The Sun.
London, England, 1818-11-26 00:00:00

FOR TNE SUN

MR. EDITOR,--Tbe 'dismission of Mr. LA* anti
Mr. PLATT, by the new CHIEF JUSTICE, has heed
the Oce.vilon of much eon vers:o ion and comment
in the !eual ciccl,s, That such dismiSSions are
not unusual on similar ekvations, is admitted,
hint the followirP.4 lines have been applied to
the occasion, and Es yimr PaPr'r bas lately
trav€lled much into the legal tvot ICI, in consequence
of ,he diccnssion.4 MI THE INSOLVENCY ACT, I was
desired by a Company in lkhich the subject was
introduced, to transmit them to your Paper.

Temple, Nor. C 5. A'S OBSERVER.
" Beyond the fix'd and settled riilet
Of Vice and Virtue in the Schools,
beyond the letter of the Law,
Which 'keep our men and maids in asee,
The 6,tter sort should set before 'em
A Grace, a Manlier, a Drcorum ;
Something that gives their acts a light,
hialie,l 'em not Only fast, but bright,
And sets them in that open fame
Which witty Malice cannot blame."

The new Tragedy of firutas, which is forth-
coming At Drury Lane Theatre, was, we under-
stand, written by Mr. llowAnD PAY N E the
American Actor, whO, strange to say, has, it
seerrs, freer. engaged two sea-ons at Covent Gar-
den Theatre, and not once brOught into action.

RE.--,-This morning, between fonr and five
o'clock, an alarming fire broke out in Gloucester-
court, between Gray's Inn-lane and Brook-street,
~lolborn. It commenced in the premises of Mr.
Jarvis, a leather-dresser, and front th.e very -intri-
cate situation of the manntattory, being surround-
ed by a number of others of the like business, no
small degree of alarm was excited ; iu addition to
which, Ike number of old hoUses contiguous to
the manufactories increased the apprehensions of
the neighbourhood. On an alarm being given
by the watchman, the whole of the inhabitants
Were roused and on the alert. In a short time
after the fire made its appearance, engines were
near the spot. and surrounded the scene of con-
flagration. Having affixed the leather pipes to a
considerable length, they were enabled to reach
the premises; and, after about half an hour's
playing, they most fortunately prevented the
flanuN extending further than the premises of Mr.
Jarvis, nearly the whole of which, however, were
consumed.
DAP.ING ATTEMPT AT ROBBERY AND MURDER.
On 'Tuesday night, about seven o'clock, two tut-
flans, with their faces disguised, knocked at the
don't. of Mercer's School, College-hill, Upper
Thames-street. Mr. HILL, the Master, opened
the door ; one of the men deli veted Lim a note,
and on Mr. HILL. going in to read it, they in-
stantly rnsbed in, presenting pistols, and de-
manding 301 immediately ; the noise and confu-
sion brought Mrs. HILL to the spot, who, per-
ceiving the fellows, raise.i an alarm ; the scholars
also came forward and joined in calling for help,
when the rascals, perceiving their danger, snapped
their pistols, and made a hasty retreat, without
further mischief.

Muarnata APPRPnatinEn.—A man named
bas htem :apprehended by Anthony Col-
poys, -Esq. in the County Clare, and committed
to prison, charged with the murder of
Esq. a Magistrate of the King's County, so
far hack as the year 1798. Nir. Dowling ren-
dered himself obnoxious to the disaffected and tur-
bulent at that- period by his activity as a Magis-
trate, and had been but a short time returned from
conveying prisoners to jail, when he was brutally
muedeled in his parlour, in the presence of three
of his children, the youngest of whom had been
in his arms when the villains entered. His eldest
daughter, who was compelled to be a witness of
this horrible scene, was so affected that she short-
ly after lost her reason. This fellow came to the
County Clare a short time since, after being in
America some years, and was employed as a rat-
catcher ; he went by the name of Malone.
ROBBERY AT StoN-House.—By the indefatiga-
ble zeal of Davis and Robinson, officers belonging
to Bow-street, some clue appears to be gained to
the robbery at Sion-House. Tuesday last, early in
the morning, these officers were so successful
as to apprehend Taytur, one of the suspected
men, at Hounslow, when making off into the coon,
try. The Officers were, however, still nnassured
(if the absolute fact, when, after diligent search
in several houses, they discovered a quantity
of lead which bad evidently been thrown into the
privy of a public-house in Old Bientford, and
which is deposited at Bow-street. According to
the description thus given of it, this lead dif-
fers most essentially from all other lead covering
now in use, and corresponds most minutely with
that upon the roof at Sion House, near Brent-
ford It is painful to-add, that a respectable man
is supposed to be implicated in the theft.

CAUTION TO COFFEE-SOUSE KEEPERS..-- A
person of respectable appearance is going about
to the different. Tavern and Coffee-house Keepers
to get a bed for the night, and in the morn-
ing taking one sheet away with him, and leav-
ing the other doubled op to represent two, in
case the bed should be slightly looked at.—
He generally comes to the horse about half-past
twelve o'clock, and does not have his boots taken
off, tllat it tray
.not be known what time he is
going, in the morning. Ile is a short young man,
about three or four and twenty years of age,
dandy appearance,, a little pock-marked, anti pale
looking.
ACCIDENT IN LOSIBARD-STREET,—Ao Inquisi-
tion was taken yesterday morning, at 12 o'clock,
beloie Tnomas SHELTON, Esq. Coroner, at Saint
13artholonww's Hospital, on the body of Mrs.
Maria Ps z, a foreign Lady, whose death' was
caused by the falling of the front wall of Mr.
Smith's house in Lombard•street, which was in-
jured by the recent fire. The deceased was -going
upon some business in Lombard-strect, and was
walking on the foot-path on the side of the road
opposite Mr. S.'s boose, when the wall fell upon
her head, depric'ect her of sight, disfigured her
face most horribly, and fractiired several parts of
her body; sLe died on Tuesday morning. The
verdict was the same as 41 the other melancholy
cases already published.