The Sun.
London, England, 1816-08-06 00:00:00

IMPOitTA N'1"Ilt I AL.

At'our Assizes came on to be tried, ,before Mr.'
Justice DALLAS Mill a Special Jury, the long ex-
pected Pedigree Cause, wherein Abraham Home,
of Piton Grange, Warwickshire, Esq. was
Plaintiff, and Sir Egerton Leigh, 13.trr. and
his Lody. (daughter of, the late Sir Fodward
Boughton, of Lawford Hall, near Rugby), and
Miss King, of this town, defendants. The action-
witS in ejectment, and brought under an order
of the Court of Chancery, made in a cause de-
pending there -between the same parties, to
try Mi. iltime's right to considerable freehold
estates in this county, formerly the inheritance of
John Beanchatnp, of Adston, E,q. the late Lady
Baughton's father, and of whieli his greai grayd-
*snit the Rev.,John Beauchamp (Lady Leigh's son
by a former husband) ditti seized' in 1805. in
the course of the, trial, the depositions Of several
witnesses, resident abroad, and taken, in interro-
gatories; under a commission issue: by the
Court of Chancery ror that purpose, were read,
and Mr. Unine's,pedigree (commencing nearly two
hundred years,ago)•shewing hint to be heir at law
to John Beauchitpip, the person,List seized, was
.cleitily made out and very
,satisfactorily proved
1./y registers, monumental inscriptions, wills., and
alter documents, taken, collected, and procured
at great trouble.and expence, front Doctor's Coin!,
mons, and ancient family deeds ; rin which (after
a hearing of six hours, and the learned Judge bad
very impartially summed up, null observed ou the
evidence), the July found a vet diet for Mr.flunte,
thereby deciding that he is entitled to'the estates
in question.—(Northapplor Mercury)

,
RIOT 0 lELD
T ii: 1 I
Keeper of this Prison was informed, about four
o'clock on Sunday afternoon, that a desperate
affray had ;Oen:place amongst the, ptisoners
and on repalring to .the place he found several
engaged vitheach other, end threatening destruc-
tion io bi.nt'if he approached. Asiion..,st them was
the notorious Dodd„ and some of his ac-
complices.' Observing t ‘vo..niOri 'ie'.perate than the
rest, with the osi,,tance constables- he,
scented and bandeniredt hem, when oider ~vBl, re-
stored for the time ; but 'it. 10f:tang-op time 'they
again evinced a mo4t daring eLliposition ; Dodd,
amongst others',.swearing he wonttrammit mur-
der before the morning'. The gaoler, apprehend-
ing ibeir intention was to escape, procured tiscist.•
ante, and.succeeded witN' foree to secure album
12 More, wbom he handcuffed and chained to-
Other, and fastetietl-to the'grotind. The retnain-
der then monnested a m9re (Irv( rate and d itiu
itialinatign than ever, and it -wa.; not tbefore about.
20 more wcre secured in different parts of the
pritmo that trangullity could be restored, 'They
were kept in irons the whole of yesterday.
XaTitt. WOOesday Mr.
tim.vas, aged 21, landlord of the Jiang) Tavern,
Itull-strect, Birmingliatucteniteort‘noicali, for a
Walsall and
atidwha,ageckr
aogfa2ioolittlutig4ehr(llnn thators( plt
heing altogether a distance
of 18 miles). On 'his ieturn, and when about
three milea short bf conipte hisalti):wge: h
e t
task,'i,as aunl
tit..
within 35' minutes of the time
ahie to proceed any farthir. lie was ituntediately
conveyed tOthe Hands worth Ti4vern, and medlcal
aid wets °bylined, but to tit) Lffect—bi died on'
Thbirsday morning.

FATAL lioxiNo.-+Sundayse'onight whaleyoung
unia, named Ainniison, a Collier, about 2:2 years of
age:having been drinking for S4I3)C time
,it the
Swan tioblic-house, in Lane•end,
coMpanions of a like description, u quarrel arose
At it hitc.hour, and the parties proceeded to fight-
ing. In
,ti!e centlictAminison received so much
initay, as, added to intoxication, reduced him to a
helpless -mate, in.which condition he was !it into
an outhouse or:pigstye, and survived until Wed•
ncsday, and. then died. Gething is copimitteti to
Stafford gaol for Manslaughter.

•
Serious //mull -of a Ofild.—John :Abrams ap-
plied to Mr. tlvt.ilotco, at Qtice»-quare, Office,
for it warrant to apprenend Nary Smith, antler the
.following circumstances said, -that•
ebild, a Jpoy LAbioit four years of age, was playing
tinder Snnith'i wiodow in Pye-stretti anti Stuitit
told hint to go) away, end not..make a noise ; the
ehild relliged,, when she took. up an earthen pot
and threw it at him, which struck WM on the bead,
and fractured...Lis skull -so badly, that the child
dropped on -the ground, apparently lifeless. He
wasitnntediately, taken to the Weatathottr In.
firmary, and the Surgeon who examined him
gave tiat-little hopes of his recovery. warrant
was directly issued,
_end Smith was apprehended
and connnii.ted to prison, to wait the-issue Of
child's precarious situation.

A Gromn of the name of Youngman, for a
wager of five"gnineas, did a, mile in four minutes
and fifty-f►ve seconds yesterday, in Hyde-park, 'at
two starts.

` Wiliam Parrott. a groom hi the Fervice of Sir
JOSEPH BANKS, who litid been bit by a dog some
weeks ago, died oil Monday last in a state of de-
occasioned by the impressioo made on
his niiud by the accident.
norefiefiter A,sizes, which commencril on
Titursdai, the eight rioters at Bothettliatopton
and'Bridport, on the 4,49t11 Aril last, were all
fuuud