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

POLICE.

DARIiVG
ATTEMPT TO ROB AND MUADER.
East night, Mr. flicks, the Magistrate of Union:.
11-1-11; W....nt to Mr. Pryor's noose, lo examine Sarah
Wilkins,, the servant maid; who teas wounded ori,
Sunday ei,ening state::' 'in our 14,per vf yes.'
terday. The substance; of her eviience was as lot.
lowS .About. nii,e o'clock On Sunday evening;
I had occasion to', go ddwn to the cellar ; and on.
coming up stairs; I saw a man- corning from the
back Of.ilieo;lop, who I thought was my master.
I asked ,him ,it he as going out so late ; when he
•tti;.ried,robncl, and I. observed he had a black rape
tact ;21 mas alarmed, and 'called out. The,
man tnr.riedrount! to me; and said he w mid min.-. •
der me_ it I did not hold my tongue. I got'near the
dour and attempted to soul it ; upon
twoich he
came up to me, and said. be would Cu, my throat:
Seeing his hand coming, I put, my arm up, and re- -
ctived a de:-p.Cbt in it with some sharp instrument.
He then put something into my mouth.to gag me;
and gave Inc several cuts across my throat : the door
openA at this timc, and a short man came in, who
said to the other, `‘• come out." I. was immediately
knocked doAn, became insensible, and knew not
what follow.d.".

Mr. Pryor stated, that hearing. cry of murder,
he came down stairs ; the shop was, in darkness,
and on getting a light, he discovered Sarah,. Wilkins
lying on the floor insensible ; the door was open,
and a number of bouts and shoes were strewed about
The. floor.

This outrage was committed. about nine o'clock
on Sunday evening. Mr. May, the- secon.l Clerk
of. Union-Hal!, was on the spot within five minutes
after the alarm was given, and sent for Goff, C►ark,
and Frien4irnmediately, who have uied,every ex-
ertion, but. unfortunately, at present, without suc-
cess, to disci:Ater tlie. perpetrators of this outrage.

EDINBURGH, JAN. 9.

HIGH COURT OF JUSTICIARY.

Yesterday came on the trial of Jahn Hog, change-
keerer, North Leith, and late carrier be. ween Eclin-
bur,2h a:-;c1 Perth, acoised of breaking into the
Packet of Abo, a prize vessel, lying in the wet dock
of Leith, and stealing therefrom fourteen pieces of
printed coiton, and three pieces of 'plain cotton.—
The ev;dence was in s•ibstance as follows :

On the 9th of September last, Hog proposed to.
Lionel Pritty (ones of she Custom house officers, who.
bad charge of the above-men.ioned vessel) to join
with him in taking some of the goadS witli which
she was loaded, and in which, he said, there was no
harm, as she was a prize-ship. Pritty at first ex-
pressed some hesita'ion, but afterwards consented,
and on the evening of the 11 th they broke up a
hatch which opened in the hold, that had-previ-
ously been padlocked, and from a truss of goods
found t;iere took out several bundles of cloth. These
they made up into three parcels ; one was given to
a buy of the time of Simons, the ship-keeper, to
procure his connivance, while Hog and Pritty kept
the other two. When they came ashore, Pritty, in
conseq!wnee of a false st•-p, stumbled and &opt. one
of the pieces, as they passed some custom-house of-
ficers, walking on'the north side of the wet dock,
and, being after office-hours, the officers seized it,
on sospi-ion of its having been stolen or smuggled.
Pritty inimediately threw down the other pieces he
was c trrying, and ran away, but Hog was laid hold
of, and his bundle, containirg six pieces of -cotton
cloth, -as well as those dropt on the quay, were
taketi on board a brig, and examined by the offi-
cers precious to their tr...ing 1 ,dged in the Custom-
house, Hog all the time remaining on the quay.
Hog was afterwards carried before the Magistrates
of i,eith, where i.e emitted two dttlarations, in
which he denied all knowledv- of the contents of
the bundle, and stated, that he was carrying it for
a sailor who had left him, and of, whom he .had rto
acquaintance.
S,-Veral witnesses were examined in exculpation,
but their evidence was not matetial. The jury were
afterwards addressed on the part of the Crown, by
the Solicitot-General, and by Mr. Hagark_ for the
glisoner, and the Lord Justice Clerk having sum-
tiled up the evidence in a very candid and impariial
Manner, they were enclosed, arid directed to'return
their %erdict this day.

This morning the Court.met at ten o'clock, when
tilt jury returned their verdid all in one voice find-
ing the panne! Guilly: The libel having been , re-
strirte,l to an arbitrary punishment, after a suitable
ethort,tion from the Lord Jthtice Ch-rk, he was
sentenced to 14 years transportation be; and seas.