The Sun.
London, England, 1828-03-15 00:00:00

No. 11,080.

ADMIRALTY-OFFICE, Maucit 12, 1828.
WIDOWS' PENSIONS.
IVOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN, That all
11 Widows who receive Pensions from the Charity for
the Relief of the Widows of Commission and Warrant
Officers of the Royal Navy, must send or bring to this
Office, between the 20th and 31st of this Month, the Affi-
Javit required by the Rules of the Charity, in order to their
being inserted on the Pension List, which will be prepared
next Mouth and paid on the 10th of May next.
All Letters from Widows respecting their Pensions, or
requesting supplies of Blank Affidavits, must state the Rank
their Husbands held in the Navy. J. W. CROKER.

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NORTHERN CIRCUIT—LANCASTER, MARCH 12.
wHITEHEAD V. SPENCER ET UXOR.
Mr. ROTCH opened the pleadings. The declaration was
in trover.
Mr. BROUGHAM stated the plaintiff's case. The plain-
tiff was a very respectable attorney at Liverpool, and the
action was brought to recover compensation for the loss of
an umbrella which had been detained by the defendants.
They would find that about the end of April, or beginning
of May last, the plaintiff, who had been all day engaged in
professional business, had gone into the house of the de-
fendants to procure some refreshment. The house was in
appearance a respectable tavern, although the jury might
have reason to think that it was not of the best character.
The plaintiff, however, had been ignorant of its character,
and had gone into a room up stairs, and called for a glass of
wine, which had been brought to him. A short time after-
wards two females had entered the same room, and also
called for some refreshment. The maid servant of the de-
fendants brught to these ladies two glasses of liquor, and
then applied to the plaintiff for payment. The plaintiff, of
course, had objected to paying for any liquor, except the
glass brought for himself; and in the end the servant,
whose name he believed was Inglis, had carried the three
glasses down stairs. The glasses having been removed in
the way be had stated, the plabliff followed down stairs,
with the intention of leaving the house. Before he got to
the door Mrs. Spencer had called some of those men who
were always found in such places, to turn the plaintiff out
of doors, he was turned out of doors with great violence,
and his umbrella wrested from him. It was for the loss
of the umbrella that this action was brought.
Mr. Witmasts, for the defendants, said, that if the age
of astonishment had not entirely gone by, he should have
been astonished at the plaintiff bringing such an action as
this into court. What could be his motive ? It could not
be interest, for even if a verdict were given in his favour,
the damages could only be nominal. Was it, then, ambi-
tion—a thirst after celebrity? Celebrity, indeed, this
action would confer, but it would be celebrity of a singular
kind. They were told, that fatigued with business here
and business there, the plaintiff, although his own house
was not far distant, had gone into a tavern for
refreshment. There, forsooth, he had not been
a very long time, before two ladies—and (shocking to
say) two ladies of the town—had presented themselves be-
fore his astonished eyes. Nothing could equal the plain-
tiff's surprise at beholding them,—nay, had two Lunarian
ladies suddenly dropped down before him, they could not
have excited more astonishment.—(A laugh.) Now would
not the Jury be more inclined to believe the defendant's
case, which would tell them that the plaintiff and the two
ladies had entered the house together. It was not sur-
prising that, fatigued and harassed as the plaintiff had been
by the fatigues of one profession, he should feel a desire to
solace himself in the association of another. But his per-
verted ambition had even here displayed itself; for, instead
of one lady, which would have been the choice of most
people, nothing less than two would satisfy a man thirsting
for celebrity.—(Laughter.) He seemed anxious to show
the world, that even when oppressed and fatigued with busi-
ness, still two ladies were not too much for him. There was
an old saying, " Non omnia possumus omnes," which
had been wittily transcribed, " One man to one woman,"
(Loud laughter)—but the ambition of the plaintiff could
not be satisfied with so limited a proposition. In fact, the
plaintiff had entered the house with the two ladies, but at
the time he was intoxicated ; had ordered a glass of wine
and water for himself, and for his companions what they
pleased. The liquor had been partly drank, and then the
plaintiff had expressed his intention not to pay for it. The
behaviour of the plaintiff to Mrs. Spencer and her servant
had been very violent; and, as they had heard, the plain-
tiff had already had to pay for his violence.
Mr. Baron HULLOCE summed up the case to the Jury,
who found a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages, 2s. 6d.
Mr. WILLIAMS applied to the Learned Judge to certify
to deprive the plaintiff of costs; but the Learned Judge
stated that he would suspend his judgment on that subject
until the next cause had been tried.

