The Sun.
London, England, 1818-03-28 00:00:00

3,107 .. a Prize of .. L. 5,000.

. . .
11i'i1
3,f417
I 12,070 . 300 5,075
4,863 - 400 I 11.605
11,368 ..... i . ... . 400 8,412

&c: 'Sec.

The Capitais are divided into so many Shares,
and gone to such an immense number of plates,
that they are too numerous to specify particulars ;
but after the Lottery is over, T. Blur will state
where they have been sold, and he hopes to add
the remaining Two of 30,0001.1 and other Capi-
tals, to his already splendid List.
The fortunate Holders may receive their money
on demand on application at first-Cs Offices, 4,
Cornhilli or 9, Charing-Cross ; and those per-
sons entitled to the Wine may order it of any
merchant 4,hey think proper, and T. Iltsri will im-
mediately discharge the bill for the saute.
The last day will be Thursday the 9th of April,
when the Two Prizes of 30,0001., and 35 other
Capitals, which yet remain in the Wheel, must be
drawl'

MAIDSTONE ASSIZES, MARCH 27.

This day, at eight o'clock, Messrs.
anti ARGUINBAU, the young Midshipmen who
conducted themselves in so spit ited manner in
the detection and arrest of the Smugglers at Deal,
were brought to the Bar. Mr. ADOLPHUS was
Counsel for the prosecution, and Mr. Seljeant
Osscow for the defendants. After a patLnt trial
of seven hours, the defendants were honourably
acquilted.

In the course of an admirable Address to the
Jury, which lasted nearly au hour and a half, Mr,
Baron GRAHAM severely animadvet ted on the con.
duct of the Sningglers of Deal, and on the (langur
and criminal consequences of such codnet.

We have not room to enter into a detail of the

proceedings, but we have the pleasure to state,
that the result was highly satisfactory to every
part Of the audience, except perhaps to those who
are interested in tolerating such violations of the
Law as occasioned the ahrniing disturbances

%vhich led to this pro.ecutiot►.
So spirited and so laudable was the conduct of
the Defendants deemed by tl►e People in general,
that many persons shook bands wit►► them iu
Court on their acquittal, and others as they after-
wards passed through the street at Maidstone,
without their uniforms.

CONSPIRACY TO MURDER A FAMILY IN NEW
YORK.—WC extract the following diabolical rr-
ticul4rs now a:New York Journal of Saturday the
24(11 of Jawialy last :

" A concurrence of circumstances has led
to a discovery of an infernal conspiracy in this
city, which has been marked by no oidinary
'cantles of atrocity. An Italian servant, in
the employ of a respectable family, was dis-
missed by the master of the house for drun-
kenness. To revenge himself, he meditated, in
concert with one of his countrymen, and the black
female cook in the wine faintly, to carry their
diabolical plot into effect. It appears that the
after being dismissed, returned with his
companion to the house the saute evening, and
while in the kitchen with the cook, in conference,
was overheard by the chambermaid, in explana-
tion of their plans. On the Warm being given,
aid proper search !made, the two Italians were
discovered and secured.

The cook confessed that their pl>►n was
to take advantage of the absence of the master of
the house, who was about leaving town ; and
that, in the evening, by a given signal, they were
to be let into the house by her. Their design was
to violate the females of the family, consisting
of two ladies and two servant girls, and to murder
them ; alter which, they intended to rob the house,
set fire to it, and escape. The cook also confessed
that she was to receive 130 dollars alter the
plate bad been sold, and corroborated that
part of the conspiracy which had been overheard
by the maid.—The parties have all been ap-
prehended by Robert Phillips and A. Cocklin,
constables of the seventh ward, and secured in
Btidewell, and wi:l shortly be put on their trial.
The discovery of this infernal design has prevented
a terrible event, and will serve to operate as a cau-
tion to families in hiring foreign servants. These
particulars have been related to us by the gentle-
man of the house."

Some little carriages are said to be getting into
use in Germany, which run witt►o►it horses. If
the passengers in these are required to move any
machinery, the invention is not a New one it
was exhibited in England 40 years since; but it
must have been much improved, if what the Paris
Papers say be true, that one of these vehicles has
gone from Dresden to Burin, a distance of four
leagues, in an hour and a quarter. They are called
Draisiennes, from a Baron DRAIS, of Carlsruhe,
Who claims the invention,

‘Vednesday, about twelve o'clock, a mad dog
entered the house of Mr. Maugs, the Jolly Tan-
ner, in George's-street, Bristol, and bit the son
of Mr. Alaggs (a youth about 15) through the
hand. The lad underwent a surgical operation
immediately, and was alter dipped. It may
not be amiss to observe, that a dug %vhich is rult
mad will seldom enter a strange house, and it it
does, it will run away immediately it spoken to
harshly but a mad 'dog will enter any door he
sees open, and it is with great difficulty he can be
got out.

