The Sun.
London, England, 1804-09-11 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, CLERKENWELL.

YESr P R DAY the Middlesex Quarter Sessions corn.
menced at Hicks's Hall, before Wm. MAIN WAR INC,
Esq. and the Bench ofjustices. •
ahu Ilooper,A foreman of the Works at Wapping
Docks, was indided for violently assaulting
Bar.
tholomew• Myer, a labourer of the same place, on
the 15th of last March. While the' Counsel for
the Prosecution was proceeding to cross.examine
the Witnesses, the CHAIRMAN, as well is every
one present, were thrown into a burst of. laughter
'by the extraordinity interference of one of the
Jury, who called out ahud,: that they were per.
fealy satisfied. The CHAIRMAN very properly
asked him .with what ? when he gave the following
uncommon verdict ; That the Prosecution 'was fri.
volous and vexatious, the Defendant not Guilt), and
.no damages.
Ann Beach," was indiAed for an assault upon
George. Jackson. The Dirties both live at Chelsea,
where they have had several violent disputes, and
prosecuted each other for assaults. Upon the day
410 id in the Indiament, the Prosecutor, who is a
tradesman, went to the Defendant's house to receive
the amount,of a Bill from Capt. Titchbourn, 'who.
lodged in her house ; when the Defendant came up
to him, while conversing with the Captain's Lady,
and told her the Defendant was a very improper
man to deal with, having murdered' his inoiher,
by dragging her through the streets by the hair
of ',her head. At length, she gave. him such a
violent blow in the hack of his neck, as t•i knock
him down a very high flight of stairs. • She in.
stantly' followed him, and while he was on the
ground, seized him by the nose, and twisied it for
a considerable time. She was' found Guiltjand
the Court sentenced her to pay a fine of Forty ail-
hogs.

Warn. It may. yet be remembered by
many. of our Readers, that in April last re-
ward was offered to any' person who should givi
information'of Chirles Hawkins, who tVas Missed
by 'his parents
.on' the ph of that month. Five
months elapsed without any citcunistance occurring
that could tend to explain the, fate of •this boy.
Hawkins lived with Mr. Stonehain, at his Mil:
•at Kingston, near Portsmouth, with one Edward',
who belonged to :the Portsea Volunteers, and who,
about a month after the lad was missing, enlisted at
Wickham fair into the a tst Regiment of Dragoons.
.Capt. Poulden, to whose Company. of Volunteers he
belonged, consequently sent to his lodgings for his
regimentals ; on his box being 'examined, a shirt and
several articles were kund belonging to Hawkins :
this may appear as•the elautt discovery. How.
ever, when Edwards received his bounty at S,•uth.•
ampton, a pers.n of Portsea, to whom he was in_
debted,- went to him 'to make his demand ; and on
his taking leave Edwards 'said, he should never
return to Kingston again, as there was something
there which he 'knew of, but which nobody else
ever should know:" In this concatenation of cif.
eutnstanees, it next occurred that the labourer hired
by Mr. Stoneham, in the place of Edwards, was a
taller man than Edwards, and was obliged for that
rea,on from the lowness of the headway from which
he fed the pigs, to roach over, which induced him
to require of his master that the shed ,might be
.made,higher ; this Mi. Sit neham refused to do; but
desired that he Would sink the ground to lower the
tubs, in the digging of which, was discovered in a
horrible state' of putrescence, the body of Charles
Hawkins., The Coroner (J. GR moo,- Esq.) in,.
scantly Summoned a Jury, and after a long exlmi.
nati nn, returned a verdid of-t—Wffilftel murder airtime._
a peitoit sr persons uvZooewn. The body was in that-
decayed state, that it was only upon the mother's
knowledge of several, articles' of his clothes, 'that it
was positively known to be . him. A warrant -is
issued to apprehend Edwards, who has deserted
froth his regifnent. The deceased is the eldest son
of Mr. Rrwkins, a wealthy and respeeialale farmer
in that neighbonrhoOd, and who has offered. a re.
ward of fifty guineas.to any person who will give
evidence tending to identify the perpetrator of this
foul murder. The author of the inhuman deed, to
favour the idea of Hawkins'a having drowned him.
self, threw his hat into the Milldam at- Portsea,
where it was found the day after he was missing.
In the night between Friday and Saturday
Se'nnighr a man fell out of a window on the 'leper
story of the Three Crowns public-house, in Wigan,
and was killed on the-spot. Haw
.the accident hap..
pened is not precisely known ; but 'the unforunate •
sufferer was in a stifle of ebriety on retiring to bed.
On Wednesday last a man employed aat ' brewery,
in Salford, had
the .to get his arm en.
tangled machinery, 'by which it was literally
torn off above the elbow. The poor fellaiw is Said -
to have a wife and five children depending for their
support on his industry.

