The Sun. — London, England, 1813-06-02 00:00:00

, 1.1:? ot f) , 'ttr 3 on f 5, It • 1 !Ifs able tli e j rel b, thl tval e .C 4 4 t e 'tilts in hii sitting-room. About 20 minutes &Ifs : to 12 O'clock M. lionStr, rang her bell, anti the • siteess weiit to her in he"r dressing-room; which ,O4jains the bed-eounber ; Mrs. lionar said, she irsd ordered the fOottnan, Philip . Nicholson, to fasten the lawn door, but that he had not done it; time,, otrered to go and do it, but her mistress tatil it was , unnecessary, as she had locked the . other door herself, meaning, as the witness sup- ; l fuses, the folding-door, which is between the law usdohr and the 111,11 i • witness then - described I ter lkest attendance on tier mistress till half past Tie o'clock , when she went out of her room, be' l 't : gfirst desired to call her at half past seven o'clock. Out lighted the rushlight as usual in the anti tees), snd went to bed, leaving, according to cO4tetn the doors, both of the bed-room and anti s r!iest, wide open : witness on going to bed, waked t•Is; housemaid, who sleeps with her, and asked her to call her at half past seven o'clock : the house , ,'' , 141 w a k e d h er as she bad requested, ' and told ff ,• i 'et there was . a bad smell in the anti-room coil ‘o° from the bed-chamber of her mistress ; and , , : t . •otl the witness whether she bad lit the rush . iltstb,ael en(etltioictill.: t. ( ‘ ‘)l s f' a l i ts e hAe t o oa l ri t t l et t l l ..i a re t o t l c ol l t t l v n l oc i whether l t t it e lie l l . a s to h tetiltihseiardteel, were: look edat "t - marks in the anti-room. Witness immediately ‘c,..as mach al arme d , an d . cr i e d out ( as s h e i s to ld, far she was tOo much agitated to have any recollee luti Of the circumstance) that there had been wor sts.. The unusual circumstances which had been 1., l i entin uell to her induced her to think that some ",'plreadful had been done. She . went up stairs 1 0 .t.4 ', the hous ema id, an d k ne lt d o w n on the floor vi tae anti-room, to see what the marks were, and. 1 6° 414 they looked like blood : she does not v.l- * Li. watther sh e th en looked into the bed-r o om ; • 404 qm the did, and saw the toilet thrown over and is s inlets lying on the floor; but does not re- . si t ~,c 1 Whether this was the first or second time s ni r n g up : the housemaid was with her in the 4 0 til r %). Witness then went to the wash-house :1 with 4e laundry maid, and asked . her to go back Ito _'et., to see what was the matter; they pro ,e„ e " together to the bed-room, when the laun •ll,taTahl 1` ether in and opened one of the window twers', when, on looking back, she clapped her t o ' ~ together and screamed : witness saw the the,7"thes and other things on the floor ; she i t f,! rah down stairs, leaving the laundry-maid )4,1 ' .. u1d : in the servants' hall', she saw the coach il,,T wis) made s lisr sit clown, as she was faint -4.64 waus she recovered herself, she saw the 1,4'4% Nicholson, coming into the servants', ,Z s ti ,witit what she thought were bloody sheets in • e tt tta !"li i he took a sheet from his bed (he Ps in the hall), and folded the bloody sheet or `beet... . 3 at a • the % ifs ,_,., • footman then said to witness, .'.. a l' e., : i s;lutke, go to 'oar mistress, she is still 14 4 4 .1 perhaps she may be recovered ;" she .then svi ? 4 _tairs, and saw her nrastees body covered : 1 :, she believes &t blanket on the floor ; not I e t itieel!ssiss in bed, laud still breathing; did not i . ti ,, . mistress. afterwards till she was steals; had '.' feet, the foottllal l since. 3. Sassnoah C:lntliCk Was next - • s 1 1e bad s ,' i 'en a !loose:maid in the r 1 sl i lorn Ait tir d„ y : the so ottm.y three i otinan WaS in the: 1 . before . Ih' di,uppointme lt hun expre ss • As weeks 'sl last. came : 'sh e n ev ,„ ' lel , 1 . p.ace against hey . et he rush-light in its . usual alititsyils'aer:gp°le'litit: about ten o'clock : flown : she %vent It was .. to bed between about half-way l e remembered Mrs. , c ten mid eleven : desiring to be called . larlie coming to bed, and herself about I 4 at half -past seven : she rose la bed : in pas 1. alf- pust Si,, leavens. mrs. Clarke s, 41st hues e slog through the ball she observed door about half open circumstance sin! h a d never seen , , , a tel!!s,treilt t o t le lawn door, l before : she shut the door, and 'site shutters wer ' which Was shut, but . -t he ~,,. . . e open. 