The Sun.
London, England, 1805-03-08 00:00:00

COUNTY ASSIZES.

Txl Assizes for the County of Northampton
began on Monday.
On Wednesday , morning, before Mr. Justice
CHAMBRIE and a Special Jury, came on for' Trial an
MIA Of Assault, brought by Dowbiggen,
Esq. against Levi, Esq. It appeared upon
evidence, that the Defendant, in consequence of a
quarrel at a horse-race, had assaulted the Plaintiff
with much,violence, and hail used his horsewhip as
an offensive weapon of attack. •
Mr. ROADER, as Counsel for the Defendant, at—
tempted to spew that provoking language had been
first held by the Plaintiff.
Mr. SeriCatlt VAUGHAN replied upon the Defen
dant's case ; and the Jury found a maid for the
Plaintiff soot., damages.
'On the Crown side, charged on the. oatkof Sa.
mitel Pelham, of Wellingborough, lace.rnerchant,
Henry Spur was indiaed for stealing from the top
of the Worcester stage.coach a box of lace value
2001. 'The box which had contained the lace was
found empty; and floating in 'a ; the lace
was proved 'to have been sold it a diminished Value
by the Prisoner, who, after a lung heating, was
pronounced guilty by the Jury.

An account having been published in a neigh.
bouring Paper of a French Privateer having fallen
in with the York Merchant, of i guns, from London
to York, and that on being fired at, the Privateer
not chusing to risk an engagement with the York
Merchant, bore down upon the Jupiter, PaAntArt,
and Prudence, WHI,T3, two of, the traders be.
tween London and this Port,carrying six guns each,
and endeavoured to cut them off from the land—we

are desired to.say that the whole is completely false.
(The tee° vessels in question were in the Thames
when the affair is said to have happened. The jaa-
o;ter would not leave the River until Tuesday last ;
and the Prudence arrived here' in safety on Wed-
nesday,—(l4ll Adverther).
Two Wallachians lately found in Oil forests of.
'the Bannat, belonging to count HUNVAI:I9, 280
Greek 'Jandahi of gold, which they carried to [fie
'mint at Carlsbairgh, whence they were sent to :the
royal treasury at Hermanstadi,,the capital of Tran-
sylvania. ' They are'sUpposed to hove been struck
in the time of LystniaehuS, and' tacit value is about
3col. . The treasury of lierioanstadt Mt received '
intelligence also,. that
.eyident tracesi andsthe ruins
of a town, very corisideralate in extent,- have been
discovered in the mountain •Gretibitye',-in the same
county. , ' • . ,
The following method of making an anti.incen.
diary liquid,. for extinguisrling tires arising from
oily, greasy, or bituminous substances, invented by
M. Driuzza, has been "published by order of the
'Minister of the Interior of the Italian-Republic :
Take 84 ounces of common .wa er, to I,y*h add. kis
24 ounces of pulverized soda, and .- oil them till the,
liqeid be reduced to two-thirds' of the original
quantity. ' The same proportions' must be observed
in preparations on alarger scale. Filter:the liquor
through a linen cloth, that none of the grosser parts,
may remain; let it'cool, and use it when fetiiiirerl."
To give the soda a greater activity, snake a caustic
ley of it, and add" three ounces of golds lime to
every a 2 ounces of soda in solntion. The liquid is
then mare efficacions in extinguishing the. flames,
but -it is more destructive to leather and animal
tubstnnces.; so that when the caustic salution is ena.
ployed, the liquid eliould not p, disch'4eged through
pipes of , those materials. It should be observed,
that'thia anti:ineendia ry 'water must Out he employ.
cd in fires arising- from spiritoda iigeorof any kind;
and that its rffetta in extirigu4hing moo: arc little
superior to those of mere vea ter.
The following is a Method, 'of giving the grain
and hardness of steel 'to copper. Take -the metal
-under the metallic' form, fuse it IVith two parts of
animal glass, and a
,twelfth of choreoal-powder ; as
it is' essential atilt 'the copper should poent a great
deal of surface, the shavings of that metal arc to be
placed in 'orate, .with animal glass mixed with chat.
-coal powder, and the crucible so exposed to a• Cater
sufficiently, strong-to fuse the glass. There is than
formed phosPhorus,ohe greater part of which burns,
while the test combines with the copper. When
the crucible has cooleal,ood is. broken., the phospho-
rated copper is found` in the form of a grey brilliant
button, under the glass,' which has passed to a state
of red enamel. By this operation it is increased 'in
weight one.,twelftli. The copper, ~thus, 6,mhined
'by phosphorus, acoairea the hardness of steel, .of
which it has the grain and colour ; ' and, like, it, is
susceptible of the finest poli;ht it he easily iurn-.
ed, and does not become altered in the air. Tim
copper emits no smell wheri rubbed. Tbe'dark red.
enamel which is fornied in. this experiment ttlay be'
employed with advantage foe porcelainoind anartalt!e.,
as this red does neit alter in the air. •
• .
A new composition, for prCserving inflammable
bodies from the effects of fire, has been made known.
at' Hamburgh -by Professor Peaustea. It is Coln..
posed of one part of sulphur, one of red ochre, and
six of a eolotinn of- copperas.
In the course of the last spring several ancient
monuments were discovered at Bois.de.Vaux,, at a
small 'distance from 'Lausanne. Tiflis discovery W;2
made by accident, in working at the mines. Ac-
cording to some authors, it was the scite of the sup.
posed city of Carpentraa ; and, according to others,
of Lauanne.
A. most • shocking instance of barbarity was liat
week 'discovered, .on removing some manure out of.
the King's-Arms yard, in Atherstone, 'Warwick.
shire : two babes (supposed to be twins), judged
about six Months gone, had been thrOWn into the
pricy. _ _ _ . _ . _

Yesterday sennight several okra of thunder,
accompanied by a few flishes of lightning, were
heard in Halifax. What rpoders this circumstance
the more singular is, they had a very heavy shower of
snow there during the evening, which lasted a con.
siderable time. '
"A very large shoal of whales were drove into
Uyea Sound, adjoining to the Island of Unq,Shet.
land, last anontb; 795 of them were killed, arid
taken ashore. They are from' 72t0 24 feet long.