The Sun.
London, England, 1826-08-03 00:00:00

MONMOUTH, AUG. 1.

A circumstance of a very curious nature has-occurred
with respect to a prisoner, who is charged with picking a
pocket. He was committed to the prison at Usk on the
lith instant. A few days ago a young woman arrived at
one of the turnpike-gates in the neighbourhood, and, in-
quiring her way, mentioned the name of a relative, whom
phe expected to find there. On her mentioning the name
of the person she was seeking, the gatekeeper observed,
that a person of that name had got into difficulties, and
had been transported. The young woman said she was
satisfied that was her relation. You are an Irish girl, said
the gate-keeper., 'Yes. Another of your countrymen is
in trouble in Usk gaol for picking pockets. What is his
name? said the young woman. Wallace. Wallace! Jem
Wallace ! he murdered my master in lielatid. The young
woman went to Usk; was afforded an opportunity from
the top of tht* prison of seeing Wallace with severed'other
prisoners. She immediately picked him out, and has since
given a very circumstantial account of an attack upon the
house of her master, Colonel Hill, in the neighbourhood of
• Cork, and the murder of that gentleman, some years agO.
believe as many as four. A communication' has
been made to the Irish Government, through Mr. Secre-
tary Peel, and whatever may be the event of the pending
prosecution here, James Wallace will be, detained to wilt
the result 'of 'this investigation respecting the imputed
murder. , The young 'woman is about 18 years of age.
She is at present staying in the House of Correction at
Usk.

AN OLD FASHIONED MARRIAGE PORTION.-
Capt.. John Hull, who was one of the first founders of the Old
South Church, Capt. of the AMC. and Hon. Artillery, a Repre-
sentative of the town, and in 1680 an assistant, was a man of
wealth. A daughter of his was married to Major Samuel Sewall.
As usual in those days, the father was expected to give his daughter
a marriage portion: "So father Hull, after his daughter was
completely, and richly too, dressed and prepared for the ceremony,
caused her to be put into one side of a large pair of scales, in the
presence of her friends, and then piled on, dollars and crowns,
silver xitoney, until thcy weighed her down." Report says she
was a plump; hearty must have been a fat marriage
portion in those days.—Boston NewXLetter,

it is a curious fact, that of six Peers of the im-
perial Parliament, who died since the Spring of Ms, wereanti-Catholic,
anti-Catholic, and but eneliteral. They were Whitworth,
five
Craven, and Chichester, Viscount Carleton, Marquess Waterford,
atui-Catholic; Earl Donoughmore, liberal. The title of Whit-
worth is extinct; an the Marquess of Waterford's son, who in-
herits his title, will not. be of age for six years. This dispropor-
tion of five to one is the more remarkable, as the numbers in the
House of Lords, on both sides, friends and opponents to Emanci-
pation, if we deduct tie Lords :Spiritual, are pretty nearly ba-
lanced, the majority of Lay. Lords against Emancipation being in-
considerable. Farnhain, an' anti-Catholic, succeeds Lord 1.)o--
noughniere ; Mount Cashel!, who will vote for Emancipation, suc-
ceeds Carleton as Irish Peers. " In ' the new creation of Peers,
lately announced
in the
..London Gazette, there is a majority of
one in favour of Emancipation. The death of Lords in the next
'year will probably bear much In the same proportion of liberal
[ and illiberal; .as it is ascertained, bra reference to.the published
.
lists, that the average agea of the anti-Popish Lords are vastly
1 above those on the other side !—Dublin ..iforning Post.
APPREHENSION OF A FORMIDABLE BAND OF
alintrves.—lncredible as it may appear, a numerous gang of rob-
bers, with the necessary appurtenance of romance, a Cave, has
existed at Wickwar, in this county, for more than seven years;
during which period, although they have been the terror of the
neighbourhood, and have extended their depredations over an
extensive tract of country, they have contrived to elude the pry..
ing eye of justice. Last vreea, however, its. consequence of some
aeapieieui circumstances, the police were induced to pay a visit
to I ate Common where they took into custody an old man of the
mune of Mills, his wife, and their four sons; and immediately
after their apprehension, these persons disclosed the history of the
lawless community with which they wire connected. The
whole gang is supposed to have amounted to 40 or 50, of which
another we understand thirty-one men and Women have been
apprehended. It appears, that, connected with a kitchen in
old Mill's house, on Vote ()pennon, these well-organised bandits
had constructed a subterranean' cave or storehouse, the entrance
to which was behind the finsplace, where the soot and a
large pot effectually , prevented die slightest suspicion • and
in , this . .
cavil' -the, officers found twenty sides of bacon,
quantities of cloth, wheat, barley, oats, malt, cheese, two
bedsteads and 401. chiefly in half-crown piectsp;-..The accounts
which have reached us of the.depredations of the gang almost al-
-1 ceed belief._ It has been no uncommon thing fora fanner to rise
in the morning, and find the greater pert of his furniture, fat Fir,
poultry, cheese, tic. swept away; and the cave or depository for
the stolen goods was so well contrived, that all search for the
Prpl'ertY was invariably made in vain.--Besides the family of
Mills, a man of the name of Garliner, his wife, and two sons, are
in custody. We understand that among the prisoner' is a parish
c.lerk ; and that a mimed:able shopkeeper,
at Wootton-under-
Adgs, stands charged with baling been earPlaYed in tilt PUrtiage
Alta tale of the stolen proiertiow•Ratk otelaila4