Mr. J. Wilkinson, of Lenton, near Notting-
ham, has at this time an ox grazing ii► the open
field, which at two years and a mo►►th old was of
the enormous weight of 2 list: 21b. (London
weight). This animal has had neither cake not•
corn, and is as remarkable for the beawy of the
carcass as the greatness of weight.

In the Nisi Prius Court, at the late York As-
sizes, in a cause of damages for an assault, a.
countryman, a friend of the plaintiff, gave a most
clear and circumstantial evidence as to 311 the
main facts. Just before he was quitting the box,
the Learned Judge (Richards) asked him how
old he thought the person assaulted might be ?
The witness pertinaciously avoided giving any in-
formation on this head. Is he twenty, thirty,
forty, said the Judge. The witness still persisted
that he could not tell. At length the Judge said;
now, in all probability, you have never before
seen me; nor I you, yet I think I could term a
pretty correct guess at your age. " Very likely,"
replied the holiest cottony-man, " but you are a
better Judge than 11 am !" The Learned Baron,
and the whole Court, were convulsed with laugh-
ter, while the witness stood amazed at being the
unconscious cause of all the mirth. At length
the Judge resumed, and having no further ques-
tions to put, said, " Good morning, my friend."
The witness withdrew from the box, but, to the
infinite amazement of the Court, thinking he had.
not quite properly behaved, quickly resumed his
place, and significantly said, " Good morning,

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LI rEtimitY REVIEW.

NORTHERN IRISH TALES. In Two Volumes. Loxo

•
MAN, HURiT, REES; oi6lEi and BROWN.

an unanswerable appeal to the best and strongest
sympathies of our common nature. Ni7c had been
taught to look but for fiction, yet have discovered
something rarer, if not clearer, than its most
marvellous inventions, nature and truth. In the
story of Stanley, we see the victim of parental
neglect ; unforim:ate from his birth, he succeeds
to a father's follies, and is at length conducted
y them to an untimely grave. The Spech which
'be addresses to the Judge, who has condemned
'im, might have affected any audience—any
Court---the at ways excepted.

" I have a few words to say ; ymi may hear
tile.m, for they are only tew, and, they arc my
:•I have listened- to the (acid sentence; I have
I;stened to it unmoved ; it is not an unfit one for
a murderer, if a murderer I be ; but a murderer I
ant not, at least, if torentron be necessary to make
a roan so; my intention was not, perhaps, right ;
but it was only to stop the coach, anti to take
her out, whose loss, -as much as any other, I
deplore.

I was wounded in the attempt ; I was dis-
tracted by the anguish of pain ; I WKS further dis-
tracted by the ill success. of my enterprise;' I was
falling to the ground when the pistol went off in
my nerveless baud; I know 1101 at whom, and I
bad-the misfortune to Isal the person who was the
dearest to me upon earth. My soul from that in-
stant became. weary of the world, and of all
things therein ; 1 was like a.pelican of the wil-
derness, or like an owl in the desert ,y,f the earth;
I bespeak, therefore, neither mercy, nor desire
'commiseration ; nor 1 II I
address you at all,
.but for the sake of the poor creature who accom-
panied use on the fatal expedition, and only aban-
doned me at my own request : bad he, like the
others, fled earlier, he Wright, like them, have
escaped, and not been apprehended, as I learn he
unfortunately is. Ris simplicity of heart made
him ignorant of his danger. He would, 1 believe,
have served the for myself; . he served,rue for an-
other
reason; he was my ten Ant ; I promi4ed him
a renewal of his lease, if he would assist in reco-
vering my wife; of nothing else did I think ; of
nothing else, I ant sure, did Ire : be is a proper
object of mercy ; and should he lie brought to
aid, I
beg.of the Court to represent him as such.
• " For myself, life is not worth asking for ; and
Were I to choose, death tvoid4 almost be asy
choice : it comes is a terrible form, indeed, and
-sooner than by the course of nature I had reason
•to expect; but the form, after all, is of little con-
sequence, and the time, if possible, of still less:
• there is no inquisition in the grave, whether we
have lived one, or a bundled years, and the day
of our death is better than the day of our birth l"
The following passage contains no•triwtal
truth t--4

