The Sun.
London, England, 1805-11-29 00:00:00

A SINGULAR' CHARACTER.

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A few days since died, at Knightsbridge,
73. Esq. at the advanced time 0172, at which place
he resided tar upwards of twenty years
_preiious to'
his death. 1V1r.13,. was avery.singular charaaer, and,
from his eccentieities, was generally thought to be
u little -deranged, In such opinion,. however; the
writer Of this article can by no means concur, unless
strong passions, an irritable disposition; a lively ima-
gination, great classical. learnidg, and an extenSWe
- reading and observation, be considered as the eon!
stituent pats of a machnan. He was principally
remarkabler:for an inordinate love of the canine
species'; brit even this was not without some rea-
son,. asit.appears he was saved from assassination,
in tiiS travels through Trance: and Italy, by
a dog. -Ile was never, till lately, Without four
or five very large ones of the setter kind, all
lineally descended from the very dog that saved his
lif,e. Lately, the old stock was reduced to one, and
the others, in part, supplied by a stall terrier, and
an enormous dog, of the Albany breed. They were
fed and lodged in, I may say, a' sumptuous style;
beef-steaks, buttered ginger-broad, and pastry,
were no uncommon diet for them; and, as to lo-
t
ink;, owe or two slept in the room with himself
the others were'provided with:mattresses in other
apartments of'his house. He, kept two lads to
wait on them; and, 'at stated boars, however bad the
weather, and. in' spite of every ether consideration,
• he; himself, took them out for air and exercise; the
last of those hours was- between one and two in
the morning, which necessarily kept him up attest
all night. In addition to the dogs he kbpt, he bad,
as be termed thetn, a great many penSihners, that
regularly came, some from a great distance, to be
fed daily at his door; and, frequently, when he met
'a half-starved dog it his he. would take him
to. a conteaioner's, and treat lush with a shilling's
Worth of tarts, or (if a hawketof dog's meat chanced
to be near)'..to a more substantial meal of horse-
4Leslt. When any one of his dogs .died it was placed'
in 'a kind of coffins,—laid in state, for a day or two,
With wax candles burning around, anti Mr. B. sit-
ida melancholy mood -beside it--,after which it
was interred. with:great solemnity ; on which oc-
casion r. B. generally wrote at: Melegy, descriptive
of the beauty raid qualitieS of his departed. friend the
dog. By his last Will, it appears, he has bequeathed
Q5l, a year to each cif the dogs-that were.living at the
time of dais decease. His whole family eiansit;.J of
lii canine friends, the two boys, and an old
116j14d utter OVer,5lOLl to physic :. would Cense-
quentlY'adinit of - no assistance the
M nor suffer any person to apProach him in
his last moments..-Notwithistandir his l',v: le offe47
tion seemedlo be settled on his dogs, vet for
the Iminan kind, and many an,indigent unfo:maate
°hie& will. deplore hi,-death.

R 1 PORT

cower 01 KING'S BENCII, Nov, 2E.
TUE -KING V. DORMER.

The Hon. Mr. Dormer u,asbrL;Light up agree-
able to the orders of the Court, to receive judgment
for sending a challenge to Robert Knight, 'Esq. his
brother-in-law.

After a suitable charge from Mr. Justice GROSE,
the sentence of the Court on Mr. Dormer was, that
he do pay a fine of 501. to the King, be imprisoned
in the Gaol of the Court for three months and do
afterwards enter into recognizances, himsdin 5001.
and two sureties in 2501. each; to keep the peace for
three years.

ME: CLIFFORD slimed cause against a Rule ap-
plied,for byMr. SOLICITOR-GENERAL, calling. on Mr.
Heath; an Attorney of Court, 'to answer interroga-
tories. Cliftbrd admitted the principal bag
stated by Mr. Solicitor-General, particularly that a
Prisoner bad escaped from a man of, the name of
Gardner, while conveying him to Stafford ; that the
principal Gaoler, named Ford, to whom Gardner
aced as Deputy, had been inditled for this offence;
and That Gardner, while on his wayto give evidence
before the Grand Jury against Ford, had absented
himself in consequence of the advice of Heath.—
This advice, however, the Learned Counsel con-
tended, was given in peculiar circtimstances. The
Defendant, Heath, was .a stranger to Gardner, he
conceived that he was misled in allowing himself,
the aattal party to blame in the escape of the Pri-
soner, to .be carried to give evidence, which might
criminate himself. Understanding therefore, that
he had not been subpoenaed, in which case he must
be regarded :is a voluntary Witness, he, Mr. Heath,
had given It to Gardner as his opinion, that he was
not bound tonttend. This opinion he might have
given erroneously. He gave it, however, instanta-
neously, and.onAlie impulse of the moment ; and,
in such circumstances, the Learned Counsel hoped the
Court would not see any necessity for going further
in the business.

The CoURT remarked, that, though Heath' had
sworn he had no previous knowledge of Gardner, the
Witness, it was not.so apparent that he was not ac-
quainted with the person to be tried.
On this ground the Defendant Was ordered tb
swor the interrogatories. . ,