The Sun.
London, England, 1808-11-05 00:00:00

EAST I DIES.

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The damages sustained by the above accident are
estimated at 20,00 U Spanish dollars : fortunately no
lives were lost.

MORE If ITCI-ICRd FT.

[FROM THE LEEDS MERCURY.]
Judith Cryer, a poor aged widow, in Meadow-
lane, in this town, who earns her livelihood by get-
ting up linen, was another dUpe. In the month of
Apt it last, the grandson of Ibis poor widow (a boy
eleven years of age) had occasioned her soiree unea-
siness : this being observed by Winnifred Bond (a
kind of agent to the sorceress), she recotuntended
her Mary Bateman as a person who could remove
the cause of her distress. Judith consented to see.
' this wicked woman, Who h..ving learnt the can-se of
her uneasiness, recommended her to Miss Myth
(Miss Blue again !). This .being consented to,
Mary Bateman undertook to write to her dear friend.
Lt a few days an answer was received from this
lady, which shocked pour Judith beyond description
—the letter contained a representation of a gallows,
with its usual appondage, a rope, accompanied by
the hiirme denunciation that the grandson would'be
executed on the 3diio s before:: he attained, 14 years
or age ; and, that this tate could only be- averted by
tour guineas beingraised by the old woman, and ap,
propriated as Miss Ely th should afterwards direct.—
•It wa, is vain this poor woman declared her inabi-
lity to raise it) large a sum ; the sorceress was inex-

orabie ; the sum was at length obtained with ex-
treme difficulty ; it was then put intb a leathern
bag, and sewed up in Judith's bed, where tt was to
remain untouched and unlooked at, until the boy
had attained the age of 14. Theioriner part Of
these instructions were immediately carried into el-
tect4 the money was deposited as directed, anti if the
detection at the witch had not occurred, the latter
part, as tar as depended on this pow• woman, would
have been scrupulously observed ; but the apprehen-
Sion of the sorceress basing dissolved the charm, the
tilifigtunatti victim of her •pelts ventured last Saturw
day to unsew the bed, and look for the money : it
is hardly necessary to add, that she looked in vain,
it was nut to be found.

Mary Bateman, not content with plundering this
poor widow of her hist mite, a6tually prevailed upon
her to wash for her three months, to defray the ex-
pence of the postage incurred in etkcting this infa-
mous robbery.
circumstance has been mentioned since the corn-
that has given rise to no
mitnient of Mary Bateman',
small share of conjecture and surmise, and which
has not, we are happy to say, escaped the attention
of the Magistracy.
In the month of September 1803, Miss Kitchen,
a shopkeeper, near St. Peter's square, in this town,
along with her sister and mother, who came over
from Wakrtield to visit her, were taken suddenly
ill, and all three of them died within (CU days, of a
compiana then said to be the Cholera illurblis; a
physician of eminence, -who was called in to visit
the last surviVing sister, entertained, however, a
different. opinion, and was so stiongly impressed
with the belief that their sickness and subsequent
death proceeded from some poisonous drug having
been received into the stomach, that he exanunen,
with -much caw, many of the vessels in the house,
asked if any water for poisoning flies had been in
use, and expressed a wish to open the body. The
faintly being all dead, and no persons at hand who
thought themselves authorised to give this permis-
sion, the corpse was interred unexamined, and with
it probably the opportunity of deteCtion, unless by
means inscrutable to human wisdom. It must.
be remarked, that Mary Bateman was on terms of •
the strictest intimacy with Miss Kitchen, .and al,
though site had nu visible business there, her an-.
3.iety about the tate of these. unfortunate females.
kept her constantly about the house, and led hei to
procure tor the sister which died first a medicine
from some country Doctor '(Miss Blyth, perhaps).
Alter the death eat the famiTy, it was discovered that
all Miss Kitchen's books were tnisSing, and her pro-
perty so much diminished by pltinder, that Ler cre-
ditors only divided eight:pence in the pound:
In manners, Mary Bateman is very plausible, of
an atniearattee sedate and-respectable, and, as Shaks-
peare says of Richard—

" Seems a' Saint, when she mint plays the Devil."

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The stake of um guineas was Made gObd
Thursday, for the battle between fiutch %in and
Medley. This match,. xiltich will excite as flinch
interest as any that could be tridde; has been spoken,
of these two years. Sam never yet lost a battle,
amongst all the good men he has Combated' and he
is justly considered a prodigy; awoug fi-gliting. men.
Ucdley is a tradesman, its the Borough, of Whorit'
tepurt speaks highly, as a resolute Scietititk
lie is two stone heavier titan Sam, and he is also
the favourite.'

The injury
owhielt the 'United States of America
sustain by the embargo, tnay be estimated by
,t 4
tonnage of. their shipping employed in foreign corn!.
rherce, and Which, according to the last real' tis,
amounted to 1,506,000 tons. The annual value of
the emplopuent or
.e;tch ton is calculated at 41.
Aus, by this measure, six millions of profit, which
their cotniriwi;c: u4d to produce, is lost to (Le
country,'

IPRINCE OF WALES ISLAND INT ELt.IGENCE.
MARCU 26, 1803,--The tire which broke out on
Saturday last, at the baliehou,e of Low Ammer, nit-
' fortunately consumed more European property than
we recoiled to.have been de:troyed by fire sinee the
establishment of this Settlement; it was occasioned,
aN we understand, by the carelessness'ot some ,of the
people employed in heating the ovens; and, from the
dryness of the-materials of which the eternises were,
composed, in a short time the whole •W 34 in flames,
which almost immediately communicated to the pre-
mises occupied by Mr. itodik, the Police Oifice, and
some Chinese shops
.at. the corner 'of the st reetf; the
whole at onetime exhibite:l the most awful spectacle
ever witnessed on the island. Fortunately the wind
was light and somberly, or those .valuable and x-
tensive premises belonging to Mr. Douglas tuust in-
evitably have been destroyed, and probably Conimo-
nicating with the agent vidualler's storeso endangered
the whole town, there being, as we learn; near 300.
casks of sprits on the prethises. •
Too much praise cannot be given to the men from
his Majesty's ship Bombay, and the. soldiers be-
longing to the garrison, for their exertions in stopping
the progress of the fire. •