The Sun.
London, England, 1809-09-20 00:00:00

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Bow-sTttuT..-7-IYestetidayattl4lowins,Ar.iyer,Of
the Gloucester wail coach, was,tiroll yffxamined:upon
ichargq of having embezzled Bank-, notes ty.tlie •
amount _ot 5 61..trte property of Mr,
broker, a passenger in the ckirliage„, It -appeared;
from, Mr. Capel's,evidence, that he took his pass,tgo
• in the. coach frp.tri the Angel Inn, behind St. Cle-
time of his entering
the carriage ite,.had the Bank notes in his pocket.—
On 1)j:. arrival at. Oxford lie quitted the coach, ;and
in .about twenty.minutes he,missed his notes, antlye-
turned to search the coach, in which the Prisoner
assisted; but the search was fruitless.
. .
Sayers,.the Officer, stated in gyitknce; that iu
consequence of instruilions he received,- he went to
the Prisoner, and. advised . him to acknowledge at
once how he came by the note he had passed to Mrs.
Stevenson. The Prisoner for a long time persisted
in saying. he bad found it. Sayers told him he was,
going down, to Oxford to search his.
,house, upon •
which the PI isuner acktio‘A !edged he had found the
notes in the
.coach, just after Mr. Capel had left it ;
and be gave Sayers a letter to his wife, desiring, her
to deliver up to him the Bank notes in her posses-
sion, which she did, and they corresponcLd exactly
with those Mr. Cape! had lost.
The Prisoner was fully committed for trial.. •
• A number of young meri were brought before the
Magistrate, charged with having been aiding and
abetting in riotous-proceedings at Covent-Garden
Theatre, on Monday The most serious
Charge against any of hem was against a young man
who is a Clerk in the Office of the Commander in
Chief, and who was alleged to have been sernkick.-
ing one tale- box doors of the hinges.

The young man pleaded that -/iavilig dined with
some friends, he was somewhat inebriated, and that
he was Mduced to mix in the general clamour by the
example of all about. •him. He-acknowledged his
error, and expressed his regret for it ; but he was.
held to hail for his appeasance at the Sessions.
The other charges were for miking a noise, at-
tempting to put out the candles, and other such
crimes and intsderneanors. The young Men had
been all night in custody, and they were ordered to
find hail for their appea►ance, which they instantly
entered,-and were lib.: rated.

MARLBOROUGH-Ent EET.;---Three, young Allen
were yesterday charged at this Office with having
forged and uttered tiaii;Ons c:ne-pound Bank of
England notes:. The prisoners are suspeaed
.to
have been the real makers of thdse thou-
sands.' or which-,lfave been lately circulated. There
are others concerned win) are not. yet taken, and
consequently It would defeat the furtherance ofjus-
tice to state more particulars.

UNION-HALL.—Yesterday Mr. Eliston under-
went his third and final examination, when it' being
stated hy.Mr. HUMPHREYS, that no farther evidence
mould be produced against his client, " that Gentle-
man repeated hi.; former arguthents in favour of Slr.
Eli ion being admitted to bail.
Sro JOHN PINHORN observed, that'cOuld be follow
his own indinations, he would most willingly ac-
cede to the of the parties, and admit Mr.
Eliston to bail ; but he felt that his duty impera-
tively called or. him to adopt a different hee of con-
duct, and ;:onnnit him tor trial ; an application,
hots ever, might be made to a'Judge who he. had
DO• doubt would. admit 11;m to (Sir(S'
would go further, it was his:opinion that on the'
evidence as it, now stood, the Grand Jury would not
find 21 bill against the Prisoner.
Mr.
Humentivs•sdvl, he felt it his duty to sub-,
rnitimPlicitty to the decision of the Magistrate, and
should adopt the coarse of proceeding which he had
recommended, namely, of making 'an application to
a Judge.
Mr. Eliston was then fully committed to.take
trial, ilk thing the pistol with• intent to murder Miss
Colson. .

-Elizabeth Holland was charged by Mrs. :Woad-.
ingot Pitt's-place, Kent-romf,,with stealing a shawl,. •
ialue.three guineas. She was remanded for ano-
ther examination, when it is expeCted other charges
of a similar.nature will be_ brought against her. •

• ,
DISTRESS AT SEA.7---Extra& from the tog:or }the
snow Eliza, of Londvu, SoUTHERN master, arrived
off Penzance :--September I, at 5 a. in. in lat. 47.
1 t.• N. lung, 41.39. W. after a tremendous hurn'-
cane on the asst August, saw_three siril of ships
with main-top-masts gone ; and at half-past five,
p. m., saw a ship dismasted and water logged ; the
weather being moderate, we lowered our boat do
an i ,went on board with four men, in order to see it
any one was left on board,' botfound nobo,ly ;. nei-
ther could I learn her name, but she appeared to be
a .Scotch built brig, with a flush desk, and much
rake in her, stern, with a black stern, had been for-
merly green, with two cabin window,s, tarred top-
side, with a broad white paint streak, and two yel-
low mouldings above ; both her-lower-masts left in
thirty-two cants, about six feet above,the deck, and
painted yellow : I recollect her being convoy with us,
tinder his Majesty's ship Foxhhound.—Spoke the
Swan, is.NwicK, who informs us that the Young
John had foundered.

On Wednesday last, the Lord Provost, Magis-
trates, and Council of Edinburgh, conferred the tree=
doin, of the ciiy on the following gentlemen, vie. Sir
David Baird, Batt. K. B. ; Rear-Admiral S.ir Ed-
mond.Nagle ; Captain James Nash, Royal .Navy ;
and John Spottiswoode, Esq. of Spottiswoode.
On Monday the wife of Jaseph Rice, not more
than four feet high, who lives in Lamb-alley; Bi-
shopsgaie-street„ was brought to bed of three fine
children, two girls and,a Goy, who, with the mo-
ther, are likely to do well. The husbiod, wli'o is a
boot-closer, is much about the same height as the
wife.

The Grand Day approaches ! The 20th orf. .tiext.
~,Month will be remembered by many with joy and
.satistattion io the last hour of their lives, for on that
single day the immense sum of Two Hundred Thou-
sand Pounds will be distributed in Prizes, by The
Drawing of the State Lottery, which_ will begin and
knish in One Day.