The Tunbridge Wells road has been rather
unfortunate this week with regard to accidents. A new
coach called the Crusader, has been overturned twice, and
a van to carry passengers, which only started on Monday,
was, on Thursday thrown over, and ahnost dashed to
pieces in descending Madams' Court Hill, near Seven Oaks.
ANECDOTE.—His late Royal Highness the
Commander-in-Chief remarked to Colonel W., at the mess
of the 11th Regiment, that the Colonel was uncommonly
bald, and although a younger man than his Royal Ilighnes•
he stood more in need of a wig. The Colonel, who had
been of very long standing in the service, and whose pro-
motion had been by no means rapid, informed his Royal
Highness that his baldness could be very easily accounted
for. "In what manner ?" asked his Royal Highness ra-
ther eagerly. To which, Colonel W. replied—,,
junior Officers stepping orer my head." The Duke was
so pleased with the reply, that the gallant Colonel obtained
promotion in a few days afterwards.

DREADFUL SHIPWRECK.—We lament to
state, that advice,: were yesterday received at the Navy
Office, Somerset-house, of the loss of die transport Amelia,
and that all on board—eighty souls—had perished. The
intelligence came by express from the Agents to the Navy
Board ; and the grief occasioned thereby was of the most
painful description, as may be supposed from the melan-
choly fact of several very young and promising men, the
sons of gentlemen connected with the Navy Office, being
on board when the vessel was lost. It appears that the
Amelia left the River a very short time ago, with passen-
gers and goods, to call at Gibraltar. She was overtaken
by a dreadful hurricane when she arrived off Gibraltar, and
notwithstanding all the efforts of the Commander, who is
stated to have beon a man of great skill, the vessel was
driven upon the rocks, and no assistance could be rendered
from the shore, owing to the dreadful gale. We have not
been able to get an authentic list of the sufferers, and shall
therefore forbear naming those we have beard. We bear
that apprehensions are entertained—and we sincerely hope
they may prove unfounded—that other vessels, and particu-
larly transports, have suffered from the severity of the same
tempest.
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KIRKCUDBRIGIIT, MARCII 10.—On Satur-
day the body of a female child was found floating on the
surface of a loch within the farm of Borness, in the parish
of Borgne. The spectacle was painful in a high degree.
A piece of cord adhered tightly to the neck of the corpse,
and it was but too obvious that life had been sacrificed in
the vain hope of hiding the parents' sin and shame.—
Though the body was greatly decayed and disfigured, from
the length of time it had lain in the water, it was inspect-
ed by two medical gentlemen, in the presence of the
Steward-depute and Fiscal, almost as soon as the fact was
known. Our readers will recollect, that a child which
disappeared in a most mysterious manner, was born at
Southpark on the 30th Dec. 1827, and that after the
usual examinations, the supposed mother and another in-
dividual were committed to jail, and will of course be in-
dicted to stand trial in April next.--Dumfries Courier.
CIIILD MURDER.—On Monday week, the
body of a female infant child was discovered, tied up with
some stones in a sack, in the mill-dam of Messrs. Etus's
corn mill, in the township of Manningham, near Brad-
ford ; and on Wednesday, an inquest was taken before Mr.
STOCKS, at the house of Mr. JOHN JARnATT, the Globe
Inn, Manningham, when it was stated, that a youth, about
fifteen years of age, of the name of JOHN CoFLEY,
had
found the child in the dam, tied up in the sack with stones.
Mr. Bcaustorr, surgeon, and Dr. MACTURK had ex-
amined the child, and their opinion was, from the appear-
ance, that it had been alive, and had come to its death by
violence. No clue had been found by which the unna-
tural mother could ha discovered, and the Jury returned a
verdict of Wilful Murder against some person or persons
unknown. Soon after the inquest was held, a surgeon
was sent for by a young wernao in the neighbourhood,
who had become alarmingly ill : the cause ot her illness
was soon discovered, and an inquiry was made what had
become of the child, of which she had been recently de-
livered. To this question she at first returned evasive
answers, but at length she confessed
it that she was the mo-
ther of the child that had been found in the mill dam.—
Her extreme debility rendered improbable that she could
have carried the sack, weighted as it was with stones, and
a suspicion exists that she must have had an accomplice.
Proper measures have accordingly been adopted to inves-
tigate the circumstances of this horrid transaction still
more closely.... Leeds btelliyencor.