The Sun.
London, England, 1822-03-19 00:00:00

FUNERAL OF MRS. DONATTY.

The remains of this unfortunate woman were interred in
St: Andrew's Church-yard, Holborn, yesterday morning. At
nine o'clock, two mutes were placed at the door of the house,
in Robert-street, and in consequence, a considerable crowd
was attracted to the spot. Among those who were present, and
who accompanied the corpse to its last home, were David Do-
natty, the elder brother to Michael ; David Donatty, the
younger, the toll-keeper in Fleet-street ; Mr. Field, the So-
licitor of Clifford's Lin, the trustee under Michael's will ; a
Mrs. Tomkins, who claimed to be sister to the deceased, her
daughter, and a person of the name of Harvey, a friend of the
deceased. Previous to the coffin's being screwed down, the
lid was removed, and all the parties above mentioned ap-
proached the body. David, the younger, came first, and
touched the face and hands.- Mrs. Tomkins followed, and
then David, the elder, came forward from the door, where he
had been in conversation. He also touched the face, saying,
" I have no objection, to touch the poor creature, for I never
did her any harm." His countenance did not betray any par-
ticular agitation. The girl, Mary Young, who had lived with
the deceased at the time of her murder, was also placed by the
side of the coffin, but she was perfectly unmoved. The coun-
tenance of the deceased was perfectly placid. There was the
mark of a severe contusion on her right cheek, as if produced
by a violent blow, -and there was likewise a small scar on the
knuckle of the fore-finger of the right hand, oceasioned, no
doubt, by her resistance to the murderer's intention. A gen-
tleman who was present, and who was one of those who first
entered the house with the watchman and patrole, said, that
when he saw the body, it looked to him as if the head bad
been held on the ground in the same position as a butcher
would hold a sheep while killing it, and the character of the
wound confirmed this supposition. On a further inspection of
the premises yesterday morning, it was evident from the win-
dow on the first landing place being open when the murder
was discovered, and there being a scrape down the bricks on
the outside, that the inhuman perpetrator escaped that way,
and not through the backdoor, as was at first believed. Mr.
Taylor, the Vestry Clerk, was present, and took an active part
in examining every thing calculated to throw a light on the
subject. At ten o'clock the procession moved off. It con-
sisted of a hearse and pair, and a single mourning coach. It
was followed by an immense crowd to the church.
HAT T 0 N-GARDEsr..--Several persons underwent examina-
tion yesterday morning, but their evidence was not of a nature
to furnish any clue to the discovery of the perpetrators of the
murder.

CORONER'S INQUEST.

ACCIDENT AT THE SOUTH LONDON OAS MANLT.

FACTORY.

Yesterday an Inquest was held at the General Abercrombie,
Friar-street, Surrey-road, before Mr. SHELTON, Coroner for
the county, on the body of John Morgan, a tank-maker, of
Dudley, who was killed on Friday last by the bursting of a
water-tank, at the Gas Works in Wellington-street.—Thomas
flees deposed, that he lives near Dudley ; is in the employ of
Messrs. Grazebrook and Son, of Stourbritige ; was sent before
Christmas to put together the tank in question, and another:
When the accident happened, was engaged repairing a crack-
ed plate, which T-vas discovered about a month since ; the tank
leaked, which is not uncommon ; has known the same take
place ,before. Witness and deceased were fellow-workmen-;
they had before put a patch on the faulty plate, which was too
small, as the crack had. extended ; they were going to put on
a larger one of wrought iron, and were proceeding with the
work, when the iron-hoop, which 'surrounds the tank, fell off;
they all ran away, but returned soon after, to try and put the
hoop on again. The deceased then climbed up the tank to throw
dust in from a basket, to stop the leak. Witness called out,
"Morgan come away, it is sure to burst ;" was trying to pull
away the hoop, when the water burst over him, and carried
him 15 or 18 yards otf. Came to himself, and looked after the
deceased, who was driven about 30 yards ; he was groaning
and gasping for breath, and bled out of the ear ; witness got
some one to carry hint to a dry place, but he died before the
Doctor came.
It. Monro, Esq. Deputy Chairman to the Company, de-
scribed in a very clear and elaborate manner the dimensions
and substance of the tank ; and a conversation then took place,
by which it appeared that the gas had nothing whatever to
do with this. fatal occurrence, the works where the accident
took place never having yet been brought into action by the
Company.
This fact was given in evidence from a question asked by
one of the Jury, who said he put it to correct an erroneous im-
pression which had been made on the public mind.
Edward Evans, surgeon, deposed as to the state in which he
found the body, and the ury, without any hesitation, found a
Verdict of " Accidental Death."

LENT ASSIZES.

CHELMSFORD, MARCH 16.

CONSPIRACY.-THE XING V. JOSEPH CHURCH.

