The Sun.
London, England, 1816-12-04 00:00:00

'rim of all gunsmiths ; fur, while it tray preterit
much mischief, it can he prodlictiie of eery/light
'inconvenience to die trarlesmar4.,:as a lotit rant he'
put un a gnu in.. 11 feW ininatta, at tife tittle Of its
purchase.
otk Slonday night, about 11 oieloelt,'is Miles,
the horse patrole,,,.was on linty at -Highgate, be
passed, tlf"i*e Men, who appeared to avoid thins, and
recollecting to lia'ce heard of three footpads torn-
robbeties lately, lie Mahal 'tater-
: they,, ippeared as if they were going IMO
• thirlaux-,le,aellne to the Bad at Mansfiehri 'Mate,
but they retar,“.,:,t(kikatils the town of lilgitgate•.
The pstrOle !lieu conitfinnicated his suspicion's to-
tooß l,im Mint him to slap then',
They came tip with :hem r.C,yr the Red Lion
intblic-
linitte, when the patride it'avi,lg no doubt .hat that
lie lIRW a pistol concealetrin th, ,srt ta# iine.of
them, under a large looseort)igh c•, 11.
hand in aunt found liis.entijectuye !mime-
diately alter wards the other two presented' a riEf.!
etch ; one of them %vent off, but provident
the parole and watchman; the other
The watchman was 51) notch alarmed, that '
be ran off and spring his rattle : the two Wk) had
ptesented their pistols took the opportue:v and
ran away. An alarm:we; created by the disiliarge
Of the itistol, and a untipker of- persons came. out of
the Red Lion public-house aii'd from other plates.
The pantie g. tete the ratan Whom lie had kind
with the pistol, and on whom also he futtutl a
114Kger in a stick.* stile. the 000.4 sonic Men, while
be and others went in puriiiit the two who
had ran away, but they could not find them. The
patrole brought the man to the office yesterday,
when (shocking to relate) he proved to be well
known to a number of respectable persons as a
surgeon, apothecary, and accouchettr, who lately
kept ,a shop in the neighbourhood of the Strand.
lie was committed.

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On Monday night, about eleven o'clock, is one
of the horse patrole was nu ditty at Highgate, he
taw three persons, 4410111) from the description
he bad heard given of them, he awreteti In be
Bart of a gaitg, and he in consequence endeavour-
ed to seCtire them two of them; however, es•
raped; the patrole cried " Stop thief l" and the
watchman endeavoured to Secure them, but could
not. One of them fired a pistol at them, and the
~other pulled the trigger lit another pistol, which
rentleately flashed in the pan. The patrule, how.'
ever, secured one of them, who turned out to be
Mr. Watson, the perton who spoke at the first
11,1etting in Spa-fields, and who has been many
years a respectable surgeon and apothecary, re-
siding in Nyweastle-street, in the Strand. He was
in consequence handcuffed, anti brought to the
Grapes public-house, in Bow-street ; and the cit..
Cultist:wee having teen conummiCated to Mr.
TiLaste, the sitting Lagistrate, Mr. Stafford, the
Chief Clerk, waited upou Lod Sitimouth, the
Seetetery of State, for his Lordship's directions
under all the ciretunstancies 6? this extraordinary
taie.
The first message received from the Secretary
Watsonf State was, that the petiole was to Ittep Mr.
Win saftteutitilly, fuOther orders should
he officially received. The eirestiostence of Me:
Watson being in custody under a charge of felony
was soon male known, .end curiosity led several
people to tare M
e house to see him. &M., 'who bed
him, wondered that 4 man who had held
-so respectable a situation in life should be ma-
nacled there a prisoner ; and in answer to their
intriries be said, he was there under a charge-of
'being a humped rubber, hut begged them to wider-
Ittand that such eu ignoble idea never entered his
,head. He was particularly elution% to know the
fate of his son ; and on being informed by a person
'preient that be understood him to be in custody in
the city, be said that hew** a noble youth, and de-
served a better fate ; that there had beet) too peat
a degree of precipitancy hi Ids proceedingal anti that
*bad hecrinducted the cause well, his poor suffering
conutrymen Would have been relieved without
bloodshed ! He then with, much calmness spoke of
the distresses he bad been an eye-witness to, and
more particularly of those that hail befallen his
own family, and declared that one of his own chit-
riren, a Imely daughter, bad died from want-
-- that is to say, she died front the want of wine, and
such other nourishments as it was not in his
• tower, from the distressed state in which he was,
to give her all this, he contended, arose from
the oligarchy.
.He was asked if he was in Spa-
' fields en Monday, and he said heats, but pot with
the oratorical part of the assemblage.. At half-past
three o'clock he .was tinkled before Mr. pithier
stud lie underwent a short private examination,
the result of which was, that the worthy Magis-
' irate thought proper that. hitt conduct, us far as
• regarded his Wog found at a late hour at night
with loathed titc•arnis about him, (for he had a
large horse-pistol in his pucka heavily loaded)
shmild be investigated by a higher authority. He
wai accordingly taken to the Secretary of State's
Qtilee in Whitehall.** be dealt with as the tribunal
there shriek, think fit. With respect, however, to an
Mundt and stabbing of two persons named Rhodes;
and tioolding, who assisted to mitre him, their evi.
deuce was taken to the following effect They are
pain bers and glaziers, Heinz at Hampstead, and
on Monday hail been at work at Lord thartsfield't ;
on their frtUrti haute they went into a public-house
at. Hi aligate (we believe the Bear), two doors front
the gate-honse, to get something to drink. At I'l
weinelk they were alarmed by the cry of ' Stop
. thief and they in coesequence ran ;tn.: the thee!,
and saw horse patrole sitting on his horse, with
a man *touslittg by the side. Goulding said to the
parole, " Why don't you go after the rest of the
rabbets ?" The patrole said he could not, as he had
one 47,f thcm i 4 custody. Molding rejoined,
If you will go after the others, we will secure
the one we have.' The 'wrote then inquired of
the landlady if she knew Goulditig and Rhodes
being answered in the affirmative, he gave the man,
who proved to be Mr. Watson, into their custody.
They then bid bold of while the wrote
Went itt pursuit of the others. m(k then ,
- drew a dirk trout his stick, liaises Mr. `ft
'lt you w.
leave go, 1 will run you theoughi' and he struck
orated
then
his
at Goulding with, the dirk, which perf
Brent cost, but only scratched Iris skin lie
sttucked Rhodes, and sahhed.him in the thigh,
but not to any dangerous extent a struggle en-