The Sun.
London, England, 1820-01-22 00:00:00

nog, on the demise of witIGHT, v. PLUMBT&B.

' The arguments in this case occupied the Court
the whole of yesterday, and the greater part of
to-day. The cause was tried before Mr. Justice
BusT, at the Assizes for the County of Somt-rset,
and the outline of the case was this :—A Gentle_
man named Brewer, at the pet iod of his decease,
having no issue otitis own, bequeathed his estate,
&c. valued at 50,0001. to u Lady mimed Moly-
Deux, under these restrictions. All the property
for life to belong to lmrselt, and one half to be
disposable at her death in any manner she chose ;
but the other,half she was hontid to bequeath, at
her demise, to the next of kin of the devisor, bear-
ing the name of Brewer, But Mrs. M.lynetix,
not being aware of any such person at her decease,
bequeathed the whole property to a female named
Plumbtre, who had been her companion for
a series of years, and
4,,this lady, at her death,
bequeathed the estat-';'to her sister, named
Hannah Plumb. re. '4.lter female next of
kin to tie original dev -3r, but who pre-
viously to the' death of the *tit Mrs. Molyneux,
had married a person named Wright, heard of
the circumstances of the original will, and put in
her claim for a moiety, as the next of kin, of the
name of Brewer, although -*lir had then assumed
her husband's name, Wright. But this claim was
resisted by Mrs. Hannah upop the
giound that the claimant was not a person of the
tome of Brewer at the time of Mts. Molyneox's
decease, for that her maiden name was annihilated
by her martiage, and consequeutly she had no
right of claim under the letter of Mr. Brewer's

The plaintiff was nonsuited at the trial ; and
the argument now was, on a motion to set aside
that nooduit, and obtain a new tried.
The case was argued at. very considerable
length ; against the tno.ion, by Mr. Casherd, Mr.
Moore, and Mr. Taunton ; and in support of it,
by Mr. Serjeant Pell, Mr. Gaselee, and Mr. Adams.

COLIRT the cise aess most ably argued
on both sides ; but deet red judgment it'd further
consideration.

The I-Inn. Edtlard Mot►ckroc,, Colonel of the
Staffordshire Regiment of Yeomanry, I►as present
ed ‘Vm. Keen, F.,q. the late Lieut.-Colonel, with
*nperh and u►aisice Cup The Stafford 'croon
had a grand ban, at %%ellen the Cup w,,s filled by
order of Mr. Keen with noyeau. It held 18
bottles of noyeau.

MISCELLANEOUS.

MSLANICtioLY SUlClDE.—Thursday, about four
o'clot k in the afternoon, the house of Mr. Towns-
bend, proctor, Paul's-chain, was thrown into
great alarm and consternation, on the discovery
of a body suspended by a rope from the root of
the cellar underneath the premises, which the
servant maid no sooner perceived titan she scream-
ed out and fainted. Mr. Townshend, jun., on
di.envering that the body was that of Mr.
Webb, who had been their managing clerk for
upwards of twenty years, became paralysed
with surprize and horror. It appeared he
had been suspended several hours, with his
toes within two incites of the ground, and, by this
time, was quite cold and lifeless. The deceased,
we are concerned to add, has left a wife, now in
the last stage of pregnancy, who, on learning the
noliappy event, has been in a dangerous situation,
and which, it is feared, may prove fatal to her
also ; lie has likewise left a family of three small
chi'dren. Th,, cause of thitvrash ',act is supposed
to have orieinated in the fantare'Ot some specula-
tions in tallow concerns in which he was engaged.

SUDDEN DEATH.-Thursday evening, at eight
o'clock, an Inquest wa: held at the Green Man,
Little Bedford-street, Covent•garden, bet.)re
HIGGS, Beg. Coroner, on the body of Jane
Tredger, aged 60, housekeeper to William West
Jones, Esq. of Itotiina-sireet, Adclphi. Mr.
Jones, being sworn, said, that on Wednesday even-
ing he left the deceased in lier usual Itate of
and on his retort) home in the morning, about one
o'clock, he did not find a candle burning, or the
fire, which the deceas,,! was in the general
habit of prepating for hint against his return ;
be went to the kitchen to look atter her, but not
finding her there, he pr9ceed\ill to the vatious
apartments,.and at length found her lying upon
the floor .111. the parlour, quite....dead. He called
the watchman to .Ci-s .10,:itisitinge, and a surgeon
was sent for, but the deceased was past human
She had had an affected eye, and appa-
rently dropped
_dead while in the act of applying
sortie stuff-to ir.—The Surgeon was oL, opinion
the deccatied died of apoplexy, and a verdict to
that effect was returned.

