The Sun.
London, England, 1810-04-05 00:00:00

A /VE IP MUSICAL 1 STR MENT.

DUBLIN, TUESDAY, MARCH 27.—0 n Saturday
was presented to his Grace the Lord Lieutenant, for
his inspection; a mechanical musical instrument, as
a•specimen of the improtement of the Fine. Arts in
this kingdom, with which his Grace was much
pleased, anu expressed his high approbation to the
inventor,. on his aecomplishing so extraordinary a
piece of workmanship.
For the gratification of the Public, we here sub-
join a descripticn of the ingenious machine above
mentioned : It is made in a gold box; it has round
the sides four pieces of crystal glass, that the dif-
ferent parts of the mechanism tnay be seen when in
.anion. Upon opening the lid, there is an engraved
plate (silver) representing an Irish Bard leaning, on
his harp, supposed to be listening to -another Bard
playing at some distance. In the branch •of a tree
is a bird on its nest, that on touching a particular
part of the box, rises and flutters while the music
is playing, which is performed by percussion on small
round polished pieces of set I.
We know not whether most to admire, the cor-
re&ness of the execution, thesof t and melodious tones
it produces, or the pet feaness of the music, in which
the most critical ear cannot discover an error. We
had almost forgot to mention that occasional notes
are shaken very gracefully. On the whole it is a
most masterly piece of work, which does the inven-
tor infinite credit ; and we sincerely hope he w ill
meet the reward due to such perseverance and inge-
nuity.

MARLBOROUGH•BTREET.—A man of colour, six
feet in height, 'of the name of Coke, was yesterday,
charged at thiS Office with ravishing a deCent wo
man, who resides in Lawrence-lane, St. Giles's, un-
der circumstances the most aggravated. it appeared
in evidence, that the prisoner followed the prosecu-
ti ix home from Covent-garden Market late on Sa-
turday night, and when at 11.:r own door, he forced
her intro a cellar, locked het welt in with her, and
ce.rpetrated his diabolical object. IThe poor wo-
man was kept more than two-hours in this situa-
tion, 'and her shrieks were heard by, the neighbouts,
who took it to be an Irish squabble, and consequent-
ly did not notice itat the time. The evidence, al-
together,' was too shocking
.for descriptiOn, and. the
prisoner was fully committed fil)r trial.
PuaLtc7Ol4lcE,WonsuiP7saTEET.--Yesterday a
Man named Pearce was examined being charged With
having taken a lodging at the Holywell Public-hou-e,
in Shoreditch, and after sleeping in the above lodg-
ings three nights, absconded early on Monday morn.
ing, taking with him the sheets off the bed, and
other things, which .being sworn_ to by the prose-
cutor, the prisoner was fully committed. •

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At the SUN-Or.Fica, No. 1 i 2, Strand, where Athjnisements, 0t...c. •

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S,ORREY ASSIZES.

11NGSTON, APRIL 2.

Mr. Justice HEATH sat abbut two hours'on the
Crown. Side and passed 'sentence of death on twelve,'
but there was not any one whose case was thought
of sufficient magnitude to be left for qiecutiorh

SIDE

DURRANT, V. SIIERIIr.

This was a special Jury. cause, and wasted 'the
whole day. It was an .action by the plaintiff; a
miller in the parish of .111estethana, in this comity,
against Mt:. HintOn for.directing.the water
from his mill.

Mr. GARROW, for the• plaintiff, stated,. that the
mill in question was a most ancient one, as they.
had a record to show. that it stood on the same spot,
and was turned by the same spring, from the time
of :Edward the Confmsor until Mr. jolitfe. had•di-
reaei it. The manner in which the water was
carried away
was .a's- follows :-r-There Were .sorne
stone quarries in the neighboUrbood,-:whiCh Mr.
Jolitie had lately begun to • work. The. spring
which-fed the mill-strea n• broke nut of the brink of
the hill about eighty or ninety yards. to ..the east of
the mill, and without •doubt it carneirom the. east
to the west, passing through the stone quarries- in
question. ' .

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As a proof of this, there .was another quarry;
which for di•:tittaiutt sake,
and
would' call the old
(11. quarry, further to the east, he should call wit-
nesses to prove, that whenever the water cadre Ito
that quarry, it flowed away to the westward, and
tilled the ;. so that the quarty-men,
whenever they -found the water coming, always
congratulated the miller on his approaching supply,
and. the the fad has invariable _justified
When, therefore, Mr. Jolitfe began to ere& his
'new quarries, which lay between ,the old ..quarries
and the mill, -and began driVing a drift-way from
north to south, the plaintiff foresaw that he must
tap. his spring; and divert the. water; and in this
apprehension he gave Mr. Joliffe formal notice of
the mischief which he apprehended would ensue ;
he however persisted, till,. in the month of April
last, what had been foreseen actually happened;
they found a large body of water in the quarry,
which ran ,offby the tunnel, and from that moment
the mill-stream decreased, and at length became to-
tally dry. it was for this injury that the present
action was brought.
The faa of the water having ceased in the mill-
stream, as soon as it broke out of the quarry, being
establi.hed by a greatpumber of witnesses, Mr.Ser•-;
jeant BEST, for the defendant, made. an. able. de-
fence ; and
.Mr.. GARROW, in as able a reply, in-
sisted on the superior weight of the fad against the
speculatirn of the philosophers.
The Learned Judge having summed_up the evi-
dence with great precision, the Jury found for the
plaintiff.

APRIL 3.

The cause of yesterday having occupied so much
time of the Court, his Lordship sat'again'this morn-
ing, and, tried the remaining causes, which were
wholly unimportant.
The AsSizes and Home Circuit here finished.

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Until 317;1611Di iheieorsliall ieclaceci to 46,6001.
which sum it should 'not be lawful to exeeed.

A larch, planted about Go years ago, was lately cut
down near the cathedral of Dunkeld. It is 140 feet
high, and contains-iSO cubical feet of wood. There
are some others of a still larger size in its vicinity.

. HIF NEIYJ.

CRAVISEND, APRIL 3. -
Arrived—the Mary Anrt, Richards, from Malta.

AI4RR 4ED.
,On Saturday morning, at Christ Church, Cork, Henry
Sheares-Westropp,•Esq of Richmond Villa, in that County.;
to Ellen, daughter of Willlain !Ones, Esq. of Cutk. •
On Tuesday last,•at St. lohn's Church, llorslydoWn, Wii-
iiarn
,Knight, Esq. of Gainstord.street, Black's• Fields, to
Mrs. Thompson, widow, of Paddington.
Vestrday-i- by special licence, at the Countess Dowager
Erroll's apartments, Hampton.eourt, the Hon. George. CA;
dogan,. Captain in the Royal Navy, and son of the late EV;
of Cadogan, to Honoria, fifth daughter, of the late
Esq of Ardtry, to the County of Galway, sistet l?
the late Lord Wallescourt and the Countess Dowager of _
toseph Wbeelet, Esq. of the Kilkenny Militia, to
Palmer, widovy of the late Captain Painter. •