The Sun.
London, England, 1811-11-29 00:00:00

,~'OLICE.

w-4711 ECT Yesterday John &azford was
brought ro the Office For re-examination,
„Op suspi-
cion _cif having committed divers footpad •robberies.
Donaldson, the constable, slated that on Ttiesday lie
was s-pt for 'to a. pawnbroker's in Chandos-street,
to tai* the prisoner into custody, on,, suspicion of
having stolen the watch he offered to pledge; he
was proceeding to, search him, but the prisoner re-
sisting his swelling his. breeches, poCket, hestied
hisliands, hut nor securely, he having tied a piece
of • his coat in with the cord; and as he was about
td search his breeches pocket agaio, he contrived, to
gin his hands from the cord, anti struck Donaldson
a Violent blow on his brent.. Donaldson recovered
' himself and gave, the prisoner a blow, notwithstand-
ing which lie escaped ant of the shop. Donaldson.
pursued him, calling out—Stop thief Ile prisoner
taking tip Redfordbury into Hornsby's . livery sta-
bles, which 'was- not a thoroughfare, Donaldson se-
cured him; after Which he searched him, and,
found, iu his breeches-pocket, that he had such •-a
particUltir obierc.lion to . being searched, a pawn--
broker's duplicate for 3 watch.
Mr. and Mrs. Smith, who, were robbed on Sun-
day s'ennighr, in a single-horse chaise, On their re-
turning to Kingston, the particulars of which° we
stated yesterday, attended; and identified the watch
which the prisoner offy..r.ed to pledge, to be the same
Mr. Smith was robbed of; also 4,, pocket-book,
which Donaldson found .upon the prisoner, to be
Mr. Smith's property. Mr. 'Smith identified the
the prisoner to be the 'robber ; but the Magistrate
deemed Mr. Smith sufficient to, bind over to pro-
secute.
Another charge of a footpad robbery was preferred
against the prisoner. • - .
- Mr. Charles Pepper, a builder, pr Kingston, said,
that on. Thursday evening lase, between five and six.
o'cinCi, as he was returning home in a single horse
chaise, lie was stopped by a 1(1(40 at the top of
Robin 'Hood-hill, who presented -a pistol, and de-
manded- his money, he gave'him, Iwo_ ti. Bank of
England notes and a dollar. The robber• then de-
manded his watch, which he also'gave Krm, with
a ribbon and gold col nelian seal, with the letter .P.
engraved eel it, which was the same produced by
Donaldson, and• for which the pawn-broker's dupli-
cate was given. It was found in the prisoner's
breeches-pocket by Donaldson. when he, was reluc-
tant to be searched. Mr. Pepper farther said, he
thought the, prisoner- was the robber. The prisoner
was coin kt, it ted for trial. -
Scin. wet AitYer, a publican in Long Acre,: was
charged' with Offering gambling in his house.
Caroline -Atkinson said, that on Monday. after-
noon,tetween twolnd.three o'clock, she went to
the prisoner's housei-and saw her son playing a game
'.the name Of-which she did not know, with balls and
dice, on a table covered with green cloth.
James 'Harris, of Long Acre, said he cautioned
thedefendaut about six weeks or two months since
against suffering .:ginbling in his house; but he
treated it with inattention, saying'-h!,! got hisiliving
by it, and had a 'right to do so if he liked.,
He was convicted in the penalty of 40s. and full
costa.

UNtoN-HALL.---"lnn. iliason and Jane Turnley
were brought before the sitting Magistrate, by Col=
linghourn, charged by Mary' Bishop, landlady of the
John
,O'Groat"s public-house, Si. George's Fiekis •
first with•
'the stealing pewter-pots,. and roe other,
who- is a dealer in old iron,' with receiving them.
It appeared„ that Mason, who lives, near the John
O'Groit's, was in the; habit of r going there frequently
to beg putrip-water and belt% well known to Mrs.
lltshop, used to be desired td' proceed to the, wash- •
hoUse,•and accommodate herself. At iength it was
observed, she regularly came at a time when a nuin-
bet of pots were deposited in the wash-house for
purpose of being scoworecl ; and Mrs. Bishop hat ing ,
lately lost a number.of pots, suspicion attached to
-the priSener. The next time she came she was
watched, and Jet ecled' witlya pot in her possession ;
at first She clewed having taken any others, but on
the officer being set for, she confessed she had taken
several, which she had mehod doWn, 'and sold the
metal at, 3d. a pound, to Turnley, the other prisoner.
collingbourn went immediately to Turnley's house,
and whilst searching,,obserVed.her endeavouring to
conceal something, which proved to be a lump of
pewter, weighing within one ounce the same weight
as a pint pot, Several other similar lumps of pewter,
which is worth at least gd. a pound,were found by the
officer. The Magistrates, however, were of opinion,
there was pot sufficient evidence on which to com-
mit Turnley as receiver, but fined her 408. and costs.
under the Lead and Iron A.a. Nino was fully
committed for trial.

