The Sun.
London, England, 1824-04-27 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MARLBOROUGU-STREET.---011 Saturday evening Capt.
o—, of one of the Regiments of Foot Guards, came to this
office and applied to Mr. DYER, the presiding Magistrate, for
a warrant against Capt. —, of the Light Dragoons, under
the following circumstances:—
He stated, that he had been informed with a considerable
degree of suprise that Captain ---- had eipiessed. a deter-
mination to shoot him wherever he could meet with him, and
that he carried a loaded pistol khout him for that purpose.
He was much surprised, he said, at being told this, as he had
no acquaintance with Captain ---, nor did not even know
his person, and the cause of laic displeasure he understood
had relation to lt female. This morning he Captain o—,
had occasion to call on Lord Spencer Churchill, at his house,
No. 24, Margaret-street, Cavendish-square, and that while in
the act of knocking at the door, a person, answering the de-
scription he got of Capt. came up to him, and in a con-
fused manner asked him if he was not Capt. G., at the same
time putting his hand up to his breast, as if to draw something
from it; forninately he, Captain G., had. presence of mind
enough to answer in the negative. The solicitor of Capt. G.,
who accompanied him with other friends to this office, stated
to Mr. DYER that the reason that induced Capt. G. to take
this course rather than resort to the usual mode upon such
occasions was, that he (Capt. (3.) had been unfortunately en-
gaged in a duel in which he shot his antagonist dead,7riiid° that
his (Capt. G.'s) friends were in consequence committed' in 're-
cognizances to a large amount for him to keep the peaee.
Mr. DYER immediately granted the warrant, and ordered
chief officer Plank to proceed forthwith to the execution of it.
Plank lost no time in doing so, and after 'some inquiry disco-
vered that Captain ---- was in custody of Thoroughgood the
Sheriff's officer for debt, who on Plank expressing a wish to be
satisfied that such was the fact, produced the writ, which, of
course,' put an end to Plank's commission. Capt. —, how-
ever, said, that he had every reason to expect that he should be
liberated that evening, and that on Monday he would attend Ir.
this office. lie was liberated according to expectation, but
immediately left town to join his regiment, which is on foreign
service. Between four and five o'clock on Sunday morning,
Capt. G., accompanied by a friend of his, drove up to Plank's
house in a chaise, and required of him to proceed with them to
Portsmouth, where they said they had learned Capt. -- had
gone to execute the warrant. Plank, however, having more
' urgent business on his hands in town, declined to do al, but
gave the warrant to Capt. G.'s friend, and they departed with
the intention to proceed to that port-
Al ARYLEDOWE-OFFlCE.—Yesterday a young medical stur
dent, named Ambrose George Campbell, appeared at this office
before J. RawLiNsosr, Esq., on a warrant charging him with
having endeavoured to provoke Mr. George Stewart Answick,
also in the medical profession, to fight a duel.
Mr. Answick having been sworn, said he had received a
letter from Mr. Campbell, which he begged leave to hand to
the Magistrate.
Mr. Raw x.issnst, on reteiving the note, asked if he would
swear it to be the hand-writing of the defendant ?
Mr. Answick replied that it certainly was.
Mr. Raw r.l NSON.—Can you swear he sent it to you ? Did
it come through the post-office, or by what other way ?
Mr. Answick.—A gentleman delivered it into my hands from
Mr. Campbell.
The Magistriite then read the note, which, for a challenge,
was a very long one, and in rather course langungeahUsedjlr.
Answick, calling bins a liar in direct terms. The cause of the
quarrel arosefrom some observations reflecting very a‘trengly
upon. Mr. Campbell.
Rawt.iszeox .asked him.. if he admitted the. note to be
his and-writing? Mr. Campbell.--I certainly do, Sir.
Mr. RAWLINSCM—Perhaps your intentions, as there ex-
.pressed, are now altered?
Mr. Campbell seemed not to understand the question; and
' that part of the note calling upon Mr. Aswick to appoint time
and place, and be prepared with the weapons usually carried
upon such occasions when °gentlemen dispose of quarrels by.
duelling, wag again read, and he seemed inclined to make no
retraction.

Mr. ttmvt.twsoN.—l believe you are not of age ? Mr.
Campbell.-_I am not of age; but does that bear upon the case ?
Mr. ItwuNsox.—WhY, Yes; if you now wilt say that
you will not pursuer l
murderous intention towards the com-
plainant, I will discharge you.
Mr. Campbell.-.-I beg distinctly.to be understood as making
no concessions, and here declare, as far as I am concerned, my
resolutions or intentions, which you please, are the same to-
wards Mr. Answiek.

