The Sun.
London, England, 1805-10-18 00:00:00

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to be deliVered to the owner, as in a case 9f felony ,
which was here proved ; he had no power to 1,::11.,!
fresh' laws. .He, however, ordered the goods to rt.-
main with the Pawnbroker for a month, in .order to
givelihn an opportunity to apprehend the thief.
JUSTICE-ROOM, GUiLDHALL.---Yesterday ,a very
gentol young man was examined on suspicion of
committing a burglary in the house of ' Messrs.
Wood and Co. of Cheapside. It appeared that the
Watchman was going his rounds, and perceived a
piece of printed cotton hangiag on the rails ; this
circumstance induced him to alarm the family, when
it was discovered that the window of thei house had
been broken, ~.In consequence of this disvovery, the
Porter and the Watchman went in pursuit; when
the Prisoner heard : them: coming he ran down
Butcherhall-lane,:where the,Watchman secured him.
Under his ant was secreted a stick, with a fork hem
at the prongs, with which, froth certain eireurn-
stanaeS, 'it was evident he had been hooking, the linen
out, ;but ' was alarmed by -.the -Watchman.!, Mt%
COST, the Council, attended on his behalf, . by de-
sire of his friends, who are persons in the,most re-
speetable line. The Prosecutors` very huManely &on-
sented,to .eoregb the charge, on , condition of his
going to sea., •This,humanity was, seconded by the
Magiistrateand his. counsel 5 ,but he refused the prof-
fered theky; and Viiis iti'conSeililence remanded 'fiir
a further 'hearing. ,'2 • ','' `:l'' " ''! ' • ' ' -
P r C-()PgICE,BO)y-ATHE,EW.7,-Tbe three boys,
Jo/ ac/, litchar d Danvers, and. Tames Leach,
Wiii 1
fiqhbrt the since, werelik.rohended by young
etock*lcoming from CrOydon Fair, when the eldest
John Leach, proved himself such a complete master
of the slang language, have been ,brought to the
Ottlfit e"Several times and underwent ekaminations ;
but no persons who had their pockets picked at„ the
faire ;could; ideritify their :persons. The. Magistrates
thought they should be tieing them a service, in pre-
venting them from' being hanged, by sending than
on jvard the Tender. . ~

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JAIURDER.—On S'aturday the sth inst. was Corti-
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te'the Gaol at • Durham, Thomas Win (a
journeyman- ,smith), charged upon the Inquest of
Mr. Joseph Frank,'Coroner, and a respectable: Jury,
with the wilful Murder -of Margaret Barker,' of Hut.:,
ton Rudby, spinster; the circurnstaticesof this hor-
rid. tramaCtioa, as. appeared.upon evidence before the
Jury, which sat s; seven hours, were as tbilow the
deceased, a respetqable woman about 46 years of
age. had for several years subsisted herself' and her
toe l pareetsl by travelling in the adjacent' country
withleesewile,eloth, principally the property 0C a
Mr. Rands Staipthorp, of that place ; she left her
home on the Wednesday morning, and'caMe to
Stockton' uPon.her business, and that evening slept
at a retwOabl*public-house; but, unfortunately fer
herself, went on the following, evening to the house
of Wits'on, where she at times' had been used to
stay.. Froiti:the evidence of his wife and her-datigh-
ter, the. Prisoner about half past twelve o'clock arose
front his, bed and went up stairs to a chamber,where
the deceased, the wife's daughter, and her infant
child, Slept: the deceased laid upon the side of the
:bed nearest td:the door, whorw. he immediately at-
tacked with a razor, and cut her in the cheek, after-
wards in the throat from ear to einYand in othdr
"parts of the neck. Soon afterwards a cry of-murder
was, heard by the neighbours, some of whoM
aroused, came to the fatal spot, and stumbled over
the body' dt the &Ceased at the foot of the stairs near
to the street-door ; upon .the arrival of the town's
officers apd,others, the ,mtirdearer attempted to de-
himselfpn the ton of, the stair-case with the;
bloody razor ant inotil.diiike; with the-latter he
struck,one. tot: -the party vtoVent blow upon ,the
arm and head, who returned it with, a short cen-
:..l4llllel.Spty, ,and, he direaly surrendered; of course
see'Pred iliTace of continement. , When' the
Jury delivered their, vierdiet the pockets of the de,
cease 4 wee: searelled,,eud with the money, goods;
&c. there did not appear that any of her. properti
was taken • the body of. the deeeased was then 'wash-
',-ed and into a shell for interment,: Which took
place. °Wee following Sunday, at Hutton,
,14'retn eircutritstances which transyired, it would.seem
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to' Warrant conje&ure, that the intention of the niur,
derer was not direeted towards the deeeased, but
to his ..wifeli-:daughter ;. the latter had lain-in
• about four or tivemontlis since he 4 child, of wheal
lie was the reputed father, and being again Said,,or
suspe&ed, to be pregnant, it is supposed that remorse
'of „eonscienee induced hhn,.by ,hearing scrtnous in
the Methodist Chapel, which, he closely attended for
near twelve thtmilif4 past, 'to get rid of the objet of
his lust, by perpetrating a snore gross end sanguinary
crane. . f

