The Sun.
London, England, 1823-08-16 00:00:00

140-111) I'ORTS3IOCTII.

Mr. HORNE informed the Lord Chancellor that
Mr. N. FeHowes would have no objection to the
report being made, provided it was without preju-
dice to any thing he might hereafter wish to state.
Mr. Newton Fellowes was not only a Trustee,
but contingently a next of kin, and might here•
after have some claim upon the funds.
The Loan CHANCELLOR Said he had not yet
had time to look over the report.
Thus the matter rests for the present.
PIRATING ACTS OF PARLIAMENT.
STRACHAN AND OTHERS V. PRIESTLY.

This was an application fur an Injunction on
the part of the plaintiffs, the King's Printers, to
restrain the defendants front publishing an Act
entitled an Act for Consolidating the Post Horse
Duties Acts, and for the repeal of an Act for re-
gulating duties on horses let out for hire for tra-
velling in Great Britain, and for granting other
duties in lieu thereof.

The Loan CHANCELLOR directed the injunc-
tion to issue in terms as follow :---That the
plaintiffs should, immediately on the demand of
the defendant, go before the Master of the Rolls,
and in the event of his Honour dissolving the in-
junction then, that they should indemnify the
defendant from all loss.

M. Bounswt, a grocer at Paris, in the Rue
Neuve St. Augustin, died about a month ago of, a complaint
which seemed to be natural. Since his death, however, reports
bad reached the Police, which caused a suspicion that he had
been poisoned. Justice immediately became alarmed, and the
body was disinterred, in order to an investigation into the
affair. Crowds of people have surrounded the house of the
deceased the whole day.—(Courtitidionnei, Aug. 54
According to accounts from Hungary, the corn
arvest there is most bountiful.—At Presburgh, on
the 15th ult. a monstrous waterspout created
great devastation
Tua AnsENT MAN.—A rich individual, resid-
ing n the Chaussee d'Antin, lately furnished a remarkable in-
stance of absence of mind. On leaving 'Change he went home,
his mind occupied with the transactions of the morning. Find.
ing the doors all wide open, he ascended the stairs,.passed through
the ante-chamber, and arrived without meeting with any obstruc-
tion in the dining.room,where he found the table covered for him
and his wife, and the plate exposed at the mercy of the first per-
son who might enter as he had, but with different intentions.
" The rascals," muttered he, between his teeth, " the doors
all open ! my plate exposed to pillage ! where the devil are
they ? One might take away all the house !" These last
words inspired him suddenly with the idea of giving a
lesson to his servants, which should make them more cautious
in future. No sooner said than done. Our distrait, with-
out more ado, gathered up the plate and filled his pockets
with it. At this moment a door opened at the bottom of the
room, and a lady and gentleman advanced, who, seeing a man
disposing of the plate in the manner jyst described, began to
call " thieves" with all their might. The house was instantly
in a bustle; the servants ran and laid hold of the astonished
gentleman, who then perceived his mistake. lle had been
deceived by the resemblance of the apartinenta to those of his
own house, and by a perfect correspondence of circum-
stances. His confusion may be imagined; but as his character
for probity was well known, his neighbours and friends found
in this instance of abstraction only a subject for joke and laugh.
ter.—( Paris Paper.)
The stables and hack premises of Joslyn
Houtz, Esq., M.P., York-place, Portman-square,
were on Thursday nearly destroyed in the fol-
lowing manner :—A flue of a chimney being built
in a parallel with the manger of, the stabling,
having of course become heated, a quantity of
hay-seed ignited, which had been mouldering, it
is supposed, some days, when a nurse, attending
the coachman's wife, discovered it, and sent for
a neighbouring fire-engine, upon the arrival of
which the flames burst forth ; but after two
hours' exertion the fire was putout, having first
totally destroyed the mangers, racks, and stalls.
A lire broke out yesterday morning; between
one and two o'clock, in the premises of Mr. BARRETT, a
dealer in marine stores, St. Catherine's, which spread so rapidly
that it was with the utmost difficulty Mr. Barrett and his ser-
vant, in a state of nudity, escaped from the flames. Engines
arrived in halt' an hour, by the aid of which the fire was pre_
vented going beyond the premises in which it broke out, which
Were, however, totally destroyed.
A CHILD L'ATRN III( A 110G!—The inhabitants
of the country are too often in the habit of leaving their younger
children at home without a guard when they are engaged in
their out-door labours. Another instance of the misfortune
which this fatal security may occasion has recently happened
in a commune of the district of Langres. On the 4th of the
month a woman went to carry some victuals to her husband,
who was working at a distance, and left an infant of seven
months in the cradle, neglecting to fasten the door of thehouse.
—During her absence a hog made its way into the house, and
devoured the child French Paper of Tuesday.)
SINGULAR ANI) FATAL OCCURRENCE..-011
Friday morning last (Bth instant) a young man, named Thomas
Clements, lost Iris life in a manner as dreadful as it was extra.
ordinary. ]le was fishing with a draw-net, with sonic of his
friends, near Elizabeth Castle, and taking a little sole out of the
net, he put it between his teeth to kill it, when the fish, with a
sudden spring, forced itself into his throat, and choaked him.
The unfortunate man had just time to call for assistance, but
it came too late; lie expired soon after in dreadful agony.—
(Jersey British Press.)
GAME.—in spite of a backward spring, an un-
toward summer, and a winter of great length and
severity, both hares and patridges, it is said, pro-
mise to be plentiful ; grouse, on the other hand,
are expected to prove scarce,—cambridge Vito-
nide.