The Sun. — London, England, 1812-01-16 00:00:00

i LATE 2111, 7 11 DER, IN THE NEIGHEuLtEHO . CD OF SHADWELE. A -most important discovery has been made, with in these two d.tvs, which completely temoves every Shadow of doubt respeCting the- guilt. of the late Suicide, Williams. It was proved (*fore the Ma gistiates of Shadwell Office, that three weeks be fore the murder of Mr. Williamson and his family, Williams had been seen to have a leing'French knife ivitn• an ivory handle, that knife could never be totatid.in Williams's trunk, or amongst anir of the 'Ploaths he left behind hint at the Pear-tree• public- • ouch, The subsequent search to find that deadly 'lnstrument, .has been crowned with. success. On Tuesday, Harrison, one of the lodgers at the, Fear Tree public , house,' in searching amongst Some'. old cloal'hes, foimd a blue jacket, which. he Immediately recognized' as- part of ,Williams's ap parel. He proceeded to examine .it more closely, lid, upon looking at the inside pocket,. he found it quite stiff with coagulated blood, as .it a blood stained hand had been thrust into it. He brought it down to - Mrs. Vermiloe, who irrmediately sent for iupe, and another of the Shadwell Police officers, to make turther . ses . rch in the house. Every apart ment then underwent . the most rigid •examination, and after a search olabout and hour and a halt, the office's came at last to a small closet, the one in Which they discovered the &tied of- their pursuit. In one corner of it there was a heap of dirty stock ings and other cloaths, which being removed, they 01 4 , erved a bit.of • wood protruding from aniouse -hole in (he wall, which theyitninetfiately.dre . w out f and at the same instant they .discovered the handle 0 1 a clasp knife, apparently dyed with blood, which tlpbn being brought forth, proved to be the identical.. Prench knife seen in Willirins's possession before the murders. The handle and blade of it were suleared all over with blood. This important hi et completes the chain of s!rong Circumstantial evidence already adduced against the suicLie, POLICE. IgARLUOROUGH-STREET.."•A SINGULAR CAS - U.-- A Gentleman, w'ho resides in the . neighbourhood of Mary -la-bonne, New Road, applied on Tuesday eveuing to the Magistrates at this Office for assist ance to recover a daughter, sixteen years 0( age, who Lad absented herself frOni her home.. The young 'Lady had abSented her Sell during•the abs nee of the father and.mother on Tuesday, accompanied by the • se rvant -maid, with her aporel, append•rges, &c. and, the parents immediately api , hed to theik'niece, an apprentie or workwoman at a Louse in Sack- Vie-street; accompanied by an officer. The niece, et first denied herself, but she was at length brought tf) the Office, accompanied by another female from the house,- and on Mr. Brodie, the ) , lagistrate, de mantling of them to disclose any knowledge they have of the absentee ; they confessed., their k nowledge of the young Lady having gone a pas senger in the Liverpool stage with the servant-maid Mai r - tvening for 'Liverpool, to proceed from thence -- tu Ireland. The . father immediately took a post : . Chaise and four, with Warren, an 'officer belonging In the Office, .and overtook the stage, whilst the PassengerS were supping .at Slough. The father. aeited,his daughter, who.in tears Mrplored her fa- . llier!s forgiveness, .and the latter conducted her back tO Londstur., It appears that there Was no sort of criminality whatever attached to 'the young Lady, and her absenting herself from her home, was alto gether the work of female agency. Utitok HALL.—Yeasegood Sleight, John Cotton, and Samuel Flower, three young students belong ing to St. Thomas's- Hospital, who occupy the first fitter in Mr. Pryor's house, were exami.ed before Mr. Cotton stand; that they were all three sitting in the dinning-room on Sunday v ening., when they were alarmed by.the cry of • murder, apparently proceeding - from some person near the door of the room where they were sitting he immediately seized the tongs, and Mr. S leigh+ the poker, and tney were going to the place horn w hence the cries came, but were prevented- Pooceeding by Mr. F.owec placing himself against . the doer of the room, and preventing their opening ki they however removed him, though s ith great . 