The Sun.
London, England, 1805-01-07 00:00:00

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PALACE'cojAtT, lAN. s.
BOSTON V. SWAIN.

The Plaintiff, a broker and 'cabinet-maker, in
Barnaby.street, S,uthwark, sought to recover the
sum of 9!. 12s. for a bedstead and several necessa.
ries sold to the. Defendant's wife. The:Defendant,
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Who :is a'master builder, residing at Newington,
appeared froth the evidence to have been married
six years, and lived in harmony With his wife until
the end of 1803, when his,domeatic.happiness was
destroyed by a total chimp in her behaviour.—
Every effort, ion his part, to accomplish a refer.
mation proved unavailing; she was incorrigible ;
and finally ,eloped to an -obscure lodging in the
Grange-road, where she was' visited by her pa.
ramour, and the articles were bought to furnish the
apartment, which constituted the Plaintiff's demand.
The Counsel for the Defendant contended his.
Client was not iv* to pay, and that the Plaintiff
had no ground for his aaiun ; .he observed, the De-
fendant's wife had elnped from her
,husband to f. 1.•
low the bent of a vicious inclination; no ill usage
on the part of the. latter had appeared; to justify her
leaving his house, and the law' would proted hfm
against the contractshe had entered into with the
Plaintiff, who was placed in a criminal point of
view, by having furnished the ankles for the fur_
pose of carrying on the abandoned intercourse which-
subsined between the parties. The Jury, after
hearing evidence of the fads, without. hesitation,
returned a verdia for the Defendant. The make)
was severely censured by tie Court. •

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An Impostor assumiryg the character of a beadle
of the parish of. St. George's in the Est, with a
book under his arm, has, within these few days,

called upon several poor housekeepers, saying; that
he was directed to visit them, in order to give
them Christmas donations of ss. each, besides a por.
don of provisions ; he expressed great embarrass.
went at the. want of change, and at not having
less than 203..n0tes ab )ut him ; artd under this pre.
tence bcirrowed 'silver from every one he could,.

promising to return and satisfy them all in the
course of a few hours. He succeeded in getting
three Shillings at. one place, two at another, arid

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shillings at many houses ; six people he. duped in
Brook-.freer; to a poor woman with five children

he urged the same tale, but she 'had no money ;
seeing, however, a new shawl about her neck, he
,asked for it to wrap some beef in it for her ; the
credulous womati complied, and he departed: It
appears he praaised the same artifice in other ,Pa.
fishes at the east end of the town. Diligent search
has been' mit4e after him, but, we are sorry to add,
hiiherto without effed.

• The fellow who we mentioned in our taper of
Thursday, as having imposed upon the charity of
some humane 'persons, by pretending to have, had
his leg broken, and who was, in Consequence, taken
to. St. Bartholomew's Hospital, whence he escaped
in the manner we have already described, was ap.
ptehended and taken before the Lao I\44YOR, 'on
Saturday, when he proved to be a . soldier in 'the
Tower Hamlets Militia. A letter having been sent
the Colonel of that regiment,' he attended accord.
ingly. 'The Prisoner atiedged tlot he was in Liquor
at the 'time he praffised the iniptisition. He was
• sent back to his:regiment, and will be tried by' a
Court-Martial.

A Proclamation of a very useful tendency was on
Saturday
:posted at the Mansion. House. 'Several
'haulm) have lately been robbed, and the property
carried away in htckney-coaches, which the watch.
;pen passed by without suspicion. Un4er any cir.
eumstenee where a coach is. seen thus standing at an
unseasonable hour, the Police Officers and Watch.
men are now *barged to. examine ,the
.Coachman,
and to knocicat the door, and if a satisfactory cx:
planation he not given, to, send the coach to' the
Green-yard, and the driver to, the Watch.house.
riday the Commissioners of Hackney Coaches
suspended the Licences, of
.eleven hackney.coach
owners, in consequence of information being given
them by their, Itispeflors, for working their coaches
without being in complete repair. for the accommo.
dation of the ,Public, and for, working horses in.
sufficient for.the.seevice. ,
,Thebe suspensions are to
continue until such time as the. owners can declare,
upon oath„ that their coaches are every AvitY. Om.
pletely repaired, and, their horse; replaced.. It is
to be . hoped, that, the remainder of the hackney. ,
coach owners will take timely notice of this, and
take care to put good coaches and able horses on
the stands in lutute.
On WednesAay week ,in the afternoon,. some
daring villain, by means of a false key, entered.
.a
stable.
belonging to Mr. Richard Linforth, of the
Old Mower public-house,.Leeds, and slaughtered a,
,fine mare, worth about,twenty, guineas, by stabbing
her to the heart it.h.ts, stable fork.
Yesterday sentnight,ahont 5 o'clock, a fire broke'
out in the -dwelling-house of Olivtinr, oval,
'turner,' in Wakefie.hiv owing-to some rushes having
caught fire, which raged with great fury for some.
Hours, and. consumed that and part of the adjoining
hiasse• before it was got .under. The property of
Mr. °Hyatt'', 441 S uninsured, and very little of it
' is sa•ved.
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