The Sun.
London, England, 1804-09-24 00:00:00

S L1L•41.44.10.

fIATTON-dAVOVN.—aturday a curious
nation took place, for the second time, before_ TH..
Idtscx, Esq. the Sitting Magiitrate, at Patton
GArden, relative to the identity of a bay► mare,
claimed by one Gilford to have been stolen from
him in March last.

Several Witnesses, to the nuMber of seven or
eight,- swore positively to several marks ; and she
was by this party. traced from her militial sale, by
.the Right Hon. Williath Windham, who, it was
stated, bred her, to her sale at Dixon's Repository,
which. was about the time the mare belonging to
Gifford was lust. On the other hand, several
Witnesses swore, that she was bred by another
person, and had been in the possession of one of
• them fur upwards of three years : the same Masks
. were also sworn to by this set. The Jurther in.
vestigation and final decision were postponed until
the arrival in town of Mr. Windham and• a Mr.
Disney. .
GUILDHALL, ...•••• Saturday several boys'. were
charged before the LORD MAYOR,, with lying and
• lurking about Billingsgate, about two o'clock in
the morning, supposed with an intention of stealing
parcels from persons going by the Flop. 'Those
-who could nor give a proper account of themselves
were sent on board the Tender.
Saturday an obstinate hrutal fellow, of the name
•of Lawless, was charged with some very indecent
assaults upon females. He refusing to come to any`
accominodation, with the injured parties, was com.
amitted for want of sureties.

Several unhappy Prostitutes, who had been taken
up in Fleer.:street and Ludgate.hill, were charged,
with being disorderly. One of them Was dres,ed
in the highest style of fashion, and Confessed to the
Alderman that she had been two years upon the
Town, and had no other way of getting a liveli-
hood ; in the present instance she had been assault.
ed by another woman : this statement being fully
corroborated, Sir CHARLES PRICR, with his usual
humanity, discharged this and another girl, whose
husband pleaded powerfully for her ; advising them,
at the same time, to change their abandoned course
of life. The other unhappy females lie' ordered to
be committed to Bridewell, in order to be passed to
their Parishes.

The worthy Biropet, at the same time, observed,
that Heet.street WAS so infested with Prubtitates, as
to be a disgrace to the City.

An Inquisition was taken on Frittay sennight at,
the Bull, in Peterborough, before J. Srot.oNG,
Gent. Coroner for the Liberty, on the body of.
Spencer Main, an Eniign in the Peterhotough Vo.
lunteer Infantry, who the preceding evening was
found dead about a Mile from Peterborough, on the
Thorney road. Oa investigation it appeared he
had fallen from btu horse, and 'received a violent
concussion on the brain, which caused his imme.
diate death.--Verdid, Accident.d.
A ,few days since an Inquisition was taken in
the parish of. Ambroiden, Oxford, on the body of
Mr. I'. Wyatt, an opulent farmer of that place,
who having loaded a waggon with haulm, was rid.
ing home .on the top, when the fore wheels of the
waggon ,fell. with such violence into a trench, on
coming off the groandsi that the sudde'n jerk threw
Lim to the ground, and he immediately expired.
A bricklayer's labourer lately fell from the roof
of the ItiV. Mr,. &Howell's house, in Bury, and was
killed on the spot.

Saturday morning early, a'person *-ho resides in
Perk-lane, and who has for a considerable time la.
?soured under mental derangement, was seen to
climb ovrr the iron railing at the new bas)n in
Hyde Park, and !dung& hittiself into the whiter. He
was dr,tggetl out by some workmen who witnessed
the act, Ana is likely to do well:

One night last week an attempt was made to Yob
the Bank of Mestre. PA'lo44llllt, in Huntingdon.
Very considerable adroitness was evinced by the
villaini, who had cut out a circular piece from the
shutter of a window ( which opened into a passage
adjoining the Bank) with such nicety, that having
themselves obtained entrance through the hole, the
piece might he reinserted in the shutter, and occa-
sion no suspicion on the outside of any thing im.
proper transatting within. Preparatory to the rip.
plieation of their keys, they had besides oiled the
locks Of the Bank door ; but fortunately a bolt,
which it was necessary to draw, was forme.! so as to.
extend upwards into the bed.room of one of the
clerks, who being awoke by the noise, immediately
gave an alaroi, and the villains securely decamped.
Last 'week a servant of the Roo. EDWAab
MONCTONOOOk out of a pool at Summerford, a
Pike of. enormous 'size. The anitnsl was kept
some time in a stew,, when it eat 6lbs. of fish every
day, besides chickens, ducks, aod garbarge.
On Monday a cock partridge was killed at How
FarroMinnbleden, Bucks; which weighed zo ounces
and u half.' Its girth across the breast was t z inches
and a half. It is very rare to fi,,d a partridge in
the County of Oxford which, weighs a pound. •
Notwithstanding the accumulation of laktb,
iosophers have feluaantly 'Art:tilted ale existence of
the toad species in die heart of oak, or in a block
of marble. At Hellonges, in the Canton of Thul.
len, of the Department of Jesnappe, A.:living toad
'has:been diicovered in a vein of pit coal, between
two masses of rock, 600 feet below the surface.
The animal was eighteen inches long, and died as
soon as the air carnet iti cont-aft with it. This
rural curiosity is not near so large as the gigantic
specimen of the same animal.preserved in the Flo-
rence. Museum.

‘Vedne,day evening a little boy, Mont five years
of age, son of the hire Serjeant K.V.NDALL) of the
East Kent Militia, playing Qther children on
the hank 'of the S!our, Si. Mildre,i's, tell in tin.
perceived hy his Companions. and Was unfortunate.
ly drotvned.,