The Sun.
London, England, 1805-09-30 00:00:00

Po

13ow.STitevr.--10n Saturday
morning William Pierson was 'Charged with Mpo'"
a coninion beggar and an impostor. It appeared,
front the evidence ofilie:Parish Boodle 'of 'Somers-
Tcmti, that the Prisoner, had,
.that mottling, called
at No. 27, ti
pr scented a Far=
tidti stating himself to be a Gentleman in distrc,,s,
and that he was related to sevenil persons of dis-
t.inction. The beadle, knowing him to
,bp,an ii i
Poster, took hint into custndy. On searching him,
nineteen shillings' Were fOimd. He 'was recognized
to have been -brought `-'to the Office it short -
time since, charged :by, a, number- of thel inllabi-
taiti of Cbelscw4ll4l3rompton with a similar of--
-fence. In several inStattees he got into houses,
where there were only females, 'and refused to retire
till -he had obtained-money.' - Oiiiiearehink him at
that time,: between :four and five pounds wersfound.:
(.)ii his promising not to be guilty of the like '011.6)6e
Again, ht then liberated. On this occasibil;'ll6'.
endeavoured to. persuade' the Magistrate,to liberate:-
birit on a similar promise, and pledged his honour
lie would keep his word, Mr. GRMI,i,M told him he
had -not acted like a Gentlenian, whiell'hePretented,
to be-, ,in'lireaking, the promise whieli he had Made
before, and thoefore should 'not take his word
now. ;Mr. G. asked hint why he did not work ?
Ile replied, he bad been brong'.* up a Gentleman,
but was not possessed' of, anvalents. This eacised
a general laugh,. He haS' a-very unueommon
and it .was justly observed 'in the Office, it was the
best calculated for a beggar's that ever Was seen
he could raise,a cry, or pretended oue,- as occasion
might require.
Mr. Git'Atuoi told him he 'should commit' MIA as
it rogue ;and vagabond', or he must-agree to go to-sea.
He is abiwit thirty years of age. At tiamiT.lle spewed
symptoirb of being an ideot.

JUA TIC f.; GumnuALL-.-011 S:iturdpy Han-
nail Clarke underwent an examiwition b4fOre the
Sitting. Alderman, charged With • re'cci‘ inn rOcetter
from a postman, which was direeted to another.
woman, in which:was ti?,sl.l3ank Note, sr:fit-IT:the
woman's husband from Port4ponth, which the Pd-
soner took out, and converted to her oWet use. She
acknowledged ehangittlhe'note purchage„al
fish, at liillingsgate; ..She - was -committed, fur re-

An Inquisition was kitten on Sattirday at the
Plough', Kensington-lane, on the body. of Mi 4 Alicia
Blagravei who was drowned in a brook, which runs
through Chelsea, on Thursday last. The deeeasett
was the daughter et' a Nurseryman at I fat noton, and,
had been recently settled ina situation at Cheiwa.:
Shc had been to Paddington on business on' the-aft,er-,
• noon of her demise, and it is supposed that shemade
:an unsuccessful attempt to cross the rivulet .On her
return at night. There could be' do other conclu-
sion drawn, acthe depth of the waterantt the cur-
rent was stOeient,to drown her, more particularly.
so if alarmed. A( 11, note altd cash was found in her
pockets.—Verdia;---AT'i(lentai
The female servant of Mr. Wilkie, of Hackney,
on Friday evetting was robbed by three men,in sot-
diers'dress, while cro-ssing 'the fields fr*Mile7end
Read to het Master's' the ilinie'''evehlog'
h woman named f:intli'van4ais robbed of alnindle and
silver, ou;Dentuork-hill, .by four fella" who
ancrward,i fled across. the tic Ads torards.,Thh‘iciL

SOllle thlyi as three yol.lllg,LialliVs were walk-
ing on the bank of the river at Aliiry.itwith; cm of
them, by t-;otne accident, fell in, and was car"rigd,
20() yard.; down the stream, when a labouring Alan,
attra4-ted to the spot by their cries, plunged in, and
rescued her •