The Sun.
London, England, 1810-10-16 00:00:00

'• Hg's no blabber. 1 find." says Horgtio.

He turifti on his heel and went off in a pet,
" Heigho !" says Horatio;
,rowr.'d on us all ere away we could get,
luat as niuch as to say, " I've not (lone with you yet."
66 With his tomp.stohr,
" We had better make off;" says Hcoatio.

soon came in agai., so 1 told hiM my mind
I" Says Horatio, .
Says 1, " quite sure you've left something behind,
Surne treasure, perhaps, your.extc'to,s can't find.
With' his tbinb-stone, &c.
' " Y,u'd best stew 'where hid," says Horatio.
He rxem'd not to like it, and look'd rather black,
- Heigho !" says -Horatio,
As much as to say, " You had best hold your clack,"
But he heard the cock crow and was off in in a,crack.,
With his tomb-stone, Sec.
" You're a rum kind of ghost," says HoratiO."

111oeh conversation has been excited by the bloW-
ing up of the Coffer. darn,
,at the Lunt-house end of
the \Vest India Docks; it is everefOre hoped; that
as two accideles of the kind have happened at those
Docks (one of whiLli was very calamitous, in killing.
a number of -•:iikineri) particular rare will be
taken in etectlng the coffer dam at Milbank, .?hick
has been said to be necessary ; for seould a simi-
lar a,..cident leiepen there, dreadful and destruct;ve
taus' be the consequence, as it would not only lay:
great part of ‘Vesoiti.:tor under water, but inun-
ate the country trcni thence Chelsea, and 'de-
stroy those fi c itch gaiden-gieundse lying. beneath.
the eri‘er e...bankments; and belonging to .Leru•
Gresvonor, Lord Salisbury, the'Deali and Chipter
of Westminster,: and. others. It is not generallt
known t'tat ►L.reat. part of Westminster was ern-
d fro.. the Thames, and Westminster Abbey
bui.t on a spot, ,oiciently called Thorn Island, round
wlecti the river dewed.
The highway .robbery of which Cryer was con-
via*ed, an for which ho received sentence.. of
deate at Peterborough Sessions last week, was at-
tee , a vt,ith the following circumstances :—lt ap-
vai a that. Hugh Marlin, the prosecutor,• a poor
•who had beet, at harvestwork rn Cain-
brittees /16s, was returning through Peterborough,
cm road to his dear land of powt, es, ou Thurs-
day evening, the eeth ult. when he met the pri,
sorer in the street (it being then nearly dark), and
asked,ritin • if he could chew him the way to a
lodging house?. The plisonerAwhois also an Irish-
man), knowing probably from the prosecutor's
voice, that he 'wa- a countryman, answered, "
I canuat, but rather than you shall go without a
bee, you shall have balruf mine"—" Good luck to
your honour," said Pat, ." -Will you go into this
public-house, and have a glass of•rute 1' To this
the erisoner readily assented ; andthey sat drinking
till aotert half-past ten, when they left the house,
aad soon after, instead of fiedieg. biin-elf in the
prisoner's bed-room, the prisoeer cotiduetett the
pour fellow into a held near the town, where he left
hene.andshortly atterwards returned with anther
who knocked the prosecutor down, took front
ait his hard- earningS, and not coutelit with this,
cet btf the- feet of iris stockings, under the suppo7
sitton that bank notes aright .have been concealed E
there. They then lett hen, aid the night. teing
eseedingly daik, the prosecu:ur could not find Its
Aiql); Out of •the held, butTernained.tbere all night.
As soon as it was light, he loutid his way to Peter-
borough; and r was discovered sitting on a s:one, •
weeping and lautenting his loss, when, upon being
askew the cause, he related if with SO much artless-
ness, and deseribed tie prisoner with such accu-
rnt he was apprei.ended upon parade, at;d
coeitnitte'd was proved'by a soldier,
with whom bb -was quarteretiand slept, that he w.,s
ote ut .his +tailors on the night of the robbery, and
les t•Vitiende I.yetigcutrooora!ed by other testurony,
lOtlad theTTlSocierßUl.ty..