Frederickshall, in consequence of being a frontier town,
it may be observed, is entitled to be ranked as a position
of itripiittance to the monarch who is in possession of the
country in which it is situated, and it has in fact been a
bone of contention between him and the invaders of his
dominions. All fortresses indeed, situated on the frontiers
of provinces, becamehighly interesting to travellers, since
these are marked as the theatre where the valour of heroes,
their military knowledge, and Skill In the use of arma, have
been signally displayed during all ages. This particular
spot, however, will be handed down in the page of history
as ever memorable, from the tragical catastrophe that oc-
curred in the case of Charles XII. who had fallen in an
invasion of this country in 1718. The town is remarka-
blYneet, and the population upwards of 4,000. The streets
are paved, and clean. The houses are diminutive, built of
wood, one and two stories in height, and painted in diffe-
rent colours. They have Chimnies of brick, roofed with
tile, and extended wooden steps are in front of the princi-
Pel entrances, with enormous lamps, quite out of propor-
tion
to the size of the houses, and supported by grotesque
figures, which aro more adapted for being placed over the
gateways of castles. In many of the houses is to be found
one particular article which is serviceable for different pur-
poses. This is similar in form of a trunk with a back to
it, which is occupied as a seat or sofa during day, and can
also supply the place of a table. On lifting up the seat,
I found a considerable depth. underneath ,it stuffed with
clothes. These. are spread over the seat at night, which
is thus converted' into a proper bed; an expedient that re-
minds us of the observation of the Poet :
The drawers contrivtd a double debt to pay;
A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day.

There is a considerable trade carried on in the export
of wood. Many, articles ere sold here, the manufacture
of England and Scotland; but, judging from the extent of
sales, a preference seems to be given to goods made in
Caledonia. Provisions are plenty; and no better proof
can be given of this, than that a family, consisting of 12
persons, may make a plentiful dinner upon fish, and the
expenee of it would not exceed twopence sterling ! The
English costume appears most prevalent among the na-
tives. The dress of females is different from those in
Sweden; and the lower orders of both sexes walk about
without shoes, or stockings, like .the natives of ..the heath-
covered mountains; of Scotia, and Wear a litiriped drug-
get dress,• , Many attain a,: great age; and it is mentioned
as a remarkable fact, that at an entertainment given
to Christian the Sixth and his consort on their
visit here, there were four - married peasants who
merrily danced before their Majesties, of whom none
were under one hundred 'years. All too lived several
years afterwarda, 'so that their longevity extended
far beyond the period prescribed by the Psalmist.* This
protracted age I am strongly inclined to think must be at-
tributed chid', to that temperature, and moderation in all
things which It is our duty to observe, and is so highly
conducive to the powers both of mind and body, ensures
tranquillity of soul, lathe best guardian of youth, and sup-
port of old age. It is not -indeed long since I, was in-
formed, as a proof of the argument m support of this
cardinal virtue, that one half (If those Quakers born in
America obtain. the. age of 47, whereas, of the general po-

pulation of the City o£ London One-half that are born onlylive 23}years. Among the Quakers one in ten arrives at
80 years, and of the population of London one in 40.

