The Sun.
London, England, 1803-02-07 00:00:00

MARLBOROUGH-VREET.

Comatteettoti AMONGST JOURNEYMEN OUR* ERS.
ON Saturday JAI% Davis and William Perplex,
two Journeymen Curriers, were put to the bar,
charged under the Ad of Parliament, by which Ma-
gistrates are empowered to punish persons convieled
of such offences with imprisonment, not exceeding
three months.
Mr. Ktrow eye attended as Counsel for the Mas-
ters, and opened the case, to .the Magistrates, by
remarking in strong terms, upon the (Unger which,
in a Commercial and trading Country like, this,
must ever attend the unlawful assembling of work-
men in any branch of .manufacture or trade,
for the express purpOse 'of. striking, if their de-
mands were not coMplied with. By such con_
duet on,the part of the workmen, the course of
the business may be changed from the Capital to some
provincial town, or even to the Continent; the capi.
tal embarked by a number of useful manufaCturtre
destroyed; and, in the end, the very men themselves,
who'thus destroy a brands of the trade of the Coun-
try, be thrown out of employmerit, and become bur.
thens upon the Public.
Several Master Curriers proved the existence of
* Combination, which had continued for three
months, during which time none of the Masters,
but such as chose to come into the articles ,of
price regularly printed and sent round from the
Committee of. Journeymen, could get any hands to
work for them. These Gentlemen however agreed,
cm being cross-examined by Mr.Cottsr, who attend.
ed as Counsel for the Defendants, that it was the opi.
rtion of the major part of the Masters, that a rise of the
Journeymen's wages was necessary, and that at the
meeting it was understood no advantage whatever
should be taken of them, as they wished to coiled
theseneral opinion of the. Trade. 'The difference
between the price agreed upon by the Masters and
that asked for by the Journeymen, was very trifling.
Mr. WAKE, one of the oldest Masters in the trade,
en being ealled upon, gave it as his opinion, that the-,
men had been taken a very unfair, advantage of. He
was one of the managing men of the Masters' Corn.
•mittee, and as such met the journeymen both at
Curriers' Hall and at his own house. The conduct
of the men at those times was uniformly conciliating
and hunible. There had not been any rise in -their
WWII since I 792. At the tittle they met to present
their list of prices, ,when the two Defendants were
leading men, be knew ii was intimated that noaclvan_
rage should be taken ; and the Defendants in Partial-
lar were requested by letter from the Masters to col.
leg the sentiments of the Journeymen in general, in
order that the priCes fixed upon at that time might
be the general regulation of the whole trade. He,
'in hopes to heal the breach, proposed an alteration,
Which in fad was much in favour of the Masters,
and which was gladly accepted by the meio
Mr. GONST said, it was his wish an accommo..
datiOil between the masters and men should upon
this occasion have been brought about, as he bad
no idea that the masters meant to press a convietion
upon .the'Defendants.
The Magistrates observed, that, feeling the ca.
fOrce, of the danger with which such Combinations
were fraught, it was their duty, under the Ad by
which these men had been brought before them, to
award altunishment, to which, however, the Law
gave' the privilege of appeal uo the Court of Quarter
es4on. In consideration of the-moderate conduel
of the Defendants upon this occasion, the punish-
nient would ,be as lenient as, from the natnre of the t
offence, impossibly could be. The Journeymen were
sentenced to be imprisoned seven days.
The young man of the name of Woodford, who
was a few days ago examined On suspicion of hay'.
ing improperly disposed of a horse, which ,he had
hired from the stable, of 'Mr. Jenkins, 'in Bryan.'
stone-street, was, on Friday brought up, when, from
the testimony 'of a Gentleman who found the 'horse.
astray in Park.lane, it Appearing the story Wood-
ford had first told, of his havieg.beendrunk, and
not knowing ,where or how he had lost the horse,
was true, be was discharged. •

Thlo-flouring singular circumstance is recorded
as alift In the Bath Herald of Saturday : " Last
week a porter took a heavy sack to the door of a
lady at Clifton, demanded half a crown for the
carriage, and delivered a letter to the servant, re.
questing it might be immediately given to the lady,
but on the servant returning, the messenger had de.
camped, and left the sack behind him. On examining
its contents, to their great astonishment they found
upward, of 400 guineas. It appears that during the
late Rebellion in Ireland, the mansion of the Lady
had been plundered to a very considerable amount,
and by the letter it appeared that this was part of
the cpoil, which some punailios of conscience had
caused to be restored to the owner; the letter also
contained a promise that measures should be taken
to rege,n as much as possible of the remaining pro.
perry, and which should as faithfully be re.
stored. The son of. the Lady is a Colonel in the
Army."

