The Sun.
London, England, 1817-08-15 00:00:00

IRELAND.

EXECUTION of HENRY BURKE, THOMAS CLARKE,
THOMAS dORMLY, and THOMAS ROCHFORD.

On Monday last the dreadful sentence of the law
was put in execution on these unfortunate men,
pursuant to their sentence on Friday last. Pre-
cisely at 12 o'clock, Henry Burke and Thomas
Choke appeared on the fatal drop, attended by
their Cie: gyrnah, who, we are glad to find, had
the happy effect of bringing their minds to a pro-
per sense of their awful situation, very different
to that determined spirit of revenge exhibited by
them in Court, on hearing the awful sentence of
death pronounced on them. Indeed Burke evince:l
a depravity of mind, even to the fatal moment, that
we have never before witnessed on a like occa-
sion ; both acknowledged they were guilty of the
nitirder, for which they were justly to forfeit tlieir
lives, and in a few 11/0111e4ItS were lautichA into
eternity.

At halt-past one Thomas Gormly and Timms
Rockford were brought out to'suffer the like sen-
tence ; they appeared deeply penitent, and im-
pressed oit h the solemnity of their awful state ;
after spending a few minutes in prayer, they also
were launched into eternity. After the bodies
were banged the usual time, t!iey were all put into
a,cart, and taken to the County Infirmary to be
dissected and anatomized, pursuant ti.) the statute ;
after which they were re-conveyed to the gaol-
yard for interment.—(illullingar Paper.)
IRISH MAN FACTUNE.—On Tuesday last three
men and a woman wete committed to Wexford
Gaol, by A. H. JAcos, who' were detected by that
active Magistrate, in the neighbourhood of Ennis-
corthy, in the act of manufacturing leaves ot• al-
der, birch, &c. so as to resemble the vrious kinds
of tea imported from China. About two hundred
weight of this deleterious article, together with
the sheets anil blankets used in the process of dry-
ing, were lodged in the Custom house stores.---
(Wexford Herald.)

WATERLOO BRIDGE.-Tlierc was a -very serious
affray as early as Eve o'clock yesterday morning
at Waterloo Bridge. A man, named W. Carey
pushed through the toll-machine, but refusoa to
pay the penny, a►leging that it was oat his inten-
tion to pass over the bridge, but merely to exa-
mine the toll-machine. Hiller, the Collector, re-
monstrated with hitnb and was knocked dow,n for
his pains. IVestrop, the other Collector, came
to his assistance, and received so severe a cut in
his face, from a blow by the prisoner, that he ran
and fetched a loaded pistol, with which he threat-
ened to shoot the prisoner. Lloyd', a waterman,
interfering, was seized by the prisoner, who with
the most savage fury hit off the greater part of the
little linger of his right hand. The piece was
shown in the Office at Bow-street, where the pri.-
soner, after a violent struggle, had been convey-
ed. The Magistrate (Sir N. CONANT) thought
the case too seriOns for him to proceed against
the prisoner merely for the penalty of 101. incur-
red by his refusal to pay toll. He recommended
that he should be held to bail for the three out-
rageous assaults. At the same time be repro-
bated the intemperate conduct of Westrop in
using such a weapon as a loaded pistol ; and in-
timated that if death bad ensued, he would have
been guilty of murder. Carey was held to bail for
the three assaults.

Mr. SADLBIt is about to make another ascent in
his balloon, from r)ublin, accompanied by a young
laxly of the name a TnowsoN, and a Mr. 1.4-
viNG,ToN. They are to take their deparatre from
the Putt o Bello barracka.

LI.W INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF CHANCERY, AUG. 14.

QUEENSBERRY ESTATES.