" Death to the shiner is dreadful," said Stan.,
ity,:with a sigh.
" Death is dreadful," replied Henderson,
• " whether to sinner or saint. l will not deceive
you, nor fill your ear with unmeaning words,
Which, issned not from my heart, could. touch 110
-••• or res porrtting chord of your's. Nature shrinks
from the extinction of life. Death, whenever we
tiave leisure coolly to .survey it, is dreadful we
must, therefore, not survey it coolly; we must
vandeavotir not to think of it I but it you must
think of it, think, likewise, of the many miseries
of human life, which drew from the wisest of
men the, melancholy observation, that all is va-
, pity and vexation of spirit ! Wherefore he praised
the dead which are already dead, more than the
living Which are yet alive. Irca, better is he than
both they, proceeds he, who hath not, yet been,
who bath not seen the.evil that is done under the
sun,

" die is the common lot ; why should we,
then, in peevish opposition, take it to heart ?
" For certainly we must,
As we ale born, return to dust."

" Drink, drink ; sorrow is low down, am
drunkenness, which is joy, is high up we %vil
stop At time middle point,
" Hundreds on the earth are (Tying at this mo•
Merit : hundreds on hundreds have died since l

• •
. began to speak :—in a few days you will, die.—
Drink, drink, you see I drink too. In a few yews
.1 shall die also : see shall be buried alike, and
where then is the difference between ? In a feiv
years more your story may be the subject of a
tale : bright eyes may ttetp titer your sufferings
and your woes. Yet a few years, and those
bright eyes will be closed in death, as our's so
long hare been. SAifferer, friend, reader of his
sufferings, relater of them j yet a few years, and
Where is the difference between them ?

The world's a vast dungeon, Time an inexo-
rable Judge, and Death a remorseless executioner,
•vho strikes all and spares none."
We recommend the following observations, re-
specting condemned criminals, to serious atten-
tion :--

" The refinement of putting a person or persons
in the cell or dungeon of the condemned, In those
days, was unknown, or at least was little practised.
Sorry I am it ever should be practised ; and would
1 could find words to touch the hearts of those
with whom the remedy lies. But liaVe lawgivers,
or lawmakers, in general, hearts to be so touched ?
Little hearts, or understandings either, I am sure
have they; for they write their laws in charac-
ters of blood, and then wonder that men are
crueller than before. They hang, they quarto.,
they dismember, they dissect, they behead.—Do

. In perusing these little volumes which have ap-
peared under the abovx,Title, the Tale, particu-
larly that which, being the first and the besr, has

the strongest claim to attention, we were tempted
to impute to the Anihor a misnomer ; he had
merely le►l ui to expect a tale of fancy, when he
bat! prepared an impressive lesson of morality--

so, lawgivers _ rpt;lrte.r, di,metubtr,
dissect, behead, as before : I address you not On
the subject ; for: the addresses. wiser, of more
eloquent, and better men are unattended to. But
do not refine upon living, as you do upon dying,
suffering; do not torture before you kilt; do not
gall the wearied body with huge irons; do not
subdue the wounded ,soul by muddy. water taken
front the disgusting ditch; do not debar. a fellow-
cteature the poor privilege of walking and think-
ing alone: kindly let him brood over his goes in
solitude : irt him prune and smooth, for its ap-
proaching flight, his soul's pinions, that it may
meet its God tutruffied and undisturbed.

" Lawmakers ! your's iss-a condition which, in
ordinary tittles; exposes you -little to the ordinary
miseries of man. Bat could von conceive theth—
these miseries : could you conceive how the
aching heart pants after solitude, and unshackled
motion ; how it -would take the wings of the
morning that it might flee to the wilderness, or
the lonely mountain's top, you would trot, in its
extremest misery, teinse it this last sad eon-
solar ion.

" The lay eras passed by Stanley
.entitely
alone. With evening came the frientL sat
late %vitt) bin; ; lie comforted hint ; be gave hint
wine as before : he again made hint cheerful, and
lett him so,.

Sunday morning da -; ;the first-born day
of time, when, in the sublime language of Scrip-.
tore,.God Let there be light, and there
Was light.' [low i ghtly clawus it on labour
which' that dety reposes itself on scanty food
which anticipates abundance ; On devotion which
prepares to prostrate itself in-bis- temple before
the Tribunal of its God i but how heavily does it
daivn on him whose days are numbered, and glass
is shaken, that it may the faster run; who loaths
dainty food.; who has done with labour, yet is
sick of repose, and on whose scalning.sores offi-
cious Priests pour not the balsam of God's heating
mercy, but empty the full vial of his denunciation
of wrath." -