The Sun.
London, England, 1821-08-02 00:00:00

PRICE SEVENPENCE.

Coveney, in 1810, at St. George's, Southwark ;
they had two children, and lived apparently
happy together; Miss Johnson, before her
marriage, resided at Baldon, near Canterbury;
in 1819 the plaintiff was arrested by the defend-
ant; he remained in prison nine months, and
came out under the InSolvent Debtors' Act.

Miss Felicita Johnson, sister to Mrs. Coveney,
said, Mr. Yorston visited the 0. P. six weeks
after her brother took the house ; he was friendly
with her brother and sister • the conduct of her
sister, subsequent to Mr. Yorston's visits, was
careless towards her husband ; she remembered.
her sister going to visit her father at Whitstable ;
when she returned home it was in the
evening ; she said that she had stopped at
Chatham all night and had come home by the
Chatham coach. When she came home she was
agitated, went up stairs, and burst into tears.—
Her brother was taken to the King's Bench, and
during his absence Mr. Yorsto❑ visited the 0. P.
and P. S. more frequently than before. On one
occasion when the plaintiff had obtained a day-
rule, he entered his house at one door, and the
defendant went out at another. She once saw
the defendant kiss her sister. On her cross-
examination by Mr. GURNEY, she said the players
and other gentlemen were in the habit of going
into the bar to romp with and kiss her sister;
the witness endeavoured in vain to keep them
out ; Captain Smith lodged in the tavern ; her
sister went out with him twice in a tilbury ; she
never saw seven or eight persons take liberties
with her sister before Air. Coveney's face ; she
never heard•any licentious language; she did not
know that Mr. Coveney was drunk twice a-week;
she knew when he was tipsey—he was made so
by. Mr. Yorston.
Mary Norman said she resided as chamber-
maid at the Bear and Staff, Cray ford ; she remem-
bered two persons coming to her master's house
on a Saturday in June or July, 18i 8 ; they
went by the name of Mr. and Mrs. Colford ; the
lady came first, and the gentleman about a quar-
ter of an hour after; the gentleman inquired for
the lady, and was shewn to her ; he asked for
his wife, and they went in one room together ;
the witness had not seen them since.

Cross-viamined by the SOLICITOR-GENERAL.—
She said she was taken by Mr. Coveney to !Val-
worth, where she saw a lady pointed out to be
Mrs. Coveney ; she knew it was the lady who
slept at the Bear and Staff in June or July 1818;
she also went, by order of the plaintiff, to a sta-
tioner's shop to buy a stamp, and saw a person
said to be Mr. Yorston. It was the person Who
slept with the lady she had before described.
She would not take upon herself to swear the
lady pointed out as Mrs. Coveney really was
Mrs. Coveney. She was only informed that the
female she saw was Mrs. Coveney.
James Saxton said he was landlord of the Bear
and Staff. Ile remembered a lady and gentle-
man coming to his house in 1818. They came
on Saturday, and stopped Saturday and Sunday ;
he had no recollection of the parties ; to his
knowledge he had not seen them since.
The CHIEF JUSTICE here asked Mr. Scarlett
whether he had any better evidence to identify the
parties.—Mr. SCARLETT said he had not.—The
Learned Judge then observed, that there was
not sufficient evidence to support the case, and
that the plaintiff must be non-suited.—The
plaintiff was accordingly non-suited.
[This action occasioned much interest among
theatrical persons. Keau, Oxberry, and other
performers were in Court.]

THE ROM/1N BRIDGE IN HOLLAND.—Gronin-
gen.—The Roman bridge, which was discover-
ed in Holland, in 1818, is now wholly cleared
from the turf with which it was surrounded. It is
three miles long, and twelve feet broad. It was
laid by the fifteenth cohort of GEttmAxicus over
the masrhes, in which deep beds of turf have since
been formed, and, in all probability, gradually
sunk into the marsh by its own weight. The re-
sinous particles which are i❑ the marshy soil have
probably contributed to preserve the bridge
which is entirely of wood. Every six feet there
were posts to support the railing, as may be
judged by the holes in which they were fixed.
This great work, which consists of a judicious
number of beams, appears to have been wrought
with very large axes ; the workmanship is ad-
mirable.

MELANCHOLY OCCURRENCE.-Tuesday even-
ing, as Mr. Warford, of Hesten-lane, Middlesex,
was returning home across the country, accom-
panied by Mr. Chambers from Rickrnansworth,
(where they had been dining), the horse got out
of the road with the chaise in Ferney-fields, and
precipitated the vehicle down a steep precipice
of several yards, by w hichit was broke in pieces
and the horse disabled. Mr. Chambers, who
was on the near side, had his arm and collar-
bone broken. Mr. Warford was so much bruised,
and his limbs are so much shattered, that no hopes
are entertained of his recovery.

FATAL PUGILISM.—Two men of the names of
Codrington and Delrillc, the former a coachman,
and the other a paviour, having had a quarrel at
a public-house at Newington on the subject of
politics, on Monday nigtit, they put down ss.
a piece to adjourn and fight the next morning,
rather than at the time, both being drunk. They
met at four o'clock in the morning and fought,
or rather wrestled, and gave each other heavy
falls until six, when, on a sudden, Delville was
hurt by the last fall, and he was carried away,
and died in two hours after from the rupture of a
vessel in the head.