4 litilculty, and this delayed them so much that lir. 1. ) / cr was down in the shop before them, and the v+ llainsgone: Sarah Wilkins vas. lying in an in ,,atlSible Slate, as already described. „:Mr. Etower, in excuse fOr having so blockaded lie 'door, said, lie had heard so much of the 'four ' `'ers at R Itcliff-highway that fie was alarmed; and a nt khowiug how Many / villa - ins there might be in the house, he'placed his baCk against the door to ilrevent then etiering. The worthy,Magi,trate expressed himself highly Indignant at the pusdbnifouns conduct or' Flower, which he -observedliad-alfowed time for the assassins t 0 escape, and, had,probably prevented their detec , . Mr. Cotton also !stated, that. on Friday evening, as `'and, Mr. Sleight were c o ining out of .Mr. Pryor's. i iouse, they saw a man l oo ki ng round the window; "t the time they cattle out; his hand appeared near t fe latch of the shop-door, as if he weir about to I n ter, but be dreW back on perceiving them. He l ad a dark coloured cordutoy jacket on, was about 6 feet 7 inches high, and appeared to them-upwards 'if thirty years of age. This description perfectly 4 greeVwith ihe'description given by. Wilkins of the , she saw loitering about the shop-door . on Sm lurday last, in the evening. Sarah Wilkins has been attended by Mr. A. Cooper, and we are happy to s 4, is - considered as ‘?utot . all datiger. r • • About eight o'clock, on Wednesday evening, the 1)() tit-coach -which runs between Bristol and Lamp \lghlet's-1)211, was stopped by three footp ids, near 41 11pi11•bridge r who dragged the coachman from his seat, and= robbed -- bed him of his money.--A man on , 'letsellick coming up at the moment, they got over the hedge, and effected their,escape. Monday se'nnight,' bet Ween five and six o'clock tp the eveniag, a daring attack was made on two i ., 3 'uting - men - , returning - to Bristol over Brozdfield -"ownsfrom Wrington,_by _two highwaymen.— 'Without -saying a word, .they fired a pistol, which missing :the yo l ung men, and startling their horses, one of 'the highwaymen immediately' commence;l a porteiti, sad again tired lie soon overtook theLind *Lost, who was not so well mounted as his com- Panions, and after dragging him off his boese,- beat inn) unmercifully, and lobbed WM. IPERIAL PARLIALUEN2.77 . MUSE OF PEERS, WEDNESDAY, JAN. 15. - HEARING OF APPEALS, Sic. Vie LORD . .CHAN6ELCOR took his seat on the Woolsack before three o'clock, and pursuant to the Order of the Day, their Lordships proceeded to take into consideration the merits of the various Peti tions from - parties,• praying for further time to lay before the House the necessary Papers and Docu ment-s, in illustration of - their respective cases. A number of the Solicitors and Agents attended, and 'was e que;tioried:At the bar fespeeting th e trial!) of the allegations in th e p e t i tions and otherpoin'ts connected with the subject.- STATE Of MS NIAJESjoy'S IIEALTI-i. Earl CAMDEN (Lord President) presented the Report of the Lords Committees, on their examina tion of the Royal Physicians respeaing the a&ual state of his Majesty's health, which was ordered to be printed for the use of their Lord,hips. Three of the Commissioners of his Majesty's Customs presented certain Accounts orde'red to be laid before the House, respecting East India Pro hibited Goods. • Mr. Dawson from the Bank presented certain Ac counts (respecting the Issue' arcuiation of. Notes, &c.), in pursuance of their, Lordships' Vote of till pth nisi; Mr. Heywoo4, from the same Corporation, pre sented the Accounts ordered respecting the state of the Consolidated Fund. Mr. Milford, from the Treasury, presented cer tain Accounts respetling the state of the Scots Herring Fishery, the Northern Light Houses, and the North ern 'Whale Fisheries : directed to be laid annually before Parliament. These Accounts were