The Sun.
London, England, 1820-08-10 00:00:00

CROWN SIDE.

MANstAunitTrn.— Win. Woodward mag in-
dicted for feloniously killing and slaiving Geo.
Wilson Steven's, at Claphain, on the 25th of
June.

Mr. AnoLenus conducted the prosecution, and
called witnesses, from whose evidence it' appear-,
ed thatthe prisoner was the driver of a baggage,
waggon of the Royal Artillery, on its way from.
Essex to Richmond, on the top of which were
riding the 'deceased, an infant of tender years,
and his Mother. The prisoner's waggon, being
the last in the line of the train to whiOt it was
attached, had lagged behind, and he being
anXious 'to redeem his station, whipped his horseS
furiously, in consequence of which the vehicle
was driven with violence against a lamp-post at
Clapham, and the deceased was thrown from the
waggon
_upo❑ the uound, and his brains were
dashed out. The unhappy mother *was- also so
much injured by the fall, as to be unable to give
her attendance.

The prisoner, in his defence, put in a written
paper,. which expressed his sorrow for the un-
happy catastrophe, which, as the father of chil-
dren himself, lie lamented with unaffected regret.
The Jury, under the Learned Judge's direc-
tion, found the prisoner Guitty.—He was ,sen-
tenced to six months' imprisonment in the County
Gaol.

John Simpson was indicted, on the Coroner's
inquisition, for feloniously killing and slaying
Jane Morgan, on the 15th of April last, in the
parish of St. Thomas, in the Borough of South-
w irk.

The-prisoner was the driver of a Chatham
stage coach; and about.B o'clock in the evening of
the day mentioned in the indictment; it being
dark, he was driving at the rate of eight miles an
hour, through the Borough, when .the deceased,
a woman far gone in pregnancy, was crossing the
road, and, before she was aware of her danger,
she was knocked down by the leader, when the
Wheels of the carriage went over her body, broke
her ribs, ruptured her abdomen, and produced
premature parturition. She was taken up in a
lifeless state, and carried to St. Thomas's Hospi-
tal, where she died the next day, her infant sur-
viving her two days. The. prisoner, when spoken
to upon his misconduct, behaved. with great inso-
lence, and in the most unfeeling Manner. ,

The Jury immediately found him Guilty, and
the CHIEF JUSTIGE, alluding to the but too fre-
quent carelessness of persons in his situation of
life, expressed a hope that this melancholy ca-
tastrophe would be a warning to. others against a
brutal indifference to the safety of their fellow-
creatures, and, taking into consideration the cir-
cumstance that he had been already confined for
sixteen weeks, sentenced him to be further im-
prisoned in the County Gaol for four calendar
'months.

At a late hour this evening the Assizes finish-
ed, and sentence of Death was passed upon
the several capital convicts, found guilty during
the Assize. •

DARING ATTEMPT AT, ,BURGLARY.—The fol-
loWing atterhpt at robbery and probably murder,
took- place in the night between Monday and
Tuesday last. JamEs MosTAou, Esq. store-
keeper in the department of the Master of the
Horse, residing at Kew Green, gave his man ser-
vant leave to go to the play on Monday night—he
himself remaining at home with two female ser-
vants only. About one o'clock lie was awoke by
some person tapping gently at his chamber door;
and thinking it was his servant returned from
the play, he drew up the night bolt, when a
strange man nearly six feet high, dressed in a
carter's frock, and armed with a bludgeon, enter-
ed the
room, and instantly advanced to the side
of the bed. Mr. Montagu demanded, " What
brings you here ?" " Your-money !" replied the
ruffian, instantly .lifting up his cudgel in the act
'to strike ; Mr.-Montagu asinstantaneously sprang
from the bed, with a pillow in each hand ; and
With these he contrived 'to ward off many des-
perate• blows, which the villain aimed at his
head. Mr. M. *was nearly exhausted, however,
when the noise made by this scuffle, awoke the
maid-servants ; and the robber, hearing them
coming towards the room, instantly betook him-
serf I.6llight ;
.pulling his hat over his eyes and co-
vering the rest of his face with his hand as he rush-
ed past them. It was afterwards discovered, that
he had entered through' a window at the back
part of the house,• from the Royal Gardens, be-
longing to Kew Palace ; audit is a singular fact,
that about twelve months ago a precisely similar
attack was made upon Mr. M. with as little suc-
-cess. In that "case, the robber entered by the
same window and from the Royal Gardens, and
ho also was 'much such a man in appearance.—
Jeffreys and Bacon of the Bow-street Pa ice,
were seat dow'n by the Magistrates, on Tuesday
morning, lo.endeavour to &ace the robber, but
hitherto they have been unsuccessful.

