Star. — London, England, 1830-10-12 00:00:00

MAJOR FITZGERALD. AFFAIR OF HONOUR BETWEEN lA)RD BINCHAM AND T:te • Court Journal' has published the correspondence connected theineettag which lately took place b e tween Lord Binglicu* and Major Fitzgerald. near Brtasels, by which it appears that Lord B. hen a candidate for the representation of the county of Mayo, in Ire. ....d. in the year 1826. made Major Fitzgerald a promise of getting bah a comfortable appointment; and the Major .isserts in his letters to his Lordship, that hip Lordship having accepted of what interest he poesested, and lits own personal exertions, after the full explanation mat took place between them, gave a decided promise to provide for hum For four years after, his Lordship's letters to him have been filled with hope. expectation. and regret ; and in his letter to his Lordship, elated 17th June. 1830 (the first in the published correspondence), he rt.:es that he is ready to receive either a good military or civil situation an healthy climate ; hut would sot any longer submit to be trifled wit:: Lord Bingham did not deny the engagement he had entered into to get Major Fitzgerald a comfortable appointment, to do which he had exerted himself, and, if the Major's objectionable letters were wiiiidtawn, was willing to renew ,liis exertions. Friends had been now appointed —Colonel Fremantle on the part of Lord Bingham; and Lieut. Breedon, R.N. Major Fitzgerald's brother-in-law, on his behalf. .A long correspondence took place, in the course of which the Major's objei t.onable letters were withdrawn, but too late to prevent the parties going to Ostend, for the purpose of a hostile meeting, the police in London having become acquainted with the negotiation. Lord Bing ham was on this occasion accompanied by Captain Lyon, between whom and lieutenant Breedon it was agreed that the parties should meet a -.lle from Ostend, on the Brussels road. Captain Lyon and Lord Bing. ham went to the place appointed by the former; but Lieutenant Bree. ilen and Major Fitzgerald having gone on another Brussels road, some delay took place in Major Fitzgerald's coming on the ground, which he did, accompanied by Mr. Hailsliam, Mr. Breedon not having disco vered the mistake of the road. Mr. Hailsham went in quest of Mr. Breedon, and returned with him, when Mr. Breedon placed a paper in the hands of Captain Lyon, signed by himself on the part !of Major Fitzgerald, stating that, having acted under a misconstruction of the promise made by Lord Bingham, and having ascertained that his Lord ship was using his endeavours to serve him, he was anxious to withdraw all his objectionable letters on the subject—relying on the honour and generosity of his Lordship for the ultimate fulfilment of the same. Thus the matter terminated at Ostend, and rested till the newspaper accounts of the affair in England caused Major Fitzgerald to call for explanation, which has produced the publication of the whole correspondence. LORD NUGENT AND A. CAMPBELL, ESQ. The following curious correspondence between Lord Nugent and Mr. A. Campbell, appeared in the Bucks Casette of Friday last :—A re. port of a speech made by Mr. Campbell at a dinner given to the Mar. quis Chandos by the freeholders of Bucks, having stated that Mr. Campbell said " He was sorry to see an individual desert their ranks, &c.—that individual had insulted him and his sons, and through them the whole body of Brunswickers. This indignity he would resent the very next opportunity that offered." Lord Nugent wrote to Mr. Campbell, stating that he had been informed that there was an impres. Mon that the allusion was made to him, and though he could not easily believe:it, he trusted Mr. Campbell would be good enough to give him Iris authority for removing the impression. Mr. Campbell replied, that the newspaper report was incorrect ; but he neither retracted nor ex plained any expression he hal used. Lord Nugent, on the receipt of this note, wrote to Mr. Campbell, requesting to know whether he had said that the individual to whom ho alluded had deserted from some ranks, &c. Mr. Campbell replied that the expression attributed to him was incorrect. Lord Nugent, in acknowledging the receipt of this note, said the phrase, as reported, if pointed at him, was offensive, foolish, and untrue ; but having been informed by Mr. Campbell that the report was incorrect, he had not a word more to say on the subject. Mr. Campbell replied the next day, in which he says:— •' I am anxious, however, that there should be no misconception on the so liner. I therefore lose no time in informing your Lordship what spressions I made use of, and Mating that they referred to your Lad. ship. At the dinner given to the Marquis of Chandos, at Aylesbury, in celebration of his recent election, under circumstances the most flat tering to the House of Buckingham, as well as to his Lordship him. self, I proposed a toast commemorative of that event. In the course of what I said in prefacing this toast, I expressed my admiration of the enthusiastic attachment which had been evinced. by the thousands as sembled on the memorable sth of