respeEtivelfordered to lie on the table .; when the adjournment (till tu-mor- - row) took ploce. HOUSE of COMMONS, WEDNESDAY, JAN. 15. At four o'clock the SPEAKER counted the Mem bers, when only 33 being present,, au adjournineut necessarily tonk place. REPORT From the Committee appointed tOlxamine the Physicians who have attended His Majesty", during his 4ltness; .touching the State of His Majesty's Health. Ordered, by the House of Commons, to be printed, I,3tb lanuars, igto. The.Selea Committee appointed to examine the Physicians . who have attc . ;nded lus Majesty, touch ing the state of his Majesty's health, since the ex amination of his Majesty's Physicians before a Corn tnittee of this House in the last Session of Pothameut, and to report such examination to the Houle, have, Ourspant to the Order of the House, examined the Physicians accordingly : which examination is a, follows : Peneris 10° die fanuarii, 1812.- The Right HOOOMbIe CHARLES LONG, in the Chair. - - Dr. MATTHEW BatwEi-called in, and examined. _Q. Is the state of His Majesty's health suds as to render , him incapable of coming to his Parliament in person, or of Ttending to any kind of publip business The state - of his Majesty's health is such as to render him incapable - ,of coining to Parlia ment, or of at'ending to public business. - • Q. What is the, •state of his Majesty's bodily . health ?—A. His Majesty's, bodily health, when I left tumors Monday last, and generally of tate, has been but little disordered. 'CI What is the ,present stale of• his Majesty's mental healik?—A.•The . errors of his Majesty)* mind seem. to be as strongly impressed upon it, as during any part of his illness; but his Majesty has within the last few weeks Bien able to relate anet dotes more distin&ly, than for two or three months before 'that period. - • Q. Adverting to the slate of his Majesty's bodily and mental health since you was last examined - be fore, a Committee of this House, .are yod now of opinion that his Majesty's tecovery is probable, or improbable,?—A. I think that hi 3 Majesty's recUi , ery . is highly improbable. Q. Ate you of opinion that his Majesty's recovery. is hopeless ?—A-. rcannot state that his Majesty's recovery is altogether without hope, but I think it still extremely improbable. .Q. On what do you ground yoUr opinion, that his Majesty's r , !Covery is highly improbable ?—A. I think ins Majesty's recovery is highly improbable, because his illness has continued fur many months; and his mental health is in a Considerably wei se. state than it was eight or tta mouths ago, because his Majtsty is, considerably advanced in lite, ancrbe cause his Majesty's piesent indiSposition has assumed a more determined form that in any of his former illnesses. Q.. Has' his Majesty's pres'ent degree of mental in firmity taken place gradualJy, or suddenly ?—A. The present degree of hiS Majesty's mental'infirrni ty may be'said to have taken place rather suddenly : he was in a much better state of mental health to wards the end of June ; early in July, his mind wai impressed with all the errors which have con tinued since. Q. Hare' you ever knoWn an instance of any - person exadly circumstanced as his Majesty now is, in point of mental health, recovering ?—A.: My-ex perience in complaint's of this general Class is very limited :• I have not known any case resembling very exa&ly, in all its features, that. of his Majvs y. The only person that I have known about his Mr jesty's time of life, whose mental health was • de ranged, did not recover. Q. At the time of the sudden change from bet tc to wet se, in his Majesiy's : mental health, in the month of July, was his bodily health much r ed, was nis life danger .?—A. I cannot recol lea the minute circumstances attending the derange mentof his bodily health, at that exact pb . riod ; but the general impression - which remains on my mind is, that his bodily health was not worse at that time, than it, has been through the genera: cOurne of his indisposition.. Q. Were the . paroxysms of mental disorder at . that time such and so violent, or " are they so' now, as during tbeir continuanceto bring his MA jes(y's into danger from their effect ?