'I he window• shutters in "at we tile thi n . Y , re all closed: she then went into c m i 31 ' 11 g - roon), % here t n ut ore 1 all the windows were tilt, ,;„ 1 • ' tu t lc centre, which was wide open : It s , ' •"( n 't'S -are low, and only raised one • step II th e 1 , tile t.. latri . .. ) she weft op stairs, and found tlie anti_ lock. el, with the key outside : te t l ' i, 1.1e.d the door; and saw- toot-marks on ,e Bie l ' i and the rushlight It 6 gone from its stand tin,: ,toq that perhaps Mr's. Clarke had been tp en e bed-room • :fi t t i • she door was nearly wide .: es- too then wenf into the root) next the I ) his s . 11 , 1 : there- was a dreadful smell in 'the 4ss ,life s ue lett the room, and went down. stairs, li t ( to 1 r e • 4ty , iL caning the dressing-room and the li- I `Nisy Ce went again into the anti-room to take 1 , ts . 6 t.ts . 1 1 ( dust. She then repaired to her own I , Cu'ss h ' tall M r (A li k e to whom she told the 'Cis ''.tiss. of -- • ' , . 1 ' 41 itic t LS the appearance and condition of t Ths, 4l , 6o En• Airs.' Clarke exclaimed in great s 'ltn ure u agitation; !"rlien my master and mis i 'illii, ei. t uhrtlered I" She helped Mrs. Clarke on . i } ttl•r„,•,,, !COwn, and . they went. together to the t 'e4 ( li d ' l . Alrs. C. was afraid to go in, and wit ;:',lHlsd , ‘ , 11()t go ' in, as she had never been accos '4l44- te) do. They knelt down and saw that Rolls: rt ,'tells were bloody. They then went to- Lill aft " the pantry Witness did, not go up again til e f t " tut footman. comedown with the she „ .hot his „, , s 'fisis t . "" . erred ous for assistance, saying ~'eBl,6 l , .e ss Was not yet dead. She saw -him with , 4 ,Npp,,;,` " Eiheets covered ..with blood, which be ' ll tilt ..... ; I P in seitiethitu; she does not know ii s i • r s's e f • ' t4si . d I °outlast : left the ,buntilt: in 3 .. 4.11 s . the, hall, I 't lii 3 4 L wonld 0 for ' Mr. tVitley COoper, anti . t il , t6 Psr es rtl , ast eP's punter, as he said he was the s lit w el - ,, 1 1","tt to know what had happened. .1-le Iltet. i t -',"wat the yard with' t be coachman. T h e ,• Ins l ila : ,ue bed-room lay,besween her Master and 'uf s ,. e. l 'A t et on the . flOor. She had Bever seen it : ''ire ill ' + 'l ll the, pokers belonging to 'the house r' tiew„; '' i Plikee. Had., never seen any thing '4l, hel . , in the footman's cooduet. , Saw him ' l ig ; e„ I re and after the discovery iii the morn '•t l ifts ' 9peq.red tit)lier. He looked rather sharp • A v hr ‘4 l , b e ., , i 1 h iiii, w. , first . pa s s e d .) , but that was usual i . t'en s i, . 1 ; s '!,eu any one passed Mitts. etltil y I ' L l t t sk °lds had been -laundry-maid in the 41 ,` ) ny o f p 'Years'. She Corroborated the testi • f , 44 .t.o hee " Preceding witness in so far as she ' „,"it'lin„ .h t li ed, -and added, that on going up stairs v s: s ith 4 lifq,,.isattr the toot Man covering her master ,`ltil ti i , ' ‘ '.'"ets and th en stooping, as if meddling se t „ si • clothe s on her master s bed ; She found ll 'et( l ; ( 4 , t tre '''' :still breatitin • she afterwards ,1.1%1,' Ai i 14031. bed . .. - t'l , . • .. • '., I , . 414 4 t n, appmg up toe sneets, taken lion, "t 1; i le L , ~ iri a sheet pulled from his on " 44 out been desired by any one to n do 1.0 ; he said that tonar WEIS Oat alivc ; was the first who made this remark ; it was not made to him: he said he must go to town, though she desired him not to leave the house without a man ih it. William Evans, the groom, had been in the service of the family since_ December I he was ri the hall when the footman put the sheets into a sheet pulled from ais bed : witness does not sleep in the house, but over the stables. He was in the house till after twelve o'clock on Sun day evening, and sitting with the footinin, and never saw hint in better burnout. He had never heard him say any thing disrespectful of his master or mistress, except now and then an angry expression at being overworked—such as "D--u the old woman, she Wears me out." When the examination of this witness was finished, he beg ged to state a circumstance which be had just re collected. He said that he saw the footman dab bing the sheets' in • the blood at the foot of the bed. Being