The Sun.
London, England, 1804-10-26 00:00:00

TO VILE EDIDOR OF.TI7E STIN.

SIR, •
1 tr,calve that Lient,Colnnel. Mdxw kys
pt,blished, in your Paper of the, .tBrli iOstaitt,anme
particulitrs relating to the Meeting which4liould
have taken place. between. Mr. Boycott and Mr.
EDW Dr cogs, `.on the 9th - instant, nelr this
town, Oti;his statement I will not comment, but
ac any silence might occasion an,imprei•Hot, unfit.
vont:dile to-.1V1r., BOLToN' and myself, 1 feel it my
ditty thus nbtirly to•dticlare that the appointtpent
• faithfully ob.,crve,,',by.ti‘. ,Not perceivinrlVlr.
EDWARD 0, Friend Lieut.. Colonel
18/1-Axivt LL, at t,',e eoit end of Mather's. Dam; the.
ground. X I.ycl fixed.and eXpeOedthern on, I placed ,
IVlr. BOLTON. at tlig spot most suited to such
Nvelirtkf„' and, after the. large of a few minutes, '
-,. proceeded aIonW.I.IIC.,C4SICEn-sidt..ol the Dam, ill the
cuursti of which I •had a.
,eompkete view of eery
hart,. of it. Not findinz than there, or int the
field adjoining, I immediately, returned to theleaft
•
end of the wher,e remained until ten, mi.
AWE'S after six mating, !ht! time Wei had
been upon the grountl-twenty.fi minutest
other party not appearing, .1 told Mr. BVI:TO*Pl.
that I considered it unnecessary olat we shouldi.ctin.
C
oue tier longer; ~f whia,kh
reinined to town, and in the curse 'of twenlyll
woes after I lacigot hotne,.
WELL waited upon the with"theiia'iticulats..ll liar
stated in yotir-,Palier. iirtmeastelyia 'second
• time, demanded',.a Meeting to take place earl}/ the
following morning ; which the Public 'are already'
informed was pit vented by 'the interference -,of. the'
Magistrates. 1 beg the favour of you to
this in your Paper.
I am, your obedient Servant,
• THOMAS PARKE.
Liverpoi, 011. 21, 1801..

SPOR7'I NG I ATE LL 1G ENCE.

COXI.IEATH CAA.II, WLEKLY,RACES.

On Thursday lest Capt. Bevan's .gelding I-Intspur, rode
by ear'. 13CrneY, beat car, mare rercitta, rode by
Capt. Mabbott..—Two miles. •
Same day{ a handicap Sweepstakei of five -guineas each,
wit h. tell guineas ;o:l4,l4%l.—Twoi.rnilet-14!ata—was won by Capt.
Itiarvey's.bay gelding Little Isaac, and rode by thr ownor,
beating Capt. Dew:try:s Mayfly, rode by Major Stirling ; Mr.
Marcia, rode ,b? Capt. lkfahholt t and Major ri.
gore.: Ski'er, rode by the owner.
inatem-1 .I%lh—*Clipt.lrate's gr. h. •Nlnuntebenk, beat Capt.
vi 1 i '$ g. Two rrnies.
'l'..venty guineas, P. P.,--Capt. Partridge's hr. g. Driver,
rode by the n' ber, beat Cap. Tuole's b. in. l'e:dita, rude
by Cape: iUrhey. ' • • .

AYR RAttlisl, .Ou. T.

TH* ,CornNny attentlior the Calednolan Hunt
atttl Races-this week is riorneyou,, tlegant, and
fashion:ll)le.. Some Of. the kites have hero 'good,
Thche on Tuesday- afforded excellent sport, and
Were k.cenly contebreti. - 7 •

'. ItGICAAY.
'King's [WM red,
4rd Rellmven's Brandon. 5.) rs old T
I.2gton's Chesnut horse, Mountplassot, s.yrs old 2 d

OLD 1141LEY,

SiCOND DAY.--THURSDAY, OCT. 7r.

