The Sun.
London, England, 1828-06-05 00:00:00

EXECUTION OF GILIIANI.

This unfortunate. culprit underwent the final sentence of
the law yesterday, at Ilehester. The tectition took place at
kill-past nine, for fear of accidents from the apprehension
of a large concourse of people who were expected from the
surrondinrr° count' y. Every thing being prepared, Gilliam
signified that he was ready, and proceeded to the yard,
where his arms were pinioned. The clergyman then began
to read the solemn service of the church, as the procession
moved towards the drop. When standing on the drop
he looked round upon the people and made a faint incli-
nation of his bead, when the clergyman engaged him in
prayer for a few minutes, then shook him by the hand, and
retired. The executioner then removed his neckcloth
and placed the halter mound his neck, and, having fas-
tened the other end to the fatal beam, pulled the cap over
his face, and shook him by the hand. He then requested
to have the cap pulled up for a moment, for he thought he
saw_ his brother in the crowd ; his wish was complied
with, he looked round very composedly, but he could not
sce him ; the cap was again drawn over his face, and in
a few awful minutes of suspence, during which he seemed
to pray fervently, the drop fell. A few convulsive strug-
gles, and all was still. The body was afterwards cat down
and carried to Bath for &Winn.

sHIPPiNG INTELLIGENCE.

FROM LLOYD'S, JUNE 4.

DEAL, JUNE Jamaica, for
Antigua, and the Thomas Laurie, from Demerara, have
sailed. Arrived from London, the Charles Kerr, Writhe,
for Bombay ; Penelope, Christie, for Santander ; and the
Belzoni, Talbert, for 13engal.
SOUTHAMPTON, JUNE 3.—Arrived off port, the Vau-
cittart, Dalrymple, for China and St. Helena; and Wel-
lington, Evans, for Madras.
POP.TSMOUTII, JUNE 3.—Anived the Duke of York
steamer, Owen, from Lisbon in five days, with despatches
for Government, and a considerable quantity of specie, on
merchants' account. Sailed the Craigie, Milne, for
Gibraltar.

j FALMOUTH, JUNE 2.—Wind W.—Arrived off port,
the Leeds, Sprague, from New York ; the Dove, packet,
Forster, from Rio Janeiro, sailed 3d April ; Bahia, 18th ;
and Pernambuco, 24th. Sailed the Duke of Marlborough
packet, for Lisbon ; the Indian, Swan, fur the South Seas;
and the Anthony, Hendley, for Calcutta.
DUBLIN, JUNE I.—Arrived the. Fortescue, Anderson,
from Trinidad; Bootle, Attwell, from Leghorn.
LIMEKICK,JUNE L—Arrived the Maria, Crowder, from
London ; Betsey, Baker, from Memel.
Arrived at the Cape of Good Hope—The Leda, Robb,
from Bengal ; Clyde, from Madras; Victoria, front Ma-
nilla, with part of her cargo thrown overboard, about 20th
Feb. during a heavy gale, off Bourbon ; Sesosttis, and Up-
ton Castle, from Bombay.

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POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE.—rYeiterday Thomas Wakefield
the younger was put to. the bar on the charge that he had
been found, between the' hours of ten and eleven on
Tuesday evening, behind the attic door of his neighbour
John Messiah, against the peace of our Sovereign Lord the
King, &lc. .
Mr. Messiah, who is oae of "our peoples" residing in
thike's.place, stated that the prisoner was the son of the
publican residing near him, and some months ago he called
and made proposals to him to address one of daughters,
as a Matrimonial suitor, but that not entertaining a good
opinion of the prisoner he declined the honour. Since
then, he had been in the habit of besieging the house, and
annaying both himself and his family. On the preceding
night, he found the prisoner concealed at`the top of his
haute, and on ordering him out, he was grossly insulted
by him. On being eent away the prisoner returned' again
between twelve and one, and disturbed the complainant
and the neighbourhood by ringing his bell, and he there-
fore sought protection, by binding the prisoner over to keep
the peace.

Mr. Hobler-strongly reprobated the conduct of Wake-
field: He added that as a Jew, Mr. Messiah would pro-
bably object to marry his, daughter to a man of a different
creed, although even the . suitor were the first nobleman
in the land.

