The Sun.
London, England, 1825-09-27 00:00:00

ANECDOTES, &c.

QUIN, THE ACTOH..—Bearing much of the
Exeter Market for J ohn Dories, Q,lin visited that
place for the. purpose of feasting on them. A
fine Dory was brought on the table, and Quin
was delighted in seeing it. The butter in the
sauce, however, proving bad, he exclaimed, with
a deep sigh, '' I am now convinced that perfect
happiness is not to be found in this world."

LORD MANSFIELD.—This learned and eminent
Judge was born at Perth ; when ho WaS entered
at Oxford, the person who gave in the place of
his birth, being a Scotsman, spoke Perth so much
like Bath that the last mentioned place stands
upon the books.

THEATRICAL DOCUMENT.—The following curious Thea-
trical Document was issued by Parliament in the year 1642,
and goes far to prove the progress which fanaticism had made
at that period in this country.—" An ordinance of both Houses
of Parliament, for the suppressing of Publike Stage Playes
throughout the kingdome, during these calamitous Times.—
Whereas the distressed estate of Ireland steeped in her own
blood, and the distracted state of England throAtened with a
cloude of blood by civill warre, call for all possible means to ap-
pease and advert the wrath of God appearing in these judg.
ments; amongst which, fasting and prayer having been often
tried to be very effectuall, hay bin lately, and are still enjoined.
And whereas publike sports do not well agree with publike
calamities, nor publike stage player, with seasons of humilia-
tion, this being an exercise of sad and pious solemnity, and the
other being spectacles of pleasure, too commonly expressing las-
civious mirth and levitie ; it is therefore thought fit and or-
tieined by the Lords and Commons in this Parliament assem-
bled, that while these sad causes and set times of humiliation
doe continue, publike stage player shall cease, and bee forborne.
Instead of which are recommended to the people of this land,
the profitable and seasonable considerations of repentance, re-
conciliation, and peace with God ; which probably may pro-
duce outward peace and prosperity, and bring again times of
joy and gladness to these nations."

Die Veneris, Septemb. 2nd, 1642.
"...Ordered by the Lords and Commons assembled in Patna•
ment, that the Ordinance concerning Stage Playes, be forthwitl
printed and published.

Jonx BROWNZ, Cler. Parliament

Locirr.—A workman, employed in removing the founds-
tie?: of an old house near Montpellier, in France, found a glass
bottle, hermetically sealed. It was found to contain, in an ex-
cellent state of preservation, a Lation inscription on vellum.
The following is a translation :—" Mortal ! thou haat found a
treasure. Here are placed before thee, faith in Christ and mo-
deration in things terrestrial. The bottle is neither empty nor
of little worth, which affords cheerfnlness to the mind, and
health to the body. Quaff of this, and thou shalt imbibe what
is more precious than the juice of Falernum or Chios. So wrote
John Locke, Englishman, in the year of our Lord 1675." It
is not generally known, that the parents and ancestors of this
philosopher were buried at East Brant, where some of his
nearest collateral descendants (he had no lineal descendants)
still reside. His father, who was a Captain in the army, was
killed at the seige of Bristol, in 1645 ; zand his mother was a
sister of the celebrated Chancell. King, who, it was well known,
was the son of a grocer, at Exeter. Locke died in 1704, and
bequeathed the greater part of his proporty to the grandfather
of the present Lord King.

TURLEY PYRATS.—The late Mr. Cu-mutat, having one day
taken a long ride into the country, called upon a good old
lady, to whom he had long been known. The old lady re-
quested he would take some refreshment, and on his aclui-
escing, she rung the bell, and desired the cold turkey pye
to be brought up. After a considerable delay, the footman re-
turned, and told his mistress that the rats had devoured it.—
"Ah ! " said the old lady, " I know who rats are, the
two maids, Jenny and Sarah are the rats."—" Madam,'
replied Mi.. Curran, " that surely can't surprise you, time
•ut of mind Jenny-Sarah: (Janizaries) have been Turkey
Pyrats."

