The Sun.
London, England, 1809-08-14 00:00:00

CROWN SIDE.

George Donohoughwas incikted for ravishing Su-
sac, Rice, a child. just above the age of ten years.
..:Mr. CUR wool:). ha v ing"Opened The indictment, Mr.
PURNEY, stated the circumstances of the case. The
parents of the clad .kept a public-house in St.
George's-fields. The' prisoner was' in the habit of
using the house. On Tuesday, the 17th of May, he,
seduced the.childinto a private place,..and,thewcom."
,
pletely
.effeaed villainous purpose, ,fiaving pre-
venred her cries by sgueez4.lg her throat.. _As soon
:as he. had perpetrated-the Crime; he, ihtedtched,. her
with death it she told her inothe.r. ./T.th4Atils.Oasy
the state of the child diScovered-thefdcf.;.l4A-a4x a:
severe resistance he. was apprehended.. Tltc g►,i waS
a sensible and very interestjog_infant, and wset.rnost.'.
bitterly all the time she gave her, et iden:ce,. -and
deed it ceas With great ti Lit itiir. (. iiney
could go the fatts:fidin Jiuy
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,rni • was
y, I re*.
'"tle 'Park. A-S one the ke'epers with a third' fantdy.
The rdgiliter's -of the two: marriages were thZn pet.
u and proved, and that tile fohner wife was 011
hying. -
..For the.:piisoner, an. thEcer iti 'the West Suffolk
Militia proved that the prisdner,had always borne
moat e'kemplary 'charmer, that ha Wait promoted-
to be a quarter-master',n the reginient,: and, Lord
Euston, iTt considerailon of his uniform good heha-
viont- had appointed him Park-keeper.; that his wife
bad been drummed out of the regiment,.and bad'uot
been heard,ot many years.
The .prisoner declared, that he believed his, first
wife to be dead,. not hearing from her. many years,
and knowing the was in the habit of eXcesbive
drinking.

The Learned Judge observed, (hat he had aa. ed
with too little caution in not making more aOciirate
inquiries after his first wife; but he.slioulisenten.
hint to'only a mild punishment, which was, that he
should pay a fine of one shilling, and be imprisoned
for one month.

There are two .murders M the Kalendar, one of
whiCh -14 expe6ted to occupy/ several hours. The
:JUdge, therefore, postponed them" until Monday
morning , and having finished ,the other prisOners-,
he passed sentence of death on seven prison:-,rs, but
immediately intirnated:he should reprieve all except
_DonObough.for the rape, whom be setiously
ed to prepare for execution:

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PREFERMENTS.
The Rev. B. H. Chapman, B. A. of Qu'eth's csol
lege, Cambridge, Chaplain to his Royal Higher;i;
the Prince of Wales, is presented by Earl- Fozwil-
liam to the Vicarage of Tinsley; in the county uF
York.

The Rev. John I3anks, B. D. F. A. S.•l7lend
Mas-
ter of the Grammar School at Boston, has been In-
stituted; by the Lord Bishop. of Lincoln, to flat
Realory of Braitoft, in .Lincolmhtie,- on the pre-
sentation of the Lord Chancellor; and licensed to
the perpetual Curacy of Dolby, on the nomination
of Lord Monson.

Tile Rev. J. 11.:•Deacon, R.D. of, Waddington,
has been presented to the Vicarage of Rowston, ih
the county of Lincoln, by S. Thorold, of Harniston,
Esq.
(in the 22c1 July, the Rey. David Dore,: M. A.
tvas.induaed into the Bth`Prebendal Stall of Durham
Cathedral, vacant- by the death of the Rev. DI:7.
Poyhtz ; and on TueSWay<sennight the Rev. Henry
a Piiiilpots, Reor of Gateshead,• Ms:
the Oth• Stall, vacatit •by cdssiou of the Itt!V;.1).
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A • dispensation' has 'passed the Great Sealr,-.en),
powering the Rev: John -Kirk, A. M: Cliap lain to
,the Wight Hob: Lord Arden, and Vicar of Searo.:-
rough, in The countyi of Y.or,k, to hold with that
hying the Reaory of Thwiiv,
.ip
.the slam count,,
to'which he ha*sbeen latay-p-esented by the Laii
iliffh chancellor. or Great Britain. -

• Thursday evening; one of tlie'rnost viWient storm;
of hail, accotiipatiled with tremendous thunder and
'and' tiear Oxford. About ,
past•Tiglit:V9lOck tile lightning became more, fre7
ittedr, atidAlie peals "of thunder very loud and aw-
ful ; ar the same time, hail-stones-of uneomnaPu
mensions descended. '.l.Vlany'sky-light4 were broker,
0:P41111101. done to hot-houses, &t in
that jeity. and .its neighbatirooo:l- A spark 'of the
ele(tric•ffuid struck-oncend of a barn, belonging to
li.Vlr.',C4..;ck in St. Giles.and proceeded from thence
in different diretlions'; one part entered a summer"
bouse-belonging to 'Mr. Moore, shattered two smell -
pictures,, shivered the door, broke a pane.of glass,
shattered a ladder, and. threw - splinters -of it to
diilatA,pa,rts of, the garden; another part of the
fluid enotter entered.an adjoining house, inhabited
,by Mr. James Bennet, Struck down a young.
tind, two young women,,and, after making a larg;.%
aperture. through a_ stone wall on the ground-t 1 r;
Itett un•forther traces • of. its progress. The three
persons who were itruck.-dowil are. recovered with,-
out any serious injury... •

,Thursday last a flash.of lightning. struck the Mer-
cury Coach, between Woodyates and Blandfor4
knocked down the four horses, killed one of them,
also killed-a man instantly on the outside of tha
cQach, and wounded three of the inside passenger. ,
A Gentleman who was following in a gig was also
struck With a flash of lightning,- and. when he i-eoo-
vered ibis senses, found himself sitting on-the torn-
pike road his face was very much, scorched. A ,
boy in Biandford was also struck blind.
Yesterday se'nnight, a . boy about 13 years of •
age, .son of Mr: Lomas, of Broad-lane, Sneffik-14
grocer,' gas found dead,, with_ his foot.hanging la
the stirrup, having-, it is supposed, fallen from the
the horse which he had been riding and dragged s
considerable distance, as he was mangled in a dread-
ful manner. •