.The prisoner observed, .that the complainant's daughter
was not a Jewess, but a Christian, u her mother had
also been.
The complainant said he would rather see his daughter
hanged than married to such a man..
Sir C. Iit;NTEK, who sat for the Lord Mayor, ordered
the prisoner to be discharged, on finding bail for good be-
haviour. •

ROW-STREET.—Yesterday a young lad named Edw.
Whitaker, was charged by his master (Mr. R. Day), a
working jeweller, in Frith:street, Soho, with robbing him
of a piece of gold value 12s.—The prisoner was fully corn-
tnitted.

MaTaistorcr. Yesterday an athletic, jolly-looking
coal-beaver, named William Nicholls, was brought before
the Magistrate, charged by his wife, a well-looking and
wel.Hressed young woman, with committing sundry vio-
lent assnults upon her. .
Me. Halts.--Very strange conduct this. When did
he best you last ?
Complainant—Only last night, your Worship.
Mr. HitLs—What have you to say to this Nicholls ?
It is very shameful in von to treat your wife so cruelly.
'Nichslls—Lord blase your heart, Sir, I don't use her
cruelly—l never struck her in my life,; I love her toe
ranch to hit her.

Mrs. Nicholls.—l swear you atm& me last night.
Nicholls.-0, dear; 0, dear ; how can you swear to
such lies ;..-4Uti knows better.
Mrs. Nicholls.—The fact is, your Worship, he married
me from a very respectable family--very superior to his
own, and that often creates jealousies en his part.
Nicholls.—A better family ! Well, I'm blowed if that
aynt a good un, howsomever. A better family too !
Why yon knowir that we are both a little in the black line
like, for ke is a shoemaker and I am a coal-heaver, and,
dash me, if I arnt seen him as dirty as myself.
Mr. HALLs.—But why do you beat your wife?—it is
Unmanly.
Mrs: Nicholls.—Why, your Worship, he often says he
likes to quarrel, because it is such pleasure to make it up
again.
Nicholls—That true. Lord bless your honour, it is so
pleasant when we come to make matters you can't think.
....,(Loud laughter.)
Mr. HALLS---But answer the charge seriously. How
• came you to beat her last night ?
Nicholls—Shehit me first. We 114-got a nice dish of
bacon and peas for supper, and what dMs she do but all at
once gives me a dab in the chops, which sent a mouthful
of peas down my throat without chewing. So I just gives
her a spat, and that's all about it.
Mr. HALLS-••••You are a very unmanly fellow, and shall
find bails

Nichols was then locked up until be should find sureties
to keep the peace.
MA RLBOROUG STREET. --Mr. John Dun combe,
of 19, Little Queen-street, Holborn, appeared to answer
to an information laid against him by Atkinson, for not
having his name and address printed on the first and last
pages of a work called, "The Life and Amours of John
WilMot, Earl of Rochester."
Mr. Harmer appeared for Mr. Duncomhe, and con-
tended that his client was net bound to have his name on
any work until it was complete, when it would appear os
the first all last pages. • -
Sir G.' WittAliX, -after - examining- the number of the
work in question, said, it appeared to him that it formed
only a portion of " Rochester's Life," and, therefore, he'
considered the informer was in error when he attempted to
prove that it was a distinct publication. It was clear that
"Rochester's Poems" was a continuation of his Life and
Amours;" and holding Mr. Harmer's argument to be
tenable, he should dismiss the information.

