The Sun.
London, England, 1814-01-08 00:00:00

RIVER PIRATES.

UNrox-HALL.--Repeated complaints have been
made of late to the. Magistrates at this office, of
depredations committed on the different
lying in the river, by a set of villains, who, in
gangs of six or seven in a' boat, row up and down
(luring the night. One of them generally stands
up in the middle of the boat, with a firelock in his
hand, and if on their approach to any vessel they
are baited, they immediately answer " Dowries
Police ;" and having thus lulled suspicion, are
quietly suffered to lie 'alongside, and under the
stern of the vessel. Whilst in this situation, two-or
three of them contrive to get upon deck and hand
down any portable articles they find lying with-
in their reach. Several vessels have thus been
plundered of -their property to a considerable
amount, and the villains have as yet escaped de-
tection, though several suspicious characters have
been apprehended by Collingbonrn and the other
officers.

A baker was fined 61. lOs, and costs, for ex-
posing to sale bread short of weight ; and ano-
ther ,baker' was convicted in the penalty of 51.
and costs, for baying in his. possession a quantity
of allum.

GUlLDHALL.—Yesterday two men, of the names
of Thomas Smith and John' Bonnar, were brought
to the bar on a charge of uttering forged Bank-
notes. 'the Magistrate did not think it expedient
to go then into the case, but ordered Smith to
be temanded till Saturday week, and Bonnar to
be committed to 'the custody of the Warden.
Isabella Smith, a milliner and dr‘ess-maker, in
St. Paul's Church-yard, charged Sarah. Cope, with
robbing her of various articles of millinery goods.
The prisoner had•been five months in the employ
of tile• complainant, and several things having
been miser( at different times, last Monday her box
was searched, and property of the complainant's
found in it to the value of 4/.' The prisoner made
pc) defence, and was fully committed for trial.
Mary Frier, charged Richard Newcombe, porter
of the White Horse Inn, Fetter-lane, with the
loss of a parcel containing a turkey, by taking it
to a ,wrong place. The parcel was directed to
No. 6, St. Catherine-court, London, and had
been taken to No. 2, Catherine-eourt, on Tower-
bill. It oppearing plainly, that there was only.
one Saint Catherine-court, though there were se-
yeral Catherine-courts, the ALDERMAN was of
opinion, that the porter was bound to indemnify
the complainant ; and the parties withdrew to
settle the quantum of damages.
BOW-STREET.---Tw6 more of thctang who, at-
tacked , and wounded Vickery, the police officer,
arc in custody. Lavender apprehended one of the
name of Sadler, just as he was getting into a stage-
coach to go to Grantham. This fellow the offi-
cers wanted on the night of the attack, on suspi-
cion of his being concerned in the murder of Moses
Merry, at Vauxhall, but did not know leis person.
They saw him among the gang in,the public;lmuse.,
The other mail that is taken for this inhuman at-
tack, was apprehended a few nights since by a
party of the Worship-street .office, and is a noto-
rious character of the name of, King, suspected of
a 'robbery in the4neigh-bourhood. of Ifinsburp.
sr uare. • '

Vas.," 5....! 11.. 411
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CoaoNea's EsquEsT.----Yesterday an Inquest
was held at the hous.e.of Richard Coombes, the
sign of the White Horse, Baldwin's-gardens,
Gray's-inn-lane, before GEORGE HODGSON) Esq.
Coroner for the "county of Middlesex, on view of
the body of Mrs. Amelia Eleanor Mann, wife of
Mr. Mann, landlord of the, Marquis of Granby
public-house, in Gray's-inn-lane, who, as was
yesterday stated, died under suspicious circum-
stances, after her return from the Sans.Pareil The-
atre on 'Wednesday night, whither she had been
accompanied by a journeyman baker. The Jury
assembled at one o'clock, and after being!sworn,
went to the Marquis of Granby public-house to
take a view of the body.
The Surgeons opened the body and the head,
the better to ascertain the cause of her death,—
This operation took up an hour, during which
tiine.the Jury had to wait in an anti-room, and
after taking a view of the body, they retu'rned to
the jury-room at the White Horse.