--A. In some of the most violent paroxysms of his Majesty's cornpl 'int, he • may;''perlidps; be, said to have been in mime Lazard, but it never appeared to me to be considerable : with regard to the preSent • state of his disorder, I believe_ ..,that his life is in no hazard whatever. Q. Can you, state how, long ago it is since you formed an opinion that his Majesty's recovery was improbable ?—A. - I began to be less confident about his Majesty's recovery, at the time of the Report of July : in the beginning of 03ober I thought his Majesty's recovery very improbable ; and now my opinion with resped to the improbability of his Maj-_ , sty's recovery is rather, strengthened than weakened. . . Q. In your opinion, are his 'Majesty's faculties of perception and meMory impdired in any material degree ?—A. His Majesty's perception and appre hension seem' o me to beras acute at present as dur ing any , period .of his indisposition ; his memory seems to be impaired, but in a very inconsiderable degree. _ [Withdrew. Dr. W. HEBERDW called in, and examined. Q. Is the state of his Majesty's health such as to render him incapable of coming in person to his Parliament, or of attendi n g t o any public business ? —A, It such as to render him incapable of.corn ing in person to his Parliament, or of attending to any public business: .. • Q. What is the present state - of his Majesty's bo'dtly healtli.A. It is very little removed from his Majesty's natural state of health. • What is the present state•of his Majesty's mental health ?—A. His Majesty's state of mind is . very much disordered. Q. Adverting to the state of his 1113jesty's men tal and bodily health since your last examination be fore a Committee of the House of Commons, ale , you - noW of opinion that his Majesty's recovery is probable'or improbab!of—A. Improbable. Q. In what degre e d - 0 you consider it as impro bable ?—A. It is highly improbable,.but not 'in an extreme degree: Q. Are you of opinion that his Majesty's re covery is hopeless ?—No. CL Is it your - opinion that the prospeet of his Majesty's recovery is but hopeless I—A. No. His Majesty, from the middle of July last till about the Second ;leek of li'cember, appeared to me to be more uniformly dis Ordered in his mind' than he has:been since that period ; had the ssme degree of disorder still continued, I might perhaps consider,. his Majesty's condition as almost hopeless, but the subsequent imprmiement, slight as it km been,, makes me think altogether mure fi'Vourably of, the .termination. • .Q. In what has that slight improvement cpn : - si;ited It consists in a greater power•ot con vertition, an in having hid aside some erroneous notions with whichAis Majesty had ben before po•sessed.. Q. Is,it to be . understOod that his Majesty's mind is not as much impressed-with the et rots which thid pssession of it before, ..as he was in the middle of he month of July last The ei rors to which allude had grown up in his Majesty's mind be weer the middle of July and the end of August; from the second week in December his Mdiesty's n&lnd has appealed to rue to be clearer, and freer from error, than it had beenin the latter part of August. • Q. ,Do.the errors which existed in his Majesty's mind before the middle of July last still continue to exist in the same degree that they did formerly ? A. The errors and general bhar.ider of his 1144jes_- ty's- disorder, since the middle of Jttly, have ap peared to me altogether ditlerent from wh a t t h e y we in any previous part of his Majesty's illness; and though some 'deal may still remain, which pos. sensed his Majesty's mind early in his disorder, the g ,- eater part of them have grown up since the middle of July. Q. You are understood to say, that those errors that have possessed the mind Qt 'the King; between the middle of July and the second week in De cember; were quite distind from those that h3d possessed it previously to the middle of July ? A.