pressed upon this point, he said that the housimaid, who was in the room at the time, could tell snore about it. Susan Curnick being called, said, that she never was in the room with the footman, as stated by the groom ; she said also, that.the groom had exclaimed, at the foot of his mistress's bed, with a dreadful expression, " this conies of keeping company with the Jews." • • The groom, in answer to a question-from the Coroner, said, he had not seen the butler (Dale) from the dine he left the service, till yesterday. W. Randall had been coachman in the family fYr eight years ; slept over the stables ; came to the house about half-past seven, and went to call Nicholson ; found him sitting on his bed-side ; almost immediately heard the cry of murder from the female servants. It was not iong before he saw Nicholson come down stairs with bloody linen, and wrap it up in a sheet in the servant's- , hall. Tile footman Was a very quiet, good fellow servant, but used, when he had money, tQ get drunk. The rest of the servants observed they could not have handled the sheets as Nicholson tlid. Nicholson was very anxious to go to Lou don, and would have a horse. Coachman thought . Nicholson wild-looking when he , .weut away, and appeared as if he could not ride, thoiigh he had been in the dragoons. Charles King had been a labourer seven years in the family ; came to work' at between five and six on Monday morning. The washerwomen were up ;' be came to the house about 20 minutes after six, got into the house by the laundry, went into the hall, and 'found the front door open. — Philip was then in bed ; he went to him and said, how is it you sleep With the door and window shutters open ? tie answered, " I did,not know that they were open." I am sure he was in bed with his shirt on.• -- Williams, and Philip Sbillington, the gar dener, proved the hall and middle drawing-room windoWs were open at about four o'clock. Philip Nicholson was then called, and asked .what he had to state. He replied nothing but what he had said before the Lord Mayor. The windOws of his bed-room Were shut when he went to bed. No farther questions were asked of him, and be was ordered into the custody of Lavender. Lavender, the Bow-street Offigen; stated, that he arrived on Monday about one o'clock : he found a pair of shoes by the side"of the footman's bed, which be compared with the traces in the anti-room, and, as he thought, the' mpressions corresponded with the shoes the shoes are not' fellows ; night-cap was found on the footman's bed, with rome stains, apparently bloody. Foy, of Marlborough-street compared the shoes, which be had found yesterday morning in a closet in the servants' hall, with the foot-traces, and found they tallied : the shoes were odd ; one common-heeled, and worn at the toe ; the other with a spring heel, us was the case with the shoes which Lavender found ; there was blood both on the soles :Ind upper-leather. He had just sliewn them to Nicholson, who acknowledged them to be his, and said he believed one of them had slipt off in the room from which he fetched the sheets. Foy found them together in the cupboard. Nichol-. son had also acknowledged the night-cap, and said he supposed the bloody stains came from the blood on the sheet's. The groom was called again, and said he found the shoes this morning, , in the closet where he went to look f6r a stick -to beat Mr. Bonar's coat ; he saw they, were bloody and slimed them , to King, and then put them back again.—ltin b cr confirmed this statement. The Cook,' who made the servants' beds, and Nichohon's -among others,' was called :, she had seen the sheets in custody of the officer, . and believed them to fre the same with those which she had put on the footman's bed. The Lauridry 7 inaid did not recollect seeing any sheet on the floor when she first wei.t into her master's room. The poker was then produced : it is bent in the upper part : it has been new bitted, and seems - novel% to have been in the fire : the other part is old, and a new top has been rivetted on : it is a common kitchen poker,. about two feet four inches long, and the bit is about nine i n ch es l ong . We haie been particular in this description, be cause it does not appear to have belonged to the h o use, and n once clue may thus b e given towards finding the