The Sun.
London, England, 1812-01-14 00:00:00

FURTHER PARTICULARS.

It appears that the house was entered by two
desperate villains, though by what means is nut yet
discovered, but certainly within intent to rob the
premises > While employed in packing up several
pairs of boots in a large skin of leather which they
found in the shop, the servant went down'stairs to
the cellar; 'on her•way thither, though she passed
through the shop, she did not observe any person,
but on her return she perceived two men, one of
them packing up boots, and the other coming as
from.the back Part of the premises, to whom she
said, " What ! are you going to take boots away
to night ? it is Sunday I" thinking they were some
of her master's journeymen. At this instant one of
the villains made up to her, and threatened her, that
ilshe uttered a word he would instantiy murder
her. On looking round, she discovered the other to
to have,a black crape over his face, which so alarmed
her that she screamed out " murder ! murder !" se-
veral' times, and ran towards the shop-door, which
was then open, 'and which in her fright she shut,
and thereby inclosed herself with these rnonsters.--T,
She continued to scream, thoughone,of them had
levelled-a blow at her head which knocked her
down. - On her rising, and not ceasing to call out
" 'murder ! thieves !" one of the wretches seized •
her by her hair, and ,with a sharp instrument, cut '.
her throat right across the wind-,ripe. She then tell
to the ground, and remembered no farther of what
passed.

- The screams of the girl had by this time alarmed
the family up stairs, wifich consisted of Mr. and
Mrs. Pryor, and thrte young men, lodgers. Mrs.
Pryor then went down st,firs, and on her reaching
Lire bottoin, aetually fell-uvc-r her wounded servant,
as she lay senseless on t e floor. The terror of
Mrs. Pryor may be better conceived than described.
Notwithstanding her fright, however, she got up
stairs; but it was not a matter easy to 'determine
in the minds of those above who should venture
down to attack what they supposed a banditti of
murderers. Mr. Pr) or and his l.fdgers at last went
down, and found the servant as we have before de-
scribed, the shop door being- wide open; and, we
are sorry to say, that the peipetsators of this horrid
crime escaped, leaving behind them the skin of lea-
ther, tied up, full of new boots and shoes. Medical
aid was instantly sent for, and the wound on the
neck was pronounced not mortal. What adds to
the daring atrocityof this act is, that it • was com-
mitted so early as beßveen tight and nine o'clock,
and the premises of Mr. Pryor are as public as any
situation can be, being situated in the Hign-staet
of Southwark, not many yards from the Town
Hall, which is as great a thoroughfare as the Stand
or Fleet-street.

HATTON.GARDEN.—Yesterday a butcher, in the
neighbourhood of Clerkenwell, attended by virtue
of a summons at the instance of the Court Leet
Jury, being charged with using false weights in his,
shop, which -were produced, and Froved to be very
deficient, according to the standard. The case be..
ing clear, he was convi6ted in the penalty, and the
weights forfeited.

An elderly man, who sells brushes and brooms,
in the several stteets of the metropolis, was brought
up, charged with vending such at tides, not having
a hawker and pedlar's license, agreeably to Act of
Parliament, which case being made out, he was
convided in the penalty of 10l.—Not being_able to
pay the sum; he was committed to the House of
Correction,

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.—Mr. Thompson, a cow-
keeper at Pimlico, was brought to the Office, to
give an account of the possession of a stolen horse,
the property of Mr. Pinion, a farmer at Aslistead,
near Epsom. It appeared that the horse was stolen
from Mr. Pinnotr's stable as long since as October,
18 10 ; and he was identified on Saturday in Thomp-
son's cart, in Long Amt.. It appeared by the state-
ment hf Thompson, that he purchased the horse
at Smithfield-market, twelve months since, but the
booking was neglected, and front this neglea, the
person who sold it is unknown. From the respect-
ability of Thompson's chatat;ter, there was no doubt,
of the reCtitude of his statement, but the horse was
ordered to be delivered to the owner.

It is expeaed that Sir Michael Seymour, with tire
consent of Government, will send a flag of truce
into France, to inquire the tate of Mr. E. H. C.
Saunders, who was said to have been shot by the
American schooner Purse.
His Majesty's ship Group:fr has been lost off G. a-

On Sunday morning, about nine o'clock, a fire
broke our at the joiner's shop belonging to Black-
♦yall yard, and-conatirned nearly the tvhole building,
As nobody had bren in" the shop since Saturday
'evening, it is not known hoW it began, biit N
sup-
posed to have been occasioned-by a spark which had
been left unextinguished on the preceding night.

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