The Sun.
London, England, 1810-12-11 00:00:00

MARRIED:

On the Bth inst: at St. George's, Hanover.spiare, Franc's
!mien, Eci. to Elizabeth, eldest daughter of the Lite Mr.
Orley,of New Bond-street.

OLD BAILEY.

FIFTH DAY.-PIONDAY, DEC. 10.

Mary Shadwell the younger was indicted for
stealing several Bank of England and 'country bank
notes, to the amount °fat 21. the property of Messrs.
Griffiths and Roberts, from the person of Williem
Williams; tend Mary Shadwell the elder was in-
dicted for receiving the 'same, knowing it to have
been stolen. •
Tke pro,,ecwor it appeared, was a
Welsh drover, employed by -Messrs. Griffiths and
Roberts, of Carnarvonshire, North INeles, to sell
their cattle ; on Saturday, the 20th of October, be
was returning from Maidstone, where he had re-
ceived a large sum of money, when he was ac-
costed by the younger prisoner, who said, Of Welsh-
man, will you let we ride ?" He was then meented
or, one horse, arid leading another—He .answered,
he did:not care if she did. The prisoner, however,
chti_not mike use of this peonisSion, but followed
Williams into Crayford. He went into the Swan
public-house, Ethel called for some ale; the, prisoner
came in soon afterwards, and said, " Welshmae,
may I drink with you ?" Williams gave her leave,
knee ame took share of his pint of ale. The unfortu-
nate Welshman, overcome with the fatigues of tra-
velling, shortly afterwards fell asleep, and the lady.
took hat opportunity of picking h:s pocket of the
property laid in tee indh.tnient, with which she ab-
scoteted. The landlord of the house awoke Wit-
. Nine soon after the robbery lied been committed,
and told him that the woman was gone, and had,
no doubt, rob Led him; on searching, he foend the
prophecy but too true. He demanded time land.-
lord's eissistanee to pursue the depredator—but ln
vain ; and the. constable -of Craytord was equally
unwilling to give him ;elf any trouble on the occa-
sion. The prosecutor immediately came to town,
and gave notice of the robbery at Bew-streer. The
officers there, however, were not succes'Sful in their'
search—but, on. Monday, the 22d of Oelober, Mr.
Edward:Jones, who eters a public-house in Tot-
hill-street, Westminster, attended at Queen-,.quate
Odice, and informed the Magistrates, that he be--
lieeed .a• -robbery must have been cientuired—ai
about eight o'clock on the morning of that day,, the
elder, prisoner, who kept `a fririt-,tali, had, tendered
him a country bank note for
.4 01. which she wished
to have changed—lie refused, .and she afterwards
oilered a 51. country -note, which he also dcaned
accepting. About ?calf-past eleven the two prisoners
can in, meal spewed him country notee to the
amount of tie'. and six tl. _Beek of England notes :
'and, at their request, he. made the country notes
up in parcels, and w rote on the back of each the
house in London where such
.1 parcel. of tiotes was
payable. Gilmore, the officer, waseiminediately
sent in put-suit of time leirties ; and he fortuna:elv
met the prisoners comnieg It,rraugh Sr. Paul's Church-
yard in a. hacknepceacti—he ordered the coachman
to stop, evd got into the carriage. After sortie few
words, [lie eider, prisoner, who accused the other
with having leruught herl
into trouble, gave him a
parcel, containing iihy rycvt, Brna of Ergl Ind notes,
which she had received in exchange for 5 tens ; he
also 'received several cou-:try notes from the old
.woman, and t vo ceiteees sir sits er from the yoeng
one, making k r all i 1 51. lie afterwards se:ached
the elder wisoner's lung etas, ,4 here he discovered a
great quantity :,f new heen-dieilemy, which she had
bought leen a Nle Beenett, ie Chapel street,
Westminster, with whom she ha,l left a 201. and a
51. country note. A publicyi, Lit the name of Cut-
more, produced a tel, note of the' Rochester
which the elder prisouer had endeavoured to get
changed by him through the medium of anoeimer
person. About it. 301. or the property had been re-
covered. The old, woman infutteed Gilmore, thee
were placed in the. hands of a publieaa
Westminster—but he denied all knowled-ge of it.---,
He was stated by Gilmore le le: a man of very
susp'cious chareeeee, and strict irjonetions were
given to tireolh. er to ink sharPly atter him.
The younger; prisoner was fiund Guilty. Her
1;1.n-61er-in-law was acqh:ited, ins see appeared to
have been made a mere tool of by her daughter in
putting off the notes.
Richard Cranslort. and Richard Clare were in-.
dieted fur bue.:l3noesly entering the house of Thus.
Dads, and, stealieg thelein. a variety of articles, the
property of the said Dodd.
The prosecutor and his wife resit!, d in Howard's-
greet), parish of St. Luke, and, ter the 4ah of No-
vember, left home for the purpose of going to
Bayswater; they fastened their house in the best
manner they could—but, on their return the same
night, discovered it had been entered through a
window, and -two blankets, two pillowi,• a pair of
candlesticks, and several other articles, taken away.
',The window had a broken' pane of glass in it,
through which any person might have put his arm,
rand removed the gimlet wilt e, hick it was festened.
Suspicion fell on the risoner CranSton, who was.
s neighnour of the prosecutor, and had been seen re-'
gonnoitring his premises at 3 most unseasonable hour,
s weeks before ; tie had also beery uh erved, On
the night of the robbery, carrying a handle near time
prosecutor's house ; this bundle he had taken to
the lodgings of the prisoner Clare, and they -went
out together, and soon after returned with a quan-
tity of loggege. On Ciauston being apprehended,
be begged 'to be admitted King's evidence; he
ttateil, tea he and Clare, assisted by a .brother of
the latter, had committed the robbery; and men-
tioned the pawnbrokers where the things. were
pledged ; as kw' had bivued the duplicates, the
pawnbroker's books were examined, and part of
the property was recovered, Clare was appre-
hended. on , board the Dorset East Indianian, at
Gravesend, but be, denied all knowledge of the
robbery.
Mrs. Dadd could not identify any of the property
produced in Court.; she had lost such things, but
khe would not swear that those chewed to ber ILA
been stolen from her premises.

