The Sun.
London, England, 1804-03-31 00:00:00

DUTY ON PROPERTY.

TN consequence of an Older of the Horse of
Coma-tons, " An account of Ole number of
distliCts from which Asie.Aments, made by virtue
of the ACI imposing a Duty on Pioperry, have
been returred to the Office for
,Tages,• stating the
ton!! ;um assessed ;" als.6, for "An Account of the
number of,:iscr;ds from which no such Assessments
have been returned to the said 'Office ;"—The
Com Missioners state, that the AEA having passed.
so late as the rith of August, and it being the be..,
ginning of November before it was generally begun'
to be carried into execution, they do not expeCt the
transmission of the gross Assessments until the end
of next month.

But, in order to afford them the best evidence
that can be obtained at present, of, the probable
produce of that Tax, as well as to enable them to
judge of the progress made from time to time in
the execution, they have required the Surveyors to
transmir the amount of the gross estimates of the
profits, as returned by the Assessors and the parties,
and the dedudiuns then allowed, and the probable
period when the Colledors of the Duty would be
appointed. From the returns of tr 5 Surveyors,
the probable produce of the duty in their tespedive
distrias (subjett to variations from surcharges and
claims of txemptions, and abatements and other
causes of appeal) will amount to 1,626,0001.

The amount of assessments under the Income Aa,
in the same distritts, in the year 1801 (exclusive of
assessments under Commercial Commissioners) was
1,597,3001.
The stims accounted for by Bank Certificates de.
livered at the Commissioners' Office, on the Duty
on Dividends without assessment, for one half year,
amounted, on the zest inst. to 93,i001.

Arid the amount assessed in 35 departments of
Office, as returned to :us, amounts to 146,9001.
The number of Surveyors who have not returned
accounts of the probable produce of gross assess-
ments, is 169.

, FATAL INDISCRETION.—The Chief of Battalion,
TAuvERNAy, arrived lately from St. Domingo, at
Paris. He had been absent fifteen months, and
was, before his departure, betrothed to a Mademoi-
selle DE VERNOIS. At his return, he hastened to
see his-mistress, and pressed her to fix the day of
their marriage. The Sunday following was agreed
on ; and his sister was informed of the day that
3fiou'lmake him happy. In one of those unguarded
moments, when even the most prudent may err,
Miss Til/4PRRNAY determined to tty her brother's
love, by giving him reason to he jealous of his mis-
tress. She told him, that, as an affedionate sister,
She was sorry to see him so much attached toalady,
who did not return his love ; and, to convince him,
she asked him the next day to be in the Bois tie
Boulogne, not far from La Bagatelle, and, at five
o'clock in the afternoon, he would undoubtedly find
/Vlademoiselle DE VERNOIS in her usual evening's
walk, accompanied with her usual evening's compa-
nion. With an anxiety of mind easily to be ima.
gined, he arrived at the fatal spot, where he had not
been long before he saw his mistress not only arm
and arm with a genteel young man, but caressing
him in a manner that would have bewildered an
imagination less heated than his own. No sooner
had his mistress and her companion passed his place
of concealment, than he rushed forward, and shot'
them both through the head. But what was his
surprise, after this desperate ad, to find the sup.
posed youth whom he had murdered as a rival, was
his own sister. He drew his sword and stabbed
himself to the heart as a punishment for his jealousy
and his crime. In his pocket was found a letter ad.
dressed to his sister, thanking her for her inform.
Lion, and bequeathing her all his property. TAU.
vtRNAY WAS 27 years of age, Miss TAUVERNAY
al, and Mademoiselle DE VERNOIS 19.

. .
_;Lately ; the remains of the largest person ever
known in Ireland, at least since the days of PHI L
MACOUL, the famous Irish giant, were interred in
the church-yard of Roseunallis, in the Queen's
county. The coffin, with its contents, weighed
fifty-two stone, which amounts exaaly to six hun-
dred. It was borne on a very long bier,, by thirty
strong men, who were relieved at intervals. The
name of this extraordinary person is said to have
been ROGER I3YRNE, who lived at or near Burros,
jn Ossory, and is reported to have died of no other
disease, but a suff.cation, occasioned by an extre-
mity of fat that stopped the play of the lungs, and
pia a period to hii life, in the 54511 year of his age.
Ile was thirteen, stone heavier than the noted
BRIGHT, of MAldon, whose waistcoat inclosed
seven large men.— Bvs.mt was a married man, and
it is remarkable his widow is a very small woman,
by whom he has left four boys.

On Wednesday se'nnight, in consequence of an
information, the Mayor of Hull, attended by some
other gentlemen, went to a public-house in that
towns where nearly two hundred persons, mostly
young men and women, were assembled to witness
the exhibition of private, theatricals, in which seve-
ral apprentices, merchants' clerks, Ste. were the
performers. The play was suffered to go on for a
short time, until the aEt ended, when the Mayor
interfered, and obliged the company to take down
the scenes and decamp, under the penalty of being
sent to the House of Correaion.

PUGILISM.--On Monday afternoon a desperate
battle was fought on Bow Common, between David
Pigeon, a Jew, a dealer- in lemons, and a Horse-
dealer, known by the name of Squinting Bob, for
ten guineas a side, in consequence of a dispute which
originated concerning a young woman to whom they
'both paid their addresses. The battle lasted for
one hour and twenty-one minutes, hard fighting, in
which there were forty knock.down blows, when
vietory was declared in favour of Squinting "Bob.
They were both very much beaten. The Jew was
_taken home by his friends in a coach, with very
little hopes of recovery,

NORFOLK ASSIZES.

B IDWELL 'V. BAKER.

THzr parties to this attion are farmers at Croxton,
in this county, and the Plaintiff is also the owner of
a commonable tenement. The Defendant having in -
right of the farm he occupied turned sheep on the
common of that parish called Croxton Severals, at
all times of the year, and • the Plaintiff having in-
sisted that the Defendant's right to feed his sheep on
the common was restriEted to the winter half year
from Michaelmas to Lady.day, according to custom,
this ACtion was brought cocoa-ye! the Defendant to
conform to that custom; hut the Plaintiff failing in
establishing his case, and it appearing that the
Defendant .had used his right for twenty years, the
Jury, under .the direCtion of his Lordship, found a
veldiCt for the. Defendant, which establishes his claim
to a whole year right of common.

HOWARD V. GEORGE BARBER.

The Plaintiff in this cause was Shepherd to the
Defendant, who is a Farmer at Stanninghall, near
Norwich, anti he brought this Aftion to recover da-
mages for a violent assault on his wife, and for tak-
ing the door and windows out of his housse. From
the pleadings in this cause, it might have been pre.
sumed that the Defendant had been guilty of some
very heinous offence towards the Plaintiff's wife, but
it turned out a mere Welch Ejeament. The De.
fendant, who is the owner of the Plaintiff's cottage,
went to take possession of it, and proceeded in a
manner not allowed by the Laws of this Country :
viz. by taking the door off' the hinges, and the win.
dows out of the casements, but which were quietly
replaced by the Defendant's wife, in their proper
situations; the assault on the woman could not be
proved; but the Defendant not being able to justify
his conduti, in taking off the door and windows,
and the trespass being proved, the Jury found a
verdiet for the Plaintiff, with 403. damages.