The Sun.
London, England, 1804-10-25 00:00:00

family rem*ed from that to Manchester. street,
and again to Beaumont-street ; the Countess he.
quentiy misses {several. articles, andilaving
ett Prisoners, cli4clurged them ; slie afterwards
applied to.Bow.street, and procured Officers to
search them. . . .

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One of the tily.strect. Of4cers stated, that he
went to the Prisonereludgings,and the Prisoner,
.Maly, gave hill :several duplicates out of her
pocket ; hut' those ;lid not relate to the articles pro.
duced in Court... She then fainted away, and when
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she recovered, she:cried. Olt, " Spare my husband,
he is innocent Pl--She.,then lifted up the window,
and, out Of a hole in the.side of. it, took out a paper
containing 31 duplicates, of several.articles stolen
from the Countess,
The Pawn broker proved, that the Prisoner
Mary was 'the person
.who. always pawned the arti.
,cies with him, and ,she ibia they were things-
her master had, given ,her from time to time ; and,
knowing her fur upwards of four years, he-did not
question her integrity. ,
When the Plisoners were called upon for the
.defence, the woman, dickred, in the most solemn
manner, that her husband was wholly innocent of
the crime:alledged.against hiM. ,
The Jury acguitted,'the..man, and found the wo.
man Chilly 'of straling,to the value of
,355.
The followings a list of the persons tried this

day :
John • . .
John Blair anti Isaac Htrni weretapitally eonvhled; Lewia
Berilarji, George Hart, lames Cooke, and Mary Hartman,
weie acquitted ; and Thomas Norris, MAry Bernardi, Mary'.
Lye, NicihotW, Bruly, lames !ones; fames Martin, William'
Coxyand Mary Mercer, were found guilty-a reity.oftences.

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Yesterday, at:Marlborough-street, Reginald Hay.
wood, charged with the burglary in Thayer.street,
and with assaulting the wounded persons,' under.'
went a final examination. hr addition' to what ap. •
peared in our Paper of, yesterday, Mra. Wilson,:,
Who was with difficulty conveyed to the Office,
gave 'her evidence relative to the affair. • Her face
presents a dreadfid, speetaele, and she could speak
but little. She, however, positively swore to' the
Prisoner, as being the man who opened the door,,
and knocked her down with . the crow bar The
Surgeon from Middlesex Hospital attended, but he
.was not enabled to alter his former assertion re.
spetling the fate of poor Chantry. The Prisoner
was fully, committed for trial, and the patties bound
over to prosecute. His accomplice has not yet been
heard of. ,
Saturday night, about seven o'clock, two despe.
rare fellows, armed with bludgeons, and wearing
round frocks, entered the house Of Wm. Austen,
'farmer, at Marsden, Kent, and 'after locking his
door,' they knocked him down, cut and, bruised him
very much about. the head and different parts of the
body—afterwards they threw down ,his sister and'
tied her hands behind her then opened afdrawer
in which they expefted 'to find -the ' key of .ano.
thee aboVe 'stairs, where Mr. Austen, generally
kept his money, but not finding the key, they
broke it open, and stole therefrom, one guinea
note, one seven shilling piece, rand .a dollar. Having
so far accomplished their purpose, 'they decamped
with their booty. . .
Saturday .morning a fire was discovered. in the
bar of ihe Green Dragon Publicrhouse at Dover,
which, by the timely assistance of the family, was
happily extinguished just in' time to 'prevent the
most fatal effeets. There were several lodgers in
the premises, one of them, who drives the morning
coach to Canterbury, having rose at three o'clock,
on, going down the atairsc encountered •so: -sun.
eating a vapour as to occasion him to let of box fall
&OM his arms he was carrying out,i which induced
hini immediately to alarm those in the- house. On
opening the bar door the wainscotting all round
bUrst into a flame, and the fire had communicated' to
the wainscotting in the toym adjoining. Theacci.;
dent was occasioned by a piece of wood in the chirp.:
ney, which had many ~years. been . concealed by
contracting the fireplace.
On the loth inst.. John Riley, of Norland, known
by the name of Hayseed jack, left his house,• and
not returning home at the expetted time,. diligent
search...A.3i made for hiM, when, on the Friday fol.

lowing, he was found.drowned in the river Calder,
at Stern 'Mill Bridge Fnd, near Halifax.
One,night last week two of the Second Warwick.
shire. Militia, on duty at ltidgmunt Camp, climbed
over the wills of one of the surtling,tents, the roof
of which had been taken off, and meeting • with
some bottles of spirits, drank so immoderately, that
one a them died on the spot, and the life of the
other was with.great`difliculty preserved.
Yesterday se'nnight a child was taken apparently
dead from a brick pond on Sheffield moor. The
funBions of life were suspended, and the body of
the child was resting ',senseless in the arms of an
aged giandmnther, who had herself ventured up to
the shoulders in the water to deliver,her grandchild,
when, providentially, .a Medical Gentleman passed
by at the moment, who ditetted, and himself used
prompt, pleasures for resuscitation. These happily
succeeded, anti the child was. safely' reitcoed to its
parents.. •
ihotiking accident .happened. on Saturday last,
at a stearri..ingine on Hollinwood, Lancashire. The
.engineer stilti caught by some part of the machinery,
and, dreadful to relate; was so torn and mangled in
rtrs'instant,, as hardly td bear any resemblance to the.
human foilif.--Azsihtilar accident, but happily not,
fatal, took place at Green aere Moor, neat Oldham,.
the a:rine:day.- I ,
On Sunday was. interred, at St. John's Church,
Manchester,' the beidy of Mr. James Oldham,. late
paviont of that town, who•was drowned about two

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Years ago. His remains were found in the river
near Iriam Green, in a very mutilated state, without
the head and one arm.