•
AND ItonuEß:ir at RATIICOOL.—About
nine o'clock on Saturday night, five or six car-
riers Were stopped near itathcool, by twelve. or
14 armed men, Who prOCeeded to pillage the
property on the cars=after having shot one
man, and wounded another of the carriers. The
Waterford and two other mail coaches arrived at
the time, but deemed it-best, for tlierSecuriti of
the mails, to abandon the scene of action, which
they did accordingly..—(Dublin Journal, Aug. 7.)

PARLIA.INIENT .I.RI PAPtas.

EXTRA

(Concluded from our Paper of yeitertlay.)

No. V..—Estracts from Correspondence tespecting an Extra

Post.
Return to the Order of theltight Flonourable the Lords
Spiritual and Temporal, in Parliament assembled.

Dir.Martis, I?,th July I S2O.

" That there he laid before this bouse.CoPies of-all •Cor-
respondence between the Merchants of Leeds and Hal itax
and his Majesty's Postmaster General, relative to the mis-
chiefs arising from the speculations carried on in consequence
of the Post arriving at one of those towns so, ouch earlier•
than at the other, as to give an opikwttinity of snaking nor-
chases and speculations
.0 you information received by Post
in the one" town, before the Letters were delivered by the
other."

Extract of a Memorial from the Gentlemen, Merchants.
Mann facturetv, and ot her Inhabitants of Ihe Town and
Parish of Halifax, to the Lords the Postmaster General.
transmitted the 3d June 1812, praying for an earlier Arrival

of their flails.
• '• The whole parish also thereby sustains a. great loss by
the advantage given• to the Jlrrchautr of Leeds, Wakefield,
Kodula le. and Manchester, (who-receive their Lettt rs in due
course)' titer the Inhabitants of this Parish, tint only in their
own market at Halifax, but likewise in the ne'actibutirint;
markets of Bradford, Huddersfield, Leeds, Wakeaeld, and
Manchester."

in October 1814, the post Office Surveyor of the District
attended a Public Meeting at Halifax, when, among other
things then discussed, the inconvenience of a bite arrival of
the Posts was complained of, as giving the Leeds Merchants
an ►udvrerrtage over the Inhabitants of Halifax.
ti referring to a recent Regulation of their Correspond-
ence , the Surveyor states as• follows
This measnre" (an arrangement for the Mill and Liver-
pool Coach to wait at Leeds for the Western Correspondence)
" however, it appears, entails another inconvenience upon
the Town ; fur bringing, as it does, the Mail half an hour
later to flalifax, the merchants .of Leeds. are in general in
the Huddersfield market, and partly executed their orders,
under all the -advantages of prior information, befote the
Halifax Merchant had received instrnetions from his Corre-
spondet.t. This argument is serious."

Copy of a Letter from the Secretary of the Post Office to the
Surveyor. _ -

Noreniber

, 1912.

" 1 find from the Postmaster of Leeds that, since the .re-
cript ()Lille Orders in No 16, he has adopted the gt,seval
hOurs of dsdivery, but has, on any plea of emergency, deliver-
ed Leiters When applied for. lam glad to find it has been
only on such pleas, and I have ordered him in future, on no
pretence whatever, to deliver Letters before 7 ands in the
Summer and .Winter months respectiv. ly• This, with the
detention of the-Coach at Leeds to a fixed hour, as -lately. set-
tled, will, 1 trust, remove the Halifax grievances."

Extract of a Letter from the Secretary of the. Post Office to
the Po‘tinaiter of Leeds, respecting the morning delimy
of Letters in that Town:" _ _

November

, 1812.

- - -
" The desire to accommodate is always commendable, but
it is very • dangerous to make any- particular deliveries to
Merchants, and it -contradicts a fundamental principle of the
office—its impartiality. With respect to the Merchants of
Leeds, it has. been much complained .of by their neighbours
at Halifax, .over whom they get advantages in the Markets.
Halifax is so situated that it. cannot have a. delivery as
early is+ the common hours, and therefore there is great weight
in their remonstrances."

