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The Sun. — 1822-04-19 (London, England)

OLD BAILEY.  Yesterday George Adams stood indicted for stealing, on the night of the 26th of _March last, a watch, chain, and seals, the property of John Spencer, of the George and Vulture publichouse. The prisoner applied, on the ntght in question, to the prosecutor, for a bed, and being informed he could have one, he inquired at what time the house shut up; being told eleven o'clock, he went out but did not again return. In consequence of a report in the Newspapers, the prosecutor attended at Guildhall, where the prisoner was in custody charged with stealing three sheets, the property of another publican. The watch was found on the prisoner, and was produced by the officer who had him in custody. The Jury found the prisoner Guilty of stealing to the amount of 395.  Henry Leonard was put to the bar, on an indictment charg. ing him with stealing, on the 24th of February, in the parish of St. Giles's, 33 silver spoons, and 33 sovereigns, the property of his master, Mr. W. Slade, in his dwelling-house. On the day in question, the prisoner having brushed his master's coat, went out, and was found at the Green Man, Finchley Common, in a state of intoxication. In this state he asked a man to get him change of a sovereign, for which purpose he went out but did not succeed ; on his return he saw two silver spoons projecting out of the prisoner's bosom, which induced him to send for an officer, who took the prisoner into custody, when the property was found on his person. From the evidence it appeared that the key of the box in which the: property was must have been taken by the prisoner while he was brushing the prosecutor's coat. Guilty, but strongly recommended to mercy. Richard Smith stood indicted for cutting and stabbing Elias Duke, with intent to kill and murder him, or to do him some grievous bodily harm. There were several counts in the indictment which charged the offence in different ways. From the testimony of the prosecutor and another witness, it appeared that the parties were drinking together at a publichouse, when a quarrel arose, and the prosecutor struck the prisoner. They were, however, parted, but continued squabbling for about ten minutes, when the prsoner struck the prosecutor a violent blow, and inflicted a deep wound with a knife which he had in his hand.  The prosecutor, in answer to some questions from the Court, admitted that there had been no cessation of the quarrel until the wound was inflicted.  Mr. Justice BURROUGH, on hearing this statement, directed the Jury to acquit the prisoner, observing, that the evidence to support the charge must be of such a nature, as if death had ensued, the crime would have been found to be murder ; but, in his opinion, here the case would only have amounted to manslaughter if death had ensued. William Tilley was capitally indicted for stealing a mare, the property of John Mullins.
The Sun. — 1822-05-24 (London, England)

FOR THE SUN.  LETTER VIII.  MR. EDITOR—In my sixth and seventh Letters exposed some of the misrepresentations of PASTORIrsiI ; and also a few of the corruptions and innovations which had been introduced into the Church in the darker ages by artful and ambitious Pontiffs, for secular purposes, from whence arose that Reformation which he has so grossly and audaciously maligned ; but his arrows fall pointless to the ground when directed against the shield of truth ; and every man endued with reason and common sense, even if he may not have read any commentaries on the prophesies, must perceive at once the extravagance, the weakness, and the malignity of his exposition and inferences.—The object of this letter shall be to shew, first, his omissions, which, whatever I may think of them, no doubt are justifiable according to the casuistry of St. Thomas Aquinas, Fillincius, and Sanchos,—secondly, the actual and gross violation of truth of this " Vicar Apostolic." He has carefully kept from the ken of heretics the cruel and intolerant persecution of the \Valdenses in the vallies of Savoy and Piedmont, who took their name from Peter Waldo, a merchant of Lyons, the founder of the sect,—first, under Pope Alexander 111., in the year 1179; then under his successor, Louis 111. ; and, with some intermissions, nearly to the close of the 17th century,—for no other reason than that they would not implicitly submit their consciences to the guidance of the Bishop of Rome, but professed