The Sun.
London, England, 1802-02-16 00:00:00

£ ORTUNE,TEL,LfJ' j

IN consequenC4 of a complaint froth a number of
respeiftable Inhabitanie the neiglibbiirhood of
HaTpitead, At die
.Public-Office, Bow street,. of
th-if female servants and daughters being defrauded
of their monel, by a worriart: in that neighbourhood,
pretending td tell their fOttunesi &c. and from
a number of ridiculous stories she had told them,
. their minds beitig much disairbed from the bt.liel
that she dealt in witchcraft:,- yesterday this for_
tutee-teller was bought before Sii- Rick Alain
FOkti, by Sayers, the Officer, who apprehended-her
in a small house on the Hampstead Road.' He de,
scribed. her residence to be frightful and disgust-
ing: She had in the same room with' her two owls,
a jack-daw, and a guinea-pig ;- ekete were •sup.;
posed to strengthen theidea that she dealt in witch.
craft: A woman who-had been employed to have
her fortdne told, said she went to the Prisoner's resi-
dence on the Hampstead Road the preceding Monday;
when she entered hefhoUse, she told her she want-
ed to-have her fortune told. The Prisoner replied
she need not ask her any questions, for she knew •
.she was cone to inquire after a fair man. The Pri-
soner presented her Some, cards, and desired her to
cut them, which she accordingly did; the Pri-
soner, after looking at the cards for'some time, told
her she would marry the fair man she was come
to inquire after, and in leSs than twenty-four
!Tours she would receive a letter, which woUld bring .
her some good, news, The Prisoner then preSented
:
her with cards ornamented -in a very uriCommon
manner,, and desired her to draw some of them.;
she drew three ; two of them contained -lions,
and; the :Other a globe ; the Prisoner told her
those indicated that she Would' conquer every _
thing she took in: hand; and the Prisoner fur-d.
ther said, that on the 4th, 6th, and 14th of next
. March; something very parti'Cular would happen to
her, and if she did not take,great care. she would
be,injured very much; that she. had two. sincere
friends, ,and had three very great" eneMies. The
Witne4s told the Prisoner she was engaged in a law,,
suit; and wished to know if the Priionef could give-
her any information as ,to the. event ; upon Which?',._
pretendiiig:to make some calculations,- she told her;
she, would be successful ; for.this she paid the Fri:.
soner one shilling.
The Officer produceda pack of playing Cards, and
a numbef of other cards, ornamented in a very un..•
common and frightful manner, some of them repre. •
senting the devil, hell, ,&c.

Tlu..Mag-istrate, on examining the playing cards;
always cut the seven of dianionds. This, no doubt,-
was so contrived, to deceive. the ignorant, to tell
them she knew what card tbey would cut. The
Magistrate urged her to tell .1:1-tere'slie"bought them;
but he could not learn from her.

A sheet of paper was produced by the Officer,
‘i,hich he found in her room. It contained, written
instructions for pi-aaising her' deceptions.
She was committed to the House of Correttion as
.
a rogue and vagabond. . ,

THE THEATR E. Often as the Tragedy of
P;zarro has been represented,. it drew a very ntirne-
rous Audience to Drury-lane. Theatre last night,
though it was deprived of the powerful support of
;,k r.,--•.•••••• -
• -
for Theatrical duty. The part of Rolla was, there,
fore, assigoed to RAYmcitiO, who appeared in it fOr
the first time. He very wisely followed the model
Of KEMBLE, and though;of course, he *as much
inferior to his able predecessor, yet he acquitted
himself very respetiablyi and made a good impres-
sion upon the audience. BARRYMOkE is also on
the sick- list, and CAULFIELD was a very decent
substitine for him in the part of Piziti-ro. Mrs.
Yo.oNd, late Miss Blocs, was greeted by the Au-
dience very kindly, probably on account Of het re-
cent nuptials, and it was observed that matrimony
seemed to have heightened the spirit of her afting.
Mrs. SiDDONS resumed. the Charaaer of'libwira last
night, hence we may account for the renewed
traaion of the Piece ; :and her ading was so excel.
lent, that it will doubtless confirm` that .attra6tion,
particularly as the Drama itself is brought forward
Kith more than its usual shew and splendour.