On Saturday 'sennight some villains broke into
the house of Mr. J. 110,vit, Coach-maker, in Don-
caSter, and took out rif `a desk therein (wldch
parentlyhad-been opened by a picklock) a large black
Icather.pocket-book, . Containing two tOOl, Batik of.
England Notes; eight five guinea Birmingham
Notes three Doncaster five-pound Notes ; various
small Notes on the Scarbonough,•Leeds, Wakefield,
Pontefract, and Sheffield Banks, of one pound or
guinea each, in amount about !61. and some small
Cheques of SS. each, on Pocklington and. Co'. of
Newark ; a Bond and other 'Securities value 2801.
also four table spoensy marked .M.W.H. with NoVhiCh
they got safe off. On Tuesday morning the pocket-
book and securities were found in a hedge about 200 .
yards from, the house.- .. ,
On:Thursday last an unfortunate female in Man 7.
chesteri in conicque.nce of some misunderstanding
with d person
,with whom She had lived for some:
tbrmed the desptmite resolution of swallowing,
a large dose of laudanurn; the baneful strength of,
which speedily terminated' her: existence. -Verdi&
'of the Coroner's Jury—Litnacy.
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• On Tuesday night as two men were walking along
Lisle-street, they discovered a female attempting to
hang herself with her garter's. They flew to her 'as-
sistance, aild, as they supposed, saved her life ; but
on conveying her for sittety to St, Anne's watch-
house, she was identified as a Ale de file who fre-
(p. ~•
ennyracti pseot deceptions in the street to excite
commiseration and obtain money.

Wednesday a joiirneyinan liAtclier, in Carnaby-
market, cut his throat. He was conveyed to
,St.
George's Hospital, the incision was sewed up, and
he is supposed to be in a state of recovery. The un-
fortunate man ryas deranged in his intelle&s.

8 LIR El' SESSIOVS

'Closed yesterday, and the following Prl,onen-re-:
ceived sentence

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Wn. Cool, found miilty of feloniously 9teanli'S:.
in the dwelling-house of 1-I.3lliggles, one'rrnet, two
.table-spoons, and -a castor top, his property ; - and f
Elizabeth Dwin, for robbing Mrs. Goodwin during
the time of the late fire at the Royal gircus, -of a
diamond pin, and a number of other 'articles;her
property—To lie teonsportedlbr seven years.,
Robert Knight, a toll-colleaor at the Circus-gate,
found guilty of assaulting
,the servant .of Captain
Brogden, of Clapham, demanding 'toll of him a se-
cond time the same day, and on his refusing to pay,
pulling' him off his horse.—To be imprisoned 1
days, and pay is. fine.
.Tainev Hunt, alias Butler, as a reputed thief, ap-
prehended at Camberwell Fair by the Officers, was
found guilty—To be imprisoned three months.

