The Sun.
London, England, 1801-12-16 00:00:00

LP,WES, DEC. 1,11.

- LAST Saturday night some information
having
been received touching the surplice which was a
few weeks since stolen' ih Mailing 'Church; our
Night-guard, having a warrant for that purpose,
'searched the. premises of the suspeeted party, and
therein found not only'sundrY portions of the -sur-
plice, but also all the effeas of which Mr. Ho LM AN' s
shop had been robbed, and otheistolen property. The
offenders are, John Rogers, Robert Mundforti,
Stratteq, three PriVate Sbldiers belonging_
to the Fourth Regiment of Fobt, stationed -here
and at Blighton,' Being married men, -they. bad
;the priVilege of' sleeping put_Of Barrack's. They-
had divided the booty, each man-having his share
concealed, in his own apartment. In the chim-:
ney
.of one were found six, watches, some gold
rings, and sundry trinkets, carefully 'wrapped
in rags.. Under a board- of the flooring of an-
other, were placed three watches, with a number
of gold rings ; :but during the search, the wife found
.means to displace the same, and throw them out of
a window into the garden, where they were after-
wards found in an old stocking. And buried under
the bricks.. of the fire-hearth of the .third,. three-
'watches, and sundry articles of jewellery•were dis-
covered.

About four in the morning they were taken be-
fore HENRY SHELLEY, Esq. when' Smitten, with
the hope .of being admitted an evidence for the
Crown, made a confession, not'only of the aboire
burglary, but also of five other robberies Which
the Prisoners had been guilty. of ;, the`' principal
of which were, those lately. committed in the
chuirche's of Mailing and Harnsey, in which another
of the same Regiment, named Scull, was' con.
cerned; whO, though: at Brighton, 'was on Strut_`"
ten's information apprehended and brought before
the above Magistrate. `ln Mailing 'Chdrch they
found nothing of value but the Surplice ; frnin 'the'
other they took a silver tankard and, a cup and cover,
which they cut to 'pieces wiih a reaping h;bk, 'and
sold to a. pawnbroker about 6o miles froto this
town.. , , . ,

Last week was taken and. brOught on shore, at
Blyth, by the fishermen of that place (not without
great difficulty. as well as danger) ail uncommon
large fish, of the Shark kind ; the, body measured
2of feet in length, and at the shoulders: i 6 feet in
circumference, decreasing gradually tcw:Ards•the tail.
The mouth was placed near the extreznity of ,the
head, in, which' were numerous teeth; disposed in
several rows' around the saws 4, they were small,
sharp pointed, and bending .1-iward: It had five
linear apertures across the notk, with flaps coveting
the gills. On the back we're two fins, the anterior
one considerably larger th:en the other.—Underneath
the ventral fins was a doulole genital, which is' ap..
propriate to the males of this genus ;, and beloW
them a-small anal fin, nr:ir the tail. The skin was
very rough, of j 1 light 'grey colour on the sides, and
growing darker tow;:rds the back.—lt agreed in
general with the Catalas Maximzi (greatest bog-
fish) of Linnaeus, wino says, " That it inhabits the.
ArEtic Ocean, riv als a whale in bulk, is of great
agility, and subsists principally on the M?dus', or
what are comriltrnly called Sea-Jellies, or Blubbers."
On the niglyt of Saturday the sth, or morning of
Sunky the 6t.li instaot, a large quantity of arsenic
was put intc, the pump of Mr. THOS. TAYLOR, of
Elvington, near York, from the poisonous effe4s of
which the lives of himself and whole family, con_
sisting of eight persons, were endangered.
The particulars leading to the discovery are
nearly;, as follow :—On the Sunday morning Mrs.
Taylor went to the pump in order to fill a tea-
ke'.tle for breakfast : on pumping the water, she
&.)served that it was rather milky, but paid no
`turther attention to the circumstance: After
drinking the tea,_ the whole. family, consisting of
Mr. and Mrs. Taylor, four children, and two ser-
vants, were seized with the most excruciating pains
in the stomach and bowels, accompanied with ex-
treme nausea and sickness. This led them to pc-
amine
.the water in the tea-kettle, at the bottom
of whiCh they found a quantity of white powder.—
They then went to the pump, where they likewise
found a large quantity of the same sort of powder
in the cylinder, and strewed round the inside. of the
pump. Medical assistance was sent for, when the
powder, on examination, proved to be arsenic ; the
usual remedies were immediately applied,. happily
with success, The family, however, still- remain'.
extremely weak, from the deleterious effels of the
poison.
A judicious Writer remarks, that " to live with
satisfaction to one's/self and others, to procure as
many comforts of life as are consistent with our
mental and bodily-constitution, and to_ avert. im-
pending danger, or, in other words;. to preserve
ourselves from the injurious attacks •of external
agents, are nearly the whole of wl3,at rdates to the
praaiiHiTpait ofTitfman life."=2-g-then to live with
satisla‘dion to ourselves and others is so desirable,
• hoiC, can we accomplish it when deprived of that
which is more to be esteemed than gold and trea-
sure ? that which enlarges the' soul—that which,
when possessed, leaves little more tosbe wished for—
, that which, when wanted, is the greatest of wants--
even that which is the greatest. of all blessings,
namely,* Health ! The principal source or misery,
then, being the loss of this great jewel, it behoves
us to find a remedy for those disewes which 'have
hitherto baffled the skill of the Faculty, namely,
Nervous, ConsumptiMe, and Hypochondriae.' If
any one man has ever been more successful than
another, it is Dr. SoLoteox, who-has brought his
Cordial Balm of Gilead to such perfection, that it
never fails removing the worst and most crabbed
disorders of this• nature. It always eXhilarates apd
Cheers the spirits. •