The Sun.
London, England, 1803-01-05 00:00:00

MANSIDIV-HOUSE; JAM 4.4

YESTIRDAT the two prisoners who have. been
in ccisspdy some days, and who have undergone
a private examination befOre the Lord Mayor;
were again privately examined before his Lord.
ship, /charged with being concerned in the
plundering of a ship at Barnstaple, ,which
outward-bohnd; the plunderage of this ship, it
is said,• amounted to s'oool. and on purpose to
conceal ito substituted brick.bats and straw, eco.•
instead a bale gUodm. A Cool%el attended .the
examination, and several Merchants Concerned in
the cargo, with the lighteirrian who had • shipped
these OAS.; but as there are some others cntwerned.
in the robbery, not yet in custody, we fneft6ar.sot
tnentionany partictilars, as it might defeat thetntii„
of justice. The Prisoners were again remanded'
close confinement for further examination,.

On 'Thursday sennight a persOn in the neigh.
baurhood of Hadklenham, was ca Hetet! before the
Rev. CitsAr, Mott GAN, D. D. and the Rev, \Vii,.
LIAM MIITCALI', Clerk, two Of His Majesty's Jus..
tides of the Peace for the Isle of Ely, of coutsing ori
the Lord's day, and paid the penalty of Im-
posed by the 461 of t 3th Geo, 111. 'cap: 80, for
the oifence, with all costs.

On Friday morning; about two o'clock, a sharp
a Ear took Mace _between two Excisemen and twos
.Smugglers, whom they Overtook in the lane between
West.isnd North-street). in Chichester, with:a ,oue.
horse cart; laden with tobacco and liquors:
Smugglers fought with bludgeons, and the Ofliceri
with sabres and pistols. Viaory at, length, .de..
eared in favour of the latter, who remained•masters
of tlie.cargn.
UNtoN.:HALL.—Yesterday Mr;Edwardsta masse:
mill-wright, in Vine-street, Lambeth, came byline
the Magtstrates, with Mr. CUMMingS as his Coup-.
sr!, to-complain under the. terms of the t,',itute•of thp
39th and i.oth of Gea. 111, for preventing 4441.
combinations among journeymen and manufatturers,
Sec. againt Robert Steele, for that he. being a person
in his employ, (lid maliciously, anit 4ithotir atiy.,
jitit cause, strike, and refuse to chniinue to war;k
on the sgth clay of November laic, thereby, under'
threats, compefli:tg his Said inasterto discharge;
under pretence that heWai Welt a fair nisi), a matt
named Murton from kis employ, againit .the said
4tatittei was cdnvitttlid of 'die" otter ice; ants
Committed for the sp,tc.: of three mobtlis to this
County Gaol.

A tew mornings since, before day-break,
flu it 00 R. o, farimr, at Shellinttou, near Slt.fl'ord, irk
Bedfordshire, being alarmed by the fall of some tiles,
tired a fowling-piece front his chamber window, at
a persoli he saw on she roof of one of his out
housci, who fell to the ground: he proved to be the'
farmer brother-in-law, who had been all night Ht
a dance at a neighbouring village, raid was ended—
, vouring to get tOr at the window of the grAnsiy,
which, communicates 'with his bed-rooM.' His sot.
prize -the discharge of the gun oceaitioned the
young trim to fall,' hot he receiyell na inittryi •
A few days since died at COiCht'S
Grigs,' r
,Barber) aged 84. Fle'estimatud, that,' On
an average; he operated on the chins of d.x. personn►
daily, for the last sixty yckirs of Itia 'znd con.
sequently that he shaved I 3r1,40ci beards.
Mr, Witt-m.)lw, Coroner for Devon, took an
Iniiuest on the body of Mr.", E. 17,,, /tiding
Surveyor of Excie fot th,'Ptiii of Dartmoiith, alto
was so cruelly brat onlifc`..istzb of DiOlither• las't
by two Smugglers. Vertikt of the itVid
Murder utuinu a frreim or
,pirani ure qproi. our
Sinugitlets are iri custody on suspicion. of Tieing
cahfceined :in . brnral and inhuman 'murder of a
very attive"Cilircer, at hi a t cr'y vi or tby thamber of
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