The Sun.
London, England, 1805-01-01 00:00:00

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Yesterday an lovisition was taken before A.
GE Li, EF(I.: at the Blue Post.!, Arlington-street,
Piccadilly, on the body of a feMale infant
,who was found conceAled in a rrtink, in the house
of Sir JOHN HOLT, Bart. in that street, on S,airday.
It apPeared the evidence of Hilt I Thomson,
the housekeeper in. JouN's family, that Ann
Jones, the, kitchen-Maid, had been long susoraed
to he to a pregnant state; but on being:questioned,
she always tienied the fad. On Thursday last the
hAtsekeeper was fully convinced of her pregnancy,
and pressed her closely to disclose, her situation;
but 'she denied it still, although She was promised
proteOinn. Jones went to bed on Saturday night,
much indisposed with a cold ; apd on Sunday morn.
ing the
.housekeeper called at her chamber, when
she informed he; that she was better; but on'bring,
ing her a bason of tea, the housekeeper suspeded,
from minrcircarnStances, that she had delivered
lier!.elf of a child„, and pressed her to say what she
6,1 done with it. Imes still denied the fad, when
a Surgeon was sent fur, who clearly foUnd but. the
truth of the housekeeper's assertion ; and on ex,.
atnining.about the house, they discovered the_newly,
barn bthe'in a box,, wrapped up in a flannel petti-
c,ar. The 'Surgeon, who %vas present when the
child ,was l'undotrated,..that one side of it was
A arcn, and on relating that circumstance at the time
to j,,nes, ahe declared that it was still-born, but
lila it Liv 'alcji.pi:!d her 'for some time, in the
sia;e the Surgeon described. •
Mr. Tape, a-Surgeon, examined the child yes-
terday : he found the contents of the .thorax and
al3dumen 'sound, The inigs were rather collapsed,
and pu putting a portion.Of them in water, , they
swain, which is a sign that the child was 6t)rn alive,
altli:Atih it was nut a sofiicient criterion' to prove
that fAtt.

Tiie jury, filtcr somc titlikeration, re.furned a
that .the butler in the fa.
mily (ouw in LeAan.?.) wu cli latlier,of the child.

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On Saturday moroing, :between Ave and six
Wel ,ek, as Mr. \VORA/a, shopkeeper in Saint
Ge ,tg;!'s F iel is, war. going to Newgate.market to
purchast,poultry,he was accosted by two men shab-
bily dress,:d, ~ho struck laim,%vith a large stick a
suddcn and' violent blow on the head, which stun.
ned him, when the villains rifled his pockets, and ,
robbed him of his sit Ver winch- and nearly twenty
poand, with
.which they msde their escape.
Friday an QlEeer of the Navy, in shooting birds
at Fration, as he inadvertently attempted
o divide the bri'.trs with the btit-endof the piece,
ei, on full c,ck, the trigger caught to a bramble,
e,4itents of the gun were diichatged through
the ti,utenant's heart, who instantly expired.
A melancholy accident
.toccurred on Saturday
sennight in the Parish of WiOicrbnurne, near Bris.
tot. A responsible Woman travelling in a tilted
cart from Stone; stopped on the road side to give
the horse some refreshment, when the animal, on the
britLe being taken off, took fright, and drove the
shaft with such violence against .the head. Of the
otdortunate woman, as to instantly,kill her.
On Saturday se'nnight a man went into the Shop
of Mr. Dawson, linen-draper, in Smithy Door,
Mancliester, sequesting to look at, some printed
goods ; a piece of which being
.shewn to him, he
'ordered a small quantity to he cut off, and tendered
a pound note in payroefit, The shopman, however,
having observed hiti stuff some shawls into his
small clOthes, which h,e tlid slily pilfered from the
counter,' challenged him.with the theft, on which
he threW doWn his botq,and ran off yvith the utmost
ptecipitation, lea v ittg pelota both the note
.and
go6ds th3t Mr. D. was eVCntoally a gainer by
the adycpture.
Thcri, never was known such immense flights of
sea7birda as have covered the Chester coast daring
the present seas nn. Th:t number of -ducks, teal„
vitig.cin, and wh&r birds of the same kjnd which
have hcen this yk!dt in that'Disiria, is ties .
and all ;.r.:•.::!.1!nt, and they are, in conseqUenee
mxtrctnely che-y„
khumlin skeleton was_ lately found in a field, at
Norfolk,No th Stow,
which was quite poled, and
it is supposed had not been buried more than seven
or eight years.

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ERRATUN.-111 the t: xtraa of a Leger from Guernsey, ju-
serreit on Friday su'imi4hr, tine fourof the Gerwral'i repiy
for " hati iawig admired tit o manly pin'," &e. ;read"