The Sun.
London, England, 1811-08-16 00:00:00

POISONINQ HORSES,

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.---It will be recolleaed
that certain horses, which were to have run at the
last Spring Meeting at Newmarket, and upon which
considerable bets t.s ere pendinv,.- under an expeaa-
tion that they would eventuZly beat those horses
which rwarc expeaed to.be opposed to them, were
poisoned. Suspicion fell upon several persons, and
it was slims:wily imagined that the authors of the base
and diabolieal dedd were individuals, of no unimpor,
tart: consideration in .society; and that, although,
meaner • agents were employed for the barbarous
deed, that the emoluthents. arising from it were to
fall into the packets of men of certain note. Flow
far ingenious investigation has discovered any proot
of this does nut pub:icly appear; but it seems there
was evidence enough for a Grand Jury of the
County of Cambridge to fiud a true bill agai;ist
Daniel Dawson, for an offence of this extraordinary
nuture.

The bill having been found, Thorny; Foy got the
warrant for his , speedy apprehension ; and 'that
officer', with his accustomed a‘sitiuny and zeal,
found Da ws6 at pngliton, and broughthim imme-
diately up to town. •
Yesterday he was,brought up before Mr. CON4NT,
A considerable number of most respedable• vet sun-
ages 'vete rresent, and some ofexalted.ranit; there
was a vast c,,ncoursoof individuals, arnuents of the
turf; as well as' Gentry of various descriptions, pray-
sent.

Dawson at length made. his appearance, having
iiis " Getitieman- in waiting," t'um Foy. Ti
Mitotrate, a tonsideranie share of urbanity,
wailed for the-Cotinsel for the prOsecntion till it
approached three o'clock, hat.he did not arrive.
Mi. BARRY, on behalf of Diwson., urged the right

or rathtir the courtesy ot ihe Magistrate (a Bill be-
ing found at tile As,izes)!o aig-oity what the charge
against the prisoncr btiog as yet, in point
form, wholly igooristit of the cause tof which h.
was deprived ot his liberty, as on that idepended the

circumstance whether it was An ott-nee which the
considt,o,.:(l to be, or 'nut to be bailable.
Mr.
,Co ANT then addressed oimsell to the prt-
sot le r, obsci wing, that he most have heard that horses
cal a valuableriar',ort wore destroyed. by poison, at
Ow last lipring Meeting, at Newmarket ; and that
it was not necessary for hint to expatiate upon the
enormity of that crime. But that he.would arse le-
mind Dawson (and lie did it in chatity) that what-
ever might be:supposed to attach to. himi with to-
-004 to that [nailer, and weighty it svay,, yet he
would acquaint him, tliat ,the Bill, of Inditlment
which he was now to isnsi,ver,`was for the loss of the
horses that were poisoned, at the Spring Meeting at
Newmarket.

Mr. LARRY sietned to entertain this intelligence
with a j'errennsiderable degree of surprise, and hay,
pug exprehsccl a supposition that the defendant was
inditted under the 9th of George the. First, which
makes it it a capita offence maliciously to deorty
horses and cattle, tile MilgiNtiate acknowledged it ;
and that; in the present shape of the case, he could
not be admitted to bad, •

Heti: Dawson aui,ut to make same improvident
observatintni, but he .•;14 Stopped by 10i Cutiti,el,
and ñ commitment w,ts made out; to send hitu forth-
with to take trial at the tirxt- 'Asilz:s for the
County of Cananidge, for a Capital olience,
Hearing. this, t;:tine set.ldineebagritt, on ac-
count of the length ol tittle tliat4ots Must. neoeisatily
tetriain iu atimouy without b.til.
To this Mr. C ,N ANT obsetved, that be must sub-
mit to the law. Ile was then removed.

On.Satorday last, as the, gartie,keepe't of General
Dollen; was walking thrtaigha 14, ood , crikd
leiCoppice, in the neighbourhood ot Goodwood, he
discovered on the ground nutlet. a tre, n fiag-basttef,
containing, a' tine,living tern:tie infant about two days
013, which appeated In have been recently derit,tieti
then:: The game.keepef carried this basket til'gatne
he had never before presented onei viz, to
the: rdri,ll vvotkhouse. We have not heard that
airy ,siAspkinil is entertained of the little foundling's
linear 001 mother..

while the orderly men of the 1-Bth Light Dtt-
goims retire thanittg guard on Wedneiday morning,
as nlual, at the I..Vrse Guards, the corporal's tiorte
of the party to be relieved hetaMe extremely restive,
and forced his Way ipto the etivered pzeisAge lading
to the Atabletl, norWtth,tanding all the efforts of his
rider, where, tearing aid plunging, he fell laack
ins whale -length. on the unfortunate corporal, wha
was token up almoit hteless. From the rolling of
the horse he was seicreb temised.