The Sun.
London, England, 1831-04-07 00:00:00

CAPTAIN BASIL HALL'S NEW WORK.
This day was published,
FRAGMENTS of VOYAGES and
TRAVELS, including Anecdotes of a Naval Life,

chiefly for the Use of Young Persons.
By Captain BASIL HALL, R.N., F.R.S.
Thee small Vols. Vignette Titles, Iss. boards.
Printed for Robert Cadell, Edinburgh ; and Whittaiier
and Co., London.
Who have also just published,
DESTINY ; or, The Chief's Daughter. A Tale. By
the Author of " Marriage," and " The Inheritance."
Three vols. 11. I Is. 6d.

Also,

Captain HALL'S TRAVELS in NORTH AMERICA
in 1827 and 1828. Three vols. 1/. 11s. 6d. Third Edition.

The following remarkable memorial is in the
handwriting of the Earl of Marchmont :
" King William, with his army, perceived King
James and his army, before the battle of the
Boyne, three days, at last came up with him, and
seeing King James his army from a rising
ground, with only the water betwixt them, so
near, that one could have [been] known, the
King took off his hat, and said, " Gentlemen, I
am glad to see you ; if you get away from me
now, it shall be my fault :" and then asked Duke
Schomberg if he had his canteens there with any
thing to eat. They lighted from their horses,
and a table-cloth being laid upon the grass, they
went to breakfast till the army, which was coming
up, should arrive at the camp, that was marked
out for it. While at breakfast, a party of the
enemy's horse came to the other side of the
water, near to where they sat. The King said,
we must not be surprised while at breakfast,
and ordered a party of one hiindred dragoons
down to the. water-side. The two parties shot
at one another all the time of breakfast,
which done, they alt mounted a horseback again.
While this was a doing, they observed the enemy
bring down two cannon to the plain just below,
drawn by grey horses; and as the King and that
small company were stepping along viewing the
enemy, the first shot from the cannon struck on
the Prince of Darmstadt's pistols, so that his
horse, a white one, dropped down with- his belly
to the ground ; the King called out, " Ah ! le
pauvre Prince de Darmstadt est tue !" Immedi-
ately after, a second shot hit the King on the
shoulder, which made him bend down on his
horse's neck, upon which there was a huzza

through the enemy's army, believing him to be
killed. _The ball had just grazed upon his shoul-
der, tore away his clothes, and scooped out about
the breadth of a crown of the flesh of his shoul-

der. The King stepped on a little further, and
then, having bled a good deal, had a handker-
chief
pushed under his clothes, to cover the
wound till it should be dressed. It was for some
time believed by the army that the King was
killed ; and Earl Selkirk, who was with [the]
King, and from whom I had these particulars,
galloped to Count Solms, who had been upon
the head of the foot, whom he found lying upon
his face on the ground crying, and told him the
King was well. He would not believe him till
Selkirk asked him if he did not see who it was
that came riding along the line on a black horse,
and then the Count embraced him in a transport
of joy. The Count loved the King much, and
[was] esteemed by him. The wound kept open
for above three months, mattered much, and did
the King so much good, that he had much better
health than usual, and was the reason why his
physicians put [an] issue into his shoulder
after, which did him much good. Providence,
if attended to, must be admired and reverenced.
The King, when he was ill used in England, as,
to our shame, he often was, said, " Well! they
use me very ill ; but my head will be short while
under ground, till they would be glad to scratch
me out again with their nails ;" which did not
fail to happen often since. He used to say upon
those occasions, t, I am a Protestant, so cannot ;
• but if I was Popish, I would leave this people
to themselves."—The Marchmont Papers.

LENT ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

GLOUCESTER, APRIL 4.

George Hemming, a very respectable-looking
man, was charged with assaulting Margaret Daley,
with intent to commit a capital felony.
Margaret Daley, a very good-looking girl, said—
lam eleven years and a half old. I had worked for
the prisoner, who is a basket-maker. On the 2d
and 3d of February, at about one o'clock, I was in
the kitchen at the prisoner's house. He took his
handkerchief off his neck-, and tied it over my
mouth. He then locked the kitchen door, and,
having done so, he led me into the pantry, and
committed the assault in question ; after that he
took the handkerchief from my mouth, and told me
to hold my tongue. He then unlocked the door,
and I went up stairs. This happened on a Wed-
nesday or Thursday, and I told my sister of it on
the Tuesday following.
Cross-examined—l am eleven yeas and six
months old. I bad been three weeks in the pri-
soner's employ. I never said to Agnes Hyat that
my master had threatened to turn me off, and that
I would do him an injury for it. I did not say so
much to her; my friends forbade me speaking to
her, because she had bad discourse. I was in the
pantry near an hour. The prisoner gave me 6d.,
and said he would kill me if I told.
Mr. James Prowse said—l am a surgeon at
Bristol. I was sent for to examine Magaret Daley,
and found her suffering from disease ; and there
were also appearances which might have have been
caused by violence, but which might have arisen
from other causes. The girl was well in about a
week.
Mr. WATSON addressed the Jury for the de-
fendant.

Agnes Hyatt said-1 work for the prisoner,
who is a basket-maker; he is a married man.
I know the proF,ecutrix, who was also in his service.
I have heaid Mr. Hemming threaten to turn her
away. She said, before that, that Mr. Hemming
had better not turn her away, for she would do him
some mischief. After she went away I had a con-
versation with her : she said Mr. Hemming had as-
saulted her twice, and given her sixpence on each
occasion : at another time she said it was all in fun.
I did not tell this to any body. I did not like to
make mischief.
George Lloyd said—l lived in Bristol in February
last, in the same house as Mr. Hemming. The
number of persons who lived in the house was 32.
I occupied the room over the pantry ; and on the
Wednesday or Thursday on which this-matter .
said to have occurred I was at work in that room.
I did not hear any screaming.
The Jury, after a short deliberation, returned a
verdict of Guilty.—Eighteen months' imprisonment.

CHESTER, APRIL •t.
Thomas Goulden, a medical practitioner at Stock•
port, was pin to the bar, charged with the wilful
murder of one Margaret Sykes, at Stockport, on
the 29th of October last.

The case is, in substance, as follows :—The pri-
soner is a medical practitioner at Stockport, hav►ng
been so previous to 1815, and ti►e deceased was a
married woman, in humble circumstances, living in a
cellar at Stockport. In November, 1829, she suf-
fered greatly in her confinement, insomuch that the
midwife who attended her thought it necessary to
have professional assistance. The prisoner was ac-
cordingly called in, and he, with the assistance of
instruments, succeeded in delivering the woman of
a dead child. When it was all over, she excla►mod
" Thank God." Prisoner said, " Don't thank God
for anything about it; thank me—God had nothing