The Sun.
London, England, 1804-08-27 00:00:00

PUGlLirsnt,

On Saturday morning last,. a pitched battle was
.fought in the fields leading leonal Lord's Ground
to Kilburne Wel between young.Snmt, a dtfst.:
man, and George Sandal!. After an inner ting-had
'beenfornied by. a rOpe fastened round some stakes,
the confliet commenced, and-bets were three to two
on George. The fight was evidently in fyour of
~Sandill to the loth 'round, he having
,displayed
mast skill. After the 2wh round they fought,
hard; ,but Smut spewed superior strength, and bets
were in. his favour. From the 3oth to the 3601
found, George was unable to strike with force,-and
his blows were- all hit oft by his antagonist, who
was declared the vithar. They were both severely
majTed, particularly the dustman.

Yesterday se'nnight at a feast which took place
at Ludfotd, Lincolnshire', two men in a stare of
intoxication, agreed to go out and fight by them.
selves,. when one of them named Malkinson, was
shortly after discovered dead, and the other drunk
and asleep by his side; We cause of the formet's
death is not known.

RATS.—The Eurui store ship, armee enfiate, has
been obliged to leave her station in BantrY
return to Plymouth, in order to get rid of the
numerous rats by which she is infested.- The quan.
tity of flour and provisinni which they have de-
stroyed is immen,sei and notwithstanding every
effort of. Capt. INNes and his people to kill them,
they have increased to such a degree, as to bailie all
ordinary means. The ship is to be unloaded, fu.
mig3ted, &c.—We understand that there are several
other Vessels at the different ports' now fumigating
on the like account,

Humbolt, while in Schuh America, had 4.0 or so
young crocodiles, on the respiration of. which be
made very curious experiments. Other animals di.
minis!' the volume of the air in .which they live,
but the crocodile increases it. A crocodile,-
incised in boo parts of atmospheric air, which.
contains 274. of oxygen gas,' rs of carbonic acid
• gas, and 711 of azote, increased this Mass, in one
hOur and 43 minutes, 124. parts ; and these .1124
parts contained then, as he found by exact analysis,
r 06.8 of oxygen, 79 of carbonic acid, •and;938.2
of aztitic gas, mixed with other unknown gaseous
substances... ,11)c crocodile, then, in one hour and
three quarters, produces 64 parts of carbonic ac4j,
and absorbs 167.2- of oxygen ; but is. 46 pat tsl.o
fOund in the 64. parts of carbonic acid, it.appro.
Oates t ) itself only 121 parts of, oxygen ; which
`is very little, considering the colour of its blood.
It produres. 277 ()arts of azote-, or other gaseous
substances,' on' which the acidikable bases exerCise.
•
no anion.

A-Physician 'Of , Bath "has used with the greatest
success the aqua kali 't uri (dim lixklium sapotta-
reum) in the case of
.a woman who had ,been bitten
by a viper, arid who was apparently in the'. agonies
of death. He first administered a 'tea-Spoonful in
water, every three or fotir hours, and afterwards
every It* hours. The first dose gave her. immediate
relierond in four days she was perfeelly cured. This
remedy, it k asserted, is. capable of 'stopiiing the pro.
gress of the deleterious venom of animals' in the
human framei or if any of -the mineral acids, hy.
drargus muriatis, or any other corroding salt should
be swallowed, which an .alkali will decompose, a
speedy exhibition of a‘siilution of alkaline salt, in
proper &mei, le the most 'efficaZious remedy. •
The.following method bf'putting two hive's of
bees together, 'that are too light- or too weak sepa.
rate, for stocks, has been tried, and found: success.
ful :—Take one, two, Or more pounds of sugar (just
as they stand in need of weight), put to each pond
four ounces of water, heat 'them just sufficiently,to
make the sugar melt, put it into a Wilder, to the neck
of which tic the top part of- a 'watering-pan spout,
then at night, or early. in the morning, turni your
weakest, hive bottom upward, betwixt the pegs of
"the hive you wish to drive them into, first setting
the other hive down close. by, then immediately
pour,the contents of the bla4der all over these bees,"
it w make them neither fly nor fight, put.the other
hiVe-tiponthem mouth opposite mouth, they will
01l go down to clean them for the sake of the ,sugar,
and by that means, be familiarised t let them stand
six days, then set the top hive in its proper place, .
knock out the bees that remain in any distant part
of the garden, and they will all join the other hive.
At Worksop, the wife of a man in good circum.
stances was lately burnt to death in an extraordinary
manner:--her husband, having been out, all night,
was broaglit home early in the morning in -'a
state of ebriety, and after
.a violent altercation
between them in their -chamber, the servant,
attracted by the_ shrieks of her mistress, rushed in,
and found her. night.tiresi in flames, by which she
was so dreadfully scorched as to expire in .a tew
!lotus :—she died without explaining the cause tyf
the accident.- At the same town,,last week, ashilti
which, ind been put to bed in a room where there
was a fire, by some means. ot towards it, and. Was.
burnt to death.

. .
On Friday night, about eleven o'clock, afire broke
out in the house of Mr. A !ICI is, in St: Martin's.lane,
which was,
,by the great exertions of the firemen,
got under ,without entirely c ,nsuming the house.
Had it communicated to the livery stables adjoining,
the whole of the neighbourhood would have been
endangered". •
The ancient church at Southwold had nearly bean
destroyed, on Friday last, by the same kind of care.
less stupidity which c.tused the accident at West.
minster Abbey. Some plumbers employed in re.
pairing the leads had kindled a fire with only the
precaution of a little mould underneath. The hre
had, unperceived by them, communicated to the
timber underneath, 'where it was making rapid
progress
.when discovered by a carpenter at work at
the inside of the church. It was suppressed, how.
ever, by the assiduity of the inhabitants, without
doing any material injury.

Saturday night last a poor man unfortunately fell
into a metal pit, at Foxhafl copper-works rear Swan-
sea.: and though taken out immediately, was so
dreadfully scalded, as to occasion his death'early on
the following Morning.

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