The Sun.
London, England, 1804-11-06 00:00:00

TPURO, Nov.

A desperate affray I appcned here on.Wedresday
night laq, which is likely to he attended with se.
rinus consequences. Jras pears, that letween• ten ,
anti eleven .at ninlo, two men belonging to
the, 4'h Regiment cal Dragoon Guards, now in
Trete, Barracks. came to the New Inn, in X,enwyn.
street, and requested liquor, which the landlord
(Mr. IVlorri,.) retu.ed them, thinking they had no
right to be out-of their barracks at that hour. Af.
tee stnro- aberration. ties went grumbling away ;
but about twelve o'clock, as some company were
coating ste Douse, • tl.ry returned, and again de-
mantled lign4 of Mr. Ayers, ,t miller, of Gwennap,
,u'ho wr, < r‘r of the company, and whom they
seemed to mistake fur the landlord., threatening
him with viugence if he did not give them half a
pint of rum. Allen retreated into the house, anti
the.. th r being shut against them, they twist in one
of the pannels, and made off. The landlord, who
was in tied, then got up, anti accompanied by a
n-iodanr and his ostler, went in pursuit of the
two Soldiers. They were overtaken near the In-
firro.ay, when.the two Soldiers were joined, by a
third. After time scuffling, Mr. Morris took the
cap from one of the Soldiers as a means of identify..
irig him, and 'returning to his house, was followed
by two of them, who entered after him. They
-now made overtures to compromise the outrage';
which was refused. They then went into the
street, and the landlord followed to shut the door,
which be had no sooner done than they began to cut
and thrust at him through the broken pannel, with
a sabre and a bayonet. Thinking his lift in dan.
ger, he 1,11, nut his light, and leaving the door,
. ran into his house. They hurstopen the door, and
, followed him, brandishing their swords, and cutting
away alt beture them. Mr. Allen, coming out of
thethew kitchen, received a violent cut on the head
from a sabre, and the blood flew against the par.
Mr. Roberts, who keeps an inn. at Chace.
water, entering thei house at the time, eceived a
stab in the thigh. The women shrieked murder ;
.and now every one flew from the rage of the en.
sanguined Sul&iiers. Mr. R. heats ran out of the
house. and Was pursued by them up Calenick.sireet....
near the head of which they came up with hm, and
with threats of murder, knocked him down, cut,
kicked, and, mangled him in a mostbrutal man.
ner. After they had exhausted their rage, one of
them seemed to relent, and a.sisted him back to the
house where the affray happened, and where he and
Mr. Allen are now lying, the mangled vittims of
brutal ferocity.. Our Magistrates have been en.
gaged great part of Thursday and yesterday in.
vestigattng this el,amefel business. One of the Sol-
diers (named William Hall) was last night corn.
mitred to prison, where lie seemed inclined to be-
come evidsnct fur the Crown. . The others were
nut identified.

Mr.Birckingliam,,one of the Surgeons who at.
tended the Wounded men, said, last evening, he could
not pronounce Roberts out of danger, though he
had great hopes of him; Alled is, we believe, out
of danger.
A violent storm of thunder and lightning per.
vafled thy greater part of this County on Wednes.
slay night la.r, The lightning was extremely vi.
vied, Ent we have not heard of any damage done by
it. A violent spurt of wind passed through a part
of the parish of Kenwyn, which overturned mows
of corn, a furze.rick, apple-trees, and whatever
trior tend in its way ; and in the neighbourhood of
13,..,.2;n1ee,
many
windows were broken by hail.
atm ea.
On Wednesday last, the Guard belonging to the
MAl:coach was observed, by an Iniperlor of the
C0!..1 ma, who happened to he' withinside, to take
two :irk, rs of brandy from a house between renryn
and Truro, and stow it in the boor of .the coach,
with which they proceeded to Bodmin ; where the
Impeach' procured a 'warrant, and seized the liquor.

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lats.
We learn from Greenock, that on Tuesday the
body of a man, naked; apparently near 4.0 years of
age,' was found by Sir John Shaw Stewart', hunts.
man, on the top ofDutonad Hill, one,of the highest
in that part of the Country. From the stare it was'
in, the man must have died two months ago : his
clothes (a Sailor's) were lying near him.
At the moment Mr. Patrons, London and Bris-
tol carrier, was mounting,his horbe a dew evenings
no at tl e. tioor of the Angel Inn, over the Old
Bridge, Bath, a tilted waggon turned the comer,
at which his horse stater!, and threw hint, and from
the narrowness of the place, the wheels must inevi-
tably have gone over his body, had not his son,
with great preience ol mind, dragged him from' the
dangerous situation, though not to elleflually but
that one of his thighs was dreadfully grazed by the
wheels.
01 Saturday se'onighr, from the darkness of the
•night, George Paterson, Elizabeth his wife, and
AnOtew Atteess, tell over a place commonly call.
ed White Horse Bank, near Whitley, Norther her.
land; where they were all fiuml lifeless next morn.
ing. Coroner's Vi.:e3ift—ileelikilid

On Mon+lay trotting an uolottooot. accident
hArvened, at Southamptoo, to Captain James B‘ yet,
lair of the Nitargtatine's-Vacot ;,...Whilot he
%vas fidting for whitings by liin,cht ii .1 ginal.l ves,ti,
it upset in a 5g0,,11 of wind, am! he wog totally lost
to a suffcring f. oily. The body w.. 1 picktd up un
Wednesady by hoi 4 J bead
tat the Cross-l-louse—Vesdiet, otatk.

LONDO!r 41 jOURNED SMIONS.

Yr.MDAY—the Be3sions were held at Guildhall,
before die .RFCOiDT,R"Rrid a 11,:nglt at Aldermen.