Copy of a Memorial from Messrs: Goodman and Banks, and
• other Merchants of Leeds.

October

, 1313.

" We, the undersigned; though resident in Leeds, have
occasion, from -the nature of our business, to attend the
weekly markets at Bradford and Halifax, which commence at
ten o'clock in the morning, the one at the distance of ten and
the other of eighteen mires from 'Leeds, find ourselves very
materially inconvenienced by the arrangement lately intro-
duced into the Post Office here, with regard to the morning.
delirery of the Letters, which does not .take place till eight
o'clock. The Merchants of Bradford and Halifax can obtain
theirs full as early. We must therefore either delay, in order
to see our Letters, till it would be too late ttr set out fur the
market, or be put to the inconvenience of waiting another
week before we hare the opportunity to Supply such orders
as may come to hand on the days on which the Bradford and
Halifax markets are held. We have therefore to request you
will &eel Mr. Temple to deliver, as was formerly the case,
the Letters on the market days.to such merchants as require
them, at an hour courenient to them."

Extract front a Report of the Secretary tg the Lords the Post.
master-General, on the foregoing Memorial.

"November , ISIS.
•
" I have the tumour to enclose an application front Nlessrs.
Goodman and Banks, and other respectable Merchants of
Leeds, that they may not be bound by the ordin iry rule fur
the delivery of letters at 7 atul 6 o'clock in Summer and Win-
ter respectively, but that the Posthiaster may deliver to such
Merchant' as require it, at an hour convenient to them. The
rea►ons assigned are, that they may be able to attend the
Halifax and Huddersfield Markets.'

•' Another application addressed to your Lordships and
more extensively signed has been since received, to have the
Letters delivered at seven o'clock. This has been transmit-
ted to me and- warmly recommended by a friend."
" I must now proceed to remind your Lordships how much
the attention olthe Odice has i•een engaged by complaints
front Halifax, of the evils the Merchants there suflered, from
not getting their Bye Letters on the same day with the Mer-
chants At Leeds, and on these occasions they also complained
that the early Delivery of all Letters at Leeds enabled the
Merchants of that Town to ride over and be in the Halifax
Cloth Market, possessed of information relative to the
Trade before the people there could get their Letters out of
the Office." •

' u The 'delay of the Bye Letters has been for the most part
removed, as the London and Leeds and York and Liverpool
Coach, now' for the greater part of the year are united at
Leeds, and the other evil having been again pressed on the
Surveyor, and represented by him in October last year, I
found it necessary to make some inquiry of the Postmaster,
and gave bits instructions, 'as your Lordships will see by the
enclosures, •to abide by your standing orders for a delivery at
7in the six Surnmr, and in the Slx Winter Months."
"v 1 am now anxious that. your Lordshipi should decide fur
yourselves, whether the Merchants of Leeds can have the
diligence they solicit."

Copy of a Letter !torn the Secretary to the Postmaster-Gene-
rat to Mears. Goodman and Banks.

November , 1813.
rg sty Lords, the Postmaster-General hare fully considered
the applications • from yourselers hod many others 'of the
*Nlerchatits of Leeds for an earlier delivery of .Let.
ters, and am to acquaint.Yourt that by the standing Order of
-the'floard, the delivery of Letters should commence, at all
places where the arrivals of the Mails. v, ill admit of it, at -7
o clock during, the Six Summer and at 8 during the Six Win-
ter Months.' '

. .
_ .
~ Any. earlier delivery -than at those' hours has been made
at Leeds only through
the acquiescence of the Postmaster
there • and as it 1145 been attended with disadvantages to
neighbouring towns, and has often been complained of, the
present Poitmaster was instructed to. abide by the general
Order which their Lordships cannot now see any good season
to alter."

6‘. You will have the goodness to Make this known to the
Gentlemen who signed the application with yourselves."

In reference to this subject. the following is an extract of
a Letter written by the Surveyor of Use district in November,
18.7,

" Circumstances have materially altered since the above
order was issued, as far as regards the place of more pat tact
lar'consequence, Huddersfield, where the delivery has been
greatly accelerated ; however, although. these are favourable
circumstances, I ant of opinion, considering the speculative
turn of the birds manufacturer, cdrtain fixed rules should be
established and enforced ; aut:, again, these Rules should be
general, but within these few days a priority of intelligence
on the sutfden rise of Silk, has enabled an individual or two
to take by surprize every dealer in Coventry."

