The Sun.
London, England, 1812-02-10 00:00:00

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BOW-STR EET.--(1-1 Ftid3y night; George Dorien
was brought to the Office, by Humphreys, charged
by him with being one of the four prisoners who
escaped from 'the House of -Cori-et:lion the preceding
night. Joseph Beckell, one of the servants beloeg--
ing to the prison, identified the prisoner ay one of
those who had escaped. He was committed.
Charles Reeves, a well-known charaaer, was
charged by Humphreys with aiding and abetting the
prisoner's escape from the House of Corre6tion.—
Lieckell, belonging to the prison, identified him
as a constant associate of notorious th'eves. The
prisoner was committed for farther examination.
On Saturday eleven persons, chiefly residing in
the vicinity of Newport-market, were brought be-
fore Mr. BIRNIE, charged by the Society for the
Suppression of Vice with exercising their callings on
the Lord's-day. The prosecutors, on the defend-
ants promising to desist in future, begged a remis-
sion of the penalty, which the Magistrate granted.
Henry Gawler, the late Clerk in the Navy Office,
charged with felony and forgery, and who was
brought to town on Friday evening by Pearkes and
Adkins, from Newcastle, was put to the bar and
identified before Mr. BIRNIE and Mr. NAREs, by
Adkins, as the person advertised. His wig, worn
as a disguise, is considerably too small for him to
conceal his red hair. He was committed for farther
examination.

John Caton wss brought to the Office on a charge
of stealing a watch, the property of James Hart.—
A Mr. M'Donald took him into custody on suspi-
cion, when he gave him a watch, which proved not
to be Hart's, but the property of a young man of
the name of Aldridge; who stated, that on Wed-
nesday evening he was met by a man like the pri-
soner, in High-street, St. Giles's, who forcibly col-
lared him and dragged him into Winkworth-yard,
and robbed him of his watch, but he could not
swear positively to the prisoner.
The prisoner said, he had seen a man running
away, and he fell down, and on his going to the
place he found the watch. Mr. BIItNIE committed
him for farther examination.

Richard II addle was charged with aiding and
abetting the escape of a numberot French prisoners,
in conjtmaion with a man of the name of Webb,
already in custody.
La%ender and Vickery had been after the prisoner
for some time. Last Tuesday, as they went in at
one door of a public-house in Hythe, the prisoner
went out at another. They then 'left the town, as
if they had given up the pursuit, and kept away
some time. On their return they had the assistance
of some light horsemen, and searched the prisoner's
house in Hythe. Not finding him there, they pro-
ceeded to the public-house where he had escapel
from them, and found him in bed. He was.com-
mitted for farther examination.

HORRID MURDER.—On Friday se'nnight, Mr.
Bailey, 00 the Old Park, near Wellington, in
Shropshire, was found murdered in a stone-quarry
near that place : there was a deep wound on the
crown of his head, another over his eyes, both ap-
parently made with a large sharp instrument, and
two deep gashes across his throat: his head was
dreadfully fradured in several places. His house
was ransacked, all the drawers, &c. opened, every
thing of value taken, and the keys were put in his
pocket. There was no blood found near the body.
Some suspicions being entertained respeEling‘ a
neighbour, who had attempted to borrow money
from the deceased, he was apprehended, and stands
charged with the murder by the Coroner's Inquisi-
tion. It appears that the prisoner lived about a mile
from the deceased, and one of theneighbours stated,
that she saw Bailey go by her house towards that of
the prisoner, about live o'clock on the night when
the murder was committed. Another witness said,
she saw the prisoner, about nine o'clock on the
same night, dragging something from a new built
house, in which he carried on his business of a
cooper—that he left the burden on the steps while
he looked up and down the road, and then dragged
it round 'he house. Upon examining these pre-
mises, much blood was discovered upon the -walls,
and on the floor in the cellar ; the former had been
scraped, and the latter was covered with sand : The
prisoner accounted for this blood by saying, that
part of a horse had been left there. A shirt was
found under the coals in the cellar, having the ini-
tials of the deceased upon it. In the prisoner's
house a cooper's adze was discovered, with marks of
blood upon it, and the edge of which fitted the
wounds on the top of the head and over the eyes
of the deceased ; the fradures on the skull corre-
sponded with the hammer-formed part °lithe adze.
The prisoner was committed to Shrewsbury county
gaol on Monday. He was formerly a resident of
that town.

On Tuesday night, between seven and eight
o'clock, as a servant man of Mr. Beal's, of Little
Smeaton, was returning home Irom Sutton, he was
stopped by two men, who dragged him off his horse,
and stripped him of all his cloaths, and then tied him
on the animal in a state of nudity, when, they Need
some laudanum into his mouth, and severely cut hls
lips with the bottle. He arrived safe into his mas-
lees fold-yard, where he was discovered in that
wretched situation. His cloaths were afterwards
found thrown over a hedge, and two notes, one for
a guinea and the other a pound, were taken fic;nt his
pocket.

The Editor of Journal du Physique, published at
Genoa, states that, by causing a very strong Gal-
vanic battery to aet on a mass of clHrcoal, a sub-
stance has been produced which appears to have
the greatest resemblance to diamonds : he adds,
that he has in his possession a diamond on which
there are several black points similar to charcoal.

The following advertisement is copied from the
Plymouth Paper :—" Wanted a steady man in the
seafaring line, not belonging to a man of war, for a
husband for a widow woman. She bath a little pro-
perty, and one child. Tile man will be sure to meet
with an agreeable partner, and good employment in
the mercrient service. None bat a decent, middle-
aged ran need apply."
On Saturday-, Benjamin Hitchcock, the letter-
carrier, underwent a final examination before Alder-
man Atkins, when he was fully committed.

BIRTHS
On the 4th inst. Mrs. Hume, of Petcy-street, of a Son-
On Friday last, iVlrs. H. Periol, of Newington• place,
Surrey, of a Son.
The same day, at Portsmouth, Mrs. Dickens, of a Son.
On the 7111 111S1. the Lady of 1 humus Neave, Esq of 3
still-born child.
On Saturday last, Mrs. of Lawrence POUlltneY.
lane, of a Son.

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