The Sun.
London, England, 1814-10-15 00:00:00

BOW-STREET.

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ItOBBEitY AT BEDFONT.-About SIX Weeks since,
Mr. Longhurst, of Bcdfont, wts stopped and rob-
bed by three footpads, near that place, of his
cash, watch, and part of his wearing apparel, and
cruelly treated by the robbers„and.dragged out of
the road and tied to a tree. One of the gang, of the
name of Strangekarii, was taken the follciwing
morning, with part of the stolen property 00 hiin,
and is now under Sentence of death, in Ncwgate;
having been convicted at -the last Old Bailey .ties=
sions.—Yesterday Pearkes and Bishop xliscovered
two men answering the description of the other
two robbers, at a public-house in the neighbour=
hood Of Covent-Garden. They also apprehended
another man in their company, muter suspicions
circutnstances. They were examined before Sir
NATHANIEL CONANT, when the man found in
their company not giving .a satisfactory account
of himself, and a pawnbroker's duplicatefor z
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watch being found !Ton him, suspected to have
'been stolen in the Kent-road on Thursday even-
ing, Sir NATHANIEL committed him, with the
others, for further,eNntnination.

MANSION-HOUSE.
. The driver of the Hackney Coach, No. 245;
charged with having assaulted a gentleman in Bi-
shopsgate-strect on the 24th of September, war
disharged on paying a fine of H. which the prone •
tutor gave to the Freemasons' Charity.
M. Young, Secretary to a Benefit Suciety; held
at the Nag's-bead, Houndsditch; was chargeti
a poor widow, 70 years
,of age, with unjustly
withholding the means of interring her husband,
his bcirly having remained with her a considerable
time, and she being-Vint-tile to defray the expellee.
,She had applied to tlie.Churell-wardens, who re-
fused her request, being determined to see justice
done to her, in awaiting the i,sUe of th;s appeal.
The defendant alleged, that lier.clai:;,l upon the
society was forfeited, in consequence or non-pay-
Ment of last quarter's subscription ; all he cOrild
do, therefore, was to submit her case to the next
general meeting. The complainant submitted;
that this answer was negatived by his having told
her that all was right up to the 11th of last July,
when she paid him the sum of 265. The Loe.o
MAYOR obserVed, that this was a hard case ; the
poor woman having believed that all was right,
and not having received any notice to the cc.in.
trary. The defendant persisted in his refusal until
authorised by a general meeting. In the meau
time it was agreed, that the body should be
ter•red by the parish.

• HATTON-OARDEN:
Yesterday James George Lisle ili,llll(ticir Semplei
wilt, stands committed upon two separate charges,
for obtaining goods under false -pretences,--was
brought up from the New Prison, and was admit,.
led to bail in two sureties of 401. each, for each
charge,• and himself in double that sum, for his
appearance at the ensuing Middlesex Sessions.
Mary Bell, who stbod fully coimnitted Upon.
two charges; for picking pockets at the Court of
Repuests, Fulwood's-rents, was brought up on
the charge of picking the pockets of three other
persons. The several cases being Made out, Slims
was fully committed to Newgate.
-John WaMalik, the hoSier, who'has been sonic
time in custody, charged with beating a woman,
who is since in Bartholomew's Hospital, and
whose life was in .danger, has been admitted to
bail,' the surgeons having given their opinion that
the woman is out of danger.

QUEEN-SciUARE.
, Yesterday Staples was fully committed on the
charge of having robbed Mr, MUrphy of
pocket-book in Covent-garden Theatre. '
Margaret Youngstort, alias Austin, committed
sonic thne,since to further examinatitm, on a
charge of having violently aSsatilted and wounded
James. Youngston by stabbing him in 'the thigit
and loin, was again put to the bar. Youngston,
having Pretty well recovered of his wounds, at-
tended, stating, that he did not wish to proceed
further against the woman who had lived th
him 15 years; but after what had happen d,
now only desired that she 'night be discharged,
and not to trouble- him any more. 'The wofiiiiis
w'ept bitterly at this. The Magistrate, in observ-
ing how narrowly she had escaped the commission
of murder, desired, on being discharged, that she
would remember the caution, and in future avoid
molesting. Votingston.—Discharged,

Coßmtta's ItswEsT.—Yesterday there was an
Inquest held at the houscof Mr. Benjamin Pal-
mer,.tbe.sign of the Cock, in Brook-street; Tot-
tenham Court-road, before GEORGE HoLiGsoNi
Esq. Coyoner for the County of .Middlesex,. on
yiew of. the body of an elderly Lady resident in
the neighbourhood, who was tound the, preceding
morning dead in her bed.—Verdict, P. ed bp, the
Visitation of God. -