Mr. RAWLINSON.—Ttien, Sir, I must call upon you to find
bail.
Mr. 'Answick here interposed, and said he did not wish any
thing of, the kind. If the defendant abandoned. his intentions,
he would be satisfied. _

Mr. Campbell refused to do any thing of the kind, or in any
way to communicate with the complainant, observing hu would
show the answer he received to his letter.
Mr. ltAwl.rtisnx.-1..D0 so; perhaps it may be necessary to
hold both to bail.

Mr. Answick's note was read, and it was one not calculated
to allay angry feelings. It was couched .in verytaunting lan-
,guage, And ascribed the challenge to the juvenile effort of an
unrestrained boy : and considering him as such, and as one who,
.fronvealling him a liar, and from other circumstances; he could
not meet as a gentleman, he should, instead of meeting hint
personally, send a police-officer to. keep the appointment.
Mr. RAWI.INSON.—I think very correetly'so, indeed.
Mr. Campbell.—Well, Sir, what sureties did you require ?
That note, couched in such term; places the writer on a par
with very ungentlemanly manners. and low breeding.
Mr. BKOllOlll'OlO, a Magistrate on,-the Bench, asked Mr..
Campbell if he was in the army.? Mr. Campbell.-1 am
not, Sir.
-Mr. BnoumtTott explained the meaning of retracting the
intentions.expressed in the challenge, but Mr. Campbell firmly
refused to do any thing of the kind.
Mr..llawLlN SON .said, Mr. Answiek having made the com-
fleaiWit was not necessary to call upon him for securities; but
should require bail from Mr. Campbell, himself in 2Q01.,
and tvio sureties in 1001. each—He found the required sureties,
and was discharged.--f

DICEADVUL ACClDENT.—Yesterday morning,
at about eleven o'clock, a most alarming acci-
dent took place at a manufactorY in Broad wall,
Blackfriars-road. A boy named Downing, -who
was employed on the premises, got his hand sud-
denly drawn into the steam-machine, and which,
together with his arm, was mangled in a most
horrid manner, and had it not been for the 4poedy
assistance of some persons present, who eltri.
cated hint from his perilous situation, be would
inevitably haVe been killed on. the spot. Be
now remains in a dreadful condition.

Last week, in taking down an old house in the
village of Laurieston, Edinburgh, the workmen
found in a garret the mummy of a eat, with 'the
hair off, and the skin and flesh -as dry and as
hard as horn—the whole weighing only a few
ounces. It seems to have been killed by some
violence, ►►s its attitude and expression in the
dead thraws are' horribly excellent," and show
what a violent struggle poor puss must have had
for her nine lives.

A poor woman wentt.gesintly with tears in her
oyes to the Clergypan of a parish in Sussex, to
complain of a Man who died of small pox, being
buried near the hotly of her husband.
On Tuesday upwards of 20 swallows were ob-
served by a gpntleman of this town, skimming
along the banks of the River Kent.--( Ketidat
Chronicle.)

FOR THE SUN.

LOGGAN STONE..

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Ma. EDITOR—In the present civilized age,
when knowledge is more generally acquired
than at any former period, the mind naturally
feels more than usually disgusted at any act
which savours of barbarism. if we are often
led to lament the loss of many monuments of an-
tiquity, which the savage hordes that invaded
the once formidable Roman empire have de-
stroyed, we reflected with pleasure, that what-
ever they had spared, time alone could now
level with the dust. We have, indeed, too fre-
quently witnessed in this country, a fatal pro-
pensity to injure and deface public monuments,
which are to be found no where else ; but hi-
therto, this mischievous disposition, originating
only in ignorance, had been confined to the
lower orders of society. What then must be the
amazement, what the indignation of every liberal
minded man, of every lover of antiquity, to
hear that within these few weeks one of the
most ancient, and of the greatest curiosities of
Cornwall, had been most wantonly destroyed,
under the immediate direction of a British
naval officer ! In civilized times, such an out-
rage stands without a parallel ; and so far,
the worthy perpetrator, has no doubt acquired
fame, or rather infamy. It is an exploit of which
he may boast, but which not only all his country-
men, but even every civilized nation will loudly
reprobate ; it is an act, which we trust, will not
be permitted to pass unnoticed, else none of the
monuments either of Nature or of Art, that have
hitherto attracted the notice of scientific and cu-
rious travellers, will be long permitted to remain
in existence.