the faith first instituted by Jesus Christ, and preached by his disciples ;—and it is worthy of notice, that this persecution, on account of rejecting the tenets of Popery, and now recently foisted into the Church, commenced nearly three hundred years before " Luther opened the door of hell to let out the spirit of seduction." With equal care has he concealed the barbarous persecution of the Albigenses, in the pontificate of Innocent 111., in the year 1215, more than two hundred years before the Reformation, by torture, fire, and sword ; of whom more than two hundred thousand were butchered in a few months by the Pope's holy Crusaders, bearing the emblems of the cross, and headed by the Archbishop of Sens, the Bishops of Nevers, Cleremont, and Auxerre ;—and not less than a million of this inoffensive people perished, for preferring the word of God, contained in the Bible, as their rule of faith, to the tradition of monks. He has not told us of the murders of seventy thousand of the Paulini, under the same Pontiff, for refusing to believe all the then newly-invented articles of faith introduced into the Latin Church. Neither has he mentioned the persecution of the Bohemians, in the 14th and 15th Centuries, in the Pontificates of Urban VI, Martin V, and Pius 11, merely because they were heretics. Although he has given us some useful information,. because new, about some holy Martyrs of the Society of Jesus, who, in the reign of Queen Elizabeth and James I. were tried, convicted, and executed, for conspiring against the lives of those Sovereigns, in compliance with the Bulls of Pius V., Gregory
The Sun. — 1822-10-22 (London, England)

MURDER.  EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM NOVOGORC:`•—" What I am now going to relate to you might almost pass ratherfor the fiction of some idle brain, than for a real event, and yet the truth of it is well-known, and attested by respectable authority.—A Nobleman in this province being out hunting with several other Noblemen, perceived in a forest a bear, with a muzzle on, tied to a tree ; the animal appeared to be very tame, and by his wailings indicated that something particular was the matter with him. The Nobleman gave orders to untie him from the ttee, on which the bear led by a countryman with a rope, immediately ran to a neighbouring spot, and began very eagerly to scratch up the ground • the creature only wanted language to spew that something, which nearly concerned him, was here buried. The possibility of this was evident to the nobleman, and he ordered his people to dig up the spot pointed out by the hear, which consisted of very loose earth. To the no little astonishment and horror of all present, they soon found two dead bodies covered with blood, which appeared to have been very recently interred, whose wounds the bear, with a lamentable howling, began to lick, making the persons who stood around understand, by a very singular look, that they should remove the bodies. They made a bier of young trees on which they laid the bodies to convey them to the next village. The bear, still led by a peasant, went first, and seemed to follow like a dog, a scent that he had of the murderers of his masters. He was suffered to take his own way ; and they soon reached a village on the skirts of the forest, when he halted at the door of a cottage, and his former wailing was changed to a dreadful roaring. This induced the nobleman to call together the maleinhabitants, and place them in a certain order, thinking, perhaps, by the help of the bear to discover the murderers, as of course all denied any knowledge of the deed. The people belonging to the hut, before which the bear stopped, also came rip from another side, and scarcely had they, according to the Nobleman's desire, placed themselves with the others, when the bear, with a dreadful howl, rushed upon two tall fellows, whom only the animal's muzzle saved from his fury. He was removed from them by force, but the persons so singularly accused were immediately subjected to a strict examination. They confessed all ; the two bear leaders, who had money about them, had been murdered by the: n in the forest, and hastily buried ; the hunting horn of the party having made them fly precipitately, 'leaving the bear tied to the tree, by which the discovery of the murder was effected in a manner almost incredible, and the criminals were delivered into the hands of justice, and will be brought to the punishment which they so justly deserve."
