The Sun.
London, England, 1814-10-25 00:00:00

CON. IN fIGII LIFE.

A case iiist happened, under. all its circom-
s!ances more likely to make a greal noise in the
',rinkd than guy of 'the same kind that has Occurred '
for many years.
The Lady 190;e wife of a Scotch Earl, young,
marr ed ab(Mt six years, and the
•flother of tour children.'
rie gallAt is a young English Baronet, a
Member of the Muse of Commons, of an an-
cient family, and possessed of a great fortune,
principally in the South of England.
What makes this case the more distrussing is,
!he two families-immediately interested are. inti-
mately
connected, not anly by friendship, but by
several marriages, in the closest and most imme-
diate relations
It appears that the enamoured Baronet latelyt
went down to Scotland, to the seat of the Noble
Earl, in the diSguise of a sailor, front whence,-!
being recognised by
.his Lords'hip's 'brother, be
made his retreat, as his attachment to the Lady
was suspected by the family, and supposed to be
the cause-Of his visit. It being presumed that he
had on this discovery quitted' the country, no per-:'
sonal restraint upon the Lady nias considered ne-
cessary ; but it seems that the parties bad pre- •,
vionsly laid their plan- for all elopement, which
they •carried' into effect last week.

Ott Saturday night they arrive.d.at the Baronet's
house, at the west end of the town, where they,
roar are, and to which they we .e trae-d all the
way from Scotland. The legal Solicito7 of the
Noble Earl having been apprised of the circum-
stance, lost not a tpomentto take the necessary
proceedings. Legal process has been sued out,.
the 11,ironet's house was yesterday visited by
persons etuploed to serve it, so that the case will
come for%%ard with all possible dispatch, for di-
vorce and damages.
mini the rank, fortune, and other circum-
stances of the parties, it will prove a case.of the
_first interest and importance in the annals of in-
trigue.---The Baronet is a ‘vidoWer.
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Several millions of hurl-shat are shippint,, at
Portsmouth, in the Leonida' frigate, Captain
W. KING, for America. This description of shot.
bas.bren inscommon use with the Americans in
the pre,ent war, and the mangling wounds they
are found (when not, attended with death)
so to protract the recovery of our :soldierS, that
their services are lost to the army for a consider-
able tithe. The formation of the weapon is—a
large.shot at the bottom of a cartridge, resting
upon three small ones ; and these four shot are
fired off with the usual quantity of powder. The
Americans always use them in wild- foul shooting,
which amnSetnent being universally, practised by
them from their earliest years, makes them the
expert and dangerous rifle troops they are. Eng-
land has to mourn the loss of a Ross by such
hands : the tellow fired at. hint from behind sonic
brushwood.

DEVONSHIRE FARMING, —A few days since a
farmer died, who rented a great deal of land in
this neighbourhood, and besides other property,
bequeathed 25,0001. to his eldest son, 25,0001•. to
his second son, to his third and fourth sons
10,0001. each, and to his daughter 50001.—The
wife of the above farmer has for many years re-
gularly attended the Exeter markets with fowls,
butter, and eggs.—(Ereter Gazette.)
ATTEMPT AT ROBBERY AND MURDER.--A most
diabolical attempt at robbery and-murder was
made-on Thursday last, at the house of Mr. John
Ebbutt, a Gentleman farmer, at Swanky, in the
parish of Sutton. at Hone, near Darttnrd. A ruf-
fian-like fellow knocked at the kitchen door about
seven o'clock in the evening, and on Sarah Ashby,
the servant, opening the door, he rushed forward
'into the parlour, where Mr.. Ebittt, who is an
aged man and iafirm, was sitting with a friend,
a Mr. Houle;, an unexpected visitor. The robber
was armed with a bludgeon, anal the shrieks of
the girl having alarmed Mr. E. and his friend; the
latter grappled with hint, in doing which he re-
ceived au injury about the head. The robber call-
ed out for assistance, and he was joined by com-
panion from without the door, who presented a
pistol at Mr. Ebbutes breast; which providential-
ly flashed in the pan, and thevillains then zetreat-
ed. The ionise stands at a great distance from
any other, and the servant flew to the one nearest,
and assistance was procured ; but the assailants
could not he found. T. Foy and Plank, Officers
belonging to Mariborough-street Wee, were sent
for, and sufficient clue was obtained by their oc-
ertionS to entertain great hopes the offenders will
be secured.

MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.—The Little John,
(an open.veSsel), Josep4 Michael, Master, from
rowey to Mevagissey, Wall 70 hogsheads of salt-
ed pilchardS on board, shipped a sea in the course
of her passage on Ttcesday last, by which she al-
most immediately filled and went. clown. The
Master and two other persons, we regret to
state, were drowned. Oue man (a passenger),
was saved.

Last week John Anderson, tailor; of North
Shields, caught on the shore an uncommon fish,
called the Lophions, or Enropean Aligner, a name
given from its lying at the bottom amongst the
mud, and having numerous tentacula on its back
resembling worms, which it moves to entice its
prey. It was three feet long, 16 inches broad
nigh the head, and had three rows of teeth on
etch jaw like the shark, with numerous rows on
the tongue and roof of the moath, pointed in-
wards ; two large eyes on its back, betwixt the
dorsal fins, under which were two large pouches,
apparently for time purpose of sheltering its young,
like the Oppossrrn, &c. This fish had two eels
of considerable size in its stomach, and the jugu-
lar fins were shaped like a human hand.
On Tuesday se'nnight Mary 4nn Jenkinson was
committed to Appleby gaol, for stealint, six heifers,
the property of Mr.- J. StAtPsoN, Nabb,'' in Ity-
dull, 'Westmorland. The prisoner was .on her
road from Whitehaven ; she. found the cattle graz-
ing near Grasstnere, and drove them to Kendall
(upwards of 16 miles), .where she sold them on
Saturday,. Sloe is a young woman, a native of
the neighbourhood of Longtown.
The tininher of commitinentS to the New
Prison, Clerkenwell, since the laAt Ohl Bail y Ses-
sions, is uo less than than hundred and twenty.