On Tuesday afternoon, a young woman, who is
a servant in Bury-street, St. James's, went in at
the private,door, opening out from Piccadilly into
the Green Park, with a design to drown herself in
the pond; but owing to its being frozen over, and a
pumber of boys present, she withdrew, very much
agitated, and eat behind the door leading into the
Park, where, with a pen-knife, she attempted to
cut her throat. She was, however, followed by a
man-servant in the same family, who suspefted her
design, and reached her time enough to wrench the
knife from her hand. The poor unfortunate crew.
ture sobbed out, " Don't hinder met Don't hinder
me for lam to kst i,, love Mat I cannot lvvf 1"--,
Jam, however, proposed to give her ease, by pro.
reeding with her next day to church. The girl
gave her consent, to be revenged of her faithless
lover; when the happy pair retired, singing gi llly
Pall and my Partner
..lot I"

14WArC 4.

KINGSTON, NOV. ±9.

PTIVIStIAy evening last, a negro man stave named
Ajax, the property of Mr. Peter Duffus, who a few
weeks past murdered two of his master's negroes
and absconded, was apprehended at the bottom of
the Long Mountain liy a party sent out for that
purpose. He was the next day lodged at the Guard.
House, and on- Saturday ,taken before the sitting
magistrates, a►id fully Committed to the gaol of. this
city to await his trial.

Saturday last Captain Trood was committed to
gaol by the sitting' magistrates, on a charge of
having struck on board his vesael, on the evening
before, with a handspike, a negro man, who fell
overboard, and is supposed to be drowned.
Dtzo.-,—ln Spanish• Town, on the z7th instant,
after: a short illness, Mr. Thomas Briscoe, mer.
chant, of the house of fiance, Briscoe, & Co. of this
town.-•-At Port-Henderson, Mr. Robert Romanus.

A farmer and dealer in hogs, named Henegan,
who resides in the County of Kildare, was stopped
on Thursitty, at noon, at Cherryfield-hill (so cele.
braced for Mail.robberies), by a person dressed like
a sailor, who presenting a case olpistols, took from
him half a guinea in silver. ,Hcrtegan, however,
saying that this was all the money he had, the other
returned to him ZS. and offered to accompany him
part of the way towards Dublin, whither, h,: said,
he was going, to prom& him. from furth,l attacks.
This being declined, they patted ; the robber tak.
ing the road to Monastereven, and Henegan struck
iv«) the fields, keeping the robber in view. In a
little time he met a person whom he dispatched to
Mr. Cassidy, a magistrate at Monastereven
with some of his people armed, joined Henegan, and
overtook the robber, who, finding he was pursued,
took shelter in a bog. Here they surrounded him.
He declared be. would nut surrender his arms but
with his life, upon which he was fired at with shot.
This he laughed at, and persisted in saying he
would shoot the first man:that approached. Some
balls wete fired at him, one of which broke his right
ann.,. when the pistol falling, he took it up with
the greatest ,composure, still calling to. his assailants
to approach. Other balls (af►er Isis having again
been ineffectually called upon to surrender), broke
• his thigh, when he fell ; but instantly contriving to
sit, he snapped one of the pistols at the persons who
rushed on him, and expired.
In his pockets were found a tiowder.horn and
ammunition, and some papers, by which it' appeared
that his name was Lawlor, a native of Stradbally,
in the Queen's County, and lately discharged from
the Navy, in which he had served for eight years.
His body, which .indicated uncommon strength,
Was conveyed on a car to Monasterevenovhere, it
appears, he had been for two days, associating with
men of must obnoxious charaders.—The same 9dive.
Magistrate has since examined hottses which the
deceased was said to frequent, in the chimnies of
which lie found concealed a French, and some' other
muskets.