• After the prelimit.ary business was gone through,
an ,Appeal was made by the 'Keeper of Newgate
against certain rates imposed on him by the parish
of Si. Sepulchre, `as7 the occupier of certain apart-
ments in that prison.—The question was, whether
the IVlasteris and State Rooms in the prison, in the
above parish, were occupied by the Keeper, and
whether there was a . species of property arising
therefrom

Mr. Edward Kirby was sworn to give a general
statement as to what manner those rooms were oc.
copied. Ile had been twelve years in Newgate, and
no rate had ever been attempted on any part of the
prison until two months prior to the demise of his
uncle. The prison is in the parishes of St. Sepul-
chre and Christ Church. St. Sepulchre's contains
two.tiiirds of 'the common side of the men felons,
two-thirds oldie master's side, men felons, the whole
state side, arid the rot-ninon felons side, with the
lodge and keeper's house, and the tap-rootn, now
called the kitchen. The lelons on the master's, side
pay 2s. 6d. per week tor the accommodation of bed
and bedding, for which the state side kiwis pay
7s. 6d. each. Those conveniencies are pri)villed
by the Gaoler, and for the stated stipend he fur.
niches the Prisoners with change of linen and other
accommodations. Witness did not believe that any
advantages accrued to the Gaoler by this conveni-
ence, as the felons on the master's side slept in their
irons, which destroyed the linen, and the servants
ewloyed by the Gaoler became more numerous.
Witness conceived that the plan was to the conve-
nience of the Ptisoners solely, as on an average the
money received for the beds.does not above pay the
additional expence incurred by the Gaoler. The
.average of felons in the state room, for. the last
.twelve years, has been about twelve at a time, and
those of the master's room. twenty.
It wascootended for the parish, by Mr. OURN r Y,
that the Keeper had a right to' pay rates fur the
above rooms,. which were let out by him, arid fur
which he received considerable profits.
Yt was argued on the other hand, ,by Mr.
Kr-Towcrs. the Common Serjeant, that the wards
on which the rates were imposed were, prima facie,
the common gaol of the County—to he rated a place
of confinement, not of pleasure or profit. They had
.attempted to she 4 that it was a place of profit, that a
species of property arose from the master's and state
rooms ; but they could not rate it onless it could be
proved that these rooms are distill& trona the cum.
moo gaol.
After the arguments of Counsel had closed, the
Court, after a long investigation, allowed the Ap.
peal.

Yesterday, at Marlborough-street, William Han-
by (a known offender) was chatgetl with feloniously
cutting and maiming Jeremiah Regan, on Saturday
night., in Broad-street, St. On the Satur.
day preces'o, this otre-er. the Prisoner was at the
Horse Shoe PAW .house, in Brainbridge.streer, St.
Giles's, where he dr,ve the company frOm the tap.
room with a crow-bat, and behaied in the most
riotous and i&,untatt manner. Regan was of the
company, and artenti In vain, to secure the
aggressor. On Saturday everting last the Prosecu.
tot went to the Horse Sloe, where he again saw the
Prisoner, anti attempted to *secure his. About
eleven o'clock he was walking down Broad-street,
with Lest, one of MEux's draymen, when the
Prisoner and another person came behind them, and
knocked him down. At this moment a Voice was
heard, " give me a knife, Bill lianief," and
mediately afterwards Regan received several cuts in
the face, and on the body. The depredators were
pursued, anti the Prisoner was taken. On him
was found the crowbarused at the Horse Shoe,
some implements for house-breaking, and a bun.
ale of matches. He was committed for trial for
this offence ; and is to be brought up again on Vri.
Jay, on the oath of Lovett, the Officer, as being
theaccomplice of Reginald Haywood, who is now
under sentence of death for cutting Mrs. Wilson, in
Thayer-street.
Yesterday morning, about ten o'clock, a man of
notorious character, larely,come from Botany Bay,
was deteled in Smithfield marker, picking the
pocket of a countryman of his pocket.boook, con.
taining 501. He was• immediately secured and ta.
ken to Giltspur-street Compeer.
On Tuesday night last, at a late hour, the house
of pm Daniel, a poor labouring man at Kilmote,
.Ireland, was attacked by a gang of ruffians, to the
amount of five or six, who broke in the door, arid
dragged the unfortunate man Dot on the road, where
they immediately dispatched him with one brow, as
it appeared, of some desperate and sharp weapon,
his head being laid open on the crown by a stogie
Wound from foot to five incites in length. On
an Inquest was holden on the body,
whose Verdia was, -of course, Wilful, Murder
against tome person or persons as yet uidutontered.
Friday .e'ritfight the Brig ifesa, of Lynn, Capt.
W. STAYFORD, -from Shields to Lynn, coal-laden,
having sprung a leak at sea, WA, obliged to put
back again for Shields ; but in coming over Tyne-
mouth Bar, the sea s. as very high, and the Ship
could not steer among tie broken water, and falling
to leeward, site got among the rocks, hear the clack.
1711 id,ns, where she struck very heavy, bulged, aid
filled with water. The whole of the crew were
saved by the Northutnberland life.boat ; but the hull
of the Vessel is become a wreck.

On Monday last sundry light colliers arrived At
Shields, who gave an account that, on crossing the
Dceps, rim foul of puny pieces of fir tint.
her and deals, bating on the water. It is said a
Foreign Ves,el, with timber, &c. was lost on the
14:mon and Ore.

At Newcastle St. Luke's Fair, held y es tertlity wen-
night, there was 3 greater quantity of horsts present.
*lf tor hale than has teen noticed for many yemrs.
Go-41 ones 11r,Aight extraordinary I,,igh prices ; but
;lie k vier, dull of ,}'at and lean
cattle le,ctted tolerably fait priors. Swine sold it.
matkahly 13. w.