Tames Franks, a Black, was indiaed, for stealing
a Note, 'Valise the. property of Lang Man
11/I‘Donald, in the Zwilling house. of -Michael
MiGeary.
The Prosecutor said, that on the 3d instant he
slept in M‘Gearv's house, where he had lodged for
seven or eight days preceding. There *ti.'efe two
other beds in the room in which heslept.besides
• in one'Zf which the 'Prisoner and- a person of the.
name of John Fergusson lay. Over night the Pri.
Boner mentioned that he had twopence halfpenny in
his pocket, and must take care of it.; the Witness
said that hethen must look sharp after what he had,
and took a tol. noteirom his trowsers, 'rapt it in
a piece of a ballad, and Out it in his waistcoat pocket:
Ire the, morning the Prisoner again, mentioned his
topence: half Penny, 'when 'the Witness going to
6i I f that it was gone. He
s.ap . note, 'punt
inthiediately suspeeted the Prisoner, and mentioned
to himjiis sitspicion., ''he .Prisoner asserted that
he. k"tiew nothing of it, and ,imMfdiately went away.
The ?they persons in the hittiSiThortly after follow.
r eil liitn. lis this statctuent the Frosecutot wiscor.
roborated by Joq.ll7FiergusSon,-Wlnt'siept in the same
bed-with the Pris and who, in additiony de.
ttnerl.
posed, thatin' the bight tiro he was awakened by
tin him. At this time he seem_
eel perfeftty toVaiet.', 'ln the mornieg almr gilt Fri.
KATir 110 14 ft tkonse, he was pursued, and apple.
. berwecrt fir and t a o'clock in the. forenoon.
There were -footle), on him when searched a silver
.w4fircts,' a 'waistcoat and neCkel:,th. which he had not
tin when he left thelionsc, three, ti.' Bank Notesi-a
7s. piece, and sortie silver. ' He told 'the Officers
that he had got the note from. some Greeks, who '
had come home in the Ship with him, and that the
'''*watch hill been 'given him by a 'Greek, whom he
named, to have a glass put into it. • -
Wm. Newton, tvsiding in. East Smithfield; proved
that on the morning'of the day sPecified iti 'the in.
dinment, he hail given change of a sal: note to
Bernard .Moses, a dealer in cloaths .and. watches in 'his
neiljhbourhontii ;Ind being shewn the notes fbund
the Prisonet',./identified two of them to•have passed
through his house, though he could not positiVely
say they must be two of those given toAVlntfes.
. Moses, when examined, stated, that 3 black man,
but he thought a head lest than the Prisoner, bought
fat m him, on 'the marningallnded to, if silver watch,
for two guineas, and, from Ms wife, as waistcoat and
neckcloth. The watch, waistcolit 'and neckcloth
found on tie Prisoner Were, sithilarto article, of
those different descriptions sold.by him, but a. he
could not read or write, arid--put no mark on hit
goods, he could not • swear that they were the
same. •

Lord ELLENISnRoucti asked the witnesii, hod he robbed of 606 articles, would he have re.
tusta to swear to theta ? He answered -that he
would.

. The Police •Oaken( declared that when the watch
and other articles were citified to 10,,ses next morn.
iog, he had 'owned them. This however he said
he did not recollea.
In his 'defence, the Priioncr said that all the
4rticiei had been given him by a black man, a Greek,
residing in East Smithfield, but that he had not
brought him forward :as a witness.
After is 6barge from Lord ,ELLENBOROUGH, the
Jury found the Prisoner Gst;by; but on account of
some little defca in the evidence recotnmendeti' hitn'
to mercy.

