The Sun.
London, England, 1814-03-15 00:00:00

DARING ROBBERY.

CARLISLE, MARCH s.—the following audacious
occurrence took .olace at Durdar, near Carlisle,
on the morning Tuesday list. Mr. D. Pattin-
son, jun. of this city, having alighted and gone
into the public-house there, a stranger offered to,
take-charge of his mare, . a very valuable animal.
The fellow instantly mounted, and though ob-
served and called upon before he had got many
yards from the door, lie dashed off at fill gallop
,and made his escape.- It was ascertained that he
had- passed through Carlisle about eleven o'clock,
on Tuesday forenoon, whence he was traced to
Crosby, four miles on the'Brompton road ;. and
two o'clock in the afternoon he was seen at Pen-
rith ; the next morning, the mare was dis-
covered about eight miles on this side 9f Ken-
dal, without saddle or bridle, which had 'been
sold at the half-way house between Kendal and
Burton. The fellow mtist have crossed the, country
into the London road, towards Templesowerhy;
as he was not observed by passengers on the Lan-
caster road.. The mare, haS since 'wen brought
home; and, notwithstanding. its great fatigue is in
gond condition. We understand. ,the thief was
recognised in Lancaster on Thursday,last, in a
public-house by- two of the mail coach guards
from this. place, who were inpossession 9f the
description of his person ; -but whilst they went
to procure a constable, the fellow made good his
retreat.

COURT-MARTIAL—At a General-Court-martial,
held at Zugratnondi, on the Ist,and. 2d of No-
vember, 1813, Mr. WilliaM Sisson, Clerk of the
Stores in the department. of the Royal Engineers,
was arraigned upon the under-mentioned charge,

viz. :---

For gross misconduct and neglect of duty, when entrusted
with' Several sums Of Ohne money for the payinent of the
worlcs at Ciudad at Rodrigo, in not having the whole of the
same forthcoming when regularly required' of hin for that
purpose, whereby considerable injury arose to the service,
and in finally being a defaulter in his accounts as to a large
part of the above spms, to the amount Of about 2153 dollars.
The Court found the prisoner guilty, and sen-
tenced him to be dismissed the .SerVice, and rein-
dered for ever incapable of serving his Majessy:
CORONER'S INQUEST.--.•A man of the name .of
John Ryan, reSiditg at No. 5, Pettyforth-court,
Little Drury-lane, was taken up on Sundaylast,
on suspicion of 'murdering his wife, Mary Ryan.
She died on Wednesday last, and it was reported
that her death was in consequence of ill-usage
and beating received from her husband. She was
to be buried on Sunday, but the searchers who
visited the body made their report to the Church-
wardens, that the deceased had the marks of great
violence and bruises on several parts of her body,
in consequence of which Ryan was taken into cus-
tody on Sunday evening and lodged in .the watch-
house, and the Coroner issued his warrant to
summon a Jury, which assembled yesterday .at the
New George,- in Little Drury-hone, before AN-
THONY GELL, Esq. Coroner for Westminster. It
appearing, however, by the evidence of a Surgeon,
that the deceased appeared to have (Ueda a mor-
tification, and that there were no marks of bruises
or violence, and by , the testimony of Sarah
Haines,' widow, whd lodged in the - house, that
though she bad frequently heard the deceased
cry out through her hAsband!s ill-usage, she did
not know of airy in-:treat:ocm given to the deceas-
ed for two mouths past, but that the deceased was
very ill with 'an asthma, the Jury returned a
verdict—Died a natural death through the visitation
of God.