The Sun.
London, England, 1807-05-27 00:00:00

POLICE.

• , PUBLIC-OFFICE, to&i-STIZEET.—Eariy., on rile.
morning of the sth of rebruary, 1805, the ship I..'w•
clamour, . West Indiaman,
.frOmJamaica, on her
home, was wrecked on. the Goodwin Sands. A boitti.
came off to. her assistance from Deal, . the men.
on board asked,the tit'aster of the. Eideavo-ur if she,
was likely to bp got
- ott; the Sands-? and' being
swered in the negative, 'they set to work to get the
cargOroitt-;.: about'3o:other boats 'followed, put tho•
passengers ittid crew on tihore; -and 'took- possessio4l
'of the cargo; the value of several thonsand pounds,
of the ground of its being a wreck. • •
DMr..JOhn Kneller, one of the passenger, vb.°
was last on board the Endeavour, invired what they
were goingrtirdo- ,With the property.? He was
swered, with a. deal.of abusive language, tbat it was
nothing to him, and he was put on .shore- without
loss of time. On Mr- Kbellee,s arrival Lout":
he informed Mr. Wildman, the principal owner of
'the cargo ; .and stated he ,was sure; he. should know
the man whdwas.. most wive, and .had taken away
sixteen puncheons- of ?inii,. foui_hogiheads of sugar/_
and t)vo .tierces of corfeci They, in. consequenq,
agreed to go to Deal in pursua of !:;nl. Afte'r thLy,
had been in the CoiTee-room the'Three-KinO

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Inn, in that towil, a .short, tinie a.: Wean came ini
who'll) Mr. Knelter 1-e'co nsed iv be him they were
in pursuit of. He derfttq the-charge. He proved
to,be• &ler: .4t,kin,v., iithe:pwoeCof a boat caked the
.Nobth, and kept a. hoUse 'in Deal.
Mr. Wifdnim eluoloyed. Carpmeal, and several
other .130-.1.-itrett Officers', to goand'dpprehend him.
On the Officers ..c,ix-r to Alkins's hi,le"!-;e; they were
0
. beat oft' by a buxber of .armed'stnn.,4glvrs, and At-
kins.o4ide his eScapc. Toformati6n being lately re-
ceived that hit. had reftiVned tii Deal, ' i-eari;es and
Anthony were employed to go in pursuit of him', it
being supposed they 'would not be known: The
Offiecraccrqrdiiigly went'early,on Sunday morning,
.and took.' a'if due precaution to at Oiti being discb-
yeretl; and td' be provided -again4 any foreible, re..
sistance; npnlied at the Horse Barracks,' a short
distancefrA the town, . or asSistan&e.;:n case it wii.
wanted. 'The Commin in!,-Oilicer. ordered a ser-
jeant's.,,,o'lYard to. attend the'Officers, and'they we-rtt
f
stati6ned: within a few minutes call of 'Aikins!'s
hauSe. 'The Officers nr.ployLid a- boy to knock at
the dcor,—atid, .on its liii,i opened; they rushed• hi.
An la!arin' was instantly-given, and several neigh-'
bouts, who were shingitlers,- came in, and'with horrid,
imprecations, di.3nan,:ed to know the Officers' busi-
rieSkj, 84c. . ' TIII! Orneers presented pistols, and said,
if they' attempted to interfere, they .would shoot
them. In the mean time, the Officers sent [tie'
boy", for the party •of soldiers, who.arrived in a,1).;. *lt
five minutes, and surrounded the house. The (Jai-
cers having secured Atkins, just as lie
Vas going to
breakfast, brOught him into the street, the soLitei,s
formed a circle round him, and the Officers and
they marched to the Barracks, where the Officeis
procured a chaise and four, and set' off for Londim,
escorted by a party of the cavalry, to Canterbury;
the Officers .supposirr, they were then free from any
attth.L or rescue, and arrived in toUin on Sunday
nii.
hr. On Monday evening ly,e under-Went an es.:l7
thination before Mr. READ, when Mr. Keeller at-
tended, and proved the above statement.
1-1# was-committed for further examination. . .