August, under the banners and colours ot• the noble family, and stated my regret at having seen on that day one iadividual who. I considered, ought to have been foremost in the cause, .'esert those colours, and show himself in the adverse ranks—a fact known not only to those whom I addressed, bnt the immense assem blage who witnessed it." L )rd Nugent, the next day, wrote to Mr. Campbell, that the words I r stated were substantially the same as those in the report; they, Curet:re, came in all respects under the same desaiption. Mr. Camp. bell wrote to Lord Nugent the next day, October 8, saying, as the circumstance to which he referred was witnessed by thousands, no doubt or denial could be made of its truth ; he therefore took leave to clone the correspondence. The following letter, which we give at length, closes the published account of the transaction : " TO JOHN DELL, ESQ. ATLESEURT. " 3lv dear Sir,—Having, from the beginning, made you aware that 1 intended to call for an explanation of words used on a late public oc casion by a Mr. Campbell, and supposed by some to refer to me, I now send the whole correspondence, which he has declared to be at an end. lie has chosen to close the subject, upon my telling him that the words which lie has now owned to, as well as being offensive, were foolish and untrue. I felt that I owed it sasrccly less to my friends and con. astituents Coon to myself, to put a stop as soon as possible to a bad habit rl at a curtain class of persona have got into, of mistaking the contemp. to J.... forbearance we have sometimes shown for a disposition to tolerate impertinent allusions of distant and implied threats. I now wish to state to int. constituents why I told Mr. Campbell that the phrases he steer. are offensive, foolish. and untrue. Ist,—lt was offensive, presenting, and impertinent, to allude to any political differ. ogees that may exist between myself and any individual of my family, particularly when the presence of that individual at ti'e head of the table would have restrained any man of feeling, discretion, or 'pith. from so indecorous a display. 2dly. It was entitle to say that I had ever deserted any colours or cause. The charge, such as it is, of deserting what 3lr. Campbell rid. garly calls the colours of my family, all my constituents know to be un. true ; those colours happening also to be my own, and to be borne as mine on every public occasion where such symbols arc, with propriety, admissible. It is untrue that I have deserted the opinions of my fa. roily, which have been strongly ; uniformly, and notoriously opposed to those which were supported and extolled on the day in question. It is untrue that I joined any adverse ranks. lam yet to learn that, while the County of Buckingham returns two Members to Parliament, and there are but two candidates, any body with two ideas can describe ' one of those candidates as opposed to the other. It is untrue that I ever deserted any public cause, and manifest that I never deserted that of the lirunswickers, to which Mr. Campbell adverts, it being one of my chiefest delectations to remember that, to that cause, with all its in. justices and all its absurdities, I have been ever recognised as being in direct and irreconcilable public opposition. Thirdly and lastly—Mr. Campbell's words were foolish ; as the words of a man who has neither the discretion to avoid offence, the propriety to retract, or the spirit to support it. " Ever, my dear Sir, your's truly. " Oct. 7, 1830. Anonymous letters, signed " Swing," have been received by post, by two individuals in Dover, threatening the destruction of their premises by fire, which has caused great alarm in the families.— The dead walls all through the town, and for some miles on the road to Ointerbury, all bear the same significant word, " Swing," in chalk.— Kentish Gazette. _ _ _ SCOTTISH ANATOMISTS.—On Sunday, the 19th ult. 13r. M'lntyre, late Master of Monkland Canal Tract Boat, was in. tcrred in the burying ground attached to the Rer. Mr. Torrance's Meeting -house, and secured by a wortsafe belonging to the Airdrie Funeral Society. No other interment taking place during that week, no suspicious appearance was, of course, observed, till, on the Sa turday evening, the grave-digger, having occasion to go there, dis ,overed fragments of grave materials scattered about the place of Mr. M'lntyre's interment. Assistance being obtained, an examination followed, when it was ascertained that the violators had gone down through the remains of a person buried four or five y , ,ars before, on the right side of the safe, and, through an interstice of unit warping, succeeded in breaking open the coffin ; they found it im. practicable to abstract the body ; but, determined not to be altogether disappointed, cut off the head and took it with them. The relatives, much about the same time, received information that their deceased friend's head had been seen in the hall of an Anatomical lecturer. No time was lost in dispatching several active individuals, it' possible, to' recover it. By the prompt assistance of Captain Graham, admission was soon obtained to