The Sun.
London, England, 1802-08-20 00:00:00

• BURY Ai'SfZES,

TO THE Ell 1 TOU 0 i TU E -SUN,

SIR,

IN the account which you gave of the Trial of
Gibbs for ai highway robbery, the conduct
of Miss BUCKINGHAM, the Prosecutrix, at the
time she was robbed, is misrepresented ; I shall
therefore esteem it as a favour if you will state to
the public the evidence which she adUally gave.
On the Trial, Miss BUCKINGHAM,- the Prose-
cutrix, deposed, .4‘ that as she was walking to-
wards Woodbridge, in the turnpike-road leading
from Ipswich to Woodbridge, between five. and six
o'clock. in the afternoon of Tuesday the ti ih of
May last, she met a Soldier on horseback, coming
towards Ipswich. The .Soldier was dressed in a
blue jacket. At the time she met him, she was
walking on the right side of the road, and Mrs.
BAXTER was walking with her. The Soldier was
riding on the same side of the way ; she crossed the
road, and went on the other-side. The Soldier
also crossed the road, and asked her to give him a
shilling ; she told him she had not got one : he then
asked Mrs. BAx-rEtt for a shilling, who gave him.
sixpence, and told him it was all the money she
had got.. Miss BUCKINGHAM offered to.give him
some halfpence, to get some beer, which he refu,el
to take. He then put his hand upon his sword ;
but he did not draw it out of the sheath. She then
got over a gate into a field : he dismounted and
followed her. On finding that he was following
her into the field, she returned into•the road. He
then took a bundle out of her hand, and threw it
down. He pushed her down, and swore he would
cut her through if she did not give him a shilling
she said she would, if he would -let her get up. She
took otit her purse to give him a shilling, and he
snatched it out of her hand. She caught at the
purse, and got it again ; and whilst she was putting
it into her pocket, he again snatched it from her,
mounted -his horse, and rode away.
When the Jury found the Prisoner guilty, Miss
BUCKINGHAM recommended him to mercy, on ac-
count of his youth which recommendation Lord
ALvAz, LEY said should be attended to.

I have been informed, 'that as Gibbs passed
through Woodbridge, about an hour before he com-
mitted the robbery, he was seen riding into the
river, and leaping his horse over a railing which
crosses the wail that divides the river from the
marshes, on the inside of which there is a ditch, int'
a very daring and frantic,manner. From this cir-
cums•tance, it would appear that liquor had rendered
him frantic, and, having spent his money foolishly,
he was driven to despair. It is generally hoped,.
that he will not suffer, but become the objed of
Royal Clemency.

am, Sir,
Your most obedient Servant,
Woodbridge, Aug. 17, 1802. JOIIN BLACK.

DUBLIN, Auc. 12.

AT the final close of the Poll at. Waterford, on
Wednesday, the numbers were _declared by the
Sheriffs to he,
W. C. Alcock, E. 471
•
Sir John Newport. 440
Majority for rttr. ----s r
Whereupon the Sheri declared Mr. A.z.cocK duly

The Post.:boy conveying the Mail on Monday
se'nnight to Bray,„ was stopped about one o'clock,
at Galloping green, by four men, armed with pistols,
who robbed him of the Mail, containing the bags of
letters dispatched the preceding night from the Ge-
neral Post-Office, for the following Posi-towns, viz.
Bray, Newtown, Wicklow, Arcklow, Gorey, Ferns,
Enniicc.)rthy, OaLitt, Wexford, Tinnahely, • Rath-
drum, and Donegal. •
The Mail from Dublin to Dunshaughlio, was
stopped on Wednesday night last, a few. miles from
Town, by a Banditti of fourteen tufiians-', who fired
13 shots at. the two Dragoons who-were escorting
it, but, by the spirited resistance-of the Dragoon's,
they were repulsed... They ,fired; five shots at the
robbers. One Dragoon hod his helmet twice pierced.