Siirne gentlemen walking in the fields, on Sun
day night, about half-past eight, near the City,Con-
duit, Bayswater, beardat a distance a vcry tunruse4
noise, and: could distinguiSh;the worsts " Help!
drowned r! They immediately ran to the Wooden
Bridge, on '.the. Paddimiton Canal, near the heath
where _there- were a great many people, and found
that the Uxbridge. PaCket-boat .had run against A
pleasure boat, in which were four young men; that
three were got out, and the other -was still in the
water. Two beats immediately went out with s
'hay-rack, a landing net, and, boat hooks, and in
about three.ininutes a drag was brought ; one of the
yOung Men could swim, and dived several tintei
after him, and another young man threw off his
coat and.waisicoat, and went in, but it was not tin
about twenty Minutes,. after that he was got out,
quite dead ; he was immediotely.taken to .a house
in the neighbourhood. He proves to he
Thompson, of Chapel-court Mirth, Grosvenor-
square, about .18 years of age, Clerk to a Now!,
Public in the City; two of the others were, „MP
Charles Hubble, 'a cowkeeper, of. Park-street, Gros-.
g%,-,aeatirteloi:r-koSelqicdpuneerr eise.,rioaci;il m Bin g,- son to on e,of the
Hyde:park, living at _Grosvenor-
the same office as Thompson ;
the name or the other we have not heaird. A medical
Gentleman was on the 'spOt, and attended,-.but all
the means used failed of effeet ; the vital spark vVas
extinguished. They bad but just ser out to take
row in, The cool .of the evening, and the accident
happened'not more than 150 :yards 'from where
they set out.

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On the zsth inst. the Lady ur Augustus Hamilton, Esq•
of a Sun.

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Monday _last, in Cover-street,. the wife of Captalri
Jonathan Birch, ota Daughter.
The same day, at liritun l erry, the Lady of James Lutur.
den, ESC]. 'late Lieu!enunt-Cotur,,el of the istii Regiment, of
a•Son and Heir.
On the tSrla inst. the l.nuv of Lent;:nant- Colonel Coltiu''
houn, ot Belleville, Scotland, ot a lion.
On the loth inst. at Bontiington-House, Scotland Mrs-
William M'Dolvall, of a Daughter. ,

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• -On Tuesday thc igth inst. the Rev. Thomas Wood?orde,
ulAnsforct, Sometsetshire, to Miss Braithwaite; of the R.) Ai
Infirmary, •Greenwich. -
On Saturday last, at St. Nicholas, Worcester, Mr. fol,"
Paltrier, to -Miss E. Allies, daughter of,Tholnas ',lilies, Es+
Mayor of that City. •
Lately, De Vcre Hunt, Esq. only son of Sir Vete Hutt
Bart. of Curragh, to Miss Rice, ttaiighter of S. L. RJ.e,
Esq. of Mount "lf rettehard, Lounty of LitneriCk.

MAD.
On the
.2ithinst. Paunsett• of Clapham, it: the 6of
year of her age.
• Oa thz 2.Cith inst. at Simpson, -Bucks, the Rev. GraWiil
A. M. Rector of Simpson and St. Barrliolonle,b.,
in Loudon, wand Vicar of Hastier,
Lately, at Donnington Castle, Leicestershire. the seat of
Earl Moira, the Rev. john Collier, in the at year of ia•
age.
A few days since, at ferrey, Captain Le Gros, Of the IoNal.
Navy.
On the 24th inst. at Worthing, Helen, third daughter (,•t.
David Hunter, Esq. of last Ccinbe House, Kcia, '
Bth year of her age.
On Thursday last, suddenly, William Taylor, Esq- cf;
TO lingual, near Hereford. He served the office uiNlayor 0'
:fiat City in the yeas 170.