The Sun.
London, England, 1803-05-05 00:00:00

1114NCHESTER) MAY 2.

MuitnEß.---On Tuesday last an inquisition was
kid at Hollinwood, on the bOdies of one liehketh,'
Alice Ogden, and an 'infant, before-Mr: D/1.11,xe,
the Cortmier, and a respeaable Jury. Ir aPPe4red
thatliesketh and 'Ogden had lived together nearly
three years, and that early on Monday morning, a
man: going to work in the garden of the, deceased,
saAsv a quantity blood. ruining under the door.
He 'aloirMeil the neighbours, who forced open the
door (which was locked and bolted) and found Hes.
kerb'witfrilre infant 'across his'thighs, both quite
dead' and•most'miserably bruicd, lying upon the
floor. -Hesketh had the key of the door in his
pocket,.-ind the end of the tongs in 'his hand.
Ogden t'a3 also insa dying state, 'and so much hruis.
eel, as to be incapable of giving any account-of this
horrid business : she expired almost instantly.
Theso seircirmsranceinduced .04 Jury- to belieVe'
that one or both-oi theM 'killed itiC child and each
oihei, which verdict •thei-accdraingly gave. 'The'
father 'of the woman, and's-another man, had been*
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drinkTng at .the-IrOu'se the deceased- on Sunday
evening, amt-iWtdri -o'clock they'wete.leffin perfect
good humour with each other, not an-angry 'word
having passed. • '

A Grotto has been disco!ered in the lerntory
of Zalicon, near Nice, l‘iiich is said' tm.equal in
beauty' that- of the Sybils of and,. that ,of
ANTIPAROS. •

workmen employed last• week in taking
down the pews and galleries in St. Nicholas' church,
Durham, previous to its undergoing a thorough re.
pair, on.removing the reading„desks, discovered-an'
ancient stone pulpit; it is all of stone, with can,.
ing on it, supposed to have been cut about the 13th
century.

At the Geneial Quarter Sessions The the County
of Dorset, held last week at Sherborne, the Amerl-1,
can who called 'himself Captain Smith, and fraudu.
lently obtained money by producing fabricated Cer.'
tificates, to impose a belief that be had sustained a
loss of 30001. by the detrudiun of bi's slap, as
tried for the frJud, when he urged-in his defence,
that he had been nearly seventeen years in tha ser.
vice of England, first in the Navy, and then in the
Army, and hid received four wound,,
jn as many
different aftions ; the' last of which, at Tournay,"'
disabled NM from further service ; bur he acknow.,
ledged that he obtained his Pass from two men Who
were travelling, at Wilton. He. was sentenced; to
six_months hat& labour in, the Castle olDorchester.'

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following letter anti'extract- were received'
tliv Right lion. the Lo'rd Provost some tin*
;ago 4 ant! as. no stitisfaaory inforrhation Iras, been
:procured by privnte inquiry, it is judge,tl pro2er to
:make them public.;

To the Right lion. Lr.rd Provost, chief Magistrate
of Edinburgh.

MY LORD,
I beg leave id transmit your Lordshiran'ex-
'trael from a Fren,:h jotiinal, which has been lately
:pOlished in this town. "Tile ancient !fame of Kahl-
•say 1* so well known in Scotland, that it may
likely kin your to obtain some hiform„tion
about the family of Thotni Singiter Ram ay, a
young man.of about years of age, who i said to
be barn in Bengal, and sun to Mr. Nesbit Rammy,
.a Scotch gentleman, and superior officer in the En-
glish army about 179.3. This unhappy youth, after
having been turned awak, and wilfully forsaken by
the inhuman tutor at Bayonne, to whose ore he
hid been committed by his father, has been :t-most
wretched wanderer these nine years, both by sea
and land. No doubt but his relations _lave been
very uneasy about Itis ...fate, and very likely have
mourned for Itirn as for a dead child. How glad
would they be to hear-that he is well, and lungs to
,fake. shelter in their arms

I should think myself happy to he assured that
this my application to your hum.,nity, in favour of
your young countryman, has not been displeasing
,to your'l.ordship, and that it may be any way ser-
vicenble to Aim.

