The Sun.
London, England, 1823-12-17 00:00:00

POST-HORSE DUTIES.

On Friday last the Post-horse Duties for Great
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Britain were let at the
.following yearly rents :
North Britain - •• 40 , ••• - £15,880
Northumberland, with the town of Newcastle-upon.
Tyne; Cumberland, Westmorland, Durhain - • 9,360
Yorkshire, with the City of York, and Town of Kings.
ton-upon. Hull - - - . - 17,020
Lancashire; Cheshire, with the City of Chester;
Derbyshire; Staffordshire, with the City of Lich-
. field, and the whole of 'ran-tworth . - - 17,120
Lincolnshire with the City of Lincoln ; Nottingham-
shire, with' the Town of Nottingham ; Leicester-
shire;
_ltntlandshire . - - - - 9,220
Northamptonshire, except Wandsworth Inn ; War-
wickshire, with the City of Coventry, excepting
Tamworth ; Oxfordshire - . - 16,000
Worcestershire, and City of Worcester; Gloucester-
shire, with the City of Gloucester, excepting the
City of Bristol; Wiltshire ' - • - -17,681 Y
Norfolk, with the. City of Norwich; Suffolk; Essex;
Cambridgeshire . - . . - - 15,220
Bedfordshire; Buckinghamshire ; Hertfordshire;
Htintingdonshire, with Wandsford Inn - - 12,840
Surrey . . . . - . 9,530
Middlesex, with the Cities of London and Westmin-
ster, and the Town of Barnet - - - 23,740
Kent, with the City of Canterbury, and the Cinque
Ports ; Sussex • - - _ . 20,060
HaMpshire; with Southampton ; Berkshire' - ,-
15 -000
Cornwall ; Devonshire, with the City of Exeter;
Dorsetshire, with the Town of Pool ; Somerset.
shire, with the city of Bristol - - . 20,360
North Wales, viz.— AtigleSea,-Carnarvonshire, Me.
rionethshire, Motitgotheryshire, Denbighshire,
Piintshire, with Shropshire . - - 7,700
South Wiles, viz.—:Brecknockshire, Glamorgansh ire,
Cartriarthenshire, Pembrokeshire, Cardiganshire,
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Radnorshire, with Herefordshire and Monmouth..
shire - . . e• . m 5,180

£284,140

A. TRAGICAL SCENE had nearly imbrued with
blood the benches of the Court of Assize. ,A
namedman, naed Martial, was accused of theft, corn-
mitted in an inn.; strong proofs were accumu-
lated againet him, which the able defence of
Leturade could not destroy. At the moment
when, after the finding of the Jury, the AdVo.
cate-Gen. required sentence to be pronounced,the
accused drew out a small knife and struck himself
four times with it on his' breast, but the point not
being sharp enough could not penetrate his Clothes.
The accused nevertheless fell; assistance was
immediately offered, and it was discovered that
ho ha,d no wound. lie was sentenced to live
yours, imprisonment.—(French Pver.)
MCLANCRoLY CIRCUMSTANCE.—A: Coroner's
Inquest was held yesterday before ThoreA.S
STIRLING; ESq;, Coroner for Middlesex, at
the Fortune of War Tavern, Camden Town,
on the body of Mr. James Waters; of Lamb's
Conduit-street, who put an end to his existence
Under the melancholy circumstances detailed in
the following evidence :—John Lea, the foreman
to Mr.lthodes, the well known dairyman, stated,
that he was walking across Francis Fields,
Kentish Town, about eight o'clock on-Friday
morning last, and, on approaching a large oak
tree, he saw a man, as be thought, standing at
the foot of it, apparently in an attitude, waiting
to shoot at some object, but on arriving at the
tree he found the deceased with a 'cord round
his neck, one end of which was tied. to an
arm of the tree. The feet of the deceased
touched the ground, the cord having stretched
considerably, after the deceased had -sus.
yended himself. The body was quite c01d...-.
Witness procured assistance,' uod, haVing:cut it
downs he had it removed in a shell, which he got
,at the workhouse to the Fortune of War Ta-
vern—The above was corroborated by other
evidence ; and a respectable : tradesman, who
said be was the brollter-ite-law of the deceased;
was examined to spew that the unfortunate man
was insane, and detailed facts which satisfied the
Jury upon that point. The deceased was an 'ex-
tensive poulterer, and the failure of some:specu.
lotion at Kentish Town, which had occasioned
him very Considerable.embarrassment,is assigned
as the cause of the rash act. Verdict—insanity
A MENDICANT PLAYER.—OR Monday last 'a
person was brought before the MAYoa of Wiod.,
sor, for having, on the preceding day, 'committed
an act of vagrancy, by begging in the streeti.
The MAYOR demanded what he had :to say to
this charge ? He replied, that such -were. the
Calls of nature, that ho begged from absolute ne-
cessity. The Magistrate said, what are you
He answered, 1 am the son of a General in the
army, and I, unfurlunutely, received a liberal
edUcation, which led me to associate with thoie
who, like myself, were infatuated with theatrb.
cals ; the result of which was, that I went.
on the stage,. and have, latter been travelo
ling about the country seeking engagementi.
At some towns I was retained for a short season,
at other places, where the Managers had not
room for me, the company raised a subscription
to help me on the road to the next likely station.
'His hopes led- him to Windsor, but not finding
'a company here, he was reduced to the humiliat•
in situation in which he was apprehended. Ho
further stated, that he belonged to, London, will.:
ther he was going ; that he had a mother there,
who was not in cirtiumstimcoa :to do -mach for
hitn.. The Mayor told him he commiserated his
situation, but 'desired • him to quit the town:
without delaY. .
-11U.Wit.,LiAm:WAtthr.iw, Edinburgh, has been'
served heir, bye. respectable Jury, to the late
Colonel' Sir -Joust WARDLA, Bart. The Ma..
ronetcy to which Mr. WARDLAW has- succeeded,
ivas -conferred in the year 1031, on HENRY.
WARDLAW, of Pitreavie:-..(Caledonian,Mereury4:
'During the late'ternpestuons WeathOri a Mate!
bird, AlcaAlle Of Linnieus,- or little Auk, flew
into the window .of a honse, INTO.4.O,Park-street3l
Bristol most probably driven from the 'shores,
of the Northern Ocean, where it is a constant
inhabitant.