perpetrators of this murder. It may be seen in the custody of Lavender, at Bow street : there is some paint on it, apparently from the white bed-posts, and a stain of blood. ATTEMPTED SUICIDE Qr . NICHOLSON, AND CORONER'S VERDICT AGAINST HIM. Ithat Nicholson, • th e man who is suspectedt . of having committed the atrocious mur der, of Mr. and Mrs. 11(3N /tit, asked le a ve t o go t o appears the privy, during the sitting of the Coronet's inquest, and was accompanied to that place by two immediately aft er enter i ng t h e p throat With a - razor, but not Ia c e C , o he st i a c h ut les. his effectually, for it was sowci up, and he is likely to recover , The Jury brought, i n a verdict of •, Wird Murder" agaitist this mati„ at two . o'clock this morning. DIPER IA P ii,LIAMENT. Off' LORDS TUESnAY, JUNE 1. The Appeal Causes of Redfern against Ferrier, and also against Son:rvaile, were t.ilien into final consideration, aud the judgment of the Court be- , low reversed, Tn the Irish Cause, Fitzgibbon v. Teqnlan, the decree was nffirmed, with special directions: Lord STAWELL took the oaths and his seat Lord riYllOl4 stated he had a Petition to pre sent to their Lordships from a person Who, what ever differences d opinion there might exist as to the doctrines he upheld,- had throughout a long life been engaged in a strugglefor what he thought essential to the llberties and the well being of his country. It iVki signed by joint Cartwright ; he had received many a wound in the service of his country, and in the petitiOn he complailed of cer tain insnits - and grievances which he and certain other persons had received, while exerting him self to. procure what he felt would best serve both the Parliament anti the country, a due reform in the constitution of the former. -Among ,other points of equal huportance, the petitioner com plained, that on the 21st of January, he, with six other persons, who had merely waited on linn•to ,te3.tify their respect, were seized by a military as well as bylt civil force, and taken before a Ma gistrate, without any just cause for such arrest and detention. After an observation or two upon the alleged proceeding, his. Lurdship deprecated thy thing like the interposition of.a military force between the subjects and their undoubted right to petition: their own Representatives. His Lordship moved that the petition be read, which was ac cordingly done. • On the question that the Petition do-lie upon the table,. .- • Earl FITZWILLIANI rose, and expressed hisopi nion, their Lordships could not consistently re ceive such a Petition ; the subject matter of it, imputing criminality to certain mentures, was such us should be inquired into, and decided upon, by the . proper tribunals of the cOuntry, and not by that House, which, he thought, could not re gularly take the alleged circumstances in its con sideration. - Earl STAN HOPE said, the Noble Earl appeared to have an erroneous conception of the Petition. Its statements were such as behoved the House to inquire into and consider of the means of redress. The Earl of LAtionitom.E. deprecated the gross irregularity of receiving that which - hml no one feature or character. of a Petition. It contained no prayer, hut only seemed to •recommend that which should only be entertained - upon, the 'sug gestion .of the Nouse. With - respest to the al leged misconduct on the tw i t of the military, he happened to be connected' with an office)r in com mand in that part of the country at the tune and from what he knew of his charaCter, he was certain that no military oppression would be to lerated and farther, that there existed ,in the Civil Government also every disposition to give redress. Their Lordships should recollect tile un happy state of things in that part of 'the country at the time—as formidable a state of things as ever existed, but which he was happy to say, -was now perfectly done away the moderation and good conduct which was displayed by the ruling power on that occasion, formed a brilliant ex ample of the excellencies• of the Constitution ; and of a state of things which, he contended, af forded every facility to an amelioration of ,the state of the poor; and abundantly to•reward their industry and their talents. The-boke of NORFOLK spoke shortly in vintli catition of the.conduet and laudable exertions