i

The Jury found Cranston guilty of
.stealing, and
acquitted him of the bur.4lary—NoposiLive evidence
adduced to criminate' Clare, and Cranston's

confess':on against Lim not being, n;;owed to go to
the Jury, they acquitted him.
Charlotte Taylor and Ann Stevens, two of the
Paiihian corps', were inditSted for felonious'y as.
saulting John Adams on the King's highway, 'rut-
ting him in fear, and taking from him an umbrella,
value As.' '

The prosecutor, a taylor, was going through
Bishopsgate-street, between one and two o'clock koh
the 18th of Novemb,r, when he was accosted by
the two prisoners, who asked him to give !horn some-
thing to drink. Tire taylor resolutely i-efus•Pd—on
which the ladies took oft-their ;!ttens, and laid open
the prosecutor's•sk nil in several places--4e imnie-
diately fled—but they soon overtook him, and bore
away his umbrellajn triumph. The prisoners wcre,
shortly alter apprehonded, and the umbrellA found
in the apartment of Ta)ltir. The'imy foQnd them
both guilty--Death,

THE SAMPFORD GHOST SURP;ISSED,

The circumstances which ,have recently occurred
at Sampford having excited considerable attuntiOn,
we subjoin-some particulars of still more wonder-
ful events, .as related in Dr. Plot's Natural History
of Oxfordshire. The latter were ascertained to
have been the woik of 'an impostor, as we h.o e no
doubt the former are, though the deation of tN•ns
may be a task of considerable eitfienhy.
Soon after :he murder of King Charles I. a Com-
mission-waS appointed .to survey the King's house
at Woodstock; with the manor, park, woods, and
other demesnes to that manor belonging, and one
Collins, under a feign, d name, hired himself as se-
cretary to.the commissioners ; who, upon the 13th
,of Dauber, 6-in, me., and took up their residence
in the Kind's own rooms ; his Majesty's bed Chant-
her tht-y made their kitchen, the conned-halli heir
pantry,, and the presence chamber was the place
where they tat for the dispatch Of htisiness:'
M4jcsty'S ditining•room they Made their wood-yai.o,
and slated it skit h the «ood of the fa(nous royal-Oak
front the high Park, which, that nothing might be
left With the name -of king on it, they had dug up
by the roots, and split and bundled up into fag,
got, for their firing. Things bens thus priTared,
they sat on the t 6i,.h of the same 113ailth for the dis-
patch of 'business, and in, the in•dst of their first
debate,, there entered a large black dog, (as they
thought), made a dreadful howling, over-
turned two or three of their Chairs, and then crept
tinder a bed and vanished ; this gave them the Stealer
surprise, as the doors were kept constantly
so thar no real dog could get us or out ; the next
day their surprise %s as increased, w hen, sitting at
dinner in a lower room,,they heard phaniy the noise
of persons walking over their head, 'although they
well knew.the doors were all locked, and there could
be nobody there; presently after they heard also.
all the wood of the King's oak, brought by parcels
frorri the dinning-room, and thrown with great vio-
lence into the presence-chamber ; as also all 'the
chairs, stools, tables and other lurniture forcibly
hurled about the room : their. O*ll papers or the
minutes of their transattioas torn, and the ink-glass
broken.
When all this noise had sometime ceased, Giles
Sharp, their secretary, -proposed to enter first into
these rooms, and in the presence of the Coirmiis-
sioners, of whom he received the key, he opened
the doors, and found the wood spread -inbuilt the
room, the chairs tossed about and broken; the pa-
per 4 torn, the ink-glass broken, (as has been said)
but not the least trace of any human creature, nor
the least reason to sniped one, as the doors were all
fast, and the keys in the custody -of the commis-
sioners. It was therefore unanimously agieed, din
the power who did this mischief, roust have entered
the room at the key-hole. The night follOwin,
Sharp, the secretary, with two of the commis-
sioners servants: as they were in bed in the same
room, winch room was contiguous to the room
where tile commissioners lay, had their bed'S feet
lifted up so much higher than their heads, that they
expected to have their necks broken, and then they
were let fall at once with so tuoch violence as
shook the whole house, which more than ever ter-
rified the commissoners.