WORSHIP-STREET.—It may be recollected, that
we gave a report of an investigation which appeared to
involve, or at least to reqnire, some satisfactory explana-
tion from the parochial authorities of Clerkenwell, and the
police authorities at Hutten-garden, respecting the cruelty
exercised to a boy ahont nine years of age, named Thump-
sow, who had been underfed by a man named Charles
Flewers, a carpenter, at Ifoxton, to erhoin he was in.
trusted. The report also stated, that a sister to the boy,
a few years older than him (and who had also been intrusted
to Flowers), had, about five years ago, run away, and had
not been since heard of. On that occasion the defence set
rip was poverty, and a refusal of relief from the authorities
of Clerkenwell, upon whom the children had a just claim.
The Magistrate, after sending the boy to Shoreditch work-
'roue., and holding Flowers and his wife to bail, ordered
that the strictest inquiry should be made after the fate of
the girl, and that the recognizance of the prisoners required
the production of the girl ; for which purpose he gave a
weok ; and yesterday being the appointed day, the Magi-
strates' parlour was crowded to suffocation. In the mean
time, rumour whispered that a substitute for the girl would
be provided, and this reaching the ears of Garton, the chief
officer, he was determined that the identity of the girl
should he satisfactorily established. For which purpose,
the parties with whom the girl lived, as well as those who
hs.d a knowledge of her person from the contiguity of their
residences to Flowers's house, were also in attendance.
The indisposition of Mr. Benett left the case yesterday in
the hands of Mr. BitotIGHTON.
The lost child was then produced, who appeared to be
about 15 ; she stated her name to be Mary Anne Thomp-
eon, and after accounting as well as she could for her pa-
rentage, she said, that about five years ago she ran away
from Mr. Flowers.* house in phoenix-alley, Long-sere.
She then entered into a lengthened and a plausible detail
of the circumstances that attended her departure, as well
as the subsequent events that occurred to her through life,
Bnt while she minutely stated these facts, and repeated the
name and residence of her employers, and described the
shops for which they worked, yet she could not say that
she ever attended those shops herself, nor was she knotten
to them ; neither did the knew where her then employers
now resided. From the circumstance before stated, the
Magistrate paid particular attention to the statement of the
, girl, on account of the obtrusiveness of a Clerkenwell
pads!' officer, named Davis, who said he knew the family
of the Flowers; and had much difficulty iu getting the girl,
who was the❑ on the town ; but having felt some inte-
rest in the (use, he thought it his duty to look after the
oiel, who was found at Westminster. In answer to this,
the girl said she had not fallen from leer lofty state until
within the last fortnight, although she had been in Guy's j
Hospital from the effects of a. hurt she received in lifting a
weight. The former mist-testes of the girl were then
brought forward as to her identity ; and here the mystery
again comes into operation. The girl's bonnet was or-
dered to he taken off, and Miss Schimell, her first mistress,
stared in her face, when she said, " Your chin resembles
the child that lived with me about six years ago, but you
are now out of my recollection. Pray upon what floor,
or where did I live when you first came to live with
me ?—You lived at Chalton-street, Fitzroy-square, on the
first floor.
Miss Schimell—Were there lodgers in the house? Had
I a servant, and of what size, or age, or sex ?—There was
a lodger overhead, and you had a servant girl about
years of age.
aateithtilae
busAiloiesstet Socfhaimerollb—e
Aand yodureeseamorakkeetri,
cushion or from my knee ?—You work from a cushion.
Miss Schimell—Yonr Worship,
but in place of the first
not the child who lived with me;
I lived on the second floor. With respect to. the servant
girl she describes, she was no more than a girl about 12
I will not swear she is
years of age, little older than herself ; and with respect to
working from a cushion, I never used such a thing.
Mrs. Beaumont, of Tottenham-court-road, With whom
wdoithl euvsoerk
the girl lived after leaving Miss Schimell, and after look-
ing attentively at her, said—Did you live with me
0, yes.
Fray what did I hire yon for, and for what put.p4e?—
To take care of a child. ,
Can you tell me the situation of my house? Ii el I any
lodgers? or where did you dine?—A. In the kit: :ien, be-
hind the parlonr. I dined there. There was gentle-

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nun in the first floor, as a lodger,' but I don't reeolto
whether he had a wife or not.

