The Sun.
London, England, 1812-07-21 00:00:00

POLICE.

BoW-srnEtt.--A short tide since information
was received in town, at the Tra*ort-offiee, that
-Major Ernest De Peach, , a Prussian, but a Major
in the French service, had broke his parole of ho!-
nom' from Litchfiekl. Ile being supposed to be in
or about London, Vickary was cmployedloarace
him, `acid? 'he was to fortunate, as to lind out that
he came to London, and that he was accompanied
by Miss Mary Anne Simpson, a young lady, of
Litchfield, with a fortune of 14,0001. and that
they had been married at ,Mary-le-bonne
,Church‘
be also ascertained, that after the marriage,, the
Major set off from London for .I,iverpool, where
he was detected :in endeavouring to .make his 'es-
cape to America. Yesterday his wife, 'who came"
in Mr. B. the- Barrister's carriage,. Mr., -L.;rosbie
Callan, and Miss English, the subscribing witness
to the marriage, attended at theolliee on a charge
of assisting'the Major's escape. Tkey. were not'
detained, on Mr. B. their professional friend,
undertaking for their appearance when , called
upon.

Yesterday, the person belonging to the Quar-
termaster General's Office Was brought up, and
wunder4ent -a private examination, when, the only
charge, we understand, brought against him, was
for ten shillings, and that merely, on suspicion.—
The defendant was ordered to find_ bail, himself in
1001. and two sureties in 501. each.

On Sunday evening. great number of Irish-
men askmbled in St. Giles's in a very riotous,
manner, armed with bludgeons, &c. They fought
among themselves, and • knocked down and ill-
treated the passengers. , The peaceable inhabi-
tants sent for Mr.'Bell, the High Constable, who
arrived with a number of constable, but they
were not sufficient to suppress ,the disturbance 3
Mr. Bell, in consequence, applied at the office
for an increased force,, which he obtained. On
their arrival at the place of disturbance, the, of-.
ficers took the ringleaders into custody, who were
yesterday brought to the office, and admitted to

LEEDS, JULY 18.—Our, Huddersfield Corre-
spondent, under date of the 16th inst. says,—
" Last Saturday evening a number of men) with
"their persons disguised,_ went to the house df Mr.
Joseph Morton, of Salcndine Nook, near Hud-
dersfield, and demanded fire-arms. On being told
that he had hot any in the house, they demanded
money ; and Mr. Morton, on pretence of proceed
ing to comply with their demand, escaped out of
the back part tithe honse, and alarmed the neigh-)
bOurhood. Finding themselves foiled by this stra-
tagem„they made off, but not till'the.y bad de-
stroyed the clock, and several other valuable ar-
ticles of furniture. Last Monday evening, a
great number of men visited- most .of the houses
in- Clifton, nea? Huddersfield
.tbey obtained
about 10 stand of'arins ; at Mr. Armitage's, a re-
spectable card-maker, they obtained possession
of his gun, and asked him p. number Of ques=tions.
respecting a gun and inall which had been found
near that-place? They then took their leave, but
either from being overloaded, or from some other
cause, they left Mr. Armitage's gun behind them.
Nine men have. been apprehendedrin the-neigh-
boitrhood of Hohniirth, and are now in prison
hereon charge; of grin stealing, and other depre7
Atitions, one of whom has been a notorious cha-
racter fOr thirty years. The Military and police
are very active, and are daily. apprehending and
bringing:in the .suspectcd.7

"We have been favoured with the perusal
or an official communication respecting the out-
rage at the village cif Clifton, in which it is stated,
that the body of arm-stealers, who made the at=
tack o:i that 'tillage, about ,one o'clock in the,
morning of the 1-Ith instant, amounted to about
thirty men, supposed to be all armed that they
attached the house of George Pratt,. innkeeper,-
and on their mandate to :extinguish the lights not
being instantly cqmplied with, fired i ntoth e house,
but happily without doing any mischief: after
taking Mr. Watt's gun, they -prOceeded to the
hous,c of Jo-sima Goldthorpe, and havini fired two
shots iiito his window, compelled his son to ac-
company -them from his father's dviielling-house
to his shop, for the purpose of fetching two- guns
which he happened to have at that plaCe... Pa quit.-
ting the village, they took the road to Brighouse,
leaVing orders' that no person, should quit their
houses in Less than two
.hours ,after -their de-
partufe.'!—Leeds Mercurif.
, The colliery at Felling was first opened enWed-
nesday morning last, since: the dreadful accident
on the
.25th ofAlay. ." Out of the 87 sufferers who
remained in the wine, the bodies of five have been
,found and interred. The pro dress of th.s workmen
as_ been much obstructeoy large masses of stone,
which have fallen from the_ robf.