The Sun.
London, England, 1805-06-25 00:00:00

ALDER V. ROII4RT TRAD/3v,Ry.

The. Plaintiff, is a boot iwt shoeumoke,r, the De-
fitramnt is adramatic performer. Tins ACtion waS
brow;lit for certain articles with whien the Plaintiff,
in tln way of his: trade, had supplied the Defendant.
Mr. GAttaow, for the fortuer, said,' the arneunt
for Which this" suit was l-ought wao 01. 75.'
untlettood that this a6tibn 'was resisted from an ex-
pe(tation of redueingthe debt' bt..qow f Ql, and thns,.
from the total. misconstruaiOn Of a certain 4‘o of
Parliament, to avoid the payment Of costs. Ire
belieVed - the priiiiqipal , objection Nvai to a Charge
for, mending a pair of hoots, for v.,huh 11. ins.
required." I."ids'seetned a little extravagant, until it
Was known that the boots had undergone six .dis,
tin& 'operations. They .were soled,' 'heeled, Welted,
calashed,. tenet], and countered. Like the
that had received six neW handles and ,tWelve riev.
blades, there retnainettlittle or no part of the Ori-
ginal 'sUbstance;' or, like the tattered brief-bag-of
his Learned Uriend (taking up the bag of Mr.Erikine),
which had been, patched and *mended until, there
was not a single thread remaining of. old John .Lee,
kvlio inaicitt him a present Of a tool .of the profit ion,
of which this Was
_supposed to he the .rnelancholy
remnant. The Pefentfatttwas Clown at the Royal.
Circus ; he was a grilat amateur in: the style Of the
Spani'sh GraciOso ; but he. would probably find Ins
tricks betterrec6ved oie thc! boards of the Theatre,
than• on the floor of the Court. After the Witilt,'Stiei
wore Called,,
The Sotacrron-OziotnAt., for the Defendant,
said, it Was a very common .'phaice with -persons
who had demands on the Sons of the Sock.and Plus-
kin somewhat, to inertase theix-proper clahn„ and to
arrest the party just at the moment.hti.was about to
perform his duties for the .public gratification. He
should prove tlistinotly that :this was, the expedient
the Plaintiff had'rcsorted to on the: present occasion.
The:Witnesses net being in attendance, Locd
Lexaoitono Li summed up the, t.!vidence, on time part
the Plaintiff, after which a verditl was found: in
his favour for 101.64.
In the cause-of JACKSON and DAMPIER v. SMITH,
for griods, wares, and merchandizes,and money, laid
'out and expended„ a rerdii± was found fbr the Plain-
tiff;, 321. 6s. W.: And in .Lum.v,. IVlzymicK, which
wa:i an aa4o.n, on a Bill of I44'Xchange, ct verdift was
found for the. Plaintiff, principal and interest, 204,1.

'esterday se'nnight
,a person of Winchester; *for
a bet of 00 guineas, rode his 'pone): from 'thetie to,.
the tbur4nile stone7beyond kfartti:rd-bridge, on the
London Road, and; back again to'that City (a dista 1 I
of 63 mileS) ins hours and Q. 6 Minutes. He was
allowed hn hours, but performed it in the above
time with apparent 'ease, atter stopping about an hour
ott the road.

Week,a foot-raee of 40 rods, for Q 0 guineas,
*as r tin in' the OM Park, near:Canterbury, between
Enghatn, Burden, .the Doddirt.,;7,
t.oh V...;ioimn, and woti
,:by the latter . these are ti
~;rane persons who ran at Old Wives Leese, -On. tile
19th of Ma)?,'wlien Engharri wa4 the Winner.
The French Geteral SAURCEE in Jakluary laSt
rived at the isle of itt an Ametitan vessO,
Nan tz, cliartl-ed With Dispatches io "the Alatirata,
, '

When • the late Dispatches 101. Bombay, accounts
1..):1 licen received dlere that a French Stluadron,with ,
a hotly cif troOpiti were on'the eve of sailing from the
1.1,, of France for Manilla.

the Malinitta httely defeated by
the 13tlttrlitriinci, receked from 11-4KA R.
itble treasure ' with a view to - reeritit Ails
; but se.bkiti" 6:apply tbiyi money to
ittuA benefh, lw was Inurdere:l by. hip;; folloWers,
who itlikT%vordi tioLK..OI, hos thus been
ditprit od of the a tvantages he calculated on from a
diveri:tou iu th4t .: guarter.,
A new Yreaty•has.been funned between the India
(!onif)any and the Peitilitul, shice the:defeatof
KA R ; the influence of SettintAi-ateoertah, having
previolfsly 'been girtlicient 'l6 sitspend .rfhtny of the
coildit ions of the former Tredty..,.