The Sun. — 1822-06-10 (London, England)

THREE HALF-CROWNS for the same measure. Surely, if the land be thus filled with plenty, the people ought to be filled with gratitude to the bounteous Parent of Nature!  - SHOCKING ATTEMPT AT MUftDEß.—Saturday morning, at the early hour of four o'clock, the neighbourhood of Cock-lane, Smithfield, was thrown into great consternation in consequence of loud cries of" Murder," issuing from an upper apartment of the house, No. 9. The shrieks by degrees got fainter and fainter, until they at length ceased altogether, and the watchmen, whom the noise had attracted to the spot, were about to go away to resume their respective duties, when the landlord suddenly opened the door, and called for help to secure a murderer ! The watchmen then entered the house, and were led to a room up stairs, in the occupation of a respectable old lady, named Martin, and her nephew, James Prior ; they found the former stretched on the bed in her night clothes, weltering in blood, and Prior with a knife in his hand, attempting to sever her head from her shoulders ! He had turned the body face downwards, and had made an incision reaching from both ears, but although he cut all the vessels in that part of the neck, he was not sufficiently skilful in dividing the bone, which resisted all his efforts. The ruffian was immediately disarmed, and, after being properly secured, was conveyed to Giltspur-street Compter, under a strong escort of watchmen, and lodged in a secure cell. The officer of the night searched him before he was locked up, and took from him every thing by which he could at all endanger his own life. In the mean time, Mrs. Martin was carried on a litter to St. Bartholomew's Hospital ; and the house surgeon being immediately sent for, he left his bed to afford her the necessary assistance. Besides the wound in the neck, there were six or eight deep stabs on the right side, and one on the breast-bone; and the right arm was cut and stabbed from the shoulder to the wrist, supposed to have been done in warding off the blows aimed at the body.. These wounds (several of which are mortal) were dressed up with all possible haste and ability ; but the medical gentlemen in attendance gave over all hopes, and anticipated- her dissolution every moment. At ten o'clock she became in some degree sensible of her situation, and continued to ask for her dear daughter, as she wished to see her before she died. It appeared from the confused account she gave, that her nephew and herself had gone to bed early, and that he got up in the , course of the night, and attacked her in the inhuman manner already described, but she evidently wished to favour him by endeavouring to impress upon those around her that he was insane. There are various rumours in circulation as to the cause of this tragical affair ; but we forbear noticing them at present, as the matter is in a train of investigation. According to some accounts the state of the poor old woman is not of so dangerous a nature es above represented, and the-answer given at the Hospital was —that•there wgre fairlopes of her recovery. _
The Sun. — 1822-09-23 (London, England)

MORNING- lIERALD:j The Paris Papers of Thursday were received yesterday morning. , They contain but little worth notice,—no intelligence of fresh date, or of any specific facts, from the most interesting places on the map of Europe, at present, Spain and Greece. The total defeat of Quesada, the insurgent Chief, in Navarre, is repeated without any contradiction. But his fate is still in obscurity—whether he escaped, or was murdered by hiS own banditti, in a moment of savage and fanatical disappointment at their defeat. The state of the Greeks is still contended by some to be far from desperate. It is clear, however, that they must have suffered severely before the Turks succeeded in recovering a footing in the Morea. 0.1 the Turkish success in Livadia, which led to the occupation (or nearly that) of the Morea, there are still no detailed accounts. Indeed one of the motives for giving credit to the alleged reverses of the Greeks is the abandonment of their cause by the. Augsburg Gazette, a Journal hitherto remarkable for zeal in their support. There are many ways in which thiS' change of tone may be accounted for. Philip of Macedon had the art of prompting the Delphic oracle such responses as served his views --perhaps some such influence has been exerted over the oracle of Augsburg. Time alone can elucidate the fact whether the Greeks are really lost, or whether (as some of their advocates on the Continent seem to think), pains have been taken, and power and influence employed, to represent them as without the least hope of independence, in order to rid. the Congress ,of an embarrassing topic, and permit its whole attention to be given to the 44 restoration of order," in Spain and Portugal.  [TII E Tons.] Among the rumours with regard to the appointment of Governor-General for India are two, which have reached us from such a quarter as we conceive entitles them to notice. The first is, that Lord William Bentinck has been named to that high office. Lord William Bentinck is connected with Mr. Canning through his brother the Duke of Portland, who married the elder Miss Scott, as that Right lion. Gentleman did the younger. Lord William Bentinck has been distinguished: as a soldier for cool and consummate intrepidity. AS a man, both in public and private life, his Lordship is considered to be of a direct and upright character. The breach of faith into which he was betrayed towards  the Genoese and other Italians was not of his own choice. He is said, on the contrary, to have felt himself personally outraged by the flagrant violation of his solemn promises, which was forced upon him in Lord Londonderry's unprincipled despatches from Vienna. The :subject of the second report is Lord Amherst, an ex-Ambassador to China, and since a Lord of the Bedchamber, but one who in that menial office has shewn himself worthy of better things ; for, unless we are mistaken, his Lordship did not vote through thick and thin, as other placenien were inclined to do, against the innocent and persecuted Queen of England. Between these two Noblemen, however, the balance is said to incline to Lord Wm. Bentinck.  [
The Sun. — 1822-03-02 (London, England)

IRELAND.—We stated yesterday by mistake that the County of Limerick, with the exception of the City of Limerick and its Liberties, had been placed under the operation of the Insurrection Act.—The provisions of the Act are also applied to the south Liberties of the County and City of the City of Limerick. The City and Liberties of Cork are exempted ; but the Magistrates haie memorialized the Loan LIEUTENANT, praying that the Liberties may be included in the application of the Act to the,County of Cork.— Cornelius Rylakan, John Mahony, and Daniel Breen, were executed on Sunday morning at Churchtown, pursuant to their sentence.— On Saturday night a party of insurgents attacked Ballynoe-house, the seat of WILLIA?tI Cox, Esq. in the County of Limerick. Some resistance having been made, the wretches murdered DENIS BROWNE, a faithful servant, by shooting him through the heart. Accounts from Newcastle state that last week forty cows were stolen from a place called Killoready, and that several others were houghed ; a house was burned at Lisanskate ; at Dougehy, a poor man 70 years of age was unmercifully flogged; a servant man was fired at ; some houses near Camas were burned ; as was also a house nearC room, and several others in the village of Cappagh. TheCastlebar Papers describe the state of the peasantry, in the County of Mayo, as being extremely wretched. 66 Potatoes," they say, " rose in our market on Saturday, to the alarming price of 6d. per stone. The wretchedness and poverty which exist at present in and about this town exceed belief, and the prospect for the spring and summer is dismal indeed. It is not uncommon to see a man spending the greater part of the day in re-digging ground from which potatoes had been dug in the season, and taking home, in the evening, the few that, upon this second search, he discovers in the earth, as the only sustenance which he can provide for a famishing family. Perhaps a more persuasive proof of the poverty that prevails could not be advanced, and it may be seen in almost every potatoe-field about us."—ln a district of Clare, we understand, there is also a great scarcity of potatoes. .  From Charlestown, Jan. (28.—Capt. WESTON, who left Havannah the 15th ult. reports, that Capt. PERKINS, of the schooner Upton, had his vessel and cargo destroyed by a piratical schooner, off Cape Antonio. Captain P. and his crew were ' put on a desolate island, near Cape Antonio, where they remained four days without any sustenance, when they were taken off by a Spanish dogher. Two other vessels were destroyed at the same time; one an English brig, the Captain of which they hung at the main-yard and shot him ; they killed the cook by splitting his head open with an axe. The Privy Council held by his MAJESTY at his palace at Brighton on Thursday, commenced at six o'clock, which was attended by, in addition to the Lord President, the Lord Steward, the Marquis of CIIOLMONDELEY, Lord St. lILLExs, Sir BENJAMIN BLOOMFIELD, and Mr.