Tiz IwxOczw'r Coxrzesrox.---A young country squire
paid his addresses to a lively lass in the village, whose pretty
face captivated him so much as to convince him that he could
have no happiness in life without her. He succeeded in his
suit, arid the wedding-day was fixed. The ardent lover think.
lag the period, short as it was, too distant, would fain have an-
ticipated his felicity, but she turned a deaf ear to his solicita-
tions. At length the tardy interval passed away, the wedding.
day arrived, and the loving couple were linked together indis-
solubly. All his wishes being now consummated, he praised
her for the virtuous prudence with which she had resisted his
importunity, " for; to confess the truth," says he, "if you had
been foolish enough to grant me any favours beforehand, I
should certainly never have married you." " I dare say not,"
replied the young bride ; I had been too often caught in that
way before."

Mr. Mooftz, whose spirited translation of
ANACREON has procUred him the title of ANA-
CREON MOORE, and many of whose other works
class him with the first Poets of the age, has
finished his life of the late Mr. SHERIDAN, which
may be expected to prove a valuable addition to
the biographical treasures of. British Literature.
We may reasonably doubt whether certain works
which are imputed to Mr. Mooaz were really
written by him, though he has never condescend-
ed to disavow them, as his translation of ANA-
CREON was dedicated by permission to his pre-
sent MAJESTY, when Prince of WALES.
The King of the NETHERLANDS has given the
Grand Cross of the Order of the Belgic Lion,
to their Highnesses the Duke of Cumberland,
Princes Charles and Albert, of Prussia, and
Prince William Louis George, of Saxe Wittgeu.
stein.

The city of Liege has set the honourable ex-
ample of opening a subscription in favour of the
Greeks. Many young men in the University
have shewn great enthusiasm and generosity in
favour of that heroic people. Subscriptions have
also been opened at Mons, and in the Commer-
cial Club at Brussels.

CORONIIII,'S INQUEST.-Yesterday morning' an
Inquest was herd at the Bunch of Grapes, Castle-street, Mary-
lebone, to inquire into the cause of the death of an infant child,
whose mother (Mrs.. Sullivan), it will be recollected, was inhu-
manly kicked by a man named Alfred Flowers. It appeared,
from the examination of several witnesses, and from the state-
ment of the child's mother, that on /V,londay evening, Sullivan
and his wife, and another man and a woman, went to a public-
house on Saffron-hill, when a Catholic Club is held for the sup-
port of the children of poor Catholic patents, to which they were
contributors. On their return home, the women were a short
distanceen
were met in Oxford-street by three
and
m
.tiFeylowers, and GottPzall), who treated the
women very rudely. They called to their husbands, who came
to their assistance, and Alfred Flowers struck Sullivan, and he
(Alif behind,
'in
andd
returned the blow. Alfred Flowers, who had the best of the
fray, seized his own and Sullivan's hat,i and was running away
with both, when Sullivan's wife seized Mat, and called to her
husband. Flowers then kicked the woman (who was far ad-
vanced in pregnancy with the deceased) in the abdomen, 4nd
ran away. The blow was given with great violence: it caused
at the time a considerable heemorrhage, and afterwards a pre-
mature delivery.—Mr. Denton, a surgeon who attended her,
gave as his opinion that the child was prematurely born ; it
was very much discoloured about the head, but those appear-
ances had been visible in a full grown child. It lived three
days, and died as it was not able to take proper nourishment.
Ile considered that children born in the eighth month very
seldom lived. He was of opinion that the premature la- I
bour was produced by the injury received by the kick, but the
woman was not now in a dangerous state.—The CORONER
said, that the conduct of Alfred Flowers in kicking the woman,
was as inhuman as it was brutal, and unbecoming a human
being. With reference to the law of the case, it was stated in
Hawkins's Pleas of the Crown, and confirmed by other autho-
rities, that if any one strike a woman big with child, and the
child should be borne alive, but die of such injuries, the party
offending should be guilty of murder.—He therefore left the
Jury to decide in such a manner as would give themselves and
the country satisfaction. The Jury having viewed the body,
returned a verdict of "Manslaughter against Alfred Flowers,
he having, by a kick, caused a premature birth and death of
the infant,"