The Sun.
London, England, 1802-11-13 00:00:00

CHALKING UNDER THE'IIAt.

rViMain Hill was yesterday brought before th-ls.
, Magistrates at this Office,- on, a 'Charge' of having
fraudulently taken from the person Of James
Mease, twenty-five pounds in Bank Notes.— Mr,
"Mease, who is literally a countryman, said, tb.ts
, on his return from Westminster, yesterday Mornin,7_:,
1' about eleven o'clock, he, Was accosted ,by a well
looking elderly man, who, With the coimnon s:;111..
tations of
.the morning, asked him if he was, not
from 'Yorkshire ? to which Mr. Mease answel ed in
the affirmative, and said, he was in the 'cheese ama
bUtter line. Gad so, returned the Swindler, "
can perhaps be of service to you ; a friend of mine
has just established a son of his in that line of htisi-
ness at Woolwich, where he, has a contra Et to sop_
ply the Navy ; he is at a house in this neighbour..
hood. lam to meet him this morning, you may
as well go with me ;" to which Mease consented,
and on their entering a Parlour, 'the Prisoner was
there introduced to him as the Gentleman who
had a son at Woolwich, :and who after .some rela-
tive conversation, promised a speedy order. Some
Hollands and water was drank, when a third man
came into the room, who, to use Mr. Mease's ov.rn
phrase, was a very simple lookiv many" and who
after calling for some beer, inquired the way to
St. James's Park, saying he was going there to see
an Officer who had run away with a young Lady,
and that he had lost 101. by them. The old Gen..
tleman asked in what Manner he had lost so consider.
able- a sum.? When the other said-, he had 14.001.
left him, and did not mind the money, as it was won
fairly by the Captain. This led to a conversation.
'which introduced the game of Chalking, and or.
Mease's producing his Bank Mites,' the "
looking man" snatched them from him, saying he
had won them, and made off, but the Prosecutor
followed, and seized him in the street.
The Prisoner w,as fully committed for trial at the
Sorry AssiZes.

EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM GIBRALTAR, OC;,

TOBER 28.

" By the last accounts from Malta we learn, that
Sir RICHARD BICKERTON had sailed from thence
with the ships under has command, to join the five
Sail of the Line which left this on the 6th inst.

",It is now certain that the objea of our squat.
dron is to watch the force which the French have
colleded at. Toulon, where they have now twelve
Sail 61 the Line ready for sea, and thirty thousand
troops. All our ships, were prepared for aetual set--
vite, they had Again Mounted all the guns which
they had put in the hold, on hearing of the. Peace,
and it was generally believed in the Fleet, that then
.should attack the French Armament if it Offered to
put to Sea. There can be no doubt, from the force
which the French have been gradually colle&ing in
these seas, , that they have some grand object in
view, if we do not prevent them from accomplish-
ing it. Two more French Line of Battle ships
passed this to the Eastward three days ago.
" Orders are left for every ship that comes here
to jolll,Sir RICHARIS BICK‘ERTON without delay.
" The •Dey 'of Algiers still threatens to go to
'war witty's, and it is conjectured, from hiseassuming
so unusual a tone, that he has been secretly urged
on by the French to a& as he does, perhaps with-a
view. of calling the attention of our fleet from ToU-
lon
Another letter from the same plaee says
" Appearances here look very. suspicious. We
should not be in the least degree surprized to hear
of an action between our fieet• and the, Toulon
squadron; for it is no secret here that our fleet has
orders to prevent the French armament at Toulon
from sailing:"

