The Sun.
London, England, 1804-11-01 00:00:00

SHOCKING ,ICCIDENT.

A Mile Melancl.olyCifCutnstance occurred yester.
day mo.rning in the Church-yard' 'of Newington,
Surrey. &pool man, t:f" the name of Ricketts,
„u, chsted
.;us preparing a
"grave fora deceased' Lady Jiu corpSe had been
Ekrought from. GM:00401-i •and. the MiniSter,
was in reading the funeral service.
,Just
as he had concluded, add- the coffin was removed
from the bwr to be depOsited in the
the .graVe., in.which Rickett; -was .standiiig wish his
pickaxe and spade, 31ttiticnly sunk In to .the depth
of near'six. feet, The ill-fated gravedigger was
eompletily•buried, the 'earth covering the crown of
Iris head. The accident' was' observed, and several.
persons ran to his assistance. ln leis than five
minutes:they succeeded in removing the earth, sec
as to hive admitted of reSpiration, but the. vital
spark seemed nearly extinguished ; the ground was.
damp and heavy, and pressed so close, that it was
impossible to get the unfortunate creature out with.,
out the risk of dijninting hii liMbs. Those who
Came to release him, began Co -dig With:spades ; but.
the curiosity of thelioptilace,• who crowded round
the place, very much counit':raded. their humane
eir.rts. It Wla upwards of: an hour before the
tuOirfti 'was infficiently thrown aside to admit of the
budy beb:g drawn up. During-thisiong interval,
the sios of death gradually became more
notwithstanding two or three Medical Gen-
tlemen oitended, and endeavoured to save him. He
was ;.t 1..“. carried away lifeless on a shutter. It
was not the leaSt melancholy part of the scene to
opserve the distr.:tact] wife and five children:of,the
wretched Mao tooting about .the place, crying and
wringing their hands. The deceased bore a good
Character, ankl,as his neighbouri seemed to Commit.
berate Its untimely Wt., it is h .ped rlify will
viate the Lii.sitess 61 hi, helples, f

PUBLIC-OFFICE, 8 JIPISTREET.'

Yesterday Hanpah Palmer and Ann Harris'were
brought before the Sitting Magistrate for re exa,
minatiiin, charged %.1,11 stealing a caid of Lice
from the shop of Mr- Christorher Fisher; Haber-
, dasher, of Nei,vport;streef; It .appeaied, that on
Saturday sennight the Prisoners went intp the. Pro.
secittot's shop, *and after looking a long •tioie at
several cards of lace, left ,the shop without pur.:'
chasing any ; and the 'Prosecutor having observed
them put their cloaks over Itr counter, suspeaed
theni to be shoplifters, and iMmedi4tely after. they
had left the shop, he missed a card of lace, value,
7!. ; in ennsequence of which he pursued the Pri-
soners, and secured theM, bUt on, Searching them
the lace was not fout:d ; and it was strongly Sus'.
peLed 'a third wothao, who was seen talking with
the Prisoners, alter they came out of the Shop, had
got the property ; which is generally the:plan with
shop lifters.
The Prisoners were taken to Bow-streer,•andun.
derwent an •exarnination, when they
.drilidd 'thecharge,
charge, and asserted th.it they were women of tln;
first respeatthility ; but the MagiS'trate committed
them for. further examination last Siittirday ; at
which time Mrs. Palmer periti'sied 'in the :Jam! ac-
count of herself, and that she kept a house:
King-street, Soho ; -but Anthony, the cffict:r, ,re-
cognized her to be:Pan old offender, and a general
bad chariitter ; and asserted,' that she had no
longer sine than last July been tried at the Old
Bairey. This she denied at• first, but yesterday
acknOwiedged the fAct; when Anthony further
toted, th.ir her hoshand :was tried sat the last
Atisizei for Warwick, for picking pickets at Bir.
mingmun!fair, and sentenced to transportation; and
that she had since lived with a man.of the narne-of
Mack,, who was tried for picking pockets in Svial•
low.4treer, at the la's(' Sessions, and sentenced to
transportation. Adkins, the officer, alga traced 4:
Bank note into herplasession, which had heed
Stolen out of the Mancheiter Mail. Both Prisoner
'were fully, coronii t fed.

Yesterday, at Marlhorough:street, a Blind Fidler
was-eltarg. ed.with kcyping a disorderly home, in a
court ih• Pall.M,ill, by incO-Uraging an eighteen_
penny' hop. the informer, paid one
shilling ,int.i.sitiq.etiee tit the attendant, "who con.
tiuded him ter-a room where fourteen couple well
I,,nting it tti the tune of " S'ir David liunter 131gir."
The•lntimner left .the room-.at limit past two o'clock
on Tuesday' morning, at which time the coinpJny
retited., The Delendaottwas ordered to find boil,

8i143 of Exchange, each amounting to 9001.
.and upwards, were lately stolenfrotwniF the desk
at. eminent hop.tnerchant in-the City, which
kk'efe traced into the hands Mr. W. a hatret•
fie w„is
.immediately .apprehended, and yestetday
iinderweni a•private ex.ainitiation before the Late)
M AY.I) tc t at the Mansion-Houle, which occupied
fieverJ hour,';' ofter priioner was re.
,Ilk it!(.ltht

NEW YORK, SEPT. 6.

INTERESTING LETTER.

