The Sun.
London, England, 1809-09-19 00:00:00

CLERKE.MVELL SESSIONS, SEPT. 18.

• This day the Sessions of the Peace. for the county
of Niiddirsex commenced before Mr. MAIN‘VAiIING

an:, the Bench of Justices.
The Grand Jury were called over and sworn.
:Mr MAINwARING, undemanding that many of
the Gentlemen summoned upon the present Grand
J.ery,'had never attended in the discharge of this
duty .before, thought, it proper to remind them, that,
in deciding on the :cases that should come before
them, they owne.l4l. find as true .bills, such only-as
appeared:-to be supported by probable and credible
evidencpe rejooiug such as they should think
letoelbsl iLi inal,tee, attetored •to be waintained
by prevaricat;on, They weL.lid also remember, that
their decisi ns were tot)e:carriedon, not as in-most
other Societies, by a simple majority ; but that the
law. required, that twelve of 6- •tn, at the .least,
4houlthagree in -,Their,determinkitton .for finding or
reje&ng the several bills that came before Then).—
lie was not aware chat any case out of the common
'inn would occur in. Abe course of the Sessions;
however, any difficulty should come across theta,
as-,flyer would he sitting under the same roof with
the Ctlut, would • easily receive information,
by aeplv leg to it.
7t -.)Sorait c(77,itson was conviaed of an. assault upon
Susannah Potter and Sarah Knight.. The Defendant
is a juaker of bonnets, and cite of the Prosecutrixs
botalct to ,be aftered ; and they swore that,
upon calline, for it,, and finding it not done accord-
ing tp directions, a, dilenteettrk place between the
parties, and the Defendant struck them boll]. On
the:other hand, two shop girls belonging to the De-
leaden:, swore that their mistress was, the .person
Mu& by the two women. Upon this contradictory
swearing, the Jury gave credit to the former. The
;Court sentenced- tbe.D._ fendan t to pay a fine of six
shillings and eight-pence for each assault, and to be
then discharged.
• Cornelius Maeo.rthy, Eleanor, his wife, and Ca-
therine Macarthy, were indi'aed for an assault upon
Bridge Meh-ny. The Prosecutt ix swore that, pre-
vious to, the 3d of June-last, a quarrel having pre-
viously 'taken place between a child of Cornelius
and her's, on the evening of that day, the three Pri-
soners fell neon her, and Eleanor, encouraged and
assisted by the other two, particularly the woman,
beat her most unmercifully, and :gaVe her a black
eye. -
.She_ denied giving them any provocation.--On
the part of the Prisoners, a witnesssw ore, that, pre-
vious to ,he alleged assault, the Prosecutrix had a
black eye, whiclihe believed wns given her by her
-husband. It was also sworn, that she was in the
• habit of. aggravating and provoking the Prisoner,
1-Eleanor, -abusing her, and charging her with
want of chastity. The husband was acquitted, and
the two. women found . Sentence—Both to
• be imprisoned fourteen days.
- /John Hatchway was iildiaed for an assault on
:Mar) Robertson. In this case there •was a cross in-
dictment between the pKties. The quarrel originated
in consequence of a son of Mary Robertson- having
Liven evidenceat the Old Bailey -against a son of.
FLA hway, who was convitied; and sentenced to
ran portation. The question-was, which commit-
ted,-the first assault? And the Jury giving credit,
tip ihe cross swearing, to The evidence for the
pre3eral prosecution, found the Prisoner Guilty. The
Court sentenced him to be- imprisoned for three
• nioilths in the Coldbath-fields' Prison.
The whole of the trials of this day were for as.:
saultss.of the above description, without interest or
importance.

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Three- cottages were entirely consumed on Mon-
daY'l:3-,i at 'Hiikeitun, -in Devonshire, owing to a
stuall.q dntity uf uuslacked lime being heaped against
ont (.11. ttidai Oat-ill which kindled during the night
:after a shower of 'rain. Au infant, three years old,
unfortunatelfperisiled:inthe.tiatus, and its parents,
in attemptingto rescue it, experienced considerable

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Two men, employed in digging a well at, the town
of :Green., in Scoth:i;d, were killed last week by the
'mephitic vapour y and a third person, who descend-
ed to their as,istabee, was; on a preconcerted signal
dtawn up, apparently lifeless, and with difficulty

recovered.