observe
The rule of not too much, by temperance fraught,
' • in what thou eat'st and driuk'st, seeking from thence
Due nourishment, not gluttinous delight.
Jews are prohibited from taking up a residence here. The
castle is also appropriated for slaves, whose punishment
is in proportion to the nature and extent of their offence.
Their dress is a close bodied coat ; small clothes of a
brown, and another of a white colour, coarse, without
sleeves, and a white worsted night cap. Iron rings were
attached to their legs. During the period of the Romans,
indeed, we find that slaves were distinguished by their
wearing a particular dress, consisting of clothes of a
darkish colour, hence the term Vettis servals. Seine of
them had iron collars, with a piece of iron in an upright
form attached to them about one foot in length a'ad an
inch in thickness, in the view of distinguishing them
as incorrigible , offenders. Among other regulations,
it is enacted that in case of a person repeating an
act of theft three times, he is liable to be punished
as all are during the same number of years. "elle
service of any of them may be claimed by the inhabit.ants
of the place, on paying lgs. daily, one-fourth peat of
which is set aside for their maintenance. Near the Castle
is a small enclosure, with a paltry stone in a pyr. amidal
form. four foot in !toight, and encircled by a grr,as plot,
erected to commemorate the sacrifice of the unfortunate
Charles, on the precise spot where it stands. MA name is
inscribed oft it, surmounted by a crown, and shad ed by the
branches,of a tree.

*By the population returns in Britain in 1821, it appears
that there were 318 persons living there who had atotined the age
of 100 years; namely, 106 male*, and 207 females, it-ift under-
stood that instances of longevity are less frequent in Portugal,
thin in any other tZmutty.

e are happy to announce,
distinguished servjet;n under the ira..
contributed' to liberate the fine con-
f South 4inierica from the thraldom of Si pain, his arrived
tinent o
teatm more
r9t
natwe village, near this city (Canterbury.). The
at Win ram, hok
Gcneri►l 111 i r,
bells of Wingliant Church rang some merry peals upon the ecea.
soittri'mhi;chite—'—W
'on, and a gag was displayed from the tower in honour of the
gratifying event. A more distinguished reception, was in progrele,
but was frustrated by the arrival of the General incog. He hat
heeo ahead from England nearly ten years, and, has been engaged
in most of the battles, both by sea and land, 'which have been
fought for the independence of that fine portion of the world.
He was second in command to Bolivar at the battle of Ayacucho,
and his prompt, decisive charge at the head of the cavalry of the
Patriot*, decided the day in favour of liberty. The General,
as
may be expected, hal not escaped scathless—having received many
wounds in the glorious -cause in which he embarked. He has
brought home runny' curiosities from the clime he misted to free,
and among the rest, some cavalry standards of Old Spain, which
were captured in the sanguinary struggles in which he took -past
Neat Herald.

MONMOUTH, TUESDAY, AUGUST 1.
This day the assizes for the town and courn
mouth commenced, before Mr. Baron Garr(
Civil Side, and Mr. Justice Burroughat she 0
The latter opened the commission yesterday.
William Powell was indicted for stealing.twO
I!. each, of the Chepstow Bank, from Andrew:
at Chepstow wool fair, on the 17th of June last.
The prosecutor was, it appeared, bustled, an(
pocket picked of the notes in question by the i
who was immediately apprehended, and who oil
for his release, but the stolen note was not tour
his person : he was at the time in company with
Verdict—Guilty. The prisoner, who was km
pickpocket, was sentenced to transportation for
years.

