The Sun.
London, England, 1807-10-01 00:00:00

.4 IT 7A77) 4_ E. l? .

On Tuesday se'nnight, an elderly man, genteelly
dresSed, applied to Mrs. Rut, who, owns three
houses, elegantly furnislied, in Holles-street; Cavell*
disli-squats, to hire one of them, for 'which he
agreed to'PPY nino hundred gUliteas for three years;
and represented bin-Bell:AO bejust come from tho
eonntry;
,and hardly,..knew any person in London.
Ile ;having much the appearance of 'a Gentleman,
Mr9.4Rost let him the bause upon his own repro-'
4erlttition:'' He told her he ltoiald• take possessitin of
the house on the Thursday, and should send iirsome
of his servants.

On Thursday this:person, and a Man and Woman,
servant, took possession of the house. The servants
had,not been long in, before Mrs. Rust inquired Of
Wein some particulars respe6ting their master, when,
instead of their, proying to, be servants who had
lived-with him some time in the country, they did
not even know his name, he having only hirecl'thexu
the day previous', in consequence of their advertising
for places jn , a newspaper; this led Mrs. Rost to
suspetk ,that all was not right, in which she was
shortly confirmed, by a number pf persons of very
strange -appearance, coming after -nim, arid great
quantitio of various goods being. brought in, which
she' could not learn had beetf,paid for she there._
fore determined to get rid of him.
some brushes had been sent in from a ,tradeStnan
she knew ; she communicated her suspicions, and
advised .him to apply, for his money ; this,he did on
Saturday afternoon. Mrs. Rust remained at the
parlour dour while .he made his application, and on
the payment being promised on Mon Jay, she called
out that he should either have'shis money or his
goods back ; and the cash not belt* forthcoming,
the tradesman took his.goods away with him.—
While Mrs. Rust was 'attending the settlement of,
this business, a.than was admitted, and left a barn-
per of brandy in the hall ; and a waggon-load of
coals'was just drawn up to .the dour. Mrs. Rust
went,to the men, and assuring them their master
would never be, paid tor the coals, they took them
back. The Coal-Merchant sent information. of this
circumstance to the Brandy and 'WinermerChant,
and he sent and got his liquOrS 'back ; and by the
assistance of Mrs. Rust, all the tradesmen who set
iiigoods were tomid out, and got them all back,
except six Ozer) of wihe, a large basket full of
candies, and 'a call's head. Mrs: Rust told every
one. who came after herlenani; her Opinion ; a party
was appoi:ited to,dine on Monday, but Mrs. Rust
drove them a.t away from the house as fast as they
cruse, and the call's head alone was diessed.forhis
dinner and the. servants. •

The fellow Panes to be Gilchrist, a notorious
swindler,. who has for several years. past committed
a number of depredations in ready-furnished houses.
Mrs. Rust inis, as it were, fairly drummed him out
of her. house.

A double kind of a' loot-race .was 'run yesterday
morning in Newingtett, between Mr. Wyatt, ti Gen
tleman of fortune, who resides jn the New 'Road,
Mary .k-bone, and Mr. Humphreys, of Adon, The
'distance .Was two miles, for tts guineas, and another
25suineas was betted by Mr. Wyatt,'. that be per.:
formed the distance in 13 minutes. The Coitplerun
well togetherfor a mile, Mr. Huniphreys having taken
toe lead, closely followed by his adversary. The mile
was pertOrmed in a few seconds under the six mi-
nutes, and whilst running the last mile, Mr. Wyatt
pushed, and took the Iced, which he kept, and won
the race easily. Mr. Humphreys havingrfoUnd it im-
possible for him to pais .his opponent,'resigned the
match whilst• going the last halt mile:. The winner
of tot race beat time also, by Italia minute.
A Coroner's Inquest sat yesterday at a public-
house below Putney, on the bocjy of Miss Emily
flendley, who was untbrtunately droi,yned 'on Me,-
day last, by a boat sinking. It appeared tll:3t the
young Lady in question,:who was only 22 years of
age, was returning to London . in a boat managed, by
anntiskiltill party of tour young men, and they Were
unavoidably run down by a cutter, and the side Qt
the boat was staved. The rest of the company,
including an elderly. Lady, and the four young
men, escaped before the boat sunk, bot the deeeased,,
by her Main], threw herself out of the boat; and
her body was not, picked up" for above an hour. She
was the daughter of a than . of. property, at Maple-
durhant, QxfOrdshire, and was on a fortnight's visit
ste the family Of Mr. Southby,4tor, at Lambeth.
bleat!.

On Sunday se'nnight, as Samuel Hillman, :a
baigemen, was seeking mushrooms,: in .a brook ad-
joining'an old cut of 1 river, near Old Eye, he saw
floating on the water, a hat, and his nearer ap-
preach, discovered, hutuertied,and in an Position,
the body of a man. He procured'assistance,.and soon,
dragged it to the land, troru whence it wassrentoyed.
to the, Thatched House, in South-street,, Lewes,
where the remains of the unfortunate man were re-
cognked, and
,proved to be those of Mr. PODL4Y,
a farmer of Hartheld, who, between eight and nine
o'clock on Saturday night, left 'the Wheat Sheaf, in
Lewc, hor'seback, to go home,
bm contrary tolhe advic,: of the landlord and others,
as he %.yas much inebriate,.!. At his departure
,he
took the, right obtuse, and how he could have pur-
sued one so Contrary as that whiCh led to his fand
catastrophe must `bate been, it is difficult to zisCerr
lain. Oti the brink of the river,. nigh to Where the
body was tOund, there appealed evid..fut marks of a
horse's plunging, as if to avoid the Water. The ani•L
,at block Marc, and apparently in foal, was. on
Sunday morning observed gra4ing near Sontheram,
by a person, who, from three fresh wounds which
Piet off-flank exhibited, concluded ahe belonged
to a smuggler, and had thus suffered, through tide
illegal praalices of ber. master ; but the wounds, it
is believed, were inflialed by the deceased, as in,his
pock'ets were found three case.knives, and nbutcher's
knife,'sherithed, but much stained with blood. The:
knives were all new, and most likely purehased on'
Saturday, for domestic 'purposes, though so Cruelly
applied by the Man, under the influence of, intexi-
Cation, and probably to impel the poor animal ,for—
ward,,through difflcuLt,passes, to his own deStruc-
tlon. His watch and about twelve guineas in cash-
and notes, found in his breeches pockets, ere taken
proper care of. He , has left at widow and two or
three children to bewail his loss.