The Sun. — 1822-06-28 (London, England)

CITY, THURSDAY EVENING.  The Courier this afternoon asserts, that there are no grounds for disbelieving the sincerity of Turkey ; and that the Provinces have been evacuated. The latest advices in the City are at variance with this information ; and it is not improbable, that, before a few days pass, the Courier may take credit to itself for communicating intelligence of a very different nature. In England the Greeks have no enemies, excepting a few Gentlemen who have become so from private interest. —These Gentlemen, ever ready to dwell on any of the faults of the Greeks, do not reflect that Turkish barbarity, the sway of tyrants, and the vitiating qualities of misrule, have reduced the sons of heroes and of philosophers to the deplorable condition in which modern Greece now exists;—they do not consider that the followers of the doctrines of Mahomet arc sensualists from principle, and compelled to remain ignorant from their system of religion ; they do not calculate on the rapid progress which civilization would make in the highest gifted portion of the earth, under the benign influence of freedom of opinion. They do not bring into their calculations the fact, that during nearly five hundred years Europe has been cursed with the presence of the Ottomans, and has not received from them one solitary improvement. They do not recal to their memories that cruelty, barbarism, and crime have attended their victories, and blasted the cultivated fields over which they passed, and still less do they permit their minds to anticipate the immense advantages which would result to human nature were liberty successfully to raise her hcad in European Turkey, and civilization and knowledge to extend themselves amongst her inhabitants. British subjects would not in this event tremble for their safety at Constantinople, innocent hostages would not be basely murdered, the arts would again revive, and commerce, the great friend of man, would extend her blessed influence amongst the human race. Many Gentlemen in the city think that Turkish ignorance and pride will yet produce that crisis in the affairs of man which must be followed by extended happiness and comfort to the civilized portion of the Universe. The Consols for the July account opened this morning at 81i, and continued dull but steady. At one time they fell to 81i, but afterwards regained the opening price. Before the market closed, however, the price was only 81a 1. In Foreign Securities, the scarcity of money has created a great flatness, and scarcely a transaction has been effected in them. The French Rentes are noted at 91. 50. ; Prussian Bonds are 87; old Columbian, 1004 ; and New Sixes, 83 ; Scrip, 83i, 84 ; Spanish, Old Fives, 61i ; and the New, 61A ; Danish, 874 ; Neapolitan, 724 ; Russian Metallic Fives, 77k. In Mr. ROTHSCHILD'S New Loan scarcely any thing has 'been done, even at lower prices. American Bank Shares are 22 ; and the Sixes of 1815, 99 ; Chili, 804, 791, 80i.—(Morning Chronicle.)  Yesterday the Duke of YORK visited the
The Sun. — 1822-04-01 (London, England)

IRELAND.—We regret to observe that the outrages increase.. On Tuesday last, the Waterford and Limerick coach was attacked by a large party of the peasantry. A pistol having been discharged at the coachman, he drew up his horses, when the Insurgents took a young woman from the eoach, who was proceedmg to Clonmel, as a witness at the Assizes, in. a case of abduction. The coach was then suffered to go on. The young woman was subsequently recovered by a party of the Rifle Brigade, who went in pursuit of the banditti satin after the occurrence.—On Sunday evening 'se'nnight, a cruel murder was committed on a young woman at Ballybeacon, between Caher and Clogheen. The perpetrators of the horrid deed were instigated by the diabolical spirit of revenge toirard the brother of the sufferer. The young man had Offended some of them while they were drinking.together ; but having escaped from them, they wreaked their fury by murdering the sister. Another murder • was committed, the same day, on THOMAS FITZGEHALD, a farmer, at Killeneur, near Listowell; and on Thursday, JOHN ELAN, a keeper, at Clongoose, Tipperary, was murdered.— Saturday se'nnight, the insurgents burned the dwelling house and a large barn, the property of Mr. JOHN LANE, at Ballynach, near, the military post of Shanagolden, Limerick. Fortunately, the owner of the property was absent; for the villains declared their intention to have murdered him. There have teen various other outrages in the county of .Limerick; and two large parties of Whiteboys were observed last week in close deliberation, in the mountaip.i near Glin. The Cathedral of Clogheen was broken into on Friday se'nnight, and rifled of the valuable communion plate and cloth, and other articles. The Cork papers detail several serious outrages in the neighbourhood of Bandon. In the county of Waterford, a number of houses have been attacked for arms ; and an assault made upon five artillerymen by the peasantry. The heads of two of the soldiers were badly fractured. In a letter received this morning from a highly respectable and well in formed Correspondent in Dublin, the writer, after alluding to the melancholy state of Ireland, says, " Had martial law been proclaimed, how many lives would have been saved ! Lord W--- seems to 'be doing literally nothing.— He might some years back have been full of vigour and energy, hit he now seems asleep. If the strongest measures Shall not be instantly-adopted to recover the arms, and the Inurgents crushed, the present army in England will not prevent a roost bloody rebellion."—We quote-this passage, not for the ,purpose of joining in the censure Which it casts upon the conduct of the Marquis WELLESLEY, but of shewing the apprehensions which are still entertained of extensive danger from the Insurgents. As to the conduct of the Lord Lieutenant, we think that in applying the Insurrection Act to those districts or places, the Magistracy of which make application for it; he does every thing in the way of repression that can be required.