The Sun.
London, England, 1801-01-29 00:00:00

raota IRO V. 41VANS.

This.was an,Adion for a. ,breach a Promise of
Marriage; brought by. Miss Winifred Profiler°
against the Defendant, a pious old Welsh Parson,
somovisers, between 6o and 70. Complete and
suiiiiittory evidence was given, of the Defend.
antis having courted the Plaintiff with a view to
His love letters, which were written
in the Welsh language, were produced, and when
ileerpreted, afforded an infinite fund •or mcrri.
Mein.

The `Jury were out two hours, tt')d returned a
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rnlia fur the Plalnta, with 591. darnago,

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At Ilicinnond; in Yorkshire, an the t3th inst.
HENRY BI.EGBOROUGII, ksq, .%%as cleeted to the
office of Mayor •of that Corporation, for the eresu.
init year, which office he served' itt years
1779 and: x,788.,,; • . •

Vickery's Imperial Wad Dress, being equally
grateful, becoming, and appropriate as a !Mort,..
tut Dishabille, or an Evening Full Dress, ha..
bei.sme the, Companion of the Toilet of the most
In.hionable Personages in the Realm ; and if La-
dies of 11:14hion, when they have arrayed them.
iielve with so sovereign an addition, will consult
their titirror, they kill acknOwledge it to be the
yarn( to of exciAloce.

THE MOIL.

HAMBURCH, JAIL

INTct.Licarics has tcached this City from
Prtersbargh, that Prn. hiinself the authorof
the extraordinary paragraph ib the Petersburg!'
Court Gazette of the 3oth ult..in which helms
proclaimed himself a madman: The Inany'ecten::
tritities which arc every where conspicuous in
the charafter and the aCtiOns'nf this Prince, justify;
the 'opinion, that besides his Ministurs,,in ease of
-his' lunacy, none but himself iould have had re-
course to so strange a proceeding with regard to
'his Own reputation.
The person who has received the atiove:nien- •
tioned intelligence here, is a respedable. Meru
chant, who sueplies the imperial- Family awl.
Court with fashionable drsa:s,- and articles of fur-,
niture, See. &c. The letter which this -Merehani
received; comes from one of PAUI.'s favourites;
who gives nearly the following particulars :
" A few days before the young Ks Nc or,
SwF:DEn left Pita:tar:hi the limps 4.p gave :s
totirwpitent) a: diversion' of which lie is very
fond, and in which tsc performed,per.on:dly",i's. 4 ,
combatant;i-to the great serprize of his Royal
Guest, anct.to .the amuseinent of a numerous
brilliant-Court.. In the evening; the fC.ti tic col,)
overflowed With generous wine, and a" Oit;patc.ll
Was received from BONAPAI“E, together with
several caricatures) saki to be published in Eng.
land, in which the mighty PAUL is reptrAlitutl
as at lunatic
.The,Empxttoß wA's chaiin,:ci with
the toc:iousness and military sucee3ses of his new
Gallic friend,; and the conversation turned oil
the great projeas funned by the Northern Coll.:.
federitcy tb humble the pride of tho English, and
the invincible prowess the Em )(Oa ha'ailibplak.
ed all day long in the tournament.
" His MAJ Erry, fired with the spirit Of chi,.
valry, immediately resolved to-insert the &roues
paragraph of defiance to the Potentates of Eu.
rope, in which he declares hiMself mad at the
conclusion."

JANUARY 21.
The account mentioned in the Public Papeis,
that the Duke DEL PARQUi was proceeding to
Petersburgb, as Minister from Spin, is void of
foundation. He is still at,ltankfort.
C,i,-nerai L CL RC,: who is now etneloy-ed in
making Peace between Atistria
brother.inelaw to tile Cortsol
e. BuNAPAitti.
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THE following extraordinary circuniitir4efitit
tpealitg. this aPtclis :difitedat We rai eater -
day related:in evidencei%lighillSt :,710i048Vii,4011di
and Thi)mas Follett, Who were btoughvbeforpta.
above-Magistrateg,.owlatspiciotiof haying-fstolett
and .killed •a great number:of Dogs" for ',the wake
of theirskins. •-- • •
Robert Townsend, one of the pitiable, said,. that
having received information that-k. ntiiitfw
stolen dogs were cutlet:idea
wooo -house; near- thc back of "thtfthiladthrorls;
Society, St. George's Fields, he wctitihere:yester.
day morning,.-and, in a back roora,•fotind
thirty carcases of .dogs, and wirhouctk4,skins,
piled one on another; and uoderthe floor of the same
room and that. adjoining, many more, the ground
'haying been dug up to receive them, and most
them were in 4 state of putridity,..so that the
stench was almost beyonoearing tho,:e in the
back room appeared to 'have been lately killed;
by being beat on 11)e I'4a, as all their skulls
were broken ; **Tin the back:You:mite found'the
humnier now produced, which no doubt had been
used for the purpose, as it wasscovered. with blood
and dog's hair ; that in the front=rclom he found
the Prisoners; whom he took into custody.
William bagllww, sits Eati.sticet, London_
Road, deposed, that on te .14. th or. December.
last he lost a pug birch and which he hail eVcrY
reason to believe; was stolen from him ; that on
hearingg yesterday morning of a, number of dead.
dogs being found in the Prisoner,' Sellwood'a,
horse, he went :there, and among the carcases
discovered that of: his pug bitch, which he. was
enabled to swear to from a particular mark in its
mouth, and being with pup at the time. •
In the course of the examination it appeared
that it was a' common mode' among the dog.
stealers, to take aniall houses fOr the purpose of.
varying on this abominable trade, and when they.
had colleded as Many carcases as they could bUry,
and ,the house would contain, tlitn to sibs-comp
without paying any rent; u eicentit.,,tance of this
nature having happened ;i short t ime duce at a housein Webber row, St. George's-Fields, - s'vhere the
neiobours were almost putkonett by the stench.
the hisoner SellwoOd is an old woman t
)ett is a boy : neither of them Having any thing
satisfaaory to urge 'in their defence, they Were
committed for further examination.

During the time the Prisoners were at the bar,
a man came to give them a charader, when three
dogs in tteotlice immediately fondlell about him;
and had they no& been prevented, would have fol-
lowed him away, from which, and his 41,p,,,Irduce
altogether, there was every reason to supi)(Ae he
was one of the, gang ; Mr. •Fottn therefore, {Air-
ed him out of the Office, or he should be r.l,en
into custody as 4, party concerned.

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The Nragistrates al'Edhiburgh havt, r4...q)!Yeti
to seise all beggars, and send tlwrn to 3 Houitof
industry,
.where they shall he forced to a 4
well as they arc able.,-

Saturday evening Sir ELIJAH IM BUY, and two
Geritlemen in company with
near fieniey-uptto..Thantes, by tlw
robbed of their watches .atid cash.

On Sminidity The iiotirm 'of
in Duke-streer, 'wzii ;broke
open, and ribbed of fropertyto 7 t:omidei-oble
ainnOnt.

On Sunday, about three o'clock, Lady Wit.
t.fiovis WYNNT! ~vat.."stopped in her carriage near'
Alldenhead Thkket, by two highwaylneni V. ho,
robbed her old gold watch and tiarila rooney.

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