of one of the Magistrates (me believe Mr. Ratcliffe), who had meritoriously exerted himself on the oe carion, or at the period alluded to. Lord 13YRoN said a few words in favonr of the Petition, as worthy of the serious attention of the House—though it might literally contain no prayer, • which , to men, was what his Lordship would not expect. The Earl of I.,tunEnpaLF. shortly explained. Viscount SinmouTuspointedly controverted the idea that any system of intimidation whatever was acted upon with respect to lawful consideration of Petitions, even in those counties which, though then unhappily in a disturbed state, were now in a state of quiet. lie challenged any Noble Lord . to state a single instance of intimidation, either on the part of the civil or military power, dttring the whole of that Melancholy period. He duly applauded the conduct of the military - Commander, the brother of the Noble Earl opposite (Lauder dale),,and also that of the Magistrates who had sa properly exerted themselves. Not one of the 37 persons referred to had subscribed the petition, and many of the allegations, the petitioner had on, the information of others, not from his own pre 7 sent knowledge. On the whole, he deemed the Petition of such a nature, as that it should not be received, but even rejected. The question was then put, and the motion that the Petition do lie on the table was negatived without a division. After a few words between Earls Radnor, Stan hope, and Viscount. Sidmouth, on the point of re jection, the Noble Secre i tary of State declined movin:, , for that step. Mr.'livt4o, accompanied by several other Mem bers, brought ty .two messages , from the Com mons, requesting, that Lord Walsingliam, the Marquis of Camden, an d the Lord Bishop of Lin coln, be permitted 'to, attend the Committee of the Commons, on Mr. Palmer's Claims. 1 he LORD CHANCELLOR informed the Members that the House would send an answer by mescia gers of its own. `l'lie Dtilie of N ORF O L K notified his intention to move the second reading of the Irish Catholic oth - eers Exemption Bill, on Thursday. The Irish Lo.iu Bill was lead a third time and passed. The: other Bills were forwarded, and their Lord ships Adjourned. - }LOUSE OF COMAWNS. TUESDAY, JUNE I The Irish LandlOrdS T.-nants 13ill %No read a first time, to lw read a second tinge to-morrow. The'Manc;liester Police, the Militia Regulation, . atilt the Mtiuure Carriage Bills Imre react a th:r I time and . Russet!, Sir JOHN NEWPORT pustpeori4!4 ilk IV din re , specting Treasury . P:lytileitts in Ireland; :taut .text Thursday •toAhr Tliiirsday The Report of the Customs additional May ndl .Was bruttgl:t- up, and a hill ordered A new Writ was ordered for the Election di tt Menthe!. to •t he 13m-ougif of 'fr aiee, i!t the rtu , tn of 11. Arthur Herbert, who has ttecePteglot . tern iluntiredB. Sir lltaY l'AnN - ELL pit ofEhig thotion'respect: ing the Corn in Ireland, from 'to-u►orraro until to-movtow sennight. • Lord CAsTtEittEAtt4_presetttect a" Petition from the General Awitibly'of the Church of Scotland in favour of the Clitino of the' Catholics and ge neral. Toleration, hilt praying, at the same time, that caution should be used against the danger• of foreign influence. cANNINd stied; heatiould take this. oppor tuniCy of saying a few words respecting the-stand lately made by the Lay Cady) agahist the fit r te r i e tee t . that huge Catholic body would render it more impossible for that House not to consent to the prayer of their- petition,. by. shoving their determination to emancipate themselves fromsnch - influence. The Petition•was ordered to lie upon the table. The, third reading. of the Admiralty Registrar's Bill, and the Deputy llemembrancer's Bill, was putt off until Thursday. Mr., PEEL, obtained leave to bring in a Bill for the more'effeetual,Building and Repairing of the Court of Sessions Houses in Ireland.