The Sun.
London, England, 1802-06-14 00:00:00

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;11-I,E GYPSIES.

s tale of wooder, at length proves to be a gross
impoSition;on the par,: of the girl, almost very re.
speo.; and the account given by the gypsey, of meet-
jug her on Kennington Common, is true. The follow-
ing circumstances have transpired : on Saturday last
the late Overseers of the p-irish of St. Mary, Itother-
!lithe, attended, and identied the girl, who they itat-
ed, had been received at-their parish, by the .pass pro-
duced, dated Ply mo.utly, 31st of March, a Soz, • and
from the examination, annexed to it, she-. had re-
presented herself to belong to Rotherhithe; and
Called herself Elizabeilr Maiy "Hibbins, 'in con
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sequence .of which she was received into, their
.wqrabose; but-on inquiry respecting her supposed
father, no such person could be heard.of; they,
:hoWever,' to turn her but, she conch/14
ing herself Very prOperly ; •this induced one :of . the
Overseers t),give her leave to go out to work in the
lieldJor her own benefit. • On the 4th of May_she
Iwent'out, bttt never returned back.

A Serjeant of-lViapines belonging to theiPlymouth
Division stated, that he knew the. girl to be the
daughter-in-law of John Kellen, late a Serjeant in
the same. Div isibn. . January last she.sold. apples
and nuts. ior her -mother, at StonehouSe garracks;
soon after she eloped from her relations, :who had
heard nothing of her since that period. it was far,
ther proved by.a letter to Sir RICHARD FORD from
the Miyor of Plymotith, that after the Stri6test in-
quiries, it turned out that there was no such person
as she desetibed she was going to. The gypsies
were accordingly discharged, after reteiving some,
money from the - Court and Gentlemen who were

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The gill herself wept a little on being put to the
bar, but soon became totally iodifferent aibeitig de-
teaed in such a complication of lies. She has been
sent to the House 'of. CorreCliOn until her legal place
,of settlement can be ascertained. She is little,, plain
in Person, and seemingly not above eleven or. t welve
years of age, 'though she says. she is seventeen.

EDINBURGH, JUNE 10,

RIOT AT ABERDEEN.

. ,
The Aberdeen' Yourned of yeSteirday, received
this day, contains the following account of the un.
happy affray aliuded to in our last :
" On Friday last the Anniversary. of His Ma-
jesry's Btr.th.day was observed in this city with the
usual,marks of joy. At twelve three vollies were
-
fired' ,by: the Ross and Cromitity Rangers in the
Barrack-yard; .and the young Men of the different
IncOrporations made a procession 'through the town,
-with their colours, aid the insignia of their different
trades, and' made .a inry showy appearance. At
six o'clock the Magistrates and principal Inhabit--
anis assembled in the Town-hall; where the usual.
healths and other appropriata toasts -were drank,
followed by repeated vollies OF musketry by a, de-
tachment of the Military. drawn upon the Plain.
stones..

Thus far the day 'was spent with that -festi-
vity which has long distinguished the Inhabitants
of this 'Loyal City. But now becomes our pain-
ful duty, to relate the melancholy events of the'
evening, which led to consequences that we. can
never 'sufficiently deplore.—An unfortunate affray
took place between the boys in the street and sofne
of the officers and privates of the Ross andCroMarty
Rangers, then on guatd in castle-street, who be-
ing joined by the rest of the' corps from the bar-
racks,. ran upon the people in the street with their
'arms in their hands, and began firing upon ',thern
with ball, indiscriminately and in every direaion,
and some were even seen taking deliberate aim at
individuals.

" Many of the bullets went. through windows
and doors in the west end of Castle-street, and in

du head .of the Ship-row and Narrow-wynd, and
others were found at a greater distance than through
the town.
" As far as we 'can learn, the following were

the fatal consequences that ensued Irian, a
.native of this place, and a private in the rifle corps
recruiting here, who was standing at the corner of
the Plaiustones, was, shot through the head, and
instantly died on the spot. - .I.homas Milne, a
'mason; John Moir, a young boy, and only on of
a widow,• and. William Gibb, apprentice. to a ,bar-.•
ber,, were all mortally wounded, and, died next;
day ; and ten more. persons, as' near as we can
' learn, were variously wounded.. Upon
.being
'in-
formed. of the unhappy affair, the Provost and
MagistrateS, with becoming spirit, instantly •in-
terfered, and the whole corps were ordered into
the barracks—A sufficient guard of armed.citizens,
was immedialely moutrted, to prevent all email].
pication with the regirnet?t, witich in the irritated.
state of the public mind, might have kd to further
fatal comequenfes..
" An investigation of this lamentable .affair was
instantly set on toot by the Magistrates, and 'is
now going on; but of the mass of evidence brought
forward, it would be highly improper in us to take
partieular notice. -.Several of the officers, also four
serjeants and one private, ate in custody, to abide
the result of the investigation. . . .
• " On Saturday, at I z o'clock, an express was
sent off to Edinburgh, to the Commander in Chief.
The person who carried it, with an alacrity which
did him Much credit, returned again by three o'clock
on Monday morning, with the necessary orders ;
and yesterday morning, abdut ooe o'clock, the re-
girnent marched out of the town in dead silence
and without beat of drum, by the way of the Broad-
hill, and Old-Town Links, on their route north.-
wards. At the Bridge of Don they, formed into
Iwo divisions, one of which took the. road to Old
'Meldrum, and the other the road..to Ellon.',

A gang of depredatbrs, in the' neighbourhmit of
Drayton, have been impeached by one of their col
leagUeS-: They are upivards of twenty in'number,
and have subsisted by stealing sheep, 'poultry,&c:l
for-a number of years.• wo`ot dick are in"custody.-
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