The Sun.
London, England, 1816-12-17 00:00:00

DEATH O' EARL STANHOPE.

Died,st his seat at Chevening, in Kent, on
Sunday. night, CtrAut.ss STAN:lion, Earl STAN-,
HoPe. His Lordship wits born August 3, 175.3 ;
succeeded father Philip, the late.Earl,Arch
7, I 7 S 6 ; and married, in December, 1774, Hes-
ter Pitt, eldest daughter of William, the first Earl
of Chatham, sister. of the present Earl and of the
late Right Hon. William Pitt, .by whom be bad
issue, Rester Lucy-Griselda, married to John
Ticks 11, usq. of liambledOn, Hants ; and Lucy.
Rachael, married 'to Thomas
„Taylor, Esq. of
i!Sedy,eir atkl, Kent, since dead, Ills Lordship
married, 'secondly, in 1791,• Louisa,. only•ilangb-
ter of Henry Grenviile, Esq. late Governor of
Barba does, and uncle to George, first lartinis of
Buckingham; by whom he had • issue, Philip
Henry, Viscount.. Mahon, now Earl Stanhope,
and two other sans. In his Lordship the Arts
and Sciences have lost- an' ardent friend and pa•
turn ; .att4l to him they are indebted for many in-
eelliOUS improvements and discoveries. Though
very eccentric in his character, his loss will, on
on. many RCCOIIIitS, make a chasm in public life
which will not be easily supplied.. The great and
useful work for which he was peculiarly
ed, and to which be had for a long time applied
the most earnest attention, will, we fear, now
fall to the ground : we allude to a Digest of all
the Statues—a work of such stopeudons labour as
well'as information, that few persons can be ex-,
peered to set about- it with vigour, Irides's, like
Lord Stanhope, they had.acquired a sort of pa-
ternal fondness for the subject, by brooding over
it for years..

Owing to the high westerly trim!, and being
a neap-tide, high-water, expected at London-
bridge at n quarter before ten on Sunday, did
not take place at all, and none of the Scotch ves•
ids in the river could sail, there not being water
sufficient to float them.

A Duel was to stave taken place on Saturday
se'unight between two Farmers residing in a pa-
rist► between Crieff and Perth, which the Fiscal
being apprized of, he sent three Mayor Officers to
'apprehend the parties concerned, which of course

put a stop to it; they ',vete bound over to keep
the peace.
I'AXECUTION.—On Wednesday John Block, cpn..
victed oe highway robbery, was executo:, put-
'mutt to his sentence, at the west end of the Tol-

booth, Edinburgh. A new' executioner officiated,
assisted and instructed by the Glasgow executioner.
A more than ordinary concourse of spectators
tended, notwithstanding a fall of snow which
came on at the time.

Poistmr.—The common Soft Soup used with
ater is a Preve.utive of the Venereal Infection.
is possible, therefore, from the ciicuinstance,

that if instantly used otter the infliction of the
wound, it may pre cut the fatal effects of the Hire
of 14 Nix(' ,Dog. PULLANrHIICIPLIC

PtIRSZJIT 'OF I.T'.s.TSON.

Yesterday Mr. WONTNra, the City Marshal,
returned to town by the Worcester mail, alter a
fruitless and arduous journey to several principal
Ciities- and towns, and lastly into. Wales, in quest
-of the fugitive 1-17nison. We have no doubt that
Mr; Wow'Nan %vas on a wrong scent ; but we
will relate the several occurrences which led to the
suspicion of the- individual being IVarson,
leave.it to the public to draw their own conclu-
sions on the subject.
At the public-house called the Chequers, at
Tewkesbury, Mr. IVontner learnt,-that a person,
answering closely to the descriptkon of the fugi-
tive, came there on the 60 instant, requesting to,
know if he could have a bed : he sat down AIM
had a pint of ale. As every stranger coining Out
way since -the -riots has been examined with to
suspicious eye, the daughters of the house, on
surveying the person in question, thought
they observed something singular in his eon-
duet : lie looked at them sideways, and
al-
ways appeared to endeavour to prevent a full
view of his face. There being no bed disen-
gaged, the person was recommended to she.
Farmer's Arms, where he was told he could have
a bed for the night. There the traveller at down
with an intent to sleep. A resident in the town
happened to be present, and ..made particular ob.
serrations on the manner of the person, which in-
duced him to change his seat to two different parts
of the room within a short period, always endea-
vouring to keep hisrleft cheek towards his oh-,

