The Sun. — 1810-09-01 (London, England)

THE KING V. 'v. BROTHEItHEAD. This was an indictment against the.dc4endant:forhaving-in -iris possession naval stores, the property. of his Alajeaty. By the evidence or a Custoin7lii,use Orficer, it appeared that he saw the detcnzlant's cart on the Rochester road, and. suspecting that it contained smuggled goods, he searched it; bpi, instead of finding any goods, he disetivered. 52 copper ringq, marked with the King's mark,; and :aisoL;46lb..6i, new copper,-in. butts.  . Mr. GURNEY, for the defendant, • addressed the Jury, and. stated, • that he had bought them' at Gravlsend, wholly ignorant that they were Kink's store; of a persyn who absconded as soon as the defendant was taken into custody. No witnesSei3 Were, however, produced to prove these fa6u ; awl the Jury,: without hesitation, found him Guiall.  • t An article frOM Nancy, inserted in a French Paper received on Thursday, mentions a singular•eyent which happened at the close :of ' the last month in the commune. of Juvelise : a hemp field, of no great extent, sunk suddenly, and the vawity occasioned by the secession of. the earth was• instantly filled, .With_water, the depth of which could not L. aicertamped by reason of the difficulty of the approach-, the surface occasionally giving way in;eircutnscribed spots. 'lli's. phenomenon has. excited. iuuch curiosity ancLalarw.,  a Coroner's inquest was held at Isling;ton on the body of a young matt; carter to a corn— dealer near the Angel Inn, who put an end to his existence in Sunday 'Morning, by hanging himself in 'his master's stable. The unfortunate deceased, it appeared, 'had ,a sweetheart too many.: He had paid his addresses to one favourite female for nine years; -upon honourable terms, and he had induced another young, woman to come up to London, from his native village,. abthut fouryears ego, and become servant in .his, master's house, where he prevailed over her virtue under a promke of marriage, and she was now pregnant. /n this predicament, and unable to satisfy the hopes' of both -claimants, he determined to take," that way at once" by which Jiacheailt piopos:.'d "-to please allinis zpi'ves,"- and hanged 'himself.: The Jury 'found a verdict offelo de se: . . . .  , , A few days since an Inquest was taken at Long. town, in-Flerefbrdshire, before W. PATTERSHALL, Esq. on the body of Joan Gwilliarn, who was discovered-in-her house at Clodock, on Thursday, the ttth lust. so dreadfully beaten that she died on the Saturda)', folio It appeared in evidence that the decdased was 'an elderly person, and•resided in a ho'nie by herself: it was supposed she generally liad , a large sum, of money by her, and this was no doubt the inducement with slier cruel murderers for perpetrating.the horrid deed. They'obtairied an entrance into the house during the 'night by retti.iving• some of the tiles from the roof; and the door of the old Lady's bed-room being fastened, and resisting their efforts to break it open, they forced. up a part of the floor of the tOorn 'immediately bver it, and descended, through the' opening- into the:l)4ll.4onm, when it. appeared; from the :situation- in wllich'the unfortunate victim of their brutality was found, they beat her with a large stick, till- they supposed sh wai de.id. She remained. in that state tindiqcoVered till Thursday morning, when she was litip(' by a neighbour, lying near her bed, almost dead. She survived, however, till the Saturday to!lowing, when she expired, without hi:•ing able to give anyaccount of her murderers. The Jury returuel a verdict of wilful Murder against some person or persons unknown." Three persons are in custody on 'sus.picion—namely, a woman, her son, and a females friend. •