•
In November, }RI7, a Letter was addressed to the Secretary
of the rost•Office, by W. Beckett, Esq—of Leeds, of which
the following is an Extract :
" I am favoured with your Letter of the 4th instant, and
hope that your representation to the Postmaster-General will

he ‘ticli at to induce their tordsliipt to grant that accoarivY
dation which is in much wished for by the inhabitants Ott
place."
" The complaint which you mention to have come
from Halifax and Huddersfield, will appear to have little
foundation, whet) it is known, that the Letters at these
towns are all delivered in time for their own Markets)
and that the Leeds Merchants have sixteen miles to
ride to each place after the Letters are delivered here; but
it is hoped, that if the accommodation we ask for can be
granted without entailing much inconvenience upon our owls
Post Office; that it'will not be refused on account of the tepre'
sentation from these towns?:

The above was followed by a Memorial from the Bankerll
Merchants, and principal Inhabitants of Leeds, traustuitted.
to the Postmaster General in November, 1817.
" To the Right Honourable the Postmaster General.
" May it phase your Lordships,
" The undersigned Bankertf, Merchants, and ptincipal In
habitants of the Borough of Leeds, beg to represent to yoll•
Lordships the great inconvenience and loss that are daily esf
perienced, from the strict adherence of the Postmaster al
this place to the regulations which prohibit the delivery 0:
any Letter out of the Office before the hour of genera.
delivery.
" .1 hat, front the extensive and encreasing business of 06
town, its correspondence in all directions is become imporh
taut, and every day's Post brings some Letters of emerge“cf
which require the earliest possible attention of the parties t°
whom they are addressed.
"'That the departure of many public Coaches to different
parts of the Kingdom takes place before the hour of general
delivery of Letters, and from the existing regulations of tb°
Post Office, many journeys are unnecessarily taken and mail
are inevitably postponed.
" And that, from the arrival of the Mails in Leeds, which
is usually between two and three o'clock, n.tst. the accomma-
dation now earnestly sought for may be granted without jli.
convenience to the Post Office.

" Your Memorialists therefore beg most respectfully 14
submit to your Lordships' consideration their request ,1101
Letters of emergency may he delivered out early fora rev..
stumble compensation to the Postmaster." •
In consequence of the further consideration which tits
matter received, the order was so f,r relaxed, that the Met'
chants of Leeds were allowed to Wive their Letters about sit
o'clock, the am rival of Mails at Halifax and Ilsidderiiield hay'
mug in successisc years become so much earlier that the
ground of the objection was remoscd. The Mails now aerie'
ing at Halifax between t; and 7, eighteen miles front Leeds,
and at Huddersfield, sixteen mils s from Leeds, between 7 and
S o'clock.

An accidental circumstance having lately caused, for a Veil
short time, a later arrival of the Mail at Hurldersfi,ld, a let"
ter -was addressed to the St cretary of the Post alike on the .11'
July by Mr. W. W. Stables of that place, of which the fvl"
lowing is an extract :
" Till lately we received our Letters by soon after ei:1"
o'clock in the morning, but we are sorry to say, that by tliC
last alteration in the Mail we seldom get them much before
ten, which is a very serious inconvenience, and more
cially as the Merchants from Leeds, Halifax, &c. can 0bt,03
their Letters and be at Huddersfield Market an hour befure
we can get ours from the Office; to men in the same trad
you will allow this is a most serious grievance, and NO°t
ought to be.remedied."

General Post-Office, FRANCIS FREELING, Src,
20th July; 1220.*

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

ADDRESS OF THE CITY.M ECHANWS TO THE QT.7ES,II;
MSNSION4IOUSE.-Yesterday Waddingion,.o
radical renown, appeared at the Justice-roonl,
and, having waited very respectfully till a coo'
venient opportunity presented itself, addre4s-
ed the Loan Ma.you from the bottom of the
table.

