The Sun.
London, England, 1804-12-07 00:00:00

TUR;IBR DESISKOW.

The fibintifr is a paWnbroker • the• 1/afend3nt..i4
a than of 1.0 residitig in arm 6th-street, Berke,
ley-square. action was brought on a Bill or
Exchange, dated the 7th of 414, at two months,
for the sum of loot. ,

Mears. Gross and MAR RVAT, for the Plaintiff,
proved the authenticity of the. accept.
ance by the Dc(Oll4,lM.
Mr. GAlttioW, for the lielendant, said, this
Bill was payable to a Gentleman of great business
in bill negotiation, whom the Jury would recolleo
when he mentioned the name of William Stephen.
son. This was the friendly connexion. by which.
the Hon. T. W. Coventry, end his turf acquaint
ance, Mr. Emden, whom the Jury had di4overed
in a late cause had been accommodated with sock
considerable atnounts. Hq. lloutti skew on the
present occasion,- by the same Witness, if it were
possible to extraa the truth from him, that tilt Bi.ll
in question was usurious, and could Pot support the
pretensions of the Plaintiff. He then congratulated
Mr. Stephenson On seeing him in such gOod 4414 p,
latnented extremely his own pnWCIS tot
the interrogation of so flipC,IV, gogspondtnr, .44t1
invited hint into the Witiost's box.
,
Mr. WILI.IAti STEPIIHN4oN extimintq.

Q. " Is this bill indorsed by you ?"—A. " Yes;

it lA."

Q. " To use the technical 'term, Sir, it is dthe
by you with the Plaintiff ?“—A. " Yes, it is,"
Q. As, Sir, you arc a man of business, and your
valuable moments cannot be misapplied, I shall he
glad to know on what terms it is afore."--A. 14 I
cannot at all recollea the conditions,"

The Witness being pressed further, after a king
pain, acknowledged, that the returnfor tint bill t)y
the Plaintiff • was not all in hard cash, but that
la had been interchanged in plate and ,je vellcry.
Q. " And pray, Sir, wag all this pore humaniry,
to assist ti.e Defendant, or did you rectiVe Write
little frivolous commission for your trouble
A. " What I did was from the itnpulie of dis.
interested friendship."
Q. " Excuse me, I. thought you *ere the grid-
'iron, whether hot or cold I do not decide, upon
which this money was thrown ; and I could not
exactly tell !how much had fallen through. Pray,
had you any other money transaftions with tifir
Gentleman ?"—A. Thiat was e;se second renewal
of the same bill."

Q. " Now you recollee some of the circum.
stances, perhaps you may call to mind what the
Plaintiff paid for it i"—A. " I think it was eighty
rano;111 Tlll and twenty pounds in goods."
Q. "Now, Sir, upon the peril of the pillory (I
wile not say to you upon the sacred obligation of
your oath), iva's a single article of there goocii-de.
livered to the Defendant, fie witoot you profess
this sublime and generous friendship "
Memory cue's not supply me with an answer to your
question ; hut thus much 1 can say,' that the De,
fondant was in the habit of delivering tne bills, td
get discottnted in the best way, and upon the most
advantsfiout terms I could."
Q. "-I have asked you, Sir, what became of the
goods ; and there arc but three ways in which you
could have answered me ; either you delivered
them to the Defendant, fluid them to otivers,
kept them yourself. Now, I will hatte an answer,
to which of these three modes of conveyance you
condescended " There is a fourth way,
whiCh has eluded your ingenuity ; I Might haves
pledged the,property for account of the lHentlant."
Q. '' Where, Sir, may I find you, if we shnuld
want to hang you ?"--A, " At your service, in

ig At last d have done ,some service to the corn.
munity, if not to my client, by giving information
of the place of residence of this useful merubtr,ol
society."
Verdict for the Plaintiff, principal au interest.
10214 101.

At Ipswich Quarter Sessions, on Thursday tart,
yhis.siott, for stealing a .rdl. note from Ralph,
Stilton; and Irilfia;m fireilim, for stealing sundry
articles of wearing apparel from Joseph Orford,
were sentenced to be transported for seven years.
`On Friday last William Brooker, one of the su.
perintendants of the extensive colliery at Staveley,
Oerhysliite, king at the bottoroof one pf the shaft,.
(which are near three hundred feet deep), a piece of
bind fell front the side upon his head, and traCtured
his skull in so shocking a manner, that he langui3hect
and remained totally insensible till he died the nigh
hut ohe following.
A Coroner's Inquest has been taken an the bidy
of an inlet abOut a year old, heionging to
and Sarah Shghtan, of Coalrit.larte,, in Nottitigh,im,
whose life was lost nn Tuesday se'nnight, by a titu4
administered for Antimonial wine, but which.
fottun'ately, turned out fq of
The drug watt, sold .hy mistake at the shop at a
neighbouring druggist,,,and given by the p:itints
without the least suspicion of its baoeftil qualities.
Medical ald proved and the p little
innocent died in the most excruciating agony.
Yesterday a Coronet's ,kcpie,s was held at the
Brown Bear publicAtousc, in Worship-preet, upon
the body of a thiutan between fifty and sixty years
of age, who died in the street on MondAy after-
noon last, in an apoplectic fit. The Jury•r,etttrned
a- yerdja, OM she Lied ly tittifisitatiou of Pod.

A keelm,m; .svho was Cutely employed to carry
anme puncheons, of new 3* 1.1 111 hi* vessel ft'orrt
Shields, drew cif a coosiderable triunity, with
which he treated his neighb,tiurs as
.soon as,he mr_
rived at home. The evcni, however, watt' AWEIJI.;
for the donor,—ln eon;;equeatte thedeleteriuOs'ef.
feels of the new liquor, vs'as seize& with a locked
jaw, of 'which he died, while the lives of several ot
his guests were much cmiatigercti.