The Sun.
London, England, 1817-07-08 00:00:00

SPECIAL COMMISSION.

A Special Commission was appointed to try the
following prisoners :

Win. Ball was indicted for the wilful murder of
Sarah, his wife, on the 21st of October, at. Heli-
goland, by knocking her down, and otherwise
ill treating her.
The prisoner was tried by a Special Commission,
and the prw,ecutiun was catried.on by the Soli,
ci tor- GenerAl.

The prisoner was a soldiei, and resided with
his wife at a lodging not far from the barracks.
It appeared by the evidence adduced, that the pri-
soner had been drinking all the afternoon of the
day stated, at a public-house not far Irom his
lodging, and he was accompanied the latter pit
of the time by wife; they were both inebri-
ated. After they got home, some words ensued,
and she was found dead upon the bed soon after,
with marks of violence about her head. A wit-
ness, named Lucas, heard them quarrelling. Ile
saw the prisoner strike the deceased twice with
his fist, but he did not knock her down. Other
witnesses proved the striking. -
Win Brick wood, the publican, proved that the
parties were not sober ; and Peter Scliwartz, who
lived in an adjoining room to the prisoner, heard
the deceased call out, " don't • str,ke- are, Bali "

He ahem :ink beard a noise as if some one had
fell upon the floor, which was followed by-gt oau
ink; or sooting, as the witness described it. Wit-
ness afterwards sa v the wonnitt dtatl upon the
bed, and the prisoner was weeping by the aide of
her. •

Dan. Ryan, a soldier, proved that the prisoner
said to the deceased. ‘vhen she begged of him not
to strike her, that he would settle her by and bye.
Another witness proved that the deceased tell
down twice trout the drects of .drink.

I'atrot, a surgeon, opened the body and
head of the deceased, who died in consequence
of the rupture of a vessel on the brain. There
were bruises behind the neck, -and incisions be-
hind the ears as if done with nails. The material
blow was on the temple, which might have been
occasioned by a fall or with a fist. The vessel
might have been ruptured by drink alone.—GuilfY
of Manslaughter.
Henry Harkroot was indicted for ti.e wilful
murder of William Fitzpatrick, by drowning him
in the Canton river, in China. The prisoner
and the deceased' were bath seamen belonging to
the Union East Indianian, and being in the ship's
boat coming up the river, a dispute erose about
the deceased's not pulling properly, when the pri-
soner, Said he Would throw him r overboard; the
deceased sail he could not do it, upon which the
prisoner caught him up, and putting him over,
said, •` there you are ;" the deceased-sunk and
did not again appear, until his body was tonnd
several days afterwards. T!ie 'witnesses said the
water was shallow and the bottom muddy, in
which the deceasei probably' stuck ; and they be-
lieved the prisoner only meant to give the de-
ceased a ducking, as he would 'have thrown him-
self overboard when he Intimd the. deceased disap-
peared. Verdiet—" Manslaughter."

SINGULAR CIRCUMsTANCII.,,A man name
Jen-
kin, residing on the island of Trescaw, in Scilly,
having some damp gunpowder in his possession
this week, very incautiously put about 21bs. of it
in an iron pot over the fire, in order to dry it. He
employed his wife to blow the fire, whilst he
s'irred the combustible matter with an iron poker!
The pot becoming heated, a dreadful exploion
took place, attended with lamentable results.—
The MRII was struck blind ; his thumb and hand
were lacerated in a shocking manner ; and his
clothes, and several parts of his body, were much
burnt and injured. His wife likewise was severe-
ly scorched. But what is most remarkable is,
that not a vestige of the pot has been found since!
(Cornwall Paper.)
The following audacious robbery was commit-
ted on Friday :—A youth was sent by a Gentle-
man in Lincoln's Inn-fields to the banking-house
of SysEs and Co. in Mansion-house-street, with
a draft of 1701. He was desired to tie 15 ten
pound notes, and the rest in small notes. The
Bankers said, they happened not to haie so many
tens in their drawer, and they gave the boy
note for 10/. 'and one for 501. with directions to
step to the Bank, and get them changed 'for tens, •
which he accordingly did. On returning home,
he was accosted by a man with a pen behind his
forgeries, and l
tilirgnl y witht
ke taken bins
eriaari,)kw.ho said the two notes he had given in were
back,to at
11:
(ei
boy' ew
was uasetc orredti
when in the Rotunda, the fellow, who bad the
'appearance of a clerk,. took the notes, tinder the
pretence of carrying them to the Cashier, and in
an instant disappeared. The lad, after waiting
half an 'woe, gave an alarm, but in triin.
.re much more severe than our Readers were
We tnulerstand that the effects of the late storm
were
to imagine from the
,statement in our last, and
it must, be" regarded as a most fortunate circum-
statice that the Magazine escaped its ravages. A
body of condensed electricity struck the:chimney,
which it shivered to pieces-as far as the coping,
scattering the bricks to a distance of from 30 to
40,yards in various directions, tearing up and
breaking the coping stones for many feet on each
side of the chimney. It afterwards descended
into the cellar, where the walls were injured in
various parts, and after forcing np tt large stone
on one side, and. part of the pavement on the
other, concluded with an astonishing explosion,
.I,lriel) for the moment seemed to threaten the de-
struction of the
,_txbole.of the building.--(Ports-
mouth

SEEDS.

Red Clover (Foreig.n) . —s 70s to 90s per Cwt.
Ditto English sos 84s to 96s

Whiteditto. •. 6os Stis to lOps
Rye-Grass
Turnip, White ... 2O, Od to '26s ud per busit:,
Red iltd I =teen ..
0 bite Mustard Seed 4s Os to 9s Od
Brown ditto 7, Oil to, 16s 04
Carrawas S:n!ds
Cimino Fi,iin .25s WI to 4os Od per ctr.;
Coriztit6r do.
'1 rein i
1004iass .
Canary —s 42s to 5Us 04 per qr.
Ditto (old)
Linseed Oil CAe at for Mill, 121.'125. per thousand.
Rape C.ike 91. Us. to .01. U. . .

13,03111
Corn-Inspector's Reim.'

DGE.
t.—'Thursday, July 3.

Wheat perl,l. 201 Os to 351 !Os I Beans , 46s Odle 7Os
Barley, per. qr. 38s Od to 48s Oct Pease —s Ott to —s 01.
Oats

PRICE

New Bags.
Kent
Sussex ll i Os to 131 Os

NEIVGATE AND LEADENHALL MAIIK,ETS.
By the Carcase.
Beef 3s Od to 3s 103 Veal - 2s B,l to its 84
Mutton .... 3s 4d to 4s Od I Pori: • Ss 8d to 4s lit

Lamb, 4s Od to 5s 4d

ST. JAMES'S HAY MARKET, July 5.

Hay 3l 04 Od to 61 84 Od-Average;. 41 144 Od
Straw
Clover Ol Os Od to 01 04' Od--Averagej, Olf m od

WHITECHAPIA, HAY MARKET.

Hat` 01 Os Od to 51 Ws Od-Average od
Straw ll lis Od to 2I 2s WI-Average', 1113 s Od
Clover. 6i Os 041 to 31 Os 041--Average, 71 Os Od
New ditto.. 31 102 Od to 51 Os Od-Average, 41 hs