Itlr. :fames Potts chemist, in Fleet-street, said,
that about half past eleien o'clock on Wednesday
night, he was sent for to the Sun Hotel, near
Temple-bar, where he was- informed there. was a
Lady in a most dangerous state, having been taken
suddenly ill. He -accordingly went to the house,
and in the parlour stretched on a sofa, he saw the
deceased lay in a state of insensibility.
Mrs. Perry, the mistress of the house, two ser-
vant maids; and the journeyman, baker, were the
only persons beside in'the room. On 'examining
the deceased, he became' alarmed at her state, and
he' suspected that she had taken,, or that there
Was something improper administered to her ; he
supposed. she had'taken laudanum, but on look-
ing round the room he saw no-thing except a bottle
and
.two glasses, which stood on the table, in
which there was the appearance of some wine.—
He communicated his opinion of her danger, and
he was requested by the other parties it) permit
her to be taken to his house to Save' her charac-
ter, and that her husband might be sent for, aS it
was a house of. ill fame. To this request he con-
sented, and she was removed rf) his house ; he
'sent for Mr. Owen, a surgeon-, in Chancery-lane,,
who, when he saw her, was of opinion it was an
apoplectic tit. The inisband, to whom the jour-
neyman baker had given information of the event,
afterwards came and took her home in a coach.
Mr. Owen, Surgeon; said that he opened the
head and body of ,the deceased. On opening the
head he discovered four ounces of blood on the
brain, occasioned by the rupture of a blood ves-
sel, which might occasion appoplexy. He also
opened. the stomach, the contents of 'which he
had then in a phial, in order to analyse it, try
if there was any landaninn, or poisonous subta.lee'
taken in, so as to-occasion her death. •
Mr. iloDGsov-stPted, to The Gentlemen of the
Jury, which. consisted of twenty-four,' that /this
was a very mysterious affair, and one which the
pUblic were very much interested-in, and that no
painS shouid be spared to come at the truth, as
there were various reports in circulation. The
entire of the witnesses sufficiently requisite to clear
up the matter were not present; therefore lie
suggested the propriety of adiourningtheinquest,
to 'give the Surgeons time to analyse the contents
of khe stomach, which 'was preserved for that*
purpose, as well as to have all the witnesses, to
learn when left the theatre, and when she
arrived at the brothel, for which purpose the mis-
tress and two servants of the brothel should have
noitice to attend.

A Bow-sticet officer in waiting acquainted the,
Coroner that be had the journeyman baker, in
whose company the deceased was, in his custody,
and wished to he informed whether he should
tain him or not. The Gentlemen of the Jury said
it was fit, in the present case, to keep the man by
all means : to which the Coronet .assented, and
the inquest a4ljourned.
, .
There was another Inquest held yesterday be-
fore Mr.lioncsoN, at the house of John Mandell,
at the sign of the John of Jerusalem, in St. John-
street, on view of the body of Mr. Voice, Vestry
Clerk of, the Parish of Clerkenwell, who put an
end to his own existence on the preceding day, by.
cutting his throat. 1, Verdict—Lunacy.

Yesterday- the annual election 'for Chairman of
IN•restminster and Milldlesex took place, when Mr.
MAIN WARING was unanimously re-elected.
On Christmas-day, a curioms conflict took place
on `the river between Gainsbor-ough and Stock-
with. As JOHN TEMPERTON, the postman-be-
tween those towns, was returning to Stockwith
in his chutz, he perceived a fox crossing the river,
and immediately bore down in his little barque to
attack him. Reynard made some defence, not-
withstanding the disadvAntages.of the element • in
which he had been ituTrised ; but receiving
mortal blow on the head, he struck his colours,
and was hauled into Stockwith harbour.

Yesterday morning as a poor woman was going
down Ludgate-hill, with tit basket of potatoes on
her head, owing to: the slippery state of the.paven
ment, she fell %yid]; such violence as to bb taken up
in a state of insensibility, and being carried into
the Crown public-house in Stationers-court, ex-
pired in a few minutes.