This was an indictment against the defendant and two other
persons, named Brown and Archer, fora conspiracy to obtain,
under false pretences, 152 sheep, from one John Davis, with
intent to defraud him of the same, at Harlow, on the 9th of
September, 1820. The other defendants did not appear to take
their trial. . _ _

The case proved in evidence was this :—The prosecutor, a
Denbighshire grazier, was attending Harlow Cattle Fair in ,
September, 1820, with 152 sheep for sale. The defendant en- ,
tered into a treaty with him for the purchase of them at the price
of 1201. He gave him a' bill for 501., accepted by a person named
P. H. Harley, Grosvenor Hotel, payable at the banking-house
of Messrs. Hankey and Co., and drawn by the prisoner. Whilst
they were in treaty, another of the defendants, named Archer,
came up in agig, and the defendant Church borrowed of him a
bill for 751., drawn upon and accepted by Brown, in the name
of Lord Viscount Montagu, of Storrington-hall, Sussex, payable
at Mr. Champ's, Baptist-chambers, Chancery-lane, two months
after date. The prosecutor took these bills, but when they
became due they were respectively dishopoured. The defend-
ant Church had. sold 70 of the sheep to a horse-dealer in Gos-
well-street-road, where, it appeared; Mr. Brown, alias Lord
Viscount Montagu, had applied to know whose sheep they'
were, and desired the horse-dealer to sell them at his peril,
fur they were bought and paid for with his acceptance. Before
the Magistrates, Mr. Brown acknowledged the acceptance,
" Lord Viscount Montagu," to be his handwriting. It also
appeared that Mr. Brown had made claim for some years past to
this title, but had not succeeded. There was a house in Sus-
sex in which he resided near to the estate of Lord Viscount
Montagu, but, was not a freehold. The question was, whether
the case proved amounted to a conspacy ?
Mr. ANDREWS submitted, on behalf of the defendant, that
, there could be no conspiracy in the case, inasmuch as the mere
.non-payment,of bills, bona fide accepted by real persons, was
not sufficient to support such `a charge.
Mr. Baron GRAHAM said, it was for the Jury to decide
whethei or not the defendant was a • guilty participator in the
fraud by which the prosecutor had sustained the loss of his
sheep. His Lordship summed up. the evidence for the Jury.
The Jury found the defendant Guilty, and he was sen-
tenced to six months' imprisonment in the county gaol.
This afternoon the assizes finished. Seventeen capital con-
victs received sentence of death. The only persons left for
execution were, William Tigner, for uttering a forged 51.
Bank-note ; Daniel Say*'ard, for murder e and John Palmer,
butcher,for stealing ten sheep, the property of Isaac Hum-
phrey. The others were reprieved.

Yesterday afternoon, between three and four
o'clock, a young woman engaged in cleaning the
windows of a house in Bedford-square, slipped
her hold, and was precipitated into the area, and
killed on the spot. This is another melancholy
instance of the impropriety of permitting female
servants to perform such duty, instead of employ-
ing men whom habit has rendered familiar to the
task,

THE AUDLEY MINE.—At this period, when
the extension of employment to the working
classes is an object of so much interest, especi-
ally if devoted to purposes of national improve-
ment, it is with great satisfaction we learn from
authentic documents, containing the Return, of
Copper Ore lately sampled and sold at Swansea,
that the ore obtained from L6rd AUDLEY'S Cap-
pagh Mine,, parish of Skull, West Carbery,
County of Cork, has received the most decided
preference., and doubled the average of the Swan-
sea and Redruth returns. The prosecution of
the works at the Cappagh Mine, on a further
enlarged scale, is, we understand, speedily to
be adopted, and it affords the best expecta-
tion of the finest and most productive vein in
Europe.—(Cork Chronicle, March 11.)
ALARMING FlRE.—Saturday night, about 12
o'clock, the neighbourhood of Whilley, Suffolk,
was in alarm, from a destructive fire at Whilley
Hall, the seat Of STEPHEN HO WARD LOFT, Esq.—
The flames were first discovered in the Eastern
wing by a Luton post-chaise lad, who gave the
alarm. Before the necessary assistance could be
procured, the house was on fire in every part,
and in less than two hours it was a heap of ruins.
There were two maid servants, a man servant,
and two of the junior part of the family in
the house. The females slept over that part
of the houle first on fire, and they narrowly
escaped, seriously injured, one breaking a leg in
escaping on to an adjoining building, and the
other much burnt. A good library is lost, with
the whole of the furniture. It is unknown how
the fire began, but the conjecture is, that the

kitchen chimney was foul.
For several days past, some idle and dis-
orderly persons were engaged in putting up,
in different parts of Glasgow, placards an-
nouncing that on Wednesday a person was to
fly from the Green to the other side of the
Clyde about two o'clock. Accordingly, an
' immense crowd were fools enough to collect
to witness this strange phenomenon. However
when they perceived that they had been gulled,
they began to vent their fury and disappointment
upon persons of genteel appearance, and two
persons were it consequence) severely beaten and
bruised.

COUNTRY MARKET. •
GUILDFORD MARKET March 16.
Wheat per 1. 01 Os to 01 Os Barley, new, 01 16s to 11 93
New. Wheat .. 8; Qs to 171 ss. Beans, per qr.ll 1s to 11 10s
Oats, per qr... 01 15s to 11 5s ]'ease, per qr. 11 its to 11 75
New ditto.... 01 Os to 01 Qs Rye, per qr. 01 Os to 01 01

BIRTHS.
On the 17th inst., in Queen-square, Bloomsbury, the. Lady
of William Robinson, Esq. of a daughter.
On Saturday last, at Barham Court, Kent, the Lady of the
Hon. Charles Noel Noel, of a daughter.
On the 18th inst. at the Veiy Rev. the Dean of Canterbury's, a
St. James's, the wife of George Baker, Esq., of -daughter.