The Sun.
London, England, 1828-09-16 00:00:00

INGENIOUS AND SUCCESSFUL HOAX.

A short time since an ingenious hoax was
successfully practised on a trio of Sheriff Offi-
cers in a northern county. Having been ap- '
prised that a shop had been broke open, and a" '
goodly quantum of the contents extracted there-
from, they immediately set out for the purpose
of apprehending the depredators. After travell-
ing about fifteen miles, exposed to the pitiless
pelting of wind and rain, they succeeded in seiz-
ing the body of one of the guilty persons ; and
with him they immediately proceeded to the
county jail. During their journey the prisoner
was deaf to all the promises, entreaties, and
threats, which the men in office held out to him,
to induce him to inform them regarding his ac-'
complices in the commission of the crime. for
which he was apprehended. His self-conse-
quential guardians, the sheriff-officers, were not
over lenient. to the prisoner in the course of his
journey to " durance vile ;" and he very natu-
rally resolved on indulging, if possible, in a
little bit of " sweet revenge." Accordingly, on
his being securely housed, as a south country
farmer would express it, the man of depreda-
tions became all at once most agreeably com-
municative on the subject of his accomplices in
the crime for which he had been apprehended.
He commenced by observing, that as his own
character, and the exercise of his locomotive
powers of person, were rather placed in jeopardy,
he felt it due to himself to state, that there were
two other individuals engaged with him in the
commission of the crime which had procured for
him his present lodgings ; and that these per-
sons, as would be ultimately seen, were incom-
parably more guilty than he. He then assured
the already half-drowned sheriff-officers, that if
they would immediately repair to a little wood
which he named, near to the place at which the
crime had been committed, and whistle for a
short time, they would to a dead certainty suc-
ceed in apprehending the other brace of depre-
dators; adding, at the same time, that he and
they had parted after the commission of the
crime, on the express understanding that they
were to meet in that identical place, after it had
become dark ; and that whoever was there first,
should whistle on the others, as a mark that all
was right. Ambitious of the high honour, and
big with the expectation of being the instru-
ments of ridding society of these troublesome
fellows, the men, " dressed in a little brief au-
thority," instantly retraced their steps, cold, hun-
gry, and drenched to the skin as they were. Ar-
rived at the little wood, they immediately en-
tered it, and amidst" the " darkness visible,'-com-
menced the exercise of whistling. One succeed-
ed another in regular succession ; but still, not-
withstanding all their exertion, no human being,
guilty or innocent, made his appearance. Their
music appeared to possess no charms, either for
man or beast ; all was darkness and sickness and
silence, save and excepting their own music, the
sound of the wind, and the pattering of the raiih
Still, however, they were reluctant to give over ;
and agreed to a man not to do so until they bad,
one and all of them, literally whistled themselves
out of breath. The appearance of morning at
length admonished them of the futility of per-
sisting longer in giving their music to the wind ;
and they were obliged to trudge their way home
in the best way they could, not, however, with-
out uttering some myriads of imprecations on the
head of him who had so successfully hoaxed
them.—To some individuals the above relation
may appear somewhat improbable; but several
of our readers, as well as ourselves, are aware
of its being founded on a recent fact.--Elgin
Courier.

S ('ONI) EDITION.
SUN OFFICE, Seven o'Clock

THE LONDON GAZETTE

OF THIS EVENING.

Commission in the Mansfield Troop of Sherwood
Rangers, signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the county of
Nottingham.

Thomas Wright, Gent. to be Second Lieutenant. Sep-
tember 6.

DECLARATIONS OF INSOLVENCY.

Isaac Worley, Monument Hotel, Fish-street-hill.
Henry Neave Rickman, Worcester-street, Touthwark,
brush- maker.

B.XNKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED.

Thomasi:t;;;,-11-ei-g-hington, Durham, cattle-jobber.

BANKRUPTS.

George Harris, North-Buildings, Finsbury, London,
bill-broker, to surrender, Sept. 19, at cloven, SO, at one,
and Oct. 28, at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners.
Norton, Jewin-street, Jewin-crescent.

- - ,
Isaac Lee, Bankside, Southwark, timber-merchant,
Sept. 23, at eleven, 30, twelve, and Oct. 28, at twelve, at
the Court of Commissioners. 'Walker, Gloucester-street,
Queen-square.

George Smallbones, Bath-place, New-road, St. Pan-
cras, glass-cutter, Sept. 23, and Oct, 17, at ten, at the
Court of Commissioners. Gill, Mau-mu-street, Bedford-
row.

John Winder, Leicester, draper, Sept. 23, 30, and Oct.
28, at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners. Ashurst,
Sambrook-court, Baainghall-street.

James Brearley, of Milmow, Lancashire, cotton-spinner,
Sept. SO, at three, at the George Hotel, Dewsbury, York-
shire, Oct. 11, at twelve, at the White Lion Inn, Halifax,
and 28, at two, at the George Hotel, Dewsbury. Messrs.
Battye, Fisher, and Sudlow, Chancery-lane ; and Higham,
Brighouse. Halifax.
John Shaw. Newsome, Yorkshire, merchant, Oct. 10,
at four, 11, at nine, and 28, at ten, at the Offices of Messrs.
Jacomh and Tindale, Huddersfield. Jacomb and Tindale,
Huddersfield ; Van Sandau, Old Jewry.

Hobert Metcalfe, Haddiscoe, Norfolk, miller, October 2,
at seven, 3, at ten, 28, at twelve, at the Star Inn, Great
Yarmouth. I.lart, Great Yarmouth ; Francis, New
I3oswell-court.
John Thurtell, Great Yarmouth, broker, Oct. 2, at
soien, 3, at ten, and 28, at one, at the Star Inn, Great
Yarmouth. Palmer, Great Yarmouth ; Austin, Holborn-
con' t, Gray's-Inn.
William Maunder and James Maunder, Morebard Bishop:
Daonshire, serge-manufacturers, Sept. 24, 25, and Oct.
2S, at twelve, at the Globe Hotel, Exeter. Auderton and
Scott, Bridge-street, Blackfriars ; Terrell and Barton,
Exeter.

FIGHT-(THIS DAY.)
BETWEEN HARRY JONES AND NED

STOCKMAN,
FOR 251. A SIDE.
AT SAME MERE BEDS.

Harry Jones won the Fight in Forty-one
Rounds.—Time, One Hour and Six Minutes.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

EAST INDIA.

The Elphinstone, Atkinson, from Bengal, in the Downs ;
sailed front thence March 5, Madras April 3, and St.
Helena, July 24.
The Carnarvon, Winapear, from Singapore, in the
Dwwns ; sailed from thence the 4th April, and St. He-
lena 15th July.
The Marmion, Jameson, from the Mauritius, off Ports-
mouth. Sailed May S.
The Bellona, Hutchinson, from Singapore, at Cowes..
Sailed April 3.
His Majesty's ship Bombay, Campbell, from Bombay,
at Plymouth, Sailed May 26.