The Sun.
London, England, 1814-01-11 00:00:00

MYSTERIOUS CASE.

- A most inexplicable-and delicate occurrence has
given birth to much speculation- in Manchester,
during the.,last week. .A young Lady, of respect-
able connections, was on the eve of being married
to a-Gentleman who lived in the same street. As
she was a minor, and her parents being both
dead, the banns had been published in the parish
church, and to all appearance a few 'days only
could have intervened before the solemnization of
marriage would have taken place. One evening,
in the last week but one, -he called to pay her. a
visit, and as the sister of the Lady was rather in-
-disposed, she went early to bed, and, in short,
the young couple remained together after the fa-:
utily had 'retired for the night. In the morning,
however, it appeared that the lady.had not been in
bed, and a- paper was found in the room, appa-
rently',written -by her, in which she conjectured
her friends to believe the assertions of a dying
woman, that what Mr. ----.... would say of
her, would not be true. The distress of her fa-

roily may be easily conceived, when we add, they
have not yet discovered a trace which will eluci-
date her fate. The Gentleman says, he left her
soon after twelve o'clock, and that they had
quarrelled previous to separation. Here the af-
fair at present tests, and the most dreadful sus-
pense is harrowing up the minds of the friends of
both parties.

On Wednesday the Royal Westmorland Militia,
under. the command of Major TAYLOR, marched
into Liverpool from Wigan.
On Wednesday night,. bety:een ten and eleven
o'clock, the watchman going his rouMis, in Troy
Town, Rochester, was 'alarmed by the
.cries of a
female, which proceeded from the house of Mr.
G. I'EEKE. h e man endeavoured to procure ad-
mission, but was not .able to succeed ; he:•at
length obtained the assistance of some of the
neighbours, and forced the door ; on entering the
room 'from, _whehce the cries proceeded, a _most
shocking spectacle presented liseir; they diicover-
ed Mrs. PEEKE lying on the floor, her clOthes,all
consumed to a tinder, and her flesh burnt to a
state of blackness. She just moved one arm, and
drew up one leg with-a convulsive motion, atter,
the persons were in the room,, and expired. Mrs.
P. was sitting op for her husband-, and it is con-
jectured had fallen asleep whilst sitting by the fire,
when a spark caught her clOthes, and produced
the fatal. accident. •

An ingenious mechanic in Kendal has invented
a loom for weaving carpets, the principal parts of
which are upou an entire new construction ; and
it possesses several advantages over the common
loom. It has neither tail-cords, loops, nor pul-
lies; and takes up only two-thirds of the room
that is required fur one on.the old plun. The prin-
cipal object is to' save time in changing patterns,
which way be perfOrmed in a sixth part of the
time required in the old way, either at the loom'
or taken to any convenient place ; and it is so con-
structed that any part of the pattern may be al-
tered without interfering stiith the rest.

MARRIED

On the 4th inst.-at Cutipingbanthead, SCOtland, John Ken-
nedy; Esq. W. S. t Miss -Margaret
,l(luchatran Sliudgras, the
youngest daughter of Neil Snodgrass, 'Esq.'of Cunningham-
head.

On Saturday sennight, at Waltham, near Grimsby, Lin-
coln, C..ptitin John Williams, Commander of his Majesty's
Revenue-cutter in iternitse, to liurrirt;onlv daughter of the
Rev. G.W. Haddelsey, Vicar of Holton le Clay, in the same
County. •

On ttrulayse'nnight, Mr. Samuel Sandall, aged 22, to the
widow Idle,.aged 6,2, both of Bridge Casterton, Rutland.
On the 27th ult. at Warfield Church, Captain Thindas,
Royal Artillery, to Jemitna Agnes, daughter of Robert Gra-
ham, Esq. of Fetitry.
On Monday last, at St. George's, Hanover-square, John,
Baker Richards, Esq. to Georgiaua, third daughter of Henry
Peters, Esq. of Betchworth Castle,-Surrey.
On 'Thursday, at Bent's-, Mr. Frederick Daniels, an emi-
nent shoemaker, of that place, aged 75 -years, to Miss Bartlett,
a blooming virgin of 25