Richard Price, "Richard Wilds, Elijah Parse
indicted for a highway robbery, on the 14th of J
Thomas Watkins, and stealing from him a watct

notes for
Watkins,

I 44 his
isoner,
ert'd 2/.
upon
others.

►wll ■n a

fourteen

nu, were
tote, upon
98., and

a handkerchief.

Wilds pleaded qguitty,'! though informed the; th e charge
was capital.
Mr. Justice stated the case for the prose' ntior, ~ from
which it appeared, that the prosecutor and ' prisone, rs had
been drinking together at a public-house, at Whitet turelt,
in this county, on the night in question, and had gone
sway together for a short distance,.when th ey eeperat4 A at
a gate—the prosecutor going one Istiy, an d the priso tiers
,
another. By a circuitous route it was pos.
Bible for the •oar-
ties to meet again.
Miles, the landlord of the Nag's-head .
public-house re.
membered the prosecutor and the prise
Jners drinking top..
tiler at his house, the former payir lg,
for the liquor,
u se afterwards heard the,
the,
others not having,any money.
sound of voices and of footsteps ,
contrary' direction. Immediate' passing hip house in the
sy after the prosecutor re-
tioned, that lie lind just beew
robbedturnet 1 t to)
ft I
his
h ovivastec,h a, rail: 7
ooney by three men adding,
that he could swear to the person who knocked him
down. Witness follows 4 the prisoners, and, with .the,
assistance of a neighbf Air, secured them, except Wilds,
who: ran, . , .

Tho Nvife of tht ast witness identified the prisoners, as
being }the Persons Y oho, soon after the prosecutor had called
617:000p obery, ran into an adjoining close, where
down to the ground, on which spot
after found the prosecutor's watch
wstaohnasedmseikkaithwetyimo.thneeditinhaet.

Price an 4 Parsons, in their defence, denied all know-
ledge of the robbery.
Vi
Guilty.— Sentence of death was recorded
'there were two ether indictments against Wilds for
robberies, but no evidence was offered in support of them.
William Rdwards was indicted for stealing three watches
out of the shop of Thomas Thackwell, in Church-street,
Monmouth.
itsarelirset:ilte-;
It was proved that the prisoner had the audacity in the
day-time to break the watchmaker's window, from which
these watches had been taken, and then to run away.
Verdict, Guilty.--Sentence—Transportation for life.

William Thames: was indicted for wilfully setting fire to
his house, with intent to defraud the landlord, the Earl of
Abergavenny.
Mr. Watson stated the MC for the prosecution.
The constable was then called, who apprehended the
prisoner by his wife's desire, while he was trying to rescue
his little furniture from the flames, which he declared be
had himself kindled to be revenged upon his wife, who
had complained of his violent conduct when drunk on the
night in question. The constable described the house, as
it was called in the indictment, to be a wretched thatched
hut or hovel, with one apartment, or enclosed place, much
inferior to the general plan of cow-sheds.
Mr. Justice laurrough said that there was hardly sal•
cient evidence to show this building to have been a house.
Mr. Watson concurred in the insufficiency of the evi.
&nee.

A verdict of acquittal was pronounced, and the Learned
Judge admonished
,the prisoner to avoid a similar offence
in future. lie tan the risk of being hanged if he set fire
to his landlord's house, because he Could not agree with
his wife. It ought, however, to be a warning to him how
he drank to excess, for it was the influence of liquor
which had first caused the quarrel, and then the burning
of the place.

hip
cabimitaLlimiscirmosju.csiipilrol,estisee:tiwothepl'i:an%
one of them,
A'dxpr:aAdvliz::evi.
The plaintiff, Henry Welchman, a linen-draper at Bris-
tol, brought this action against the defendant., who were,
a lincti-dndrathpirer, sold
oth
be
udo
ntt
eie
dr 48t5A01b. erwoorthvenneyr,
Several documents were
deuce. Among them was the warrant, which specifically
charged the plaintiff with having fraudulently represented
goods from Jones.
Vpon the nranctian Oran warrant.
Nfr. Russell for the defendant, took a legal objection,
upon moan variances between the original documents

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produced, and the description of them in the declaration.
It was averred in the first count that the warrant was
backed by one Robert Haystill, Esq., the Mayor of This-
tol, whereas the warrant, on being produced, exhibited the
signature of a name `which merely consisted of certain up-
end-down strokes that were perfectly illegible as letters,
and might or might not be taken fora name. On the
other side it was contended, that however badly written►
it still purported to be the bona fide signature of the
Mayor, of Bristol. On further inquiry, however, it was
ascertained that the Mayor's naive was Haysill, not
Haystill.

