The Sun.
London, England, 1803-04-07 00:00:00

Poor, gi. COUTEN.

This was a questiorf °flaw, to prove, by the: de.
eision Of the Court, if the Defendant in thi4 cause
could be -legally compelled to give up. the profits
arising from, bis Vicarage, after having become in-
solvent.. It was an Adion brought to recover the
sum of ;Sol. for a regular agreement that had been
made between the parties. The Defendant was
a Clergyman, and had been put into the possession
of the Vicarage of Hearn.hill, Kent, by the Plain.
tiff; on condition of paying a yearly moiety of the
tythes arising from the living. This engagement
ha ii been negleded until the sum came to 1801,
The Plaintiff' brunght his action to obtain the same;
it was tried' by a Special Jury, and decided by a
Special Verdict.
Lord AtArArit.ev
,cited several cases, where it
appeared thaftlie Common Law did nokimmediate.
ly apply to the Clergy, and that tbtir possessions
could not be subjed to it, without application
being first made to the Bishop under whose juris.
diction such Clergyman Was living. It appeared
that the Defendant, when. be entered into the
agreement with the• Plaintiff to surrender a part
of. his tythes, was not disposing of his own. pro-
perty, .but. assigning the possessions of his living,
a tran66tion he was not warranted 'in doing ; it
was therefore adjudged that the present action had
been irregular.
Judgment was ' therefore given in favoug of the
Defendant.

PUBLIC-OFFICE. MARLBOROUGH .STRIST..---
On Tuesday one of those dashing fellows who infest
the neighbourhood of St. James's-ktreet and Bond-
street, was charged before the Sitting' Magistrate
with having committed a violent assault upon a
young Lady, not snore than 4 years of age, in St:
James's-street, the preceding evening. This young
Lady was walking down St. James's-street about
eight o'clock, attended by her footman, when the
Prisoner accosted her in a very indecent mortar,
and the footman coming to the assistance of his
mistress, was, knocked down. He was, however,
seized and taken to the watch-house. The Prisoner
acknowledged his fault, and wished to ask pardon
of the young Lady. Her father, however, said he
was determined to. prosecute NOR for the sake of
example, as the insolence of many of these dashing

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fellows Was not to be en4red ; virtubits woman
not being able to lass' through the streets from fear
of attack. The Magistrate ordered hiin to find
bait, and he was lockedup.
Some days ago the body of George Richardson,
foreman to Mr. Whir, a reputable traLicsmAn of
Westminster, was found floating at Chelsea. He
had been missing ever since the beginning of Fe-
bruary. He bore a good charafter,- and was much
respeded, particularly pY his employer.—What led
to the knowledge of his 'perion was an-inscription
on a pair of speaacles, -" The gift of Mr. White to
George.RichardiOn." On the morning of his ab-
sconding, he sent between twenty and thirty pounds
(money he had colleeted) p4cked up as a mall par-
cel, and direded .thus To Mr. White, from
George Richarclson.';—He WaS 'repeatedly adver-
tised, and a reward offered by Mr. White, without
success. He has left a wife and family in fair cir-
cumstances, she having a business independent of
her husband's. This is a proof that it was not any
thing of a pecuniary nature Olt forced him to this
itreadful alternative. ,

A very alarming accident happenedArGalemire,
near-Whitehaven, .on Sunday morning.—tlie wife
of a farmer therd, whose name is Coekbane, having
riseri,:. and proceeded to make the fire, (not getting
it to kindle so quickly as she wished) took a bottle,
in „which was tt pound - and a half of gunpowder,
and.,shook a few grains of it, upon the cinders ; the
sparks, from whence -immediately Os 'it. is supposed)
communicating with the bottle, occasioned a dread.
ful explosion, which blew out. every window in the
house (six iu number)7burst the door and partition
between two upper-rooms; and shook the roof.--
The husband and-four. children.were in bed; and
the latter were got out just in time to prevent suf.
location. The ,potir Woman is dreadfully burnt,
but riot dangerously. The escape from a;fatal in.
jury, is, under every circumstance, truly astonishing.