On the night of the 19th, as all were in, bed in-
the same room for greater safety, and lights burning
by them, the candles in an instant went out. with.
a sulphureous smell, and that moment many trench-
ers of wood were hurled about the room,. Which
next morning were found to, be the same their ho-
nours had eaten on
.the day before, which were all
removed from the pantry, though not ,a lock was
found open in the house.,

The,next night they lareci still worse; the candles
went out as before, the curtains of. their honours
beck were rattled to and fro with great violence ;
their honours received many cruel blows and bruises
by eight pewter dishes, and a number of wooden
trenchers being thrown on their beds, which be-
ing heaved otf, were he'ard rolling about the
room, though in the morning none of them, were
to be seen.. This night, likewise, they were alarm-
ed with the tumbling down of oaken• billets about
their beds, mid other frightful noises but all was
cleat in the Morning, as it no such things had hap-
pened.

The next 'night, the keeper of the King's house
and his dog laid in the 'Commissioners' room, and
then they had no disturbance; but, on the night of
the 22d, though the dog laid in the room as before,
yet the candles went out, a number of brick bats
tell from the chimney into the room, the dog howled
piteouily, their; bed clothes were stripped Otf,, and:
their terror increased.

On the 24th, they thought all the wood of the
King's oak W 33 violently 1111'0WO &WO by their
bedsides, they counted G 4 billets that fell, and seine
shook and hit the beds it: which they ldy; but in
the tnoritirig none were found there, nor bad the
door been, opened where the billet, wood was,
kept.

The night the candles were put out, the curtains
rattled, and a dreadful crack like thunder was heard,
and 'one of the servants running to see if his mas-
ter was not kited, found three dozen trenchers laid
smoothly under the qu.lt.by him. But all this was