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• BOW-STREE.T.—Yesterday, a man named William
Thompson &arrow was brought before the Sitting
Magistrate, Mr. READ, charged' on suspicion of
hrrving burglarionsly entered the dwelling house of
Thomas Hardieke, E 544,170. 55, Berner-street, OX=
ford-road, and stealing therein sundry articles of
plate and'wearing apparel.
Frem the.'statemetit of Mr. Hardwicke, it ap-
peared, that he had, with his, familY, been some
time residing in the country, during the repair of his
house. He left two servant women in care of the
premises; and on his return to town, last Thursday
morning, he clscovered that the window of his front
parlour had been forced open, and that his plate
closet, some chests of drawers, and a bureau, had
been broken, and their contents gone.
The servants, who slept in the.attic:stnry, did 'not '
discover ~the burglary,untit o'clock the same
morning,when one of them came down stairs, and
fonqd some tnat ches,an old hai,and other things strew-
ed about, and that a new hat that was hung up over-
tiigtd,was gone. Elie. Williams, one of the women,
said, she believed the hat belonged to the prisoner, a
journeyman painter, employed by iVir.Cobbet, of Bed"-
find-street, Covent-garden, and who had worked in
the house fOr several days before the robbery ; it ap-
peared that he had drank tea with the servants, and
had made minute iniuiries about the situation of the
-wine cellar, chest: of drawers, and other things in
the house. These circumstances, combined with his
absence from his wbak since the robbery, and his
never having applied to his master for -any -wages
since the event, led to a suspicion that he was con-
cerned in the robbery, and he was in consequence
taken into cti-stody. His father was also taken up on
suspicion of: being an accomplice, having been seed
in the house, without any- business there, two days
before the robbery-5 but as there were no. circum-
stances to warrant his committal, he was discharged.
Pearkes, the Officer; who apprehended the Pri-
soner, said he attempted to run away while he was
conveying to the watch-house. .
The Prisoner's employer, Mr. Cobbet, ‘aid, that
since his apprehension he learned from several of his
other workmen that- the Prisoner was a notorious
charaeler ;..had been sentenced some time ago to the
bulks fur surne similar crime. -
The Prisoner denied the fa& of the robbery, and
urged that it -was unjust to detain him without any
proof against him.
Mr. READ, however, thought the charge founded
on such strong grounds,' that he remanded him tor
further examination. . .

A new aqueduct, composed of cast iron, and sup,,
ported by three pillars ot freestone) is about to be
erceited neat Stoney-Straford; the middle pillar is
to be thirty-four feet in height, standing upon a
base cf twenty-six feet long by eight feet wide.
aqueduCt will be one hundred feet long, and in
width eight, feet, and barges of go tons will be able
to pass it. Mr. B. Bevan, the Engineer, attended
by the neighbourits gentry, in the presence .of a
great concourse of people front Sfoney-Stratford and
the sorroundingsleighbourlio(d, laid the first stone
of the zeptedua en the gat instant.
-Accounts are said to haVe been .received from
Prince ot
,Wales Island, stating, that hostilities had
commenced between two, of the native Chieftains on
the Slake River, in the interior of Sumatra, in con-
sequence of which a considerable flotilla of prows
and other. small craft bad been destroyed, and great
damages had been sustained by the inhabitants at the
above River. It is said to be in the contemplation
of the British Government to depute a confidential
servant to attempt a mediation between those
.Powers, Whose disasters have. seriously interrupted
the navieation of that River,' jay which timber in
.large quantities is usually:transported to the extremis.
ties ot the Islsnd. Some very extraordinary intrigues
have lastly been discovered at the Court of °tide, in
which some ecclfriential. servants of the Company
are said to have been implicated. The whole of the
transaction has been_brought before the Bengal Go-
vernment, and will -shortly undergo a thorough in-
Vestigatiou. DOUDU NT au AN,
.who, lately occasion-
ed such serious disturbances in Bundelcund, has, it
is feared, effeded his escape during_ the storming Of
the fort of Ragowley, and retreated -with a band of
desperadoes, to the northward. Lieutenant-C(46nel
IssvvrtiE, however, after the above action, seized the
passes, and made such a disposition of his force, as
to cut off all communication with his suspected par-
tizans. One of the male branches of TirPoo's fa-
mily, who had been remanded to Bengal from My-
sore, has petitioned to be permitted to return ; but
such are his connections and partizans in the South,
-that, at the desire of the reigning Rajah, the request
has been refused. Some commercial arrangements
have lately been made between the.l3engai Govern-
ment_ and several Chieftains on the Coast of the Red
Sea, which promise to be attended with mutual ad-
vantages. The late disputes between the Guzerat
Chiets have not yet been adjusted, and the Resident
at the GWICAWAII'S Court has expressed apprehen-
sions that it will be filially decided by an appeal to
arms. Major-General GOWDI z has been appointed
Commander in Chief of the Army at Fort St.
George. An Officer of one of the late China shit.)
reports, that notwithstanding the settlement of the
recent differences at Canton, and the, re-establish-
ment of commercial intercourse, the principal Man-
darines at that place have evidently conceived an
unfortunate prejudice against the English, which
will not be easily removed. They attribute every
'1 misfortune which befals their people in their trans-
aC:tions with us as entirely owing to an intention on
our part to injure them,. and fail not ors the slightest
pretences to represent their grievance to the superior

power.
, A fine child, belonging to Mr. Vold, of Low •
Foyerton, near Spilsby, died last week, in a state
of raging madness, occasioned by a severe wound, it
received in the face from a dog infected with hydro-
phobia. The injury was received about six weeks
ago ; and although the lacerated. flesh was imme-
diately cutaway, the fatal virus diffused itself through
the whole system.
The work-house at Yaxley was yesterday se' Miight.
burnt to the ground: The fla►fies Also conirmini-
cated to a butcher's house and shop, but they. were
saved by the timely assistance of the engines from
the Barracks.