The Sun.
London, England, 1801-04-25 00:00:00

tORTUNE TELLtRS•

THUItSDA' evening Elizabeth Borrielp.3 othtr.
wise Bee, Was brought in custody, by Townsend,
who apprehended her the same evening at her rod. -s
ings, in Stanhope-street, for fortune telling.
Townsend produced a pair of old 'globes; a slate,
with some hieroglyphics rudely draWn upon it, and
a number of papets, scrawled 'full of strange words
and incoherent nonsense , together tvith two packs
of dirty cards, the whole apparatus of the art.

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A woman proved paying the Prisoner is. 61.:t0
have her fortune told, and gave a very whimsic►►l
account of her interview with the Sorcerers, an►i
of the events that were to befal her hereafter. . .

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The case being clearly made out, Mr. Foltz))
without pretending to the crafty science, under-
took to determine her present devinv, which w;.s,
that , she should ~be committed to the House of Cor.
reetion, as a, Rogue And Vagabond, until the next
Session..

Eliiabeth.Wattr and Sarah Roharts were charged
With'a-SiMilar offence, at their lodgings, in Glay's_.
inn-lane, which-being established,:they were both
adjudged Rogues and yagalionds, and committed to
the same prison. ' •
Elizandb Eiti,:girald and- 77by Fitzgerald were
brought in_the custody. of, Croker, one of the Ta.
trate, who, apprehended them the same afternoOn,
for uttering a bttd 'half-guinea at a chandler's shop
in I'Ottellll4lll.COUrt.tolld, •Croketprorhiced some
other countetleit money he, found on watching the
Prisoners,, who wete therefore committed for trial.

The .Riglit 1-tmourable the Loan CHANCELLOR,
his appointed GEoRCE FOR STE . Esq, Barrister at
Law, of the Inner Temple, a CommisSioner of
Bankrupts.
The journeymen Vheelwright4 have struck, and
insist on their wages being raised froM 235. to z 65.
which is aftet' the raze. of an additional 9d: oh each
wheel.

Yesterday, before NICHOLAS Bum), Esq. two
petsong were convicted; on two itifortwitzoiss
for seliingstraw short of weight, and. or
ty in the in,,ide of the trusses ; and were acijodgea
to forlcit is. each truss so deredil e, to ether ss•iiii;
co, ti..

The Siege of.Aere attraas inuch company to the
Exhibition Room at the Lycem, itod the, co4rge..
mein of the pace tdiotted to the spedators, cntiteiy
does away the 411e011 Ven knee experienced last year,
tum tlk greAt press of visitorb ti,uriug the itniddic
,hours of the d.iy,

Friday morning.att'affray'ltappened at some
"persOns in Atormalley,.l.3l,hopsgvat.street, Hat
'is said to have on in a dispute conterning
lottery transaitions when a woman snatched up a
knife which lay on the table, and wounded one of
the men therewith in such a manner that although a
Surgeon was- immediately sent for, no hopes were
tot,rtained pf 114 t r:covery.

Saturday setnnight the *parish church of Shustock,
in WarwickshiK, Was struck by lightning, m'hich
came with,a-violent storm of hail and snow. The
lightning felt oh the top of the steeple, One of the
walls of whicivit.litis crushed, and forced out some
large stones ; ,then passed through the roof into '
the body of the!chureh, broke the gieatest part of
the glass in the iwindows, 'went out in t westerly
direCtion, and At the digtance of a mile and a half
,from the church, stripped,the hark froin a large slat
in a field adjoining the dwelling-house of E Croxall,
Esq.- •
Yesterday &stair' `ttfDrath ryas pronoupeed,
the Old Bailey; o'n the,.folloi4i* twenty-One Pri.,
sonera, convicted of capital felonies in the course cf
the Assion, vi;. Thows James Pearce,
John liconiker,. Joseph Fossett, Wm. Thornhtieri,
Anne' Moore, William Wiaters„. sen. Wm. Withers
jun. Richard Preston,
„Tallies Drake, Robert Crif:
fithS, Tho Mas Hopkins,:Sust!nnah Gordon, Ann
Mall, -Francis Barnes; Sarah Lester, John Titryard,
James Bolt, Thoinas Burrell, John Workett, and
John Lennard.---One was sentenced to Pourton
Years, and thirry.ftve ConviCts to Sevca Years
Transportatipx,-:—:The remaining Priioncrs
judgcd to les r inmislitncnts, which concluded Of
business of the Session.