server.— At leugth the tiaveller became so uneasy
at the remarks wade upon him, that he gave up,
his intention of Stopping all night, !lasi ity ate somo
bread and cheese front his pneket, and abruptly
left the house. As he departed he inquired the
road to Bristol, and pursued that direction. Its
the course of an hour and a half, however, the
same person . was seen the Old Bear, the last
public-house in the town, on the road to WON
cester. At this place he engaged a lied, paying
for the same over night together with some re-
freshments, in order, that he might depart early
in the morning. This he did not do, but stopped
breakfast, for; the payment of which he tendered
a 11. note'to change, which the woman objected
to tlo, muter the impression that it was front the
Bank of Birminghpm, and did not pass currently
at Tewkesbury. The traveller tindertook to send
the amount by the coach from the Hen and
Chickens, at Birmingham, whither lie said he was
going, and could have the- note changed. He
took the road to Birmingirkini ; brit it is considered
worthy of remark, that before he went to lied
Over night, he imptired there were not. more
ways out of the house than one, which induced
the landlady to suspect him for an improper cha.
racter. Before he left Le inquired for u news-
paper, and one of an old date being offered hint,
he seemed disappointed, and said he wanted .to
see the latest details of tholistnrhances in Loudon.
All 1119 parties at the different houses where the
man stopped concur in the fact of his dress, and
air to a mole or mark on his face, and also state
that, he was in a tritling.degree pitted with the
small-pox.
At at little village about four miles on the Wor•
iteSter.rnad, elm same person was observed to pass
through very much splashed and what'inade the
person remark hint was, he thought it strange
tliat a person of apparent respectability should
choose tO Walk, when coaches on the road were
to plentiful. " At Severnetoke the traveller calleti
at a public-house, and had a pint of mule. At a
pottionse two miles trom Worcester lie appeared
to ,Abe inclined to stop, hut wits supposed to
be prevented flout a number of persons being
there drinking, amongst whom he did not wish to

From this !Attie the person moved onwards
to Worcester, and was betud of there at the rhea-
stint Inu, inquiring for 8 bed, but there WAS none
to be had, except one in the garret, which the

landlady says she did not offer, us she considered
the person too respectable to accept of it. Un the
Sunday morning tt►e sante person as here describ-
ed was observed on the bridge at Worcester,
looking at the vessels' lying there t ,but all trace of
him after that period was entirely lost. Twn
Bovy-streit officers 'remain in that neighbourhood
prosecuting their inquiries. _ _

The LORD MAYOH ints received a number of

letters on the subject, most '
of which have been
evidently written in ridicule of the expect atimi of
a discovery. In one it is stated' that young Wat•
sow is happy in health and spirits, among friends
united and true, at Kilbeggan near Moine, \Vest•
math, Ireland, at which spot, it' any of his Lord.
s'hip's emissaries should be inclined to visit, they
would be properly received, and treated with marks
for their, faith or presumption, by persons who ad-
mired his Lordship's conduct when it was
,direct-
ed to prevent the oppression of individuals as in
the 51. note transaction. Another of the letters
says, "Why not search Mr. !hues Premises,
both in town and country ? No other person
could conceal him."
In a third letter it was stated, that the writer

bad heard from t friend„. who had it from exed-,
lent authority, who received theinforniation from
a' Noble Lord, that 'Watson was either at Barnet
or somewhere else ; that wherever he was, he wrla
.an infernal villain, and the writer hoped his bead
would be taken from his body. This connmink
cation was' full of professions of sincerity, and
ended in expressing a conviction that justice would
overtake the villain.

In x fourth letter notice was girem of a plot
likely to prove worse than the euopovvder plot,
and that it was hatching at a public•house in the
west'end of the toy, n.

The LORD AlAvail is every moment receiving
things of this idle description ; but there were, its
the course of yesterday, sevei ttl persOnal commu-
nications matte to him, which he considered
worthy or attention.
We are given to understand that Dyall, whose

Ante appears under the bead of second Secretary
u fhe Spa-fields Connnittee, has not been found
o be in any wanner c+►nerrued in the lute dis-
urbantes; that he lent his name to the members

under the impression that he would have been
subject to no. imputation from appearing anxious
for Reform, and that he was not aware that tiny
violence was eintternplated. This Dyall, it is
said, is the person- who at the Westminster elec.
tiou appeared es the green coated orator.