The Sun.
London, England, 1811-01-31 00:00:00

AUGUSTINE PgIVTIIENY ESQ.

This singular charatier died on the e3d.Novem-
ber last, in the 83d year of his age, in an tihseure
lodging in Leestm-street, Dublin. The last age, of
whir:it he was an early member, has not produced
a character' of a more eccentric manner of thinking,
or one iegulated by greater. parsimony. He was a
miser of the most perfect drawing that.natthe has
given to the world. From the IoW and laborious
emidliion of a journeyman cooper, he accumulated
the enormous sum of 300,uour, in the Islands of
Ant,gtra and Santa Crf#.:,:s4o was born in the vil-
lage of LOngwood, county ikikivath, and was very
early in life encouraged to 'make a voyage no the
West Indies, to follow his tra.,e, under ;he patron-.
age of his maternal uncle, another industrious ad-
venturer of the tranie of. G4ynor, b. tier known
among 11.44 i neighbours by the name of Peter Big
Brogues, from the enormous shoes-lie. was `mounted
in on the day he set out on his travels. Peter ac-
qUired an immense fortune, and lived to see his
only child married to Sir George Colebrooke, Chair-
man to. the Est India Company, and a Banker in
'Dublin, to whom Peter gave with hi's daughter
200,0001,

Mr. A. Penthenv saw ni;-nknd, only through one
medium ; his visual powers Were so diverted from
generous of social objects, by, the prevailing passion
of gold, that he could discLner no trait in airy cha-
racter, howeVer venerable or -respectable, that was,
not seconded by riches ; fact any one that was
not rich, ,he considered as an inter:or
ther worthy of notice, nor safe to by admitted into
society. This extraordinary fethng. he extended to
female society, and if possible with a gr,nter degree
of disgust: A woman he considered only as an
incumbratice on a man .of property, and therefore
he never could be prevailed upon to admit one into
his confidence. As to i;vedlock; he utterly and uni-.
torrid); rejeeled any idea of it. 'His wife was the
public funds, and his children gitineas; and no
parent or husband paid more deference. or care to
the corrifort, of his family. He was, never known
to separate his immense hoard, by rewat ding a gene-
rous4Ction, or alleviating a pternattne or accidental
misfortune, by the application of one shilling.to such

porpose.,
.
It could scnrCely be expelled he would bestow a
gift or extend a gratuity to others, hews .so
bard of conifotts to himself. The evening before
he died, some busy friend, sent a respvctahle phy-
sician to him, at which the old iniser did not hew

any apparent dislike, Inuit he recolleeted the doctor
might.expea a fee : this alarmed him, • and imme-
idiately rniying himself in the bed, addressed the
Irish igsculapins in, the following words : " Doc-
tor, Tam a strong man, and know my disorder, and
coold cure myielf; but as Mr. Mangle has sent you
to my asistance, I shall not exchange you for any
other person, if we Citt conic man un,!erstanding ;
in tact I wish to ki:iow what you will charge for your
attendanoe mill! -I nun recovered ?"—The Dotfor
anriwereil, " eight guineas."--" 1111 ! said

the old two, " it you knew my 'diAoyder, you
would not he so exorbitant but to put au end to
this diseuSsion, I will give you six guineas and a

Douor assLnteci, and .tliicitient
out liis'artn with the fee, and to hive his pulso con-
.,
nidered, kind laid himself down again.
H n His rtlotios ttere nanterous, bpt not being in hts
iipinion qualified, fot want of experience in the

managenn rtt pf money, to nurse his wealth; he be-
t4imithed tlieVtitireot it to a rich family in the West
Indies,. with the generous exception of 'tour pounds
animal!), to a
,servant, who lived with him
24 years, In the will he expresses great kindness
for poor Sol+ll, and, says lug bequeathed the 41. for
liis kind servicei," that his latter days may be spent
in comfortable'' independence !—Like ThelluSson,
he would not nilow bis ft tune to pass to his
ht,irs ito:iwiliatcly, for he directed' that the entire
shalt be funded for fourteen, years, and then, in its
irnproViA'state, to be at the disposal of 'the heirs he
has chosen.
Ftir the regulation of his last will and testament,
Ire qipointi:dW.iltcr , Esq. and Major O'Far-
rell, Lte 'of the Austratt army, his Executors .; and
the Right' lion. David La Touche and Lord Fingal
Trusteet. .

. . .
SL (MARY PuNtslimENT.--The following
_ludi-
crous- circumstance occurred on, Tuesday week at
13rislol --Two Jews, being taken in the act of
Stealing several art iclesirom ,the stables of the White
Oat inn, were hailed into the. yard by two stout
fellows, whither Jhe,whple fraternity of toe curry-
cot bb were immediately summoned. The long
beards of these dis.;iplet were then stuck, together
by pitch (their hands being previously tied behind
them) ; and,
,while thus face to face, a profusion el
snuff, mixed with belleb-re, was administered, which
caus,A, them to sneeze in such a manner, that by
the frequent and violent bobbing of noses pne against
the other, a copious stream of blood issued from
either
,nooril, while the enraged culprits were kick-
ing and eapeting, about in all diredions, and it was
nut mail they asktd forgiveness,. and vowed never
,
again to commit depredations upon people's property
tfun, t hey were(leased from t heir deledablesiteation,
by cutting their beardsasunder with a pair of shears.
An inquisition was taken in Wolverhampton, on
Saturday se'neight, on then body of Phenis
a ) oung woman who resided in the house of John
Steventon, in.thiston-street. There appeared save-
- external btuises upon the bedy,-)and pat ticidarly
a mortification upon the left thigh, and one of Ste-
ventonts-daughtets had been in the habit of beating:
and ill-treating the deceased. These circemstances
gave rise to-the piopagation of a report that she had
come to her death by violence; but after a in-
vestigation, and from the evidence of the. surgeon,
it appeared, that the mortification, which was evi-
detttly the cause of her death, was produced through
coldness and the inclemency of the weather, and-
not from arty external violence or bruise. The Jury•
therefore returned a verdict to that effect. Another
. inquest was at the same time held on the body of,
George Sherin, a boy about four years of age, who
was burnt to death, at Dunstall, on the I 2th instant.
Verdicticcidenfal death.

iitheti by WILLIAM ARMICER SCRIPPS, South Mblton
Dr :be Paper, Leith; for the iictitor Ice, (post-pain),