the ball in question. and the head soon re cognised and claimed. It was again brought back to Airdrie, and, on Tuesday last; in the presence of a large assamblage of people, it was again, along with the body, which had previously been raised, committed to it+ kindred dust. The horrifying sight of the headless trunk, raised from a perfect puddle of mud (tor the shell had been completely destroyed), excited such feelings, that, hid the guilty perpetrators been forthcoming, a speedy and awful pu nishment had been inflicted. The Society to whom the safe belongs have, at a very considerable expense, ordered a complete inside lining of strong iron plates, to prevent, in future, the practicability of such outages being committed where they are employed. They have also, by private inquiry, obtained such information, and from it laid such plans as will make it extremely hazardous for that or any other gang longer to *tio carry on their operations in New Monitland. So notorious have the 'frequent violations in the burying-ground In question become, that we trial niturally ask the qeestion whether it is not fainted by resurrection men, and whothei the public have not a right to call on the nutnagers and proprietors to fall on such measures as will prevent the frequency of harrowing up their feelings ?—Glaryose Chronicle. MAYOR'S COURT, 00. U. WALL V. TARLTON, smuts, OARNISNEIL This was an action brought for the recovery of the sum of 1601. due by the defendant to the plaintiff, and said to be in the possession of the garnishee. Mr. bllaniousx said the sum sought for was part of the sum of 4,000 L due to the plaintiff by the defendant, and he thought he could satisfactorily prove that the garnishee was in possession of the funds of the defendant to that extent, at the time the attachment was is sued. Mr. E. Church, attorney, of Spital-square, stated, that Mr. Smart, the garnishee, was not only agent to the defendant, but properly con cerned for him, and aho agent to the plaintiff Witness was told by the garnishee and his clerk, that before the attachment issued, he (gar nishee) had received a remittance of 1601. from the defendant, and that sum was offered in pass payment of the debt due to the plaintiff, pro vided judgment was not enforced. After the attachment was issued, It was stated by the clerk of the garnishee that Mr. Smart was ready to pay the 1501 but it was not said that the garnishee had then in his hands 1501. of the defendant's money. On the part of the garnishee it was proved that the 1501. which had been remitted and offered to the plaintiff, was afterwards paid to Mr. Drake, in part payment of an execution. The Reconnez said that the garnishee might have offered to m the 1601 in expectation of a supply of funds from the defendant, 'odd'. rected the Jury to find for the garnishee. This cause, perfectly unimportant as to any results the interests of the parties may have on those of the public, shows in a very striking view, the imprudence of the Courts in suffering any attorney or solicitor, even as agent, to have the conduct of a case on both sides, as we have been informed is frequently the case in agency offices. If a Rule of Court will not reach this mischief, it is high time it should be made the subject of some legislative enactment. POLICE REPORTS. Malisrow-kOnar.—Mary Deesmon, a large-countenanced woman, with a very preposterous voice, which, in the opinion of the Lord Mayor, was caught in " ginnegan," was brought up charged with bay. ing kidnapped a dumb child belonging to respectable and industrious parents. An officer, as he walked along the streets, saw Mrs. Donovan with the child in her arms, but rather in an uncommon position, for the heels of the poor infant were where the head ought to be ; and be also observed that Mrs. Donovan was rather advanced beyond the cares of the world, by•that which makes us all not rare a d—n for k. He told her the baby was breaking its heart a-crying. "That's a d—d lie," said she; "it's as quiet a child as ever lived—tent you, my jewel ? " and she cuddled the little feet to her breast. " Why, what a beast of a woman you must be," said the officer, " to hold the poor child that way, it will cry itself to death, or be smothered." " It's you that's the beast," cried Mrs. Donovan, " for you see the child doesn't say a word ; it's a nasty bastard that's following us that's making such a d—d noise," and she turned round to where the baby's head was, and said,"Whist, you young vagabond, or I'll kick you to the d—L" The officer, who happened to be a scholar, declared that he could't listen to no such " mismanagement," no longer, and believing that the mother of the child was no mother at all, he took both into custody, and he was right too he said—and no mistake, for she was no mother of the child, but a robber of the child. The LORD MAYOR.—What ! is she a kidnapper ? Officer.—Why, my Loid, I think she meant to depredate human ereeturs.