We un-
derstand several accidents happened in the vicinity.
(Bristol illqrcury; Auk. 25.) •

The harvest has turned out very plentiful in Spin:
and considerable quantities of grain ara alre,;;;ly shiF-
ped off there for Portugal.

A dreadful storm of thunder, lighttini-;and 'rain;
'visited this city and nei'ghbourhJod on. TUeSday
—it commenced here about seven o'clock in the
evening, and continued, with but• little intermission,
till between fonr and five on Wednesday mornitirt.
The flashes of forked lightning were remarkably
vivid, and followed each Other with great rapidi y
the thunder Nt;as loud, and tremendously grand'.
The height of the tetre.vst seemed to be about bait=
past ten at nit ht ; at which time the • lightning
struck the chirnney of a house belo !ging to Mrs'.
Button, in the London 11.,)ad, dose gthis
city; when the eleetric fluid, forcing irs way through
the roof, was cone thed into several apartments by
the bell-wires (which -ifere melted in its progress),
and apparently expended its force in a closet in the
lower part of the house, where a window, affording
a passage for its escape, nS entirely shivered to
pi lAr
eces. The only inhabitants of the house were
Mrs. Button and her female servant, who were.in
bed in the same room ; and it is a most provide::,;,,
circumstance, that this was
,the only .pang ens, in
that part of the house, where trace of the light:-
ning were not observed—some trifling injury to the'
furniture here, being conjcaured 'to have been oc-
casioned by the bricks from the top falling down the
chimney, and forcing the'grate considerably out of
its place. The servant, from the terror of the scene,
was in fits dUring the greater part of the night, and
was, humanely attended by her renerable mistresit
(now in her 78th year), who colledtedly administer-
ed to the relief of her domestic during the subse;..
quent rage of this awful elemental warfare. No other damage was sustained in the place 3 but the tbliaw-
ing particulars will shew that-the stortn was very ge-
neral:

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.LONDQ?4.-ADJOU iZ N F-D SEgSIQNS,

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Yesterday the CoUrt of. Sessions- was holde.n.at.
CIS 11611, Lonaon, before the RECI: 0 Tj'ER; "Aldt
"ttitit Sii,,ZaooiU lAr y N ezc for the discharge Of
• I)ebtors Linden-the_ 11;J-11-ct. when sever3l-ca;es
of great iAtf.;•rest oceurrel. • •
1)1.00sic tre.:DIR GOVERNIENT
The diicharge. of John Annesley• Shee, a well -
knon character, was opposed, 'on the .ground of
irrotaining money under false.pretenceg, contrary to.
the 3'2d 'clause i t tl e late:Ad of Insolvency,'
Mr. ALLEY 'stated, his objeetions to
_the :De7
fen (lanes: discharge, 'which were. afterwards more
znnply::diselosed in the follow-ing evidenee
Jantes Ballard, Gat Plaintiff against Shee, stated,
that in t 801 he was Butler' to General Follet,
••,
n
Ayo3e service he had lived•fifteen years, and in the
course of that tiMe, had. saved 1201. In conequence
of obseivinganadvertiseinent in w Morning Paper
Stang, that places, both public and private; were'
fu 4.-ht disposed of at the Oft ice of Messrs. Shees,
„Witness_made application, `and told Alt.
Slice nmiely, to become_ a purchaser
for a place under Government.. Mr. Shee told him
there was a number 'Of such places for sale, and
wished to know how much money Witness had to
• lay out in the ,putchase. WitheSs mentioned .1201.
and'Alr. Slice promised to•inform him-shortly of
tle,;ira'Je situation. Witness soon after received
letter at the house-of his maSter,-Generai

Shee, requesting see him al Pall-Mall.
When Witness went, Shee told him he would get
,„ hico a Cerli'ship. in Somerset House, in the New -
pper.Depliirbent ; in consequence of which Wit-
ness went to the }lrak, sold his stock, and carried
Shee..t2ol. dri. the Ist of February, t 1802. Shee
prornis'd Witness that be should be in possession
of the plßce before the Ist of June :following, ,and
be . left his ,master'sservice' under the most.flatter-
ing prosp:xts. •Witniss •af erw:,rds waited upon him
on several occaions ;. and being frequently disap-
ht • t t t
ponnett 0 s place, t _atm kupor una e... 0 know
V.IIEII it would become varatit. The Defendant
that he had niore business 'at his Of-

