The Sun.
London, England, 1804-09-20 00:00:00

CARLISLE, SEPT. 15.

Nre,tet day the workmen employed in taking down
the Cit.:id:A di,c,:vered a masity stone, lying in a ho.
tiznotal posiiion, which by some accident had been
Split into three pieces, two of which only remained
on the spot the central, and prnbably the most'
interesting rat of this monumental stone bring
wanting, we are precluded from giving an entire,
,descriptions the two outer fragments comprising
only a few scattered words, made up of RomAn and
Saxon chArafters, some of which arc nearly oblite.
tared. On the side of a coat .of arms bearing three
doves, is chisseled out, on the main entiod,
figure of a warrior, clod in complete -armour.

ers have been found unusually numerous in
the corn fields of Sussex during the present harvest :
a few days since a your woman received -alike
on the ancle fritin one Of these. reptiles, while labour.
ing in a barley field, at Reeding, and, notwithstatt&
ing NulgiCal a.,,istanCe Was obtained for her as soon
as porsible, site died
.in consequence of the wound
MI the second ,ay alterwards.—Another young
ts-,,man was bitten by a viper, about the same time,
at Wtston, on one of her fibgers. •
There are now living in liaddington,; who are
yespeiflable butchers in that place, two brothers of
.the'name of Nisbet,, viz. Francis and-Altxander ;
there is such a prevailing. likeness between Oise
men, that it requires the nicest eye, and a length of
intitn icy, to draw a distindion,. The one is so
. complete a: model of the other, that they arc known
' individo illy only by a 'few.- A Gentleman, who
has lived in Haddington several years, has had Ire.
qu-nt intercourse with these men in she way of bu.
finess,• but he never could discover any dissimili.
tulle whereby they could
.be knower,
A mininy has lately, taken place among
the girls in tl.e Ro} al,: which has caused
mu( h aniutement to .our Bulands or Cockneys. The
.Ftcitt't of the Police being informed of the indecency
.at the dress, or rather the nakedness of the onion.,
tunate women who_ inhabit this aery cif pros I itut juil
and debauchery, by , a regulatidit,posted up iii the
Palais Royal, ordered every woman t,5116 did nut
dress in.a manner, to he taker, up and sent to
hr S dpetriere, the li use correction for prostitutes.
The, night atter the amateurs Junked in, vain for lair
companions in this Palais--theyinol rm,grat,d,
ano naturae, upon the Bottle.:
amid -ill • (Iv: is of St. I funore, La LOl,
Vit terms, and Croix Petits Champ,. As a punish.•
Inevz fur this ir::4A try spirit s,irie,of them were
p, and carried ro the Pretcdure of Police,
7,111 is alarmed the others, but did, not convert them
to stria obedience!, because they. went •from one cx.
-tremity to the Whet. lrib tem] of being almost naked,
they invented a kind of dress called a sack, (not of
repOtance) winch hung down so low as to cover
their toes and their heels ; while it was rief.hup to
the chin' with a capuchin over the head, which left
Anthing visible but one eye, half a nose', and half a
mouth. In thlckind of masquerodedress the Police
permitted them to continue as lung as they liked;
• but observing, no doubt, by the decrease of cus.
tamers, that 'few would be caught in their sacks,
they !mei by degrees, returned,. and assumed the
dress of our modest women ; which, by the bye, is
not very modest.—jourvi des SpeThelet. .
On T..esday morning a butcher i,t. Whitechapel,
for a wager of seventeen guineas, -being all he,hati,
engaged to go sixty miles, in twelve hours, on-foot,
He started from •Whitechapel turnpike, went thirty
miles and back again to the starting place ;-he per,
formed the journey n three quarters of an hour less
than the time. allowed ; several hundreds of pounds'
were spotted on, the occasion.
• A Porter to a Merchant ,in the City was yester.'
day brought before the LORD MAYOR, charged
. with robbing his Master's warehOUSe.. Part of the
property being found, the Pristiner cOnfessed
crime; but as it is supposed there were otheis
concerned, he was remanded.- for tardier exatnina.
tion.
Joseph Isaac; was charged with picking the
pocket of a, Foreign Captain, near the Royal Ex.
change, of his pocket book, and was committed to'
Brideweil for hard labour.
The following-curimis elvarge was giVen by a wo.
man of the'namo of Moore, against an Irishman of
the name of Donahugh, at the watch house in Cow.
cross, vulgarly 'called the .Mansion.house, and en-
tered in the Constable's books.:-'—" Mau Moore'
_ charges Donabugh with tearinir one her quind,pipe,
stamping her 46noelt oat, and ithervist threatening
her life."