Mr. Baron (.farrow said, that probably these up-and-
down strokes were the signature of a gentleman holding
an important office in the magistracy of Bristol, and most
likely this mode of writing his name had been his practice
through life. Were lie (the Judge), in any other situa-
tion than that,which he at present filled, and his own had
writing also known, possibly the gentleman in question
would oberve that he had better mend his own form of
writing, before he (the Judge) ventured to turn critic
upon that of others. He was, however, bound to pro-
nounce his opinion, not critically, but judicially. He
perfectly remembered having jested with one of his oldest
and most valued friends, Sir Win. Curtis, upon his style
of hand-writing when franking letters; for of all the modes
of writing he had ever seen, his friend's signature was the
most entirely illegible; it resembled, nothing upon earth
that could be called letters, and really passed at the Post-
office, because it bore no resemblance to any thing else
than the ups and downs of Sir Wm.'s frank.—(A laugh.)
—The learmd Baron, in conclusion, held that the vari-
ance,in the Mayor's name, Haystill, instead of Ilaysill,
was fatal to the declaration.
Mr. Taunton, however, showed that the second count
was free from tltis objection, and the clise went on.

Mr. Russell made an energetic appeal to the Jury in
behalf of the defendants, in which he urged, that they
bore no malice, which must be the ground-work of a false
charge, and that in reality their goods had been obtained
by the plaintiff's having assumed his brother's name in
the signature to the agreement.
The Jury found a verdict for the defendants. The case
lasted until eight o'clok on Tuesday evening.

IRELAND.

GALWAY, SATURDAY, Jutx

Thomai Dillon Lambert, and John William Browne
Eirs., the Hon. Dena .Denis Arthur Bingham, Pallid;
m
O'Connqr, Roderick O'Connor, David Wilson, and john
Blake, Esqrs., were put to the bar, charged with the
wilful murder of Jeremiah Sullivan, deceased.

The prisoners pleaded Not Guilty.
Eleven challenges were made on the part of the, Crown,
and seventeen on behalf of the prisoners.
Mr. North stated the case briefly on the part of the
prosecution. . .

. .
William Kennedy examined through the medium of an
interpreter.—Was at the door of a man funned Stephens,
opposite the meat-market, in William-street; knew hut
three of the prisoners, Mr. Lambert: and, the two Mr.
O'Caimors; did not see what arms the party had; saw
two pistols with'Mr., Lambert; saw the party firing. down
theistreet ; there was a great crowd there at the , time;
some of the people were not ten yards from where the pis-.
tols were fired;; other's were one hundred yards olf; saw
Lambert fire two shots; can't say whether they took
effect or not; knew deceased; saw him standing at the
Opposite side from where, witness . was, near the meat-
vuirket ; saw him after that running into the meat-market,
and :Mr. Lambert running after him ; did. not see any
thing in the Messrs: O'Connor's hands; did not see then
doing any thing; saw no stones thrown ;. did not see any
people coming out of Prendergast's garden ; there was a
large 'nob assembled at the shambles; Mr. Lambert and
Mr. O'Connor ran back after the shots were tired.
After, the bile for the Crown had. elnscd,
Mr. Pennefather addressed the 'Bench, and stated that
Mr. ..loirtv Blake .was entitled to .an ritetoittra, itatsmuch qtr
no evidence had been offered sufficient to inculpate bin; iit
the transaction.
The,Counsel for the Crown, after consulting for some
time, agreed with Mr. Pennefather, and the Jury accord
ingly, under the . direction of the Learned Judge, found
Mr. Blake not guilty, and he was .diseharged before the
defence of the other prisoners • was gone into.