The Sun.
London, England, 1819-08-21 00:00:00

SATURDAY, AUGUST 21, 1819.

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A NEW ENGIISHGRAMMAR. .
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THEORY and PRACTICE of ENGLISH
GRAMMAR; adapted to' the new Modes of Instruc-
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in SyNl'4x is
Elucidated by various Exailes also Remarks on Punctua-
tion, Prosody., Rhetoric, and COmposition; equally useful to
the Private Student as to Public Seminaries. •
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DR. KELLY'S BOOK-KEEPING.—Sixth Edition.
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THE ELEMENTS of BOOK-KEEPING ;
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By P. KELLY, LL.D.
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DEATH OF BURNS' FRIEND,
,SU'S'OR JOHNNIE."

TO THE EDITOR OF THE EVENING COURANT.
Ayr, 24th July, 1819.

SIR—No circumstance with which the memory
of BURNS is associated can be uninteresting to this
admiring country. lam 'perinadea, therefore,
you will not grudge a corner of your excellent
paper to record the death of an humble individual,
who is, however, destined to immortal remem-
brance, along with the exquisite poeraitr which
he isintroduced

But to our tale.—Ae winter night
Tam had got planted unto
Fast by an logic bleezing finely,
Wi' reaming swats that drank divinely,
And at his elbow " Swroa JOliN NI E." •
His ancient, trusty, droughtie cronie ;
Tam lo'ed him like a vera brit her,
They had been fou for weeks tltegither ;
The Sutor tauld his queerest stories,
The landlord's laugh was ready chorus l.Sce.

The person thus humorously described, was
John Lauchlan, shoemaker in Ayr, being known
as an intelligent, lively, and facetious companion.
When the weight of years deprived him of the re-
sources of industry, and having no relatives in a
condition to provide a home and a pillow of ease
for the decline of his life, he retired to a charitable
institution. There, however, he only slept. The
kindness of many friends supplied him with all the
other comforts his age and infirmities required; and
his son, now grown up, would have taken him
home, but be was contented as he was, and knew
that his " auld banes," would soon be removed
where they would give no pain to himself nor
trouble to his friends. On Wednesday last, he
was carried to Alloway Church-yard, about three
miles from Ayr, attended by about fifty respect-
able inhabitants of the town, and buried a few
graves from that of the venerable taller of our
Poet. The cottage where Burns was born is si-
tuated about a gun-shot from Alloway Church ;
and many who have since visited that interesting
spot have asked, with no common interest, for
the grave of " Sutor Johnnie."
For more than twenty years past, crowds from
all quarters and countries have visited Burn's
native cottage, and the scene of Tam O'Shanter ;
and such has been their eagerness to possess some
relic, that they have not left an inch of the " roof
and rafters," or any other part of the wood-work
of " Kirk Alloway." I myself was forced to be
contented, at the 'expellee of a blistered hand, and
with a bad pen-knife, to cut a slice from the tree
that spreads its branches over the consecrated

I may mention, that the first notice I got of
the death of Tam's boon companion, %vas from a
respectable person ou the top of the Ayr coach,
who exclaimed, without any previous conversa-
tion, and in a tone of regret. " I
.should hae
gane yesterday to the burial o' "ptiir Stator
Johnnie." J.

DIABOLICAL. ACTS.-Between eight and nine
o'clock on Thursday evening, some villains fired
61 loaded musket into the windows of the back
parlour of Mrs. Wares, No. 4, Grove-place, Cam-
den Town, and shattered sixteen panes of glass
to pieces, and lodged three grains in Mrs.
Wares' right shoulder, as she was leaving the
room. The shot was extracted from Mrs. Wares's
arm without doing her any material injury. No
cause can be assigned. for the villainous act.—
On Wednesday night, about a quarter past eight
o'clock, Mr. M‘Donald, Surgeon, residing at.
No. 18, Nelson-street, Stoke Newington, wept
into the surgery, where he was compounding
medicines, when some ruffian fired at him from
the back fields, but fortunately the ball struck
against the window'sash, near the bottom. Mr.
M'llonald was standing close to the window, and
had the ball been half an inch higher it would
undoubtedly have hit him, and probably killed
him upon the spot.

SEDITIOUS PLACAIiDS.

MANSION-HOUSE.
BISFORR THU LORD MAYOR.