—(A laugh.) Here the real mother stepped forward, in great apparent distress, and said that she had left the child playing at the door at six o'clock, and missed it in five minutes. She ran round the neighbourhood in a state of distraction, but at about nine o'clock she was relieved by the sight of her little one in the amts of the officer. The Loan MAYOR said it was rather incautious in her to leave the child at such an hour, and he hoped this would be a lesson to bee. The mother said she had never before allowed the child to be exposed singe the visit of the King and Queen of the Sandwich blends, who, she understood, had a way of disposing of babies without putting them underground. (Loud laughter.) The prisoner said, as she was walking aloe ". she saw the child cry ing, and finding it was dumb, and could not tell her where it lived, she took it in her arms, and went about the neighbourhood, asking every man whether it was his, but she could get no father for it. The LORD MAYOR—Pray, whom did you ask ? Prisoner—Please your Lordship, I first went to a butcher and then I went to an undertaker, and they both said they didn't belong to the child, and then this gentleman tuck a howld o'me, and tuck me to the watchhouse. The LORD Matoit—And how did you get so drunk ? Prisoner—Why, your Lordship, I went into a gin-shop to get a drop to enable me to carry the child. (Laughter.) It was stated that Mrs. Donovan had actually called at three or four places and asked who owned the child, and that she did not at all act as if she had any intention but a good one, and Providence must have interposed wonderfully to preserve both, for the unhappy nurse was scarcely able to stand, and actually lost all power over her limbs as soon as the child was taken from her. The LORD Slavoa argued very favourably for the woman's cha racter from this latter circumstance, inasmuch as he considered her strong anxiety to keep the babe from harm, endued her with a power which deserted her the moment it was taken from her. His Lordship dismissed her with some advice as to her future conduct. _ Bow-STREET.—T. Wilson, a stage-coach driver out of place, was charged with having stolen a parcel, containing 301. John Warmington, a porter at the Golden-cross, Charing-cross, stated, that on Thursday he received a parcel from Thomas Bryant, d:iver of the Lewes coach, directed to Mr. Warden, 85, (heat Mary-la.bonne street. He handed this parcel to the prisoner, to deliver, and on the following Saturday morning ascertained that it had not been left at Mr. Warden's house. Witness then went to look for the prisoner, and found him in the Coach and Horses public.house, St. Mar tin's-lane, in a state of intoxication. Witness said, " What have you done with the parcel, Tetn ?" To which he answered, "Oh ! it's all right." A young woman who was present proved that she saw the parcel de livered by the last witness into the prisoner's hands. Mr. Warden proved that the parcel, in which was a remittance of 301. from his brother in Kent, never came to hand. The prisoner denied that the parcel had ever been delivered to him, and he was ordered to be remanded, to give time, if possible, to trace the stolen notes. _ THAMES POLlCE.—Yesterday, Michael Weir, a seaman of the Seoleby C'asile East Indianian, was brought before Mr. Bionzarr, charged with assaulting Joseph Lancaster, the gunner of that vessel, on the high seas, on the 12th of August, 1829. The complainant deposed, that on the day named the prisoner had been guilty of some act of disobedience, and the Captain ordered him to take Weir to the poop and place him in irons. He approached him on the starboard side of the quarter-deck for that purpose, when the pri soner made use of dreadful language, and struck him several times in the face. A struggle took place, when the prisoner seised his shirt, the front of which he tore to pieces, and hit him a violent blow on the eye, Iwhich cut it open. He suffered from the effects of the ill-treatment for some days afterwards. Mr. Wooler cross-examined the complainant on behalf of Weir, and elicited from Lancaster that he had been in England six weeks, and should not have come forward but for some words which took place be tween them in the street. Mr. Wooler.—Had not Weir been on the poop in the morning, re. leased, and formally forgiven by the Captain ? The complainant answered in the affirmative; but it was for some fresh offence he was ordered to place him there again. He swore that he did not strike Weir, but only laid his hand gently upon hint. Mr. Wooler.—Wu not the grating rigged, and Weir tied up to be flogged the next day ? Lancaster.