4 Dani(l Thurstcn and Joseph puma,: were in.
dittcd for privately stealing, from the person of
_ Cole, a rocket.book, containing a Isl. Bank.
9f England N,,te and Other papers, the property of
the said Mr. L'Ole.
Jr appeared that the Prosecutor in passing along
St. jamed.,'s!strccts about eleven o'clock of the fore.
riewn, of the 28th of Semptember, stopped fora few
minutes at the window of Mr. Gilrayss Print.shop,
looking at the caricatures. While there the Pri.
toner Thurston put forward his hand Over. the. Pro.
,
tectuor'a shoulder, saying. to him, pointing to a
particular print, " I suppose that is Burdett coming
from firentford." The Prosecutor said, he supposed
it wAS, and turning about,, and looking
,at the Pri.,
soner, who he observed to have 11' very conspicuous:
mark on his face„ went up Sr;' james's.street, along
Rand.street,
and CiOssed oxford.sireet, into Vete-
. street, before he observed that he 44 lost his
Pocket-hook; 'Which contained a rsl, Rapi‘ note,
and wluch he had felt in his inside 'poeket,, as he'
came through' Sr, Jayne 's Palace. He. advertised
his pOcker.bouli as being i_si, and., without own.
tioning.the r. 51. note, there being a letter in it
which it was of great consequence to him to re-
cover, anti -that. being the mode recommended
to hith at Bow street, "as most likely to be produc.
. dive of the, desired effen. He did nor. -know the
number of the note, nor had he any other mark by
"..Which hr-could know it, Shan a reeolleaion that,
ainong other • writing on the back of it-were the
iiiures and word " 18th Sepiem." 'The note was
afterwards traced back tti different hands, hilt with.
out being able to prove the number.
John' Boole', who kepri hatter's shop, 1.7 Tot.
hil•stre4, Westminster; proved, that about twelve
osclOck of the day of the 28th September, the Pri_
soner. Freeman carne into his shop, and purchased a
hat for I,es, for which he gave hitii to-change a .
note for rsf.• ' This note the Witness 'took' to Mr.
Weston, as baker opposite, who gavehim small notes
for •it. Mr. Weston, on receiving it, tore out a
small bit of the paper immediately' over the figure of
Britarioia, to enable him to retolled.tharhe had re-
ceived it from Basnet, and after going tbrbugh se. veral 1466'k-came into tire' Bank,' ' ' - -
Mr.-Cale being shown the note produced, recog.
nixed on it ' the figures " til," 'Which lie had ob•
serVed'on the 'note which he Tract lost, and part 'of
the avoid' September, which had alio been on the
back of 'his note; the greater' part of which had
linee been- taken away by the punch used by the
Bank 'in cancelling mites. ' Weston also saw that it
cOr4ipOndetl'with rite note fVom'dwhicli he had torn
trint;dl pieteat bilit'of the' turners. ' float believed
it-to be the same, • ' '

Mirgaret,Ward, a person who had accompanied

Freeman ht purchasing' the gut, :stated; that .14t, e
other Prisoner followed— tlfem to the Ow, and
;waited till they came nut. They then' all went 'to
# a public.ouct., where lye saw Freeman give Thurs.
ton 71. and some silver.

:, To the Officer, when. appreliended, Freeman
gave different aeOunts of the business, first say-
ing, he had changed with Basnet a 'ten popnd note
which he had got &pill his uncle. Afterward,. that
it - was a 151. '.note, whith he had got fromttWold
soldier, • with whom, he was acquainted, ,to ,cliange
for him.
.• In defence, Thurston pleaded eimplete ignorarvce
of the whole afrair,. and; pretended to beim tiFitf as
not to heart single word which was alledgeci against
Freeman,said he had fotind the poCket.book•
and being in great want, had appropriated the: note
td, his Quin •use. The ,money which Ward had
sworn he gave to' Thurston, was in,,payment ef. -a
debt he owed him, and a lort,n,.of two pounds, witiett
in return he had made him.

After a very • huthane. charge from Mr. Baron
TI-105,1r50N,, lilt Jury found both. Prisoners—Not
•

-EXTRAORDIA7,IAT OCCURRENCE.

