The Sun.
London, England, 1813-01-26 00:00:00

POLICB.

MAILBOItOUOO.STREET.-...F0r Seier4ll/tyS past,
and particularly on Sunday se'nnight, gangs ;Of
pickpockets have mixed in the promenade in Hyde-
park, and on the day stated a watch and, several
Othee, articles were stolen. Last Sunday several.
trifling robberies were committed, and two noto-
rious characters were taken into custody,. one 'nf
whom was seen to introduce his hands into the
pocket of a gentleman, and steal a handkrrchief,
which he illfittintly • handed to his companion:.
„Toth-prisoners were taken into custody on the
spot, ond they wore yesterday examined at this
office. They were remanded, to give other per-
sons who have Theen_ robbed an opportunity of
identifying them.
jpkie,.4.,.alias Lewis, the female who has coal-
mittedsO many frauds on tradespeople at the West
end of the town, by taking a house in Berkeley-
square, and representing Jierself as the house-
keeper of the 'Honourable 'Mrs. liailey,• for whom
she pretended to have taken it, .was fully commit-
ted for trial -On Saturday: In addition to the
multiplicity of charges made on' former day, se-
veral others were exhibited our this occasion. The
husband of the prisoner was dischai.Aed, us he eld
not appear to have been privy to the dishonesty of
the woman.',.

MURDER 00 MR.. Ito:3MS .-/rilligni //Otte,
alias John
.mood, charged with this criaur, wbo,
we stated a few days since, was traced from Wor-
ceper to the Castle and Falcon in Aldersgate-
street, and front thence to a (mart in Bishopsgate-
street, underwent a long examination, on,Satur-
day, at Stafford, lvfore a _Bench of Magistrates.
The fatal ball that was extracted from the body of
Air. Robins was prOdueed, and compared with the
balls found in the box belonging to the prlsoner,
when it was found exactly to correspond. with
them, all of them having a small dent on the side,
and a pin mark in the centre of the dent. Six-
teen witnesses were examined, proving the pri-
soner to .be. near Stourhridge on the evening of
the robbery and murder of Mr.linbins, and within
ten Minutes' walk. of the .spot at the time the
horrid deed was perpetrated. The prisoner was
fully committed for trial at the ensuing Assizes for
the county of Stafford.

Atet.--.On Friday morning a duel took place
ou Ithlckheathetween the Hon. -- and Mr.
C--, of Greenwich. The ball of the former
slightly grazed Mr. C-'s hand, who immedi-
ately discharged his pistol in the air, and the af-
fair MIS amicably adjusted. Neither of the parties
are 20 years,of age.

YesterdAy morning Beiifamin "Mem, Joseph
Ifinter, and Joh,' Tey or, for Stealing several
bales of silk, &c. oat of the Sisters hog, together
with -John Lei»►care, fur forgery, were executed at
the front of Newgate, pursuant to their sentence.
During the lust week the prisoners had endeavoar-
ed to make their escape, by removing O►►e of the
stones in the place where they were conf►ned, hot
were (Escovered iu coßsetpitmee .of their making
so much noise. There were about 200 constables
round the !dace of execution ; and' a great num-
ber of people collected on 0.! occasion.

Tug Ftstiewins.—Wc have little doubt but that
most of our readers will be happy to learn, that
the public attention will very shortly he called to
the consideration Of emending the great benefits
to be deriVed I.:lnn the British fisheries, It ap-r
pears by an aceonnt which has just been published
from the pen of a worthy Baronet to whose ac-
tive and benevolent exertions the public are'
greatly Judebte,, that, in llay last, inforenition
was obtained of large quantities of fresh macke-
rel being destroyed in the river Thames ; and in
consequence an agreement was made with 50ine
fishermen; for purchasing at the rate of a penny a
mackerel the surplus fish which .‘watild otherwise,
have been destroyed. Under thi4 contract, many
thousands' of, those surplus mackerel were daily
sold to the Spital-fields wearers and others, at a
penny a piece ; and the Supply of the metropolis
was thereby so much increased, that five hundred
thousand Mackerel. Were sold In one day at Bil-
litigsgate. COntracts were at the same time
snide for wholesale quantitieit of corned Cod,which
nee now selling in-our manufacturing towns at
prime cost.
Nothing strews the importance of vaccination
more coospicimusly titan the Glasgow', bilk of
mortality. In' that popttious city only 40 died of
the•small-pox in the year 1811; and in the year
1812 only 34. • •
.It has been mentioned that cast-iron, "when at
a certain degree of bent, maybe cut like a piece
of wood with a Saw: The discovery is
announced in a letter from M. Daum!, direetor of
the iron-works at Montalaire, to M. P:Axcet,
published 'in the Annales de Chemie. This..expe-
riment.was tried at Glasgow, on Monday,with
complete suceesi, by a gentleman of the
phieal SocietY there, will, in preience of the
workman belonging to a respectable irotitrionger,
cut with the greatest ease a bar'of cast-iron, pre-
vlously heated AO a cherry red, with a eonnini'n.
carpenter's saw, the course of less than two
minuteS,the saw being not in theleast injured by
the operation, • . •
On Saturday, as a party of the Wiltshire
litia were escorting sortie deserterS:from Andover
to 'Winchester, one of them, coniniainitig of lame.
ness, was 'allowed to proceed in cOtnpaily with
one of the aeon ; they thus proceeded until they
were nearly:arrived at this city; when the deser-
ter, mal,itig some (rifling excuse, went into a field
adjoining,' and was followed .by the guard ; here
the foruier tonic the opportunity to knock the
guard down, and endeavoured to wrest front him
his • nalsk et, using Many threatening imprecations;
but not succeeding- in his attempt, he ran off the
gliard, recovering himself, fired, and struck hint in
'the leg, Whfch wait' so much wounded, that he
was obliged to have it taken off, -
A
fire broke -but on Friday night, at' nine
o'clock, in the seed warehouses of litessm Blair
and Co. at Botolpit Wharf, Lower Thtriesstreet,.
but which Was fortunately discovered tittle enough
to save the premises from being destroyed.