PlibLiC OrfICE, HATTON-GARDENi-Yester-
day a poor ailing woman belonging tosa Benefit Sa-
, ciety summoned the •Managers for stopping her
ment for six weeks during her illness, though she
declared herself to be on the fund. The pretext of
refusing her relief was that, keeping a small shop,
she was seen serving an article not worth 2d_
whereaS by ar Article of the Society, it is expressly
forbidden any Member to do the least labour when
they declare themselves sick, There being an in-
formality in the conduct of the S)ciety for not mak-
ing an entry in their Journal of the Case, the Ma..
gistrates, ordered her to'be reinstated, and all arrears
to be paid to her,
A singular accident happened yesterday in the
Strand. Whilst a hackney coach was upon the
stand in Bedford-street, Covent4iarden, the horses
suddenly took fright; and galloping down that street
into the Strand, they ran against the shop windows
of Messrs, Miniers, Seedsmenl opposit6 with such
force, that the window was dashed to pieces, and
one of the horses broke one of its legs so that the
bone came through the skin. The horse was irn.
mediately killed, The other horse escaped with
little injury.
circbrmstance of a singular nature, lately oc.
curred at Naples, :, A Gentleman with his Lady,
walking near , the Sea-shore, was struck with a,
poignard by a former Suitor to his Wife, who had
the address to snatch the weapon instantaneously;
and with it to lay the aggressor dead at her feet,
Henry Elmsted, conviCied in last September Ses-
sions, of feloniously extorting money from John
Bonham, a servant to Lady Lee, under a criminal
threat, and ordered for execution yesterday morning,
was on Thursday reprieved. Harpy', the other
felon, ordered for execution, suated according to
his sentence.

CAUTION AGAINST A SWINDLER.—On WedfleS.:
day evening last a man came into the warehouse of
Mr. John Harding, linen draper, of Exeter, and
said his name was Mr. Davies, of Lyme.—Mr.
Davies is .a respedable housekeeper of Lyme,
and a good costumer of Mr. Haiding, well known
to him, as he opens a warehouse at Lyine during the
season ; but to Mrs. Harding the person of Mr.
Davies was totally unknown, though she well
knew he was a very good customer: of her husband,
consequently she 'made no scruple to credit the
stranger, who informed her, that he was just come
off his journeyfrom Lyme, which he had left that
morning, and that Mr.. Harding had sent his kind
remembrance to her, and that he should come home
on Saturday night ; adding, that he should return
to Lyme on the following day, and offered to take
any message she had to send ; that he wanted some
goods which Mr. Harding had not got with him,
and should, come in the morning and buy them.
Accordingly in the morning, at the time proposed,
he cane again, and ordered a number of articles to
be cut off and put by for him till he should go out
,of town. He said he was then going to present a
bill of tool. for payment, which he expected would
be duly honoured ; but he soon after returned, and
said,,the bill not having been paid as he expefted, he
desired Mrs.- H. to let him have three guineas,
which she did, .and requested her to add the cash to
the invoice. He then said he had some business to
transact, and would call and pay her the following
day,- and take home his goods with him ; but he has
not been seen or heard of since. On Mr. Harding's
return, lie finds- by the description it is the
same person who has attempted to swindle many
persons at Lyme, Salisbury, Dorchester, &c. &c.;
he was staying at the George inn, at Lyme, and
went from thence without paying his bill; ,he
calls himself Capt. Penny. He wore a blue coat,
buttoned up close, blue pantaloons, appeared to be
about 4S, or near so years of age, ware his own
hair without powderolark brown or black, and very
grey at the sides; -about five feet seven or eight
inches high ; he had 'a boy with him, whom he cal-
• led his son ; the boy was dressed in a light cOloUred
• jacket. and plantaloons, about_ ten or eleven years
old; light hair, and pale complexion ; he also had a
small black cropped terrier dog, and is supposed to
have gone towards the North ut Devon.
As a farmer at Warton, near Lancaster, was
late;y harrowing a field, he was surprized at hearing
the cry of a hare, which he saw run about twenty
yards, when it dropt down dead, some of the teeth
of the harrow having run into it, as it was
,sitting.-

For the repose of the Community, and the peace
of Virtue, that this wicked and dangerous character
may soon be overtaken and punished, " is a -con-
summation devoutly to be 'wished."

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