The Sun.
London, England, 1812-11-26 00:00:00

THE KING U. JANIT!S ELNNELL

.The SOLICITOR - GENont.-a. prayed judgment
against this defendant, late a linen diaper of
Bristol, ~:nd Lieutenant in the 2d battalion of the
Royal .East Gloucester Local Militia, who lied
'buffered judgment, by default, to an information
sled against him by leave of the Court, for.chal-
lenging James Crann, Surgeon of the same re-
ginient,to fight a duel ; and for posting him as a
coward, upon his declining the meeting.
It appeared, from the affidavits on both sides,
that the quarrel bet Ween the parties arose at the
Cirencester Theatre, where the Officers o.f the
regiment !lad adjourned, after dining at the mess,
when on perniaiicet duty in that town. Thi de-
fendant had taken a place in .the boxes of the
theatre, and whiled to pass the prosecutor to a
seat, which Major Larkin declared to be vacant ;
but the prosecutor told him he could mit pass
without inconvenience to the ladies present, and
refused to let him do so.
The. affidavits on each side told different stories :

those in behalf of the prosecutor .deposing that

thi defendant was offered anotber'seat, and told
not to expose himself and the regiment ; and-
t!hoSe on behalf of the defendant, swearing to the

p 1 osecutor's having pushed and struck the de-
fendant. The challenge. was sent on the same
evening, to meet the next morning.
,Of this the
prosecutor took no notice,, gml, sixteen days af-
terwards, was, without farther application, posted.
by printed hand-bills.• The defendant - had been

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tnyacrictis occitrrefice toc
Awe on Monday night by the stage coach finhx
Blackwall.

A man .and woinan, passengers, earrying a bun-
dle; supposed to contain a. dead child, and which
was suspected to have been murdered, information
being given At the Police Officers. at Whitechapcl,
they accompunied:the coach to the Black Boy, ;11
Leadenhall-street. Here they.requested the party
to step into the house, when •on searching the
bunule, they found a dead carefully wrapped
up in flannel, and which appeared to haire had it:;
throlt cut. •

Griffiths, -a surgeon, was sent for, when the
man stated, that the woman was Ws wife, and hat'
come on a visit to him %Chere.he was -emplovedi
on hoard of shiP, accompanied by their child, fo`uf:
mouthi old,'whioh was suddenly taken ill, and
died.; a surgeon being sen'.- for, had made an ii) .
cision on each sije. of ale neck. Tills account wal
confirmed by Lr. who stated tliat thi
incisiovs were made by -a regular -practitioner fcit
the.parposc of letting blood. The parties lyerd

T 1.42 tneeCng• of the .Cicrg‘ •. of thd -Cmory of
ideicester, c)uvenett-by_th‘a Rev. the A.i.:hAeacon;
too:t place Last -week, fk:r 'purpose of petition
be Parliumeat.against the Catholic chtims. The
attendance was nuinei•oos. .The business of Ord
meeting was opened by the Archdeacon, and si
Petition to bOth IlrouscS of Parliament unani:
mously agreed upon, expressive of theie 0-pinions
that hirther con.cessions could net be. gt4ntdd to
the Catholics, consistentiv with the :secrtrity of
the spiritual and temporal establishment in thesa
:—that .td the linuac of Commons toy he
presented by the Members for. the ..County, that
to the noose oi. Lords, by the Bishop of the
Diocese. There were no speeches of any
ho-
po: though many were expected. Several
petitions were formed, and one even engrossed,—*
and•between the -sevecul candidates sonic enter--
tainment was expected j but the Archdeacon un-
expectedly produced the sketch of a petition,
which was very much admired, as being mild yet
manly—moderate, yet conclusive.

nieNncholg Catastrophe.—On TueSday morn.
ing last, Supiiia Edwards and Mary Nest, two fe-
male servants of the Rev. John Gibbons, of I;ras-
ted, Kent (one aged 22, and the other If? years),
were found drowned in a pond in the garden, he-.
longing to the Parsonage House at that place ;
and the same day an inquest was taken on their
bodes, by R. Crow, Esq. Cw,oner, when the fol-
lowing circumstances were disclosed :—Mr. and
Mrs. Gibbons had been from home several weeks,
leaving their house to the care of these females,
who, during the absence of their master and mis-
tress, had the misfortune to break Some articles of
furniture, and to spoil four dozen of knives and
forks, by incautiously lighting a 'fire in an ()Yen.
where they had been placed to kotp them from
rust. The unfortunate girls bad, however, bought
other knives and forks.—Upon the wurn of Mr.
and Mrs. Gibbons (on Saturday, the 14th), the
servants were severely reprimanded for what ha:l.
happeried,and one of them received notice to leave
her plae. They both appeared to be very un-
comfortable during Sunday and Monday, and ota
the latter day, the footman heard them in con vet.:
sation respecting Martha Viner, a late 'servant irs
the same family, who had drowned herself in the
pond in the garden ; and observing one to the
other, that she had done so through trouble.—Tht:
elder then said to the younger—".We have a
swim to night, Mary f" the other
we will, girl."—The footman thought they were
jesting, and said—" Aye, and I will swim with.
you." Sophia Edwards replied—" No, you sha'ut, .
but I will have have a swim, and afterw..trds I wiil
haunt you." After this conversation, they eon—
tinned about their work as usual, and at six.o'clok ,
asked the footman to get tea for them ; while he
was in the pantry for that purpose he heard the
kitchen-door shut, and on his return into the
kitchen they were both gone. , The footman after-
wards thou:Alit he heard them up stairs, and there-:
fore took no notice of their absence, until eight
o'clock, when he told his master and mistress.—
Search was made for them about the house, gar-
den, and heiObourhood, during the whole night;
mid early on Tuesday morning the same pond was
dragged which had so_ recently been ate watery.
grave of Martha Viner, when, shocking to relatt,.
both their bodies were found in it, lying close to
each other.—'Tie Jury returned a Verdict of—
FLzoni. I..?rownea.