The" LORD CHaNcer.toa said, he bad looked
into the accounts, and now allowed 242,500/. three
per cents, calculated to be 194,000/. which was
the sum required to pay one-fourth of their lega-.
cies and interest to the legatees, and of their ar-
rears to the annnitatats. He ordered, at the same
time, that the residue of the funds should be paid
into Court, liable to the claims of the Duke of
Buceleuch, the Earl of tVentyss, and the tenants
of both ; and that no money be paid out without
notice to all parties.
Mr. HART, on the part of the residuary lega-
tees, said be was not aware of any objection.
Sir A. PIGOTT.—No objection can reasonably
be made from any quarter ; for after this sum is
paid, there will still remain 1,258,733/. 15s. 3
per cents, which at the present price is equal to
1,100,0001. sterling money. Nay, should the
price sink to 50, which is not very likely, still
there must be funds sufficient for all demands.

The Loup CHANCCLLOR.--TIIC magnitude Of the
fund is the consideration that renders the trans-
action safe.

OPERA. HOUSE.-WATERS V. TAYLOR.

The LORD CHANCELLOR said, he had lead the
several papers and accounts in this case. He (lid
not know vihether the other party had seen the
accounts given in by Mr. Hart. It they had, he
hoped they could come to an agreement among
themselves. They should let him know by to-
morrow morning whether they did agree. If they
could not agree, he would then give them his view
of the case. He could regard it merely as an or-
dinary estate in which two purchasers were inte-
rested. Whatever inconvenience might result
trom this view of the case, he could not help it.
Mr. HART. --Your Lordship views it as
estate possessed by wo tenants in common.
The Loan CHANCELLOR.—Not exactly so; but
if the estate in common should he purchased
under certain burdtits, it may be considered as
the same. Burdens imposed atter the porchase
was made do not come under the same view.
Sir SAMUEL ROMILLY.—DoCS not your Lord-
ship think that the defendant should be appointed
to pay into Court the sum he himself proposed ?
There was au agrement to pay in the month of
December last.

The LORD CHANCELLOR —The agreement, Sir
Samuel, to which you were now going to allude,
is the strongest part of your case. Let me know
to-morrow morning whether the parties agree as
to the accounts. I can regard the case only as
it it referred to the purchase of any house iu
Chancery-lane.—Judgment referred.
JUDK IN in the Matter of JUDKIN, a LUNATIC.
Mr. AGAR moved the Court to give some posi-
tive directions ns to the physicians that were to
visit the lunatic. Though his Lordship had or-
dered that the Gentleman should be. visited, the
other party would not consent to let any physi-
cians go to him,. but insisted that he should be
carried to a considerable distance.

The I.OIID CHANCELLOR.----YOll wish to hare
him visited by your ow's physiriaog
Mr. HART.—That is exactly their wish, my
Lord. This lunatic lives at Bioadsham, 10 miles
from Chester. They wish that he should be
visited there by our physician 10 miles off, and
their physician 20 miles off. We propose, as much
more reasonable and less expensive, to bring hint
to Chester, where any two physicians could con-
veniently see him.
Air. AGAR rose to reply—

The [iota) CITA:MEL:OIL-The time of the
Court is not thus to be occupied by nonsense.
An old Geolleinan, in the custody of his sons, is
to be visited by physicians ; let him come to
Chester for that purpose ; or it you will have
him visited at home, you pay all the expenses.
Mr. AGAR again rose.
The Lora) CHANCELLOR.-3f you persist fur-
ther, I must order a physician for yourself.

SUSSEX ASSIZES.

LEIVES.-SPECIAL JURY.
ARP.A.D.IMS U. COLE% AND ANOTHER.

This was an action brought by a LTC W, at Brighton,
against the Globe Insurance, Company, to recover
the sum of 1301. being the amount of the loss
which he alleged that he had sustained in conse
quence of a fire which happened in the bed-room
of his house.

The Insurance Company resisted the payment
of the demand, first, because the statement of the
loss was fraudulent, the goods destroyed being of
no greater value on a liberal computation than
101. ; and secondly, because Abrahams. had him.
self set his house on fire.