--He was, Sir ' • but the ship's company prevented the punishment from taking place, and Weir was released. Samuel Bacon, the boatswain, said, he was standing by the capstern, and witnessed the assault. He subsequently heard Weir threaten to jump overboard with the complainant, and drown both. Mr. Wooler cross-examined the boatswain, who expressed great re luctance in answering questions. The prisoner, in defence, said that lAncaster seized him by th e neck kerchief, twisted it round, and nearly strangled him. He resisted this ill.usage, but not in the violent manner mentioned, and was struck first by the complainant. Mr. Wooler said, the present charge would not have been preferred but for the feeling which existed on the subject of naval discipline, and which Lancaster had taken advantage of. He had good evidence to show that his client had been much ill-used, but would advise him to reserve his defence for another place, as he was prepared with bail. Mr. BRODERIP observed, that it was evident the quarrel which had taken place since the parties had come ashore had influenced Lancaster in coming forward, and he ought not to have slept so long over the affair before he preferred the complaint. He had nothing to do with any dis putes between the officers and the seamen, and sat there to administer impartial justice between both parties, and would not be influenced by any feeling which existed elsewhere on the subject. The complainant was doing no more than his duty, and obeying the orders of his Cap tain, when he endeavoured to place Weir on the poop, and put him in irons ; and as the assault had been distinctly sworn to, and not dis proved, it was his duty to hold the defendant to bail, himself in 201. and two sureties in 101. each, to answer the charge at the next Admiralty Sessions. . _ UNIOII.IIALL.—On Sunday morning, between nine and ten o'clock, a riot of a very serious nature took place in Kent-street, between a mob and several of the new police. In the course of the above morning se veral men had been drinking in a public-house, and, *disturbance hav ing commenced amongst them, three men belonging to the new police went into the house with a view of suppressing it. They, however, had scarcely entered the place when the fury of the rioters was turned on them, and they were driven into the street and attacked by the party. Th e riot still continuing in the house, the policemen, determined endo ing their duty, again attempted to take the principal tioters into cue tody, and in their endeavours were again repulsed by the mob, until a strong reinforcement from the station-house came to the spot, and, after tadis a ral a most determined resistance on the part of the the suc ceeded, at length, in securing twenty-two of the In escorting the party of offenders to the s the beta the utmost difficulty, 4 they were hooted, and pied with stones and mud by the enraged multitude, whose feelings assessd to be excited to the highest degree against the constables. The pass, however, suc ceeded in lodging the whole of the above number in de station-house, and they were brought before Mr. HON! and Mr. ELYAILD, yes. terday morning, and those who were prominent in the affair were held to bail. In the course of the investigation, a papa signed by 23 of the folio- Wants of Hent.otreet was banded to the Biesta, stating that the police themselves were the chief cause of the riot and diMthana that had occurred on the preceding morning, and that those individuals whose signatures were attached to the paper wee ready to come forward to prove the truth of their statement. The paper alluded to contained a charge of very great violence on the part of policeman No. 158, letter M, towards a man named Harvey, who it was alleged had been cruelly and unjustifiably beaten about the head and body with a truncheon by Weaselled. This charge was spedally inquired into sta b4 the Magi& hates, as the man who was thus treed media le cu The policeman stated, that the deliedeet Haney was map& in the riot that took place on Sunday mseakag in Bent.strest, but *dabs then escaped. In the afternoon of the seise de% however, ha was olds ob served in the same street by the wise went up to Ns ter the purpose of taking him into w oody, but had no mast laid hands upon him for this purpose, dam be was edlined mg Meek by that man. A scuffle then ensued between than, dodo( whits the police. man was kicked and beaten. By this time a mob had col kiwi, and an attempt was made to rescue the defendant, in do midst of which the policeman had the utmost difficulty in still keeping bold of him.— Other policemen then came to his assistance, and en the way to the station-house the mob conducted themselves with the pealed violence towards the police, whom they pelted with missiles d every description, and wrenched the staff out of the hands of policeman 158, and the in strument was destroyed, accompanied by the loud hums of the rioters. After encountering difficulties and resistance of no slight description, the defendant was also placed in the station-house by the policemen. The above in substance was the account given of the affair by the different policemen examined. In contradiction to their statement, however, some of the inhabitants were examined, and they described that the police behaved with violence, and asserted that one of them was drunk on the occasion. This assertion was, however, denied by the superintendent and inspectors, who declared that the charge of drunkenness was without foundation. None of the inhabitants were enabled to state that Harvey, the defendant, was not engaged in the riot. The Magistrates said that the neighbourhood of Rent.street was no. torious for riots and other offences. It appeared that the policemen had not in this instance by any means exceeded their duty, which was at tended with mach peril, particularly in the place spoken of, and they should uniformly meet with that assistance they required when they con. ducted themselves with firmness and propriety in the execution of it. An immense crowd assembled ,during the day in the street before the office, in consequence of the proceedings of the rioters. LAXIIETH•STREIT.