The Sun.
London, England, 1819-12-31 00:00:00

EMPLOYMENT OF THE POOR.

On the question of Adjournment being moved,
Sir W. DE CHRSPIGNY expressed an opinion,
that the plan suggested for the employment of
the Poor of the Metropolis, would give great sa-
tisfaction to the people.
Mr. H. DAVIS could not refrain from express-
ing his satisfaction at what had just been stated
by the Chancellor of the Exchequer. The Royal
Person at the head of the Government had, on
this as on every other occasion, proved how
deeply he felt for the distresses of his people, and
bow ready he was to conic forward to relieve it,
where this was practicable. It happened to come
within his knowledge, that a large sum had been
offered to his Royal Highness for Dartmoor Fo-
rest on lease. This offer had been refused, that
the land might be given up, as had now been pro-
posed, for the employment of the Poor. It would
from this be seen, that his Royal Highness, in,
thus coming forward on the present occasion, had
made, for the benefit of people, a great pecu-
niary sacrifice.

The House then adjourned till Tuesday, the
15th February.

A MollsTea.—lt was stated a few weeks since
that a brute, habited as a gentleman, had stabbed
a young Lady .walking with her sister on the foot-
path leading from the Edgware-road to Kilburn,
because they refused to listen to his impertinent
importunities. Another instance of this kind oc-
curred on Tuesday evening, and the perpetrator
answers the deseription of the fellow who cut the
young Lady. A female servant named Hobbs, in
going on an ertand, near the Yorkshire Stingo,
Mary-la-bone-road, was rudely laid hold of, and
she struck the assassin with a basket, when he
stabbed her in the arm and fled.

Ecktraet of a letter from- the Agents to Lloyd's
at Ramsgate. and Deal, dated Ramsgate, Dec.
28 We regret to acquaint you with the me-
lancholy fate of Hokum, one of the Branch Pi-

lots of this place, who yesterday, off the North
Foreland, was proceeding to a vessel in the ot-
fing in a Broadstairs boat, with a crew of six
men, when the boat shipped a alia, kud the whole
perished.",

AFFLICTING CASE OF DISTRESS.

CORONER'S INQUEST.-jetaerhy.an Inquisition
was taken at the Coopers' Arms, Neot-street, Sr.
James's, before Mr. HIGGS, on the,body of Ca—
therine Lewis, who was found dead in her room
on Wednesday morning.—It appea-ed that the
deceased, who was about sixty years of age, -had
lodged for the last four years at No. 23, Neot-
street, in a back room, on the second I. uor. She
had no friends in London, but some ..lations in
the country, in good circumstances. She had
been formerly well off; but her husband and her
son being onfort'unately some years' ago-Aro wned
together, she lived upon what li!tle property
they had left, and lately had disposed of her fur—,
niture to support life.. Site lived as it were
eluded from the world, and her spirit was so
great, that she would not inform tier. relations of
her distress, nor even those who occupied the
next room to her. It being at last discovered
th4t she wanted food, the landlady and the
lodge's used to send her sometimes a plate of
meat ; it was een,rally left in .the room,
without being offered, not to hurt her feel-

f

ings. At last she was, prevailed on to apply for
parochial- relief, and was to have been al-
mitted into the workhouse on Monday lase.--r
Saturday she went down stairs for something b it
fell down in the passage, through weakness, and
was assisted up stairs. On Wednesday- morning
on going by her room door, and finding it open,
her landlady took the liberty to look in, and saw
her lying on the floor. She attempted to lift herd"
up, when the diicovered that she was Owl. She
had her clothes on, and was cut in the race, where,
it was ,upposed she fell upon: the floor. The
landlord of the house saw her alive on th' pre_
ceding night ; The was then reading-s,,me o'. fire
husband's letters, as was her usual practice ; he
made her goo to bed, because the reading of ihe
letters generally affected her mind and produced a
desvndency. Tle,e were some victuals iu the
room, when she was found. dead. The July
thought the want of the necessaries of life faci-
litated her death. Verdict---,Naturat Death. .‘

SHOCKING ACCJDF NT.—On Chrisim‘s night
Margaret Moffat, wile of one of the Burgh 015-,
eers of Peebles, was burat to death before the
eident was discovered. Wunt maktic the dictum—
stance•more melancholy is, that her husband was
in the room all the time, very much intoxicated,
and there is no reason to doubt that she was also
in the same state.