HATTON-GARDIN. WeOnesday, a man,
who gave in his. name as Jones, a well-known, cha-
ra&er we's put to-the bar being charged by a fo-
teign sailor with being concerned with two. other
men in defrauding him of t 51.. tie stated, that its
he was passing along Snow bill- he was accosted by
t..vo men, who pretended to be strangers in London;
and inquired, of him what country he WAS of; -he
told them he was an fianoverian, and belonged m a
ship lying off. Ilotherhithe; that they walked. loge-
ther, and lie went with them to a public-house,
where they introduced.a game, which they, called
.chalying under the . hat,. and' sported a number of
notes resembling • Bank ot. England notes, and chal-
lenged him to play for 201. which' he declined, not
having so much about him, when the prisoner.catue
into t he mom as a stranger, -w ho at first won 201. When.
the informant was induced to stake the whole of what
he had, being 141—voltich he Inst. Soon alter one
Of them .asked .- him to accompany him a, short dis
' lance, but persuaded him
„to go back to the -Gen-
amen, and he should soon. follow: when he had
fettiftted to the house, the gentlemen were gone;
after waiting tittle, he left thehonse, and by
accident saw the prisoner, whom he collared, and,
gun him into the custody of 'lead, the officer, who,
on searching him, found a great quantity of sham
: Bank notes. lite prisoner being asked by the Ma-
gistrate how he came by the notes fonod upon him,
he answered, at the-:Fleat Prison. He was corn
muted for tc-examination.
Afire broke out on Wednesday afternoon, about
five o'clock, in, the white' lead and oil-manufactory,
belonging to Messrs., Bentley and Smith, in Glass-
htinse-yard, Gravel-lane, which, in' a short time,
neat ty destroyed the premises.

FOR THE SUN.

MR: EDITOR;
As' the newspapers have a great infleence ripen
people ip
,general„ and as shalloW mind, arc l)kely-
jo be misled :by them, partiCulerly in what reeeee
to the deem, no strillures should be tiireae.lag3itist
a6ors bit Jwhat.hre foOnded ire justice, L and even
when they are .so, they should be tuarked by call-'
dour and -;I ant induo d lb send you
few. words on this Occasion by. all observation which
appeared in your paper respeding Mr.
manner of delivering , a passage in the char,icter of
Pierre. Though I heertily 'assent to youi.commen-
detion of his performetiee of that
,charaeter, Which
was, as ypu sey, " a maetee-plece of judgment,
animated by genius," yet I c Moot agree with you itt
thinking. that .he erred in " tntering so loudly" the'
reproof to RenAlt,.. when he says "'Had Juffier'se,
wife proved kind, he'd. still been true,". for- it veis
the only way which he had to .cenvince the.
're'st ofthe conSpirators that Renault; in
,his endea-
vours 'to effect the destruction of 'Daffier, was ac-
!Tried by private malignity nor can I conceive that
the clatnefouti vehemence with which he delivered
the . paskige in question was inconsistent with " the
generous spirit of Pierre." On the contrary, it
proVed that he was animated by a noble-sentiment
of friendship, and a manly disdain of private animo-
sity, There is nothing in the character of Renault
that demands delicacy and respect, even without the
'consideration of his base attack upon ,
His only merit with Pierre' most have been his' par-
ticipation .in the plot for the destruction of the
Venetilri Gosernment., and when finds that a
worthless Man had; in, the rage of disappointment,
endeavotired to deprive him of his only friend, and
,one iti the highest-degree rdear to hint, the sioletrce
with which he exposed the hoary datard was not'
only natural in point of fehling, but politic also lest
the old miscreant should triumph, and not only
ruin falfier,, but the cause in which they had all
embarked.—The passage alluded to has generally
been uttered in a whisper to Renault, and ilk.
KRICIBLE deserves the praise of originality, as well ••
as of judgment, for adopting a ,njenner more suitable
to the feelings of the part at the moment, and reit-
(fere& absolutely necessary,, in order to defeat the ma-
lice of Renault, by um eiling the rearmotive of leis
hostility tdwards .14fier.-= Nor is. there any incon-
sistency in the rebuke which Pierre gives to Jager
when he says " thou should'st have stroaked him,
not have galled him," considered with his ()Win sube • ,
' sequent violence in the passage adverted to, for he
had then himself been provoked and insulted by
Kenault,, and he had reason to dread, as before ob-
served', the entire frustration of the plot against the
state.--. 1 cannot conclude without noticing the tnis'-
representatien of an uncouth writer in a Morning
Paper, a few days ago, who, in referenceetoeMr.
Kamat.a's Pierre; says, " he positively pronounced
the word " ache" is aik, and not 'wildly, which he
hath been accustomed to do, when he delivered the.
malediction of Prospero," Now, Sir, Mr. Keestres
never did utter the word ake at all in the character-
of Prospero, because he had no, occasion, but the
plural aches, which the metre' requires to be pro.
nounced aitchei , (not haitches; as the writer alleges),
and which is the true pronunciation of the word,
AS may be abundantly proved by a reference to
BRADMONT and FLEICIIIiIt; i s well as to SIIAKEi.
mtai, and OTwitY, and which in BOTt.art is ma-
nifested by appearing as a, rhyme. The world is
so apt to be " critical," as logo saysethat -the Mein-
sbets of the theatt iced profession, who are constatit-
:ly exposed to this carping propensity, ought par-
ticularly to be rescued from censures that are not
foundvd, in 'knowledge and judgment, put in igno-
rance and folly. DRANIATICUS. .

