The Sun.
London, England, 1809-01-18 00:00:00

POLICE.

Gumpulat...-..--Yesterday a soldier of the bathe of'
Fisher, Was committed for trial, for stealing a square
pig of copper,. from Messrs. Pidgeon and Co.'s
wharf, known by the name of Harnborough
Aim Shorter, a well-dressed female, Was. charged
by Mr. Swinder, hardware-man;. No. 4, Skinner.
slreet, with stealing a piece of woollen cloth, and a
piece of ;linen,' his property.' He stated, that the
Pri4oorr. bad .lived with him rs a house-keeper ; •is.
misged.the articles out of his -tooth that morning,
and she deuivd having any knowledge of thelh,:-btit
Since she had been ht the Compter, she ael.now-
ledged ,that she put them into her box, •out of thee
duSt, and had given hith the key, and as he had re-
covered the goods,* he was perfealy satisfied, .1A
did not wish to prosecute her,

The *Prisoner, in her defence, said, • she and the
Prosecutor had 'lived together, for nine months, a 4
Moo and wife; but' they were not I,4gally ; ;d1
whirl) time.shelind never &fronded him of a stil-
ling, but .he brought • this dcd-,iation" against her Out
of a tit of jealousy.
Tice Sitting Magistrate ordered her to. be
charged.

No intelligence having been received of tho Ce.y.
lon homeward-bound Ebst Indianian, which p.nt,:d
Company with the'Fleet recently arrked, iu the Day
of Bengal, shortly after leaving the Ganges ; it i;
supposed that Ship has either put b;lck. in cons.
cluence of some accident, or has been captured by
some of the enemy's cruizers in the Indian seas.

A tradesman from London, -.whose shop, was
broken into November,last, and -gold% seals and'
jewellery stolen out to the atm:nit• of nearly .4001;
went run Monday, in the course of laisinesi, into
the shop of a Jew in the High-street, Portimouthi
when a custamer happened to cute in and asked
for a seal. A drawer, was accordingly taken ant for
him to make choice of one, among which the trades,
man recognised several which had been stolen from
him. He
,immediately left the sj.'cp, and laid„nit„
information against the Jew, whoge house and shop,
were afterwards examined, and a very considelable;
number of the articles which were stolen out of
shop were found, The Jew, who Nitai .taken into
custody, says he,bought them in London:
A mote affetiling. and melanchcly opeNcle was
scarcely ever witnessed, ithati was presented on. Stlll-:
day evening at Derby. A poor widow of the narpe,
of Fenn, followed her deceased husband .to the
grave; :attendod by eleven helplcss orphan ; and
what rendered this awi'id solamaitir still mire al-
feaing, before, thd remains of the departed father
were committed to the earth, the.disconsolate
nia-
ther (who had ,not been brought to bed gnite three
weeks) returned thanks for her safe deliverance
from the dangers of child-birth, and ten of ,'her un- '
fortunate children were christened.

Last, Friday as John White, a hawker of fish,
was going along Mutton-hill, Hattoit-garden, a
large dog fiercely attacked him, and tore one of hiik
hands in a shocking-manner ; fearing that he as
'mad, caustic, was applied to the lacerated part, after
which he went to Gravesend for immersion in the
salt water. The dog escaped frsim being killed.
(in Wednesday forenoon considerable alarm was
excited by, the appearance of a doe,: outrageously
mad, in lil6 streets of Carlisle. _Two ebildren, we
are sorry to say, besides several animals, ‘i'ere bitten
by it, before it was destroyed at Newtown. ,
The following extraordinary circumstance oak-
red during the late snow, in the garden of. Mr. Als,
of Glynde-bourne; Sussex, who saving furfnd that
groat depredations .had been committed by rabbits,
on his cabbages and other vegetables, brie evening
set up a wire snare in the track by which he thought
the little nightly robbep entered his premises, and ott
the' morning tellowin4, to his great surprise, round
he had caught a couple, a buck and a doe, in the same
noose. The female, it appeared on eitamination, had
been caught in t he usual manner, by the'neck, and the
male, by baying the wire twiited round his body,
probably in Ins endeavour to extricate the doe.

ConN-ExcuAxez, supplici of
'Wheat on hand t&day, are rather large, but in con.
svquehce or the ThattleS ,tlfiVigatioti be' %nett:7ly
Stopped, scarce may sales thereof ar ; Batley
in:large supply.; Beans of each Kind in plenty, there
are considerable supplies of Oats, but in this tracl4,
as well as otheri, owing to the' few sates elreded, the
prices are alreost considered nominal; Flour plena=
tul at last prices,

Wheat 654 a Szs a tpi od Tick Beans . 645-3 7os od
Fine ditto . 941a97,7 Out , (?4,16 - .3Ss a 3" 4 41a e.l
it .e '. . il4.s a 03, 3lPatartd (nth, 444 a4is od
Ditricy • . 4 a scli ad 1 Potarce . . --s a .46s , d
11,131 t, • , .... 73i a 14.31 4.4 I Kap» Seed . col A 541 -- 1
W itite Pease 144, 3 154 S od I file `t -8.,:, ;,. Lit od
I
Grey ttitto . 54s a sys bd -Sr,tit) s • . yis a 1.1.4 i crd