The Sun.
London, England, 1812-08-11 00:00:00

SATURDAY, .1U6.8.

Wm. Coley, and Frances his wife, were indicted
for maliciously shooting at and w=ounding James
Godding.
Godding deposed, that he lived with a farmer
at Beakesbourne, in this county, who having had
bad his sheep
.frequently stolen, employed the
witness, and a man of the nime of White, to
watch, on the night bet Ween the 19th and 20th
of April. Before day-light they saw a man anal
woman come into the field and chase the sheep;
endeavouring to 'drive thent up into a corner ;
upon :this the witness, who was armed with a
doublerharrelled gun, came from his place of con‘,
cealment, and told the prisoner to surrender him-
self; and go with him, or he would shoot him.—
The prisoner swore he would neither go nor sur-
render, and dared him to shoot. The witness
then said he would stay by him till the morning,
and they remained together for some time, when
the prisoner made a sudden jump at the witness,
.and pulling a pistol from his breast, tired at the

.witnen, and wounded him in the thigh. White,
ittie other man, fired his gun and wounded the, pri'7,
sorer; tf,T'wonuin "it. the same moment snapped a
pistol at tile head of White ; she was immediately
knocked dow,n, but Goddim, being badly Wound-
ed, they both, escaped. They were,
.hovever,
traced and apprehended at Canterbury the next
The case of Miss St. Julian, for a conspiracy to
ciltort tnoney from the iron. B. Cochrane, was re-
inoved by Certiorari. "

The Assizes and Home.Cireuit finished here;

POLICE.

Gta.Lo Fr ALL .----Yesterday Mr. Edwards, a house-.
keeper in the City, complainedto Alderman Smith,
the Sitting Magistrate, of a violent assault com-
mitted on his. person by several of the Debtors:
confined in NeWgate. lie stated, that he was
seal for on Saturday- by a man in confinement;
who owed In upwards of twenty pounds, and
accordingly went to the Debtor's side ofNew-
gate. He had not been long in the prison 1?e-
-fore be was surrouhded by several of the pri-
soners, and, to use his own words, was seized
as by a lion, .pulled down, knocked down, and
dragged to the pump, where they pumped wa.-
ter on him a considerable time. The other
complainant, who had visited a friend in the
Prison, and was enjoying himself over a, pot of
beer, was served in the same manner. Ailer this
summary mode of punishment, which debtors in
confinement are often in the habit of inflicting on
their creditors, theinjured parties andea,:oured to
find redress in the Prison, and as they did not suc-
ceed, made application to the Sitting Magistrate.
It was stated, that the persons who had ill-used
the complainants would shortly take thebenefit
of the Insolvent Debtor's Act, and-by that means
escape.
The keeper of the Poultry Compter staged,
that an.outrage of the above description had once
subjected three men to imprisonment in Newg,ate
for two years.

The Worthy' Alderman Nras desirous Of seeing
Mr. NeWman, the Keeper of ..i'N'Avgate, before-he
proceeded in the business, and appointed a proper
investigation to take place, this day.
Elizabethßzcrils, the Mistress of a PariSh Cha-
rity School, was summoned to appear before the
Magistrate,- on a charge of inflicting improper
chastisement on one cf her scholars, a young girl
named Margaret. The mother of the girl stated,
that Mrs. Burgess was uncommonly cruel to, the
girls under her tuition, and that she had ilk only
heat her daughter about the arm and shoulders,
so as to leave strong marks, but that she had
struck her in the eye with a cane; the girl at the
same time exhibited a black .eye. The School-
Mistress said in her defence, that the blow in the
eye had been given by accident, and that she' had
been obliged to treat the girl with severity, she
being of a disobedient diSposition, in order to pre-
serve subordination in the school. The Alderman
referred the complaint to the Committee for ma-
naging the school.
N young man, servant to a butcher, in Great
'St. Thomas Apostle's, was examined, on sus-
picion of robbing his master of various sums. The
ground of suspicion appeared to be two receipts
for 501. stock, found in the young man's:posses-
sion ; but his friends came forward and gave an
explanation how he had acquired the same, and he
was discharged.
The Master of a Workhouse exhibited, with
vehemence; a complaint against a every aged fe-
male pauper, for improper language .and insolence
to the °dicers of the said "Workhouse. lie was
particularly desirous that she should be committed
to Bridewell. The worthy Alderthan observed; that
it was necessary to temper justice with mercy.—
The miserable Woman, with one foot in time grave,
would•not, perhaps, trouble the Workhouse long,
and he should send her back, with 'a recommenda-
tion not to offend in future. The Aiderman then
dismissed her, with advice to conduct Len& more
peaceably.

