The Sun.
London, England, 1809-08-11 00:00:00

NEWCzSTLE, AJGUSP

On Thursday evening last, a very ildlent
storm, accompanied by .a rernarkable veavy shower
of rain and hail, blirst over :his town. The light
ping awfully vivid, and peals of the most
tremendous thunder followed each other in rapid
succession ; the hail and rain fell in such torrents;
that the streets were in an instant completely floo&
ed. Considerable datrisge has been sustained in thii
town. and neighbourhood from the
A henie in Prince'S-sireet was struck h? it; and
materially injured, nearly all the gliss-iti the witid.v
frames being forced out, and the furnitdre, Scc. much
burnt. A large party who werla at te:a were throwri

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into a violent state of Jarrri by the lightning ewer=
iVotg, the parlour in •which, they were seated, and o',.erg
IttAning the tea-table and dispersing the chin
the thorn.---The company,- Wean: hap 3.. ate;
escaped unlitirt. •
l'he lightning also struck down a chimney, and
roof of Mr. Humble's dwelling-house near tt,e F.rth;
and at the saute instant shatteted one AI the int,ars of
I the front dpor, comninnicating.witn and •,!esti ny 'Eng-
: all the wires of the. bells in the first ~id scion t stn-
. ries, shattered thestock of a gun in the
,kitchen, alsO
• the window shutters of three •rooms,
paper, and tossing about the lime' from the tops of
the windows wherever the bell-wires cotninunicat4
I ed; then burst out :of the back stoirc ise
_windoW
with a dreadful explosion, similar to the, discharge
of_ a.cannon, and' filling. the different rooms with
black sulphurous smoke.

Providentially, none of the family were materially
hurt ; Mrs. Humble was deprived for a few' MitiufeS
of her hearing, and experienced a numbness iti.one
arm : one of • the servants was slightly scorched' in
one hand. One of the wands of .a windmill in the
tan-yard of Mr. Young, Derwent Crook, in this
town, was set on fire, but was soon extinguished.:
The hail-stones, or rather pieces of ice, were very-
large, and fell in great abundance ; great quantities
of them, when. drifted .or scvel.., together, were form-
ed into such Cotripaet masses that they were not dis-
solved till late the next day.

The same storm was also severely felt at Durharri,
about P., o'clock. It was also there accompanied by a
tremendous torrent of rain and hail-stones, many of
which, when taken up, measured above an hull and
a (laner in circumference. Great injury has been
done :o several of the hot-houses in the neighbour-
hood of that city. Happily Alia storm did nut con-
tinue•above half an hour. •

A most extrao...dinary case was tried at the lest
Maryborongh Assizes io Ireland. It was briefly al
follows :—Robert Baldwin, in March, 1789, made
his will,. in which he devised certain lands to the
children of his youngest son ; poon after which his

faculties failed him, and he became altogether
childish, and died in April, 1784, above 80 yearA
old. The Defendant; and eldest son, immediatel',r
afterwards gave out that his father had destroyed th.e
will ; and no will being found, he entered into
possession of the lands in question ; and so matters
remained for 21'ye4rs; the whole family during,all dick
time believing that the father had died without a
will. But after 21 years, the delusion Vanished, and
the Defendant's own children became the immediate •
instruments of justice to the children of his brother.
In the year 1802, the Defendant's wife died ; and he
very soon afterwards, at the age of 78, married a very
young woman, which caused some anxiety to hit
two sons, Robert and Edward Baldwin ; whose
poignant expression of this feeling so exasperated
their father, that he, in his resentment, executed his
will to disinherit his eldest son, Robert ; and, in
his fit of anger, shewed it to his second son, Ed-
ward, who instantly determined. to get at and de- •
stroy it, in order to preserve the propery to his eldest
brother. With this view, he broke open his father's
desk, where he found—not his father's will, which
he sought after, but the will of his grandfather,
which was then altogether forgotten in the fatnii.
He read it, and found that the estate, of which
fither would have disinherited his brother, rea;ly •
belonged to his cousins, the children of his late
uncle John. He instantly communicated the irir-
portant discovery to his brother, and he to their
uncle Jonathan ; in consequence of which, the will
was, about the beginning of the year 1805, lodged
in the Prerogative Court. When the Defendant v, a;
apprised of the discovery of the will, he said it Ixat-4.
very true, his father never did cancel hi& will ; but
that he did it away by two deeds, by which he after
wards conveyed his property to him ; and that those
deeds were both registered. It appeared; indeed;
that one such deed was registered since the discovery
of the will ; but both deeds appearing foully suspi,
dons, a bill was filed in the Court of Exchequer ;
and on hearing of the cause in the last Term, the
Counsel desired to have the opinion of a Jury on-
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these alleged deeds. After a trial of eight hours,
the Jury found a verdict for the Plaintiffs, with the
full approbation of the Learned Judge, By this
verdict the Plaintiff's, five in number, are aestored to
an estate of about 3001. a year, of uhich, for f.:7
year, they hay,: been deprived by their ;AL4'e.,:,