The following highly interesting Letter from
Geneial PINCENEY, it must be `recolleaed, comes
from a Gentleman of the most liberal mind, a Sol.
Bier of, the nicest honour, and of tried and urrques.
tionahle bravery. This consideration we Ar.. 4!
sure, give to. his sentiments .on the subj.e.Ct of
ling, the greatest possible weight thr6uglinuts the
.community. Should - the death of HAMILTON be
the.eause of,bringing into merited disgrace the dis-
organizing sentiment that "a Gentleman's
is under' the proteetion of his own arm," and that
instead of appealing to the laws, he is to look for
'vengeance to private ,force : and if' it shall* the
means of banishing from our Country. the- absurd,
unjust, and niur4erotis praitice of taking life itself
for even imaginary offlynces to imaginary honour—
" then indeed will not a HAMILTON lia'Ve'diCa in
vain." • •
At a Meeting of the Standing Committee of the Soiery. .of
the Cincinnati of the State of New-York, on, Wednesday,
Sept. 5, •

The. President presented a lettei• received by him from
Major-General C ri A KJ. E*. Co r$ %yowl. it Prlerr Lv, Nrke
President General 4)1 the, Society of th,
way read and. attuiltively considered. Whaew- ir,, resolved;
unanimously, That this Committee highly appiove the- scti,
thhents expresSed in the said. letter, and, that the Secretary
tbrthworth cause the same to be published.
.The President also presented a letter from Mrs: flAstii..
T 0 N, which Was 41so
,Resolved unanimously, Thatthe Secretary cause th!..stipe
to b.: published, WM. PO VIIAM, see.

Char!may, S.
SlR—With deep affliaion, 1 received the a«uuut of our
irreparable loss bp-the death of our late President General..
This deplorable event fias been sensibly felt and :itrnented in
this part of the Union, evert by those-w.bil weremot Terson-
ally_ acquainted with him, autl who did not einliclue
him in politics. By me, who hay,: witriessed.,his calla in-.
trepidity Valoin:., on tutu); OCpAIOII6, anti WaS
gOinined.With transeendant 'abilities and arniable'quali-
ties,..ind honoured whit bis particirlar :1 It:MIS:I44 1:14 10?'S is
must poignantly felt; and his memory' Will he ever'inost 'at-
it tely revered. . •
, is there no way of abolishing, throughout the Union, this
absurd and barbarous custom, to the observance ye winch ht
fell a vithin Duelling is•no criterion of bravery, fur I hive
seen Cbwards tight duehi, and I ant convinced real courage
to ty often nehetter sticwi. in theret usal than in the accept—
ance of a challenge. If tile society of Cincinnati were to de-
rs •t; fare. their abitutrence of this l'aetictr„ and .tlig determination
or all their members to, discourage it as far as they had
elicit, and oii no aocount either to send or accept a challenge,
.it inigiit tend to annul this Hious :custom, and would be a
'tri ourcOf resp,let to the sentiments and nittniory •of our late
the State Society in New- York should
coincide with me in opinion, I should be glad to have their
seetlinents how best to carry it' into cAcciitioni whether by •
submitting it to of the General Society at Nev-
. York, Piwilacleiphia,r or .Bultinture, or by referring tne mat-
ter at once to die different State Societies for their considera-
tion. _ •

1 haVe this day received your favour of the 2,01 of Tilly,
and alit !midi obliged to the State Society, anti to yourstuf,
for it..—With slntunents of high rcspce.t, 1 have the Honour
to lie, your most obedicot Servant,
. • ,Cl-IAaLLS COT4SWORTI-1 PINCKNEN",
.V. P. C. S. C.
Cl,. W. S. Sndfis,. Pl'eadoit of the New. .
Y urk &we ri. the Cinciqllati.

• 'The following L:tter from Mrs. I-lAMILTpN will
rxcite the sympollics c.A..those who feel for licr
loss, and in it lament a great national cola.
mitt •

• ' t,I, 1114-,
S la—To the distress of a heart so deeply atti:cled asmine,
.frofriLthe irlelwahle loss ot a 'most amiabld and affectionate
Husband, I trust the respectable Society in which you pre.:
side will iniphte the dtlay 01 fin acknowledgement for their
consolitory, letter, couched in terms that evince their sym.
pathy emanates 11•0111 the heart.
Although great mitigation ot that affliEtiort, with which I
am so severely depressed, can only be hoped from tit:: mer-
cies; of •the 'Divine Being, in whose dispensations it is the
duty of his "cremiircs hurnhly and devoutly to acquiesce, yet
the woutid6d heart deiives a 4nree of consolation /ruin the.
tenderness with,which • its ltit is bewaikd by the virtuous,
Ilia wise, and titimitne.; arid•also from that highlionour.with
which the memory Of-the dear deceaA:d has, been comthemo-.
rated by them, and those contiimplared in the, Resolutions of
the Society of the Cincinnati • transnaittLd by you, tot
which you,-Sir, will he plieased to convey my tVgraiet
thanks to that respielable.Body.
I-reciprocate:with %sensibility your and their recommenda-
tion of me to the Divine care and protection—play yod ever
enjoy it, and without alloy; •
1 atm -Sir, with great respe4l,
Your obedient Servant,
To triaia;n S. Swill), ` i E, 11A.11ILTON. •