—Yesterday John Ma/hen, a journeyman butcher, was charged with assaulting Mr. Gule, the churchwarden of St. George's in the Rest. Mr. Gole stated that on Saturday last, while he was - standing in his own house, he heard a noise as if horses were galloping furiously, and at the same moment a cry of distress from some individual. He ran out, and observed an old man lying in the road groaning dread fully, who stated that he had been ridden over by the defend. ant and another man. Some persons having witnessed the transac. I don, stopped the men, and witness insisted that they should mom. pany him to his house and give their addresses. One of them readily complied, but the other, on being asked, said, Oh, yes, here's my ad dress, you at the same time striking him (Mr. G.) a blow which ' knocked him down. The defendant, on being seized by some hymen& els, made a desperate resistance, and it required the united strength of four men to force him into witness's parlour, for the purrpoase of obtain. ing his direction. The magistrate, as one mode of teaching him int. I inanity, inflicted the highest penalty of the law, M. for the offence, or to send him to prison for two months, leaving him also open to the man I whom he had injured to seek his remedy. A serious charge of assault and riot was made by four policemen of division H. against a journeyman baker, named Andrew Larkin. One of the policemen stated that, about one o'clock on Sunday morn. ing, he and another constable were coming down Cable-street with two girls In custody, and when they came close to the Hoop and Grapes public house, one of the girls, who was intoxicated, called out for some man, when instantly upwards of thirty persons, among whom was the prisoner,i sallied out of the public house and attacked them, and rescued the girls. The mob then commenced throwing stones at them, and one of them was knocked down. At this time three other policemen came to their assistance, and such was the violence of the mob, which had in. creased to nearly one hundred persons, that their lives were in the most imminent danger. In corroboration of this, one of thepolicemen exhibited a large stone, which he said had been thrown at his head, and by which he was 'mocked down. On rising, the prisoner struck him on his nose, and blackened both his eyes. He was subsequently knocked down, kicked in the most brutal manner while on the ground, and nearly strangled with his belt. Mr. Walker said he should fine him bl. or send him to prison for two months. Quanw-anuana.....Yeaterday, Daniel Hay, a labouring man, was charged with violently assaulting and kicking Margaret Bryant; and Mary Roland, a sister of the defendant, was charged with assaulting her. Between eleven and twelve o'clock on the previous evening, a police constable saw Mary Roland quarrelling with the complainant, and the defendant Hay rushed past them, knocked the complainant down, and then kicked her violently. Hay. in his defence, said that his sister was carrying some beer, when Mrs. Bryant and hes husband insisted upon drinking some of it, which was resisted, when Dlr. Bryant used very bad language towards his sister. Mr. Wurrie—But if he had used such language, that was no reason you should knock the poor woman down, and kick her in such a brutal manner. _ _ The Magistrates, after consulting, ordered Daniel Ray to find sureties for his appearance at the Sessions to answer the charge, and to give 48 hours' notice of bail. The female was discharged, on the payment of fts. for the assault. MURDER OF A WIFE BY HER HUSBAND. From the Susses Advertiser. It is our painful duty to record a most appalling murder, committed at Newhaven, in this county, on the night of Friday last, which has caused great sensation in that place, and also in the town, where the perpetrator of the horrible crime is well known, and was considered a 1 1 respectable man in his situation in life. His name Is Harry Winter, the captain of a trading vessel, of which we believe he is prat owner. The instrument used to effect the dreadful purpose was a fire-shovel, which was broken to pieces. The body of his unfortunate wife, when disco. vered on Saturday morning, presented a shocking spectacle, being horr ribly mangled and covered with blood. An inquisition was held on the afternoon of the latter day, before our Coroner, Mr. (}ell, and a moat respectable Jury, at the Bridge Inn, Newhaven, when, from the evidence, It appeared that the deceased and her husband had, apparently, lived unhappily together ; and that on Friday morning, previously to the husband leaving New. haven for Lewes, some angry words had passed between him and the unfortunate deceased. He returned from Lewes to his home about half. past nine o'clock in the evening, in a state of intoxication; and soon after