Monday a Coroner's Inquest .was held at Frome
Woodlands, on the body of Ann Moore, aged 66,
who, on returning front consulting, with her ma-
,in-law on the approaching funeral of her father,
aged 91, was found dead in a field not, far from
her cottage, supposed from an apoplectic seizure.
On Monday last, an inquest was taken by
LIAM LEMMON, Gent. Coroner for the Hundred
Clackclose, on view of the body of Catharine, the
wife of Mr. John Berrier Kettle-well, of Down-
ham Minket, iw.the County of Norfolk, officer of
excise, who on,the morning of that day died slid••
denly, in the 35th year of her ace, while in the
act of making bread, leaving a husbat.d and two
infant children to lament their loss. Verdict—
" Died by the visitation of God."—lt is a singu-
lar and impressive truth, that the day forrntglit
previous• to her dissolution; viz. on Monday the
13th ult. Mr. K. became a member of that most:
laudable Institution, the Fakenham Provident So
ciety, thereby, in the event of his death, securing
a comfortable provision to his widow and children.

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BIRTH.
On the 29th inst. at- Woodentt-house, Oxon, the Lady of
Thomas Fraser, Esq. of a still-born daughter.

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MARRIED.
On Sunday the 14th inst. at the house of his Excelleticyr-i4 •
the Earl of Clancarty, his Britannic Majesty's Ambassador •
the Hague, Lieutenant-Colonel Sir James /loupell Ciiil.4oo°
Bart. to Septima Sexta Colictou, daughter of Rear•Admiial
Richard Graves, of Hembury Fort, Devon.

DIED.
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On the 24th inst. at Newport, Isle of Wight, Mrs. Gt;h-/ ..;
bins, aged 'n years.
On the 25th inst. at Hertford, Mrs. Dimsciale, relict of the
late John Dimsdale, Esq. in.t he 71st year of her age.
Lately, at Liverpool, Captain Edwards, of the South Dercl ,
Local Militia, late of High-house, near Kingshridge..

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AGRICULTURE, &c.
MONTHLY REPORT FOR DECEMBER.
The Month bas been favourable to the ,
course of husbandry, at this season. The heel
lands, which remained unsown from the hear/
rains in November, have worked kindly for the
seed. The young Wheats in the principal Corti
Districts being free from slug or wire-wormy
never appeared to plant better. The frost bay..
set in timely for clearing the stubbles for earl!' •
Beans and Peas, which the light land far-
mers have begun to dibble, in the Home Dis-
trict ; and the failows, in their last tilth,
work kindly for Lent-corn sowing Irons the same
seasonable cause. The decayed state of t 1,6
Turnips, particularly the forward Swedes, is ge-
nerally complained of, , -I has given a coml..
derable rise to Hay in the grazing countries.---,
There remains, however, much feed on the
ground, upon which Stock will do well, un-
less locked up by a fall of snow. Clover-seed..
from the drought of last summer, yields .but
a scanty produce ; great importations, bolsi-
ever, are expected from Holland and Fldn-
ders, where their crops were good. The ,
Wool-staplers have become pretty active in their
researches after all kinds of fleeces, and conside-
rahle purchases have lately been made at an ad-
vance in price. The Meat markets have had large.. ;" •
supplies of well-fed Beef and Mutton ; but the
Smithfield Club did not afford the usual Christmas '. .;.
exhibition of prime Oxen and Welder Sheep, *1
probably, owing to the subsiding rage for extreme
fatness. Lean Stock, particularly in good aged
beasts, is become scarce, and, of course, higher
priced.

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