• We have instances sufficient of late years of .the
blessed effeds of Prkiate neap* als—We . could,
state particulars, within
,the knowledge and recol-.
ledion of thousands, which projie that they arc the.
very hot-bed of crmi, con.—thi every ground of
morality, of poliCy and justice, we trust the report
oldie permanent establishment of a PrivzileTheatre
is unfounded ; or,' if not, that the long arm of the
Law will be able to reach it. If .such entertain-
ments are to be supported by Subscription, they
certainly come within the letter of the'Law, for it
is the same thing whether persons pay for their ad-
mission by the night or the season.
Yesterday se'nnight, His Grace the Duke of HA-
MILTON and BRANDON arrived at his seat at Ash-
ton Hall, near Lancaster. •
• Serjeant.RuNrriNcToN is a Candidate for the
Advocate Generalship of Madras, vacant by the
resignation of Mr. RANDLE JACKSON.
We are very sorry to find, that the Fever. which
has prevailed for some time in Leeds and other
neighbouring towns, is still increasing ; and that it
is not now, as at first, confined to the lower orders.

On the evening of Saturday -sennight, as the
Rev. Mr. Woodhard, a Clergyman from gedford.
shire, Was crossing Smithfield, in his way to Isling-
ton, to meet the Chester coach, he was accosted by
two men, who reqUested him to tell them what
o'clock it was : upon his answering that he was in
a great hurry to meet the coach, they attempted to
take his watch by 'bite ;''but, resisting their at-
tempt, he knocked one of them down, and was at-
tacked by the other with a large stick. Two Gen-
tlemen and a Lady fortunately coming up at the
time,- most certainly saved his life, as the ruffian
made 06'; the other villain was . taken up, having
his lip almost cut o$" by the blow which iVir. Wood-
hard had given him.

Last Friday evening, as 'Mr. Gardner, of Castle-
street, Sr. George's in the East, was passing. through
Crown-street, Seven Dials, he was knocked down
by a tall man, in company with three others, who
ran off with two small parcels, containini; ,eropetty
to a considerable amount,

EPLIV.4URd FE3.

VESTER"IinV Alle4;k. Ltzvrie, Late Let.ter-C:irri...*!--
ii -the General Post-Office, was. executed here;.
aireeably to his sentence,. forstealing- a money.-'1
letter. Daring the time he has been under sell_
tense of death, his behaviour has been soch
carne his Unhappy situation. He w%s attenflerl
his last moments, and assisted in Tif,. devotional ek-,
ercises;,by the Rev. Mr. RlrcHie, cite-erf the
nisters or this City, and the-Rev.
Minister of
,the Reliefeongregation. . At the plaCe
of ekecution, he was calm and resigned. It was:
half paSt three o'clock when he wltlaunched from
the platform..
Yesterday in otirMarket, Oats wercfroth 15s;
to t7s. per great quantity in,„
Froth-Aberdeen ire have tiecounts of the follow,-
ing distressing accident :---SatUrday
.a boat with
nine men (two Of them fishermen) went out froni
Newburgh to pilot in a vessel, when the boat over-
setting, all on board perished. The sig'fishermeri
have left widows and about thirty children.
On Monday fotitilight a number of 'very ancient
coins; so old as Janes I. were drug tip by ::Mr. Stuart
Monteath's Gardener, as he wai- digging on the
outside cf thegarden-wall;

