The Sun.
London, England, 1814-09-10 00:00:00

CURIO;ITS CASE.

ilow-STREET.—Last night, two young men,
getrteely dressed, of the names of Smith, and Ro
billY071) were brought before Mr. SKETCHLEY,
charged, under the Vagrant Act, with being beg-
gars.
. Mr. SHEERMANi Solicitor to Mr. Webb, stated,
that Mr. W. had lately visited Cheltenham, where
he diffused his charity to -many institutions sup-
ported• by contribution, and also to many poor
children in Cheltenham and its environs. When
he left Cheltenham, several persons"followed him
to London ; and yesterday they had collected, •to.
the amount of nearly an' hundred, opposite Rich-.
ardson's Hotel in CoVent Garden. An Officer vas
procured, who dispersed many of them ; the .pri-
soners, however, loitered about there forS hours.
When Mr. Webb came out of the Hotel, they fol-
lowed him, and- begged charity ; 'they did not quit
him until he was as far as St. James's, Market
they then returned, and took their stations'oppo-
site the lintel, where the Officer took them into
custody.—Robinson said he was a Tunbridge ware
maker, and bad been four months in town out of
employ.. Smith stated, that he lived at Chelten-
ham, and, had followed 'Mr. Webb to town, in.
consequence of his having promised .to do some-
thing for him. - -
Mr. SKETCHLEY repraated their conduct, and
told them he-should send them to prison as vaga
bonds..

Mr. SI-It/OMAN scat. , that ;.t was not the in-
tention of Mr.' Webb to prosecute, provided they
would cease
,to follow. him, and return to their
respective homes, which they promised to do,
And were discharged with a suitable adMonition
from tl,e worthy Magistrate.
Mr. Webb, it appears, is at the expence of
fifty shillings a day for. letters of application for
charity.
.13Ow-STREET.—John Cole was charged tv ith
stealing a bundle of clothes and other propertyof
John Hay, a sailor. He was committeillor fur-
ther examination.

BATTON-GARDEN..—JaMCS Saunders, of No. 9,
Falconberg.jcourt, Crown-street, Soho, appeared
to a summons on an information charging him
with having, on Monday the 22d' day of August
last; sold one-dozen of squibs (for firing)) for
which he received one shilling in payment: The
charge being clearly proved, he was fined i,i the
penalty of 51. and costs.
QuEN'S-SQU' ARE.—Yesterday INWarn Bland-
ford,- landlord of the Coach and Horses, North-
street, Westminster, was summoned to this (4ce
by the Commissioners for Watching, &c. on
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charge of having suffered a watchman to tipple at
his house, about eleven o'clock, on Saturday night
last. • The patrole found the man in the passage
of the public-house, and the watchman said that
he had taken one pint of porter, and the landlord
refused to let him have any more. BlandzfOrd
said,-that he conld prove the facts of keeping
most regular house,
,and shutting up early ; and
that this was the first complaint ever made against
him for the four or five years that he had kept the
Coach and Horses: The Magistrate (Mr. FIELD:-
ING) said, that the charge was founded On 111 C
Local Watch Act) the 14th •Geo. 111. ch. 90. an
Act that ought to be more generally known, as
publicans might err in ignorance, N-vhich, how-
ever, would be no excuse; and the fact of the
watchman being found in the house, and having
taken porter was established, so that be should be
compelled to convict_; and however well the land-
lord might have conducted his house, the Magis=
trate bad no power to mitigate the penalty. The
penalty for the first offence was twenty shillings;
for the second, forty shillings ; and for the third
offence, Si. The penalty in this case was twenty
shillings.

The Rev James Lynn, late Minor Canon of
Rochester, has been collated by the Lortllßishop of
Carlisle, to the Rectory of Calbec, i❑ CuMberland.
The Dean and. Chapter of ROchester have aug-
mented the stipends of their Minor Canons, .from
121. to 301. per anntun.—Nxford Jour. Sept. 9).
About 24,000 hogsheads of pilchards have been
taken off the coast of Cornwall, and are in general
fine fish. The prospect of a further catch is still.
favourable, large quantities having been seen on
the 'coast.

nr.cov.grty •ov' svEtcrr.