AttraCtitin is the Order of the Day.o--The
ty and-Grandeur of thi present State Lottery Scheme
has. attrafted the notice of all classes of people. The
singular eircutnstance of more Capital Prizes and-
less Tickets so please's the Public, and has OCCa.
sinned such a demand for Ticketsond Shares, that
it is expo led the whole Lottery will be 'sold by the
24th instant, wheli the Drawing commences., .
There is little doubt but that the few remaining
Tickets left for sale tyill be quickly disposed 'of, as,
the Scheme is so intich approved. Hornsby and Co.
remind their Yriends'and the Public that the State
Lottery begins DraWing 'the 24th of the ptresent
'month. , • .•

N. IL Orders, by Letter or Cirrier, for Tickets
anti Shares, executed exaaly on the saute terms as
if present. •

*4,4.. An Prizes, whether of zol. or 20,0001. fald
on demand at the olo..estahlished StAte-Loitery Of.
fice of Hornsby and Co.. No. zó, Cornhil.

sill? NElf'S,

. CR A.SEND SEPT.
rpassedby.—tbe New naper,, Duke, from Dublin ; Mitry
and Torn, Bobbins,, Lowestoft; Cuttney, and Duciden; Bret,
from Waterford; Either, Stewart, from•Chsriestown ;• Mi-
nerva, Han, from, the West IndieS • lean, Hindman, from
Pensacola Arm,_ Lees, from Mogadore; 'fainter, Scherler,
from NOrway ; Dutvin, Frazer, Hope,- PlOnker, Aurora,
Park, Mark, Main, iamb, Spans, Two Sisters,' Ca-
roline, Pricks. and•Uors.raght, Jacobs, from .Embden. •
Sailed-r•the Princess Elizabeth, FOrresdaile, for New Pro-
vidence; Perievaa:ice, Walker, for Dublin ; Nelson, Haly,
for Cork ; San I rancisAo, Du Paula for Cadiz ; and Wit-
helm, Oyerhand, tdr:Tonningen.
• •

• . • 818711 S
On Saturday last, at Brompton,. the Lady of Petcr Free,
Esq, -of Throgmorton.stteet, of ;A Daughter.
Qn,Saturtlay last', at 'Cain's Hallo Hants, the Lady of Tohn
Delme, Esq. ora Son.
Yesterday morning, Mrs. Ccorge, of Ilolywell-street, of
two Daughters,
In Upper Berkeley-street, the Lady of Joseph Mee, Esq.
of a Son.

•
On the Ist inst. at 13erwick.upon-Tweed, the Lady of
lottel 14.Lcan. of Monk, of a Son. ; •
On the 4th inst. in Chariotte-iquareitdlnbuigh,the Lady
of Sir john Sinclair.. Bart. 'M: P. of a.Son.`
On Friday., the Lady .of Captain Dowurnan, of the Dio-
mede, of a Son;
few days since, the Lady of Captain Taylor, of the
Royal Flint Fuziieers.- of a. Daughter.
On Saturday, Wrinight, at Preston, the Lady of Captain
Moulton, of the Royal Dragoons, late Major o: Brigadein the
Lancaster Pistrid, of a Daughter. •, • •