The Sun. — 1804-04-16 (London, England)

PUBLIC-OFFICE, QUEEN-SQUARE.- Sallltd:ly Joshua ►P hitipg was charged with murdering his wafe, by Mr. •Ryde, of Parliament street, who stated, that he saw a hackney coach draw up opposite to Privy Gardens, and two men take out some person and convey it through a breach in the wall into 'Privy Gardens, which induced him to follow, when be saw four or five men standing together, and a woman lying on the ground, apparently in a dying state. On inquiring the cause, he was answered by the Prisoner, that she was a drunken woman. The Prisoner stated himself to be a labourer in the East India Watehouses, and had been married 12 years to the deceased: that she was a very drunken woman, and he had only lived with her three days; returning home from his labour, he found that two men 'had brought home his wife in a coach, very drunk, with an intention to take her to. CoventGarden workhouse,, which she properly belonged to; but judging she would not•be taken in, took that method w get rid of her. •When the case came before-the Cormer, the jury brought in a .verdict-Died a Natural Death ; but that Joshua Whiting, the• reputed husband, a!ted with great inhumanity towards the deceased. He was detained in custody. SUDDEN DEAThis.---Mrs. Smith, of -Burrow. berry-Barns, near Peterborough, died suddenly on Tuesday morning, in the 25th year of her age : she attended a friendly parry on. the preceding evening in perfect health.—A-few evenings since, Carring. ton, a carrier, of Stamford, was found dead in a chair by his wife, who had left' him well a short tine before.—Mr. Goodall, a farmer, of Market. Drayton, Shrewsbury, was lately found dead on the road leading to that place.—On Tuesday morning T. Chatterton,,a young man of Lincoln, was found dead in the cabin of a sloop, to which he had retired on the preceding evening in perfea health. An old man, who had for many years been employed in the Tower, some days since hanged himself in the Work-house, Whitechapel, in consequence of a charge of having stolen some King's btores. The Coroner's Jury on Friday found a vet. dia —Lunae y. An Inquest was afterwards held on the. body of a foreigner, who suddenly died in bed at a house of ill-fame in Black Lion-yarcl.—Verdia—Died,lty the Fisitation of Gad. And on Satur- day night anotherlnquest was held on the body of a woman in Plough-street, Whitechapel, who the preceding day had put an end to her existence, by cutting her t.jiroat with a carving-knife. A number of female servants, at Bath, have formed A Club, for the purpose of -supporting each other while out. of place, and at which they contrive to meet every •Monday evenir. Their fund is established by conttibutions levied on the larders of their employers, as appears by the following cir. cumstance, which led to their detediOn Thurs. day morning, a Lady in the vicinity of Belmont being awakened at an early hour by the • incessant barking of a small dog, went down stairs, and found her servant cutting off pieces of undressed meat, &c. for a strange woman, who, on being discovered, made a precipitate retreat. The servant was apprehended, but refused to discover her associate, though she confessed the particulars relative to the Club: A: the Sessions for Leicester, on Tuesday last, J. Sotterell, of Kincote, fratnework.knitter, was convitted of ill-treating his apprentices, particularly W. Soden, who had in consequence lost six of his toes, and part of two others. He was sentenced to • 12 months imprisonment in a solitary cell, and to ply 101. J. Head, a man deaf ard dumb, has been committed to Norwich Castle for a criminal • assault on the person of Mary Skipper, of Grest Melton. W. Walpole, a young Man of. IS, has also been cornmitred for horse.stealing : he is A. deserter froth the Army of Reserve, .and received 4.5 -guineas bounty at 'Norwich, but neirer joined the Regiment. Tuesday last, as. Mr. Bradley, of Womenswold, JeKent, farmer, was returning home from the Monthly Meeting at Wingham, in company with two more Gentlemen, his llorse took fright aro,l ran away with him, when he was thrown off, and had his thigh broke and his skull fractured ; he was taken to Mr. Heritage's of Goodnestone, where every assistance was speedily procured that was necessary, and he is now happily in a fair way'of recovery.  Navy 5 per Cent. Sgi go S per Cent. 1797. Irish 5 per Cent. 8 4 Per Cent. 70. i 3 er Ct. Red. 54i 55 54-4 3 per Cent. Cons. 55i-1 a F