Elizabeth Cozens, 'alias Myers, and
notorions impostors, were.on•Wednesday.
prehended in Twerton porish, where they ,P,cul
been imposing on the credulity of the inhabitants.,
Cozens issued hand-bills; purpOrting " that she
was.a Doctress, born deaf and dumb, 'the di,uq.,oll-
.ter of Alexander Myers, a very learned and emi-
nent physician, who was born in Lancashire, and
v-.'ter an expensive education at the English Uni-
versities, travelled into foreign countries for .fur
' ther improvement ; at length settled, and married
a wife at New York, North America, where 'the
said Mrs. Myers iwas born. The Doctor was uni-
versally beloved and esteemed fl)r the many sue-
prising cureshe performed there ; and though this
Lady was born deaf an-(1'--domb, yet sh 9, by Di-
vine decree, having naturally an' extraordinary
genius, her fitther took the utmost care and delight
to instruct her,,espccially in the most useful reme-
dies ; from thence she embarked ,to her parents'
native country, wit;i God's blessing, 'to the relief
'and comfort of her fellow-creatures." 'By means
of the .above hand-bill, and affecting to be deaf
and dumb, together with the assistance of pen-
rison, who acted as interpreter, she sold tiredi-
cijnes to a considerable' amount, and would have
escaped from the parish with her golden harvest,
bad she not been too covetous, and made free
with a Lady's purse, in which were two st. notes,
and 15s. in silver. They both underwent a long
examination on Wednesday, and again yesterday,
when they were both committed by G. ROBINSON
and T. FARRANT, Esqrs. to Ilchester gaol,.to take
their trial at the next 'Assizes for the felony.—•
During the examination,. the (leaf and (lamb Lady
quickly recovered her speech and hearing ! and
many poor deluded young women came to the
Magistrates with bottles of medicine, for which
they had Paid 10s. Gd., 75., as., andotber sums.—
(Bath Paper.)

SUPPOSED iUICI DES.

At the spread public-house; Mi}Thank,
where a 'drag is kept v the 'Humane 'Society, and
the other upparmus,for restoring Jife in the case of
(frowned ber;ons; a 'very singular but melanOholy
combination of circumstances has taken place
during the week. ,Two corpses were yesterday
lying at the house, both taken. out of the river in
the course of the week. ' A Mrs. Tilling, who had
kept the'said public-house nearly forty years, and
Who, a few years, ago, had given. it Pt p to her niece
and her•busbandistill continued to reside in the'
house in a private apartment,, and was frequently
in, the habit of taking 'a solitary walk on the tank.
this Lady was about 69 years of age, and had a
small independence of her own. She had never
shewn any (43 satisfaction with her situation, hitt,
on the Contrary; seemed to live comfortably -with
her friends. Early Monday, howeVer, a .wa-
tertnan discovered something floating in the river,
nearly opposite the house, and On his 'going out
in, his boat, fOund it"to be the body of a Woman
floating, with .her face-downwards. The body was
brought to the very -house 'of. which 'she wa's an
inmate, and was immediately recognized by her
friends, who till then had not missed her. The
Corobn.'s Inquest sat on Tnesday, and brought iu
a verdict—Occidental Death. She was to , be
buried yesterday in the afternoon. -
Early in the morning of -yesterday, near the
same house, a walkitig-stick was observed stuck
nnright in the bank, with a hat upon it,' which
immediately excited suspicion, as,no person was
discovered near the place, that some man must
have dro.vned himself near the spot. The drag,
was immecflately got out, and the body' of a very
well-dressed Man was -found close by the place
Where the stick,stood, who appeared not to have
been very long in the water. From some papers
found on the body, it was discovered that this
person belOnged to Pulteney-Street, Golden-
square,, where inquries were immediately made ;
in consequence of which, it was found that the
unfortunate man was a• master boot and shoe-
make( of considerable eminence in that street,
and that he has lett a wife and five children to be-
wail his loss. No cause has been yet assigned
for the rash and unfortunate act.