Mrs. Beaumont—Do you recollect the day you left 0,
'and for what cause did I discharge you? Don't you loOr
it was on account of the as. with which I sent you 00]
message?--You gave me ss. to go for gauze, barter
ribands, &c., and I brought you back a crooked ssixec.,o
and two penny pieces; and I never was at the Green DIP
and Still, in Oxford-street, as you charged me with.
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Mrs. Beaumont—She has a slight resemblance of twi
child, but the time is so distant, that I cannot recollr
even a feature of her countenance. Besides, there is:
twist in one of her eyes, as well as the discolouration of
hair, together with the facts that the child dined Wry
myself, and not' in the kitchen (for I had no kitchen) ; 07,
what she states respecting gauze,. &c. &w, and bring
me back a crooked sixpence, is false. I sent her for Wir
sor soap, and not for gauze ; and after -she remained
all the day, she returned and said she lost the 6'
•shillings, and therefore brought me back no change.
Mr. BROUGHTON said, " I will confess that this is o'
of the most serious cases ever got np before a police-ogee;
If the last witness speaks the truth, which I believe OA
does, so well a rehearsed girl never came before me or 09
other magistrate ;" but the discrepancy in her statement'
as contrasted with the evidence of her mistresses, and I°6l
contrasted with the flippancy with which she accounted ,
herself for the last six years, gave him some opportnaw
to .suspect that Thomas Flowers, the younger, was t
father, of the male child, and that he thonght- the Ens
Flowers was the father of this child. This gave rise to.
lengthened debate, in Which Mr. Broughton, as d me
trate, delivered his opinion, that under the circumstance'
of the case, and believing the statement before him*. 116‘
was bound not only to hold the partiee to bail, but tN"
• Thomes• (the younger son of the prisoner) slituld be 111°.
held to bail.

The parties gave bail, and left the _office. et
UNION-HALL.--Yesterday a seafaring man, tit",
was brought up on a:waitMat for assaulting a 1"."
named : West' ''
The defendant—l admit having struck him, but thee lie
did that which was as bad as stabbing me to the heart"'
'he deprived me of my wife,
Mr. CHAMBERS—HOW did he deprive you of y°ll
wifo?-..-Defendant : While I was on the American statA
he took advantage of my absence, and seduced my wife..
The complaihant here exclaimed, "I did not sedo
her, she seduced me, and I consider that I am not t°
blame."
The defendant could not help expressing his indignatii°
on hearing' the avowal, and replied to it by exclaiming °
seaman's phrase, " You lie, you hulking eon of a et
cook, she did not seduce you, for I -have, heard the Whe:
yarn ; and know that as soon as I got under- weigh PI:
watched her by day and by night, and was always on 11
look-out after her, until the poor d-1 struck to your
last, and now you are (award enough to turn a broader
on her, after all her favours to you." The defendant the°
proceeded to detail, that c.n joining his ship be left his Oti°
21. 10s. a month to support her while he was away. tfrr i. 4
his return from sea on Monday last, he proceeded to 1""
old quarters, in the hope of teeing his wife ; but en bi 4
rival there, he might as well have been shot, he said;
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hearing from the neighbours that she had abandoned 'tPe
place for two months, and was then living with anothe
man, whom he (defendant) afterwards discovered' to be,
the complainant. On this intelligence ha went there, 8,'1"
seeing his wife in the parlour, desired that she would teal'
the place, and accompany him, her lawful wedded had
band, home. The complainant opposed his wishes ."
I admit," said the defendant. " I gave him a sound drub'
bing before I left the shop ; for what right bad he to 15
fuse giving up my wife, when I was willing to take
back, even after what had happened ?
The complainant was asked whether the defemiant•
wife was still under his roof? He replied in the affirmatiro
saying that she was not disposed to go back to her hushan4'
Mr. CHAMBERS.—YOU have injured the poor felloi
and you have richly deserved the licking he gave yen.
shall discharge this warrant.
The sailor, after having declared his deterraineti°
getting his wife back, left the office for that purpose.
A fellow who goes about the streets endeavouring to est;
cite compassion by eating raw cabbage, to induce peoPLe
believe that lie was starving, was placed at the bar by 1,-t
of the Mendicity officers. It was stated that the tiefert4s!li
had been frequently punished for the above offence, an
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since his liberation recently from gaol, had left of raw aw
bage-eating, and was to be seen daily about the town nod,
picking up any description of offal that came in his Itt
and pretending to devour it voraciously. That moray
he was watched, and observed to pick, up the heed of
mackerel that was lying in the kennel, with the blood.
which he smeared his mouth so as to impress a belief tkg"
he had swallowed it. Many persons believing this, gal'
him money; and when the officer who apprehended bit
made his appearance, he endeavonred to escape, arid os3
examining his pockets, the held of the fish, which be vo°
supposed to have devoured, was forind therein.: He
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committed for three months to Brixton.