his arrival a noise was heard in the house ; but from the frequent quarrels which had frequently occurred, no particular notice was taken of the circumstance by the neighbours. In the morning, Winter went into the street, smoking his pipe, and asked a female named Dyer to come and see his wife. The woman, knowing of their frequent quartets, asked if he had hurt her P He Bald, be was afraid it was something weese than that." Mrs. Dyer did not go, but her daughter went into the house, and found the deceased lying on. the floor of the bedroom, in estate of nudity, covered with blood, and quite dead ! She instantly alarmed the neighbours, who also went into the house, and the husband was taken into custody. It further appeared that the murder had been accomplished by the infliction of nu. merous heavy blows on various parts of the body and head (bent which by the left ear was nearly severed) a fire-shavel, which was found broken. A great number of witnesses were examined, and after a patient investigation of 7 hours, the jury returned a verdict of " Wilful murder" against Harry Winter, and the coroner issued his warrant for the committal of the prisoner to Horsham gaol for trial at the next sashes. The prisoner, it appeared, after the dreadful deed had been perpetrated, slept in the room all night; and it is sup posed that the clothes of the deceased, which were found torn to tatters, had been stripped off by the prisoner, as he was heard to say, " She tore my shirt off last night, and I have torn hers off to. night." It appeared, also, that the ill-fated woman had been dragged into the house, probably after endeavouring to escape, marks of blood being found upon the steps leading to the door. The prisoner, who is about 50 years of age, was conveyed through this town yesterday morning, on his way to Horsham, and did not appear much affected at his awful situation. It Is suppostd by some that Winter must have been seized with temporary derangement, as, on the night of the unfortunate occurrence, he bad taken home a new pair of silver spectacles for his wife, and a fat goose fee their Sunday's dinner, of which he had also invited the mate of his vessel and the mate's wife to partake. He is, we believe, a native of the western part of our county. SINGULAR ROBRERT.—Tlaursday night the corner stone of the new county Infirmary, which wits last week laid with much ceremony, was removed from its place, and the coins beneath it carried away. The stone was fastened down by iron clamps, which the thieves had wrenched of, and the stone had been removed by means of a crow. bar. The vase in which the coins and papers were deposited has been left behiud—Carl isle Journal. if7NTILLAC. LUNATIC LAYS. ?ROM TRH WNW MONTHLY MAGAZINT. " Adieu my Moustachios ! farewell to my Tip." Adieu my moustachins--farewell to my tip, Lost, lost is the pride of my chin and my lip ; His Majesty wills it, like Sampson I'm crops, And the killing career of Adonis is stopt. The razors arc ruthless—my honours they nip, Adieu my moustachios—farewell to my tip ! Alas ! what avails the loud clank of ray spurs, What signify tassels, and feathers and furs ? The padding above that the waist may look slim, The trowsers compress'd to exhibit the limb, My form I no longer exulting equip, Adieu my moustachios ! farewell to my tip ! I know they deride a Commander who stoops, To all foreign fashions to deck British troops ; But surely the biggest look rather more big,' In moustachios and tip--like a judge in his wig I know I look mall with my sword on my hip, Adieu my mustachios ! farewell to my tip ! When Laura last saw me, she own'd that the trod ! Contaln'd no moustachios so charmingly curl'd ; She thought my head foreign, and unlike the skull Of the money-bag, mercantile fellow, John Bull ! But now she will call me " contemptible rip !" Adieu my moustachios ! farewell to my tip f I went to the levee both pensive and pale, I felt like a puppy-dog robb'd of his tail ; The Duke eyed me coldly when notice I craved, —Ah ! would he had seen me before I was shay..,' ! And as I kised hands, I'm afraid I let slip "Adieu my moustachios farewell to my tip !" Alt, at a mess dinner, how graceful to dip My napkin, and wipe of the mess from my lip ! Thehair that grew on it was steep'd In each dish, And nourisled by gravy—soup—sauces of fish—. They are gone—and my claret I pensively sip,— Adieu my moustachious ! farewell to my tip ! They were red—and I dyed them—and nose at the st.i., Which remains on the skin I scrub daily—ln vain ! The hair is shaved off, but a something is seen Which I fear may be thought to look rather unclear. I hope It don't look like a chimney-sweep's lip— Adieu my moustachious ; farewell to my tip ! My principal reason, I frankly confess, For bring a soldier at all,—was the dress ; The line on my lip, and the dot on my chin, Became me—the change is a horrid take in— might just as well now have gone on board ship. Adieu my moustachios, farewel to my tip ! I know that they deem it unmanly to weep, So into half-pay I'll despondingly creep ! The star of my beauty is lost in eclipse ! I'll sit in seclusion and sigh for