FORGERY.—For some days past several personS
have undergone private examinatitins•on.ehatges6l
having fwged Certificates, purporting tOTbeCertiti:
cates for seamen belonging to the Betig,// Indianian,
now lying at Gravesend ; to receive their wages at
theCounting-houie of Mr.GILLETT, the Agent; in
Bishopsgate-street. These persons hjdi.naually re..=
ceivedanoney on the false Certificate 4 to the amount
of upwards of 501. On Tuesday last Mr. SI-Lutr
the Chief Mate of the Be;zgal, haprenrd to be at the
Agent's when
_some of the parties came with die
Certificates, on which his signature was counterfeited
so exadtly, that he should hardly 'have known the
difference between them and his own hand writing;
.if he had not been certain that there ‘,.ere rio such
persons on board- the ship as those to whom the
wages were pretended to be due. After various se-
parate exarnioations, two of these persons, a man and
his wife, wife, turned King's evidences, and discOvered
person who l,ad forged all the, Certificates.
The person was brought before the LORI Mayor
on Saturday by two City Officers, I.v;h6 produced
a :book found on him, and in whio was written
an exaa copy of one,of the Certificates—in question,
with Mr. Sharpe's signattire (madly imitated.
This person is a young man, who pretends he was
Broker:; and that he wrote the Certificates at" the
desire of theother persons ; that he. knew not what
they were; and had, received no money". The Wit-
nesses swore he got all the money which they re;
ceived ; that they. were employed bi- ; that he
used to give them ,a dozen of two of Certificate!.4 at
a time, and used to stop at a public-house untl they
brought him the Money. All tlie reward they re-
ceived was two guineas and a silk.
This young
.man,
,far forgery, • and two Others for'
uttering, were fully committed for trial
Friday an information, ,at the suit of. the AT.
TO /6.EY..GEN.ERAL, against Mr—Johnstone, a pen-.
futriet in Cornhill, • for ha., in hiN'possession a
L _
spirit was tint , paid, Came on to be argued in the
Court of Exchequer. The Jury, on a fooler day,,
had given a verdia for the Crown.. The Judges
were of opinion, that this liquid. was not an ex-
eiseable spirit, and-that the, verdika ought to be set
aside ; but the judgment was postponed to a future
day. 7 •
The SOLICITOR GENtitAL contended Hungary
, .
water wls an exciseable commodity : the Alts of
Parliament relating to the Excise applied to spirits
of every description, except such as. were particu-
larly exempted ; and Hungary_ water was as much a
spirit as any other spirituous . •
Mr. Rous maintained the contrary opiniOn, and
Observed, that in COnstruing, the Excise, Ads, with
regard to their application, the word Spirits was •
not to be taken in so general a sense as the
tor-General was disposed to-give it ; true it was,
that Hungary-water, -as well as rose-water, laven.
der-water, citron-water, and many other perfumes,
were, strictly speaking,. spirits, but not that sort of
spirit to which the Excise Laws referred ; the
word Spirit was to be construed according to its'ac.
ceptation and meaning in common parlance; and in
that point of view could apply only to drinkable
Spirits. _ _

On the i Ith instant, the Lady of Sir RI eiIARD
BP.MPPE joHNstoNE, Bart. of Hackness, in the
North Riding of Yorkshire, was .safely delivered Of
a Daughter, at his seat, at Woodhouse Place,
Leeds.

A new Novel, from the elegant pen of the Au-.
thor of George Barnwell, has been some time in the
press, and will make its appearance in the course of
the present week, under- the title of Splendid
Misery."
The eleven footpads who have, been apprehended
by the Police Patrole, were yesterday brought to
Bow-street, and underwent a final examination. Four
of them were fully committed for trial, on a charge
of a robbery near Edmonton ; five of them were
fully committed for trial, on charges for robberies
in Kent and Surrey; one was admitted to bail, the
charge being only on suspicion ; and one was dis-
charged.

Five men, who had been apprehended in St.Giles's,
on suspicion of robbing Miss DE CAMP last Thurs.
day night, in Tottenham-court-road, were brought
up for 'examination, anel Miss DR CAMP and her sis_
ter attended, but could not identify either of their
persons ; three of then were, however, fully corn_.
mitted for trial.on a similar charge,• and the other
two were discharged.

On Friday night three journeymen Lamplighters
were charged at Bow street, with having neglected
their. ditty in lighting lamps according to contradt.
The Prisoners were employed to keep the lamps
lighted and in good order, at so much a score but
there was reason to suppose they stole the oil. They-
were sentenced to be it pris•Qued. three months in
the House of Correflion.

A low evenings since, as Mr. Heighington, of
Pow-lane, Cheapside, was returning home through
Etst-lane, Waiworth,. he was stopped and robbcd,
by threofimpads, of his 1V:1 t Cll and cash,