The Loggan-stone, now pulled down from its
lofty eminence, stood about three miles east of
the Land's End, near a spot still called Trevyn
Castle, though no traces of this ancient building
are now visible. It was an immense block of
granite, standing upon the very summit of three
distinct piles of similar rocks, rising one above the
other from the sea. Nothing could exceed the
grandeur of the whole, particularly when, as I
saw it last summer, it was viewed amidst a vio-
lent storm, the wind howling around you, and
the sea dashing with fury against the rugged
base. The weight of the Loggan Stone was esti-
mated at about ninety tons ; yet so evenly bal.
lanced was this immense mass upon its supporters,
that any one could make it vibrate to and fro
without any the least difficulty.

It does not seem at all possible that this stone,
which the guide emphatically called the greatest
wonder in the whole country, could have been
raised to the great height on which it formerly
stood by any human exertion. Indeed, the ac-
cess it is singularly difficult. The precipice
below is so horribly steep, and so loud was the
roaring of the waves between the chasms and the
irregularities of the rock, that the involuntary
exclamations of wonder and of awe, which this
scene naturally occasioned, could not be dis-
tinctly heard, even 'though standing at no great
distance one front the other.

Loggan stones, so termed in Cornwall, from
ihe provincial term log, to rock or vibrate, are
thought to have been employed by the druids in
trials, to answer the purpose of an ordeal. The
one now described justifies this conjecture, as
it could not be moved unless when touched in one
particular pOint. Some of these stones which
are found in various parts of England, are artifi-
cial, and others are only the natural rock cleared
of the surrounding earth. There are several infe-
rior ones in Cornwall. On a hill in Yorkshire,
between Knaresborough and Skipton, stand one,
thought to weigh twenty tons, yet so well poised
that it may be easily rocked with one hand.
In the neighbourhood of Warton Cray, in
Lancashire, there are not less than three rock-
ing atones, placed in one line, and each at about
.forty feet asunder. One of the most extraordi-
nary is, however, at•Brinsham rocks in Yorkshire.
The centre one of three rocking stones rests
upon a sort of pedestal ; but the out that is
rocked with most facility is upon the left of it.
To move it, it must he pushed in the middle of
one of its sides, when it vibrates so as to alarm
the mover.

Among the Bradley rocks on Stanton Moor, in
Derbyshire, about a quarter of a mile east of
Konten, is a rocking stone thirty-two feet in cir-
cumference, which is moved with the greatest
ease. There is also one no less curious than
those already enumerated, at Drewsteiguton, in
Devonshire. That no wantonly mischievous bar-
barian may attack any of them, is the hope of
your obedient servant, A. P.

NARROW ESCAPE.--On Wednesday last as the
Monarch steam-packet was on her voyage from
Boulogne to Dover the machinery of one of the
engines got out of order. The engineer, alarmed
by, the impending danger, for an instant lost his
presence of mind and ran on deck, but recover-
ing himself rushed back to his post. In the
interim the pistons had forced up the deck,
and a similar action downwards 'being hppre.
hended, the passengers gave themselves up
for Post. Some were busied in lowering the
boat in which to escape ; but fortunately the
Engineer reached the engine in time to open the
valve and use the other necessary means by. wbiLli
that destruction, which a tnorneneberorei&red
all in the face, was averted. During ireVilelet
scene; although quite aware of herliitudtidn',lirs,
HENRY BARING, who sat in 111;r iiwt carriage on
the deck, preserved a calmneas and fortitude
that has been the theme of admiration with' her
fellow passengers evVe Since. The packet, by
the 'aid pf Its 'remaining engine, reached Dover
at seven o'clock.

On 'Wednesday evening last; the Rev. Dr,
I‘i on RISON from China, preached in the High Bridge chapel,
in thittownf to a crowded auditory. Great numbers could cot
gain admiaatop.--(Netvcastle. Co rant.)
The Clergy of the Diocesses of Bath and Wells
and of S.aruni intend petitioning against Unitas,
rians being permitted to solemnize marriages in
their own
,Chopels•
Sir Jon MALcot,st says, that within the hist'
30 years above 1,000 women have been put to
death, us- VrifetieS, in central India. Our Go-
verninent are endeavouring to'suppress the prac.
Lice.