The Sun.
London, England, 1811-02-02 00:00:00

PJLIOE.

Bow-ITRtgT.—.Yesterdwa min, who hut every
appearance of a 'gentleman, was brought to the 01-
lice from the Stamp QtEce, under the followwg
cuirwances

lt .appeared from the,' evidence, of' an engraver,.
thtt the prisoner ,applied to him to engrave an in,
strume:.t to stamp the name of Thomas Robins,
whotulte represented 'as a banker at. Liskeard, ru
Corntt ado% ho had had the misfortune to disable
from writing his wale, his hand,being shot
with a piStol. The engraver at first hesitated at
Undertaking to execute the instrument, but was at
length persuaded to do it, and agreed to: get it
done In a week for two. guineas: Howevet, after.
•the priSont.r was gone, he repented of his engage-
ment, and made some inqUiries; he found utii the
bankers` n Loudon with tvhom the bankers ati,ii-
leard banked, And learnt that one of the part.
nets of the Liskeard Bank was in Londmi ; and
upon inquiry' of him, he was informed that, no such
accident as-was stated to have happenedio Mr. Robina
'had occurred. Information. ot the eircltnPitauce
was given at the Stamp Office, in case (.4 his apply-
ing there for stamps, which' he accordingly did, 'ind
pr6'entrd ono hundred, pieces ot paper foe stamping,
suspected to be for the pwposo of issuing notes re-
seinbiing those of the L:skeard Bank. .
The prisofier waS'ordered to find.

NI Alt LBOROUGH- sT E ET.—A woman of the name
,
of • ,)taitirni, whose appearacce and manners are
eAculated to impose, has beers nnined on a
charge of hand,. in,pitssing notes of- one alai twO
pounds each, prirporting to be. of the Newhaven
Bank; no such firsts' e ' being in xist,:nCe.
It was proved in evidence, that the prisoner. had
passed these tietitionS notes to a very consider:lWe
atuount'in different
.parls of London, and she was
taken into iustody. at Chelsea, having passed several
in that neighbourhood, and sevetat others .were
found on

Th.:. prisoner was committed for further exami-
nat ion."

Another woman, of the name of Gine, has also
ben examined on several charges of fraud, in ob-
taining goons trom.tradespeolile by chicanery, and
converting them into money; and she also was re-
manded.

- HAT roN-G A siißtsr.77Vesterday a youth about six-
teen year of age, Lill:. name 01 Joseph Mason,
pudertveut an cxlmination, being • charged with
going into the shop of Mr. Plumb, oil-man, in Lea-
ther-lane, Holborn, under pretence Of buying some
squibs', in company with two other boys, who made
their escape; when the' prisoner was detected in
the act of stealing. a cake of bees wax. He was
apprehended by read, the oVer, who produced
the stolen property, when the charge bding sworn
to, he was frilly, committed to Newgate to take his
trial.

The Directors of the East India Company hatre
lati.dy resell-T(1, that in future:whenever the ab-
sence of a military officer from India shall exceed
the period of his regular furlough, no' fort her-kave
of absence shall be given to him upon the mere pro-
duction of a. medical:certificate, or other unauti.en-
ticated statement of circumstances but that prei-
ous to such leave oeing granted, proof of the state-
'mut made by he party itt support of his application
shall be adduced. to the Committee Of Correspon-
deuce by perional examination, or by such other
evidence asshaltbe deemed fully satioaCtorrto the
Commit tee.

FoOTPAo.---Monday night, a; a man was going
throng!) Ifett(ad,streel, h" was 61(1)Ped
by a single footpad, who, held a pisiolto 11.1 s ear,
and demanded his money ; bot on Int• „,i", stand_
big on his own defence, the 1.4)1)(1 pleaded dis-
tletiS, saying, that he could not get ahywork to do,
and that he had a family to provide for. The pistol
he had was. not loaded, and the man, after hearing
ihe-reasora, and the wretched situation•of the foot-
pad, let him go, giving him a shilling, with It suit-
able
.admonition.

A genteel woman named...Mathows, while st-
teruptiag to cross cheapside on Thursday, duriag the
bustle 'which alv,ayS pervades:that crowded aventie,
Was thrown down by the pole of a taCkney coach
and run over,
~ne whvels o 1 the .v6h,clt, passed
over both her legs, which were much 'bulked, but'
fortunately no bone was broken, nor did she sustain
any other, injury. She was conveyed to her dwel-
ling, in I.linb' Conduit-street by the'very carriage
Which oi.:Casioned the misfortune. "

On Sunday night, a Genriernan.of respectability,
ernitwut Forvign Merchant in thotity, terminal-
„l his life by running a rusty small sword thrbugh
his bJily, and wounding himself desperately in OLIO
of his arms., Surgical assistance hiving been pro- .
cured, his 'wounds were dressed, but they Proved
mortal,, as he expired the following morning. We.
have not heal(' any reason assigned (or the despe-
rate act, but it seems to have been occasioned by in-
sanity. opinion is supported by the Coroner's
Jery, which sat on the body on Tuesday.
on Monday the 14th ult. the body of a seaman
',WAS, brought on shore fror.: the Erebus bomb, then
lying tt>< Grimsby Roads, in order
.to be buried ; but
as toe usual rile,rof sepulture, were not observed in.
comuniring the-remaina to the earth, a report he-
came prevident in a few days, that the body was
the' of a young Midshipman, and that the hurry
and mystery of his funeral were owing to the Captain
having flogged him to death. So much fermenta-
tion was excited in Grimsby and the neighbourhood
by this rumour, that the Coroner had felt himself
called upon, for !lie satisfatlion of the public mind,
to have the coffin taken up and the body examined.
aceordingly- took place on the 23d, nine days
after the. interment, and an inquest was Summoned
and held.' The result of the investigation was, that
the Jury recorded it as their opinion, on the into'',
tuatiou of competent medical peisons, that " it ap-.
pored to be the body of a middle-aged man, worn
out . with illness or disease ;" and, of course, not
the young undthiptuan whom tumour had flogged
to death

is boil by WILLIAM MUMMER SC it PI'S, South Molttm street,c;;,.:•rk:.,
or the hmer, Lt!tirs (or the Editor Ike. (poct.paiti); must hi idd,tssid.