The Sun.
London, England, 1810-08-24 00:00:00

YORK;, SVAIMER ~/ISSIZES,

Fiances, ilardcast le I.l'as indiSed for laurgiarionsly-
entering. the dwelling- 11°96e. ot. kienjamin Cundal_l,
of Nunittonkton, on the evening of l'oeSday„ the
3:st of-July last, and stealing and taking away, a
quantity of wearing apparely two silver spoon, and.
other things, the property of the said Benjamin
Condall and others i ant by, a secvtld count in; the
the prisoner was' charged with stealing
the said property, and- breaking out Of the said
dwelling-ho,use 'therewith.
Mr. RAIN'E staled the case, whichl was , made hut
by the-following evidence.. -
Benjatnin Cundall, the prosecutor, said, he lives
in the parish of Nnninonkton, in...,the West Riding
of this county, about ten miles west of York : the
prisoner at the-bar left his. service three years ago,
hating liVed with him five years as servant : in his
dwelling-house, in the back parlour, 'litre isn slid-_
ing window, which used. to be fastened by a gimlet.
The bureau in the parlour was fastened the night
before the witness went to bed, and no knife in it;
had are betties of gin the day before in a heanfet in
the parlour, also dome tea and sugar, which he put
in bitriself the day before. Wit nessytise next Morn-
ing about half past four-o'clock, being first tip ; be
went into the kitchen, and was. surprised at finding
the door open : lie saw burnt paper on he kitchen
floor; he then went into the back parl.;ul-, the win-
dow of which was open,. and the•flooreovered with
burnt paper.; he missed two sheets of writing paper,
two overseer's warrants, and son,ie newspapers:
Alice Cundall, the prasecutor's wile, said, that
she went to bed near ten o'clock in the night of the
3t st 'of July,-and left a fire in the kitchen. The day
. before she saw a shirt belonging to her son Joseph,
and on Tuesday, afternoon she-saw two silver tea-
spoons, marked A.C." lying in the bark par our
window, which she missed next morning: she was
[iv in the parlour the night before, about ten
o'clock ; she went to pray there directly -under the
window ; the-slide of-which was pulled to, but don't
know ‘-‘ hetter it was hst.

William Atkinson, servant to the prosecutor, said
he fastened the kitchen door about ten o'Clock in
the evet,ing ; be iiut the bar across, and fa,terwd
Peter Gill', a boy not quire twelve"yeari of age,
being explained the nature of an oath, said he'was
servant to Edpard Spink; in Skipbridge. Lane. His'
waster called him up on the Wednesday mort2ing,
jasi as the was strikinvfonr,; and the'clock6
was forward . in going to fetch up his master's
horses, he (net a woman about One hundred yards'
from hii ta'ster's house, upon tLe'road :which leads
to York,.whir.h is about five milesfroM Robert Cun-
dall's house ; 'he had not seen her before, but 'said
the prisoner Was her ; she asked him where 1;e was,
gong ? Ile answered he was going to feich, up the
horses ; she asked if he could drink a glasS of din ;
he said no several, times, but at, last he did,take a
sup,• and she gave hint-some spice 'cake and cheese,
which shetook out of a bundle-she had upon her
head. She said he WAS to tell their other men, if
they had any, that his sweetheart had'ocri,•en,hini it.
She had a pink gown on,' with sleeveS.down to lier
fingers of the same sort, a velvet bonnet, and a
white petticoat : she had four bottles- in .the basket
and some meat in it, but wilngss did not see what
sort it was ;• she had a. large bundle upon.her head,'
wrapt up in a check apron, and a . basket on her
arm, and went towards York.

To quesOonsby his LORDSHIP—Witness said • his
master waked him just as the clock was striking.,;•he
might be about ten minutes getting up, and met
the prisoner almost immediately af[erwards he did
not knotty the clock m,ai forward, but beard his
ter say so. •

Relijamin Cundall, the prosecutor,, was again
called ; he said he missed some cake which had
entrants in it; he only missed three bottles of gin;
and .one with some tea in it. Saturday morning
following the witness came to York, and with Jo-
seph .Pardoe, found the prisoner about three o'clock
in the afternoon, with two other girls, asleep under
a hay-stack, oti the east side of the York barracks.
We waked her : I said, " Fanny, Fanny, what
hast thou been doing V' She got up, and said she
would go with me, and I should have the things
again, tf I vtfould only.forgive her. I told her, it was
then out of my power to forgive her. Witness went
on the road with the prisoner and Pardue towards
York, and when near the _Castle Milli, :she and
Pardoe went into a house, witness stopping at the
door till 'they brought a bundle out. She had a pink
and white gown on, and also 4 white petticoat. He
had seen the gown in his house, but cannot say how
long befOre.' Afterwards they went to a house in
Jubbergate, and there. searched the bundle ; they
found tea and sugar, a white petticoat, stockings,
and pocket handkerchiefs. She had a grey beater
hat on. • Witness theta said, " I asked tier if she
!ad taken the long knife,to open the desk with, and
she said the had. -[Here his Lordship asked if he
had made any =promise ; the witness said, he had
not.]—He produced, the, knife ; it was called the
long knife, and when prisoner was in his service; it
lay in the kitchen.-7 Prisoner said in the presence of
witness, that she got the two tea-spoons out of the
window:

Joseph Pardoe, city officer, said , that last Satur-
day, prisoner and he , went into a little huckster's
shop beside the Castle, mills, at York, when she
asked for her bundle, and a woman there gave it
her; is was in a basket, and witness took it from
the priionei. ,There was a, bottle with tea in it,
some sugar, two pocket handkerchiefs, a cap, and
a pair,of shoes. Anothet girl, in_ the prisoner's pre-
sence, when apprehended beside toe hay-stack,
s.iid to witness, " if you'll go to such place; you'll
find her velvet bonnet." Witness took that girl
along with prisoner, and found a velvet bonnet.—
Witness took prisoner to- a house in Jubbergate,
used by him generally. Told prisoner he should
search. her. She put her hand into her pocket, end
'took'out two silver tea-spoorii. Witness told her
atter,' she must strip ; she took off the stockings,
and he gave her others out of the bundle. She pul-
led off a spencer, and gave it to witness, and said
that is all I got from Mr. Cundall." She was
then put into prison, and she sent to the witness to

,telllitin,wtere the rest oldie property Was ;
Went to the place and found a table-cloth, a Che'cl'ej
apron, and a shirt and at anot tier place also poii'let
out by the pri•oner, l.e found a filunel petticoat,
cap, hahit-shirt, and apiece of new chith.
Betjarnin Condit was 'again. calle4l ; the 11.
silver tea-spoons produced by P.irdoe marked ti•lle
were sworn to by this witne,S as his property ;
pocket7h3ndkerthief mArkeil- .E; C. belonged t(),:'!s
daughter, the- other marked J. C. belonged to 'll

son. ; •
Alice Cprrdall was acasin. called ; said they lioi,i(s:t
such thing.:
.as the fiaunel,,p, tticoat- and caps 1,
could not swear, positi%ely them ; but swole (•
the-shirt as belonging wirer. sun she knew It b) 3
ut in the cloth. - • id
Elizabeth Cuncl pro-Fecutot's daughter,
the shirt beltiliged to her brother, Juseoh
she made it for hint ; the bonn,4 was her's, an" it
was in the house on Tuesday evenlng.
on
Gilbert Crompton, Esq. of N unmunkion, pre
that 11,,njamin Cundall's home was 1::ye
from the place where Peter Gill tilet with the
;sorter.
His Lordship recapitulated the evidence, and the
1
Jory.found the prisoner Guiltyupon the sec°
count in the indielment.

SPORTING IA TE I, LIG E NCE. •

READING RACES.

TUESDAY, AUG.
A Sweepstakes of :ogs.eact)-T-4-yr '7st. rolb:; 5
8. t. 6ib. ; 6-yrs, Bsc. - 'and aged, oNt. Ik11c) et
geldings allowed lib. One ;bur-mile heat. ve.
Mr. Dundas named Romeo, 6-yrs old walked-
Slime aay,aPlate of Sol. for three add four years old.

' - Mile heats.
Mr. Dilly's hi. h'. japan, 4-yrs -- - - -
.Mr. I rior's b. g. Woodwell.hc.ad, 4.yrs -
Mr. Smith's bl. f. 3 yrs . - - -

FOUR-IN•HAr4rl.—The following article k"l'Li•ft t
apiieared in -a Dublin, l'aptr is j;6
r,
notice of the Ja6l:ill Jekus on this sick of :the
The Engl:sh Journals are content 'whit 11`;a
tical strictures upon this country, but have extel',„
their remarks to the sl.antei of. private ci
Without any gtound wha,soever for the stateoJel'.
and without a Wold of the. matter • beino-known,
Ireland, they have established a Four- in'fi-land CI":
,in this country, which they state to h r%e poets
sembled at the Curragh,and to be similar: in its
stitution to that Which, discredits a portion of tie
E+ nglish nobility and gentry.--,-Those
even gone so far a.to specify the names of the nt
be :s who they ,say form the Society.: : Ai we W".
tnat.some-of those with whom the Engli,b
have taken this liberty feel' themse:ves degrAle‘`,,
the representation, we have to say on their beb,'er':
and'ive.mav add, -on sehalf- of the Irish charac'
, that the statement iS,uttetly untrue; and 11it
is lio,such, Society n Ireland as that which con"tit,
_a gentleman into. a -coachman,: and subsiitttes it
slang and vulgarity of the whip,- for that deporttli°`l;,
„and gentility of manners which society •exa6ts
11
the nobility and gentry of every country. )i
not yet, thank Gddi gone so 'deep in tie measure to
_ national debasement, in stupidity and IoPT,
forth clebs for learning the science of ccracli-d6".,",,
We have noticed the .hate of a yonng I\ol)l6,;jls-
arriong those thus diqragnished by th rw e_Elisb -"c
tors, upon whose character this fabrication is a Sic,„
libel.' It is ;he ,name of one who, upon a lane `4.
;sion, in the House of Commons, itnpressed Wtt''o4
much genuine feeling upon his-coutitrymo,
duty they owed to the notate
,soturn, and theire‘j
tion of residing at tome ; and who ,must have. ej
very diffei•ent notions of the advantage to he derl.„lt
by following his counsel, than. what could
from the instiftrion of a Four:in-band Club ill 1
land.
ere
,Tuesday morning, as Some
,bales of cotton wo,
craning' up in a wenehOn,ie at the London D'crc,
the slings broke, and in cvnekluence the bales iIZ
on two of the labourers, one was killed on 14' `1
Ctr
and the other so shockingly crushed as to be
to the hospital with little hopes of recovery.