The Sun.
London, England, 1809-09-05 00:00:00

FOR PERTHSHIRE.

The •harvest commenced in this vicinity a few
days, ago, and is now become general. The grain
seems to be ripening fast; and notwithstanding the
long continued rains, there is the prospect of what is
known among farmers by the phrase a good mid-
dling crop.' The wheat in some places will be in-
jured, but not so much as was at one time-suspeded.
—This is probably. awing, in a great measure to its
general thinness, and to the coolness of the at-
mosphere, which has prevailed for several days.—
The peas, if the weather after this be favourable,
will yet recover and yield an abundant produce.—
Oats, on good dry ground, are in many ca,es un-
commonly luxuriant., and on the whole, we think,
shall be equal to an average crop.

On Saturday last a servant boy of Mr. Edwards, at
Wandsworth, took his master's horse into a field
adjoining the house to feed ; and being Sleepy, laid,
down, tied the halter around one of his legs, that he
might not sleep too long, and thus composed him- ,
self. The horse having in the mean time taken fright,
ran a considerable distance, dragging the boy after
him, who, notwithstanding the alarming situation to
which ho had been exposed, did not sutler any ma-
terial injury.
We are sorry to state a melancholy circumstance,
which took place on Friday :—Johri JAMES TODD,
Esq. (brother to COl. FRANCIS TODD, of the Ist Re- !
giment of Guards), went out shooting in the neigh-
bourhood of Horndean, Hampshire, when his gun
accidentally went off, whilst he was taking the ram-
rod out, and the contents of,it being forced through
his body, he lingered for twenty minutes and then
oxpired.—The deceased Gentleman was on a,visit to
his sister, MrS. HALKETT, the Lady of Capt. H. of
his Majesty's ship Ganges, who resides at either-
ington-House.
We have already stated the circumstances attend-
ing the death of William Iley, at Chertsey, and the
verdicts of the Inquests held in consequence ; and on
Friday we mentioned the suicide committed by a
surgeon of that place, as connected with the ver-
dkt of the first Jury.—The•faas we understand to be
these :—Otie of the witnesses examined before the
Coroner's Jury was Mr. Summers, a most respe&-
able young man, an apothecary and surgeon- of
Chertsey. After giving his evidence, it, was im-
puted to him that, being the medical man who at-
tended the family of the persoit accused of the mur-
der, he had delivered himself more favourably as to
the cause of Iley's,death than the circumstance would
warrant, and that with a view to shelter Vincent.—
Hand-bills were published, in Chertsey, and even
doors and shutters written upon, reflecting in very
gross language, on Mr. Summers ; other mortifying
attacks were likewise made upon him by some of
his neighbours. At length this Gentleman, being
naturally of a desponding nervous,habit, about seven
o'clock on Wednesday morning, left his house, and
repaired-to the Abbey River, from the side of which,
after placing his stick in the mud, he threw himself
in, and was drowded. This awful occurrence pro-
duced, as soon as it was known- in Chertsey, an
universal sentiment of sorrow and regret ; and the
circumstance - which led to the melancholy ea,
tastrophe was at once lost in the recolleCtion of the
amiable disposition, professional skill, and gentle-
manly manners of the deceased. A reward of 401;
was offered for apprehending -Vincent, who had re-
treated to a neighbouring village ; 'but he surrender-
ed himself, and was committed to take his trial.
A severe pitched battle was fought in Mary -le-
bone-fields yesterday morning, between Jones a
prefessor, and a bargeman of the name bf Tough,
for 20 guineas, which was, won in 40 minutes by
Jones. The bargeman planted shine tremendous
bits, beating away his antagonist's guard, hut he was
at length So blinded and exhausted by constant left
handed fibbing, that he had no chatice-during the
last quarter of an hour of the contest. Some hun-
dreds of spectators were present.

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