The Sun.
London, England, 1803-11-17 00:00:00

4DjOURNED SESSIONS, GUILDHALL.

TUESDAY last the Adjourned Sessions commenced
at Guildhall, before the RECORDER, SHRRIEFS, and
ALDERMEN, when William Williams was tried for
au Assault. _

• It appeared that the Defendant kept a Register.
Office for thehiring of servants, in Old. Bethlem ;
that the Prosecutrix having seen an adveitisecnent
in a daily paper, from this office, of a single gen.
tletnan's place, who wanted two servantsi and
.whose sister lived with him, thinking it might suit
her, made application to the office, when Williams
demanded 2s. 63. of her and gave her a direction
to Mr, Davenport, a respeelable silk-mannfaelurer,
near , Wood street ; do her application there, - she
was informed they were not in want of a see.
want, and found Mr. Davenport's situation to
be different from what Williams had repre-
sented it to her, he having
,a wife and family.
On the Prosecutrix discovering. it to have been
a fraud, she, in company with her sister, returned
to the office and demanded the half-crown back
. •
again, which was peremptOrtly'refused. On words
ensuing, the Defendant bolted the street.door, when
himself, assisted by his wife, severely ill-treated
the Prosecutrix and her sister, by beating them and
tearing their clothes, till their streams alarmed the
neighbourhood. The Jury found she Defendant—
Guiliy.
Mynas Marshave and Sarab his wife, were india.
ed for keeping a disorderly, house ; •as was jaw
Buedet, and Elizabeth his wife. Both houses arc in
Sil ver.street, St. Dunstan's. They were each found
Guilty, and sentenced to one month's imprisonment
in Giltspur-street Compter, and t 6 find sureties for
their good behaviour for twelve months.
ilppletrei, a butcher in Fleet.market,
was indicted by the Inquest of Farringdon Without,
for having exposed to sale about so lbs, weight of
meat unfit for.human food. The Defendant pleaded
guilty, and was sentenced to one month's imprison.
Mem in Giltspur.street.Compter, and botind over
for twelve months not to offend in like manner,
himself in 2001. and two others in tool. each.

The late LORD MAyo% condueled himself with
so much good sense and liberality during his pos.
session of the Chief Civic Dignity, that the thanks
)(' the Court of Aldermen cannot be Coniidered as
mere matter of form; but as the due tribute to offi.
cial and personal merit.
The eighteen.pnun carronades which are on board
the Deal Boats, which are prepared to repulse the
enemy, are so fixed on a swivel, tiftit they can be
brought to bear in 'a.ny'direetion-; while the guns
in tile French Boais can only bear in one dircc.
tion.

Upwards of scio casks of'butter have been washed
an shore in the neighbourhood of Padstow, supposed
to be part of a cargo of an Irish vessel, wrecked on
that Coast.

THE LATE METEOR.--. 4 letter from Southamp.
ton, of the 14. th says, " Yesterday evening, between
eight and nine o'clock, the inhabitants of this town
were much surprised it a grand and unusual appear.
ance of light in the element, about sixty ,:‘egrees
Awe the horizon, in the W. S. W. quarter, which.
illuminated the buildings, &c. in its passage upon
the opposite point of the compass. it was not vi.
sible mare 'than eighteen or twenty second` ; the
night was fine, the hemisphere clear and starry,
with a moderate breeze from the Westward : the
streets were in general pretty much crowded : the
evening service at the different churches, &c. having
concluded but a short time before this passing tnestor
was discovered."

Between eight and nine o'clock on Sunday night,
the same ball of fire appeared over Lewes, which,
for several soconds, illuminated the hemisphere in
an extraordinary. manner; A person returning from
Brighton, on the roof of a coach, asserts, the light.
was so strong, that it enabled him to see, not only
the cattle and sheep in the distant meadows, but
also the shipping at sea. Its bursting wAs felt at
several houits, which it anually shook, and so
alarmed their inhabitants, that they started from
their scats; ' as if in fear of being overwhelmed
with destruftion. ,

The amateurs of boxing were yesterday morning
gratified by a long and hard.fought battle, in a
field nearVatchet, between Samuel 'OW, a barge.
man, and a Grenadier of the Staffordshire Militia.
They fought for no more than a guinea a side, but
Many bets were made by the spectators during the
fight, which lasted upwards .of two hours and 'a
quarter, when the Grenadier gave it in. Gill was
before known as .a prizefighter.
On inquiry, toe find (Nat it was not with the
Duke de BERRI, but with one, of his•domestics,
that the deceased Mr. Sinious was fencing, at the
time of his sudden death. .On the first parry, the
deceased clapped his hand to his 'right breast, and ex.
claimed, " My Gon, I am. no more ;" instantly the
foil fell from his hand. fle was caught in the 'arms
of a Gentleman, who,was present, and expired in a
few minutes. The Coronet's Inquest was sum.
moned on .Friday before GEORGE
_HODGSON. El.
Coroner fur the Courtly; and after a minute irives.
ligation, returned their Verdict, Died by the riti.
tatiou ofCead., Mr,, SimoNs was a respettable hat-
ter in Vere.street, Oxfoid.xoad.