• Yes. And you are understood to say, that those errors were removed, or very (wadi diminiihed at lease—A. Schutt of ithem have heen removed. . Q.. State whether the errors which - pOsseied his Majesty's mind before the middle of July; still con- tinue to - possess it I believe I US t go into some history Of his Majesty's complaint . , - from as long ago as February laSt to the end of April : his Majesty had appeared to be getting materially better, in the months of April, May, and June, there was yery little of disorder exhibited ; early in July the're seetnetho be a fresh accession of disorder, .so dis . . tin& in its charmer, from his Majesty's previous state, that I look upon 'it as, itidet.l, a new coin: plaint. Q. Did ,the old complaint continue to subsist along with the new complaint ; or, when The new complaint manifested itself in the mitsd, did the old complaint seem to he extinguished ?—A. • When the new complaint arose early,in July,- though Ma jesty was not well from his former disorder, yet lam not Conscious that there were any particular errors, 'that at that timu rested upon his mind. ~ 0.. Do any of the errors that possessed his Ma jesty's mi4k.l before the middle of last July, now pos sess if Majsty's mind is still possessed with the same sort of false ,reasoning ; but I am not aware, that for soma time previous to the corn niaencemeat of the present disorder in duly, there were nay false fadts upon his Maj , sty's mind. Q. When his Majesty's mind runs upon those subjeas, on which you say it was principally- engag ed, is it snbject no v to the Jame false reasoning tt was then ?—A. Yes. Q. Then the error of 41.i.5, Majesty's mind, as you are 'understood to state; previouslo July, was merely t)ilt of false reasoning; ate, you• to be understood that th4t i was'i he . sole error of his nijesty's mind, pret'iOui to that ?—A. I thijoc, for two of three. months previous to July; that had been the state of M ljesty's mind. ( - 4... Does that propensity - of the mind still con-. lime ?—A, Q..llid that. false reasoning extend itself to many subjects, or did it confine itself to a few'?--A. It was principally confined to a few ; tent there w e r e many subject s up on w hi c h. his Majesty's judgment could not be trusted. ~ Q. Does his Majesty's mind continue to be en% . . gaged upon those particularsuh . jeas, on whiCk you , say it was principally engaged at fiat period A. Yes, , • . . • Q. You haye said th at , xou considei• hii Majes ty's recovery as highly impr o b a ble ; hake you ester. .known.any person circ ,, thstanced io metttat health, as 016 king is now' eii - cumStanceit, aril of the same trj. , ,e as l is. klajesty, .recover from ati illness such a 4.. his Majesty's ?—A. t ne'er knety at - if . person Un.s.er . the same circumstances of disorde.r a 0.1 afte of hii Mak,Sty. Q, How long hare You been of opiniOn' that leis Maje . sty,'s ';recovery ;was highly improbable Perhaps rrom the latte.r end of August. • [Withdrew, DGTtios. NitiNno calJed.in andexam:ned. Q., Is the 8)3 tQof his Miijes!y.'s he.!ito such as tri renddritiin- incatdsl6 of coming .in pers,o (0 Iris ParliAnzeot,' or of attending to gny kind of public busineis ?-4A., I think his Majestv's stake - i.; such to render him incapable of. coming to l;is Petrliametty or of doing any public business. '• Q. What is the prtsent, state of his Majestyli bodily ?—A. The pi,Sent state a his M. jesty.'s bodily hezdth is lojerably good. Q. What state. 0 his Majesty'i mental health ?—A. His Majesty', inendil health Idsaue.' , - • Q. Adverting' to the state of his Majesty's inental ancl boWJy I}eall during his present a; 1r a. 4 it has cpme. tinKley . 'otts.-tvntibh; Ci you now of opinion dial his nijesty's t covi.iry probable-8r imprObAt)le ?—A. 1 (oink M:4j-sty's recovery is iinprobablr. • • Q. , 11) do yowcon§ider h!sMaje . sty l 4 recovery to be, iiiietoiLbre f 7 --A. I think it Co ba very, improatble,.. U. Are you of opinion that it ii hopeless ?—Yi. Certainty not. Q. On what do you found your ovinion that his Majesty'4:mentat situation is not hopeless?