.4 VA-,
j •

Bo w,sw.a..—ln.eonseqnenCe, oi, a iilizbct.
houses having been broken, open, in the co,anty cif
Kent, for some time plits_without anydetcaion or
trace of the robbers, \lr. ti..tat.rt ix GTO N, a Magistrate
for the county of Kent, applied for t 1 assi:ltitficp of
Otiicers from theabei,e office. The robberies 'hiitin
been committed Within Mitt Miles of 'Blackheath and
Lewishatn, kneS, and flop-
;wood, tile Officers, were stationed on the
leading to those Pla'&ts, day and' night occaesionsily,
for above a' Motith past. During the time. they;
Were
on the watch no :robberies were coimnitted,and no
suspicious °bantam appeared but on Satunlay
morning; about thrae &cloak, they met, :in thu. town
.of Lewisham,,:toeottard !nib: and 14;dafard ZgletOn,
;twi) well-known chatataers, wheir the Officers .stop-
led them, and. tool. them into custody. The account
'they ga‘ve of xhemselvcs, for,being out at. that un
.seasonable hour, was, they were going to take a walk.
'1 he officers, of course, were not. satisfied witil this
,story, and,4qtained them. On inquiry, they. found
they 'hot* of Air. Papillion, at Lee, .a short
diStance from where they apprehended the Prisoners,
had been,broken open about two hours previous. to
their apprAowion: esterclav they underwent an
examination, when Leonard Whik was recognized
to be it very old housebreaker by the Officers in ge-
neral. ;They were committed fur foither eptnina-
tion on Thursday. • '' •
It appeated that twenty houses - have been broken
open within these ten weeks paSt, within four miles
•of Lewisham and Blackheath, and plate to the.
amount of 2.u001. has been stolen, besides other pro-
perty.

Friday it woman -of genteel appearance was seen
to go into a field, near Sherborne, where, taking off
an elegant shawl, she lay down, .placing it under
her head. A farmer and his labourers, who had
observed her, .went soon after to the spot. She ap-
peared to be.nSieep ;' and on.being, with some (litli-
calty, awoke, skewed them a phial, informing them
she had 'been swallowing laud:lo4ns' and requested
they would' leave' her undisturbed, that she might
die in peace.. A small quantity of the deleterious
drug remained in. the bottle. By the attentive as-
sistance of ti medical Gentleman; an emetic draught
was, :much, against her inclinations , administered,
which happily reliei,cd her, and- she is now under
the care .of the. same Gentleman,: in. a fair way' of
recovery. She is a genteel figure,.. apparently about
.o, very iiitelligetit, .and at present perfe6tlySaino.
She sap, that her father is general of Ire-
land; her hu.)and Colonel by whom sho. has .
four children, the last about two months sinee.---
She asserts, that her huihand recently deserted her
at Exeter, and she came to Sherbonte in pursuit of
him, and, On. finding he had eluded hefAcarChs the
severity of the disappointment induced her to resolve
on terminating her existence. •
Yesterllay afternoon, about four o'clock, a fatal ac-
cident happened in Westminster, to Mi. Spencer,
brick-layer, , elf Great Peter-street : he was employed
to remove a part of a wall between Dean-street and
Dean's-yard, when, owing to .the. badness of the
foundation, the whole of the wall; near 20 feet long
and to high, fell down upon him, by which he was
so dreadfully bruised that. lie died 'in a few minutes.
man who was assisting him escaped, but with
some severe bruises, and was: taken .to the We6:-.
minster Hospit4 •
lltis 11t. Tindall, of 04ford7street, was on Fxiday,
returning to town fromMton, a Linnet, pursued by
ti Sparvq,w-haWke, broke through,the glass into. the
carriage; the Hawke; followed, but tied on, her
screaniing. She. brought tit Linnet to town, and it
is VW per fealy recovered. •
Yesterday sem tight one Of the Light. Company be-
longing to C010n..,1 Stinavriv's Battalion Of, Yolnn-
teers, at .NorWich, imprudently leaned an the•muz-
zlerof his piece., after fixing with
,hall-cartridges, not
knowing it had.missed tire. By_ somuaecident, it
went off; fortunately,. however, he received no Other,
injury than the foss of a finger. •
A man named Cooke, of Skeyton, Norfolk, has
cominifted to Noi ich gaol for marrying three
! .

Mr. S. Taylor, of Llandsworth, Woodhouse, neg.
Sh.Alield, has at tbi3 tinh• in his pogsesslon a hen '2.4;
years old, whieli has reared chickens this year,
and now continuQs to lay eggs.
A corroponde mentions, entions, that in thn farm. of
Shiel Hill, about
,three pr fotir,rnile§.frtinfGroenoch,
there iS'a col.)lig.t4 sprint of puny water that has Ile—
ver yet been kumvu to be diminished orincreasedby
the longest term of dry or ofrwet .we4ither. •

..5 4 g„, h.g,im,

JUNE 23.

.
Passed by—the Neptune, Kell, from Greenland.. ' Ema-
nuel, 'Valston, rtom INt,rway Patience, Nlerriclt,- from
('1 ristian. Nargarerta, Folk, fronvAltea; Laura, Spehol,
;mut 1044 Yry, --.—, troth Rotterdam, ,
Sailed--;Che Anna Lucia, I)etzert, for Varell ; Mercurius,
liattutau, and longe Alicia Catharina, for limbden,