Mr. GURNEY, as Counsel for the Company, re-
lated the suspicious
,circumstances under which
fire to.,!pj IL.. .0 %Wiling
of Stui-
day, the 10th of November last, the neighbours of
Abrahams were alarmed with a smell of tire,' and
Some of them made their way to the bed-room,
where they ..found a candlestick wider the bed,
which was blackened with smoke, and above it a
fire in the sacking and matress, of several inches
diameter ; a small basket, which was said to con-
tain the valuables destroyed, was also on fire. The
neighbours procured the means of extinguishing
the fire, and the first liquid applied for that pur-
pose was a pail of hogs-wash, of which the bed-
curtains produced in Court gave ample testimony.
Abrahams himself gave the first alas or of fire, by
ronniug to Mr. Micky, the Company's Agent at
Brighton, begging him, for God's sake, to come
and put it out, or he would be a ruined man. Mr.
Bahley naturally inquired why Abrahams had not
staid to put the fire out, instead of coming to him ;
but the latter replied, that he thought the only
way of putting it out was to go to the Company's
Agent. This Mr. Gurney humorously compared
to
,the story of a man who ran three miles to the
.Coroner, telling him that his wife had hung herself
on the bannisters, and that he had left her quite
warn). Th.: Coroner said, " You cut her down,
of course ?"—" No, Sir," was the reply, "
thought it best to come to you." Immediately sub-
sequent to the fire, one of the Directors of the
Company, accompanied by the Surveyor, went to
Prighton to inquire into the circumstances, and
felt satisfied, from Cm gross prevaticatious of

Alo.,ihaillti, NIA .the accounts given by the neigh-
bours, that the fire was not accidental. A part
of the claim was for Bank notes and promissory
notes, which Abrahams declared was burnt in a
pocket-book, the corner only of which was singed,
and the whole amount of the property destroyed,
the bed and bedstead excepted, was said to be
contained in the small basket under the bed,
which the Company's Surveyor swore was not
capable of containing ;he one-sixth part of the
things enumerated. In this basket Abrahams said
he had deposited his property for safety, although
there was a chest of drawers in the same room
which locked. Among the things destroyed were
Mr. Abraham's whole stock of shirts, the one on
his back excepted ; them the washer-woman, who
bad been in the habit of lighting them to bed
and attending upon the family on the Jewish Sal)•
bath, declared to be of very fine quality, and
swore that all the rest of the linen was fine like-
wise. The Surveyor, on the other hand, declared
all the remnants which were produced to be of
the coarsest description.
Mr. IMARRYAT, in his reply, combated the oh-
jections of the Surveyor to the value of the arti-
cles, and observed, that the Surveyor, must have
viewed the articles as requiring the sutra stated tib
patch and repair them.; whereas, if Abrahams was.
not entitled to new things, he had at lerst a right
to expect that they should be replaced by-articles
equally good, and compared the Survey(); 's mods
of computing to the case of a man who hoot one
boot destroyed by a fire, when it was debated
whether one boot should be provided to complete
the pair, or whether he should hart: a new Fir
entirely.
Mr. Justice DALLAS, in-summing op, commented
at great length upon the evidence, and said, that
although he had formed a decided opinion opoit
the hnmincl,s; it tiv-as not for him to state that opi-
nion to the Jut y ; it was for them. Itul them only,
to decide upon the merits of the ves.ion, and he
had no doubt thicy would do it conscientiously.
The Jury in about five minutes returned it ver-
dict for the defendants.

KENT ASSIZES.---Friday afternoon ended the
Assizes for this County, r.'hen 26 pi koncrs
Capitally convicted and received sentence of (tea; b,
viz.:—Edward Martin, Samuel Cramp,
Turner, John Simons, alias Brown, George kVen—
man, William Morgan, and hest Smith, for
ic-
laiiy; George Qiiineal, alias Walter,
Mannering, Rose Talfslier, Thonuis Luscortib,
Henry Martin, Thomas Forster, alias 11-Lr,
Bi*O9t, WM. Swift, and Thomas Dungate, alias
Timms, for burglary ; Thomas tc-
turning front trauspor! ation; Wm. Louder, J:lin:s
Grant, Wm. Bentley, and Stephen Briant, for
horse stealing ; Wm. Godthi, and Joseph
for sheep stealing: l'trick Durkin, for high,,,y
robbery ; George Sig Ons, for all jinnatural crime;
and John Williams, ;or feloniously and falsely
personating and assuming. The very humane and
merciful Judge, Sir It. DALL.,s, Kit. reprieved the
whole before his th.part are front hence, ex-eept
Morgan and Siggins, who are left for execution
ou the 21st inst.