In consequence of the Seditious Placards which,
for some time past, have been posted up by some
persons Unknown, and by. night, in and about
London, Westminster, and the Borough of
Southwark, the Mansion-i-kuse Police Officers
were ordered to be on the alert to discover

if pOssible the Printers or other persons in-
strumenial to the promulgation of those inflam-
matory, publications. A posting bill was on
Thursday morning stuck up on the walls of the
Mansion House, which, in allusion to the recent
occurrences at Manchester, called on the people
in terms such as these :

"7o ARMS ! and revenge the murder of yourfellow-citi-
zeo, butchered by the Military at Manchester."
A large broadside posting-bill •was also pla-
carded in various parts of town, announcing the
Meeting propoaed.to be held at Kennington Com-
mon, on Monday next, a day oil the week long
chosen for sedition and tumult by Hunt and his
ragged and dangerous crew of disciples, and me-
morable for the rebellious outrages of the Spa-
fields Convention, because that is the day usually
devbted to idleness and intoxication, by the
drunken, profligate, and disorderly, among the
labouring classes of the metropolis and its su-
burbs, when the preachers of sedition are sure
to find a crowded auditory, ready to imbibe their
political poison, and support their rebellions ef-
forts, should a favourable opportunity be afforded
them, by the lenity or the lassitude of those
whose duty, and we are happy to -add, whose de-
termination, it is to put down by yigour.,the daring
spirit of sedition.
The Meeting on Kennington Common, on Mon-
day, was alleged to be forthe discussion of Reli-
gious and Political. Freedom, Parliamentary Re-
form, &c. &c. The placard called upon all the
Friends of Freedom to follow the example of their
fellow-citizens it Manchester and Other manufac-
turing districts in the North'; and as an additional
inducement, it announced that Hunt would take
the Chair. To this placard was annexed the name
of William Harris, as printer,; and this man was
found, after minute inquiry,. to be a journeyman
Printer, in the employment of a master printer
named Cunninghan. Harris was yesterday
taken into custody, and being brought, up for
examination, he underwent a long interroga-
tory befOre the LORD: MAYOR, to which he an-
swered with great apparent candour and fair-

ness. • -
- As the statements which he made throw a consi-
derable light upon the miserable situation in
Which the pretended Committee of Two Hundred
ire, and spew what contemptible leaders the Ra-
dical Reformers act under, we shall be sorriewhat.
particular in detailing the questions and. answers
in the course of this examination.
Harris I delivered in a copy of the bill, and
in answer. to the question by whom he was ern,
pinyea to print it, he said he was employed by
one Dennis Shaw, btit that the paper was not in
ShaWs hand-writing.
The 140.41:0 MAYOR.—What were you to be paid
for printing these bills 2.—Thirteen shillings a
hundred.

Flow many have you printed ?—rive hun-
ched.

He employed you 3 who paid you ?-111r.Shaw,
at tour different times, by instalments ; he paid
one 12s. 6d. first, about 16s. on Monday morn-
ing, and a third sum afterwards, and the balance
on Wednesday night.
Do you happen to know what Shaw is ?—He is
e shoemaker, Sir.
Does he keep a shop ?—No, Sir.
• Is he a housekeeper ?—Yes, in Francis-street,
Westminster-road, No. 4.
Do you understand what Committee he h au-
thorised to sign " by order of ?"-1 do not.
Have you made any inquiry into that fact ?
No, Sir, I have known him a very short time ; a
friend recommended me so Mr. Shaw last. Wed-
nesday week ; I went to him to give a copy of
the proofs, that is all I had to do with it ; re-
ceiving orders for carrying proofs out, and receiv-
ing the money, that is all I had to do with it.
You were recommended by a friend of yours ?
Yes, Mr. Webb.
What is he ?—A shoemaker, in Kent-street.
Is your press duly entered ?—No, Sir, I have
not a press, I am a journeyman printer out of
employ; my master lent me his press, and it was
set up with his type ; and he requested we to put
my own name to it.
You put your name by your master's request ?
what is his name?—Cunningham.
Where does lie live ?—Shoe-lanc.
Was he aware of your using his press and fix-
ing your name thereto !—Yes, I could not have
access to them, without his leave.
Was any reason asigned why you were to put
your name to it ?-I.le only said he had rather I
would put my name fo it.
Was there any reason assigned why ?—Yes, Sir,
the reason assigned to me was, that he had had
some dealings With them; they had not paid him,
and that he did not wish it to be known that he
had any thing to do with them ; be bud done sonic
bills for some of the Committee, and had not been
• paid ; that was the'principal reason he assigned.
I suppose be thought they would in preference,
pay you as a poor man ?—YeS, Sir, I would not,
let-them have the bills till they paid a part.
You received the instalments for printing the
bills ?—Yes,
In fact neither the paper, the type, nor even,
the ink, was your own Sir, when I receiv-
ed the order ',had not one. penny in the world. I
beg leave to say, being saht of work and.haviog a