The Sun.
London, England, 1804-06-16 00:00:00

nrj4LIN, JUNE

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MONDAY ae'nnig tr, . a ,Naval Officer behaved
with very.gyeat gallantry, on Drumcondrapiad,J,thi
unfortunately has Leen most ieverlywotincltii.`,-11iiipp.
of the: country Yeoiiianty, iteir.
aftee.the Review iipitn that.alay, to-OTCaTngle;
Shortly, after were insulted by the drive Alid Itther
ruffians; a scuffle ensued; when the yeomen
,were
overpowered by numberS, and a halbe.tin4'eiZ.:!cl
from one of them. The Naval Officer,
man of the Eliza and lane, coining Up, took part
vith the yer,men, svi, reUpon he was attacked by one
of the-desPeradoes with 'the halbert, who cut him
most desperately with it in the side Of the head,
notwithstanding Which, and having but a very
small 'Sword for 'his defence, such as is worn-by
Sea Officers, he bravely sueteeded in' Vanquishing
the ruffians, who wniild have tiksm his
most part of the drivers of jingles are viciatiyuf.:
sans, who have been insurgents in town and critii:r.'„
and take every opportunity Of insulting and abusing
thoe who are distinguished as loyal subjeas.
unfortunate accident happened on Satur,
day night llst, in Brid:.-vreet. A b.,3: snapped,
pistol at .x)other, the son of a respeeiah:c citizen irx
that street ; it went eft; my kiloAr, to he loaded;
and killed the unfortunate ciiilcl. I7r.umerabie betve
lxeen,4vch.ii.ccideots,
.yet
„Koplewkil not take can,
lion to put. fire-atas ottt .of,: the .way of the giddy
and inadvertent..

The post-boy conveying the mail from 'Castle_
Blakeney to Tuttn, was stopped on Wednesday,
evening by two men armed s.vith sticks, who robbed'
him of thirtil,- 'containing. the bagli of letterS, for
the followitig post towns,
:viz. Baliina, Balinrubei
gallyvary, Castlebar; Doom :rei. Dcel Castleoarctst.i
ford, Holly mount,lalla, Newport Pratt-,::Shin..
ford, Tuam, and Westport.

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Died yesterday'=at Hampstead,aFoßdi. Npit.
Esq.'Of the Royal NAJ:, in the.4.B'th year his
age.

A Naval .officer,. of a Noble family, having
struck his superior in thl.unfort-tittate fray, w:i; sen_
tenced. to de.ath'on Thursday last, at ; bo's
he is so strongly:recommended to mercy., that tiers
is great reason to hope he, will be pardoped, and re.:
stored io the Set vice.. We fothear,to mention his
name, ,frotn.rriotives of resped,:and delicacy towilt:4.s
his family, particularly as . the., whole, was, a hastr
business of 'passion, which sometimes over-iu:es the
most amiable and honJqrable

Old 0 ---- affords a very: entertaining 6pe&Acle
every day in Piccadilly. Every j;7.la/e ptissenvi.
attrattlS' hiS attention as 'much as it he we're in the
prime of youth ; but the worst Of the buiineSs is)
that they are exposed to the ctvaggiih comments of
his impudent French toadeater, •

The P6i.fi was once i potent Charaffer in Rome,
but he is now merely a subMi'siiee tool of
Indeed it may said chat a second POPE 'JOAN t
sent governs the iMmOrtal city, in the person of
the PRINCESS, BORGHESE.
It
has been said that Citizen HOLCROFT had!een
improved in his political notions by his excursions
-nn the Continent. The following ex:.rata from his
Trayels will .SlieWt what kind of imprmement he ha's
made. Speaking of some of the hideous effeffi of
the French Revolnion he says :—" What warring
sensation did the sight of it inspire ! What is it,P).or
volution?' And what has this .Rev,lutiOn effeatdl
The mass of evil, 4nti the nrqss'af good, .put to oil.
posite scales--which shall prepouderase solmoy
declare, in the face of mankind,,my heart aches.w ith
a sense of past. Miseries,- though I ardently hope, nayl,
am seriously convinced; the good prevails." A man
who can' review the bloody progress of the Revolo.,
tiOn, and the total frustration of its declared
pose, the Freedom of the People, who are kept in the
bitterest thraldom by military tyranny, must he in.
corrigibly hardened ,by jikObiniSal or blinded by
s-upidity. . . , •

iYester*day a person, dieSsed in black, inquired
at the Secretaty of State's Office fir Lord HAwK 11
BURT,' and being told t he could not see him without
sending.irthis mint, he iminediatelyrushedthrough
the apartments into the room where hii Lordship
was sirtin.l, at the time,'and who had much difficulty
in getting rid of him. •He was not,. however, or-
dered into custody. Before he left' the Office he was
recognized to be the person, xyho had so lately an-
tt.iyed Mrs. St DDONS and several other persons..

A grand match of Cricket was played at Ho-
merton on Tuesday last, and following days, be-
tween eleven N )blemen .and Gentlemen of the
Marty-le-bone Club, against ten Gentlemen of the
Humerton Club, with Beldam, for five hundred
guineas a-side, which was won by the Mary-le.
bone Club by 21 runs.

Tuesday*rning a horse, Is hands and a half
high, having got out, of his stable at the Black Horse
Inn, in the Lower Street of Deal, made its way into
the passage of the house, and from thence into a
front room, in which was a window with the sash
thrown up, through which he sprang into the street,
notwith,tanding the aperture was only two feet six
inches high, and two feet eight inches wide.
On Tuesday last, as a Soldier of the Surrey Miii..
tia WAS digging chalk in Dover Heights, a part of the
bank gave way, and falling upon him, broke both his
thighs, and otherwise bruised him, so as to cause
his instant death. On the same day, the wife of
ope of the Privates of the same Regiment, having
'occasion .to go to. rmrket, left an infant sleeping
try a' lltu in The tear of the camp, which during her
absence unfortunately caught fire, twhen in the en..
deavoun'to extinguish the flames the top was forced
in, and the little innoctni unfortunately smothered.
On Sunday evening, a 'boy about eight years of
age, named HAD DOC telt into a leek on the Faze..
ley Canal, near the jumtlion Wharf. His elder
brother, who is only tw;:lvE years of age, and has
a wooden leg, imrrittliit!ly jumped in after him,
and supported him till tllty -were both taken out.—
The youngest was appal-0.4) lifeless when rescued
from his perilous situationOtr!.4 the mean's recom-
mended by the Humane 50e,...S in cases o'f sUsperia-
ed animation, being perscr:::.3 in for near an hour,
by Mr. WAT-SON, wa.4-I..;:covtred, and
restored to his par,:mte;_