[We have copied the following most EXTRAORDIN.k.tti
Statement from a Morning Paper, hut our Readers Waldo
us Alto justice to believe,... that' we do not eipect them.to
. give implicit credit to it. t]
ksitigolni circumstance occurred a few evenipgs
ago, in Mount. street watch.house,:--A stone.ma_
sun's labourer, in the South Mews, being detested,
On leaving the yard, at one o'clock, with a qoanti.
ty of .broken saws, and other iron, in his apron,
stislen property, was given in charge td a Constar
hie, and conveyed to the watch.fiouse, in Mount.
street, t3rosvenor.souarr. After a. long inv.estiga,
lion be was ordered tinier the care of,a man, of the
name tifPeddingtone, the Watch.house.keeper, who
had been .for forty yeats in the parish, and had gone.
through all the offices of watchman, patroje, comp,
troller, of the watch,
simulator of the patish j.orispru.
dence, of licences, hired . and common constable, -
staff assistant, and,, at length, arrived at the dig..
nity of watch.house-keeper. His common residence
was below Stairs, upon a level wish the, Place in
which the,culprit confisoed,, While at tea, in
the afternoon, wj.tla,hia family, acid servant.'
twill,i
-
he Started O rage, and aware d—rn his
eyes, be thtnightlie ail* -the Prisoner -Nang him.
self-,—took out 'a
long ,cusped knife: -from his
pocket, opened took the key ,a the cell in
his right hand, 'and approached the clorleor s To
his utter asiOnishment, on entering, hc found, the
culprit suspended from the beam of the jtingion,
by his neck-hanakirehler arid .tin" old apron, the
strings of which he—had tied to thel;eam; the
handkerchief being 'fiistensed to the .prim' by, a'
running knot, and round. his 'neek.."--Wheo .cut
duWn by the NlTatch.houSe Keeper, he was
patently dein! ; but being triiggeti into the
kitchen, and placed in 'a chair, before. the liye, he
fell • into conitilsibris, and' recoViiirig, said; the
Devil was coming for him and . the,..Watch.hodse
Keeper;" and, added he, 11 prirtialarly for you
(pointing to ?etiiiingtone), who rohhed my master
this iiisht 11L' due; by cutting me diiwri. trio
soon.", This, with several other irmitic expre.s.::
rani; 'So frightened the WatCh.house,Keeper, that
he changed his sear, ,and took a ,more ilevated si.
Viewed, with fear and asto,
citation, fr,in whish be
nishinent, the convoked situation. of tlhe Prisoner';
when', :ill on a sudden, hia wife, his Maid, and
hitnielf, were disturbed by a sudden and unexpe6ll'
ed noise,' which rattled' the china, plates, chairs,
tables, and every other moveaGle article-in the
room. At this. instant the Prisoners jiiMped.froin
his .cliair; to a considerable. height; extended
arms, and hollowed out, " Devil, devil, ODevil!
cease, quiet., (inlet,. quiet :" then rushing 'at. 'the
Watch:home- Keeper, he ;so terribly alarmed him,'
that the latter immediately fell into 'a fit; and so
continued, without tiny intermission, till two o'clock
yesterday ‘marring, when he expired in great .ago.
flies. We are,very sorrk to add, -thaCibe servant.
maid lies in a Melancholy state, occasioned by the
fright, without hopes'ol'recovery.
The Culprit has been.cominittnl for the theft, to
rake his trial at the next Sessions.

. •
The:following deplorable circumstances appeared
at a Coroner's I nques-r,. held last week upon the
body of a young .woman, in the parish_ of King's
Norton,' Warwickshire.;,The bed-fellow of the
tiece4sed; an old wntnan,, was awakened: with 'the
noise of groans, who discovered the deceased out
of bed, sitting in the ccimPlaining.she.
was very.lll.; the old w,otnan got' up and warmed
her some wine, which' she drank,;said she was,
better; and went to bed again,, but in .the course
of the she died. • In. the morning .it was dis.
covered that she. had delivered hitsell of .a
which, it is, supposed, that during the:, t.iose, the.
old woman was' down stairs Warming the
most unnatural mother t 0,,: tfig, opportunity of
putting between the bed 'and the straw mattrass,
where the unfortunate inf4nt
,was found pressed.al,..
most flat.
01 Saturday 'a person of thg name, of Robert
G,rdiner, a servant of Mt. L.ntsdale, of Coleaide,t
who was epming to NewcAstle awket with-a cart.
!Pad of grain, in attempting to get on the fore titd
Of .the vehicle, the ring which • he, took hold of
broke, and, just as he fell, one of the wheels .mcent
over him, by Which he wits so shockiney bruited,
th,if he died lOon after.
The fol.lowing is .a verb:filers copy of a letter lately
received by an overseer, of a parish in NeW'casilc;
. 44 Sir,—i.thenk it proper to acquant you of this Sir Corn.
stapce tor it Wat; wonee betbr and is the Sam new Uon W. It in has hiyhous Keper with Child and she is tikt
to Corn trubelsorn to the Parash witch. 'I 'thoust proper to I
squaw you tor I beieve she has not Yi,Otie our to call'hir own."