The following is from a Scotch Paper : it re-
cords the downfall of one of the Brigs rendered
immortal by the pen•of 13unt.is
" AYR, DEC. 28.—A- new bridge waslately
built at Craufurjlarid : the site of ;the old bridge
was still thought the most eligible, and, as the•
new was to be of' a greater span, it was thought
proper •to use the old bridge as a mould for the,
new. For'this purpose, it was- necessary to take
off the parapet and shoulders of the.old structure,
A rock, which served as a hutment - for the old
bridge, and had, in process -of time, been com-
pletely divided in two by a vertical fissure from
top to bottom, was, by this means, deprived of
the band which' held the loose to the. firm part of
it. The new bridge was completely finished with-
out any accident, and bad stood for some time,
then on Monday last, the clay which the oversman
was to take the concern off the hands of-the con-
tractor, the looserock gave way, bringing down
the old bridge with a tremendous crash, after it'
bpd stood -for a term .which extends .beyond
record.'

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BIRTHS. . ...

I Itl'E
On. the 14th ult. at St. Helen':
tali] Southey, It. N. brother of tl
Oa tle 6th inst. at Bury-pail
of a sou.

; Auckland, the wife of or
he Poet-lam-rat ~ot a son-
Edmonton; 1i.0v.-ieu

Yesterday, at his house, Devon
the Lady of Joh❑ Tremoyne Rodd
Navy, of a daughter.

'shire-street. I'uttlatxl.placl
1, Esq. Capfaiii iu the IL°Y

M ARM ED •
46-
-On Wednesday last, at Loiters, the Rev.
chards, Master of,Tiverton School, and'ltector of Stolte
WO, Dorset, to llnnelia, daughter of John Strachati, 1%4"1•
Cliffden, Teigumouth.,
On the inst. at St. Jamey's March, SikJolin ;10°
Ready, Bart. of Sliipton Court, Oxfordshire, to Louisa, ro
youn
gest deughter•ot the late,David Murray, Esq.' broarer.,
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'ord.Elibank.

DIED. •
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On the sth inst. at the Hot Wells, Bristol, in the 5:3 s
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of her age, Juhafina, the' wife of 2ohn Necli, Esq. SoP"
Berks.
The same day, at his house, Great Rassell-strimt, 13'1,04
bury, John, Abbott, Esq. aged 73, e.
On Wednetday,-Captain L'Estrange, for many yeers
taut the King's 'County Regiment, quartered at Loilgi're.V
At his lonise in Fludyer-street, Westmiaster, Mrs. 111,1
ton, wife of William Ilinighton, Kit'. of the Irish Eircbl
()nice. .
Aki
On'the Ist inst. et Richmond, Yorkshire-, illoptain ana4z,.
jutant Sleigh, of the Ist Mirth York-Local Militia, age4),i.„V
On iiiday the Oth ult. at Bishopwearnionth, Mrs.
Smith, aged 'l9, widow of Mr, Lancelot smith, us:ti eon
master of a Greenland ship belonging to Liverpool.
sister to Mrs. Jane Proctor, who died on WednesdaY'
daughter on Tuesday, and the above on Friday.. ito4f,
.bn"fuesday last, Mrs. Walter's, wife of Mr. T. cir' adt
Lineu-draper, Market-place; Norwich. .The unfortunate
whose death we have recorded, fell a iictith to an act
ton mischief on the part of some idle person, who, 3;„:i1;•`,'
time since, yell a dead cat to Mr. %V.'s door---Mrs• "."Ltell;
home at the time it was suspended, was so dreadfully fitatioi's
ed, that- he was taliox alarmingly ill—her peculiar sit,"pii%,
Qieing fur advanced in pregnaucy);'rendered the Shock 1 Toe:"
and thus two lives .hare been lost, as the purchase
merit's amusement to an unthinking. being, whose tut:7loog!
istence (if he possesses a spark of feeling) must he ern" „oliy•
by the recollection of the wretchel consequences Of his,d

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