POETRY.

L 01,0 C. A Nll3l ER.

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HOME CIRCUIT.

SUSSEX ASSIZES, 1.E.,,,aE3, Ayr.. 8.

11.FICIIItS }3C,NNE;

• This.was,an actikin' of trespass and assault, and
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arose baween some of the parties in the game cause-
of yesterday. -The Plaintiff; Hitchins, :was over,:
seer of ,the.poor of the parish-of Ahriston, and the
D,fendlot, a Magistre of the county.
Mr. MAIIRYATT, as:Con.nSel. for the Plaintiff, de-
tailed the. circutristances of, the 'Case, which 'were
as follow man; of the name- of itobert.s, a
blacks-until, bad been sued,. and a:judgment' ohtained
egmit, him, which .oblige:l ltirn..to ab..;cond.—At
this time he occupied-a small cottage, the property
of -the Th-lendant, ti ho is a IVlagistinfe for the county,
and a . Gent lt;itian of tort une.—W hen 'Roberts's
ponds Were.. sold off,. the Sheriff's Officer took. the
key- of
,fhe Meuse to the Dyiendant, that he iiiight
see tht,-.h tore,44 Ronens's wife vent to the poor
house, and. torced to'.crave the aid of the pairish.
Mr."Ritchins, the overseei• ..(who was one of the

pa c,c agaitist whom Mr..-lathen's, tenant brought
the glion of yesterdav),reselved- to. replace her in
* her house, but the Defecdlnt bad placed a man Of
the na...,e of R.edingst in the house ;
.Mr. Hitchins,
krowevel,,bruke upon the. door, and put some small
matters' of furniture in
.the house,' and desired the
woman to stay there; in the mean' time Mr. Beane,
the Magistrate, had arrived, and forciblyturned her
out of possession. Mr. H. the Plaintiff, insisted she
should go in again, and as Mr. Beane had placed
himself in the doer-way, be pushers past him to get
into the house. In doing this he brushed against the
Defendant, whoi.immediately ordered • hini to be
taken into custody, and xs tto constable was near, he
declared, .as.a Magistrate, 'be could make arty one
constable, and ordered a. bye.Lstander- tak4'Mr.
Ktchins to o custody; • _tie then ordered-hint to-be-
conveyed to his own ho e, where 'he-sat as Magis-
trate on his own case; , but thinkingatterwards that
that wa.4 perhaps. too much, be the next' day carried
Lim before..his. friend Mr. Harben, as another Ma-
gistrate.
These lads being proved, and as the Learned
Judge held, that as.lloberts's tenantry was trot ex.-,
• vireo, it was illegal to expel his wife froth the poS-
, sessio:l -of the cottage, the Pli:liniffiriust 'have a vet-
' did ; at the same time he recommendecrto the jury
to damages with discretion, and propOr tioned to
the iejury.
The Jury found for the Plaintiff--damages tool.
As a counterpart to this adieu, the D....tendons,
Beane, bad todinted.Hitchais for arta,ssault, in which
his witnesses swore that Hitchins had rushed past
him with great violence,.. and had thrust his elb.,vir
ito his sibs:
The Jury found.the Defendant—N4t
There was also a third acticu by Hitchins agtinst
Beane, for settiug out ty t hes, of which
' }-litchins was • the- improptiater..i In tins attion-
its
. also recoveteci. thi2re was, aka an Indies went against
Haitien,, for provoking a challenge, winch was put
off. on the absence of a material- witness.