The Sun. — 1809-09-05 (London, England)

FOR PERTHSHIRE.  The •harvest commenced in this vicinity a few days, ago, and is now become general. The grain seems to be ripening fast; and notwithstanding the long continued rains, there is the prospect of what is known among farmers by the phrase a good middling crop.' The wheat in some places will be injured, but not so much as was at one time-suspeded. —This is probably. awing, in a great measure to its general thinness, and to the coolness of the atmosphere, which has prevailed for several days.— The peas, if the weather after this be favourable, will yet recover and yield an abundant produce.— Oats, on good dry ground, are in many ca,es uncommonly luxuriant., and on the whole, we think, shall be equal to an average crop.  On Saturday last a servant boy of Mr. Edwards, at Wandsworth, took his master's horse into a field adjoining the house to feed ; and being Sleepy, laid, down, tied the halter around one of his legs, that he might not sleep too long, and thus composed him- , self. The horse having in the mean time taken fright, ran a considerable distance, dragging the boy after him, who, notwithstanding the alarming situation to which ho had been exposed, did not sutler any material injury. We are sorry to state a melancholy circumstance, which took place on Friday :—Johri JAMES TODD, Esq. (brother to COl. FRANCIS TODD, of the Ist Re- ! giment of Guards), went out shooting in the neighbourhood of Horndean, Hampshire, when his gun accidentally went off, whilst he was taking the ramrod out, and the contents of,it being forced through his body, he lingered for twenty minutes and then oxpired.—The deceased Gentleman was on a,visit to his sister, MrS. HALKETT, the Lady of Capt. H. of his Majesty's ship Ganges, who resides at eitherington-House. We have already stated the circumstances attending the death of William Iley, at Chertsey, and the verdicts of the Inquests held in consequence ; and on Friday we mentioned the suicide committed by a surgeon of that place, as connected with the verdkt of the first Jury.—The•faas we understand to be these :—Otie of the witnesses examined before the Coroner's Jury was Mr. Summers, a most respe&able young man, an apothecary and surgeon- of Chertsey. After giving his evidence, it, was imputed to him that, being the medical man who attended the family of the persoit accused of the murder, he had delivered himself more favourably as to the cause of Iley's,death than the circumstance would warrant, and that with a view to shelter Vincent.— Hand-bills were published, in Chertsey, and even doors and shutters written upon, reflecting in very gross language, on Mr. Summers ; other mortifying attacks were likewise made upon him by some of his neighbours. At length this Gentleman, being naturally of a desponding nervous,habit, about seven o'clock on Wednesday morning, left his house, and repaired-to the Abbey River, from the side of which, after placing his stick in the mud, he threw himself in, and was drowded. This awful occurrence produced, as soon as it was known- in Chertsey, an universal sentiment of sorrow and regret ; and the circumstance - which led to the melancholy ea, tastrophe was at once lost in the recolleCtion of the amiable disposition, professional skill, and gentlemanly manners of the deceased. A reward of 401; was offered for apprehending -Vincent, who had retreated to a neighbouring village ; 'but he surrendered himself, and was committed to take his trial. A severe pitched battle was fought in Mary -lebone-fields yesterday morning, between Jones a prefessor, and a bargeman of the name bf Tough, for 20 guineas, which was, won in 40 minutes by Jones. The bargeman planted shine tremendous bits, beating away his antagonist's guard, hut he was at length So blinded and exhausted by constant left handed fibbing, that he had no chatice-during the last quarter of an hour of the contest. Some hundreds of spectators were present.  . , ~. . . .