nothing to .'hat succeeded the 2.9 th, about mid-
ni§ht, . the -candle's went. out, something. Walked
majestically through the rooms and opened and ,shot
the'Windows; great stones were thrown viOlently
into the roOm; shine Of which fell on the' beds,
others on the floor ; and at about a varter after
one, a noise was heard', as of 40 cannon discharg-
ed together ; and again,repeated at about eight
mi-
nutes distance. This' alarmed and raised all 'the
neighhout hood, who coming, into their -Armours
room, gathered up the great stones, fourscore in
number, and laid theM by in the corner of a fitid,
Where, in Dr. Plot's time,. who repOrts this history,
they were to be seen. This noise, like the dis-
charge of a cannon,
_was: heard through
,all the
comm.), for I 6; milcs round.
• •During these noises, which were heard- in both
rooms toBeilter, the Commissionera and their s, r-
vants gave one aeother over for lost, and cried out
Ilk help ; and Giles SliStp snatched up a sword; a:,(1
had nigh well k d eel one• of their honours; rnist..k-
ing him Tor the spirit, as he came his shirt from
his room to cleit's. While they were together, the
noise was continued, and part of the riling bf the
house was stripped off, and all the windows of an
upper room were taken away with it.
t the 30th, at midnight, soimthing wilkel in-
to the .chanthet; treadin; like a bear; ii walked
ni3ny times Akan; thou, threw the warming -pan
violently oti the floor ;, at the same., mile,. a large
quantity of broken glass, acoomparited. with great
stories and horses bones, Carne pouring into theroom
with unconimoo fbree ; these were found iu tbe
morning, to the astoniirlinient and -tettor of t ke•
COnwssioners, who were yet determined togo. on
with their busioess. on the first of Nov(-tuber
the most di-eJklful scene of ensued ; -candles in
every part of the room were lighted up, and a great
fire made ; at midnight, tile candles all yet burn-
ing, a twiet like -the barring of a cannon was
heard in the room; and the burning bi.lets were
tossed about by it even into their honours beih,
who called Giles and his companions,to their relief,
otherwise the hou•e. had been but ut to the ground ;
about an hour after, the c indles went. out as usual,.
the,crack of matt), cannons was heard, and many.
pai:tuls of green siinktag %v.:ter wete throw :upon
their- honours beds; great stones were also int-own
in a; before, the bed-curniihs and tied-steads torn
and broken, and witido..t's shattered, and the whole
neighbourhood alarmed with the most dreadful
ooises; nay, the very rabbit stealers th.ot rc eRt
'abroad that night in the ,4 arren,' were- so terrified,
that they fled, and left t heir • ferrets behind them.—
One of Ibex lionours this night spoke, and,, iu the
name of god, ask._ d What it was, and why it chi-
turbed..thern so
• No answer was given to this, but the noise ceas-
ed -for a while, when the spirit carne again, and, as
they all agreed, brought with it seven devils worse
than itself. One of the servants now lighted a large
candle, and set it in the door-way, between the two
chambers, ;to see what passed ; and as he watched
it he plainly saw a hoof striking the candle and
candlestick into the middle of the room, -and after-
Wards' mahing three scrapes over the stmlf, scraped
it out-. Upon thi-, the same person was so bold as
to draw a sword, but he had
.scarce got it when
lie felt another invisible haod had. hold of, it too,
and pulled with him for it; and at length pritvaihng,
Struck hill) SO' Violtittilly on tr:e head ith theentm-
awl, that he tell do A a fur dead' w ith the blo;a:. At
this instant was heard another burst, like the dS-
cliirge of a broadside of a ship of war, and, at about
-a :inane or two d stance from each, no less than
nineteen more such these shook the house vlo-
lently, that they expected every moment. it would
fall upon their heads. The neighbours on-this, as
has been sJid, • ben g all alarmed, flocked to the
house in great numbers, and 41 joined -in prayer and
psalm-singing, during which the noise snit con-
tinued -in the - other rooms, and
..the discharge. of
cannon was heard as from without, though no visible
agent was seen to'discharge them.
But what was the • most alarming of all, and put
an cod. to their proceedings eff,:ctualty, happened the
next day, as they were all at dinner; when, a pairer
in 'whim they had- signed a mutual agteetnent to
reserve,a part of the premises out sof the general
survey, and afterwards to share it-equally aufbagst
them-(whtch paper they hid for the present muter
the earth in a pot, iii 'one carver of toe room, and
in which an orange-tree grew,) .was consumed in a
wonderful Maimer, by the: earth's taking tire' with
which the pot was filled, and burning violently with
a blue flame, and au intolerable stench, that they
were all driten
,out of the house,' to which they
-could never be again preveed upon to enter,
This wonderful contrivance was all the invention
of the memorable Joseph Collins, of Oxford, other-
wise called Funny doe, who having hired himself for
secretary, under the name of Giles Sharp, by know-
ing the private traps belonging to the house, - and
the, help of pulvis fulminans, and other chemical
-preparations, and letting his fellow-servants into
the scherpe, carried on the deceit, without discovery,
to the very last ; insomuch, that the Jaw Dr. Plot,
in his. Natural History, relates the whole for fict.

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LAJP REPO is p'.

COURT OF KING'S 6ENCif, Nov. 29.

COLLEToN
This was an' act►ou brought by the p!aint'ff, a
young lady, the daughter of a litronet, te,i(t;ng at
Putney, to recover uana.►ges from the defendant, a
hosier, residing at No. 4, Piccadtily, fur 111se-
prisunment.'

- It. appeared that the plaintiff, accompinied by
her brother; a boy-01 fourteen years of age, called
at the defendant's shop the latter ,and_ of June,
about ten o'clock at night, and pniehas-ed stockings
to the amount of 2i. ; she gave—faim a I Vi. Bank
of England Note; fie seeming• to, donnt• the -ge-
autkienesi of the plainti,tf told him if he bad any
doubt she would leave the stockings, maid colt the'
beginning of the .ibllowitig,,week to p 4 tor them
die said, whit made bun suspicious of the not.e.was,
that in the same week, he, had taken. two-forged
one-pounu notes; but, 1170111 lies appe44l7iincV, _he
could not sui,,pose that she 'would knowingly give