The Sun.
London, England, 1809-11-22 00:00:00

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John Rason,
LesitYing 'in -America-square, was brought before
Avessrs. READ and GRAHAM, last night, from the pit
of Covent Garden Theatre, charged by Mr. Brandon
With having excitedtimnult and uproar in the pit,'
,t2continued.artificial fits of sneezing and c6ughing:
441. Brandon further stated, that from 'the COM:.
tneDC-NDecit of the performance till half-price, 'per-,
1612)rdef and tranquility had prevailed, but 'on f.O
-entrance of the prisoner, his conduti induced otlierS,
‘l'llo bad been previously quiet, to riot and commo.
lion;
This charge was corroborated by Mr. Davis; the
tarveyor, of Bloomsbnry,square, who witnessed the
'eotidna of the prismner, and saw him behave in a
Thost unbecoming manner to several of the.respol,7„
Able part of the audience. _
Mr. Robson declared, that his sneezing and..
'Coughing were perfe&ly natural,and aroSe.Solelyfroin
the clouds of dust that were floating about . the pit.
41e felt himself perfealy easy, however, as to the
result of the charge exhibited against him, as.he was
conscious he had exerted himself in a righteous

cause.
Ordered to,find bail, which he did in a few mi-
nutes, and was discharged.
He then expressed a desire to make a complaint
against Lyons, ,ne of the officers who took him into
custody, for having assaulted his brother while corn-
ing from the Theatre, t,y pushing his staff in his
face; but .14ons having declared that the young
inan alluded to, bad-come before hire and interrupt-
ett-bini in his progress, he had been induced to put
out his staff to keep him off and prevent the rescue
of his prisoner.
Under these circumstances, Mr. READ refused to
teceivz; the charge, and said the officer had merely
aced in conformity with his duty.
Mr. Robson exhibited a most tattered appearance.,
bis coat being slit from the skirts to the collar behind,
end one of the lappels was nearly torn off in front.

MARIZOROUGII•ST.REET.-Simpson, charged with
having committed a rape on a child twelve years old,.
Was fully committed for trial.
A woman of the name of Lard, a Pretended pro-
Ptetess, was committed for defrauding Ann Smith
1 ii. 17s. under pretence of disclosing future events,
he defendant obtained the money at various times,
amt she also obtailled possession of the greater part
the,cloaths of the credulous girl, who was a servant
in Tottenham-court-road. The prosecution was
instituted by the complainant's mistress.
yesterday con=

HATTON -GA.FIDEN .--A person was yesterday
Nli6ted in the penalty of 301. for working a Private
Still, in Russell Mews 1 goo gallons of wash were
'Carried to the Excise Office, besides the apparatus
for distillation.

' In Norway there are three parties struggling for
the ascendancy. Of these, the togst numerous and
tespeclable is for independence ; the next for an
Union with Sweden; and the third, and least consi-
derable is, for continuing under the Sovereignty of
Denmark.
As a hackney-coacbmait of the name of Hiveson,
alto had taken up a fare at Covent-garden Theatre,
tTicl who was inebriated, was proceeding along Bel- -
ton-street, on Monday night, he fell from his box
'and tra6tUred his skull in so shocking a manner, that
be died on being conveyed to the hospital. The
horses proceeded on with the coach, without the
knowledge of the pers'ims within, that the accident
happened, and it was turned over in St. Giles's, but
to person was hurt.
1 About three weeks since, as a servant of Mr. R.
Turner, farmer, of Stamford-le-Hope, in the county
'of Essex, was riding a horse belonging to his master,
in a field at West Thurrock, in the same county, the
animal shyed at something in the way, and backing
with his rider, fell into an old well in the fieldwhich
Lad not been sufficiently closed, and was only co-
Tered with bushes. In his fall, he of course went
down backwards, with the servant, upon hiS
To the astonishment of every person who saw 'the
circumstance, the young man, with great agility,
cleared his feet from the stirrups, climbed upwards,
by means of the horse's head, and got out of the
well unhurt. The horse was so terribly, bpisycl,
and at the same time so completely wedged intu:
the
well, that it was impossible to get him out alive ; he
,Was left there, and the well will be filled up .over

[As there was a trifling error in the following ,paragraph
yesterday, we arc requested to repeat it.]
On Sunday the iith ult. in the 74th year of his
age, at his house at Bath, died, John Monck, Esq.
late of the Royal Crescent in that City; he was for-
merly' a Student. of Ch. Ch. Oxford, and a Barrister
Of the Honourable Society of Lincoln's-inn, but de-
' clined his Profession early in life, in consequqnee of.
a defeCt of eye-sight, occasioned by -an accident that
happened to him at Rome, when on his travels. He
Was nephew to the first Earl of Darnley, whose sister
`-(his mother) died at her house (now Holy lands
Hotel) at the bottom of Cecil-street, in the year
71775, at the advanced age of 85 ; his father, also,
',who was Attorney-General at Jamaica, in 1721,
tinder the then Duke of Portland, whose daughter,
Aady Isabella Bentinck, his eldest nephew, 'Mr.
H. Monck, great-uncle to the present Lord Vis•
count MOnck, married, died at theadyanced age of
75, in the same house. Mr. lir has left behind
him a fortune of 130,0.001. sterling, )0,0001. of
.which he has bvqueathed to his seoood son John
Berkeley Monck, E;q• of Reading, to be vested in
landed estates, and to be strialy entailed upon the
male issue successively, of all his children, brat in
default of such issue, then to the heir male of
Lord Viscount Monck, its Ireland. He has :_thus
endeavoured to restore to a small part at least
of its former dignity, the younger branch of
an ancient and noble family, established, says
. Camden, for fourteen generations at Potheridge,
near Torrington, in Devonshire, maternally de-
scended from the Valleforts, the Champeruoons-,
and the Plantagenets, and since allied to the iiB,oe
houses of Cavendish and Bentinck, and to other" f,:-
• milies of the first distinction in Ireland, as well as in
England. From this ancient House proceeded• the
Dukes of 'Albemarle, the first of whom was: the
much celebrated warrior, by sea as well as on laud,
Ike faaous .General Mond:.