HIGHLAND SeHoots.-,--On Friday evening
about one hundred and fifty gentlemen, interested itr
General Assembly's scheme for promoting education
Highlands and blends of Scotland, supped idgettiej.„:l
INPEvraN's Rooms, Royal Exchange—the Rev., Prigcw"„
Baum in the chair.—The aliening was passed in
greatest, harmony, and many characteristic toasts a'26
sreeches were delivered on the occesion.—Edinborg
Evening Cdurant.
CONJURATION.---A very large tree was
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cut down near Goulson, in the parish of Hartland,
which it is reported and believed by the peasantry of
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neighbourhood, " Major DOCTON" was conjured. '—
tree was purchased by a budder in Bideford, and cut if'7l
planks, one of which was washed away by the tide, 84,
drifted to Appkdore, where it was picked up by°
s°ll3-
boatmen, and sold to the proprietor of the new market the
erecting. The right owner, however, having heard Where
the plank was, cent to demand it, but in vain. The be'''
of the message strongly tiried the giving it ep, dedatilj
that, as the Old Major had been conjured into it, it teet!...e
certainly throw the new market down. The words tv`"'i
prophetic ; for while they were yet disputing on the sub.lli
that part of the market-house containing the plank
with a sudden crash to the ground ! The giving vie,
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the wall is easily aoconnted for, by less obstruse ruled 8;
lfred.
tlsflcin7ol6t)oio.soriv•s:;raTt.Teia. re:
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sacrificed.
—T lEo
yx eoriAA,
those of magic ; but it so astonished the owner, that hetl*---
as anxious to restore the conjured plank as he was just I--
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JANISSARIES
and other machines °fel
employed for several days in dragging down the ritateg.,,,'
bodies, and casting them into the harbour and Basphe,;.
Here they lay, till becoming buoyant by corruption,
again rose to the top, and were floated into the tt, ‘to
Marmora, where the eddies frequently carried thew tri
still water, covering the surface with large putrid n3o6°:{
in which boats and ships were sometimes entangled 6.1:
delayed ; exhibiting, in nearly the same place, the
of that which the poet only feigned of the res,sel of Xgo4,„,
impeded by the bodies of his own soldiers. Shim the vs
struction of the janisisariet4, a death-like trampaillitf
reigned at Constantinople, which no cause of estcl
went can disturb. Had the public mind been in that Pc:
sitive state when the first news of the battle of Nays!:
arrived, which displayed itself at the breaking out of
ut
Greek rebellion, it is highly probable that the whoi,!.
the Frank population would have fallen victims to a For
lar fremy, which no authority could oontroul.,_

BIRTHS.
On the 3d instant, at his Grace's house in PortTe4l,
square. her Grace the Ductless of Richmoixl of a elsoP,oel
On the 3d instant, at Lee-house, Kent, the lady of S'in'
Lancaster, jun., KN., of a soa. so.
On the Sd instant, the lady of Edward George
mbies., Esq. of Abingdon-street, Westminster, of a fte°'
MARRIED. 11.
On the 4th instant, at Ewell, by the Rev. R. '7' (I,
Sanditands, Licut..Colonel Henry Atasten, of treadffl.
in Kent, to Jane, youngest daughter of Joseph Alf
late of Roehampton, Esq. tivfl"
On the 3d instint, at Presbute, by the Rev. Win. vfirs
ning, Robert Pedder, Esq., of Brighton, to NO, 0.1
Cla:k, of Widcombe-crescent, Bath, youngest daughter
the late John Clark, Esq., of Perahnte.
On the 4th instant, at St. Bride's, Mr. G. T. Eitodi
Eastcheap, to Mary, youngest danghter of Mr. J.
Shoe-lane.

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DIED.
On the 4th instant, at Trinity Church, Newingtou,
J. Wells, High-street, Borough, to Miss Mary Ann Cc°.
of Virginia-terrace, Dover-road. tbc
On the 4th instant, Mrs. Susannah Cox, widow of -is
Irate Win. Cox, Esq., of Guilford-street, Russell-squ we,
the 84th year of her age. fee
On the 30th ult., in the island of Jersey, after I At,
days' illness, Frances, the wife of T. Le Breton, frt.', I.
torney-General of that island, and eldest daughter of "I'
Rawson, Esq , of Okeover-lsall, St iffordshire.
On the 31st ult., Sarah, the wife of Mr. George fig'
Queen-square, Bloomsbury,
Passrren and PUKIMIED by V. YOUNG, at tit MIN t"
No. lie, Strand, London.