BOW-STREET.----The house of Mr. 3.1.1tinr0,.a
boot and shoemaker, in St. Martin's Chnrch-yard,
had been twice robbed lately ofboots and shoes,
and, other property, to a considerable amount:— ,
Mance and R. Limberick, belonging tb the Office,
received private information respecting the rob-
bery, and in 'consequence apprehended a man of
the name Of Jcimed Hull. On him they found
a duplicate of . a pawnbroker, in Stanhope-
street, Clare-market, for a single boot. The
pawnbroker denied receiving the boot in pledge
from Bull, but said he took it in pledge from a
man of the name of Collins, who bad but one leg,
which was the cause of their taking a single
boot. Collins was in consequence apprehended,
and he proved that he bad purchased it of Bull for
six shillings. Mance and R. Limberick, learning,
that a man of the name of William Mc amald was
concerned in this and other robberies; they laid in
-wait for him, and while they were in a public-
house, in Little Catherine-street, WDonald came
in, but, 'as he saw Mance, he bolted out, running
down Catherine-street with the greatest swiftness,
the Officers crying out " Stop thief !" Several
persons endeavoured to stop him, but in vain.
When he got to the 'entrance of Exeter 'Change,
the man, who is dressed up like one of the. Yeo-
men of the Guards, belonging to Polito's exhibi-
tion of wild beasts, endeavoured to secure hint,
hut he knocked,him down, and passed on intothe,.
'Change, where .the crowd collected was so great
in consequence of the alarm, that he was actnally.
prevented from movineon, and in the mean tiinel
Mance and R. Limberick came up : he made
desperate resistance, and if was some time before he
could be, secured. -On searching him they found a
centre-bit, with two sharp angles., supposed to :be
so highly tempered as to be capable of cutting.
any shutter, and making art aperture large
for a man's-arm to pass through. On his being..
taken into the strong room in the Brown Bear
publichouSe, where James Bdll, above alluied to,
who had been previously apprehended; was con-
fined, he knocked him down, beat and ill4reated
him in a violent manner, swearing it was him.who
had given information against him., and he con-
ducted- himself in such an outrageous ninnner,
that he was obliged to be double ironed and hand-
cuffed. On searching the lodging of a woman, in
Jaittle Catherine-street,, with whom he _cohabited,

part of the property, stolen from Mr. .AT:nr on
the 18th of July last, was found, also a n
of implements used in hoarse-breA:ng.
day 'McDonald and Bull Underwent an era
before Mr. Nares and Mr. Birnie, Nelsen CoLins,
the man who has but one leg, vva cYI
evidence. Mr. Munro identified the boots. &c.
fo'tud at the pawnbroker's and in M.a..)
lodgings, to be part of the property stolen. Bull
and McDonald were fully committed for trial.—r
On the h.ner leaving the difice, be d—d•the
gistrates' eyes, and said they could not hurt bias

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MARLBOROUGn-saTREET.-A person, named John
Stewart, was charged ,bofore the Sitting Magig-
trite, by Mr. Face, a master tailor, under the fol.-
lowing circumstances :
On Saturday week, Mr. Face bad his pocket
picked of two 'Bank-notes, one for 401. and the
other for 101. and on the Monday following the
0/. note was passed by the prisoner to Mr. Pea-
cock, a woollen-shaper, in purchase of three yarls
Of woollen cloth. The prisoner, at the time' of
Passing the note, gave his real name, bUt gave a
false addition, representing himself as residing in
Norfolk-street, Middlesex. Hospital ; whereas he
resided in Clev 3:and-street. The note waS slop-
pcd at the Bank, the prosecutor having:adver-
tised it, and lodged a•caveat there, when the pri-
soner was traced'to his real place of abode, living
at no great distance from Norfolk-street, where
he represented himself as residing.
Mr. ADOLPHUS, for the prisoner, 'pleaded the
extreme indigence of his situation, being a jour-
neyman weaver ont'of employment, with a large
family, as a palliation of the offence he had coin-
mittedy, in appropriating to his' own use ink-ney
which be had picked up on tit:- King's highway..
The Magistrate, however, ordered the prisoner to
stand fully committed for trial.

