The Sun.
London, England, 1821-11-10 00:00:00

DUELS PREVENTED.

On. Thursday information was received at
Bow-street Office that Sir Wm. ADAMS, the cele-'
prated Oculist, had received a challenge from
Mr. GEORGE Rimini) MELIN, an Assistant Sur.:
geon in the Army, who some time since resided
in Duke-street, St. James's, to fight a duel, and
t hat the challenge had been communicated to Sir
W. ADAMS by Mr. RENDALL, Who was understood
to be an Officer in the Army. This affair coming
to the knowledge of the relatives of the parties,
information was given to Sir R. BIRNIE, who
issued his warrants for the apprehension of Mr.
G. RIcHARD MELIN, the- Surgeon, and Mr. Jots
RENDALL, who had communicated the verbal
message to Sir Wil.r.tam. They appeared at
the Office yesterday, and underv-ent a private
examination, when both parties were ordered to
find bail to keep the peace against Sir Wm. ADAMS
till the next Sessions. The cause of dispute be-
tween the parties did not transpire; however,
we understood that Mr. MELIN denied that the
message he sent by Mr. RENDALL did amount to,
or that he intended it for a challenge for a duel:
Information was communicated to BACON, a
constable belonging to the office, residing at Ken-
sington, about seven o'clock yesterday morning,
of a duel about to take place between Lieutenant
W. KELLY, and another Gentleman, supposed to
be an Officer in the army, whose name was not
known. BAcoN repaired to Chalk Farm, and
arrived there a few minutes after eight, when he
observed five or six gentlemen in a field near•the
spot, where he learned they had been about
three quarters of an hour making arrangements;
the Officer approached them, when a tall gentle-
man observing him, presented a pistol at him, and
exclaimed with a horrid oath, " By J--, who
are you, what are you, are you a robber, for I will
certainly shoot you ;" the Officer immediately ex-
hibited to him his staff of office, and said he was
a Peace Officer. The Gentleman continuing
to present his pistol 'at him, he desisted ap-
proaching towards him. One of the other
party then came near the Officer, when BACON
addressed him, and said he appeared to be
of a milder disposition than the tall Gentle-
man, and informed him that his object was
to keep the peace, and to prevent the duel being
fought, and asked him if he was one of the party
who was about to fight the duel ? He replied
that he was not, and that he was attending there
professionally as a surgeon: the Officer at the
same time observing a pistol in his hand he made
a sudden snatch at it to disarm him of it ; the
Gentleman resisted, and in the scuffle it provi-
dentially flashed in the pan, or instant death
must have been the consequence. The attempt
at discharging the pistol is supposed to have
been mere accident, and not design, from the
conduct of the supposed Surgeon, who is strongly
suspected to be Lieutenant K-. He appeared
much alarmed, and ran off across the fields to-
wards Highgate, following his companions. The
officer pursued them for some distance in vain,
although he was unarmed.

It never rains bud it pours.--This is an old.
saying, and never better applied than to Bisn's
offices : for we have generally remarked, that
whenever he has begun well he has always kept
it up, as the saying is. The first Prize drawn
this Lottery was 7849, R 30.000, that 1.3t51l
sold ; the next Capital was No. 602. RlOOO,
that Bisn sold ; the next was 2032, 1.)300, that
Btsli sold ; the next was 6'275, £300,. and that
Bisn sold. There was not. a single oche: Prize
drawn that day above X2OO, consequently he
could not sell any more. There are.nowTwo
R 30,000 Prizes, and Three X 5,000 Prizes to
draw. It is very likely Bisit has not yet sold
those, but it is not improbable he may have them
now on sale at his Offices, 4, Cornhill, and 9,
Charing Cross.

CHILD STOLEN.—Last Tuesday evening a little
girl, aged three years and a half, the child Of a
Mr. ALEXANDER, who lodges at a potatoe-ware-
house, in Tottenham-court-road, was, on her re-
turn from school, at five in the evening, sent
down to play at the door,- and in five minutes
was missed, and has not since been heard of,
though the most diligent research has been made
by the distracted father. The child was dressed
in a lilac poplin frock, brown beaver hat, plum-
coloured shoes, and a pinafore. She is fresh 7
coloured, and her name is SARAH MARGERITE
ALEXANDER.—The mother was confined in the
morning, and to afford h.er quiet was -the'lreason
of the child's being sent down stairs. The poor
woman's state of anxiety is beyond description.
An Account of a remarkobte 2'l;w in the State
Ohio.—Taken from a Cincinnati Almanac.—
" On the land of Abraham Miller, in the town-
ship of Seal, county of Scioto, in this State, there
is a forked hollowed sycamore tree, which mea-
sures, on the inside, 21 feet in diameter, and
more than 00 feet in circumference, tapering
from the base upwards, so that at the height,of
five feet it measures only forty-two feet. The
opening of :he cavity at the bottom is 10 feet
wide, and seven at the height of five feet, termi-
nating at .the height of 6k feet. The fork is
,about 8 ,feet from the ground. One of ti
,branches is dead, and broken off about 11 feet
high : the other is green .and thrifty: The,spa.,
cious cavity attracted the attention of thee: people
in the neighbourhbod ; 140f.whein.assembled, on
the sth day of June, 1808, on the spot, and 1 3
of them advanced, on horseback, into the trunk,
and, at the same time, sat there with perfect ease.
The other being; on a skittish. horse, did not yen-
lure iii ; but here Was a room for two more to he
'perfectly secure from a falling shower of rain."