SUDDEN D,EATD.—On :Wednesday evening, ,at
half past cloven o'clock,- as two Gentlemen were
-passing through Li ncol n:s-i n n-fiekg; they discovered
a well-dressed man leaning against a post, and groan-
in g bitterly. On their going to him, he Complained
of shprtuess of breath, and- added, that he had but a
few moments to live. The Gtntlemen ,asked tis
address, and he bed just strength fo articulate. 23,,
CharleB-street, Hatton-gartien, before be expired.
The body was put into. a coach without delay,. and
Conveyed to the house of Mr. 1141,a, Surgeon, in
Charles7street ; but all attempts to restore life were
frUltlegs,'--The deceased vas a very respettahle man;
ofthename of MANLY, and resided at-the 'address
given in his last moments. He was a widower,' and
has left six children.
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.About cleVen.o'clock on Tuesday night, as Wik
Earn Winkle, a loOker, of Romney ,Nl.4r.sh, was re-
turning to Romney, , he .`was stopped near Clohsdeii
Gut, on Dyinchurch Wall, by several persons, one
.of. whom, without any previous nc.ice, struck hirn
a sudden blow on the back via ofhis, head, which
instantly brought him to the ground, *hen the
lains rifled his pockets, and took frinu shits a silver
watch, a seven-shilling piece, and tWe or three shil-
lings in silver,
.and left him senseless in the road;
from this state he, after some time, recovered, and
found. his horse standing. beside him ;. on which,
notwithstanding he was.intich ised,and
.hurt,
however, reached his.home at*Rotnney, No traces
of the robbers have yet been discoVered. The blow
was so sudden and unexpe&ed, that Winkle can
neither describe the persons, or State the number
that attacked him.
In the fbrenoon' of the same day, as some labourers
were employed in emptying the privy of a house at
the entrance of the town of Volt:stone, they disco-
Yered the body of a newly born female infant, Wrap-
ped itt an old black goWn, in a slight state of putre-
fa6tion,—No cotjeeture could be fbrrned by whom
it had been concealed, as no woman, excepting the
wife of a Serjeant of the 1 tth Light Dragoons, bad
for some time past lived in the house. •
On Saturday se'nnight a person named Wather-
*On, of Castlegate, Berwick, was summoned
belle
.the Magistrates, at the ,Towti-hall, charged with
suffering' 3 large brood sow, to wander at large about
Castlegate. The ferocious animal had seized a young
child, and lacerated it dreadfully,: and soon would
.have devoured the infant, but fur the timely iutei-
terence of two women, who' with great difficulty
succeeded in rescuing it ff()ln the savage tusks of the
. aii iiial. Watherston was severely reprimanded,
*fined a guinea, sacs striCtly enjoined to keep such
animals confined 'future. •
Ott Thursday last a boy of 'the statue of Preston,
about fa' years of age, being left in a house'at Hill-
house Batik, liieds, vti lth iunie oth!--c chlidren, went.
So near the fire that his clothes weve:allnost instantly
„in a blaze, and he was literally buitt to a cinder,
before any assiStance could be 'had.
•On Saturday Se'nnight John' ey, of Mal*,
Master of a S oop trading upon the Calder and Heb-
:ble Navigation; was conviQed in the penalty of five
pounds, before the Sitting Magistrates. at- the Ilota
~.tionLOffice, in Halifax,' for negle&ing to render. a
proper.account: of, the loadings of his vessel, *in the
forms required-by the regulations of the said naviga4
Lion. ' •

• Some Of the Crewof one of the ShipS lately paidttf
YarMouth had occasion to,go ashore at that. place, .
and being ,thafjh Of prizemoney, betook themselves -
to the „Playhonse and other places -of ranusernentir-,-
Among the number was an ambitions BOatsWain,.,
Who,-- after equipping ..himself in a splendid!.
richly bedizened with. gold,-and only a few dozen t-f
years behind the fasition, strutted-in a full dro,6
snit of thee and ruffles, into :one r.f the boxes.,
and resolved, for one night,. to .b ;a (otletuan.--=,
While the surrounding company krietv, not _how tit
interpret the- incongruity of Our hero's apparel
with his hard and weather-beaten countenance, one
of 'his brother tars, spying from the, Gallery a conit---
lenance which. he thought familiar to him, said, to
a messmate :beside him, ," jack, be hanged If.
that there be .not our. Boatswin in the side-lox,
dressed like a Ship's Commander." " Pshaw-(said'
the other),. our .Boatswaiti among the gentlefolks !
it cannot be." " hail him, thoogh," said t he,
first, add hollowed out, to the astonishment of the
house -7-" Bo;itswiti, Crhoy." The unfortunate
Boatswain started in surprise from his seat in the
box, and hollowed in return, O'hoy," to the irn-:
Mediate dete&ion of his rank, And the Therrimen t of
the bye-standers.
Earl CaikvErt, who has just returned froth 'a
shooting trip to his manors at Ashdown Park, aboUt,
a year since .completely cut up, the sport of the ,
l'oachers in that quarter, :.by destrOYing all the
:hares upon hiS estate, of which there were an im-
mense number. Be invited all the murderers Of
garrie in his neighbourhoed to. a sort of auto-defe
upon his manors. The principal cover was surround=
ed by gunsmen, when 1900 hares were aanully
killed in less,than a week:
ESTATES pl. SCOTLAND.---The value of some es-
tates has increased of late years with rapid strides.—
The rent of one farm of JOHN DALRYMPLE'S, in
Heriot Xuir, formerly 2001, a year, was within' these
few weeks let At 'lOOOl. ; and by the last let of an-
other of his farms, at Cousland,' three years purchase
was paid for the renewal of the Ipase. A sheep farm
in Berwickshire let, nineteen-Years ago, at ptil. then
considered s fair relit, was latelrlet at 1201.