The Sun.
London, England, 1805-09-26 00:00:00

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• erAl•srfTl —NV D CSDAY, seri.. 25.
John itistOn was eapit:dly it d tLd, under Lor.l
r.LENtonobou's A t,r thr multi; and maiming
norms Derbyshire and Robert Read.
The Prisoner was brought to the Bar in .a straight
jaeket. Ile complaited that he was ill used, and
0.)61d not answer any (pesetas- under that restraint.
The f.)tixt ordered the j;leket to be taken off, and

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irom which Ise'was In aVc.,ut 12 'Months '
di.,charg,ed uncured. One of his brother: put him
unLy the witness's care again, and he remained .with
him till the year i 794, when 'he Was readmitted
fin u
St, Luke's on the incurable side : he remained there
till 1799, when he applied very ,earnestly for. his
bertv, and Ife -was allowed to go out, contrary to the.
opinion of the witness-and the Steward of the Hos-
pital. • Tire Witness boarded him with his gardener,
and had au opportunity of seeing hint almost daily.
He had since behaved himself very quietly and or-
derly, Whichwas his natural disposition ; but he was
still convinced that there was akfrking insanity about
him, which would break out whenever any exciting
.cause occurred. Among such causes he reckoned
events which produced -strong emotions of pleascre,
or great depression of spirits:: The eNisting cause in
the, present case he conceived to have been the arri-
val of a brother of the Prisoner from India, after an
absence of, 26 -years. When the witness called
to ,see the Prisoner in Cold-bath-fields .Prison, he was
in .a complete state of insanity, And very properly.

confined:
The Jury.found the Prisoner
.Not Guilty, and In-
Ti.e seine verdia was given on another
indilment, for cutting and maiming William long,:
and the Court ordered the Prisoner to be taken ewe'
of."---H eis a very genteel looking man, advanced in
years. His person is .athletic,, and in his counte-:
nance, which il'expressive, there appears a singular
mixture of intelligence and wildness.
William Fletcher was found guilty of bigamy. It
appeared that hohad married, in March last, a young
girl, named Sarah Walsh, and had abandoned a
former wife with four children. . .
George b'..4rcy, otherwise James Hamilton, other-
wise George Scott, was indiaed for larceny. It ap •
peared, that he had obtained a pair of black silk stock-
ings, regimentals,.and other articles, from Mr. Lane,
a tailor,. at Charing-cross, under the pretence cif'
being, recommended te'hitn by Colonel Pearce. The
Prosecutor admitted .that he had given, the goods to'
the Prisoner on tredit, inconsequence of the story
he told.
The CQMMOt' SEFIJEAN. T then . observed, that
the case did not amount to a larceny; but to ob-
taining moods on false pretences. He then ordered
Mtn to beb detained for that offence until next s:eSsiens
(the Airy having acquitted the Prisoner), and bound
over . Mr. Lane to praseente.--;•The CoMAtibl
JP:ANT observed 'to the Prisoner, that he Ought to
have been 'more cautious in hi.; conduct, considering
the narrow escape he had one former occasion when
tried for a capital offence.
The Sessions being ended, the several persons
fetind guilty of offenceS were brought again to the
bar to hear the judgment of the Court. Twelve
were sentedeed to suffer death,'
John Burroughs, for forgery ; 11',u. Cubit,. for
robbing Lord- Mansfield's house 1: Jinn Taylor), for
burglary ; John Skair, alias lUmonds • , fig stealing
privately ; ,Thomo Jones, for stealing in a dWelling-
house ; Richard . Hardy, fot ferging the ace :of
spades ; Thomas liutkius, George ;t1(1 Jahn
Grieve, for being at large'before the term for whieh
they Were transported had expired
.; ;Wary Brodshor.,
for burglary ; and Fanny IV heeler;.and joseph Nettle,
for stealing, in a dwelling -house. Oi!e was ordered
to be transported for 14 years, and Z t for bawl
years ; 55 Were sentenced to different periods of im-
prisonment, some of which were ordered to be pub-
licly, and some to be privately whipped.

mANsioN_Housn.---- Yesterday /no:0)rd and
Mom, two reputed pickpockets, were brought'be-
thre the Loiu MAvoa, on suspicion of being con-
cerned with the gang of depredators who robbed
Mr. Morgan of his pocket-book, containing 171.
in Notes,, in Fleet-street, on Monday last. Mr.
Morgan,who is in the employ of a respe&able trades-
man in Gracechurch-street, 'stated, that on Monday,
while he was endeavouring to pass through the
covered way where Wright's Wine Vaults, and the
other houses are repairing, the corner of Fleet-mar-
ket, he fbund himself hustled by several men, who
tore his coat, and picked his pocket of 'a pockm:
book. On information being given of the robbery
at the' Mansion-house, the Prisoneri were appre-
hended by the vigilance of Mr. Nalder, the City
Marshal, as s&spicious charaCters, and on the pre-
sent examination Woodford was recognized by Mr.
Morgan to be the man who took hi, pocket-book.
The Lunn MAYOR remanded the Prisoners for fur-
tlier examination.

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At midnight an Sunday last, a large stack of brush-
wood Paggots caught fire hi the brick yard of
.Mr.
Joseph Simmons, near the Cross Keys, Canterbury,
and betbre the conflagration could be got under, it
consumed upwards of 52000 faggots. From the place
where the flames first broke out, (that part of the
stack farthest from the mouth of the kiln) there is
reason to think that it dictnot originate from chance
alone.
On Sunday night, about seven o'clock, a fire was
discovered in an npper-room of the extensive waro-
house in Lower Sporling-strcez, Liverpool, occupied
by Messrs. Greethatn and Green, and others, winch
soon got to so, .grey ahead as not to la; subd—ied,
but raged with great fury until three o'clock, when,
by the great exertions of the firemen and a plentiful
supply of water, it was so fir got under as to pre-
serve the adjoining buildings from the destructive
element.---Ail the books and much property in the
lower rooms were saved, but a large quantity of
grain, cotton, and other goods, in the upper ones,
were destroyed ; its ravages were fortunately con-
fined within the walls of the warehouse, which is
reduced to a shell.