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

THE KING Z. JOSEPH TOWNSEND.

The Defendant is the son of Mr. Towsend, the
Police Officer. Our Readers will recoiled. the dis-
turbance which took place at Court on the King's
Birth-day, in June, lair.' The Defandaor bekg
anxious to gain 'admission into the Court yard tor
Mr. Wm. }Unwind,. advanced up to the Sentinel,
and demanded to pass.
,The Soldier resisted, on
which' the Defendant raised his staff, and vve him
a violent blow which hi-Ought, him tl the ground.
Corporal Taylor, a Soldier on the next station,
coming up to rescue his comrade, Joseph Riley,
was treated the same way. Men with arms
in their hands .were not disposed to endure this
outrage from the Civil Authority, Colonel Ills',
then on guard, was called, and the Defendant was
condoned to the Black-hole. From thence he
was conveyed to BOw--street ; a Bill of
aunt was preferred, and he was now bruaght to
his' trial, r.
Riley, the SOldier, was then called,- who deposed
to the_ ircumstances of the assault, and 'his evidence
was supported by Corporal Taylor, a Scrjeant on
guard, and several other, svitnesses..
On the part-of the De‘fendant,. several witnesses
were then produced to she* that he was ading in
the course of his duty, and that the S,Jldiers had
been drinking'to an excess that interfered with the
,regolar ilitcharge of their duty.
The Learned CH A t RMAN then commented at great
length on 'the evidence on both sides, and concluded
witb,observing, that unless• the Jury considered the
witnesses foe the Prosecution guilty of the most
grass and flagrant perjury, they 'could mai acquit
the Defendant.—Gaib.y.—One' munth's imprison.
ment.

PUBLIC-001CA. .MARLDOROUGHSTRERT..--
Yesterday a girl, ot i t year, of age, servant to the
Landlord of the Roebuck Publie-hou,e, in Hol.
.born, was charged with, robbing his till of a con:.
ssiderable sum of. money. He had caught the Pri.
:goner in the fa& The girl made some trifling ex.:
•cuse at first ; but afterwards confessed the fait be-
.frifs the Magistrate, and declared that she had con.:
tined her nebirious praftice for the space of three
or four mantles. She added that she had given the
money to a Mrs. Campbell, a lodger, who she said
had instigated her to commit the theft. Mrs. C,
said that she' had received, a.trifling sum Fur wash.
ing for the Prisoner. It was stated, on tI4 other
:hand, that the Prisoner's washing was putout, and
was paid .fur by her master.—Both fally,coMmitted
for trial.

A foreign Journal mentions a remarkable instance
of revenge that occurred at Ratisbon, in the begin-
ning of August: 'lt was on the. sth, which they
cOmmonly call oath.day, because, on that day, the
Citizens every-year renew their oath. of fidelity
. and obedience to the MagistrateS. Just as the prin.
cipal Magistrates and Burgomasters, &c. after the,
divine service of•the morning, were ascending to
the seats that had been raised in the lower hall Of
the Councii.house, for receiving the oaths of the
Citizens, assembled on the, occasion, a person of the
name-of Gebhardr, Of about 40 years of .age, and
belonging to the Inearpriratidn of Weavers, of that
city, slipped, .unobserved, behind tls,e Burgomaster
Philip Von Rad, and struck him four blows with
.a
knotty, 'stick before those'statiding.by were able to
seize him. The blows might certainly have.been
fatal ;, happily, however, only the left hand oi.
Von Rad, with which he parted off the second blt4r,
was very severely wounded. As the great insur.
ration that broke out there nine years :sgo atnou
the Weavers, teas still fresh in, the memory of evety
body, this outrage, committed on the•body of a rt.
spatable Magistrate, in the presence of all the L'4a.
gistrates and Citizens, caused a great and general
consternation. Gebhardt had been' long known as
a person of a restless and turbulent charatter, and
had in the Spring preceding, been committed to
prison, on account 'of several riotous proceedings,
by the Official Deputation appointed for the super.
intendence \of • the numerous Society of Weavers,
and of which M., Von Rad was ;t Member. Ever
since that period the wretch had. Meditated-revenge
against the,person by whom he considered 'himself
as aggrieved. WhenseiZell he endeavoured to jits-.
dry his conclutt, and declared he 'was not sorry
.for
• what he 1.1 c:unr

• DIED.
On thepth ult. at the Hon. Baron Hepburne's, at Smea.
ton, 'Miss Hickman, eldest daughtet of Captain. Hickman,
attic Bengal Establishment.
Lately, at Wadebritige, Lieutenant William Clements,
of the Royal Navy,.
On Sunday sennight, at his seat at Stanstead, in Sussex,
Richard Barwell, Esq. axed 63,' late M, P. tor Winehelsea.
On the ;sr inst. at Edinburgh, Mrs. harlotte Gordan,
wi 'ow oftolonel.Abercromby, Lite of the 3d 'RegiMent of
l'oor, 6011 of the deceased General 'Abercrbrnby,
laugh. .

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