A RoNIANTIC DEATH young-roan and a young
woman were some days ago found hanging on the
same tree, in the wood of Vesinet. Honore Noel,
aged 24, resident at his father's, a sawyer at Cl►a-
ton, and Victoire Henriott, aged 19, of the same
place, where an%iotis to be married together,. but
their parents opposed the union,. A letter, writ-
ten by Noel on the day of the event, and signed
by each of them, was addressed to the Mayor of
Chalon : it purported that Noel, having been
unjustly charged with robbery. could not survive
the insult, and that he had persuaded his mistress.
to die with hits.—(Pari3 Paper )
SHOCKING ACCIDENT. - Yesterday evening,
about .seven o'clock, as a little girl, of the name
of Goulding, ‘‘ hose parents residt in Fleur-de-lis-
Court, Fleet-street, was hastily crossing Fetter-
lane, she fell, and a coach, which was passing at
the time, unfortunately passed over her. No blame,
it appears, can be attributed to the coachman,
who was driving at a very slow pace, but owing
to her rushing suddenly out of the court, did
not perceive her till it was too late.—She was
taken to the hospital with very little hopes of re-
covery.

Fatal Effects of Excessive Drinking.—Wednes-
day an Inquisitioo was taken at the Windmill,
Bowyer's-lane, Camberwell, before CHAIILUS JED. -
MF.TT, Esq. Coroner for Surrey, on the body of
William Hughes, aged about -40 years. It ap-
peared from the evidence that the deceased was a
labouring man ; about eight o'clock on Sunddy
evening he came in company with two others to
thelViodmillpublic-boose, he was then in a state of
inebriety, and they called for several pots of beer,
which they drank in a very short time ; they called
then for large quantities of ruin, gin and other
raw spirits, and the deceased drank of them very
freely: In this manner they continued till bet %veva
It) and II o'clock, whew' the deceased bt came
quite insensible, and wAs unable to stand ;‘in that
state he was carried home to his lodging close by,
where every assistance was rendered for about two
hours, but which proved ineffectual, as he then
expired. Verdict—" Died from excessive Drink-
ing."

Blit'rHS.
On Wednesday last, the Lady of my. Frederick Williitrt
Carter, of Southwark, solicitor, of a daughter.
On Sunday last, at Lec, Kent, tits Lady of Frederick Per-
kins, Esq. of a danghter.

MARRIED.
On Wednesday last, at Waltharnsto;s, Thomas Charlton
Speer, M.D. a Bath, to C'atherine, eldest daughter of Tlionlas
Templetoan, Esq. of Whip's-cross.
On the 24th of March, at St. lNlary's Church, Madras' the
R. W. A. Keating, M.A. Cimplain to the garrison of Fort
St. George, to Margaret Wray, third daughter of Thomas
Lewis, Esq. of Dean-ludge, Ealing, Middlesex.

DIED.
On Wednesday last, at Roadale, in the 491 h year of his
age, the Rev. William Horton, one of his Majesty's Justices
of the Peace for the County of Lancaster, third son of the late
Joshua Horton, Esq. of llowrcyde.
On.the 12th inst. at Quainton, Bucks, in his 75th year, the
Rev. Illaden Downing, Rector cf that place, and Perpetual
Curate of Nonington, Kent.
At his house in North CUMberland-street, Dublin, John
G. Battier, Esq. in the 68th year of his age, formerly a Major
in his Majesty's 51h Regiment of Foot.

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