The King against Kynnersley.—,tt the hst Staf-
ford Assizes, an indictment was tried ag.iinst the
defendants, rn,',tr the statute of the sth Elisabeth,
for carrying on the
_trade of a Baker, without
having 'Berved- an apprenticeship thereto for the
space qt ses, _en The following circum-
stances 'were', disclosed on the trial :—lii March,
1809, about 3130 of the inhabita its of Burton-
,upon-Trent tamed themselves into a Company,
for the purpose of supplying thetuselves, •-ind other
persons in that town,' with unaEhiiterated flour and
bread. .4 subscription was accordingly entered
into, and a mill and bakehouse erected, and the
trade comaienced in January, 1811, under the di-
rection of a baker, who bad served an appren-
tice Ship of seven. years to the trade, and who was
one of the partners and subscribers to the con-
cern. Indictments were preferred, under the
above statute, against the defendant and ten other
persons, who formed the Committee, by the direcr
tion of an association of Millers and Bakers, and
on the trial the defendant was.found Not Guilty,
on the ground that the conductor and manager of
the concern being a
,partner with the defendant,
and liaving served an apprenticeship of 'seven
years to the trade, he, the defendant, did not
come within the meaning,of the above statute.
The same fact applying to the other ten defen-
dants, they were also found -Not Guilty, without
entering on their defence —Counsel for the pro-
secution, Mr. Dauncey. and Mr. Puller ; Attor-
ney, Mr. Sadler, Sutton Coldfield. For the de-
fendants, Mr. Jervis and Mr. Abbott;, Attorney,
Nit. Whately, Birmingham:

LEEDS, AUG. B—A fatal accident occurred on
Tuesday night, on Woodhouse-Moor, near this
place. About eleven o'clock, the picquet guard,
while passing over; the moor, was met -by Mr.
Haigh and Mr. Stead, both of Horsforth ; the
former pS.Sed without anv accident,
_but the lat-
ter, who- -waS riding. at r a furious rate, came
against the.trooper that headed the picquet with
so much :violerce;
,as to throw down both the
horses; and the concussion was so severe, that
Mr. Stead 'Was thrown :over hi horse, and re-
ceived a contusion on the head, which terminated
his life in a few hours.

Sunday morning last,
,between twelve and one
o'clock, a number. of men \vent to the house of
Mr. Wright, of Arailey, near this .place,-and after
obtaining' a musket, for which they said General
Ludd.ba.d sent them, they told hith tliat' they knew
-where to find all the arms in the rillaoe,. and that
they were determined to fetch. them. They then
took their leave, firing six or seven shots by: way
of triumph. This depredation was committed is
the immediate neighbourhood of a gig-mill, where
A party of military keep a nightly %watch. Two
days after the robbery, the gun was returticd,
with a note enclosed in the barrel, stating that it
would not answer the purpose, the muzzle being
too small to receive a ball. this anti' some
other circumstances it is concluded that the whole
affair was a frolic but it is a kind of farce, that
if persisted in, will probable end in a tragedy, and
the hilt scene may be performed on a tae usually
called the "New Drop."—Leeds.Mercury:

On Friday a Court-martial was held at 'Ports-
mouth on Lieutenant Lemoyne, of the' Circe, for
having, on the 28th of. July, treated Captain
WoOlcomhe with contempt-before the ship'scom-
pany, and behaving in a manner tending to sub-
vert the good order.and discipline of the,scrvice.
The charges: were not proved, and Lieutenant Le-
moyne was acquitted.—John Thompson, private
'marine of the Circe, for drunkenness, for treating
Lieutenant Uniacke w'th insolenc and contempt,
and-for , using .mutinous, expressions, was sen-
tenced to receive 150 lashes, .forfeit.all pay due to
and to he imprisoned twelve months in
the Marshalsca.--,-John. Fearnoth"seaman; of the
bum!, foe desertion, wtls sentenced to receive
-150 laSheS. n

On Wednesday morning, abbut two o'clock, as
Vim. Shires, .one of-the patrole belonging to the
Public-Office, Bow-street, wo.S.on'tityin Garden-
row, Islington, he met a man with i very hivg-e
bundle on hii; back ; he asked. what he had got ?
be told him some cloth, and that- he brought<it
from Cambridge. This did not 'satisfy the pa-
trole. The ma a, then said' he brought it from
klornsey, andTiCked it tip, in a ditch. He ap7
pearling to ,lac getting a knife to stab him, the
patrols disabled :him. with his staff. The bundle
proved to coi:tain canvass. Yesterday !e was ex-
amined at Bow-street, and c‘.:,altuittedtill.lioaday.