The Sun.
London, England, 1819-11-27 00:00:00

CRIMINAL INFORMATIONS.

Mr. ScARLETT moved to the a criminal informa•
tion against Sir N. Conan: t•littl other iNligistrates,
for taking away the' liceoe of a victualler named
Me,k: The Learned Counsel moved on the
ground of illegal conduct on the part of the Nla-
gistrates.—The Court granted a rule to show
cause.

Mr.TAUNTOti moved for leave to file a criminal
information against Mr Edwards, a Magistrate
at Montgot»ery, for kr pioperly and maliciously
issuing a warrant against Hugh I%'4liams, an
Attorney, on a charge of rape.
The of in support of the motion stated,
thilt the charge had been preferred by Mrs. the
tvife of one Evan a Farmer, to avoil he.
sued in an action of debt by the said Hugh
win/,,,,5. The warniiiit %l as obtained on the 13th
of August, and the Magi, rate, according to sib-
da‘it, did not proceed on it until the 18th, when
the Grand Jury bad lett the Sessions. The conse-
quence was, that the defendant was liable to re-
main three months longer in custody upon are

charge.
The Court granted a Rule to slim cause.
BLASPHEMOUS PAMPHLETS.
THK KING V. :41oRTEli..

The defendant, a vender of seditious
.and blas-
phemous wollis, appeared to plead to an intortna-
ftm flied by the Attorney-General charging him
with the puhlic3tion of a profane and,. hi/1311e-
moos iibel.

utter the information had been lead, be re-
quested I.nger time to plead, and took till next
Term. He %vas [ben ordered to find bail, but bad
none ready.
CONSTABLES OF MANCHESTER.

Mr. WILLIAms moved for a. mandamus to the
Overseers of Manchester, commanding them to
hy before the inhabitants of that town an ac-
count of the expellees inctored in paying con-
stables, &c. for the last three months. His
affidavit stated, that the accounts had been sub-
mitted to the inhabitants, but that several

items for printing, &c. had not been properly
explained, and that objection against the passing
of the account had been taken by ti Mr. 'Taylor,
but without effect, and they were agreed to. The
object of the present motion was to have theta
again submnied to tl,e inhabitants, rand these
items propeilv explained --Rule Nisi granted.

ROBBERY AND ATTEMPT AT MURDER.—Yester-
day morning, about five o'clock, as Mr. Thomas
Hooker, a respectable farmer residing at Sr.
MaWs Cray, Kent, ;vas coming in a light cart to
Smithfidd with some calves for sale, be was most
despeiately at tacked near Chiselhurst by a gang of
armed ruffians, six tit number, who sprung iron' a
held on the road side, and have for a long trne
been the terror of that part of the country. One
of the villains irv,tantly seized the horse's head,
whilst another jumped into the cart, and seizing Mr.;.
H. by the collar, dragged him out on the ground.
He was then surrounded by the remainder of
the gang, who rifled his pockets of 151. in Bank of
England notes, his watch, &c. It .was then pro-
pco.ed by one of the villians to murder Mr. H. which
was agreed to, and they all began to beat hint
about the head and face with bludgeons in a
most inliumor, mluner,,. till he was to all up..
nearance dead. hey then decamped across the
fields, leaving Mr. Honker weltering in his
blood. Mr. Hooker 'baying i-ecoVercd front his
insensibility, with difficulty got into his Bari Mud
drove on to the halt-w,ay
,house, where a surgeon
was sent for. His head was actnally beat to a
mummy 5 one wound on the' forebeen• had Irac-
tured his scull to the brain. his nose was broi(cri,
and his left eye.completely.bcaten out of it, socket,
and the whole of his front teeth were out. He woe
conveyed to Bartholomew's Hospital.

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