The Sun.
London, England, 1805-01-18 00:00:00

SURREY SESSIONS, !Art, 17.

Matthewi was inchete'd fnr stealing a
gold ring and a penknife, 'the property of James
Goland, a,West India merchant, living in Muscovy.
court, Trinity-square.
' Mr. Goland deposed, that 'the Prisener Was his
clerk, and that on ' the 24th of October last he
missed a gold ring which he had in his desk.
also missed an office penknife, with an ivhry kindle
and sucpeaing the Prisoner, he sent a Constable to
his lodgings and apprehended him. In searching
the place the penknife was found, and the duplicate
of` the,xing. There were several other articles of
his property found there, which he had missed from
time to time;. but ai they were.nut laid in the in.
dktment the Court could not take notice of them.
The Pawnbroker was then called, and said, that
the ring had been pawned to him, by the Prisoner.
The Jury found him Guilty, but recommended
him to•mercy on account of his largefamily.
Aim Murray was indicted for taking a child,
about four years old, arid stealing with the child her
frock and other articles.

John Wickham, the father of the child, deposed,
that his wife was a washing.womani and had sent the
child, on the morning of the 201 of. (Moller, -to
the anglet's, Who did not livemore than twohan-
dred yards from his door. A considerable- time`
elapsed, but the child did not return. His Wife
then told him she was uneasy about her child.: he
went to ihe mangler's., but was toldzthe child 'had
not been there since morning, when ,she gor the
things she came for. By inquiring at different
houses along the road, he heard,:that, the child was
seen in 'company with a woman, and- late in the
evening he came up with the Prisoner, who had a
hold of the child by one, hand, and was carrying the
bundle in the other. ;The child immediately ran
to him ; and when he asked her, why she had gone
from home ? she said the Prisoner had coaxed her
away, by giving her prunes.
The Prisoner said, in her defence, that the child
was crying, having lost her way, when she met her,
and. that it was merely out of charity she took her
along with her, intendingln inquire for her parents.
The Jury immediately found her Guiltyir

She was then fried and conviaect on another itt.
diament, fur stealing the bundle of clothes which
the child Sad got from the In;ingler's.
Mr. &davit Oxstbow' then pronounced the judg.
merit of the Court, and Sentenced her to seven years
tra. asportol_;.:ll. • ' '

The child wa4 the whole time standing in a cnn.
apicuoua part of the Court, and had a incur Interest.
ingcounteoance. . •

Three other Prisoners were conviele'd (rifting
offenceS, and sentenced to short periods of hurt.
110.11 Men t.

, VAL VAK.—The following is a literal translation
of a passage in the Totkiih history of America and
the West Indies :—" Contigudr )us to the above.
mentioned island there is an island in which a species
eflree grows called yak vak. In the island .vak yak
there are no inhabitants ; sometimes with a strong.
"wind some ship* arriving, the inhabitant& of the drip
land on the said island, where there is a species of large
tree, and its constant load of fruitst fixed on it&
branches, are most beautiful girls,with whose elegant
nature and lovely persons those. who see them remain
astonished ; and every one of them is most exadly
formed like other women,:. and hang by the hair from
the brenchts• of the tree, like. fruit ; it sometimes
happens that they all tit ter the sound, vak I. yak I,e,e
From this cause the above.mefitioned island is called
yak yak : and whenever one of these, girls becomes
I detached frotn..ber. original place, she remains only
about two days, then dying, 'her beautiful form is
(lest toyell."—Richardson's Arabic Dictionary, on.
der the weird yak vat, has the following article :
" A tree which grows in some of the Indian islands,
to the height of about an In:wired cubits, having
leaves like shields, of a tea,ereen colour, and fruit
resembling A human head, with ears, eyes, nose, &c.:
when Hgitatcd by the wind„ it bends its branches
to the ground, snaking she sound yak I yak l whence
it is named."

•
On Saturday last a man belonging to`Mr. Brand-
ling's pit, on Gateshead Fell, had both his logs
trushed.off by a coal-wagon passing over thcul.
Sir JouN HILL, M. D. F. R. S. at Paris, and
knight of 'the Royal o(der of Sweden, finding the
inhabitants ,of this Country, at this season of the
year particularly,,afflieted with Coughs, Colds, and
Asthmatic Complaints, fond out a,method of con.
centrating that, valuable Extraa of Flowers calld
HONEY. and bringing into a small compass a very
large portion of its, excellent virtues. Sir JwiN
if t Lt.'s Balsam of Honey is therefore recommended
as the must sale, innocent, anti effehual lUtitedy
for Coughs, Colds', and Asthma,. Children and the
most dehratt may take it with the 'greatest safety.
It is to be 11:4,1 of Messrs. SHitiv and EDWARDS,
No. 66, Sr. Paul's Church.yard, who have putchas.
ed of the Hon. Lady litt.t.'s Executor all thelsro.
perty in Sir Jorm Had.% Medicines, Price 35..61.
If their names are not on,the Stamp it is a Counter-
feit.

BIRTH.
On Saturday last, in Charlotte-street, Portland-place,
Mrs. Gilbert Welt, of a 5011 BLitt DAlgtiter.

MARRJW.

Lately, Sir Thomas Stanley, E.krt. of Hooten, Cheshire,
to Miss itiggerston, daughter of Sir ilarnaby
Hart. And niece to Mrs. Fitzherbert.
Yesien.l4y, at St. Ceorge's, Hannver-square, ,
Mayne, Esry; of Limp, acid, Surrey, to Miss Eliza Taylor,
sciond daughter of the late Sir lohn Taylor.