The Sun.
London, England, 1804-12-11 00:00:00

J'L.& RTERS.

Pow-Srßtyr..—lt having been represented to
Sir Rtctrikao FORD, that a great number of De-
serters front different Regiments were supposed. -to
he concealed and harboured in Sr, Giles's,- Kell_
mill Buildings, Barrett's Court, Oxford-street, &c.
St:arch.warrants were issued by that Magi,trate,
which Were put in execution early yesterpy morn.
ing by a large party of the Bow-street Patrole, who
aPp•iebincied uPi'liArds of one hundred men, mostly
Irish, and who were yesterday examined before Sir
R. FORD and Mr:Rout:4,mq. About 43 of them
Were identified as beserters, and committed to the
Savoy accordingly.
• The same search was mode with the same effect
at the Eastern part of the Metropolis. •
At lour o'CloCk yesterday morning Capt. ittctt.
ARD H. SHAW, of die 23d Regiment (ii Foot, with
a numerous prty of Police Officers, apprehended
upwards of. zoo men in various parts of London,-
against•whom informations were lodged as being De.
serteis from His 114.tjesty's Servire Between so
and 6o of the above were identified,

The Priaoners charged with extorting money
&sift Gentlemen under a charge of .unnatural prac_
tires, Underwent• a long private ,examiination at
s,)w.street, and were-remanded.

Saturday - se'nnight, whilst 'two children were
playiniby the fire, in a houselri the High.street,
Glasgow, in the absence of tlte mother, 'lig clothes
cf. one of them 'caught fire, - by *which it was so
dreadfully scorched that it died op,Mondax.morn.
ing.
Tuesdly a young man (J. Morgan)
,employed in
Mr. Worsity's sugar.hous:•, Bristol, fell from the
top to the ground, a very great height, by Which he
had his right arm frai!tured, besides much internal
injury; he was immediately taken to the Bristol
Infirmary, Where hecontinued-insensible, anti. died
on Friday.
Saturday' se'nnight a litde boy, ahnut eight or
nine years of age, in Dublin, who staid out playing
with his cani.anions all day, and was afraid to
meet a severe chastisement 4°111114 parents, retired
to the lime-kiln in King.street, Stopheit'soreen,
where lie lay down to pass the night, ,k4'.13 found
the'next day burned in a shocking manner,
About twelve o'clock yesterday ie'intight, Mary
Shearer, the wife of a blacksmith living, without
the Westgate, Newcastle, who, had been tleanged in
her mind for some time past, supposed: through the
cathe of a too studious application toylethodibm,
violently cut her throat. An Inquest was field on
her body the following day— Lunacy.Verdtet,'
• On Tuesday night, as .a young. man, mate of a
Scotch vessel lying in Sunderland harbour, spas go.
ing ashore, he fell overboard, and .was
His body was found on Wednesday:. .
Friday, at the Admiral. Duncan public-house,
Oldham-street, .Manehester, a man) on being.' re,
cognized as a deserter, drew a knife -from liis
rocket, and, in the- phrenay. of ,c)askrair, cut.
throat in a dreadful manner, but not so Oil:dually
as to terminate-his existence. lie wa*,etinvey'eti to
the Infirmary, and hopes are entertained of his re.
covery.

Laic. Tuesday, about noon,. George Hall, of
Ritigehill Lanes, near Ashton, Lancashire,' was
fountthangiAg in his own boast. ; he hart been see.ii
At his- work. in the house a shot t time pie vious Sc) his
comtnitting the rash affion, the cause•of Which is
not yet known.
A melancholy accident happened near Lancaster,
between twelve and one o'clock on Wednesday
morning last :.7-As Mr. Simon Myerscough, 01
Oxcliff Hall, Was returning home with his neigh.
bour, Mr. Richard Gardner, from, Heaton, having
been collettipg small tythes the day 'preceding, on
crossing the bridge at irown.cod Pool, he fell over
the battlements into the rivet, the tide being at, that
time rising. Mr. Gardner, who wag walking a
few yards before him, .with a lanthurn, immediately
jumped in, and after some time spec►.t ~iptirecluJny
to find him, he alarmed the neighbourhood, and on
search tieing made, the bt.ctly, was token out of the
pool about three o,'clock, It. is
,sopposed that his
death was ,chiciiy occasioned by .his
,falling on his
side upon a stake in the water.—Coronces Verdift,
Accidental Dead).
Some disturbance took .plsce atVpritington, on
Monday se'nnight, relative to. the
,shipping of a
quantity of potatoes ; inconsequence of which two
of the must aetive persons (a man and i.woman)
have been sommitteti to take their trials at, thenext
Assizes at Carlisle..
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An Engineer has discovered a safe and simple
method fur blasting rocks with gunpowder : the
usual process, after drilling a hole and charging it
with powder, is, ro introduce a wire, or small iron
o radn preserve comsnUnication with the lute, and
then to ram up the remainder of the hole with pul_
verized stone ; after which the wile is withdrawn,
and the priming applied. The operation is tedious,,
da'ngerous, and often ineffedual, from the priming-
holt- becoming übstru4lett on drawing out the wire.
Instead of this, when ..the hole is drilled, hall the
quantity df powder intended to be used is put .in,
a straw filled with fine powder is then put down, and
the remainder of the charge is then introduced, so
that it ;nay take fire in the middle ; the hole is then
filled up with loose 6014 A knotty piece of oak,
of ao inches in diameter, was thus split, by boring
a hole One inch and a. half ih diameter and twelve
inches deep, and putting in .two inches of powder,
cnvered by three inches, of sand _t less powder will
do in this moth than by the. old one, with &miter
circa and less trouble.

It is a citrious circumstance, that the prier of
dollars hai- risen 3d. per ounce since the seizure of
the Spanish Plate Ships, and that they are expeCted
to be still higher. This phenomenon arises from
the, bullion market being Wholly exhaustediandoihe
. i probability of its-remaining so some time, from the
suspension of the usual private remittances from

Spain, until the.prize dollars, now under adjudica.
tion, are thrown into circulation.

A handsoine and convenient Hospital is, Amin to
be erected, for'
.the convenience of the Garrison at

Falmouth. , It it to stand Without the lines, neat
the atta.shote.