--The Bill was retell a first time, and ordered to be read a se cond time to-morrow. On the suggestion of Lord CASTLEREAGH, Mr. OTIE . !..VEY put WI .hip !notion, that stood for this day, to this day fortnight. EAST INDIA AFFAIRS. Tl►e Ilouse then went into a Committee on the Affairs of the East India Company. Lord.CAsrLEuEAGn said, that from what he could collect last night, the repugnance to the 2d Resolution seemed to refer rather to the time, than the general principle. In his op►nion then, it would be more advantageous to discuss the question,of time when the report was brought up. The present ReSohnion only went to con thine the exclusive trade to China, and that ex clusive trade principally confined to Tea. Mr. Cax - xttio said, he would defer what he bad to say upon the subject to the bringing up of the Repqrt. Mr. ThomsoN thought, that if the trade toe China *ere thrown oi►en, it would increase the demand in that country for wool, goods, and othilt articles. But also reserved himself to the bringing up of the Report. Lord CISTLERCAGH said, that British merchants would not be precluded from bringing home any article except tea. Mr. TttomsoN said what he wished to know was whether the Exports from England to China were to be prohibited. Lord CASTL EItEAGII said, the direct trade from England to Cltina was to be prohibited, but not the indirect. • Mr. MARRYAT said he was, not willing to vest . in the hands of any body of men such a monopoly as that-contemplated in the second Resolution. Ile knew what a great source of opulence the cir cuitous trade to China witi. The Americans were allowed to early it on froM port to port until they arrived in (Mil:a. To deny such a trade to Bri tish merchants appeared very curious. This cir cuitous trade was in fact of more value than the direct. With respect to the article of tea, the ef fect of confining it to the Company was, that the people of this country paid 1,500,000/. more for what they consumed of that article, than they would pay if the trade were open. It would be even far better to, pay this sum to the Company, than to allow matters to stand as they were at present, ,because, by the present system, the car rying trade and the country were cramped, ani the means of supplying the demand of 'the navy for men, of course, lessttietf. He should be glad to know whltt pretensions the Company had to lay lay claim to this trade. Their immaculate talents for Government had been much spoken of last night ; but he wished the lion. Gentleman (Mr. Grant) had favoured them With the history of the wars carried on by the Company. Such was the nature of those wars, that about a century buck, a deputation' from the merchants complained at the bar of that House that the conduct of the Com• patty was a disgrace to religion and humanity He might here, if he pleased, refer . to the Many instances of large fortunes tiniassed.in that coun try, and particularly the instance of, one person, who after spending the fortune he . first made there, went over a second time for the same pur pose, and' obtained it almost before the ship in which he went could perform the voyage. After such things, it was folly to talk of the Company as the protectors of the inhabitants. _They woe no more so than the kite was the protector of the dove, or the wolf of the, lamb. It was as' unveil sonut:iiiibe op l ol i y a o ar t i i i i i e tu claimtiaaetostc the a o e t Bi l d n iie n , oroly as the or to Spain or Portugal, It was curious to see the different accounts of the Company at different times. When they wanted to borrow money they said that every thing was in a flourishing state, that they were in possession of 15,000,000/. of revenue ; but no%v when they wanted the monopoly, they Said that their sovereignty could not be supporied'without. it. This was a kind of canduct by which be tiope.d Ministers ti•ould not l.e deceived. tie considered this second Resolution as 'injurious to _tho __c r •,;%l l - 1 twi, injurious to the revenues, and totl4. t i . i marine, and would tnerefure.vo,te aga in st t. thought I.llr. STEPHON - deft in ltd that Gentleman had on the day betore sufficiently •„, Api l dr i . u eo d u l:i N s .3. B:o t r h d o s prevent c t -e 4 t a it t. a n ny otbing further im a d llu b s e i i e .)a n , p t , o r T. l : l ;: t ik b . t y li t e l r l i e l nGgerenetilnenglattot (tllhfers.eAcioanrdrylatte)4oto. respect to th e d e p utat i on alluded to ih;°yreirllccii' i n a , n i t a c i c o l Te y e e ruined ee hel i t ti l l;a s s eiv t e l:a a t ra t i h ti us ie e Co l a a t ni ly al b tal n ie nti t t n e . d G x e v i i i t t i l l et t n i a le n hilaiself hats very 3ast India affairs, and he remembered his voting at one time with the Directors. How could he reconcile such