The Sun.
London, England, 1804-10-27 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX QUAR7ER SESSIONS.

CLERkENWELL, FPInAY, Ocr.
..7obn 111'Carthd, was indieted for the 'assault and
false inyclisonmenr of an infant. Tim child was
playing with her sister, in Paddington-street, when
the Prisoner came up, seize] the f..;rmer, and.
carried it to Chandos.street, beating it as be pro.
c:teded, until the innocent objea of his severity
was bathed in hlool. The matment of the child '
attracted the attention of some hurridne pa3sen:.
gets the man wAs interrogated, and in the tecrael
he abandoned the infant, was pursued, and appre'..
hended.

The case was proved by the inuthcr, and several
other witnesses.

The Prisoner in his defenae said, he wash house:.
carpenter residing in Wortnwood-srreer,
that on the zsth of August he was in a stare of in.
toxication, and in Paddington-street tumbled over
a child. He knew very imperfeCtly what he did,
but he supposed he took up the child. Being asked,
by the Chairman, %% hy he conducted himself with
cruelty towards it ? he said, he could explain little:
bur from his own recolleCtion, he could only haves
patted it nn the back to appease it.
His master and two other witnesses gave the
Prisoner an excellent charaEter: they also said, he
had a wife and three, children of his own ; and ooe
of them deposed, that when the Prisoner was in
liquor, he VAS in a state of temporary insanity.
The verdiel—Gaiky. Sentence was pooponed.
The Grand Jury found five Bills of IndiCtosent
true, for Perjury during the late Elraion at Bretit.
ford. They were against the following persons,
who voted for Sir FitAbicts BUKoETT, vie. I;~brrt
Barehty,.7obn Lee, Edward jobll'A-i6ber,
and Gevse "thlmpscis.

Mrs. GR fFF t THS, TClkl of the unfortunve man
who shot himself on M mday, near Willan's Farm,
died yesterday.. She had been for some time in
,a
bad state of health ; and the melancholy story of
her husband, having been imprudently revealed to
her on Thursday, accelerated her death.
A man of the name of Wallis, residing in Plough.
street, Westminster, hanged himself oo Thursday
evening. He has kit five small children.
On Saturday last an Inquisition was taken at
Norton Woodseats, Derbyshire, upon Eltzabeth
Wrath, who died there that morning in consequence
of the bruises she received by the overturning of t
stage coach the preceding Tue:iday.—On the saine
day WM. Cartledge, an infant, was accidentally
drowned in a well near the same place..—rosepli
Bacon, -a collier, was also killed the same flay ley
falling into a coal pit at Lingc, near Chesterfield ;
and a respeCtabk farmer in that neighbourhood, in
a fit of insanity, hanged himself.—The following
day, at Chesterfn.id, Thomas Gilberthorpe
ly dropped down, and instantly expired.

On the 2ist inst. as a young chi:d was at play
under a stone wall, at Bdrr, Derbyshire, a part of
it gave way, and crushed the poor infant to cica:h.
The affair in Thayer.street has been in some re.
specs misrepresented. The house was taken by-
Mr. CR AIITICEE, respectable Surveyor,. of Faun.
ham, Surrey, and not by Mr. SIMM4, as berore
stated ; and it was Mrs. WILsoN,- of Caroline.
street, Bedford.quare, that received' the injury.,
and mot Mrs. W. of the Strand.

Yesterday se'nnight a workman employed in
laying the foundation for the new bridgt t►► Boston,
had hts scull doyen by the f.►}ling of an :Idz from
height below which be was working. He lingered
until next day, and died.

On Tuesday night a 'poor man of tip! name of
Adams, a joiner, in Doncaster, put an end to his
existence, by hanging himielf in his workshop.,
The. Coroner's Inquest was taken On Wednesday—
Verditt„ Lontay. He has always been teputkd
sober industrious IMO, ,ana no cause has been assign.
ed for this rash attion. His wife, a deserving WO.
man, was brought to.bed but a short time since, and
is left with four small, children to, lament his un.
timely end. . .

•
A melancholy accidenthappened lately near Dreva,
Parish of Swim, Scotland : As two men of the mom:
of Dickson, father and son, were working in a sand-
pit, the earth gave way, and cruilied the lathur
dead on the spot. The son was very much bruised,
but hopes are entertained of his recovery,
JOHNSON THR SMUG C E R.—This extraordinary
man, whose exploits On various occasions have made
so much noise in this and other Countries, after
having nobly resisted the teMptation and menactis
of the French Government, to induce him to serve
the enemies of Oki England, has, by another piece
of singular address and intrepidity, e.,e4ped from the
dungeons of BONAPARTE,
.and is now in I,nntlon.
It is universally admitted, that, in various occupa_
tions, and in that of smuggling particnlarly,
SON has acquired a more at%Ufdtc knoW:edse of the
different ports and 'bearing of the Coat of Great
Britain, FfAnce, and Iloilaod, than most others.
He has obtained His NL,jrsty's pardon, with some
situation under Government. His intrepidity,
attivity, and e, c,.rtainly entitle him to
repute, and his unshaken pairjutj lil tins some claiM
to reward.

Married, on Thurihy o.e 25th inst. at Che!nr.
ford, WILLtAst FokTP.,,c Estu: of Writtle
Lodge, in the County of Ew'K, to Miss E. Li w
tee
daughter of the late J. LR VVIB, of ;Ludo].

Died, on the asst ins:. at Nl:jor.General Sruw.,
ARTS, SAitharnpion, die (Ltight:r of Captain Sig..
etit.NS, Of the rvio, t.,60 nery