—A. Hi 4 m Majesty has ro syptoMs of fatuity ; his Ma jesty hail, those symptoms, I shetild certainly con-„ , sider it.a hopeless c.se.. Q. Du you coor - jsider that in all mental dieorders not accompanied by (atuity, there is always some hope ) —A. I cthaUtly -think there' N a chande of :recovery.. Q. In the course of your pratCtice, have you fte. fluently had hopes foun-ded u i on such teasonitig atized Q. Have y, b.l ever known a patient circumstanced as his Majesty is, as to menial diSdnler and period of life recov,-r ?—A. I have known patients older amt . ' his Majesty recover: • Q. With the same degree of menial disorder • • A. Not with the same degree of utelital disorder ; I have seen very few cage's of persons so old Majesty. Q. Do yon conceive that . the peculiar situation his Majesty, circutostaned as he is , with r: Bard to his regal dignity, has any effect tiPOn • hi 4 dis. temper ?—A. LthinkAtiere is a vast deal of irrita tion about his Majesty,.‘Nhich is seldom seen in patients in general: Q. Do'you conceive that any degree or .pOrtior\ of his Majesty's . disorder, is ascribable to his being a King I think certainly that the anxiety and cares of Government* tuay - posibly have contributed to the disorder. Q. At this moment do you think that 'the sense of his own situation, as being the So►trein of the Country, has any -effect one wax or other upon the state of his mental health sh9uld think not, Q. Does his Majesty spew any anxiety on the subjea of public affairs ?—A. I have had very few opportunities of seeing his M ijesty ; during my presence with hinf, .I have not observed ' , any thing of the kind. Q. Do you conceive that his Maj-sty's station has, or has not, or is likely to line any, and what evert Upon' his - mental dtsorder ?—A, I conceive that his Majesty has not suffered frorniiis.high situ ation, as far as I have had . an opportunity of ob• serving, during :my attendance. . Q. Do Yon Think that the refh-ction upon hits own regal state, when lei. mind'isin a state of pro. ! grese towards recovery, might haie any effect either in retarding .of accelerating that recovery think it might have some effect in retauling that re covery,: Q. How long'ago is it since you .first . saw I.is IVlAjesty ?—A; The first. time I saw his Majesty was the gth of oJobec. Q. Have you seen the King regularly from the 9th of Ocioher I have been at :Windsor to ditferent times ; the first seven weeks I . W.is Ciiere once a week ; went on' the Friday, and. c;.4 - rie bank on the Sat urdoy ; The three last vi34s once a fort- - night. Q. Wye you witnessed any improvement in the' .King's mental state latteily ? am Rot aware of i't - )y • improvement. • . Dr. SADIcEL FOART S6tmONs, called _ arnined. Q. Is the State of his Ati . f-Sty's litalib such as to render him incapable of corning in person to Parlia- . went, or of his attendi n g-t o any ki n d o f pu b lic bu siness ?—A. It certainly is. • Q. What is the present state of ,his Majesty's bo., dily h6ilth. —A. Upon -the whole, very good. What 'is the present state of his Majesty's mental heatth ?'-A. A state of great .der,itq,fettient. -Q. Adverting'to th Stale of his Majesty's,ruentai arid bod.ly healvh during his present indisposition, as far as it has come unde:r• your observation, are yo . : of opinion that 'his sjesty':s reeovt . :ryjs proha bk.. or improbable Li:probable. Q. In what degree'do you conceiVe l it to be itri probable ?—.lt. is .diffacult, pethaps impossible, tO say.' Q. Are you of op.inion,that it is hopeless ?-.HX. I am not. Q. How long have you at tended the King ?—A. From the Di!) ut (,),:tc?br. Q. Upon what du you ground your opinion that the King's recovev is irnprob.kble.—A. On the dif- " ferent attacks and Lhe Fepimtekt atta,:ks, his INlaJesty fias . had ; his age ; and what I have 'observed occa., sionany• of the . sycnptOrns of the diaease under which he now labours. Q. Did you ever see any person as old as his NEljeity, and labourin under the saute degree of - mental derangement, recover ?—A. Sever,d. a. Did you ever sre an y person as old as Ins Ma jesty, aod.who had so long lab6tired umler the satue.