UNACCoUNTABLE TaaNsacrtoN.----Application
was made a few days ago to the Magistrates at
Union-hall Police-office, to send two Police-offi-
cers down to Chertsey, in Surrey, for the purpose
of apprehending a fellow who, it was reported,
had cut and stabbed several females in different
parts of their body with a sharp instrument, in a
similar manner to the monster so much talked Of
in France. The application was made by a gen-
tleman named Wells, an opulent farmer, residing
at Ham Firm, near Chertsey, whose servant girl
had been stabbed by the sinknown. Two officers,
named Hammond and Haynes, were sent down
to Mr. I'Vells's house : they interrogated the ser-
vant, who shewed them her wounds, and stated
to them, that on the day when the villain stab-
bed her, she went to the wood-house for some
wood, and was struck with something which run
inio her body, and she ran to her master's house
and informed the family. On the same day, in
the afternoon, she went to the privy, and on
()Petting the door, was seized by the same per.
son who had before wounded her, and cut in
both arms ; the man (she said) was dressed like
a sailor. The
,cuts in her arms were apparent.
The officers went in diffetent directions about the
neighhouthood, -but they could not hear of any
such person having been seen. The females in
the neighbourhood %sere in the greatest alarm,
and several of them offered a reward for the ap-
prehension of the wretch. Her Grace the Du-
chess of York hearing of the affair at Oat!alit's,
offered 501 reward to those who should take him
;nib Custody. After a fruitless search many miks.
round, the officers, doubting in some respect the
statement of the girl, took her before a county
Magistrate, that her deposition might be taken
on oath. The girl very reluctantly accompanied
them, and when before the Magistrate refused to
be sworn. He reprehended her for her conduct,
and urged her to speak the truth, when she burst
into tears, and acknowledged that she wounded
herself. She was further urged to explain her
motive for such unaccountable conduct ; but nei-
ther entreaties nor threats could induce her to
say more than that the•whole was a deception.—
The females again walk about without being in
constant terror of the supposed monster.

DARING THIEVES.--00 Thursday evening two
young villains surceeded in starring the window
of Mr. Taylor, jeweller, of St. Martin's-cotirt,
whence they stole several silver and gold articles,
with which they tnade off, but having been ob
erved by Gooke am Glasborough, two officers,
they were pursued and takeu into custody to
Bow street, where they were committed for trial.
A bimilar robbery was effected the same evening,
and supposed to be by the same depredators.
It is a fact worthy mt. notice, that no less than
97 lives wete lost, during the last year,
Le Lijs of muttaiiiy, by fire.

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SHOCICINO ATTEMPT AT St/lc:um—About one
O'clock on Thursday morning, the crew of the
Bee, a Scots trading smack, lying off Downes's
IVhat f, in the Thames, were Rimmed by the re-
port of a pistol fired in the cabin ; some of them
went to the door, which being fastened on the
inside, and receiving no answer, they forced it
°pee, and discovered Mr. Grim, the owner and
, Captain, lying on the floor weltering in his blood;
an open razor was lying near him, also covered
with blood, and the shattered remains of a pis-
tol, which appeared to he just discharged, at a
short distance from him. Mr. Grun was quite
speechless ; his right hand wos shattered and his
breast dreadfully lacerated from the bursting
of the pistol, and there were two large inci,ions
across his throat, which appeared to be done
with the razor. Mr. Price, a surgeon, of Lower
East Smithfield, was immediately sent for, who,
after dressing his wounds, had him removed to
the Cock and Lion, Lower East Smithfield, where
he was put to bed. Yesterday the unfortunate
gentleman underwent amputation of his right ,
hantl ; the wound in the breast does not appear
t 0 he mortal, and the arteries of the neck are not
cot, butt the windpipe is partly cut across, and
there is but little hope of his recovery.