Waddington then handed over a placard to the Lord Mayer'
and begged his Lordship would read it previously to hearit4
the charge.
The placard contained a statement that the delegates front
the Mechanics of London, appointed to wait ui her most
gracious Majesty the Queen of England, had, in consequeoc6
of the lamented death of The Ditches, of Yolk,-postported the
time of waiting upon her Majesty with their Address, which
had- been carried unanimously at Coswell-strtet.
The LORD MAYoit said, he bad seen the placard before, and
was aware of its contents. The Word's certainly were IPY
means offensive, tsar were they calculated to excite any jets,
bulent feeling amongst the people. But still the conduct 'l'
the person who exhibiterLit, and 'his character, might catei°'
under any circumstances a disposition t, disorder.
Waddington then said, that he had. for the purpose of
venting any thing like disorder, taken a board with ilea 1.14 i
card upon it to Holborn bars, and held it up, that all tnigi!
see what was written thereupon. His object was raft,„r„tele
..
to the public peace; but notwithstanding that, the peace.
-officers, as they were called, had set their faces against 10;
endeavour, and ordered him to take down the placard.
thinking it reasonable to d.r so. he refused, anti the (Alert"
particularly Drinkwater and Matthews, rushed upon hi'?:
and -having torn his coat, and-deprived him of the placar...
bore him away by force to the watchbonse of St. Andrew'
from which place it was their intention to bring him off T°
another place called the Cotopter. A humane gentletuan'
bows ver, interposed, and they thought prOper to let hint
Under these circumstances he trusted the Lord Mayor wet'',
see justice done; for it was known to hundreds that the
cred goddess with the balance and scales bad been violated
his person.
The Louts MAYOR then stated, that from the accounts be
had heard he had every reason to suppose that •his present ari;
plicant had beers doing at the time of the interference of ter
officers, an act in breach of the public peace.
Mr. IVontner, the Marshal, said, that Waddington had as,
sembled round him a very large collection of the lower
or
tiers, and was, as it were, the very point round which .pico
pockets and thieves of a more formidabledescription w"l'd,
rally with the greatest probability. of success. The cr°,"'„,
were increasing every moment, and the officeri would ,
subjected themselves to a charge -of neglect of duty if thehad not requested Mr. Waddington to put down his
when they did so, they were insulted most grossiY• .lift;
however, persevered and took the placard and poll from
hearer by lump ; but in the effort endangered ir,oo.
t
Mr. Waddington then went to.the watch-house, and, w't-'“
reason, called himself a prisoner there. The interference
the gentleman alluded to bad been the subject' of sorr:ice
, ,
and censure amongst the parish-officers of St. llll-frei
who, he understood, intended to brima charge againstl
.1,6
before the Lord-Mayor; with that gentleman neither '
witness nor his officers had interfered.
,11
IVaddington said, there were 20 or so respectable rre3
to come forward to prove the fact that he had been ille
dragged about and deprived of Isis placard.
The Lorin Nlavou said, that any City Magistrate 10rt1,,1
14
willingly inquire into the circumstances, hut that
might involve the applicant a disagi eeable manner. Ito
officers had no dnnht acted properly; but if Mr. ‘Vaddi,loo
continued to be dissatisfied with them, he might go '4
some Magistra:e with the story othis disaster.
NVaddingtern then bowed, and quitted the Justice-rooln'

Not less than 50houses, exclusive of out-housec'
kc. were destroyed by fire'in the night of Fridge
last, at Cashel in Ireland. The ravages of tt,e
conflagration were 'exceedingly rapid front
Avant of water, which could- only be produced ft')
the Archbishop's pumps, at which his Grace's scdl'
took a most lab'orious part.

BIRTH,
Yesterday, at Islington, pear the Church, Mrs. W"d'
a son, her tenth child, eight of whom are living.

MA .VTIRJErI.
ct •
RRIAGE H Ml.tr
IN iatt e. —Yesterday. at —• • Georwr'-il vi
C.'iaiept lin.ria; and
le
Iltrovv.a.l4 fritettyl ,LITIOrtrhi$;:70111:
Frances Temple, eldest itanehter of the late ViscoUll,`_
tnerston. and sister to the present.
At Brussels, on the '2d inst. Le Comte Seigneur Cie:petit
de Berlaymont, to Miss Frances Forret, of Brussel,7____.,.../

DIED. - hosts
On the Bth inst. Frances the oule child of WE"' T
lisq:Cheapiide, sg,4l 2 years and ,1 i months. elf 1
On the 29th tilt. at Paris, Mrs. Charlotte Otis, the sc4
The/Iris Otis, Esq. aged 41.
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