L.:lm; very ,respeelfully,- your Lord,bili's most
humble .setvanr, Secretaire
de la I'Vlairie, a Grenoble.
Grenoble, the iSth Porto.!e.-9tl.l.ltlarch, 1803.. •

Extra? from the.7ournaldr Cr,vahle, au. Andes du
Department de !Mere, Men rentere..-
Nesbit Ramsay, born in Scotland, and of con.
.siderable tank in the British service, was taken
prisoner by the French the beginning of the last
war,• and. carried into. Toulouse, .abobt the year
179j.;---At the fall of Robespierre he quitted that
city, and repaired to Bayonne, a prisoner on his
parole.' He had with him his son, ThOmas Sang
ster Ramsay, born in Bengal, whose m')ther died
in Nesbit. Ramsay- boartkil hiY.son
with M. Amile-Wincelas Muntz.Berger,• direaor
of the orchestra at the theatre of Bayonne ; but
log obliged•to depart.suddenly, to return to his na-
tive country, he committed the care of his son to
a-private person,, for whom he had letters of recoils...
mendation,- and to whom he gave money for the
charge of his son could send for him. . Ant
this person, dead to every feeling.-of- himoUr and
'humanity, received the' money destined -as the
hoard at young Ramsay, without fulfilling the en.
•gagernents he had contrafted•in receiving under his
roof this sacred deposit. He turned this unfortu-
nate child out of his house at the age of nine, and
obliged him to engage himself as a cabin.boy.-7-
Young Ramsay: served in this capacity four years.
Returning to France, he landed at Havre, -still
norant where his parents might bes;Sitice that pe.
riod he has led a wandering life,and so unfortunate,
that often he has been obliged to beg hishread. At
last chance 'condueited him into. the -DePattment of
here, where he tilled the ground and kept cattle
near four years, at St. Ji•an de Vaux, a village
situated in the most mountainous part of the countrsi,
and four leagues from Grenoble. Fatigued with
this state of servitude, and- urged by the ardent
desire of finding his father: again, of. whose fate
he was still ignorant, he went to Grenoble;- where
he learnt by accident that'M. Berger, his music.
master'at Bayonne,• resided-at Grenoble. He went
to his house;, M. Berger recellefted him; and
young Ramsay has found in his-old-Master a second
fathet. The- family - •Of Ranisay- Must be' in' 'the
greatest anxiety
.for. the „fate cy this :unfortunate
youth. M. Berger yit.lding to the impulse of gene.
rosity,.and listening•nnlY tothe voice of litunanity,
will take charge of the young man till his family,
informed of the "place of: his risillence, witl daim
Young Ramsay is 'tall,• has a 'tine figure, and
a pleasant countenarce. Poverty, and the wild
state he was • in,'fiave -not filtered his features, nor
limited his understkoding; he has not altogether
fOrgot the English language,, and •;till'reiains some
knowledge of music.
M. Berger thinks, the quickest meihod of making
the existence of Thomas Ramsay• known to ins
,will be to insert into. our, paper the history
of his misfortunes, in hopes that the most credit-
able journalists of Paris, eager, to contribute to the
happiness of the family of Rainsay, Will insert this
account in theirs. . These papers,' circulating in
England, Will inforM 'the family of Ramsay where
they will find their last' child. M. Amile..Win-
Matt Muntz-Betger, Professor of Music, lives -in
Rue Brucherie, No.'t tS, Grenoble. To thii ad.
dress,-particularly, the family ofßamsay will have
recourse to find young-Thomas.:

The lightning last week was severely felt at West
Pans. At the time of the explosion, the mistress of
a louse at that place.felt a sudden shock on one side
of her head ; a slog which lay in the parlour has
evinced signs of deafness---two windows in thi
east end of the house were shivered, as were the
windows on both sides of the house next the east..
the bell wires, were almost artnihil.ites; ; -and alnng
the svalls where they run, a mark, -reitmbling<that
whieh remaint after the explosion of gunpoislier,-
was left ; ,sorriq small wax figures in frames Were
ehivered,'while the glasses of the frames remained:tut.-
broken ; a lane looking glass- on the float of- the
chimney remained whole, while the earners of Ate
chimney jambs were shivere4 ; the top orate chimney, was tarried with violence about two yaktocrorrt the
foot of the wall, and fell, beating in the roof ofa-srnall
shed. The effects of the lightning were partially
felt in the west end of the house ; the -capital-of a
bed was broken; and a hole-made in the curtains,