The Sun.
London, England, 1802-05-20 00:00:00

PUPLIC-OPFICE, hOrrSTkEET.

1.1.7 E'SDAY, evening, one of the numbered
field Drovers 'was brought in custody before the
Magistrates, by Mr. John Thompson, .of Broad_
street, St.,Giles's, for Qruellf beating and
some lambs he was driving, -on Friday last, in Hol-
born. The charge being clearly proved, -the Pri-
soner was convicted in the Penalty of twenty-shil-
lings, under the Statute of the t4th Geo. 111. and
Mr. BOND lamented exceedingly his ability in im-
mediately paying the fine, as; in default, he should
have had the pleasure of .Kuding him to the House
of Corredion, to hard lab Our for one month, and
to be publicly whipped. , It is lawful for any person
to ,seize an offender of this kind' in 'the verfad, and
deliver him, to a Peace-officer.

Many complainti having been made respeaing
one Mar". Davis, a pretended Fortune-teller, in
Crown-cOurr, Prince's street, Soho, a warrant was
issued against her, as a rogue and a vagabond, on
the information of a woman who had purposely been
to have her tortune told ; and who stated, that 9n
her going to the. prisoner's apartments, in Crown_
court, :and telling her she was come to have her for-
tune told, she was shewn into a closet, and Mrs. Davis
read in several books, pretending to consult an
Old globe; after which she told the woman she was
about thirty-seven years of age, that she had been
disappointed in love several times- since she was 15
years of age; that the man who was now paying his
addresses to her had light hair and eyes, but he would
not marry her, ar_d it was doubtful if ever she would
See him again ; but anothei man, whom she had
never seen, and who was worth a considerable sum of
money, would pay his addresses, and. marry her in
a short time; that he would not liVe long, and
would leave her the greatest part of his property,
on which, together with what she ,already possessed,
she would be able to live comfortably the remain-
der of her life ; and that for this ridiculous story
she paid one shilling and sixpence. There was
not one Word of truth in any part, of this, as the
woman is upwards of forty -years of age, is a
widow, and has been married twice. The Officers
who took Mrs. D. also_ brought twoworrien to the
Office, of very respeaable appearance, who were in
her apartments at, the time, and-produced near one
hundred old books and almanacks, and an old
broken globe, which the Prisoner used for the pur-
pose of carrying on her deceptions ; one of the
women whom the Officers found closetted with Mrs.
D. is the wife of a man of considerable property in
the neighbourhood of Woolwich, which 'place, she
confessed, she had left that morning; in pursuit of
Mrs. D. for the porpoise of having the nativity
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her son cast, who is abroad, to ascertain Where' he
now was, and to_ know his future destiny. The
magistrate dismissed her, and told her to go home,
and take care Of her family, and no come so many
miles to waste her httband's.'propefty. The other
Lady is a mantua-maker : she said, she had come, to
Mrs. D. to know, when she should be relieved from
some domestic troubles ; the Magistrates likewise
dismissed her with a reprimand.

Mrs. D. confessed that she had lived a number of
.years by this praaice ; upon which the Magistrates
convided her as a rogue and vagabond, and com_
mirted her to Tothilfields Brideri,ell, till the Ses.
sions.

SHIP AFEWS.

GRAVESEND, MAY IS.

Passed by—the Fortuna, Halmctr, from Dieppe ; Fre-
dens, Levant ; Richmond, and FinAidship,
from. Havre,

Sailedthe. Dispatch, Wallace, for Honduras F Lydia,
Jansen, for Petersburg ; Two Brothers, for Norway ;
jacoba, fOr Calais; Leith Packet, Divichoii, for Rot-
terdam ; Vreindshap, De Jonge, tor.' St. Vallery ; Indefati-
gable, Foulks, for Dublin; Vrow Adrlana, --, and
Vrow Sebergina, , for Antwerp.
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NAVIGABLE _CANAL 'PROPERTY, EXCHEQUER
-ANNUITIES, and GLOBE SHARES, MONTHLY
SALE,
- By Mr. SCOTT,
- - - -

On Friday, June 4, at I'‘.7elveo'Cipck, at .Qarr4way's,
'Change-alley, London,

THE STAFFORDSHIRE and WORCESTER-
1. SHIRE CANAL, FIVE SHARES in this establigh-
ed and important Navigation from the Severn to the G RANI)
TRUNK, thereby connealing BR I STO L with HULL, L,L-
VERPOOL, tec. forming one of the most.produdive Con-
cerns in this Country, the Profits being at the rate of 401. per
Share per annum.
The GRAND JUNCTION and PADDINGTON CA-
NAL; ORIGINAL SHARES, HALF SHARES, and
OPTIONAL LOAN, bearing 5 per cent. per annum.
The STOURBRIDGE CANAL, THREE SHARES,
the Profits are 141. Lis. per Share per annum.
The Crinin eama, in Scotland, Twenty Shares of 501.
each.. •

The Lagan Navigation, in Ireland, Three Shares of 501.
each, bearing 5 per cent. Interest, paid half-yearly.
Two Exchequer Orders of Sol. per annual, and Twenty-
five Globe Assurance Shares.

Particulars git flatchett's Hotel, Piccadilly ; • at Garra-
way's ;. and of Mr. Scott, Ludgate-hill, London, who is
commissioned to sell Part of the above, and Shares in various
Concerns and Estates by Private Contract.