The Sun.
London, England, 1819-03-31 00:00:00

HOP INTELLIGENCE,

SOUTHWARK, MARCH 29.—We are sorry to
say our IVJaiket is so exceedingly dull that we are
unable to give you any correct particulars about it.

MrsJoistice BAYLEY, at the Sussex Assizes on
Thursday last OS mentioned in the account of the
trial of James Gibbs, in our Paper of Sault.:lay),
pronounced the awful sentence' of death, in a
manner so impressive and pathetic, as to leave no
dry eye in :he Court, holding out to the prisoner
no hopes of mercy.—The prisoner, during. the
whole of the trial, was sensibly agitated by re-
morse and apparently unaffected sensibility.—
After he was removed from the bar, the, prosecu-
tor and his father appeared in the witness box,
and earnestly implored the Learned Judge to spare
his life, and mitigate the sentence of the law to
transportation; but Mr. Justice BAYLEY said, that
his duty was imperative, and if he dared to relax
the severity of the raw, lie should want no sug-
gestion of mercy on the part of the prosecutor to
prompt hint to an act to which he was naturally
impelled by his own feelings of commiseration for
the unhappy convict. But lie dared not, for the.
sake of the public, suspend that punishment. If
mercy could be extended to the prisoner, it could
only be attained by au application to- the Secre-
tary of State.
SINGULAR WAGER.--011 Saturday se'rmight a
number of villruse politicians assembled at the Horse
Shoes, in Oulton, near NVakefield, and were en-
joyin?'
. their social glass, until time pointed his en-
viousfinger at " eleven !" when the hottest hostess
reminded them that it was time to adjourn for
the night : they accordingly rose to depart ; when
one of them, named Holeroft, a resident of Pon-
tefract, began to complain of the length of his
journey (nine miles), upon which a stripling,
called Jos. Swales, who was present, offered a
bet of half-a-guinea, that he would carry hint
safely on his shoulders within 'six hours. This
task was deemed impracticable, Swales being
an exact prototype of Shakspeare's half-starved
apothecary, while Holeroft, on the other
band, may be mote aptly termed a lineal de-
scendant from John Falstaff. The wager lacing
made good, Gulliver monnted on the shoulders
of the Lilliputian, who started front Chilton a
few minutes after eleven, and pitched his load
opposite the Sessions House in Pontefract, pre-
cisely• at half-past four, more than half an hour
before the time alkwed. A number of persons
accompanied them from °allot), to witness the
novelty of the undertaking, as well as to render
assistance to Swages, in case of his breaking down.
NExT SATURDAY.---4. DISK respectfully
re-
minds his best Friends, the Public, that the State
Lottery finishes Next Saturday, on which day
Three Prizes of Tg20,000,
'three Prizes of 5E2,000,
Three Prizes of ,kl,OOO,
And 23 other Capitals,
Must all be drawn.—Bisst's Offices (asusual) hare
been in the present Lottery mote fortunate than
those of any other Office-keeper, as he sold Three
out of the few Capitals drawn First Day, and
hopes Next Saturday to be again pre-eminent for
good fortune.—Undrawn Tickets cud Shares are
selling at his Offices, 4, Cornhill, and 9, Charing-
Cross; and by his Agents in the Country.