The cup to bee presented to Cribb, at the Castle
Tavern, Holborn, on .Monday neXt, is now exhibit-
iug at Oregsones. it is surrnotSnted on 'thee head by
a negro kneeling. On the froni of, the cap are the
arms of the champion of England, a fanciful design,
In the first quarter of' 'Tic shield is the British Lon
look ing with.stern regard
.upon the bearer; tho
fourth quarter (the eroblein of America)• shelteting
itself under the ((Ada of the American flig. in Ihe
second are represented the combatants ; and in ,the
third is a coal barge, syMbolical of
,the champion's
trade.' The supporters are white men eretl, looking
on his vanquished antagonist. On the opposite side
is the motto following, from Shakespeare—'

'' Antfdamn'd be hint that first cries holdr-enough."

About three weeks since, a house, at Christ-
church, Mutts, . was actually set on fire by water,
in' the following. extraordinary manner the
premises of Mr. Belbin, mason, a quantity of un-
slacked time was hid), with some bundles of laths
upon it ; the' tide came,up unusually high, r.nd
in-
undating the lo.wer part of the house; kindted this
liMe, which set fire to the latlts, and contmuulot.
ing with the buildings, burnt the whole to the
ground, with"part of thoadjoining house.

SMITHFIELD MARKET, Nov, 29.

'This day's Market was ,tolerably well supplied
with the different kinds of Cattle ; Pork is clearer ;
Beef, Mutton, and Veal; sold-at last prices ; and the
trade in general was aotnewhat 11at.7-The sales in
the Hay Market were not lively ; Hay, Straw, and
Clover, obtained last prices. The undermentioned
prices and numbers are a :erred statement :
To sink the Offal pet' st. ne of 81b.
Beef, 4s. ad. to ss. id. Mutton, 4s. 0d.,t0 ss, 4d, Fmk,
43. att. to 6s: Bd. Veal, ss. cti. to 7s. ed.
Bemts, corn Sheep► lion. Calves, 130, Pigs, 3 to.
SMITHFIELD IIAYMARKET.

hay, 41. as. od. iv) 61. as. od. Straw. 21. os. ed. to
15$. od. CIOVCI, lefi..)11:10 71. ins. od.

Conv-goictiATIGR, Nov. 29.—There are net
,1,03ny
fresh'arrivals of Wheat to.dity, but the Market rim'
hat considerable remaining supplies!, and s4les fur-
ther give way in price, interior has very, 1e%4 buyers ;
Barley is lower ; Malt scarcely -at last price, ;
White Peas, with Beans of each .&scril,tion
heavy 'sale, at the late redualort ; there: are. ako
considerable reatai-ing quantities of Oats, and sites
of :recoil() quality are-named cheaperl Flour in plenty
and inclines lower.

Wileed . 1101 a 946 a tias Tick Beans . . 48s LI '5
4 s
Fine ditto . . las- a 122 i Ditto (titic old) . sss a ,us`
Rye .. • . . 556 11 too Oats . ~,..:6, a 231 11 3ls"
Barley . .-. OS a s6i Poland ditto . 341 a 39s
Malt . . . 84s a 2s Potatoc ditto . os a Azs
Wilitelleas,boderillos ale SU Rape Seed . soi. a 5-;1.
Grcy ditto . - Os a 6as hoc Hour . lous, a lo v...
Bens - - . 52$ IL 58$ Se1;011(14 .' . 90. A 1",

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