The Sun.
London, England, 1814-04-12 00:00:00

EXTRAORDINARY CASE.

On Sunday, about twelve o'elocki a labonring
man, on passing through Kensington
.Gattlens,
observed a man respectably dressed lying on a
quantity of bay in the woody part of the Gardens,
in a very bloody state, and apparently then bleed-
ing very taw. The Man •hastened to procure as-
sistance,. and the firSt person he , met with was
Mr. Willis, of Kensington, the Colonel of the Vo-
lunteers, who, after seeing this object of distress,
went to procure more assistance, and met with
Bacon, the conductor of the ',wok heldagieg to
the Public Office, Bow-street, who has the super*
inteudance of the gardens. They found the man
not only bleeding very fast at the left aria, his
clothes very wet and muddy. The acconnt• he
gave of himself wits, that lie was a Captain in the
Navy, that he , had been walking in K(asiefgton
Gardens on Saturday evening, and sat dowe to
rest in one of the close covered seats, and fell
asleep, And did not awake till, the discharge of
the • Park guns awoke hint soon after, eight
o'clock ;. he then left his seat and was proceeding
near the basin, when he vas shot in his left arm
and drove into the basin by robbers, who after-
wards dragged him out of the water and robbed
bhn of cash and notes to the amount of 101. and
-they-made their way clear off. He could not meet
with any body co give him assistance ; he could
not find his way out of the gardens ; and when he
came to the hay he laid himself down on the hay,
and had been au weakened from the loss of blood,
'that he had not been able to remove from the.
hay.. He was aAted, what had become of the bul-
let which had shot • his arm 'he replied, he had
picked, it out of -his arm, and he did not know
what had become of it. His pen-knife was found
in his boot, but it *as not in a bloody state. He was
conveyed to St. George's Hospital, where the sur-
geon found{ that the wound was given in the left arm,
just above • the bend of the arm,. about the place
,where persons are usually bled,;' it was about the
size of a hallpetiny„ of very little depth, the Sur-
geon thought it too large for a bullet. But the
mystery attached tt• the circumstance is, that the
spot where he was shot, robbed, and drove iuto
the water, is opposite the .palace where there are
three centinels, plenty of lights, which any person
must haVe seen, there being no trees or anything
to impede the view. The centineis on, duty at
and near the Palace, who were on duty at the
tune the umeer -staLta the attack- ttpcm him to
have taken place, none Of them heard the discharge
•of fire-arms. He stated himself to be Captain
Birsay, of his Majesty's packet the Nymph, and
that he lodged, when in London, at the Bell and
Crown Inn, Holborn. Inquiry has been made
at the Bell and Crown Inn, and his account ap-
pears to hepertectlycorrect, and that he is perfect ly
correct and steady. We are happy to say that he
is in a fair way of recovery.

DUCHESS OF OLDENEUEOH.—Yesterday morn-
ing, about half-past eleven o'clock, her Iniperi4
Highness left Pulteney Hotel with her usuakytio
tendants, and proceeded to Surpon's Half, Lin-
coln's-Inn-fields;. after viewing the building and
the curiosities,•the Royal •Stranger proceeded to
the Foundling Hospital ; trot thence to Barker's
Panorama, in the Strand ; and-concluded her
day's visits by inspecting Burlington House. The
Royal Duchess returned to Pulteney Hotel, by
Bond-street, Oxford-street, Hyde Park, &c. to
Piccadilly.
ASTLETT, who has been so long confined in
Newgate, we understand, has received a pardon
from the PRINCE REGENT, on the .condition of
remaining for one.month only to adjust his adairs
in England, and afterwards to become an exile
for life.