The Sun.
London, England, 1813-09-28 00:00:00

THE POLICE.

BOW-STREET: .4.•,-Yesterday Mizabetit Giles was
exatninett at the above Office, on a charge °I steal-
ing 14s. worth of halfpence, the property of
George Ruffin: The prosecutor and the.prisoner„
it appeareds, keep stalls in Covent Garden Mar-
ket, adjoining each other ; and the former hav,
ing placed, the halfpence in a bnstw; on Saturday
bight, in his stalls the prisoner took an opportu-
nity of stealing them, but being suspected, she
was taktn. into custody, and charged with the
fact, Which she at first denied, but as they were •
going to search her lodgings, she rot essled she.'
had, and produced the boson with Ss. 4d. of -the.
halfpence. •She 'was fully committed for trial,
and the parties bound over to prosecute.
•MANstoN-Housc.--- Yesterday, John Richard
kons, who had been remanded on a founer clay,
was again brought up before the Loan MANoa,
anti fully committed to take his trigi on a charge
of forging a seaman's- will.
GUILDHALL—J=Og Brown was brought 'up,
charged with having On Saturday last stolen from
a disorderly house, kept by a-Man of the name of
Simonds, in Aldermanbary,iwo pillow-eases and
the curtains of a bed, wrapped round his body,
with some other articles. The prisoner: stated in
his defence, that having been before robbed in a
house of the description .of the one .kept by.the
prOseentOr, he conceived the prineipleof retaliation
fairly applied, and had, therefore, made reprisals.
The Alderman, however, was so far from concur-
ring in this opinion, that he immediately commit-
ted the prisoner for trial.
•11 Art-Furl -G AOHN Henry Pert ins was charged
with heing.stripped and fighting on Saffron.
on Sunday lust during divine service, and lined
Thomfrs Spence and George Orme were also''
brought up, 'upon a charge of being riotous ;and
disorderly on Sunday night, at a public-house.
They were ordered to find bail to answer the coin;
, plaint.

Sunday se'nnight, Thomas Clare, a boy about
fourteen years old, was found in a helpless situa-
tion near the colliery at Trubshaw, Staffordshire,
dreadfully burned. Hewes merely able to relate
that himself and another boy had gone down, a .
shaft to an appal:tans used for expelling WWll-
mahle air, with
,an intent to steal gunpowder.---
That his companion had fallen .a victim to the.
stdplittr, and how he had escaped with life helnew
not. In consequence of this information; seve-
ral colliers proceeded to the pit, and endeavoured
to descend, but were repulsed from the above
cause. It was, however, effected in the end by
the intrepidity of a spirited young collier. of the
name of Ford, who, at the imminent
life, descended, and presently afterwards returned
in a state of exhaustion, having nearly shared' a
similar fate. This perilous undertaking was un-
fortunately productive only of rescuingthe lifeless
'body of the poor boy, who was rendered a mise- •
rabic spectacle. Hopes are entertained that his
fellow stifferer,will he restored.
Yesterday morning, a labouring man, of the
name of Jouil .FAiTilytnto of Titchlield, was
found drowned in a well in his own garden, into
which he is supposed to have fallen in a fit of de-
lirium, as he bad been in an ill state of health a
considerable time.
Tuesday an inquest was taken by Mr. Hill, Co-
Toner, at Broadway, on the body of John War-
reit, who in the act of drawing an empty 'waggon
from a barn, situate on the side of a hill, owing to
the want of strength .tir skill in the management
the shafts-,T was in.4,eipitated down..the.steep,,
against a tree, and by the force of the waggon
and its pressure, crushed to death :—And on
Wednesday at Pershore, on the body of Thomas
Willis, aged 12, who in driving a horse and cart
loaded with cheese to Pershore, on Tuesday, was
thrown by the horse taking fright, and the near
wheel passing over his body, ruptured the intes-
tines, and he survived only a feW hours---Verdict
in ear.th, Occidental Death.—(Warcester
Last week, three of the French prisoners who
had escaped from Perth deptu, came to the vil-
lage of Fiudon, and seized upon one of the fish-
ing boats there; into which they put some .pro-
visions, &6. which they had collected, and seve-
ral water casks front the other boats,lying in the
harbour, They made off, in the middle of khe
night, and have not since been heard of..
Winches-
Onopening wvault in the cathedral,
ter, for the interment of Miss Poulter, a stone
quite perfect, Was d*overefl,; A curious'
' antique gold ring, .with a sapphire set in it, and.
part of a crosier, were at the same time found.
A Society lias been formed in Halifax, under
the patronage of Sir June Surattom n,SirJ. and
Lady SAUMARWL, and: the principal inhabitants,
for the purpose of establishing a schdol upon Dr.
liet.t.'s principles—to be called ic the Royal Aca.
dian Institution for the cduCation Of Children of
both sexes In Nova Scotia."