fire in Pail-Mall than his eldest son could do, and

that, Witness should have a situation there as Cie*,
at a year;;. which, proposal be 'acceded to,. and
lived a-short tiune:at . the, Louse in question, 'until
Mr. Shee was.' missing. Witness 'inquired where
lie W•as gone and he was told to Bath, for- the bene-
fit of the waters ;. but. it' afterwards turned, Out that
he wai in continethentr debt. Witness 'finding.
tricked; Was adt iced. to prosecute. him. ; but
.brought ;an action -against him:for 1691.. being.
the inoneradvatiCed also half a year'S salary,. and
the interest of the .I'2ol. for which suni hesuoit re-
Miiilject in Custody. •-• .
The Defendant, in his defence, called Mr. BrOwn,
a•Clc'trk in Somerset Houso",‘. to }.rove that he had
con-nuissioro him to sell' the place' in the News-
paper Office his books also 'contained an entry-Of
• the transaction -; but the whole.peoceeding appeared
very suspicious; and after the Court had expressed
an apinion that there naer was a clearer fraud proved,
Mr. Slice was- remanded back to the Itilles of the
t Fleet, from whence he-came:

11(ING's BENCH PRISONERS.
ARMY COMMISSION BROKERS, &C.

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Henry William ESte, an advertising Com Mission
Broker:late of Northumberland-street, in the Strand,
was opposed on the ground, that the debt of 3201.
for which he was in custody, arose out of a fraud,
aid Mr. AVLAN, Counsel for the Plaintiff, _con-
tended, that itJell Within the provisions of the 7th
and 3giii clauses of the Act.
It was stated, that in. the month of September,
1 iO4, Mr. Richard Risk-al:Tiled to Mr. Este to pur-
chase_ for hith an 'EnsioneY : on the.t9th -of that
rnointli, tidying been informed by-Mr...Esre,that he
lad -got all the papers and resignations necessary on
the occasion, from an Ensign of the 6th Westiridia
Regiment, 'paid him 3201: as the price, :bun no En-,
'signey could be obtained. Mr. Risk considering
hire' ell defrauded of his money, caused -hiM to' be
arrested on the. I,9th of January following, for the
stiM' of 3201. for Which he now stood charged.
Mr. MORioT argued,- that the case as in evi.-
&Ince did not go to, the proving him , to come.
uniler. the
,operations of the 37th- 6r-38tli clauses
of the Act.,
Serjeant o:sisLow pointed out how far the A
operated, and concluded with giving his opinion,.
that the Condua *of Mr. Este, 'in. receiving this
Money,- under the, delusion of'purchasing an E 0.7
signcy for Mr. Risk, witl,Aout completing that pnr-
-chase; or' appi.fting to intend to do it, came within
Erie meaning of the ;37th clause of the At; and 'he
was therefore remanded-as to the debt of 3201. but
di'scharged as to all other' debts.. 7' "
John ,Gwinnell- was the only one opposed on the
7th instant. - .
MAtittioT opposed; on. the
.part of Margaret
Sweetman, from whom Gwinuell obtained clop].
under the pretence of a3signing to het' a ;caw for
that consideration, .which' 'in 'place' of doing •
to her,
he sold to Mr'. Cockayne, the Attorney, and then
distrained on her for rent. -
Margaret Ssr-re6tman'sweire she paid 1101. to Mr.
Gwitknell a 4, a consideration for the lease, a receipt
for which was put in ; the premises are in the
possession of Mr. Cockayne, the Attorney; who
a,ks 4-501.-for the lease; -the lease has'never been.
assigned to hen. • ."
Gwinnell, ow-this, .and'some. other' matters
that came out, was remanded to amend his schedule.
EACH 'OF PRONIIS:E OF NIARRI AGE.
• Mr. Ernpson, a genteel man, an Attorney, was
opposed by Mr. Montag, not for a defe6tive schedule
only, but under- the 38th seftion of the A&, for
ohtining money .under false pretences, from a

young
.woman. Lid lie ,should prove it was obtained
under pretences so base that called aloud for punish-
ment.' He then' entered into the history of the
case. The
_young :woman was addressed by hiin
under proiniyie of marriage; a day was Fixed; and he,
knowing her to have money in the funds, and also -,
• money in her. pogesion, persuaded her to let him.
have 1801. in money, and 3001. stock in the funds‘
, Having obtained this object, he abandon-6d her en-
tirely, and -married another Lady, mil° is- •now