hair-lips ! The tears down my nose now incessantly drip_ Adieu my mustachios ! farewell to my tip AWFUL INSTANCE OF RASH PASSION. I once bad a friend, and have reason to grieve he E'er saw the daughter of Benjamin Levi ; For, having seen the sweet girl of the Jcw, he sigh'il, That, now's a virgin to drive one to suicide ! A Christian can't marry het ; no, yet her loss if I Surer, I feel that my bean will soon ossify I I'll do what'll prove more the love than the wit o'me, I'll swallow oxalic, then surely she'll pity me, And garnish my grave with some few sprigs of rosemary. Ile did as he said, and died crying, " Here goes, Mary Fraser's lifagazila• A Spanish Refugee brought over with him a little dog from Spain. who lately died ; and in commemoration of this melancholy event, his composed a sonnet, of which the following is a translation made by an English lady : TO MORON. Through unknown crowds with weary step I roam, A woe-worn wanderer on a foreign shore ; And when 1 seek my solitary home, Thy friendly welcome meets my ear no more. How oft the fond expression of thine eyel Beamed through the anguish of thy suffering frame ! How did thy trembling limbs impatient try To spring responsive to the well-knowa newel My faithful Guard ! on you deserted bed, Near thy sad master did'st thou love to rest ; But Death's cold hand his cruel venom spread, Stilled the warm throbbing. of thy generous breass— Snatched the last solace of my exiled state, And left the Wanderer to his lonely fate. FERRARI. In the year 1805, Ferrari, the composer, received an invitation fri, Ledy Hamilton to visit Merton, where she then resided with her hu , band. She wished me (he says) to compose an Italian cantata in pr.,. of the famous Battle of the Nile, and I had the honour to meet ti celebrated Nelson at dinner. During the dessert her Ladyship suo several English airs, most of which were in praiseof the Duke of Mont, but the music of the fair syren was lost on his Grace, who sat doting i. the most ungallant manner, and required frequent taps on the should. to keep him awake. After dinner I drew near Lady Hamilton, and can didly told her that I thought Lord Nelson had little or no ear for music . and, besides, as he did not understand Italian, it would be better t. have the words of the cantata in English, and that, for this purpose. I would apply to my friend Peter Pinder. She approved of my idea/ and requested me to invite this celebrated poet to peas some days Merton, together with Viganoni and C. Bovedino, performers as tr, Italian Opera. We all met there, and Peter Pinder wrote the follow ir, vetoes, which I set to music : Pleased would 1 strike the lyre to love, But vain the wish, the labour vain ; For lo ! the chords rebellious prove, And pour to war alone the strain. Chance as I will the rebel strinp, The harp of martial glory sings ! Yet who, alas ! can blame the lyre, That pours a sound to Britons dear ? The song shall future heroes fire, And bid them kindle u they hear ; Through dangers seek the wreath of Exile, And bleed to gain a Nelson's name.—llar;:tonaeon. Szcomp SutsiT.—We extract from the India Gazdt,, published at Calcutta on the 3d of March last, the following very curious ph :—" Reports are in town of a very important tutus but we paragra ph been able to trace them to any certain authority. It 1• said that the king of England is dead, and that a revolution hr• taken plate b Francc. We shall look with anxiety for further pa;- tirades.* The fatal illness of his We Majesty was not publicly an nounced in London until the lath of April; and when the mail, *hirl. arrived in India on the ad of March, left England, it was not est' whispered that his health was affected. The news of the Revolution 1: France cannot reach Calcutta for two or three mouths to come. IV , can easily imagine the surprise of the Calcutta editor to find the rturt:v, which reached him so long ago, so surprisingly confirmed in both r,r ileum. Campbell speaks of coming events casting their shadows b. fore them, but a shadow of four or five months is an extraordinary OTW . "'" to be sure it had to travel from Paris to Bengal. What will Sir Waled Scott say to the Calcutta rumour ? Will be lapse into his old belief Spectator. BIRTHS. The oth inst. the wife of Mr. J. Powell, Aylesbury-street, Cie:kJ:- well, of a daughter.—The 10th inst. in Portman-square, the lady u Major Dickson. of a son. MARRIED. At Keusington, W. W. Follett, Esq. of the Inner Temple, barrister at.law, to Jane Mary, eldest daughter of the late Sir H. Gift:yd.—The 17th inst. at Hampstead Church, T. R. Andrews, Esq. to Mary, ell" daughter of Major Close, R.A.—The 7tb inst. at St. Mary's, Lambell W. Percival!, Esq. Vet erinary Surgeon Ist Life Guards, to Catherine, eldest daughter of 111 rs. Snelltng, Hristoo.—At Gordon Cutle, on thi 26th ult. Georgians Huntly;Oordon, to A.M. Vertu, second on at thc late W. G. 1 41• Cree, Esq. Dumfries. DIED. The 9th inst. J. W. Ainslie, Esq. of Upper Narten-ss rect.—The Bth inst. J. Bell, Esq. in his 73d year. LONDON : Printed and eubllahed by Joao MATNII, o4ibo 9740 ° Orricr, No. 1, Pickett-ploce, Temple Bar. I 1 f f i I