The Sun.
London, England, 1812-02-18 00:00:00

POLIL:E.

QUEEN-SQUAB E.—The axamination Of Hammer-
SOn alias Stevenson, alias Smith, alias Leigh, alas
-Grown, v.ith a variety of other names, with his
'life, was tene wed vesterdtly, but the male prisoner,
in the King's Bench on a civil suit, was not
brought forward.
It appeared (hat the two prisoners have, in a short
muelval of tithe, ~b aired goods of different tra-les-
°ple to the atil..ohl of tno-re than 10001. The'
Priswiers occa;to :illy figured away in their own
Chariot or cotlicle, a. tl represented theinielves near-
1Y allied t fami;tes in the West of England, whose
names they assumed. - Their assn:ord consequence
lulled all 3,ls;,icion. The ptine:pai suffere- I; Mr.
jeweileri in Bo,d-street, who furnished the
Prisoners with goods to the atrount of 4001.
1113 wards. This case, ainonst others, was entered'
into, as was also one preferred by Mr. Parker, a•
gun-maker. The male prijouer ordered a single
and- a double-barrelled gun, the forinfq of which
was paid tor, and the pr sweet talked of the exect.t..
lion lie had done with it in Norfolk ; but, oft the
double-barr,lled gun being sent agreeable to •oruer,
• a promised check for paymen. never was sent.
It turned out that a picture-dealer in the Bench
I.lad got the duplicates of the greater part of the
Or°Periy, and the articles had iallen into the hands
of a,. J` to whom the pietute-dealer owed money.
The charges were so nu.tuerous that the further
examination was postponed to a future day.

arl WINCUILSEA .was present at the QUEEN'S
`CounCil on Saturday. The Noble Earl has" re•
qued his place of Grown of the Stole, copse:
fluently a new one will be appointed to the PitINCE
REGENT.'
The Irish Court of King's Bench have, after a
hearin of Counsel,, for Mr. HARVEY, Proprietor of
the Freeman's Journal, decided for the attachment
against him, construing a libel into a contempt ;
• and a warrant was issued out against him ac-
cordingly.
gLoPerdetirr.—An elopement of rather a singular
4114(1 has recently taken place in Cheshire :—A pc/-
can'
, Cr:neral, who was married about eci years ago
to an amiable Lady, clos-ly allied to the first families
"' that county, carried off last week a young Lady
fl.°lll her mother's house in Chester, and the fugi-
tives have not yet been heard of. The Lady, a ith
,'horn the Genes al eloped, was univeisally adMired
14 the first circles at that place, and had received
I"Posals of marriage from several young men of
fortune in the neighbourhood but such is some-
times the waywardness of female taste, that she
declined these honourable allia.ices to form,a
triinal union with a married ma h twice her own age.

BATH:---Mr. BETTY returnid on. Saturday last
!`) Thestrical'Boards in this city. Tti.e chataeter
111 which he appeared was the Earl of' Essex. His
Person is manly, and his acing was more judicious,
ace'Wing to ieport, than whet) he was so anxiously
followed by the public. He %as received with.great
aPplAuse by a ciowaed audience, and is likely tobe
of essential set-. ice to the Theatre.

A pitched battle was fought ou,Monday s'ennight
a,t N,!wport, Monmouthshire, bet wern a Wel,htuan,
known by the name of George the Sailor, and an
'l7'nglisbutan, a collier, for so guineas. Bet weep
three and four thousand persons were computed to
bave been present at this disgusting spectacle, which
atter thirteen mortis, terminated in favour of the
latter.

BREAD.._.NO Court of Aldermen to-tlay. The
tu N-M;iyor, after ti,speang tue returns, ordered
it to FdvatiLe id. per peck. Quilt-tern loaf 164 d.

DIPERL4L PARLI,I2IIENI.

HOUSE OF PEERS,

MONDAY, FEB. 17.

ROXBURGH CAUSE.

The House met about two o'clock, ond their

Lntdships proceeded to bear Counsel ou that branch
of the above cause, wherein the Ladies Essen and

Mary rr were Appellants, and Wachope and

others Respondents. '
Mr. ADAM and Mr. WCONOCHIE were heard at
great-length, as Couns,l for the Appellants, aid Sir
S. ROMILLY shortly, tor the Respondents. The jet
or leAling point of the case seemed to be, the state
of mental heal h in which the late Duke of Rox-

burgh was at the time of his executing the Will,
which was questioned by the appealing Parties.
The LORD CHANCELLOR addressed a tew observa-

tions to the House, upon certain points of the evi-
dence given in the ca,e, and upon the arguments of
the Counsel as applying thereto. The Noble and
Learned Lord thought the question chiefly depend-
ed on the evidence of the persons who were with
the late Duke at the time of his vxechtirg the Will

in vestion, as they were un&ubtedlY the best
judges of his state of mind at the particular time.—
He was decidedly cf opinion their Lordships ought
to agree in the unanimous decision of the Court of
Session upon this part of the case. •He therefore
moved, that the Decree be affirmed, which was or-
dered accordingly.